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Week of July 14,2010 - July 20,2010 • Vol. 38 No. 20 • www.savannahtribune.com • 912-233-6128 • Fax: 912-233-6140
In First Speech to NAACP Convention,
Brock Debunks Post-Racial Myth
By Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Editor-in-Chief
I n her first speech as chair
of the largest and oldest
civil rights organization
in the U. S., Roslyn M.
Brock, the youngest ever
chair of the NAACP, envi
sioned the “browning of
America” this week while
debunking persistent myths
of a so-called “post-racial”
society.
“We are proud to have
an American of African
descent in the White House.
However, the historic elec
tion of President Barack
Obama did not miraculously
transform race relations; end
racial profiling; hate crimes;
or intolerance in America,”
Brock told a packed audi
ence of NAACP delegates,
sponsors and supporters in
Kansas City Sunday
evening. “Contrary to popu
lar belief, we do not live in a
post racial society.”
Though not as tart as
her predecessor, Julian Bond,
whose speeches were often
punctuated with unflattering
descriptions of the Bush
Administration such as
Roslyn M. Brock
“snake oil” and “the
Taliban”, Brock’s words
were equally as strong. Her
prepared text exuded
remarkable vision and con
sciousness as she pointed out
racial progress and in the
same breath racial stagna
tion.
“Today’s civil and
human rights challenges are
far different from those faced
by our predecessors. Yes, we
can ... drink at public water
fountains, but the drinking
water in our homes may not
be safe because of lead tox
ins; “Yes, we can ... move
into sprawling multi-million
dollar homes in the suburbs,
but the terms of our mort
gages differ from our neigh
bors;
“Yes, we can ... send our
children to public schools,
but in some states the text
books they read are 20 years
old and school boards have
decided to rewrite history by
removing all references to
slavery and its devastating
impact on our society,” she
said.
She appealed to the
audience to recommit to the
mission of making “hope
more appealing and despair
less convincing in a nation
where urban centers are col
lapsing under the weight of
inadequate health care; lack
of affordable housing and
massive home foreclosures;
high infant mortality; declin
ing public school systems;
uneven distribution of
wealth; limited economic
resources; double digit unem
ployment; extreme violence
with black on black crime
and an exploding prison pop
ulation.”
Brock is 45, bom in 1965, but
she is no fledgling civil rights
leader.
As she aptly pointed
out, she became a member of
the youth and college divi
sion of the NAACP as a col
lege freshman in 1984. She
See NAACP, pg.10
Rainbow PUSH to Address Media
Issues With Marketing & Media Project
Special to the NNPA from Target
Market News
(NNPA) - Rev. Jesse L. Jackson,
Sr., founder and president of the
Rainbow PUSH Coalition, has
announced the creation of the
Marketing & Media Project to
coordinate the organization's
activities and initiatives within
the advertising and media indus
tries.
The Marketing & Media Project
will join RPC's other industry-
focused projects whose mission
is to protect, defend, and gain
civil and economic rights by lev
eling the playing fields.
"For more than a decade
we have engaged corporations
on their contracts and economic
relationships with African-
American advertising agencies
and African-American media
companies," said Rev. Jackson.
"The creation of The Marketing
& Media Project signals the ele
vation of that dialogue at a criti
cal time. Current economic fac
tors have put these businesses in
peril because Corporate America
has ignored the unique expertise
they possess, while discounting
the bottom-line significance of
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson
the consumers they represent.
By centralizing our resources we
can better achieve justice and
economic fairness for all."
Rainbow PUSH will
invite African American-owned
advertising agencies, public rela
tions firms, marketing commu
nications firms and media com
panies to become member part
ners of The Marketing & Media
Project and to provide RPC with
insight and strategy on the criti
cal issues they are facing.
Among the issues that The
Marketing & Media Project will
immediately address are:
- Securing opportunities and fair
ness as part of the proposed
merger of Comcast and NBC
Universal
- Initiating a dialogue with The
Obama administration's
Interagency Task Force on
Federal Contracting
Opportunities on increasing the
allocation of the $1 billion
Federal advertising budget to
African- American-owned ad
agencies and media
- Negotiating with the automo
tive, telecom and other industries
on the engagement of African -
American advertising agencies,
public relations firms and other
professional services companies
- Entering into a dialogue with
marketing and media trade asso
ciations on a commitment of
inclusion of African American
professionals within their ranks
- The establishment of research
and databases to quantify the
economic relationship between
marketers, advertising agencies,
black radio stations, black news
papers, black magazines, black
TV and cable companies and the
African American consumer
market
Establish coordination
between all entities of the
Rainbow PUSH Coalition on
marketing, media and adver
tising issues at the local and
national levels, including 1000
Churches Connected and
PUSH Excel
Gospel Music Great
Walter Hawkins
Dead at 61
Walter Hawkins
Walter Hawkins, the
Grammy Award-winning
gospel singer/composer and
pastor of Oakland’s Love
Center Church, died July
11th after battling pancreatic
cancer. He was 61 years old.
Hawkins was bom May 18,
1949 in Oakland, CA.
Hawkins started his
career in one of his brother's
chorales, "The Northern
California State Youth
Choir" of the Church of God
in Christ. Later, he accompa
nied his brother Edwin and
founded The Edwin Hawkins
Singers. This collaborative
effort produced the hit song
Oh Happy Day, which
became one of the first
gospel songs to cross over
onto mainstream music
charts.
Hawkins was pastor
and founder of the Love
Center Church in East
Oakland. He was ordained a
Bishop in October 1992.
Hawkins is the former
husband of gospel great
Tramaine Hawkins.After sur
gery for pancreatic cancer in
late 2008, the Hawkins
Family (Walter, Edwin,
Tramaine, and sister,
Lynette) staged a successful,
multi-city Hawkins Family
reunion concert tour. At the
time of his death, Hawkins
was planning a new “Love
Alive” CD concert recording
for this fall.
Hawkins is survived by
his two children, Walter
“Jamie” and Trystan
Hawkins; daughter-in-law,
Myiia Hawkins; two grand
children Jamie-Daniel and
Jahve; a host of nieces and
nephews; the Love Center
Church family and Choir;
and his siblings Carol,
Feddie, Edwin, Daniel, and
Lynette. Funeral arrange
ments are pending.
Inside This Week’s Edition:
Omegas Award Scholarships, pg.2
19th Consortium of Doctors Conference July 24,
Pg• 3
Little Miss Jabberwock and Miss Jabberwock
Crowned, pg. 7
Basketmaking Tradition film to Premier, pg. 9
Command Chief MSgt. Betty Morgan Retires,
pg. 10
100 Black Men Launch Enrichment Institute,
Pg- 11
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