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6 - The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Tears of Joy by Roger Moss
Miller Sworn In...
I cried the day Barack
Obama was elected President
of the United States. I cried
tears of joy and wept tears of
pain. I cried tears of joy that
an American who did what
America has asked by toiling
for an impressive education,
helping his fellow man, tak
ing care of his family and
based on a true passion to
make America a better place,
ran for office. I cried tears of
joy in that this man speaks
the English language in all
its beauty and complexity. I
cried tears of joy in knowing
that though not accepted by
some white and some Black
Americans he persevered to
serve all Americans. I cried
tears of joy for America were
Roger Moss
finally seeing the Black fam
ily that I know.
I cried tears of pain as I
drove down the street to hear
a culture steeped in the rich
language of George
Washington Carver, Web
Dubois, James Weldon
Johnson, Paul Laurence
Dunbar, Shirley Chisholm,
Barbara Jordan denigrated to
the foul swill of misogynis-
tic, racist and violent Hip-
Hop. I cried tears of pain to
see a culture that prided itself
on beauty and class lowered
to boys and men dressing as
prisoners, sans belts, and
revealing inappropriate
clothes on girls and women.
I cried tears of pain as I
watched television and read
the newspaper and only saw
a dim vision of what Black
children could be, Hip-Hop
artists, basketball players,
football players and Hip-Hop
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dancers. I cried tears of pain
as I realized that Black peo
ple are murdering each other
at an alarming rate. I cried
tears of pain as I saw 14 and
15 year old girls with their
second and third out of wed
lock babies sauntering
through the grocery stores. I
cried tears of pain when I see
a culture that fought and died
for the right to an education
eschew education for the
quick dollar.
My hope however is not
lost. I see glimpses of the
rich Black culture I remem
ber in little moments. There
can be more moments when
we accept truth over the lies
of media. The greatest lie out
there now is that any child
can become president. Why
is that a lie? Look at what
Barack Obama? He is intelli
gent, well spoken, well
dressed and a great father.
He does not where his pants
dangling beneath boxers. He
does not speak the gutter lan
guage of Hip-Hop. He
accepts and relishes the
responsibility and joy of mar
riage and family. He has
embraced the value of a great
education.
Parents, if you want
your child to aspire to be
President, pull up the pants,
check their homework,
march to the school and edit
what goes into their lives
(trash in, trash out) Tell the
radio stations and the record
companies that our culture is
better than what they are
offering.
Then we will all cry
tears of joy as our children
live out dreams beyond our
imagination.
A Salute to
Barack Obama:
the first African-
American
President of the
United States of
America
Virginia School of Law.
The professional career
of Judge Miller is impressive
as are the notable experi
ences she brings to her posi
tion. She served as an attor
ney with the Department of
Housing and Urban
Development, was a law
clerk for Lulton County State
Court Judge William
Alexander, and later joined
the Fulton County District
Attorney’s Office as one of
its first female prosecutors.
As a prosecutor, Judge Miller
primarily handled serious
felony rape and murder
cases. She went on to repre
sent the Metropolitan Atlanta
Rapid Transit Authority
(MARTA) as senior in-house
litigation counsel and was
responsible for handling one-
third of the agency’s civil lit
igation in the courts.
Judge Miller was co
owner, general manager and
general counsel of the first
minority-owned new Ford
Lincoln-Mercury automobile
dealership in Jesup, Georgia
- it one of the first such
minority-owned dealerships
in the state. While managing
the dealership, Judge Miller
developed a private legal
practice and became the first
female attorney to practice in
Jesup and throughout the
Brunswick Judicial Circuit.
The judicial career of
Judge Miller began through
her service as a part-time
judge in the Magistrate Court
of Fulton County in the late
Massie Heritage Center to
bring Civil War scholar and
University of Georgia pro
fessor Stephen Berry to
Savannah on January 29,
2009. Berry will be leading a
public discussion of his book
House of Abraham: Lincoln
and the Todds, A Family
Divided by War. The event
will take place at 7:00 p.m.,
1980’s. Judge Miller also
served as an Administrative
Law Judge with the State
Board of Workers’
Compensation. When
Governor Zell Miller
appointed her Director and
Judge of the Appellate
Division of the State Board
of Workers’ Compensation in
1992, Judge Miller became
the first woman, first
African-American, and
youngest person ever to hold
that position. Four years
later, Governor Miller
appointed her to the State
Court of Fulton County, and
she was re-elected as a State
Court judge without opposi
tion. She was appointed to
the Georgia Count of
Appeals in 1999 by Governor
Roy Barnes; and she has
been re-elected statewide for
two six-year terms.
Judge Miller has
received many awards and
special recognitions for her
professional achievements
and public service. She was
recognized for her accom
plishments in Who’s Who in
Black Atlanta.
Judge Miller is a mem
ber of Cascade United
Methodist Church in Atlanta.
She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Conrad N. Miller of
Macon, Georgia, and she has
one sibling, Conrad N.
Miller, Jr., M.D., also of
Macon. She is also a life
long member of Steward
Chapel AME Church in
Macon.
at the Massie Heritage
Center, 207 East Gordon
Street on Calhoun Square in
Savannah.
The program will
include a brief lecture by Dr.
Berry on his book, followed
by a discussion with the
audience. Copies of the
book will be available for
purchase at the event.
House of Abraham...
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Black History Essay
a Public Speaking Contest
PRIZES TO BE AWARDED
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Black History Essay A Public Speaking Contest,
C >pen to ansa middle and hi|ih school students, ihi 2009 contest will focus on Savannah in
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