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Week of September 3,2008 - September 9,2008 • Vol. 36 No. 29 • www.savannahtribune.com • 912-233-6128 • Fax: 912-233-
Hurricane Gustav Spares
Louisiana’s Coast
Arriving Mississippi Gulf Coast evacuess waiting to be registered with the
American Red Cross at the Mississippi Coliseum in Jackson, Ms.
Credit: Chris Gray Sr.
G ulf Coast evacuees were
warned not to return home
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 to
assess the damage from Hurricane
Gustav, but it appeared that southern
Louisiana’s levees passed their first test
since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Approximately two million people
fled Gustav’s advance under manda
tory evacuation orders. New Orleans
Mayor Ray Nagin asked evacuees
not to return until things are more
settled.
The mayor said over 50 percent
See Gustav, page 20
Obama Appeals to America:
’We Cannot Turn Back’
Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama
By. Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Editor-in-Chief
DENVER (NNPA) - U. S. Sen.
Barack Obama has officially
accepted the Democratic nomina
tion for president of the United
States before an audience of at
least 75,000 adoring supporters,
who also cheered the possibility
of his becoming America’s first
Black president.
The euphoric moment was
played out before millions who
watched by TV and the internet
around the world. It transcended
politics as it shattered doubts that
Americans of all races and back
grounds can unite behind an
African-American candidate for
president. Moreover, it raised
hopes that people of color can
soar above intrinsic White
supremacy in a nation that for
centuries embraced slavery, Jim
Crow and modern-day institu
tional racism.
“With profound gratitude and
great humility, I accept your
nomination for the presidency of
the United States,” Obama told
the crowd of flag-waving, cheer
ing, chanting, applauding, stump
ing and crying supporters at
Invesco Field at Mile High in
Denver.
He immediately recalled his
2004 speech to the Democratic
Convention as a then candidate
for the U. S. Senate.
“Four years ago, I stood
before you and told you my story
- of the brief union between a
young man from Kenya and a
young woman from Kansas - who
weren’t well-off or well-known,
but shared a belief that in
America, their son could achieve
whatever he put his mind to,” he
said. “It is that promise that has
always set this country apart -
that through hard work and sac
rifice, each of us can pursue our
individual dreams, but still come
together as one American fami
ly, to ensure that the next gener
ation can pursue their dreams as
well.”
He continued, “That’s why I
stand here tonight. Because for
two-hundred-and-thirty-two
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www.SavarumhJazzEestiviiLorg
The 27 lh Savannah Jazz
Festival will be held September
20th to September 28th. The
nine-day Festival, the largest and
most popular of the free
Savannah festivals, is presented
by the Coastal Jazz Association
and is dedicated to the growth of
jazz and jazz audiences in the
Coastal Empire.
The Savannah Jazz Festival,
celebrating jazz as a living art
built on a constantly evolving tra
dition, will offer all types of jazz,
from Dixieland, traditional swing,
straight-ahead and bop to melodic
standards, and funky down-home
"gutbucket" blues.
***Celebration of Hope, the
Festival kick-off on Saturday
night (Sept 20) will be a Jazz
Concert-Wine Tasting event to
raise money for the Backus
Children's Hospital. Ticket
Required. Call: 912-350-8194.
The Jazz Trio is headlining this
evening.
As always, the festival fea
tures the best in international,
national, regional and local jazz
talent. The 2008 festival will
feature (among others):
Bob James Quintet, The
Savannah Jazz Orchestra
Featuring "Simone", Donald
Harrison, The Ben Riley Trio fea
turing pianist Larry Willis, Ben
Tucker, Teddy Adams, Doug
Cam, Wanda Johnson with
Shrimp City Slim, James Cotton,
Eric Culberson’s Blues Band,
Freeport, Bob Baldwin, Eric
Mintel, The Coastal Jazz
Association All-Stars, The
University of North Florida Jazz
Ensemble with Trombonist, Steve
Davis, The Jazz Comer Quintet,
Beer Parlor Ramblers, The Jazz
Trio, & The Skyelite Jazz Band."
Rain site for Thursday (Sept
25), Friday (Sept 26), Saturday
(Sept 27), and Sunday (Sept 28)
is Savannah State University
Tiger Arena.
McCain Chooses Alaska
Governor as VP Candidate
Sen. John McCain has chosen
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice
presidential candidate.
The presumptive Republican
nominee held a rally in Dayton, Ohio,
of about 15,000 supporters, who wel
comed the surprise pick of the rela
tively unknown politician with cheers
and flags. However, many long-time
political observers have questioned
Palin’s experience. Additionally, they
have asked if the McCain thoroughly
investigated her background.
"I was just your average hockey
mom in Alaska" before getting
involved in politics, she said.
Palin, 44, described herself as a
fighter against corruption and a bipar
tisan reformer in her first appearance
as a candidate for vice president, an
office she said she never expected to
seek.
Palin is a first-term governor
who unseated incumbent Gov. Frank
Murkowski in the Republican primary
in 2006 and went on to defeat former
Gov. Tony Knowles, a Democrat, in
the general election.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
Palin will be the first woman to
be nominated for vice president as a
Republican and only the second to run
for vice president on a major party
ticket, after Democrat Geraldine
Ferraro in 1984.
Palin is set to speak to the
Republican convention on
Wednesday, September 3.
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