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16 - The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, August 6, 2008
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meeting will feature guest speaker and plastic surgeon, Frederick Weniger, M.D. For more infor-
mation, call 350-3438 or visit bariatrics.memorialhealth.com.
Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma Support Group
5p.m. to 6:30p.m., Thursday, August 14, Summit Cancer Care Office, Anderson Cancer Institute,
Memorial University Medical Center
This educational and support group is for individuals with blood related cancers and their
loved ones. Each month the group focuses on a specific topic related to these types of illnesses
and improving quality of life. To reserve your space, call Jennifer Curran at 350-7845.
Baseball and Books for Backus
6:30 p.m., Thursday, Thursday, August 14, Grayson Stadium
Spend an evening at the ballpark as the Savannah Adult Baseball League (SABL) presents
"Baseball and Books for Backus." The game will feature SABL teams the Dawgs vs. the Blue
Sox. Admission is free for the entire family with the donation of a children's book for the George
and Marie Backus Children's Hospital at Memorial University Medical Center.
Blood Drive
7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday, August 20, Memorial University Medical Center
10 a.m. to 6p.m., Thursday, August 21, Memorial University Medical Center
The leadership team at Memorial University Medical Center is hosting a blood drive with
the Savannah Community Blood Bank in the main entrance circle on the Memorial campus. The
goal is to collect 150 pints of blood by having at least 180 people donate. Prize drawings will be
held for a dinner for two at the Chatham Club and a back-to-school
shopping spree. Anyone over the age of 17 and 110 pounds is encouraged to donate and help save
a life. To schedule an appointment, call 350-6730.
Bariatric Surgery Pre- and Post-Operative
Support Group
7 p.m. to 8 p.m., Wednesday, August 20, Medical Education Auditorium, Memorial University
Medical Center
The bariatrics program at Memorial University Medical Center sponsors this support group
for people who have had or are considering having gastric bypass or adjustable gastric band sur
gery. People considering the procedure who have attended a bariatric information session and are
joining the Memorial Health Bariatrics program must attend two support group sessions prior to
surgery. This month we will discuss portion control and bariatric eating. For more information
call, 350-3438 or visit bariatrics.memorialhealth.com.
Grey Matters Brain Injury Support Group
5 p.m., Thursday, August 21, day rehabilitation gym, The Rehabilitation Institute at Memorial
University Medical Center
This support group is for traumatic brain injury survivors and their caregivers. For more
information, call 350-7274 or e-mailjollejel@memorialhealth.com.
Every Step Counts Survivors Walk
9 a.m., Saturday, August 23
Every Step Counts enthusiastically invites all cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers to
join us for our monthly walk. The walk is free and open to all cancer survivors and their loved
ones. For more information about this month's walk and to register, please call DeDe Cargill at
398-6554.
Team Hope Pancreatic Cancer Support Meeting
6 p.m., Tuesday, August 26, Panera Bread Company, White Bluff and Abercorn
Team Hope is an affiliate of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. This is a group of individu
als with a strong desire to help raise awareness about pancreatic cancer and support families
going through this illness. For more information, please call Jennifer Currin at 350-7845.
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SCLC President says Dr. King Left a
Business Plan for Success
By. George E Curry
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-
American Newspapers
NEW ORLEANS - Charles
Steele Jr., president of Dr. Martin
Luther King’s old organization,
said the slain civil rights leader
left behind a “business plan’’ for
Black economic success.
Opening the Southern
Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC) 50th con
vention here, Steele said: “If you
listen closely to his last speech at
Mason Temple [in Memphis],
Dr. King was giving us a busi
ness plan. Dr. King was taking
care of business. If you have
taken the most elementary busi
ness course — and even if you
haven’t — you know that the first
thing you need when you go into
business is a business plan.”
The SCLC president men
tioned the early struggles of the
founder of Radio One and TV
One media companies.
“Cathy Hughes talks about
starting out in business and
being asked, ‘What is your busi
ness plan?’ Her reply: ‘I plan to
stay in business.’ SCLC plans
the stay in business.
“Our business plan is
straight out of Dr. King’s “I
Have a Dream” speech. No, it’s
not about a dream, it’s about eco
nomics. The part of the speech
that you don’t hear repeated
every year around his birthday is
the section related to economics.
He declared, ‘America has given
the Negro people a bad check; a
check which has come back
marked ‘insufficient Hinds.’”
Steele said, “We’re back
here, where SCLC was founded,
to say that we came back to get
the check. Dr. King said 45 years
ago, that America did not have
enough funds in its bank
account. They gave us a bad
check. And today, we’re back for
a good one. If you can’t give us
a check, we’ll take cash. But
with your record, we need cash -
and two forms of ID. We proba
bly should ask for a DNA test as
well.”
Speaking at the Pilgrim
Baptist Church in suburban
Kenner, La., Steele said: “Nearly
five years after announcing we
got stuck with a bad check, Dr.
King went to Memphis to out
line a business plan, not just a
plan to stay in business.
“Dr. King explained: ‘We
don’t have to argue with any
body. We don’t have to curse and
go around acting bad with our
words. We don’t need any bricks
and bottles, we don’t need any
Molotov cocktails. We just need
to go around to these stores, and
to these massive industries in our
country, and say, ‘God sent us by
here, to say to you that you’re
not treating his children right.
And we’ve come by here to ask
you to make the first item on
your agenda—fair treatment,
where God’s children are con
cerned. Now, if you are not pre
pared to do that, we do have an
agenda that we must follow. And
our agenda calls for withdraw
ing economic support from
you.’
Steele urged, “Note the
emphasis on ‘withdrawing eco
nomic support.’ Now, for those
who still did not get it, he was
blunt: ‘.. .We’ve got to strength
en our Black institutions,’ he
said. ‘I call upon you to take
your money out of the [White]
banks downtown and deposit
your money in Tri-State Bank.
We want a bank-in movement in
Memphis... We have six or
seven Black insurance compa
nies in Memphis. Take out your
insurance there. We want to have
an ‘insurance-in.’
“Dr. King was clear: ‘We
begin the process of building a
greater economic base. And at
the same time, we are putting
pressure where it really hurts.’ If
you still didn’t get it, Dr. King
explained it this way: ‘Always
anchor our external direct action
with the power of economic
withdrawal.’”
Steele noted that Dr.
King, winner of the Nobel Peace
prize, was an international figure
when he was assassinated 40
years ago. Continuing in King’s
footsteps, Steele said SCLC will
continue establishing conflict
resolution centers around the
world in hopes of bringing about
peace.
“These are exciting times.
I wish Dr. King was alive to see
the response to Barack Obama
in Europe,” Steele said. “People
want change and that was evi
dent in Europe as 200,000 peo
ple shouted, ‘Yes, we can’ in
Germany.
“And when Obama got to
Paris and London, he was being
treated like a rock star. The clos
est McCain got to Germany was
eating in a small German restau
rant.”
Steele said it would be a
mistake to think Obama’s popu
larity is limited to the fact that he
is an African-American.
“The world is embracing
more than just Barack Obama;
it’s embracing a new kind of
openness. Thousands applaud
because Obama says he wants
the U.S. to be a partner and not
just try to dictate to other coun
tries. It is a relationship of equals
that they embrace.”
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