Decent town hall. I'm glad Yvette and Antonio are setting this up and being transparent. She even admitted that you can only do so much with online advocacy and needed to take the next step.
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Decent town hall. I'm glad Yvette and Antonio are setting this up and being transparent. She even admitted that you can only do so much with online advocacy and needed to take the next step.
Secure Da Bag
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And replace them with who? How do you get more Democrats or better yet pro-ADOS politicians in the House or Senate for the midterms?
One thing we should have all learned from watching what has been happening to the Republican party during and post Trump is that a politicians' number one goal is to stay in office until they no longer want to be. Whether you think said Republicans believe in all the absurd conspiracies floated by Trump and the Trump adjacent they push/support it because they are afraid of upsetting the base and possibly losing their office.
We saw a similar outcome once ADOS started pushing reparations to the forefront in that many of the current H.R. 40 CBC sponsors came after consistent pressure from ADOS advocacy. We have to organize and use that same pressure on the CBC to stand for our issues/agenda or prepare to be voted out. That's really the only leverage we have in the current political environment.
Secure Da Bag
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For the Reparationists, You really need to be paying attention to this.
They lookin to kill reparations without firing a shot.
They lookin to kill reparations without firing a shot.
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saturn7
Politics is an EXCHANGE!!!
Status Coup speaks with Jecorey Arthur
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Professor Darity on the racial wealth gap and Reparations on the Majority Report
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A Blast from the Past
Plessy v Ferguson 1896 Harlan's Dissent
Justice Harlan says some heavy stuff in his dissent.
At the present term, referring to the previous adjudications, this court declared that 'underlying all of those decisions is the principle that the constitution of the United States, in its present form, forbids, so far as civil and political rights are concerned, discrimination by the general government or the states against any citizen because of his race. All citizens are equal before the law.' Gibson v. State, 162 U. S. 565, 16 Sup. Ct. 904.
The arbitrary separation of citizens, on the basis of race, while they are on a public highway, is a badge of servitude wholly inconsistent with the civil freedom and the equality before the law established by the constitution. It cannot be justified upon any legal grounds.
If evils will result from the commingling of the two races upon public highways established for the benefit of all, they will be infinitely less than those that will surely come from state legislation regulating the enjoyment of civil rights upon the basis of race. We boast of the freedom enjoyed by our people above all other peoples. But it is difficult to reconcile that boast with a state of the law which, practically, puts the brand of servitude and degradation upon a large class of our fellow citizens,—our equals before the law. The thin disguise of 'equal' accommodations for passengers in railroad coaches will not mislead any one, nor atone for the wrong this day done.
I do not deem it necessary to review the decisions of state courts to which reference was made in argument. Some, and the most important, of them, are wholly inapplicable, because rendered prior to the adoption of the last amendments of the constitution, when colored people had very few rights which the dominant race felt obliged to respect. Others were made at a time when public opinion, in many localities, was dominated by the institution of slavery; when it would not have been safe to do justice to the black man; and when, so far as the rights of blacks were concerned, race prejudice was, practically, the supreme law of the land. Those decisions cannot be guides in the era introduced by the recent amendments of the supreme law, which established universal civil freedom, gave citizenship to all born or naturalized in the United States, and residing ere, obliterated the race line from our systems of governments, national and state, and placed our free institutions upon the broad and sure foundation of the equality of all men before the law.
Plessy v Ferguson 1896 Harlan's Dissent
Justice Harlan says some heavy stuff in his dissent.
At the present term, referring to the previous adjudications, this court declared that 'underlying all of those decisions is the principle that the constitution of the United States, in its present form, forbids, so far as civil and political rights are concerned, discrimination by the general government or the states against any citizen because of his race. All citizens are equal before the law.' Gibson v. State, 162 U. S. 565, 16 Sup. Ct. 904.
The arbitrary separation of citizens, on the basis of race, while they are on a public highway, is a badge of servitude wholly inconsistent with the civil freedom and the equality before the law established by the constitution. It cannot be justified upon any legal grounds.
If evils will result from the commingling of the two races upon public highways established for the benefit of all, they will be infinitely less than those that will surely come from state legislation regulating the enjoyment of civil rights upon the basis of race. We boast of the freedom enjoyed by our people above all other peoples. But it is difficult to reconcile that boast with a state of the law which, practically, puts the brand of servitude and degradation upon a large class of our fellow citizens,—our equals before the law. The thin disguise of 'equal' accommodations for passengers in railroad coaches will not mislead any one, nor atone for the wrong this day done.
I do not deem it necessary to review the decisions of state courts to which reference was made in argument. Some, and the most important, of them, are wholly inapplicable, because rendered prior to the adoption of the last amendments of the constitution, when colored people had very few rights which the dominant race felt obliged to respect. Others were made at a time when public opinion, in many localities, was dominated by the institution of slavery; when it would not have been safe to do justice to the black man; and when, so far as the rights of blacks were concerned, race prejudice was, practically, the supreme law of the land. Those decisions cannot be guides in the era introduced by the recent amendments of the supreme law, which established universal civil freedom, gave citizenship to all born or naturalized in the United States, and residing ere, obliterated the race line from our systems of governments, national and state, and placed our free institutions upon the broad and sure foundation of the equality of all men before the law.
saturn7
Politics is an EXCHANGE!!!
I've been watching a lot of videos on this National Constitution Center.
Secure Da Bag
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ADOS towns being literally flooded and made lakes (and sometimes parks).
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Diasporans talk about moving to Tanzania and the expectations some Diasporans have.
Interesting that they talk about cultural differences, how there is no flat Africaness, exchange rates etc. A lot of stuff Y &C talked about.
Interesting that they talk about cultural differences, how there is no flat Africaness, exchange rates etc. A lot of stuff Y &C talked about.
saturn7
Politics is an EXCHANGE!!!
Former ADOS LA chapter. Putting in work on A.B. 3121.
voltronblack
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CA Reparations Task Force 7/9/21
