The Fairley Life: Auto Bio: Valerie D. Fairley a native of Moorhead recounts her experiences growing up in the Mississippi Delta. Valerie is a 1981 graduate of Gentry...
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Denver Joe's Third Grade Experience
Denver Joe’s Third Grade Experience, written by Valerie
Fairley, tells an engaging and thoughtful story.
Through the eyes of third grader Denver Joe Jones, you will
get to join Denver Joe as he embarks upon a year-long adventurous, educational,
drama-filled, fun, laugh-out-loud, yet loving “experience,” with his
grandmother, Vivica, in Mississippi. Along with Denver Joe, you will get to
experience life in the classroom, take a trip to the zoo, attend a magic show,
participate in a cooking class, visit the beach, attend church, and ride-along
a road-trip for a special visit to the “Mississippi Delta!”
Denver Joe’s Third Grade Experience is a story written with
real substance. A delightful, multi-layered story, which can be interpreted in
many ways. This story is made up of images of love and compassion. It depicts
the importance of embracing change or “the new”, while remaining true to
yourself, respecting diversity& culture, openness to differences among
people, cultures and perspectives, and overcoming stereotypes and
misconceptions.
Denver Joe’s Third Grade Experience is a “keeper.” One I will be sharing with this new generation, generations to come and with anyone who loves and appreciates Southern (Mississippi) Heritage. This is one book that deserves a place on your bookshelf!!!!!!!!!!!! - ~Romeshia C. Thomas~
https://www.tatepublishing.com/tipsheet/book.php?key=25728
How does the Obama beer meeting summit yield a symbolic …
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Sunday, August 3, 2014
Auto Bio
Valerie D. Fairley a native of Moorhead recounts her
experiences growing up in the Mississippi Delta. Valerie is a 1981 graduate of
Gentry High School. She vividly recalls chopping
and picking cotton in the fields of the Mississippi Delta. She remembers working as a teenager alongside
of her parents Cleotha Dean, Sr. and Minnie Dean at Planters Bank, performing
janitorial services. She believes developing those strong work ethics has given
her tenacity and strength to overcome life challenges.
Fairley received a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education
from Mississippi Valley State University, Masters in Elementary Education and
Special Education, and a Specialist in Education from Delta State University.
Additionally, she received a Masters in Christian Counseling from Abundant
Blessings Theological Seminary. She furthered her studies toward a doctorate at
Walden University and is presently a second year doctoral student at Abundant
Blessing Theological Seminary.
Fairley taught in the public schools of Sunflower County for
20 years. She taught at James C. Rosser Elementary in Moorhead, East Sunflower
Elementary, and Ruleville Central Elementary. In addition, she served as Student Services
Coordinator at the Vocational Center in Indianola. Fairley began her teaching
career in Tchula, Mississippi at S. V. Marshall Elementary School. Fairley is
currently employed in the Leflore County School District as a librarian.
Fairley has received numerous of awards for outstanding test
scores in Reading and Language arts, while employed in the Sunflower County
School District She was a former recipient of 2011 Unsung Hero Award.
Fairley has currently written three children’s books: A is
for Abigail, Betsey Butterfly’s Beautiful Wings,and DenverJoe’s Third Grade
Experience. Fairley’s Adult Books are: Magnolia Heaven, Mississippi Proud,
Southern Comforts, and Looking for Daddy. Her books are available on Amazon and
Barnes and Nobles. DenverJoe’s Third Grade Experience is currently available at
Tate Publishing.
Fairley attends Macedonia Church of God in Moorhead, and
Metropolitan Baptist Church in Collins, Mississippi. She is married to Rev.
Tommy Fairley, Sr. of Collins, Mississippi, and has three adult children,
Edwin,Michael, and Tatianna.
Saturday, March 1, 2014
MS/ Delta Book Signing
My book signing adventure began in my own hometown of Moorhead, MS.We had a fabulous time surrounded with family and friends. The decorations were lovely. Thanks Tajada! Two of my classmates were there for support, Glenda Faye Jackson and Curtis Smith. It was a huge success! The mayor and first lady Holland were present to invite everyone. It was truly heartwarming! My dear, 89 year old mother shared my poem, Dementia with the audience. I had cousins from Texas, and Florida present.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
President Obama's Beer Summit
Obama's 'beer summit' yields symbolic image,
but little else
McClatchy NewspapersJuly 30, 2009
President Barack Obama, right, meets with Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department, second from right, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., second from left, and Vice President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, July 30, 2009. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)
OLIVIER DOULIERY / ABACA PRESS / MCT
WASHINGTON — Different suds for different buds?
Each man's beer of choice was respectfully made available in glass mugs for their meeting at a table on the White House South Lawn Thursday evening: Bud Light for President Barack Obama, Sam Adams Light for Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, and Blue Moon for Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley.
Vice President Joe Biden joined the group with a glass of Buckler, a non-alcoholic beer.
As Obama likes to say, they could disagree without being disagreeable.
However, the high-profile happy hour with an elite black professor, a white cop and the nation's biracial president and white vice president won't erase the tensions that led to it. Despite Obama's election, Americans at all levels of society still struggle with racial friction.
Crowley, speaking afterward with reporters at the AFL-CIO nearby, called the meeting "cordial and productive" but said no one offered apologies and that he and Gates "agreed to disagree." He declined to share many details, saying it was "a private discussion."
Crowley said he and Gates are planning their own follow-up meeting, to talk more about their different perspectives and try to make something constructive of the incident.
After their meeting, Obama issued a statement thanking Gates and Crowley for joining him.
"I have always believed that what brings us together is stronger than what pulls us apart," he said. "I am confident that has happened here tonight, and I am hopeful that all of us are able to draw this positive lesson from this episode."
Obama's regrets were clear; he knew he screwed up. Initially last week, he said that the police "acted stupidly" in arresting Gates for lashing out at them after they showed up to see if he'd broken into what turned out to be his own home. In saying that, the president polarized Americans, enraged police, went off-message on health care and lost standing with the public.
A Pew poll released Thursday found four in five Americans are aware of his remarks 0_ and disapprove of them by 41 to 29 percent. Among whites alone, the split was 2-to-1 against him, and hurt his overall approval rating. Obama's support among whites fell following his comments from 53 to 46 percent in a couple of days.
Last week Obama quickly declared his first reaction unhelpful, professed his appreciation for police and allowed that Gates bore responsibility for escalating things. The president called it a "teachable moment" and set up Thursday's meeting.
Journalists were summoned to take pictures of the staged event, but not to ask questions or listen to the conversation. Gates and Crowley were permitted to come early for the 6 p.m. affair, bring entourages including family members, tour the White House and take official photos. These interactions also weren't public.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the meeting was worthwhile "even if you're not able to hear each and every word of it," and that such a dialogue "is what has to happen at every level of our society."
However, he struggled to explain how ordinary Americans should apply the example of a presidential invitation that neither Gates nor Crowley could reasonably refuse to less mediated instances of racial tension in their own lives.
"I don't think the president has outsized expectations that one cold beer at one table here is going to change massively the course of human history," Gibbs said. However, he said he the images would "provide a far different picture than what we've seen to date of this situation."
Valerie Fairley, 46, a black teacher from Mississippi, who was waiting for a White House tour on Thursday with her family, interpreted the beer meeting as political theater.
"I knew it was going to get to that point," after Obama said the police acted "stupidly," she said. "He was under the gun then."
Fairley first assumed that Gates was a victim of racial profiling, but said the more she learned about the 911 call and Gates' behavior before his arrest, she realized it wasn't that simple.
Fairley supports teaching cultural diversity and having laws to protect minority rights, but cautioned, "You cannot legislate love. You cannot legislate history."
"If we can get over slavery and get an African-American president in the White House," she said, "we can get past this incident, believe you me."
McClatchy Newspapers 2009
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/07/30/72793/obamas-beer-summit-yields-symbolic.html
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/07/30/72793/obamas-beer-summit-yields-symbolic.html
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