2022 Mid-Term Elections Impact on the State of Black America and the Pan African World
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2022
- IBW21 National Town Hall streamed live November 10, 2022 from the Cramton Auditorium, Howard University - A powerful line-up of panelists assess the impact of the midterm elections on Black America and the Pan African World, moderated by Dr. Julianne Malveaux and Roland Martin.
Dr. Ron Daniels (Convener), Marc Morial, Hilary Shelton, Melanie Campbell, Tamika Mallory, Pastor Michael McBride, Janice Mathis, Esq., Mel Foote, Dr. Greg Carr, Dr. E. Faye Williams, Maurice Mitchell and Rev. Sheridan Todd Yeary.
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why keep pulling someone who wants to burn out of the fire? as a lifeguard i’m trained to not save someone who won’t calm down and be saved; it’s life threateningly deceptive
we can determine repayment without an audit, with priceless cultural structures: free africana study abroad trips, subsidized farmland, zero-interest mortgages, etc
Janice Matthews talked about reimagining. She said " this is our time". "We are going to rule it and run it, in a way that is sound and fiscally responsible". We have ruled and run entire cities over multiple decades, and the percentage of those among us living in poverty remain constant. Atlanta and Wash. D.C. were touted as Black Meccas of success. Atlanta likely has as the same percentage of poor Black people as any other city we are the dominate population. DC. during or in between the late Mayor Barry's reign had such violence they where children and woman were getting killed in high numbers. The late Dr. Francis Cress Welshing saw fit to ask the people to consider asking the National Guard be brought in to help end the violence. Economic and political power did not eliminate Black poverty, criminally, and violence in these two cities. It is gas lighting ourselves to thing that politics, economic development, or even reparations can be a game changer for us as a group, without some substantial and substantive changes, in the attitude and actions of significant numbers of particular Black people, and all of us in general.
At 51:30 when Pastor McBride made his comments he presented the new attitude that violence in our communities is largely caused by racist economics, and thus to but any blame on us and those who commit these violent criminal act, is to misplace the blame. They feel this holding of us accountable of our actions, is unjustified. He said there was prior to the last two years, a historical reduction in violence. I don't know where he gets this information and how it was calculated, but in Baltimore violence rose somewhat from its already normal high rate, immediately following the death of Freddie Gray, while in the custody of the police. It has continued at that higher rate till this day, in spite of all manner of outcries and appeals to one's conscience to stop it, and increased funding of programs to prevent it. I have not heard that there has been any significant reduction of violence in Chicago, St. Louis, or any other city, we populate, in great numbers. I thought former Mayor Nutter of Philadelphia, had reduced violence during his reign, but in recent years it seems that violence may have been raising there also. Even when violence is not rising, the heinousness of it, as was seen in D.C. in the 90's, in itself should be of major concern. This attitude that McBride expressed is illustrative of the contradiction that is, what people call "woke-ness". The term in itself is a contradiction, as words that denote the same concept, have always been used by Black people, since the days of the 'Black Power Movement'. What is even more contradictory is that Hip-Hop and woke-ness are so closely related. Many who are a part of Hip- Hop, even it's seemingly to me, self appointed spokes-person Michael Eric Dyson, say that us speaking out publically, in a self critical way, about the high degree of fratricide we engage in, is a form of practicing "respectability politics". He and other younger advocates of Hip-Hop culture, say "Black on Black crime" is not a thing. Dyson and other Black intellectuals even say to talk in these terms, is to make us look "pathological". I have never heard any Black people speak of us, in terms of being pathological. I don't recall ever hearing a White person of prominence say it. It may be said by sociologist and and mental health professional, in a strictly academic setting, but the Black people I have heard say it, , have done so over general public airwaves or on youtube, as I have seen Dyson say it. At a time when life is its most challenging for Black people, most of those speaking to our problems or at least with the biggest platform have lowered the expectations we have for ourselves, and deny our obligations to ourselves. They see racism in all its forms as mainly responsible for our problems even thought, it has not stopped them from achieving a comfortable life. The percent of the general public that lives at or below the poverty line has always been of for some time now been between 10 to 15 percent of the general population. ours have always been somewhere around 20 to in some places nearly 30 percent. The economic/structural racism does not explain the rate and nature of violence we see among each other today. Violence has its our subculture, and has had it for some time now. The values embodied in Kwanzaa has not taken root and beared fruit among us, and lifted those in most need among us out of their condition, and so the response seems to be from activist today to blame it all on racism in all its forms and ask that other people especially Whites be anti-racist (more proactive than ourselves, for our own benefit). I'll see if anyone speaker pushes backs against this attitude.
Hillary Shelton of the NAACP talked about reparations as if, it was a totally new issue. His statements on reparations and Black political office holders exemplifies the lack of productivity that comes out of these continuous gatherings. Almost a week has passed since the premiere of this video, and it only has 121 views. None of the participates have brought any of their following to this video. What statement does that make about us as a group?
justin’s politics are superior to moe’s and they didn’t let j hardly speak
Martin stressed the importance of civics, and rightfully so, but a prerequisite to it exist, which is values. Even when civics was taught, many didn't value it, because fundamental human/social values were not valued by many parents and so they were not instilled in their children. The reason why things are necessary and should be valued and adhered to, must be imparted to children and adolescents. The first level of policing begins with the values a people or community have and the standards they set for themselves and their community, based upon their values. Community policing to me means the community policing itself. That has long not been "a thing" for a very long time, in too many of our communities.
Melanie Campbell talk about meeting behind closed doors. That is what Black leadership has always don. They meet in secrecy and then precede to implement agendas that have no one but themselves involved in. This is not an effective leadership for Black people, or at least it does positively impact those who need the most from an effective Black agenda. Maybe the reason previous wars on poverty never reduced overall poverty is because the people living in poverty, were not ask to be proactive in it. They were not taught how important their role was, in its success. They were never told of the consequence of its failure. We don't know how much the unfair disparate economic systemic is responsible for the level of poverty and violence, without first knowing how much individual choice plays it them. If the people gave themselves a peace dividend, a better picture would exist, as too the role of the system and the individual in these rates. Sadly the Left in general, don't ask much from the public. Not even the basic responsibilities of a member of society. Socialism and patriotism are two different sides of the same coin. They both represent the collective interdependent/interconnected nature of a 'society'. Any "Agenda" must have establishing that fundamental relationship among us, before any progress is likely to be made in the area of crime and violence. Without it, we are saying we will expect a return to these levels, whenever there is a downturn in the economy. It in fact may not even take a downturn for it to resurface, since a culture has developed around it for so long. Just driving is like driving in dystopian movie the way traffic rules are ignored, not to mention road rage. Vehicles blatantly block intersections to preform stunts. Need I mention the stores that are being robbed of ATM machines. All the medical aid provide to victims of violence and the physical destruction of property increases insurance cost of all kinds. I don't understand how the same Black people who focus so much on stress supposedly passed down through genes, find it so easy to be dismissive of the constant/continuous stress Black people experience everyday. Still not finished watching this video. Still hoping that some of my questions/ points will be addressed.