This isn’t about the political leadership in #Atlanta, this isn’t about @mooreforatlanta or @andreforatlanta but this is about the “culture” of Atlanta, but more notably who or what influences and shapes the political scene in the city. It’s a sad state of affairs when rappers
and “influencers” can make rumors of closing strip clubs a hot button issue days before a run-off election and people begin to base the choice of their elected official off of this “issue.” It’s about time we reassess this “culture” or whatever it is we would like to call this
blatant promotion of degeneracy that continues the cycle of negativity with Black people in Black communities. Four years ago with the election of our current mayor, the phrase you could hear being said from Bankhead to Buckhead was, “we have a mayor named Keisha.” Now four years
later, my city is in shambles, in a far worse shape than it has ever been before, and you see this same sentiment being echoed by the likes of rappers and other “influencers” and I can’t help but to ask when we will when learn? In the midst of increasing crime, failing schools
seniors being displaced from their home, the city having the highest inflation rate of all major cities in the US, rising housing costs, poverty increasing amongst vulnerable communities, and so many other problems, the issue that was promoted by along these Atlanta
personalities was strip clubs. STRIP CLUBS! We are a lost people. A lost cause, even. Atlanta has so much potential. The city is capable of being a southern epicenter of art, tech, industry, and agriculture, yet we are concerned with “the culture” that being salvaging of strip
clubs. I am embarrassed but more importantly I am disappointed to see the city that I love, the city that birthed me is being taken for granted by many of its inhabitants. If Atlanta is to be the “Black Mecca” that it has a reputation for being, when you take a step back and see
“Nearly a hundred years of the supposed “legacy of slavery” found most black children [78%] being raised in two-parent families in 1960. But thirty years after the liberal welfare state found the great majority of black children being raised by a single parent [66%].
Public housing projects in the first half of the 20th century were clean, safe places, where people slept outside on hot summer nights, when they were too poor to afford air conditioning. That was before admissions standards for public housing projects were lowered or abandoned,
in the euphoria of liberal non-judgmental notions. And it was before the toxic message of victimhood was spread by liberals. We all know what hell holes public housing has become in our times. The same toxic message produced similar social results among lower-income people
This woman is a senior citizen. She is currently 70 years old, which means her very first time voting would’ve been in 1972.
The Voting Rights Act passed in 1965.
If her first time voting is within the year of 1972, this means she’s been voting longer than I’ve been
alive. When they use verbiage like “Fight for voting rights,” what is the fight about? We all voted last November.
When they invoke the name of civil rights icons like “John Lewis” I can only feel disappointment, because if he fought for voting rights, and Rep. Beatty is
Today I will begin documenting racist things people who don’t think they are racist say to me on @Twitter. I think this tweet is the perfect way to start.
Another night of staying up at 5 am thinking about the way I will bring Universal Guaranteed Income (#UBI) to the people of this nation, but more specifically my city of #Atlanta. (A thread)
It’s time that we all engage within a social contract with one another as well as with our government. This contract states that we all can agree that not one person that lives within this nation should be regulated to less than humane living conditions of any kind.
This means that at the very least, the safety nets in place are supposed to be adept in providing an income which would be right above what would be considered poverty for one person. This figure is around $12,700 annually, so about $13,000/year•$1,100 monthly.
I’m writing this because I become bothered when racial issues are discussed by politicians. The narrative that’s always discussed is how will we end racism, racial inequities, discrimination, and racial inequalities, but the truth is never discussed...
That truth is: racism or better yet, the discrimination and disenfranchisement of Blacks is embedded within the framework of America and American society. The very thread that holds together the fabrics of American jurisprudence is racism itself.
It’s ironic that long ago, my ancestors died for the right to vote. Even today, that struggle continues, but year after year, election after election, no true change occurs for Blacks. It’s why a lot of Black men and women of my generation become disillusioned about politics.