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WOMAN PENS NEW BOOK ON

HOW SHE SURVIVED AN MAKING BLACK BANKS
ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP MATTER
WITH AN INFAMOUS DRUG CONTINUED FROM LAST efficient, fiscally Kevin was pulled over in

DEALER ISSUE PAGE 1A sustainable way to boost his Range Rover by the
Black communities with LAPD on his way to speak
Submitted relatively little risk. “We’re at a virtual Fortune
In her new book Saved, words he chose and how he matter what his reasons by Whitfield Jenkins
Sanctified and Married to a strung them together, could were.” Ms. May hopes that
Drug Dealer, author Jenine cripple you in an instant. people will find the
May transparently shares He had a way of making courage to get involved Black banks proliferated in
some of her darkest experi- you feel like you were the and not stand idly by when the 1970s with
ences while married to a most insignificant creature they know someone is encouragement from
notorious drug dealer. on the planet.” being abused. “I screamed lawmakers and regulators.
Released via her own pub- for help in a house full of (The Federal Deposit
lishing company, Insurance Corp.’s definition
Kingdom Scribes of a minority depository
Publishing, she says her institution includes Black-
book was written to owned banks—51% or
encourage other women more of whose stock is held
who feel trapped in abu- by Black individuals—as
sive relationships. well as Black-led banks,
which serve a minority
“An abuser isn’t abusive demographic and have
24/7. They usually boards on which more than
demonstrate positive char- half the directors are
acter traits most of the Black.) But the money
time. That’s what makes didn’t follow. The same
the abuse so confusing systemic barriers that kept not
you
asking
for event—a panel on the
when it happens, and what Black communities from contributions. We’re just inherent
dangers
of
makes leaving so much accumulating assets before asking you to put your “Banking While Black.”
more difficult,” says Miya civil rights—real estate money into a bank,” says “Pretty much every aspect
Yamanouchi, a counselor “redlining,” unequal access Williams. “We lend it to the of the Black American
and therapist. Jenine to education and jobs—
community in ways that experience, I’ve lived and
knows this all too well as kept the national wealth gap build wealth. And we also experienced the negative
she recollects her very wide. And that created a use the platform to send a outgrowth,” says Kevin,
first experience with In her book, she suggests people and no one came to vicious circle: Depressed message to ourselves, and whose Los Angeles office
abuse. “I was confused and that though these experi- my rescue.” income levels constrained to the world.”
distraught. I wasn’t sure ences can be far behind us, deposits, limiting Black is decorated with wall-size
paintings of Dr. King and
what had happened. I defi- that doesn’t mean that About banks’ local impact. Black While the sum is small Malcolm X. “And that’s as
nitely felt violated. I didn’t we’re healed. “Trust me, business owners and relative to corporations’ a person who had lots of
know if John was my time doesn’t heal all Jenine May is an advocate homebuyers might depend balance sheets, it’s a things.”
boyfriend or my rapist,” wounds, in fact, time does- for women suffering from on a community bank for a needle-moving amount for
she says. n’t heal wounds at all, God domestic violence, speak- lifeline, but the banks had Black-owned banks. As Nor has a social mission
does. I believe that not ing to and encouraging
Jenine seriously believes only does God want to heal women everywhere to gain only so much to loan; they online banking and racial- always been enough to
that the evil she experi- and deliver us but He and develop a relationship also failed at a higher rate justice activism route keep OneUnited afloat, or
enced were weapons, wants to give us the best with God, discover who than their peers. Today, deposits their way at an to shield it from criticism.
designed to break her spir- possible end.” they are in Him, and find America’s 20 Black banks unprecedented rate, the The bank received bailout
it, kill her destiny and frus- the courage and strength combined have fewer than Cohees and their peers funds in 2008 after its
trate her purpose. She Jenine further discloses needed to walk in real free- $5.5 billion in assets—an envision reaching a critical Fannie Mae and Freddie
comments, “Emotional that though there are rea- dom and healing. infinitesimal fraction of the mass of resources, Mac shares soured.
abuse was his weapon of sons why people can be banking universe. (At the anchoring the Black Regulators reprimanded
choice to force my submis- abusive, a reason is not an For more details about end of June, JPMorgan economy with more the bank for lavish perks it
sion. He had a way of excuse! “There was noth- Saved, Sanctified, and Chase alone had $3.2 plentiful and affordable provided the Cohees,
breaking you all the way ing about what John did to Married to a Drug Dealer, trillion in assets.) mortgages and small- including a Porsche and a
down with his words. The me that was excusable no visit JenineMay.com business loans. “It’s an beachfront house
But the arrows may finally instrument of social allowance. OneUnited was
be pointing upward. Amid change on a wide-scale then caught up in a barrage
ALACHUA COUNTY protests against systemic basis,” Kevin says of his of bad publicity related to
racism following the police bank, adding emphatically: its ties to Rep. Maxine
killing of George Floyd, the “And as a result, Waters, a controversy that
CRIMINAL COURTHOUSE “Bank Black” movement OneUnited Bank will solve brought to light Kevin’s
has gone mainstream, the racial wealth gap.” past scrapes with the law.
RENAMED AFTER JUDGE transforming Black He had been arrested twice
financial institutions as it
in a month in 2007, on
STEPHAN MICKLE prompts individuals and Newsletter-Red-Line-15 suspicion of sexual assault

Fortune
even
500
and drug possession. No
companies to reconsider Owning a bank and joining assault charges were ever
how they manage their the economic elite have not filed, and the narcotics
The Alachua County the Eighth Judicial Circuit Mickle, he would not be money. At least a half- exempted the Cohees from charge was dropped after
Criminal Courthouse is Bar Association, said who he is today. dozen companies have the repercussions of the he agreed to attend
being renamed in honor of renaming the courthouse committed roughly half a American racial minefield. counseling. (Cohee has
Police once pointed a gun
late Judge Stephan P. after Mickle will preserve “Judge Mickle is a man billion dollars to Black at Teri as she parked her
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Mickle, Sr. his memory for the com- that made me firmly banks, seeing them as an car in Miami. In June, CONTINUES NEXT ISSUE
munity. believe in restorative jus-
During Tuesday’s tice. I say that because as a
Alachua County “He has left quite a lega- young kid, and I’m 55
Commission meeting, the cy. A legacy of equity and now, but a kid like me, had
judge Mickle as a wonder- BLACK WALLSTREET &
ful example. So it is
because of Judge Mickle,
that I now serve as a part- ASSOCIATES
ner with the Allen Norton
and Blue Law Firm,”
McKnight said. 702.900.7962 or 877.201.9509 ext 103

County Commissioner OCALA & GAINESVILLE
Charles Chesnut said he
knew Mickle for the ~~Taxes & Accounting Services~~
majority of his life. Mickle For Businesses & Personal Trucker’s
died in January at age 76. Tax Specialist Annual Income

“He’s been a role model to Tax Tax Forms W-2, 1040, 1099, etc
all of the young African
American males in
Alachua County. He was ~~Notary Services ~~
not only a great role model, Notarize documents and type documents to
but a great attorney and
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Mickle broke many racial monument and specifically
barriers during his lifetime. a monument of fairness,” County Commissioner
He was Alachua County’s Kabler said. Mary Alford said under- ~~Legal Documents ~~
first African American standing Mickle’s legacy is Divorces, Evictions, Child Support,
County Court Judge and In a letter to the Alachua just as important as renam- Alimony, Court Petitions, School Letter,
the first African American County Commission, Mark ing the building.
Circuit Court Judge in the Moseley, Chief Judge of Legal Research, Contracts, and more
Eighth Judicial Circuit of the Eighth Judicial Circuit “I hope that there’s some
Florida. In 1998, President of Florida, wrote, “Judge mechanism for every
Bill Clinton nominated Mickle was a trailblazing future judge working in ~~Business Documents~~
Mickle as the first African legal giant who exempli- that building to learn about Contracts, Agreements, Letters
American United States fied the spirit of public and understand the legacy
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Northern District of equality under the law. He they can feel his influence
Florida. He was also the is a true state and local as they go about making
first Black student to hero whose greatness was their own decisions and
obtain an undergraduate established on the founda- their own place in our judi-
degree at the University of tion of goodness.” cial system,” Alford said.
Florida in 1965 and contin-
ued his education by earn- The judges of the Eighth The Alachua County
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law degree at the UF renaming the courthouse. Criminal Courthouse. An
College of Law. official unveiling of the
Attorney Avery McKnight renamed courthouse will
Philip Kabler, president of said if it weren’t for be held in the fall.