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Documentary on block busting?
'Northeastern media outlets feed us a steady diet of
how the South is racist while the North is, has been,
and will in the future be compassionate to black peo-
ple. It took the Irish more than 100 years to become
normal people in New York. That is where they
named the conveyance vehicles to the jails after the
Irish• They called the vehicles the Paddy wagons after
St. Patrick of Ireland. The most clientele were Irish or
ol • Irish descent who had taken in too much Morgan's
Dew.
The idea of getting drunk on green beer on St.
Patrick's Day, which is March 17, should conjure
images of the paddy wagons running across
Savannah, Ga., where the second biggest parade will
be.
The Chinese who,wre, etad by the railroad -
barons to lay tl:, c'ks ar0sseca ha, d a bad mark
against them from the northeastern media. Still do:
Watch a movie or a television show and listen to them
talk about C ,hina town. Our college friends who were
of Chinese descent were the most polite coeds on
campus. Maybe the guys were nice, too.
Imagine the outcry if the big media called the feder-
ally subsidized housing projects Africa town. Our best
cooks are of African descent and so are our entertain-
ers. Let's call police patrol cars Africa wagons. Try it,
and see what happens.
The more the layers of hypocrisy are peeled back,
the more subtle the televisions and the magazines
printed in the north become.
There are limits to the human imagination and the
publishers, writers, photographers, and news readers
have about run the gauntlet of ways to trash talk the
South.
We Saw in the Black Belt Treasures gallery and in
other cooperating projects where those of African
descent excel are not only acceptable to all people but
are prominent in their communities. Not because of
their parentage but because of their work and contri-
butions to society.
That's what those various programs and projects
across the Black Belt are all about.
What to know where the outstanding places are?
Try the Lannie's Barbecue in Selma, the quilts at
Gee's Bend, the collards on County Road 47 in
Marengo County where the voo doG woman puts her
smoke on them: Kora's in Demopolis is good soul
cooking for the soul.
We recall Miller's Cafe behind the courthouse in the
1940s and up through the 70s. The most memorable
day was when a brass band was there and was playing
using jazz and blues on the frontporch. This must
have been about 12 Link time.
Then we remember in the 1950s when Look maga-
zine exposed blockbusting in Chicago. White realtors
would go into a white neighborhood and buy a nice
home in the middle of a block in a totally white neigh-
borhood. Next, they would move a black family into
that home, property values took a nose dive and all the
white people were trying to sell out before more
blacks moved into the neighborhood. Then the real-
tors went in and bought all of their homes and then
moved the black family out and into another area
where they had set up the same scheme. The once all
white neighborhood became all white again and the
realtors made huge profits on the scheme.
Look magazine went out of business shortly after
that.
Have you ever seen a documentary on that?
Split Alabama into four states
Why and how the federal department of justice otti-
cials have gerrymandered Marengo County is one of
the ploys to divide and conquer the people.
The federal judge declared we must have one man
and one vote in our county commission districts.
If you saw the map in the paper last week, you'll
see the flaws.
Th6 first and worst is the divisions to assure a black
will be elected. First, there are no blacks or Africans
in Mengo County. They are all Americans. This is
the worst and cruelest hoax of all for the people.
Second, instead of dividing the county where the
commissioners have districts relatively easy for them
to rid and inspect the roads, we have two huge ones,
one lrge one and two little ones.
This one man, one vote tripe is beyond comprehen-
sion. Look at Rhode Island. It is about the same size
as Marengo, Clarke, and Greene counties. It has two
United States Senators and one member of the U. S.
House of Representatives.
If this is fair for Rhode Island, why can't Alabama
split itself into four states and have eight U. S.
Senators and the same ratio of represenatatives as
Rhode IslfiL
We'd cut the state up into the Tennessee River
Alabama, the Iron Belt Alabama, the Black Belt
Alabama, and the Coastal Plains Alabama. Our desig-
nations would be just like North Dakota and South
Dakota,
' These .four states would be larger than Rhode
Island, about the size of Maryland in area.
Football riuvalries ould be even more intense with
Alabama in ttie Iron Belt Alabama state and Aurburn
in the Black Belt Alabama state.
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VISIONS AND VALUES
Cotholic bishop fells Q bama, 'Go to hell'
By Dr. Paul Kengor
America's Catholic bishops are princes
of diplomacy, highly educated, erudite, men
of tact, propriety. They' re asked to shepherd
the flock with a long historical timeframe --
like, say, eternity. They tend not to have
knee-jerk reactioiis to issues of the moment.
And so, it's not often When a paragon of
decorum, namely, Pittsburgh Bishop David
Zubik. publishes a letter in his diocesan
newspaper with a title like, "To hell with
you."
Gee, what could have provoked that? The
answer is the Obama administration via its
horrendous mandate to Catholic institutions
to provide contraceptives, sterilization, and
abortifacients -- that is, birth-control drugs
that induce abortion. The Catholic Church
defines these things as "evil." The Church
and its members are now being told they
must provide them• By fiat, the Obama
administration has issued that decree•
It sort of flies in the face of that old free-
dom of religion thing we've always had in
America. And it's certainly of concern not
merely to Cathblics but all Americans.
Here's what happened:
Last August, the Obama administration's
Department of Health and Human Services
(HI-IS) issued guidelines for implementation
of the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act. also known as, "Obama-care."
The guidelines mandated that by summer
2012 all health-insurance plans -- yes, all of
them -- must cover any and all FDA-
approved contraception, sterilization proce-
dures, and pharmaceuticals, even those that
produce or result in abortion. Every employ-
er and employee must pay for these things,
even if they violate the dictates of their con,
science. The employers include all Catholic
institutions, from colleges to hospitals to
nursing homes to social-service agencies to
charities -- to whatever else. "All" means
"all." tumed, we Catholics will be compelled
tO
either violate our consciences, or to drop
health coverage for our employees (and suf-
fer the penalties for doing so). We cannot --
we will not comply with this unjust
law."
Also vowing non-compliance is Bishop
David Ricken of Green Bay and Archbishop
Dennis Schnurr of Cincinnati.
LifeNews.com repo that 86 bishops (thus
far) have spoken against the mandate.
The Obama administration has forced the
bishops' hands. President Obama and
Secretary Sebelius are not backing down.
They are true believers.
Where are liberals on this issue? We
know they support the so-called "right to
choose," politically sanctified by Roe v.
Wade in J .anuary 1973. But the Constitution
predates Roe by a good 200 years. The First
Amendment that begins the Bill of Rights
starts with religious freedom. Are liberals so
devoted to "abortion rights" that they will
trump the conscience of their fellow
Americans?
Apparently so. They've already ensured
that my tax dollars fund Planned
Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion
provider. It was only a matter of time before
they forced me to fund abortifacients, The
direct funding of actual abortion procedures
is no doubt next. It's amazing, when it
comes to abortion, pro-choice liberals have
everything they want, but it isn't enough.
Now they want to force pro-lifers- and
our churches -- to pay for their choices.
Sadly, all of this was so painfully pre-
dictable back in November 2008, when a
majority of professing Roman Catholics
voted Barack Obama president.
Well, you reap what you sow.
Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political
science at Grove City College and executive
director of The Center for Vision & Values.
How's that for social justice?
When ex-Speaker of the House Nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif.), a lifetime Roman
Catholic. said that we'll learn the details of
Obama-care after Congress passes the legis-
lation, this is a perfect illustration. The Devil
is truly in the details.
In response to this screaming tram-wreck,
Catholics sent letters to Kathleen Sebelius,
HHS secretary, who happens to be Roman
Catholic• When she was governor of
Kansas, Sebelius was so terrible on abortion,
and so defiant of Church teaching, that her
bishop ordered that she be denied
Communion. Catholics protested directly to
Sebelius.
On January 20, Sebelius and Barack
Obama answered Catholics. As Bishop
Zubik put it, "On Jan. 20, the Obama
administration answered you and me. The
response was very simple: 'To hell with
you.' '"
Zubik writes: "This is government by fiat
that attacks the rights of everyone! At no
other time in memory or history has there
been such a governmental intrusion on free-
dora! It undermines the whole concept and
hope for heaithcare reform by inextricably
linking it to the zealotry of pro-abortion
bureaucrats. The mandate would require the
Catholic Church as an employer to violate
its fundamental beliefs concerning human
life and human dignity!It is really hard to
believe that it happened."
All of the bishops are frustrated. Bishop
Timothy Dolan of New York said that the
Obama administration has basically told
American Catholics that they have one year
"to figure out how to violate our con-
sciences."
In Phoenix, Bishop Thomas Olmsted
appeared to urge civil disobedience. In a let-
ter read to every church in his diocese,
Olmsted wrote: "Unless the rule is over-
,
OLD TIMES BY THE LATE JOEL D. JONES
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED JULY 16, 1936
'Roas'in ears." was taught by
Indians ,to settlers as best corn
I have a letter from a party wanting to know the origin of
"Roasting Corn" or why corn in a certain state is called
"roasting ears."
Indians taught the hungry settlers how to make use of
masting com. They took the e, ar.9,f, corn iq, jts.shuck, covered
it. with hot ashes and coals, d promptlygoduced the best
dish of corn possible to make. The Indians had no salt with
which to season the corn, but they had a substitute in hickory
ashes. The colonists came upon that treatment of the corn
without the use of salt, pepper and butter.
And so it came about that the nice, roasted ears selected for
table use came to be called "roas'in ears," and as time went
on they were more often boiled than roasted. The roasting
process had pretty well gone
out when the civil war
came, when the "rebels"
and "yanks" found it con-
venient to revive it.
The soldiers were near-
ly always on the verge of
starvation after the first
year of the war, and over
and over again they were
compelled to supply them-
selves with food from the
growing corn, and some-
times they ate it raw.
Nothing could please them
more than to have time to
roast it. There was much
simplicity in this process,
all that was needed was a
hot fire and the green
corn.
There are a lot of us old :
stagers who cannot be
made to believe that cook-
ing is so good as that
which was back in the old
days done by the campfire .......
or in the open fireplaces.
Certainly they were fine ._
for cooking hogs and
fowls, for roasting corn
and potatoes and for bak-
ing ash cakes. These bills
of fare do not include good dishes as the old time way of liv-
ing.
Flag that boy down who is running late at night smoking
cigars and drinking blind-tiger whiskey and shooting craps•
Flag that boy that lies in bed until late in the morning when
his poor old mother asks him to bring in a little wood, which
he would answer by saying that he has served his duty of
bringing in wood• Flag down that boy that will beg, borrow,
or steal every cent that he can get form his mother or father,
who has labored hard to support him for sixteen years, in
which time he has tried to get him to work, tried to give him
an honest living and tried to make a man of him. Flag down
that boy who roams the streets during the night and shoots
craps at night and is never heard to say that he does not work
for a living. Where God will send them where they should
have went when they were a few days old.
I wonder if there is anyone now living that remembers
what happened one Thursday evening in October when Judge
Hasty was married to Mrs. Mamie Westbrook at the Baptist
Church in Nanafalia, with Rev. Langston officiating•
Their attendants were Misses Sally Westbrook, Bessie
Barr, Mrs. Williams, and Bettie Hasty.i The groomsmen were
Messrs. J. L. Hasty, Norman Gunn, S. P. Harrison, and Joe
Williams. Ushers: Professor Frazier, a Mr. Harper, and M. M.
Hasty.
The late
Joel Desaker Jones
Hasty was sheriff at that time and the bride was the daugh-
ter of A. G. Westbrook, and a graduate of Judson and a leader
in social work•
Another pleasant event in the history of Nanafalia hap-
pened Thursday morning January 31, 1901,. when M l". J. A.
Moseley and Miss Willie Thomas were m avi:ed'aot.the home
of Mr. W. K. Thomas. Mr. Moseley at that time was a mer-
chant from Mississippi. The young couple accompanied by a
friend left for their new home in Mississippi, after sad good-
byes to their relatives and friends.
Another marriage where Nanafalia gained was on
Thursday, March 21, 1901, in the Methodist Church at
Octagon where Mr, Ev. Everette and Miss Hortense Bradford
married. At 3:15 the strains of the
wedding march rendered by Mrs.
W. L. Kimbrough of Linden,
marked the opening of the ceremo-
ny. The groom, accompanied by
his best man entered into his posi-
tion in front of the alter. Then
came little Miss Maddie Ree
Kimbrough and Henri Bradford,
followed by the other attendants.
Then came the bride leaning on the
ann of her father, Mr. J. Bradford.
At the head of the aisle she was
met by the groom, and they then
took their position in front of the
altar, when Rev. BarrOw pro-
nounced the words that made them
man and wife• They left immedi-
ately for their home in Nanafalia.
Among the invited guests were
Judge Prowell, Dr. W. L.
Kimbrough and family of Linden,
Mr. Jack Turner and sister, Miss
Julia, and Mrs. C. C. Kimbrough
and daughter of St. Stephens.
There are very few people'now
living in Linden Who refnember
Dr. J. H. George. He was the first
doctor that I can remember that
ever gave me a dose of medicine,
and he was a man that I always
loved and had the highest esteem
for. He was born at Hamburg in
Perry County, October 28, 1841, and died at his home in
Linden, on Monday morning at 12:20 o'clock November 11,
1901, after an illness of several months. He was buried by the
Masons on Thursday afternoon, after funeral services at the
church. A number of prominent Masons from various por-
tions of the country were in the procession• He was a member
of the Presbyterian Church at Linden, which he joined a short
time before his death. He was not only a Mason, but a Knight
of Pythias, and physician of ripe experience and great skill,
whose death was a calamity to the neighborhood where he'
lived. He graduated at Howard College in 1861, served in the
Confederate Army, and in 1866 graduated in medicine at
Charleston, S. C. He came to Marengo County in 1867 and
began practice of medicine at Shiloh, where he was united in
marriage to Miss Ida R. Melms in 1871. He moved to Linden
in 1879 where he built up a large practice, and where he con-
tinued to live with the exception of three years residence in
Mobile and Demopolis. He served one term in the legislature
and served a number of years on the Democratic Executive
Committee as a member from Shiloh beat and also as chair-
man of that body, and at the time of his death was president of
the Pension Board. He was frequently Chosen presidentof the
Medical Society of Marengo County. He left a wifeand seven
children to mourn his passing•
So long until next time.