I shouldn't have to preface what I say, but as a Black person, I wonder what year Blacks were "allowed" to work for him? I say that because my father was born in 1925 and he couldn't eat in a restaurant, VOTE (not until the 1960s!!!), enjoy an amusement park, marry the woman he wanted, etc.! I think to gloss over this fact is doing a disservice to all Black Americans and especially Black Daytonians. . ..During these times, 2021, I especially want to know a historical person's views on race, not to cancel them but to get a REAL context! I can't just gloss over the fact that someone may have been a racist! I'm not saying Mr. Patterson was, I have no about his political views! I do know that Frederick Douglas married a White woman, I find that extremely interesting!
....I had a relative live in Georgia, during the 80s. actually my brother! My mother and I went to Georgia to visit and he arranged a trip to Stone Mountain! I was NO HISTORY BUFF, but as a FULL BLACK person, I did NOT feel all was "well with my soul" as the song goes! My brother is half Black, yet appears fully White. I think to take ANY Black person to a place like that and make no mention of the Confederacy, is sick! Kind of like feeding meat KNOWINGLY yet, not telling a person who doesn't eat meat, it's in there! I didn't have a real concept of Stone Mountain, and to this day I haven't done research but I DO know that members of the confederacy were celebrated! I want no part of that! I don't seek to erase that history, I just want to know about it, and NOT take part in any celebration! Hopefully, people can understand what I'm saying. ........I feel we, Blacks have been taught to give absolutely NO THOUGHT to celebrating and learning about every culture except our own!Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Thursday, April 22, 2021
EVERYONE concerned with equality and human rights should be at EVERY police call they can with their OWN CAMERAS rolling from EVERY ANGLE!!! What happened to Brother George Floyd shows this to be true! Don't only depend on "them" to police their "own" or rule in your favor ever! I know, I know, not EVERY Officer is BAD-I had an officer somehow track down my mother, call her, she told them they had my dog when he ran away, they came to my house first to ask if that was my dog, then they came back with my dog & informed me he'd had some water & two milk bones!!! I share this incident to show some of them do have some humanity left, even though they wear the badge! I have no idea about your case, and I express sympathy!! I was SHOCKED when I had my own DV issue to find I had been threatened with a gun by my stalker! I wasn't notified offered any protection, nothing! I remember feeling so alone and vulnerable at that time! That's why I'm willing to lay it all on the line for those I care about because when I needed help and protection, I got NONE!!! I had my car tire slashed and was told, "we can't prove it was him!!!" I couldn't leave my house!! More than anything, I just wanted to be taken somewhere safe!!!! It finally went to court and that person didn't show up, they left town & nothing was done! YEARS later they found me via a co worker! They called me at work! I NOW know HOW to protect myself and I'm not afraid!!!!
A non profit is in the works that affords protection to EVERY person who requests it! Perhaps you are one of the only people who understands what it's like to live in that kind of fear!!! I couldn't go to the store downtown! One time I did, this person threw a lighter at my car! If my window had been rolled down, that could have really hurt, I was punched in the face, I can't share all the details because I won't go there!! Every blow, emotional and physical has encased my little heart in steel, thus, I am the way I am!!!
That she then said it wasn't a violation when she was called by police after I reported it (despite the order clearly stating she was not to be 500 feet where I was likely to be, and my kids classroom during an event is somewhere I am likely to be) despite the fact that she knows better.
And after I first mentioned it to the Yellow Springs chief (which was not Carlson) he did not explain any of my rights to me and literally backed out of the conversation.
Bonus but not related to how offended I am. After Officer Meister explained my rights to me after I enquired Officer Naomi Watson filed a complaint against him.
While I think all of YSPD has to go and none of them have clean hands, it has to be absurdly clear that the one filing whistleblower complaints is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
This woman should have gotten her needs met period. Doing it right sometimes doesn't mean it excuses it when its not done right other times. And I would not blame her for taking issue with either officer.
But at a supervisory level? But when your senior officers either actively punish you or guide you away from it? Meister is not the only one punished after my incident. Records shows she went after Charles as well, though not for the protective order reporting)
And this is what village leadership does - including the chief?
Ignore the fact that their most senior officers has abused protection orders and then let her supervise and write up a case like this.
Also, as I was corrected a thousand times, its a protection order, not a restraining order. (Hopefully the police chief, was simply misquoted due to its colloquial use because he should know better)
How is this human still getting away with things. Why is she still employed there (we all know why). And if she leaves she will likely go on to other professions that let her get at vulnerable people. She should never be permitted to work in a first responder, medical or social work professions,, especially with people who are vulnerable or can't express their distress (such as people with disabilities or mental health disorders)
She should most certainly never be permitted to work with or for children again. She has a history and completely botched the krier case.
She abuses her knowledge and relationship to the law and then uses that knowledge and relationship against other people.
The conflicts of interest are clearly poorly managed by leadership, among many other things.
I'm tired of it.
Every day we ask why policing doesn't change. Its because their is protection and delusion at every level and it protects those doing the most harm.
Its easy to yell about other jurisidcations. Its hard to clean up your own.
(btw, hopefully they've corrected it because I yell about it everytime though I don't hold my breath, but senior officers should never be on scene without their dash cams/mics rolling. Also their logging has been a vague mess and that needs corrected too)
https://ysnews.com/.../11/citizens-review-police-actions
APPLAUSE!!! When you have NOTHING to lose, you can speak the TRUTH to POWER!! I don't depend on any REPu%&*(an for a job!!! I don't have to Kiss Hiney, for my pay! This like the war with the North and South! If you are pro slavery, then you are ANTI ME!!! And I'll tell you what, I'm doing just FINE without you!!! The first time I expressed my view publicly over our previous President, my body had such a negative reaction! Someone had said, "He's trying to..." they said like do something, I just felt myself fleeing to the opposite end of the park! I had to get as FAR away as I could from that person! I'm an OLD LADY!!! I REMEMBER how he treated his FIRST WIFE, the ONE who RAN HIS BUSINESSES!!!!!! The one he CHEATED ON, I remember how he SPOKE ABOUT THE BODY of the woman he was cheating on, to marry & have his SECOND DAUGHTER WITH!!! I know all about his RED LINING, refusing to rent to Blacks in his office space ........ now back to the police, they are doing EXACTLY as they were designed to do, hunt down Black and Brown folk and execute US like the run away slaves we act like! I fear NO MAN and I DO NOT FEAR DEATH!
I'd like to take this time to THANK all of my Non Black Brothers and Sisters who are and were on the front lines fighting the hardest I've ever seen! I HATE to say that I was treated with such respect in Beavercreek at my first physical "Sit In." When I spoke to actual Black FOLK FROM YELLOW SPRINGS, I was snubbed, AS USUAL!!! No surprise!! I've had my entire life to get used to that sort of treatment! In my family, in school, in my personal life!Friday, April 16, 2021
April 16, Friday, 2021 - 11:25 a.m.
Tragedy in Indianapolis. hahah Either the boss was a total ass who deserved what was coming to him or the shooter had mental issues or a little bit of both! I've worked at HORRIBLE places for over a decade I put up with abuse!!!!! I watched people die like flies all around me! The stress of working in an environment like that is deadly!!! I am free of that, I survived! I mean no disrespect to the families who lost love ones, I just have a feeling the boss wasn't so innocent!
Started period today! I NEVER talk about this stuff but it's a factor! I am so weak I can't leave the house!!! I haven't even been able to get the mail!!! I called to have my meds delivered, I was thinking to try & go out but I can't! I have terrible arthritis too so I'm in such pain when I get up from bed!!!! My cat is here in my bed with me. The prodigal cat came back last night!!!! I'm not going to let him do that!! I don't like when he's gone for 2 days!! I'm going to put a camera on him though and see where he goes!! It was so cold last night!!! I don't understand how he can be out like that!!! He came back and proceeded to EAT LIKE A DAMN fool!!! I think I'm going to order some cake mix & icing!!! I made a small cake & ATE it all with no frosting ahhaha!!! I like to eat the mix!! I ate it BEFORE I put the raw eggs in it even though the mix has dried raw eggs in it!
12:00 p.m. my medicine came!!! So I "can" leave if I want, but I can't. My legs hurt too much!!! I also need to use my cpap. I got 4 hours & 20 minutes in...I'm making shrimp & warming Progresso Italian Wedding Soup. They used to put those tiny little pearl pasta in it but now the pasta has changed!!!
These guys must think birds chirping is hostle!!! - Marnette Todd 04/16/21 HLN 11:33 a.m.
The 'perpetual widow'
But no one had more influence on mourning attire than Queen Victoria. Following her husband Prince Albert's unexpected death in 1861, the monarch very publicly expressed her sorrow by wearing black every day for four decades until her own death. It was Victoria who helped codify the nuances of grief fashion and maintained her identity as the "perpetual widow," according to Strasdin.