Black Horizons; 2442; Jake Milliones Interview

I hope you enjoyed this video, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you enjoyed it This is Black Horizons And I am Chris Moore. Happy New Year To each and every one. We trusted, each of you. Have best intentions on starting. The New Year. On The Goodfoot. It is a January. 2nd. So, I hope you haven't been doing any New Year's resolution. Backsliding as of yet. We are going to see if we can start. The New Year, in good. fashion by telling you about the music of an extraordinary, all -female Acapella group, Sweet Honey in the Rock. They will be

here in Pittsburgh later this month to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the community of reconciliation. And speaking of singing, local vocalist Shane will be along a little later. I'm sure you'll enjoy his performance. But before we do any of that, or hear about any of it, let's hear from City Councilman Jake Maliance who's here to tell us about an approach that he has to stop the violence that we've seen in recent days in our community. Councilman Maliance, welcome to Black Horizons. We're glad to have you here once again. You're developing a plan on an approach. Can you tell us about it? Well, there are two things in particular. One, you may or may not know that City Council recently passed youth commission, enacted a youth commission, which is going to be an advocacy arm to propose a variety of pieces of legislation for youth and to be a youth advocate group primarily. In addition, this

group was funded, this commission, which will consist of 28 people or so half of whom will be youth, appointed by the mayor and acted upon by City Council. Is this funded yet? There was $150 ,000 put into the 1993 budget, so it is funded. One of the things we wanted to do through all the budgets. Well, I would certainly expect that it would last. It's legislation that was co -sponsored by Jim Furlow and myself. The funds that will be primarily used to, I think, higher youth workers who will work in various communities and try to organize parents as well as youth in an attempt to deal with some of the violence that we see. The kids, the young people are alienated, are not plugged in to the society,

do not identify with many of the things that the large society identifies. What you say is certainly true. I'm wondering what the approach to commission is going to take. Has any of that been planned yet? That has not been planned. We will probably bring on a consultant sometime real soon to staff the commission and to get it rolling until they're started. We need someone to pull that together. You know that I do a radio show for WCXJ and the comments I hear from the community. It's a good barometer on what I think the community is feeling. And what people tell me a lot is that people who are at the grassroots who are actually working, for instance, in the alarm section of our city, in East Liberty, in the hill in your district, out in homewood, even in Wilkinsburg and beyond the city limits, the people who are working at the grassroots never get asked to attend any of these meetings. How will you go about selecting the youth and the people who are going to lead this? I would say ask to participate. We will ask people to serve on the

commission who want to be on the commission, who want to do the work and to participate. One cannot nominate oneself. If one wants to serve on the commission or have someone to serve on the commission, they simply make that nomination to the mayor's office. And we will make sure that they're taking an consideration. When you say we, the mayor of the city council has a role in it? The mayor will appoint and the city council confirms. You said there was a second step to this? Well, there's a second thing that is not directly related to the commission. We're planning a major citywide conference in February, and we don't have the specific date because we're trying to get certain speakers to come. But it will be of Saturday in February to plan a major conference on violence associated with you. And we will, it will be an all day session. We will break for lunch, probably have a speaker as well. We will exit this conference with what can we do and what will we do? So that we can plug begin to plug in both the adults as well as youth into various structures.

So this is not just another fungus forum to sit and talk and argue. Absolutely not. We, I can assure you, we will leave the conference with a plan. And I can assure you that we are going to try to reach youth across the economic spectrum and racial spectrum. So we're very excited about making this happen. We recognize the terror that's in our communities. And we need to step forward and put this issue on the front burner. We need to work closely with the schools. We need to reopen the schools so that youngsters can have a place to repriate the Indian. Well that's going to be a pretty stiff job mandate considering that they're talking about fort will I heard recently they're scaling it back. But at least 13 meals of increase in taxes and a number of people are fighting toward that kind of stuff. How are we going to reopen the schools if the schools are suffering economically? I must

say that I cannot speak for the school board. As you know, no longer on the school board. But we are meeting momentarily with school board to talk about these issues. That's one issue that I'm going to raise with them. So we cannot afford to sit back in an idle manner and not do anything about this problem. Are you running for re -election next year? I have an announce but I expect that I will. So since this program airs in January and I'll tell everybody that we taped it in mid -December, would you be prepared to announce that airs in January a second on this show that you're going to be a candidate for re -election to City Council? I haven't finished talking to all the people that are working with me. Oh come on. You got to talk to me. I certainly expect to run again. All right. Do you have any comment on Reverend Green who is already announced that he is going to run against you? It's a free country. He's free to run as any citizen is. Okay. Skeptics who support him might say,

gee whiz, why is Councilman Malayan coming forward with this grand plan right now? Is he nervous about his competition? Are you? I'm not nervous. I'm concerned about what's happening. I've been one who has been working with youth and children for my entire political career, 15, 16 years. So I certainly don't need to say, it cannot be said that I'm a newcomer in terms of this concern. And this is just another long line of concerns that you have, that you've continually worked on to get things. Absolutely. Absolutely. We must unite in terms of the city of City Government, as well as the school district, and the broader community around this problem. We need to get the churches more involved in this problem as well. Okay. I hope that this is not a dated question between the time that we take this and the time that we air this. But it's well documented the attempt that you made to stop some police brutality in the hill and how

people really try to virtually crucify you for what they called interfering with the police officer and for what you probably return police brutality. We have right now a lady on the school board, Carol Annas, who is a convicted felon, convicted of obstructing justice. How do you feel about the way she's been treated and allowed to stay on the school board and vote for different kinds of issues that face the school board as a former school board member and as a leading politician in our community? How do you feel is there a double standard between the way people are judged based on color? It would appear there is. I can recall the difficulty that I had, rather than to my arrest, I was asked by several school board members to step down. Carol Annas was not one of those people, by the way. But it's very unfortunate that the situation has risen. And I think

Carol ought to give consideration to stepping down. I think the issue will probably be addressed in the next election as well. Back to other community issues. Are there other concerns that you have for the city at large, for your district, as to what you would like to see happen? What, I think the issue is jobs, jobs, jobs, we have to create more opportunity. How do we do that with the city facing the deficit it has, the school board? I'm not asking you to speak for the school board. It's question the priority, Chris. We either pay now or we pay later. It costs a lot more money to put a young person and keep a young person in jail. It's like more money than it does to send them the harbor. I've heard that statement made time and time again, but I don't know if people really, and I'm not suggesting you don't, but I don't know if people really address that and recognize the truth of

what you just said. I really don't. We have to address it. Time is running out. Okay. Would you come on our radio station and address it sometime soon, because we've asked you to come on that too, and your aids have told us not at this time. It's a place where you can really get to the community, and you've been there before. I hope you'll come back. I'd be glad to come back. Okay. All right. Thanks for being here. Any way that anybody can get any more information about... 255 -2134. If you're interested in the Youth Commission, that's my office number, and we'll take the information and make sure they get plugged in in some way. Okay. Repeat that number, please. 255 -2134. Councilman Millions, we appreciate you being here with us on Black Horizons. We look forward to talking to you on WCXShale. We'll be there. All right. Thank you. For many of you last month brings back the pleasant memories of the holiday season. For local entertainer Shane, December is a good month to remember. Even though it's now January, he's still got December on his mind. On his

hand, he stretched out still. Born to us, a child is born. His promise to fulfill. He did not come to you in vain. He's loving us. Our open wide for you.

And he will come. He will come again. There's more than just a memory for the child that was born there. He has come to set us free. Bethlehem's sunrise. I can see him in your eyes. For the child that was born there. His spirit

never dies. His star will never, will never grow dim. And he's our brand. You've done a new journey. And we will reign. We will reign with him. Bethlehem's morning

is more than just a memory for the child that was born there. He has come to set us free. Bethlehem's sunrise. I can see him in your eyes. For the child that was born there. He's the king of kings and the Lord of lords. And he will come again. And he

will come again. That was simply beautiful. Can I ask you just to praise his worthy name? I'm doing fine. As I told our audience when I first met you at White Lillie Church, you out in the audience. Usually when I go to MCDs, they come home and say, my sister Clark, she's a little horse. So I'm ready. You know, I cross all this stuff off and I'm ready. And they say, Darla Quinley. I said, well, that's a nice name. And I said, well, here she is to sing for you. And somebody said, $100 chicken sign. And I said, can she sign? And they said, yes. So you can sign, girl. I want you to know. Anything I have is from him. So how long have you been singing? Well, if I begin to tell you, I'll be telling my age. But actually, since about the

age of eight or nine, we used to sing as children. My brother and my sister. And we were just a homemade group. You know, in the basement with the piano and everybody together singing around the piano. And I've always enjoyed singing, but specifically singing songs that worship the Lord. So I just wanted to continue with it. So my brother and sister, we don't get together like we used to, you know, but I keep with it. Okay. Well, that's beautiful. You certainly have been blessed with the voice for it. And you sing just a phrase's name, is that right? I also love to sing love songs. I'll say that for weddings and what have you. But primarily, I love gospel, contemporary Christian music. That's the main focus. All right. Well, I know some people who have seen you now, and they probably want to sort of steal you away to other concerts. I won't mention any of you's same size more. Any of those other things. Okay. But I certainly would love to hear you in concert any time. Do you perform concerts or you're just singing weddings? Well, not really concerts, but when I'm asked to do programs at churches or weddings,

I do things like that. Okay. So the Lord opens the door for a concert one day. I'm ready and available. But it's not something that you can be seeing. Seek, right? It's something that I would like to do. My goal, I write music. And that's my main interest to sing the music that I write. So maybe the next time I can bring something that I've put together. Well, Christmas is coming up soon. And you're going to sing another song for us. Another Christmas gift for our audience, right? Yes. Okay. And what is Jesus? I give you Jesus. I give you Jesus. Here she is. Darla Quinnell is singing. I give you Jesus. Go ahead. If the ship of your life is tossing on the sea of strife and you need

someone. And if you feel so all alone and your house is not a home, you need someone. And if it seems life isn't fair, and there's no one left to share all those lonely days and nights, when things just won't turn our right. And you want someone to care. Someone to just be there. He is that someone that you need. So I give you Jesus. Jesus. He's that peace that passes all

understanding. I give you Jesus. He's that perfect love that casts a selfie. I give you Jesus. Jesus. He's the water that your dream can never first again. I give you Jesus. My friend. I give you Jesus. Jesus. If the pressure is all around, keep your spirits to the ground and you need someone.

And if your body isn't pain and your health, you can regain you need someone. If the times that you have tried with all the strength you had inside, and it seems that you have failed, remember all that cross he was nailed, all the bitterness and grief, to give you peace and sweet relief. He is that someone that you need. So I give you Jesus. He's that peace that passes all understanding. I give you Jesus.

He's that perfect love that casts a selfie. I give you Jesus. Jesus. He's the water that your dream can never first again. I give you Jesus. My friend. I give you Jesus. He's everything. Everything you need. I give you Jesus. Oh, my friend. I give you Jesus. I give you Jesus.

Oh, that was beautiful, darling. You hear a little bit more of, just a little bit later in the show. Right now we return with Dr. Ronald Peters of the Metro Urban Institute, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. We've got about a minute and a half and we wanted to get into Kwanzaa and whether it was compatible with Christian religion. Is it in fact? Yes, it does. The principles of Kwanzaa, which stress all kinds of Christian principles, everything from unity to purpose, to faith, creativity, cooperative economics, self -determination, all of these things are very consistent with the Christian gospel. And I see no reason why the two should be put in context with one another. Okay. At the institute, you have a phone number where people can call you. They're interested in getting in any of the things that you're teaching as far as urban ministry. Three, six, two, five, six, one, zero.

You can call the seminary and just ask for the Metro Urban Institute. We'd be glad to get involved with any of the Metro Urban issues that your or any church is involved in. Could be that number one more time. Three, six, two, five, six, one, zero. And whether it's homelessness, gangs, or any of these urban problems that face our cities now, you're equipped, you're prepared to teach lay and clergy about them, right? Our purpose is to train persons within the congregation, lay and clergy, how to address the current problems around their communities. I'd like to quote Second Timothy chapter one, verse seven, God has not given us the spirit of fear but of love and of power and of self -discipline. The self -discipline is the training, I think we can work together to get. Dr. Peter, thanks for being here with us. We appreciate it. With just a few more days before the celebration of the birth of Jesus, Christians everywhere take heart. There are many things that are still possible through the willingness to prepare and then

step out on faith. I pray that no matter your faith, that we may all come together in this effort to end the evils that face our community. We can do that and I hope that this program has shown you one way that these problems can be tackled. I'm Chris Moore, happy holidays to you. Before we go, here's Darla Quinnelly, one more time to sing for you. Thank you very much. We prayed as best we can. Now we must leave it in his name. Yet

I know when my eyes fell to sea, he is able. Even though it seems impossible to me, he is able. But if he chooses not to move in the way we pray, he will. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.