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INSIDE WEEK OF AUGUST 10-16, 2017 www.FloridaWeekly.com Vol. VII, No. 42 • FREE Summer is time for the locals to shine at area restaurants and resorts. Maltz does ‘Diary’ Students produce Anne Frank’s story. B1 w Exit interview John Couris leaves Jupiter Medical Center. A14 w _________________________SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY OR MORE THAN A CENTURY, PALM BEACH County has been a winter retreat. Well into the 1980s, stores along Behind the Wheel Palm Beach’s Worth Avenue would Classic cars at Concours F be shuttered, as locally owned busi- w d’Elegance in Michigan. A18 nesses and hotels closed for the season and their staffs often headed north along with their customers. But it would seem the area now is more of a SEE SEASON, A12 w COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY Adopt-A-Family names board chair _________________________SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY Beach. He also served and was its annual campaign chair in 1992. as general manager of He also served as chair of LISC Palm Beach West Palm Beach resident Bill Peterson WPEC News12 for 10 County, which built hundreds of affordable Matchbox Twenty has assumed the role of board chair for years. While at WPEC housing units in Palm Beach County. Rob Thomas and the band take to Adopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches. Mr. he was named 1996 “My wife, Kathy, became an Adopt-A- the Coral Sky stage. B1 w Peterson has been a dedicated member of Broadcaster of the Year Family volunteer more than 20 years ago Adopt-A-Family’s board of directors for a by the Florida Asso- and we both were impressed with its cul- number of years, most recently serving as ciation of Broadcasters ture of care for clients and efficiency in vice chair. and has served on the its operations. I am honored to serve with After a decades-long career in broadcast PETERSON Television Board of the a most impressive board of directors with Download news and television, Mr. Peterson retired National Association of members of varied expertise and ability; our FREE from the E.W. Scripps Company in 2009, Broadcasters. all of whom hold a common commitment App today where he served as senior vice president/ Mr. Peterson’s Palm Beach County commu- and respect for our clients and donors,” Mr. Available on television station group. Earlier, he was nity leadership spans nearly three decades. Peterson said. vice president/general manager of Scripps- the iTunes and He was a long-time member of United Way To learn more, visit www.aafpbc.org or Android App Store. owned WPTV News Channel 5 in West Palm of Palm Beach County’s board of directors call 561-253-1361. ■ PRSRT STD LESLIE LILLY A2 REAL ESTATE A17 EVENTS B4-7 U.S. POSTAGE PAID OPINION A4 BEHIND THE WHEEL A18 FILM B12 FORT MYERS, FL PETS A6 ARTS B1 PUZZLES B13 PERMIT NO. 715 BUSINESS A14 COLLECT B2 CUISINE B14-15 A2 NEWS WEEK OF AUGUST 10-16, 2017 www.FloridaWeekly.com FLORIDA WEEKLY COMMENTARY We shall not be moved secure a fleeting popularity ... and finan- appointed hour, the parade began, mov- sacre. Florida was the first state in the cial support by promoting the disunion of ing forward in total silence. country to compensate African-Ameri- people who ought to consider themselves Every footfall, every individual pres- cans for crimes suffered at the hands of leslieLILLY as one.” ent, stood in witness to the justice of a white mob. [email protected] This isn’t a story taken from the front their cause, a demonstration of moral Another quarter of a century and page of last week’s New York Times. eloquence that required no spoken it’s 2017. White nationalism is ascen- It is a century-old tale about a call-to- words. It became known in civil rights dant. It promotes white supremacy as It was Rev. Hutchens C. Bishop, D.D., conscience protest held in New York City history as the “Silent Parade.” a legitimate pillar of American life. It of New York City who issued the national on July 28, 1917. Thousands heeded the At the time, Florida already had the spews xenophobia, misogyny and racial call to action. He urged the native and call. They were of African descent and reputation for being among the worst hatred. the foreign born, and all people united by came together as the pastor entreated, in a of the worse in its treatment of blacks. The religious right is complicit in its ties of blood and color, and all who owed massive, peaceful parade. They demanded Lynchings of black men and race riots rise. The puritanical backsliders sit in allegiance to their maker, to participate in racial justice and an end to racial violence were more common here than almost pews of the faith community, certain a massive protest. His God was the God of in America. anywhere else in the nation. only they know God’s will. But their all people and races. Just weeks before the protest, brutal The Rosewood massacre in 1921 in brand of Christian theology is deeply It was to be a nonviolent demonstra- race riots in East St. Louis claimed the lives Levy County was among the most infa- compromised by intolerance and bigotry tion, a peaceful parade, a powerful dis- of more than 40 black people, murdered mous attacks. A white mob burned the toward any they perceive as unworthy of sent unmistakable in its meaning. The in their neighborhoods by white mobs. town to the ground. The violence left God’s love. Rev. Bishop said Christ’s spirit needed to Lurid, eyewitness accounts described the eight black men and two whites dead. The Rev. Bishop knew these people be made manifest in the making and exe- horrific scenes — white “Lady Macbeths” Forty years passed. African-Ameri- and the hypocrisy of their faith. They cution of the nation’s laws. He explained and their children laughing, cheering and cans were still marching. But the trickle were the same ones who preached and why. participating in the violence, preying upon of dissent begun decades earlier by the prayed on Sunday and put their hooded “We march,” he said, “because, by the the blacks fleeing their burning homes. “Silent Parade” had grown into a mighty robes on Monday, to harass and commit grace of God and the force of truth, the Their white neighbors left them to die in torrent. Millions of Americans of all acts of violence against their spiritual dangerous, hampering walls of inhuman the streets, burned and literally “roasted races, economic means and religious brothers and sisters. injustice must fall. … We march because by the heat of the flames.” faiths joined the cause. The movement The Rev. William Barber II, the founder we want our children to live in a better The year was 1917. The horror wasn’t for social justice found its following and of the Moral Monday movement, warns land and enjoy fairer condition than have an aberration. Racial violence was its faith community. no American is safe when the morally fallen to our lot. ... We march because we endemic in America. The National Asso- Interfaith freedom riders hopped indefensible is sanctioned by government are thoroughly opposed to “...segregation, ciation for the Advancement of Col- buses and traveled to Tallahassee to and condoned by religious heretics. The discrimination, disenfranchisement and ored People, agreeing with Rev. Bishop, challenge segregation in public trans- Rev. Barber warns, only partly joking: the host of evils” that are being forced mobilized its membership. The time had portation. Local pastors orchestrated a “We’re all colored people now.” ■ upon us. He said he expected resistance come to act. seven-month-long boycott of bus ser- and hate. But he was unshakable in his An estimated 8,000 to 10,000 people vices by black riders. — Leslie Lilly writes frequently on resolve that together, the battle for justice showed up, carrying signs of protest. Thirty more years passed. The Flor- issues of politics, public policy and philan- could be won. They would succeed “in The women and children led the pro- ida Legislature asked forgiveness of its thropy. Email her at llilly@floridaweekly. spite of shallow-brained agitators, schem- cession, dressed in white. The men fol- state-sanctioned sins from the survivors com and read past blog posts on Tumblr ing pundits and political tricksters who lowed, attired in funereal black. At the and descendants of the Rosewood Mas- at llilly15.Tumblr.com We deliver for families. 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