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Police earn spotty
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A survey of 50 U.S. police departments found spotty performance in protecting the civil rights of citizens in execution of body camera
programs. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police scored affirmatively on three of eight categories on the study by the Leadership Conference
on Civil and Human Rights.
Study of 50 departments, including CMPD, finds gaps in rights protection
By Herbert L. White
[email protected]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police have a
way to go to protect civil rights in the use
of body cameras.
CMPD scored affirmative responses in
three of eight categories according to
research by the Leadership Conference
on Civil and Human Rights and Upturn
that evaluates the civil rights safeguards
of police body camera programs in 50
cities. CMPD earned positive grades in
making its policy available to the public,
footage retention and limiting recording
discretion by officers.
Fayetteville was the only other
Carolinas agency in the study. It scored
successfully in one category – making its
policy available.
The national review updates the body
camera policies of the original 25 departments surveyed last year and added 25
more to include the largest agencies with
programs as well as those that have
received funding from the U.S.
Department of Justice. Departments in
cities that have been under scrutiny due
to high profile incidents of police vio-
County board vote
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lence were also included.
“As police departments across the
nation begin to equip more officers with
body cameras, it is imperative to recognize that cameras are just a tool – not a
substitute – for broader reforms of policing practices. Without carefully crafted
policy safeguards, these devices could
become instruments of injustice rather
than tools of accountability,” said Wade
Henderson, president and CEO of The
Leadership Conference on Civil and
Human Rights. “We hope that our score-
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Mecklenburg County’s early voting strategy will be decidedly different from 2012.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Elections voted
Monday to shorten hours and sites for the 2016 elections.
The panel’s Republican majority of Mary Potter Summa and
Elizabeth McDowell voted to open six sites the first week
and 22 over the final 10 days for a total of 2,054 hours.
Democrat Carol Williams opposed.
The meeting came on the heels of a July 29 decision by
the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn North
Carolina’s voter ID law. The federal ruling eliminated the
photo identification restriction while restoring same-day
registration, pre-registration for 16- and 17-year-olds and
out-of-precinct voting. Counties have to decide by Aug. 19
a strategy to make as many as 17 days of early voting available between Oct. 20-Nov. 5.
Gov. Pat McCrory appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court
Monday to stay the lower court decision.
“Our Voter ID law has been cited as a model and other
states are using similar laws without challenges,” McCrory
said in a statement. “The Fourth Circuit’s ruling is just plain
wrong and we cannot allow it to stand.”
The N.C. NAACP, which has been aggressive in taking on
voter ID and other ballot restrictions, is monitoring the
process.
“We want every county board of election to know that the
NC NAACP stands for fair, accessible and open early voting
plans that ensure full and equal access to the ballot this
November,” President William Barber wrote constituents in
an email Friday.
RALEIGH – North Carolina's expanding number of public charter school will grow at a
slower pace next year.
The state Board of Education took a cautious
approach toward groups that proposed opening one of the taxpayer-funded, non-traditional schools in the 2017-18 school year. Board
members are being more particular after a
handful of charter schools opened and quickly failed due to academic or financial problems.
The school board approved just eight out of
the 28 groups that submitted bids to open a
school. The board broke with past practice by
denying five applications out of the 13 that
were cleared by an advisory board.
A charter school leader who chairs the advisory board said he wasn't sold on some of the
applications that won the endorsement of his
board. Alex Quigley of Durham said he thinks
it's "very important that we have a high bar" in
exchange for committing millions of dollars of
public money.”
The school board's decision to deny five
applications which were approved by the
Charter School Advisory Board after reviewing
applications and interviewing board members
earlier this year "appears to be a major change
in state policy," North Carolina Public Charter
Schools Association Executive Director, Lee
Teague, said.
North Carolina will have 167 charter schools
receiving children later this month, up from
100 since the state lifted its limit in 2011.
The eight charter schools approved for
2017-18 now have about a year to find buildings, hire staff and recruit students.
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Johnson C. Smith University President Ronald Carter at the kickoff of the
school’s 150th anniversary Monday.
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tossing a party 150 years in the
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“This marks another turning
point in the history of the university,” said JCSU President Ronald
Carter, who is stepping down
next year. “We’re celebrating our
150th anniversary with undeniable progress and if you go back
and look at the founding of the
university in 1867 that has been
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Exoticism is in the ear of the beholder, too.
People of African descent are more attractive
to other people by merely suggesting ethnic
diversity, according to a Duke University
study. The perception holds true even if the
person making the claim doesn’t have a multiracial background, according to the peerreviewed study published in the June issue of
Review of Black Political Economy.
“Being exotic is a compelling idea,” said
study author Robert L. Reece, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Duke and an African
American. “So people are attracted to a certain
type of difference. It’s also partially just
racism – the notion that black people are less
attractive, so being partially not-black makes
you more attractive.”
Using data from the National Longitudinal
Study of Adolescent Health, Reese examined
the results of in-person interviews of 3,200
black people conducted by people of varying
ethnic groups. The interviewees were asked
questions that included their racial backgrounds, with their attractiveness ranked on a
scale of 1 to 5, with 1 the least attractive and 5
the most attractive. The interviewees who
claimed a mixed race background earned an
average attractiveness rating of 3.74 while
those who identified as black averaged 3.47 –
a statistical difference Reece said points to the
power of racial perception.
“Race is more than we think it is,” he said.
“It’s more than physical characteristics and
ancestry and social class. The idea that you’re
a certain race shapes how people view you.”
The study controlled for factors including
gender, age, skin tone, hair color and eye
color.
Years of research have linked physical beauty and professional success. People considered handsome or beautiful have been found
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card will encourage reform and help
departments develop body camera policies that promote accountability and protect the rights of those being recorded.”
Other major departments in the survey
include in Baltimore, Baton Rouge,
Chicago, Ferguson, Missouri, Cleveland
and Dallas, which have made headlines
for recent fatal exchanges between police
and African American civilians.
The scorecard uses eight criteria
derived from the Civil Rights Principles
on Body-Worn Cameras signed by a
broad coalition of civil rights, privacy,
and media rights groups in May 2015. It
evaluates whether departments:
• Make policy publicly and readily
available;
• Limits officer discretion on when to
record;
• Addresses personal privacy concerns;
• Prohibits officer pre-report viewing;
• Limits retention of footage;
• Protects footage against tampering
and misuse;
• Makes footage available to individuals filing complaints; and
• Limits the use of biometric technologies.
The researchers found that:
• No department fully met the criteria
for all eight categories and only 13
departments were able to fulfill the crite-
ria in more than two. Ferguson and
Fresno, California failed each category.
• None had a blanket limitation on officer review of footage before filing an initial written incident report. However, six
department policies have partial prohibitions in place for incidents like officer
shootings.
• Three departments – Aurora (Colo.),
Detroit and Pittsburgh – appear to have
cameras but have not released their policies to the public.
• Nearly half the departments surveyed – 24 – don’t make camera programs easily and publicly available,
which the authors contend limit understanding and debate.
• Departments are establishing explicit
procedures that allow recorded individuals, like those seeking to file a police misconduct complaint, to view the footage
of their own incidents. Four – Cincinnati,
Chicago, Parker (Colo.) and Washington,
D.C. – provide special access to recorded
individuals.
“Body cameras carry the promise of
officer accountability, but accountability
is far from automatic,” said Harlan Yu,
principal at Upturn. “Our goal is to help
departments improve their policies by
bringing attention to areas where policy
improvements can be made and highlighting promising policy language from
around the country.”
NC action agencies fill gaps
By Stephanie Carson
a bigger paycheck, they have
more disposable income.
RALEIGH – More than When they have those addi133,000 lower-income North tional resources, they spend
Carolinians are better off them in the local economy."
The NCCAA released its
today, thanks to the help
2015
report this month. The
offered by one of the state's
35 community action agen- agencies – supported by federal, state and private fundcies.
According to the North ing – provide job training,
Carolina Community Action financial planning, homeAssociation, its agencies are heating assistance and other
serving 100 percent of the services to people living in
state as of 2016. In addition poverty. Community action
to benefits for individuals agencies were created with
and families, said Sharon federal legislation in 1964.
Goodson said much of the
Goodson, who heads the
association, the agencies are programs offered by her
an overall economic benefit agencies are meeting needs
that otherwise would cost the
to their communities.
"They're helping families to state and federal government
become taxpaying citizens," more in the form of direct
she said. "When we help fam- services. She said her organiilies move out of poverty, get zation always is looking for
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unconventional partnerships
and sources of funding.
"There is never enough
funding to do all of the things
that we do, but we work
together in collaboration,"
she said. "We are always looking for new funding opportunities and collaboration to be
able to improve the conditions in which low-income
people live."
Last year, more than 32,000
children and 16,000 older
North Carolinians benefited
from the state's community
action agency programs.
Their energy assistance
meant 409 homes received
new heating and air conditioning units, valued at $2.5
million.
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Mere claim of multiracial
background is attractive
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Research by a Duke University doctoral student found that claims of multiracial background
makes African Americans more attractive to other people.
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more likely to land jobs and
earn more than less goodlooking peers.
Not only did Reece’s
research boost longstanding
perceptions that lighterskinned blacks are more
attractive, it also found that
darker-skinned blacks who
claim mixed-race backgrounds were considered
better-looking than lightskinned folks who identified
as exclusively black.
“It’s a loaded cognitive
suggestion when you say ‘I’m
not just black, I’m also Native
American, for example,”
Reece said. “It changes the
entire dynamic.”
Reece launched the study
to probe the connection
between multiraciality and
how people relate to color
among African Americans.
“People tend to assume
that historical multiraciality
is at least partially responsible for the broad range of
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shortens voting hours, sites
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A Republican-led panel in Guilford County,
which includes Greensboro, shelved an
early-voting plan last week that would have
reduced hours and the number of sites near
college campuses and black neighborhoods.
Guilford has North Carolina’s third-largest
population. Mecklenburg is first with a little
more than 1 million people.
About 300 people packed the Guilford
Board of Elections meeting to voice opposition to the Republican chairwoman's proposal, which would have complied with the fed-
eral ruling but cut a dozen early voting sites.
The panel – two Republicans and a
Democrat – voted unanimously for a compromise that kept early voting sites open at
UNC Greensboro and historically black N.C.
A&T State University, as well as a predominantly black neighborhood.
“While it’s discouraging to see these local
attacks on voting rights, these are fights we
can and must win,” said Evan Degnan, digital director at Progress NC Action, a progressive activism nonprofit.
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color among black people,”
he says. “I’ve even noticed
some people in black communities casually using the
terms ‘mixed’ and ‘light
skinned’ interchangeably. So
I wanted to begin an empirical investigation into the contemporary links between the
two and how they combine to
shape people’s life experiences. Attractiveness is one
part of that.”
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grows the university. I’m delighted that
we’re at this plateau that will continue to
move us higher and higher. This is exciting.”
In addition to on-campus and community
celebrations, JCSU is in the midst of a $150
million capital campaign and expanding curriculum as well as emerging to a position of
economic development power in Historic
West End. At Carter’s urging, JCSU led the
area’s transition to attract businesses and
people to the community and expanded its
footprint beyond the Beatties Ford Road
campus by backing the Lynx Gold Line
streetcar, its partnership in Mosaic Village, a
student housing complex, and the Arts
Factory, a facility for visual, communication
and performing arts.
Recent academic additions include a $26
million science center, a master’s program in
social work and Metropolitan College, a
degree program for working professionals.
The school’s legacy as an incubator for
academics and leadership resonates with
current students.
“It means a lot to know I’ve come into this
illustrious institution and now I’m leaving
when it’s reached 150 years,” said senior
Alana Seldon, a communication arts major
from Hartford, Connecticut. “This is my senior year and I’m going into the real world so
just knowing the school is celebrating this
high achievement and all these years of
molding students into leaders means a lot to
me.”
Carter is already looking to the future.
“Someone said what will Smith look like
150 years from now,” he said. “I say Smith
will be better than Harvard University.”
Police abuse debate more
than a black and white issue
By Luis Vasquez-Ajmac
URBAN NEWS SERVICE
While the national conversation on police and race
seems like a black-and-white
issue, many Latinos say they
also feel mistreated by cops.
“I grew up in East L.A., in an
economically
depressed
neighborhood,” said Long
Beach Police Chief Robert
Luna, the first Latino to lead
the Los Angeles area’s second largest law-enforcement
agency. “I did not have the
most positive contact with
the police or the people
around me. I very much
understand the concerns.”
Many Latinos report abusive experiences and negative opinions toward police,
similar to those that numerous African-Americans have
expressed
nationwide,
according to a survey by the
Associated
PressNORC Center for Public
Affairs Research. “Excessive police use was a
huge issue for the HispanicA m e r i c a n
community,” said Jennifer
Benz, AP-NORC’s deputy
director. Beyond answering
this study’s specific questions, some respondents volunteered that “they or someone in their family was harshly treated by the police at far
higher levels than whites,”
Benz said.
This is not just a white-andblack issue, according to
Benz.
“Across the country, roughly four in 10 Americans
believe the reason for police
violence is overall problems
with race relations in our
society,” she said. “Threequarters of Americans think
it would be more effective to
have diverse police forces
nationwide.”
AP-NORC polled 1,200
white, black and Latino
Americans on these topics in
July 2015.
Law enforcement “has a lot
of work to do, to continue the
dialogue and talk about the
excessive use of force,” said
LAPD Captain Tina Nieto,
incoming president of the
Hispanic American Police
Command
Officers
Association.
The L.A. native echoes
those who advocate closing
racial disparities by recruiting and hiring more people
of color. “It’s very important
to make an attempt to have a
police force that reflects the
community that you are servicing,” Nieto said. “I believe
when your police force
reflects the community,
there are better outcomes.” Bryan Stevenson, executive
director of the Equal Justice
Initiative, said that where
officers reside affects these
matters. “We need officers to
live in the communities
where they police,” he said.
“When they live outside the
cities that employ them and
commute in from neighborhoods that have very different, less diverse demographics, problems are aggravated.” The Manhattan Institute’s
Heather McDonald disagrees.
“This is an irrelevant consideration. It’s the classic
Black
Lives
narrative
that embraces the white
cop/black victim line-up,”
said the author of the new
book, “The War on Cops.”
“The Justice Department
came out with a report last
year in Philadelphia. It found
that black and Hispanic officers were far more likely than
white officers to shoot an
unarmed black suspect. I
think the inquiry of an officer’s skin color is largely a
side show,” she said.
Rene Galindo, a telecom
network engineer for 2talk,
grew up as a MexicanAmerican in South Central
L.A. He said there are two
systems of law: one for
whites and another for peo-
ple of color. “You thought it
was normal for cops to stop
you for no reason, check
your personal property
under no suspicion at all,”
Galindo said. “I’ve been held
for no apparent reason, just
for walking home from a
friend’s place at night.” Nieto, however, said police
do not confront people willynilly. “I know we are not just
stopping you because we
want to stop you,” she said.
“We are way too busy in the
city of L.A. Citizens can
always request a supervisor
to the scene if you believe
officers are doing something
they are not supposed to
do.” “Many people of color do
not see cops as protectors,
but we see the opposite,”
said Dolores Huerta, cofounder of the United Farm
Workers union, which represents thousands of MexicanAmerican agricultural laborers. “They harass, intimidate
and brutalize people of color
and kill.” White Americans have it
different, some say.
“In most situations, white
people are not presumed
dangerous or guilty,” said the
Equal Justice Initiative’s
Stevenson. “Because most
police officers are white, this
means that white people face
a different level of threat and
risk when they encounter the
police.” Despite racial gaps in perceptions of law enforcement,
most Americans say they
want more diverse police
forces to ease ethnic tensions.
“It’s not surprising for
those of us aware of how the
Latino community across the
country has been treated by
police,” said Thomas A.
Saenz, president of the
Mexican-American
Legal
Defense and Educational
Fund. “We need to recruit a
more diverse police force.”
attack, it becomes clearer
that his strategy is just to say
about Hillary Clinton what's
true of himself. When people
started saying he was temperamentally unfit, he called
Hillary the same. When his
ties to the Kremlin came
under scrutiny, he absurdly
claimed that Hillary was the
one who was too close to
Putin. Now he's accusing her
of bigoted remarks -- We
think the American people
will know which candidate is
guilty of the charge," she
said.
Trump's remarks, delivered
via teleprompter in a rare
departure from his usual
freewheeling rally remarks,
came after Clinton vowed
Tuesday to conduct a national security and foreign policy
that Americans could be
proud of.
"It just absolutely bewilders
me when I hear Donald
Trump try to talk about
national security," Clinton
said, pointing to Vice
President Joe Biden's dissection of Trump's foreign policy at a Pennsylvania event
Monday. "What (Trump)
often says hurts us. It sends
the wrong message to friend
and foe alike."
Turning to the U.S. Olympic
team, she said, "Team USA is
showing the world what this
country stands for."
Trump said in a speech
Monday that the country's
national security requirements demanded "extreme"
vetting of immigrants seeking admission to the United
States, pointing to the threat
of the Islamic State group
and terrorist elements.
Clinton had said Monday
that the Milwaukee protests
showed that the nation had
"urgent work to do to rebuild
trust between police and
communities" and said
"everyone should have
respect for the law and be
respected by the law."
In an interview on Fox
News Channel, Wisconsin
Gov. Scott Walker accused
Clinton of "inflaming the situation" with her comments.
"I think people understand
in that neighborhood and
Sherman Park and in
Milwaukee, they want law
enforcement to step up and
protect them," he said,
adding that "statements like
that" from Clinton and a "lack
of leadership" from President
Barack Obama "only inflame
the situation."
Milwaukee's Sherman Park
neighborhood erupted in
chaos Saturday night after a
black suspect was fatally
shot by a black Milwaukee
police officer. Businesses
burned, gunshots rang out
and police in riot gear were
pelted with rocks and other
objects.
Trump accuses Clinton of
‘bigotry,’ opposing police
By Ken Thomas and
Jill Colvin
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WEST BEND, Wis. — Donald
Trump on Tuesday accused
rival Hillary Clinton of "bigotry" and being "against the
police," claiming that she and
other
Democrats
have
"betrayed
the
African
American community" and
pandered for votes.
"We reject the bigotry of
Hillary Clinton, which panders to and talks down to
communities of color and
sees them only as votes —
that's all they care about," the
GOP nominee said in remarks
delivered not far from
Milwaukee — the latest city
to be rocked by violence in
the wake of a police shooting.
Trump, who is lagging
behind in the polls, accused
Clinton of being on the side
of the rioters, declaring: "Our
opponent Hillary would
rather protect the offender
than the victim."
"The riots and destruction
that have taken place in
Milwaukee is an assault on
the right of all citizens to live
in security and to live in
peace," he said.
Clinton campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri
responded with a statement
early Wednesday accusing
Trump of being the bigot
instead.
"With each passing Trump
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Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a scathing Atlanta talk show, “Mental
report on the state of the Baltimore City Police Department as Dialogue,” asked, “Can we
a part of its civil rights investigation following the death of rebuild ‘Black Wall Street?’”
Freddie Gray.
“No, really,” he added, recThe report stated in part, “The Justice ognizing the depth of his
Department announced today that it found rea- question and assuring folks
sonable cause to believe that the Baltimore City he was not kidding or just
Police Department (BPD) engages in a pattern or being rhetorical.
practice of conduct that violates the First and
So, what was Black Wall
Fourth Amendments of the Constitution as well Street? Most of what I have
as federal anti-discrimination laws. BPD makes learned about it was obtained
RAYNARD stops, searches and arrests without the from a book by John Sibley
titled,
JACKSON required justification; searches and arrests; Butler
uses excessive force; and retaliates against indi- “Entrepreneurship and Selfviduals for their constitutionally protected Help
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expression. The pattern or practice results from systemic Americans,
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deficiencies that have persisted within BPD for many years Reconsideration of Race and
and has exacerbated community distrust of the police, partic- Economics,” which contains
ularly in the African-American community. The city and the an exhaustive section on
department have also entered into an agreement in principle Tulsa, Oklahoma’s history
to work together, with community input, to create a federal and a detailed account of
court-enforceable consent decree addressing the deficiencies what took place in its
found during the investigation.”
Greenwood District. Some of
I have been stunned by the muted reaction by both the the information below comes
black community and the media.
from Dr. Butler’s book. I also
Let me remind you that at the time of Gray’s death last year, learned from face to face
Baltimore had a black mayor, a black police chief, a black conversations with six of the
prosecutor, a black president of the city council, a black con- survivors of the Tulsa Riot.
gressman and an almost 50 percent black police force.
Black Wall Street was
Juxtapose that with the death of Michael Brown in burned to the ground in 1921
Ferguson, Mo., a few years ago. The Justice Department, led by a white mob.
The
by then-Attorney General Eric Holder, went to Ferguson and Greenwood District, located
did a similar investigation and found identical results to in the northern section of
Baltimore. The Ferguson reports are very similar to the report Tulsa, Oklahoma, was once
issued about the Baltimore Police Department.
called “Negro Wall Street,”
We, as blacks, lose the moral high ground when we are not and “Little Africa.” It was
consistent in our quest to make America a better nation. home to hundreds of blackWhites lose the moral high ground when they constantly try owned businesses and sat on
to minimize the role that race plays in our society.
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Where are the calls
for Baltimore’s
mayor to resign?
valuable land desired by
white oil speculators, who
even tried to buy parcels of
that land from blacks for 10
cents on the dollar immediately following the Tulsa riot.
Fortunately and wisely,
blacks refused to sell.
Despite hundreds of black
lives lost in the riot and all of
Greenwood’s
businesses
destroyed, the story of that
economic enclave during the
ensuing seventeen years was
one of triumph over tragedy.
By 1923, as a result of blacks
pooling their money to capitalize new enterprises, the
black business district was
even larger than before, and
Greenwood was completely
restored by black people by
1938. Ultimately, urban
renewal and integration,
which allowed Blacks to shop
at non-black stores, led to the
demise of Black Wall Street.
To Amos Wilson’s point,
Greenwood was a pyramid
built by Blacks in the early
1900s. Instead of looking
back and merely reveling in
the successes of Mound
Bayou, Mississippi, and other
enclaves that came before
them, black people in
Greenwood built upon those
legacies. Thus, my answer to
the question posed by
Montoya Smith, (Can we
rebuild Black Wall Street?)
was and is an emphatic and
unequivocal, “Yes!”
My answer to that question
is based on the fact that we
have done it before under far
worse circumstances than we
are under today. But as I listened to the other guest on
Montoya’s show, Mr. Jay
West, entrepreneur and president of the Lithonia Small
Business and Merchants
Association located on the
outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia,
I became even more convinced.
Immediately impressed by
Mr. West and the work his
group is doing in a city that is
approximately 85 percent
Black, I sought him out to
learn more. Jay West understands and promotes local
business support. “I do 95
percent of my shopping right
here in Lithonia,” West said,
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“because I know that one dollar spent here has the multiplier effect of three dollars,
as our businesses support
one another.”
West is absolutely correct,
and the Lithonia merchants
association will benefit collectively and individually
from circulating their dollars.
They will grow their businesses and create more jobs.
This nascent organization
can be the model from which
new Black Wall Streets can be
built across this nation. It is
on track to encourage more
entrepreneurship
and
demonstrate the power of a
cohesive, mutually supportive, self-directed, and economically empowered network of conscious business
owners and consumers who
are committed to growth and
sustainability.
True partnerships between
educated consumers and
business professionals in
Black economic enclaves
comprise the basis for real
power in the marketplace, i.e.
collective purchasing programs and affinity groups,
revolving loan funds, business equity funds, and financial leverage to stimulate
future growth. Lithonia is in
that space right now, and
there is plenty of room for
more cities and segments
within those cities to do the
same.
To draw the discussion
closer to home in Atlanta:
“Can Sweet Auburn be sweet
again?”
John Wesley Dobbs called
Auburn Avenue the “richest
Negro street in the world.”
Suffering its own riot in 1906
that left 25 Black men dead,
the Sweet Auburn neighborhood can also be restored,
and with leaders like Jay West
and others in Atlanta, I am
confident that we will build
more pyramids in the black
community.
James Clingman writes on
economic empowerment for
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Vance High quarterback Kingsley Ifedi is one
of Mecklenburg County’s best.
Golden Bulls clean
house for fresh start
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Johnson C. Smith All-America safety Carlo Thomas led all college football divisions with a CIAA-record 12 interceptions last
year. The Golden Bulls open the regular season Sept. 3 against Wingate.
Johnson C. Smith eager to contend for CIAA South Division title
By Herbert L. White
[email protected]
Johnson C. Smith football has been
scrubbed of underachievers.
Golden Bulls coach Kermit
On the Web Blount used spring practice as an audition for
Video on The
the fall. Players who
Post’s YouTube
measured up are in prechannel and
Facebook page. season camp to improve
on last year’s 4-6 record.
Those who didn’t aren’t.
“We made some changes coming out
of spring,” said Blount, who is in his second season at JCSU. “There were some
young men who didn’t return. We made
some additions to those guys we didn’t
allow to return, but I’m really pleased
with the work ethic right now, I’m really
pleased with the attitude, the mental
“
side of it. I think our guys get it. They
understand where they want to go and
want to accomplish. It’s a matter of us
putting it together.”
All-America safety Carlo
Thomas isn’t shy about
calculating what’s ahead,
starting with the Sept. 3
opener at Wingate.
“We have a great team,”
he said during the first
week of drills. “We just
have to put everything toBlount
gether. Our expectations
are high. We feel like we can make a deep
run to the national championship.”
To be relevant in November, JCSU
needs to navigate the CIAA Southern Division, where the Golden Bulls were
picked fourth in a preseason poll of
league coaches. Despite a four-month
gap between spring practice and summer drills, Blount is pleased with the
early results.
“The expectation is to always see
where our guys are,” he said. “It’s still
early in camp. …We’re trying to gauge
where we are shape-wise, what we have
to do conditioning-wise, how fast we
need to move forward or how slow we
need to move to get our kids acclimated.
I think things are going to get better as
we continue to move along.”
JCSU is more experienced with 13
starters returning, including seven on a
defense that led the CIAA in takeaways
last year. The offense is more of an unknown with sophomore quarterbacks
Jordan Lane and Harold Herbin battling
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I think our guys get it. They understand where they
want to go and want to accomplish.
49ers football seniors bring experience
JOHNSON C. SMITH FOOTBALL COACH KERMIT BLOUNT
By Ashley Mahoney
[email protected]
Charlotte 49ers football has its first true senior class.
Entering their fourth season, the 49ers, who
open at Louisville September 1, are more experienced than any other time in the program’s history.
“This group has worked extremely hard,”
coach Brad Lambert said. “They have done
everything we have asked of them since we
started.”
Said senior offensive lineman Jamal Covington: “We’re the guys who laid the foundation,
and we’re looking to leave a legacy that’s
going to last for the rest of this program’s history.”
Said senior defensive back Terrance Winchester, who led Charlotte with four interceptions last season: “We’ve put in extra work. No
one has to ask. Leadership is definitely getting better.”
Developing a successful program takes
time. After two years in FCS, Charlotte transitioned to FBS last year, finishing 2-10 (0-8 in
Conference USA).
“Now that they have been through the
league, they understand what lies ahead,”
Lambert said. “This camp has been a lot easier, because the guys are experienced.”
The 49ers’ offensive success has ridden on
the back of running back Kalif Phillips. The
school’s all-time leading rusher, Phillips had
190 carries for 961 yards in 11 games last season, scoring five touchdowns.
“We’ve all had problems, and we’ve fixed
them to make sure we get right for next year,”
Phillips said.
Charlotte, which scored 210 points compared to 435 for opponents, lacked an FBS-caliber quarterback, which limited their passing
Brown delivers punch for Independence attack
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By Ashley Mahoney
[email protected]
Brian Brown has to score for the
Charlotte Independence.
As the target striker, Brown has
shown he can facilitate for his teammates as well as take shots on goal.
Brown’s game-winning goal against
Wilmington Saturday showed his ability to create and capitalize on chances
in the box.
“We’re doing good, but
On the Web as far as me, I want to
Video on The
score more goals,” he
Post’s YouTube
said.
channel and
Said coach Mike JefFacebook page.
fries: “We need him to
score, quite honestly. We
play with one striker and he’s the
striker. We want him in the box getting
three-four chances a game. You saw
tonight what he’s capable of when he
gets defenders isolated.”
Said Brown: “I just want to get some
goals, like I did tonight, and get my
team three points every game.”
On loan from Harbour View FC, a
team in Jamaica’s Red Stripe Premier
League, Brown has five goals and four
assists, second-most for the Independence. Brown’s target for the season is
15 goals, but would be happy with 10.
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Charlotte Independence striker Brian Brown scored the winning goal in Charlotte’s 1-0 win
against Wilmington Aug. 13 at Ramblewood Stadium.
Season kicks off with top
teams and challengers, too
By Herbert L. White
[email protected]
When the high school football season kicks
off Friday, Mecklenburg County’s best teams
will be ready to continue their recent success.
But they’ll also have to be on the lookout for
up and coming programs, which is why the
2016 campaign is shaping up to be one of the
most competitive in years. There are plenty
of questions going into the season, with the
answers revealed in December.
• Can anyone unseat Mallard Creek in 4AA
or Charlotte Catholic in 4A?
The Mavericks and Cougars were among the
best teams in the Carolinas, if not the nation
last season. Both programs have tradition and
championship pedigrees that few schools can
match. But there’ll be plenty of competition.
The most capable rivals are in Mecklenburg,
starting with Vance, which was within a score
of beating both last season. There’s Hough,
which handed Mallard Creek its only loss in
MECKA 4A play and South Mecklenburg,
which gave Catholic a good run in the SoMeck
4A. Butler, of course, is likely to be a factor.
• Can Vance reverse last year’s misfortunes?
The Cougars went 6-6, 2-4 in conference
play last, but the record is deceptive. Vance
lost to South Carolina power South Pointe 4134, Mallard Creek 22-21, Hough 28-27 in overtime and Catholic 26-20 in double overtime.
To get above .500, Vance will need a superior season from quarterback Kinglsley Ifedi.
• Who’ll emerge as a star?
Mecklenburg has its share of standouts, but
East Mecklenburg running back Khamal
Howard bears watching. The Eagles are a team
on the rise, and he’s a major cog.
Tolbert adds
value and
versatility to
Panthers
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By Steve Reed
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Ron Rivera can’t
imagine the Carolina Panthers without fullback like Mike Tolbert on the roster.
The 5-foot-9, 250-pound Tolbert does a little of everything for the NFC champions —
blocks, catches passes, carries the ball and
even contributes on special teams. So it’s hard
for Rivera to fathom how nearly one-third of
the league didn’t even carry a fullback on
their rosters last season.
“I couldn’t tell you why teams don’t,” Rivera
said. “I think that is one of the missing links
in the league to be able to have an effective
running game, to have lead blockers and guys
who can get dirty down inside.”
It has worked for Rivera and the Panthers.
The Panthers have run for at least 100 yards
in an NFL-best 32 straight games, including
the playoffs. They were second in the league
in rushing last season and first in scoring and
reached the Super Bowl before losing 24-10
to the Denver Broncos.
That success is why the Panthers didn’t hesitate to re-sign the 30-year-old Tolbert to a
two-year, $3.3 million contract after he became an unrestricted free agent. All things
considered the Panthers might have gotten a
bargain for a guy who has been an All-Pro two
of the last three seasons.
Then again, it’s not as though fullbacks are
the Pokemon Go of the NFL.
The Miami Dolphins are among the teams
that don’t employ a true fullback.
Dolphins coach Adam Gase said after careful consideration the team decided they
couldn’t afford the luxury of having a “specialty position” like fullback on the roster.
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Continued from page 5A
game and put more pressure
on Phillips and the defense.
Feature receiver Austin Duke
had 53 receptions for 534
yards and five touchdowns
last year as a junior. The 49ers
will seek to rectify the lack of
scoring with a new quarterback in Kevin Olsen, younger
brother of Carolina Panthers
tight end Greg Olsen.
“You don’t want to coach
caution in the kid by any
stretch,” Lambert said. “You
have to value the ball, but we
want guys that want to live on
the edge. He’s that guy that I
think guys really respect on
the team and I know the
coaches do. I’m just looking
forward to watching him play.”
Said Olsen: “We really want
to send those guys out [on a
high note]. To do what those
guys did—probably some of
them had other offers, and to
come here … and practice and
do all that stuff with none of
this stuff that we all have now
[is commendable]. Those are
the guys that you really, really
want to send out on a good
note.”
Mike Tolbert adds value
through his versatility
Continued from page 5A
Hot topics for high
school football
PAUL WILLIAMS III /THE CHARLOTTE POST
South Mecklenburg High quarterback Antnio Wallace (right) is fully recovered from
a broken left wrist. The Sabres, who went 9-3 last year, are looking to win their first
playoff game under coach Rocky White.
Continued from page 5A
Another candidate is South Mecklenburg quarterback Antonio Wallace, a do-itall leader who missed half of last season
with a broken wrist. He desperately wants
to lead the Sabres to a playoff win in his
senior campaign.
• Can West Charlotte restore the roar?
The Lions were 2-9 last year under first
year coach Daren Hart, but four losses
were by eight points or less. A more expe-
rienced team and familiarity with Hart’s
system should put them in position to
move up in the MECKA.
What are the must-see games?
There are great potential matchups
throughout the season, but the best are:
Byrnes (S.C.) at Mallard Creek (Sept. 2);
East Meck at Butler (Sept. 30); Mallard
Creek at Hough (Oct. 7); South Meck at
Catholic (Oct, 14); Hough at Vance (Nov.
4)
Catholic opens at No. 1
MAGNIFICENT SEVEN POLL
By Herbert L. White
[email protected]
The preseason Magnificent Seven has its
share of powerhouses, up and comers
and a sleeper. There’s a lot of football to
be played between opening day and the
state finals in December, but here’s Mecklenburg County’s preseason best:
1. Charlotte Catholic (15-0). Can the
Cougars match last year’s 4A state championship? With 13 starters returning,
coach Mike Brodowicz certainly has the
pieces in place to make a run at the top,
starting with the SoMeck championship.
2. Mallard Creek (14-2). The Mavericks
return 11 starters from the N.C. 4AA title
team, a familiar refrain for the state’s
dominant program. Mallard Creek’s motto
is simple: Go for four – as in consecutive
championships. Chauncey Caldwell, a
transfer quarterback from Durham Hillside, gets to navigate the offense with
three-time state champ James Smith graduated.
3. Butler (10-3). If the Bulldogs need motivation, all they need is to look up at Nos.
1 and 2. It’s been a while since Butler
hoisted hardware, but 14 returning
starters mean the Bulldogs have plenty of
talent to make a run. Quarterback Davis
Cheek is an experienced leader.
4. South Mecklenburg (9-3). The Sabres
should be very good with 12 starters returning to a program on the upswing. The
question is can they actually win a playoff
game? This is a good year to do it. Defensive end Jake Lawler and quarterback Antonio Wallace are seniors who are
especially eager to break the postseason
drought.
5. Hough (12-2). The Huskies won their
first MeCKa championship last year by
toppling Mallard Creek. It’ll be tough to
repeat in 2016 with just five starters returning.
6. Ardrey Kell (7-6). Second-year coach
Joe Evans is looking to build on a good
debut campaign that culminated with a
playoff win against South Mecklenburg.
The Knights return 12 starters, so they
should be a factor in the SoMeck race.
7. East Mecklenburg (6-6). After years in
the football wilderness, East is relevant
again with coach Barry Shuford pushing
the agenda.
The Eagles return 18 starters and
primed to challenge Butler in the Southwestern 4A. Running back Khamal
Howard, 2015’s Southwestern 4A player
of the year, is an underappreciated star.
J.C. Smith wipes the slate clean
Continued from page 5A
for the starter’s job.
“These young guys we have
in might be the most talented
we’ve ever had offense-wise,”
said senior receiver Rod
Carter, who caught 31 passes
last year for 366 yards and
four touchdowns. “They’re We’ve just got to work one
young, but they’re mature day at a time, work together
and once we get it rolling, and get the ball rolling.”
they pick up pretty fast, they
pick up the pace and they’re
a pretty good offense.”
Said Thomas: “I have expectations through the ceiling.
Brown facilitates Independence
run toward USL postseason berth
Continued from page 5A
Charlotte (10-6-6) has eight games remaining.
“Eight games and five goals? Yeah, I can do
it,” Brown said. “I’m confident enough to do
it. I have a good team around me that’s creating chances for me to finish.”
Said defender Bilal Duckett: “He’s got something on the team that I’m not sure anybody
else really has. I’m almost not sure how to describe it without making it sound like he’s the
only good attacking player on our team, because we have plenty of good attacking players.”
Jeffries has emphasized the importance of
approaching USL play in thirds rather than
halves. In the first third, Charlotte went 5-32; 4-3-3 in the second and a draw and win two
matches into the final third. Brown scored
three goals and an assist in the first 10 games;
a goal and three assists in the second 10 and
a goal two games into the last 10.
“He creates a lot of havoc for us,” Duckett
said. “He fights for us, and when he’s in
rhythm, he makes us not only a better team
but a different team. We have other options
that we can use there. He brings something to
us on both sides of the ball. He’s been valuable.”
Said Jeffries: “We want him to be in those
spots more. I think he does a great job holding the ball and bringing others into the
game—that’s very important for how we play,
but we would love to see him get a few more
goals. He’s a great passer—a good set up
guy.”
“Where we kind of ran into the problem was
that we liked staying on the ball, we didn’t
like changing personnel and we always liked
the fact of having a guy that could play the
fullback role (but) still be a guy that we could
flex out plus play in-line,” Gase said. “We’re
really being a little pickier as far as we want a
guy that can do it all, and then play special
teams as well.
“We didn’t want to get stuck in a spot where
we had some experience with a fullback when
we were first at Denver and he was getting
like eight plays a game. We just felt like let’s
get the guy out there that is going to play 30
plays a game on just offense, plus special
teams.”
The Jacksonville Jaguars stopped carrying a
fullback prior to the 2015 season after they
hired offensive coordinator Greg Olson to replace Jedd Fisch.
Olson’s offense simply doesn’t use one, relying on backs to find holes and using more
multiple tight end sets up front.
“We don’t use one in any of our offensive
sets so no sense in carrying one if we’re not
going to use one,” Jaguars general manager
Dave Caldwell said.
Some teams are reincorporating the fullback into the offense.
The Philadelphia Eagles have gone back to
using a traditional style running game following the departure of coach Chip Kelly.
They’ve moved tight end Trey Burton to full-
back.
But the importance of the position has been
undeniably downgraded.
“A lot of the game nowadays is predicated
around the quarterback,” said Tolbert. “You
try to develop him first as a passer, where as
in the old days it was more about the run
game and defense. It’s not that way anymore.”
Tolbert collected 256 yards rushing and
154 yards receiving last season for the Panthers and scored four touchdowns.
He also played on most of the special
teams.
Tolbert said the key to surviving is changing
with the tide and remaining versatile, knowing well that the days of true smash-mouth
fullbacks like Lorenzo Neal, Daryl Johnston
and Tom Rathman may be over for good.
“You have to do special teams and pass protect and block out of the backfield and run
routes,” Tolbert said. “You have to be able to
do different things than in the past, more
than just being a bang-your-head-against-thewall fullback.”
Associated Press sportswriters Mark Long in
Jacksonville, Florida, Steven Wine in Miami
and Rob Maaddi in Philadelphia contributed
to this report.
The Charlotte Post