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Page 2 The Skanner January 13, 2016 Challenging People to Shape a Better Future Now Bernie Foster Founder/Publisher Bobbie Dore Foster Executive Editor Jerry Foster Advertising Manager Christen McCurdy News Editor Patricia Irvin Graphic Designer Arashi Young Donovan M. Smith Reporters Monica J. Foster Seattle Office Coordinator Susan Fried Photographer 2015 MERIT AWARDS WINNER The Skanner has received 20 NNPA awards since 1998 The Skanner Newspaper, es- tablished in October 1975, is a weekly publication, published every Wednesday by IMM Publi- cations Inc. 415 N. Killingsworth St. P.O. Box 5455 Portland, OR 97228 Telephone (503) 285-5555 Fax: (503) 285-2900 info@theskanner.com www.TheSkanner.com The Skanner is a member of the National Newspaper Pub lishers Association and West Coast Black Pub lishers Association. All photos submitted become the property of The Skanner. We are not re spon sible for lost or damaged photos either solicited or unsolicited. ©2016 The Skanner. All rights re served. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission prohibited. Local News Pacific NW News World News Opinions Jobs, Bids Entertainment Community Calendar RSS feeds Opinion FROM THE PUBLISHER: Looking Ahead to the 2016 Presidential Race I t’s January 2016 and we are just days away from Iowa’s first vote in the presidential election. The political sea- son is in full swing. Then 99 caucuses later the candidates will be on to New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada and other states. In November America will choose a new leader to steer our way into the uncertain future. So far I’m not impressed with most of what I have seen. If Donald Trump was audi- tioning to be a radio shock jock I might hire him. But his statements on Muslims, immigrants and women — in fact just about everyone who isn’t a White male billionaire — terrify me. Who’s next? It will be you and me. Trump’s shoot-from-the-lip approach is not just racist, it’s down- Bernie Foster Publisher right dangerous. The other GOP candidates are no better. All they seem to want is to cut taxes, repeal Obamacare and put a gun into the hand of ev- ery newborn. And it’s all about the money for the candidates. Without big donors they’re out of the game. The Koch brothers, for example, now have more than three times as many paid staff as the Republican National Committee, and they plan to spend more than $889 million on this election. Are you mad yet? If you’re not, you should be. As for the Democrats, at least they are talking about the issues. Still, it’s not easy to get ex- cited about another Clinton presidency. And it’s just as hard to get behind career pol- “ If more of us voted our choices would look very different itician Bernie Sanders, who, when confronted by the ur- gency of the Black Lives Mat- ter movement, didn’t have the sense to stand back and give those women in Seattle the microphone. None of this means that vot- ing doesn’t matter -- it does. Fewer than 6 in 10 of us ac- And we need to think of the big picture too. Only by tak- ing part can we help build a better system with better can- didates. So this year when two con- tenders finally emerge, I’m going to pick the better one. And I’m going to vote for that candidate. You should too. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of “interposition” and “nullification” -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be #SKBreakfast made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; “and the #KingBreakfast2016 glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”2 KEYNOTE SPEAK- This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to ER: Trial law- yer, hew author and he South with. With this faith, we will be able to out lifelong activist of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With Charles this Bonner was born in Selma, faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords o f Ala. At the age of 16 Bonner joined our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. Student Nonvi- With this faith, we will be able to work together, to the olent pray Coordinating Committee (SNCC) together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, t o in 1963 and participated in sit-ins, marches and other actions be for voting rights in the South. Two stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will free one day. years later he became a field director for the or- Bonner was one of hundreds were 921 will SW 6th Ave., day Portland, OR will 97204 be the day ganization. And this be the -- this when all of who God’s beaten on Sunday, March 7, 1965 by Alabama State children will be able to sing with new meaning: troopers My ‘tis on the country Edmund Pettis Bridge during the of “Bloody Sunday” Selma to Montgomery March for thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, the right to vote. 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