As community activist and Program Director for WeActRadio Kymone Freeman points out: “The fact is, our young people are faced with over 50% unemployment and caught in a cycle of poverty and violence. It has been said that when poverty knocks on the door, love goes out the window. The United States measures poverty by an outdated standard developed in the 1960’s, which means that the admitted 28% of children living in poverty in DC is much, much higher.”
The essential question is, What do you think the Black community should do if police are given the power, through this initiative, to break into our homes, placing those we love in harms way?
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo is the author of No FEAR: A Whistleblowers Triumph over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA. She worked at the EPA for 18 years and blew the whistle on a US multinational corporation that endangered South African vanadium mine workers. Marsha’s successful lawsuit led to the introduction and passage of the first civil rights and whistleblower law of the 21st century: the Notification of Federal Employees Anti-discrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 (No FEAR Act). She is Director of Transparency and Accountability for the Green Shadow Cabinet, serves on the Advisory Board of ExposeFacts.com and coordinates the Hands Up Coalition, DC.
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