Impotent Black Leaders who set the stage for State Fair Youth Riot Apologize
Posted by Leon Todd on Saturday, August 6, 2011 at 3:33pm
Re: African American Leaders, What Leaders???
Dt: August 6, 2011 2:46:22 PM CDT
Leon, first and foremost I would like to say that by no stretch of the imagination do I condone the behavior of the young people at the State Fair. I'd also like to say that I do not condone the behavior of the "so-called leaders" of the African American community, (i.e.), Common Council President, Willie Hines, Urban League Director, Ralph Holman, Mark Wade , Executive Director, of African World Festival.
These "so -called" leaders allowed themselves to be marched out on stage to broadcast to the broader community that all African Americans do not display this kind of rude, foolish, violent behavior. In other words, to apologize for the behavior of a few misguided teens.
When the Mayor was attacked at State Fair I did not see the Native American community leaders (I was told that the young man was a Native American) coming out to apologize for the behavior of that misguided young person.
When Jeffery Dahmer killed, maimed and cannibalised his victims, I did not see the European community leaders coming out to apologize to the rest of the community, for his behavior or stating that they do not condone this behavior, nor do they "eat" people. I believe that all or most of Jeffrey's victims were minorities.
A Russian young man in Mequon recently killed both his parents and stored the bodies in their garage, when the police arrested him, they asked him how he felt having murdered both his parents, his reply was, "I never felt better". There was no broadcast from the Russian leaders in the city apologizing for his behavior.
Tim Sheehy of MMAC had a son who was recently convicted of felony assault. No apology from the MMAC for his behavior.
The young man from the real estate family axed his grandfather to death on Mother's Day, no community leaders were called in to apologize for his behavior.
My point is, why is it that our "so-called" leaders allow themselves to always be used to apologize for behaviors of some rotten apples from our community as if, they control or speak for the entire African American community. It appears that they are used as puppets.
What are they doing to get help for some of the problems that beset our community? If there are mental health issues, lack of jobs, education,etc. within our community these "so-called" leaders should do everything within their power to address these issues. However, I do not see these issues being addressed by any of these individuals.
Council President Hines' solution, "the hate crime law should be applied if these young people are charged and convicted".
It seems when other ethnic groups commit heinous crimes, they have mental health issues, in our community, it's condemn, condemn, condemn the entire community and our leaders lead the charge.
FED UP, WE NEED HELP!!
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
This is for all the marbles,” says GOP Charlie Sykes
“This is for all the marbles,” says Charlie Sykes, a prominent conservative talk-radio host in Milwaukee. “Scott Walker could survive losing state senate. But it would be devastating if he were to lose in supreme court. If Prosser loses, almost everything that Walker enacted could be overturned.” The high court, he worries, has a long history of activism, especially when liberals hold majority.
http://goo.gl/GCNy8
http://goo.gl/GCNy8
Will Urban Newspaper blame GOP defeat on Criminal Class Negroes
fwd: re: Milwaukee Urinal will blame Stone's defeat on Milwaukee's 'impotent' Negroes
Well Leon, If Rep. Jeff Stone loses County Executive race, the Milwaukee Urinal has set the stage to blame Stone's defeat on Milwaukee's 'impotent' Negroes. Why would Bice now come out with an article slamming Lamonte Harris when Harris' history has been no secret and the Journal has know this and waited to use it for years? LaMonte is to be congratulated for going out and getting a job and Stone is to be congratulated for hiring the unemployable, a felon, instead the framing of the Journal article is inexcusable for profiling LaMonte Harris and the Stone campaign as something undesirable. This election cycle is all about ANTI WALKER CORPORATE UNION BUSTING AGENDA. Congratulation to both Harris and Stone for being socially conscious in this day and age when the only jobs available for ex-con, who yes made a mistake in their lives, but are look to turn their life around in the legitimate economy. The Journal is one of the reasons the city is in the condition that it is in economically. Shame on them for wanting to continue to unnecessarily profile a large portion of individuals who, quite frankly, need a break in turning their lives around.
County Board Chair has been working w/ Republicans for quite some time. All you have to do is give him a dime and the Chair will do as told. Why slam Harris now? When sentiment changes against the Coggs' the Urinal will tell how they campaigned for Scott Walker against Lena Taylor to keep the Coggs name on the welfare building. Lena Taylor is on the take from Americans for Prosperity. Jason Fields gave Lena Taylor the hook up. Why NOW? Marvin Pratt I guess is tired of being a closet Republican and came out the closet and outright endorsed Walker for governor by coffee-ing Walker through the Black Churches. The Urinal knows all of this, all you have to do is read the campaign finance reports. Milwaukee's 'impotent' Negroes need to be wondering when the Urinal will drop the black book on them. Who's next? JHC
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/118749854.html
Well Leon, If Rep. Jeff Stone loses County Executive race, the Milwaukee Urinal has set the stage to blame Stone's defeat on Milwaukee's 'impotent' Negroes. Why would Bice now come out with an article slamming Lamonte Harris when Harris' history has been no secret and the Journal has know this and waited to use it for years? LaMonte is to be congratulated for going out and getting a job and Stone is to be congratulated for hiring the unemployable, a felon, instead the framing of the Journal article is inexcusable for profiling LaMonte Harris and the Stone campaign as something undesirable. This election cycle is all about ANTI WALKER CORPORATE UNION BUSTING AGENDA. Congratulation to both Harris and Stone for being socially conscious in this day and age when the only jobs available for ex-con, who yes made a mistake in their lives, but are look to turn their life around in the legitimate economy. The Journal is one of the reasons the city is in the condition that it is in economically. Shame on them for wanting to continue to unnecessarily profile a large portion of individuals who, quite frankly, need a break in turning their lives around.
County Board Chair has been working w/ Republicans for quite some time. All you have to do is give him a dime and the Chair will do as told. Why slam Harris now? When sentiment changes against the Coggs' the Urinal will tell how they campaigned for Scott Walker against Lena Taylor to keep the Coggs name on the welfare building. Lena Taylor is on the take from Americans for Prosperity. Jason Fields gave Lena Taylor the hook up. Why NOW? Marvin Pratt I guess is tired of being a closet Republican and came out the closet and outright endorsed Walker for governor by coffee-ing Walker through the Black Churches. The Urinal knows all of this, all you have to do is read the campaign finance reports. Milwaukee's 'impotent' Negroes need to be wondering when the Urinal will drop the black book on them. Who's next? JHC
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/118749854.html
Saturday, March 5, 2011
A Declaration of Civil Disobedience Against A Fascist Governor
A Declaration of Civil Disobedience
From the People of the State of Wisconsin
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for the citizens of a state to occupy its Capitol building, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind require that they should declare the causes which impel them to civil disobedience.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life [the continuation of which may necessitate medical care], liberty, and the opportunity to collectively bargain. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of legislation becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that even legislation introduced a matter of days before final votes are scheduled, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience has shown, that mankind are disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to disrupt their lives to come and rally at their Capitol.
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations evinces a design to reduce them to an underclass of powerless citizens, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such legislation, and to preserve previous guards for their future security. The history of the present Governor of Wisconsin is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of a priority for wealthy supporters of the Governor and his political party. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has ignored the budget deficit when passing tax breaks favorable to his political donors, but invoked the budget deficit when seeking to injure his political foes.
He has squandered earlier opportunities to release details of his budget repair plans, instead hiding them in attempt to introduce and pass a bill before public input and scrutiny can be obtained.
He has included policy items of widespread and indefinite consequence in this emergency budget repair bill; including the severe limitation of collective bargaining rights of public employees, and the transfer of Medicaid decision-making power from the legislative to the executive branch, thereby circumventing public input on changes affecting the health of millions of children, elderly, and disabled residents of his state.
He has proposed, in separate legislation, to impose new barriers to voting, especially among the young, the old, and the poor.
He has reminded his constituents that elections have consequences, but he has forgotten that one of these consequences is that he is governor of the whole state of Wisconsin, including those who did not vote for him.
He has refused every offer of public employee unions and Democratic leaders to negotiate or compromise on the offending legislation. In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
For the support of this declaration, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes [such as they are], and our sacred honor.
A CAST Member
From the People of the State of Wisconsin
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for the citizens of a state to occupy its Capitol building, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind require that they should declare the causes which impel them to civil disobedience.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life [the continuation of which may necessitate medical care], liberty, and the opportunity to collectively bargain. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That, whenever any form of legislation becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that even legislation introduced a matter of days before final votes are scheduled, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience has shown, that mankind are disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to disrupt their lives to come and rally at their Capitol.
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations evinces a design to reduce them to an underclass of powerless citizens, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such legislation, and to preserve previous guards for their future security. The history of the present Governor of Wisconsin is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of a priority for wealthy supporters of the Governor and his political party. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has ignored the budget deficit when passing tax breaks favorable to his political donors, but invoked the budget deficit when seeking to injure his political foes.
He has squandered earlier opportunities to release details of his budget repair plans, instead hiding them in attempt to introduce and pass a bill before public input and scrutiny can be obtained.
He has included policy items of widespread and indefinite consequence in this emergency budget repair bill; including the severe limitation of collective bargaining rights of public employees, and the transfer of Medicaid decision-making power from the legislative to the executive branch, thereby circumventing public input on changes affecting the health of millions of children, elderly, and disabled residents of his state.
He has proposed, in separate legislation, to impose new barriers to voting, especially among the young, the old, and the poor.
He has reminded his constituents that elections have consequences, but he has forgotten that one of these consequences is that he is governor of the whole state of Wisconsin, including those who did not vote for him.
He has refused every offer of public employee unions and Democratic leaders to negotiate or compromise on the offending legislation. In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.
For the support of this declaration, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes [such as they are], and our sacred honor.
A CAST Member
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Videographer Todd Price and Luciano Talk with people on the third day of the Wisconsin's Revolution televised live on MS-NBC Ed Show http://goo.gl/sw0DP
The Vampire Economy: The superrich and their henchman like GOP Governor Scott Walker are sucking America dry. Congress is under their sway. Can Obama stay alive?
http://goo.gl/r94UH
Only 5 states do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal. Those states and their ranking on ACT/SAT scores are as follows:
South Carolina -50th
North Carolina -49th
Georgia -48th
Texas -47th
Virginia -44th
Wisconsin is ranked #2 in ACT/SAT Scores in the nation.
http://goo.gl/l57m2
The Vampire Economy: The superrich and their henchman like GOP Governor Scott Walker are sucking America dry. Congress is under their sway. Can Obama stay alive?
http://goo.gl/r94UH
Only 5 states do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal. Those states and their ranking on ACT/SAT scores are as follows:
South Carolina -50th
North Carolina -49th
Georgia -48th
Texas -47th
Virginia -44th
Wisconsin is ranked #2 in ACT/SAT Scores in the nation.
http://goo.gl/l57m2
Friday, February 18, 2011
Historical Struggle for Civil Right is a Struggle for Labor Rights
The Tapestry of Labor Rights and Civil Rights
Labor Rights are Civil Rights: The Historical Struggle for Civil Right is a Struggle for Labor Rights
Milwaukee Community Journal Newspaper
Black History Month Civil Rights/Labor Rights Commentary
by Leon Todd
The idea that Labor Rights are a Civil Right has not played out on the Streets of Urban America. The story of Labor Unions contribution to the civil rights movement of the 1960's is largely forgotten in February's Black History Month's Celebrations and Presentations year after year. How unfortunate that the history texts and classroom lesson plans have lost the real world connections between organized labor's history and America’s civil rights history.
Labor organizing efforts and financial support were integral to the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, the freedom riders and voters registration of Blacks in the 1960s, the Historic 1963 March on Washington which set the stage for Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream Speech, the struggle for women worker's rights, and the organizing efforts of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers. Labor became an essential ally in underpinning the manifest destiny for greater equality and social justice for all Americans. And civil rights leaders have supported labor’s organizing efforts like when the notable civil rights leader, Martin Luther King; Jr, went to Memphis in 1968 to support the black sanitation workers’ boycott and their rights for workplace safety, better wages and benefits as well as union recognition. King subsequently lost his life in the midst of essentially a labor movement moment in history. Much of the historic civil rights struggle was a labor rights or workplace rights struggle. For without employment justice, the pursuit of the abundant potential for the fullness of life, liberty and happiness cannot really take place. Martin Luther King intuitively understood this and the days of Jim Crow Justice were numbered in Memphis and in America.
Many support the notion that the right to work for a fair family supporting wage, health benefits and pension benefits in a secure work environment is an essential civil right. Today, the federal government treats certain labor rights of health and safety equivalient to a person’s workplace civil rights. Civil rights are generally recognized as a class of rights that protect individuals’ freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, like with the Jim Crow laws of the Old South or past employment discrimination laws and practices of corporations, government, and other organizations. The protection of civil rights ensures a person’s ability to participate in the public, governmental and political activities of the state without discrimination or repression.
The need for classroom lesson assignments and lesson plans researching the civil rights’ legacy of fighting for economic rights, worker rights, and the right to work as well as labor’s historic side by side support for civil rights with the prominent leaders of the movement as well as labors own civil rights struggle within its own organizations need to come out of the closet and be more fully aired for student consumption and perspective.
The herald 1963 March on Washington was titled the March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs and the concept for such a march had been first put forth by A Phillip Randolph, black organizer and leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the 1920s. Randolph is the most important civil rights leader that many young people have never heard of and don’t really know outside a poster with a name despite that the argument that can be made that he is the most important civil rights hero of the 20th century.
Blacks had scored a major breakthrough in the struggle for admission to the ranks of organized labor in the 1930 when the AFL recognized the Brotherhood. Labor rights and civil right would forever be entwined. Once labor was on the side of civil rights, there was no turning back and 3 decades later, in 1963, A Phillip Randolph’s March on Washington Dream would play out with Martin Luther King; Jr filling the key character role on stage before America. Essentially, Randolph’s Karma for a just American future had been set in motion. A Dream, a Goal and a Challenge of a just workplace would be placed before the America people and much of America would embrace that Dream as its Destiny.
Leon Todd
Former MPS Board Member 1975-1981 & 1994-1999
Phone: 414-444-9490
E-mail: toddleon@mac.com
Labor Rights are Civil Rights: The Historical Struggle for Civil Right is a Struggle for Labor Rights
Milwaukee Community Journal Newspaper
Black History Month Civil Rights/Labor Rights Commentary
by Leon Todd
The idea that Labor Rights are a Civil Right has not played out on the Streets of Urban America. The story of Labor Unions contribution to the civil rights movement of the 1960's is largely forgotten in February's Black History Month's Celebrations and Presentations year after year. How unfortunate that the history texts and classroom lesson plans have lost the real world connections between organized labor's history and America’s civil rights history.
Labor organizing efforts and financial support were integral to the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, the freedom riders and voters registration of Blacks in the 1960s, the Historic 1963 March on Washington which set the stage for Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream Speech, the struggle for women worker's rights, and the organizing efforts of Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers. Labor became an essential ally in underpinning the manifest destiny for greater equality and social justice for all Americans. And civil rights leaders have supported labor’s organizing efforts like when the notable civil rights leader, Martin Luther King; Jr, went to Memphis in 1968 to support the black sanitation workers’ boycott and their rights for workplace safety, better wages and benefits as well as union recognition. King subsequently lost his life in the midst of essentially a labor movement moment in history. Much of the historic civil rights struggle was a labor rights or workplace rights struggle. For without employment justice, the pursuit of the abundant potential for the fullness of life, liberty and happiness cannot really take place. Martin Luther King intuitively understood this and the days of Jim Crow Justice were numbered in Memphis and in America.
Many support the notion that the right to work for a fair family supporting wage, health benefits and pension benefits in a secure work environment is an essential civil right. Today, the federal government treats certain labor rights of health and safety equivalient to a person’s workplace civil rights. Civil rights are generally recognized as a class of rights that protect individuals’ freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, like with the Jim Crow laws of the Old South or past employment discrimination laws and practices of corporations, government, and other organizations. The protection of civil rights ensures a person’s ability to participate in the public, governmental and political activities of the state without discrimination or repression.
The need for classroom lesson assignments and lesson plans researching the civil rights’ legacy of fighting for economic rights, worker rights, and the right to work as well as labor’s historic side by side support for civil rights with the prominent leaders of the movement as well as labors own civil rights struggle within its own organizations need to come out of the closet and be more fully aired for student consumption and perspective.
The herald 1963 March on Washington was titled the March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs and the concept for such a march had been first put forth by A Phillip Randolph, black organizer and leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the 1920s. Randolph is the most important civil rights leader that many young people have never heard of and don’t really know outside a poster with a name despite that the argument that can be made that he is the most important civil rights hero of the 20th century.
Blacks had scored a major breakthrough in the struggle for admission to the ranks of organized labor in the 1930 when the AFL recognized the Brotherhood. Labor rights and civil right would forever be entwined. Once labor was on the side of civil rights, there was no turning back and 3 decades later, in 1963, A Phillip Randolph’s March on Washington Dream would play out with Martin Luther King; Jr filling the key character role on stage before America. Essentially, Randolph’s Karma for a just American future had been set in motion. A Dream, a Goal and a Challenge of a just workplace would be placed before the America people and much of America would embrace that Dream as its Destiny.
Leon Todd
Former MPS Board Member 1975-1981 & 1994-1999
Phone: 414-444-9490
E-mail: toddleon@mac.com
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