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Retirement
community plan leaves out Blacks
 We
have noticed that the individuals who control
and run Americus and Sumter County are not
interested in growth and expansion. We asked
President Jimmy Carter back in 1986 why he did
not bring more industry and jobs to Sumter
County while he was President? He replied, "The
County Fathers do not want the industries. We
have learned that Proctor and Gamble and several
other major industrial plants tried to locate in
Americus but the City Fathers turned them down.
Ginger Starlin, local insurance broker and
former candidate for the state legislature said
during her campaign, "That they did not want
urban sprawl in Sumter County." What does that
say about the future of Americus for young
people who want to live here and be able to find
a good job?
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TB Revisited
 Tuberculosis
is back in the headlines again because a high
profile, transcontinental, transatlantic
traveler got on a jet against his doctor's
orders, and against the orders of the CDC, who
invoked a federal isolation order on him, and
exposed other passengers to an antibiotic
resistant strain of the disease. The traveler,
Andrew Speaker, is now being detained by Denver
health officials, and is under treatment. With
the drugs available now, Mr. Speaker will
require years of treatment, and perhaps
surgery. Interestingly, his father-in-law is a
researcher for the CDC, involved in TB research.
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Getting "Grounded"
 You
have heard the phrase, getting "grounded".
According to the dictionary the verb to ground
means: 1. to have a ground or basis for, 2. to
provide a reason or justification, and 3. to
instruct in fundamentals. People who have been
divorced from nature and living in artificial
environments may loose their connections with
basic realities. Growing your own food in your
garden will definitely help you get "grounded",
because the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us
that "agriculture is the root of civilization".
If we intend to separate from this present
wicked civilization and build our own, then we
must be grounded in the reality of creation and
not the illusions produced by our slave masters’
children.
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 Religion
a major force in the African-American Community
With more than 38 million African-Americans, the
United States of America has the eighth-largest
Black population in the world. Only Tanzania,
Sudan, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia
and the Congo have a larger Black population.
Despite this large number of American Blacks, we
have had a very small role in political
decisions about our past, our present, and if
this trend continue, our future.
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 Uniting
the Black, Red and Brown
By www.FinalCall.com News
FCN Editorial
‘Si Se Puede!’ Yes We Can!
May Day, May 1, 2007. International Workers Day.
This year was the second year when mostly Latino
groups staged massive rallies throughout the
country on behalf of immigrant workers. Their
rallies took place near in time to the 24th
Annual Gathering of Nations PowWow and Festival
where more than 100,000 Native Americans
convened in Albuquerque, N.M.
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Will Blacks and whites ever agree
on race?
By George E. Curry, Daily
Challenge
The huge gap between Blacks
and whites about whether O.J. Simpson was guilty
of killing his wife and a companion was in many
ways expected. But subsequent polls, ranging
from whether race played a part in the slow
federal response to Hurricane Katrina to, more
recently, was radio shock jock Don Imus’ firing
fair and whether baseball slugger Barry Bonds
should break Hank Aaron’s major league record of
755 home runs, exposes a racial gulf wider than
the Atlantic Ocean.
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