Lessons from the Past

Volume 97 Number 11 | OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 5, 2019 | MiamiTimesOnline.com | Ninety-Three Cents Votes from elected officials in Miami Gardens and Miami-Dade County slow down the deal PHILIPPE H. BUTEAU Miami Times Contributor fter housing of public hearings, County Commissioners told Formula One advocates not so fast at its regular meeting on Tuesday. Due to a pair of votes, commissioners forced Formula One and the Miami Dolphins to go back to the negotiating table, this time headed by Mayor ACarlos Gimenez. With split votes, commissioners stopped the Miami Gardens City Council voted racing in Miami Gardens but Gimenez against Formula one racing at Hard wants to come to some kind of consensus. Rock Stadium, which is located in An ordinance, which will be heard again, Miami Gardens, and persistent requires commission approval before any community opposition. racing can happen in Miami Gardens. The Miami Gardens The other vote on a resolution, calls for City Council unanimously commission approval of any racing in the passed a resolution ob- county. Though not quite knocking racing jecting to the proposal. off the tracks, the county votes came after SEE DEAL 6A LESSONS FROM THE PAST the forum commenced, Elizabeth Panelists advocate for more attention to be Primas, ESSA project coordinator, explored what this law means to the paid to children’s education in tri-county area Black community. PHILTRINA FARQUHARSON ceeds Act, which is the main law for “Education begins at home with Special to The Miami Times K-12 public education in the United parents, and with the ESSA law has States. Known as ESSA, this law said is, we can’t let go of our children Policymakers, educators and holds schools accountable for how when they enter school. We have parents filled the African American students learn and achieve, while to continue to be the stronghold Research Library and Cultural Cen- also providing an equal opportunity for them,” said Primas. “We can’t ter in Fort Lauderdale Monday, Oct. for students who get special educa- just turn them over at the school 28 to advocate for education. tion services. house door. We have to walk in and Clarence Tabb, Jr./Detroit News via AP, File The town hall meeting themed The ESSA replaced the No Child demand that they have high-quality In an Aug. 24, 2010 file photo, Congressman John “Lessons from the Past,” dissected Left Behind Act during Barack teachers, that they have good Conyers, left, greets the Rev. Jesse Jackson, right, as postal the quality of the Every Student Suc- Obama’s presidency in 2015. Before SEE LESSONS 4A workers rally to save Saturday mail service at the Cam- pus Martius Park, in Detroit. Detroit police say the former congressman died at his home on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019. He was 90. Rep. John Conyers longest serving Black congressman He won passage of legislation that created Martin Luther King's birthday COREY WILLIAMS file politicians toppled by sex Associated Press harassment allegations in 2017, died at his home on Sunday, Former U.S. Rep. John Co- said Detroit police spokesman nyers, one of the longest-serv- Cpl. Dan Donakowski. The ing members of Congress death “looks like natural caus- whose resolutely liberal stance es,” Donakowski added. on civil rights made him a po- Known as the dean of the litical institution in Washing- Congressional Black Caucus, Pictured above from left are Bejamin F. Chavis Jr. Daniel Gohl, Makiba Foster, Gregory Tony, ton and back home in Detroit which he helped found, Co- Eugene K. Pettis, Bobby R. Henry Sr., Karen Carter Richards, Valerie Smith Wanza, Robert W. despite several scandals, has nyers became one of only six Runcie, Samara Rawls, Brenda Calhoun Snipes, Sen. Perry E. Thurston Jr., Elizabeth Primas, died. He was 90. Black House members when he Gordon Weekes and Dorsey C. Miller. Conyers, among the high-pro- SEE CONYERS 4A BUSINESS ................................................. 8B FAITH & FAMILY ...................................... 7D Today CLASSIFIED ............................................. 11B FAITH CALENDAR ................................... 8D Minding 83° IN GOOD TASTE ......................................... 1C HEALTH & WELLNESS ............................. 9D business at LIFESTYLE HAPPENINGS ....................... 5C OBITUARIES ............................................. 12D 8 90158 00100 0 INSIDE brunch 3C Editorials Cartoons Opinions Letters VIEWPOINT BLACKS MUST CONTROL THEIR OWN DESTINY | OCTOBER 30-NOVEMBER 5, 2019 | MiamiTimesOnline.com MEMBER: National Newspaper Periodicals Postage Why the new Emmett Credo Of The Black Press Publisher Association paid at Miami, Florida (ISSN 0739-0319) The Black Press believes that America MEMBER: The Newspaper POSTMASTER: Published Weekly at 900 NW 54th Street, can best lead the world from racial and Association of America Send address changes to Till memorial needed to Miami, Florida 33127-1818 national antagonism when it accords Subscription Rates: One Year THE MIAMI TIMES, Post Office Box 270200 to every person, regardless of race, $65.00 – Two Year $120.00 P.O. Box 270200 Buena Vista Station, Miami, Florida 33127 creed or color, his or her human and Foreign $75.00 Buena Vista Station, Miami, FL Phone 305-694-6210 be bulletproof legal rights. Hating no person, fearing 7 percent sales tax for Florida residents 33127-0200 • 305-694-6210 H.E. SIGISMUND REEVES Founder, 1923-1968 no person, the Black Press strives to GARTH C. REEVES JR. Editor, 1972-1982 help every person in the firm belief that ississippi was the epicenter of the racial terror GARTH C. REEVES SR. Publisher Emeritus all persons are hurt as long as anyone RACHEL J. REEVES Publisher 1992-2019 is held back. lynchings in which thousands of African-Ameri- CAROLYN GUNISS Executive Editor Mcan men, women and children were hanged, shot, drowned, dismembered or burned alive across the South be- tween the end of the Civil War and the mid-20th century. The case of the state’s best-known victim — 14-year-old Trump’s Black college spectacle seen Emmett Till, lynched in 1955 — stands out against this blood- CHARLES M. BLOW, columnist, The New York Times drenched backdrop, both for the barbaric violence involved and because the murder helped to galvanize the modern civil Charles M. Blow, columnist, Their lunches were delivered budget also sought “yet again, caught in this dragnet, many rights movement. The New York Times to them in their dorms. to eliminate J.R.I., a program being stopped and frisked Despite its obvious importance, the Till story remained shut Donald Trump at Benedict The 20/20 group gave that provides technical as- multiple times for no reason. out of Mississippi’s civic life until 2005, when signs memori- College was beneath con- Trump its “Bipartisan Jus- sistance to states seeking to This is the same Trump alizing the lynching started to appear in public — and were tempt. tice Award” for his signing safely reform their justice who repeatedly chastised targeted for desecration. Benedict College is a His- of the First Step Act, crimi- systems.” NFL players who knelt to pro- The defilement of the signs reflects the belief that Mississip- torically Black College in nal justice reform legislation Trump doesn’t care about test police brutality on Black pi’s public square should be reserved for Confederate memo- Columbia, S.C. Trump spoke which, among other things, justice, criminal or otherwise. people. rials and other testaments to white supremacy. The realization there on Friday at the 2019 allowed for the early release This is the same Trump Not only is he not deserv- that the symbolic landscape can either reinforce or contest Second Step Presidential Jus- of a relatively small number who responded to the case ing of an award, he turned the racism is especially resonant at a time when cities, church- tice Forum organized by the of nonviolent federal inmates. of the Central Park Five by event into another self-serv- es and schools are discarding Confederate names and iconog- 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Cen- The vast majority of inmates, taking out newspaper adver- ing political speech. raphy. ter, a “group of over eighty however, are not federal, and tisements calling for New Later in the speech, Trump Emmett Till’s murder illustrated how lynchings buttressed African-American mayors, therefore not affected by the York State to adopt the death made this proclamation: the school of white supremacy that marked black people for city, county and state officials, law. penalty. The Black and Lati- “I will always fight against death for seeking the right to vote, talking back to white people prosecutors and defense at- Still, for this group to give no boys were just teenagers abuses of power from any or merely brushing against a white woman on the sidewalk. It torneys, political strategists, Trump an award of any type at the time, and he refused to source. And I will always also underscores the repugnancy of President Trump’s attempt community leaders, activists, was an affront to anyone who apologize or change his posi- champion the right to due to characterize impeachment proceedings as a “lynching.” police chiefs and other law has paid attention to his full tion on their guilt even after process, the right to a fair Emmett was visiting from Chicago when he had the misfor- enforcement executives,” ac- record on criminal justice and they were exonerated. trial, the right to good le- tune of encountering a white woman named Carolyn Bryant at cording to the group’s web- to Black people insisting on He consistently gushes over gal representation for every a store owned by her husband, Roy, in Money, Miss. We may site. justice. the morally abhorrent and American, regardless of race, never know why Ms. Bryant took offense at her young custom- The irony was that there As the Brennan Center for dramatically racially skewed background, position, right?” er.

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