San Antonio Register (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 4, 1999 Page: 9 of 10
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Last week this picture ran on the frontpage with out a cut line. 1 wanted you
lo think about the slave ships that brought our ancestors to this country and
how they were treated. I often wonder if it is any better now for African
Americans in city by the way we are overlooked and treated. The picture
above is Williamsburg, Va„ The Angola to Virginia Connection, 1619-1999,
Aug. 21 at Jamestown Settlement, will commemorate 380 years of African
Am erican heritage and recognize the newly discovered Angolan origins of
the first Africans in Virginia. Above the port of Luanda, Angola from the
1686French language edition of Description of Africa by Olfert Dapper, 1668.
From the collection of Jamestown Yorktown Educational Trust..
Ella Austin Center
Page 9-San Antonio Regisger Newspaper-August 4, 1999
’’Garage Sale”
Ella Austin Community Center,
Youth and Family Service, is having
a "Garage Sale" on Sat, Aug. 14,
from 9a.m. until 5 p.m. The garage
sale will take place in the Ella Austin
Community Center parking lot, and
the garage sale. The spaces will cost
$8 and persons should bring their
own tables and chairs.
We are also asking for donations of
articles to be used for sale at the
garage sale. To provide donations:
call Ray Teveni at 224-2351 or come
by Ella Austin community Center at
1Q23N. Pine-
All proceeds from this garage sale
will be used to purchase new sports
equipment, teaching materials,
bookshelves, snacks, and school
supplies for those children in need
that attend the Youth and Family
Services' After School Programs at
the Ella Austin Community Center.
spaces will be available for those
persons interested in participating in
Support our adveristers
AN OPEN LETTER TO WHITE
PARENTS
Dear European American
Parents and friends:
I’ve occasionally written letters
to my own people, but this time I
feel the need to speak to you. I
write because I know no other way
than to warn you: I write because
the mainstream media are not
informing you: I write because we
are bound together in this nation
and what happens to you and your
families impacts us all.
I write because I am fearful that
we are losing young European
American males to hate. We are
losing your sons, your nephews,
your neighbors to hate groups, to
white supremacist groups, to so-
called Christian identity groups, to
militia groups. Were losing the
sons of doctors, of soldiers, of
teachers to the hate We’re losing
college students and bright high
school students to hate. Yet
everyone seems to be talking
around it.
I first heard a warning back in
1996, when Rose Johnson, the
attorney from the Center for
Democratic Renewal who was
doing the investigations iifto the
arson of African American
churches, warned that white
supremacist groups were courting
young white males, and that it
looked as if some of the church
burnings were initiation rites for
by Bernice Powell Jackson
some of these groups In the three
years since then Eric Harris and
Dylan Kiebold shot and killed 13
of their classmates at Columbine
High School (including an African
American who was especially
targeted) on Adolph Hitler’s
birthday; the brothers Benjamin
and James Williams of Redding,
CA have been arrested in the
murders of a gay couple and are
being investigated in the arson
fires of three synagogues in
Sacramento; Benjamin Nathaniel
Smith murdered two people, one
African American, one Asian
American and shot a number of
others including orthodox Jews,
African Americans and Asian
Americans and dozens of African
American churches have burned.
Both the Williams brothers and
Smith seem to be associated with
the World Church of the Creator,
an extremist religious group which
predicts a racial holy war and
which recruits on the internet and
on college campuses. Its web-site
has a coloring book for children
and a crossword puzzle with racist
clues for adults.
These hate groups want your
children, especially your sons. The
fact that you are a professional, the
fact that you live in a middle-class
"suburb, the fact that you have
never used racist epithets, the fact
San Antonio Housing Authority
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that your son is in college or seems
to be only interested in computers
is no protection.
These hate groups want your
sons and they will do whatever
they have to to get them. They prey
upon those who are a little lonely,
for those who are isolated or have
recently been rejected or those
looked down upon by their peers.
They come into your home via
your computer or the telephone,
they seek out your children on
their college campuses and you
may never even know about it.
They tell your children half-truths
and outright lies, they scapegoat
people of color, Jewish people and
gay and lesbian people, they find
ways to give self-esteem to those
who are lost and attention to those
who are lonely. They’re using
sophisticated language and the
wonders of technology to steal
your sons, but they are just as
destructive and hate-filled as the
Neo-Nazis and the KKK of the
past.
Only you can stop this insidious,
secret stealing away of your sons.
Only you can talk with your sons
about what is going on in their
lives. Only you can help them
understand what is going on in the
world is not the fault of blacks or
Jews or gays or Asians. Only you
can help them Lo cope with the
storms of life as a teenager. Only
you can conquer their fear with
unconditional love. Only you can
reclaim your sons. It’s not too late,
but only if you begin right now,
today. May God give you strength
and courage and wisdom to do so.
This group from San Antonio caught their limit of Halibut during a recent fishing trip to Alaska. Not pictured are
Salmon, Red Snapper, and Rainbow Troutalsocaught by the group. Pictured L-R Ray Grant and wife, Reba, William
Pollard, Alice Johnson and husband, Christopher.
ian Antonio Housing Authority
Melvin Braziel, President and CEO
(P.O. 78207 8-5-8-12)
AFTER EVERY RAIN THERE IS A RAINBOW
THE SOOTH TEXAS FLOOD REGO^RY PROJECT OF BEXAR COUNTY PROVIDES COUNSELING SERVICES TO AID IN THE RECOVERY OF
SURVIVORS WHO LOST FAMILY, HOMES, AND PERSONAL POSSESSIONS IN THE OCTOBER 1998 FLOODS
SERVICES AVAILABLE
*OUTREACW SCfiyiGESTHRQUQH DOOR-TO-DOOR, TELEPHONE, AND MAIL CONTACT, TO IDENTIFY AND ASSESS NEEDS.
•SHORTTERM COUNSELING INTERVENTIONS WITH INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS EXPERIENCING EMOTIONAL REACTIONS TO THE DISASTER.
•REFERRALTOOTHER DISASTER SERVICE AGENCIES AND LINKAGE WITH COMMUNITY RESOURCES :
•PROVIDING EDUCATION AND INFORMATTONTO SCHOOLS, NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS.
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SOUTH TEXAS FLOOD RECOVERY PROJECT OF BEXAR C00HIY
Seven months after the flood, the staff of the south texas flood recovery project and the survivors of the
OCTOBER FLOODS WOULD LIKI2 TO REMIND THE COMMUNITY THAT THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES. A STRUGGLE INVOLVING UNMET NEEDS DUE TO
LOSSES INCURRED DURING THIS DISASTER, WHICH AFFECTED MORfc THAN 5,100 FAMILIES AND THEIR HOMES. EVERY TIME IT RAINS, THE CHILDREN
STRUGGLE WITH CONTINUING FEARS OF ANOTHER FLOOD, EXPERIENCING NIGHTMARES OF DROWNING. OR SEEING A CftEEK RISE, THEY WONDER "IS
THE FLOOD COMING?*
^^DULTS STRUGGLE WITH THE LOSS OF THEIR ONCE TREASURED BELONGINGS, NOW GONE FOREVER. MANY FIND DIFFICULTY CONCENTRATING
AND FUNCTIONING AT WORK. THE ELDERLY MOURN THE LOSS OF LIFETIME MEMORIES WASHED AWAY, AS THEIR HOMES OF 30 TO 40 YEARS WERE
COMPLETELY DESTROYED. ALL HAVE HAD TO START OVER; . SOMEWHERE ELSE. THE FLOOD SURVIVORS WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS THEIR GRATITUDE TO -
THE COMMUNITY FOR ITS HELP AND SUPPORT. THEY ASK THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THE RECOVERY PROCESS IS NOT A TWO OR THREE WEEK, OR EVEN
TWO OR THREE MONTH ORDEAL. HAVING SUFFERED PHYSICALLY, EMOTIONALLY, SPIRITUALLY, AND FINANCIALLY, THE AFTERMATH OF ThxC DISASTER
WILL REMAIN WITH THEM FOR A LONG, LONG, TIME.
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