Volume 96 Number 6 | SEPTEMBER 26-OCTOBER 2, 2018 | MiamiTimesOnline.com | Ninety-Three Cents Cosby is sent to state prison in Bad handcuffs after sentencing Tuesday. Mark Makela/Getty Images Blood Cosby gets 3 to 10 years A history of Black medical deception for assault With a new study, the University of Miami is trying ‘Most racist and sexist trial to overcome distrust in the Black community in the history of the United States,’ says spokesman K. BARRETT BILALI Miami Times Contributor MARYCLARIE DALE and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press t has been almost a century since the group had syphilis and more than 200 the Tuskegee study in which Black didn’t. But they all received placebos. Their His Hollywood career and good-guy image men were used to find out the ef- illnesses were never treated until the study in ruins, Bill Cosby was led away to prison fects of syphilis. In the early 1930s, was quashed in 1972. in handcuffs Tuesday at age 81, sentenced to aboutI 600 Black men joined the Tuskegee The Tuskegee study and other reported three to 10 years behind bars for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his gated Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro abuses in medical studies have contrib- estate. Male program only to find out 40 years lat- uted to Black people steering clear of The punishment made him the first celeb- er that the study was looking at the long- medical research projects. rity of the #MeToo era to be sent to prison term effects of the disease. Nearly 400 of SEE BLOOD 4A and all but completed the dizzying, late-in- life fall from grace for the comedian, TV star and breaker of racial barriers. “It is time for justice. Mr. Cosby, this has all circled back to you. The time has come,” Montgomery County Judge Steven O’Neill said. He quoted from victim Andrea Con- Black men line up stand’s statement to the court, in which she for Tuskegee study said Cosby took her “beautiful, young spirit and crushed it.” Cosby declined the opportunity to speak before the sentence came down, and after- ward sat laughing and chatting with his de- fense team. His wife of 54 years, Camille, was not in court. Constand smiled broadly upon hearing the punishment and was hugged by others in the courtroom. In a blistering statement, Cosby spokesman Andrew Wyatt said the comic was subjected to “most racist and sexist trial in the history of the United States.” Henrietta Lacks Among other things, Wyatt said all three SEE COSBY 6A MIAMI REFERENDUM Miami voters to choose mayor over city manager The Charter Amendment would go Miami has today, Suarez said On the ballot for the Nov. Commissioner Joe Carollo, the people do not get what 6 election, people who live who voted against the res- in effect immediately if passed they voted for. A mayor cam- in Miami’s city limits will be olution, has filed a lawsuit paigns, is elected but then the asked to change the current against the city in an attempt K. BARRETT BILALI and in office choose to do so. city is run by the city manager, city manager-based system to block the strong mayor ref- CAROLYN GUNISS Four years later, voters who was not elected, he said. to what is sometimes called a erendum. Carollo claims the [email protected] tested their right to pun- “The people elect the may- strong mayor form of govern- ballot language is misleading ish Alvarez for raising their or, but then they can’t hold ment. as to the mayor’s proposed Miami Mayor Francis Su- property taxes and raising him accountable,” said Suarez. Suarez has been advocating salary and powers. In ad- arez remembers what hap- staff salaries in the middle of “I can’t fire the police chief. for this change in the city’s dition, he said the petition pened to former Miami-Dade the recession and the hous- It’s a charter violation. Only charter before being elected process by Suarez’s political Mayor Carlos Alvarez. ing bust. the city manager can. Then to the commission in 2009. action committee was illegal. Alvarez became Mi- Voters by 88 percent re- the chief can file an appeal af- After being elected mayor last Miami for an Independent ami-Dade County’s first chief called Alvarez and cut short Miami Mayor ter five deals,” he said. year with nearly 90 percent of & Accountable Mayor’s Initia- executive officer or what is his second term, a provision Francis Suarez He is hoping Miami res- the votes, Suarez formed a po- tive, the PAC which supports known as a strong mayor that a strong mayor form of idents want to change the litical action committee and revising the charter, says that in 2007. In this form of gov- government provides. manager-led to what he calls city’s form of government. successfully got the referen- “an accountable mayor” will ernment, much like a regu- Suarez wants Miami voters an accountable-mayor govern- dum on the ballot after a reso- make for a stronger Miami. lar CEO, a mayor can be re- to change its charter and gov- ment. lution passed on a 3-2 vote by “Who is in charge?” asks moved if those who put them ernment structure from city In the form of government the commission. 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Box 270200 creed or color, his or her human and Cosby, others, women 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 no person, the Black Press strives to are ready to fight 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. any attribute the recognition that women have RACHEL J. REEVES Publisher and Chairman been the subject of abject harassment and phys- Mical violence to the #MeToo movement. The #MeToo movement has been formally ongoing since 2006, when Tarana Burke wrote “Me Too” for others to join We deserve better than DeSantis in saying they were sexually assaulted. FREDERICA S. WILSON, U.S. Rep., D-Miami This year, several people, mostly men have been accused of sexually inappropriate behavior. The latest of those, a From day one of the gu- he is before this unfortunate more indictment of his fit to serve as Florida’s next Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh is facing bernatorial general election incident. judgment and character on governor. accusations that three decades ago he sexually harassed one cycle, former Congressman He is a founding member a long list of reasons why His elevation to the gov- woman and may have identified as conquests others in a Ron DeSantis has spent of the House Freedom Cau- voters cannot trust him. ernorship would pose an high school yearbook. more time defending him- cus, and has voted in sup- DeSantis showed us that existential threat to equal But only a few weeks ago, on Aug. 31, at the Queen of Soul self against accusations of port of President Trump’s he also is no friend to wom- rights in Florida. He is an racism than he has spent positions 94 percent of the en when he voted against ideologue and what we Aretha Franklin’s funeral the world watched in horror and sharing his vision for Flor- time. If elected governor, the Violence Against Wom- need is a strategic thinker disgust as Bishop Charles H. Ellis III openly groped Ariana ida. It began with the care- we can expect him to con- en Act (VAWA) in 2013. who will be a compassion- Grande. He further diminished her by likening her name to less remark urging voters to tinue to promote inhumane Reauthorization of this ate and effective leader. a Taco Bell menu item. not “monkey” things up by policies that limit access to landmark legislation had The good news is that Women face these types of pressures all day long, espe- electing his opponent, Tal- affordable health care, di- been passed without major Gillum is leading DeSan- cially when they have to meet men in places that men be- lahassee Mayor Andrew Gil- minish the quality of public opposition for nearly two tis in the polls. He won the lieve they should dominate: the boardroom, the bedroom lum, who is Black. education, destroy the en- decades. It was introduced Democratic primary against and the political and intellectual stage. DeSantis’ team tried to vironment, take from the in response to crisis levels the odds because he spoke We know the blatant disregard for women and their right clean it up by saying that poor to give to the rich, and of domestic violence, dat- to voters about the issues to be treated equally and fairly as men reached new heights he was advising Floridians create racial and ethnic di- ing violence, sexual assault that matter to them in ways due to the person who sits in the highest office in the na- against “making the wrong vides.