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SBA Free Resources, Loan Help

By Dianne Anderson

Aside from an all-out fake out, it's becoming drastically hard to put a happy face on the bad state of small business.

Ugly vacant storefronts dot the landscape from one side of the state to the other, fueled by a bad economy that makes it tough to find any good in the mix.

Still, the Small Business Administration said there are some positive moves for those who can ride out the storm.

In all, the SBA received approximately $1 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to try to get lenders to loosen up credit for small businesses. Some of that money has made a significant impact. In the six months ending July 16, the agency reports that loan dollar volumes increased over 90 percent in 7(a) and 504 programs. Read more...

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Socially Speaking

By Jacqueline Johnson

Birthday wishes, belated and upcoming, to Beatrice Jones on July 30 and to lovely granddaughter Jade Beatrice Jones, who was one year old on July 20, and the best birthday present ever … Speaking of birthdays, the surprise (not really) and best party ever for T. Leon Berry and part of their family reunion (Alexander and Dorothy Boone, West Palm Beach), Atlanta, Oakland, Arizona, and call from Hawaii were part of the surprise for T. Leon, who called around to find out where his surprise party would be.

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NAACP Weighs in on Racism in Tea Party

By Dianne Anderson

Denials over racism in the Tea Party is becoming a little less believable lately, especially after the group’s leading spokesman, Mark Williams’ letter to President Lincoln mocking Blacks as lazy “colored people” and slaves who love “maasa.”

In his mock letter that he signed as “Precious Ben Jealous, Tom’s Nephew NAACP Head Colored Person,” Williams wrote: “How will we coloreds ever get a wide screen TV in every room if non-coloreds get to keep what they earn?”

"We Coloreds have taken a vote and decided that we don’t cotton to that whole emancipation thing,” said Williams on his blog, which has since been taken down.

“Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!” Read more...

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Socially Speaking

By Jacqueline Johnson

Thanks to: Attorney Dimetria A. Jackson, treasurer, OC Bar Association; web developer Ernest Priestly; their son, Jackson Priestly; Jacquelyn A. Jackson, corporate tech trainer; H. Craig Jackson, visual artist, and “gran” lady, Bernice Perkins; a family in Irvine, whose traditional “fish fry for the 4th will become a fundraiser to reach out and give back to our community...

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Unveiling of the Negro League Stamp

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The United States Postal Service unveiled the new 44 cent historical Negro League stamps at the CSUF Irvine Campus on Friday July 16^th along with the Black Chamber of Orange County. Pictured are CSU Fullerton Director, Chuck Moore; Metropolitan Water District CAO, Gilbert Ivey; Black Chamber President, Bobby McDonald and Irvine Postmaster, Pete Galindo.

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Socially Speaking

By Jacqueline Johnson

Belated birthday wishes to: (Saint) Jessie Allen and to Deborah Pigg of San Diego ... Upcoming wishes to Cheryl Hopkins, T. Leon Berry and OC’s newest singing sensation, Jimmy “Ray” Colquitt ... Thanks to Brian Patterson for helping with presenters and to Political Action committee members Wellington Bennett and T. Leon Berry for attendance at NAACP meeting July 10th.

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Socially Speaking

By Jacqueline Johnson

The CAPOC annual picnic/carnival this year at its new facility was fantastic as usual. The new twist was the debut of Jimmy “RAY” Colquitt aka Jim Colquitt’s “Hit the Road, Jack” was the hit of the day. So thanks to Cheryl Hopkins for the invite to an annual event hosted by the Jackson family of Irvine, and thanks to them for the best fish, trimmings, and hospitality--it must be an Irvine thing! And to Ruth & Burnie Hayes, for sharing garden.and on-going kindness. It is a fact, I will pick tomatoes, etc., for sharing.

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Local Author Chronicles Black Migration to OC

By Eliz Dowdy

Most communities of color receive their local history through the oral traditions that sometimes create gaps attributable to memory lapses, but in Orange County local authors Robert Johnson and Charlene Riggins have very succinctly chronicled the migration of Blacks in the-20th century as Orange County, like most urban/rural areas, was going through the transition to urbanization.

I first met Johnson at a Juneteenth celebration in 2008; later when the book “A Different Shade of Orange” was published, I received an autographed copy, which has become invaluable for its historical overview and people histories.

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CAP Resources Help Create Jobs

By Dianne Anderson

California might get lucky and snap back to pre-recession times when unemployment was a mere 6%, and if all bodes well, that could happen as early as 2018, according to a recent UCLA economic forecast.

One of the nation’s few remaining safety nets, the unemployment extension, was killed last week by Senate Republicans, which may also cut back on some of the nation’s 15 million wraparound unemployment lines.

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