December 2006

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School Board Candidate Carol Seay Destroys the Chance to Make Blacks the Majority

The November 2006 election was a great opportunity for the Blacks to take back the majority on the Sumter County school board.

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PRIORITIES

By Elizabeth Dede

I want to quote a few financial statistics in this column, without being too creative, or original, to show how our misplaced priorities during the Bush Administration have harmed so many of our brothers and sisters.  I got this information from the most recent issue of The Crisis, the news magazine of the NAACP, founded in 1910, and edited first by W.E.B. Du Bois.

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Food: New Weapon of Mass Destruction

By RIDGELY MUHAMMAD,Ph.D

Agricultural Economics

Come on, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when war occurs, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

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THE NAACP Wins AGAIN!

By Mathis "Matt" Wright, Jr.

On Wednesday Nov. 29, 2006 a hearing was held at the Sumter County courthouse with the Honorable Judge, James Sizemore hearing the proceedings.  In the small courtroom the evidence or lack thereof, was centered around whether or not the Georgia Open Record Act was violated? 

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CAST THE FIRST STONE
Year End Review

By: James L. Bryant, Jr.

I can hardly believe it, but it has been an entire year since this column first made its debut in the Americus Sumter Observer and what a year it has been!

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Black voters made the difference in 2006 election

By Ron Walters

I have to begin this brief review of the 2006 elections with something of a requiem for the fact that the so-called Michigan Civil Rights Initiative passed 56/43 in that state and, as a result, affirmative action will be eliminated for higher education, government contracting and other purposes.

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