"YOU PEOPLE"

Got my OWN mic, stage, key, seat & door!

MOMS DEMAND ACTION

YO LILY WHITE ORG SPEAKS OF GATEKEEPING

YO LILY WHITE ORG REMINDS ME OF THE WHITE WOMEN USED IN THE CASUAL KILLING ACT 1669

YO LILY WHITE ORG SAYS YOU OWN COLOREDS PLIGHT ALSO

YO RED SHIRTS ALONE MAKES A STATEMENT.

YO RED SHIRTS ALONE SHOW ME WHOSE SIDE YOU ARE REALLY ON.

YO RED SHIRTS JUST SPEAKS OF MAGA WITHOUT YOU SPEAKING OF MAGA.

YO RED SHIRTS PROVE THAT YOU DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT GUN SAFETY, GUN RIGHTS, GUN ENTHUSIASTS, GUN USAGE, GUN  KILLINGS (IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY FOR SURE).

WE SEE YOU WORK WHEN BLACK AND BROWN CHLDREN UTILIZE LAWS TO OBTAIN “SUPPOSEDLY” HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION

WE SEE YOU WORK WHEN BLACK AND BROWN FAMILIES ATTEMPT TO MOVE INTO YOUR AREAS

WE SEE YOU WORK WHEN YOU WANT TO CRIMINALIZE BLACK MOMS CONCERNING CORRECTING, DISCIPLINING OR WHIPPING THEIR CHILDREN TO SAVE THEM

WE SEE YOU WORK WHEN YOU WANT LAWS CHANGE THAT BENEFIT YOU AND YOURS

WE SAW YOU WORK WHEN ONE OF THE MOST RACIST, OPPRESSIVE, MYSOGYNISTIC, LYING, TOXIC MASCULINITY REP, VILE, VIOLENT, DISCOMBOBULATING, IGNORANT, INCOMPETENT, SEXIST, HATEFUL, AUTHORITARIAN, PREJUDICE POWER HUNGRY THUG RAN FOR OFFICE AND HOW YOU THREW YOUR SUPPORT BEHIND HIM AS HE STRIPPED YOU OF YOUR WOMANHOOD, RIGHTS, DIGNITY, SELF RESEPECT AND AUTONOMY.

WE HAD A MASS SHOOTING IN OUR INNER CITY ST LOUIS MO WHERE BLACK STUDENTS WERE VICTIMS AND YOUR MOMS DEMAND ACTION NEVER SHOWED UP, NEVER SUPPORTED, NEVER STOOD WITH THE BLACK MOM.

WHY IS THIS?  I MEAN, AFTER ALL THIS BLACK MOM WANT TO DEMAND ACTION AS WELL.

TO REDUCE AND TO END GUN VIOLENCE;

YOU WHITE WOMEN WOULD HAVE TO HONESTLY ADDRESS THE LIE ABOUT THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND THE BLACK MOMS,

YOU WHITE WOMEN WOULD HAVE TO FACE THE ERRONEOUS NARRATIVES ABOUT THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND THE BLACK MOMS;

YOU WHITE WOMENWOULD HAVE TO FACE THE FACT THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT WILLFULLY, KNOWINGINLY AND INTENTIONALLY PLANT GUNS ON INNOCENT AND UNARMED BLACKS IN ORDER TO:

AS I STATED UNJUSTLY FRAME THEM.

ILLEGALLY CAGE THEM.

GIVE THEM LONG SENTENCES IN ORDER TO OBTAIN FREE LABOR.

ONCE EXONERATED, THEY HAVE FELONIES OVER THE LIVES OF WHICH IS CONSTRUCTED TO NOT ONLY STRIP THEM OF THEIR HUMANITY BUT ELEVATION.

THEY LOSE THEIR BASIC CIVIL RIGHTS OF WHICH FAILED SCHOOLS DIDN’T INFORM THEM OF THESE SAID RIGHTS ANYWAY.

THERE CAN BE NO TRUTH IN DIMINISHING GUN VIOLENCE WHEN YOU ARE SILENT ON THE VIOLENCE THROUGH LEGISLATION.

THERE CAN BE NO TRUTH IN YOUR ORGANIZATION WHEN YOU ARE SILENT ON THE VIOLENCE OF HOMELESSNESS.

THERE CAN BE NO TRUTH IN YOUR ORGANIZATION WHEN YOU ARE SILENT ON THE VIOLENCE OF HUNGER.

THERE CAN BE NO TRUTH IN  YOUR ORGANIZATION WHEN YOU ARE SILENT ON THE VIOLENCE OF EDUCATION THEFT.

ONCE A GUN FELONY IS PLACED ON AN INNOCENT PERSON, THEY ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO:

VOTE

HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE

EMPLOYMENT

PARENTAL

DOMESTIC

FINANCIAL

TRAVELING ABROAD

BEAR ARMS OR OWN GUNS

SIT ON A JURY

PUBLIC SOCIAL BENEFITS AS WELL AS HOUSING

THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT KEEP YOU AND YOUR FAMILY FEELING SAFE, COMFORTABLE ND ABOVE US BLACK FOLKS.

I THOUGHT WOMEN’S VOICES RAISED WAS A LEGITIMATE ORGANIZATION, FREE FROM THE SHANANIGANS AND ALL ABOUT UNIFYING WOMEN, NAAAAAAAA JUST ANOTHER NONPROFIT BENEFITTING OFF OF THE BACKS, NECKS, SHOULDERS, PAIN, SUFFERING AND DEATH OF BLACK, BROWN AND ANY OTHERS WHO THEY CAN.

LET’S DO THE MATH; YOU STARTED AFTER THE SANDY HOOK MASSACRE OF WHICH WAS IN 2012, WE HAVE HAD A MASS CASUALTY EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER OF WHICH SAYS, YOU DON’T WANT IT TO END; YOU WAN’T THE PERCEPTION OF IT ENDING, YOU ADVOCATING YOU BEING AN AGENT OF CHANGE WHEN IN REALITY, YOU PROFIT GREATLY OFF OF DEATHS, HURT, AND HARM OF HUMANITY.

 

2018-2019 Programs

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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND RACE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7t0Ls9T_wI

THESE INFERIOR, IGNORANT AND MEDIOCRE WHITE PEOPLE WENT AFTER ROE V. WADE, WE SAID NOTHING, WE DID NOTHING.

THESE INFERIOR, IGNORANT AND MEDIOCRE WHITE PEOPLE WENT AFTER CRITICAL RACE THEORY, WE SAID NOTHING, WE DID NOTHING.

THESE INFERIOR, IGNORANT AND MEDIOCRE WHITE PEOPLE WENT AFTER UNIONS, WE SAID NOTHING, WE DID NOTHING.

THESE INFERIOR, IGNORANT AND MEDIOCRE WHITE PEOPLE WENT AFTER VOTING RIGHTS, WE SAID NOTHING, WE DID NOTHING.

THESE INFERIOR, IGNORANT AND MEDIOCRE WHITE PEOPLE WENT AFTER CLIMATE CHANGE, WE SAID NOTHING, WE DID NOTHING.

THESE INFERIOR, IGNORANT AND MEDIOCRE WHITE PEOPLE WENT AFTER LGBTQ RIGHTS, WE SAID NOTHING, WE DID NOTHING.

WHEN WE THINK OF:

BLACK EXCELLENCE

BLACK BRILLIANCE

BLACK CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

BLACK GIFTS

BLACK TALENTS

BLACK SKILLS

BLACK MINDS

BLACK EDUCATION

BLACK INCLUSION

BLACK COMPETITION

BLACK CONTRIBUTIONS

HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, OUR BRILLIANT, BRIGHT, BOLD, AND BEST LIVES WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN PERMITTED TO REPRESENT US AND OURS BECAUSE OF AMERICA’S RACIST, DIVISIVE AND DISCRIMINATORY: LAWS, RULES AND CODES TO DENY US, REJECT US, AND OMIT US FROM ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE BUT YET, WE STILL SHOWED OUR EXCELLENCE IN THE WORST, MOST DILPAIDATED, AND OUTDATED CURRICULUM LEGISLATED SCHOOLS EVER. HOW? IT WAS ALL BLACK, PERIOD!

THIS IS WHY THEY ATTEMPT TO KEEP US LOCKED OUT OF HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION BUT IN REALITY, WE DID BEST WHEN WE HAD LESS.

THE SUPREME COURT IS ATTEMPTING TO OVERTURN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SAYING THAT  WHITES AND ASAINS ARE BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST, FEEL DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BUT WE HAVE DISCRIMINATORY LAWS, RULES, CODES, MANDATES, REGULATIONS, POLICIES, AND LEGISLATION SINCE THE 1600’s.

APA DISCRIMINATION

https://psychiatry.org/news-room/apa-apology-for-its-support-of-structural-racism#:~:text=The%20APA%20Board%20of%20Trustees%20%28BOT%29%20apologizes%20to,for%20Black%2C%20Indigenous%20and%20People%20of%20Color%20%28BIPOC%29.

NURSING ASSOCIATION DISCRIMINAITION

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/national-nursing-group-apologizes-for-intentional-exclusion-of-black-nurses/ar-AA10JPJa

HEALTHCARE DISCRIMINATION

LAW ENFORCEMENT DISCRIMINATION

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/spotlight/2016/10/20/top-cops-apology-blacks-falls-short-voices/92427284/

 

HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION DISCRIMINATION

SAFE COMMUNITIES DISCRIMINATION

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DISCRIMINATION

HOUSING DISCRIMINATION

BANKING DISCRIMINATION

RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION

GI BILL DISCRIMINATION

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/01/26/wyoming-first-black-sheriff-fired-deputy-alleged-racism/9223816002/

 

RESOURCES DISCRIMINATION

LAND GRANT DISCRIMINATION

NEW DEALS DISCRIMINATION

LOANS DISCRIMINATION

GRANTS DISCRIMINATION

REPARATIONS DISCRIMINATION

BUSINESS DISCRIMINATION

JEWISH DISCRIMINATION (TURNED WHITE)

GERMAN DISCRIMINATION (TURNED WHITE)

IRISH DISCRIMINATION (TURNED WHITE)

ALL OF THESE AFFIRMED ACTIONS WERE FOR WHITES AND AGAINST BLACKS AND ENFORCED THROUGH:

LAWS, RULES, CODES, MANDATES, POLICIES, LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS AND OTHER CRAP WHITE FOLKS MADE UP AND STROKED AND SPLATTERED INK IN ORDER TO OMIT US, DENY US, EXCLUDE US AND REJECT US.

GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE AFTER YOU BOMBED OUR HOMES AND NEVER GAVE US REPARATIONS TO REBUILD.

STEP BACK AND LOOK INTO OUR INNER CITIES TODAY, WE ONCE HAD EVERYTHING WE NEEDED AS A THRIVING, SUCCESSFUL COMMUNITY UNTIL AMERICA BOMBED IT.

THESE PEOPLE WENT AFTER ROE V. WADE, WE SAID NOTHING.

THESE PEOPLE WENT AFTER CRITICAL RACE THEORY, WE SAID NOTHING.

THESE PEOPLE WENT AFTER UNIONS, WE SAID NOTHING.

THESE PEOPLE WENT AFTER VOTING RIGHTS, WE SAID NOTHING.

THESE PEOPLE WENT AFTER CLIMATE CHANGE, WE SAID NOTHING.

THESE PEOPLE WENT AFTER LGBTQ RIGHTS, WE SAID NOTHING.

WHEN WE THINK OF BLACK EXCELLENCE, BLACK BRILLIANCE, BLACK MINDS, BLACK EDUCATION; THEY ALL WERE ADMITTED INTO.

AMERICA CREATED STRUCTURAL BARRIERS, OMISSIONS, EXCLUSIONS AND REJECTIONS OF BLACKS AND WE SAW THAT UNDER THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, THE BLACK COMMUNITY HAD, WAS BUILT BY AND THRIVED OFF OF THE BACKS OF BLACK PEOPLE BRILLIANCE, VISION, AND INGENUITY, CREATIVITY AND MAD SKILLS.  WE HAVE NEVER REALLY NEEDED AMERICA FOR ANYTHING BUT TO LEAVE US THE HELL ALONE.

  1. Alameda County Volunteer

  2. Benefit Counseling

  3. Black Student Alliance

  4. Child Development Center

  5. Consumer Education Classes

  6. Community Facility Use

  7. Community Health Classes

  8. East Oakland CIL (Center for Independent Living) Branch

  9. Community Pantry (Free Food Program)

  10. Disabled Persons Services/Transportation and Attendant

  11. Drug/Alcohol Abuse Awareness Program

  12. Drama Classes

  13. Drill Team

  14. Employment Referral Service

  15. Free Ambulance Program

  16. Free Breakfast for Children Programs

  17. Free Bussing to Prisons Program

  18. Free Clothing Program

  19. Free Commissary for Prisoners Program

  20. Free Dental Program

  21. Free Employment Program

  22. Free Food Program

  23. Free Film Series

  24. Free Furniture Program

  25. Free Health Clinics

  26. Free Housing Cooperative Program

  27. Food Cooperative Program

  28. Free Optometry Program

  29. Community Forum

  30. Free Pest Control Program

  31. Free Plumbing and Maintenance Program

  32. Free Shoe Program

  33. GED Classes

  34. Geriatric Health Center

  35. GYN Clinic

  36. Home SAFE Visits

  37. Intercommunal Youth Institute (becomes OCS in 1975)

  38. Junior High and High School Tutorial Program

  39. Legal Aid and Education

  40. Legal Clinic/Workshops

  41. Laney Experimental College Extension Site

  42. Legal Referral Service(s)

  43. Liberation Schools

  44. Martial Arts Program

  45. Nutrition Classes

  46. Oakland Community Learning Center

  47. Outreach Preventative Care

  48. Program Development

  49. Pediatric Clinic

  50. Police Patrols

  51. Seniors Against a Fearful Environment

  52. SAFE Club

  53. Sickle Cell Anemia Research Foundation

  54. Son of Man Temple (becomes Community Forum in 1976)

  55. Sports Program

  56. Senior Switchboard

  57. The Black Panther Newspaper

  58. Teen Council

  59. Teen Program

  60. U.C. Berkeley Students Health Program

  61. STD Preventative Screening & Counseling

  62. Visiting Nurses Program

  63. WIC Program (Women’s, Infants & Children)

  64. Youth Diversion and Probation Site

  65. Youth Training and Development

https://bppaln.org/programs

The honestly do not have the power, WE THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER.

GET RID OF THAT OUTDATED AND RACIST SUPREME COURT BECAUSE CLEARLY, THEY AREN’T AWARE THAT AMERICA WAS BUILT ON DISCRIMINATION.

HOW IS IT THAT UPON BLACKS BACKS, NECKS AND SHOULDERS AMERICA LEARNING INSTITUTIONS WERE BUILT BUT DENIED ENTRANCE?

HOW IS IT THAT BLACKS BUILT THIS JOINT BUT WAS DENIED ANY FRUIT OF OUR LABOR?

HOW IS IT THAT FOR 400 PLUS YEARS AMERICA REAPED GENERATIONAL WEALTH CUMALATED FROM BLACK WORK ETHICS AND LABOR THAT STILL BENEFITS WHITES TODAY.

WE ARE STILL DISCRIMINATED AGAINST

WE ARE STILL SUFFERING

WE ARE STILL OPPRESSED

WE ARE STILL BLAMED AS VICTIMS

WE ARE STILL PUNISHED FOR DOING WHAT AMERICA SUGGESTED, TOLD, DEMANDED AS WELL AS SUGGESTED

WE ARE SILL IN THIS REGRESSIVE STATE AND IT IS REPARATIONS TIME

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Give me a Break Supt. Kelvin Adams

The day of the mass shooting, Supt. Kelvin Adams said in the most unflinching manner that they were going to open back up the schools as soon as possible.

All I could do was gasp because I didn’t believe that was on his frontal lobe.

I never saw him console the principal.

I never saw him console the family members of the deceased.

I never saw him console the faculty, or staff.

I never saw him console any students.

Did he? I can’t answer that, I said I NEVER SAW HIM.

This morning on October 31st, the news anchor said that they will not start virtual learning.

Last I checked, virtual learning was ISOLATION and that is the root cause of thoughts of heinous crimes such as this.

Last I checked, it was being ALONE that cause thoughts of terrorizing.

Last I checked, solitary confinement cause:

Last I checked, In School Suspension cause

Restricting: socializations, activities and gatherings are all major side effects of:

thoughts of suicide

propensity for aggression

 thoughts of violence

an inclination to murder

So with this being said, you were willing to ISOLATE our babies and cause them to virtually NOT learn before they bury their beloved teacher and their beloved peer as though they have no right to grieve, process, be broken and get back to business as usual?

This is exactly why education is what it is in the Lou.

This is why our children are sick and tired of being sick and tired in the Lou schools.

This is the not well thought out decisions that we teachers have to contend with on a daily basis and we are tired as Black educators.

Our BLACK children hurt.

Our BLACK teachers hurt.

Our BLACK children grieve.

Our BLACK teachers grieve.

Our BLACK children need to process.

Our BLACK teachers need to process.

Our BLACK children need their moment.

Our BLACK teachers need their moment.

Our BLACK children have anxiety.

Our BLACK teachers have anxiety.

ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS NEED TO BE SHUT DOWN, WE ARE TIRED OF FACING THESE THINGS AND NEVER GIVEN THE TIME, SPACE TO GRIEVE, PROCESS AND HEAL.

I need to be specific and say BLACK because it appears that the intentionality of this mass shooting, poverty, crime and oppression IN OUR BLACK COMMUNITIES all connect and interconnect with systems that assure White inferiority will stay afloat and we are saying ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AND WE DO NOT DESERVE THIS AT ALL.

Trust me, there is no learning loss.

To hear this young generation basically hold the news accountable for AIRING this mass shooting speaks to what they know and have learned.

If the students were white, affluent or not; we would have seen this mass shootings rotating and on repeat and our children knew race played a major role but THEY got it on the news the way it should.

Don’t tell me about learning loss, they are learning more than we anticipate and I am loving it.

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THE MOVIE TILL

SUPERNATURAL STRENGTH OF MAMIE TILL

THE BEAUTY OF MAMIE TILL

THE BRILLIANCE OF MAMIE TILL

THE BLACK WOMANNESS OF MAMIE TILL

IN WATCHING THIS MOVIE TILL, I THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT MALXOLM X SAID, “THE MOST DISRESPECTED WOMAN IN AMERICA, IS THE BLACK WOMAN. THE MOST UN-PROTECTED PERSON IN AMERICA IS THE BLACK WOMAN. THE MOST NEGLECTED PERSON IN AMERICA, IS THE BLACK WOMAN.

DISRESPECTED WOMAN IN AMERICA, IS THE BLACK WOMAN;

THEY WERE GOING TO BURY HER SON EMMETT WITHOUT HER FEEDBACK, CONSIDERATION AND BLESSING.

THEY NEVER ASKED HER FOR HER INPUT.

THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE EXECUTIVE DECISIONS FOR MAMIE TILL MOBLEY LIKE SHE COULDN’T THINK, SPEAK OR ACT INTELLECTUALY OR IN GOOD FAITH AND WITH GOOD REASON EVEN DURING THIS TIME OF BROKENNESS.

THEY WERE INTENTIONALLY GOING TO DISREGARD HER AND SHE WASN’T GOING TO HAVE ANY OF IT.

SHE WASN’T PLAYING THAT “POLITICAL” AGENDA CRAP AND MADE SURE THEY SAID HIS NAME, HUMANIZED HIM AND GAVE HIM THE SAME DIGNITY SHE DID AND THEY DID.

THE MOST UNPROTECTED PERSON IN AMERICA IS THE BLACK WOMAN; SHE DIDN’T CARE ABOUT PROTECTION, SHE HAD ONE THING ON HER MIND AND THAT WAS JUSTICE FOR HER SON. SHE HAD MORE FAITH, STRENGTH, BELIEF, COURAGE, DIGNITY AND FORTITUDE THAN THE MEN, SHE KNEW WHAT IT TOOK TO RAISE EMMETT AND SHE REFUSED TO ACT LIKE SHE DIDN’T HAVE THE AUTHORITY, LIKE SHE WASN’T HIS GUARDIAN, LIKE SHE WAS A NOBODY, AFTER ALL SHE CAME FROM THE NORTH SO SHE RAISED EMMETT TO SEE PEOPLE AS PEOPLE AND TREAT PEOPLE WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT AND SO HE DID AND WAS AND THAT SHOULDN’T HAVE CAUSED HIM HIS LIFE BUT THE INFERIOR ONES WAS JUST THAT, INFERIOR AND ENTITLED IN THEIR OWN MINDS.

THE MOST NEGLECTED PERSON IN AMERICA, IS THE BLACK WOMAN.

SHE KNEW HER CHILD EMMETT NEEDED JUSTICE BUT THEY REFUSED TO GIVE IT TO HER.

SHE KNEW HER CHILD EMMETT WAS A JOKESTER BUT THEY HAD TO MAKE AN EXAMPLE OUT OF HIM.

SHE KNEW HER CHILD EMMETT WAS A GENTLEMAN BUT HE WASN’T RAISED IN THE SOUTH WHERE THE LAWS WERE STRINGENT, HARSH, VICIOUS AND WICKED AND HE HAD TO LEARN THE HARD.

WHAT I TOOK AWAY FROM THIS MOVIE TILL WAS THE WORDS OF MAMIE TILL WHEN SHE SAID,

“NO ONE IS GOING TO BELIEVE WHAT I SAW. THEY HAVE TO SEE IT FOR THEMSELVES.”

BE SMALL DOWN THERE.”

“THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT SET OF RULES FOR NEGROES DOWN THERE.”

“TWO MONTHS AGO I HAD A NICE APARTMENT IN CHICAGO. I HAD A GOOD JOB. I HAD A SON. WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENED TO THE NEGROES IN THE SOUTH I SAID, ‘THAT’S THEIR BUSINESS, NOT MINE.’ NOW I KNOW HOW WRONG I WAS. THE MURDER OF MY SON HAS SHOWN ME THAT WHAT HAPPENS TO ANY OF US, ANYWHERE IN THE WORD, HAD BETTER BE THE BUSINESS OF US ALL.”

WHEN MAMIE TILL MOBLEY ADVISED HER SON EMMETT TO, “BE SMALL DOWN THERE,” IT REMINDED ME OF A CONVERSATION I HAD WITH THE LATE, GREAT, HONORABLE REPRESENTATIVE WYVETTER HOOVER YOUNGE.

I HAD BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL IN GETTING A JOB IN MY PREFERRED CAREER WORKING WITH FAMILIES.

I TRIED, INFANTS, I TRIED TEENS, I TRIED ELDERS AND I ALSO WENT TO THE EMPLOYERS MY PROFESSORS SAID I SHOULD.

WHEN I WOULD GET INTO THOSE POSITION I WAS ALWAYS UNHAPPY WITH THE TREATMENT OR THE GOALS, MISSION, VALUE, CHARACTER STATEMENTS OF WHICH HAS ALWAY SPROVEN MY INTUITION TO BE CORRECT.

WHEN I WAS DENIED EMPLOYMENT, I WAS ALWAYS TOLD I NEEDED MORE EXPERINCE, I WAS “encouraged” TO RETURN TO SCHOOL AND GET HIGHER EDUCATION, I WAS TOLD THAT I WAS OVERQUALIFIED.

I ASKED SHOULD I TAKE I HAVE A DEGREE OFF OF MY RESUME BECAUSE IT APPEARS, IT IS HOLDING ME BACK FROM OBTAINING REPUTABLE EMPLOYMENT AND THAT WAS THE REASON I WENT OFF TO COLLEGE.

WELL, REPRESENTATIVE TOLD ME IN A SCOLDING MANNER TO NEVER DENY OR OMIT MY EDUCATION. SHE REMINDED ME OF THE COMMUNITY I CAME FROM AND WHAT I HAD IN ME TO CLIMB THE LADDER OF HIGHER EDUCATION WAS AS HONORABLE AND SELF DETERMINATION AS I CAN GET.

THERE IS A SITE HIGHLIGHTING THE 10 0UTRAGEOUS REASONS BLACKS WERE LYNCHED IN AMERICA AND IT WAS:  UNPOPULARITY, ACTING OR LOOKING SUSPICIOUS, DEMANDING RESPECT, DISORDERLY CONDUCT,

THIS ANTILYNCHING BILL ACT WAS SIGNED IN 2022, AND THAT WAS HOW LONG AFTER EMMETT TILL’S DEATH?

MISSISSIPPI RESURRECTED A STATUE OF EMMETT TILL BUT WITH THIS “ACT” OR “SYMBOLIC GESTURE OF CHANGE AND JUSTICE……..”

ALLOW ME TO CLOSE WITH THESE WORDS.

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MS. JOHNSON!

A LOT OF THE TIME, WE SUBSTITUTES ARE TREATED LESS THAN.

A LOT OF THE TIME, WE SUBSTITUTES ARE TREATED IN THE MOST DISPRESPECTFUL MANNER.

A LOT OF TIME, WE SUBSTITUTES ARE TREATED LIKE WE AREN’T PROFESSIONALS.

A LOT OF THE TIME, WE SUBSTITUTES ARE TREATED LIKE WE DON’T HAVE DEGREES AS WELL.

A LOT OF THE TIME, WE SUBSTITUTES ARE TREATED LIKE WE DON’T HAVE OTHER OPTIONS AS FAR AS CAREERS GOES.

A LOT OF THE TIME, WE SUBSTITUTES ARE TREATED LIKE WE ARE INEFFECTIVE.

A LOT OF TIME, WE SUBSTITUTES ARE TREATED LIKE WE ARE INCOMPETENT.

A LOT OF TIME, WE SUBSTITUTES ARE TREATED INSIGNIFICANT.

WE SUBSTITUTES…..

AS A SUBSTITUE TEACHER, WE HAVE MORE RESPECT, HONOR AND LOVE FOR OUR STUDENTS THAN THEIR ‘real‘ TEACHERS.

SEEING ALL OF THE ACCOLADES AND HOMAGE GIVEN TO FIRST RESPONDERS BUT OUR REAL FIRST RESPONDER IS NAMELESS, AND INVISIBLE BUT I AM CHOOSING TO SHINE THE LIGHT ON HER GOOD GOOD DEAD AND GREAT WORKS.

TO HEAR THAT MS. JOHNSON WAS THE WOMAN THAT ALERTED, AND HAD THAT MOTHER INSTINCT AND INTUITION THAT SAVED A LOT OF LIVES.

AS AN LINCOLN SR. HIGH SCHOOL ALUM, THIS IS WHO WE ARE, THIS IS WHAT WE DO; WE ARE HUMANITY ON DISPLAY.

I MUST GIVE HER FLOWERS

I MUST GIVE HER APPLAUSE

I MUST GIVE HER A STANDING OVATION

I MUST SHED LIGHT ON THIS WOMAN

SHE IS INDEED A SONGSTRESS AND THIS LYRIC, THIS TEMPO SPEAKS TO US.

WE ARE MORE THAN JUSSA SUB……

WE SUBSTITUTES MAKE A COGNIZANT EFFORT TO BOND WITH OUR STUDENTS, BUILD WITH OUR STUDENTS AND GAIN THE TRUST OF OUR STUDENTS WITH REAL RELATIONSHIPS.

WE SUBSTITUTES MAKE SURE THAT IT THEY ASS, WE ANSWER, WE KNOW THEY WANT HONEST OPINIONS AND I DON’T FOLLOW PROTOCAL AND PROCEDURES BECAUSE EDUCATION SHOULD NOT BE HINDERED BY UNCOMFORTABLE TOPICS, BELIEFS AND PHILOSOPHIES.

 WE SUBSTITUTES ARE WELL AWARE THAT OUR INNER CITY CHILDREN COME INSIDE OF OUR SCHOOLS WITH MORE EXPOSURE, EXPECTATIONS, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCES THAN THEIR WHITE TEACHERS SO WE HANDLE THEM ACCORDINGLY.

WE SUBSTITUTES KNOW THAT OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT IGONORANT, INCAPABLE, AND INCOMPETENT TO UNDERSTAND INTELLECTUAL DIALOGUE.

MY INNER CITY STUDENTS WOULD ALWAYS SAY TO ME, “YOU AINT NO REAL TEACHER, YOU AINT NUN BUT JUSSA SUB.”

I USED TO THINK IT WAS DEHUMANIZING AND FIND IT AN INSULT BUT OVER TIME, I GREW UP AND I BEGAN TO CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THAT IT WASN’T THEM BUT THOSE WHO DIDN’T LOOK LIKE US SUBSTITUTES OR STUDENTS.

WE ARE INDEED ASSETS IN THIER EDUCATION PROCESS THESE WHITE TEACHERS LOOK AT US, VIEW US AND TREAT US LIKE WE ARE INFERIOR, MEDIOCRE, POINTLESS WHO “just so happen” WERE EXPECTED TO CARRY OUT THE SAME DUTIES AND ROLES AS TEACHERS.

I HAVE COME TO THE POINT IN MY CAREER THAT IT IS TIME TO PICK A LANE.

MY FAMILY OR THIS CAREER THAT EVERYONE KNOWS BUT NO ONE CARES ABOUT UNANIMOUSLY.

WE SUBSTITUTES WATCH THESE CHLDREN BLOSSOM, GROW, BUILD THIER CONFIDENCE AND SELF ESTEEM BECAUSE WE BLACK SUBSTITUTES TEACH THEM WHAT IS INNATE.

WE SUBSTITUTES KNOW THAT OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT EVIL, IGNORANT, DEFIANT, DEVIANT, VIOLENT, VICIOUS, MALICIOUS, TERRORIZING BUT AMERICA LEGISLATES THEM VIOLENCE, IMMORALITY, DEHUMANIZATION BUT THEIR COUNTRY IS.

EDUCATION MALPRACTICE, CURRICULUM DISCRIMINATION ARE ALL LEGISLATED AND WE BRING CRITICAL THINKING INSIDE THE SCHOOLS WITH US.

REMEMBER,

I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THAT AS A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER, I AM AN ASSISTANT, CO, etc. I AM LITERALLY DOING THE JOB OF A TEACHER, I AM READY TO MAKE THE COMPANY LOOK EXCEPTIONAL MINUS THE SALARY, PERKS, AND ACCOLADES.

I AM A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER, BUT I AM NO SUB NOTHING, ANYTHING.

IT IS BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT I WHO CHOOSE TO DO THIS HONORABLE JOB.

WE STAND UPON OUR STUDENTS.

WE STAND UPON OUR STUDENTS SHOULDERS.

WE STAND UPON OUR STUDENTS BACKS.

WE STAND UPON OUR STUDENTS IGNORANCE

OUR STANDING IS THE FOUNDATION OF OUR STUDENTS

WE MUST NEVER FORGET IT.

I NOTICE, I AM A SUBSTITUTE SURE, I AM ALSO A COMPASSIONATE TEACHER ALSO!

I NOTICE WHEN STUDENTS ARE ABSENT

I NOTICE WHEN STUDENTS BEHAVIOR IS OFF

I NOTICE WHEN STUDENTS ARE EXTREMELY ECSTATIC

I NOTICE WHEN STUDENTS ARE BEING BULLIED

I NOTICE WHEN STUDENTS ARE FATIGUE

I NOTICE WHEN STUDENTS SPIRITS ARE HIGH AND LOW

I NOTICE WHEN STUDENTS NEED SPACE

I NOTICE WHEN STUDENTS NEED AN EAR, HEART AND HUG

I NOTICE WHEN STUDENTS WANT AND NEED TO TALK, HEART TO HEART

I NOTICE WHAT I CAN SAY, WHAT I SHOULD SAY AND WHEN I SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT SAY IT but never do

I NOTICE THESE THINGS BECAUSE I HAVE NOT THE SAME AGENDA AS A CONTRACTED TEACHER, I AM A BLACK WOMAN AND MOTHER FIRST

I NOTICE THESE THINGS BECAUSE I HAVE NOT THE SAME STRESS AND STRAINS AS A CONTRACTED TEACHER

I NOTICE THESE THINGS BECAUSE CONTRACTED TEACHERS HAVE TO FOCUS ON ACADEMICS AND A SUBSTITUTE CAN FOCUS ON THE STUDENTS IN TOTALITY

I NOTICE THESE THINGS BECAUSE I CHOOSE TO FOCUS ON CHARACTER, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, LOVE OF SELF, APPRECIATION OF LIFE, AND SUSTAINING OUR COMMUNITY AND THE IMPORTANCE OF BLACK UNITY.

I NOTICE THESE THINGS BECAUSE IT IS THIS POPULATION THAT IS THE MOST:RESILIENT, BRILLIANT, GIFTED, SKILLS, TECHN SAVVY, LOVERS OF HUMANITY, CARING, PROTECTIVE, SERVICE ORIENTED, GIVING AND ARE ALL SOMEBODY THAT MAKE OUR CULUTURE AND VILLIAGE COMPLETE

FOR THIS, I SUB! FOR THIS, WE SUB!

THANK YOU MS. JOHNSON FOR YOUR QUICK THINKING BUT WHO IS SHOCKED, YOU ARE A PHENOMENAL VOCALIST WHO HAVE MASTERED TIMING.

P.S. I AM WELL AWARE THAT NOT ALL SCHOOLS TREAT THEIR SUBSTITUTES IN THIS MANNER BUT I WAS SPEAKING ON WHAT I HAVE SEEN, HEARD AND FELT.

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HAMMER HEAD!

David Depape is as America as it gets.

David Depape putting a  hammer to the head of Nancy Pelosi’s husband is the root of my title, he is no different than the viciousness, maliciousness, false narratives, hurt, harm and misinformation that has ALWAYS been as America as we get.

They have always put a hammer to our heads.
They have always put a hammer to our visions.

They have always put a hammer to our goals.

They have always put a hammer to our progress.

They have always put a hammer to our dreams.

They have always put a hammer to our elevation.

They have always put a hammer to our hopes.

They have always put a hammer to BLACK PEOPLE LIVES.

OUR INNER CITY CHILDREN

Aren’t given civic classes anymore.

Aren’t given clubs such as young dems and young replubicans any more.

Aren’t given powerful speakers to honestly be about change anymore.

Aren’t being defended.

Aren’t living in a DEMOcracy.

Aren’t seen.

Aren’t heard.

Aren’t felt.

Aren’t understood (BUT THEY ARE)

NONE OF AMERICA, HONESTLY!

Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe said, “If we don’t handle our independence very well, the colonizers will come back in forms of investors.”

A prime example is this right here,  https://www.nola.com/louisiana_inspired/article_311f1ca0-4992-11ed-b4c5-f75d637284c7.html

NO, JUST NO!

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Crunch Time?

I am listening to the news and they are showing our “PRIZED” Black face President Obama attempting to “CONvince” people to get out and vote for people who gives no fux about us and ours.

They want us to vote.

They need our vote.

They pander for our vote.

They rock and roll us for our vote.

They feed us for our vote.

They socialize us for our vote.

They covet our vote.

THEY MOCK US FOR OUR VOTE.

They promise us heaven and hell for our vote.

After our vote, they are ghosts.

After our vote, they are missing in action.

After our vote, they are no longer personable.

After our vote, they are no longer accessible.

After our vote, they are untouchable.

AFTER OUR VOTE, THEY KNOW US NOT!

Yet, look at the state of our communities.

Yet, look at the state of our environment.

Yet, look t the state of our education.

Yet, look at the state of our civic education.

Yet, look at the state of crime in our inner cities.

Yet,  look at the most powerful voting block that blindly vote blue and for you.

Yet, look at the state of accountability.

YET, JUST LOOK BLACK PEOPLE!

Allow me to REintroduce you to the DEMONcratic party.

We should by now look behind and us and understand that they are millionaires, billionaires with BLACK FACE not really concerned about truth, dignity, morality, inclusivity and flipping this thing they LOVE to call DEMOcracy because as far as we are concerned, we have never had or enjoyed DEMOCRACY.

The book of life will force us to read and reread all characters, plots, and generes that evolve us.

The DEMOcratic party has a history and all we have to do is listen to what they said and look behind us at how we have benefitted, was elevated, progressed and been healthily given rightful and genuinely earned access, opportunities, wages, titles, and positions.

We have been given DEMONcratic policies that made unnecessary obstacles, hardships, made us face their authentic outcomes, the positions they put us and our loved ones in, by now we should accept the DEMONcratic party for who they really is and that is DEMONic.

They listen to our sound wisdom.

They feel our heaviness and frustration.

They understand our truth and yet they deny, reject, omit, exclude and vote against it and us time and time and time and time again.

Today, I am understanding that NEITHER the RETHUGlicans or DEMONcratics stand for dignity, civility, humanity, justice, equity, equality or reparations for those of us they need.

I am seeing my vote through new eyes. I am giving my vote the honor, respect, and dignity it deserves. I am having new faith and moving with a ripeness unlike ever before.

DEMONcratic and RETHUGlican are not only a brand for us voter to associate ourselves with but lose ourselves.

It’s time to embody the words of Ben Carson when he said, “We’ve been conditioned to think that only politicians can solve our problems. But at some point, maybe we will wake up and recognize that it was the politicians who created our problems.

They wield and cause our death.

They wield and cause our failing health.

They wield and cause our early demise.

They wield and zone us into areas where it is easily known where we are to do such malicious, vicious, immoral and unjust acts towards humanity.

They wield and dim our lights.

They wield and allow education theft.

They are the reason we are here and they should no longer have our vote, PERIOD!

We are not a monolith and we have never been but we had community, our future and dignity, respect and inclusivity where we were concerned.

These “WASTED” Black face are in positions of greed, insolence and strip us of our unity and community.

They talk a good game, they share our plethora of hues but not our soul. They have become soulless, they have adopted the ways, actions, views, speech and beliefs of the enemy and where we are today, what we experience today and what we feel is all the proof you need. They are no leader because they aren’t even in the community. They are no leaders because they aren’t equipping the young to take over and maintain dignity, respect, honor, compassion and consideration like our ancestors of old did.

These “WASTED” Black faces are people who do not have the best interest of the collective good of our people center but greed, and gain for them. They exploit our hurt, harm, grief, pain, lack, ignorance, and immorality legislated by America.

IT IS TIME FOR US TO MOVE ON FROM THIS DEMONic PARTY!!!!!!!

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HERE IS THE LIE!

THE NEWS SAID THERE WERE 7 OFFICERS IN CENTRAL VISUAL PERFORMING ARTS.

THE NEWS SAID THE SCHOOL HAD METAL DETECTORS IN CENTRAL VISUAL PERFORMING ARTS.

THE NEWS SAID THAT THE DOORS WERE LOCKED AT CENTRAL VISUAL PERFOMRING ARTS.

EITHER SOMEONE IS LYING OR SOMEONE ON THE INSIDE ASSISTED THIS YOUNG MAN.

EITHER WAY,

LIVES WERE LOST AND PUSHING LIES OF MORE MONEY ON LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SECURITY IN OUR SCHOOLS CAN’T BE THE ANSWER.

WE ARE SHOWN THIS TIME AND TIME AND TIME AGAIN.

WHY ARE WE TREATING OUR CHILDREN, FACULTY AND STAFF LIKE THEY ARE CRIMINALS?

WHY ARE WE TREATING OUR CHILDREN, FACULTY AND STAFF LIKE THEY ARE DISPOSABLE?

WHY ARE IGNORANT PEPLE MAKING LAWS ABOUT EDUCATION?

WHY ARE THOSE HANDED ACCESS, SUCCESS, POSITIONS AND TITLES STILL BEING ALLOWED IN 2022?

WHY ARE THEIR WORDS VALID?

GIVEN THE HISTORY OF THE ENEMY, I WOULDN’T BE SHOCKED IF A WHITE TEACHER LET HIM IN AND COHERCED HIM TO CARRY OUT SUCH AN ACT.

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On Joe Watch!

https://marketrealist.com/p/how-much-money-has-the-us-sent-to-ukrainie/#:~:text=How%20much%20money%20has%20the%20U.S.%20sent%20to,be%20broken%20down%20into%20multiple%20types%20of%20aid.

WATCH-TO SEE

WATCH-DEVICE THAT TELLS TIME!

Yes, we SEE it is TIME to tell the DEMS to Kiss Our Black Asses.

THE DEMS gave billions of OUR tax dollars to clear loans for a “certain” segment of our population and another large lump sum of billions to Ukraine.

I can hear the words of Coretta Scott King, “Our Congress passes laws which subsidize corporation farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia. But when they turn their attention to the poor, they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on the funds for Head Start, Medicare, and mental health appropriations.”

I can also hear the words of Ben Carson, “We’ve been conditioned to think that only politicians can solve our problems. But at some point, maybe we will wake up and recognize that it was the politicians who created our problems.”

I can also hear the words of Nelson Mandela on poverty, oppression, lack, discrimination, rejection, and exclusion: “Poverty “Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.””

Yes, we voluntarily went to college as we voluntarily accepted your education, curriculum and extracurricular theft.

No, being an educated and intellectual people is not a sin, evil, bad, immoral or unjust.

The big print giveth and the little print taketh away.

I think that we should no longer be held accountable for information intentionally, willfully and legislatively omitted, rejected, denied and excluded to control narratives that benefit the bullies, that the inferior benefit, that the ignorant benefit, that white folks benefit along with their descendants, STILL.

Yes, when we signed for our student loans, we agreed to pay our loans back but we didn’t know after graduation that just because we obtained a college degree:

Companies had a right to discriminate towards us.

Companies weren’t obligated to hire us.

Companies would use our higher education against us.
Companies were allowed to say that we are highly qualified and for that, they couldn’t hire us.

Companies had a choice to or not to elevate us or increase our wages

Companies can deny us for ANY reason.

Yes, after all, that was the point drilled into us of attending college, it was our ticket out of poverty that we were zoned and white men legislated.

Yes, we acted responsibly, with dignity, with respect and with ignorance.

We accepted education malpractice.

We accepted curriculum discrimination.

We accepted defunding.

We accepted school closures.

We accepted overcrowding.

We accepted the most incompetent, inferior, ignorant and ineffective white teachers on earth.

Yet, we showed up daily.

Yet, we were failed daily.

Yet, our Black teachers expected greatness, professionalism, high standards and expectations daily.

Yet, we were seen as, treated as, spoken to as, and legislated maltreatment daily

Yet, we failed you not.

Yet, we failed yours not.

Yet, we assured your bills, notes and promissory notes were paid on a timely basis.

To wipe away our student loans is not the issue of us having no accountability but the issue is us not having enough ends to meet.

How dare they speak on morality.

How dare they speak on character.

How dare they speak on responsibility.

How dare they speak on integrity.

How dare they paint us like we are them.

How dare they paint us like we aren’t hard working.

How dare the DEMS act like we didn’t put them in office to execute our demands, their promises and what they ran on and that was eradicating student loan debt.

How dare the DEMS forget the people who voted for them in large numbers to only DIS African Americans.

Yes, they DISregard, DISrespect, DISengage, DISmember, DISinform, DISlike, DISsatify, DISorder, DISpose, DIStrust, DISappoint, DISgrace, DIScontinue, DIScriminate.

They can and they should. 400 years is a long time to NOT.

We have seen time, and time, and time, and time again nothing but failed, and oppressive policies from both parties. This is our lives and they have “talking points” “play books” “unnecessary shananigans.” Dems have taken care of everyone except the people responsible for their ascension who trusted thier vow to serve us.

Can we discuss those who are irate about canceling student loans for a moment?

Why do they act like those who went to college aren’t working or tax payers as well? Hell, we pay the highest taxes and make the least.

Why do they act like helping Americans is a charity they would just not prefer to do?

Why is it when they know BLACKS are centered, they fight back, push back and halt progress for us as we have progressed them for the last 400 plus years.

Why do they act like wiping student loans is a philanthropic gesture that they hate they have to do?

Why is it called a give-away when this very country refuse to pay REPARATIONS because they stole, lied, killed, bombed and profited immensely off of FREE BLACK LABOR?

We Black women are the most degreed people and earn the less so therefore we can’t say we aren’t hard working low wage earners.

Those who can pay off their MANY loans: student, home, car, on top of their daily expenses and didn’t attend college and somehow look at us or paint us as a group who did something wrong is in the segment of our population where they were/are literally HANDED access, resources, homage, accolades, notoriety, opportunities, titles, degrees, certifications, and success.

The college scandal taught me this.

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GUNS IN AMERICA……

WHITE FOLKS HAVE ALWAYS LIED

WHITE FOLKS HAVE ALWAYS HAD CONTROL SO THEY PUSHED FALSE NARRATIVES

WHITE FOLKS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ABUSIVE

WHITE FOLKS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN VIOLENT

WHITE FOLKS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IMMORAL
WHITE FOLKS HAVE ALWAYS LACKED CHARACTER

WHITE FOLKS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LAWLESS

WHITE FOLKS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN IGNORANT
WHITE FOLKS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ILLITERATVE

WHITE FOLKS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LIARS

WHITE FOLKS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DEHUMANIZING

WHITE FOLKS HAVE BEEN THE VERY THING AND PEOPLE THEY PAINTED US AS AND HID BEHIND GUNS TO KEEP IT THAT WAY

GUN VIOLENCE IS AN ISSUE, BUT NOT FOR ” YOU PEOPLE “

NEWTON IS MY TOWN, DAILY!

QUALITY EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IS NOT FOR ❝YOU PEOPLE❞

❝Generationally and statistically it is PROVEN that NAEYC, NEA, NAECTE and NECPA of which are national organization for Early Childhood Education of which OUR daycare centers pride themselves of being “certified” by does NOT care about children in our ❝POORBLACK COMMUNITIES! ❞ They don’t have anything in place to monitor Early Childhood Centers in our ❝POOR BLACK COMMUNITIES❞ and seemingly “have washed their hands of it”. They allow early childhood and daycare centers to be “certified” and default on their promissory note, along with breach their contract to our poor families of which allow our children to enter into Kindergarten ill prepared to soar.

I went to workshops after workshops after workshops sponsored by or facilitated by the “experts” who have perfected in turning a blind eye and deaf ear on our children in ❝POOR BLACK COMMUNITIES! ❞ They are privy that our children are not academically, emotionally, psychologically sound nor are they interconnected globally when they enter into Kindergarten. They are more so concerned that they get the heads in the conference rooms so they can get the funding without accountability or hold those responsible that are in place to effectively educate the young child. HOW LONG are we supposed to sit back and watch early childhood fail our children and families of color and not provide an adequate and sound foundation that they need and pay for so that they too can be ready to enter into Kindergarten? I have never seen while researching, phrases start out with children of the Affluent or Impoverished can, should, will, must….IT SAYS, “STATISTICAL DATA SAY CHILDREN……..

In our ❝POOR BLACK COMMUNITIES❞, we have daycare centers who “PROUDLY” display they are in this “prestigious” organization but what they are producing is not synonymous with the mission and goals of the organization and early childhood providers who are more concerned about their style of living than the very people they are serving and are paying for services that they are not being provided. When a child is being taught, it is evident; they are ready to soar, they are excited about learning, and they are fearless, and are limitless. In East Saint Louis, IL there is an Early Childhood school called ❝TheCatholic Daycare Center ❞under the directorship of Sr. Gema, where they propel the 2 year olds-Kindergarteners forward with NO excuses allowed. There were no field trips, and no technology (what we expect) but what our children got positioned them to catch and throw back whatever came their way academically, socially, and emotionally and they are well-rounded individuals. It is sad that we have to “manipulate” the system so our children can get ahead, or participate in the zip code game in 2013 while those who are providing “education malpractice” to our children biological children and family members would never be subjected to this and it is an atrocity. Education is yet for the privilege and not a right of all. EVERY CHILD deserves a GOOD education. We were extremely pleased at the foundation that was laid for our children at The Catholic Daycare Center because they had no limitations or fear so therefore, since I was privy of what to look for in an Early Childhood program; I was confident that we found the best in the city because of the fruit we got to enjoy. If the Daycare Centers and Early Childhood programs in our POOR communities were NOT so consumed with their names, titles, and status and NAEYC held ALL Early Childhood accountable and responsible for producing ready childrenthen we would see a CHANGE in our schools……….ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!! ❞

❝The same children that heard ENGLISH for the first year of their life and began speaking it fluently are the very SAME children that can do the same with other languages. Parents, DO NOT become consumed with YOUR lack of knowledge or inability to speak other languages. Our children are coming into this world wired and ready………JUST BE PROUD THAT THEY CAN, WILL and are ABLE to CONSUME the knowledge and various languages. To have sat in college classes and heard and learned that the earlier we “introduce” a plethora languages to the young child and come home to look at our girls and say, “BUT NOT FOR YOU PEOPLE” is ludicrous. As I look at our international community and all we are position to do and become is major consumers is asinine. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! It is NOW time that we envision OUR children as willing and able participants in this global world we now reside. OUR CHILDREN ARE MORE THAN CONSUMERS in OUR POOR COMMUNITIES! It is something that OUR children are unable to code switch unlike their competition and it is NOT because they can’t it is because they are NOT being taught or served progression on a golden academic platter. FOREIGN LANGUAGES being taught to the affluent should NO LONGER in this global society be for the PRIVILDEGED but a RIGHT TO ALL so that we can all can harmoniously be interconnected to survive and thrive…….

Gun Violence is an issue, BUT not for “YOU PEOPLE”

It wasn’t enough to spark an outrage from America that children of the black and brown hue are gunned down daily like it is normalcy. In “YOU PEOPLE’S” community gun violence is normal and our children are numb to it and actually think and feel that it belong here. Black and brown children are treated like they are not children, like they are not born innocent, nor should they be protected under the laws of this great land…..ENOUGH ALREADY!!! As we can see, no one really can “move to an area of safety!” All communities are plagued by gun violence and no community is exempt, I must say that it seemingly MUST occur in the affluent area for the “YOU PEOPLE” population can get the acknowledgement, services, healing, attention, and assistance that they so RIGHTFULLY deserve and have been longing for. “YOU PEOPLE” are covered under the Constitution of the United States of America and the Declaration of Independence. It is not that the “YOU PEOPLE” of the United States are heartless and insolent when it comes to crimes in the “AFFLUENT WHITE” areas it is more so that society have justified crimes, lack, ill health, carelessness concerning those in the black and brown communities off the hook. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! I am NOT allowing those in the African American communities off the hook, as the Newton drama came about, it was the perfect opportunity for those who have lost a child or children to gun violence to carve their spots in the light and FORCE America to acknowledge your sorrow, pain, hurt, and disappointment in the country. O YES we know that AMERICA is privy but to put them on front street on a PUBLIC stage of being PURPOSEFULLY negligent is something WE should do. HOLD AMERICA ACCOUNTABLE and HEAR them say while being confronted……..WE GIVE LESS THAN A DAMN ABOUT “YOU PEOPLE” BUT WE FAILED TO CARVE OUT OUR RIGHTFUL PLACE…… ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!!

Voting Rights Act is not for “YOU PEOPLE”

If there was ever a question about the power of our vote, proof was provided in these last two elections and the great extent the brown and black people are being cut from the lines. We aren’t engaged in our political process because our educational system in our inner city is sabotage. Yes our children education purposefully neglected the educational attainment to become better informed citizens but with the internet I have come to the understanding that they teach “other” children their Constitution in their primary years and our children are given the “honor” of being exposed in Middle School and that is vaguely. We are more informed and engaged group of people today. Every time I hear what “OUR FOUNDING FATHERS” stated, I am appalled because I as an African American female was denied a plethora of unalienable rights in this MY America and that “subtle” language conveys they want me to go back in that day and time and I say, “NOT GOING BACK, MOVING AHEAD, GOING FORWARD!” I have ranted and raved about the many injustices just “shoved down the throats of the YOU PEOPLE” population and this in one “YOU PERSON” that has had it up to here with America and her blatant injustice, hatred, and racist antics towards people of color. I too am an American born citizen, I did nothing to anyone, I was told that education was the ticket out of poverty and when coming home to authentically educate, expose, empower I was informed to learn how to play the White man’s game and I wasn’t aware of what all of that mean. I too fall heir under the Constitution of the United States of America, I too fall heir under the Declaration of Independence. It spoke for me as well because “OUR” “FOUNDING FATHERS” wrote it for ALL Americans. In this chapter, I have chose to collect some powerful, hurtful quotes that was “DIRECTLY BUT YET INDIRECTLY” targeted at the “YOU PEOPLE” population of the United States of America! We are able to realize the purposeful injustice that have been allowed to go on for years in this country banking on the ignorance of the poor so that they can continually be exploited and we say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

Homelessness is for “YOU PEOPLE”

Within our school system, there is a plethora of students along with their families who are homeless, who have no where to turn but manage to get up, come to school and attempt to “fit in” and look and act normal. OUR children need AUTHENTIC advocates, people to REALLY care, people who are SELFLESS and who don’t mind stepping in and becoming change agents in these students and families’ lives. I question the “social services” agencies that we have in our communities because WE ARE LEADING in unemployment, homelessness, hunger, and education inequality while money is being poured into our community CONTINUOUSLY and without fail. HUD has failed our families because they are privy of the FAMILY SELF SUFFICIENCY funds that is NOT being executed in the manner that it should because the bulk of our students come from public housing and what I have witnessed within the classroom has encouraged me to act. I think parenting classes should be taught. Projects 2 Pinnacle, LLC is in the process of being proposed to HUD. Future, and Present tenants of the public housing complex will benefit from the classes of which is not taboo but to reassure that TOGETHER WE can build STRONGER women, children and families. Our children don’t feel that WE care about them because they are forced to live in situations we know others are not. Yes social services are here but they are NOT given the tools to maintain self sufficiency. Our goal is to keep families moving through the public housing complex, encourage them to not make a life out of living in public housing but become effective in the management in the areas of: home, anger, financial, as well as employability skills. There should be NO OPTION, but mandatory to make sure we are holding parents accountable, the housing authorities accountable, and the department of Family Self Sufficiency accountable. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

Education Accountability

I am a lifelong resident of the city of East Saint Louis, IL. I chose to move back home after obtaining higher learning to educate, empower, and expose our children in the East Saint Louis, IL school system of the wealth of knowledge I obtained. I had no idea about the “game” I have been hearing about and I had no idea about the “DEEP ROOTS OF POLITICS” within OUR community. I mean when I saw children FIRST I honestly thought that’s what was meant….ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!! I had a college professor to point fingers are “OUR” organizations as doing “photo ops” but NOT really doing anything about the state of children and families within our inner cities and now that I am home, the message is CLEAR.

I am the face of the sequester, I am the face of homelessness, I am the face of the nutritionally challenged, I am the face of the underemployment, I am the face of the college educated, I am the face of America, I am the face of a devoted voter, I am the face of a wife, I am the face of a mom, I am the face of an advocate, I am the face of one who love her community (East St. Louis, IL), I am the face of a substitute, I am the face of one who care about the broken, abused, hurting, and mis-educated children, I am the face of one who know that our children deserve better and should have better within our educational systems, I am the face of one who REFUSE to accept NO or WE CAN’T as an answer, I am the face of one that just don’t get how those in decision making positions, organized on “behalf” of those in impoverished areas do not execute executive order on behalf of those who are voiceless and should be advocated for along with those who were born and raised in these very communities but chose to leave and NOT look back, uplift, and infuse the very residents they speak ill of or look down upon with the tools they need to see beyond their impoverished community, I am an educator who want, desire, and should have change in the schools so that I too can reside in a community where the children we educate TODAY can be the future LEADERS of tomorrow that understand that THEY TOO have a significant role to play other than being CONSUMERS in this global world! Our children are in this school system where in THEIR world, TECHNOLOGY is KING; and they don’t have a COMPUTER SCIENCE teacher at the elementary level. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!

I was taught that “education” was my ticket out of poverty, education held the key to wherever I wanted to go. I was told to look like this, speak like that, ya know perfect the game to “get ahead” and that didn’t work and now I am talking to MY AMERICA! We have sat around for a while and allowed our Board of Educations, States, and School leaders to chronically fail us like it is normalcy. These entities are should be held accountable for failing OUR families generationally, habitually, and without care. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!

We too want and deserve what is best for OUR children and we too have a sense of expectancy for our three children to surpass us. We are NOT asking for handouts but educators with high expectations and standards. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH with the excuses. I have grown irritated with (majority) of the educators and board members BREACHING their contracts and providing EDUCATIONAL MALPRACTICE continually and seemingly it is ALRIGHT with those who “claim” they support African American issues. I am realizing that a great deal of Board members and educators own children do NOT attend this failing school system. It will behoove you to FACE this fact and give OUR children what they so RIGHTFULLY deserve and that is a MEANINGFUL EDUCATION should NOT be for the privileged but for ALL. Being financially challenged and intellectually ripe is NOT synonymous……

It is NOW TIME that someone holds the ILLINOIS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION reliable for CONSTANTLY FAILING OUR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES. They being the OVERSEER of the EAST SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL BOARD and our organizations have also allowed them to fail us as well. OUR children OUR future are continually being failed. This “HIGHLY QUALIFIED” teacher jargon is a bunch of rubbish. Let us look at the test scores ALONE. We can take the SAME students and place them in a “better” school district and once they get the “culture” of the school then they too “gets it” and “perform or out perform” those who are served HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION on a “silver platter.” The affluent areas do not lower their expectations because they are in or from poverty they EXPECT them to RISE UP to their HIGH EXPECTATIONS and STANDARDS and our children DO IT EVERY TIME.

It is asinine that I MUST go outside of my zip code to find “good education” for our children in 2013. Our children are just as technologically savvy as anyone else, our children are just as academically ready as anyone else, our children are linguistically capable as anyone else, I children are able to embrace difference in culture as anyone else, our children are just as eager to learn as anyone else, they are capable to handle whatever is offered to them just as anyone else, and they are being pushed aside, NOT provided the educational opportunity and exposure UNLIKE others. I am in tune with where this country is going and we are PURPOSEFULLY NOT teaching our children other languages starting at the Pre-K/K levels or computer science so they too can perfect coding. I do not want to hear about funding; ISBE has watched funds mismanaged in our areas and our FUTURE is being hurt the most.

Research is ALWAYS proven, statistics is ALWAYS shown, and speculations is ALWAYS evident but the VERY VOICE that should be HEARD is the poor. Because one is financially challenged does NOT mean YOU know what is BEST it just mean YOU have a certain power over those without. IT IS NOW TIME TO SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! ENOUGH of speaking out on the poor behalf, ENOUGH of collecting statistical data but the POOR has NO input, ENOUGH with having meetings but the VERY target group being discussed is NOT sitting around the table. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

We have been on “HIGH ALTERT” discussing mental illness within the USA, heck that is NORMALCY in OUR area. Unless our families are taught how to effectively utilize Social Services agencies then they will continue to find “quick” fixes and NEVER become whole adults. I honestly believe that if we started with parenting classes, and AUTHENTICALLY EDUCATE our parents and holding them responsible and accountable THEN and ONLY THEN will WE SEE CHANGE and UNDERSTAND WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE!

WE have sat around time and time and time again and made a plethora of excuses of WHY our parents in East Saint Louis can’t be involved within their children’s education or failed to hold them responsible to support their children and I say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. They do what they want, when they want, how they want, and with the resources, they want. WE NEED TO RAISE THE STANDARDS AND EXPECTATIONS for PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT. NO LONGER should parents have a choice, option, or whatever if they will ADVOCATE for, SEE about, and become ENGAGED with THEIR children’s education. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!

The white teacher is a hero but BLACK teachers go above and beyond to do everything we can to help our babies, to cover our babies, to provide dignity to our babies, to be there for our babies as we face the same racism, disrespect, inconsideration and insolence as our babies?

We need to get back to the village concept.

This crime is normal because living while Black in America is not normal but legislated.

America legislate the horrible, violent, evil, malicious, divisive and discriminatory conditions we are left with and then have the audacity to victim blame.

Whites make up the majority of the educators, THIS IS WHY WHAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING IS WHAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING.

We taught Whites to be considerate.

We taught Whites to be moral.

We taught Whites to be compassionate.

We taught Whites to have dignity.

We taught Whites…..

They in turn desensitized us and conditioned us to be like them, think like them, act like them and covet them of which stripped us of who we are and what our culture upheld.

We use humor as a coping mechanism because after all, we are still in America and America gone America.

Until laws change completely BLACKS will always find an unhealthy method to survive in this racist and oppressing and depressing country called AmeriKKKa.

Where is Moms Demand Action?

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