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september
{COVER P 6
Democrats take Republicans to Court
in Lawsuit
{local P 3 - 4
100 Black Men of Syracuse
Sponsors Summer Read Challenge
Local Hair Salon Sends
Kids Back to School with Style
Syracuse Regroups after Season-
Opening Loss
{State P 4 - 5
NY Urged to Address High, Broad-
Based Taxes
Jury Awards $280,000 in NY Case over
N-Word Abuse
{national P 7 - 8
Obama: Congress, World Credibility on
the Line
Study: Most States Lack Disaster Plan
for Kids
{OPINIONS/EDITORIAL P 8-11
Cloucesters Rebellion: Another Lesson
About our Character

By Benjamin Jealous
President Obamas Suria Strike Poses
Major Challenge to Backers

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
President Obama Challenges America:
Keep Marching

By Hazel Trice-Edney
In This Issue:
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10, 17 and 24
Job Resource Assistance Drop-in
Time: 1:00-3:00 pm
Locaton: Central Library -447 South
Salina St.
Receive help with online job
searching, resumes, creatng
profles and more. No appointment
necessary.Space is limited and
available on a frst come, frst
seated basis.
Call 315.435.1900 with any
questons.
10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26
English for Speakers of Other
Languages - ESOL Classes
Time: 12:30 pm
Locaton: White Branch Library -
763 Buternut St.
These free English language classes
will teach grammar, vocabulary,
reading and writng so that non-
natve speakers will learn to more
clearly and efectvely communicate
in everyday situatons. Register at
the Refugee Assistance Program
(Bobs School), 501 Park St., or
call 435-4984.
10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26
GED Classes
Time: 9:00 am
Locaton: White Branch Library -
763 Buternut St.
Catch these free study sessions
designed to help those who are
interested in obtaining their
General Equivalency Diploma,
the equivalent of a high school
diploma. Registraton is required.
Contact the Family Welcome Center
at Grant Middle School, 240 Grant
Blvd., Room 356 or call 435-6376 to
get started on your new future.
11, 18 and 25
FOR TEENS & ADULTS: GED Classes
Time: 10:00 am
Locaton: Hazard Branch Library -
1620 W. Genesee St.
Hazard Library and The Newland
Center have partnered to provide
GED instructon at the library.If you
would like assistance preparing for
the GED exam, come to Hazard any
Wednesday, 10:00 am.
12, 19 and 26
Free One-on-One Basic Computer
Classes
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm
Locaton: Central Library -447 South
Salina St.
Covers basic topics concerning the
Internet and Microsof Ofce. Held
in the Pass Computer Lab on Level
4. Call 315.435.1900 to register
or for more details.Thursdays, by
Appointment Only
15
The STRATHMORE PARKS RUN 2013
Time: 11.00am
Locaton: Onondaga Park
The STRATHMORE PARKS RUN is a
4 mile run/walk sponsored by the
Greater Strathmore Neighborhood
Associaton and supported by the
Jim Dwyer, Jr. Memorial Fund.
Scenic course begins in Onondaga
Park, goes through some of
Syracuses historic Strathmore
neighborhood. Constructon at the
Woodland Reservoir means there
will be some course changes this
year. Reservoir is OUT, of-road
running through Elmwood Park is
IN. It will be fun. Race fnishes back
in Onondaga Park.
Prizes will be awarded at each
Syrathon race and and at series end
(just register at the Syrathon table
at each race).
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50th anniversary of the 16th
Street Baptst Church bombing
Birmingham, AL
Time: 4:00-6:30 pm
Locaton: Grant Auditorium,
Syracuse University College of Law,
The Cold Case Justce Initatve
is sponsoring a program to
commemorate the 50th anniversary
of the 16th Street Baptst Church
bombing Birmingham, AL. The
program is free and open to the
public. Parking is free at Irving
Garage, SU campus.
27
Legends of Jazz Series:Dianne
Reeves
Time: 7:00PM
Locaton: Storer Auditorium at
Onondaga Community College.
This seasons Jazz Series opens
with Grammy award winning and
nominated artsts Dianne Reeves.
She is among the worlds top jazz
vocalists and a three
tme Grammy Award winner.
October
17
7th Annual Bravest vs. Finest
basketball game
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Locaton: Insttute of Technology
(Central Tech), 258 East Adams
Street.
The friendly competton pits
players from the Syracuse Police
Department (the Bravest) against
players from the Syracuse Fire
Department (the Finest). Basketball
isnt the way they make their living,
but these amateurs fght hard to
come out on top. Join us for this
suspense flled contest, and root
for the team of your choice.
Price of admission is $2. Money
raised through the game will help
the Conservancy buy fags for the
Sheridan First Responders Park in
Eastwood, and to help with SPC
rent and operatng expenses.
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Upstate is hiring experienced RNs for our ICUs: Medical,
Surgical/Trauma, Burn and Cardiopulmonary.
Also hiring in our Emergency Department: Adult and
Peds, and our Inpatient Psychiatry Unit.
We oer excellent state salary and benefts.
To learn more about career opportunities at Upstate
and apply on-line www.upstate.edu/jobs
UPSTATE IS HIRING
Syracuse, New York I www.upstate.edu
100 Black Men of Syracuse
Sponsors Summer Read Challenge
Local non-proft organizaton 100 Black
Men of Syracuse promoted summer
reading by ofering a challenge to
young, black, middle and high school
students.
With all the distractons that the
summer can bring to young men, the
challenge was meant to ensure that
critcal thinking and educaton from
reading remain a part of the young
minds throughout the summer.
12 young, black men were challenged
to read four thought provoking books
that was positve and relatve to their
culture. Afer reading each book,
the young men were to write a book
report and an oral presentaton of the
book. Every book and presentaton
earned them $25.
Most of the boys who took part in
the challenge were members of the
organizatons year round mentor
program.
Vincent Love, President of the 100 Black Men
of Syracuse NY | Photo by LaVergne Harden
There were several back to school
drives and events where children were
given book bags and school supplies
for the new school year. A local hair
salon sent kids back to school in style
with free hairstyles Tuesday.
Divine Destny Creatons, located on
North Salina St., gave free roller sets,
wraps and blow dry hairstyles to 53
kids ranging from grades kindergarten
through 12th. 48 kids from Syracuse
and 5 from Auburn atended the
event.
Owner Jayvana Rucker said, It was a
great event and very successful.
Rucker has been in business 3 years.
This is the second year she has given
free hairstyles to students.
It was just something that was put on
my heart, Rucker said. We actually
have 3 stylists, so clients came in and
helped at the front desk and a stylist
came from another salon to help out.
Rucker said she knows how expensive
school shopping is and with her back
to school free hairstyles, theres one
less thing parents have to worry about.
She said she plans to have the back to
school event every year.
Local Hair Salon Sends
Kids Back to School with Style
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By JOHN KEKIS AP Sports Writer
SYRACUSE, N.Y. At long last, Syracuse
coach Scot Shafer has his startng
quarterback, and so far no budding
controversy.
Oklahoma transfer Drew Allen took the
nod over sophomore Terrel Hunt and
played the entre game against Penn
State in the season opener Saturday.
Although Allen didnt have the best
of performances in a 23-17 loss at
MetLife Stadium in New Jersey he
threw two interceptons and was just
16 for 37 for 189 yards his coach
liked a lot of what he saw.
It was his frst start in a long tme. It
wasnt since his high school days that
he had the opportunity to play in the
fow of a game, Shafer said Tuesday.
He really hasnt played a lot of football
in the last four years. I thought he did
some good things early. Later, we put
him in some difcult situatons.
We were in far too many third-and-
long situatons. We need to win on frst
down. But I did like his composure.
He never really got fustered. He kept
competng, and the communicaton
was excellent on the sideline.
The 6-foot-5, 226-pound Allen is a
graduate transfer from Oklahoma with
one year of eligibility remaining. He
is also a former blue-chip high school
prospect, and in two seasons as a
backup for the Sooners, Allen was 18
for 30 for 160 yards.
He didnt join Syracuse untl preseason
practce.
Shafer said he made his quarterback
decision about 10 days before
the opener afer Allen had a good
scrimmage during the Oranges visit to
Fort Drum, an Army post in northern
New York thats been used the past
two years to build team chemistry.
Shafer kept it a secret untl gametme.
It wasnt so much that Terrel wasnt
emerging, Shafer said. It was just that
Drew had a litle bit beter handle on
things at that point in tme. It was just
two guys batling. I feel comfortable
with both guys.
Hunt has never thrown a college pass
and played only briefy on special
teams in just one game in his Syracuse
career. But his experience in the teams
system gave him a head start on Allen
in the race to replace Ryan Nassib, who
was drafed by the New York Giants.
When we made the decision to start
Drew, it was difcult for Terrel, as it
should be with any compettor, Shafer
said. But then he came back the next
day and practced well. Hes never
hung his head. All I told him was hes
one play away from getng on that
feld, so he has to be locked in and
ready to go.
Im very proud of the way Terrel has
handled the situaton.
The somewhat hostle environment
at a neutral-site game Penn State
fans easily outnumbered those of
the Orange certainly didnt help
maters. Syracuse players complained
of trouble communicatng along the
line, and the Orange fnished with
fve dropped passes and nine missed
tackles.
You cant have that, Shafer said.
We need to contnue to work (at
communicatng).
The Nitany Lions also contained what
was expected to be the Oranges
strong point this season. Syracuse sure
seemed to miss the setling presence
of former star lef tackle Justn Pugh,
who lef school a year early and also
was drafed by the Giants.
Tailbacks Jerome Smith (16 rushes,
73 yards, two TDs) and Prince-Tyson
Gulley (12, 24) carried the bulk of the
load for a running game that produced
less than two yards per carry (37, 71).
Last season, Smith had 1,171 rushing,
the ffh-highest in school history,
and Gulley contributed 830 yards and
scored nine TDs.
Up front, we have to win those
batles, Shafer said, adding that he
hoped to give George Morris and
Devante McFarlane more playing tme
going forward. We need to fnish our
blocks with the ofensive line.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - State ofcials
are being urged this week to adopt
new proposals to cut broad-based
taxes for all New Yorkers instead of
contnuing politcally targeted tax
breaks for businesses and Hollywood
productons.
E.J. McMahon of the Manhatan
Insttute says New Yorks high tax
status grew worse in recent years with
a temporary income tax extended
twice so far that takes in $2 billion a
year.
The natonal Tax Foundatons Joseph
Henchman testfed in the same state
Senate hearing Wednesday that New
York is ranked last in business climate
among all 50 states.
The Unshackle Upstate business group
says New York needs to cut income
taxes by 25 percent for upstate
residents making less than $50,000 to
turn around the economy.
NY urged to address high, broad-based taxes
STATE
Syracuse coach Scot Shafer reacts during the second quarter of an NCAA college football game
against Penn State Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)
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PUZZLES
Across
1. Expert
5. Ciao
8. All __ Jazz
12. Blood-related
13. Blockhead
14. Uncivil
15. Ofce fll-in
16. Bobby of the Bruins
17. Eager
18. Oriental
21. Victory symbols in World War II
24. Hanging strand
28. Finale
29. Hithers partner
31. Florida city
32. Trot or canter
34. Spoil
36. Nip partner
37. Underway
39. Doctorate
41. Linda ___, Supergirls alias
42. Spice
44. Together
46. Postmans tote
48. Indian dress
51. By way of
52. Strip of wood
56. Ballyhoo
57. To __ is human
58. Mishmash
59. Skirt lines
60. Seize suddenly
61. Kind of column
Down
1. Hoods gun
2. Four stringed guitar (abbr.)
3. Lip
4. Pull out a dowel
5. Develop well
6. Turkic tent
7. Protected bird
8. Pass through
9. Expression of afecton
10. Commoton
11. In___rity
19. Whatever
20. But
21. Vegetarian
22. In a state of chaos
23. Fool
25. ___ Ste. Marie
26. Master of ceremonies
27. Was sweet on
30. Shuteye
33. Britsh troops, in slang
35. Pie content
38. Drink with jam and bread?
40. Code of life
43. Acceptng that..
45. Eskimo dwelling
47. Italian currency
48. Movie theatre talk
49. Yes, captain
50. Dashboard abbr.
53. Austrian peak
54. Knot
55. Constructon site container
STATE
Jury awards $280,000
in NY case over N-word abuse
LARRY NEUMEISTER
NEW YORK (AP) - The lawyer for a black
woman whose hostle workplace claim
against a black bosss N-word rant
produced a $280,000 jury award says
she hopes the case teaches society
something.
Its the most ofensive word in the
English language, atorney Marjorie
M. Sharpe said outside federal court in
Manhatan afer a jury Tuesday added
$30,000 in punitve damages to go with
a $250,000 compensatory damages
award it imposed last week against
STRIVE East Harlem and founder Rob
Carmona.
Sharpe stood with her client, 38-year-
old Brandi Johnson, afer a jury of six
men and two women determined
Carmona owes her $25,000 and
STRIVE $5,000 in additonal damages
in a case that put a legal microscope
to the concept that the word that is a
degrading slur when spoken by whites
can be used without retributon and
sometmes afectonately among
blacks, even in the workplace.
Sharpe said the double standard had
persisted far too long as people have
tried to take the stng away from the
N-word.
Johnson said she hopes the word now
wont be tolerated no mater what
your race is.
Carmona, a 61-year-old black man of
Puerto Rican descent, had testfed
at the trial that he was dispensing
tough love in language he faced from
counselors who turned him from a
drug addict with an arrest record
into the creator of an ofen-praised
organizaton that has helped nearly
50,000 hard-to-employ people fnd
work since 1984.
Johnson had recorded the March 2012
trade about inappropriate workplace
atre and unprofessional behavior that
was aired for the jury and described by
both sides as the trials centerpiece.
She said she cried for 45 minutes in
the restroom aferward.
I was ofended. I was hurt. I felt
degraded. I felt disrespected. I was
embarrassed, Johnson testfed.
Outside court afer her victory,
Johnson said she was very happy
and rejected Carmonas claims from
the witness stand Tuesday that the
verdict made him realize he needs to
take stock of how he communicates
with people he is trying to help.
I come from a diferent tme,
Carmona said hesitantly, wiping his
eyes repeatedly with a cloth. Sharpe
told jurors they were ghost tears.
So now, now youre sorry? Johnson
said outside court, adding she doubted
his sincerity and notng Carmona had
refused to apologize to her in court
last week. She said he should have
been sorry the day when he told me
the N-word eight tmes.
Carmona lef the courthouse without
immediately commentng, as did all
eight jurors. When he testfed last
week, he tried to defend his use of
the word, saying it had multple
contexts in the black and Latno
communites, sometmes indicatng
anger, sometmes love.
In a statement, STRIVE said it was
disappointed but was exploring
optons, including an appeal and
looking forward to the judicial process
taking its entre course. A STRIVE
executve testfed Tuesday that the
organizaton already has changed
because of the verdict with plans to
provide its staf additonal diversity,
discriminaton and ant-harassment
training.
It also cited Johnson as a prime
example of the second chances that
STRIVE provides to both its partcipants
and nonpartcipants alike.
It noted that Johnson, who was never
a STRIVE partcipant, was employed
there despite a previous convicton
for grand larceny that required her
to pay about $100,000 in resttuton.
The judge barred lawyers from telling
jurors about the convicton.
Brandi Johnson, lef, and her lawyer, Marjorie
M. Sharpe, leave federal court in New York,
Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, afer a civil jury
awarded $30,000 in punitve damages in
additon to the $250,000 in compensatory
damages that had been awarded last week.
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COVER
The candidacy for mayor has turned
into a legal dispute in Syracuse, with
Onondaga County Democrats taking
their Republican colleagues to court
in a lawsuit. Democrats are saying
Republicans should lose their spot on
the mayoral ballot because the party
has violated the spirit and leter of
electon law.
The Republican Party, to date, stll has
not chosen a candidate, and has been
trying to exhaust all of its optons while
the search contnues.
Republican commitee chairman Tom
Dadey originally put his own name on
the pettons for mayoral candidacy,
but recently moved out of the city of
Syracuse, thereby disqualifying himself
from the race.
The party has since turned to Kevin
Kuehner, even though Kuehner
has openly admited to not being
interested in running for mayor.
This is the problem for the Democrats
and, according to Democratc Electons
Commissioner Dustn Czarny who also
has joined the lawsuit, by using a
series of loopholes and technicalites,
the GOP has muddled up what should
be transparent.
Democrats are saying the paperwork
clearly shows discrepancies, while
Dadey says the Democrats just want
to clear the path for current Syracuse
Mayor Stephanie Miner. Miner is not
currently involved in the lawsuit, but
it would only help her in her quest for
re-electon if Democrats win the suit.
I mean, our goal is to have a
candidate so we can have a discussion
about the issues. I mean, the citys in
tough shape. Whether its fnancially,
whether its the increase in crime,
whether its the school district, the city
has very tough issues, said Dadey.
Democratc challenger Pat Hogan is
steering clear of the lawsuit, although
hes made it clear that hes not in favor
of the ordeal.
The mayor, being the state party
boss, instructed one of her vassals,
the county boss, to do what bosses
do. Find legal means, I guess, to deny
the citzens of the city of Syracuse an
actual chance to vote in November,
Hogan said.
Hogan will be challenging Miner next
week during the Democratc primary
and denies the rumor that a deal has
been made where the Republican
Party will endorse Hogan when the
primaries are over.
Republicans, like Democrats, are
not above taking an issue to court.
Republican Ian Hunter was removed
from the ballot by ruling of a judge
afer the Republican commitee
claimed Hunter didnt meet state law
requirements with his pettons.
Hunter will be the Conservatve Party
candidate in November.
BY DELANI WEAVER
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NATIONAL
BRADLEY KLAPPER and JULIE PACE
WASHINGTON (AP) - In an impassioned
appeal for support both at home and
abroad, President Barack Obama
said Wednesday the credibility of the
internatonal community and Congress
is on the line in the debate over how to
respond to the alleged use of chemical
weapons in Syria. As Obama made his
case overseas during a visit to Sweden,
his appeal for military interventon ran
into trouble on Capitol Hill.
The Senate Foreign Relatons
Commitee delayed its public meetng
and remained huddled in private
afer Sen. John McCain, an outspoken
advocate of interventon, said he did
not support the latest version of the
Senate resoluton to authorize military
force. The Arizona Republican said
he wants more than cruise missile
strikes and other limited acton. The
commitees plan to vote on the
resoluton Wednesday was thrown
into doubt.
On the other side of the Syria debate,
Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., said he was
not persuaded to support military
acton, saying the military has been
decimated by budget cuts and
were just not in a positon to take
on any major confrontaton. Inhofe
spoke as he emerged from a closed-
door briefng of the Senate Armed
Services Commitee that lasted more
than two hours.
Obama, asked about his own past
comments drawing a red line against
the use of chemical weapons, said it
was a line that had frst been clearly
drawn by countries around the world
and by Congress, in ratfying a treaty
that bans the use of chemical weapons.
That wasnt something I just kind of
made up, he said. I didnt pluck it out
of thin air. Theres a reason for it.
Obama said that if the world fails
to act, it will send a message that
despots and authoritarian regimes
can contnue to act with impunity.
The moral thing to do is not to stand
by and do nothing, he declared at
a news conference in Stockholm
with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik
Reinfeldt.
With Obama in Europe, the presidents
top natonal security aides were
briefng legislators in a series of
public and private hearings, hoping
to advance their case for limited
strikes against Syrian President Bashar
Assads regime in retaliaton for what
the administraton says was a deadly
sarin gas atack by his forces outside
Damascus last month.
The Senate Foreign Relatons
Commitees vote would be the frst
in a series as the presidents request
makes its way through Senate and
House commitees before coming
before the two chambers for a fnal
vote. But with some senators saying
the resoluton is too strong and others
believing it too weak, Sen. John
Barrasso, R-Wyo., said a vote could be
delayed.
Afer briefng the commitee in
private, Secretary of State John Kerry
was asked whether it was too soon for
a vote, and said: You have to ask the
gentlemen. We had a good meetng.
In an inital survey, the AP found 17
senators supportng or leaning in
favor of the resoluton approving
a U.S. military response in Syria,
and 14 against or leaning against it.
There were 69 senators who either
said they were undecided or whose
views were unknown. Of those
supportng or leaning in favor of the
resoluton, 13 were Democrats and
four were Republicans. Those against
or leaning against the resoluton were
2 Democrats, 11 Republicans and one
independent.
Sending a message to Congress from
afar, Obama insisted there was far
more than his own credibility at stake.
I didnt set a red line, the world set a
red line, he said. The world set a red
line when governments representng
98 percent of world populaton said
the use of chemical weapons are
abhorrent. He added that Congress
set a red line when it ratfed that
treaty.
The Senate Foreign Relatons
Commitees top members drafed a
resoluton late Tuesday that permits
Obama to order a limited and
tailored military mission against
Syria, as long as it doesnt exceed 90
days and involves no American troops
on the ground for combat operatons.
We have pursued a course of acton
that gives the president the authority
he needs to deploy force in response
to the Assad regimes criminal use
of chemical weapons against the
Syrian people, while assuring that the
authorizaton is narrow and focused,
said the commitees chairman, Sen.
Bob Menendez, D-N.J., who drafed
the measure with Sen. Bob Corker
of Tennessee, the panels senior
Republican.
We have an obligaton to act,
not witness and watch while a
humanitarian tragedy is unfolding in
plain view, Menendez said.
Asked whether he would take acton
against Syria if he fails to get approval
from Congress, the president said
his request to lawmakers was not
an empty exercise, but that as
commander in chief, I always preserve
the right and the responsibility to
act on behalf of Americas natonal
security.
To get a green light from Congress,
Obama needs to persuade a
Republican-dominated House that
has opposed almost the entrety of
Obamas agenda since seizing the
majority more than three years ago.
Several conservatve Republicans and
some ant-war Democrats already
have come out in oppositon to
Obamas plans, even as Republican
and Democratc House leaders gave
their support to the president Tuesday.
House Foreign Afairs Commitee
Chairman Ed Royce, R-Cal., said that
while it would be important to deter
the use of chemical weapons by Assad
and others, there remained many
unanswered questons, including what
the U.S. would do if Assad retaliated to
an American atack.
The administratons Syria policy
doesnt build confdence, Royce said
in his prepared remarks.
The audience at the House Foreign
Afairs Commitee hearing included
several people wearing signs opposing
U.S. acton against Syria and who had
colored the palms of their hands red.
House Speaker John Boehner emerged
from a meetng at the White House
and declared that the U.S. has
enemies around the world that need
to understand that were not going to
tolerate this type of behavior. We also
have allies around the world and allies
in the region who also need to know
that America will be there and stand
up when its necessary.
Rep. Eric Cantor, the House majority
leader, also backed acton. But he
acknowledged the split positons
among both partes and said it was
up to Obama to make the case to
Congress and to the American people
that this is the right course of acton.
Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staf, Gen. Martn Dempsey, made that
argument before the House Foreign
Afairs panel. They and other senior
administraton ofcials also provided
classifed briefngs to the Senate
Foreign Relatons and Armed Services
commitees.
In prepared testmony for the House
commitee, Kerry told lawmakers that
the world is watching not just to see
what we decide. It is watching to see
how we make this decision - whether in
this dangerous world we can stll make
our government speak with one voice.
Hagel, in his prepared text, seconded
Obamas warnings about the potental
scope of danger from failing to uphold
internatonal standards, saying a
refusal to act would undermine
the credibility of Americas other
security commitments - including the
presidents commitment to prevent
Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
Obama, who arrived in Stockholm early
Wednesday, was hoping to maintain
the momentum toward congressional
approval that he has generated since
Saturday, when he announced he
would ask lawmakers to authorize
what untl then had appeared to be
imminent military acton against Syria.
On Monday, the president met
privately at the White House with
the Senates two leading Republican
hawks, McCain and Lindsey Graham
of South Carolina, and persuaded
them to support his plans for an
interventon on conditon that he also
seek to aid the Syrian rebels seeking to
oust Assad.
A day later, he sat down with Boehner,
Cantor and several other senior
lawmakers to make a similar case that
Assad must be punished for breaching
the nearly century-old internatonal
taboo of using chemical weapons.
Afer gaining signifcant support,
Kerry, Hagel and Dempsey appeared
to get the backing of most senators at
Tuesdays hearing.
However, even proponents of military
acton urged Obama to do more to sell
his plans to an American public that is
highly skeptcal afer a decade of war
in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Obama, who will travel from Swedens
capital to an economic summit in St.
Petersburg, Russia, on Thursday, has
litle internatonal support for acton
right now. Among major allies, only
France has ofered publicly to join
the United States in a strike, although
President Francois Hollande says hell
await Congress decision.
Obama had canceled a one-on-one
meetng in Moscow with Russian
President Vladimir Putn amid tensions
over Russias grantng of asylum
to Natonal Security Agency leaker
Edward Snowden.
In a wide-ranging interview Tuesday
with The Associated Press, Putn
expressed hope that the two would
have serious discussions about Syria
and other issues in St. Petersburg. Putn
has warned the West against taking
one-sided acton in Syria but also said
Russia doesnt exclude supportng
a U.N. resoluton on punitve military
strikes if it is proved that Damascus
used poison gas on its own people.
Obama, for his part, said that he is
always hopeful that Putn will change
his positon on taking acton in Syria.
___
Pace reported from Stockholm,
Sweden. Associated Press writers
David Espo, Josh Lederman, Donna
Cassata, Alan Fram, Jennifer C. Kerr
and Lolita C. Baldor contributed to this
report.
Obama: Congress, world credibility on line
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BENJAMIN JEALOUS
Three hundred
years before
a multracial
c o a l i t i o n
s t o r m e d
Was hi ngt on s
Natonal Mall
to demand
equal rights and
economic justce,
the working men
of Gloucester
County, Va.,
made a stand of their own based on
class, not race. We ofen ask whether
Martn Luther King Jr. would recognize
the world in 2013, but it is equally
valid to ask whether he would have
recognized the world of 1663, when
Black and White children of slaves
and servants did play together in the
tobacco felds.
One of the forgoten landmarks of civil
rights history occurred 350 years ago
Sunday: Sept. 1, 1663. This day marks
the frst recorded instance of African
slaves and European indentured
servants standing together for justce
against the ruling elite.
The Gloucester County Conspiracy
took place at a tme when Virginia
tobacco growers relied on both
slaves and indentured servants to
farm tobacco. Management treated
their workers with cruel abandon,
regardless of color.
Unwilling to accept their fate, a group
of black and white workers met in
secret to plan a revolt. Afer securing
weapons and a drum, they would
march from house to house untl
they reached the mansion of Royal
Governor Sir William Berkeley. They
would demand their freedom, and
resort to force if necessary.
Though the plot failed, the landowners
recognized the power that the
Gloucester rebels possessed when
banded together. Over the next several
decades, they sought to breed racial
contempt between the white and
black members of the underclass. On
the plantaton level, they gave whites
nominal control in the feld. On the
colony level, they allowed whites to
join the milita and carry frearms. As
historian Edmund Morgan writes, the
landowners used racism as a device
for control.
On this 350th anniversary, the
Gloucester rebellion can teach us
as much about our character as the
March on Washington.
The rebels in Gloucester recognized
what King memorialized in his famous
remarks: we are, by our nature,
capable of great things when we judge
one another solely on the content of
our character, not by the color of our
skin.
The original state of race relatons in
America is one of shared struggle,
not mutually assured destructon. It
is ultmately the introducton of an
outside variable - money, power, or
the desire for control - that tends to
alter that natural state.
It turns out that 2013 is a perfect
year for this lesson. The fght for
votng rights is making its own 50th
anniversary curtain call, in the form of
the Supreme Courts decision in Shelby
County v. Holder and countless voter
suppression laws that afect African-
Americans but also Americans of all
colors, ages and incomes. The failed
War on Drugs contnues to destroy
families in black inner city America,
and, increasingly, white rural America.
Finally, 45 years afer King was killed
in the midst of his Poor Peoples
Campaign, low-wage workers of all
hues are organizing across geographic
and demographic lines to demand a
higher minimum wage.
Politcs is a lot like physics. For every
acton, there is an equal and opposite
reacton, and objects in moton
eventually return to their original
state. As we tackle these challenges,
let us consider that the original state
of race relatons in America may be
one of unity - and that the possibility
of moving beyond our natons legacy
of racism is obtainable.
In his 1869 speech Our Composite
Natonality, Frederick Douglass
wrote about the unique phenomenon
and mission of America. On this
anniversary, let us remember his
words: Our geographical positon,
our relaton to the outside world, our
fundamental principles of Government
... our vast resources, requiring all
manner of labor to develop them,
and our already existng composite
populaton, all conspire to one grand
end, and that is to make us the most
perfect natonal illustraton of the
unity and dignity of the human family,
that the world has ever seen.
------------------------
Benjamin Todd Jealous is the president
and CEO of the natonal NAACP.
Gloucesters Rebellion: Another Lesson About Our Character
Within moments
afer President
Obama bluntly
indicated that he
was ready and
willing to strike
Syrian President
Bashar al-Assads
forces for its
alleged mass
chemical atack
on civilians,
dozens of the
most liberal
House Democrats signed a leter
warning him to tread very carefully
on any Syrian acton. Their message
was cautous, gentle, and diplomatc.
The implicaton behind it was that an
Obama administraton strike against
Syria carried grave politcal risks. One
risk was obvious. And that is that with
or without Congresss authorizaton,
waging war against a naton that has
not directly atacked or poses any
direct threat to the United States again
tags the U.S. as the dreaded, and in
the Middle East, hated aggressor and
bully.
Obama was mindful of this risk when
he early on ignored GOP war hawks
and did not rush headlong into an
atack on the country without clear and
verifable evidence that Assads hard
war against rebel factons threatened
U.S. and allied interests in the area.
He ignored the GOP hawks again
when he tossed the ball to Congress
to make the decision whether to strike
and what the parameters of the strike
objectves should be.
The unstated risk was hopelessly
alienatng his most impassioned
supporters while giving his inveterate
GOP detractors another card to play
against him. The even more long-
range politcal peril is to further taint
Democrats in the eyes of liberals and
progressives as a party that is just as
willing to wage war as the GOP. All
three are important consideratons
for Obama. They take on even more
signifcance given that polls show
Americans overwhelmingly oppose
any involvement in Syria, masses of
demonstrators have already taken
to the streets in protest of a strike,
and some Tea Party-afliated GOP
congressional reps have screamed
loudly against the war drums. And
GOP Senate war hawks want nothing
less than an all-out atack to remove
the Assad regime.
The threat of an actve and passive
drif of progressives away from a full-
throated support of his policies has
been building for some tme with deep
questons on everything from the
compromises hes made on health care
reform to the perceived over catering
to Wall Street interests. The hard
reality, though, is that Obama needs
liberal Democrats and progressives
in Congress and in the feld to sell
his initatves on immigraton reform,
jobs and the economy, the looming
showdown with the GOP over the
budget, and his staf and judicial
appointments. Red dog Democrats,
bankers, corporate CEOs and lobbyists
cant and wont put the passion, energy
and, most importantly, the bodies out
there to do the grunt politcal work to
back him and to spearhead the tough
batle many Democrats face to keep
their seats in the House and Senate in
2014.
There were 120 million voters in 2012.
The Congressional Black Caucus,
the Hispanic Congressional Caucus,
and the Progressive Democratc
Caucus, the third partes, lef-leaning
labor unions, and lef independents
together represent an estmated 10 to
15 percent of the overall vote. Thats
12 to 15 million voters. However, its
not just the numbers. Its also where
the numbers are. The bulk of the
voters in Pennsylvania, Ohio, North
Carolina and Florida traditonally
are Republican, independents,
and moderate and conservatve
Democrats. With the excepton of
Pennsylvania, Bush won these states
EARL HUTCHINSON
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(TriceEdneyWire.
com) Standing
in the very spot
where Dr. Martn
Luther King Jr.
stood 50 years
before, President
Barack Obama
Americas frst
Black President,
challenged the
naton to take a
lesson from the
past and keep marching.
Because they kept marching, America
changed. Because they marched, a
Civil Rights law was passed. Because
they marched, a Votng Rights law was
signed. Because they marched, doors
of opportunity and educaton swung
open so their daughters and sons could
fnally imagine a life for themselves
beyond washing somebody elses
laundry or shining somebody elses
shoes. Because they marched, city
councils changed and state legislatures
changed, and Congress changed, and,
yes, eventually, the White House
changed, he said to enthusiastc
applause.
It was the Let Freedom Ring
Ceremony, commemoratng the
50th Anniversary of the March on
Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
The drizzly Aug. 28 day did not deter
thousands from coming to witness
the event. The crowd of people lined
the mall from the Lincoln Memorial,
where King spoke in 1963, around
the Tidal Basin and almost back to
the Washington Monument. In fact,
hundreds lef the event afer standing
in line for hours due to a botleneck at
security gates for the event that was
billed as free and open to the public.
But for the thousands that remained,
chantng and cheering from what
seemed like miles away, President
Obama exhorted them to march in a
new way.
That treless teacher who gets to
class early and stays late and dips
into her own pocket to buy supplies
because she believes that every child
is her charge - shes marching. That
successful businessman who doesnt
have to but pays his workers a fair
wage and then ofers a shot to a man,
maybe an ex-con who is down on his
luck - hes marching.
The mother who pours her love into
her daughter so that she grows up
with the confdence to walk through
the same door as anybodys son - shes
marching. The father who realizes the
most important job hell ever have is
raising his boy right, even if he didnt
have a father - especially if he didnt
have a father at home - hes marching.
The batle-scarred veterans who
devote themselves not only to helping
their fellow warriors stand again, and
walk again, and run again, but to keep
serving their country when they come
home - they are marching, he said to
applause.
Facing new inequites in America,
President Obama did not shy away
from the realites of the moment.
Inequality has steadily risen over
the decades. Upward mobility
has become harder. In too many
communites across this country, in
cites and suburbs and rural hamlets,
the shadow of poverty casts a pall
over our youth, their lives a fortress of
substandard schools and diminished
prospects, inadequate health care and
perennial violence, he said.
Yes, there have been examples of
success within Black America that
would have been unimaginable a
half century agoBut, as has already
been noted, Black unemployment
has remained almost twice as high
as White unemployment, Latno
unemployment close behind. The
gap in wealth between races has not
lessened, its grown. And as President
Clinton indicated, the positon of all
working Americans, regardless of
color, has eroded, making the dream
Dr. King described even more elusive.
Three presidents Obama, Bill Clinton
and Jimmy Carter addressed the
crowd, in additon to luminaries that
included Oprah Winfrey, Martn Luther
King III, the Rev. Bernice King and
Congressman John Lewis.
With the Trayvon Martn case stll
heavy on the minds of justce-seekers,
Clinton stressed that Dr. King, urged
the victms of racial violence to meet
White Americans with an outstretched
hand; not a clinched fst. And in so
doing, proved the redeeming power of
unearned sufering.
President Carter drew applause
from the crowd when he pointed to
the inequites of the criminal justce
system. There are more than 835,000
African-American men in prison, fve
tmes as many as when I lef ofce. And
with one third of all African-American
males being destned to be in prison
in our lifetme, there is a tremendous
agenda ahead of us, Carter said.
Rev. Bernice King, with the intense
cadence of her father, delivered a
fery speech, also outlining the gross
injustces of 2013.
We come once again to let freedom
ring. Because if freedom stops ringing,
then the sound will disappear and
the atmosphere will be charged with
something else, she said. We are
stll crippled by practces and policies
steeped in racial pride, hatred and
hostlity, some of which have us
standing our ground rather than
fnding common ground. We are stll
chained by economic disparity, income
and class inequality and conditons of
poverty for many of Gods children
around this naton and the world.
We are stll bound by civil unrest and
apparent social biases in a world that
ofen tmes degenerates into violence
and destructon; especially against
women and children. We are at this
landing, and now we must break the
cycle, she said. The Proft King spoke
the vision. He made it plain. And we
must run with it in this generaton.
The chiming of a bell at exactly 3 p.m.
was intended to mark the moment
that Dr. King proclaimed the words,
Let Freedom Ring!...From Every
Mountain Side, Let Freedom Ring!
President Obama, the fnal speaker,
encouraged the naton that if they
contnue to march not just in the
streets, but in the ways he outlined
change will be inevitable.
America, I know the road will be long,
but I know we can get there. Yes, we
will stumble, but I know well get back
up. Thats how a movement happens.
Thats how history bends. Thats how
when somebody is faint of heart,
somebody else brings them along
and says, come on, were marching,
he said. We might not face the
same dangers of 1963, but the ferce
urgency of now remains. We may
never duplicate the swelling crowds
and dazzling procession of that day
so long ago - no one can match Kings
brilliance - but the same fame that
lit the heart of all who are willing to
take a frst step for justce, I know that
fame remains.
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HAzEL TRICE EDNEY
President Obama Challenges America: Keep Marching
in 2000 and 2004, and bagged the
White House. Obama did not change
the voter demographic in these states.
He did, however, drastcally rev up
the numbers of black, Latno, and
youth voters, generally more socially
and politcally progressive, and self-
designated progressive voters that
turned out. This made the crucial
diference and cinched his wins, as
well as that of many House and Senate
Democrats.
Liberal Democrats and progressives
within and without Congress have
repeatedly reminded Obama to
remember the promises he made on
Iraq and Afghanistan. In the case of
Iraq, he blasted it as a failed and fawed
war that should never have been
fought. He promised that as president
he would move as quickly as possible
to end it. He kept that promise. As
for Afghanistan, he escalated the
war, but there was always the explicit
understanding that the established
tmetable for phased withdrawal
would be kept and there would be
an actual end to direct U.S. military
involvement in the country. Hes kept
that promise.
Though Obama has taken much heat
from the lef for his willingness to play
the tough guy on defense and natonal
security issues, the truth is that he has
moved with far more apparent cauton
on these issues than critcs claim. The
Syrian strike threat is again the best
example. Obama has made it clear
there will not be direct U.S. military
involvement. This is an easy call since
few Americans will back that anyway.
Hes hedged on when the threatened
missile strikes against Syria will occur,
saying that theres no set tmetable
for the launch if Congress approves
acton.
This is Obamas nod to his backers
who oppose any acton against the
country, or demand the most limited
acton possible to insure no repeat of
anther Iraq and Afghanistan quagmire.
Obamas challenge is to assure them a
Syria strike wont lead to that.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author
and politcal analyst. He is a frequent
MSNBC contributor. He is an associate
editor of New America Media. He is
a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton
Show on American Urban Radio
Network. He is the host of the weekly
Hutchinson Report on KTYM 1460 AM
Radio Los Angeles and KPFK-Radio and
the Pacifca Network.
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