George Cook of the website Let's Talk Honestly did a special report in which he interviewed myself and other bloggers.  The interviews revolved around Black Bloggers' reaction towards Michael Baisden and comments he made by towards the organization Color of Change . Click here to listen to the interviews. Other Bloggers who were interviewed include: Dwight Hunter Exodus Mentality Yobachi Boswell blackperspective.net Garlin Gilchrist II thesuperspade.com Gina McCauley What About Our Daughters 

I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving and continues to have a great weekend.  It's hard not to have a great turkey day when the Cowboys roll the way that they did. I'd like to thank each and every person who has made Dallas South a part of their internet routine.  Of course the goal of the site is to provide positive images of African-Americas to combat the negative images portrayed by the mainstream media.  To that end I want to provide you the reader with information and opinions on happenings across Dallas, the nation and the world.  Thank you for all the emails and comments, it really makes it easier to do what I do. Lastly, I'd like to thank my sponsors: Allmand & Lee -Bankruptcy Attorneys Dallas Texas Smalls Travel - Cruise Giveaways PharmAssist - Careers in Pharmaceutical Sales Their support helped me travel to Jena and helped me upgrade my technology to proved more complete coverage. Thanks again for reading, and may God Bless each and every one of your families. Shawn 

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Channel 8 (Belo) is running some type of expose on the SOC Basketball program tonight.  I had heard this was coming and you can check for follow up info here sometime this week.  Belo (Dallas Morning News) ran a story of a disgruntle NAACP official who wanted to oust president Casey Thomas.  This SOC thing sounds like more sour grapes.

In today's Dallas Morning News, an opinion piece that I wrote appears in the Viewpoints section (If they build it, make sure you come).  I don't really like the title or the tagline as that was only part of what I was trying to convey.  Thanks to Sharon Grigsby who edited the story and offered me the opportunity to share my views regarding development in Southern Dallas.  If you like what you see please contact that Morning News (click here) and let them know. Almost every elected official in Dallas County has come out publicly supporting economic development in southern Dallas. But it will take much more than hollow campaign promises if the area is to ever realize its true potential. Southern Dallas is the most scenic part of the city, and with all due respect to Cedar Hill, Oak Cliff is where the Hill Country truly begins. And, according to the J. McDonald Williams Institute, crime in the area is not that much different from that of other parts of Dallas. So why does the city have such a hard time recruiting businesses south of Interstate 30? What keeps families from making the move? It's going to ...

  Obsolescence - the state of being which occurs when a person, object, or service is no longer wanted even though it may still be in good working order. I was president of the Texas A&M Chapter of the NAACP from 1994-1996 and I count Dallas President Casey Thomas as a friend.  The organization is quite dear to me.  With all that said, I see the NAACP, especially the national organization, as losing touch with the very people it is charged to serve.  As the realities of race in America has evolved, the NAACP has changed very little in how it addresses the issues of the day. If the NAACP is not leading (I said leading) the effort in cases like the Jena 6, Genarlow Wilson, and Tyrone Brown that what are they doing? The group is really trying to find its way right now, that's evident in the change in leadership that occurred earlier this year. It was a surprise to say the least when the NAACP broke with conventional wisdom and hired executive Bruce Gordon to lead the organization.  Only 19 months into the job, Gordon resigned his post as president (last March). Gordon's vision as president did not ...

For the last seven years, Friendship-West Baptist Church has held an event on Thanksgiving Eve and Thanksgiving offering assistance to the homeless, who they (we) refer to as VIP's.  The event kicks of each Wednesday night with a church service a couple of hours after dusk followed by a meal provided to those who are living on the streets.  Throughout the night, men of the church are on the street ministering to those in need all the way through the morning. Around 10 am on Thanksgiving, a larger portion of the congregation comes down for a larger meal and ceremony for those on the streets.  This year the church is calling the event "The Lord's Wedding Banquet."  Friendship-West, like other churches in Dallas, have tried to help as best they could with the city's homeless situation.  Of course Dallas is in the midst of building a new $21 million Homeless Assistance Center.  Last week, Larry James and Central Dallas Ministries designated November 11-17 as Help the Homeless Week.     The residents of the Cedars area, in the southern portion of downtown, are not excited by the Friendship-West event.  Here's a series of communications between a Cedars resident to the Dallas ...

Somebody else from the Chicago Tribune is picking up on the web movement.  This time it's columnist Clarence Page.  Page focuses on a Chicago resident who staged a counter protest to Friday's hate crime rally.  See Focus on hate crime is far too narrow . Some of the highlights from Page's column.  Shane Johnson, 32, a social worker by day and Weblogger on the side, staged a nearby dissent with a few sympathizers. He supported the prosecution of hate crimes, he said, but thinks Sharpton's definition of "hate" is too narrow. I share Johnson's outrage. Why, I often have wondered, do we black folks get so much more agitated about white-on-black insults than the black-on-black assaults that constantly terrorize certain neighborhoods? Sharpton wants tough federal prosecution of hate-related crimes, like the hanging of nooses. Fine, says Johnson. But Johnson also asks why national black leaders have paid so little attention to a more recent campaign in the black netroots: the beating and rape of a 35-year-old Haitian woman and the beating and sexual assault of her 12-year-old son by up to 10 assailants in West Palm Beach, Fla. Instead, civil rights leaders ...

Today in a conversation regarding Friday's march, a friend of mine extolled Rev. Al Sharpton's ability to organize.  I believe Friday will show us the true extent of this widely held opinion and offer a glimpse where Black activism stands as a result of the Jena 6 activities. Rev. Sharpton's National Action Network is leading a March on the United States Department of Justice.  "We feel that the federal government has failed to intervene in the cases of hate crimes — swastikas and nooses," Sharpton said on the groups website. "Since the federal government won't come to the people, we're going to bring the people to the federal government." I'm at a loss on this one.  I'm not in the predicting business, but I'm trying to figure out where the marchers will come from.  Maybe some of the people who missed out on Jena want to get involved and will show up in D.C. To be real, this march has been a non-factor on the internet.   The only exception is a counter-protest by one blogger for what she perceives as silence by Shaprton regarding the Dunbar Village rape case. Rev. Sharpton promoted the march on radio -Michael Baisden ...

It seems the La Salle Parish has conceded a major point in the case of one of the Jena 6 defendants.  Judge J.P. Mauffray has decided to open the juvenile trial of Mychal Bell to the public. A lawsuit filed by the Chicago Tribune, Associated Press, CNN and others seeks the reversal of Mauffray's decision to close all the proceedings in Bell's Case.  According to a story that will appear in Friday's Chicago Tribune, the lawsuit is set to be heard next Wednesday while Bell is scheduled to go on trial Dec.6 on charges of aggravated second-degree battery and conspiracy. Read the Howard Witt's Tribune story here.