University of South Florida Scholar Commons Newspaper collection The Weekly Challenger 2017-07-27 The Weekly Challenger : 2017 : 07 : 27 The Weekly Challenger, et al Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/challenger Recommended Citation The Weekly Challenger, et al, "The Weekly Challenger : 2017 : 07 : 27" (2017). Newspaper collection. 701. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/challenger/701 This is brought to you for free and open access by the The Weekly Challenger at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Newspaper collection by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1967 2017 The Weekly Challenger Being youth disciples don’t come easy PAGE 3 COMMUNITY NEWS Politically unseen BY ALLEN A. BUCHANAN Staff Writer The People’s Budget Review compiled the needs of ST. PETERSBURG –Being a south St. Pete and facilitated a new plan. Christian as a young person re- quires developing true grit, spiri- tually, emotionally and intellectually. It’s not easy to stand down and walk away when people PAGE 4 make fun of the way you talk, the COMMUNITY NEWS way you dress or call you soft be- Sister Hughes BY HOLLY KESTENIS fant stage, it already agenda and The New being of our communi- cause you are a child of God. is back on Staff Writer has residents and com- Deal for St. Pete is ties. The continued bombardment munity leaders talking. where they landed. They, along with of put-downs can eventually make the radio ST. PETERSBURG – “We wanted to do Jabaar Edmond, other volunteers, can- youth turn in on themselves and The south side commu- things differently, we vice president of the vased south side neigh- or lash out at others. Playwright nity has talked for years didn’t want politics as Childs Park Neighbor- borhoods and local and director Lillian Cross from about what it will take usual,” said Bro. John hood Association events conducting sur- Orlando spent last week with the to empower change in Muhammad, who is and Muhammad both veys and spoke with youth of Friendship Missionary their neighborhoods. A one of the minds be- are volunteers with The several hundred people Baptist Church rehearsing a play group of residents are hind The New Deal. He People’s Budget Re- about what they feel that not only explored the trials taking those conversa- is also the president of view (PBR), a coalition they need, instead of re- and tribulations that youth face tions one step further the Childs Park Neigh- of community activists, lying on a few elected today, but also offered strategies by creating a plan that borhood Association local business owners, officials to decide for for facing the demon within and PAGE 8 deals in specifics and and community organ- neighborhood advo- them. around them. COMMUNITY NEWS throws away the gener- izer with Service Em- cates, union members, The four main areas The results of the workshops Keeping mother’s alities that so often ployees International and everyday people to focus on change that culminated in a two-hour drama, dream alive plague change. Union Florida (SEIU). working to ensure that came from those ef- dance and musical presentation The New Deal for He wanted to help facil- all residents have a forts are affordable as part of the 118th annual session St. Pete was created itate demands from res- voice in the decisions housing, more educa- of the West Coast Baptist Con- and although in its in- idents for a community that affect the well See gress of Christian Education last DEAL, page 6 Friday, July 21. “The play dealt with disciples, disciples ministering to disciples,” said Cross. Unity through Reparations Movement Cross depicted disciples who knew how to do the right thing but yielded to the temptations of holds rally peer pressure and self-gratifica- BY RAVEN JOY been upset,” said in- tion in Scene I entitled “There Is SHONEL terim campaign man- A Better Way.” In this section, the Staff Writer wayward antagonists are three ager for Cainion, Gazi Kodzo referring to brothers played by Brandon ST. PETERSBURG – mayoral candidate Paul Macon, Jordon Lambert and While the restricted Jonathan Myers who decide to Congemi telling black mayoral debate be- people to go back to make money by rolling dice. tween the two-front Africa. On the other hand, the protag- runners took place However, the rally onists, played by Joniah Denard Tuesday night at the was not about Con- and Nazziya Richardson, are the Palladium, in walking gemi’s racist rant last disciples who eventually talk the distance was a crowd of week; the rally was not three brothers out of gambling more than 100 people against each other to make about Nevel not being Dr. G. Gregg Murray rallying around may- money. able to participate in oral candidate Jesse “There’s a better way to make the mayoral debate ei- Williams Park rally. Movement support. Nevel and City Council your money and that’s through ther, the rally was about Dr. G. Gregg Mur- “One of the greatest District 6 the book of Malachi,” said busting up the status ray, pastor of the Mt. fears that the enemy candidate Eritha Cross, as she quoted what quo and putting their Zion Primitive Baptist has…is that people like “Akile” Cainion. one of the protagonists offered as message of reparations Church, said he was myself, a Baptist pastor, “I know that this a solution, which was to “bring for black people to the there because he sup- will hook up with viral video made a lot of your offerings into the storehouse forefront. ports many of the Brother Omali with one people upset, but what and God will supply your every “The status quo causes the Interna- voice, with one energy, the media is not going need.” must go!” could be tional People’s Demo- with one mindset,” said to cover is that we’ve heard throughout the cratic Uhuru See RALLY, page 7 See DISCIPLES, page 7 We Value Diversity | We Value Education | We Value History www.TheWeeklyChallenger.com • 727-896-2922 2 THE WEEKLY CHALLENGER, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 2017 COMMUNITY NEWS Let’s stay focused The road to public safety is paved with Dear Editor: but not enough effective This week, thousands policies have been en- reparations and economic development of ballots will be mailed acted to produce the revi- out to voters across the talization needed to city. This election will be support the neighbor- for the black community decided within the hoods we call home. next three weeks. So that There’s been too much Dear Editor, about a car theft epidemic public health disasters, means we must step up focus on the politics and I once heard our cur- supposedly swarming such as the polluting of our efforts to educate and not enough focus on the rent mayor Rick Kriseman our neighborhoods like a our waters with 300 mil- engage voters based on people. say that a “budget is a plague of locusts, portray- lion gallons of sewage, the issues. Poverty and residen- moral document.” If that’s ing the face of a black which is exactly what hap- It’s time we end the tial segregation have dis- true, then the Kriseman teenager as the poster pened under the current political rhetoric and enfranchised African administration’s budget child of crime in St. Pe- mayor. begin focusing on creat- Americans for genera- for the upcoming fiscal tersburg. Public safety means ing quality affordable tions. According to a selves; we have to be year reveals a serious lack The failure factory protecting the homeless housing, living wage pay- study conducted by the committed to doing the of morality on the part of known as the Pinellas population from the type ing jobs and educational Economic Policy Institute work ourselves. our city government. County School Board, of violence perpetrated equity for all. A countless in 2013, nearly 45 percent Last week, a candidate I’ve looked at the which brutally mistreats upon them by the tyranni- number of unwarranted of black children live in for the highest-ranking budget. As with every black children in our pub- cal Baker administration distractions this election neighborhoods with a public office position in previous year, the biggest lic schools, is not given who infamously ordered cycle have prevented us high concentration of the City of St. Petersburg chunk of money in the the same treatment by the the St. Pete police to slash from focusing on the real poverty, but only 12 per- made a public embarrass- budget goes towards media. Neither is the the tents of homeless peo- issues plaguing our com- cent of white children live ment of our town. I’m not funding the St. Peters- Kriseman administra- ple. munities. in similar conditions. surprised by his remarks; burg Police Department. tion’s failure to promote Public safety means We have a strong It’s easy for folks who he simply exposed what Think about that. In a city any meaningful economic protecting the children of chance at winning this aren’t a part of our com- so many other racist indi- ripped in half by social development for the black south side from the mur- race for the people, but munity to look-in from the viduals only say behind and economic disparities, community. Neither are derous Pinellas County we can’t allow our focus to outside and tell us what closed doors. What baf- food deserts, starvation, the ravages of gentrifica- Sheriff’s department so be dismayed or dis- we need and how to fix fled me was the silence of homelessness, unemploy- tion, a legacy of displace- that no mother ever has to tracted.