It is Time to MOVE the Needle – A REMINDER to ALL VOTERS in the City of Milwaukee for April 7

by

Mary Glass

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

MILWAUKEE || In 14 days, April 7, 2020, there is a historic election that can “elect-into-place” INCLUSIVENESS of African Americans in key Charter Officer positions.  They are:

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ü Senator Lena Taylor - Mayor

ü Attorney Tearman Spencer - City Attorney

ü WI State Representative Jason Fields - Comptroller

ü WI State Representative David Crowley – Milwaukee County Executive

This article is to impress upon you, the VOTER in Milwaukee, that it is time for our Charter Officers to LOOK-LIKE the majority population of the City of Milwaukee.  They are African American and People of Color. Why?

Besides creating a model of EQUITY for All that will lay the foundation to break the high bar of POVERTY, here are some additional reasons:

1. Removal of "INSTITUTIONAL discrimination" that has marginalized African Americans for decades and trapped generations through segregation, bigotry, prejudicial laws, lack of hiring, lack of education attainment, use of mandated funding resources, incarceration and TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.

2.  We have NOT had the leadership for Smart Growth to INCLUDE the largest urban city in Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

3.     The City of Milwaukee resident population brings mega federal funding annually  through “special funding” i.e., CDBG-Community Development Block Grant, education, transportation, housing, healthcare, employment, people of Color business development, and attaching federal funding brought by People of Color for quality of life and economic development based on the population from Census data.  The funding is given/sent to Caucasians and their cronies with NO approval of the constituents and NO guarantees – paybacks - for Milwaukeeans. 

It has created an oligarchy of 7 counties (the Milwaukee 7) that dictate the "monopoly-oligopoly" policies in the city hall of Milwaukee as well as the county site of Milwaukee.

4.     Milwaukeeans are brutalized, bullied, profiled and sent to prison by HARSH laws designed to incarcerate African Americans.  Wisconsin has the largest INCARCERATION population.  TRUTH & SENTENCING law was put in place to incarcerate African Americans and boost the Industrial Complex.

5.     Laws denying civil rights of citizens INCARCERATED – including the right to VOTE.

6.     The federal funding is parsed out and given to outsiders who live in neighboring cities-villages, even from other states while its majority residential stakeholders are mired in Enduring Concentrated Poverty (a classification given in 2008 by the Federal Reserve and Brookings Institution) and “institutional racism-bigotry”.

Milwaukee is the largest city (604,110 - 2019) in Wisconsin with majority of People of Color and the largest race of color is African American.

It is the 21st Century, the year 2020, we Must MOVE the NEEDLE for Inclusiveness starting with NEW Charter officers of Color on APRIL 7, 2020.

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