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Inside: Celebratingcelebrating Juneteenthjuneteenth Honoringhonoring Ourour Starstar Graduatesgraduates JUNE 2021 FREE Inside: CelebratingCelebrating JuneteenthJuneteenth HonoringHonoring ourour StarStar graduatesgraduates IntroducingIntroducing thethe newnew presidentpresident PowerPower ofof UNLVUNLV Tiffany Haddish takes over Hollywood PROTECTOR OF THE DREAM Susan Rice and reclaiming America’s ideals LVCCLD.org Have Fun & Keep School Skills Sharp! Sign up for Summer Challenge, the cool, free summer program that lets kids have fun while learning! Where else can kids And did we mention prizes? & teens earn great Babies through grade 12 can enter for a chance to win amazing prizes by doing fun learning activities and reading whatever they like – comics, magazines, song lyrics, books, graphic novels, even listening to prizes just for having audiobook stories! Just go to LVCCLD.org/SummerChallenge to learn more and to access our awesome online resources. a blast this summer? 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Letters to the editor are welcome. For advertising and editorial information call (702) 615-8216 or (702) 743- 9613. Forward all other correspondence to: E-mail: [email protected] To Subscribe, visit: www.lasvegasblackimage.com Facebook.com/LasVegasBlackImageMagazine @cdalasvegas p10 p16 LasVegasBLackImage.com 3 American Democracy Faces 9 Death Wishes By Louie Overstreet udging by our nation’s member Millard Fillmore Jactions, much of the was elected in the mid-1800s. world (some here in Amer- 5. Beating the drums of ica) and I have conclud- 21st century tribalism is a ed that, when it comes to death wish smoke signal cre- maintaining a democracy, Reciprocity Overload ated from the fire of racism. America has a death wish. ow often do you hear — or have we’re already carrying if we don’t I can think of 9 unranked 4. It is an economic Hsomeone imply — that “you owe practice release. Every time you see events or behaviors that death wish to sustain a me”? that person who did something for you are signs of the destructive wealth caste system where We are so conditioned to believe that or vice versa, there may be an unspo- forces now arrayed against there are 642 billionaires, we must repay others for the things ken expectation of reciprocity. Peace is democracy. 34,000,000 poor folks, and a we’ve received. The whole idea of “pay- 9. It is a death wish for found when there is no real expectation government that runs annu- ing it forward” means that you too will tens of millions of Americans to buy the of returned gratification. al trillion- dollar deficits providing ser- be blessed. Even when we deprive our- BIG LIE that the 2020 election was stolen vices that people do not want to be taxed selves of something, we expect a reward Can you give and receive without a from the most corrupt President in our for receiving. for all our hard work. This can be a gift promise of something in return? The history. — but can also be a tragedy if we don’t promises to yourself should feed into 8. It is a death wish to try to sweep 3. Using religious values as bigoted keep our goals and aspirations in proper your soul, bringing light when there is under the rug riotous acts of rebellion societal wedge issues is a death wish. perspective. darkness. God’s universe has its own committed by citizens foolish enough to 2. Attempts at oppressing the liberties We respond to expectations from oth- will to give and take away. buy the BIG LIE. of large segments of the population, most ers and what we think is customary. But 7. It is a death wish to have a justice There is peace in the process of giv- notably the right to vote, is a death wish. has there ever been a time when you system that allows police to kill unarmed ing without the thought of getting back. 1. It is a death wish to reject life-sav- took a deep breath and just released the citizens during traffic stops, yet locks ing science — yet up to 30% of Americans expectation of someone doing something Your openness to gratitude feeds spirits up hundreds of thousands of people by are doing just that. for you because you did something for of generosity of prosperity. Relax and treating addiction as a crime and not as If you happen to know the three of us them? tune into those spirits — embedded in a health issue. — Chicken Little, Robert Ripley, and my- We add to the emotional baggage the love you give to others and yourself. 6. One political party has the death wish to destroy the two-party system self — then please understand that the There is peace in the process of giving that has elected a Democrat or Repub- democracy sky is falling, you can believe without the thought of getting back. lican to the presidency since Whig party it or not, and I told you so! 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