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Volume 96 Number 19 | DECEMBER 26, 2018 - JANUARY 1, 2019 | MiamiTimesOnline.com | Ninety-Three Cents THE RAPPER’S BOWL Photos courtesy of STARZ Uncle Luke’s Liberty City Warriors travel to Los Angeles to take on Snoop Dogg’s team FELIPE RIVAS [email protected] et to break a tie on the home team, Uncle Luke and his Liberty City Optimist Warriors headed to the City of Angels to beat Snoop Dogg and the Snoop’s Youth SFootball team. It’s rapper against rapper. It’s going to be Warriors versus Snoop’s for a youth league gridiron showdown. On Friday, The Liberty City Optimist Warriors, led by rap icon Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell, boarded a plane to Los Angeles, California to head to the game against Snoop’s Youth Football team, led by west coast rap legend Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broadus Jr. The Warriors are set to play Snoop’s Youth Football team Saturday for a series tiebreaker. The series currently stands at 1-1. The Warriors youth league football team is part of the Liberty City Optimist Club, co-founded by Campbell. The team consists of players ages 9 to 12 years SEE LUKE 6A Coach Luther "Uncle Luke" Campbell with the other coaches and the players. Miami Times photo/ Felipe Rivas 2018 ISSUE OF THE YEAR White people calling cops on Black people The arrest heard around CAROLYN GUNISS “I deserve to be here. I the world happened in [email protected] pay tuition like everybody April to two Black men in else,” Lolade Siyonbola told a Philadelphia Starbucks. They call them BBQ Becky, Permit Patty, Target Tammy and Golf Cart Gail. Who are they? They are white women who out fo fear and prej- police officers. “I’m not go- Starbucks! The same udice called the police on Black people who were minding their own business. One was asleep. Let’s not forget the two men who were just ing to justify my existence place that you used to go sitting and waiting in a Starbucks who eventually ended up in handcuffs. How about the AirBnb guests? here.” to spend hours watching The Miami Times believes that this act of summoning law enforcement because you see a Black person or a group of people was the But indeed she had to. Netflix, meeting for class most prolific and nonsensical thing that happened to Black Americans in 2018. Siyonbola’s experience projects maybe not even It’s not just that white people are making huge, negative assumptions about Black people, when they call the police they have consciously can be chalked up to nap- buying a tall regular coffee. or subconsciously put the Black person in a life or death situation. Police with unchecked bias and most times unwarranted fear of Black ping at an Ivy-league school Rashon Nelson and Donte people enter into these situations, when you call the police on a Black person, you may have sentenced them to die – not just jail. while Black. That was back Robinson were accused of in May. trespassing because they called 911. people had a new hashtag: campuses, known for their of your Graduate Studies By now you would think sat down for a few minutes Starbucks shuttered its Starbucking while Black. liberal, free-thinking atmo- dorm at Yale University, that white people would without ordering, while stores one afternoon for But incident after inci- sphere. you are most likely not a cool down with the calling, they waited for a business diversity training after the dent would continue, even Because, if you are sleep- threat to anyone – unless since the whole nation and partner. The store manager incident. But now, Black spilling over onto college ing in the common area you are a Black student. SEE COPS 6A BUSINESS ................................................. 7B YOU & YOURS ............................................ 15D New affordable housing Today CLASSIFIED ............................................. 9B FAITH CALENDAR ................................... 16D comes to Liberty City 79° IN GOOD TASTE ......................................... 10C HEALTH & WELLNESS ............................. 17D Projects funded by voter-approved LIFESTYLE HAPPENINGS ....................... 11C OBITUARIES ............................................. 20D Miami Forever bond set to begin 8 90158 00100 0 INSIDE 7B Editorials Cartoons Opinions Letters VIEWPOINT BLACKS MUST CONTROL THEIR OWN DESTINY | DECEMBER 26, 2018 - JANUARY 1, 2019 | MiamiTimesOnline.com Credo Of The Black Press MEMBER: National Newspaper Periodicals Postage EDITORIAL The Black Press believes that America Publisher Association paid at Miami, Florida (ISSN 0739-0319) can best lead the world from racial and MEMBER: The Newspaper POSTMASTER: Published Weekly at 900 NW 54th Street, Association of America Send address changes to national antagonism when it accords Miami, Florida 33127-1818 Subscription Rates: One Year THE MIAMI TIMES, to every person, regardless of race, If we have to have mass Post Office Box 270200 $65.00 – Two Year $120.00 P.O. Box 270200 creed or color, his or her human and Buena Vista Station, Miami, Florida 33127 Foreign $75.00 Buena Vista Station, Miami, FL Phone 305-694-6210 legal rights. Hating no person, fearing 7 percent sales tax for Florida residents 33127-0200 • 305-694-6210 shootings, officials need no person, the Black Press strives to H.E. SIGISMUND REEVES Founder, 1923-1968 help every person in the firm belief that GARTH C. REEVES JR. Editor, 1972-1982 all persons are hurt as long as anyone GARTH C. REEVES SR. Publisher Emeritus is held back. to treat them the same RACHEL J. REEVES Publisher and Chairman he Miami Times would like to draw your attention to a number: five. T Five is the amount of documented mass shootings that happened in 2018 within the city limits of Miami. All told, four peo- Trump is much worse than I thought ple were killed, some innocent bystanders. Same for the 22 injured CHARLES BLOW, The New York Times by gunfire. The gun violence we are talking about here is when four My original objections to for that and other crimes. in the past nine days — since or more people are injured or killed during the same time-period, Trump, the things that pushed Trump, for his part, lied our last update — the president in or around the same location. me into the Resistance, were his about these payments and de- has averaged 32 claims a day. The inner city neighborhoods of Brownsville, Overtown and Lib- immorality, dishonesty, fraudu- nied them — while also hav- When we first started this proj- erty City each had gun violence that equated to what the Gun Vio- lence and grift. ing those around him lie about ect for the president’s first 100 lence Archives calls mass shootings. I freely admit now that I was them on his behalf — until he days, he averaged 4.9 claims a The police say that mass shooting is a media term, that there re- seeing only the pointy edge of Trump’s tsunami of could simply no longer lie about day. He passed the 2,000 mark ally is no such label in law enforcement. But when the term mass an enormous machine. I had no untruths helped push them anymore. Then came the on Jan. 10 — eight months ago.” media is used, it gets the attention of everyone. So The Miami Times idea how immoral Trump actu- roulette wheel of revolving ex- Just this month, the newspa- will be attaching the term mass shootings to all crime scenes in the the count in The Fact ally is. planations that makes one dizzy per’s Fact Checker was forced tri-county area that are recorded by the Gun Violence Archives. Checker’s database The same month that Trump because of their silliness. to create a new category of ly- If the phrase mass shootings activates state and federal agencies, past“ 5,000 on the pulled the outrageous stunt of Nearly every aspect of ing just for the Trump era: the then it’s time for activation. inviting women who had ac- 601st day of his Trump’s life is now under inves- “Bottomless Pinocchio” for Millions of dollars are being invested in the neighbors where cused Bill Clinton of inappro- tigation for wrongdoing, some- “when a politician refuses to these crimes are taking place. Overtown is being revitalized by the presidency. That’s an priate sexual behavior to his thing I could not have foreseen. drop a claim that has been fact Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Agen- average of 8.3 Trum- debate with Hillary Clinton, I could not have predicted, checked as three or four Pinoc- cy. One of the mass shootings, where five people were injured, some his personal lawyer, Michael pian claims a day, but when I first wrote that Trump chios, keeps saying it over and being transported by car to the hospital, happened Dec. 1 in Over- Cohen, apparently under his in- in the past nine days was a pathological liar, that his over and over again, so that it town. That was the weekend of the start of Art Basel, which had structions, facilitated a $130,000 rate of lying would increase basically becomes disinforma- an official exhibition called Soul Basel in Overtown. In the Liberty payment to the porn star Stormy with his time in office, rather tion, propaganda.” City-Brownsville area, Liberty City Rising is on the rise, which is to Daniels to prevent her from tell- than decrease. As The Washing- I couldn’t have predicted any transform run-down housing into mixed income communities. At to buy the story of the Playboy ing America that she had a sex- ton Post Fact Checker put it in of it, but here we are, and the this point these projects can be likened to lipstick on pigs.