Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 2421 FEBRUARY 2017 BODY OF CHRIST NEWS Mr. Michael Anthony Johnson 9/9/63-12/21/16 53, Oceanside,CA Services were held at Greater Union B.C. Ms. Alice Mae Johnson 12/10/47-12/22/16 69, Aurora Services were held at Taylor Mortuary Denver Chapel Mr. Donald Jaris Thomas 1/4/95-12/10/16 21, Denver Services were held at Friendship B.C. Mr. Kevin Anthony Bush 4/15/56-12/7/16 60, Denver Services were held at Taylor Mortuary Denver Chapel Mrs. Jennifer Denae Florence 8/14/88-12/12/16 28, Aurora Services were held at Bethlehem M.B.C. Ms. Patrice Chevelle Edmonds 9/28/63-12/29/16 53, Denver Services were held at Taylor Mortuary Denver Chapel Mr. Frank Robert Burgess 7/26/35-12/26/16 81, Aurora Services were held at Taylor Mortuary Denver Chapel Baby Jacob Jesse Church 12/23/16-12/23/16 Greeley, CO Private services were held Mr. Mark Devoun Williams 11/21/73-12/9/16 43, Denver Direct Ship out Ms. Sharon Paulette Robinson 11/30/31-12/12/16 85, Denver Services were held at Taylor Mortuary Denver Chapel Mr. Thomas Gene Harrington 7/30/57-12/20/16 59, Englewood Services were held at Taylor Mortuary Denver Chapel Mr. James Earl Davis 10/21/54-12/2/16 62, Denver Private services were held Mr. Dwight Lamar Sykes 4/7/61-12/29/16 55, Aurora Direct Burial Mrs. Dorothy M. Einwechter 6/30/36-12/21/16 80, Aurora Direct Ship out Mr. Ronell Lavern McNeal Jr. 10/4/92-12/6/16 24, Aurora Services were held at New Hope B.C. Mr. Frederick Barnes 12/2/32-12/1/16 83, Aurora Graveside services were held at Ft. Logan National Cemetery Mrs. Ruth Ann Perry 8/12/58-12/7/16 58, Denver Services were held at Taylor Mortuary Denver Chapel NOT PICTURED Blacks access to, or to push them off of, the upward ladder of success. Immigrants have two basic incen- tives that draw them to America: First, the public service benefits available to them because of the Black Civil Rights Movement and second, the liber- alized immigration reform law of 1965. Immigrants flood into America looking for space, rights, eco- nomics and a priority in the nation’s conscience. Immigrants displace Blacks in each area. Where is Equal Protection for Blacks? SPACE. Although a growing number of immigrants locate in the suburbs, most immigrants find residential and commercial space in urban Black ghettos. Once they establish a toe-hold in ghettos, they then mark and close the space by using their language and culture as barriers. Segregated cultural space allows immigrants to concentrate their resourc- es and establish political and economic niches. (Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, and Politics,Virginia Yans-McLaughlin) Urban areas with high Black populations such as Detroit, Miami, Los Angles, Philadelphia, New York, District of Columbia, have Korea towns, Mexican town, Japan towns, China towns, Little Hialeah, Little Havana, and Little Cambodia. Harlem in New York is no longer Black, nor are Overtown or Liberty City in Florida. As immi- grants concentrate, Blacks are displaced whether in Compton, Watts, and Inglewood in California. Numerical displacement means diminished econom- ic and political influence for native Blacks. ECONOMICS. The economic impact of immigrants on native Black Americans is quantifiable. For every 10 per- cent increase in the number of immigrants, native Black income is reduced by three-tenths of one per- cent. In the 1950s, Blacks had an earning ratio of 56 cents to every $1 earned by Whites. As a result of the Black Civil Rights Movement in 1970, the Black earnings ration was up to 66 cents compared to a White dollar. However, between 1970 and 1990, there was a 300 percent increase in the number of Asian, Hispanic and Arab immigrants. The ratio of Black earnings to White dropped from 66 cents back to 57 cents, nearly identically to where it was at the beginning of the Black Civil Rights Movement. In short, the nine-point economic gains of the Black Civil Rights movement was wiped out by the 300 percent increase of immigrants that occurred between 1970 and 1990. (Immigration Reader, David Jacobson, 223) EDUCATION. The U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision was to have corrected damage that was inflicted on Black students over 360 years of no schools and poor schools. But before any major educational improvements could be made, the immigration reforms of 1965 brought in a massive influx of immigrant “minority children” who began to compete with native Black children for resources. The country’s mandated legal obligation was to “lift the burdens and incidences of slavery from the shoulders of Blacks.” There are no Constitutional mandates to give newly arriving immigrant children, legal and illegal, educational advantages over native Blacks. Prevailing policies and laws, however, gave immigrants preferential treatment over Blacks. Here are some examples: In the early 1970s the Great Society education pro- grams for inner-city Black children were converted into bi-lingual education programs for immigrants. In the Fall of the 2000 presidential election cam- paign, Congress approved and Vice President Albert Gore delivered, one billion dollars to Hispanic chil- dren in the Los Angles, California schools, but not one single penny for Black children in the same system. Local school systems nationwide spend $3,000 more per year to educate an immigrant child than it does a native Black child. The average cost of edu- cating a native child is$6,000, therefore $9,000 for an immigrant child. If only 50% of the 9 million ille- gal immigrants are educated in the school systems, they would impose a staggering financial burden of $35 billion, primarily on underfunded urban school systems. In most mixed school districts, Hispanics have taken over the bulk of administrative positions. It is a sad irony when native Black taxpayers, whose children have suffered generations of edu- cational deprivation and abuse, pick up the tab for education programs specially designed for children from foreign countries. EMPLOYMENT Whether the jobs categories are unskilled or highly specialized, this nation has a long history of displacing Blacks to make employment oppor- tunities for immigrants. According to a United States Department of Commerce survey that was conducted in 1865, over 100,000 of the nation’s 120,000 skilled craftsmen and artisans were Black Americans just released from slavery. Similarly, at that time between 55 and 65 percent of all Southern farmers were Black former slaves. But, instead of main streaming the nearly five million newly freed slaves, President Abraham Lincoln’s administration enacted this nation’s first immigration reform. That action brought in 26 million European immigrants by 1900 to replace native Blacks in jobs and busi- nesses. Ethnic unions initiated “White Only” polices that allowed the arriving European immigrants to IMMIGRATION ... from page 12 Continued on Page 23