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How We Got Over in 2007

The AmericUSumter Observer will be eleven years old next month. We want to thank our readers and advertisers for making this newspaper the success it has become. We have a great community that we hope is better because of our clarion call for fairness and justice for all. Our readership is expanding and unofficially we know that our cross section of the citizens regardless of race is growing. We have some critics who will never accept our liberal positions but thank God they are beginning to show signs of tolerance and understanding.

 

The Tail Becomes Out Of Control

I often recall growing up in Plains, with that came a sense of country living mingled with a small town atmosphere. I recalled my uncle Judson raising chickens, as did many black families during the 70's, my uncle had different domesticated life stock as well.. Some were used for the day's meal. As a young boy I witnessed how the process of preparing an animal for dinner was done. One particular occasion my uncle took a hen to a makeshift table and proceeded to decapitate the hen with a large knife. As he made the quick strike about the neck, (as humanely as possible) the hen jump from the table headless in disarray, I watched as the hen jumped and flapped its wings about the ground. I said to me "This chicken is out of control"

 

Thank you Dr. King, you will always live in our hearts.

Eugene Edge, Jr.
Temple Israel B’nai Ibrahim

 

WHAT IS THIS FREEDOM??

On Monday January 01, 2008, I attended the celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Americus, Georgia. The Rev. Dr. H. C. Wilson is pastor and Rev. Nathaniel Veal of Allen Chapel A.M.E. church was the Keynote Speaker who delivered a powerful message on "What you can't see." It was a wonderful turn-out and the program committee put together a magnificent program.

RIDGELY MUHAMMAD,Ph.D
Agricultural Economics

Mathis Kearse Wright, Jr.

 

The Convenience of Death

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan has declared that Black people in America have ade a "covenant with death." He states, "We have already made an agreement with hell and that is why hell is in our lives. We have made an agreement with death and that is why death is in our communities."

 

A house divided in war for equal justice?

By Hazel Trice Edney
NNPA Editor-in-chief
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - On the eve of yet another national march for racial justice, the NAACP and the National Urban League appeared strangely on opposite sides of an important case of alleged racial injustice.

No reason to be Jolly

FinalCall.com

 Except to the Captains of this society and their merchant and baker allies who preach the "Gospel of Spending and Consumerism" by the poor and neediest this time of year as the answer to the nation's economic problems, this no "season to be jolly."