Family & Friends, welcome to the "Hack & Jac", "Justice, Inclusion & Equality". "Power Up Petition!" Your first "Mystery Clue" has been revealed, "There's strength in numbers", which refers to your signatures on this petition! Help us to obtain 1,000 signatures by May 20th (at that time we will provide updates)!
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PART A:
First, we want to give thanks to GOD for the Black Excellence that has been achieved by our Family & Friends, and throughout the diaspora! Our ancestors used to say, "If you want to smell the sweet taste of success, keep going"! "The Power Up Petition", is threefold: it's about the Past, Present, and Future!
PART B:
Hack & Jac fell in love at first sight! They went on to get married and had beautiful children! Nevertheless, times were not always easy. Back in the days, Hack & Jac were both belittled for wanting to be trailblazers in their perspective job sectors. Our beloved relative Jac, was employed with a prominent, well-known, organization. Nevertheless, she was laughed at in the 1970s, for wanting to launch a store-front business in the Flatbush community. She was determined to achieve her targeted goals! According to her eldest Sister Jean; Jac was a visionary and had "deep thoughts and dreams" about providing for her children and perusing her professional & personal goals. Unfortunately, GOD transitioned her back home. In the 1980s, her husband Hack, who is also our beloved relative, forged on, with a heavy heart and determination! Hack was vetted by several headhunters to work on Wall Street, this led him into a 30-year successful career! As a self-sufficient, widower, and single Dad, he was "our rock", and an exceptional provider to his four children, grandchildren, and extended family members!
This was occurring because he was a brilliant African American man (in a non ethnic-male-dominated career) who was extremely successful at spearheading and brokering global accounts on Wall Street. While employed on Wall Street, Hack's good fortune morphed into a tremendous miracle, when, he survived, "The 911 Attacks"! "Never Forget", is a fitting phrase when recalling that day (meaning "Never Forget" the people who survived nor the thousands that perished). Hack miraculously escaped without any (real) physical harm. However, I cannot attest to the same for his personal emotions. The psychological effects of "911"; Hack's flair for life; and being financially secured were the factors that precipitated him to enjoy an early retirement!
He provided essential resources to neighbors, relatives, and strangers (regarding food, clothing, shelter, assistance with education, financial help, love, and family fun)! Hack never re-married, but he kept his family bonds and worked silently and diligently on maintaining his happiness; until GOD transitioned him home to be with his beautiful wife! May they both rest in peace and in power, in GOD's eternal light and love!
PART C:
Part of the "Hack & Jac" legacy is regarding, the husband-and-wife duo that prided themselves on the ability to "provide"! They were tunnel-visioned when it pertained to working, providing, and learning about building a sustainable future for their family, and (b) with this "Power Up Petition" we aim to partner with organizations that build and lobby for: Education & Career Success (including S.T.E.M Learning) // Children & Family Support - Cultural Awareness & Celebration // DV & Gun Violence Prevention & Intervention (the fourth will be confirmed in April). In each instance, we are requesting justice, equality, and inclusion towards the abovementioned sectors and occurrences! We will achieve this by engineering a bridge of partnerships with organizations that empower thousands and that are dedicated to improving the stated issues!
"As the pace of robotics adoption quickens, policymakers will be faced with a dilemma: while robots enable growth, they exacerbate income inequality," researchers state in the report (Oxford, 2019). Due to the stated, Universal Based Income (UBI) will become a, news-worthy, household conversation in the near future. UBI, has been in focus since the last presidential election. Since then, politicians/law makers and Silicon Valley are both reconning with (and charging each other with) the responsibility of wondering which of them, will be "paying" UBI to marginalized communities, the poor, and outdated technology workers; when "millions" of (their) jobs are "replaced by technology and the robotic arm". In regard to the other essential topics, this article is one of the hundreds of online articles and videos that is talking about the following ..."The unstoppable force of blockchain technology is barreling down on the infrastructure of modern finance. As with prior paradigm shifts, blockchain will create winners and losers. Personally, we would like the inevitable collision to transform the old money machine into a prosperity platform for all (Alex & Don Tapscott, 2017)."Without action, Timmermans said that "there is no doubt in my mind that my kids, my grandkids will be fighting wars over water and food." (Karen Gilchrist, 2023).
PART D:
For instance, The United States Constitution (USC) counts our ancestors as being "3/5th" of a person! This document sits in the highest court - but the impact and the effective legislation of the "words" can be felt in our communities, homes, workplaces, and everyday lives!
I recall Hack feeling very disturbed and upset about this. It took a while for his colleague's unethical racial, and unprofessional behavior to cease (but only after Hack took matters into his own hands). It got so bad, that Hack embellished by telling his collogues that he knew Rev Al Sharpton ("I'm going to call my friend Rev Al"). I remember him saying those exact words. Hack was always smooth with his, so he didn't verbalize his remarks. He put that statement on a "stickie note" and placed it on his colleague's "computers". He said, "mentioning, Rev Al", did tamper down the taunts! Hack, got a big kick out of his stickie notes. He chuckled about it, and said, they haven't said much to me about "anything after the stickie notes". We had a good laugh about it, as he got dressed to go out for the evening.
I told him that "our mother" was "one of them", because she worked for "law enforcement; and that her case had racial undertones". I went on to say that if "she was of another race, that maybe they would have put more effort into finding the person that hurt her, (hurt us)". He agreed, apologized, and promised that they would find him. Shortly after, they visited me. Weeks later the detectives boarded a plane to his hometown. Their conclusion,"the person was deceased"!
Part E:
Jac was employed at a law enforcement organization, but I'm guessing she would never have imagined the United States (US) "mass incarceration movement" that has swept our nation.
I believe that the PF to protect Caucasian populations and their belongings, from the imagined anger and violence, that the NFS may have (hence 1915, blockbuster movie, "The Birth of A Nation") and those "arrest/conviction/slavery" principles still stand today as seen with mass incarceration.
When we first heard that saying in our executive meeting decades ago, everyone in that room did eventually shed a tear or two as we discussed the reality of what that phrase meant/means (the science of abuse is bonding, abuse does not solely impact the person that is getting abused ... it can affect anyone that is witnessing or hearing about the abuse i.e,. George Floyd ... BLM ,,, Global Movement)! Even the black men got misty-eyed, because as educators, we are on the front lines combating these issues daily, and at the same time "celebrating to the nines", when our Black Brothers & Sisters (BBS) achieve regardless of the "institutionalized traps". Discussing all aspects of the topics bonded us as co-workers and strengthened our dedication to our students. As the sign goes, "We may not agree on everything", but I believe all would agree that the United States prison stats are sobering and a national embarrassment (no other nation has incarceration numbers like the US, you be the judge!
When you sit back and really realize that a permanent-underclass is being started from the 3rd grade" its surreal. But guess what? It's factual when it's said that, "There's nothing new is under the sun" ... during slavery our ancestors were informed that their children had to start their duties as "slaves by seven years old". Seven and the 3rd grade ... there is really no difference there! In addition, during the hundred years of slavery, it was against the law for our ancestors to read. Those tactics helped prolong fear and slavery. Not being able to read in today's society is said to be the "school-to-prison pipeline". This pipeline leads our communities to "be dully convicted ... which leads them into "a slave loophole" ... which legally dictates that they have to work for "free" ... for a good majority of their lives while in prison .... or for all of their lives while in prison. There's not much difference there either. when comparing that scenario to traditional slavery back in the day! As one of my students use to famously say (when you asked him how he was doing), "Ms. Hackett, a different bowl, but the same situation!" Yeah agreed!
Let me sum up the above paragraphs in under 15 words; regarding 400 hundred years of slavery back then; and being "titled a "slave" (to date) in the 21 Century (of 2023), per the USC after being arrested in the US, and having the USC "dully conviction- slave loophole" law apply to any and all convicted prisoners ... who are not "slaves" ... but are ... "100% whole human beings"!
Which seems to lead to several divides; in comparison with non-ethnic groups; and within our own black culture. Some of us may feel unequal to our BBS in some kind of way (or another). When it pertains to having less or more "status" than another BBS (may have)? Regardless of our similarities we cannot all be grouped in the same categories.
The USC racists language and legal code (notations) are troublesome for us in other areas too. Let's just say you never got roughed up, profiled or stopped in your car, neighborhood, or at the mall (by staff, neighbors, Police Officer); and you excelled in school; have great affiliations, and a great credit score! Nice profile, but as long as racism is around everyone will be affected by it, regardless of their "status".
"Racism" cost this country Trillions, in taxes, regarding, civil lawsuits, riots, court cases, arrests, police and jail equipment, etc.. Also, every time each one of us looks at our store receipts and "TAX DEDUCTIONS" on our bi/weekly paychecks and yearly taxes, we have three reactions: a physical, emotional, and financial, reaction! LOL! Our tax dollars are used as public money, towards solving public problems, and guess what, the rich are able to write off their taxes, for the most part.
So, the poor - middle - and upper-middle class, are left paying to many taxes period ... but the added burden of harm and taxes that we pay ... due to the racists, the premeditative cycle of abuse and deliberate "policy and constitutional" violence is, according to Mr. Nelson Mandela, ... "man-made problems that can be prevented with human actions". By signing this petition, we are forming a collective human action. with each other ... and like-minded organizations!
My last note about gun violence and the prison system is that in Europe there is only a 2 percent crime rate; and police officers do not carry guns (on their hips). If something of urgency occurs, the cops bring the guns from out of the police station, on to the scene. We have an "over-police state" in the USA because of the things that were stated above. Having a non-combative PF in Europe, is not a coincidence, and neither is what the Supreme Justices are doing right now!
PART F:
Qualified Immunity is a slippery slope for all citizens; and especially to ethnic communities when you consider the history of the country with African American people. We have several officers and military members in our family - so we want to thank them for their service - along with ALL of the good officers that do their job in a professional ethical way! I have also worked very closely with New York Police Officers within my career.
We will continue to inspire and empower communities with needed services and impactful information. We do this by gathering and using resources tha combat messages and actions of harm, hate, gun violence, abuse, and inequality; that overwhelmingly affect BBS, the poor, and marginalized communities; which have been historically excluded; from achieving at their fullest potential; and have yet to feel as a race a "Defacto" and "car blanche" sense of security and safety in our lives and global world; as other races are privileged to feel (throughout the world).
Part G:
PART H.
Help us to obtain 1,000 signatures by May!
PART I.
On May 20th we will give updated news about the petition and our progress!
PART J.
Part K:
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