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Cham Resistance and the Malay-Islamic Regional Network
French missionary sources mention that during the thirty years prior to the fall of Champa to the Nguyen in 1693, there were many Malay scribes and missionaries in the court of Champa. Their main task was to propagate the Islam faith to the Chams. It is likely that these Malays became involved in the Cham struggle against Vietnamese encroachment into Cham territories, resulting in several anti-Vietnamese movements. In this regard, the Chams clearly invoked their Malay-Islamic identity in trying to enlist help against the Vietnamese.
Between the establishment of Nguyen rule over Champa in 1693 and the final annihilation of the Cham political entity in 1835, the Chams made many attempts to break away from Vietnamese rule. These normally took the form of armed revolts. Among the major Cham revolts were those of 1693, 1728, 1796, and 1832-34.
In the case of the 1728 revolt, Po Dharma suggests that the main cause was Cham dissatisfaction with their socio-economic situation. It was through these revolts that the Chams began to rekindle their ties with the Malays and seek their help in resisting the Vietnamese.
The Cham resistance of 1796 control was led by a Malay nobleman named Tuan Phaow. He is believed to have been from Kelantan, as he told his Cham followers that he was from Mecca (Kelantan). His followers consisted mainly of Chams from Binh Thuan and from Cambodia (giving rise to the suggestion that he was from Cambodia), as well as Malays. Tuan Phaow's resistance had a religious dimension (Jihad). In order to legitimize his actions, Tuan Phaow claimed to have been sent by God to help the Chams resist the Vietnamese. Tuan Phaow's forces were up against Nguyen Anh (Gia Long, founder of the Nguyen Dynasty). Despite putting up strong resistance for almost two years, Tuan Phaow's forces were cornered and defeated by the Nguyen army working in league with a pro-Nguyen Cham ruler. Tuan Phaow reportedly escaped to Mecca. This resistance movement was the first clear indication that Cham resistance had a strong Malay connection. It also shows the Islamic religious dimension becoming a common rallying call.
The 1832 Cham revolt took place as a reaction against Emperor Ming Mang's harsh oppression of the Chams in reprisal for their support of Ming Mang's viceroys in Gia Dinh in the south. Viceroy Le Van Duyet had refused to accept orders from Hue since 1728. After Duyet passed away in 1832, he was succeeded by his adopted son, Le Van Khoi, who continued to resist the Nguyen court. Ming Mang's army carried out a series of oppressive activities against the Cham population in Binh Thuan to punish them for supporting Le Van Duyet and Le Van Khoi. In this conflict, the Malay-Cham connection is again evident in the form of Malay leadership. The Chams were led by a Islamic clergyman from Cambodia named Katip (Khatib) Sumat, who had spent many years studying Islam in Kelantan. Apparently, upon hearing that Champa was under attack by the Nguyen army, Katip Sumat immediately returned. Arriving in Binh Thuan in 1833, he was accompanied by a large force of Malays and Chams from Kelantan. Katip Sumat led the Chams in a series of guerrilla attacks against the Nguyen army. Apart from fighting for the survival of Champa, Katip Sumat invoked the Islamic bond in rallying Malay and Cham support for the cause. In some ways this turned the Cham struggle against the Vietnamese into a form of religious war. The Katip Sumat-led resistance, however, was defeated by the Nguyen army.
Katip Sumat's Malay contingent did not consist only of volunteers. It is believed that they were sent by Sultan Muhamad I of Kelantan (1800-1837), who raised an army to accompany Katip Sumat to Champa. According to Po Dharma, the underlying factors were the Sultan's acknowledgement that he and the ruler of Champa shared the same lineage (descendants of Po Rome) and of the need to preserve Islamic unity.
The defeat of Katip Sumat and other Malay-Cham resistance against the Vietnamese in 1835 marked the end of Champa as an independent or autonomous political entity. However, resistance up to that time demonstrates that the Malay-Cham relationship was very old and based first on their common Malay identity and, increasingly since the sixteenth century, on their common adherence to the Islamic faith. Malay-Cham relations continued after 1835 as well, mainly culturally and religiously.
The Twentieth-Century Legacy of Cham-Malay Linkages
The final annihilation of Champa by the Vietnamese Emperor's troops in 1835 effectively marked the end of almost two millennia of continuous Champa existence. Since then, the last strips of Champa territories, known as Panduranga to the Chams, were fully incorporated into the Vietnamese realm. The end of the Cham royal house also effectively ended the little protection afforded the Cham population between 1693 and 1835. Unlike the previous arrangement, wherein the Chams were subjects of the Cham rulers and governed by Cham regulations and laws, the post-1835 Cham population came under direct Vietnamese rule. The provincial administrators were the highest authority, and Cham notables served as middlemen between the population and the Vietnamese rulers.
With the end of 1835 revolt, Cham links with the external world were also considerably reduced. This situation persisted until the second half of the nineteenth century, when Binh Thuan and five other provinces in the south were ceded to the French by the Nguyen at the end of the Franco-Vietnamese War of 1858-1861. The advent of French colonization of Vietnam actually ended Nguyen attempts to wipe out the Chams. The breakdown of the Nguyen administrative apparatus in the face of greater French control over the provinces saw the rekindling of ancient Cham aspirations to exert Cham identity. Efforts to re-establish traditional external linkages, including those with the Malay states, played an important role. This is evident from reports of religious teachers (ulama) from the Malay Peninsula who frequented the former land of Champa during the final years of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth. Like their predecessors, many of these visitors stayed for long durations in the former Champa as well as among the Chams in Cambodia. They married local Cham women and had children. Several of these families remained in the former Champa and in Cambodia, cementing relationships established in earlier centuries.
During the twentieth century, exchanges of visits between the Chams and the Malays became more frequent and were often family visits, though the religious factor remained strong. Until recently, Malay missionaries visited southern Vietnam to spread the Islamic faith among the Chams. In the annual international Quranic recital competition in Kuala Lumpur, representatives from Vietnam (Binh Thuan) continued to take part until the escalated Vietnam War made it impossible for them to attend.
From the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 until 1993, the Malaysian government took in no fewer than 7,000 Muslim Cham refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia, making them the only group out of the tens of thousands of Vietnamese refugees who passed through Malaysia to be accepted and settled. Though the official explanation was based on humanitarian considerations, the truth lies with Malay-Cham connections based on common Malay and Islamic identity.
Danny Wong Tze Ken is associate professor in the Department of History, University of Malaya. This project was funded by a SEASREP-Toyota Foundation Regional Collaboration Grant.
Sources : http://kyotoreview.cseas.kyoto-u ... e4/article_353.html
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TranHungDao, are you vietnamese? of course you are. you history perspective sounds belong to viet history
You can not deceive cham history. I am cham people where my homeland was located at SEA and the country was vanished from the world map by Vietnamese. Now we are cham are scattered all over the world.
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LOL, have you not noticed that I go out of my way to cite non-Vietnamese sources?
With all due respect, you remind me of Cambodians who blame Vietnamese for that truly tragic "killing fields" episode of Cambodian history, even though neutral historians say otherwise. BTW, you do know that the Khmer Rouge are NOT Vietnamese, right?
Edit: And just so you know, I strongly, strongly suspect that the modern Vietnamese, particularly in the central and southern regions of Vietnam are probably 1/2 Cham and/or Khmer. One can tell simply by the rather discernible phenotypical difference from northern Vietnamese. That is, the Vietnamese who conquered the central (Cham) and southern (Khmer) regions of modern day Vietnam did not kill or expell everyone as popular myth has it, but rather absorbed the local defeated populations. Further, the Khmer population in southern Vietnam has always been relatively small to begin with. Even now, the population of Cambodia is but a tiny fraction of that of Vietnam. I've even heard, though have never independently verified it thru the historical record, that the Chinese immigrant population in Vietnam has always rivalled that of the Khmer population since the southern region was annexed by the Vietnamese.
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Perhaps you should widen your perspective then:
0. Genetic (mtDNA) studies suggest the (proto) Vietnamese have been in the Red River delta (aka northern Vietnam) longer than pretty much everyone else in both NE and SE Asia. This is a theory by some Chinese as well as a few Western researchers, btw. Ultimately, the Vietnamese are not "immigrants", illegal or otherwise, contrary to long held Vietnamese myths concerning their Yueh origins. Thus, at the very least, we have a fundamental right to be in northern Vietnam, no? (I'll get to the central and southern parts below...) In contrast, the Hmong, Lao, Thai are all originally from China.
1. For millenia, the Viet, Thai, Lao, Hmong, Khmer, Cham, Montagnard, etc., fought amongst each other. On top of this, Vietnam was periodically invaded by China to the immediate North. Indeed, the Vietnamese were the gate keepers that kept the mighty Chinese out of mainland S.E. Asia.
2. This all took place during the age of empires, if you will, where "everything goes": conquest, plunder, annexation, and even slavery and genocide. Let's remember that the Chams, according to neutral/non-Vietnamese sources, were particularly reliant upon plunder and slavery more than anyone else. The prosperous Vietnamese, in particular, were among their favorite victims for 1500 years--continuously. The Chams certainly out-Vietnamesed those barbaric Vietnamese in barbarism. Slavery is barbaric, no?
3. Self-defense is a fundamental right of a people. No? Don't expect people to always turn the other cheek. A woman who is being raped has every right to kill her assailant, especially if he won't stop.
4. A state has the right to defend itself from internal threats. No? After Champa was annexed, the Chams periodically revolted, with the outside help from the Malays, no less (see HangPC2's posts citing Malaysian sources above). Naturally, this means such internal threats are also external threats.
5. Annexation was the norm during the age of empires. No? Vietnam annexed the central and southern regions during the age of empires, before the UN, before the League of Nations, before the Declaration of the Rights of Man. Heck, all modern countries, their borders and whatnot, were formed by their past rulers' hegemonistic exploits. But everyone knows this.
Chams, Khmers, or anyone else for that matter, can't apply modern concepts of humanism, liberation theory or what have you to those times so self-righteously, without applying it to the their own past brutality. All empires, be it Cham, Khmer, Viet, Chinese, Arab, Mongol, Roman, Viking, etc., formed because one day, a rather ambitious dude said: "Hey, let's go out there and crush the competition!"
Of course, one can apply such enlightened logic to the self-genocide that occurred in those "killing fields", for they took place recently.
Vietnam annexed Champa (central Vietnam) out of self-defense, i.e. 1500 years of continuous Cham plunder-based economy. Vietnam then eliminated the self-rule of the Chams when they revolted. Harsh conditions or not, states have the right to put down revolts. BTW, there were numerous Vietnamese revolts against the Vietnamese court too. And those were either all defeated or ended with a new court taking over.
Vietnam did indeed annexed southern Vietnam out of pure hegemony. But again, it was during the age of empires. And mind you, the Thai have taken far more land from that rather vast old Khmer Empire than the Vietnamse ever did.
And please don't tell me had the shoe been on the other foot, both the hapless, hopeless & helpless Khmers and Chams would have freely returned the lands they had taken by force throughout the centuries.
No way. There simply wouldn't have been Khmer empire nor a Cham empire in the first place, if both respective peoples were so swell in their pro-human rights dispositions. Historically, Champa was THE major hub of slavery in Asia, was it not?
Let me be clear here: I'm not justifying age old atrocities and hegemony, just explaining them in their context.
6. Concerning the Vietnamese creation of the Khmer Rouge, as you put it: You need to be reminded that in the modern age, it was none other than the Khmer ruler who invited the French into Indochina. Vietnam alone lost millions upon millions of people during French colonial rule. There were individual famines which literally wiped out upwards of 2 MILLION Vietnamese, or 8-15% of the population during the respective time periods in which they occurred. I'm sure Cambodia and Laos suffered proportionately as well. Yes, both the Vietnamese communists, as well as their comrades the Chinese communists, did encourage the formation of the Khmer Rouge. Indeed, Pol Pot was a member of the Vietminh.
However, you need to remember that the Chinese were fully in charge when Pol Pot when went rather insane in the membrane, if you will. Cambodia was a satellite of the PRC when it attacked Vietnam. The PRC has a habit of cultivating pretty crazy satelites, Khmer Rouge Cambodia being one and Kim Jon Il N. Korea being the other. Another such one is Darfur. China was a selfishly behaved as key ally of N. Vietnam right up to 1975, only to turn around and attack Vietnam in 1979. Go figure...
It was none other than Cambodia who repeatedly attacked Vietnam first, resulting in the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and the ouster of the KR in 1978. Entire border villages of civilians/peasants including women, children were massacred by the KR. Please don't try to convince me the Vietnamese were telling the Khmer Rouge to do this. Initially, the Hanoi tried to close its eyes the numerous reports of Vietnamese being massacred within Cambodia when the their ally the KR took over. Then, they even tried to ignore the initial border raids by the KR into Vietnam which resulted in numerous civilian atrocities. You simply cannot expect a country to tolerate never ending attacks into its borders, especially when KR leaders literally uttered breathtaking nonsense like "Two million Khmers can kill 50 million Vietnamese! Each man will kill 25 Vietnamese!" Yeah!
Other things to consider are: Vietnam lost a lot of land, which it had conquered from both Laos and Cambodia, when the French colonial administrators redrew the respective maps of each country according to their whims. In little Quang Tri province alone, 4 times more bombs were dropped by the US military than was dropped on all of the European theatre (Nazi Germany, Nazi controlled Europe) during WWII. Loas was even more bombed than Vietnam, believe it or not. Using your own self-serving logic, the Vietnamese and the Laotians then have the Cambodians to thank for this, for if the French were never invited into Indochina, Vietnam included, then the Americans never would have come in either. The course of Vietnamese history would have been drastically different: Continuous war and/or occupation from 1820-1990.
1820-1954: French colonial rule, where resulting in at least 5 million deaths.
1940-1945: Franco-Japanese colonial rule.
1955-1975: US involvement, 2-4 million dead depending on the estimate.
1979-1990: Hot and cold war with China, much of which involved Cambodia and Laos as pawns of both.
Or, let's just call Vietnam for what it was during this 170 years period: Hell on Earth.
The Vietnamese also spent 10 years at the cost of 20,000 soldiers and vital resources it simply should not have spared fighting the KR insurgents, supported by the US, China, Thailand and Prince Sihanouk, who was once their arch enemy. That is, they were fighting the very people who were killing Khmers. (And just so you know, the losses on the Vietnamese side were due largely to land mines and tropical diseases.)
BTW, did the Vietnamese train and/or brainwash Sihanouk into supporting one of the worse genocidal regimes ever?
With all due respect, you're logic cuts both ways. And frankly, you've hurt yourself pretty badly with it, not unlike how the twisted and contorted logic of the KR invariably resulted in the hellish self-genocide which took place in those infamous "killing fields".
Edited by TranHungDao - 12-Feb-2009 at 02:35
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Thanks for the citation. I kinda knew this instinctively. In fact, I was certain of it despite never reading about it.
At any rate, arafatc, have a nice life, b'coz I'm bored with this thread. I just had to respond because I see a lot of anti-Vietnamese spiel on the fancy-schmanchy internets all the time by Khmers. Their logic is pretty much without exception highly convoluted and/or breathtakingly hypocritical. Normally I don't bother to respond, but I felt compelled this time, since you threw down the gauntlet.
Vietnam can definitely be criticized for its current domination of both Laos and Cambodia, but the criticism needs to be fact-based, taken in context, and non-hypocritical.
Later bro.
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Hi TranHungDao,
your nick name is taken from a name of a hero VietNamese General in Tran Dynasty, but you have made so many rubbish statements and try to distort history itself. Could you tell me when is Vietnamese army 've got a courage to invade China territory? If you read the whole Vietnamese history. Vietnam army just resistant and and expel China from Vietnam land. And because of pressure from china in the North Vietnam try to survise by expand land to the South, i.e invaded Champa Kingdom. And do you know why Vietnam can beat Champa at that time. i think you understand well the Huyen Tran princess & Che Man King marriage, in which Tran Nhan Tong purposely settle an marriage for political purpose.
About Polpot genocide ended by Vietnam, after that why Vietnam troop take such over 10 years to withdraw if vietnam did not intent govern Indochina. your knowledge is like a flog in the well. Don't forget all your excuses for leveling Champa will be used by China to eleminate Vietnam in the future. Hoang Sa & Truong Sa is a proper examples.
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Some very interesting comments, mostly cuts and pastes, on Champa on this thread. And, one expects the usual flame wars. Just back from several months in Vietnam, where I spent a few weeks teaching English in Dalat.
While there, I visited the Lam Dong provincial history (Bao Tang Lam Dong) museum, which is actually well worth the 4,000 (25 cents) dong entry fee. Most provincial "museums" in Vietnam have nothing to do with history, and merely regurgitate the standard "Uncle Ho as Venerable Saint" fare. The Lam Dong museum has its Uncle Ho section, but it also has displays well worth seeing. First, there are good exhibits on the local indigenous peoples (principally Koho and Ma), even to the point of showing how they really dressed. Loincloths are shown with the back looking like sumo wrestler garb, and the flaps worn to the front and front side. Photographs and mannequins show (tastefully) that the women often went topless. There are tribal musical instruments, pottery, baskets, and weavings. And, up at the edge of the museum compound, they have taken the trouble to construct small Koho and Ma houses. Far superior to anything in the Buon Me Thuot and Pleiku museums. Second, they have included some pieces from the Hindu temples unearthed at Cat Tien, to include its stone lintel, a ganesh figure, and a model of the linga-yoni stone, as well as a few pieces of gold offerings. The site is dated as 700 AD, and the museum states that whether it is a Cham site, or earlier Oc Eo site, is still being determined. Third, there is a collection of Chinese and other pottery that evidence the areas link's to both the Cham and Nguyen Lord periods. The underlying message is that the peoples of Lam Dong had links, and interaction with, the Oc Eo cultures, and the Cham at Panduranga and Kauthara.
In Dalat city, I found a bookstore that had a book on Cham cultural ceremonies entitled "Le Hoi Chuyen Mua Cua Nguoi Cham" by a "PGS. TS. Ngo Van Doanh". Professor Doanh has photographs and descriptions of Cham ceremonies both in Vietnam, and other sites of the Cham disapora. That the Vietnamese even published such a book is a positive sign. Though I doubt that many Kinh have purchased it, it is a step forward.
Finally, on a trip to a local tourist site, Doi Mong Mo, with my wife's (Vietnamese) family, we ran into a group of about 20 Cham who had come up from Phan Rang. Of interest, they were a family group that included both Cham Bani (muslim) and Cham Balamboom (Hindu). The older women had headscarves, but the younger moslem women were wearing hair nets which made them look quite attractive. None of the women were obviously secluded, as all showed their faces. One of the older men was a veteran of the 4th Company of the 55th (Nha Trang) MIKE Force, a parachute assault unit of the Vietnam War that served with the 5th Special Forces Group. I remembered the company, as all its members wore a green neck scarf with the sword and Arabic writing as depicted on the Saudi flag. My own unit, which included Raglai tribesmen, had been based in nearby Dien Khanh. The point here is that these Cham had the money and time to come up to Dalat as tourists. There was a Koho band which sang a combination of Vietnamese and Koho songs, and at one point all the male Cham in the audience stood up and began singing and cheering. Then, several of their young men and women took the microphone to deliver a song in Cham.
This brings me to my final point. Having grown up in both French and Spanish speaking regions of the U.S., I long ago noted that those who best learned English ended up with better jobs and careers. Those who did not, remained at the economic fringes of U.S. society. It's nice to maintain positive cultural values, but cultures, like people themselves, develop and either move on or fade away. The Rhade longhouses of my earlier Vietnam experience have disappeared, outlawed after 1975 to break up the large matriarchal families and encourage nuclear families, thereby undercutting the importance of the clans. FULRO, once with strong support in the Highlands, has been rendered irrevelant by a wave of Kinh immigrants who have moved in to exploit the land adjacent to roads and highways, making Vietnam the world's #2 coffee producer in the process. (Buon Ma Thuot, long the Rhade tribal capital, is now a city of 300,000, the great majority Vietnamese.) For the Highland Cham, and this historically included both Malayo-Polynesian as well as some Mon-Khmer peoples, their best course of action is to learn Vietnamese well, and be able to function within Vietnamese society. That will, of course, lead to eventual absorbtion, the same process begun by the Nguyen lords, but by the same token, they will add to making the Vietnamese more "Vietnamese". Some posters have already noted the differences between Bac, Trung, and Nam Viet, with many Trung showing signs of partial Cham ancestry. Genetic testing can now confirm such. Development is changing Vietnam. The process may be slower than some would desire, and anti-Dega and anti-Khmer prejudice is common in some rural areas. I have a strong distaste for the current government, but for all their faults, which are legion, they do push a vision of Vietnam that sees all of Vietnam's "ethnic minorities" as Vietnamese. And, they have made serious efforts to bring modern amenities to remote tribal areas. As Vietnam's economy continues to grow, it is in the best interests of the so-called "ethnic minorities" to be a part of that growth. At the same time, the government would do better to drop the "ethnic minority" term altogether, and adopt the term "Dega". There is no reason that a modern Vietnam cannot adopt a few non-Kinh terms into its language. Likewise, while books on the Cham or tribal customary law (such as Ngo Duc Thinh's "Nhung Mang Mau Van Hoa Tay Nguyen") are a step forward, one wonders why there are no Viet-Ede, Viet-Jarai, Viet-Koho, or Viet-Cham dictionaries in print. Such -Englisn and -French dictionaries or word lists are occasionally printed in Thailand! But asking for one in any book store in Pleiku, Buon Me thout, or Dalat still elicits less than polite responses.
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Dear lirelou,
Welcome to AE and thanks for your very interesting input.
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Most of the men in east coast Malaysia (Kelantan & Terengganu) use to tie the cloth around their heads like that.. and usually they are fishermen not working in Paddy field like the Cham.
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In the vastly underrated film biography, Get On Up, there is a scene where a very young James Brown (alternately played by twins Jamarion and Jordan Scott) Is forced to fight in a boxing ring with other little black boys. All of the boys are blindfolded and have one hand tied behind their backs in what was known as a "Battle Royale". The boxing ring is located on the grounds of a white country club in Georgia.
Dressed in their evening finery, the white men enjoy plenty of food and liquor while they place bets on which child will emerge the winner. In the background, a lively black Dixieland jazz band plays. Little James is knocked down by one of his opponents. As he lay on the ground, he lifts his blindfold to fully take in the wondrous sounds the band is playing. He marvels at how well they play and what it must be like to make those amazing sounds. This, along with an earlier scene where he taps out a rhythm in time to his father singing gospel, clues us in to the fact that James has an ear for music. In the meantime, the white men continue to eat, drink and watch the fight, oblivious to the fact that they are encouraging little children to beat each other up for their own amusement.
That scene is exactly what I thought of after I read an opinion piece in the Washington Post this weekend titled, "The Whole Point of Sports is Their Meaninglessness". In his article, the author Gary Abernathy opines about how he really wishes he didn't have to deal with people making protests during the anthem or talk about how they will skip the NBA championship visit to the White House while he's trying to enjoy his basketball or football game. "The real world hits us in the face every day," he writes. "Sports are our escape, and if fans lose that benefit from the leagues they love, the leagues will lose their fans."
The white privilege in that quote alone is astounding. In other words, if you don't shut up and do and feel how we tell you to do and feel, you will lose our respect and our money. I could imagine it has never truly registered with the author that 70 percent of the NFL and the NBA is made up of black males. Yes it should be an issue for the fans to have to acknowledge! How dense must a person be to not understand that every day a disproportionate number of black men and women are harassed, jailed or even killed for offenses that many white guys don't even get a slap in the wrist for? And coincidentally, many of the players, who come from the inner cities, have first- hand experience when it comes to police brutality.
Being someone obviously educated enough to get his opinion published in the WaPo, I will try to give Abernathy the benefit of the doubt. Of course minorities should be allowed to protest injustice and I don't think he would argue that. But just when and where exactly does he think that should take place if not on the most watched, largest stage in the world?
As an African American woman, I want you to think about the myriad of protest rules minorities are presented with every day as dictated by many white Americans. Protest if you must but don't do it during the week because people have to get to and from work and you might block traffic. Don't do it in the suburbs or near businesses. And if you absolutely have to protest, like say, after another white cop gets off for shooting an unarmed black man, obey curfew laws and shut it down before 10pm.
People have had a long day at work, Abernathy seems to say. Let them sit back, sip their beer and watch you grind your kneecaps to powder or knock your heads together until you're silly. Entertain them. Do whatever you want, just stop reminding them that you're one routine traffic stop away from being shot by a psychopathic cop every single fucking day of your life.
Of course some love to bring up the "but they're millionaires!" argument. Everybody knows the NFL is a billion dollar industry. But what many people don't know is that while there are some millionaires on the field, the majority of the guys don't make nearly that much, and don't play very long. In fact:
"While superstar players like Tom Brady and Cam Newton are raking in the contract money and endorsements, most NFL players aren't nearly as comfortable. Last season, the NFL minimum salary was $435,000 and practice squad players earned a minimum of $6,600 a week. This is significant money, of course, but it's important to note that the average NFL career is only 3.3 years."
In fact, NFL players actually make less than their NBA counterparts. But they have much shorter careers, and suffer far more grievous bodily harm.
Poverty to riches isn't a gray area for many poor people. It is a black and white issue (perceived and literal), and for many of these guys, sports is their only way out. Many of them come from cities and towns that put a lot of emphasis on sports such as football and how playing it could possibly make you rich beyond your wildest dreams. For many, playing ball is the only ticket to wealth. So if you can't rap, got a crappy education from a poorly funded school, or are not street savvy enough to sell drugs, what the hell else can you do?
For many black folks, if their grandma or sibling didn't have a life insurance policy to pay for their funeral, that meant that in addition to unbelievable heartache, the fucking lights were gonna be cut off by the end of the month. There is no fucking will, and taking over the family Subway franchise is not an option. The one thing you know how to do is play ball and you play well. You look at a Cam Newton or a LeBron James and realize you can make serious paper doing it. Most importantly, you can do what you love and be idolized by millions. You could give two shits about entertaining an audience largely filled with white people, or that your checks are signed by a white guy. Wealth and a big dick make you a God in the eyes of many guys,and for these testosterone filled brothers their image is the only thing they have to demonstrate their self-worth.
If you're white,you may not know or openly acknowledge this, but how you feel about a minorities' true place in this world can make or break us. It literally is a matter of life and death . White team owners and fans that shower a brother with money and adulation can take that all away by merely tweeting their displeasure. And some are nowhere near interested in letting us forget that.
And so it goes. No matter how hard you've worked, no matter how intelligent you are and how much you have positively contributed to society, no matter that you're an NFL superstar, you can and will experience the same shit your father, grandfather and great great grandfather went through. Police brutality towards blacks didn't start yesterday. Obama is not the reason why cops sometimes lose their shit on a disproportionately high number of brothers. Many were conditioned that way. Yale University social psychologist John Davido says that "A large proportion of white Americans have these [implicit] biases, and it's hard to expect police officers to be any different." Ask your black uncle or grandpa who grew up in the 60's and 70's and they can relate stories of how police targeting minorities back then was about as commonplace as the sun rising in the east. If it seems worse now it's because we have eyewitnesses who aren't afraid to post the crimes on social media. Which is why it matters now, more than ever, that these rich and famous brothers should be allowed to protest in such an incredibly large forum.
Some would argue that blacks are disproportionately targeted by police because of bad attitudes and behavior. But there have always been young men who misbehave and disrespect authority and it's been that way since Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel. The difference is literally black and white. When I was a teen growing up in the 80s in Colorado, it wasn't uncommon for a white kid who drove drunk or stole a pack of cigarettes to literally have the sheriff to likely tussle his hair and chuckle about how "boys will be boys" and send them home to their parents. With minorities it's more likely the opposite, even if it is later proven that these boys suffered from serious mental disturbances. And I'm not talking about sociopath or psychopathic behavior either. In fact, white schoolchildren with ADD are more likely to be given therapy and meds while black and Hispanic children are flat out expelled from school.
Not to say that being an athlete didn't have its advantages. It's a paradox for black athletes that if they acted up in high school or college, they were sometimes given a pass due to their amazing abilities on the field. Some would say this is proof positive that they were not discriminated against, but that is simply not the case. True, amazing athletes put butts in stadium seats and generate crazy revenue for their schools. The paradox is that you're taking a kid who came from nothing and channeling sometimes misguided behavior into something that benefits you. You give him money and excuse certain behaviors because he makes you a profit. He begins to think he can do anything. He gets caught and you yank the leash. Confused, he may retaliate. And for many racist, fearful whites, sometimes the worst crime he committed that day wasn't the crime itself but the fact that he committed it and was also the wrong color.
Being a minority is strange because it is also a mentality. It's the one that tells you that no matter how successful you are, someone will always remind you of where you came from. We were always advised to never forget your "fam" and that admonition also served as a warning from our black elders. Never become fully "bougie" or uppity. Professional tennis player James Blake was tackled and assaulted by police after exiting a hotel simply because he "matched the description" of a suspect. A tennis player! And poor Sandra Bland who was arrested for "showing attitude" after she was pulled over for failure to use her turn signal. Bland, who had just been offered a promising job working for a college in Prairie View Texas ended up hanging herself in her jail cell. The cop was fired but never indicted or charged, even though he committed perjury on the stand.
It is absolutely proper to kneel in protest of police brutality in front of the very same group of people who have been watching your ancestors bloody themselves for sport for hundreds of years. James Brown was only following the path of his ancestors by engaging in a physically punishing sport as a child so the white gamblers would give him money. Seventy percent of the NFL consists of young, African American males, who are harming their brains for the amusement of millions of people, mostly white males. And of course food and liquor are always served at games. As they say, it is what it is.
But those that can't at least acknowledge this fact should perhaps tune in to something less offensive to their delicate sensibilities. I'm not trying to give Abernathy a guilt trip about watching a majority of black men play football. Enjoy it. Help them work their way into the upper middle class/rich. But keep in mind that once they're off the field, they are always potential victims. Maybe in the meantime, this makes no difference. But maybe someday these brothers may decide it's not worth it to entertain a group of people so ridiculously oblivious to the fact that a brotha or sistah could die today simply because they did not use their turn signal while doing a lane change.


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It's been interesting that my posts about cooking contests receive a lot more comments than the ones about cooking or dining. For what it's worth, I won't have much to report in the way of contests for awhile, because I don't have many entries out there in the pipeline. Some contesters submit their entries, keep track of deadlines, and wait with baited breath to see whether they won. I prefer to submit entries and then forget about them. If I win something, it's a fun surprise. If not, on to the next contest.
Anyway, there's an article in the New York Times about contesting and specifically this year's Sutter Home Build a Better Burger contest. I wasn't at the contest, but the information about contesting strikes me as being fair and accurate. Unfortunately, the New York Times makes you register and give them info for you to get access to their site. I won't do this for most sites, but, well, it's the New York Times and I wanted to see the article. Anyway, here's the link to the article.
I thought I should mention that if you're interested in entering cooking contests, the Cooking Contest Central Web site is a tremendous resource. For a fee of $25 per year, you get notified of just about every contest that's out there. There's also a forum where people post questions and answers, and hear about each other's contest experiences. Some of the content is free, so check it out!


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In today's episode Stephanie shares why she left her photography business + why her family left the hustle of the Silicon Valley for a more slow paced life in Oregon. She shares about her son, Aidan and his journey through life while being on the autism spectrum. She shares how Aidan's positive outlook on life inspires her daily.
Stephanie talks about how her definition of success shifted when she stopped worrying about how the much was coming in and instead shifted her focus on what she was putting back out into the world. She also shares the meaning behind her tattoo, "immeasurably more" and how the phrase has become a family motto.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the Hall of Bad Ideas our latest inductee: the Sexfie Stick.
Yes, that's right, it's a selfie stick with a dildo on the end, "created to photograph or film yourself during pleasure games." Why you'd want to see your own wanking face is anyone's guess, but this would certainly make it easier.
The Sexfie Stick is a normal selfie stick - in "pink colour for a very girly touch" - with a 9cm long, 2cm wide dildo on the bottom. That's 3.5 inches long and 3/4 of an inch wide, if you were wondering. (Don't blame us for the low-res images - that's how they came. So to speak.)
The dildo is just a dildo. It doesn't vibrate and it has no extra pleasure-giving functions. Apparently the man who made it (and it is a man, obvs) is one of the many who doesn't realise that most women don't orgasm from penetration alone. Wouldn't tampons be super-fun if we did?
Judging by the photos, the selfie stick itself is the old-school kind, that plugs into your 3.5mm headphone jack to connect to your phone. That's not much use in an increasingly post-3.5mm world, and it also means if you record a video, you won't get any sound. Which seems kind of important for a product like this.
The Sexfie stick is seeking crowdfunding on Indiegogo now, aiming for a total of €7,000 (about £6,000) one €30 (£25) dildo stick at a time.
If you're getting déja vu, by the way, you're not mistaken: there was another dildo selfie stick back in 2015. However, it turned out to be a joke. This one, the creator Philippe Bodino reassures me, is absolutely real.
At the time of writing it has raised zero Euros.
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BANGKOK, Aug 11 – Foreign ministers of the 10 member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China have agreed to boost bilateral trade values through the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area and to speed up establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to help promote connectivity within the South East Asian region.
Thai acting Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangktkeow and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi confirmed the agreements at a joint press conference after the ASEAN-China Ministerial Meeting in the Myanmar capital of Nay Pyi Taw on Saturday.
Mr Sihasak, also Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said ASEAN agreed to China's proposal to establish an Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank to finance infrastructure development with China subsidizing the institution's registered capital of US$100 billion.
China also agreed to support development of the Mekong region and will arrange a Lanchang-Mekong discussion, Mr Sihasak said, noting that this will be the first time China is taking part in the development of the region.
The acting Thai foreign minister said the meeting also discussed situations in the South China Sea and agreed to speed up conclusion of a Code of Conduct to curb maritime disputes in the area.
He said both sides called for more frequent meetings and measures to prevent frictions in the sea between China and four ASEAN member countries–Brunei, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia.


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Temple University stadium proposed while surrounding neighborhood in crisis
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The proposed construction of a $100 million Temple University football stadium has caused a stir on campus and in the surrounding community. Temple's expansion in recent years has caused the displacement of residents in this majority African-American and working class neighborhood. Housing prices have risen significantly (median home prices rose from about $17,000 to $100,000) and more Temple students have moved to rental properties near campus. The North Philadelphia neighborhood surrounding Temple's campus has unemployment rates ranging as high as 50% and a high poverty rate. Philadelphia has the highest rate of deep poverty of any major US city.
The hiring of minority and women workers is extremely important when the question of stadium construction is raised. As construction on the Temple campus has boomed, with new residence halls and classroom buildings being built, the work has mostly been done by mostly white building trades' union members from the suburbs, while an inadequate number of jobs have been given to workers from the surrounding community. The community has a right to demand that these well-paying jobs go to people who live in the neighborhood.
The stadium, which would be built through a combination of corporate fundraising and public financing would mean the disruption of the surrounding neighborhood. North Philadelphia residents, who already have a contentious relationship with the university, have not been consulted in any way about the stadium plan. Many nearby residents fear that they will lose the Amos Recreation Center, which provides after school programs, a basketball court and swimming pool to neighborhood kids. The rec center is in the middle of the 4-block area that would house the new arena. Many predict that the already congested parking situation in the area surrounding the campus will only get much worse.
Adjunct faculty voting on union representation/tuition rises
On November 9, 2015, approximately 1100 Temple adjunct faculty will vote on union representation. Adjuncts had voted in favor of a union in 2014, only to have Temple administration challenge the vote before the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (PLRB). In September, the PLRB dismissed Temple's objections and ordered a new vote. Unionization would mean job security, decent benefits and a living wage for instructors who have struggled to survive in a precarious environment. While faculty and other staff are underpaid, tuition and fees have skyrocketed over the past few years. In July, Temple's board of trustees approved a 2.8 percent increase in tuition, as well as an additional $100 in fees, for the coming year. This means that in state students will pay $15,188 in 2015-16, an increase of almost $500. When you add housing and meals, the total cost for an in-state student more than $25,000. Out of state student will pay $25,494 in tuition and fees. Housing and meals will raise this expense to more than $35,000.
Does Temple need a stadium?
The Temple football team currently uses the Philadelphia Eagles' Lincoln Financial Field for home games. Rather than spending millions on a new 35,000 seat stadium that will sit empty much of the time, we should be asking what we could accomplish with $100 million. In a neighborhood that is plagued by unemployment and substandard housing, this money could be spent to provide jobs at living wages and to rebuild a deteriorated neighborhood. Adjunct faculty, as well as contract employees, should be paid a living wage with decent benefits.
Rebuild North Philly and make the university affordable for all!
Socialists demand that education be made free and accessible to all. The perverted social priorities of capitalism make getting an education harder to achieve, while corporations and the rich get subsidies for their yachts and summer homes. A rational society based on providing human needs would rebuild Philadelphia's broken infrastructure and revitalize our neighborhoods. A society based on social justice would tax the rich and end imperialist wars overseas and put those resources to work at home. Of course, taxing the rich is not a long term solution. In order to achieve real justice and democracy, the rule of the bosses has to be replaced with the democratic rule of the working class.
The Democratic Party and its Wall Street allies have presided over the decline of Philadelphia, while demonizing the poor and oppressed. The road forward is a mass struggle based on the independent mobilization of students, the community, the unions, and university instructors demanding free education, jobs at union wages, healthcare, and the reconstruction of Philadelphia's neighborhoods with democratic input and control. This also means that working people must break with the Democratic Party and build their own political party – a party that fights in the interests of the oppressed and exploited.


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While several golf courses in the Kent area have closed, The Fairway at Twin Lakes, 1540 Overlook Road, is expecting an increase in business when its seventh season begins this week.
"We have some room for morning leagues at this point if anybody wanted to do that, but as far as booking an evening league, we're booked solid from 4 p.m. until we close Monday through Friday now," said Tony Guerrieri, a third-year golf professional at the Twin Lakes location. We have multiple leagues each night. The golf industry is shrinking and courses are slowly closing. It's a luxury for us because we capture that audience (from the other courses). A lot of them had never come to our golf course because there were other courses to go to. Now that a few golf courses are closed in the Portage County area, we capture all that audience."
Oak Knolls Golf Course on S.R. 43 and the Kent State University Golf Course on S.R. 59 both announced in December that they would not reopen in 2017.
Formerly known as the Twin Lakes Country Club, The Fairways at Twin Lakes opened in 1923. It was a private facility until closing its doors in 2009. The Beck family purchased the facility in 2011.
The nearly 100-acre golf course is a 1923 David Ross design. Guerrieri said the "mint condition" of the course is a huge factor in drawing in players.
"All of the Donald Ross golf courses have a sort of uniqueness to them," Guerrieri said. "Their greens are special, the holes roll a different type of way. You can recognize a Donald Ross golf course when you play it. The entire time I have been here, all I have heard is good things about the golf course. People can't believe how nice it is. Some people see a golf course and they just see tees and greens. I don't think people really realize what goes into it. This is more than just a golf course. It's an important part of the community."
David Beck said this is the first season The Lodge at Twin Lakes, a 5,000-square-foot facility was built in 2014, will offer a full bar to golfers.
"This is our first year, on the golf course side, where we have had a liquor license," Beck said. He said the idea to attain a liquor license began when the building was first constructed in 2014.
"This golf course has always been an important part of the community, even when it was a country club, and that's something we recognized right away when we bought it," Beck said. "We want to make sure we continue that. We finally feel like, with the liquor license, we really can provide for golfers in the community."
Buzz DiSalvo is entering his first season as a golf professional at the course.
"There's no comparison between this course and any other around if you ask me," DiSalvo said. "The greens are so smooth and the entire course is great."


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Spring Break is finally here and we in the School of Art are finalizing the details of this year's BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition! Be sure to join us on Thursday, April 8th in both the Gallery of Visual Arts and University Center Gallery to enjoy the opening receptions, meet the artists and view the wonderful pieces created by our talented students. Refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public.
The BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition will run in the GVA until April 22nd, and in the UC Gallery until April 23rd. Don't miss it!
The School of Art's student club, The Artists' Collective, will be hosting their annual party on April 9th from 7.30pm-1.00am. Join art students and their friends for the Fool's Ball at Zootown Brew for an evening of music by the UM Jazz Combo and Dead Hipster DJ, as well as snacks and refreshing beverages! Tickets available in the Gallery of Visual Arts (Social Science Building first floor) $4 in advance, $5 at the door. Hours T, W, F 11-5, TH 11-6, M by appointment
or contact email@example.com (406)461-2830. All ages welcome
Video footage will be playing provided by students from the School of Media Arts.
School of Art major JENNIFER BARDSLEY will be celebrating the completion of recent works with a catered reception in the Davidson Honor College on Tuesday, April 6th from 5-6.30pm. Join Jennifer and take a look at the new paintings she has created! Here is an example of her work:
If you have information about art, art related events, or anything an art major should know about, you may submit it HERE for consideration.
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Asking Powerful Questions to Close More Sales with NLPFriday, February 6th, 2015
Your sales results depend largely on your ability to build personal and emotional value for your prospects.
I have made countless purchases based purely on emotional appeal, while very few of my purchases in life have been based wholly on logic. If you think about your past purchases, you'll probably say the same.
Using NLP to Develop Sales Questions
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the study of influencing the subconscious mind through every-day conversation.
Because of NLP, we know that questions are some of the most influential language patterns, because they must be contemplated by the subconscious mind in order to be answered. (Statements, on the other hand, can often be rejected by the conscious mind on their face value without any contemplation.)
When you ask powerful questions, you engage the client at a deep subconscious level. This will often make the difference between losing the sale and closing the sale.
Questions like the ones below will help you build value toward a purchase, but only if you allow the client to fully associate and answer.
These will build strong motivation, both toward what they want and away from what they don't want (both types of motivation are needed in sales!), compelling the client to want, desire and ultimately purchase your offering.
All of these questions should be asked from a place of rapport. Without rapport, the sales process is mechanical and unemotional. Rapport is something that is covered in other blog articles and in my NLP sales training.
Questions Are the Answer When it Comes to Making More Sales
In the following sample questions, I'll be using a weight-loss program as the example product/service for sale, but these questions can be applied to any product or service in any niche. This is not a "script," but rather a collection of questions to have in your tool-belt. Practice them until they become second nature.
- What made you think about finally getting a handle on your weight issue?
- How long have you had a problem with your weight?
- How have you suffered because of it?
- What have you lost or never had because of this?
- If you had the opportunity to wave a magic wand and have things be exactly the way you want them, what would it be like? Describe that to me.
- Who is that person who thinks you have no hope of accomplishing this? What will it feel like when you prove them wrong?
- What will people be saying about you when you've accomplished this? What will they be thinking? How will that make you feel?
- So, it's fair to say that this is important for you to lose this weight, isn't it? Why?
- What will you FINALLY be able to do once the weight is gone? How will that change your life?
- What are the top five reasons you know that you're worth this and you deserve it?
- What will it mean about you to finally have this taken care of?
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These are all just examples, but I know you can see the theme. These are open-ended questions that associate the client to their OWN personal motivations and values, rather than the rehearsed values and benefits of the sales person.
Most sales-people mind read that the client has the same vales as they do, and talk, talk, talk. The key to sales is to SHUT UP. Let the client sell themself.
For these questions to be most powerful, do not allow the client to respond with surface answers. If they're not digging deep, help them dig by asking some of these questions to draw out real, personal, emotional answers:
- Tell me more about that…
- Why's that?
- What does that mean to you?
- What will that do for you?
If you put these value building questions into action in your sales encounters, my opinion is that you'll see immediate results that will grow the better you get at building value.
If this has been useful for you, I want you to know that this only 1% of sales. It's an important 1%, but still just a piece of the puzzle. You can learn more about how to close sales with NLP by downloading my ebook, Ultimate Sales Closes, ($19.99 value) for free below.
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To the Editor:
Please join me in supporting Richard Cultice and Jack Evans for re-election as Miami County Commissioners. As a former County Commissioner, I know firsthand the challenges facing the County Commission. They have exhibited fiscal responsibility during a time of difficult financial challenges.
Working closely with their county elected colleagues, they have successfully balanced the county's budget. Additionally, they have maintained, improved and upgraded the county's buildings and assets.
Miami County continues to maintain an excellent Aa2 financial rating from Moody's. They have carried out their responsibilities with integrity and a strong work ethic.
Richard Cultice and Jack Evans are the right choices for re-election as Miami County Commissioners.
— Arthur "Ozzie" Haddad


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Charles Schwab Settles YieldPlus Class Action Securities Lawsuit
Charles Schwab has agreed to settle a securities class action lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court on behalf of investors who purchased its YieldPlus Fund. Without admitting liability, Charles Schwab has agreed to pay the plaintiffs $200 million in order to avoid trial which had been scheduled for May. Losses sought by the plaintiffs in the class action were as much as $802 million. The settlement has yet to be approved by the court. Also, investigations into Schwab's handling of the YieldPlus fund by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) are still ongoing.


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Reston As Reston approaches its 50th year, and its founder approaches his 100th year, Robert Simon's vision for his community is still very much intact. Part of his vision included people of all income levels living side by side.
To that end, Simon issued a challenge to Reston in April 2012: raise $1 million to be used to increase the amount of affordable housing owned by the nonprofit Cornerstones.
This year's Best of Reston raised more than $460,000 toward that goal, and next year's event will also go toward meeting Simon's goal.
In the meantime, Cornerstones and other Reston organizations are finding new and creative ways to raise the funds.
The latest effort was helped by the Greater Reston Arts Center, which is celebrating its own anniversary, its 40th. They teamed up with sculptor David Adamusko and Simon himself to create a bronze bust of Simon, which will be auctioned off on April 10, 2014.
"We are grateful for David for his donation of what will certainly become a Reston icon that after April 10, will occupy a place of honor somewhere in Reston," said Stu Rakoff, chair of the Cornerstones board. "The proceeds will be reinvested into our work at Cornerstones that strengthens the lives of our most vulnerable neighbors."
Adamusko said the process of sculpting Simon took several years, as he started from photos and eventually got Simon to model for him.
"It was definitely hard to keep Bob still during the project, and it was even harder to get him to smile," Adamusko said. "So my wife Linda came at one point and offered Bob a margarita, and we got it."
The bust is 15.5 inches high, 14 inches wide and nine inches deep. Until April of next year, it can be seen at GRACE, as well as at events around Reston as part of the Cornerstones "Stand With Bob" fundraising campaign.
"Everyone involved with this campaign is working hard to carry on the traditions and values we hold dear in Reston," said Kerrie Wilson, CEO of Cornerstones. "There's still such a need in this county, so we can use all the help we can get."
The Cornerstones Housing Corporation currently owns 53 townhouses in Herndon, Reston and Centreville, which are rented at affordable rates to those who earn less than half of the area's median income.
The $1 million goal will help Cornerstones double their stock of affordable units. More information can be found at www.cornerstonesva.org.