according to chief joseph, what did white men find that disrupted his people’s peace?
It happens everyday in America!
Past Jeff Thomas
Black men impale each other at alarming rates all across America every day. Nearly every city's daily news casts reports, "Today in our metropolis iii (or thirty depending on the size of your city) men were shot and killed in three (or 30) separate shootings. Police have no suspects in any of the cases." And immediately and innately you know that the people killed were black and the killers were black. This has been going on for the terminal 30-twoscore years and no end is in sight. New Orleans has i of the highest murder rates nationally. Why do black men kill each other?
First Let's Dispel a Racist Myth
First thing you have to know is that 99.999% of black men do not commit murder ever in their lives. That is a fact! This is non a blackness man issue. At that place is nothing genetically or intrinsically incorrect with black men. But the fact remains that daily hundreds of blackness men across this country are murdered everyday by another black man. Why does this happen with this subset?
Mutual factors to Black men murdering other black men
RACE
The first thing about murder is that people usually impale people who are similar to them in many ways, particularly race. White men normally murder other white men and black men normally murder other black men.
PROXIMITY
In the blackness community, these killings are unremarkably city events. Rarely do you hear of a bulldoze by in the country. Almost of these daily killings occur on the city streets. People impale others who they interact with.
Age
Young men engage in risky and violent beliefs. Most of the men dying on our streets are between the ages of 17-35.
Education
Nearly 95% have not graduated from higher and 65% take non completed high school.
Socioeconomic Status
100% were non upper class in America. The links between poverty and crime are well documented. And black men have lived in low level economical conditions for the concluding 50 years.
Only these are oftentimes cited, unsurprising factors. More than salient is what goes into the psyche of a guy who can look into the eyes of some other man and pull the trigger at close range or jab a pocketknife with the intent to murder some other man? What are the other factors that contribute to becoming a murderer? Why practice Blackness men kill each other
Habitually Hostile Men
The guy who ain't never scared and always looking to escalate a situation. Down for whatever. Zip to live for and anticipating the day he will either kill or be killed. This mindset is cultivated in a limited option, few chances, success deprived life. This guy has had a number of arguments and fist fights throughout his life. He hates authority and frequently feels angry or resentful towards people. He often seeks to overcome a feeling of powerlessness. This guy is a walking heap of rage. He is ever zero but a gun and an argument abroad from murder.
The Disrespected Homo
A homo who feels like everybody just him gets respect.
- Unemployed or stuck in a low wage hard work chore where his contributions are unrecognized
- Lives with his female parent and has picayune control over his home environs
- Has a kid but no custody and a bad relationship with his baby mama
- Been profiled and harassed by the police force
- Observes community members driving nice cars
- Rejected for better jobs
- Feels unable to alter his life condition and is insignificant in the globe
- Seeks to overcome feelings of impotence
For this guy, respect is everything and options to express acrimony or refutation are often express. He frequently seeks to overcome a feeling of impotence. If another who seems unworthy of disseminating criticism or contemptuousness or more often than not crosses the line of imagined respect, then a high level of response will exist meted out.
The Wannabe
- Oftentimes young,
- Lacking self-identity
- Piffling life happiness
- Thrill seeker often brags and talks well-nigh his toughness and 'hood status.
- Wants to make a real proper noun for himself
- Will recklessly escalate a situation or
When challenged by a non-believing skeptic, this man often acts in unnecessarily trigger-happy ways in unnecessarily violent situations. Often seeks to overcome a feeling of powerlessness.
Cocky-Hate
- Likewise oft blackness men suffer an inferiority complex.
- Society vilifies and criminalizes blackness men on a daily basis.
- American civilization is based upon the notion that black people and specifically black men are less intelligent, completely unpredictable, beast like, lazy etc., etc.
- Black men internalize this notion and are conditioned to see fiddling value when they look in the mirror.
- Beset by internal angst and torment.
- Unresolved pain combined with poverty, ignorance, oppression, violent police, fierce neighborhoods, etc.
- The symptoms of an inferiority complex include a high sensitivity to criticism, perceiving others equally a threat, jealousy, a lack of dreams.
The daily feeling of isolation, powerlessness and impotence is like existence a pow. One reason black men catch their genitals is to stress their vitality. Men who accept been literally stripped of the ability to display their manhood – not bad jobs, big houses, educational attainment and all the other accoutrements of modern lodge- are literally killing to express their power in life. Twisted but true .
And you don't accept to put more police on the street.
By Jeff Thomas
The public response to the uptick in car jackings is pure unadulterated insanity. More law. Try teens as adults. On WBOK am 1230, the Professor wants 2 dogs and a gun. He says he can solve the crime problem in a couple of weeks. His funny twist on the tough on crime talk animates peoples fears. Understandably people are worried. Nobody wants to alive in fear. Only lock em up and throw abroad the primal is not the answer. And non how to terminate auto jackings in NOLA.
Yep, existence robbed is terrible. The emotional toll of having a gun pointed at you is unimaginably distressing. And losing a vehicle disrupts your life in a big way. Information technology can result in annihilation from a major insurance hassle and increased premiums to losing a job.
But the brutal murder of a senior denizen shocked u.s.a. all. Her arm was severed as she was dragged to death. This has to finish. Citizens blame the police for not doing plenty. And the DA is under fire for his policy near not charging teens as adults. Predictably, concealed bear permits are on the ascension.
People Are Taking Matters into Their Own Hands
Nowadays going to the gas station is a risky proposition. So, men have the gas pump in one hand and a 9mm pistol in the other. The police say despite a "manpower shortage" they are beefing upwards patrols. Before also long somebody is going to shoot a 15-year-old skinny little boy who approached his car. Sadly turns out the boy was selling raffles to his church fair. His father was only collecting greenbacks from another patron and the boy wanted to impress his male parent. Instead he lay dead on the ground, clipboard still in manus.
Almost daily police release videos of young black men walking around neighborhoods and pulling door handles and quickly rolling abroad in somebody'south vehicle. Two minutes. Your life changes forever. Call the police or become your gun. Only protect your property at all costs from these hooligans. Ultimately, though the notion of young black and misdeed is reinforced. Making any real change more difficult.
Make no mistake. Young black boys commit near of these crimes, although sometimes girls are present as well. So, what is the best solution to the trouble? Police stings? More patrols? Purchase a new pistol and lay in wait? Recently, a motorcar possessor boobytrapped his middle console with a noise bomb. This escalation to violence is more than problematic. It skips a simple solution.
Holistic Ideas
Our citizens just passed a coupe of millages to support parks and recreation and libraries. This was an important conclusion past the citizens of the city. It reflects an understanding of the importance of a holistic approach to making our city a bully place to work and alive. ¾ of the voting public passed these taxes. People become information technology. Nosotros take to pay our difficult-earned money to invest in stuff that is important and expensive. Calculating and quantifying the actual benefits of expert parks and recreation is kinda like communicable wind. But with the libraries taxation, plans are dedicated for our youth. We need more of these investments in our people. To paraphrase Senator Cory Booker, "We are worthy!"
Investing in a well-publicized, universally recognized jobs grooming and placement program to offer to young disenfranchised young black men would result in fewer young black men walking the streets looking for easy targets to attack. The new tax would target academically struggling boys and girls during the schoolhouse year. And offering real life job skills training, like carpentry, electrical, plumbing, STEM, sales and marketing, etc. The program tests and tracks participants. Participants get admission to all fields. After 2 years, they will be union members or licensed by the city.
The historical tape of discrimination and oppression in America is clear. NOLA has been no exception. We were the mass incarceration majuscule of the earth. Yet led the world in misdeed.
An investment in our people like the one we made in parks and recreation and libraries could stop these young guys from walking down your street and pulling your motorcar handle. You can gas up with one manus and non shoot the preacher's child. For only $125 a yr.
Estimate KETANJI BROWN JACKSON BECOMES AMERICA'South FIRST Black ASSOCIATE SUPREME Courtroom JUSTICE Amidst AN UNDERTOW OF RACIAL GERRYMANDERED Electoral DISTRICTS
Just three Republicans voted to ostend Judge Ketanji Brownish Jackson as the next Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Concluding Th, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Manus Romney of Utah voted for Jackson. The lone black senator Tim Scott voted "no."
Despite endorsements from quondam police clerks, the International Clan of Chiefs of Police, Guess Thomas R. Griffith, a retired Bush appointee to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Excursion, and other conservative Republican judges, most Republican senators voted non to confirm Jackson. Then they walked off the Senate flooring later on voting.
At Jackson'southward confirmation hearings, Republican members on the Senate Judiciary Committee put on a show. The attacks on Jackson past Senator Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and others were political theatre and not in a good way. They implied that Jackson was soft on crime. They painted her equally a radical activist judge who couldn't be trusted. Some, similar Lindsay Graham, used their time to exact revenge for the fashion Democrats voted against Republican nominees.
Republicans questioned Jackson's judgments, her judicial philosophy (which she didn't share with the committee), and asked her stupid questions like "What is a woman?"
They attacked the gauge with a fervor not seen from Republicans since the confirmation hearings of Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch, all Trump nominees to the Loftier Court.
Republicans' partisan defence force of Trump's picks was every bit disingenuous as their attacks on Jackson. They confirmed Trump'south nominees despite credible concerns about Barrett's pro-life activism, sexual abuse accusations against Kavanaugh, and Sen. Mitch McConnell's theft of President Barack Obama's Supreme Courtroom nomination. Gorsuch is in that seat.
Confirming Jackson to the SCOTUS won't change the Republican'due south 6-3 vote advantage. But the first black woman, Acquaintance Justice, will write opinions that assess whether the majority's rulings are fair or unfair.
However, the most disgraceful no votes, relative to Louisiana, came from Republican Senators Bill Cassidy and John N. Kennedy. Their pseudo-intellectual excuses for voting no on Jackson and everything else Biden proposes is the best reason for abolishing partisan and racial gerrymandering, full stop. They are the poster boys for why gerrymandered districts amount to tax without representation for black Louisianans.
"She (Jackson) is gracious, intelligent and accomplished. But when the political left opposed Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett, not because they were not qualified simply because of their presumed jurisprudence, they established the criteria past which future nominees should be judged," The Daily Advertiser reported.
"President Biden chose Estimate Jackson precisely because she is not a strict constructionist and because she had the potent support of those who prefer an activist judge. It is for these reasons that I will vote no," Cassidy concluded.
"I constitute Approximate Jackson to be smart, well versed in the law and extraordinarily aesthetic in her power to speak at length without maxim anything of substance on critical questions, specially the limits of judicial ability and the importance of judicial restraint," Kennedy said.
So, Cassidy judged Jackson equally someone opposed to "strict constructionism" (where did he get that idea?). Kennedy's 'disquisitional questions' were nearly Jackson's opinions on expanding the Court and states' rights. Because Jackson declined to offer her personal viewpoints (as did Amy Coney-Barrett), Kennedy inferred that she was shallow. Neither alibi is logical.
Kennedy voted against certifying Biden's electoral win. When Biden vowed to put a black woman on the Supreme Court, Kennedy said a nominee should "know a police book from a J-Crew catalog." Kennedy'due south "catalog" comment suggested that black female jurists don't know the police force.
Judge Jackson is a more than qualified jurist than many on the Court now. Kennedy's comment illustrates the need for an stop to partisan and racial gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is the mechanism that keeps him in part. And it gives him the ability to preserve white supremacy and white privilege to the detriment of the country's blackness citizens. Racial and partisan gerrymandering is un-American and needs to end.
In Louisiana, Republicans dominate the country legislature. This yr they passed the aforementioned partisan and racially gerrymandered maps they've passed for the last 20 years. They were and so desperate to keep the status quo, Republicans in the country legislature overrode Governor John Bel Edwards veto of their rigged maps.
That white dominance is the goal. This is axiomatic in the lopsided majorities in Louisiana'south legislature and congressional delegation.
Kennedy and Cassidy and five of the six Congressmen from Louisiana are white. Congressman Troy Carter is the but Democrat and blackness person in the state's Congressional delegation.
There never has been a black senator from Louisiana. Acting Governor P.B.Southward. Pinchback was nominated to the U.Southward. Senate in 1873. But he never even got to Washington. If white land legislators have their way, there never will be.
Whites incorporate 58 percent of the Louisiana population, blacks comprise 33 per centum, and the rest are people of colour. So how exercise whites hold 75 percent of the state's House seats, 74 pct of state senate seats, 100 percent of the U.S. Senate seats, and 83 percent of the U.Due south. Business firm seats?
Partisan and racial gerrymandered districts pack blacks into an balloter commune or crack (divide) the black population into predominately white sections. Both tactics dilute the blackness vote and prevent blacks from electing candidates with shared experiences and culture.
Past voting not to confirm Jackson, did Kennedy and Cassidy just ignored the will of one-tertiary of Louisiana's population and assumed that every white Louisianan doesn't want a black woman on the Supreme Court?
Senators Collins, Murkowski, and Romney deserve credit for stepping exterior of the white supremacy chimera in Congress. Like President Biden, they know a person should be judged by the content of their character, non the color of their peel.
"I'm pleased to nominate Judge Jackson, who'll bring boggling qualifications, deep experience and intellect, and a rigorous judicial tape to the court," "President Biden said during a public announcement.
After Jackson's confirmation, Vice-President Kamala Harris, America'due south first blackness woman vice-president, told the judge, "The young leaders of our nation volition learn from the experience, the judgment, the wisdom that you, Judge Jackson, will apply in every example that comes before you. And they will see, for the first fourth dimension, four women sitting on that Courtroom at i time."
Continuing on the due south lawn of the White House, Jackson thanked a litany of family members, her family, husband, and daughters, supporters, congresspeople, and Harvard classmates with whom she formed a lifelong bond. At Harvard College, "I met my indefatigable and beloved roommates, Lisa Fairfax, Nina Coleman Simmons, and Antoinette Sequeira Coakley — they are truly my sisters," she said.
Kimberly Robinson, a University of Virginia police professor, was Jackson's Harvard Law School roommate. Robinson said that Jackson will exist a justice for all seasons, for all people. "She'due south brilliant and humble, open, honest, and she has the determination and perseverance to succeed at anything she does."
Last Friday, MSNBC "Last Word" host Lawrence O'Donnell spoke with Judge Jackson'southward friends. Two are law professors and the other is an chaser. CBS News also interviewed the women who credited Jackson with encouraging the group to persevere and succeed.
History is made in America
With the Senate 53-47 vote on Th, April 7, 2022, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson stepped into American history equally the commencement blackness woman Acquaintance Justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.
"It has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a Black woman to be selected to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Merely we've made information technology. We've made it, all of us. All of united states of america. And — and our children are telling me that they encounter now, more than e'er, that, here in America, anything is possible," Jackson said.
I am as well ever buoyed by the leadership of generations past who helped to light the mode: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Justice Thurgood Marshall, and my personal heroine, Approximate Constance Bakery Motley, I think of them as the truthful pathbreakers. I am just the very lucky first inheritor of the dream of freedom and justice for all. The path was cleared for me so that I might rise to this occasion.
"I have dedicated my career to public service because I love this country and our Constitution and the rights that make u.s. gratis. I've also spent the better part of the by decade hearing thousands of cases and writing hundreds of opinions.
And in the poetic words of Dr. Maya Angelou, I do so at present, while "bringing the gifts…my ancestors gave." I –"I am the dream and the hope of the slave," Jackson concluded.
Meanwhile, the struggle for voting rights continues in Louisiana and beyond the nation. It'south possible that when Jackson joins the Courtroom, the newest Associate Justice may accept to make up one's mind redistricting cases.
2 lawsuits in the Federal Court in Louisiana are request the Federal Court in Baton Rouge for the state' maps to include additional congressional country legislature seats.
State Senator John Neely Kennedy is running for re-ballot. News reports say he is leading in the polls. If he wins six more years on Capitol Loma, one tin can only gauge what type of representation blacks will have in the U.S. Senate.
Black voters must educate themselves about the candidates running for elective office because all pare folk is not kinfolk. Rumors are circulating that a certain black democratic senate hopeful is a Republican tool, a spoiler. Stay woke.
The New Orleans drainage system is a large complex system. Withal nosotros accept 2 organizations running information technology – the Sewerage and Water Board (SWB) and the Department of Public Works (DPW). An old proverb states: When something is managed by many, something is missed. We certainly have seen many things missed over the terminal several years.
The Metropolis Quango recently passed a resolution to establish a working committee to implement the consolidation under a single entity. We applaud them for taking this step. And Council President Helena Moreno believes that perhaps the committee might find a more innovative approach.
Merely to quote Paul Harvey, "AND at present for the balance of the story…"
The Metropolis Charter defined drainage every bit part of the streets. And in 1890 the Sewerage and Water Lath of New Orleans was created to handle (amongst other responsibilities) "major drainage".
So, early in our history we did establish a bifurcated system of "minor drainage" and "major drainage". But we operated it under the SWB every bit a unmarried drainage arrangement ambassador for over one hundred years. And SWB went on to create one of the about innovative engineering marvels and reliable drainage systems in the earth. In 1942 the Urban center passed a 50-year millage. The millage was responsible for the "minor drainage" organization. And the proceeds went to the SWB, to perform the work. In early on 1990's the citizens soundly defeated a renewal of that millage by approximately 85%. Many believe that the promises made by the administration were then misleading that the renewal was expressionless on inflow.
Fifty-fifty without funding SWB continued to maintain the small drainage pipes (take hold of basins and pipes up to 36") for several years. However after SWB discontinued its support, the system fell into busted from fail and lack of funding. Not until recently – merely close to xxx (30) years later – Mayor Cantrell spearheaded the Brusque Term Rental tax. The City defended those funds "to build, maintain, make clean, manage, beautify, improve, operate, repair, replace, implement and/or upkeep drainage". However 25% of those funds are dedicated to New Orleans & Co. to promote the metropolis. 75% keeps the drainage working.
(Thou.C.S., Ord. No. 27986, § 1, 1-24-xix)
What At present?
And then now that the City has defended AND restricted funds in the Metropolis of New Orleans Infrastructure Maintenance Fund, who is best suited for the maintenance and operation of the City drainage system?
Thither are four reasons to recommend SWB handle the consummate drainage system.
- Outset, historically the SWB, from its design and operation until the 1990's, maintained the organization
- Second, the written report and recommendations of Mayor Cantrell's Infrastructure Advisory Written report;
- Tertiary, the study and recommendation of House Resolution 193 committee, chaired by Mayor Cantrell's Infrastructure CAO Ramsey Green;
- and last, but by no means least, the recommendation and willingness of SWB Executive Director Ghassan Korbin to have on the job.
The Urban center council recognizes that this issue has been studied enough. It is fourth dimension for the Administration and Council to close ranks. Consolidate the entire drainage system under the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans. Our citizens deserve to reap the benefits of focused management and atypical accountability.
Troy Henry and Bruce Thompson
Past Co-Chairmen
Cantrell 2019 Transition Committee
Infrastructure Sub-Committee
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The play is "Reparations with OT and Mama NOLA" commissioned for performance at the Justice and Beyond Reparations Town Hall on March 12 and and so performed again at the Tennessee Williams Festival on March 26. Believe it or not, in that curt time, the play evolved. Mama NOLA (channeled by Kathy Randels of ArtSpot Productions) got drunker. Oliver Thomas (Councilman, District E) got even more than passionate and feisty every bit he spewed out facts and figures almost harms to African Americans right here in our fair urban center.
The therapy was meted out by OT to Mama NOLA and all of us, especially whatsoever whites in the audition, who try to deflect or await the other manner when the subject area of reparations comes up. We deflect before we empathize the harm and the possible means of repair. After their tete-a-tete nearly who owes what to whom, OT's parting shot to Mama: "I'm good for this evening. And I tell you what, I won't charge you lot for this session. Let's telephone call this i 'mutual aid,'" his vox dripping with sarcasm.
The play moved the consideration of reparations for Blackness New Orleanians from the head to somewhere deeper, an emotional level where both characters gave free reign to their id, the basic instinct that Freud put a name on. From this perspective, it became clearer to me how and why many of us white folks deflect. Permit me count the ways.
one. Nosotros get drunk on our power and privilege. Nosotros are addicted to it. Mama NOLA sold herself and her babies to that Faustian exchange. She learned to have instead of beloved. " I let the money fuck me wherever and whenever they wanted to and I even learned to enjoy it. And I taught my baby girls, and boys, to do the same. What happened OT? What didn't you larn and what didn't you earn? Hmf!" Tin she – or we, the collective white colonizer, — striking lesser, kicking the habit, and brand amends?
2. We are willfully ignorant of history. Coin for plumbing in the Seventh Ward went to Lakeview instead in the 1930s considering, in the words of a councilman, "Those niggas don't demand plumbing." Combined with so many acts of systemic racism we at present take a 30% departure in life expectancy betwixt these two neighborhoods. Who knew?
3. We ask the victims to fix the trouble. Is information technology up to Black politicians? Back story: Oliver Thomas was our shining hope – smart, attainable, larger than life, loved by many – probably our next mayor. Then he took a piss-ant bribe and went to jail. He learned a lot "on holiday," equally he calls information technology. He came back to mentor a lot of kids, be a strident voice on the radio, win another seat on the Council, and confront Mama NOLA.
Black New Orleanians boss politics. But the case can be made -and OT makes it – that white New Orleanians all the same dominate business and control the money. OT calls out Mama NOLA when she suggests that politicians should fix this mess. He keeps asking her to show him the money. And money, of course, stands for then much more.
iv. We arraign the victim. Mama NOLA picks on the Black Church. Maybe some of its prophets profit. Nice cars, overnice meals. Perchance that'southward where some of the reparation coin should come from, Mama suggests. OT points out how "white" that argument is.
"Take some goddamn responsibility for what you fix in motion," OT exhorts. Are nosotros who are complicit in these historic period-old crimes finally ready to exercise just that?
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks similar a duck, it's a duck. In February 2022, Republicans in the Louisiana Legislature drew the aforementioned discriminatory congressional maps employed ten years ago. They ignored calls for fair and equitable maps fabricated by civil rights groups seeking a 2d minority-bulk congressional district. Now Louisiana's voting maps confront court challenges.
Land legislators must redraw maps every x years based on Census data. Louisiana'due south black population has increased, and the white population decreased. But lawmakers gerrymandered the maps to retain white representation in 5 of the state'southward six congressional districts.
No ane can prove the white partisan legislators purposefully rigged the maps to dilute the black vote. Simply if information technology walks like a duck…
Louisiana Congressional District 2 is the only majority-minority district when proportionally, at that place should be 2 black-bulk congressional districts. Whites comprise 58 percent of the state population, and blacks 33 percent.
Governor John Bel Edwards vetoed the maps on March 9.
A group of civil rights attorneys on March xiv filed a federal lawsuit confronting Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin. They seek to prevent him from enforcing the tainted maps.
The plaintiffs include the Blackness Voters Thing Capacity Building Institute, the Louisiana Land Conference of the NAACP, and several individuals. In this case, civil rights attorneys are challenging newly drawn country House and Senate district maps. They claim the maps unlawfully minimize the voting force of Black Louisianans in land elections.
Attorney Ron Wilson is recognized nationwide as a leading voting rights lawyer. Wilson is a litigator on the case. He said the maps effect from "White voter suppression to minimize and eliminate blackness voting power, that'southward all that is. Every time y'all overcome i obstacle, there'due south another," Wilson says of the decades-long boxing for voting rights and fair maps.
The lawyers are request the Court to stop the country from conducting state legislative elections. "The Louisiana Legislature was obligated to create new minority opportunity districts for both the state senate and the state house of representatives. But they refused to exercise so," Wilson explains.
" It was possible to typhoon a statehouse program with between 35-39 districts where blacks are the majority of voters," says Wilson. Currently, blacks are the majority in 29 country districts. "That would have created nine new majority-minority legislative districts, non present in the new bill. Information technology's besides possible to describe a state senate plan with 14 districts in which black voters comprised the bulk of the voting-historic period population, adding iii new bulk opportunity districts. That'southward absent in the nowadays country programme," Wilson continues.
Driven by self-interest, race, and partisan politics, the Republican-dominated legislature overrode the Governor's veto on March thirty.
Surrounded by the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, Governor Edwards expressed disappointment in those who voted to override his veto at a press conference. "I was disappointed but certainly not surprised. I would be more disappointed if I were complicit in having a map that I think is so unfair and unjust. Nowhere in Louisiana, not in the House, Senate, Congress, Public Service Commission or on the BESE Lath do African-Americans have districts where they have the opportunity to elect members consequent with their population."
"As I've said before, the virtually egregious of these situations is in the U.S. Congress where nosotros have half-dozen districts and exactly one majority-minority district when the African-American population is i-third of the state population. 2 need to be minority districts. It's a simple fact and simple fairness. It's easy to sympathize. What is not piece of cake to sympathise is why the majority in the House and Senate refused, multiple times, to practise what is correct and what is fair," Edwards adds.
The Governor took result with the lengths blacks must for fair and equitable voting rights. "Nobody should have a Voting Rights Human action to tell them what's fair, and nobody should have to take a court to translate and apply the Voting Rights Act and tell us what we did is unfair. It's sad and tragic that Louisiana in 2022 is not ready to come out of some form of supervision."
LOUISIANA'S VOTING MAPS Confront Court CHALLENGES
Several Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus members commented on their fellow legislators' actions. "Information technology'south ridiculous that it didn't happen. Very disrespectful and disappointing," State Senator Jimmy Harris told Think504. Harris was a member of the Redistricting Committee that toured the state. Land Senator Joe Bouie adds, "It'due south a slap in the face to our nation'southward Democracy and Civil Rights Act."
That same day, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), ACLU of Louisiana, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Louisiana Land Conference of the NAACP, the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, and individuals challenging the Congressional maps equally a violation of Section two of Voting Rights Act of 1965.
This lawsuit asks the Federal Court to finish congressional elections based on the maps that dilute the blackness vote. The lawyers as well want the Courtroom to compel Louisiana to adopt a new redistricting plan. They desire two districts in which black voters have an opportunity to elect a candidate of their pick. Currently, there is only one blackness-bulk congressional commune in the state out of six congressional seats.
"Louisiana'due south white population is dramatically over represented. And while only 58% of Louisiana's population is non-Hispanic white, white voters—whose votes also suspension down along racial lines in most of the land—command the result in five out of 6—or 83.3%—of the districts under the maps. That control has meant that no Blackness candidate has won election to any of those seats since the 19th century," the NAACP-LDF said in a statement.
'Information technology's been years…for too long, for too many years, Blackness people in the state have had to fight and organize for a second bulk-minority commune," Attorney Tracie Washington, a lawyer in Nairne v. Ardoin, the March xxx lawsuit, told Think 504.
Also, Washington, the founder and director of The Louisiana Justice Found (LJI), adds, "The LJI signed on to this project early with the promise that we could implore our state legislature to do the right thing without having to file a lawsuit." The LJI, ACLU, Power Coalition, and other groups presented fair and equitable maps to the Louisiana Legislature but simply establish support among black legislators. Not 1 white legislator voted to add together minority opportunity districts. Then now, Louisiana's discriminatory voting maps confront court challenges.
"The Louisiana Legislature had the opportunity to ensure our district maps were constitutional, just instead they continued on the path that has led to decades of diluting Black voting ability," said Chaser Alanah Odoms, ACLU of Louisiana Executive Director.
"Louisianans deserve better from our elected officials, but those representatives aren't letting us have a choice, then one time over again, we're fighting back in the courts to protect the rights for all. It is well past time for Louisiana to turn the page and allow all citizens to participate fully in our democracy."
"From the perspective of a black woman, we are chronic voters, and they rely on our votes. Nosotros should be rewarded for our tenacity with respect, and that should come in the form of a second majority-minority congressional district," Williams adds.
"I can't imagine there's a more compelling case for the courts to look at and overturn than the Congressional map hither in Louisiana. I believe it's (map) an obvious violation of the Voting Rights Act.," Governor Edwards concludes.
If the federal courts don't intervene and the maps are enforced, the same predominately white congressional districts and country senate and firm districts will remain in place for some other decade.
If the past is prologue, there is footling promise for any federal court, especially not the U.Due south. Supreme Courtroom, to mandate the redrawing of gerrymandered maps.
"The U.S. Supreme Court has shown a willingness to allow unlawful elections to go along. In that location's the Purcell rule, a policy adopted by the Courtroom for not enjoining elections. They (Supreme Courtroom justices, know those districts disfavor black voters. Rather than correct it (gerrymandered map), they permit the elections to go along.," Wilson explains.
"All that'southward left is for plaintiffs to seek relief after the impairment has taken place. U.S. Supreme Court will and then kick information technology back to the land to typhoon a program required by the law. Yous can exist in Court 3-iv years which mean people can stay in function."
Our Gun Laws Are A Mess
"On my way to church I can't figure out which gun to bring," thus began a pop Think 504 article virtually country gun laws. At present here nosotros are 5 years after contemplating more absurdity. This legislative session, there are a number of bills attempting to make sense and nonsense out of how the country regulates guns. You might find some of these more interesting. We look at changing gun laws in Louisiana.
For example, if somebody loses a gun or has it stolen from them, do you lot call back they should exist legally obligated to written report it to the police? Given that kids are breaking into cars and stealing at tape levels these days, you'd imagine that the NOPD but might find that information valuable. But state police requires no such reporting. State Rep. Mandie Landry thinks it should.
Reporting a gun lost or stolen is just one of the provisions she proposes in her pecker, HB209. Others include presently to exist controversial ideas like giving certain parishes the ability to ban guns from recreational centers where kids play. Both of these would probably be widely supported in a parish like Orleans.
"This beak would allow Orleans Parish to pass gun laws that go beyond what the state currently allows," Landry said. "Right now the city cannot do this due to state preemption laws. If this bill passes, city government would work with stakeholders to laissez passer local laws regulating guns that the city as a whole would want to run across passed."
Presently under one of those land laws, you can bring your gun to a restaurant equally long as you don't go near the bar with it. But depending on the eating house, you tin still sit at a table and order drinks from the bar. Makes perfect nonsense. If the point is to go along your drinking life and your gun life separate, and so information technology'south hard to figure out who this protects. The bartender? Landry's bill gives Orleans the correct to ban guns wherever booze is served.
Changing Gun Laws In Louisiana
Before long at that place'south also another law that allows the state to extort coin and time from citizens past requiring a permit to conceal deport a gun. Only the same denizen tin can openly carry 1 for gratuitous. In essence this means for no charge at all you tin freak out everybody around you lot. But to give people peace of mind as they become about their twenty-four hours, yous have to pay the government a fee? The fee is $125 for a five year let, and $500 for a lifetime one. File under nonsense.
If passed, HB37 would practise away with this stipulation. This bill, past state Rep. Danny McCormick, would make concealed carrying automatically legal, no fees or permits involved. In 1 context that makes sense. Why should you pay the authorities to carry a gun under your shirt?
Just HB37 would utilize this to anyone 18 years or older, significant teenagers. Teenage minds are not fully developed. And They most likely doesn't know what they want to do with the rest of their life. He could be walking around with something covertly tucked nether their shirt that could terminate yours. More nonsense.
"I don't like it," Landry said. "Police force enforcement as a whole is very worried about this passing, which says a lot." Nosotros should all probably be worried about a law that allows more than people to freely walk the streets with guns.
Nevertheless before long, Republican state reps are comfy with you bringing your gun virtually anywhere. Except where yous might find them, like municipal buildings or the country capitol. An exception is if a state rep'due south kid happens to be on the same athletic field as your kid. Depending on where that game is held, you tin legally show upwardly with your gun, arroyo the rep, and discuss whatever legislation yous desire. What sense would exist made of this if a plethora of citizens began trying it out?
Ultimately, the earth Republicans are building is i where all guns matter. In that earth, they don't discriminate past color, casing, or whether one identifies equally an assault rifle or handgun. So you'd think they would favor laws that ensure the rubber and sanctity of these guns. But conspicuously that'southward not the case.
"I wish the legislature would pass basic, mutual sense gun laws statewide," Landry said. "But nosotros know politically that but won't happen."
Hopefully, in the future, Landry and her young man Democrats can proffer more bills that move the fence about irresolute gun laws in Louisiana closer to sense than nonsense.
Partisanship is the new code for racism
Louisiana's governors are extremely powerful. They are rarely overridden. In fact, the concluding actual veto override was 31 years ago. Merely yesterday the Louisiana legislature overrode Governor John Bel Edwards veto of the latest Congressional voting maps. Race disguised as partisan politics ruled the day. Partisanship is a new comprehend phrase. Yous know when they mean i thing simply call it another. Code words. Dog whistles for and from other states. Nosotros can now safely say that partisanship is a racism blanket.
Let me catch y'all upward. You might be busy working on making sure New Orleans has dandy parks or trying to provide after schoolhouse options for teenage boys. So, you just allow the legislature handle its' business. So Louisiana has a 33% African American population. And it has half-dozen Congressmen. But only ane, Troy Carter, is African American. The primary reason for the demography every ten years is to depict Congressional maps that stand for the state. Now I know some of our legislators need a history lesson. But obviously they need a math lesson too. Cause the veto is about race.
Legislators on a slippery slope
Louisiana ranks final or adjacent to last in didactics nationwide. Then let'southward go slow. In a representative Democracy, the districts should reflect the denizens. Based upon the state's population, the state gets 6 representatives. Then 1/3 of half dozen is 2. All day. Fifty-fifty in Louisiana. But our state merely has 1 Blackness representative. During the session, the Republicans cited partisanship equally the reason the districts were gerrymandered to limit African American representation. Ii better alternative maps that created a 2d African American district were rejected. The map with only one Blackness district is now the official map of the state. Yes even though African Americans make up 33% of the population. So actually in Louisiana 1/3 equals 1. Told the state is last in education.
Now permit's brand it clear how unprecedented this was. The Republicans possibly violated the constitution. They stopped the regular session to take a one day override session. You read that right. They paused the regular session to accept a 1-day special session to override the governor'southward veto of the gerrymandered maps that limit the African American districts to one. Wow. It is obviously extremely important to make sure that more Black people don't go to go to Congress and represent Louisiana. So, the first always one day veto session in the eye of a regular session occurred. I'one thousand telling yous the veto was about race.
You can only her the private phone calls. "God darned it. We can't let this happen. Not under my lookout man. Nosotros can't let no more Blacks get elected to the Congress from our land," said Rep Hewitt. "We can simply terminate all of this and override that governor we got there. Shucks I can't sleep at night. How the hell are nosotros gonna go Trump back in office?"
Veto is About Race
Partisanship in politics is a complete devotion to a particular political party or credo. But in this case, the racial history tin non be overlooked. Louisiana voters elected African Americans in the past, but they never were able to serve a twenty-four hours in Congress. Louisiana is a southern land that was office of the Justice Department pre-clearance requirement. Any changes to voting rights in the state had to be reviewed and approved by the Justice Department. But that requirement was overturned by a conservative Supreme Court. And then at present southern states are running buck wild. You can't vote! You need an ID. And y'all have to vote in a gerrymandered district.
Yesterday's override is headed to federal court. But the racial coating of partisanship is with us now. Next week they might pause the session to have a special session on guns. Simply white people in the country can ain guns. If a black person has a gun or anything that might look like a gun, then they can exist shot immediately by a white person. Sounds crazy? Well when you control the legislature these things are just partisan.
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The Two Americas Debating Will Smith and Chris Rock
Black people and white people aren't necessarily discussing the Oscars slap in the same way.
By Jemele Loma
About the author:Jemele Hill is a contributing writer at The Atlantic.
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I was on an overnight flight from Los Angeles to New York Urban center during the Academy Awards, so at first I didn't run into the Volition Smith–Chris Rock fiasco that sent America into a consummate tizzy. Just when I was finally able to turn on my cellphone, I had 653 text letters.
Six hundred and fifty-3.
Past now, you've probably seen multiple videos and angles of Smith slapping Rock. Right before the comedian presented the Oscar for Best Documentary, Rock joked offhand that he was looking frontward to seeing Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, inThousand.I. Jane 2. Stone was referring to Jada's bald head. The problem with the joke is that Jada has been open virtually having baldness, an autoimmune disorder that commonly results in significant hair loss. When the cameras panned to her, her expression showed that she was non at all pleased with Rock's barb. Moments later, Smith walked onstage and smacked Stone in the face up.
While I was on the plane, my group-text threads exploded with a lot of jokes, and a lot of stunned reactions. Nigh of my 653 texts, I should note, came from Black folks. A lot of them, both men and women, said they at to the lowest degree understood Volition Smith's trigger-happy reaction to Rock'due south mockery of his wife, fifty-fifty if they disagreed with how and where Smith showed information technology.
What has adult since that unforgettable moment at the Oscars is a archetype "two Americas" conversation. By that I mean: Black people and white people aren't necessarily talking about the incident in the same way. That much was evident in the celebrity reaction. Tiffany Haddish, a Black role player and comedian who starred with Jada Pinkett Smith in the blockbuster pictureGirls Trip, toldPeople: "When I saw a Black human stand up up for his married woman, that meant then much to me." To my eyes, Black commentators were more than willing to joke about the incident—maybe because, as Volition Packer, the goggle box and film megaproducer who oversaw the Oscars broadcast, tweeted after the evidence, "Black people take a defiant spirit of laughter when it comes to dealing with hurting because in that location has been so much of it."
In contrast, Judd Apatow, a director who is white, tweeted that Smith "could have killed" Rock. "That's pure out of control rage and violence," Apatow connected. "They've heard a million jokes near them in the last three decades. They are not freshman [sic] in the globe of Hollywood and comedy. He lost his mind." Apatow has since deleted this tweet.
The radio daze jock Howard Stern fifty-fifty went so far equally to compare Smith to onetime President Donald Trump. "This is how Trump gets away with shit," Stern said on his show. "Volition Smith and Trump are the same guy. He decided he's going to have matters into his ain hands."
Hoo male child.
I'm not proverb that all Black people agree with Haddish or that all white people agree with Apatow and Stern; one poll found that, across racial lines, virtually Americans think Smith shouldn't accept slapped Stone. But I tin can't help but discover the disproportionate outrage that many people in white America—and many in the Hollywood elite—are showing. According toThe New York Post, unnamed industry insiders already are asking whether Smith's award should be rescinded. The Academy announced that it will behave its own investigation and "will explore further activity and consequences in accord with our Bylaws, Standards of Conduct and California law." If the Academy chooses not to permit Smith to nowadays an honor next year—an honor typically bestowed upon Best Actor winners—that'southward fine.
Simply taking away Smith's Oscar would be absurd, considering that the producer Harvey Weinstein, who has been convicted of rape, yet has his Oscar. Roman Polanski, who pleaded guilty to statutory rape, and Mel Gibson, who has an ugly history of racist and anti-Semitic remarks, still have theirs besides.
Some critics seem incredulous that Smith would respond the way he did. He and his family unit accept been in the public middle for decades, and a physical confrontation as well doesn't jibe with the gregarious image that Smith has always presented. If anything, Smith has had to deal with the perception that he isn't tough, because throughout much of his rap career, he was considered the antithesis of difficult-cadre hip-hop, which used imagery well-nigh violence, drugs, and poverty. Smith's songs were fun, joyful, and light-hearted. To some, that meant he was soft.
As a married couple, the Smiths have leaned into exposing their flaws. They have been extremely open—some would say a pifflingas well transparent—about the challenges they've faced as a married couple. 2 years ago, Jada confirmed on her popular Facebook talk show,Red Tabular array Talk, that she'd had an thing with the R&B singer August Alsina. (During the show, Jada and Will Smith said she had washed so when they were separated.)
Jada described her affair with Alsina as an "entanglement." At the Screen Actors Gild Awards earlier this calendar month, the E! network's red-carpet interviewer, Laverne Cox, said to the couple: "We can't wait for moreCerise Table Talk and more entanglements." To put information technology mildly, information technology was an extremely awkward moment.
The Smiths' willingness to reveal certain aspects of their personal lives doesn't hateful that they should be subjected to tasteless jokes. At the same time, Volition Smith has no correct to go around putting his easily on people. Presently afterwards smacking Stone, Smith won the Oscar for Best Thespian for his portrayal of Richard Williams, the boisterous male parent of the tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, in the movieKing Richard. Smith tried to bring some levity to the state of affairs during his credence speech. "I look like the crazy father just similar they said about Richard Williams," he said. "But love will make yous exercise crazy things." Unfortunately for Smith, his showtime Oscar win is at present sullied by his egregious behavior.
A number of the people who texted me also worried that the incident—an embarrassing moment involving two prominent Blackness celebrities—would sully Black people more by and large. Terminal nighttime's Oscars were the first with an all-Black production squad. Black people are conditioned to believe that we deserve respect, admiration, and recognition of our humanity based simply on skillful beliefs. But Smith's overreaction does not reflect on anyone but him, and the proposition that our community should feel whatever measure of collective shame is completely misguided. Nor should we feed into the dehumanizing stereotype that Smith'due south conduct is typical for Black people.
Dissimilar some people reacting on social media, I refuse to look at this ordeal beyond face value. The simply people I feel bad for are Jada Pinkett Smith, the Williams family, and my friend Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson—all of whom saw their own achievements overshadowed at the Oscars. Thompson, a co-creator of the hip-hop band The Roots, directedSummer of Soul, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature—the category Rock was announcing earlier his run-in with Smith's manus. Somehow, Thompson managed to overlook the applesauce of the state of affairs while onstage giving his touching credence speech. I don't know how he did it. Ultimately, laughter is about the simply emotion I can muster when thinking nearly everything that transpired concluding night.
Jemele Hill is a contributing writer atThe Atlantic.
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