.....and persecution of the truly innocent, which amounts to contemporary ongoing slavery.


The Boss Tweed Syndrome!

Other examples that still occur, and this illegal, unwarranted, and/or treasonous "Boss Tweed"-Kerosene Waters-Brentwood Burke-Merv Dymally-Liberal Caucasians inner-city deadly economy treasonous activity, which is very prevalent in the Black community...

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"Growing Pains Along the Gold Line"
Construction of the $900-million expansion connecting the Eastside to Union Station causes disruption for residents and businesses.

By Jia-Rui Chong, Times Staff Writer

October 1, 2005

Construction is pushing ahead on the eastern extension of the Metro Gold Line, bringing months "” if not years "” of traffic snarls on the Eastside including the closure this weekend of the 101 Freeway though a portion of downtown Los Angeles.

Southbound lanes of the freeway will be affected throughout the weekend, and shut completely Sunday morning, as workers build a 1,500-foot bridge for the rail line above traffic. Some of the fire-red pilings to support the bridge are already being constructed near Union Station.

The $900-million rail extension will connect Union Station with Atlantic Boulevard in East Los Angeles on a six-mile route that includes stops in Little Tokyo and Mariachi Plaza. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority expects the light rail line to open in 2009 and attract about 23,000 riders a day.

While many Eastside residents are excited about the prospect of the Metro Rail coming to their community, there has also been some grumbling from merchants about lost business as 1st Street, a main drag in Boyle Heights, is torn up.

When Rolando Quintero, 24, looks out from House of Trophies & Awards onto 1st Street, he sees a high gold-colored wall sheltering cranes and other machines, clouds of dust rolling into the store, and what used to be parking spaces by the curb that have been turned into another lane of traffic.

Since construction began, the store has lost about a third of its customers.

"Once it's built, we'll hopefully have more business," Quintero said. "That's a while away, but we have to bear with it."

The Gold Line has been two decades in the works, but signs that the light rail is finally making its way to East Los Angeles are popping up along the Eastside. A portion of the line from Boyle Avenue to Lorena Street will run underground.

"Construction is going pretty good, very smooth so far," said MTA spokesman José Ubaldo. "I don't want to jinx it."

Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina, who has been working on the project for 15 years, said that when she sees the pilings by the Hollywood Freeway and the construction work on 1st Street, she thinks, "Finally, we're starting."

Molina said she hopes the line will help the lives of residents in the working-class, largely Latino neighborhoods of Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles, where many rely on public transportation.

"It's been a difficult birth," she said. "At the end of the day, we have some of the most transit-dependent people where the Gold Line goes. It's going to be an unbelievable amount of relief."

The next major phase involves boring side-by-side tunnels eastward along 1st Street from Boyle Avenue to Lorena Street.

At Mariachi Plaza, where Quintero's store is located, major work got underway in March, when crews began digging a huge hole to create the underground train station and provide a platform for the tunneling machines.

On Thursday, a constant, low rumble, punctuated by the beeping of trucks moving in reverse, filled the air. Orange cones blocked off some lanes. Restricted parking signs were taped to poles.

Behind the plaza, workers were collecting the parts for the huge tunneling machines, which arrived on-site in large, white cylinders. A 100-foot crane was lowering steel rebar into the hole to reinforce the concrete. Surveyors also set up inclinometers to monitor ground settlement around the excavation.

Rail construction has caused headaches for merchants in other parts of Los Angeles in the '90s. Along Wilshire Boulevard, some businesses didn't survive subway construction through the mid-Wilshire area. Subway work on Hollywood Boulevard was also disruptive, even damaging part of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The MTA said it has done its best to try to be sensitive to the needs of the businesses and residents of the area by listening to comments from the Community Review Advisory Committee, adding angled parking spaces along Pennsylvania Avenue to compensate for the loss of parking along 1st Street, and setting up sandwich boards to remind drivers that the hair salons, restaurants and other businesses are still open.

But these actions didn't make José Morfin, 43, feel any better.

On Thursday morning, he held out his arms to talk about the size of cracks in the Boyle Hotel, where he lives, across the street from the Mariachi Plaza.

"This construction is a lot of noise," he said. "I have a family and my kids can't go to sleep at night."

He said that after the MTA dug the cavern under 1st Street, he could feel his building shake every time a heavy truck rolled by.

Morfin said he doesn't plan to use the Gold Line. "I got a car," he said.

Juana Argueta, 36, was angry because her Honda Civic, she said, broke an axle Wednesday on one of the metal plates that are part of the construction on 1st Street.

Argueta, who just moved from Boyle Heights to the northern edge of Chinatown, drives back to the area about once a week to see her mother. She visits more often by bus to drop her 10-year-old son off at Second Street Elementary School.

Although she was frustrated by the construction, Argueta said she could see herself using the Gold Line to explore Los Angeles and especially to visit the bustling market at 1st and Lorena streets.

"I could go to my mom's house then go to the Mercadito," she said. "They have cream cheese and masa and red beans from El Salvador, which taste way different" from American varieties.

Magdalena Garcia, 31, doesn't have any hesitation about supporting the project. The South Pasadena resident was eating potatoes and eggs with her husband at the Homegirl Cafe on 1st Street. They drive to Boyle Heights about once a month to eat at restaurants.

"Actually, we do need better transportation," she said. "We're tired of driving."

Garcia and her husband said they would probably come down to Boyle Heights every weekend if they could ride there in the comfort of a train.

Quintero, the trophy store employee, said he is annoyed by the noise, the trucks parked in the street with their hazard lights on, the construction workers holding up traffic with stop signs. The construction has forced him to improvise detours around 1st Street when he drives to work from his home in El Sereno.

But Quintero could see using the new Gold Line if gas prices keep going up. He said the train could give him a chance to explore downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood and Pasadena.

He is optimistic the rail line will inspire the same among people who don't frequent Boyle Heights.

"Maybe this will make more people willing to come down and look around," he said.

Gold Line construction

Construction on the new Gold Line Eastside extension will close some lanes and ramps on the southbound 101 Freeway in downtown during certain hours this weekend and Monday.

Closures

- Southbound 101 between 110 Freeway and Mission Road: up to three lanes closed until 1 a.m. Sunday; all lanes closed 1-8 a.m. Sunday; up to three lanes closed 8 a.m. Sunday through 6 a.m. Monday.

- Southbound offramps at Broadway and Alameda Street and southbound onramps at Temple, Vignes and Los Angeles streets: closed until 5 a.m. Monday.

- North- and southbound connectors from 110 to southbound 101 closed until 6 a.m. Monday.

Sources: Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Caltrans

Copyright 2005 Los Angeles Times"

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Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina

Los Angeles Supervisor Gloria Molina's district is thriving by leaps and bounds. Unlike the leadership of that typical Black community, which:

A. Looks out for special interests, and personal friends at the expense of the Black community.

B. Steal from the Black community, .....but they elect not to steal from Caucasians, or other ethnic groups, because other ethnic groups, unlike the Black community will hold them accountable for stealing, commiting fraudulent acts, etc.

C. Ignore or trash truly warranted claims by law abiding Black people for damages against a government authority seriously gone awry, that are yet another source of lawful revenue that the Black community can use for private business investment.

..........Unlike our own disgraceful or treasonous Black elected leaders, Hispanic leaders are making it possible for all forms of business growth and development in their own community.

South Central Los Angeles, Compton, Inglewood, Baltimore, Atlanta, New Orleans, etc., etc., have had, and continue to have Black people in positions of authority, to which for over three decades, the only thing passed to the Black community is poverty, game playing, theft by its own no good leadership, fraudulent activity to hold elected office, an increased police presence, mental health clinics, abortion clinics, halfway houses, drug treatment facilities, Social Welfare offices,.....and/or anything else short of private business development.

Heck, Black people from all walks of life who live in South Central Los Angeles must commute outside their own neighborhood to go to a movie theater, a shopping mall, find gainful employment, etc., etc., because our own leadership in a "using false pretenses to hold elected office, in violation of the Los Angeles County Charter, never intended to serve the residents of the South Central Los Angeles, which is in the 2nd District, in the first place" no good 2nd District Los Angeles County Supervisor "Brentwood" Burke, serving foreign interests at the expense of the residents of South Central Los Angeles no good illegal immigrant Merv Dymally, "caught with his pants down having sex with a prostitute in a government owned vehicle" Kevin Murray, Kerosene Waters, Missing in Inaction Ignoring her Black constituency Diane Watson, etc., etc., are too busy misrepresenting the Black community by serving themselves, stealing from the Black community, playing games, serving outsiders, etc., etc.

.....but Oh Well, it must be the fault of racist Caucasians, damn those Black people who have good reason for condemning our own leaders for doing anything else but serving their constituency.

I wonder how much longer it is going to take before the reality truly sinks in, a reality that more so than any doing of racist Caucasians, our own elected Black leadership have failed to serve the Black community.

Kick to the curb any response that Magic Johnson is investing in the Black community, because none of Magic Johnson's investment capital is being invested in the "Hood". Furthermore Magic Johnson is not his own man. Caucasians are in control of Magic Johnson's financial management business decisions.

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A SHATTERED GULF COAST, New Orleans' Racial Future Hotly Argued

The U.S. housing chief expresses doubts about rebuilding, and draws anger and concern.

By Joel Havemann, Times Staff Writer, October 1, 2005

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson

WASHINGTON "” President Bush's housing secretary has touched off a tempest by saying that a revived New Orleans may no longer be a majority-black city and that some of the low-lying and predominantly black neighborhoods probably should not be rebuilt.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson, who is black, said that he expected New Orleans "” a city of about 475,000 that was two-thirds black before Hurricane Katrina hit in late August "” to emerge only 35% to 40% black and with possibly 350,000 residents.

"Whether we like it or not, New Orleans is not going to be 500,000 people for a long time," Jackson told the Houston Chronicle, which published his comments Thursday. "New Orleans is not going to be as black as it was for a long time, if ever again."

Other black leaders said Jackson's remarks would serve only to alienate Katrina's African American victims. Some housing experts said the remarks indicated the absence of an administration policy on providing affordable housing for tens of thousands of displaced families.

Jackson took to task black activists who have been criticizing the administration. "I wish that the so-called black leadership would stop running around this country, like Jesse [Jackson] and the rest of them, making this a racial issue," he told the Chronicle.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was in Detroit to meet with displaced New Orleans families, said the housing secretary's comments would make evacuees feel unwelcome when they went back to New Orleans, which they wanted to do.

"The displaced persons have a right to return home," the Rev. Jackson said. He accused the housing secretary of promoting the gentrification of one of America's historic cities.

The Rev. Jackson also found a political overtone to the housing secretary's prediction, citing black voters' important role in the elections of such Louisiana Democrats as U.S. Rep. William J. Jefferson, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu and Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco.

Secretary Jackson said in his interview with the Chronicle that he had told New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin that "I think it would be a mistake to rebuild the 9th Ward," a largely black area mostly below sea level.

Any new buildings, the secretary said, should perhaps be on stilts, with parking places at ground level.

He admitted that Nagin did not respond warmly. "He wants to rebuild it like it was," the secretary said, "and I don't think I can give the president that kind of advice."

Bush has said that "urban homesteading" "” in which evacuees would get free federal land in return for a pledge to build homes on it "” could help bring low-income residents back to New Orleans.

"We want evacuees to come home, for the best of reasons," Bush said in a Sept. 15 speech in New Orleans: "because they have a real chance at a better life in a place they love."

Housing expert Bruce Katz, who was HUD chief of staff under President Clinton and is now with the centrist Brookings Institution think tank, said federal properties in New Orleans were too few "” perhaps 1,000"”to make much of a dent in the need.

Besides, "the worst thing we can do is re-create New Orleans exactly as it was," Katz said. "It was a failure across the board" "” particularly its concentration of federally subsidized housing near downtown.

He suggested instead that New Orleans' displaced be involved in planning and be guaranteed the right to return.

Michael Franc, vice president for government relations at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, agreed with Katz on the need to avoid replicating the old New Orleans. But he called the administration's homesteading idea "an enormous step in the right direction."

He said it was wrong for Alphonso Jackson or anyone else to make the reconstruction of New Orleans a racial issue. "It ought to be about people, not race," he said.

Copyright 2005 Los Angeles Times
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....Indeed, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson,

..........after New Orleans is rebuilt, few if any Black people will be financially able to return. It requires assets, or the means of acquiring assets, to survive in any affluent community, assets to which by and large our own elected leadership, the so-called Black middleclass, and/or others in positions of influence have elected to keep the masses of Black people in poverty so that they can be despots, rulers, practice cronyism, practice nepotism, run their own "Good Old Boys or Girls Club", and/or steal from the Black community.

Before Hurricane Katrina ever hit New Orleans, it is not a new revelation that Black people who reside in New Orleans are also the largest segment of the population who live below the poverty line. Mind you, like other predominately Black areas, the elected leadership of New Orleans is all Black.......

.....serve themselves, personal friends, and/or outside interests, which is yet further proof that our own elected leadership serve themselves at the expense of the Black community.

Again, the question to be asked is, "At what point is the Black community going to hold its own elected leadership and/or other individuals who are also Black, who hold positions of influence?

Without competent representation on the part of those who have a common heritage to a constituency, it is extremely difficult, if not impossible for an ethnic group to survive in the United States of America, the U.S. being a Democratic Republic, to which the economy is based upon the promotion of business investment, and not Social Welfare as a way of life!

....any community that promotes government dependency over legal private business development, is going to be saturated with criminal activity, to which as Bennet states, the abortion of Black kids, would reduce criminal activity!

It is criminal and cruel to bring a child into the world, and not provide a way for their future or existance, the lack of which, will mean criminal activity.....

......it takes legally acquired assets to survive in the U.S. Acquiring assets by illegal means will eventually result in penal incarceration, death, and/or both.

..and the Black community has the highest percentage of its' population serving prison time, soon to be serving prison time, and/or in that revolving door of return to a lifetime of penal incarceration, because our own leadership, and/or the so-called Black middleclass choose to betray rather than serve the Black community!

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Growth amounts to increased criminal activity and sleaze!...

....Some of the Black underclass presently incarcerated should be set free, and given another chance to make something of their life......

..... and the prison cells vacated should be filled by these truly criminal, sleazy, and/or treasonous individuals, as it relates to Merv Dymally, Brentwood Burke, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Reverend Al Sharpton, H H Brookins, Danny Bakewell, Kevin Murray, the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, etc., etc.

....mind you the biggest criminals are not the Black underclass, but rather those no good treasonous Black people in high places who hold university degrees, and use their position of influence to steal, play games, deceive, and violate the law at the expense of the Black community!

...it is certain there would be a vast improvement in the growth of the Black community if the misfits, and traitors to the Black community, are removed from any position of influence, and locked up, or any other form of punishment deemed appropriate by the Black community at large to put these despicable and treasonous individuals permanently in check!

Sincerely,

Michael Lofton

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...or more likely call him Reverend Greedy Sleazy.....


....and in the Black community sleazy individuals congregate just like filthy disease carrying nasty garbage eating pack rats.

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Jesse Jackson Accused of 'Racketeering' by Top Black Businessman
By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
October 22, 2001

(CNSNews.com) - One of America's wealthiest African-Americans, asked by Jesse Jackson to assist with Jackson's "Wall Street Project," says the tactics used by the civil rights leader amounted to "racketeering."

A prominent black broadcast executive says he's been the victim of intimidation at the hands of Jackson and is fighting the Federal Communications Commission's efforts to block the sale of his television stations.

A black entrepreneur seeking aid from one of Jackson's groups describes it as "a boys club to me, an inner circle," that he cannot penetrate.

Officials with Jackson's various interests largely refused to comment on these complaints, which represent a growing number of concerns about some of the methods used by Jackson to advance his agenda.

But increasingly, more African-American business professionals are wondering whether the reverend represents American blacks to the extent Jackson says he does.

Accusations that Jackson 'Stiffed' the Poor

Businessman Harold Doley, Jr. said he thought Jackson "was going to do what he was saying," in launching the Wall Street Project.

Founder and chairman of the New Orleans-based Doley Securities, Inc., and rated as one of the country's 100 wealthiest African Americans by Securities Pro, a newsletter covering blacks on Wall Street, Doley was asked by Jackson in 1996 to help with the Wall Street Project, a program designed to promote minority participation in corporate America.

As the first African American to purchase a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1973, Doley was thought to be able to open many doors for Jackson on Wall Street.

"I got to really know Jackson," explained Doley, who added that he shared the project's stated goal of "making corporate America look more like America from the entry level to the board room."

He explained that Jackson's original vision appealed to him. "This is what is appropriate, this is where America needs to be going," said Doley. "I felt what he was doing was good, good for America, and good for my business."

But after initial exuberance about the Wall Street Project, Doley became disillusioned.

Jackson went after the multi trillion-dollar pension fund industry in his quest for minority empowerment and worked for legislation to require 10-15 percent of the nation's pension funds, depending on the state, to be brokered or managed by minority firms.

Doley disapproved of the methods Jackson employed in persuading the pension industry to aid minorities. "What worried me was the way he operated, dealing with these veiled threats," he stated.

Doley soon realized that Jackson's efforts "directing an enormous income from pension [funds]" were only being channeled to "roughly 10 firms that qualify."

He doubts most Americans know "that they were paying and putting money in Jesse Jackson's coffers to the tune of $170 million in commissions a year, 10 percent of which is going to Jackson."

Doley says he was a first-hand witness to how "Jesse in effect stiffed the poor people of America." According to Doley, Jackson gave political cover to a bank merger that "cut out $330 billion dollars" over a 10-year period to poor communities in the U.S. The merger did not meet the minimum standards of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which requires that financial entities do not negatively impact poor areas of the country.

According to Doley, representatives from Operation PUSH and the Wall Street Project went before the Federal Reserve Board and testified that the deal was in the best interests of America, despite the fact they did not meet CRA guidelines.

Doley could not believe Jackson would support a merger that "fell short by $330 billion dollars going into communities in terms of mortgages and services provided by financial institutions. This was a tremendous loss."

According to Doley, Jackson "knew the mega mergers were not meeting the guidelines ... but Jesse was getting contributions because of his support" for the deals.

An incredulous Doley decided to personally confront Jackson about his support of the bank merger. The meeting was not very productive. "I said, 'man, you cannot do this.' And I went over the numbers quickly and he just walked away," Doley recalled. Despite Doley's protestations, the merger was finally approved.

Doley says he then saw Jackson in a completely different light. "What he was doing was a kind of RICO operation, both criminal and civil. It was racketeering."

Doley consulted with several attorneys, confiding that "I am concerned that what is going on here may be illegal." The attorneys' advice was simple: "If you have to ask, get out," they offered.

"I just eased on out," Doley recalled. After spending about two years working with Jackson, he now calls him a "Civil Rights Entrepreneur" whose moneymaking ability is beyond comparison. He noted that in 1996, Rainbow PUSH had a gross income of $695,000 and by the year 2000, it grossed $17 million. "He's done better than any goddamn dot-com stock that I am aware of," Doley said.

His advice for young entrepreneurs who may want to partner with or join one of Jackson's organizations is blunt. "I tell them they could go in the hood and go into a partnership with a crack dealer if all they are interested in is the money," he explained.

When contacted for reaction to Doley's charges about Jackson, press spokeswoman Keiana Peyton of Rainbow PUSH, refused to answer any specific questions, stating only that Jackson's efforts have "opened the market and evened the playing field for persons who have historically been locked out of this access to business and capital."

Powerful Broadcaster vs. Powerful Civil Rights Leader

"I am not giving in to him, I won't give in to his pressure tactics," broadcaster Eddie Edwards of Glencairn Ltd., told CNSNews.com. Edwards is trying to sell his television station group to Sinclair Broadcast Group, but Jackson has stepped in and petitioned the FCC to try and block the sale.

Edwards, of Pittsburgh, is considered one of America's most powerful black broadcasters, coming in only second to W. Don Cornwell of Granite Broadcasting, according to Media Week magazine.

He traces his troubles back to his decision to start his own Black Broadcasting Alliance (BBA), a competitor to what he calls the Jackson-friendly National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB).

The Black Broadcaster Alliance was formed because "NABOB tries to control minorities in broadcasting," according to Edwards. "None of my difficulties began until I started BBA. They really came after me," he explained.

Edwards said Rainbow PUSH attorney David Honig accused him of being a "front man" for Sinclair Broadcasting. Edwards recalled that Honig told him, "You, in short, play by our rules and deal with us or we will get you." But Edwards was not easily dissuaded.

"I am not going to be intimidated. I told them once, twice, a hundred times. I am from the same street they are and I have worked too hard to get where I am and if you think you are going to try and muscle me through words and through manipulating the system, you got another thing coming," he stated.

Jackson petitioned the FCC to halt Edwards proposed sale of 19 television stations to Sinclair and the approval of the deal has been in legal limbo since May of 1998. The deals are estimated to be worth $1.5 billion.

Martin Leader, an attorney for Sinclair Broadcasting, explained that the company has probably "lost millions of dollars" because of the FCC delays.

Edwards bristles at the charge that he is a "front man" for Sinclair. "I don't have to dignify that. My 35 years in the business is second to none," he offered.

Leader said Edwards "owns 100 percent of voting stock [in Glencairn]"

"Sinclair people have nothing to do with Glencairn and the commission has so found that," he added, referring to earlier FCC letters. CNSNews.com obtained a copy of the petition that Leader filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on September 10. The petition calls for "prompt action" by the FCC in rendering a decision.

The US Court of Appeals for District of Columbia has ordered the FCC to respond to Leader's petition by November 14th.

"The FCC's inaction on the applications has evidently been caused by the refusal of Sinclair to accept improper demands by the commission to sell broadcast stations to minority purchasers solely because of their race and the resulting hostility that continues at the commission," the petition states.

According to affidavits filed by Leader, the chief of the Mass Media Bureau at the FCC, Roy Stewart, met with Sinclair representatives in April of 1998 and stated, "If you repeat anything that I say here, I will f*****g deny it."

Stewart then allegedly told Sinclair representatives that "Chairman Kennard wanted to see more minority ownership in broadcasting" and made it clear that they did not regard Edwards as a viable minority, according to the affidavits.

Stewart "made it very clear that if Sinclair could do something to assist in [the goal of minority ownership] ... it would be very beneficial to the processing of its applications," the affidavits allege. They also accuse Stewart of threatening Sinclair by stating that if they did not cooperate, "Chairman Kennard would make it 'really painful' for the company."

Leader said the FCC did not see anything wrong with Sinclair or Glencairn business dealings before Jesse Jackson got involved. The FCC had previously approved seven applications between Glencairn and Sinclair.

Edwards maintains "Jesse and his group have strong relationships with individuals within the FCC." He added, "The stations out there that have cooperated with [Rainbow PUSH] had to render favors of some kind and I refuse to play that game."

He noted that the temptation is great to give in to the tactics because "most broadcasters can't afford more delays. Delays cost money." But he remains resolute, declaring, "I am the first black or white person to step up and to speak out [against Jackson]."

"The influence that Jesse Jackson has in Washington, there are people genuinely afraid of this man," Edwards said. However, he added, "Jackson does not represent all black people.

Peyton, a spokeswoman for Jackson, declined to comment on the specific charges made by Edwards and Sinclair Broadcast Group.

She reiterated that Jackson "has worked to even the playing field for minorities and female-owned businesses that have not in the past had access to meet with certain businesses to even showcase their talents and abilities."

Young Entrepreneur Disillusioned

Frederick Jones is a young African American entrepreneur who became disillusioned with Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH organization after multiple attempts to seek aid for his small business.

"The more and more I got into it, I started finding out that if you didn't have ties with the reverend or didn't have money invested, you weren't getting helped," he told CNSNews.com. Earlier this year, Jones approached Rainbow PUSH with a complete business plan and expected to receive consultation and help.

"Every article I read had these prominent minority business people who are supposed to be so helpful with their guidance, with their time, but nobody returns your phone call, nobody talks to you," he stated.

Jones is in real estate development and information brokering. He explained that he contacted several of Jackson's organizations, including the Wall Street Project, because its goal is to "partner with minority business people and help mentor you and guide you along and help with introductions."

A frustrated Jones said he called many members of Jackson's inner circle, including Chester Davenport of Georgetown Partners, who would not take or return the phone calls.

"I called so many times that [Davenport's] secretary Eunice knew my name and my voice," he stated.

Jones claims Rainbow PUSH tried to extract a $250 small business fee from him and another $250 registration fee for a conference.

In a phone conversation with one of Jackson's organizations, he was asked whether he had "joined Rainbow PUSH." Jones asked, "Is it necessary?"

The answer he received from a woman who refused to identify herself was, "It helps if you are a member of the organization, to get help from them."

Jones said he complained that none of the promotional material said "members only." However, according to Jones, the woman persisted that Jones "should call the Rainbow PUSH offices and ask for a membership package."

Jones has since lost interest in receiving any help from Jackson. "It's a boys club to me, an inner circle," he lamented.

Peyton countered that "every Saturday here in Chicago, we host trade bureau meetings, open to the general public, to come and network. She added "that membership in Rainbow PUSH is recommended but not a prerequisite," to receiving business consulting and support.

But Jones is soured from his experience. "Why would you want to join something that is going to keep you an outsider?"

Next: Jackson's Methods Analyzed
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JC Watts, a Black man of good character, and who promotes the ideals of "free enterprize"

vs.

The undisputed self ordained poverty pimping jack-leg no good Reverend "Sleazy" Jesse Jackson.

.....Need to release more than just a few of the current Black prison inmates to make room for Jesse Jackson and his crew!

.....and Yo Crip, yo Crippett, yo Blood, yo Bloodette, Black Guerrilla Family, Black P Stone Rangers, the Nation of Islam, etc., etc., etc.,.....

.....instead of preying on each other, or preying on truly innocent Black people who have not harmed you in any regard......

I would personally "kiss" the dirt that you walk on, if instead you would all conform to the "Tales of Robin Hood", to take back money derived through deceit to return the assets to their rightful owners, many of the owners being Black, some of the rightful owners may even be one or more of you!

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Yeah, it's getting even more sleazy and the activity's out of sight, and believe me, COLOR hasn't a damn thing to do with it.

Michael - I can't say that I always agree with your approach but these problems are not going to be addressed until THE MASSES OF BLACK PEOPLE demand EFFECTIVENESS rather than UNITY and thus suppression of criticism of what they know to be against the interests of Black people long term.

"Former Aide's Guilty Plea Implicates Congressman

Brett M. Pfeffer details conspiracy and bribery claims against Democrat William J. Jefferson.

By Ralph Vartabedian
Times Staff Writer

January 12, 2006

Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) sought bribes, jobs for his children and other favors for providing political support to a company setting up Internet service in Nigeria, according to a former aide's guilty plea, entered Wednesday in federal court in Alexandria, Va.

In an alleged conspiracy, beginning in 2004, Jefferson, in exchange for providing political help, demanded payments and favors from a northern Virginia company that was proposing to set up Internet service through the Nigerian Telephone Co., according to the guilty plea by Brett M. Pfeffer of Herndon, Va., to charges of aiding and abetting bribery of a public official and conspiracy.

A spokeswoman for Jefferson said he would have no comment on the allegations. The congressman's New Orleans attorney did not return calls seeking comment.

An indictment against Jefferson, 58, could come in the next several months, according to law enforcement sources who asked not to be identified. Pfeffer is now cooperating with federal prosecutors in northern Virginia, where the case was filed.

Pfeffer's plea and the investigation into Jefferson expand the range of corruption scandals that have hit Congress, including a case of alleged insider trading by Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), the defense industry bribery case of Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Rancho Santa Fe), and most recently the widening investigation into congressional misconduct involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

"There has been this flurry of investigations involving Congress," said Randall Eliason, former chief of the public corruption section of the U.S. attorney's office in Washington and an adjunct professor at American University. "It is more than I can recall at any recent time."

At least five different federal investigations involving members of Congress are underway, Eliason noted.

Whether the number of cases reflects more political corruption, tougher enforcement or just coincidence is impossible to know, he added. "All you can say is that the number of cases is on the rise," Eliason said.

So far, the cases have involved principally high-ranking Republicans, raising the potential for a voter backlash in upcoming midterm elections. But Jefferson, a Harvard Law School graduate, is a prominent Democrat.

The case also could affect funding to rebuild sections of New Orleans destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Findings of deep corruption in the city and the state could compromise any large injection of federal funding, some opponents have asserted.

The Jefferson investigation was first made public in August, when the Justice Department obtained search warrants for Jefferson's homes, cars and offices, as well as subpoenas of other current and former staffers in his office. Federal agents reportedly took large amounts of cash, recovered from Jefferson's freezer, according to press accounts at the time.

Last August, federal officials also searched the Maryland home of the vice president of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

Pfeffer worked for Jefferson from 1995 to 1998. By 2004, Pfeffer was president of an investment company based in McLean, Va., that was controlled by an unidentified cooperating witness in the investigation. At a meeting in Jefferson's office, the federal witness met the executives of a Kentucky-based Internet company that provided technology and a license for the Nigerian deal, according to a criminal information filed in the Pfeffer case.

Jefferson was referred to in court documents as Representative A, but law enforcement officials and the history of the case leave no doubt that Representative A is Jefferson.

Jefferson agreed to help the deal in meetings with officials from Nigeria and the ExportImport Bank, according to the documents. In exchange, the scheme funneled legal work to Jefferson's family and put a daughter on retainer for the Virginia company for as much as $5,000 a month. The scheme also provided that Jefferson's family received a 5% to 7% ownership interest in the operation.

Jefferson, the first African American elected to Congress from Louisiana since Reconstruction, is considered a leading authority in Congress on African trade issues, and leads the African trade caucus in the House.

The criminal information, a type of charging document like an indictment, does not indicate whether Jefferson received anything of value.

Pfeffer is scheduled to be sentenced March 31.

Copyright 2006 Los Angeles Times"

....another misfit. But Oh Well, that is the nature of the Black community. Another illegal immigrant serving foreign interests, and/or his personal friends no good Congressman William Jefferson. Reminds me of the other misfits.

.....That is the nature of the Black community. Since the Black community refuses to remove this trash, the ethical nature, and respect for law of others will!

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...but that is the nature of that no good Black middleclass for you. Defending the Social Welfare System, a system that has contributed to the destruction of the Black community.

.....and the fact that more Caucasians are on welfare has absolutely no connection to the reality, that the Black community is so dependent on AFDC benefits, and/or social welfare for its survival.

.....Mind you the Black family structure has been decimated behind the destructive to the Black family structure no good Social Welfare principles and practices.

....so glad that my parents rejected that no good Black middleclass, as it relates to the countless times that so many no good Black social workers, would recommend that my Mom could receive social welfare benefits if she would get rid of her husband.

....Mind you, to begin with, neither one of my parents had any interest in applying for Social Welfare.
Heck, slim chance exists where or if, either of my immediate family members would have reached such high levels of success by listening to, honoring, and/or respecting the guidance of that no good professional Black middleclass.

Sincerely,

Michael Lofton

Yeah Norland...we's all some sleezy criminal bastards....why do we even try to advance? we're just sorry azz cursed people (ES)....

"Yeah Norland...we's all some sleezy criminal bastards....why do we even try to advance? we're just sorry azz cursed people (ES)....b Kevin41

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....looking at the reality of it, it must be true, no good carpetbagging Bernard Parks, and the Black middleclass who praise him, being yet one more example....

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"Former Aide's Guilty Plea Implicates Congressman

Brett M. Pfeffer details conspiracy and bribery claims against Democrat William J. Jefferson.

By Ralph Vartabedian
Times Staff Writer

January 12, 2006

Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) sought bribes, jobs for his children and other favors for providing political support to a company setting up Internet service in Nigeria, according to a former aide's guilty plea, entered Wednesday in federal court in Alexandria, Va.

In an alleged conspiracy, beginning in 2004, Jefferson, in exchange for providing political help, demanded payments and favors from a northern Virginia company that was proposing to set up Internet service through the Nigerian Telephone Co., according to the guilty plea by Brett M. Pfeffer of Herndon, Va., to charges of aiding and abetting bribery of a public official and conspiracy.

A spokeswoman for Jefferson said he would have no comment on the allegations. The congressman's New Orleans attorney did not return calls seeking comment.

An indictment against Jefferson, 58, could come in the next several months, according to law enforcement sources who asked not to be identified. Pfeffer is now cooperating with federal prosecutors in northern Virginia, where the case was filed.

Pfeffer's plea and the investigation into Jefferson expand the range of corruption scandals that have hit Congress, including a case of alleged insider trading by Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), the defense industry bribery case of Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Rancho Santa Fe), and most recently the widening investigation into congressional misconduct involving lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

"There has been this flurry of investigations involving Congress," said Randall Eliason, former chief of the public corruption section of the U.S. attorney's office in Washington and an adjunct professor at American University. "It is more than I can recall at any recent time."

At least five different federal investigations involving members of Congress are underway, Eliason noted.

Whether the number of cases reflects more political corruption, tougher enforcement or just coincidence is impossible to know, he added. "All you can say is that the number of cases is on the rise," Eliason said.

So far, the cases have involved principally high-ranking Republicans, raising the potential for a voter backlash in upcoming midterm elections. But Jefferson, a Harvard Law School graduate, is a prominent Democrat.

The case also could affect funding to rebuild sections of New Orleans destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Findings of deep corruption in the city and the state could compromise any large injection of federal funding, some opponents have asserted.

The Jefferson investigation was first made public in August, when the Justice Department obtained search warrants for Jefferson's homes, cars and offices, as well as subpoenas of other current and former staffers in his office. Federal agents reportedly took large amounts of cash, recovered from Jefferson's freezer, according to press accounts at the time.

Last August, federal officials also searched the Maryland home of the vice president of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

Pfeffer worked for Jefferson from 1995 to 1998. By 2004, Pfeffer was president of an investment company based in McLean, Va., that was controlled by an unidentified cooperating witness in the investigation. At a meeting in Jefferson's office, the federal witness met the executives of a Kentucky-based Internet company that provided technology and a license for the Nigerian deal, according to a criminal information filed in the Pfeffer case.

Jefferson was referred to in court documents as Representative A, but law enforcement officials and the history of the case leave no doubt that Representative A is Jefferson.

Jefferson agreed to help the deal in meetings with officials from Nigeria and the ExportImport Bank, according to the documents. In exchange, the scheme funneled legal work to Jefferson's family and put a daughter on retainer for the Virginia company for as much as $5,000 a month. The scheme also provided that Jefferson's family received a 5% to 7% ownership interest in the operation.

Jefferson, the first African American elected to Congress from Louisiana since Reconstruction, is considered a leading authority in Congress on African trade issues, and leads the African trade caucus in the House.

The criminal information, a type of charging document like an indictment, does not indicate whether Jefferson received anything of value.

Pfeffer is scheduled to be sentenced March 31.

Copyright 2006 Los Angeles Times"

....another misfit. But Oh Well, that is the nature of the Black community. Another illegal immigrant serving foreign interests, and/or his personal friends no good Congressman William Jefferson. Reminds me of the other misfits.

.....That is the nature of the Black community. Since the Black community refuses to remove this trash, the ethical nature, and respect for law of others will!

******************

...but that is the nature of that no good Black middleclass for you. Defending the Social Welfare System, a system that has contributed to the destruction of the Black community.

.....and the fact that more Caucasians are on welfare has absolutely no connection to the reality, that the Black community is so dependent on AFDC benefits, and/or social welfare for its survival.

.....Mind you the Black family structure has been decimated behind the destructive to the Black family structure no good Social Welfare principles and practices.

....so glad that my parents rejected that no good Black middleclass, as it relates to the countless times that so many no good Black social workers, would recommend that my Mom could receive social welfare benefits if she would get rid of her husband.

....Mind you, to begin with, neither one of my parents had any interest in applying for Social Welfare.
Heck, slim chance exists where or if, either of my immediate family members would have reached such high levels of success by listening to, honoring, and/or respecting the guidance of that no good professional Black middleclass.

Sincerely,

Michael Lofton

2

infinity

..Well done, cooked to a crisp, fried as if, frying to kill was in season, just ask this misfit in Bernard Parks, and the Black middleclass who praise him!

I'm willing to bet, when those roaming pit bulls, rottweilers, etc., bite down on some child, or otherwise, the victim and/or their heirs won't consider it a joke and/or spam.....

....but Oh well, anything destructive grows....

... the lawyers looking for business to sue the City of Los Angeles will be delighted.

3

infinity minus 3

..Well done, cooked to a crisp, fried as if, frying to kill was in season, just ask this misfit in Bernard Parks, and the Black middleclass who praise him!

I'm willing to bet, when those roaming pit bulls, rottweilers, etc., bite down on some child, or otherwise, the victim and/or their heirs won't consider it a joke and/or spam.....

....but Oh well, anything destructive, sleazy, and treasonous grows....

... the lawyers looking for business to sue the City of Los Angeles, on behalf of any citizen consumed by roaming pit bulls, rottweilers, etc., etc., will be delighted.