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A DINNER INCLUDES: 2 ENCHILADAS, RICE, BEANS AND BREAD
(AND YOU KNOW ITS GOOD CAUSE MRS ROMONA BROWLOW IS
DOING THE COOKING.)
ALL FOR THE AMAZING PRICE OF
$5.50
May 7y 1999-
11:00 a.m. - 4: 00 p.m.
PLACE: EAST SAINT PAUL UMC
211 LOCKHART ST
SAN ANTONIO,TEXAS
PH# 225-8880
RECLAIMING OUR SONS
There’s something deeply wrong
in America. Hate and anger and
; pain and alienation so deep that
; our sons are killing other children.
Our sons are killing themselves.
Our sons are killing their parents.
Our Sons are burning down our
( churches and burning crosses on
' people’s yards and killing and
' beating up gay and lesbian people
; and people of color. Our sons are
! joining white supremacist groups
' and satanic cults and gangs. We
1 are losing our sons to the violence,
to the hate, to the streets. AndI we
; don’t seem to have the will to do
! anything about it.
It doesn’t matter whether you are
! European American and in
! suburban Littleton, CO or rural
' Pearl, MS or African American or
Latino in South Central LA or
; Asian in New York City or native
, American and on a reservation.
! There is no place to hide, no place
l to run. There are no guarantees or
' protections.
There is no easy answer, no
quick fix. One, community cannot
; do it alone. Pastors cannot do it
! alone. Teachers cannot do it alone.
. Parents cannot do it alone. Police
' cannot do it alone. But we all can
and must put aside the differences
, of race, of language, of religion, of
; geographical location, . of
! economic situations. We must
' reclaim our sons.
I First, we’ve got to get rid of the
; guns. Our communities are full of
; guns. Handguns, shotguns, assault
; weapons, rifles. Guns which our
, children get from legal and illegal
’ gun dealers. Guns which our
j children get from each other. Guns
; which our children get from our
bedrooms and basements. Til
: never forget the picture of the
! mother of one of the victims of (he
I Paducah, KY school killings
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This beautiful young lady is enjoying the parade with Donna of the Alamo
City Chamberof Commerce. Photo by Ken
Styfs.
by Bernice Powell Jackson
guns.
We’ve got to make our
politicians understand that we will
no longer allow our children to be
a market for assault weapons, for
handguns and guns without trigger
locks. And until we do so, they
will continue to take the money
from the gun lobbies and our
children will continue to die. Some
big city mayors are realizing the
truth, but until more of air
politicians join forces with the
mothers and fathers who have lost
children, nothing will change.
We’ve got to get rid of the
violence on television and in the
movies and in the music and in the
video games. Until the movie and
record and video industries
understand that we will no longer
give our children money to buy the
records and see the movies and
play the video games which teach
them violence, nothing will
change. It won’t be easy because
our children are violence addicts
and they will have to go through
withdrawal symptoms that all
addicts experience.
We’ve got to get rid of the
violence in our homes. Too many
of our sons experience violence
every day at home. They are
victims themselves or watch their
mothers being beaten. Too many
children do not feel safe even at
home. And too many children are
neglected in their homes. They are
left to fend for themselves by
parents who are too addicted, or by
parents who are too caught up in
their own worlds and their own
lives.
We’ve got to make sure our sons
know there is a Supreme power, a
Creator and that they can choose to
beartkgent for good or for evil in
this world. Too many of our sons
don’t know the mystery of God
and don’t respect their Creator or
find positive
adults for
our scyis. The young men in
Littleton were part of a clique or
gang called the Trenchcoat Mafia.
The young men in our cities are
part of the Bloods or Crips or
Latin Kings or some other gang.
We know why our sons join gangs,
— for approbation, for a sense of
community, for peer group
approval, for love. If every son in
America had a positive male role
model who they knew by name,
who they saw every week, who
showed them love and hope and a
different way, how many of them
would continue to choose the path
of hate and anger? Every man in
America must stop waiting for
someone else to do something
about it and do it yourself.
We’ve got to name the pain and,
many of our sons arc
experiencing. It’s the pain and the
fear that causes more and more
young white men to join white
supremacist groups and satanic
cults. Fear that someone who is
black or Asian or gay is taking
something away from them. In
1998, according to the National
Coalition for Burned Churches,
there were 130 fires set in
churches in this nation. Most were
in European American churches,
but 41 were in churches of color.
Most of these fires were set by
young men, mostly European
American young men. Pain and
fear so deep that these young men
would set fire to a house of God.
We’ve got to name the pain and
stop pretending that these are just
drunken teenage pranksters if we
want the fires to stop.
Pain and fear so deep that more
and more of our sons are
committing suicide. Sons who
think they are gay and face the
scorn of their families, or their
peers. Sons who come from
middle-class African American
families and who are overwhelmed
at the racism and fearful that they
cannot compete. European
American and African American
and Asian American and native
. American sons who may on the
outside seem to be doing fine, but
who turn the pain inward and on
themselves.
Queen of Soul and company at the
Parade. Photo by Ken
Pain and fear so deep that sons in
the inner city see gangs as their
only way of getting respect out of
a world which has turned its back
on them and written them off as
expendable. So they turn to the
gangs for approval, for survival,
for jobs. They turn to the gangs
because they are shown no other
way. And they kill each other and
innocent babies and children. And
they spend their whole lifetime
incarcerated, graduating into
prison gangs. Generations of
African American and Latino men
lost to the prison system.
Generations of anger and fear
leading to an unbroken cycle of
violence.
We’ve got to decide as a nation
that investment in young men is
more important than incarceration
of them. We’ve got to put our
dollars where our mouths are.
There is something - wrong in
America and only we can do
something about it. _
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Page 4-San Arnonio Regoattr Newspaper- April 29,1999
On April 15, over 10,000 people, among them. Register columnist, Donna Lamb and her husband, Steven Weiner,
marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to Federal Plaza in Manhattan to rally for justice and to protest police brutality.
After the tragic death on February 4 of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant who perished in a hail of 41
bullets. Rev. A1 Sharton and his National Action Network have unified and mobilized an ever growing number of
people of diverse ethnic backgrounds insistent on change—including religious leaders, union members, grass roots
‘activists, celebrities and everyday New Yorkers. This demonstration was the largest so far.
Jesse Boyd of Shorter AME Church,
Denver, Colo. (1) is shown with Rev.
I. V. Tolbert during the service.
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
THE SEMI ANNUAL
715 Iowa
533-3730
invites everyone to come by and try our
on sale 1/2 chicken $4.
16 oz Budwiser on sale
Elgin and Gonzales Sausage—
the best in the city
EAST SAINT PAUL UMC
Annual Mexican Dinner
$
Having a good time dur-
ing revival at Emmanuel
AME Church.
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CPS to dedicate a mural
at its East Side Center
ft mural deification was held
rhursday morning at the City Public
3ty Service East Side Customer
denier, 911 S.W.W. White Rd. CPS
pmosiODW ot rpuiips college
students to paint the mural.
Hie mural depicts energy as the
mpettts for development in San
tatonk). The artwork features East
Side landmarks suCh as fee Martin
Aither King Bridle, Sain Houston
lege, as well as San Antonio site*
such as the San Joss Mission, the
Alamo, the Alamodotne and Towei
of fee Americas
Arturo Rodriguez and other St
Philip’s Theater / Fine Arts Depart
ment students painted fee munti un
der fee direction art professor Terr)
Gay Puckett
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