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Funeral/Memoriam
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BIRTHDAY MEMORIAM
Sunrise: 8/4/1934
Priceless Gift
Dad, you were the best we could ever find, and so you’ve al- ways stayed on top of our mind.
You gave us your courage and strength, and were ready to go for any length. “No” gift can be bigger than, what you have given me. Yet, on your birthday, our love to you extends as large as the sea.
Love you eternally, the Stew- art Family.
Sunset 6/16/1987
JOHNNIE STEWART
MR. JAMES PRESTON MOORE
A graveside homegoing celebration service for Mr. James Preston Moore, who passed away on Thursday afternoon, July 30, 2015, will be held Wednesday, Au- gust 5, 2015, at 10 a. m. at Rest Haven Memorial Park Cemetery, with Minister Darnell Wilson, officiating. Interment will follow.
James Preston Moore was born on December 22, 1943, in Seffner, FL, to the late Norman Moore and Al- berta Anderson Moore. He received his education in the Hillsborough County School System.
He met and married Max- ine Ward of Tampa, and they enjoyed over 50 years of marriage. Four children were the product of this union. He was a lifelong res- ident of Seffner and Thono- tosassa, FL.
James retired from Pepsi Cola after 33 years of service as the premier salesman for MacDill AFB. James also owned and operated a lawn- care business with his wife, Maxine on a part-time basis.
James was preceded in death by: his parents, Nor- man and Alberta Moore; and his wife, Maxine Ward Moore.
James leaves to cherish his memory: his son, Pre- ston Moore (wife, Marilyn); daughters, Geraldine Taylor and Joanna Moore; his son, Maurice Moore; grandchil- dren, Bradley Skinner, John Taylor, Philip Moore, Faith Moore, Jordan Taylor, and Rachel Moore; his siblings, Deacon, Norman Moore, Jr. (wife, Joyce), Elder Lewis Moore (wife, Carolyn), Al- berta Houston, Rudolph Moore, Thelma Blaxton, Maxine Moore, and Leroy Moore (wife, Shakira); a good friend and cousin, Ronnie Anderson (wife, Charlotte), close family friend, Christina Moore; and a host of other family and friends.
A wake for Mr. James Preston Moore will be held Tuesday, August 4, 2015, from 5-8 p. m. at Harmon Funeral Home, 5002 N. 40th Street, Tampa, 33610.
A HARMON BURIAL
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National
Racial Terror Is Nothing New To Black America, But When Will It Stop Being Tolerated?
DEATH LIST
AIKENS FUNERAL HOME Mrs. Delores S. Brinson, Tampa.
GUDES FUNERAL HOME Eva Howard, Tampa.
HARMON FUNERAL HOME
Mr. Nathaniel Bivins, Tampa.
Ms. Ines Ducheine, Tampa.
Mr. Preston James Moore, Thonotosassa, FL.
RAY WILLIAMS FUNERAL HOME
Lizzie Bryant, Tampa. Josephine Starks, Tampa.
WILSON FUNERAL HOME
Carlos Canario, II. Solomon Kromah, Tampa.
By Lincoln A. Blades
An American and Confederate flag fly from a vehicle during a rally to show support for the flags on July 11, 2015 in Loxahatchee, Florida. Organizers of the rally said that after the Confederate flag was removed from South Carolinas State House it reinforced their need to show support for the Con- federate flag which some feel is under attack.
Terror n. violence that is com- mitted by a person, group, or gov- ernment in order to frighten people and achieve a political goal.
Ever since 9/11, Americans have constantly been inundated with the word “terror” whether it has come from our own government, certain media outlets or right-wing extremists forming militias in the deepest rural areas of the country.
Americans are told to look out for terror on airplanes, at stadi- ums, at shopping malls and even when traveling abroad with a US flag on your backpack. But it’s very interesting that a country, so ob- sessed with terror, can manage to casually ignore its domestic pres- ence, especially when black people are the victims of it.
Recent events have led many black people to believe that we must constantly be on guard whether walking down the street, standing in front of a store, driving in our cars and even attending church – and now, after a horrific encounter just outside of Atlanta last weekend, we can add our chil- dren’s birthday parties to that.
This past Saturday, cell phone footage captured an incident in Douglasville, Georgia, where white folks in a convoy of seven pickup trucks draped in confederate flags, clashed with black folks who were celebrating a child’s birthday party.
Some were allegedly armed and at least one can be heard scream- ing the word ‘n****r’ at the party attendees. The videos posted to Facebook don’t lie
Melissa Alford, who posted the videos and was hosting the party, claims that one of the pas- sengers in the trucks threatened that he would “kill y’all n*****s!” And when the police came, seeing the inflammatory flags and hear- ing the outrageously racist and threatening language, said that there was nothing they could do because the white folks hadn’t bro- ken any laws.
That seriously begs the question of whether or not those same exact police would’ve found no broken
laws had the situation been re- versed and seven truckloads of armed black men were screaming threats at a white child’s birthday party in the deep South?
Of course that question is rhetorical, as we all know those brothers probably would’ve found themselves in jail on the way to the white family’s house when one driver changed lanes without indi- cating.
Truthfully, the larger, more troubling question is ‘why must black folks always be confronted with prejudice and systemic racism when the system already has such a substantive and disproportionate effect on black communities?’ Why can’t black folks simply throw a birthday party without being ap- proached with symbols of racism?
Why can’t Black folks just be free?
On J. Cole’s latest album, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, the album starts with a tune called “Be Free” in which J. Cole soulfully chants:
All we wanna do is take the chains off
All we wanna do is break the chains off
All we wanna do is be free
All we wanna do is be free
To non-blacks, the idea of
breaking chains to gain freedom may seem like overdramatic hy- perbole, but to live under racist op- pression where state-sanctioned murders have chillingly become far too normal, freedom is the only word that really encapsulates the most intrinsic desire black folks feel all over the globe.
The freedom to not worry about driving while black. The freedom to know that wearing a hoodie isn’t automatically putting our lives on the line. The freedom to know that our killers can’t escape punish- ment because they wear blue uni- forms. The freedom to know that we can throw birthday parties for our children without having to be threatened by a caravan of armed racists.
Authorities are still looking into this case to determine if anything “criminal” happened, but if there’s one thing that we can all agree on in light of this incident is that those people who claim the confederate flag is not a symbol of racism, are completely full of shit.
Lincoln Anthony Blades
blogs daily on his site ThisIsYour- Conscience.com. He’s an author of the book “You’re Not A Victim, You’re A Volunteer.” He can be reached on Twitter @lin- colnablades and on Facebook at Lincoln Anthony Blades.
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