Merely days ahead of the presidential election Maxine Waters a Democratic member of California’s senate made her way to SiriusXM to share her thoughts and disavow black Trump voters. While speaking with “The Joe Madison Show” the seasoned senator expressed that she will “never ever forgive them” referring to African Americans who vote Republican at the federal level this November. She went on to say “he is a racist” that doesn’t value “black people or women in particular”. Are her feelings justified or is everyone entitled to their vote guilt free?
Tafara Williams survived the police shooting that left her significant other Marcellis Stinnette dead last week in Waukegan, Illinois. In a tearful plea she spoke out from her hospital bed to shed light on the tragedy. Ms. Williams stated that the police had “harassed” the couple and once she drove off the officer “fired” into her vehicle “without warning.” She also said the cops “threw” a blanket over Stinnette while he was still breathing. The family is being legally represented by attorney Benjamin Crump who spoke out concerning the killing.
“Ms. Williams legal team will begin our own investigation into what happened during that incident, because we do not trust the police narrative in this case. We have seen over and over that the official report when police kill Black people is far too often missing or misrepresenting details.” We will share our findings with the public when we have uncovered the truth.”
Source: Brian Hill/ Daily Herald, file via AP
Marcellis Stinnette
Stinnettes loved ones described him as a “gentle soul”. The officer who killed Stinnette had his bodycam turned off during the shooting and has since been placed on “administrative leave.”
Update: The Waukegan Hispanic police officer who killed Marcellis Stinnette has been terminated for violating “multiple policy and procedures” according to Department Commander Edgar Navarro.”
On Monday afternoon Philadelphia police officers allegedly shot and killed Walter Wallace Jr. a man who was in the middle of a mental health crisis and was carrying a pocket knife near 61st and Locust for allegedly refusing to sit down.
Source: Elizabeth Robertson/ Staff PhotographerWalter Wallace Jr.
Protestors & activist sickened about continual police brutality and black deaths triggered by police guns took to Philadelphia streets overnight to ensure their voices were heard. At least 30 officers were reported injured during the protest however all are alive and in stable condition. An undetermined amount of protestors have been arrested. The Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw spoke with community members wanting answers and did confirm that the video of the shooting “raises many questions” and assured that the matter will be “fully investigated” according to 3CBS Philly.
Did you know that while the benefits of breastfeeding are endless, black mothers are least likely to do so and for shorter durations. According to the American Civil Liberties black women have the lowest breastfeeding ratios at 69.4% of all groups. Are you aware that racial disparities exist in regards to such.
While economic status should not affect a woman’s right to provide her baby with the most optimum nutrition a 2019 study done by the CDC suggest great systematic gaps are evident. Black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die from or during childbirth, more likely to be required to return to work before the typical 12 week maternity leave and are stigmatized for breastfeeding due to historical degradation and oversexualization.
While true economic, social, and racial barriers persist the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh the latter for both mother and child & include but aren’t limited to:
-Gives 100% perfect nutrition for the infants/childs first six months of life.
-Contains life saving antibodies that gravely lower the risk of pneumonia, leukemia, intestinal diseases, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Asthma, allergies, ear infections, colds, diabetes etc.
-Provides natural birth control for first six months by preventing menstruation.
-Lowers mothers risk for breast cancer and heart disease.
-Flattens mothers abdomen by naturally contracting uterus during feedings.
-Burns up to 500 calories a day causing some mothers to drop weight effortlessly.
-Is BPA free.
And the list goes on. Who’s ready to throw out/ the formula and get a pump?
Laura Hammack the superintendent at Brown County High School in Indiana has responded with a slew of apologies via Facebook after a Black American student was labeled as “black guy” in the schools annual yearbook calling the action “truly incomprehensible.” Many students according to Hammack were “sickened by this” happening. She did confirm that the schools “nondiscrimination policy” had been violated. The black student/victims identity has been withheld at this time. Would you like the school to say his name Sandra Bland’s, Mike Brown and many others? Is the state of Indiana still segregated according to IU and the UCLA civil rights Project of 2017?
On “September 21, 2020” according to GoFundMe DeAndre Roger’s an “active protestor” was found hanging in a carport in “Grand Junction, Colorado.” Mr. Roger’s death was ruled a “suicide” prematurely following an alleged “incomplete” investigation according to his loved ones. Mr. Roger’s was an only child and leaves behind 8 children. The GoFundMe was initiated by a family friend of his mother.
Alfred Street Baptist church in Virginia on Tuesday announced that it had given back “$1 million” plus to local community organizations during the covid-19 pandemic as reported by The Christian Post. The same church previously donated to “The National Museum of African American History and Culture.” Will the next donation go towards a Black owned supermarket? Is your $5 ready if we crowd fund for it?
Many things have shut down and shuttered during this ongoing global pandemic but Wall Street and the stock market weren’t one of them. Do you want to give the gift that keeps on yielding? Well you may want to consider investing in the stock market.
Did you know that a variety of penny stocks (a term that refers to any stock below $5 a share) are below the the price of a carton of eggnog? While the stock market may experience volatility (a rapid distinct change in the value of shares) investing is a definite catalyst to narrow the “wealth gap” amongst black Americans according to the New York-based “Roosevelt Institute Study” of 2019. So why not get a piece of the pie this holiday season?
Have you ever been met in family court by a racist judge or magistrate? Did they speak condescending to you despite facts, academia or economic status? Is your child’s school sitting two scores from being dilapidated while the state flourishes? Did its 2020 fiscal year end with a 2 billion dollars in the bank like Indiana while it’s blackest city Gary categorically suffered? Has structural racism convinced you that if a cities tax base is low that the State should legally be allowed to leave it’s most vulnerable behind?
Is it common sense to conclude that tax bases generally are lower in black and minority communities due to redlining and systematic racism as a whole? Should children be punished as a result thereof? Did you ask how the governor could allow such? Does arriving at the overstanding that America is symbolically a democracy but physically a republic yield enough to forsake the local elections that also appear on the ballots Nov. 3? Or have you decided that regardless of the Caucasian male that assumes office in January there are just simply people in your localities be it courtrooms, school districts or governing your state that simply have to go?
Source: Local Elections Matter Art Print Erin Shhh
Have you ever took the time to ponder why when black men expand their families their referred to as “baby daddies”? Why when they have children by more than one woman they’re many times automatically associated with being ignorant, irresponsible or impoverished? How is it that a Caucasian man with three “baby mothers” can become a sitting U.S President without a stain, stigma or rebuke? Why is it when white middle class men have children by multiple women it is respectably referred to as “multi partner fertility” or (MPF)? Is there a reason or agenda behind most studies on multiple baby fathers usually focuses on lower income black women? Does the saying “slant the narrative slant the result” apply? If a black father is financially stable and present to care for his children why does society not champion him like they do other demographics. According to the 2017 U.S. Census Bureau “roughly one third of parents who have been married two or more times have MPF”. Is the child shaming of black men and women related to the eugenics history in America courtesy of Planned Parenthoods founder Margaret Higgins Sanger infamously known for proclaiming “a free race can’t be born to slave mothers”. Does MPF shaming and anti black children propaganda contribute to the genocide of Black people in America? You decide.
