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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApril 4 - Mayor Lumumba Planning Town Hall Event in Jackson MS with Bernie Sanders
The City of Jackson just sent this press statement confirming that it is planning a town-hall meeting with Sen. Bernie Sanders:
Jackson, MS The City of Jackson will be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. King through a conversation titled, Examining Economic Justice 50 Years Later. This will be a moderated conversation between Senator Bernie Sanders and Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba.
The town hall will be held at the Alamo Theater in the Historic Farish Street District on April 4, 2018, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (doors open at 6 p.m.). A multimedia campaign to gather public input will launch Friday, March 30, 2018, and end Tuesday, April 3, 2018, to ensure diverse participation of Jacksonians pre, during and post the event. A limited number of question cards will be available from 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. the day of the event.
The commemoration is yet another effort by the Mayor to drive the development and sustainability of the peoples vision for the City of Jackson.
For more information, contact 601-960-1084.
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/mar/28/mayor-lumumba-planning-town-hall-event-jackson-ber/
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)What a ride.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Just beautiful.
BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)sheshe2
(83,332 posts)rgbecker
(4,806 posts)If Bernie is embraced by African-Americans he might win the Democratic Primaries and then the Presidency! We are all screwed!
sheshe2
(83,332 posts)Fact.
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)Because 60,000 less Wayne County voters say some people need a refresher course on what we/they are looking for in a politician.
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sheshe2
(83,332 posts)GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)60,000 Wayne County brothers and sisters who came out and voted in 2012 DIDN'T come out in 2016.
Yea, we were loved in 2016.
sheshe2
(83,332 posts)I have been up since 2AM.
11. I hope you're not trying to speak for black voters
Because 60,000 less Wayne County voters say some people need a refresher course on what we/they are looking for in a politician.
However your accusing me of speaking for POC is pretty nasty accusation. They speak for themselves. Never once said I speak for them.
So you are in the know...what exactly are those 60,000 looking for in a politician? I am pretty sure is more than economic justice.
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)The first one is tone. I apologize. I just get frustrated and say stupid things. <<< Not an excuse, more like an inexcusable fact.
The second is economic justice. You are right, it's not the answer. It is social justice, BUT it's the kind of social justice that doesn't play with the middle and therefore gets lost when the middle becomes our target.
Sorry again.
sheshe2
(83,332 posts)I am incredibly sad that so many members of the African American Group here were run off the board. What happened to them does not speak well of some at DU. That place is silent now. They were my friends.
Me thinks you are a pretty good guy.
Thanks.
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)I doubt I am that good of a guy. It's just that once and a while I look at something I wrote (usually not until after I have been called out on it, unfortunately) and have to remind myself not to be a mid-sixties year-old child.
I admire the generations which have come after me because I still see everything through the prism of being black and there are things where they can see nuances where I only see bright good/bad lines. It tends to make my opinions not just harsh, but rigid.
I know I look like I am a huge Sanders-wing supporter. I am not. What I really am is a person who sees our post-1992 "move to the middle" as not so much an abandonment of FDR through McGovern-style "liberalism," but as an abandonment my mentors in Newton and Cleaver (and their philosophical forerunners) and of even King, all of whom saw the intertwining of socialism and the systemic structures of racial oppression (a prime example being the criminal justice system).
For me (and excluding people who simultaneously take unequivocally strong and public stands against the structures of racial oppression), when I hear people attack socialism as either evil or naïve, or call for only incremental change in wealth distribution, what I hear is people willing to leave me in chains so that they can hold hands with white folks who are willing to come together on other issues (choice, environment, guns -- on all of which I would also stand with them) but are so privileged in their social vision that they will not admit that their success, their opportunity, their wealth, indeed their very culture, all rest upon the 60 trillion dollars white folks stole from us.
I and many of the people around me are more than willing to stand with pragmatists when it comes to issues like economic justice, but we expect them to publicly and unashamedly stand with us on criminal justice reform, the end of capital punishment, the taxpayer-funded restoration of our communities, and the end to a social safety net specifically designed to destroy our families through its parsimony, even if it offends suburbanites who might otherwise join us on weapons bans (just an example, I am behind them too).
Given the fact that I have never met a single person in my community who did not vote for an available Democrat (and remember, I am old) in any election, and the statistics bare that out, I think we as a community deserve something greater than silent partner status before anyone starts telling us which white person deserves our vote.
I know this all sounds really bad and like single issue thinking, but I can't get past it. I've just seen too much.
Once again, thanks for your post and for listening as I ramble on.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)lacking on other boards. I'm not saying it's all gone -- I don't visit enough to know, but DU lost something special when it was disrupted.
I hope POC find the commitment within themselves to make the AA Board Great Again. The kind of silly, counterproductive squabbling we see here was virtually unknown.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)brer cat
(24,401 posts)since he only got 11% of the Black vote in Mississippi.
GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)Rushing in to whitesplain to Chokwe Lumumba and the people of Jackson Mississippi who voted for him which political figures are on their side and which isn't.
Thank God their water system wasn't poisoned or they would have been forgotten by now.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,481 posts)Arazi
(6,829 posts)Donkees
(31,079 posts)The Washington-obsessed national media paid scant attention to that March on Mississippi. But it was big news in the state, sparking serious talk about the new wave of in-the-streets and at-the-polls activism that is sweeping the South ... that wave swept into Mississippis largest city, Jackson, where voters nominated Lumumba for mayor.
https://www.thenation.com/article/jackson-mississippi-just-chose-radical-leftist-chokwe-antar-lumumba-to-be-the-next-mayor/
George II
(67,782 posts)This isn't unique.
Donkees
(31,079 posts)Published 3:35 p.m. CT March 30, 2018
High demand to see U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders join Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba in Jackson next week has forced the city to find a more accommodating venue.
Sanders and the mayor will be commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr at an event titled "Examining Economic Justice 50 Years Later."
The Wednesday event will now be held at Thalia Mara Hall at 255 E. Pascagoula St. in downtown Jackson, instead of the Alamo Theater in the city's Farish Street District.
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2018/03/30/demand-forces-city-change-venue-bernie-sanders-mayor-lumumba-town-hall/474303002/
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