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Presorted Standard U.S. Postage Paid Austin, Texas Permit No. 01949 TPA TEXAS PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION TheAustinVillager.com This paper can be recycled Vol. 40 No. 10 Phone: 512-476-0082 Email: [email protected] July 20, 2012 Massive Crowd Welcomes INSIDE President Obama To Austin President Barack Obama visited Texas this week (July 17) visiting Aus- tin and San Antonio. The RAPPIN’ crowd in Austin stretched Voting Challenges out for more than three city See NAACP Page 4 Tommy Wyatt blocks for hours at the Austin Music Hall to see Shame On You, the president. Rush While the event was scheduled to be a 3 p.m. Limbaugh!! affair, the President did not show up until after 4 p.m.. Rush Limbaugh has fi- Many of the attendees had Poetry With an Attitude nally lost the little mind that been there since early af- See GOSPEL RAPPER he had left. If you listen to ternoon. Page 5 his radio show on a regular The crowd was enter- basis you already know that tained by the Jerry Jeff his whole show, daily, is Walker band until the hon- making insulting comments oree arrived. President about President Obama. It Obama did not disappoint is hard to believe that they the crowd, who chanted “4 station pays him millions for more years.” He informed Accountability Summit him to have only one subject them of the accomplished See PEACEFUL PROJECT matter. of his administration which Page 6 This week he went so included The National On This DAY FDR far as to say that the Presi- Health Insurance Program dent was trying to bring down (commonly known as Nominated For America, because he hates Obama- Care; The Immi- Third Term this country. And he and the gration bill that allows stu- As President other ultra conservatives dents to stay in this coun- On July 18, 1940, blame all of the shortcomings try to complete their edu- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the country on the Presi- cation; Tracking down who first took office in 1933 dent. The droughts are his Osama Bin Laden; and as America’s 32nd president, fault; the financial downturn drawing troops from is nominated for an unprec- is his fault. He is responsible Afganistan; and helping edented third term. for the high unemployment in General Moters to again Roosevelt, a Democrat, would eventually be elected the country, and the charges become the number one to a record four terms in of- go on and on. auto maker in the world. fice, the only U.S. president However, this week he The president said that to serve more than two terms. took a break from talking all of this was done, inspite Roosevelt was born about the President for a few of the gridlock in Washing- January 30, 1882, in Hyde minutes to show that he is ton. He said that this we Park, New York, and went on really brain dead. He have been trying to work to serve as a New York state charged that the Batman our of the second worse senator from 1911 to 1913, movie was a veiled attempt economic crisis in our his- assistant secretary of the Part of massive audience waiting to see President Obama. Staff photo Navy from 1913 to 1920 and to bring down Mitt Romney. tory. credit for creating more holding down the taxes for event was one of two that Here is what he said about President Obama said governor of New York from than 4 million), bringing people and Small Busi- was held in the city on Tues- 1929 to 1932. In 1932, he de- the movie The Dark Knight that he is running for an- down the cost of tuitions at nesses making $250,000 day. It was not readily feated incumbent Herbert Rises: “Have you heard this other term to complete the colleges so that more or our or less. known just how much the Hoover to be elected presi- new movie, the Batman restoring jobs (he takes kids can go to college, and The Austin Music Hall fundraisers brought in. dent for the first time. movie, what is it, The Dark Knight Lights Up or what- King Seeks Ideas to Grow AISD Meets with Families and ever the name is. That’s right, Dark Knight Rises. Lights African Music and Culture Community Members to Review Up, same thing. Do you Proposal to Open Single-sex Schools know the name of the villain in the movie? Bane. The Vil- Austin, TX—The Austin types. lain in The Dark Night Rises Independent School District is Austin ISD District 1 Trustee Cheryl Bradley said she is named Bane, B-a-n-e. hosting a town hall meeting from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, July supports the development of What is the name of the ven- 28, at the LBJ High School to dis- single-sex schools. “There are ture capital firm that Romney cuss a proposal to open two, critical issues facing our chil- ran and around which there’s single-sex middle schools. dren,” Bradley said. “It is our now this make-believe con- AISD is considering com- obligation to explore opportuni- ties that can improve the suc- troversy? Bane. The movie bining the attendance areas for the James E. Pearce College Pre- cess of every student. I believe has been in the works for a paratory Academy and Gus this design can help our students long time. The release date’s Garcia Middle School to facili- realize their full potential and be been known, summer 2012 tate the design of two, single- a real game changer for our com- for a long time. Do you think sex middle schools to maximize munity.” The town hall meeting that it is accidental that the student achievement. The de- sign is one of the district’s po- comprises both a panel discus- name of the really vicious fire tential 2013-14 Annual Academic sion and question and answer breathing four eyed whatever and Facility Recommendations. session designed to provide in- it is villain in this movie is Supporters explain single- formation to community mem- Pictured from left to right: Sylnovia Holt-Rabb, City of Austin Economic Growth and Redevelop- bers interested in learning more named Bane?” ment Services Office (EGRSO); Norvert Angafor (Local Austin Contact); Don Pitts, City of Austin Music sex schools offer program de- about single-sex programs. Wow! Rush, that is as Division; John Nchami (Chairman of the Bambui Village Traditional Counsel); David Murray, City of signs that incorporate teaching Austin Music Division; King Angafor Mombo-oh III of Bambui, Cameroon; Dusty McCormick, City of practices built on the strengths AISD welcomes and encourages much of a stretch as you Austin EGRSO Economic and Development Business Liasion, Kevin Johns, City of Austin EGRSO of both males and females, which families and members of the have been making over some Director; Paul Bijingsi (Local Contact and 2013 Conference Organizer); Mrs Natalia Mahbo (The suit their specific development public to share their feedback, of the blame that you have Queen of Bambui); Natalie Madeira Cofield, President & CEO, Capital City African American Cham- and learning styles. Proponents ask questions and engage in a been laying on President ber of Commerce; Meghan Turner, City of Austin Art in Public Places. Not pictured: Marianne Martinez, believe students experience bet- dialogue with community lead- EGRSO International Program Coordinator ers and district officials. For Obama. But, if you are the ter peer interactions and have more opportunities to pursue more information, please contact friend of Mitt Romney that City of Austin Economic nomic development met last ship in northwestern Central Af- Growth and Redevelopment Ser- week with King Angafor rica. academic, extracurricular and ca- the Department of Public Rela- you profess to be, he does vices officials with expertise in Mombo-oh III of Bambui, reer-oriented activities without tions and Multicultural Out- not need any enemies. music, art, and international eco- Cameroon, an emerging town- See King page 7 regard to gender roles or stereo- reach at 414-9706. THE VILLAGER Page 2 ~ July 20, 2012 www.theaustinvillager.com EDITORIALS/COMMENTARY Romney and the NAACP: A Missed Opportunity address the NAACP, I Black community – busi- Black business leaders licans on his campaign lican-come-lately over tried to force myself to be nessmen and business- are the most important Web site? Am I the only Party vets who have optimistic about what he women are. That Black entry point to the Black one who is puzzled as to taken all kind of criticism would say. But my years business person is typi- community and Republi- why Romney has never for supporting the Grand of being an avid Republi- cally head of the board of cans, of all people, are met with a group of Black Old Party is a grand old can prepared me for the trustees or the deacon totally ignorant of this entrepreneurs? insult to those Black Re- worst. And that’s exactly board of the church. So, fact. And they will remain I was stunned to publicans who have toiled Raynard Jackson what I saw. if you get the business ignorant of what’s impor- learn that Romney had for years in the vineyard NNPA Columnist Romney had a leader on your side, he or tant to the Black commu- chosen a recent Demo- of Republican politics. golden opportunity to she will bring along the nity until they have cam- crat-turned-Republican, Where are the voices As anyone who has make a credible argument minister and the congre- paign staffs that look like Ashley Bell, to be one of of Black Republicans followed me knows, I for Blacks to support him.