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The Lincoln Echo PERMIT#240 PRESORTED STANDARD U.S. POSTAGE PAID FORT SMITH, AR The Lincoln Echo PERMIT#240 We Report the News. You Interpret It. Website www.thelincolnecho.com JULY 2013 Volume 23 Issue 3 PP.O. BOX 771 Fort Smith, Arkansas 729022 50 CENTS REV. JENNINGS STARTS FREDERICK DOUGLAS NAACP CHAPTER STATURE UNVEILED Before an audience that included Douglass’s descendants, national Thank you everyone! We made it! We now have the 100 signatures and local leaders, and representatives of the many places he called needed to restore our Fort Smith Chapter of the NAACP! The state home, the first statue chosen to represent the District was unveiled president Dale Charles will meet with all of us Saturday, June 22, at a ceremony filled with pageantry in the Capitol Visitor Center’s 2013, 1 p.m. at Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptist Church, 4503 Young Emancipation Hall. Street. Of all the notable figures who have come to live in Washington, Please let us not stop at 100. You may still attend the meeting Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said, “none before or since if you sign a membership before June 22. Any questions, I can be Douglass . has so joined his national prominence and philosophy reached at 479-785-1773. with the aspirations of the people of the District of Columbia. .H e refused to separate his life in the District with the equality theme of A GREAT BIG THANK YOU.. his courageous life.” The statue’s arrival marked the culmination of a fight by Norton and Rev. Jerry L. Jennings others that has stretched over a decade. Fittingly for a city that has endured repeated frustration at the hands of Congress, Wednesday’s victory was only a partial one. BAITMASTERS FISHING CLUB While the 50 states have two statues apiece in the Capitol, the District was granted only one, as congressional Republicans objected to placing it on equal footing with the states. So a second completed statue, of architect Pierre L’Enfant, remains at One Judiciary Square and the District gets the same allotment as U.S. territories, despite the fact that — as local activists emphasize — Washingtonians pay federal income taxes and territorial residents do not. Some speakers Wednesday noted the irony that Douglass, a champion of D.C. voting rights and self-government, was being enshrined in a building where the city’s voice remains muffled. “We know that a single statue is not enough. It is incumbent on all of us to right this wrong of history and afford the District of Columbia the voice it deserves,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.). Her fellow Democrats onstage applauded her remarks, while House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) sat in silence. The two Republicans also declined to clap when Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) declared that the District “deserves The baitmasters fishing club, consisting of men from Illinois, Ten- statehood” and said that he had signed on to co-sponsor statehood nessee, California, Ohio and Arkansas went on their annual fishing legislation. Vice President Biden did not mention statehood but said trip. This year the trip was to Port Clinton, Ohio where all the Walleye he and President Obama support “home rule, budget autonomy and fish pictured above were caught. Bill Perry put together the logistics a vote for the District of Columbia.” for this trip and did an outstanding job. Although Republicans avoided talk of the District’s plight, Boehner praised Douglass as “an example for humanity that is unmatched,” HARVARD STUDENT EXCELLS while McConnell called him a great “leader of the Republican Party.” (Biden also joked that Douglass was “one of my favorite Ethel “El- point aver- Republicans.”) lie” Hylton age graduat- And Nettie Washington Douglass, his great-great-granddaughter, said has always ing summa he “gave his spirit as a birthright to all of us.” been a high cum laude. achiever. Per- She was also haps it runs inducted into HAPPY BIRTHDAY MRS. POSEY in the family. the Phi Beta Mrs. Ruby Posey for keeping her this As the niece Kappa Soci- celebrated her 102 long. Thank you Lin- of news an- ety last fall. Birthday on June 14, coln Echo for print- chor Soledad Hylton credits 2013 at Western Siz- ing an article on our O’Brien, Hyl- the support of zling in Fort Smith, Aunt for the past two ton’s personal her parents Arkansas given by years. achievement (who also her Nieces Tina in graduating graduated Roberts and Pearlina ated this year with a from Harvard from Harvard Ross. She has lived One of the many degree in sociology, College with the magna cum laude in a Virtuous life and Nieces, was honored with the highest GPA in her 1982) with much of God has rewarded Sophia Freund Prize, class might not come her ability to attain her gracefully with Jacqueline Davis which is given to the as a surprise. success. age. Aunt Ruby is Harvard student with loves many more in Hylton, who gradu- loved by many and Pflugerville, Texas the highest grade return. Thank God I News You Can Use 2 News 7 F n THE NAACP HAS RETURNED What’s Going On 3 Local News 8 o d Editorials 4 Politics 9 c TO FORT SMITH, e News 5 Heritage 10-11 us JOIN!!! x Little Rock 6 News 12 • PAGE 2 The Lincoln Echo NEWS YOU CAN USE JULY 2013 YORUBA TRIBE OF AFRICA . The Yoruba People, of whom there are Dahomeans but also against each other. The Haiti, and Trinidad, Yoruba religious rites, more than twenty-five million, occupy the name Yoruba was applied to all these linguis- beliefs, music and myths is evident even at southwestern corner of Nigeria along the tically and culturally related peoples by their this late day. In Haiti the Yoruba’s were gen- Dahomey border and extends into Dahomey northern neighbors, the Hausas. erally called Anagos. Afro-Haitian religious itself. To the east and north activities give Yoruba the Yoruba culture reaches rites and beliefs an its approximate limits in the honored place, and region of the Niger River. the pantheon includes However ancestral cultures numerous deities of directly related to the Yo- Yoruba origin. In Brazil, ruba once flourished well Yoruba religious activi- north of the Niger. ties are called Anago or Portuguese explorers Shango, and in Cuba “discovered” the Yoruba they are designated cities and kingdoms in the Lucumi. fifteenth century, but cit- Slavery in the United ies such as Ife and Benin, States was quite dif- among others, had been ferent from other standing at their pres- colonized regions. In ent sites for at least five the U.S. chattel type hundred years before slavery was the means the European arrival. where the language Archeological evidence indicates that a tech- The old Yoruba cities typically were urban and culture was whipped and beat out of nologically and artistically advanced, proto- centers with surrounding farmlands that the African captives. In the U.S. throughout Yoruba (Nok), were living somewhat north extended outward as much as a dozen the Diaspora, the African generally received of the Niger in the first millennium B.C., and miles or more. Both Benin and Oyo are the death penalty for practicing his or her they were then already working with iron. said to have been founded by Ife rulers or birthright. Today the religion has undergone Ifa theology states that the creation of descendants of Ife rulers. Benin derived its a phenomenal surge in popularity and inter- humankind arose in the sacred city of Ile knowledge of brass casting directly from Ife, est. Santeria, the adaptation of Yoruba and Ife where Oduduwa created dry land from and the religious system of divining called Ifa with Catholicism, came to the states first water. Much later on an unknown number Ifa spread from Ife not only throughout the with Puerto Ricans in the forties and fifties of Africans migrated from Mecca to Ile Ife. At Yoruba country but to other West African and then with the flood of Cuban refugees in this point the Eastern Africans and Western cultures as well. A common Yoruba belief the sixties. In all of these places mentioned Africans synergized. system dominated the region from the Niger, above, the pantheon of major Yoruba dei- Ife was the first of all Yoruba cities. Oyo where it flows in an easterly direction, all the ties has survived virtually intact, along with a and Benin came later and grew and expand- way to the Gulf of Guinea in the south. complex of rites, beliefs, music, dances and ed as a consequence of their strategic loca- It is no accident that the Yoruba cultural myths of Yoruba origin. tions at a time when trading became pros- influence spread across the Atlantic to the In resent years, availability of attainable air perous. Ife, unlike Benin and Oyo, never Americas. European slave hunters violently travel has enabled African Americans to go developed onto a true kingdom. But though captured and marched untold millions of back to the essence from which this great it remained a city-state it had paramount Africans to their demise on over crowded culture derived (Africa) and gather the infor- importance to Yoruba’s as the original sacred slave ships bound for the Americas. Slave mation needed to teach and assist others. city and the dispenser of basic religious wars launched by the kingdom of Dahomey Places like Oyotunji village in Beaufort South thought. against some of the Yoruba kingdoms, and Carolina, DOYA (Descendants of the Yoruba Until relatively recent times the Yoruba’s slave wars between the Yoruba’s them- in America) foundation in Cleveland OH, Ile did not consider themselves a single people, selves made war casualty Africans available Ori Ifa Temple in Atlanta GA, and African but rather as citizens of Oyo, Benin, Yagba for transportation to the Americas.
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