Author: Carma Henry

Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861

     There are nuanced arguments made about what caused the Great Migration. It has made fertile suppositions for several books and lecture series. The idiom “Greener Pastures” is the Twitter version. After the sedition by the South was quelled, they refused to change the social dynamics between the races. This brutal inequality persisted across the South and the segregationist tool, “Jim Crow” would become the law of the land.

      Colorado, you can have Deion Sanders. I hope he enjoys Boulder which he claims has “no crime,” and I hope the university enjoys him until he moves on to a job with more money and prestige and says that he was instructed by God to do so. I also hope that Jackson State continues to thrive sans the man with the gold whistle who doesn’t allow earrings in meetings. Another HBCU — Howard University — is seeing a surge in athletic success. It has been pursued away from the spotlight, but recently the fruit of the programs labor has been plentiful.

 America’s justice system has historically proven to be extremely partial towards wealthy white people and  positively skewed for ordinary whites. It wasn’t by happenstance that a white privileged justice system and society were created. No, it’s chiseled  into the cornerstones as well as the  pillars of our democracy. The  Merriam Webster Dictionary defines white Privilege as:  “the set of social and economic advantages that white people have by virtue of their race.”

Willis Reed, who dramatically emerged from the locker room minutes before Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals to spark the New York Knicks to their first championship and create one of sports’ most enduring examples of playing through pain, died Tuesday. He was 80.