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{COVER P6 - 7

Willis Knighton breaks down racial

barriers in the Bail Bonds Business

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Syracuse considers bill to eliminate

preliminary background checks on jobapplicants

Mayor Miner reacts to Councils police

car threat

{STATE P 5

NYPD releases 2011 Stop-Frisk gures

NY hopes to add 500,000 residents to

Medicaid

Easter Bunny gets Eggs-Cited about

a new parks event

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Postal Service to cut Saturday mail to

trim costs

FDA warns of new fake batch of cancer

drug Avastin

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Jesse Jackson wants Obama to

come to Chicago, I just want him to do

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By Dr. Boyce Watkins

No easy answer for President Obama

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By Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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Dear Editor:

I thought it necessary to clarify a coupleof things regarding the proposed Banthe box legislaon. The Ban the boxlegislaon does not eliminate the rightof the employer to ask a potenal

employee if he or she has ever beenconvicted of a crime. It merely causesa postponing of the queson; allowingan opportunity for the individualsapplying for a job a chance to impressemployers in an interview. In thisinstance, the employer would narrowhis or her choices down to a talentedfew. Once the job candidate(s) areoered a job, the employer wouldthen ask about his or her (criminal)background.

As it stands, this is proposedlegislaon, and is not a done deal; butwhat must be considered is the fact

that this is a rather large populaon ofpeople who in many cases are deniedan opportunity to even interviewfor a job. In a me when our citysresources have dwindled due toincreasing cost as a result of whathas become an alarming need for

public assistance, Medicaid, and othertax-payer funded services, we needinnovave ideas and / or methods toreduce said cost. Be ever mindful thatthe cost for incarceraon falls on thetax-payer as well.

Understandably so, people on theright and the le are screaming for

government to nd ways to reducespending. The one true way to reducespending is to eliminate the need forpublic dollars. We cannot publiclyridicule persons who make use ofpublic dollars, but when eorts aremade to make those persons self-ecient contributors to our tax-base,we make obvious our inability torecognize actual soluons.

In the spirit of public / privatepartnerships, the business communityshould assist government in its eortto reduce cost. Such an eort can/willsimultaneous improve a companysproducvity. This is a potenal win/win situaon. In a city where as lowas 44% of the tax-payers carry the loadfor the rest (of the city), we need moretax-payers; increasing the numberof tax-payers we have (contribung)reduces the overall tax burden onyou and I. In the words of PresidentClinton, it is simple arithmec.

Our choices are equally simple:either we nd ways to empower ourgreatest asset, namely our people,and therefore our City or we connueto remain forever a pauper, incapableof the type of nancial independenceand presge towards which we aspire.

Khalid BeyCity Councilor, 4th DistrictChairman of the Commiee forEconomic Development,Downtown & Metropolitan Planning

KHALID BEY


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Syracuse considers bill to eliminatepreliminary background checks on job applicantsBy Lisa Dumas

The Syracuse Common Council hasintroduced legislaon that wouldmake it a crime for private employersin the City of Syracuse to check thebackground of prospecve employees

for criminal convicons, accordingto a member alert from CenterStateCorporaon for Economic Opportunitypresident Robert Simpson.

The bill would prohibit any quesonsabout whether someone has beenconvicted of a crime from beingincluded on a job applicaon or inthe interview process, the alertstated. In addion, Businessesasking the queson Have you everbeen convicted of a felony? would

be subject to criminal prosecuon,with nes of up to $1,000 for eachoccurrence.

This legislaon sends the wrongmessage to employers, said Simpson.We need an environment that

encourages, rather than discourages,employers to locate their businessesin Syracuse.

Jean Kessner, the Democrat CommonCouncilor who is sponsoring the billsaid she disagrees.

Kessner said that this is not tocompletely prohibit quesons aboutthe criminal background of candidatescompletely, but rather postponethem unl aer an applicant has had

a chance to market themselves in aninterview.

I would like to see people who have arecord have an opportunity to get pastthe applicaon stage, she said. Myview is that if people actually get a foot

in the door they have a beer chanceof actually geng the job. And if morepeople get jobs, it would reduce thecost of social services, it would keepthose people from returning to a lifeof crime to support themselves, andit would beer help people supporttheir families. If you never get talkedto, you never get hired.

Other states with recent restriconsplaced on businesses during the hiring-decision process include Newark, New

Jersey, and Philadelphia.

There will be Commiee of CommonCouncil meengs held at 12 p.m. and5:30 p.m. March 5 on the third oor ofcity hall in the Common Council ocesto discuss the bill, Kessner said.

At this point we would like to hearfrom people, nd out what they think,and try to cra a proposal that works,she stated.

Kessner also said that this proposedlegislaon is in its early stages andtherefore sll under review.

At this me the Mayors oce said itdoes not have a posion on the bill.

MAYOR MINER REACTS TO COUNCILS POLICE CAR THREATSYRACUSE, N.Y. Mayor Stephanie A.

Miner released the following statementupon hearing of the Common Councilsthreat to not purchase new policevehicles in an aempt to hasten theSyracuse Police Departments ongoingeorts to reduce take home vehicles.

By deciding to not allow the policedepartment to purchase the vehiclesthey need, the Council is hurng thePolice Departments ability to do itsjob. The SPD is working diligently tocombat increases in crime but theCouncil does not give them the toolsto do their job adequately. The Councilchooses not to understand thatthese vehicles are built into exisngcollecve bargaining agreements

and the city must work within thoseagreements. Mayors in cies across

New York, including Rochester and

Bualo, have tried and failed toreduce their take home police eets.These are benets built into CBAs thatmust be negoated. Chief Fowler ismaking progress reducing take homecars as ocers are reassigned or rereand not exposing the city to a costlylawsuit.

Addionally, the Council is taking agiant leap to construe that this vehiclepurchase is designed to providetake home vehicles for ocers. TheSyracuse Police Department has notat any me said that in the discussionof this purchase. The council isconnecng dots that are simply notconnected.

By ignoring the legal reality of

this situaon, the leadership of theCommon Council has once againshown its unwillingness to thoroughlyunderstand the complicated issuesfacing the city. From its ill-advisedPlanning Commission legislaon to

the clumsy introducon of last weeksbackground check bill, the Councilrepeatedly takes knee jerk reaconswithout fathoming the full scope ofthe problem.

EASTER BUNNY GETS EGGS-CITED ABOUT A NEW PARKS EVENTParks Department Hosng First EverLunch with the Easter Bunny

SYRACUSE, N.Y. The Easter Bunny iseggs-cited to invite area childrento have lunch with him on Saturday,March 23 at the American LegionValley Post #1468, 110 AcademyStreet. Lunch will be served from 12PM to 2 PM. The lunch is free butckets are required. Seang is limited

to 300 people.

Parents are asked to hop to thephone or the computer and makeyour reservaons. City residents canbegin requesng ckets on Monday,February 11. Non-city residents canrequest ckets starng on Monday,February 25. Requests can be madeby calling 315-473-4330 or emailingBritney Farmer in in the special events

oce at [email protected]. Forthose emailing, please include: yourname, the number of ckets needed,a phone number, and mailing address.Included in the packet of ckets will bedirecons to the Legion Hall.

The menu includes a choice of ahamburger or hot dog, chips, fruit cup,and a beverage. A special Easter goodybag with surprises for kids will also be

included.

The lunch is presented by the Cityof Syracuse Department of Parks,Recreaon and Youth Programs, withsupport from Price Chopper, the ValleyMens Club and American LegionValley Post #1468.

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NYPD releases 2011 stop-frisk figuresNEW YORK (AP) -- The NYPD hasreleased a report that breaks down itscontroversial stop and frisk policy byprecinct and race.

The 2011 gures show nearly90 percent of those stopped forreasonable suspicion were black or

Hispanic. Together, the two groupscomprise less than 53 percent of thecitys populaon.

Brooklyns 75th precinct, covering EastNew York and Cypress Hills, had themost stops. Ninety-seven of the morethan 31,000 people stopped were

black or Hispanic.

The gures show a total of 685,724people were detained in 2011.

The New York Civil Liberes Unionfought for the release of the gureslast year.

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne tells theDaily News charges of racial prolingwere unfair. He says there are morestops in some precincts because they

have more crime.

NY hopes to add 500,000 residents to MedicaidALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ With New YorksMedicaid coverage already broaderthan federal law requires, the stateexpects to add about 75,000 morepeople to the program next year underthe health care overhaul, plus another425,000 who are already eligible butdont know it.

Medicaid, the government healthinsurance program for the poor,currently covers 5.1 million NewYorkers, more than one-fourth of thestates residents. The income thresholdto qualify for most programs is alreadyabove the federal poverty line.

``There are 1 million who are eligiblebut not enrolled. The hope is thatroughly half will come in as a resultof the new welcome mat eect, saidElisabeth Benjamin, vice president forhealth iniaves at the CommunityService Society of New York, anadvocacy group.

Separately, New York plans to beginenrollment Oct. 1 in a new healthinsurance marketplace known as anexchange. Thats expected to enrollanother 1.1 million New Yorkers whohave no health insurance but make toomuch money to qualify for Medicaid.They would pay premiums and couldqualify for subsidies depending ontheir income. The exchange is expectedto reduce costs that individuals pay forinsurance.

New York ocials are pung togethera markeng plan to help increasethe number of residents who haveinsurance coverage. They expect tosign up more than half of the 2.7million uninsured among the states 19million residents.

Benjamin said New York probablyhas the best public health insuranceprograms in the U.S., including ChildHealth Plus, now available to all itschildren under age 19. It wont change.

The program provides health coverageon a sliding fee scale up to 400 percentof the federal poverty line, with fullpremiums aer that at about $150 amonth. Health Department ocialsesmate 90 percent of New Yorkchildren have coverage.

The 2010 federal Aordable Care Actcalls for expanding Medicaid eligibilityand establishing state insuranceexchanges with help from federalsubsidies.

New York now provides Medicaid forsingle adults up to the poverty line,about $12,000 a year for an individual.That will rise in 2014 and is expectedto add 75,000 people to the program.

Under Family Health Plus, its Medicaid-expansion program, the state nowcovers parents up to 150 percent of thepoverty line, or $37,000 for a familyof three. That is expected to drop to138 percent next year as that program

ends, but a Cuomo administraonproposal will grandfather in about36,000 adults enrolled at the higherthreshold.

Benjamin said there are probablyanother 36,000 people in that incomegroup who are not enrolled and whocould be le out next year.

``The big issue is aordability, wherethe insurance exchange may sll be tooexpensive for lower-income residentsin this high-cost state, she said.

At the same me, New York is expectedto get up to $2.5 billion more in federalreimbursement for the overhaul.

Total federal, state and countyMedicaid spending is tentavelybudgeted to rise from nearly $54billion this year to $57.6 billion for the2013-14 scal year.


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A recent study by the JuscePolicy Instute shows thatBlacks 18 to 29 years-old paymore to get out of jail thanwhites and Lanos.

Willis Knighton, founderof Cusetown Bail Bonds inSyracuse, New York has beenchanging the way the bailbonds business works overthe last ve years. A pre-dominantly Caucasian malerun industry, Knighton ismaking it easier for minoriesto get a bond while remainingnancial stable.

CNY Vision Reporter, DelaniWeaver recently sat downwith Knighton to talk with himabout the industry and how,as an African American, he hasbeen able to achieve successin an industry notoriouslyresistant to African American

parcipaon.

CNYV: Could you tell meabout you background? Yourchildhood, growing up.

Knighton: I grew up here inSyracuse, NY. I graduated fromHenniger High School in 1977.I went to the army aer that.

CNYV: How long were you inthe army?

Knighton: Four years.

CNYV:How did youdecide to get into the

bail bonds business?

Knighton: Well I knewback, I was a youngman back in thesevenes and thesixes. Minorieshad to go out toCourtland you know,to get this lady todo the bonds out therebecause they didnt taketoo many, I mean they hada couple people, one or twothat would take minories but

we had an issue back in thoseyears. So, and also when I hada relave going to jail aerworking for the city, the re

department. I had to put up ahouse for a small bond and Ifelt that was--you know--kindof crazy to me that you hadto put up a house for a $2500bond where a lot of peopledont have houses, own theirown homes. So thats whenI decided I need to look intothat.

CNYV: Did you have family inthe bail bonds business beforeyou decided to go into thebusiness?

Knighton: No. I just know itwas something needed inSyracuse. Especially, being aminority. Where people canlook at like youre not judgingthem when they commit acrime.

CNYV: The bail bonds businessis a white male oriented

business. How did that aectyour decision to go into thisindustry?

Knighton: It was hard. Itmade me even wanna pushharder knowing it wasa dominatedwhite

male runbusiness towhere I knew themajority of people

that was incarcerated areminories and Hispanics.So who beer to serve yourpeople than yourself?

CNYV: What steps did you taketo get into this business?

Knighton: I just startedstudying, saving moneyand learning the businessfrom the ground up. No onetaught me. I had to learnit on my own and take thelicensing. I did it all on myown, basically learning frommyself. I tried to talk to theother ones that were here inthe business but they didntwanna talk to nobody abouttrying to get into this business.They basically wanted it forthemselves.

CNYV: What year was youlicensed?

Knighton:Itll be

ve years in March. So, it wasback in 2007.

CNYV: Is that when you wentinto business for yourselfor were you working forsomeone else?

Knighton: Nope, I just openedit myself. Opened my ownoce. Inially, I was gonnastart it out of the house. But,I had seen that wasnt gonnabe feasible being a minority.You meet people out in thestreet and they look at youbeing black as you know,maybe youre doing somethingillegal. Even though, yourelicensed by New York State. Sotwo months aer I started, Idecided to open up an oce.

CNYV: How did you promoteyour new business?

Knighton: Basically atthat me, wordof mouth.

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adversing, the telephonebook and word of mouth. Plusdoing dierent things in thecommunity where people knew Iwas going into the business.

CNYV: How do you think yourbusiness has contributed to yourcommunity?

Knighton: It gave us more of anopportunity that our peoplecan get out (of jail) without

having to go through as muchrestricons as they used to.The bail bondsmen here evenchanged up some their rules.Back when I started looking intoit, if you were black you had tobasically have ten, eleven yearsof employment on the job. But,aer I came in they changedall that because I was basically

doing, you know if you workedthree to ve years or so, youwere able to do the bond. Sothey decide to change because itmade it harder for them to get abond if they were trying to staywith their restricons. They had

restricons to where there was adierence. If you were Caucasianyou might have got that bondaer working ve years. If youwere black, you got that bondaer working nine to 11 years.

CNYV: So what has been yourgreatest accomplishment?

Knighton: I would say helping

our community to wherepeople now know that theyhave somebody that they cancome to and talk to and youknow, theres a possibility I canhelp them and not prejudgingthem. Then I would say trying totalk to people about doing theright thing, staying out of thatlifestyle. Hopefully, I can be anexample to them in some kind ofway. I would say I think my bestthing is trying to help young menthat cross my desk. Try to showthem that theres some otherthan whats out there in thestreets and that you can do it onyour own.

CNYV: Once youve handledthe business side as far as thebonds, do you keep in contactwith the young men that youfeel need guidance?

Knighton: Absolutely. Maerof fact, I had some working inhere, cleaning the oce onFridays. Just to make a lilebit of money. I cant pay thema lot but something just tokeep them. Then if they wannacome in and talk to me about

business. I probably throw thatoer out quite a bit with youngmen. Its harder to do it with theolder men, but with the youngermen, like 15, 16, 17, you sll canpossibly grab hold of them.

CNYV: What has been the mostchallenging aspect of yourbusiness?

Knighton: I would say thatsomemes when our peoplelook at it as that were justsupposed to do the bond, ratherthan have requirements that wehave. That because youre black,you have to do the bond and

not understanding that theresrequirements that we have tohave in order to do the bond. So,I would think on that end.

CNYV: You mean the clients yougave correct?

Knighton: This is a business andwe have requirements that wehave to uphold to. I cant justdo any bond because you walkin the door and dont have thecash for.

CNYV: I looked at your companys

website and read that it was afamily company? So, its safe toassume that youre going to passthis company down the line ofyour family.

Knighton: I hope to. Im prayingthat I do--If I can connue tohave my family involved. Yeah,its something that I wannaconnue to do. Open dierentones. If it s family, if it happensto be friends, thats ne withme. As long as we can keeps itgoing.

CNYV: What do you see in thefuture for your business?

Knighton: That I can justestablish something for myfamily and the community.

Hopefully, I canbe an example

to them [the community]

in some kind of way. I wouldsay I think my best thing istrying to help young menthat cross my desk. Try toshow them that theres someother than whats out therein the streets and that you

can do it on your own.- - Willis Knighton

Willis Knightonfounder of Cusetown Bail Bonds

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Postal Service to cut Saturday mail to trim costsWASHINGTON (AP) The nanciallystruggling U.S. Postal Service said

Wednesday it will stop delivering mailon Saturdays but connue to disbursepackages six days a week, an apparentend-run around an unaccommodangCongress.

The service expects the Saturday mailcutback to begin the week of Aug. 5and to save about $2 billion annually,said Postmaster General and CEOPatrick R. Donahoe.

Our nancial condion is urgent,Donahoe told a press conference.

The move accentuates one of theagencys strong points packagedelivery has increased by 14 percent

since 2010, ocials say, while thedelivery of leers and other mail hasdeclined with the increasing use ofemail and other Internet services.

Under the new plan, mail would bedelivered to homes and businessesonly from Monday through Friday, butwould sll be delivered to post oceboxes on Saturdays. Post oces nowopen on Saturdays would remain openon Saturdays.

Over the past several years, the PostalService has advocated shiing to ave-day delivery schedule for mailand packages and it repeatedlybut unsuccessfully appealed to

Congress to approve the move.Though an independent agency, theservice gets no tax dollars for its day-to-day operaons but is subject tocongressional control.

Congress has included a ban on ve-day delivery in its appropriaons bill.But because the federal governmentis now operang under a temporaryspending measure, rather than anappropriaons bill, Donahoe says itsthe agencys interpretaon that it canmake the change itself.

This is not like a gotcha or anything

like that, he said. The agency isessenally asking Congress not toreimpose the ban when the spendingmeasure expires on March 27 and hesaid he would work with Congress onthe issue.

The agency clearly thinks it has amajority of the American public on itsside regarding the change.

Postal Service market research andother research has indicated thatnearly 7 in 10 Americans support theswitch to ve-day delivery as a way forthe Postal Service to reduce costs, theagency said.

The Postal Service is advancing animportant new approach to deliverythat reects the strong growth ofour package business and respondsto the nancial realies resulngfrom Americas changing mailinghabits, Donahoe said. We developedthis approach by working with ourcustomers to understand their deliveryneeds and by idenfying creave waysto generate signicant cost savings.

But the president of the NaonalAssociaon of Leer Carriers, FredricRolando, said the end of Saturday maildelivery is a disastrous idea that wouldhave a profoundly negave eect onthe Postal Service and on millions of

customers, parcularly businesses,rural communies, the elderly, thedisabled and others who depend onSaturday delivery for commerce andcommunicaon.

He said the maneuver by Donahoe tomake the change outs the will ofCongress, as expressed annually overthe past 30 years in legislaon thatmandates six-day delivery.

House Oversight and GovernmentReform Commiee Chairman Darrell

Issa, R-Calif., and Senate HomelandSecurity and Governmental Aairs

Ranking Member Tom Coburn M.D.,R-Okla., said in a joint statement thatthey had sent a leer to leaders of theHouse and Senate in support of theeliminaon of Saturday mail.

They called it common-sense reform

Others agreed the Postal Service hadlile choice.

If the Congress of the United Statesrefuses to take acon to save theU.S. Postal Service, then the PostalService will have to take acon on itsown, said corporate communicaonsexpert James S. ORourke, professorof management at the University of

Notre Dame.

He said other acon will be neededas well, such as shuering smallerrural post oces and restructuringemployee health care and pensioncosts.

Its unclear whether the USPS hasthe legislave authority to take suchacons on its own, but the alternaveis the status quo unl it is completelycash starved, ORourke said in astatement.

The Postal Service made theannouncement Wednesday, more thansix months before the switch, to give

residenal and business customersme to plan and adjust, ocials said.

Donahoe said the change wouldmean a combinaon of employeereassignment and arion and isexpected to achieve cost savings ofapproximately $2 billion annuallywhen fully implemented.

The agency in November reported anannual loss of a record $15.9 billion forthe last budget year and forecast morered ink in 2013, capping a tumultuous

year in which it was forced to defaulton billions in reree health benet

prepayments to avert bankruptcy.

The nancial losses for the scal yearending Sept. 30 were more than triplethe $5.1 billion loss in the previousyear. Having reached its borrowinglimit, the mail agency is operang withlile cash on hand.

The agencys biggest problem andthe majority of the red ink in 2012 was not due to reduced mail ow butrather to mounng mandatory costsfor future reree health benets,which made up $11.1 billion of thelosses. Without that and other relatedlabor expenses, the mail agencysustained an operang loss of $2.4

billion, lower than the previous year.

The health payments are a requirementimposed by Congress in 2006 that thepost oce set aside $55 billion in anaccount to cover future medical costsfor rerees. The idea was to put $5.5billion a year into the account for 10years. Thats $5.5 billion the post ocedoesnt have.

No other government agency isrequired to make such a paymentfor future medical benets. Postalauthories wanted Congress toaddress the issue last year, butlawmakers nished their sessionwithout geng it done. So ocials are

moving ahead to accelerate their ownplan for cost-cung.

The Postal Service is in the midst ofa major restructuring throughout itsretail, delivery and mail processingoperaons. Since 2006, it has cutannual costs by about $15 billion,reduced the size of its career workforceby 193,000 or by 28 percent, andhas consolidated more than 200 mailprocessing locaons, ocials say.

WASHINGTON (AP) The Food andDrug Administraon is warning U.S.doctors about another counterfeitversion of the cancer drug Avasn, thethird case involving the best-sellingRoche drug in the past year.

The FDA said in an online post Tuesdaythat at least one batch of the drugdistributed by a New York companydoes not contain the acve ingredientin real Avasn, which is used to treatcancers of the colon, lung, kidney andbrain. The drug was distributed byMedical Device King, which also doesbusiness as Pharmalogical. The vials

are packaged as Altuzan, the Turkishversion of Avasn that is not approvedfor use in the U.S.

The agency warned doctors in

April about a similar case of fakeTurkish Avasn distributed by aU.K. distributor. Prior to that, theFDA announced in February aninvesgaon into a dierent batchof fake Avasn distributed to doctorsin several states. Both of those casesappeared to involve dierent networksof distributors than the latest incident.

The FDA said its currently unclearwhether any U.S. paents havereceived the drug. Specically,Altuzan labeled with the lot numbersB6022B01 and B6024B01 may becounterfeit. Imporng even authenc

Altuzan into the U.S. is illegal, since theFDA has only reviewed Avasn as safeand eecve.

The agency is asking doctors to stop

using any products from MedicalDevice King, Pharmalogical or TaranisMedical, another aliated business.

A telephone number listed on MedicalDevice Kings website was not inservice. Company representaves didnot immediately respond to emailssent Wednesday.

Roches Genentech unit sells Avasnin 120 countries and manufacturesand packages the drug at eight sitesworldwide. The drug had sales of$5.8 billion in 2012 and was Rochessecond-best selling drug overall. The

injectable drug usually sells for about$2,500 per vial.

The FDA warned doctors to be wary ofdrug prices that seem too good to be

true.

Deep discounts may be oeredbecause the product is stolen,counterfeit, substandard, orunapproved, the agency states.

Incidents of counterfeing reportedby drugmakers have increasedsteadily over the past decade,though only about 5 percent ofcases are typically reported inthe U.S. The rise in counterfeingcomes as pharmaceucal supplychains increasingly stretch acrossconnents. More than 80 percent

of the acve ingredients used inU.S. pharmaceucals are nowmanufactured overseas, according toa recent congressional report.

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Since the shoong death of15-year old honor studentHadiya Pendleton, millions ofblack and brown eyeballs haveturned toward the White House,wondering if there is a racialdisparity between our belovedpresidents reacon to the deathsof white vs. black children.Millions saw the president cry infront of the press aer the tragedyinvolving the kids in Sandy Hook,but have watched him respond

coldly to the slaughter of over 500 black children onthe south side of Chicago. If those kids in Conneccuthad been black, I dare say that the whole gun controlconversaon never would have happened.

Rev. Jesse Jackson of Rainbow/Push and other ministersare now calling for President Obama to come to Chicagoto speak on gun violence in the same way he went toColorado and Conneccut. Rev. Jackson recently madethis statement:

Chicago is in a state of emergency. Lives are being lost.Fear is growing. Local ocials, ministers and communityacvists are working diligently but cannot break the cycle.Were seeing more than one funeral a day. Our childrenare traumazed. Many are afraid to go to school.

In this crisis, we need the presidents leadership.

President Obama can provide the knowledge, vision andinspiraon to bring us together to address the crisis. Hecan speak to the children to calm their fears.

We are making this call collecvely that the presidentbring the weight of his bully pulpit and bring resources,T. Lane Grant, Rainbow/PUSH Coalion, said.

We have a modern-day Sandy Hook every day in Chicago.We didnt have 20 kids killed in one place. But we had 26kids shot at Harper School alone, Bishop James Dukes,Helping Hands of Englewood, said.

Pendletons death struck a cord with many because theycant nd a way to explain away her murder: She wasnt agang banger, she wasnt running with the wrong crowd,and she wasnt hanging on the corner in the middle of thenight (black kids are rarely considered innocent vicms,

for they are not allowed to make mistakes). Hadiya wasjust a good student, waing with her band mates for hermother to pick her up. You see, people (even black ones)have a way of concluding that when a black child dies, itssomehow his/her fault. This is how many of us becomeconvinced that black kids deserve the violence aroundthem, thus giving our leaders a reason to pay moreaenon to dead white kids.

The blame the black child racism is sickening, and whatssaddest is that it usually comes from black people seeking

to excuse Obama from performing his presidenal duty.The three-hs clause, which once declared black peopleto be far less than human, is sll administered by some ofus who believe that we dont deserve the same respectand aenon that the president has served to gays, illegalimmigrants and white people. The presidents decisionto compare a ght in a gay bar to the civil rights march inSelma Alabama is a rm reminder of just how lile he andValerie Jarre think of the black struggle for real equality.

The mere request for equality, even if made humbly,is oen blasted by those who seek to discredit themessenger rather than actually determine the validity of

the message: For instant Obama defenders, the wordsI care about Hadiya Pendleton will surely be replacedby the words I hate Jesse Jackson. Or, perhaps they willblame Hadiya for living near a neighborhood where blackpeople are killing each other, without recognizing the factthat white people kill each other too.

Oddly enough, were being more than generous to theWhite House by only asking that black people receiveequal aenon relave to other groups. The fact is thatwe actually deserve MORE aenon, since we gave thepresident MORE support. For some reason, this logicalmath equaon doesnt compute for those who seek toworship Obama rather than simply support him: Whenyou give more, you get more, unless you are naive andignorant enough to ask for less.

The area of Roseland and Englewood is where he was an

organizer, so it would be so meaningful. So we reach outto him not as a polical challenge, but as a moral appeal,the Rev. Jesse Jackson said.

Even a request presented as humbly as the one statedby Jackson is likely to be met by vitriol from those whowould rather talk about how much they dislike JesseJackson than to speak up for the poor lile girl who died.Suddenly, some of us have decided that we dont needRev. Jacksons voice any longer, and have gladly tradedit in for a voiceless man in Washington who doesnteven care to say a peep about nearly depression-erablack unemployment or a documented discriminatoryeort by the prison industrial complex so astonishingthat it has ruined most black womens chances to nda suitable husband (Clinton or Bush would never beallowed to get away with such a thing). This is the era ofBlack McCarthyism, an odd period in history where even

those who voted for Obama are handily persecuted bythose who feel that we must bow to the president as ifhe were Jesus Christ himself. I reject this noon enrelyand believe that all truth-tellers must make it clear thatno one mans polical success is more important than theprotecon of our community.

President Obama, who earned the extraordinarydisncon of being the rst bi-racial president in Americanhistory, is at risk of having his legacy in black history tossedinto the trash. Even more interesng is that I dont think

he really cares, not unlike the man who wonders why hismistress loves him so much when he rarely picks up thephone to call her. The black community, who supportedObama more than any other group, has sat to the sideand quietly allowed the White House to put every groupin the front of the line except for us. The meaninglesschants about Obama being everybodys president,and not just the president of black America have evenbeen echoed by the president himself. I dare the WhiteHouse to respond to calls for support from gay rightsgroups by saying, Im not just the gay president, or tellLano groups that Obama is not the president of illegalimmigrants. If he were to do such a thing, they would

never give him their votes.

Of course, there are those who might read my words andsomehow conclude that Im a traitor because I refuse toworship any polician. They might be livid over the factthat Ive openly quesoned whether a bi-racial man raisedin Hawaii by white people can truly connect to many partsof the black experience. As much as we hate to admit it,Obama may have cried for the white kids because he wasonce a white kid himself. Obama was never a poor blackboy on the south side of Chicago.

I respond to the crics by saying that anyone who willlet black children die in the midst of an unnecessarymandate for silence is not a friend to African Americanadvancement. Those who refuse to speak up for HadiyaPendleton might as well have put the bullet into that lilegirls back themselves, since countless deaths of children

living today can be avoided if the president takes decisiveacon. In spite of what we have been led to believe, blackchildren are people too, and those who care must strikethe fear of God into those who dare act as though thesuering of our children is irrelevant.

Its me for black people to show the self-respect thatthe Obama Administraon believes we do not possess.If the Obama Administraons treatment of blackAmericans does not match that which is provided forother constuencies, then one can only conclude that hispresidency has been a disaster for the black community.When even the NAACP president (long a strong ally ofPresident Obama) says that African Americans are farworse o under this president, we can see that the cat ofracism has been let out of the bag. Racism is most sinisterand destrucve when it has a black face. I challengeanyone to present evidence to the contrary.

Dr. King reminded us that people must be judged by thecontent of their character, not by the color of their skin.This also goes for Obama and the binder full of white menwho shape his presidency. Its me to open our eyes.

Dr. Boyce Watkins is a Finance Professor at SyracuseUniversity and author of the book, Black AmericanMoney.

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No Easy Answer for President Obama on Hadiya Pendletons Funeral

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The clamor connues for PresidentObama to aend the funeralof 15-year-old honor studentHadiya Pendleton gunned downon a Southside Chicago street.Theres even an online peonon the White House websiteimploring Obama to aend. Thepeon delicately sidesteps theissue of race and whether blacklives are less valued than thoseof whites. But the glaring fact isthat Pendletons shoong, unlikethat of countless other virtually

nameless and faceless young African-American vicms ofviolence in Chicago and other inner city neighborhoodsmade naonal news because she had returned to Chicago

just days earlier from performing at Obamas inauguralfesvies.

Obama has certainly not ignored Pendletons horrendouskilling. He deplored the killing and oered compassionand support directly to her family. The family haspublicly expressed their appreciaon for his outreach tothem. However for many thats simply not enough. Theconstant carp is that Obama went to Aurora, Coloradoand Newtown, Conneccut and expressed sympathyfor the vicms of the mass slaughter in both places.They incessantly remind that blacks, and that foremostincludes blacks in Chicago, have been the biggest, mostenthusiasc of his supporters, and in several states pivotalto his elecon and reelecon triumphs.

The heavy inference is that Obama owes blacks morethan just distant words of support, but concrete acon.

And since gun violence has been a relentless and horricplague in poor black communies, and hes on a crusadeagainst it, Pendletons funeral should be a mandatory stopfor him to send the strong message that black lives are

just as important as any others. These are painful pointsto ponder.

But the Pendleton killing, as shocking and horrendous asit was, and like the hundreds of other blacks gunned downin Chicago streets the past couple of years, is no dierentthan other controversial cases that involve apparent racialissues. In every case, Obama has been pressed to speakout on, and in this case, show up on.

The push for Obama to aend Pendletons funeral, though,begs the queson of whether he has a special obligaon toappear at every vicm of violences funeral. The answer isno. Obama, as all sing presidents, almost always avoidsinvolvement in controversial local issues, and thats thekey. Murder violence is a local issue, handled by localauthories, and local communies, and for presidents tointerfere is to step into a polical mineeld that woulddo far more harm than good. It would violate the rigidseparaon of federal and state powers. It would openthe oodgate for any and every individual and group thathas a legal wrong, grievance, or injusce to expect, evendemand, that the president speak out on their cause. Andin the case of a local neighborhood murder that garnersnews menon, the demand that the president aend thefuneral of the vicm and show support. Aer all, if hedid that for one vicm, hed always be slapped with the

demand that he do it for other vicms.

Even presidenal statements on a controversial issuehave polarized, and fueled polical backlash. In fact, thePendleton slaying is a near-textbook example of the furyand passion that racially laden cases and issues alwayssr. Obama is African-American and theres rarely beena moment during his tenure in the White House that hehasnt been relentlessly reminded of that. The one methat he gingerly ventured into the mineeld on a raciallycharged local issue was his mild rebuke of the whiteocer that cued Harvard professor Henry Louis Gatesin 2009. The reacon was instant and rabid. Polls aer hismild rebuke showed that a majority of whites condemnedObama for backing Gates and, even more ominously,expressed big doubts about his policies.

The murders in Chicago on the surface do not appear

to have any racial implicaons. But underneath they dobecause they raise painful quesons. Why do so many

young blacks wantonly wreak mayhem and murder ontheir own? Why do police and public ocials oen seemhelpless to stop the killings? Why is it that so many youngblack males feel so abandoned, hopeless, and alienatedfrom society? What part do the towering problems offailing public schools, Great Depression joblessness amongyoung black males, and the relentless cutback in familysupport and skills training programs have in escalang theviolence? Should the vicmizers solely be blamed for theviolence or is society a culprit too in failing to deal withthe social and economic crisis in gheo communies?

The Pendleton shoong cast another horric glare on thegaping racial disparies in how the lives of young blacksslain in inner city neighborhoods in contrast to thoseof suburban whites are publicly viewed and treated. Itsrred a soul search on how the lives of young blacks are

rounely devalued by so many, and the need for renewedlocal and naonal acon to be taken for that to end.There are no easy answers to the plague of black murderviolence whether Obama personally aends Pendletonsfuneral or not.

-----------------------------------Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and polical analyst. Heis a weekly co-host of the Al Sharpton Show on AmericanUrban Radio Network. He is an associate editor of NewAmerica Media. He is host of the weekly HutchinsonReport Newsmaker Hour on KTYM Radio Los Angelesstreamed on ktym.com podcast on blogtalkradio.com andinternet TV broadcast on thehutchinsonreportnews.com.Follow Earl Ofari Hutchinson on Twier: hp://twier.com/earlhutchinson

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