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Group stages boycott at STJ offices
Published 7:51pm Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Updated 10:22pm Wednesday, July 28, 2010A group of about 20 people, some adults but mostly young children, protested for approximately 30 minutes in front of The Selma Times-Journal’s offices on Water Avenue on Wednesday, some carrying signs saying, “Boycott STJ.”
The protest was in response to local attorney Faya Rose Toure’s call for a “boycott” of the newspaper on the talk radio show “A Public Conversation” earlier in the day. Toure is married to Senator Henry “Hank” Sanders, who is listed as the registered agent for WBFZ-FM on the Alabama Secretary of State’s website. “A Public Conversation” is broadcast on WBFZ-FM. Toure said a larger protest of the newspaper is planned Thursday at noon.
Toure addressed the Selma City Council on Tuesday during its meeting, but was escorted from council chambers by law enforcement authorities after her allotted time to address the council expired, and she was declared disruptive.
Toure’s call for a “boycott” of the newspaper, she claimed on “A Public Conversation,” is due to the newspaper’s bias in reporting her activities during city council proceedings.
Hatch,
I know Gwen Brown well enough to have been lied to her several times.
And Mark has lied to all of Selma too many times to count.
Regarding Blacks and the SCC:
At the last tournament, there was at least 1 black woman playing. There have been others.
I didn’t say that there were black members. The blacks I know who have been approached about joining, unfortunately aren’t interested.
I’m white, but I can’t play at the SCC..
Nina
I know Gwen Brown well enough to have been lied to BY her several times.
What Blacks have actually played at the Country Club and What Black members are there? Who have you gotten to know?
Unfortunately, after taking the time to know these people, I’ve come to realize that their hearts are sold out to ‘the cause’ of the House of God. They’ve proved that they will lie for ‘the cause’
And blacks CAN and DO play golf at the SCC.
Who told You they couldn’t?
I’m confused, maybe I live in a different Selma than the rest of you do. How can y’all say that this town is unified when black people can’t even play around of golf at the country club? To me that seems NOT unified. Or the fact that the mayor closes the bridge for people from Africa but won’t even close it for Children in this City that would like to do something positive. And the fact that he stats that only the state can close the bridge is not the truth. The bridge is in the city limits of Selma, which means that in the end the mayor has the power to keep the bridge open or to close it. Y’all should come down Friday to the march and speak with these people, and then you will see that all they are doing is standing for the truth. I doubt that any of you have actually taken the time to get to know any of them and actually see their hearts for this city. You will see that they love this city and are willing to fight to make it a better place.
The Selma City Council has finally become a cooperative working unit, government has settled down to doing business as a council should, and low and behold, they aren’t paying attention to Rose Sanders.Hooray. This paper should ignore her too. Selma has been quiet, people are getting along and Rose can’t stand the cooperation between the races. She has to claim that the council president belongs to a hate group in order to get her name in the newspaper.Give it up Rose, if you want to see a profile of a real hate group, look in the mirror. That image encompases the largest, racist, hate group in our area.
I can’t believe Rose has the audacity to actually call someone else “racist” considering the amount of racism, discrimination coming from her vile mouth. This is just another example of her type thinking she’s above the law, separate but equal and gets the privilege of double standards.
Rose & 29 other idiots standing in the hot sun boycotting the STJ. “Classic”
Rose has hurt this city more than any one person I can think of. She is personally responsible for resegregating the public schools in 1990. (which probably pleases her) The school system still has not recovered. She brought the black seperatist,racist,anti-semite Louis Faraklan to Selma. Her city council demonstrations in support of Mayor Perkins’ first budget shut down the council meeting and resulted in Singapore Air chosing not to bring approx 500 good paying aerospace jobs to Selma. Renamed her self “Toure” after her hero who, according to Amnesty International, murdered over 50,000 of his countrymen. As a county resident, she continues to violate voting rights law by voting in city elections using the addresses of property she owns in the city but doesn’t live in.
Rose you are irrelevant and destructive. No one with walking around sense cares what you have to say. You should be ashamed at the way you have to exploit children in order to draw a crowd.
Leesha, Kudo’s for refusing to be intimidated by this wanna be. Keep up the good work!
Anyone hear Rose’s recitation of what happened Tuesday Night?
I think the title was “Remove the N***** Wench.”
Even though she pronounced the word ‘wench’ as ‘wince’, it was interesting.
Or maybe she MEANT to say wince, which means ‘to kick out.’
She calls herself a n*****. Sad…
I wish mr Duke WOULD throw chairs. I’d love to see his tail in jail, except that he would probably send one of his followers to do it while he slimes back over to Atlanta. Then again, I hear that there are the FF’s “plants” working in the SPD, so I wonder if they would actually have the moral fibre to arrest their own fearless leader or any of their buddies.
Obviously, Rose whatever-she-calls-herself misses the days when she had a ready-made constituency united in a common cause. At this juncture, our “common cause” is ,should be and has been for a long time, community unity. We need to focus on our common interests and understanding. Based on her actions, it looks to me that she, like Mark Duke, wants to “divide and conquer.” Those she seduces into believing that she is some kind of fearless leader should realize that she does nothing that isn’t for Rose Sanders, Faya whatever, herself, first and foremost, at least, that certainly appears to be the case. She keeps having to invent something to whine about whether there is something there or not. As long as she can convince SOME group that they have a common enemy and cause, then she has political power and, more importantly, access to funds. It’s a real pity and Senator Sanders really needs to rein her in a bit.
BTW, 20 or 30 people hardly represent any kind of real “action.”
I have never seen a group of people that have taken more steps to self destruction and implosion of this city than this group of rabid radicals. Self Loathing and racial antics are the only tools in their bag of tricks. If Selma were to resolve the black on black crime, murders, poverty, poor educational system….then Rose would be broke. Rose keeping this city in a melodramatic state through false accusations of discrimination, racism and oppression only gives her relevance and existance…otherwise…she would be irrelevant.
How pathetic that Selma’s very own STATE SENATOR has a wife of such disgusting proportions that keeps this city in a constant state of turmoil only to line her pockets with the money of the very people she claims to be “helping and advocating for”. I guess most of these people are too blind or ignorant to realize they are the ones ULTIMATELY getting used by “their own”.
Rose Sanders or Faye Toure or whatever name she chooses to go by is an utter disgrace to the City of Selma not to mention a joke to the legal profession. She should be barred from attending future council meetings and should be disbarred from ever practicing law (if she ever did). Then the citizens of Selma should get together and run her straight out of town FOR GOOD!!!
Rose, I hope you know how ridiculous you look and sound. If you want to march and protest; I suggest you go find Doc Brown and his Delorean. They can take you back to 1965…
Interesting that on 105.3 yesterday, Mr Duke was advocating throwing chairs over at the next city council mtg.
Why is he trying to get Rose to do his dirty work?
It must be that plantation master spirit runnin’.
This is typical Rose and her crazy antics. This town would be so much better off if she would LEAVE!!!
Only 20? And for only 30 minutes? Serving them some sodas and donuts would have been a nice touch.