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Week of November 5 - November 11, 2018 Celebrating 93 years of providing ‘News that matters’ VOL.. XCIIIIII NO.. 8 Since 1925 www.louisianaweekly.com 50 cents Council votes Report: Violence by white Nationalists is for potential at least equal to if not worse than ISIS By Stacy M. Brown Director Chris Wray told a Senate investigated and that was approxi - Florida, who has been charged NNPA Newswire Correspondent Homeland Security and mately the same as the number of with five Federal crimes, includ - $5 million Government Affairs Committee cases related to Islamic terrorism ing mailing an incendiary device (NNPA) — The threat America meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 24. under investigation. and threatening a former presi - faces from white nationalist vio - Wray reportedly told senators The report comes on the heels of dent. Sayoc was arrested at an fine on lence is at least equal to that posed that “about 1000” cases of domes - the arrest of Cesar Sayoc, a white Entergy by radical Islamist group, ISIS, FBI tic terrorism were currently being American male from Aventura, Continued on Pg. 13 By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens At a special meeting on Wednesday, the City Council passed two resolutions that The killings in a aim to, in the words of one of the resolu - tions, engender a “sea-change in the corpo - rate culture” at Entergy New Orleans. Kentucky Kroge r’s The special meeting was convened two days after the Council released the damning results of its investigation into last week, are Entergy’s “astroturfing” campaign, which concluded that Entergy “knew or should have known” that actors were paid to attend City Council meetings and being investigated support Entergy’s proposed power plant in eastern New Orleans. The Council voted unanimously to initi - as(Tr icheEdaneytWeire .ccom)r—i mAs ienclsuding five Black ate a sanctions process that could impose a civil rights leaders and voting leaders – were dis - $5 million fine on Entergy. Councilwoman advocates around the nation pre - covered to be targets Helena Moreno said that this would be pared for the Nov. 6 mid-term elec - of pipe bombs, MAURICE STALLARD, 69 VICKIE JONES, 67 “the largest single penalty ever imposed tions last week, they suddenly mostly addressed to by the New Orleans City Council.” The found themselves embroiled with a them through the mail. By Oct. mer Attorney General Eric National Intelligence Director resolution prohibits Entergy from passing string of hate incidents, culminat - 29, as many as 15 bomb contrap - Holder – all critical of Trump. James Clapper, and Democratic that fine onto ratepayers. ing in arguably the most politically, tions had been discovered. None Others were sent to former donor Tom Steyer. Two councilmembers — Jared Brossett racially, and ethnically violent reached their apparent targets. President Bill Clinton, former Vice Though none of the bombs and Jason Williams — also signaled for the week in recent American history. The addresses on the packages President Joseph Biden, former exploded, the motive of terror – and first time that they would consider a revote It started Monday, Oct. 22, included former President Barack Secretary of State and First Lady possible death – were clear. Cesar on Entergy’s application for the plant. when a string of public figures Obama, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, Hillary Clinton, billionaires Robert who have been verbally attacked U.S. Senator Cory Booker, U.S. DeNiro and George Soros; former Brossett and Williams are the only current Continued on Pg. 13 councilmembers who were on the council by President Donald Trump – Senator Kamala Harris, and for - CIA Director John Brennan, former when it voted to approve the plant in March. Both voted in favor. But the meeting wasn’t just about the “astroturfing” campaign. In her opening statement, Moreno noted that this was just one of a myriad of issues plaguing Entergy’s relationship with the city of Online hate is thriving after synagogue massacre New Orleans. “I have cringed as Entergy has been the By Jay Reeves were fatally shot in the deadliest attack on The Daily Stormer, where a headline said: focus of scathing local and national AP Writer Jews in U.S. history, anonymous posters on “Just go, Jews. You’re not welcome.” reports,” she said. “Entergy lost sight of the another website popular with white suprema - Trying to stop the online vitriol that opponents company they’ve always claimed to be.” (AP) — A website popular with racists that was cists, Stormfront, claimed the bloodshed at say fuels real-world bloodshed is a constant bat - The second ordinance passed on used by the man charged in the Pittsburgh syna - Tree of Life synagogue was an elaborate fake tle for groups that monitor hate, and victories are Wednesday opens an investigation into gogue massacre was shut down within hours of staged by actors. The site’s operator, a former hard to come by. Shut down one platform like Entergy’s culpability for the frequent the slaughter, but it hardly mattered: Anti- Ku Klux Klan leader, said traffic has increased Gab, where the shooting suspect posted a mes - power outages in New Orleans. The Semites and racists who hang out in such havens about 45 percent since the shooting. just moved to other online forums. The anti-Semitic rhetoric was just as bad on investigation will determine whether Continued on Pg. 13 Entergy should face additional penalties On October 31, four days after 11 people another site popular with white supremacists, for its “inaction and omissions” in addressing the outages and maintaining the distribution system. Over the past year, councilmembers have sparred with Entergy officials for passing Trump takes page from GOP’s Willie Horton ad the blame for the recurring outages onto (Defender News Service ) – cent of the Republicans’ infamous ed to send white voters flocking to murderer who raped a white Mylar balloons and stray cats rather than History was repeating itself with Willie Horton spot that exploited the polls to vote for then-Vice woman while out of prison under a taking responsibility for the city’s aging the release of President Donald white fear of Black men ahead of President George H.W. Bush in the - weekend furlough program. distribution system (the power lines and Trump’s new dog-whistling politi - the 1988 presidential election. oretical exchange for protection With the debut of his new ad, the poles that run down the city’s streets con - cal ad days before the crucial Most of the nation learned about from the alleged hoards of Black necting buildings to the grid). Midterm elections. It was reminis - Horton from a 53-second ad intend - criminals. Horton was a convicted In June, Entergy told the council that Continued on Pg. 8 between 73 and 81 percent of power out - ages in New Orleans over the last five years were caused by broken distribution equipment. At the same meeting, the coun - cil reprimanded Entergy when it discov - ered that the company had pulled $1 mil - What Millennials think about voting for a Black candidate lion out of a repair fund meant to improve (Defender News Service) – new BuzzFeed News and candidate over an equally qualified wondered whether younger Millennials, often thought to be Maru/Blue survey found. nonwhite candidate, as compared to Americans are less racist than Continued on Pg. 8 less racist than earlier genera - One out of three men (36 percent) 22 percent of Democrats who older generations. tions, have reservations about said they would prefer a white agreed with them. White millennials are not much electing Black candidates. political candidate if all else was Pollsters surveyed 1,006 millen - different from generation x (born There’s a gender and political equal. Just 11 percent of women nials, aged 22 to 37, online. 1965 – 1980) or baby boomers divide among millennials when it survey shared that view. Decades after public school (born 1946 – 1964) when it comes comes to casting a ballot for Republicans, at 42 percent, admit - integration and the passage of qualified nonwhite candidates, a ted that they would choose a white civil rights legislation, many have Continued on Pg. 8 THE LOUISIANA WEEKLY - Page 2 YOUR MULTICULTURAL MEDIUM November 5 - November 11, 2018 Former New Orleans mayor supports non-unanimous verdicts By Ryan Whirty such as Evangelical Christians and all converged for justice. Henderson added. “This is our er movement in Louisiana and of “people who recognize that the Contributing Writer fiscal conservatives who believe “This is where the stars really shot, an opportunity to roll back across the country that pursues criminal justice system in the unanimous verdicts will conserve align,” said Henderson, who also 135 years of an oppressive law. We further and wider criminal justice United States is broken.” Former New Orleans Mayor public funds and taxpayer rev - co-founded the Voice of the have a real opportunity to change reform in the future. “This is another step in the long Marc Morial last week said he enue—have joined with organiza - Experienced and serves as its this once and for all.” Morial said endeavors as bail road to reforming the American hopes the bi-partisan movement to tions on the left to form the executive director. Both Henderson and Morial reform can hopefully spring from criminal justice system,” he added. abolish non-unanimous jury ver - Amendment 2 coalition. “This has really unified people added that the Amendment 2 the current jury verdicts effort and “This is not the end. This is just dicts in Louisiana can serve as a Last week U.S. Sen. Bill across the state in this position,” effort will become part of a larg - become a broader effort on the part another big step.”◊ model of unity amidst the sharp Cassidy, one of two Republicans divisions in our country.