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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 6:10 pm
It stood up there for a week? Smh
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 6:29 pm
Here's a CNN article about the questions about that Mayor's death: link
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 6:36 pm
Subway Hero Wesley Autrey...dont know if this was posted but here is video of him on Letterman what an amaazing man!!! How many ppl would do what he did??? Not many I would guess...God bless him! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4GaStsLadQ
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 7:28 pm
I posted the story in the Breaking Headlines discussion thread shortly after the news came out. Truly wonderful to hear about things like this!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 8:34 pm
Mayor's death is very strange either way, especially if it was a murder but even if it was a suicide.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 9:17 pm
It seems strange to me too. At the risk of being macabre, isn't it unusual to kill yourself with a shot to the chest. Isn't it normally in the head?
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 10:10 pm
that was my first thought. I hope they have good csi ppl investigating this...something aint right
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Chewpito
Member
01-04-2004
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 10:25 pm
I had a friend that shot himself in the heart, He was distraught over a break up with a girl he loved... He wrote a note and gave reason for the shot to his heart "to her", saying that she had broke his heart. There were so many warnings though... This death of the Mayor does not sound right to me at all... Usually (i soppose not allways) there are signs and it sounds as if there were none.... I hope they look into this..
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, January 06, 2007 - 10:31 pm
Isn't it also unusual to prepare for the coming days? He went to City Hall to learn how to set the alarm and raise/lower the flag and ordered stationary. People planning to commit suicide don't normally get ready for a new job do they? I can see why his family and friends are asking for another investigation.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Sunday, January 07, 2007 - 7:23 pm
Kids hear powerful message Former secretary of state tells Scouts to dream big Saturday, January 06, 2007 BY TENISHA WALDO Former secretary of state and retired Army Gen. Colin Powell told more than 100 local inner-city youngsters Friday that they can accomplish just as much as, if not more than, any other child. Just look at him. The son of Jamaican immigrants, Powell grew up in a poor neighborhood in the South Bronx. They didn't have much, but he said his parents, relatives and neighbors gave him something far more valuable than material things. "They gave me a sense of belief in myself," he said. Powell shared his story with the large group of area kids at a brief meeting hosted by the Twin Rivers District of the Boys and Girls Scouts and the Shaw Unit of the Boys and Girls Club, which is located downtown Charleston. The Twin Rivers District is made up of all-black and Hispanic children and encompasses parts of downtown Charleston and North Charleston, including several pockets of at-risk kids. Powell was actually in town to speak at a fundraising gala for the Roper St. Francis Foundation at night but decided to swing by the Boys and Girls Club a couple of hours before the event. He serves on the Boys and Girls Club of America's Board of Governors. Before Powell arrived at the club, Shaw Unit Director Thomas Spigner revved up the kids. "You're going to be meeting the gentleman that we would consider as one of the most prestigious African-Americans in the political arena in addition to the military field," he told them. "And he's a true Boys and Girls Club member, so you guys have something in common with this guy," Spigner added. Powell was greeted by applause and immediately took center stage. After surveying the kids to see how many really knew who he was, of which about only half raised their hands, he explained that he used to be a soldier. Then, he pulled out his autobiography, titled "My American Journey," and pointed to his picture on the front cover, specifically at the stars on his epaulet. He told the kids that they show he once was the No. 1 person in the U.S. armed forces, as the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, holding the highest military position in the Department of Defense. Then he flipped the book over to reveal a much younger Powell, wearing "one of those awful outfits your mother makes you wear," he said. Powell said he was 10 when that picture was taken, "back in the days when it was not that pleasant to be an African-American, a black person, in this country." But kids these days, regardless of their backgrounds, have more opportunities to excel if they apply themselves, he said. "You can be anything that your dreams want you to be," he told them. Powell said that the evolution from the picture on the back of his book to the distinguished one on the front helps tell his story. Monroe Rhodes Jr., a senior district executive with the Coastal Carolina Council of Boy Scouts, said he hopes the kids took Powell's message to heart. "The schools they're in may not be the best, but no matter what school you're in, or your living conditions, you still can succeed," Rhodes said. link
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, January 08, 2007 - 11:17 am
I wish he could speak at the schools here. ed'd The kids here need more role models than the drug dealers.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Monday, January 08, 2007 - 4:08 pm
exactly ...
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, January 08, 2007 - 7:53 pm
He could do a lot of good with more of those speeches to more of those audiences.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, January 08, 2007 - 8:19 pm
Quick question --- I showed my sophomores Spike Lee's documentary "4 Little Girls" -- the ending about the outcome w/the 4 bombers was rather unclear, so I "googled" it. The about.com site had Chambliss as being imprisoned in 1977, one of them never being prosecuted, and the last two (Cherry and Blanton) being imprisoned in 2001 and 2002 respectively. The web site said the delay was because Hoover refused to release tapes that had key evidence from informants. So one student asks -- why would Hoover do that? I truly had trouble answering that question! I mentioned that he was never a bastion of equality (wiretapping, etc.) but that I wasn't sure. One of the prosecutors had said the lawyers had waited until they HAD evidence that wouldn't cause them to lose the case (my guess was to avoid the worry that if the man/men were found NOT guilty because of insufficient evidence, they could not be tried again b/c of double jeopardy). However, 49 years to be brought to justice seems absolutely ridiculous. I am pretty ignorant on the aftermath of this episode -- my students and I read King's eulogy of the four girls at their funeral, and the movie said the bombing really helped to spur the movement because it so horrifically demonstrated the extent of the hatred -- but is there any other explanation out there WHY it took 14 years for the first guy and 49 years for the final guy to pay for their crimes??? (Sorry -- that wasn't such a quick question after all!) Thanks.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 7:14 am
I honestly do not have an answer for you Teach. I'm sorry.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 12:53 pm
It was more than a decade before state authorities took action. Then Attorney General Bill Baxley charged Klan leader Robert "Dynamite Bob" Chambliss with murder. In 1977, he was convicted. Chambliss died in jail, never publicly admitting to the bombing. Baxley left office before he could pursue charges against Chambliss' suspected accomplices. One of them has since died. Thirty-eight years after the bombing, Thomas Blanton Jr. was finally convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. A year later, in May 2002, Bobby Frank Cherry was also found guilty for the deaths of the four girls, and given a mandatory sentence of life in prison. link see also here and here
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, January 09, 2007 - 5:17 pm
That is some of the same information I found, Tish. Thanks. The question that none of the sources answer though, is WHY in the world Hoover with-held the key pieces of evidence from the prosecuting attorney?? Maybe the answer is there IS no answer...it was just wrong; many, many things about the entire event were just soooo wrong on soooo many levels that Hoover's actions were just the icing on the cake. At least it has forced my students to re-consider whether racism is still "alive and well" today (amazing how many don't think it is!). The information on the number of church bombings since 1997 REALLY made them take notice!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 11:26 am
Awesome message
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 11:36 am
That gave me chills.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 11:39 am
Very
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 11:49 am
wow!
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 12:49 pm
Ditto.
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Jhonise
Member
07-10-2003
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 1:34 pm
That last paragraph actually has me in tears...I need to start dreaming again. I don't know when I stopped....
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 1:48 pm
i had the same reaction and same thought, jhonise.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 4:01 pm
Great message about a moving experience.
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