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Wright Enterprises-Community Spotlight
(Greatest Message of All time) |
Press Release
Dec. 5, 2018
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"The Best Father a Son or Daughter Could Ever Have"
George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States of America Eulogizes his father, George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States as the nation mourns his passing at the age of 94 years.
In the his eulogy, President Bush included remarks from his father's 1989 inaugural address:
We cannot hope to only leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent. A citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood, and town better than he found it. What do we want the men and women who work with us to say when we are no longer there? That we were more driven to succeed than anyone around us, or that we stopped to ask if a sick child had gotten better, and stayed a moment there to trade a word of friendship?
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The current and former Presidents of the United States of America pay tribute to the 41st President George H.W. Bush.
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Hitting Closer to Home...
Just days after being saddened by the death of celebrity and hometown girl, native of Columbus,GA, Kim Porter, the military families of the Wrights and Tibbs were mourning the death of our own
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Brenda M.Wright
July 23, 1956-Nov. 18 2018
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Brenda M. Tibbs Wright, my brother Joe N. Wright's wife of 38 years and love of 43 years. Brenda, also grew up in Columbus, GA, home of Fort Benning, Georgia.
I have often mused from time to time, whether God has special people He keeps from the world just for Himself. "God's Top Shelf" as I I call it. There are folks I believe that are so wonderful only God allows a few to enjoy the wonder of His creation that He so enjoys. My 'beautiful inside and out" sister-in-law is one of those unique and very rare people God cloisters with care to keep from the glare of the world.
As a family, we are thankful for her legacy that Reverend Maurice Edwards of Columbus, Georgia so eloquently described at the Sconiers Funeral Home Chapel before she was laid to rest at Fort Mitchell, Alabama National Cemetery on Friday, November 30, 2018.
Growing up in Columbus, I can't help but remember young Susie Sconiers on the radio every Sunday morning on WOKS Radio Station reading obituaries and giving condolences to the bereaved on behalf of her family. Susie sounded so professional and was an inspiration to me although I was older and at the time I had no interest in broadcasting.
I Never Knew about the friendship at Baker High School of John L. Sconiers, III and my popular brother Joe, who was on the basketball team and football team and in the WOKS Talent Show singing with a doo wop group,"The Spices of Love." I had no idea that one day "John L.," would help our family through the most difficult time since the loss of our father Sp5 Wyley Wright Jr. (32) in Vietnam March 9, 1964 and our mother, Ouida F. Wright (35), March 9, 1970. Brenda had been in our family longer than we had our parents on this earth.
Thank you to all family and friends who have expressed condolences, said a prayer or given us a thought. We also thank District 4 Director Tony Tavares and Caltrans for their condolences that were telegrammed and read by "John L" during the funeral.
With Brenda, the Star of Our Constellation, working for twenty years at Caltrans, they were like a family to Brenda, a quiet still soul who always worked hard and focused on helping others succeed. Our Star Shines Forever! We are encouraged by God's Promises that we will see her again, not only in our great memories of a great woman.
Just as I was reading The Oakland Post about Brenda, someone in my family circle, I was disheartened to read that someone in my professional circle had also passed...
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Aubry L. Stone,
Founder, California Black Chamber of Commerce
August 10, 1944-November 28, 2018
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Stone's innovative initiatives have included trade missions to Africa...
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Aubry L. Stone (Center) headed the historic CA Black Chamber of Commerce Trade Mission to the Durban/Essence Magazine Festival in November 2016. Jackie Wright of Wright Enterprises pictured right of Stone was a member of that mission that included business associates from Northern and Southern California along with Ron Busby of Washington D.C. (pictured left of Stone). Also, Moderator Gugu Cele of Johannesburg, Anchor CNBC Africa and Ipeleng Mkhari, Founder & CEO Motseng Investment Holdings of Johannesburg, South Africa discuss "Sustainable Economic Growth and Wealth Redistribution" at the Essence Festival Durban Business Conference.
(Photo courtesy of LA-based award-winning filmmaker Damon Jamal, whose documentary on the trade mission, "Sankofa-Connecting the Dots" debuted at the 2017 San Francisco Black Film Festival).
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Most recently Stone welcomed South African officials to the California Black Chamber of Commerce' Ron Brown Economic Summit held in August 2018. Stone had plans on the table for another trade mission to South Africa for spring 2019.
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| Phillip Sithole, Deputy City Manager of Durban, Mrs. Mathabo Kunene_ Founder of the Mazisi Kunene Foundation in Durban and Aubry L. Stone, Founder of CA Black Chamber of Commerce at August 2018 Ron Brown Economic Summit. |
Phillip Sithole, Deputy City Manager of Durban, Eric Apelgren, Executive Director of International Relations for the City of Durban, and Mrs. Mathabo Kunene, Managing Trustee of the Mazisi Kunene Foundation greet Matilda Ahrin of Atlanta, GA and Sacramento Hub Editor Pleshette Robertson.
Ray Taliaferro, WE Bid Thee Farewell
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| National Association of Black Journalist honored Taliaferro at Washington D.C.'s Newseum in January 2011. |
Condolences are extended to the Taliaferro Family as they search for answerssurrounding Ray Taliaferro's disappearance and death.
"You know what my affliction was as a kid? I stuttered. So, I never dreamed I could be a broadcaster." Ray Taliaferro
From Bayview Hunter's Point in San Francisco, Ray Taliaferro, an award winning broadcast Journalist was a true overcomer. Jim Harrington's 2011 Mercury News article points out that his arts beginnings began by knocking on the door of a church.
It's gives one pause to note that he was last seen alive at door of a church, West End Baptist Church in Paducah, Kentucky.
As media covers the tragic loss of Ray Taliaferro, let's not exercise revisionist history. Ray Taliaferro was forced off the airwaves. January 2011, The National Association of Black Journalist honored him at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. and by December 1, 2011, he was walked out the door with his personal belongings with no advance notice of what was coming.
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In a story about the "veterans leaving," the accomplished broadcast legend and community leader is pictured between two clowns. Really?! This is the most professional photo that the San Francisco Chronicle could find?
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There's a lot to read between the lines about that fateful December day. It's been previously said that the situation was so stressful until radio legend Gene Burns, who had fragile health at the time, died within three weeks. After being fired from KGO, Burns was to start a new job at KKSF in January 2012.
It so sad to note that the San Francisco Chronicle used this same photo in its coverage of Ray Taliaferro's demise.
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Why would anyone use a photo with comic elements to speak of a person's death. This photo in the SF Chronicle goes beyond being tasteless. It makes the coverage seem totally insincere.
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The photo caption is incongruous with the laughing clowns background image: "The family of Ray Taliaferro, a longtime Bay Area journalist and radio host, announced his death Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018." This photo with its caption makes the article disingenuous in my assessment. Maybe it's just my southern upbringing that seeks honor and decorum when speaking of the lives and deaths of people.
From the word going out and the signal sent, "The media is the enemy of the people," to Khashoggi's execution, to the five newsroom murders at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, MD, to the mail bombs sent to CNN, and the bomb threat at CNN this week alone, the state of affairs in media is of grave concern. The elimination of acting "in the public interest" has created a cannibalistic beast to aggrandize the balance sheets managed by greedy moguls resulting in diminishing returns for humanity.
Democracy does not exist without a healthy Fourth Estate. The media are only as good as the people in the newsroom, the management and the owners.
I'm reminded of a personal experience of being one of two persons of color in a television departmental management meeting in the 2000's, not the 1970's. Just a few seconds into my report about the community response to the Katrina disaster refugees, an award-winning news director interrupted my report and shouted loudly "Who Cares?" My shocked but calm response was "the people affected by the storm; the people that care about them; and the individuals and organizations helping them care." I proceeded to complete my overall report.
With little or no diversity, one can expect far more serious issues to occur than the subtle insult of a noble man utilizing a tasteless photo. There are the issues of how stories are covered and the issues of whether they are covered or not. On-going limited coverage or biased coverage or no coverage at all of a particular community, paints half-truths or results in lies upon which social and economic decisions are made that erode a healthy society. Without a true picture all are negatively impacted.
Where are the Dr. Carlton B. Goodletts who stormed the citadel of San Francisco media to open the doors for legendary journalists like Belva Davis and others? (He also fought and defeated San Francisco hospitals' discrimination policies that only allowed White physicians to practice. Progressive San Francisco?)
Where are the demands for community pages in newspapers and public affairs shows on radio and television and now the Internet to give some balance to the impact of negatively focused news?
Jackie Wright
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