8 BOCNEWS.com OCTOBER 2017 THE NEW HOPE FAMILY LIFE CENTER is a 17,645 sq. ft. extension of New Hope Baptist Church. This multi-purpose / multi-use facility is composed of: a full-court gymnasium, commercial kitchen, banquet center, stage, choir rehearsal room, music library, chapel, meeting rooms, executive conference boardrooms, offices, an octagon-shaped prayer and meditation room, and friendly, courteous, customer-oriented service. EVENT CAPABILITIES THE NEW HOPE FAMILY LIFE CENTER is equipped with a state-of-the-art full commercial kitchen. This facility can provide general banquet seating for 450 people or 650 capacity seating for plays and concerts. A standing audience of 1,000 for an art or reception-type event can also be accommodated. The elegant décor not only provides a pleasant environment for dining, seminars, plays, or musicals, but the distributed sound system also provides a diverse, well-rounded, acoustically balanced environment for both vocal and musical performances. Well-lighted spacious parking is complementary and included in the base rental fee. For information regarding the use of the New Hope Family Life Center, please contact the administrative offices of New Hope Baptist Church at: 303.322.5200 or Events@NewHopeChurchDenver.org visit us online at: NewHopeChurchDenver.org THE NEW HOPE FAMILY LIFE CENTER IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR USE! for more info contact us at: 303.322.5200 or Events@NewHopeChurchDenver.org I am not, by any stretch of the imagi- nation, suggesting that The Republican Party has all the answers. But I can state, without reservation, that the Democrat or Socialist parties have no interest in black people, beyond our votes. Have you taken note that the only time you see or hear from those groups is during major election sea- son, and then only for the short period of time it takes to be assured that our votes are securely in the pockets of the oppressors of black people? And now that those votes are secure, another crop to cultivate has been introduced, to garner even more secured votes, without ever having to leave the comforts of their purposed and intentional positions, as black people continue to be placed at the back of the line! These very same people stated that black men are super predators; and black women are simply good for breeding more votes. You know the ones that carry hot sauce wherever they go! You remember the one that instituted harsher sentences for cer- tain forms of drugs, which dispropor- tionally have incarcerated many black men and left countless children with single mothers as heads of house- holds, to the detriment of our com- munities. And while we continue to get the rhetoric of racism, no solutions have been offered that benefit ALL Americans, without looking for special privileges and handouts. Perhaps, just perhaps, we as black people should learn to support and encourage each other, and spend less time finding reasons to attach to the excuses we’ve created for not mov- ing forward in the best country in the world! "In politics, what matters is not what the facts are, what matters is what people believe. Because people vote on the basis of what they believe, and not on the basis of what the facts are!" – Thomas Sowell The fact that erroneous statements are printed in a publication that is primarily for black Christians is dis- ingenuous and misleading, hopefully because there is ignorance pertaining to the person being spoken of, or per- haps the narrative being fed to us is being accepted as truth! That is my concern! Just one man’s opinion! RESPONSE ... continued from page 5