PLEASE MR WEB MASTER REPRINT THE ARTICLE WRITTEN BY A CABOVERDIANO LAWYER JAMES LOPES WHICH APPEARED IN THE NEW BEDFORD STANDARD TIME IN THE OPINION PAGE CALLED YOUR VIEW.

FRIDAY NEWS PAPER JUNE 30,2006 EVERY CABO VERDIANO AND ALL OTHERS SHOULD READ WHAT THIS AMERICAN BORN CV HAD TO SAY.

THAN YOU VERY MUCH JAMIE,IT MAKE ME SO HAPPY TO SEE THAT A TRUE CABOVERDEAN INTELLECTUAL. CAME FORTH IN THE TRUE SPIRIT
OF A WARRIOR FOR OUR JUST CAUSE. IT BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES.

THANK YOU DEAR BELOVED BROTHER THE SON OF MANUEL LOPES ANOTHER HEROE WHO FOUNDED THE CABO VERDEAN RECOGNITION COMMITTE THAT GIVES US A CV PARADE EVERY YEAR ALONG WITH THE CABO VERDE AMERICAN VETERANS ASSOCIATION FROM NEW BEDFORD
THE ORIGINAL HOME OF THE PEOPLE OF CABO VERDE.

THERE IS ONLY ONE WORD THAT SAYS IT ALL

NO PINTCHA!!!

CAMARADA MANU SALAH OMOWALI MATEUS

YOUR VIEW: Violence of one generation does not define Cape Verdean community
James J. Lopes Mr. Lopes grew up in New Bedford and is a lawyer in New York City.

As a fourth-generation Cape Verdean-American and a Harvard-educated attorney, I take very deep and personal offense to a line in a June 12 editorial in The Boston Globe regarding the Cape Verdean community of Massachusetts. In what was otherwise a thoughtful and timely reflection on the achievements of Cape Verdean-American high school valedictorians, the newspaper writes, \"To read from the headlines, the words Cape Verdean have become almost synonymous with crime.\"
That statement betrays an ignorance of more than two hundred years of Cape Verdean-American history. Historically, Cape Verdean neighborhoods have always been tightly-knit, safe communities. We did not invent violence. Nor did we import it from our homeland. Cape Verde has never been a violent society. Violence is something, unfortunately, that some of our people acquired in America.
If the public at large thinks that \"Cape Verdean\" is synonymous with violence, it is because the news media do not give a fair representation of our communities.
To most Americans who know us, we are known as a hardworking, industrious people who sustained the American whaling industry for the latter part of the 19th century and into the 20th, at a time when whale oil was as valuable as petroleum. Or they know us because it was our ancestors who worked ashore in the rope works and sail lofts of New Bedford, alongside their sisters and mothers. Others came to America to work in the cotton and textile mills of New Bedford and Fall River at the turn of the century and into the 1920s. On Cape Cod, they know us as their neighbors and the backbone of the cranberry industry
Cape Verdeans, the first and, for many years, only free African immigrants to America, have been immigrating to this country since the 1700s. Cape Verdeans owned their own ships, which they sailed from West Africa to New Bedford, Providence and other New England ports. The last captain of the ship The Charles Morgan, enshrined in Mystic Seaport, was John T. Goncalves, a Cape Verdean, as was the ship's entire crew on several voyages. In the Civil War, Cape Verdean men were in the Massachusetts 54th Regiment. Their sea-faring skills were also valued by the U.S. Navy in the Civil War.
The Cape Verdean community that nurtured me in New Bedford and sent me to Harvard University has also produced generations of doctors, judges, lawyers, educators, writers and other professionals, including one United States Federal Judge and countless other entrepreneurs, business owners and talented men and women.
We Cape Verdeans gave the world evangelist \"Sweet Daddy\" Grace, jazz legend Horace Silver and music star Tavares. When listening to the plaintive beautiful singing of international superstar and Grammy winner Cesaria Evora, also Cape Verdean, who thinks of violence?
Yes, the recent violence is tragic and seemingly out of control. We should not be judged by the tragic events of the past few years in isolated neighborhoods of Boston, Brockton and New Bedford. Before dismissing our community as a violent one, there must be an appreciation of the larger picture.
To us, the words \"Cape Verdean\" are synonymous not with violence but with achievement and overcoming some very difficult obstacles: slavery, colonialism, famine, drought, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, discrimination and racism. Despite it all, we have endured. To suggest that the violence of one tragic generation defines us as a community is an insult to our entire legacy.

[quote=\"Anonymous\"]YOUR VIEW: Violence of one generation does not define Cape Verdean community
James J. Lopes Mr. Lopes grew up in New Bedford and is a lawyer in New York City.

As a fourth-generation Cape Verdean-American and a Harvard-educated attorney, I take very deep and personal offense to a line in a June 12 editorial in The Boston Globe regarding the Cape Verdean community of Massachusetts. In what was otherwise a thoughtful and timely reflection on the achievements of Cape Verdean-American high school valedictorians, the newspaper writes, \\"To read from the headlines, the words Cape Verdean have become almost synonymous with crime.\\"
That statement betrays an ignorance of more than two hundred years of Cape Verdean-American history. Historically, Cape Verdean neighborhoods have always been tightly-knit, safe communities. We did not invent violence. Nor did we import it from our homeland. Cape Verde has never been a violent society. Violence is something, unfortunately, that some of our people acquired in America.
If the public at large thinks that \\"Cape Verdean\\" is synonymous with violence, it is because the news media do not give a fair representation of our communities.
To most Americans who know us, we are known as a hardworking, industrious people who sustained the American whaling industry for the latter part of the 19th century and into the 20th, at a time when whale oil was as valuable as petroleum. Or they know us because it was our ancestors who worked ashore in the rope works and sail lofts of New Bedford, alongside their sisters and mothers. Others came to America to work in the cotton and textile mills of New Bedford and Fall River at the turn of the century and into the 1920s. On Cape Cod, they know us as their neighbors and the backbone of the cranberry industry
Cape Verdeans, the first and, for many years, only free African immigrants to America, have been immigrating to this country since the 1700s. Cape Verdeans owned their own ships, which they sailed from West Africa to New Bedford, Providence and other New England ports. The last captain of the ship The Charles Morgan, enshrined in Mystic Seaport, was John T. Goncalves, a Cape Verdean, as was the ship's entire crew on several voyages. In the Civil War, Cape Verdean men were in the Massachusetts 54th Regiment. Their sea-faring skills were also valued by the U.S. Navy in the Civil War.
The Cape Verdean community that nurtured me in New Bedford and sent me to Harvard University has also produced generations of doctors, judges, lawyers, educators, writers and other professionals, including one United States Federal Judge and countless other entrepreneurs, business owners and talented men and women.
We Cape Verdeans gave the world evangelist \\"Sweet Daddy\\" Grace, jazz legend Horace Silver and music star Tavares. When listening to the plaintive beautiful singing of international superstar and Grammy winner Cesaria Evora, also Cape Verdean, who thinks of violence?
Yes, the recent violence is tragic and seemingly out of control. We should not be judged by the tragic events of the past few years in isolated neighborhoods of Boston, Brockton and New Bedford. Before dismissing our community as a violent one, there must be an appreciation of the larger picture.
To us, the words \\"Cape Verdean\\" are synonymous not with violence but with achievement and overcoming some very difficult obstacles: slavery, colonialism, famine, drought, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, discrimination and racism. Despite it all, we have endured. To suggest that the violence of one tragic generation defines us as a community is an insult to our entire legacy.[/quote]


THANK YOU.
IF WE CAN GET MORE PROFESSIONAL CABO VERDEANS TO MAKE POSITIVE STATEMENTS THEN OUR YOUTH WILL SEE NEW ROLE MODELS TO FOLLOW. THESE ARE THE KIND OF PEOPLE AMILCAR CABRAL AND ARISTIDES PEREIRA WANTS TO LEAD OUR YOUTH INTO THE FUTURE.
THERE ARE MANY MORE OF YOU OUT THERE AND WE NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU. LIKE GEORGE LIMA ONE OF THE TUSKEGEE AIRMAN SAID \"AND THEY DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS CABO VERDEAN.

HOW MANY MORE CABOVERDEAN HEROES MEN AND WOMAN THAT HAVE MADE A EXTRAORDINARY CONTRIBUTION TO THE AFRICAN AMERICAN
CAUSE AND THEY DID NOT KNOW THEY WERE CABOVERDIANOS.

FOR EXAMPLE WHAT SWEET DADDY GRACE DID FOR THE AMERICAN NEGRO FROM 1905 TO THE PRESNT DAY,JUDGE GEORGE LEIGHTON, MRS FORTES AND SALAH O.MATEUS AND SO MANY OTHERS.

THIS IS YOUR TIME TO LET THE WORLD KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

Indeed, our community is made of a majority of hard working and good Cape Verdeans that does the right thing everyday. We should not let the media overshadow the good of our people by focusing in the bad acts of fews of the bad apples among us. Violence is on the rise all over the United States. It's not a Cape Verdean problem only. It's a problem of the unbalance and unequal society we live in.

I applaud your efforts to write this statement. My father is legendary guitarist and singer, Leo Perry from Taunton, Massachusetts. I am proud to be 3rd generation Cape Verdean. We are musicians, artists, intellectualists, and pioneers.
I am a singer, songwriter and producer in Hollywood, California. Every chance I get I am educating people about our culture, history and heritage.
We are more than the violence of this generation, that the media thinks plagues us. We are leaders, WE ARE REVOLUTIONARY! We are Cape Verdeans!

We Criolos in this USA are very proud and hard working people. Recognized on every corner for the efort that we input in our communities. If you take a short drive in violent zones likes Brockton, Dorchester, Roxbury or New Bedford look around closely you will easily realized that the best looking homes on these areas belong to hard working Criolos, that came here, worked hard and made the American Dream. All this other nonsence articles written by an out of the world concept jornalist who will not even be able to locate Cabo Verde in a world map does not take our pride away. I am proud to be a born Criolo and today as a parent i teach that to my 8 year old.

escrevem cv por favor / ecrivez en cv svp

se voces querem que toda gente comprende o que se pasa nas outras comonidades cabo verdianas, eu penso sera melhor.

Eu falo Francês, luxemburgês e almao mas inflismente so nao falo o inglês

mas a melhor maneira de cominicar entre cv nao seria melhor o cv?

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poqué que bzot en de srevé en criol

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