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4 UCW APRIL 7-13, 2021 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM STAFF PUBLISHER Bill Bowman Bill@upandcomingweekly.com OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Paulette Naylor accounting@upandcomingweekly.com EDITOR April Olsen editor@upandcomingweekly.com GRAPHIC DESIGNER Dylan Hooker art@upandcomingweekly.com EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Keyuri Parab REPORTER Jeff Thompson news@upandcomingweekly.com MARKETING ASSOCIATE Linda McAlister Brown linda@upandcomingweekly.com DISTRIBUTION MANAGER/SALES ADMINISTRATOR Laurel Handforth laurel@upandcomingweekly.com CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Margaret Dickson, Pitt Dickey, D.G. Martin, John Hood, Jim Jones, Shanessa Fenner, Prudence Mainor, Crissy Neville COVER PHOTOS Courtesy National Archives, Wikipedia and the Fayetteville Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club. ––––––––––– Up & Coming Weekly www.upandcomingweekly.com 208 Rowan St. P.O. Box 53461 Fayetteville, NC 28305 PHONE: 910-484-6200- FAX: 910-484-9218 Up & Coming Weekly is a "Quality of Life" publication with local features, news and information on what's happening in and around the Fayetteville/Cumberland County community. Up & Coming Weekly is published weekly on Wednesdays. Up & Coming Weekly welcomes manuscripts, photographs and artwork for publication consideration, but assumes no responsibility for them. We cannot accept responsibility for the return of unsolicited manuscripts or material. Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. The publisher reserves the right to edit or reject copy submitted for publication. Up & Coming Weekly is free of charge and distributed at indoor and outdoor locations throughout Fayetteville, Fort Bragg, Pope Air Force Base, Hope Mills and Spring Lake. Readers are limited to one copy per person. © 2020 by F&B Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction or use of editorial or advertisements without permission is strictly prohibited. Various ads with art graphics designed with elements from: vecteezy.com and freepik.com. PUBLISHER'S PEN You can Walk Away from hypocrisy by BILL BOWMAN 82 64 82 83 79 82 63 64 83 66 64 65 THU APR 08 FRI APR 09 SAT APR 10 SUN APR 11 MON APR 12 TUE APR 13 80 61 77 58 71 54 70 51 68 49 68 50 Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy Thunderstorms AM Showers Association of Community Publishers It's becoming outright depressing to witness the gross hypocrisy taking place in America and permeating our daily lives. Many of us try to avoid this disor- der, but to no avail, falling victim to mass depression, overeating, alcoholism and untimely suicides. It's horrid, devastat- ing, and it's everywhere! Hypocrisy is present at all government levels, our local communities, our educational sys- tems, businesses and even our churches. With no end in sight, it's spreading un- bridled at epidemic proportions. e sad truth is that here in America, we have only ourselves to blame. Slowly over the de- cades, we allowed politicians (both Democrat and Republican) to become much too powerful and greedy, allowing subversive and self-serving corruption to prioritize serving their country and the American people with fairness, justice and even humanity. Our entire political system is corrupt and vile. Americans' welfare and safety are no longer a priority or concern of most wealthy and elite elected political op- eratives. is is evident in law enforce- ment's weakening and the disregarding our Constitutional rights and the rule of law. Justice is not being served, and it is evident in the neglect we see in ad- dressing many serious issues such as the southern border crisis, the advocacy and defense of criminals over victims' rights, condoning the inhumane treatment of women and children in the hands of known criminals who beat, rape, abuse, and sell them into sexual slavery. e Americans who support and en- courage this despicable and inhumane behavior are not third-world despots. ey are wealthy, fat and arrogant bu- reaucrats that we elected and are staying in power by changing, manipulating and ignoring the rule of law. ese people are the richest amongst us and can ig- nore the laws that we have to abide by. is situation will not have a happy ending for future generations of Ameri- cans unless we come to our senses and start calling out those basking in this hypocrisy. I'm talking about regular everyday citizens in our community. e ones that sit on non-profit organizations and advocate for women's rights, protect them from abuse, support right to life or choice agendas, advocate for children, or any of the dozens of social service programs created to serve the poor and underserved. ese same people actively support the agencies, parties, people respon- sible for the policies and actions that are causing these atrocious inhumane acts. Acts that are tearing America apart one Constitutional Article at a time. Here's my message: In the end, that uneducated child, that sick and infected migrate worker or MS13 gang member or similar undocumented criminal, child molester, rapist, or murderer will suddenly and without notice change your life forever, and not in a good way. America is in a deep state of denial. Nothing good is going to come out of our current situation. So, while we col- lectively romance the criminals, attempt to disarm the innocent, dismantle our laws, embrace and defend policies of in- humanity on the southern border as the Mexican cartel gangsters continue their reign of terror by throwing six-month- old babies in the river and throwing three- and five-year-old little girls over a fourteen-foot border wall then running away. You may be curious as to why they would do such a hideous act when they could have walked those youngsters into American through an unguarded open- ing just a few hundred yards away. Well, here's why: first, it was an inten- tional act of hostile aggression by the Mexican cartels who wanted to send a pointed message to America. ey intended those children to die from the fall so America would have blood on their hands, giving the anti-bor- der wall folks more talking points. Second: the cartels were send- ing us a pointed message that they were in control of the border and had the power and wherewithal to do anything they wanted, includ- ing murdering children at will. ose of you who are reading this and still have control of your con- science but are having trouble sleeping at night may want to know of an organi- zation that feels your pain and anxiety. is organization professes that if you think you cannot support the kind of policies and hypocrisy taking place in America, they encourage you to WALK AWAY from it. Walk away from the people, policies and politics that con- flict with your American values. ere is peace of mind when you surround yourself with people who value others' rights, the Constitution, and American values. Color, creed or ethnicity doesn't matter. Everyone is welcome except the hypocrites. Check it out at www.walk- awaycampaign.com. anks for reading Up & Coming Weekly. BILL BOWMAN, Publisher, UP & COMING WEEKLY. COM- MENTS? BILL@upandcomin- gweekly.com. 910-484-6200.