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Vol. 45 No. 21 Phone: 512-476-0082 Email: [email protected] October 13, 2017 ESPN Suspends Aaron Judge Is Showing INSIDE Anchor for Why More Black Athletes Should Start Breaking Social Taking Their Talents to

Media Rules Baseball Meet one of Austin’s by: Pat Eaton-Robb | AP Sports Writer by: Perry Green | AFRO Sports Editor fearless RAPPIN’ justice leaders. Tommy Wyatt Judge See DAVIS Page 2 Friday Night Lights vs Thursday Night Lights. There was a time when “Friday Night Lights” feat- ured only White high Austin residents school football games; unite for National African American teams Night Out. across Texas took to the See CRIME fields on Wednesday and Page 5 Thursday nights. The African American teams competed in the Prairie Hill View Interscholastic Lea- gue while the White File photo showing Jemele Hill attending schools competed in the ESPN: The Party 2017 in Houston, Texas. University Interscholastic (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision/AP, File) Housing marketplace League, which excluded eliminates inequity Black schools from New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge runs the bases on its platform. membership until 1967. after hitting a two-run home run during the See AIRBNB During that period, the fourth inning of the American League wild-card Page 6 records of Black schools baseball game against the Minnesota Twins were not considered as Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/ Last Kerner important as the others. Frank Franklin II) Today, we all play in one Jones As I am a true Baltimore Orioles fan, it hasn’t Commission league, but the records of been the most pleasant time watching New York the African American Yankees star Aaron Judge play this year, especially Member League have very rich HARTFORD, Conn. ment Monday that Hill had against my O’s. Haunted, history. And those records (AP) — ESPN suspended acknowledged “letting her Judge nailed seven home runs with nearly 20 can be found in a new book anchor Jemele Hill on colleagues and company hits against Baltimore this season, so you can un- Hopeful on written by Michael Hurd. Monday for two weeks for down” with the Trump derstand just how frustrating it is to see him play Hurds book “Thursday making political state- tweet. from an Orioles’ fan perspective. Race in US Night Lights” brings to ments on social media. “In the aftermath, all But as an African-American man, I have to by: Russell Contreras light this very rich history. Hill, an African- employees were re- admit I’m rooting for this kid every time he takes Associated Press Hurd is an author, freelance American co-host of the 6 minded of how individual the batting plate. And his emergence as a young writer, and historian who p.m. broadcast of tweets may reflect nega- superstar in the sport has me pondering if maybe CORRALES, N.M. was born in Texarkana, “SportsCenter,” received tively on ESPN and that it’s time a lot more of us Black folk start taking our (AP) — Nearly 50 years Texas. He attended the backlash last month after such actions would have talents to Major League Baseball. after the Kerner Commis- University of Texas at referring to President consequences. Hence this sion studied the causes of See ATHLETIC ABILITY, page 2 Austin and majored in as a “White decision,” the statement deadly riots in America’s journalism. He is a very supremacist” in a series of said. Diverse United States Divided cities, its last surviving noted sportswriter. tweets that referenced Hill had called the member says he remains In the book, Hurd the president’s comments president “a White su- on Symbols of Patriotism haunted that its recom- reminds us of the out- about a deadly White su- premacist who has largely by: Russell Contreras and Deepti Hajela | The AP mendations on U.S. race standing players from premacist rally in surrounded himself w/ relations and poverty Texas who have made Charlottesville, Virginia. other White suprema- FREEDMEN’S TOWN, were never adopted. record for themselves in Trump later sug- cists.” She wrote that he Texas (AP) — When Af- But former Okla- Texas and many went on to gested that NFL players be was “the most ignorant, ghanistan War veteran Jo- homa U.S. Sen. Fred Har- play in the National fired for not standing dur- offensive president of my seph Smith saw NFL play- ris says he remains hope- Football League. He covers ing the national anthem. lifetime.” She called him a ers take a knee or raise a ful that one day, those pro- fifty years (1920-1970) of In tweets on Sunday, Hill bigot and said it was the fist during the playing of posals will be imple- high school football targeted Jerry Jones after height of white privilege to the national anthem last mented. history. He features such the ignore his white su- month, he wasn’t of- Harris says poverty players as “Mean” Joe owner stated that players premacy because it wasn’t fended — he was proud. Joseph Smith and structural racism still Green (Temple Dunbar), who disrespect the flag a threat. Where some saw it as dis- enflame racial tensions, Otis Taylor (Houston would not play for his “Well, it’s a threat to respectful, he saw it as drawing some heated re- even as the nation be- Worthing), Dick”Night team. me,” she typed. patriotic. sponses — including from comes more diverse. Train” Lane (Austin Hill suggested on Hill did not immedi- “It’s not an insult President Donald Trump, President Lyndon Anderson), and Bubba that fans who dis- ately reply to a request for against the flag. It’s a stand who referred to an NFL Johnson created the 11- Smith (Beaumont Charlton- agree with Jones should comment on her suspen- up of your beliefs,” said player making a gesture member Kerner Commis- Pollard). This is a must read boycott the team’s adver- sion. Smith, 32, a Black commu- during “The Star-Spangled sion to study a spate of ri- for Football fans. It gives tisers and not buy the Before she was sus- nity activist in Houston’s Banner” as a “son of a ots in the late 1960s. The you a look at what Black team’s merchandise. pended, Hill responded historic Freedmen’s Town, bitch” who should be panel recommended Players had to overcome to “Cowboys have a Sunday to a Twitter fol- a neighborhood settled by fired. spending billions on revi- make it to the pros and for huge national following,” lower who suggested that emancipated slaves after But for some people talizing poor cities, im- some to be recognized as she wrote in one of a series NFL players would learn a the Civil War. of color, patriotism goes proving police relations Hall of Fame players. of tweets. “Lot of Black & lesson about “getting fired A silent protest beyond standing up for an and ending housing and Michael Hurd will be brown folks are Cowboys for not doing what your against police brutality, anthem or a pledge and job discrimination. signing copies of his book fans. What if they turned boss requires you to do.” started last year by then- encompasses many feel- The 86-year-old Har- on Saturday, October 21 at their backs on them?” “Because if we did San Francisco 49ers quar- ings — including protest. ris lives in Corrales, New 6 p.m. at Book Peoples, She clarified Monday everything the boss said, terback Colin Kaepernick, Criticism of that expres- Mexico, and is working on 603 N. Lamar Blvd. For she was not calling for an Americans would still be has evolved into a state- See a book on the 50th anni- more information call (512) NFL boycott. dying of tuberculosis in ment about patriotism DIVERSE PATRIOTISM versary of the 472-5050. ESPN said in a state- factories,” she replied. and the nation’s symbols, page 7 commission’s report.