Mahogany Magazine March 2017

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Cover Story Page 12
The MARCH Issue

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by Ed Young, Owner
Edward H. Young &
Associates
The Unity in Diversity Corner
New Column– This column will feature information on upcoming community events or those that have occurred. Articles
will vary from focusing on natural hazard preparedness information; local and community-based organizations that are
devoted to bringing people together to serve others through community service; or that increase our knowledge and aware-
ness of the many contributions from among the diverse and unique cultures of people who call Hawai’i home, including
people of African descent.
Edward H. Young Jr. & Associates LLC, Kailua, Hawai’i
There were many events, too many to list here, that
deserve mention. The African American Film Festival,
held February 4-17, 2017 at the Honolulu Academy of
Arts, had at the Honolulu Museum of Art, was particularly
noteworthy. The Opening night reception include the
premier showing of the Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,
and sold out. A week later, another reception, a panel
discussion on Art & Racial Justice with Black Lives Matter
Co-founders Patrisse Cullors andAlicia Garza, followed by
Pictures courtesy of Urban Hawai’i Media, LLC (fb.com/UrbanHawaii)
The University of Hawaii Ethnic Studies Department,
led by Department Chair Dr. Monisha Das Gupta,
hosted several finalists during February, 2017, which
included Mr. Ethan Caldwell, a PhD. candidate in from
Northwestern University, and Mr. Guy Emerson Mount,
a PhD. candidate at the University of Chicago. Both
LOOKING BACK AT BLACK HISTORY MONTH
February, 2017 • African American Film Festival
the premier of the film about James Baldwin, “I am Not
Your Negro” also sold out. The Film Festival concluded
on February 17, 2017 with a truly amazing performance
of one-woman play by Karen Jones Meadows, “Harriet’s
Return: Based on the Legendary Life of Harriett Tubman.
Many thanks to the Honolulu Museum of Art, and in
particular, Taylour Chang, and to the members of the
Honolulu African American Film Festival Committee, their
sponsors and community partners.
African American Studies Specialist at the UH Manoa Ethnic Studies Department
talks focused on Black contributions in Okinawa, the
Philippines, Hawaii, and the Pacific. Both talks were well
received. Congratulations to the UHM Ethnic Studies
Department for filling the vacant African American
Studies position, and to the new UHM Blacks Students
Association.

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Marks Where The Twain Meets
SHOWING = A Performance.
SHOEN = The First Performance.
On Sunday they enjoyed themselves by seeing the first
Showing of Rashomon.
Nichiyobi ni karera wa Rashomon no HOEN o mite
tanoshimimashita.

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by André Wooten
A Major Part of the
Capital Accumulation
of American Fortunes
supplied by African
American lives and blood.
The wealth accorded
America by slavery was not
just in what the slaves pulled
fromthelandbutintheslaves
themselves. “In 1860, slaves as an asset were
worth more than all of America’S manufacturing, all
of the railroads, all of the productive capacity of the
United States put together,” the Yale historian David
W. Blight has noted. “Slaves were the single largest, by
far, financial asset of property in the entire American
economy.”
The sale of these slaves—“in whose bodies that
money congealed,” writes Walter Johnson, a Harvard
historian—generated even more ancillary wealth.
Loans were taken out for purchase, to be repaid with
interest.
Insurance policies were drafted against the
untimely death of a slave and the loss of potential
profits. Slave sales were taxed and notarized. The
vending of the black body and the sundering of the
black family became an economy unto themselves,
estimated to have brought in tens of millions of dollars
to antebellum America. In 1860 there were more
millionaires per capita in the Mississippi Valley than
anywhere else in the country.
Most of the major corporations that were founded
by Western European and American merchants prior
to roughly 100 years ago, benefitted directly from
slavery.
Lehman Brothers, whose business empire started
in the slave trade, recently admitted their part in the
business of slavery.
Leaman Brothers, According to the Sun Times, the
financial services firm acknowledged recently that its
founding partners owned not one, but several enslaved
Africans during the Civil War era and that, “in all
likelihood,” it “profited significantly” from slavery.
Aetna, Inc., the United States’ largest health
insurer, apologized for selling policies in the 1850s
that reimbursed slave owners for financial losses when
the enslaved Africans they owned died.
“Aetna has long acknowledged that for
several years shortly after its founding in 1853 that the
company may have insured the lives of slaves,” said
Aetna spokesman Fred Laberge in 2002. “We express
our deep regret over any participation at all in this
deplorable practice.”
JPMorgan Chase recently admitted their
company’S links to slavery. “Today, we are reporting
that this research found that, between 1831 and 1865,
two of our predecessor banks—Citizens Bank and
Canal Bank in Louisiana—accepted approximately
13,000 enslaved individuals as collateral on loans
and took ownership of approximately 1,250 of them
when the plantation owners defaulted on the loans,”
the company wrote in a statement.
New York Life Insurance Company is the largest
mutual life insurance company in the United States.
They also took part in slavery by selling insurance
policies on enslaved Africans.
According to USA Today, evidence of 10 more
New York Life slave policies comes from an 1847
account book kept by the company’S Natchez, Miss.
agent, W.A. Britton. The book, part of a collection at
Louisiana State University, contains Britton’S notes
on slave policies he wrote for amounts ranging from
$375 to $600.
A 1906 history of New York Life says 339 of the
company’S first 1,000 policies were written on the
lives of slaves.
Wachovia Corporation (now owned by Wells
Fargo) has apologized for its ties to slavery after
disclosing that two of its historical predecessors owned
enslaved Africans and accepted them as payment.
N M Rothschild & Sons Bank in London was
linked to slavery. The company that was one of the
biggest names in the City of London had previously
undisclosed links to slavery in the British colonies.
Documents seen by the Financial Times have revealed
that Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the banking
family’S 19th-century patriarch, made his first
personal gains by using enslaved Africans as
collateral in dealings with a slave owner.
Norfolk Southern also has a history in the slave
trade. The Mobile & Girard company, which is now
part of Norfolk Southern, offered slaveholders $180
($3,379 today) apiece for enslaved Africans they
would rent to the railroad for one year, according to the
records. The Central of Georgia, another company
aligned with Norfolk Southern Line today, valued its
slaves at $31,303 $663,033 today) on record.
FleetBoston evolved from an earlier financial
institution, Providence Bank, founded by John
Brown who was a slave trader and owned ships
used to transport enslaved Africans.
The bank financed Brown’s slave voyages and
profited from them. Brown even reportedly helped
charter what became Brown University.
CSX used slave labor to construct portions of some
U.S. rail lines under the political and legal system that
was in place more than a century ago. Two enslaved
Africans who the company rented were identified as
John Henry and Reuben. The record states, “they
were to be returned clothed when they arrived
to work for the company.” Individual enslaved
Africans cost up to $200 – the equivalent of $3,800
today – to rent for a season and CSX took full
advantage.
The Canadian National Railway Company is a
Canadian Class I railway headquartered in Montreal,
Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and
southern United States. The company also has a
history in which it benefitted from slavery. The Mobile
& Ohio, now part of Canadian National, valued their
slaves lost to the war and emancipation at $199,691 on
record. That amount is currently worth $2.2 million.
Brown Brothers Harriman is the oldest and
largest private investment bank and securities firm
in the United States, founded in 1818. USA Today
found that the New York merchant bank of James
and William Brown, currently known as Brown Bros.
Harriman owned hundreds of enslaved Africans and
financed the cotton economy by lending millions to
southern planters, merchants and cotton brokers.
Brooks Brothers, the high-end suit retailer got
their start selling slave clothing to various slave
ESSENTIAL AFRICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNITED STATES
traders back in the 1800s. What a way to get rich in the
immoral slave industry!
Barclays, the British multinational banking and
financial services company headquartered in London,
United Kingdom has now conceded that companies it
bought over the years may have been involved in the
slave trade.
USA Today reported that New York-based
AIG completed the purchase of American General
Financial Group, a Houston-based insurer that owns
U.S. Life Insurance Company. A U.S. Life policy
on an enslaved African living in Kentucky was
reprinted in a 1935 article about slave insurance in The
American Conservationist magazine. AIG says it has
“found documentation indicating” U.S. Life insured
enslaved Africans.
Which is why the “color blind approach” to
poverty, while well sounding in a rising tide lifts
all boats egalitarianism, ignores the fact and
intentionally misses the point of the financial effects
of compounding of sums of wealth for generations
and centuries in a reasonably finite form. And during
that time aiming those fortunes toward a purpose of
economic discrimination.
This is what slaves the legacy “art work” in stained
glass at Princeton, Yale and Harvard show. That these
high-folutting schools were built with substantial
amountsofbloodyslavetradecreatedmoneyandslave
laborers. The fact that slave trade money financed
these schools for the sons of souther plantation
owners and northern bankers and merchants certainly
influences the world view, profit orientation and
racial discriminatory biases in the forms of economic
enterprises they taught and teach there today.
Yale University is having to debate the wisdom of
and meaning of the slavery proponent graduate John
C. Calhoun, for whom Yale named a building in 1931.
This with the stained glass paintings of slaves picking
cotton in the fields at the Yale cafeteria, was destroyed
in the summer of 2016 by a cafeteria employee, who
resigned.
And one image of a slave chained at the feet of John
C. Calhoun himself, was removed professionally by
the administration. Similar stained glass images of
financial early slave trading benefactors of Harvard,
Princeton and Brown University have been found
there, by African-Americans centuries and decades
after they were set up there, when some of these places
were finally integrated by some numbers of African-
American students, who realized the historical and
psychological affects of these old campus images.
All of which along with TaNehesi Coates excellent
Atlantic series documenting 260 years of economic
repression in the USA, especially in the Federal and
Private home lending areas. All of which prove that
only serious “Reparations” addressing slavery affects
can begin to bridge the economic gap Walter Rodney,
W.E.B. DuBois and so many others have spoken so
eloquently of.
PeterSalem
YaleSlaveWindow

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by Dr. William E.
“Gene” Robertson
Little did Teresa Shook
know that her disappointment
with the 2016 U.S. President
election would lead to a
worldwide expression of
dissatisfaction with the status
of women and a commitment
to women's empowerment.
Teresa used Facebook as
a means of telling everyone
watching that she wanted to take action. Her
disappointment and action touched the hearts of
other women who decided they wanted to March
in Washington. These women did not expect that
their expression would motivate women around
the world to join in this powerful expression
of feminine empowerment, led by women but
supported by men who wanted to be a part of this
transforming action.
As the shared disappointment was contagious,
so the issues to be addressed became contagious
also. Income disparity, abortion rights, lbgt, sexual
harassment. civil rights, disability, refugee and
immigrant issues and many other issues were folded
into the platform to be addressed by a cadre of well
known speakership, activist and personalities who
would speak in Washington and around the world.
The Washington turnout was impressive and
the worldwide demonstrations were phenomenally
large,peaceful , empowering and impressive.
Teresa Shook addresses a crowd of thousands during the Women's March on Washington in Washington D.C. Jan. 21, 2017
Worldwide Women’s March
Launched by Woman From Hawaii
Protesters walk during the Women's March on Washington
There is presently no direct result of this expression
of women to connect around the world and enhance
their network worldwide. It is too soon to ascertain all
of the potential impact.
To me ,the important result is the reaffirmation
by all of us , that it only takes one person to began a
process that might have worldwide implications over
time.
Thank you Teresa, What a role model you are for
your granddaughter!

12. On January 21, 2017 Women marched in
the United States to protect women’s rights
and human rights. An estimated 2.9 Million
people came out in support of women’s rights,
the largest protest in the United States ever.
More people showed up to protest than they
did for the presidential inauguration of Donald
Trump. This is very significant because Donald
Trump and his advisors are beginning to dismantle many of our
Civil Rights. Health care is in jeopardy. Planned Parenthood is
threatened to be defunded. Abortions are being prohibited. Civil
Rights are being curtailed. Equal rights for men and women
are being eliminated and sexual harassment as exhibited by
Donald Trump’s past statements towards women may no longer
be against the law.
In Honolulu, several thousands of women and men came out
to protest Donald Trump’s agenda curtailing and cutting back
on Human Rights and Civil Rights. There were numerous signs
carried by women of all ages from 88 years old to 6 months. An
88 year old woman with her walker paraded around the Capitol.
Men were welcomed and were there. Many of the protestors
knitted little pink fuscia kitty hats and placed them on their
heads to mock Donald Trump’s “grabbing the pussy” remarks.
Some of the signs that were displayed include “Mind your own
uterus”, “Future is female”, “Now you pissed off grandma, “No
pussy grabbing”, “This pussy grabs back”, “Keep your tiny
hands off my rights”, Black Lives Matter, “Woman’s place is in
the resistance”, “The whole administration is a conflict of my
interest”, “I can’t keep quiet, the same shit different century”,
“Electoral dysfunction”, “Cut the crap, not my pap”, “I love
Representative John Lewis”, “Empower women”, “Hug a
refugee”, “We are more powerful than the one in power”, “Fight
like a girl, “Dump Trump”, “build bridges not walls”, “They tried
to bury us, they forgot we are seeds”, “No fascism,” “Keep your
laws off my body”, “Nasty Women”, “No racism, no sexism, no
homophobia, no transphobia, no hate, no greed, no bombs, no
Nazi’s, no prisons, no bad art”, “Screw sexists”, “It takes balls to
be a woman”, “I won’t stop until it rains glass”, “Make America
kind again,” and” Future is female power”.
Approximately 4 thousand women marched around the Hawaii
State Capitol in the rain. Later at a rally several women spoke
about various issues including health care, Planned Parenthood,
empowerment, voting for people who truly represent the people,
and to take action and stop fascism in America. Protestors
wore pussy ears, pussy hats, Nasty Woman tee shirts, women’s
rights tee shirts, gay rights tee shirts, Princess Leah Star Wars
outfits, and carried umbrellas with signs on them. Oahu was not
the only island where women protested. The Big Island had a
protest where people marched in downtown Hilo. Maui also had
a protest and march.
There were similar women’s marches in France,
Antarctica, Korea, St. Croix, Germany, England and Kenya.
These protests against dismantling of women’s rights and
human rights were heard loud and clear throughout the world.
With further retrenchment of civil rights based upon
religion, race, national origin, and banning of immigrants from
Africa (Libya, Somalia, Sudan) and the Middle East (Iraq, Syria,
Yemen and Iran), there will be more demonstrations.
by Atty. Daphne
Barbee-Wooten
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Over 1M Attend World Baseball Classic Games On Two Continents

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HONEY’S HIVEHoney’s Hive
by Ashley Williams Madam Mia
What do the words sassy, chic, and yeah anyone with
eyes would say gorgeous have in common? The name that
comes to mind is Mia Gions, we like to call her Madam
Mia. With a well-maintained physique, this Georgia peach
is the image of southern hospitality when she smiles.
Just recently she embarked on a mission to fulfill a dream
she had since her childhood. “I had a discussion with my
boyfriend about the dreams I had when I was little of being
a model in magazines all over the world. His response was
why not follow them now! Make it happen! Anything is
possible. So, I entered into as many casting as I could and
got my first professional photo shoot at Kube Studios in
Miami, which started my portfolio.”
Galvanized by her boyfriend’s motivational words, Mia
took a huge leap of faith, “About two years ago I decided
to pursue my dream job… I was actually 30.” Receiving en-
couragement from her family and boyfriend Mia booked
her first gig. “My first gig was on a very beautiful beach in
Key Biscayne Florida. I shot with a well-known photogra-
pher in Miami named Enrique Romero which got me my
first feature in Bikini Ink USA Magazine.”
Don’t be fooled by her infectious smile Madam Mia is
about her business. “I like to keep it fun but yet strong. I can
say my swag especially in my photos is aggressive, strong
and powerful. But I can also be soft by giving a smile.” To-
tally confident in her abilities she is delivers flawlessly. “I
have yet to mess up. So far so good. I stay professional and
always have fun with what I’m doing so it keeps me calm
and on point at all times.”
A modern-day Dorothy Dandridge Mia explains her
similarities with the late star. “Dorothy Dandridge to me was
a very talented Actress and Model who at that day and age
broke into the industry at a time when black woman were
still having a difficult time being excepted. She was the first
African American woman to be nominated for an Academy
Award. We share many similarities many sing, model,
dance, and act. Everything that she had accomplished in
her time like being the first black woman to grace the cover
of Life Magazine was such a major accomplish as many
great things as she did and oh you can’t forget we both have
the same beautiful smile ”
A beautiful smile in deed Mia shares how she ignites the
fire before a shoot to show off that smile. “Serenity. Good
music! Anything that’s uplifting and positive. And definite-
ly the atmosphere has to be welcoming as well. A beautiful
scene always make a perfect shoot.”
Every career has its challenges, Mia shares hers and how
she deals with them. “Trust. You put trust in individuals you
never met before so that can be difficult in this industry…
Not everyone is trying to scam you. Do your research
as much as possible.”
Mia continues with some great industry advice. “Get a
good portfolio together. And jump right in. This is about
taking chances.”
Three things to do.
Research, follow up, be early
Three things not to do.
Be unprofessional, late, chewing gum
Three unknown things about you.
I love to sing, dance and cook
12) The best way your fans can keep in touch.
Via Facebook Mia Goins and Instagram Iammiagoins
Go follow

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Health Is Your Greatest Wealth
From the book New Jump Swing Healthy Aging and Athletic Nutrition Program
by Donald “Spiderman” ThomasHealth and Fitness
by Donald
“Spiderman” Thomas
Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people
in its grip and emptying the native’s brain of all form and
content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the
oppressed people and distorts, disfigures, and destroys it. This
work of devaluing pre-colonial history takes on a dialectical
significance today. When we consider the efforts made to carry
out the cultural estrangement so characteristic of the colonial
epoch, we realize that nothing has been left to chance.And that
the total result looked for by colonial domination was indeed
to convince the natives that colonialism came to lighten their
darkness. The effort consciously sought by colonialism was to
drive into the native’s heads the idea that if the settlers were to
leave they would at once fall back into barbarism, degradation
and bestiality.—Dr. Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the
Earth
People have been using antibiotics for nearly 2,000 years,
suggests a new study, which found large doses of tetracycline
embedded in the bones of ancient African mummies.
What’s more, they probably got it through beer, and
just about everyone appears to have drank it consistently
throughout their lifetimes, beginning early in childhood.
While the modern age of antibiotics began in 1928 with the
discovery of penicillin, the new findings suggest that people
knew how to fight infections much earlier than that — even if
they didn’t actually know what bacteria were.
Some of the first people to use antibiotics, according to
the research, may have lived along the shores of the Nile in
Sudanese Nubia, which spans the border of modern Egypt and
Sudan.
“Given the amount of tetracycline there, they had to know
what they were doing,” said lead author George Armelagos,
a biological anthropologist at Emory University in Atlanta.
“They may not have known what tetracycline was, but they
certainly knew something was making them feel better.”
The scientists are working now to figure out exactly how
much tetracycline Nubians were getting, but it appears that
doses were high that consumption was consistent, and that
drinking started early. Analyses of the bones showed that
babies got some tetracycline through their mother’s milk.
Then, between ages two and six, there was a big spike in
antibiotics deposited in the bone, Armelagos said, suggesting
that fermented grains were used as a weaning food.
Armelagos was part of a group of anthropologists that
excavated the mummies in 1963. His original goal was to
study osteoporosis in the Nubians, who lived between about
350 and 550 A.D. But while looking through a microscope
at samples of the ancient bone under ultraviolet light, he saw
what looked like tetracycline — an antibiotic that was not
officially patented in modern times until 1950. Discovery
Channel 2010
As we begin 2017, I will be presenting articles on health
that directly impact the minority communities of America and
abroad.
When we look at the research of most of the leading
exponents of a plant based diet, we see a very common thread.
They all quote clinical research done on Africans and Asians
who were not eating a typical western diet, to highlight the
impact of the western diet on degenerative diseases such as
cancer, heart disease , diabetes and obesity.
While these medical doctors extoll the virtues of a plant
based diet, they do it without giving full credit to the African
and Asian systems of health. The plant based diet of non white
peoples did not happen by chance neither did the systems of
health that they developed. How sad that in todays world,
there are places in Africa where having gout is a status symbol
due to the fact that one must have eaten a large amount of
meat to acquire the disease. How sad that in China today, air
pollution will become a major factor in the rates of respiratory
illnesses the people suffer from in the near future.
That the ancient people didn’t call these diseases or bacteria
by the names that the western world has ascribed to them, in
no way means that they were ignorant as the effects these
bacteria had upon them. They just didn’t luck up on these
cures. They had complete systems of health and healing that
by percentage were just a effective as the western methods
of healing are today. The emphasis within the ancient world
being prevention of illnesses as compared to engaging in
activities that gave you the illness in the first place.
Let us all take stock of our health and give respect to our
ancient ways of health and healing.
A sick soldier can not win a war.

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