1)


COMING U.S. CURRRENCY DEVALUATION ..see para #5

http://www.rense.com/general42/cimi.htm
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=37793


2)

Greeitings One & All,

Does anyone think the dismantling of
Black Historic Sites might have something to do with  PNAC, HomeLand
Security & The Patriot Acts 1 & 11?  

OUR NEW ACCOMADATIONS

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=27384


3)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Dr. Julia Hare 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 12:22 PM
Subject: Kevin Ross The Oklahoma Eagle


SPECIAL TO THE OKLAHOMA EAGLE
SAN FRANCISCO, CA

THE DISMANTLING OF THE HISTORIC BOOKER T. WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL
By
Dr. Julia Hare

    Word just reached me in San Francisco that Tulsa officials are setting things up to close down Booker T. Washington High as we have known it.  "The Pride of the Great Southwest," my alma mater.  Booker T alumni all over this country are burning up the telephone wires and are livid.

    I was a member of the first class to be graduated in ceremonies held in Booker T's current building, just after they closed down the old school site.  That building on Elgin was eventually demolished, without saving one flat red brick.

    Now they are moving with all deliberate speed to eliminate Booker T. where our beloved Hornets won national black high school championships (whites wouldn't play us in those days), turned out scholars the likes of John Hope Franklin, musicians such as Roy Milton, Johnny Rogers, Ernie Fields, Earl Bostic, and The Gap Band, not to mention a host of individuals in other professions who have fanned out to make their mark all over the world.  

    With the proposed elimination of the 50/50 Rule that guaranteed at least 50 per cent of Booker T. Washington students be black, black students and teachers are facing the prospects of being eliminated.

    Remember Dunbar Elementary?  One night we went to bed and woke up and Dunbar was gone.
    The closing of Booker T has not come without some warning.  We knew more than thirty years ago that something foul was in the wind, when they threatened to padlock Carver Junior High.

    For once, the black community stood up, and put their collective foot down.  I personally came from  San Francisco to attend a rally in the George Carver Stadium the night the actor/director Ossie Davis and my husband Dr. Nathan hare ("the father of black studies"), along with a member of the "Little Rock Nine," spoke to an outraged crowd in the dimmed Carver stadium.  The Black community of North Tulsa had drawn the line.
    
    Today, the plan is laid out and presented to us in clear if cunning stages.  First they made Booker T a "magnet school" and changed the school's complexion.  Now they want to eliminate the 50/50 Rule and take the other half and make it white.

    Think back.  After the old school at Elgin was bulldozed, it later became the site of the State University Center, including a Langston branch.  Once established in the black community, the city fathers decided they no longer needed Langston.

    If we don't act immediately and affirmatively we have only to look in the mirror to see who is to blame.  We have sat and watched as our institutions have been eradicated, one by one, shutting down North Tulsa businesses, our churches, our mortuaries, our very streets and neighborhoods through so-called "urban renewal" and "redevelopment."

    There is no indication that this trend will be arrested when our schools are taken over and closed.  Now  that the moving fingers of deception have been revealed, there is no time for apathy.  It is time to act.  And we must approach this while remembering, "if you want something you've never had before, you must do something you've never done before."

    We begin with a Town Hall meeting.  The community should demand that every minister be present.  These pastors serve at the behest of the people, who reward them annually with generous anniversaries and perks.
    Black elected and appointed officials must come prepared to do more than share documents and statutes.  Sororities and fraternities, already well organized, can lend much to the town hall gathering.  This will give them an opportunity to show as much concern for African-Americans as they do the Greeks.

    We must invite the participation of the Tulsa chapters of the widely acclaimed National Association of Black School Educators, the National Association of Black Social Workers, concerned teachers, retired teachers and parents, civil rights groups such as the NAACP and the Urban league.

    Black leaders are a necessity, but we must be careful not to confuse black leaders with leading blacks. Black leaders are properly chosen by the people.  Leading blacks tend to owe their allegiance to the media and the power structure that chose them -- when they don't choose themselves.

    Attorneys must be involved.  If none will step to the plate, then fly a couple in to immediately begin the legal process of granting a stay or injunction on all adverse plans until Booker T is returned to its original mission.

    The days of outside control and tyranny over our community and business development are dead.  We are at the crossroads.  Either we will decide who controls our institutions, or somebody else will.

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