I rarely comment on topical issues in this forum - TheBlackList Conversation eNewsletter, however, I can not resist commenting on Lisa’s comment on Christine Quinn’s statement.
My comment continues at the end of the original statements
:Kwasi Akyeampong
moderator
From: Makemba X
To: Poprgress
Subject: [TheBlackList] Quinn on Sean Bell Verdict
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:43:24 -0400
http://council.nyc.gov/html/releases/042508_SeanBell.shtml
Did anyone see this old simple minded, shallow, ignorant two bit statement put out by Christine Quinn, the so called "speaker" of the New York City Council? But I guess considering its author, I wouldn't expect anything other than a shallow, two bit, simple minded, ignorant, statement from her -- regardless of the issue.
My bigger question is this: Is she representing the New York City Council? Is this how they feel about the Sean Bell verdict? Did she confer with them?
Oh, and one other thing for those who might not know. This is the being that sponsored a bill to name a street in New York after Al Jolson while fighting the Black community against naming a street after Sonny Abubadika Carson.
Lisa
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http://council.nyc.gov/html/releases/042508_SeanBell.shtml
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS
CITY HALL
NEW YORK, NY 10007
(212) 788-7116
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**
April 25, 2008
Statement by Speaker Christine C. Quinn Regarding Sean Bell Verdict
Today's verdict marks a difficult and turbulent chapter in our city’s history. But the conclusion of the criminal trial will not change the fact that a year and a half ago, a young man was killed and family lost a father.
Justice Arthur Cooperman had the difficult task of making a decision in correspondence with the facts and the law. We must respect that decision. Sean Bell’s death requires us to peacefully examine the circumstances that led to it – to see where the system failed him and repair it – so we can prevent similar tragedies in the future. We are committed to doing just that.
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Sean Bell: Outrage of Outrageous Outrage.
By Kwasi Akyeampong
TheBlacklist moderator
Do not be outraged at Christine Quinn.
She is a constituent who services her constitutency well.
Applaud her and any LAWMAKER who fulfill the intention on their constitutency.
But, really, are her remarks more or less outrageous than any of the OUTRAGE expressed by Black Lawmakers?
Make room or one maybe bowled over by limp Black LAWMAKERS marching, protesting and stepping up for fame to register their outrage for the lever pulling hands of their constitutency.
I am outraged that any Black Lawmaker would express his outrage in the presence of outrage citizen and not be slapped senseless.
The place for Lawmakers to register and express their outrage is in Congress and the State Legislature and City Hall.
As an expression of their outrage, Black Outraged Lawmakers should be bunkered down with the intention of rewriting the law.
Outraged citizens should barricade their doors until this mission is accomplished.
There is nothing else to do.
Eric Adams, Retired Police Officer, Founder of One Hundred Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Cares, and State Assemblyman told the cameras that he is going to send a message to the Governor – the Black Governor on New York.
The Black Governor told the camera sometimes later that there was nothing on his desk.
The judge said that his ruling and his verdict is based on the law.
The law is outrageous.
Rewrite it.
There nothing else to outraged about – except at outrageously ineffective Black Lawmakers (Politicians) and the citizens who re-re-elect them.
Yes, yes, there ought to be a law!
Black Lawmakers, Lawmakers, make me a law.
Men made the law that is the core of this injustice.
"Whatsoever man has done, man can do," Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
There is nothing else to do.
:KWASI
5/1/8
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