THE BLOOMBERG
PLAN AND THE 21ST CENTURY BILL OF RIGHTS
COMPILATION AND
COMMENTARY
BY LUCY WARNER
FEBRUARY 19,
2020
THIS MINI-BLOG
CONSISTS OF ONE NEWS ARTICLE, A RECORDING OF BERNIE’S MOST IMPORTANT SPEECH ON
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM AS HE ENVISIONS IT, AND A BIT OF RESEARCH. IT HAS A GOOD
DEAL OF WHAT TO ME IS NEW INFORMATION IN IT, AND THE SUBJECT IS SOMETHING THAT
WILL BE CONSIDERED, BY SOME ANYWAY, TO BE IMPORTANT.
TO ME AND MOST
BERNIE FOLKS, BILLIONAIRES SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED LEGALLY TO BUY THEIR WAY INTO
THE OVAL OFFICE, OR ANY OTHER POSITION OF POWER. ASSUMING THAT BLOOMBERG MAY
HAVE A GOOD IDEA OR TWO, THOUGH, I AM TRYING TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HIM THAN I
HAVE EVER KNOWN BEFORE. THE PHOTOGRAPH OF HIM PLAYING GOLF, AND SEVERAL OTHERS
LIKE IT, WITH DONALD TRUMP DOES MAKE ME ANGRY. OF COURSE, BLOOMBERG ISN’T A “REAL”
DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN, BUT LIKE ELIZABETH WARREN AND SOME OTHERS IN GOVERNMENT
HAVE BEEN ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FENCE.
THE
ORGANIZATION CALLED BLACK GUNS MATTER WAS THE SUBJECT OF THE DISAGREEMENT
FROM A SANDERS RALLY ON FEBRUARY 17, WHICH CAUSED A FIGHT BETWEEN A SANDERS
LOYALIST AND A “BLACK GUNS MATTER” MEMBER. THAT YOUNG MAN WAS, FOR WHO KNOWS
WHAT REASON, BOOING AT THE SANDERS SPEECH, WHEN ONE BEGAN TO UPBRADE THE OTHER
VERBALLY. AFTER A FEW SENTENCES OF THAT, X SHOVED Y THROUGH A METAL BARRIER AND
THEY BEGAN TO FIGHT IN EARNEST. IT WAS VIOLENT, BUT THEY WERE SEPARATED QUICKLY, SO THERE WASN'T TOO MUCH DAMAGE DONE. THE VIDEO, A LITTLE OVER A MINUTE LONG, IS IN THE ARTICLE. I SUGGEST YOU TAKE A LOOK AT IT.
FRIENDS FROM
BOTH SIDES PULLED THEM APART AND SECURITY SEPARATED THEM TO DIFFERENT AREAS OF
THE CROWD. NEITHER WAS EXPELLED OR INJURED. THAT WAS ALL THERE REALLY WAS TO
IT, EXCEPT THAT THE PRESENCE OF A PERSON WHO SEEMS TO BE BEHAVING IN A HOSTILE
FASHION TOWARD BERNIE OR TRUMP OR ANY OTHER GROUP OF LOYAL FANS WILL CERTAINLY CAUSE CONCERN AND VERY POSSIBLY ANGER
UNDER THOSE CIRCUMSTANCES.
THE DISCUSSION
BETWEEN MAJ TOURE OF BLACK GUNS MATTER ABOUT MICHAEL BLOOMBERG IS MUCH MORE
INTERESTING THAN THE BRAWL WHICH STARTED AT A BERNIE RALLY YESTERDAY.
FOX NATION Published 2 hours ago, February 18, 2020
'Super-frisk is
their name': Black Guns Matter founder mocks potential Bloomberg-Clinton ticket
By Matt London
| Fox News
FOX NATION Published 3 hours ago, FEBRUARY 18, 2020
PHOTOGRAPH –
BLOOMBERG AD https://www.foxnews.com/media/michael-bloomberg-stop-frisk-hillary-clinton
African-American
gun rights activist Maj Toure mocked the prospect of a Michael
Bloomberg-Hillary Clinton presidential ticket, saying that both Democrats have
pursued policies that have been harmful to the black community.
"If they
team up super-frisk is their name forever," joked Toure on Fox Nation's
"Deep Dive" on Tuesday.
The remark was
a reference to Bloomberg's support for the "stop and frisk" policing
practice that rose in prominence in New York City and Hillary Clinton's
labeling of some African-American youth as "superpredators" during a
1996 speech in New Hampshire.
Toure is the
founder of Black Guns Matter, a gun-rights group that "educates people in
urban communities in all 50 states on their Second Amendment rights and
responsibilities through firearms training and education," according to
its website.
Now a newly
resurfaced clip of Bloomberg discussing a multimillion-dollar initiative to
help young men has raised new concerns about his approach to minority
communities.
In the 2011
clip, Bloomberg said, "There's this enormous cohort of black and Latino
males age, let's say 16 to 25, that don't have jobs, don't have any prospects,
don't know how to find jobs, don't know what their skill sets are, don't know
how to behave in the workplace."
"What do
you think when you see that?" asked Wall Street Journal editorial page
assistant editor James Freeman.
"You say his heart's in the right place and he's bad at expressing
things, or you say this is not a good guy and he can't be president?"
"I think he's an
elitist that has no attachment to the community," said Toure.
"He has this white savior complex like he wants to come tell all of the
black and brown people that you guys don't know anything."
"It's
downright offensive," agreed former FBI terrorist task force member and
adviser for the Trump 2020 campaign, Steve Rogers. "Obviously, I'm white.
I was offended by that. Why? Because I happen to know a lot of minority
corporate executives, teachers, professors who contribute so much to this country."
Rudy Giuliani
on Bloomberg's stop-and-frisk controversy Video
"I know
what he was getting at because I saw him put this stuff into effect," said
Mark Glaze, who is a former Bloomberg aide and executive director of Everytown
for Gun Safety, which Bloomberg founded and chairs.
"There is
an absence of programs that will allow folks who are in that so-called 'cohort'
to actually get into the economy, stay there and keep moving up, which is why
he did things like start the Young Men's Initiative in New York City that later
became a model for the Obama administration programs," argued Glaze.
BLOOMBERG
EXPECTED TO TAKE INCOMING FIRE AT DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE IN LAS VEGAS
Freeman
suggested that a new political ad from the Bloomberg campaign may be meant to
"counter" the impression that Bloomberg harbors stereotypes against
minorities.
The commercial
showed Bloomberg announcing a strategy to address the wealth gap between white
and black communities, called the Greenwood Initiative.*
"The
wealth gap is inextricably linked to the racial inequalities of the past,"
said Bloomberg in the ad, "And I'm determined to make breaking that link a
centerpiece of my presidency."
"The
reality is, when he was in a political position, he supported policies that he
admitted disproportionately affected, negatively, black and brown people,"
said Toure in reaction to the video. 'We know how this goes in the 'hood,
everybody says anything in an election cycle."
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GREENWOOD
INITIATIVE*
Mike Bloomberg
Announced The Greenwood Initiative, a Plan to Revitalize the Black Community
By Saybin
Roberson, Contributing Writer
Published
February 13, 2020
PHOTOGRAPH --
Mike Bloomberg Announced The Greenwood Initiative, a Plan to Revitalize the
Black Community (Courtesy Photo)
At the site of
the Black Wall Street Massacre* in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Presidential candidate Mike
Bloomberg announced the Greenwood Initiative: Economic Justice for Black
America. Mid-January, Bloomberg addressed the biases stifling the Black
community and countering the issues with future plans that will create
generational wealth through ownership.
“Even though
Greenwood was called ‘Black Wallstreet’ it wasn’t full of bankers; it was
really just a thriving upper-middle-class community where people worked hard,
played by the rules and believed that they could get ahead,” Bloomberg stated
in the opening of his speech. “In other words, it was just like many places
across the country. Except it was a Black community.”
He continues
explaining the depths of the attacks; homes ruined, businesses burned to ashes
and families broken apart killing more than 200 Black residents. Recalling a
personal account from a diary of an individual who experienced the massacre.
Bloomberg expressed his confusion and disdain for the results of years of
negligence and abuse towards the Black community.
“For hundreds
of years, America systematically stole Black lives, Black freedom and Black
labor. Theft of labor and a transfer of wealth enshrined in law and forced by
violence,” he stated. “The impact of that theft over a period of centuries has
meant an enormous loss of wealth from individuals and families across
generations.”
“It’s time to
say enough and do something about it,” he proclaims. “The challenge of African
American wealth creation today is inextricably linked to the racial
inequalities of the past.”
The Greenwood
Initiative, broken into three parts intends to lay a path to create nearly one
million Black homeowners and 100,000 Black business-owners over the next
decade. The initiative also includes a $70 billion investment in the countries
most disadvantaged communities nationally.
Bloomberg
believes homeownership is the way to build generational wealth, through the
Greenwood Initiative. He aims to provide down payment assistance, enforce fair
lending laws, reduce foreclosures and evictions and increase the supply for
affordable housing.
The second aspect,
increasing the number of Black business-owners is set to be accomplished by
setting up user-friendly one-stop shops for entrepreneurs, expanding the access
to mentorships and incubators* and Black-owned businesses, increase access to
capital and by supporting Black-owned banks. The efforts will also give much
focus to Black women as they are now the fastest-growing group of
entrepreneurs.
Lastly,
Bloomberg’s plan to invest $70 billion into neighborhoods that need financial
assistance includes, identifying 100 cities nationwide that the most
disadvantaged. This plan also includes the creation of the Neighborhood Equity
and Opportunity Office (NEOO) which will set the agenda, authorize spending and
guide implementation and manage the evaluation of the effort.
IMAGE -- Mike
Bloomberg (Courtesy Photo)
“That will
reduce but not eliminate the wealth gap between White and Black families, but
it will build the momentum we need to close it entirely someday,” Bloomberg
said.
“Achieving
these goals will help our country begin to confront the legacy of what
Frederick Douglas called the sin and shame of America … the time has come to
fully commit ourselves to acknowledging our history and righting our country’s
wrongs.”
Throughout the
years Bloomberg has faced his fair share of critiques. As Mayor of New York,
many policies implemented led to the over-policing of Black and Brown people.
In his speech, he opens up about the effects stop-and-frisk policy had on
citizens. He stated once he realized it cause more harm than good, he removed
the law in efforts of bettering the lives of those targeted.
“I was wrong
not to act faster and sooner to cut the stops, and I’ve apologized to New
Yorkers for that, and for not better understanding the impact it was having on
Black and Latino communities,” he explains. “I’ve always believed, though, that
leadership involves listening to diverse opinions, and acknowledging when you
didn’t get them right, and learning from it. That’s what I’ve always tried to
do.”
With the
Greenwood Initiative, Bloomberg promises to farther [sic] right the wrongs of
not only his decision making but that of America’s history. Through inclusion,
he claims to make each level of the community apart [sic] of his decision-making
process, which will ultimately affect voters and citizens in every state.
“Our plan will
empower each group to play an important role, and our work will benefit all
Americans who have been subject to discrimination and bias.”
“Black history
is American history,” he says in his closing. Finalizing with an acknowledgment
of the contributions Black Americans have made in our history.
“Even as they
knew they would be deprived of their fair share of the rewards, from our
country’s first days Black Americans found hope and kept face in the promise of
equality embedded in the Declaration of Independence. When war came, as it did
in every generation, they signed up to fight on the front lines,” he said.
“To me, there
is no greater patriots in America’s long history than the Black citizens who
are willing to die for a nation that was denying them their rights.”
EVERY TIME I
THINK I’VE HEARD THE WORST, I LEARN SOMETHING ELSE. I WISH I DIDN’T BELIEVE
THIS TO BE A REALLY BASIC PART OF HUMAN NATURE. I WANT TO SEE US AS BEING
ENLIGHTENED BEINGS, OPEN-HEARTED AND GENEROUS, BUT THAT VIEW IS A MYTH. STILL,
I HAVE HOPE THAT WITH THE REMOVAL OF ABJECT FINANCIAL NEED, IGNORANCE AND
MENTAL ILLNESS, WE CAN MAKE PROGRESS. WITH SANDERS’ “21ST CENTURY BILL OF RIGHTS,”
OR “ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS,” WE COULD MAKE A START.
I DO THINK THAT
CRUELTY OF THIS KIND IS THE RESULT OF ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES MORE THAN INBORN
EVIL. JEALOUSY, THOUGH, IS REAL, A STORY OF CAIN AND ABEL.
THE DOMINANT
GROUP IN A HIGHLY CLASS-DIVIDED AND COMPETITIVE SOCIETY, UNDER STRESSFUL
SITUATIONS, WILL ALMOST CERTAINLY COME TO EXPECT AS THEIR DUE, THE RIGHT OF BULLYING
AT WILL AND SEEMING TO BE MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN A DESIGNATED SET OF VICTIMS. WHO
THEY ARE AT ONE TIME OR THE OTHER IS ALMOST A FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTION. IT’S
THE BASIC SITUATION THAT PLAYS OUT THE SAME WAY OVER AND OVER. IF BLACKS WERE
DOMINANT AND WHITES WERE THE "LOWER" CLASS, THEY WOULD ALMOST CERTAINLY BE THE AGGRESSORS
RATHER THAN THE OTHER WAY AROUND. THE KEY LIES IN THE MAINTENANCE OF INEQUALITY
AS A MARK OF STATUS. IN THAT SITUATION, IF AN INTERLOPER, I’LL CALL HIM ABEL,
DARES TO MESS UP THAT “NATURAL” STATUS ORDER BY BEING BORN INTO THE FAMILY, THEN
SOMETIMES A CAIN WILL SEE FIT TO KILL HIM.
MY PERSONAL
HOPE AND BELIEF IS THAT IN A BETTER CONDITIONED SETTING, THE INDIVIDUALS WHO
CREATE A GROUP WILL BE MORE MENTALLY HEALTHY AND THEREFORE MORE CAPABLE OF
SELF-CONTROL, EVEN IF THEY DO FEEL JEALOUS, THAN TO BECOME A PART OF
DESTRUCTION LIKE THIS. SPIRITUAL PURITY ISN’T POSSIBLE, BUT BASIC DECENCY AND
SANITY ARE. SEE THIS INFORMATION FROM WIKIPEDIA ON GOOD AND EVIL.
THE BLACK WALL
STREET MASSACRE*
Tulsa race
massacre
From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
The Tulsa race
massacre (also called the Tulsa race riot, the Greenwood Massacre, or the Black
Wall Street Massacre) of 1921[9][10][11][12][13][14] took place on May 31 and
June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents attacked black residents and
businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[1] It has been called
"the single worst incident of racial violence in American
history."[15] The attack, carried out on the ground and from private
aircraft, destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the district – at that time
the wealthiest black community in the United States, known as "Black Wall
Street".
More than 800
people were admitted to hospitals and as many as 6,000 black residents were
interned at large facilities, many for several days.[16][17] The Oklahoma
Bureau of Vital Statistics officially recorded 36 dead, but the American Red
Cross declined to provide an estimate. A 2001 state commission examination of
events was able to confirm 39 dead, 26 black and 13 white, based on
contemporary autopsy reports, death certificates and other records.[1]:114 The
commission gave overall estimates from 75–100 to 150–300 dead.[1]:13[1]:23
The riot began
over Memorial Day weekend after 19-year-old Dick Rowland, a black shoeshiner,
was accused of assaulting Sarah Page, the 17-year-old white elevator operator
of the nearby Drexel Building. He was taken into custody. A subsequent
gathering of angry local whites outside the courthouse where Rowland was being
held, and the spread of rumors he had been lynched, alarmed the local black
population, some of whom arrived at the courthouse armed. Shots were fired and
twelve people were killed: ten white and two black.[18] As news of these deaths
spread throughout the city, mob violence exploded.[2] White rioters rampaged through
the black neighborhood that night and morning killing men and burning and
looting stores and homes, and only around noon the next day Oklahoma National
Guard troops managed to get control of the situation by declaring martial law.
About 10,000 black people were left homeless, and property damage amounted to
more than $1.5 million in real estate and $750,000 in personal property
(equivalent to $32.25 million in 2019).
Many survivors
left Tulsa. Black and white residents who stayed in the city were silent for
decades about the terror, violence, and losses of this event. The riot was
largely omitted from local, state, and national histories.
In 1996,
seventy-five years after the riot, a bipartisan group in the state legislature
authorized formation of the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of
1921 (renamed Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Massacre, in November
2018). Members were appointed to investigate events, interview survivors, hear
testimony from the public, and prepare a report of events. There was an effort
toward public education about these events through the process. The
Commission's final report, published in 2001, said that the city had conspired
with the mob of white citizens against black citizens; it recommended a program
of reparations to survivors and their descendants.[1] The state passed
legislation to establish some scholarships for descendants of survivors,
encourage economic development of Greenwood, and develop a memorial park in
Tulsa to the riot victims. The park was dedicated in 2010.
NOW FOR
SOMETHING NICE TO THINK ABOUT. THIS STORY ON BUSINESS INCUBATORS IS HOPEFUL. I
THINK IF BILLIONAIRES WANTED TO COOPERATE WITH BERNIE SANDERS AND SET UP SOME
OF THESE INCUBATORS TO FOSTER NEW BUSINESSES, THAT WOULD BE A GREAT THING, AS
LONG AS THEY DON’T TRY TO TEAR DOWN MCD, MCR, SS, SSI, FREE EDUCATION, UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE AS A HUMAN RIGHT, THE GREEN NEW DEAL, AND OTHER SYSTEMS OF AID
TO HUMAN BEINGS OF ALL RACES, AGES AND TYPES. IDEAS ARE GREAT, BUT WITHOUT
GIVING PRACTICAL BENEFIT TO INDIVIDUALS THEY ARE AS SOUNDING BRASS.
INCUBATORS*
Business
incubator
From Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
“A business
incubator is a company that helps new and startup companies to develop by
providing services such as management training or office space.[1] The National
Business Incubation Association (NBIA) defines business incubators as a
catalyst tool for either regional or national economic development. NBIA
categorizes their members’ incubators by the following five incubator types:
academic institutions; non-profit development corporations; for-profit property
development ventures; venture capital firms, and combination of the above.[2]
History
The formal
concept of business incubation began in the USA in 1959 when Joseph L. Mancuso
opened the Batavia Industrial Center in a Batavia, New York, warehouse.[8]
Incubation expanded in the U.S. in the 1980s and spread to the UK and Europe
through various related forms (e.g. innovation centres, pépinières
d’entreprises, technopoles/science parks).
The U.S.-based
International Business Innovation Association estimates that there are about
7,000 incubators worldwide. A study funded by the European Commission in 2002
identified around 900 incubation environments in Western Europe.[9] As of
October 2006, there were more than 1,400 incubators in North America, up from
only 12 in 1980. Her Majesty's Treasury identified around 25 incubation
environments in the UK in 1997; by 2005, UKBI identified around 270 incubation
environments across the country. In 2005 alone, North American incubation
programs assisted more than 27,000 companies that provided employment for more
than 100,000 workers and generated annual revenues of $17 billion.[10] . . . .
Incubation activity has not been limited to developed countries; incubation
environments are now being implemented in developing countries and raising
interest for financial support from organizations such as UNIDO and the World
Bank.”
BERNIE’S BEST
SPEECH, THE 21ST CENTURY BILL OF RIGHTS
Bernie Sanders
calls for "21st Century Bill of Rights"
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Sen. Bernie
Sanders delivered a vigorous defense of democratic socialism in a lengthy
speech at George Washington University on Wednesday. He called for a "21st
Century Bill of Rights," invoking the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt and
the New Deal while taking aim at President Trump.
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