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May 16, 2010
Pulaski County Special School District (PCSSD) Audit Reports
FOX16 REPRINT-Audit: PCSSD money wasted on everything from alcohol to valet parking
 | Reported by: Kelly Dudzik Email: kdudzik@fox16.com Last Update: 5/15 8:12 am |
A state legislative audit committee released the report, after a year-long investigation, detailing hundreds of thousands of dollars misused by the district.
"Do you think this is embarrassing for the district?" asked FOX16's Kelly Dudzik.
"Absolutely. Absolutely," responded PCSSD Board President Tim Clark.
Board members spent the money on a Broadway play, booze and one, who lives in Little Rock, paid $320 to stay at the Peabody, and paid for valet parking.
And, with federal aid meant to help homeless children after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, someone spent more than three-hundred dollars on women's underwear and almost two-hundred on two pair of Nikes.
"The dollar amount kind of shocked me. The fact that we were able to catch Mr. Diemer," says Clark.
Diemer, who took off when we tried confronting him a year ago, pleaded guilty to a federal charge. He's accused of using district money to buy more than $400,000 worth of goods, including a sea doo and a metal garage.
We first told you about the audit a year ago when Clark called for it. He started asking the CFO questions and kept getting the runaround.
"He was a good man, but I could never get a straight answer out of him. There were a lot of red flags," he says.
So what's next? The district tells us it's already talking to its attorneys to make sure the money is returned.
As for Clark's colleagues?
"They need to deal with the district, and determine whether the funds are reimbursable. If they're not reimbursable, they need to pay them back."
Some board members already have.
So what happened to Diemer? He's out on bond. Clark tells us his sentencing is next month.
Former Superintendent James Sharpe already paid back the overpayment of nearly 7$3,000 he received in his buyout, but, the audit turned up extra pay, benefits and credit card charges to the tune of $25,000.
Mar 16, 2010
TODAY'S THV REPRINT: PCSSD, Racism & Chronic Corruption...
PCSSD holds meeting to discuss personnel matter concerning McGill
An emergency boarding meeting was held Thursday night over confidential documents leaked to the NAACP.
These documents are the result of an investigation into allegations Acting Superintendent Robert McGill made racial comments. Board members were under confidentiality when they were interviewed. The conclusion by Lassiter & Couch Law Firm reads, "We have interviewed the four witnesses." It goes on, "We find that Mr. McGill did not make a racially insensitive remark."
This led to a controversy with the Pulaski County Special School District board. President of the PCSSD board Tim Clark says, ""Until we make the right decisions, clean the board up or out, which ever way it is. It starts with us until we are on the right path, the school district will never be on the right path."
The meeting is a direct result of NAACP chairman, Rizelle Aaron alleging he received the confidential documents anonymously on a school district thumb drive. Others believe someone on the board leaked the information, a violation of the law and board policy.
Board member Gary Gililland explains, "I just want to find out and do an effort and make this known. That way if we do find who did it, then the employees can then act upon their behalf. It wouldn't be our responsibility to file a civil suit against them on their behalf."
In a vote of 4 to 3, board members moved to start an investigation. Others worry about the cost and say it's a civil matter and not grounds to remove a board member.
The meeting only lasted 30-minutes; the end result, the majority of board members voted to begin an investigation. However, no one discussed who would do it or how much it will cost.
Vice-President of the board Charlie Wood says, "It probably won't mean much more money. It will mean something official is being done and the attorney may come back to us with more recommendations about a next step. I hope we find who gave the information to Mr. Aaron."
Aaron insists he doesn't know who leaked the documents, "This is a waste of time and money because the only way to determine who that person is, is by that person identifying themselves and that's not going to happen."
Several employees named in the confidential documents are seeking legal council, which could mean a lawsuit.
This week, McGill accepted a job as superintendent of Academics Plus Charter School in Maumelle.
COMMENTS:
tiredbutrying wrote: i have lived and traveled and worked all over the world, and expereinced education in all those places. i have never, ever seen anything like i have seen in the pulaski county special school district. it is a time warp to the pre-civil rights 1950's, but reversed. It's like the sequel that is based primarily on revenge. I had hoped that in the year 2010 we could have moved past this with the rest of the world. but for some reason this place cant seem to get out of the swamp of divided racism, on either side. and it only sees two races usually! there really are no words that anyone who has traveled or been really educated can use to describe it, other than a tragedy. | |
boxershrimp wrote: My earlier post should have read "treated much better than slaves". I believe I'm ready for management. Sorry. | |
mougie wrote: This is a bunch of crap! I am so glad I don't live there when my kids were in school. Nor do I now. I have family that does and a lot of them moved there only after their kids were out of school. These people don't care about these kids because if they did they wouldn't be acting like idiots. | |
true2 wrote: The board voted 4-3 to investigate. Just start with the 3 who voted against it. | |
true2 wrote: So if I wanted to right a false-fake-lie about a white official and send it to the NAACP, they will raise a big media stink with out one shred of evidence. Please witch hunt and find the person who did this. Mr. McGill should sue for defamation and libel, since it was put in writing. Reverse racism is killing this city. PS. I am white middle class male. My Great Grandfather came here from Ireland where our ancestors were treated like slaves by the English. No one in my bloodline ever owned a slave, nor profited off of the trade. I need a group like the NAACP to defend my rights and stop the disfranchisement I see all around me here in the south. | |
boxershrimp wrote: During slavery in England their were nearly a million servants. Because slaves were property and had value, they were treated much better than servants, who were hardly payed, mistreated and generally worked to death. Servants were easy to replace, slaves were not. On this issue people have been sold a pig in a poke. | |
OldArmy94 wrote: receptiontracy-- I disagree that today's "reverse racism" is worse than the past "white hating black" racism. After all, some horrible, HORRIBLE things were done to black folks in the name of White Supremacy. But, I will also admit that the festering, smoldering fires of racial bigotry DO exist deep within the African-American community, and it is being nurtured by the so-called leadership of that said community. The great irony is that BLACK people are hurt worse than anyone else. THEIR schools, THEIR places of business, THEIR futures are being burned to the ground by the race pimps and whores who use division and hatred for their own personal power trips. Wake up, Black America! Say NO to the Sharptons, Jacksons and Farrakhans of the world! They want to enslave you again, and make you beholden to their ways. I'm not saying to stop being black or give-up the unique aspects of your heritage and community. But, your culture and values will DIE if you let hatred rule your hearts. | |
OldArmy94 wrote: Jacksonville parents and citizens need to raise the biggest possible stink to make sure they can escape PCSSD. If I were there, I'd do almost anything short of killin' to protect my children from the clutches of these incompetent and evil boobs. File lawsuits, protest, picket board members, WHATEVER IT TAKES! | |
receptiontracy wrote: BJ1906, when the NAAPC first started, they FORCED black people to join them. If they wouldn't join, they would burn down their houses, etc,... And you wonder why black people are the way they are today. Because of those evil haters back in the day spread it and bred it. Most black people back then were hard-workers, honest, and not racial. Today, there is more reverse racism than their ever was regular racism! | |
VictimRites wrote: When will the State Government step in and say "ENOUGH!"? Their politicians, they wouldn't touch this issue if their career counted on it. Their cowards. |
Oct 5, 2009
Why In The WORLD Would American Creole Indians Claim Arkansas, USA?
Inscription:
This stone marks the base established Nov.10,1815 from which the lands of the Louisiana Purchase were surveyed by the United States Engineers. The first survey from this point was made to satisfy the claims of the soldiers of the war of 1812 with land boundries.
This stone marks the base established Nov.10,1815 from which the lands of the Louisiana Purchase were surveyed by the United States Engineers. The first survey from this point was made to satisfy the claims of the soldiers of the war of 1812 with land boundries.
Erected 1926 by Arkansas Daughters of the American Revolution.
In 2005 , the Great State of Arkansas officially recognized the American Creole Indian Nation, by way of the Arkansas Department of Education as a "Protected Ethnic Class", ethnically unique unto themselves & their unique historic culture that pre-dates USA acquisition.
This obscure marker located in Monroe, Arkansas, USA (Arkansas State Park) is a place of great mourning to the American Creole Indian.
This obscure marker in The Great Creole Indian Territory of Monroe, Arkansas, USA represents the beginning of the end of the official territorial existence of my people as recognized by the Federal United States Government, in violation of it's own LPT 1803 Treaty.
Louisiana Purchase State Park
Are you interested in the history of the Louisiana Purchase? This National Historic Landmark at the junction of Lee, Monroe and Phillips counties preserves the initial point from which all surveys of the property acquired through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 initiated. That year, President Thomas Jefferson purchased the vast territory of Louisiana from France for $15 million. The unmapped wilderness of approximately 900,000 square miles doubled the size of the fledgling nation and helped shape the destiny of the United States.
Twelve years later, President James Madison ordered an official survey of the purchase area, a survey that began in what is now Arkansas and led to the settlement of the American West.
The initial point was the first surveyor mark in the monumental task of surveying the entire Louisiana Territory, the vast territory including the present Arkansas and 12 other states, an area stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada.
On October 27, 1815, a survey party headed north from the confluence of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers to establish a north-south line to be known as the Fifth Principal Meridian. The same day, a party departed westward from the junction of the St. Francis River and the Mississippi to establish an east-west line, known as a baseline. The crossing of the two lines would be this initial point from which future surveys would originate.
Both meridian and the baseline would later be extended, and land surveys for all or parts of the Louisiana Purchase states west of the Mississippi would subsequently be measured from this initial point in eastern Arkansas. From this point emanated the surveys for Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and part of South Dakota.
To see the granite monument that marks the site of the initial point, you'll walk along an elevated boardwalk above the headwater swamp in which the monument is located. The L’Anguille Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution in Marianna placed the marker at the initial point in 1926 following the discovery by two surveyors, in 1921, of the gum trees that were marked by the initial surveyors back in 1815. That discovery focused attention on the site located at the junction of Lee, Monroe and Phillips counties in a headwater swamp in the Little Cypress Creek watershed that had gone unheralded for more than a century. The Arkansas General Assembly passed legislation in 1961 designating the area an Arkansas state park.
As you walk along the boardwalk, you'll experience the captivating beauty and natural sounds of the surrounding swamp. Along the boardwalk, interpretive wayside exhibits tell about the Louisiana Purchase and describe the flora and fauna of the swamp. This headwater swamp is representative of the swamplands that were common in eastern Arkansas before the vast bottomlands were drained and cleared for farming and commercial purposes.
Louisiana Purchase State Park is located south of Brinkley. From I-40 at Brinkley, take U.S. 49 and travel 21 miles south, then go two miles east on Ark. 362 to the park.
The park is open from 6 a.m. until 9 p.m. daily.
For more information about Arkansas State Parks historic, heritage and cultural parks, go to: http://www.historystateparks.com/
Contact Information
Both meridian and the baseline would later be extended, and land surveys for all or parts of the Louisiana Purchase states west of the Mississippi would subsequently be measured from this initial point in eastern Arkansas. From this point emanated the surveys for Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and part of South Dakota.
To see the granite monument that marks the site of the initial point, you'll walk along an elevated boardwalk above the headwater swamp in which the monument is located. The L’Anguille Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution in Marianna placed the marker at the initial point in 1926 following the discovery by two surveyors, in 1921, of the gum trees that were marked by the initial surveyors back in 1815. That discovery focused attention on the site located at the junction of Lee, Monroe and Phillips counties in a headwater swamp in the Little Cypress Creek watershed that had gone unheralded for more than a century. The Arkansas General Assembly passed legislation in 1961 designating the area an Arkansas state park.
As you walk along the boardwalk, you'll experience the captivating beauty and natural sounds of the surrounding swamp. Along the boardwalk, interpretive wayside exhibits tell about the Louisiana Purchase and describe the flora and fauna of the swamp. This headwater swamp is representative of the swamplands that were common in eastern Arkansas before the vast bottomlands were drained and cleared for farming and commercial purposes.
Louisiana Purchase State Park is located south of Brinkley. From I-40 at Brinkley, take U.S. 49 and travel 21 miles south, then go two miles east on Ark. 362 to the park.
The park is open from 6 a.m. until 9 p.m. daily.
For more information about Arkansas State Parks historic, heritage and cultural parks, go to: http://www.historystateparks.com/
Contact Information
Email: louisianapurchase@arkansas.com
888-AT-PARKS
888-AT-PARKS
ArkansasStateParks.com
The Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism is in compliance with the Freedom of Information, Ar. Code Ann., § 25-19-101 et seq.
© 2009 Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism. All rights reserved.
The Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism is in compliance with the Freedom of Information, Ar. Code Ann., § 25-19-101 et seq.
© 2009 Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism. All rights reserved.
http://www.historystateparks.com/
Contact Information
Email: louisianapurchase@arkansas.com
888-AT-PARKS
ArkansasStateParks.com
The Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism is in compliance with the Freedom of Information, Ar. Code Ann., § 25-19-101 et seq.
© 2009 Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism. All rights reserved.
document.
This marker is included in the National Historic Landmarks marker series. Location. 34° 38.838′ N, 91° 3.252′ W. Marker is in Holly Grove, Arkansas, in Monroe County. Marker is on Baseline Road (Arkansas Route 362). Click for map. At end of Baseline Road,a walk of 450 feet down boardwalk into the swamp,at Louisiana Purchase State Park. Located at the junction of Lee, Monroe and Phillips Counties. Marker is in this post office area: Holly Grove AR 72069, United States of America. Also see . . . 1. Beginning Point of the Louisiana Purchase Survey. (Submitted on March 8, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.) 2. Are you interested in the history of the Louisiana Purchase. (Submitted on March 8, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.) 3. Registry for National Landmark. data supplied (Submitted on March 8, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.)
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A Little Light Reading :
SEARCHLIGHTS ON HEALTH
THE SCIENCE OF EUGENICS
A Guide to Purity and Physical ManhoodAdvice to Maiden, Wife and MotherLove, Courtship, and Marriage
ByProf. B.G. Jefferis, M.D., PH. D.andJ.L. Nicols, A.M.
With Excerpts from Well-Known Authorities
REV. LEONARD DAWSON
DR. M.J. SAVAGE
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DR. GEORGE NAPHEYS
DR. STOCKHAM
DR. T.D. NICHOLLS
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DR. JOHN COWAN
DR. M.L. HOLBROOK
Published by
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
[Transcriber's Note: This Table of Contents does not appear in the original book. It has been added to this document for ease of navigation. To return to it from anywhere in the document, just select ToC from any left margin page demarcation.]
Knowledge is Safety, page 3
The Beginning of Life, page5
Health a Duty, page 7
Value of Reputation, page 9
Influence of Associates, page 11
Self-Control, page 12
Habit, page 17
A Good Name, page 18
The Mother's Influence, page 21
Home Power, page 23
To Young Women, page 26
Influence of Female Character, page 30
Personal Purity, page 31
How To Write All Kinds of Letters, page 34
How To Write a Love Letter, page 37
Forms of Social Letters, page 39
Letter Writing, page 43
Forms of Love Letters, page 44
Hints and Helps on Good Behavior at All Times and at All Places, page 49
A Complete Etiquette in a Few Practical Rules, page 52
Etiquette of Calls, page 56
Etiquette in Your Speech, page 57
Etiquette of Dress and Habits, page 58
Etiquette on the Street, page 59
Etiquette Between Sexes 60
Practical Rules on Table Manners, page 63
Social Duties, page 65
Politeness, page 70
Influence of Good Character, page 73
Family Government 76
Conversation, page 79
The Toilet or The Care of the Person, page 84
A Young Man's Personal Appearance, page 86
Dress, page 88
Beauty, page 91
Sensible Helps to Beauty, page 95
How to Keep the Bloom and Grace of Youth, page 97
Form and Deformity, page 98
How to Determine a Perfect Human Figure, page 99
The History, Mystery, Benefits and Injuries of the Corset, page 101
Tight-Lacing, page 104
The Care of the Hair, page 107
How to Cure Pimples or Other Facial Eruptions, page 111
Black-Heads and Flesh Worms, page 112
Love, page 114
The Power and Peculiarities of Love, page 118
Amativeness or Connubial Love, page 122
Love and Common Sense, page 123
What Women Love in Men, page 126
What Men Love in Women, page 129
History of Marriage, page 132
Marriage, page 134
The Advantages of Wedlock, page 135
The Disadvantages of Celibacy, page 138
Old Maids, page 140
When and Whom to Marry, page 144
Choose Intellectually—Love Afterward, page 148
Love-Spats, page 154
A Broken Heart, page 159
Former Customs and Peculiarities Among Men, page 162
Sensible Hints in Choosing a Partner, page 165
Safe Hints, page 170
Marriage Securities, page 174
Women Who Make the Best Wives, page 178
Adaptation, Conjugal Affection, and Fatal Errors, page 181
First Love, Desertion and Divorce, page 185
Flirting and Its Dangers, page 190
A Word to Maidens, page 192
Popping the Question, page 194
The Wedding, page 200
Advice to Newly Married Couples, page 201
Sexual Proprieties and Improprieties, page 206
How to Perpetuate the Honey-Moon, page 209
How to Be a Good Wife, page 210
How to Be a Good Husband, page 211
Cause of Family Troubles, page 217
Jealousy—Its Cause and Cure, page 219
The Improvement of Offspring, page 222
Too Many Children, page 229
Small Families and the Improvement of the Race, page 232
The Generative Organs, page 234
The Female Sexual Organs, page 235
The Mysteries of the Formation of Life, page 238
Conception—Its Limitations, page 240
Prenatal Influences, page 244
Vaginal Cleanliness, page 246
Impotence and Sterility, page 248
Producing Boys or Girls at Will, page 252
Abortion or Miscarriage, page 253
The Murder of Innocents, page 256
The Unwelcome Child, page 258
Health and Disease, page 263
Preparation for Maternity, page 266
Impregnation, page 269
Signs and Symptoms of Pregnancy, page 270
Diseases of Pregnancy, page 274
Morning Sickness, page 282
Relation of Husband and Wife During Pregnancy, page 283
A Private Word to the Expectant Mother, page 284
Shall Pregnant Women Work?, page 285
Words for Young Mothers, page 286
How to Have Beautiful Children, page 288
Education of the Child in the Womb, page 292
How to Calculate the Time of Expected Labor, page 295
The Signs and Symptoms of Labor, page 297
Special Safeguards in Confinement, page 299
Where Did the Baby Come From?, page 303
Child Bearing Without Pain, page 304
Solemn Lessons for Parents, page 312
Ten Health Rules for Babies Cut Death Rate in Two, page 314
The Care of New-Born Infants, page 315
Nursing, page 317
Infantile Convulsions, page 319
Feeding Infants, page 319
Pains and Ills in Nursing, page 321
Home Lessons in Nursing Sick Children, page 325
A Table for Feeding a Baby on Modified Milk, page 329
Nursing [Intervals Table], page 329
Schedule for Feeding Healthy Infants During First Year [Table], page 329
How to Keep a Baby Well, page 330
How to Preserve the Health and Life of Your Infant During Hot Weather, page 332
Infant Teething, page 336
Home Treatments for the Diseases of Infants and Children, page 338
Diseases of Women, page 348
Falling of the Womb, page 350
Menstruation, page 351
Celebrated Prescriptions for All Diseases and How to Use Them, page 354
How to Cure Apoplexy, Bad Breath and Quinsy, page 365
Sensible Rules for the Nurse, page 366
Longevity, page 367
How to Apply and Use Hot Water in All Diseases, page 368
Practical Rules for Bathing, page 371
All the Different Kinds of Baths and How to Prepare Them, page 372
Digestibility of Food, page 374
How to Cook for the Sick, page 375
Save the Girls, page 380
Save the Boys, page 390
The Inhumanities of Parents, page 396
Chastity and Purity of Chracter, page 400
Exciting the Passions in Children, page 404
Puberty, Virility, and Hygenic Laws, page 406
Our Secret Sins, page 409
Physical and Moral Degeneracy, page 414
Immorality, Disease, and Death, page 416
Poisonous Literature and Bad Pictures, page 421
Startling Sins, page 423
The Prostitution of Men, page 427
The Road to Shame, page 430
The Curse of Manhood, page 433
A Private Talk to Young Men, page 437
Remedies for the Social Evil, page 440
The Selfish Slaves of Doses of Disease and Death, page 441
Object Lessons of the Effects of Alcohol and Smoking, page 445
The Destructive Effects of Cigarette Smoking, page 449
The Dangerous Vices, page 451
Nocturnal Emissions, page 457
Lost Manhood Restored, page 459
Manhood Wrecked and Rescued, page 461
The Curse and Consequence of Secret Diseases, page 464
Animal Magnetism, page 470
How to Read Character, page 473
Twilight Sleep, page 479
Painless Childbirth, page 479
The Diseases of Women, page 480
Remedies for Diseases of Women, page 483
Alphabetical Index, page 486
Hyperlinked Index
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REPRINT ABOUT A GREAT HERO THAT WALKED AMONG US: GILBERT MARTIN- CREOLE EXTRAORDINAIRE
American Creole Indian Nation Salutes a Great Warrior Of Our People
I have always known Gilbert E. Martin to be a painfully honest and forthright Creole man. His answers to my questions and his encouragements within the darkness of "Creole Invisibility", were and shall always be priceless to me right now and in the future. He was an honorable warrior of his people at all times and in all places. He was never afraid to stand alone. I personally know that his eyes did NOT close without knowing that he never really was alone. Our people heard his voice, long before we knew his name.E PLURIBUS UNUM
You remain dearly missed, Great Leader.
Ean Lee Bordeaux, pro per
Chief Elder, Bordeaux Band, D'Choctaw Clan
Louisiana Creole Indians
Gilbert E. Martin, the greatest Militant Creole of the USA
It was with very much grief and sadness that I learned from my dear friend Marion that Gilbert Martin passed away on 19th November 2005. While many would say that the Creole community have seen many militants among its ranks, among whom your obedient servant, I would, without reserve and hesitation admit that that I am a baby as compared to the way Gilbert Martin fought to position the Creole culture in the USA and on the world stage.
While many would associate Louisiana with the birth and development of Creolism in the USA , the history of Creolism cannot be written without a special mention to Gilbert Martin. Gil was born and grew up in the seventh ward of New Orleans and spent most of his adulthood there. He saw the city grew up and even participated in its development having been in the construction industry. Even though he was a black man, he always assert himself as a French Creole and maintain that black, white or colored Creoles have always been a free and much a l’avant garde of the other communities. He advocated that the USA government should recognize the identity and uniqueness of the Creole people and that the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was fraud and illegal as it did not respect some of its clauses when it relates to the people. If the Treaty was to be enforceable it should have compensated for the lost of all privileges that the Creoles enjoyed prior to the American taking over the state of Louisiana. (Please see his article on LPT).
Gilbert has, throughout his life, and until his death, defied the USA establishment that Creoles should still feel free and not abide to the USA laws as they are still an independent nation. He set the example by going as far suing the USA government for breach of the LPT contract and asking for compensation.
Well before any structure was set up in Louisiana, Gilbert created the International French Creole society. When I asked him why “international” he explained that he knew that Creoles did not only exist in the USA only, but that there were creoles in Haiti and in the West Indies. He was expecting to connect with them one day. His wishes and dream started to materialize when I met Mario for the first time at the 2004 Creole convention organized by the CHC of Natchitoches in Las Vegas. Marion who saw my sincerity and dedication said that I should meet her friend Gilbert Martin, a Creole pioneer who is unfortunately old and living in a nursing home in California. I was overwhelmed but as I was already scheduled to go to New Orleans, I postponed that appointment for later. As soon as I got back to Australia , Gilbert and I started to communicate via e-mail. I was surprised how he so skillfully mastered the communication technology and how his mind was still very alert; I discovered a man of high intellect and sincerity. There was no doubt for me that that I had to meet that man and wanted more people to know about him and hear what he had to say. This was to be realized with the Symposium of Las Vegas. It was on 18th May 2005 at Tuscany Hotel that we met for the first time and I could not describe how I was pleased to dinner with him and we talked and talked. Gilbert was indeed an old and frail man but he still spoke with much conviction and told me that we creoles should never give in and that we have to keep our culture alive. I was never tired of listening to all these anecdotes and how he always rocked the boat and always told them an African American but a French Creole. He was not happy to see that the Cajuns had highjacked the Creole cuisine and music. He always talked about the LPT and the book of Grace King or how he dragged, nurtured and educated Terrell Delphin into Creolism. He had great dream for a Creole institute which was to be set up in California. He drew a parallel with the fight of the Red Indians and that Creoles should also have the land and a big casino. He had a dream for the Creoles of the USA and the world to be a great nation where the other civilizations and culture would recognize us as well.
These words are just a few as there could be enough to say about his life which could be a best seller, but as he has always been humble and fought alone most of the time against all odds, even against the critics of Creoles like him who might have misinterpreted his action or again did not give him much consideration because he was black, but all I can assure Creoles al over the world that I have been close enough to him to know that he was never a racist and has always thought of Creole as a Cultural entity and a people regardless of colour or class.
May he rest in peace but let his legacy lives on.
Louis G de Lamare Lamvohee
It was with very much grief and sadness that I learned from my dear friend Marion that Gilbert Martin passed away on 19th November 2005. While many would say that the Creole community have seen many militants among its ranks, among whom your obedient servant, I would, without reserve and hesitation admit that that I am a baby as compared to the way Gilbert Martin fought to position the Creole culture in the USA and on the world stage.
While many would associate Louisiana with the birth and development of Creolism in the USA , the history of Creolism cannot be written without a special mention to Gilbert Martin. Gil was born and grew up in the seventh ward of New Orleans and spent most of his adulthood there. He saw the city grew up and even participated in its development having been in the construction industry. Even though he was a black man, he always assert himself as a French Creole and maintain that black, white or colored Creoles have always been a free and much a l’avant garde of the other communities. He advocated that the USA government should recognize the identity and uniqueness of the Creole people and that the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was fraud and illegal as it did not respect some of its clauses when it relates to the people. If the Treaty was to be enforceable it should have compensated for the lost of all privileges that the Creoles enjoyed prior to the American taking over the state of Louisiana. (Please see his article on LPT).
Gilbert has, throughout his life, and until his death, defied the USA establishment that Creoles should still feel free and not abide to the USA laws as they are still an independent nation. He set the example by going as far suing the USA government for breach of the LPT contract and asking for compensation.
Well before any structure was set up in Louisiana, Gilbert created the International French Creole society. When I asked him why “international” he explained that he knew that Creoles did not only exist in the USA only, but that there were creoles in Haiti and in the West Indies. He was expecting to connect with them one day. His wishes and dream started to materialize when I met Mario for the first time at the 2004 Creole convention organized by the CHC of Natchitoches in Las Vegas. Marion who saw my sincerity and dedication said that I should meet her friend Gilbert Martin, a Creole pioneer who is unfortunately old and living in a nursing home in California. I was overwhelmed but as I was already scheduled to go to New Orleans, I postponed that appointment for later. As soon as I got back to Australia , Gilbert and I started to communicate via e-mail. I was surprised how he so skillfully mastered the communication technology and how his mind was still very alert; I discovered a man of high intellect and sincerity. There was no doubt for me that that I had to meet that man and wanted more people to know about him and hear what he had to say. This was to be realized with the Symposium of Las Vegas. It was on 18th May 2005 at Tuscany Hotel that we met for the first time and I could not describe how I was pleased to dinner with him and we talked and talked. Gilbert was indeed an old and frail man but he still spoke with much conviction and told me that we creoles should never give in and that we have to keep our culture alive. I was never tired of listening to all these anecdotes and how he always rocked the boat and always told them an African American but a French Creole. He was not happy to see that the Cajuns had highjacked the Creole cuisine and music. He always talked about the LPT and the book of Grace King or how he dragged, nurtured and educated Terrell Delphin into Creolism. He had great dream for a Creole institute which was to be set up in California. He drew a parallel with the fight of the Red Indians and that Creoles should also have the land and a big casino. He had a dream for the Creoles of the USA and the world to be a great nation where the other civilizations and culture would recognize us as well.
These words are just a few as there could be enough to say about his life which could be a best seller, but as he has always been humble and fought alone most of the time against all odds, even against the critics of Creoles like him who might have misinterpreted his action or again did not give him much consideration because he was black, but all I can assure Creoles al over the world that I have been close enough to him to know that he was never a racist and has always thought of Creole as a Cultural entity and a people regardless of colour or class.
May he rest in peace but let his legacy lives on.
Louis G de Lamare Lamvohee
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The Louisiana Purchase Treaty, the ramifications.
For all those who are interested in the history of the Creoles of the Unites States and particularly how Creolism developed in the state of Louisiana, it is imperative to understand how the Louisiana Purchase Treaty came into effect and under what circumstances. The LPT is often said to be a turning point in the history of the Louisiana State and its integration into the United States of America. However, not much attention was given to the people of that state at the time the treaty in that process. A people with a unique history and culture different from the rest of the United States: The Creoles of Louisiana, which was made up of Free people of Colour (gens de couleurs libres) as well as black of African and Haitian origins. No compensation, consideration or respect were given to the right and freedom of these people to continue to enjoy their unique culture, instead followed a period of outright discrimination which caused many Creoles to flee to other parts of the States, to France and even to Mexico as Mary Gehman found out in her research. To understand fully the ramifications of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, I urge you to read carefully and critically the following article by Gilbert E Martin.
Louis G delamare
The Louisiana Purchase Treaty
Napoleon’s Justifiable Revenge on the U.S.A
Narrated by
Gilbert E. Martin
It was no secret that Napoleon Bonaparte desired to have a French empire in America. But his ego coupled with his envy of Toussaint L’Ouverture destroyed his dream, and cost France her most profitable colony, and the Louisiana Territory to boot. On April 27, 1803, nine months after his abduction, Toussaint died in a dungeon in the Alps. At that time, two Americans, R. R. Livingston and James Monroe, were in Paris pestering Napoleon to give his final approval of sale of the vast Louisiana Territory. The wily Napoleon, however, was down but not out. He knew that the Americans had supplied the black revolutionaries in St. Domingue (now Haiti), with supplies and ammunition to help break the French power in the Western Hemisphere. Furthermore, the two Americans had mentioned to Napoleon that he didn’t have much choice because, as they put it, the United States was powerful enough to take the territory by force.
With Toussaint’s death on his mind, and pressure coming from Livingston and Monroe, revenge took control of his thoughts, which prompted the great Napoleon Bonaparte to devise his very own Trojan horse. Playing upon American greed, bigotry and ignorance of human innate Intelligence, this man took 70 simple words and concocted what I believe to be one of the most impregnable articles ever to be found in any document pertaining to the rights of a nation of people with lineage to Africa. After toying with the Americans who were extremely anxious to get the treaty signed, Napoleon finally gave his approval. The American representatives hurried their signatures on the document and were off to the United States to brag about closing the biggest real estate deal in history (908,380 square miles) for only $15 million. Nobody bothered to simply pay a little attention to the conditions under which the sale was made. Those conditions can be found in Article III of the LPT, which is the Trojan horse mentioned above. Article III clearly reads as follows:
The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States; and in the meantime, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
On page 254 of a document entitled The Treaty between the United States of America and the French Republic, there’s an indication of a footnote behind Article III. At the bottom of the page it reads, "Said to have been drawn by Napoleon himself." I located that document in the main Public Library in New Orleans.
Assuming that every educated person in the civilized world has some knowledge of the black man’s plight in the Southern parts of the United States, it can readily be seen that Article III was not an American design. Also, everybody knows that blacks did not benefit from Article III as Napoleon intended. Approximately forty thousand Frenchmen with lineage to Africa were among the "inhabitants" of the "ceded territory." By knowingly depriving us and our posterity of the stipulated benefits, mentioned above, the United States clearly committed a material breach of the LPT. Consequently, we suffered much devastation of our culture, and irreparable damages to the growth and development of our nation.
However, to fully appreciate and understand the ramifications of the breaching of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, and in order to attempt to assess the consequential damages inflicted upon both, our French Creole nation and the United States as well, we need a bit of history. So, we shall begin in St. Domingue (now Haiti) in 1791. From there we shall proceed to Louisiana 1803. In August of that year, prior to the slave uprising, St. Domingue was the richest colony in the Western Hemisphere. Our colony did more business with Europe than all of the thirteen newly formed United States combined. The population of our colony consisted of 32,000 rich white planters, 30,000 rich Mulatto planters (of all shades and colors), and 500,000 thousand slaves, of which the Mulattos held 125,000.
The slaves revolted in August of 1791. Consequently, thousands of our people emigrated to the Louisiana Territory, and settled in and around the city of New Orleans. This was twelve years before Napoleon sold the territory to the Americans. At that time, however, the territory was then a Spanish colony under Spanish government. Grace King described our emigration, which began in 1791, in her 1895 book, New Orleans: The Place and the People. King wrote: "Besides the white and slave immigration from the West Indian Islands, there was a large influx of free gens de couleur into the city, a class of population whose increase by immigration had been sternly legislated against. Flying, however, with the whites from massacre and ruin, humanitarian sentiments induced the authorities to open the city gates to them, and they entered by thousands. Like the white emigres, they brought in the customs and manners of a softer climate, a more luxurious society, and a different civilization…they represented a distinct variety, a variety which their numbers made important, and for a time decisive in its influence on the home of their adoption."
Now, from the above quotation we find that three classes of people fled the turmoil in the West Indies. There hasn’t been any other time in the history of mankind, when whites, thousands of free people of color and African slaves fled en masse from a catastrophic situation. Literally speaking, they were all together in the same boats. Furthermore, prior to the revolution, we had already experienced more than one hundred years of black slavery and black freedom coexisting. As an effort to ameliorate racial conditions in the French colonies, in 1685, Louis XIV promulgated the very first equal rights edict ever written that included people of African lineage. It was called the Code Noir, or the Black Code. The king proclaimed that all free and freed Mulattos and Africans were to be regarded as free citizens of France. That code was written 106 years before the Haitian Revolution of 1791.
Now, at this point, we can take the liberty of using a little common sense. We can assure ourselves that when the Black Code was written, it was not written for a population of free little black or mixed blood babies. There had to be adults to warrant such concern. So, with that in mind, I am saying that black freedom and black slavery coexisted in St. Domingue for at least one hundred and twenty-five years before the Haitian Revolution, and twelve additional years longer, in Louisiana, before the signing of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty. And afterwards, that coexistence lasted for another 62 years until slaves were freed in America. When it all adds up, we have approximately 200 years of black freedom and black slavery coexisting. All of this is important in order to understand the differences in attitudes between the Creoles of Southern Louisiana, those of Northern Louisiana, and African Americans. With so many rich and cultured Creoles (Mulattos and Africans) then it was virtually impossible for the slaves (Mulattos and Africans) to develop an inferiority complex. Even, if black and/or Mulatto slave owners were cruel, as some have asserted, at least they were black or Mulatto, and had their known ancestry rooted in Africa and/or in slavery. Now, with that backdrop we return our attention to Napoleon’s Justifiable Revenge on the United States of America — the LPT.
On top of all of the above, in May of 1791, three months before the Haitian Revolution, news reached St. Domingue that the National Convention in Paris had decreed Mulattos must be allowed to represent themselves by participating in the colony’s government. Moreover, French Creoles from Haiti, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, had served with distinction in Napoleon’s racially integrated armies, in every category from buck privates all the way up to the highest official positions. Therefore, it would be absolutely ludicrous to even hint that Napoleon was the least bit unaware of what the Americans would encounter when making contact with the nonwhites already planted in the ceded territory. Our people, from the highest in society down to the lowly slaves, possessed educational power, moral strength, and more than enough tenacity to endure and resist American racism. Yes! Napoleon knew perfectly well what he was doing when he carefully crafted Article III of the LPT.
Now, enter the Americans. On December 20, 1803, William C. C. Claiborne, Louisiana’s first governor and General James Wilkinson arrived in the colony to take possession of Louisiana for the United States. That was eight months after the treaty was signed. Still the U. S. had not prepared its citizens to accept and comply with Article III of the LPT. In fact, by Claiborne’s first letter to Thomas Jefferson, president of the U. S., one could easily conclude that the Americans had absolutely no intention to comply. I see Claiborne’s letter as evidence that the United States intended to defraud. In his letter, Claiborne said to Jefferson; "My principal difficulty arises from two large companies of people of color, who are attached to the service, and were esteemed a very serviceable corps under the Spaniards. On this particular corps I have reflected with much anxiety." ‘To keep them, said Claiborne, would offend the Union and particularly the rest of the South…’ "outrage the feelings of a part of the Union;" ‘not to recommission the colored troops,’ he said, "would disgust" ‘the Negroes, and’ "be productive to future mischief; while to disband them would be to raise an armed enemy in the heart of the country, and to disarm them would savor too strongly of that desperate system of government which seldom succeeds."
Apparently, as indicated above, Napoleon anticipated the material breach of the LPT. And since the United States committed the material breach, it has forfeited every bit of the limited jurisdiction it would have had over our nation. And legally speaking, according to America’s own law, the United States does not legally own as much as a shovel full of the 908,380 square miles of land that composed the original Louisiana Territory. There you have it as I see it. You have before you, Napoleon's Justifiable Revenge on the United States of America.
Our treaty has seniority over all treaties made with the Indians, excepting those made in the 13 original states before the LPT. However, on this issue, the French Creoles of Louisiana are still asleep. Shame! Shame! Shame!
There's a very simple question here. Is Gilbert E. Martin right or is he wrong? Or, did the United States breach the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, yes or no. I don't believe that the United States Government will ever raise the issue and volunteer the answer to either of those simple questions. Do you?
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