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Kamala Harris is the Most Disrespected Woman in America

Lisa Durden
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Kamala Harris is the Most Disrespected Woman in America

By Lisa Durden

The late great Malcom X once said, “The most disrespected person in America is the black woman! The most unprotected person in America is the black woman! The most neglected person in America is the black woman!”

Sadly, that phenomenon still applies today! Even more disturbing, many times, it’s #WACK Black people, who are the perpetrators of said disrespect toward their own Black Women. C’mon, don’t act like y’all aren’t aware of this ugly fact! It’s the huge elephant in the room, that the Black community refuses to admit. To my dismay, on Tuesday, August 11, 2020, as soon as former Vice President Joe Biden announced that he had selected Senator Kamala Harris as his Vice-Presidential running mate, she became the most disrespected woman in America! 


Now, before y’all come for me because in this essay, I’m not criticizing white people who are shamelessly calling Mrs. Harris every name in the book, short of a “Nigger,” think…why would I state the obvious!! Sooooo, when that slovenly, piggish, Barry Presgraves, the Mayor of Luray, Virginia, brazenly referred to Kamala as “Aunt Jemima,” all over social media, I wasn’t shook, because I expect that kind of emboldened, behavior from a #Racist, #WhiteSupremacist. However, when reckless, Black, #MOTHERCLUCKERS, were all over social media, dragging Kamala through filth, it #MadeMyBrainBleed. What’s our excuse?? Be real clear, I am very aware that she is all the way grown; as a politician, being criticized comes with the territory. Yes, I’m also aware that there are online, racist, #Russian bots, manufacturing a negative, narrative about her as well. That’s not what this is! The vitriolic attacks by actual, living, breathing, walking, talking, Black people, under the auspices of…“keeping it real,” is what I take issue with. This is pure, raw, intentional, misogynoir being aimed at her, by self-hating Black folks. For those of you who have been under a rock and never heard that term, let me define it for you. #Misogynoir is the specific hatred, dislike, distrust, and prejudice, directed toward Black women. Please #StopTheViolenceAgainstBlackWomen! It’s a pandemic!
Kamala Harris will be the subject of my ongoing series through November, so I will keep this essay brief and to the point. Below are just three of the most disgustingly, outrageous lies told about her, unfortunately echoed by a lot of Black People:

LIE 1: “Kamala Harris Ain’t Black”
WRONG!! And absurd!! Kamala is a Black woman! #FullStop…#PERIOD! Nooooo, her going to #HowardUiversity and pledging the #AKA Sorority, DOES NOT PROVE SHE’S BLACK! That’s the stupidest defense I have ever heard. WOW!! Although I went to Seton Hall University, a mostly white college and didn’t pledge a sorority, I’m still Black! I’m #BlacketyBlack! LOL. Yes, Kamala is Black, because she was born Black! Nuff Said! Yup, both her parents are Black people. Her father is from Jamaica, yes..Jamaicans are Black! Her mother is from India and Indians are also Black! Yes…Indians ARE IN FACT BLACK!! #ISaidWhatISaid! As far as I’m concerned, #JoeBiden is lucky she said yes! A #BidenHarris ticket, raises his profile and positions him to #WinWithBlackWomen, come election day, Tuesday, November 3, 2020.

LIE 2: “Kamala Harris Locked Up Innocent Black People”
WRONG! As an Attorney General, Kamala fought for the use of body police cams. We all know, Banks racially profile Black people with illegal #PredatoryLending practices, so she put a stop to banks committing mortgage fraud in her tenure. A comprehensive article in USA Today, further outlined Kamala’s stellar track record. They pointed out that she was the most progressive DA in California, refusing to seek the death penalty — even on a case where a very respected police officer was tragically killed. Marijuana sales cases were routinely reduced to misdemeanors and marijuana possession cases were not even on the court’s docket. They were simply not charged. This was the reform-minded approach then-DA Harris’ office took. The accusations about marijuana prosecutions being harsh during her tenure are absurd. The reality was quite the opposite.
She co-founded the Coalition to End the Exploitation of Kids. She then spearheaded a task force combating the human trafficking of girls. She stopped prosecuting young girls for prostitution — acknowledging that they were victims who needed treatment for trauma and not criminals who needed to be incarcerated.
Did she convict people?? ABSOLUTELY!! She was doing her job! CORRECT! Kamala locked up guilty people. Yes, some were guilty Black people. That’s what DA’s do!

LIE 3: “Kamala Harris’ Ancestors Owned Slaves”
WRONG! That is not unique to Kamala. Yup, you read it correctly. Black folks are literally saying the Black community should not trust Kamala Harris, because her ancestors owned slaves. That’s highly possible. Your ancestors probably owned slaves too…if you’re a descendant of slaves, because the slave master raped and impregnated your foremothers, and now you’re here, with a slave master in your perennial closet. STOP BLAMING THE RAPE VICTIM!! At any rate, what does her rapist, slave master, ancestor, have to do with #KamalaHarrisVP2020?? NOTHING!! Particularly when every single white president’s ancestors owned Black slaves, but y’all blindly voted for them, with no complaint.
To Black people who are finding comfort, in disparaging Kamala Harris, you are clearly identifying with the oppressor, evidenced by your internalized self-hate! #YouNeedACouch!! If the shoe fits, wear it! If it don’t apply, let it fly! For those of you who have a problem with any part of this essay, #YouJustToldOnYourself!! By the way, if you noticed, nowhere in this essay, did I ever once mention who you should vote for?? Just a note!
Lisa Durden, is a TV personality and subject matter expert, in the areas of pop culture, politics and social issues. She’s the Host & Producer of the new #StopButalizingBlackBodiesPodcast on YouTube. In 2005, she launched, Lisa Durden Unlimited Productions, a Multi-Media Company headquartered in Newark, NJ, where she directs and produces award-winning content for film & Television. Website: LisaDurden.com

When the Issue is Trauma and Trust

Marlon Rice
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When the Issue is Trauma and Trust

This past Monday, my Brooklyn NAACP Census team and I set up our table and banner on the corner of Nostrand and Fulton, the jugular vein of Bedford Stuyvesant. Our mission was to preach Census to the community for two hours. We had our Covid packets – which are basically a few masks in a plastic bag with Census material – to give to people in need of PPE. We had two gallons of hand sanitizer, so that anyone who needed to refill their bottles could do so. Most importantly, we had tablets on hand for people who needed to fill out Census.
One by one, community folk passed by our table. And almost every person was questioned in some way by someone from our team.


“Have you filled out your Census?”
“Do you need masks or hand sanitizer?”


“Can we talk with you for a moment about the importance of reporting for Census?”
By and large, the women passersby were the most vocal in their responses. Some said that they did fill out their Census, while others said they hadn’t but promised to call the number on our Census cards. The men responded differently. Most men said nothing as they passed, totally ignoring the prompts to engage in conversation. One guy, when he realized we were giving away hand sanitizer, finished the bottle of water he was drinking and filled the bottle with sanitizer, but didn’t want to discuss Census at all. There was one guy, around my age, who walked by twice. The first time, he totally ignored me when I asked him about Census. When he returned passed me and I asked him again, he smiled and said, “I’m good bro. I ain’t about reporting anything to the government.”


I responded, “Bruh, in order for the federal government to fund our communities the way they are supposed to be funded, we have to let them know that we are here. We have to be counted.”


He responded so quickly, it was as if he had his rebuttal prepared. He said,
“But, that’s my point. They already know we are here. I have a Social Security number and I work. They take taxes out and they send mail to me at my apartment. So, they know we are here. It’s like this Census thing is just another reason for them to not give us anything. I’m telling you bruh, I don’t trust the government.”

With that, he walked away.

All on social media last week, the trending comments were about Kamala Harris being tapped to run as VP on Biden’s ticket. From 2004-2015, Harris served first as the District Attorney for San Francisco, and then as California’s Attorney General. Her record as a prosecutor came under scrutiny during her own campaign for President. Harris dropped out of the Presidential race in December 2019, but the stigma of her record has lingered, especially with those in the Black community. I have this one Facebook friend, I know him to be a good guy. He constantly posts on his page about community development and upliftment. Ever since the news broke about Kamala becoming Biden’s running mate, he’s gone on the attack. He’s chided Harris for having a white husband. He’s posted memes showing that Harris was the prosecutor during the infamous Oscar Grant killing in Oakland. Everyday, he sends vitriol through his keyboard at Kamala Harris. Yesterday, he said he isn’t voting because a Biden/Harris ticket is no better than Trump. But today’s post is what inspired me to write this column. Today, he posted “You can’t trust this government. I don’t care who’s in office, America is still the same racist nation.”
Black men, particularly in inner cities and underserved communities, tend to exhibit a moderate distrust for American government and authority. This lack of trust is predicated on generations of systemic oppression and subjugation, Black men are perpetually receiving the vicious brunt of America’s racist ire ever since the first slave ships docked in Jamestown in 1619. From the apocryphal Willie Lynch letters, to the Tuskegee Experiment, to COINTELPRO, to the Rockefeller Drug Laws, to the Clinton Crime Bill, to the constant and unfettered killing of Black men and women in this country at the hands of law enforcement, the distrust exhibited by Black men towards the government is not only based in merit, but it is validated and reinforced from one generation to the next.


So, in matters of Census or voting, when coming across Black men that exhibit skepticism or flat out detachment from these practices, we have to be mindful to frame the conversation around the nature of the distrust, instead of accusing Black men of simply not wanting to be active. We must also be mindful not to propagate false realities. For example, while it might be true that Whites nationwide vote at a higher percentage than Blacks nationwide, it is also true that Blacks nationwide vote at a higher percentage than Latins and Asians nationwide. The idea that Blacks don’t vote just isn’t substantiated by the numbers, when speaking about America as a whole.


In matters of domestic violence, we all agree that the victim should leave the relationship as soon as possible to avoid further injury. So, how can we be mad at Black men for deciding that the relationship between them and America is so toxic that there should be a limit to their interaction with one another?

What’s Going On

Victoria Horsford
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SUMMERTIME IN AMERICA

Countdown: 75 days from August 20 to the November 3 U.S. Presidential election.
Will Kamala Harris make a difference?
How much more chaos can Trump produce in his attempt to dismantle the Administrative state while looking at his sinking poll numbers. He is a desperate cult personality who has fooled some Americans for four years.
On 8/18, Trump’s Postmaster General Louis DeJoy reversed his recent USPO initiatives like suspending cuts, including: elimination of overtime for carriers, reducing P.O. hours, and put box removal until after the election. This was in response to overwhelming national disapproval by electorate and elected officials on both sides of the aisle. DeJoy goes before Congress August this month to explain his actions.
The reversal was in response to a threat by 22 states’ Attorneys General to sue the Administration about the recent changes — another ploy to block mail-in voting who after irate Americans expressed their disapproval.
Congrats again to Kamala Harris, 55, who Presumptive Democratic President nominee Joe Biden named as his running mate last week. She made history as the first Black woman VEEP named by a major American political party. Her CV is akin to the American Dream. The daughter of immigrant parents whose mother Shyamal Gopalan was born in India and whose dad Donald Harris was born in Jamaica. They met while pursuing graduate degrees in the 60s at UC, Berkeley. Kamala Harris graduated from Howard University, then earned a JD at the UC Hastings College of Law. Admitted into the California Bar in 1990, she launched her public service career as San Francisco DA prior to becoming California Attorney General and now current US Senator from California. Kamala’s is an all-American gumbo with Indian, Jamaican, African and European ancestors. When Joe Biden wins, VP Harris will be this close to the most powerful man on the planet, and next in line of succession.


The Biden announcement caught POTUS 45 unawares. However, he continues apace with his racist remarks, assigning Harris to birtherism status like he did with Barack. His anti-Harris vitriol elevates her among American women, Millennials and GenZers. Trump predicts NY is in play for him on 11/3. If you need reasons to vote for Biden/Harris ticket, replay the 9/17 opening night Michelle Obama DNCC keynote speech. Her searing attack on Trump’s unfitness for the Office or a second term is well worth considering before you vote by mail or in person on November 3. Shocked to hear media women saying how subtly Michelle threw shade at Trump during her talk.
PS: A young woman who lost her dad to COVID 19 said at 9/17 DNN Convention that her dad’s only underlying condition was trusting Donald Trump.

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Allafrica.com reports that as of August 17, Africa’s 55 countries have 1,119,168 cases of COVID19 and 25,634 deaths. This info was culled from CCSE at Johns Hopkins University. The continent’s current COVID19 hotspots are South Africa, 587,345 cases and 11,839 deaths; Egypt; Nigeria, 49,868; Algeria; and Ghana 42,532. Africa’s low COVID19 devastation stats, to date, run against all the international economic and public health predictions of blight. Africa has 17% of the world’s population.


Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley nominated to serve as Development Committee Chair for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The Committee is a ministerial level forum of the WB and IMG for intergovernmental consensus building on development issues. PM Mottley reshuffled her cabinet last month, but she remains Barbados Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment.
Note Caribbean destinations where American tourists are welcome. Barbados has launched a campaign to welcome Americans to come there to work and sit out COVID19 lockdowns, for at least a year. Antigua, Jamaica, St. Bart, St. Lucia, US Virgin Islands opened to US tourism since June. Aruba, Bermuda, Dominican Republic, Barbados, Turks and Caicos laid welcome mats since July. The US Virgin Islands walked back its tourist welcome owing to a COVID19 surge since June.
The Africa-America Institute hosts its 36th Annual Virtual Awards Gala on September 22. Awardees roster includes: The People of the Republic of Senegal, National Achievement Award, which will be accepted by President Macky Sall; Mahamadou Issoufou, President of the Republic of Niger, Presidential Leadership Award; Claude Borna, Director, Seme City Development Agency in Benin, Distinguished Alumna Award; and the African Export-Import (Afreximbank), International Institution Award of Excellence, which will be accepted by Benedict Oramah. Visit AAIONLINE.org.

ARTS/CULTURE: (Film) – Sierra Leone-born Mahen Bonetti is the founder of the NY-based African Film Festival (AFF) which celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year. The AFF launches a new website with digital archives and streaming service with a curated slate of titles, including 50 films on DVD. Visit: Africanfilmny.org.
The National Urban League released its latest annual report, The State of Black America: Unmasked 2020, on 8/13. Report explores various ways that the coronavirus pandemic has revealed the face of racism in America re: “the economy, healthcare institutions and the justice system.” Visit NUL.org/state-of-Black-America to download.


(Books) Remember the NY Times bestseller book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a poor Black tobacco farmer, whose cervix cells were taken by doctors without her permission in 1951 to launch a medical revolution generating a multibillion dollar industry for Big Pharma. Her cells were used for polio vaccine, HPV vaccine, in vitro fertilization, cloning, gene mapping. Her family cannot afford health insurance, never received any proceeds from profits generated from her cells. Abcam, a UK life science company and Samara Reck-Peterson in San Diego, California will compensate the Lack family for past and future use of Lacks cells. Amounts were not disclosed.

FALL SEMESTER/2020: According to a study of 3000 institutions published by the Chronicle of Higher Education, re: 2020 Fall semester, 24% of American colleges plan on-campus classes, 30% will conduct online classes, 15% have adopted the hybrid option and 27% remain undecided. NYU, Columbia University, Howard, Spelman, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Morehouse and Hampton will focus on remote learning for undergraduates this Fall.
The University of NC, Chapel Hill canceled all undergrad campus classes owing to coronavirus test results. Of the 954 students tested, 130 were COVID19 positive, during the first week of the semester. The Chapel Hill undergraduate students will attend remote classes this Fall.


NEW YORK CITY: If colleges are anxious about COVID19 and campus classes, why can’t NYC Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza delay school opening for its 1.1 million students for a few weeks next month, an idea advocated by the NYC teachers and the principals unions? Will schools open without teachers manning classrooms? Chalkbeat publication reports the ethnic breakdown for remote learning in NYC: Blacks, 27%, Hispanics 27%, whites, 23%, Asian Americans, 47%. Low income families were less likely to opt for remote learning.
A Harlem-based media/branding specialist, Victoria is reachable at Victoria.horsford@gmail.com

Gotta Be in It To Win It

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Gotta Be in It To Win It

NYC CENSUS 2020 LAUNCHES“CENSUS SUBWAY SERIES” AND “NYC COUNTS” CONTEST

NYC Census 2020 says it will be a Triple 10 for New York City if we all stand up and be counted. It all involves residents of 10 neighborhoods executing a simple task: answering 10 questions in 10 minutes!


Last week, in a strategically creative move, the NYC Census 2020 organizing team announced the launch of the NYC “Census Subway Series” and “NYC Counts” census contest.  The purpose? To mobilize New Yorkers to self-respond to the census immediately, following President Trump’s move to cut the census short by one month. A spokesperson told us, the biggest winner will be New York City, if everyone joins in.


The Census Subway Series is a five-week challenge in which two neighborhoods from different boroughs will compete against each other to see which neighborhood posts the largest gains in its self-response rate over the course of a week. The first two neighborhoods to compete are Jamaica, Queens (current self-response rate: 49.4%) and Canarsie, Brooklyn (current self-response rate: 47.9%). Subsequent neighborhood competitions will be determined on a weekly basis, based on the latest self-response rate data. As of August 14, New York City’s self-response rate is 55.6%, and the nation’s is 63.6%.


In addition to bragging rights, residents of the competing neighborhoods — as well as any New Yorker who completes the census during the next five weeks — may be eligible to win exciting prizes from Seamless, Lyft, and MoMA as part of the new NYC Counts census contest. Any New Yorker who completes the census starting Monday, August 17 can enter the contest to win one or more of the following prizes:
 ● $1,000 gift card from Seamless (six total)
● A $50 Lyft credit voucher and annual CitiBike membership (100 total)
● An annual membership to The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 (a $200 value; 25 total)


All New Yorkers must take a photo of their census completion confirmation page and upload it to the City’s website to enter. Complete rules can be found at nyc.gov/censuscontest. The last day to enter is Monday, September 21, 2020.
“The 2020 Census will be a critical component of New York City’s recovery after COVID-19. That means we must do everything we can to achieve a complete and accurate count, and fight Donald Trump’s attempts to steal the census,” said Julie Menin, Director of NYC Census 2020 and Executive Assistant Corporation Counsel, NYC Law Department. “We thank Seamless, Lyft, and MoMA, for supporting our efforts through incentives that will enrich the lives of the New Yorkers who win great prizes for their families.”


Filling out the census has never been more important. The census determines how the federal government distributes nearly $1.5 trillion every year to states and cities for education, housing, transportation, health care, and much more. New York City relies on census data to make critical decisions every day, including planning for vaccinations, affordable housing, sanitation and transportation services, and countless additional vital programs and services used by every New Yorker.


The census also determines the number of seats New York State has in Congress, as well as the shapes and sizes of local and state legislative districts. If New York does not achieve a complete and accurate count in this year’s census, the state could lose up to two congressional seats, as well as representation in Albany. Given the unprecedented and dire economic crisis New York City is currently facing, the city cannot risk losing any representation in the bodies where decisions about New York City’s economic and political future are being made every day.


It is precisely because the census is the basis on which all states and cities — and in particular Black, Brown, and immigrant communities — can obtain the money, power, and respect that are rightfully theirs that the President has made multiple attempts to manipulate and undermine the census, including his latest move to cut the census short by an entire month. In New York City, this means that the U.S. Census Bureau now must count nearly 1.7 million households that have not yet responded to the census in just seven weeks. Outside of Manhattan, the neighborhoods in New York City with the lowest self-response rates are largely Black, Brown, and immigrant neighborhoods (also true for cities across the country), exposing the true motive behind the President’s move: a partisan, political ploy to rob diverse communities coast to coast of the empowerment and respect the Constitution guarantees them. 

Importance of Being Counted

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Importance of Being Counted

LaRay Brown, CEO, One Brooklyn Health System, Speaks

LaRay Brown is President and CEO of the billion-dollar One Brooklyn Health System, composed of Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, Interfaith Medical Center and Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center. Ms. Brown was named as one of the most powerful women in New York by Crain’s New York Business magazine in 2019.


Why it’s important to be counted
The numbers of people in a community determines how many dollars come to that neighborhood, and that city and state for things like hospitals, food support, education, public safety and other programs. The funding that comes from the federal government is based upon the census and geography. Also, critically important, the number of representatives the county and the state have, is based on the number of people who live in that state. We in Brooklyn are really at a significant risk of losing the representation that we have, because we could lose a congressional seat if the community is not counted.


We know that in prior years, and now because of Covid, not as many people are completing the Census information that is being sent to them. In prior years we’ve always had an undercount in Brooklyn and in other parts of the state. Therefore, we may have a third more people living in the community, but the resources that are coming from the federal government don’t account for that because they have not completed the census information. We don’t want that to happen again.


It is so incredibly important that Brooklyn get the resources it needs. People living in Brooklyn, whether they are citizens or immigrants, they need to be counted. Everyone from babies the seniors in your household needs to be counted. It is not about citizenship status. It’s about the people who live in the community. We want people to feel safe in responding to the census whether sent to the home or online because every single individual needs to be counted because every single individual needs the resources that the federal government is responsible to provide and to have the representation in Washington commensurate with their numbers. If you have your representation in Washington, other policies will be brought forward, and your voices better heard if you have that congressional seat.
We’ve got great representatives and we need more of them and we certainly don’t want to lose any.

On the Undercount
My understanding is that only 40% of the individuals in the county completed the census. We’re concerned that because of Covid, everyone’s focus has appropriately been on making sure they stay safe. But we want to make sure they get counted. The Census Bureau has extended the time frame for folks to get counted. We have staff here at one Brooklyn who are doing outreach and hosting community events where people can safely come and get information on how they can complete the census information forms. We want to make it as simple as possible for everyone to be counted.


Every 10 years, how do the demographics change.
The demographics can change exponentially. This is New York, nothing stays the same. We know that in certain neighborhoods, the race, the age group, the number of households, can change hugely over span of ten years. I believe there are interim household surveys that are done, but it is the census that drives most things.
I’ve been emphasizing the federal government basing their distribution of resources by the number of people who live in a zip code, community, state or county. But other entities do that too. As a hospital, were we to apply for a private grant, a foundation grant, they usually say, “Well what’s the community that you’re serving? How many people live there?” We rely on the census data to say “We have ‘X’ number of people, a million people, who live in central Brooklyn and 40% are in this age range, etcetera.” That information helps us as we’re attempting to bring more resources into the borough of Brooklyn for health care services. Many funding sources want to have information about the population you serve. And the census data is an important source of that.

Census Form is Easy to fill out.
When I got my census form, and we say we’ll deal with it later and put it aside. But didn’t even take five minutes to complete. I can’t emphasize enough how easy it is, and for something so incredibly important to be easy to complete. You fill it out, put it in the mail and it’s done. And you’ve contributed to bringing resources to your neighborhood, to your borough and to your state.

What else about the census?
I would say, particularly now, when we’re continuing to be affected by this global pandemic. Making sure that everyone is counted. And if we were to have another surge with the virus, or another pandemic in five years, the government’s understanding of who is in these communities, can help them as they’re planning for their response.
I mentioned public safety. Resources that go to the fire departments, to the EMS, resources for federally-qualified health centers. Even though I’m responsible for a health system, which includes hospitals and nursing homes, but the community federally-qualified health centers, they also derive their funding based on the numbers of people who live in the community they serve. They are the front door in terms of health care, primary care, outpatient care. Services for seniors, services for children, the food programs. Particularly if they are funded by the federal government, the amount that a state is eligible for to receive the federal dollars to support many of the social services programs , like food, like public housing, is driven by the census count.
A good example of this would be, for many, many years, according to the census there was a greater population in the urban areas. And then as people began to move out of urban centers into suburban or even exurban areas, dollars flowed from what had been population centers into new population centers. The Northeast lost population to the South or Southwest and so dollars flow. In addition, congressional seats, flow. And if we’re no completing our census, but we’re still here, then we’re doing ourselves a disservice. Because we’re losing the resources to support the essential services that we need in our community and it’s because we’re not counted. Putting our hand up and completing the five-minute survey, those dollars go to other parts of the country.
We need to keep the resources we deserve in Brooklyn, and that means everybody in Brooklyn, whether you’re a citizen or an immigrant, old or young, needs to be counted.

When politicians speak about receiving federal funds
It’s based on the number of people who may live in that congressional district. In many instances, those resources are really driven by population. So we need to also help our congressional and senate representatives in making sure we have a census where the count of the number of people who live in the district is accurate and they can make the case for us in terms of resources that we need from the federal government.


Last emphasis
I hope I’ve emphasized how important it is for folks to take those five minutes, complete that census. Count everyone in the household. It does not matter if that person is a citizen or an immigrant, they should be counted.
And I hope I’ve emphasized how important it is, not just from a political perspective, in terms of congressional members, but for all the bread-and-butter services that folks rely upon. They should know that a lot of the resources for those services is driven by how many people are there.

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