Anonymous1977 has taken it upon himself to trash me because I "smell White" and thus am associated in his mind with White bigotry against Blacks.
I have no idea where he got this, and ask him to explain.
I am Asian American, born of Vietnamese Buddhist parents in Galveston, Texas.
The Freed Slaves who built Freedmen's Town came out of the Galveston/Port Bolivar area
and the historic houses remind me of the neighborhoods I grew up in. Galveston has done
a better job of preserving the historic buildings from this same era, but Houston is run by developer interests.
My interest in Freedmen's Town first came up because the plans to restore the national historic district as a campus was based on campus plans from Rice University where I graduated. Since Rice shares a similar history with segregation out of the Civil Rights Era, this made sense that a solution would come from a partnership with education as the common principle to build upon.
Unfortunately these campus plans got smashed and censored by the City of Houston abusing public authority to evict the residents, tear down 2/3 of the national historic landmark the residents planned to renovate as a campus, and took advantage of denying the right of the residents "peaceably to assemble" to petition to defend their equal rights and interests under laws. There was no equal protection because political power was abused to scatter the residents so they could not fulfill their plans. They had no resources to meet after removing them from their community, and no legal defenses since no lawyer dared go after the City and developer interests.
This is all about politics.
But because of the fear and hostility associated with Black/White racism, people could not collaborate and help.
People like
Anonymous1977 project hatred and anger at the WRONG PEOPLE
and this has further divided and destroyed the community.
I cannot repeat what Anon called me by PM.
But I challenge
Anonymous1977 to admit that this was PROJECTION, because I am not European White and I am not trying to enslave or enable anyone under whatever system you are saying is White.
I am trying to use NATURAL LAWS to educate and liberate people from political enslavement and oppression. NATURAL LAWS are for all people, not just WHITE.
Yes, I WILL say that it is considered "white culture" to stand up for Constitutional principles, as I believe defend the natural rights of citizens in Freedmen's Town who I witnessed govt abused to violate their beliefs in preservation and rights to equal protection without discrimination by their beliefs and creed, and to violate their right to security, due process to defend their liberties, and peaceful assemble to petition for redress of grievances.
If this is considered a WHITE cultural standard to use the Constitution to defend these rights by law,
then yes, I am of that WHITE culture then.
So
Anonymous1977
if you don't like me using Constitutional laws to represent laws of justice,
what do you propose to use.
Do you want to wait around for someone else to create new laws not associated with WHITES.
What is wrong with these laws that can be used by all people because
they are based on NATURAL LAWS of human nature.
Here are the laws that I propose all citizens learn in order to check, enforce and reform govt at will
to prevent abuses:
ethics-commission.net
Here are the plans for Freedmen's Town including the Veteran housing and campus plans of
BLACK leaders I support. I am just trying to volunteer to find them the right help to fulfill these plans.
Freedmen s Town Historic Churches and Vet Housing
I agree with other posters it should focus on Black leadership
and not depend on any government that is outside the direct control and unity of the group.
What is so offensive that you would attack me
assuming I am some kind of White racist.
Where did you get that, or do you know you are projecting?
If you have better plans than these, let me know; otherwise,
Below is the invitation that Gladys House sent me for the next meeting on Saturday.
Youre vietnamese american?
Pics or.it didnt happen! ; )
Yes, my parents are Vietnamese.
All the kids in the family were born in America.
Most of us in Texas, but my oldest brother was born in Boston where my dad was at the medical school there.
Apparently poor Anonymous has never run into an American born Asian
who actually believed that laws could be enforced by teaching people the Constitution.
This is a running joke, and I have used it in my poetry and songs, because
people find it rather comic. An Asian girl rapping the Bill of Rights to Suzanne Vega?
http://houstonprogressive.net/mp3/Civil Rap demo.mp3
http://houstonprogressive.net/mp3/Unconstitutional demo.mp3
^ I sang this at an Anti-Klan rally in Tomball. Must be some kind of "White Racist Apologist?"
http://www.houstonprogressive.net
When I tried to present a serious workshop to youth in my neighborhood (African American, but don't tell Anonymous
because he thinks I am lying about all this) on Civil Rights and where the laws started with the Bill of Rights, and when they got enforced with States by the Fourteenth Amendment and then with public institutions through the Civil Rights Act,
they were laughing at me. Covering their faces with their handouts.
Trying to be polite, but this crazy Asian lady trying to teach Constitutional blah blah blah was just too laughable.
One of my students just about choked on himself laughing. I thought I would have to do CPR if he collapsed.
My coworkers were laughing at my attempts to put this to rock tracks, again, TRYING to be polite.
http://www.houstonprogressive.net/mp3/RWsample.mp3
So this has to be some kind of joke God was playing on me to stick me into the midst of all this mess.
People can't get over their White/Black race issues, so God just threw an Asian chick in there to stir it up.
[Crowd chants] NO JUSTICE!
NO PEACE!
NO JUSTICE!
NO PEACE! NO DUH!
Back in 1995, I was volunteering time
In a Black historic church community
Defending local plans
To build a campus on the land*
To break the cycle of crime and poverty
[*
APV Campus Plan]
But the City caved to pressure
From downtown redevelopers
Destroying landmarks on the site
Hijacking public funds
Packing bigger corporate guns
To evict the residents too poor to fight!
Cuz there ain't no rights for the victims
Of lawyers who lie and cheat
When you can't afford
To appeal in Court
While they're committing perjury
They sacrificed
Our Bill of Rights
Due process and consent
And so there ain't no rights for the victims
Of fraud within the government
Ten years later, met a neighbor
Who's exposing sweatshop labor
While he teaches civil rights and history
He fought to stop his school
From signing contracts that abuse
Foreign workers sold to slavery overseas.
When they tried to kick him out
And put his doctorate in doubt,
He sued to complete his PhD.
They wouldn't give his grades
Though his tuition had been paid,
The rising cost of exercising his "free speech"
He said, there ain't no rights for the workers
Exploited by unfair trade
They don't have a choice
We're their only voice
As consumers for a living wage
We've got to fight
For equal rights
Cuz freedom's never free
Or else there won't be rights for the workers
Under corporate slavery
[Crowd chants] No Justice!
No Peace! (No Peace!)
No Justice! No Peace!
No Justice! No Joke!
Putting two and two together
I said, can't we find a better way
To take these civil wrongs and make them right?
Can we expand our campus plans
And demand a second chance
To restore democracy that was denied*
[*
Democracy Denied by Lenwood Johnson]
Turning factories into schools
We could end global abuse
With safer jobs and housing on the site
No workers would be sold
If they're legally enrolled
On a campus to protect their equal rights
Can we fight for the rights of the workers
Quit buying into slavery
Give the kids a place
Where they can learn and play
Instead of living in a factory
Replace sweatshops
With student jobs
Turn prisons into schools
Can we stand for the rights of the workers
Against corporate abuse
Can't we fight for the rights of the workers
Exploited by unfair trade
They don't have a choice
We're their only voice
As consumers for a living wage
Without fair trade
How can we save
Our own economy
Unless we fight for the rights of the workers
And stop global slavery
music video for Sustainable Campus converting sweatshop labor to workstudy jobs