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10.22.2022

Philadelphia's Drop Boxes for Mail in Ballots - Let the Early Voting Begin!!

By Gloria DULAN-Wilson
Hello All!


On Monday, October 18, 2022 - the state of Georgia and several other states began Early Voting!!

I admit that I'm suffering from semi-Freudian case of "Early Voting Envy!"  As I watched the turn out of voters in Georgia, who lined up in record numbers - over 131,000 on the first day - October 18, 2022 - to cast their ballots,  I jealously wondered why Pennsylvania didn't have early voting., too?   
After all, our candidates are just as pivotal as theirs. 
We have as many evil, duplicitour candidates as Georgia!! 
Our election outcome is just as important as theirs. 
We have as many charlatans as they do that we have to defeat (Oz and Mastriano to mention a few). 
And, like Georgia, we're under the magnifying glass of history - with Maga/maggot/rightwingnuts circling us like vultures.
Like Georgia, we've got our own posers/interlopers - they have Herschel Walker, we have Dr. Oz. 
We have our own maniacs - Mastriano to their Marjorie Taylor Greene. 

So, for the life of me, I don't understand why we don't have at least 150 polling sites with voting machines interspersed throughout Philly, Harrisburg, Pittsburg, and other major metropolitan ares through Pennsylvania, so people can show up??!!?? 
After all, we take the same personal pride in slamming down that lever on the voting machine exercising our right to vote in real time!! 
WE love that same surge of power they are getting to enjoy in Georgia!
What a thrill to walk out  of that booth and look at some repuglycon tool  with that glint of victory on our faces - it's so inspiring!  so contagious!!
WHAT AN ADRENALIN RUSH!!
Why does Georgia get to have all the fun of early voting? 
So, I must admit this Early Polling Envy is really messing with me!!! 

I've heard excuses why we don't have it in Pennsylvania - but that dog won't hunt. 
They managed to do it during the 2020 Presidential election after Dejoy launched an attack on our mail boxes and mailing facilities.  
It didn't take any legislation to make it happen then,  just common sense. And it shouldn't take any legislation to make it happen now! 
We are in crises mode -  now even more so than we were during the 2020 presidential election. 
We need to demand that the Pennsylvania state legislators make it happen the same way they did in 2020 - over night!
There's still time.  They were able to open Wells Fargo Arena, and other major facilities throughout the city to accommodate voters - and extended the polls opening until late in the evening.
And there should be at least 2 or more places in each Zip Code throughout Philadelphia - to make it easier for voters to have access to drop boxes!
IJS!!!
 
In the interim, since we don't have voting machines strategically placed throughout the state to make it easier to vote early, we still have the option of voting by mail, and then dropping our ballots off at the 18 drop boxes listed below. 
Frankly, I think 18 boxes are not enough! 
At least 50 or more to make it easier for the voters would make much better sense. 

To be honest, my reconciliation to using drop boxes,  instead of in person early voting, didn't come easy. 
I voiced my concerns to Omar Sabir and Lisa Deeley, Commisioners in charge of Elections in Philadelphia. 
Mr. Sabir explained that, while the use of the drop boxes for our mail in votes was small compensation to actually having  early polling places  throughout the city, it at least gave us options.   And I guess he does have a point there!

Two years ago, during the 2020 elections,  Pennsylvania implemented early voting a scant two weeks prior to election day - after T-rump's hired  lackey Dejoy started dismantling the postal service so that mail in votes wouldn't arrive in time to be counted. 
I assumed that Pennsylvania would continue to allow early voting for other crucial elections such as the 2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS!
However I apparently was incorrect.   You know what they say about never ASS.U.ME
Even though mail in ballots are still being encouraged,  Dejoy is still tampering with the mail,  you have to wonder if he's still carrying out T-rump's orders. 
The 2022 MIDTERM ELECTIONS is even more of  an emergency -  implementing polls for early voting should have been top of mind even before the May Primary.  SMH

So, since we didn't get early voting like Georgia,  we absolutely have to make lemon merengue pie out the lemons we've been handed and line up to personally put in our MAIL IN BALLOTS in the designated drop boxes in record numbers.  
We have to turn out in such record numbers, others will think that we have early voting just like Georgia!! 
So, I'm furnishing the addresses of the drop boxes around Philadelphia so those of us who have already opted for mail-in ballots can be assured our ballots are getting counted, and that there are no "Dejoy degenerate machinations" to prevent our ballots getting to the right hands and counted appropriately.   
Did I mention that there are  18  only Voter Drop boxes for over a million voters in Philadelphia thus far !! Seriously?? 
Are we in the same Midterm Crises as the rest of the US?  
We need to issue Harrisburg a wake up call!
Perhaps we can muster up the same fervor we had two years ago  when they established drop boxes at  Wells Fargo Arena, and other major, high capacity places about town, that people frequently visit so we can have massive voter turnout!!!  

Of course, prior to my accepting  drop boxes as an alternative, I contacted Stephanie Myers, chair/founder of  Black Women For Positive Change, to find out what they recommended in order to have early voting established in Philly again.  She, in turn, put me in contact with Ms. Alma Couverthie, National Chair of the League of Women Voters.  As you know, the League of Women Voters is no joke when it comes to making sure our votes get counted, and that we know our rights as voters.  Alma provided me  the list of the 18 Voting Drop Boxes scattered around Philly.

BTW: I did mention there are only 18 Voter Drop boxes for over a million voters in Philadelphia - Right?  SMH  

 

Alma Couverthie  she/hers/ella
National Organizing Director
 

T 202 478 3075 
E acouverthie@lwv.org

League of Women Voters of the US
1233 20th Street NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC, 20036

www.lwv.org | www.vote411.org

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I want to thank National Chair of the League of Women Voters, Alma Couverthie, who forwarded the information on dropbox  locations and links to information on "early voting" in Pennsylvania

https://vote.phila.gov/voting/vote-by-mail/vote-by-mail/

Scroll down and you will see a prominent notice that essentially states, once ballots are ready, a voter can come to the Elections office, apply for a ballot and complete it at the same time. That is the only early voting that can be done anywhere in Pa. A person can drop their ballot off anytime at the Elections office prior to Midterm Election Day,  November 8, at 8 pm - or use the ballot boxes at the locations below:

For more Philly’s mail ballot drop boxes, the Philadelphia Inquirer posted this link:  (https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/philadelphia-mail-ballot-drop-box-locations-map-20221013.html)


 

  • 1) City Hall (south side of building), 1400 John F Kennedy Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19107
  •  2) Riverview Place, 520 N. Columbus Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19123
  •  3) Eastern State Penitentiary, 2027 Fairmount Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19130
  • 4) Markward Playground, 400 S. Taney St., Philadelphia, PA 19146
  • 5) Pelbano Rec. Center, 8101 Bustleton Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19152
  • 6) Ford PAL Rec. Center, 609 Snyder Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19148
  • 7) Smith Playground, 2100 S. 24th St., Philadelphia, PA 19145
  • 8) Vogt Rec. Center, 4131 Unruh Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19135
  • 9) Independence Branch Library, 18 S. 7th St., Philadelphia, PA 19106
  • 10) Dorothy Emanuel Rec. Center, 8500 Pickering St., Philadelphia, PA 19150
  • 11) Pleasant Playground, 305 Slocum St., Philadelphia, PA 19119
  • 12) Shissler Rec. Center, 1800 Blair St., Philadelphia, PA 19125
  • 13) Corporal Jimmy O’Connor Memorial Playground (formerly Chalfont Playground), 4382 Deerpath Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19154
  • 14) Stenton Playground, 4600 N. 16th St., Philadelphia, PA 19140
  • 15) Shepard Rec. Center, 5700 Haverford Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19131
  • 16) Kendrick Rec. Center, 5800 Ridge Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19128
  • 17) Election Warehouse, 11311 Roosevelt Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19154
  • 18) Kingsessing Recreation Center, 4901 Kingsessing Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19143

For all voting related information, here is our https://www.vote411.org/

You can find everything that you need in all 50 states and DC, by typing your address or using the interactive map.  This information is both in English and in Spanish.

 Please let me know if there is anything else that you may need.

 In solidarity,

Alma


NOTE: Monday, October 24 is the last day for Voter Registration nationally and locally.  November 1, 2022 is the last day to request mail in ballots.  In addition to our youth - our Gen z's - there are a number of Seniors who still need to register, who have moved from their original homes into Senior Living Facilities.  It has been reported that there are some Senior Facilities that are not allowing seniors to have on-site voter registration.  This is in violation of their rights - if you come across situations like this, please report it, and also let the senior know that he/she has every right to register to vote on their place of residence. 

Also, please show Seniors and others who want to vote in person how to locate their polling places - either by google - furnishing their address and zip code; or by contacting the Philadelphia COMMITTEE OF 70 - so they can get accurate information, since many of traditional polling places have changed. 


THIS, OF COURSE, IS NOT GOING TO BE MY LAST PIECE ON MIDTERM VOTING - AND THE IMPORTANCE OF OUR RIGHT AND RESPONSIBILITY TO VOTE -  THE ONLY THING I ASK OF YOU IS TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE REGISTERED; HAVE A PLAN TO VOTE, AND MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHERE TO GO AND HAVE YOUR ID WITH YOU.  Y/OUR MIDTERM VOTES MATTER - ESPECIALLY NOW - MORE THAN EVER!! AND REMEMBER


VOTE BLUE - NO MATTER WHO!!

NOW THAT YOU KNOW

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?


Vote Blue
NO MATTER WHO!!

Stay Blessed &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK



Gloria DULAN-Wilson

8.11.2022

GDW EVENT ALERT: MOBILE VOTERS PA - MIDTERM VOTES MATTER ALLIANCE 2022 To appear on The Empowerment Zone - WWDBAM 860 Radio

By Gloria DULAN-Wilson


THIS JUST IN:
 
EMPOWERMENT ZONE hosts REGINALD McGLAWN and LISA ROBINSON will be interviewing members of MOBILE VOTERS PA - MIDTERM VOTES MATTER ALLIANCE 2022 this Thursday, August 11, at 3:00PM on WWDB AM Radio - 860 on your radio dial; or www.wwdbam.com.  Tune in as we discuss the issues confronting us as voters, locally and nationally.

The dire need to mobilize Pennsylvania voters to show up and show out during the upcoming crucial 2022 MIDTERM ELECTION cannot be understated.  Of course in the realm of political intrigue we can't tell you specifically who to vote for on the show; but we can provide some insight and information on how to not have your rights usurped, and how to not allow the meanstream media to deceive you at such a crucial time as this. 

Our votes are more important than ever before.  If they weren't they wouldn't be trying so hard to prevent us from doing so.  Many people think the presidential election is the most important election, and turn out by the millions to do their duty.  However, the most significant vote is during the MID TERM ELECTIONS - which is when we decide who is in the majority - and ensure the President has a majority in order to complete his mission.

The following guests will be on the show:

1) Gloria DULAN-Wilson - Founder/CEO MOBILE VOTERS PA 2022
2) Barbara Arnwine, Pres./CEO/ Founder of Transformative Justice Coalition, National Chair
3) Vanessa Lowery Brown - Former State Rep, and Voting Rights Activist
4) Tamara Staley - Chair Philadelphia Juneteenth Family
5) Rev. Buie - Activist Minister and member of BLACK WOMEN  & GOOD BROTHERS FOR POSITIVE CHANGE headquartered in Washington, DC

MOBILE VOTERS PA was formed in August of 2020 during the Pandemic.  It became necessary to shut down the major voting places most Philadelphians were accustomed to going to.  Additionally all the polling places that were housed in the senior living facilities were shut down.

People began relying on voting by mail as an alternative, because there was so much confusion as to where the polling places were going to be located.  When the predator in chief announced that voting by mail would hurt the repuglycon party, and hired Dejoy to dismantle the US postal service, which has been part of the US since the 1700s, we knew we had to do something to make sure folks were able to get to the polls.

On August 16, 2020, the first meeting of MOBILE VOTERS PA was held via Zoom - we launched a concept to have non-emergency vehicles pick up seniors and other residents who didn't know where their polling places were - transport them to and from the polling places - using, of course, all the precautionary anti-covid measures.
We got volunteers, held a go-fund-me to rent buses and pay drivers -and as a result were instrumental in quadrupling the voter turn out.

Fast forward to 2022 - we are in CRISIS MODE as our rights are under siege: The right to vote, and predatory candidates have tried to fool voters into thinking they will not prevail.  Our goal is to keep PENNSYLVANIA BLUE- expand the turn out exponentially - educate voters about how essential their MIDTERM VOTES ARE; MOTIVATE THOSE WHO ARE SITTING ON THE SIDELINES, AND INFORM THOSE WHO HAVE HAD INCARCERATION ISSUES THAT THEY ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN PENNSYLVANIA - AND GET THEM REGISTERED - 

WE HAVE 89 DAYS and counting to become a critical mass of registered and active midterm voters!!

On May 9. 2022, Barbara Arnwine met with several activist and civil rights organizations here in Philadelphia, and asked that we align with them to turn the tables in terms of voter turn out, locally and nationally!!

We have been working towards that in - despite some hiccups that intervened.
 
We are now moving forward and are inviting Philadelphians, Pennsylvanians, Americans of good consciousness and good intentions to come together and make this MIDTERM VOTE 2022 A SOUND VICTORY  that sends a clear message to all who would try to deprive us of our voting rights, women's rights, marriage rights, health rights, civil rights, educational rights, and human rights - they will not prevail. 

This is a crisis and we have to be serious about it - no one can sit on the fence; 18 years to 108 years you have the most powerful tool in your hands - the right to vote is also a RESPONSIBILITY!

BTW: THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN RECEIVING SOLICITATIONS FOR FUNDS TO HELP THE CANDIDATES - PLEASE CONTRIBUTE - EVEN IF IT'S ONLY $3.00 - THAT'S HOW PRESIDENT OBAMA WON- BY PEOPLE POOLING THE LITTLE THEY HAD INTO SOMETHING EVEN GREATER.

So tune in or log on to www.wwdbam.com at 3:00PM, Thursday August 11, 2022.  Feel free to call in if you have a question or suggestion at: 888.329.3306

IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH MOBILE VOTERS PA, call or emalil the following:
Phone:  267.416.0177

NOW THAT YOU KNOW
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
 
Stay Blessed &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK  
 
Gloria DULAN-Wilson

 
 
 

4.29.2022

Debunking the hype agaist Critical Race Theory and exposing it for what it truly is! IMO


By Gloria DULAN-Wilson
Hello All!
WHAT CRT STANDS FOR:


Ever since Barack Obama became President of the United States (well actually prior to that if you count Regan, Bush, Bush 2, and the 8 years they spent trying in vain to destroy Bill Clinton) the Repuglycons have lost their total minds, and have shown that they are not above putting low people in high places, if it makes it possible for them to stay in power.  They have willfully, blatantly, openly and notoriously flaunted every rule in the proverbial book - including the sainted "Constitution of the United States - which is supposed to be sacrosanct - to get what they want, regardless of who and how many they have to trample on to do so.   
 

J
Justice in America is defnitely not Blind or Just

 
 Critical Race Theory posits from a legal standpoint that not only is Justice in American legal history not blind, she's been sleeping with the lawyers all along - making sure that if anyone says the deck is stacked against us, she pontificates a lot of bilgewater, and continues to stand on our necks.  (GDW)

During the fifties it was Senator Joe McCarthy - or "Tail Gunner Joe, as they called him  (nothing like a nickname to let you know that while they may talk about him openly, they secretly supported him behind closed doors) who used "Red-Baiting" to destroy the lives of thousands of innocent people, under the guise of pretending to rid the US of Communism.  No lie was too big, no tactic too vile to prove the innocent guilty.  And this went on unabated until somebody finally Woke (T F) Up and said "This is madness; this is not what America is supposed to be about."    SMH

Or is it?  There are about 23 Million Black people who would righteously beg to differ with that statement.  Having endured more than 400 years - 402 counting this year of 2022 - of racism, jim crowism, segregation, deprivation, and lies at the hands of "law makers" who make the laws specifically so that we won't progress, or gain equality, or get an education, or VOTE - we've been dealing with this and moving forward despite it.  BTW, has anyone noticed that most of the lunatic fringe exists in the US Senate?  What's up with that? (IJS) Also, has anyone noticed that New York has never had a Black US senator - male or female?  Hmmmm - Wonder why that is!

We have endured John Bonehead Boehner, Newt Gingrich, even Mitch (the B*) McConnell - each of whom has led the US Senate deeper and deeper into the primordial ooze that is the swamp they are currently turning America into.  They want to create a mass of automatons who do their bidding, and goose-step into history in much the same way Hitler did to Nazi Germany.   Interestingly enough they have sold their souls to the devil in the personage of one D J T-rump, in order to do so - apparently not caring how low he could or would go, how treacherous he would/could be, how many lies he could tell; how he would/could and almost did overthrow the government - in fact they are apparently more than willing to give him a second chance at doing so - considering this massive blob is now crisscrossing the country spreading lies and continuing to engender racial racist rabid antagonisms in small, backwater, red neck revisionist communities - i.e. the gullible underbelly of America.   It boggles the mind of most intelligent,  normal people how T-rump was allowed to be president - considering he committed every ethical violation in the book - denigrating a fellow candidate Hillary Clinton; urging people to smash his opponents in the face because he would pay their legal fees; utilizing a known dictator, and enemy of the US to tamper with the votes so that he would "win" the election of 2016 - and then use his power to continually put low people in high places so they could not challenge his stupidity.  The (s)election of 2016 was truly the indication that the US much touted constitution, ethics, and rules had absolutely no meaning or validity whatsoever.  In sports, if a team violates a rule, or uses unnecessary roughage, etc., they could be ejected, the scores removed, and/or they would forfeit the game.  This is what should have happened then - but NO! The mendicant was allowed to play president and drag America to a new low.  (Not gonna numerate them for you - look it up)!

Then in 2021 - after having every trick in the book, including hiring a degenerate to destroy the US postal service - not only a major symbol of US, but a federally protected division of the government - tampering with the mail is a federal offense - to shut down postal services across the US so voters could not do mail in votes - hopefully meaning those sequestered from Covid would not be able to vote by mail, he spends the rest of his lame duck period hatching a plan to overthrow the government under the guise of his defeat was engineered - stolen - miscounted - rigged - NOT!  WE KICKED HIS BUTT AND THE SYCOPHANTS THAT SUPPORT HIM OUT - well almost - it appears there were two blue dog dems who are more repuglycon than the repuglycons, who have been a thorn in our backsides since the election.

The megalomaniacal fool is now using the pawns that is the senate to try to make it impossible for Black People, Brown People, Independent People, Intelligent People - namely us  - from defeating his rabid racists from once again dominating the Congress again. And here we are - with him going across the country with his band of  well paid menials; with the assistance of the Paid Advertisement masquerading as the news nightly extolling his most recent inanity - with the sycophants who wanna be him so much they have lost all sense of propriety (Cruz, etc.) and dignity, as they sell what soul they have left to this madness now by trying to pass revisionist racist laws to prevent us from exercising our right and responsibility to vote in various states that have absolutely no validity except to prevent us from voting - how is this legal? How is this ethical? How is this intelligent?  How is this not racist? and insane? How is this not subversive?  And how is it that it is still being allowed to continue?  Why is it being allowed to continue?

The main thing I don't want is to see us buying into the BS, and sitting around as though we're defeated, acquiescing or equivocating, or rationalizing their major maladjustment as though it's something that's bound to happen; or copping out and talking about a mythological third party or an independence party, when we know that currently there are only two parties - and we have to pick the one that does the least amount of damage.  We didn't get this far by acquiescing or turning a blind eye, or waiting to be saved.  We looked at the situation, and devised other means to get what we wanted done done.  And this is definitely of those times!

Most of us are descendants of Ancestor/Angels who were enslaved in this country.  Most of them were forbidden to read, write, get an education, because these caucasoid slave monsters knew that once we were able to do so, there was no way they would be able to keep us enslaved.  They knew we were smarter, more intelligent, creative, talented, resilient than they were - therefore the last thing they wanted us to have was an education - even on the third grade level we could outsmart, out think and outdo most of their most learned PhDs.  We might not have had the grammar, but we had the common sense and intelligence.  So it should be no surprise that they are coming for our educational autonomy - that they are trying to revise what we know by attacking education, schools, books, and anything that would further inform and enhance our intelligence.  They used Betsy DeVos to destroy a great deal of the school system.  Subsequently, we began to really learn the truth of what happened to our Ancestor/Angels from Africa to here at the hands of their ancestor/monsters, and subsequently at the hands of their descendants in real time and began breaking down many of the codes in their playbook by making sure we not only knew our history, but theirs as well - and used that to effect the greatest voter turnout - four times - Obama, Obama, the 2018 Midterm and Biden, 2020, and now if we stay the course, don't get fooled by the meanstream media's bogus faux news, we are in line to defeat them a fifth time if we show up and show out and vote in overwhelming numbers in the upcoming 2022 MidTerm Voting Elections - we will totally turn this country around for the better - for our own good in particular - and the US in general.
 
 
 
 
 
 
They are pulling out all the stops: T-rump's lying propaganda spreading across the country, attacking our educational system, the teachers, the libraries to stop them from teaching the true history of America by attacking "Critical Race Theory"  or CRT, in a manner that has apparently been hyped so much that everyone is falling in lock step to it - and trying to not be found guilty of teaching the TRUTH - lest they lose their jobs, or funds, or homes, or, or, or, or...
 
The real gristle of the whole cabal is based on a book that, until recently, had little traction, or notice - CRITICAL RACE THEORY by Richard Delgado was originally written in 1995; but originally enunciated in the late 1970s by the late Derrick Bell, lawyer, political activist and advocate, who basically  enunciated CRT as a way of "understanding how American racism has shaped public policy, laws, education,  and increased public awareness about things like housing segregation, the impacts of criminal justice policy in the 1990s, and the legacy of enslavement on Black Americans." Education Weekly (https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-is-critical-race-theory-and-why-is-it-under-attack/2021/05)

Now, it was all right as long as it stayed in the hallowed halls of academia - which it did for nearly 30 years, but the truth has begun to be taught in real time in elementary schools, K-12, and now all the Karens, their husbands, and the ultra conservative right wing nuts - aka T-rump-a-lumpers, are waving their red flags all over the place.  Basically they want to keep their kids in blissful ignorance and are looking to wipe out everything that even gives a hint that the South wasn't a place where darkies sang happily in the fields while picking cotton, and their great grand ancestors were sipping mint julips when the war started, and Black people are really poor because they like being that way.  Heaven forbid they find out that Mr. Charlie hung his Black neighbor from an acacia tree because he wanted his land; or that there were laws passed to keep Black people from being able to read; or there were actual laws that determined where Black people could and couldn't live - laws that were only recently struck down by EXECUTIVE ORDER by President Lyndon Baines Johnson  - whose history and existence they have consistently tried to eradicate in every form or fashion since he betrayed the sacred trust of every rednecked Dixie Crat (original Democrats) in the 1960s.  
 
Most of the Repuglycons don't want folks to know this!  So they are launching an all out offensive that would make Adolf Hitler proud!

These turkeys are willing to pass heinous even more  egregious laws that totally violate the constitution to push history back into the dark corner where they've tried to hide it for lo these many years - as if we didn't already know what happened - that they are borderline (or actually straight up) Nazis!!  And they are so on the slippery slope they are literally getting up crews of right wing plus conservative females (the worst kind - make MTG look like Mary Poppins) foaming the mouth because their kids are being taught the TRUTH!! As if somehow their heads will explode when they learn that they are descendants of monsters who mistreated people so they couldn't/wouldn't have to work.

They are coming so close to the 1933 German Kristallnacht -(and no, it's not a champagne drink) - that horrific event where Hitler loosed his rabid dogs on innocent Jewish people in Nazi Germany because they were beginning to grow and thrive - all under the guise of cleansing the country of their version of Critical Race Theory. (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goebbels-burnings/) All led by an individual who had fomented crimes against the country viv a vis a riot and breaking to the Nation's Capitol to protect his right to continue lying, stealing, consorting with known authoritarian cretins in other countries that he "admired" because they could dictate and he couldn't. So he got his henchmen to lather up an insurrection against the government - and then lie and call it a peaceful protest; much like what is being propagandized as a danger to the country by actually teaching American History - the good, the bad, the ugly, the unstable.  (By the way, am I overstating the obvious if I say that had Barack Obama done this insane treasonous act, he would have immediately been tackled by all the Capitol police and thrown under the jails in Leavenworth - that is if they didn't shoot him on site - so how is it that the January 6 tribunal is still vacillating over pulling the lever to apprehend and incarcerate the Orange Faced Fool? - IJS).  And why hasn't President Biden put a stop to the obvious violation of our freedom to vote by issuing the EXECUTIVE ORDER OR PROCLAMATION, immediately if not sooner? 
 
The problem is that the only thing they are focusing on is the historical issues around slavery, without also realizing that both sides of history are being taught in the schools - at least they used to be.  There are many redemptive, positive historical facts that are also being taught.  The problem is they only want that part to be taught and deny all the rest.  So teachers, scholars, educators are to be the brunt of their condemnation - to be persecuted, punished, penalized and pushed out?  I Don't Think So! 

I also don't think we should allow them to get away with defining what they're doing by pretending it's about education and what's being taught in the schools.  It's not unusual for people to become reactionary when accused of doing the right thing by the wrong people.  We get hung up in their definitions - as though there aren't other ways to interpret what they're trying to do.  So let me help you see this in a different light:

CRT (ALSO) STANDS FOR:
  • Caucasoids Running (from the truth)
  • Crazy Racist Transgressions
  • Creepy Racist Tactics
  • Conniving Racist Tactics
  • Crass Racist Tactics
  • Covering Racist Transgressions
  • Colonizer Revisionist Tactics
  • Covering Racist Tactics
  • Concealing Real Truth
  • Covering Racist Trauma
  • Culpable Revisionist Terrorists
  • Concealing Racist Torture
  • Constitutional Rights Trampled
  • Constitution Revisionist Tactics
  • Collaborating (with) Racist Terrorists
  • Covering (for) Racist Terrorists
  • Concealing Racist Tracks
  • Consorting (with) Racist Terrorists
  • Creepy Repuglycan (Republican) Treachery

I dare say one of the reasons they don't want true history taught in the schools is because they would have to answer the question:
What the F -K happened to the Original Real Republicans that Abraham Lincoln established when he founded the Party in the 1860s to go up against the current party at the time?  The Original Real Republicans were abolitionists who worked alongside Lincoln to abolish Slavery. They were the ones who worked with him to write the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION (A PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDER) Freeing Slaves in combative states, and later throughout the entire US - and looking to give them reparations for what they had endured by giving each family 40 acres and a mule so they could start out and begin to build on their own?  As the late Oscar Brown, Jr.  said - "I want my 40 Acres and my goddam mule!!"  They're afraid their children, in an act of contrition, would actually turn around and level the playing field by keeping the promises their ancestors had no intention of keeping - Social media is such that these kinds of truths spread exponentially - and the sweeping under the rug days are pretty much over.

They really don't want to have to confront the most egregious miscarriage of justice and violation of the constitution (which by the way they now violate easily and with ease over and over - and nobody seems to be of a mind to stop them) each and every time they try to abrogate our right to vote in real 2022 time by passing laws that Lyndon B. Johnson 100+ years later enacted through his own PRESIDENTAL EXECUTIVE ORDER - giving us (again) the right to vote in free, fair elections, with out any penalty, threat, or other deleterious machinations to intimidate or prevent us of our right to vote.  

The ACLU recently stated: "There can no longer be any doubt that America's justice system is not blind. Indeed, as today's report from the nation's oldest, largest and most diverse civil and human rights coalition reveals, 'lady justice' sees skin color all too well. The report documents that black and brown Americans are routinely shunted to ever harsher treatment at every stage in the criminal justice system while their white counterparts are handled preferentially."

They really don't want any further educational programs, classes, forms, reports, or whatever because they would then have to answer the question "what is your endgame?"  What is your real plan for the future of America?  Who the Eff are you?  Has America already been infiltrated by people disguised as Americans, who are now poised to take over, and overthrow this government that purports to be by the people, for the people, and of the people?  Just how many shils does T-rump already have planted throughout the country, low people put in high places to aid in this debacle, unless and until  President Biden wakes up, stop trying to be the "nice guy, and placate everybody,  and really sees what it is time to pass the most up to date comprehensive PRESIDENTIAL EXECUTIVE ORDER ever, to provide for and restore voting rights to Black and Brown people - all of whom are American Citizens. And he needs to do  it yesterday, because tomorrow may be too late. 

Who's to say this megalomaniac will even wait for the Midterm Elections to take place?  Who's to say he's not trying to whip his next group of insurrectionists into a lather to storm the Nation's Capitol once again?  Who's to say he isn't currently planting them in strategic areas to cause disruptions, disturbances by his own demented version of "by any unscrupuous means necessary?

Of course we can neither wait for President Biden, nor can we stand here like deer in the headlights, frozen in fear of what might, or might not happen.  We don't have that kind of time.  We actually already know what time it is. It's time for us to take action - to make our own plans - even if it's reactionary to some extent - and make sure we're more than prepared to deal with this madness.  We know they have enacted ID laws, no helping each other to the polls laws, closing down polls in key Black areas, gerrymandering, and all kinds of things because they are so afraid of Black people they want to make sure they can use this as a way to curtail our progress.

Guess what?  As Melanie Campbell said at the recently held National Action Network (NAN) on voter  suppression:  "This is not the first time we've been through this at the hands of these kinds of racists.  We didn't let it stop us then, we won't let it stop us now.  We know how to go old school - back to basics.  We have a means for dealing with everything they say or put in the way to stop us  & WE STILL VOTE REGARDLESS OF WHAT THEY DO.  We plan in advance, we learn the rules, follow them to the letter, and make sure we document any and all attempts on their part to stop us from voting and WE VOTE ANYWAY!"

The Black Women for Positive Change, is one of many organizations throughout the United States that is gearing up for this battle for the Souls of America - we are joining forces, preparing to help each other in the various midterms across the country - energizing our bases to make sure NO VOTE IS THWARTED, OR LEFT BEHIND, AND EVERY VOTE IS COUNTED FAIRLY AND COMPLETELY.  We are making sure everybody knows that BLACK PEOPLE ARE UNDER SIEGE AND THEY'RE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY OUR RIGHTS DURING THE MIDTERM PRIMARY AND ELECTION OF 2022 - and we simply cannot allow that to happen y'all!!  They are working with other organizations to host Victory VoterCades throughout low voter turnout communities across the country - to alert and encourage folks to vote - early if possible, by mail if necessary, and in person as a show of force, unity and solidarity:  www.blackwomenforpositivechange.org;

Or, start an organization in your community and begin galvanizing your family, friends, neighbors, fellow church family, faternities, sororities, civic organizations, clubs, senior citizens, high schoolers who'll be 18 by the time the primaries come around -  and others to get up, get together, get out and Vote.  
 
And if you're in Ohio, your primary is Tuesday, May 3rd - I hope you're already on top of it. 

We are all targeted - none of us are exempt - it took all of us to do what we did in 2008, 2012 - we blew it in 2016, figured it out in 2018 (midterms that turned the tables on T-rump, and 2020 when we kicked him out.  Now let's make sure we keep the momentum up in 2022 and make it a three-peat - sweep the rest of his cronies out the door, and this time make sure going forward they don't have a chance to rear their ugly heads again.
 
And remember, Freedom ain't Free - Dr. Greer, who was also on the NAN panel, suggest that we remember this, and begin a kind of Political Tithing in much the same way we pay tithes in church, to help support the candidates who would work in our best behalf - campaigns cost major dollars - if we want results, we have to help there as well - maybe not thousands or millions, but $5.00 to $25.00 at a time per week - which is how President Obama won - making sure those with lower income situations could have a part in the victory right along with mega buck contributors. 

The late John Lewis said always be ready to get into GOOD TROUBLE - you have to stand for yourself and your families; you can't be defined by those who want to enslave you, treat you like dirt, destry you.  You have to be prepared to get into good trouble - and the next time they come up with another CRT accusation, you can come up with some of your own:

  • CRT CAN ALSO STAND FOR:
  • COURAGE REAPS TREASURES
  • CHALLENGE RACIST TACTICS
  • COALITIONS REPEL TERRORISTS
  • CONNECT (with the) REAL TRUTH
  • CONFOUND RACIST TERRORISTS

THESE ARE JUST FOR STARTERS - I'M SURE YOU CAN COME UP WITH OTHERS!!  
If you do, please share!   - you must always relanguage the terms by which the negative tries to confine you and define you.  Self determination and self definition are two of the hallmarks of a free people who are unafraid to do what's necessary for their own survival and progress.  And one of the main hallmarks is that of our right to vote, have a say in what happens in the country where we pay taxes, raise our children, worship, and go about our daily lives. 
And oh yes, don't let them continue to distort the truth, buy the book and read it yourself:
 
https://www.abebooks.com/Critical-Race-Theory-Introduction-Third-Edition/30377846001/bd?cm_mmc=ggl-_-US_Shopp_Trade0to10-_-product_id=COM9789381406779NEW-_-keyword=&gclid=CjwKCAjw9qiTBhBbEiwAp-GE0QbikFD18AhHUO-cu9_S13_mR6Z7AyVfOBaaWSoijPG3MSgGGRYrhxoChugQAvD_BwE

Always remember to vote in every election, no matter how insignificant it might seem, we have the power to change things drastically - if we increase the turn out of this 2022 MIDTERM BY 25%, WE WIN - 
 
And above all remember:
 
OUR BLACK MIDTERM VOTES MATTER!!
and 
MIDTERM VOTES MATTER - 
NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO - 
VOTE BLUE!
ESPECIALLY IN 2022!!


NOW THAT YOU KNOW
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

Stay Blessed &
ECLECTICALLY BLACK




 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gloria DULAN-Wilson