Violent Crime Celebrated in Uhuru Video

The intent is to incite further violence bringing more death and destruction to a beleaguered African American community. This disturbing statement makes heroes of criminals who attacked our St. Petersburg police officers during the October and November '96 riots.

Part 2 in a series.

The speaker is Omali Yesheltela, a local politician who has been taken under the wing of Florida Governors Charlie Crist and Jeb Bush and St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker. A pardon of his felony conviction was arranged so that he could run for Mayor and help Baker defeat the strongest candidate, a populist Democrat.

Several hundred thousand dollars of your tax money went to his organization, an attempt was made to start a charter school, city staff have provided extensive support and half a million dollars was just put into their building yet this group has not been required to renounce violence.



Omali brags of the armed assault against police officers during the ’96 riots. His version of reality has the police attacking the Uhurus with intent to “get rid of us”and then “they got their asses whupped”. With obvious glee he describes how criminals “brought down a police helicopter with gunfire,gunshots...”, “shot one cop”, and forced the officers to withdraw “under heavy fire”.


How could one be happy to see murder attempted? These armchair revolutionaries have taken on the role of guerrilla fighters by inciting misguided teenagers to do the actual violence. Their goal is to destroy the peace of this neighborhood and make residents question our loyalty to a state that can not protect us and an economic system that can not provide for us. Many of the criminals are simply sociopaths or drug addicts too desperate to think about the harm they do. Their actions show they don't care about the people they grew up amongst or the neighborhood where their families live. Put these groups together, provide them with a fat budget, paid staff and a large support network of well intentioned white folks and you have a recipe for destruction of a community.

Do you wonder why the media haven't told you any of this?

The video is titled "Riots, Rebellions, and Revolution--The Battle of St. Pete."

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Misconceptions about Bartlett Park

An Independent film being made this week on 12th Avenue South in Bartlett Park has residents buzzing about and looking out for movie stars while two reporters compete to sensationalize a largely fictional and self serving account of division among residents.

People here are talking about a lot of things these days but the concerns of a half dozen former members of a neighborhood association are not near the top of our agenda. Nonetheless their complaints have been placed on center stage because they played to the misconceptions of these writers.

One neighbor remarked that only a couple of us on each block subscribe to the newspaper so these stories really have no relevance to us. No wonder fewer and fewer people buy the paper every year. The other free newspaper has virtually no circulation in the black community.

Orlando Jones is shown here on the set of his TV show. He is one of the actors in the film. Several locations in Pinellas County are being used to shoot the new movie, "Misconceptions".
Page edited on 1/7/08

Photo Credit: Orlando Jones interviewing Eric Close on The Orlando Jones Show in 2003, from Wikipedia
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