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Berkeley County African American Community Leaders Accept School District Superintendent's Apology! Goose Creek SC NAACP Branch #56A3 May 2011 Newsletter Volume 6, Edition 5 Berkeley County African American Community Leaders Accept School District Superintendent's Apology! School District, and Mrs. Brenda Bines Watson, Former Goose Creek NAACP Branch President and Co-Chair Branch Education Committee The Rev. Richard Harkness, Vice President of the Berkeley County and Moncks Corners Ministerial Alliance was designated the lead spokes person for the group meeting with Superintendent Rodney Thompson. The meeting with Superintendent Rodney Thompson went well. Mr. Thompson wel- comed us to his conference room and of- fered regrets that we were meeting under these circumstances. He told us he believes his statements were taken out of con- text. He said the speech he gave at the (L to R) The Rev. Dr. Ethel Jefferson, Carrie Gilliard, David Cakley, The Rev. Julius Berkeley Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting on March 25 was intended to be a Barnes, The Rev. Richard Harkness, Superintendent Rodney Thompson, Minister Kenny Johnson, and John Matthews Continued on Page 4 Background Leading Up to Apology: text and assure you that I believe you and I Representatives from the Berkeley County have the same goal, which is to ensure that Inside This Issue NAACP Branches (Cross, Goose Creek, all students receive a quality education.” Mr. School Superintendent Apologizes…..1 Thompson said, I would be happy to meet Moncks Corner, and Upper Berkeley County) Mentoring Program Launched………..2 along with representatives from the Berkeley with you and other members of your organi- zation to discuss this further…” Family Bereavement Notice…………..2 Moncks Corner Ministerial Alliance and Goose NNPA Rebukes NAACP…...………….3 Creek Concerned citizens met with Superin- In attendance were: The Rev. Julius Bar- NNPA and NAACP to tendent Rodney Thompson on Friday April 8th. nes, President Upper Berkeley NAACP Branch, Ms. Carrie Richburg Gilliard, Chair- Work Closer Together…..3 This meeting was prompted by the African Discrimination in the Workplace……...4 American community and others who were person Political Action Committee Cross NAACP Branch, The Rev. Richard Hark- Dr. Randolph on SCETV………..……..5 dissatisfied, surprised and appalled by Super- News & Community Information…...…6 intendent Thompson’s statement, “I can tell our ness, Vice President Berkeley County and governor how many prisons we will need Moncks Corner Ministerial Alliance, The Health Awareness: Hypertension..….7 based on our third-grade African-American Rev. Dr. Ethel Jefferson, President Moncks Civil War Stamp Unveiled…...………...8 reading level.” Mr. Thompson made this re- Corner NAACP Branch, Booker Manigault, Highlight from March 28th Meeting .....9 mark in the speech he gave at the Berkeley Past President Moncks Corner NAACP NAACP Call for Compassion….…….10 Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting on Branch, Mr. John Matthews, member Goose Civil War Anniversary begins in SC..10 March 25th at the Redbank Club in Goose Creek NAACP Branch; and Goose Creek 8th Grader Gives Awesome Speech..12 Concerned Citizens, Mr. Willis Sanders Creek. Comments on Civil War Anniversary.12 Chief Human Resources Officer Berkeley In his correspondence to Mr. Matthews, Mr. County School District, Mr. Rodney Thomp- Thompson said, “I want to clarify for you how I son, Superintendent Berkeley County believe my statements were taken out of con- May 2011 - Page 1 Page 2 NAACP CREEK CONNECTION 1 BRANCH MEETINGS Day and Location Changed Goose Creek NAACP meets the fourth Monday of the month at Berkeley Electric Building 2 Springhall Drive; Goose Creek, SC. Upcoming Meetings Monday April 25, 2011 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM General Meeting Monday May 23, 2011 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM General Meeting Goose Creek Branch NAACP PO Box 1356 Goose Creek, SC 29445-1356 Telephone: 843-276-6294 GOOSE CREEK NAACP FAMILY BEREAVEMENT NOTICE www.naacpgoosecreek.org We are saddened to announce the homegoing of Mrs. Louretta Email: [email protected] Haynes Dukes the mother of James Dukes, 1st VP of Goose Officers Creek NAACP Branch. On Tuesday evening, April 12, 2011, President ……………………..…David Cakley God requested the presence of one of His faithful servants - 1st VP ……………………….….James Dukes Mrs. Lourelia "Yeddie" Haynes Dukes. Lourelia's joumey of life 2nd VP…………………The Rev. Ted Adams began on November 18, 1927 in St Matthews, South Carolina. Secretary…………………Herbert Bodison, Jr Yeddie", as she was affectionately, called by her children, sib- Treasurer………………..……William Watson lings, relatives and friends was married to Harry Dukes for 65 Mrs. Louretta Executive Committee Members years and had four children. Her funeral was Saturday April 16, Haynes Dukes 2011 at Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston. Eddie Anderson Ranese Harrell 1927 - 2011 Please keep James and the Dukes family in your prayers. Brenda Bines Watson Orville Hayes Kenneth Brown Thomas Lanier Goose Creek NAACP Launches Mentoring Program The Goose Creek NAACP is sponsoring a mentoring program in partnership with the Berkeley County School District. Myrlie Evers Williams The program will be guided by the time-tested ideas of “each one teach one” and “iron sharpens iron.” The program kicked off on April 16. To take part, visit www.naacpgoosecreek.org, click on “resources,” and then “mentor application”; complete the form and, after signing, mail it to the address listed at the bottom of the page. For more information call Mr. Cakley (843) 276-6294 May 2011 - Page 2 Page 3 In The News and Announcements Black Press Rebukes NAACP in Image NNPA and NAACP Vow to Work Closer together Awards Advertising Debacle by Christopher Fleming of the NAACP and Walter Smith of the NNPA Ben Jealous Admits ‘Grave Mistake’ by Hazel Trice Edney 8 April 2011 Recently there was an issue between the National WASHINGTON (TriceEdneyWire.com) – On the 184th birthday of the Newspaper Publishers Association Black Press last week, March 16, an odd debacle was underway. The (NNPA) and the NAACP. NNPA NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, had member publishers had become come under fire from Black newspapers around the country over an upset when they discovered that issue of economic injustice. the NAACP had inserted multi- NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous admits that “a page Viewer’s Guide advertising grave mistake was made” right under his nose when advertising in- Danny Bakewell, NNPA Chair- for its 42nd Image Awards in sev- serts were placed only in White newspapers on the eve of the organi- man and Benjamin Todd Jealous, eral markets throughout the US, to zation’s annual image awards, which aired March 4. Danny Bakewell, NAACP National President/CEO the exclusion of African American chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), newspapers. Upon being informed a federation of more than 200 Black-owned newspapers, is demand- of this “mis-step,” Chairman, Danny Bakewell called NAACP President Ben- ing justice. jamin Todd Jealous and suggested a meeting to discuss the issue. NNPA publishers said they felt righteous indignation with the NAACP, as “If the NAACP desires to advertise with the white they viewed their actions as being contrary to their joint historical struggles. press, they need to understand and experience the Since the inception of the Black Press and some 82 years later when the repercussions of going outside of their “house” (The NAACP was born, the two had partnered unconditionally in the fight for free- Black Press). The NAACP needs to know that by dom and equality. ignoring the Black Press they are ‘cutting off their Consequently, Bakewell invited NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous to nose to spite their face,’” Bakewell said in a March 7 attend an NNPA Board of Directors meeting in Washington, DC, to explain letter to NNPA publishers, obtained by the Trice Ed- his actions. The meeting proved fruitful and initiated renewed commitments ney News Wire. “We have marched side by side with them and been by each association to work closer together. their voice in the African American community. It is truly disheartening During the meeting NAACP President Ben Jealous said: “I am recommitting to be on the battlefield with someone and not be able to share in the the NAACP to advocate for increased ad dollars and support for the Black spoils.” Press. There is a long and storied history between the Black Press and the NAACP. I, like many of my predecessors, including WEB Dubois and Roy In his first public response to the issue, Jealous re- Wilkins, emerged from the Black Press. As an investigative reporter and leased a statement on March 13 after he was con- editor for the Jackson Advocate—the most frequently firebombed Black tacted by the Trice Edney News Wire. community newspaper in the country—and former Executive Director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the mission and voice “This year's NAACP annual Image Awards television of the Black Press is something I personally hold in the highest regard. The show was a great success,” he wrote in the statement. NAACP and NNPA share the same mission: the liberation of our people. “However, on the eve of the show, a grave mistake was The Black Press is our voice and the NAACP is a voice for the Black Press. made: circulars that were supposed to appear in both the mainstream Together we can be a mighty force to speak truth to power.” press and Black community newspapers only appeared in the main- NNPA Chairman Danny Bakewell said that he appreciates the frank dia- stream press.” logue between the two groups, as it presents a better understanding of their respective operating procedures, one that will prevent any such “mis-step” in The advertising debacle has sparked a firestorm of criticism from the the future. Bakewell continued, “The 200-member NNPA has always sup- Black Press family of which Jealous has long been a member.
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