TPA TEXAS PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION This paper can www.TheAustinVillager.com be recycled Vol. 46 No. 21 Phone: 512-476-0082 Email: [email protected] October 5, 2018 Texas’Texas’ FirstFirst BlackBlack FootballFootball INSIDE LettermanLetterman WhittierWhittier HasHas DiedDied Flamingo Cantina brings Reggae to RAPPIN’ the heart of Austin. See WORLD Tommy Wyatt Page 3 “Methinks thou dost protest too Activists keep eyes on any semblance much!” of voter suppression. When someone denies See PRISON over and over again that Page 6 they had not done what they were accused of, their denial seems to be overboard. And there is an old saying “Methinks thou dost protest too much.” The statement is Tiara Thompson, meant to say that when Lady Rams someone denies over and are Panther slayers. See TAME over again that they are Page 8 not guilty of an issue that they have been charged with; you give the Truth impression that you are guilty. Racial Healing That is the impression Transformation that many Americans had last week when Judge Brett Kavanaugh gave a forty-five minute denying the statement of Dr. Ford who came before the Senatorial Committee who is Dr. Gail Christopher interviewing Kavanaugh In this Dec. 16, 2005 photo, Dallas attorney and former Texas football player Julius Whittier PLEASE JOIN US for for a position on the holds a newspaper clipping from 1971 featuring Whittier with teammates Bruce Cannon, Greg Supreme Court. Ford the free Austin Health Dahlberg, and coach Darrell Royal in Dallas. (Tim Sharp/Austin American-Statesman via AP) was not given the Commons - Truth, Racial opportunity to make an By Jim Vertuno | AP Sports Writer Healing, Transformation opening statement, and seminar with Gail Christo- pher, ND on October 13th could only answer the (The AP) - Julius Whittier once remarked that “And I caught it in the (Texas) A&M game,” he and 14th, from 10a - 4pm questions posed by attending the University of Texas and playing foot- said in the 2007 book “What It Means to be a Long- at Huston Tillotson Uni- committee members. At ball opened up a larger world for him. It could be horn.” “We had one touchdown pass the entire versity. the same the committee said Whittier helped open the university to the year.” Austin Health Com- members were given world. Whittier died Sept. 25 at age 68, the school mons (AHC) is a non- enough time to ask only Whittier was the Longhorns’ first African- announced Sept. 27. No cause of death was given, profit organization that about five questions American letterman, making his debut in 1970, one but Whittier had been battling Alzheimer’s disease. cultivates root cause each. season after Texas fielded the last all-White national In 2014, his family sued the NCAA on behalf of col- community healing Judge Kavanaugh championship team in the history of college foot- lege players who suffered brain injuries. The case is through a process called refused to answer ball. He starred for two seasons at guard before still pending. Truth, Racial Healing, questions directly and switching to tight end as a senior in 1972, a season The school’s Board of Regents dropped its ban Transformation devel- used his time giving the in which he caught every touchdown pass the Long- on Black players in 1963 but integration was pain- questions back to the oped by Dr Gail Christo- horns threw. See CULTURE, page 2 committee members. His pher. actions were so The Austin Health unbelievable that at the OLCAAAAC HOST “PICNIC IN THE PARK” Commons shifts owner- end of the meeting on ship of health back to Senator said that he communities and those would not vote on this of us who live in our nomination until there communities. Our was an FBI investigation model was borrowed of the charges of sexual from the Food Com- misconduct on the part of mons and Commons Kavanaugh. The Health, developed by investigation has to be Jamie Harvie completed in one week. AHC will own We will have the results Karisha Community’s of the investigation next prototype center in Cen- week. tral East Austin and will Kavanaugh is seeking a serve as a steward of lifetime appointment to Conscious Health Care, the United States Supreme our new paradigm for Court. It is necessary that health and healing. we make sure that all (AUSTIN, TX) – The Original L.C. Anderson Alumni Association Chapter (OLCAAAAC) For more informa- th charges against him are held their annual “Picnic in the Park” at Rosewood Park Pavilion, Saturday September 29 . tion, visit http:// investigated and that he is Members and guest enjoyed barbecue and a variety of side dishes. “Oldies but Goodies” karisha.org/austin- truthful about the matters. music was played by DJ Rick Blakey. Photo by Melvin Scott. health-commons/ Page 2 ~ THE VILLAGER/October 5, 2018 THE COMMUNIQUÉ www.theaustinvillager.com CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 said. “They never think fully slow and diffi- Whittier landed on about the things that are cult. A few Black players a campus of nearly happening in this coun- signed with the Long- 35,000 students and try. You never hear them horns over the next sev- only 300 were Black. He talk about Vietnam or Whittier eral years, but none was a star on the fresh- racism. If you want to stayed long enough to man team, and Texas know the truth, the only said he make the varsity in an made Whittier available people I’ve met that I era when freshmen for interviews before his can really talk to are the were ineligible to play debut season. longhairs or hippies. went to under NCAA rules. “I’m a loner up They are really con- Texas recruited here,” Whittier told the cerned about things like Texas in Whittier out of San An- San Antonio-Express ecology and the war. I’m tonio and his parents News in early 1970, not- concerned about those were scared of what ing his coaches were things, too.” part to might happen to him in treating him well but A few months later, Austin. hinting at having prob- a group of sportswriters Julius Whittier, the first Black “change “My dad was lems with some of his covering the Southwest letterman football player at the scared for me,” Whittier teammates. Conference looked into said in 2007. “He’d “Texas seems to re- his social life. The lead of University of Texas at Austin, died its known some guys who cruit a lot of boys from a Sept. 8, 1970, article by on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018. struck off into ’White’ small towns, and most of The Associated Press (COURTESY / UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ATHLETICS) culture” territory and paid for it them have small minds noted that “Whittier, with their lives.” just like their fathers,” he Texas’s black offensive Dale told the AP on Sept. could do to change it.” guard, is rooming with a 27. “I volunteered. We Whittier earned an white player and occa- learned a lot from each undergraduate degree Community Meeting sionally dates white other. He just added a in philosophy and a law girls.” depth to who I was. He degree from Texas. He The Parks and Recreation Department is creating The story noted made me a much wiser went on to be a criminal a master plan to guide future improvements to that Whittier said no one individual about racial prosecutor in Dallas. the park. Join us for our third Community Meeting at school had said any- relationships.” Whittier’s success thing to him about the Whittier played in opened doors between where we will share preliminary visual concepts dating. the 1970 season opener Texas and Black athletes. that have been developed through technical “I don’t think it’s against California. Texas In 1971, Texas recruited studies, public input received at the first meeting, anything unusual. Well, won three Southwest the top player in the and an online survey. unusual, but not abnor- Conference titles from state in running back mal,” Whittier said then. 1970-72. The Longhorns Roosevelt Leaks. By Texas senior half- were 28-5 over that 1974, it had signed Earl The meeting will be in an “open house” format back Billy Dale was span, 20-1 in the SWC. Campbell, who would with a brief presentation at 6:30 p.m. Whittier’s roommate Perhaps frustrated win the Heisman Trophy that season; Whittier’s early by his role as a trail- in 1977 and go on to a previous roommate, an- blazer, Whittier seemed Hall of Fame career in Tuesday, October 9, 2018 other Black player, had to embrace it by his se- the NFL. Givens District Park left school. Coach Darrell nior season when he “I am so proud of 6 to 8 p.m. Recreation Center Royal had asked Dale said in an interview he Julius,” Dale said. “His 3811 E. 12th Street and two other seniors to went to Texas in part to legacy is the fact that he Austin, TX 78721 consider rooming with change its culture: “I was an individual who Whittier, Dale said. wanted to see if the was smart enough and “Coach Royal myth about UT’s racism confident enough to wanted someone to was true. If it was, I come to Texas and chal- AustinTexas.gov/GivensMP help look out for him,” wanted to see what I lenge the university.” www.theaustinvillager.com THE BULLETIN THE VILLAGER/October 5, 2018 ~ Page 3 REGGAE IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE We Want YOU! “LIVE MUSIC CAPITAL OF THE WORLD” Advertise With By Naomi Richard & R.