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Letter Written By Malcolm X
Texas Teen Is 6th
College Football Player
On Sale For $1.25 Million
Player To Collapse And
Dies, 5 Others Hurt After
Lending more credence to the adage that “one man’s trash is another man’s treas- ure,” a letter written by civil rights activist Malcolm X in 1964 has been discovered in a California storage locker among items that were headed for the trash. It is on sale for $1.25 million, reports the New York Post.
The seller, Gary Zimet, said, “It was discovered in a storage locker and almost thrown out. Only because the owner saw some Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez autographs was it saved.”
The six-page letter was written on stationery im- printed with Arabic writing and illustrations of historic sites, the Post says. Malcolm X wrote the letter by hand after his much publicized pil- grimage to Mecca. In it, re- called his encounters with “Muslims here of all colors and from every part of this earth.” The activist, who was assassinated in 1965, wrote that if Americans converted to Islam, it would stop racism.
“If white Americans could accept the religion of Islam ...
ALTO, TX --- A Texas teenager who collapsed on the field Friday night is now the sixth high school football player to die during a game since September.
Shooting At Zombicon
Malcolm X in 1964, one year before he was assassi- nated.
they, too, could then sincerely accept the Oneness of Men, and cease to measure others always in terms of their ‘dif- ference in color,’ ” he wrote. “And with racism now plagu- ing America like an incurable cancer, all thinking Ameri- cans should be more respec- tive to Islam as an already proven solution to the race problem.”
In a bold prediction, he said that the "insane obses- sion" in the United States with racism could lead to the same outcome as in Hitler’s Nazi Germany: destruction. He wrote that an embrace of Islam is the only way “white America can [ward] off the in- evitable disaster that racism always leads to.”
Cam’ron Matthews, a junior at Alto High School, fell on the sideline late in the first half of a home game between the Alto Yellow Jackets and the Carlisle Indians. He was air- lifted to a hospital in Tyler, and listed in critical condition through the day until he died around 6 p.m., school officials said.
It’s unclear what led to the 16-year-old player’s collapse, and a cause of death has not been determined. Matthews — whose player number was 1 — told teammates before in a huddle before a kickoff he was feeling dizzy, a witness said. Initial reports said Matthews suffered a seizure on the field. The game was postponed indef- initely after Matthews’ col- lapse, and his teammates held a vigil for him on the field hours after he died.
Expanvious ‘Tyrell’ Taylor was fatally shot at Zombicon on Saturday.
said in the email.
"Tyrell was a very en-
couraging person," she wrote. "He was always lifting spirits (...) making everyone smiles. It was never a dull moment when he was around."
Despite personal hard- ships and loss, Taylor al- ways kept going, Felton said.
Taylor was a football player at ASA College in Miami and played football for the Clewiston Tigers. His aunt, Sharonda Washing- ton, said she spoke with homicide detectives, who told her Taylor died at the scene.
Washington said the family was on their way back from a funeral in Georgia when they received the news.
Die On Football Field
CAM’RON MATTHEWS
FORT MYERS, Florida —
Expavious Tyrell Taylor
of Okeechobee, Florida has been identified as the man fa- tally shot at ZombiCon in downtown Fort Myers on Saturday.
The shooting at the popu- lar outdoor event injured five others. The shooting suspect is still at large according to Fort Myers Police Depart- ment.
The 6’ 4 inch, 230-pound Tyrell Taylor went to Okee- chobee High School, where he played on the basketball and football teams. He grad- uated in 2015. On December 2, 2013, he was named “player of the game.”
Taylor's cousin Kebby Felton said in an email she first found out about his death when another relative sent her a text message.
"I didn't believe it at first because he was never a trou- bled kid (and) even after all the videos (and) pictures I still can't believe it was him," Felton said.
Taylor, outgoing and op- timistic, never liked to see family or friends sad, Felton
Civil Rights Groups Oppose
Ex-Chicago Schools Chief Pleads Guilty To $23 Million In
Halloween Display Of Man Being Lynched Draws Ire Of NAACP
Roy, Utah man has set up displays for Halloween for the last 6 years. This year, a man hanging from a tree is on display.
Plan To Erect MLK Monument
Corruption And Fraud
At Confederacy Site
Barbara Byrd-Bennett,
66, the former
chief executive of
Chicago’s public
school system has
plead guilty in BARBARA federal court to BYRD- her crimes of cor- BENNETT ruption. She admitted to at- tempting to give $23 million in contracts to her former em- ployer in exchange for bribes and kickbacks. Had it been suc- cessful, she would have profited more than $2 million. She plead guilty just 5 days after federal prosecutors revealed that they were aware of her scheme and were planning to indict her, and two other execu- tives that run executive educa- tion training firms in Chicago. Byrd-Bennett had previously been employed at these firms.
As part of the plea agree- ment offered to her, prosecu- tors have agreed to drop 19 of the 20 fraud charges if she con- tinues to cooperate with federal investigators. Prosecutors also said they would only recom- mend a prison term below sen- tencing guidelines and seek a sentence of just 7 1/2 years.
But some say that her cor- ruption may have been going on for some time. She was also formerly the chief executive of both Cleveland and Detroit school systems.
Currently, she remains free on $4,500 bond, but will be sentenced early next year.
A proposal to place a mon- ument to Martin Luther King, Jr. on Stone Mountain in Georgia is coming under attack—from civil rights lead- ers and Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The Atlanta and DeKalb County branches of the NAACP and the national of- fice of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference want to halt the plan because the site venerates the Confeder- acy, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. In fact, they’re calling for the removal of Confederacy images there altogether.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and the Stone Moun- tain Memorial Association approved a plan to build an elevated tower that features a replica of the Liberty Bell. It would honor King’s “I have a Dream” speech, which refer- ences freedom ringing from the Stone Mountain of Geor- gia. The plan also includes a permanent exhibit of black soldiers in the Civil War.
However, King’s monu- ment would be located not far from the spot where Ku Klux Klansmen once burned huge crosses, and just beyond the famous giant carving of three Confederate heroes: Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis
Confederate leaders Jeffer- son Davis, left, Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson are depicted on Stone Mountain.
and Stonewall Jackson. Civil Rights leaders met privately with the governor to express their opposition to the plan and to press for the removal of the Confederate heroes engraved on Stone Mountain. They said Deal was receptive but lacked the
unilateral authority.
Stone Mountain became a
memorial to the Confederacy by state law. A hot debate over the future of Stone Mountain resurfaced when Dylann Roof gunned down nine black worshippers in a Charleston, S.C., church last July. But the Georgia General Assembly must pass legisla- tion to remove the carving.
Meanwhile, the Georgia Chapter of the Sons of Con- federate Veterans also object to a King monument on Stone Mountain.
ROY, UT --- A Roy, Utah, man prompted an NAACP response after he put up an animated lynching display in front of his house.
The civil rights group's Ogden, Utah, chapter leader, the Rev. Stanley Ellington, has decried the decoration as racially insen- sitive and is asking for it to be removed immediately. The display, he says, makes a "mockery of the history of lynchings" in the U.S.
Kevin Van Miltenberg, however, is not having it and insists that he is not breaking any laws. He re- fuses to take down the dis- play until after Halloween.
Van Miltenberg has been creating and building
animatronic displays for Hal- loween for the past six years, putting up a new decoration in his front yard every year. This 7-foot man hanging from the tree, dressed with a hood over his head and his hands (which are shown as white) bound behind his back, is the first one he ever built. The figure at the end of the rope spasms repeatedly, the station notes.
“It's a Halloween prop,” Miltenberg said.
Roy police confirmed that they received the com- plaint but said that "this is not a government issue."
As for Van Miltenberg, well, the way he sees it, peo- ple will always find some- thing to complain about.
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