Art Teele's Suicide - 7 Years Later

Minutes after 6PM tonight, it will be seven years since Arthur E. Teele, Jr. committed suicide in the lobby of The Miami Herald. The news broke across South Florida at the start of the evening news hour. At 7:50PM, he was declared dead at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center. In the aftermath, The Miami Herald hastily fired Jim DeFede. Frank Alvarado's Miami New Times cover story "Tales of Teele: Sleaze Stories" become one of the scapegoats for Teele's public suicide. The following day, the suicide was front page news in the Herald. Click on over to Random Pixels for the original front page article. Here are additional articles from the July 28, 2005 issue of The Miami Herald as well as articles from the following days.

July 28, 2005 (The Miami Herald)

July 28, 2005 (The Miami Herald)

July 29, 2005 (The Miami Herald)

July 29, 2005 (The Miami Herald)

July 29, 2005 (The Miami Herald)

The Nonblack Elites Lie Again

From Luther Cambell's "Luke's Gospel":


If you are an African American civic leader in Miami, you're better off keeping your mouth shut and doing as you are told. If you don't, then the secret society of elitist rich Anglos and Hispanics who run this county will try to destroy you. It's been going on since the 1970s since the late Miami Herald publisher Alvah Chapman created the Non-Group, a cabal of mostly white male CEOs who set the agenda for Miami-Dade County.

This Good Ole Boys club was so secretive that Chapman barred reporters from attending the Non-Group's monthly dinner meetings. Imagine that: The headman-in-charge of the community's only major daily newspaper censoring the fourth estate from his backroom deals.

The Non-Group doesn't "officially exist" any more, but it's clear to me that a select group of elitists, the developers and businessmen who get together for Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce luncheons and rounds of golf at the Biltmore Hotel, still control and dictate the course of county politics today.

And as long as African American politicians follow orders and don't stand up for their poor disenfranchised communities, they are left alone. But if you don't say, "yes massa," they assassinate your character. For example, they recently had Herald columnist Fred Grimm write a hit piece on me highlighting my arrest record and raunchy music career. Fuck Fred.

When Arthur Teele spoke out against this secret society stealing millions of taxpayer dollars meant to help Overtown get on its feet, they crucified him so hard that he shot himself in the head of theHerald's lobby. When his successor Michelle Spence-Jones got wise to their game, she was targeted for elimination too.

They got her indicted on two separate public corruption cases. She's already been acquitted in one trial, and rumors are swirling the Miami-Dade County State Attorney's Office will drop the other. Yet Spence-Jones has already been convicted in the court of public opinion.

Now that the Secret Society wanted Carlos Gimenez to be county mayor, their media partners have ignored some pretty shady aspects of his campaign. No reporter has followed up on my most recent column about Gimenez supporter and Homestead Councilman Jimmy Williams offering me a $40,000 appearance fee when the former county commissioner wanted my endorsement.

If Gimenez was a true man of integrity, he would have explained to the news media that all this talk about me orchestrating a backroom deal with Julio Robaina is bullshit. But just like his secret society masters, he has none. They should all be ashamed of themselves.


via Miami New  Times