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Creating Your Sweet 2016
P astor Darrell Scott of New Spirit Revival Center, Cleve- land Heights, Ohio has assumed the responsibility for connecting presidential candidate Donald Trump with other Black ministers in America. Passionately praising Trump, Rev. Scott took to the podium at a Trump rally and stated, “Trump is the only one who can beat Hillary Clinton. We have to win. And one thing about Donald Trump is he’s a winner. . . And as a Black minister. . , we’re right in the inner city, and I’ll tell you we need jobs; we need employment; we need business. And I tell you who better to help us help our-
selves than Donald Trump.”
Well, we bitterly disagree with Rev. Scott. We fail to see
how someone who has requested 500 visas for foreign work- ers can help Black people or other Americans seeking jobs. The 300 Trump Palm Beach Mar-a-Lago Club workers, only 17 are Americans. The local state employment office claimed that it had received only one job opening from the Mar-a- Lago Club. Claiming local residents of Palm Beach were not interested or were not available for work at the club, Trump proceeded to hire Romanians and other foreigners.
During the 1970’s while Trump was president of his fa- ther’s real estate company, the Trumps were sued and fined $1 million by the Department of Justice for housing discrim- ination. Employees testified that they were told to mark ap- plications for apartment rentals by Black people with a “C” or the number “9,” and were told not to rent apartments to Black people in Brooklyn and Queens (New York City), properties that had mostly white tenants.
We have little doubt that Rev. Scott considers himself an able and sincere ‘Man of God.’ However, when it comes to his opinions and support of a proven, unapologetic racist, Rev. Scott should endeavor faithfully to keep church and state issues on a separate footing.
Empowered Greetings
Creating your Sweet 2016 lifestyle of success will re- quire you to keep your eyes on the prize by developing your vision. When you are excited about your vision it minimizes the need for someone else to push you into your purpose because your vision will be strong enough to pull you to your place of destiny.
As you allow the power of your vision to be stronger than the pain of your past and more promising than your present situation it will propel you to get properly positioned to achieve every- thing you have seen on the
Outside of the news and sports, I don’t watch too much television. But, every once in a while, a new show comes along that proves worthy of me investing a lit- tle extra time in front of the flat screen. And, this year, the program that’s placed a stranglehold on my atten- tion on Tuesday nights is FX’s American Crime Story: The People vs. O. J. Simpson.
If you haven’t become hip to this masterpiece yet, I hate to say, you’ve really been missing out on some rare and excellent television. The acting, the script and the casting (with the excep- tion of Cuba Gooding, Jr., as the least realistic Juice they could find) has all been superb.
The thing I like most about the series is that, for those who can recall when the O. J. trial was at the center of the known uni- verse between 1994 and 1995, it takes you back in- side of that time and drops you off. For an hour, as they re-enact nearly every mem- orable moment from the pe- riod, you find yourself remembering who you were, where you were and every- thing else that was taking place.
canvas of your mind to cre- ate your sweet 2016.
The belief in your vision will cause the things that you cannot see to become visible. Your vision will give you hope against hopeless situations. Your laser focus on your vision will manifest what others thought was im- possible into possibilities beyond the foreseeable.
Holding fast to your vison means that you are trusting the process when others may have given up and taken a path of less resist- ance.
The extent of your en- durance will render the ex- tent of your desired results. It was vision that caused
While we already know how the story ends, the show fills in the blanks on the de- tails that were occurring be- hind the scenes and even gives us the audio to go with the conversations we could see, but not hear, during the initial planet-wide broad- cast.
For instance, who knew that attorney Johnnie Cochran quietly hit Assis- tant State Prosecutor Christopher Darden with the most ghettoized rendi- tion of the phrase “n——- please!,” during a court pro- ceeding where he argued against Darden’s insis- tence on the N-word, used by officer Detective Mark Fuhrman, being exempt from the record during trial?
It is this kind of insight on the actual way these larger- than-life individuals inter- acted with one another that keeps allowing ACS to steam roll its way to the top of the ratings. Everyone who watches the show, I imagine, experiences something they enjoy that keeps them com- ing back for more.
As a person who was just as addicted to the original trial as anyone, what I find most interesting about what the re-produced storyline reveals are things like the
Tyler Perry to go from writing letters to himself to writing stage plays, screen plays movies and sit coms. It was vison that took Steve Harvey from being home- less to a household name. It was the power of vision that allowed Oprah Winfrey to become a Media Power- house, and Cathy Hughes a Broadcasting Architect. It will be your vision that will make you create your sweet 2016.
To gain more insight on creating a sweet 2016 by ac- tivating your vision, join me on my weekly conference call. This week I will be training on the Power of Vi- sion.
The call-in number is 1- 857-232-0156 and the ac- cess code is 864720. The Conference Call starts at 7:30 p. m., EST.
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masterful way lawyers like Cochran and F. Lee Bai- ley were able to manipulate the courtroom and the jury to fit their client’s best inter- ests, how woefully naive Marcia Clark seemed about the world around her, and how Darden wasn’t just a cornball as a prosecu- tor, he was lame in his per- sonal life as well.
In fact, the only thing I don’t particularly like about the program is the not-so- subtle way they try to frame O. J.’s guilt. Even though it’s been 22 years, and no other killers have been found, I still find myself standing firmly amongst the unpopular “he didn’t do it” crowd.
That is mainly because, as long as the glove continues not to fit, as far as I’m con- cerned, the jury got it right.... What can I say? When it comes to me choos- ing a side, I’m a die-hard loyalist.
Next year, the ACS series will focus on another high profile event that’s sure to attract even more African American viewers: Hurri- cane Katrina. And, if they bring the heat and drama in that one the way they pre- sented it with the Simpson trial, I see no reason not to return for a second helping.
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Can’t Get Enough Of The Juice
Trump On Jobs And Housing
TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2016 FLORIDA SENTINEL BULLETIN PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY PAGE 5
NRick Scott’s Veto-Madness
ow that Florida voters have made their mark on the
issue of who they support for party candidacy of the most important position in America, we momentarily turn our gaze to another so-called “subject-of-interest. . . a more usual suspect” namely Governor Rick “Tight-pockets” Scott.
And what is he down to, these days?
Perhaps, bitten by a fiscally-infected mosquito, our “guv” who has written the book on wolves-in-sheep’s clothing” has decided certain state programs should walk the plank. So, using his veto like a switch-blade, he has said “Off with their heads” for such items like the Children’s Keeper Program; ditto for an HCC South County Campus; carrunch! for a Hillsborough Healthy Start Coalition, and splat! for a Plant City Stormwater Asset Management plan, mentioning only a few of the ideas in the Scott’s museum of veto-horrors.
What’s even more peculiar is the fact Tampa Bay has somehow been spared the brunt of Scott’s veto-madness (his axe missed a $22 million allocation for the Morsani College of Medicine in downtown Tampa, the $1 million earmarked for renovations to Tampa Theatre, and the million-dollar set aside for the Lowry Park Zoo’s manatees). But observers say we’re not out of the forest, yet. Our Governor could still wake up on the wrong side of the veto-bed.
Meanwhile, in the midst of all the mayhem, word from Tallahassee has it that State Legislators are closer to outright rebellion than ever before against a fake-conservative gov- ernor who not only seems to have ears stuffed with wax, but has turned out to be more goofy than GOP.
So, what worse might we expect from our two-term gov- ernor who often acts more like a disciple of Bishop Bullwin- kle than a Leader of The Free State of Florida?
Well, we don’t have to wait. It already happened. Follow- ing Pam Bondi’s lead, Scott recently endorsed Donald Trump for presidency of the United States. In the words of Peanuts’ Charlie Brown, “Good Grief!”