White Militia Rumored to Have Killed Two Protesters in Kenosha
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Also in this issue: racist militia invading KenoshBULaK RATE ? U.S. POSTAGE PAID VOL. XLIV Number 6 August 26, 2020 www.milwaukeecommunityjournal.com 25 Cents MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN PERMIT NO. 4668 WISCONSIN’S LARGEST AFRICAN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER Fellowship honors local legends Milwaukee Community Journal Publisher Patricia Pattillo (upper) was one of the honorees at this year’s Fellowship Open. Pattillo received the Lead - ership Award virtually during the first night of a three day event that also honored Milwaukee Bucks’ great Sidney Moncrief and Bader Founda - tion President Daniel Bader. In photo at right, John Daniels III, poses with his son (left) John Daniels IV with a special commemorative painting of past Fellowship Open honorees. Watch for complete coverage in this week’s WEEKEND edi - tion. (photos by Yvonne Kemp) White militia rumored to have k“Miy ldelaer Lordd, m y dtewar Lorod, wh epn rotesters insh oKt in tehe bnack osevesn thimesa by a SIGNIFYIN’ da’ gonna’ see us as men by Mikel Holt Kenosha police officer as he tried to By Mikel Kwaku Osei Holt My dear Lord, my dear Lord, when As the world focused its sights on enter his car. da' gonna’ see us as men Kenosha to watch yet another horrify - Video footage of the incident went Milwaukee: Worse of the worse My dear Lord, my dear Lord, when ing video of a police shooting an un - viral moments after the incident Sun - ya' gonna’ give us freedom armed Black man, angry protectors day, sparking immediate demonstra - My dear Lord, my dear Lord, when took to the streets as Governor Tony tions and minor looting. Study shows African ya’ gonna’ give us freedom” Evers called for a special session to The videographer, who is keeping address police accountability, while his identify secret for obvious reasons, simultaneously calling out the National said three officers struggled with Americans faring 19th century slave song, only re - Guard. Blake moments before the shooting cited when the ‘massa’ or ‘over - The latest videographed ‘victim’ is and he heard one officer order Blake poorly in all areas seer’ wasn’t around. 29-year-old Jacob Blakely who was (continued on page 7) I was half way through Julius Lester’s heart wrenching book, ‘To Be A Slave,’ last week, when I received an email with the recent study by UW-Mil - waukee researcher Marc Levine on the status of African Americans in Mil - waukee. Reward grows In some respects, I was glad for the temporary reprieve from the book be - cause Lester’s painful collection of African ‘slave’ narratives was an excruci - to $100,000 atingly painful experience. Adding to my morbid mindset was the fact that the week before I finished for info about a book entitled ‘Don’t Call Them Slaves.’ Both books detailed the long-term agenda of slave owners and White Su - Tay Jackson premacists to create a permanent inferiority complex in African Americans, Tuesday, August 25th marked the while entrenching a system of apartheid as the foundation of the American one year anniversary of the death of culture. Quanita “Tay” Jackson, the young Five minutes into reading Levine’s eye-opening report seemed to crystalize lady who was fatally shot near that reality, establishing a multi-centennial yoke of oppression dating back to Moody Park. the arrival of ‘African captives’ in America on August 20, 1619. During a “Tay Day March” in If Levine’s report is a template for how far Black Americans have traveled honor of Tay, it was announced that outside the shadow of slavery since the 13th amendment, we either need a the reward for information leading to new set of shoes, or pray for rain. the arrest and conviction of the per - In other words, America’s evil past and that peculiar institution has been son responsible for the shooting was replaced by a system of apartheid that has kept our tribe in a state of neo-slav - increased to $100,000. ery. 7th District Alderman Alderman Levine’s report--The State of Black Milwaukee in National Perspective: Khalif J. Rainey is renewing the call Racial Inequality in the Nation’s 50 Largest Metropolitan Areas’--paints a pe - for information related to this death. jorative and daunting portrait of Black life under apartheid described as some - “One year after her death we remem - body named Jim Crow. ber Tay who was an exceptional And for you who say I use the term ‘apartheid’ inappropriately or exces - young woman working to make a sively, this time I took it directly out of Levine’s report, which identified Mil - positive impact in her community. waukee as the worse of the worse of the nation’s 50 largest cities. Her life was cut too short because of Sadly, that’s not a surprise to all who have pleaded with politicians and pas - a senseless act of violence,” said Al - tors, philantropists and pimps for decades to intercede, to put into place reme - derman Rainey. dies to equalize the playing field. For the most part, we have been spitting “I’m urging anyone with informa - into a strong wind. tion that may lead to an arrest to step Levine’s study looks at how African Americans in the nation’s 50 largest up and help bring to justice those re - cities fare in the areas of housing, poverty and ‘intergenerational economic sponsible for Tay’s death.” mobility.’ Anyone with information related He also looks at employment, income, mass incarceration, health care out - Green Bay Packer Hall of Famer LeRoy Butler and Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy director of school to this case can contact the Milwau - comes, educational attainment and racial composition of private sector eco - culture, Kasey Herd, provided a bag consisting of schools supplies and produce from Pete’s Fruit Mar - kee Police Department at (414) 935- ket during an ‘Anthem Drive-Through Back to School Event held at the school recently. The event was 7360 or call Milwaukee Crime (continued on page 5) part of Anthem’s effort to give back to the community. (photo by Yvonne Kemp) Stoppers at 414-224-TIPS. The Milwaukee Community Journal•August 26, 2020•Page 2 PTrorvuidmes pthe esanmge oaldg tiereds in interview with Black Press rhetoric and falsehoods It not only marked Trump’s first time on the network but also his initial interview with any African American-owned media. The Na - tional Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the trade associa - tion of 230 Black-owned newspapers and media companies that comprise the Black Press of America, has repeatedly requested inter - views with the president throughout his nearly four years in office. White House and Republican National Committee officials have not acted on the multiple requests from the Black Press of America seeking access to the president, Vice President Mike Pence, and Ed - ucation Secretary Betsy Devos. Kelly Wright, a seasoned and Emmy-winning journalist who once worked at Fox News, asked the president about the economy, COVID-19, and school choice Trump, savvy with his words, claimed that “most states are doing well.” “Now, Florida is headed in a really good direction [with COVID- 19], California and now Texas,” Trump declared to Wright. “I see where Germany got a big surge, France and Spain. But we’ve done a very good job.” Heavily criticized for calling the coronavirus the “Wuhan Virus,” Trump repeatedly referred to China as the source of the pandemic. He said America’s economy, including in the African American com - munity, was prospering before the pandemic, claims that don’t ex - Award winning journalist Kelly Wright has the distinction of being the first African American to independently interview President Donald Trump. An Emmy award winning journalist, Wright interviewed Trump at the White House. His interview was arrange in part actly match with various economists. by the NNPA, the Black Press of America. The president claimed that Biden and Harris would raise “every - body’s taxes and crash the [stock] market.” He referred to Biden as a “puppet,” and called the Green New Deal championed by former GA Democrat Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders a “disaster” and a “cartoon joke.” blasts party for Wright asked Trump about underserved communities, particularly African Americans, and the president declared that he’d done much treatment of to improve the lot of all minorities. “We’ve done Opportunity Zones, Criminal Justice Reform, and I BGeloargcia kSta tve Roept. eVerns on Jones saved HBCUs,” Trump exclaimed. “We gave them more money than launched into an impassioned they were seeking. Just before the virus came from China, the Black speech against the Democratic party at the Republican National Conven - community had the best unemployment and employment numbers in tion on Monday. history. They had a good month last month, they had the best num - The congressman, who is a Demo - bers, and then we got hit with the China virus.” crat himself, criticized the party for Since the pandemic began in March, more than 50 million Ameri - their treatment of African Americans cans have filed for unemployment compensation. The Republicans and reasserted his support for Presi - have sought to lower benefits for the unemployed, which has re - dent Donald Trump while speaking mained a sticking point in any potential bipartisan agreement to pro - at the Mellon Auditorium in Wash - vide relief. ington, D.C. “The Democratic Party does not The president also reiterated his stand that all schools should reopen want Black people to leave their this fall for in-person learning despite more than 5.2 million Ameri - mental plantation,” Jones, 54, said cans reporting having contracted the virus with at least 165,000 during his virtual speech.