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Shadow Studies in Crown Heights

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Shadow Studies in Crown Heights

By Ellis Jordan Lewis

Crown Heights is a well-known neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, and is a host to many citizens in Brooklyn’s famous Bedford-Stuyvesant area. It could also potentially be a host for a new building from Cornell Realty, a property management company based in Brooklyn. However, there has been some concern and even backlash against this project from MTOPP (Movement To Protect People). The MTOPP is also not alone in this movement–there are members of the public who have concerns when it comes to their neighborhood. As a result, a public hearing was held at the school MS 61.

During the hearing, MTOPP handed out printed statements: “The Department of City Planning(DCP) has certified and approved the Cornell Realty application … This is viewed as a continuation of the racist policies of DCP to allow negative environmental consequences to occur in low- to moderate-income communities of color, whereas the more affluent white middle-class communities are afforded the opportunity to be kept informed and to mitigate(decrease) negative environmental impacts in their neighborhoods. The statement also said that Cornell Realty lied on their EAS and did not perform an analysis on waste and sewage. This all comes from a printout provided by MTOPP at the hearing. For context, shadow studies help developers become more aware of the city area/grid.”

However, Cornell Realty provided me with a statement of their own. “The need for mixed-income housing in Crown Heights is urgent, compelling and growing, and the plan to reactivate the underutilized Franklin Avenue properties will help meet it with nearly 150 income-targeted apartments. We appreciate the feedback we have received from the community so far and look forward to continuing this dialogue as the public review process unfolds.” This statement is from Tom Corsillo of Cornell Realty Management and was provided to me by representative Mike Johnston on the record. Johnston also stated that, “Experts have studied the environmental factors with shadows included and no significant factor was found.” According to Johnston, these experts were “purely objective and worked with city guidelines.”

I also had the opportunity to speak with Warren P. Berke of Community Board No. 9 who. has been on the board for five years. Berke stated that this was a “Public hearing directed by the City Charter to hear from the public.” No further comments were given due to this being a public meeting.

During the meeting statement assessments were provided. Andrea Johnson, a research director at TerreFrom, and Carlos Torres from Scalar Architecture, provided their own. “This shadow assessment has primarily been focused on open spaces… It is recommended that once the proposed development building form and envelope have been finalized, there can be an EAS… such as this one.”

Alicia Boyd

Alicia Boyd, who is a prominent activist in the community said, “On EAS, Cornell decided they were going to lie on their EAS and then they were going to fabricate on the EAS… This gives us ground to challenge the EAS.” Boyd then continued her statement that followed with, “What are we asking with this challenge? We’re asking for Cornell Realty to go back to the table and come back and do an EAS…in Black communities, the city planning does not think Black communities are worthy of environmental impact statements but it constantly allows developers to come to our communities, then the development goes through… Now, when they go to white communities that’s something different; they say there is a negative impact so how are we going to mitigate that?”

Speaking with Ms. Boyd (one on one) and asking what is the end game overall, and she told me, “Stopping the project is the end game with the hope to do an EAS properly and lawfully. This will be done through political pressure. However, if worse comes to worse, a lawsuit is prepared called TRO (temporary restraining order). The goal is also to prove that [the developer] lied.”

At the adjourning of the meeting, no official statement was given. However, hopefully, the wait won’t be too long to figure out what will be happening within this community in Brooklyn.

*All images were presented on a stage to the public during a presentation*

 

 

 

 

Statements on the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday, June 25th to uphold the Presidents Muslim travel ban

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Statements on the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday, June 25th to uphold the Presidents Muslim travel ban

The following statements were released following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision by a conservative majority to allow the Trump Administration to enforce its Muslim ban which restricts entry to America from seven countries in varying degrees: Iran, North Korea, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Venezuela. The decision allows the government to continue enforcement against anyone from those places without a recognized relationship with another person or an institution in the United States. Excerpts from Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion follow the statements.

Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President

“The Supreme Court upheld the racist, xenophobic and dangerous travel ban concocted by President Trump, but the struggle for justice is far from over. Families in Brooklyn and across America are counting on us to keep fighting. We must continue to fight against any Muslim travel ban, ever.”                      

Yvette D. Clarke, Congresswoman (NY-09)

“Donald Trump introduced the Muslim ban to discriminate based upon the religion of people entering the United States as he has stated on many occasions during and after his campaign for the presidency. That fact, by itself, should have rendered the Muslim ban unconstitutional. History will look back on this decision as one where the Supreme Court clearly endorsed religious discrimination. This decision joins Shelby County, Korematsu and Dred Scott on the list of Supreme Court rulings our nation will look on with a sense of shame.

 

“Muslim Americans and Muslim immigrants seeking to become Americans are and have been a significant part of the rich fabric of our communities and civil society. Our country was founded upon the virtue of religious freedom and has stood as a beacon of hope to those fleeing religious persecution. Today’s decision has contradicted this long-held virtue and is a regression in substance and in form. Furthermore, this decision puts the religious liberty of millions of Americans at risk. It says that even when an administration is clearly anti-Muslim, advertises and relishes in its attacks on Muslims, and puts a policy in place that specifically hurts Muslims – that this Supreme Court will let it stand. If this can happen to Muslims, a religious minority, it can happen to anyone.

 

“It is now up to people of goodwill to stand up. It’s up to the American people to make their preferences known. We must elect a Congress that will be a check on this destructive and mean-spirited presidency. We need strong leaders who will hold this president and his administration accountable.”

 

Barbara D. Underwood, Acting Attorney General, State of New York

“President Trump’s travel bans are a stain on American history that were rooted in deep anti-Muslim animus and unleashed chaos on families, businesses, institutions and communities throughout New York. Despite today’s ruling, New York will continue to serve as a beacon to the world, welcoming people of all faiths, races, nationalities and backgrounds.

I’m proud of our work to successfully beat back President Trump’s first two discriminatory bans. My office won’t hesitate to act to protect New York’s families and ensure that we live up to the values on which this state and this nation were built.

The New York Attorney General filed suit and led coalitions of state Attorneys General in filing multiple briefs on all three travel bans, detailing the numerous serious and irreparable harms the states have faced.”

 

Jumaane D. Williams, Council member, 45th District

“The Supreme Court’s ruling today enables institutionalized bigotry, codified racism. The Muslim ban, or so-called travel ban, is unconscionable, a denial of rights and of humanity on the basis of a person’s faith. The policy is as vicious, illogical, racist and inexcusable today as when it was first enacted and protestors flooded airports across the country.

Just two weeks ago, the Supreme Court found a “hostility” towards religion in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. Now, given the president’s past hate speech and hateful policies, they found none, and it seems clear that this depends on the religion in question.

The conservative takeover of this court is disastrous and dangerous. I suspect that today’s court would have ruled against Oliver Brown in 1954, Homer Plessy in 1896, or Dred Scott in 1857, when it was argued that Scott had “No rights which the white man was bound to respect,” enabling injustice against vulnerable populations as they have today.

Trump and his Republican cronies are determined to ostracize certain populations and create a scapegoat out of vulnerable communities, a transparent tactic used throughout history to justify atrocities. But as long as there have been bigots and the injustices they perpetuate, there have also been people pushing back and defending those under attack. I am committed to continuing this fight in New York and across the country.”

Sonia Maria Sotomayor, Associate Justice,  Supreme Court of the United States – Excerpts from her dissent

(joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg)

“The United States of America is a nation built upon the promise of religious liberty. Our Founders honored that core promise by embedding the principle of religious neutrality in the First Amendment. The Court’s decision today fails to safeguard that fundamental principle. It leaves undisturbed a policy first advertised openly and unequivocally as a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” because the policy now masquerades behind a façade of national security concerns. But this repackaging does little to cleanse Presidential Proclamation No. 9645 of the appearance of discrimination that the president’s words have created. Based on the evidence in the record, a reasonable observer would conclude that the Proclamation was motivated by anti-Muslim animus. That alone suffices to show that plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their Establishment Clause claim. The majority holds otherwise by ignoring the facts, misconstruing our legal precedent and turning a blind eye to the pain and suffering the Proclamation inflicts upon countless families and individuals, many of whom are United States citizens …

…The First Amendment stands as a bulwark against official religious prejudice and embodies our nation’s deep commitment to religious plurality and tolerance. That constitutional promise is why, ‘[F]or centuries now, people have come to this country from every corner of the world to share in the blessing of religious freedom.’ Town of Greece v. Galloway, 572 U. S., at ___ (KAGAN, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 1). Instead of vindicating those principles, today’s decision tosses them aside. In holding that the First Amendment gives way to an executive policy that a reasonable observer would view as motivated by animus against Muslims, the majority opinion upends this Court’s precedent, repeats tragic mistakes of the past and denies countless individuals the fundamental right of religious liberty.

.Our Constitution demands, and our country deserves, a judiciary willing to hold the coordinate branches to account when they defy our most sacred legal commitments. Because the Court’s decision today has failed in that respect, with profound regret, I dissent.”

WHAT’S GOING ON

Victoria Horsford
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THE YEAR IN POLITICS

According to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, recent polls have been encouraging. In Florida, Democrat Bill Nelson is trailing archconservative Governor Rick Scott by two points. In Texas, Democrat US Senatorial hopeful Beto O’Rourke is within a margin of error to defeat incumbent Senator Ted Cruz, a recipient of the Koch Brothers support and ducats. In Arizona, Democrat US Senate hopeful Kyrsten Senema is ahead of her GOP rivals.

London Breed

There is a new sheriff in town and it’s a Black woman!   London Breed is the newly elected mayor of San Francisco, a first for a Black woman in that city.  She served as acting mayor after the SF mayor died last year, but she was later ousted, some say because of racism.   San Francisco is the largest American city with a female mayor.   Blacks represent less than 5% of the SF population.

Former Nevada Democratic Congressman Steven Horsford (2013-2015) is back into electoral politics, running for his old seat. He promised to “stand up to the reckless agenda of Donald Trump.”

For those interested in keeping their finger on the pulse of Democratic Party politics, I recommend reading the 6/25 New York magazine cover story,

Barack Obama

“Barack Obama, WHERE ARE YOU?” by Gabriel DeBenedetti, which begs as many questions as it answers.  While not engaged in midterm elections yet, Obama is interested in one battle, saving Obamacare. Obama maintains an uncomfortable distance from the Democratic Party, unlike Clinton when he left the White House. These are different times.   Essay concludes, “Obama’s relationship with his own party is complicated.”   Three Obama friends are considering a 2020 presidential run: former VP Joe Biden, former Massachusetts Governor Duval Patrick and former US Attorney General Eric Holder.   However, the National Redistricting Committee, a Eric Holder creation, is one avenue of Obama’s engagement with Democrats.       

THE CLASS OF 2018–CONGRATS!

The Wadleigh Scholars Program, founded by educator Edouard E. Plummer in 1964, is a Harlem-based after-school enrichment program which prepares middle school students in NYC public schools for admission with scholarships to the nation’s top boarding schools and special entrance high schools. The WSP boasts more than 550 African-American and Latino alumni. The following lists the WSP 2018 middle school grads and their HS destinations: Deyancy Gaston, St. Jean Baptiste, NY; Miranda McGeary, Miss Hall’s School, MA; Jayden Neptune, Nazareth H.S., Brooklyn; Jalynn Perkins, Westtown School, PA; and Isaiah Schetelick, Brooklyn Friends.

The Wadleigh Scholars who graduated from Prep School include Dallis Alvarez, Westminster School to UNC/Chapel Hill; Arianel Cazeau, Deerfield Academy to Cornell University; Malay Doris, Christ Church School to Rutgers University; Kaliyah Mitchell, Grier School to St. Francis College; Britney Peart, Christ Church School to George Washington University; Asher Wen, Stuyvesant HS to SUNY-Stony Brook; Juwel William, Ethel Walker School to Thomas Jefferson University.

The WSP alum who graduated from college are Kenmar Darlington, Emory University; Carlos Espinal, Oneonta University; Leslie Laurie, George Washington University; Tiffany Peart, Spelman College; Davendra Sasenarine, SUNY-Binghamton; and Daniel Zheng, SUNY-Buffalo.

Congratulations are in order for all NY graduates outside the Wadleigh Scholars orbit.   They include: Ms. Dyllan McKenzie who graduated from the Cathedral Lower School; Lawrenceville HS senior Elijah Kaul-Emit Thiam graduated and will attend Middlebury College in Vermont as a physics major; Celestial Wills-Jackson earned a Ph.D. in education from the University of Central Florida; Shellie R. Simon earned a BS in criminal justice at John Jay College; and Elmont Memorial HS senior Jaylin Miller graduated and will attend Utica College.

ARTS & HISTORY

Kahlil Muhammad

According to a Harvard magazine story, Khalil Muhammad started working on his second book, tentatively titled “ERASURE, The Decriminalization of White America,” which is a sequel to his seminal work, “The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America.” Former Schomburg Center Director, Dr. Muhammad is a History, Race and Public Policy Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School. “CONDEMNATION OF BLACKNESS” was published in 2010, three months after publication of “THE NEW JIM CROW: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-blindness,” a book by Michelle Alexander, a civil rights litigator and Ohio State University Law Professor. “The New Jim Crow,” according to Fortune and Forbes, is a must-read tome for many Corporate America CEOs.    Book argues that Jim Crow was replaced by mass incarceration of American Black and Brown people. Professor Alexander joins the NY Times as an op-ed columnist in September.

Read the 6/19 New York Times item, “Photographing Ordinary Life in Passing,” a photo essay about the works of LeRoy Henderson, Jr., a Brooklyn- based fine arts photographer.   Henderson’s works are part of a current group exhibit, “SERENADING SUMMER, Paintings and Photography,” at the June Kelly Gallery, located at 166 Mercer Street, Manhattan, through July 31. [Visit junekellygallery.com]

Anika Noni Rose stars in the title role of “Carmen Jones” at the Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th Street, Manhattan, for a limited engagement from June 30 to July 29. Using the score by George Bizet’s opera “CARMEN,” this Oscar Hammerstein adaptation resets the story about a free-spirited woman and her tempestuous love life, with an entire African-American cast directed by John Doyle and choreographed by Bill T. Jones. This is the play’s first NY revival since its debut on Broadway 75 years ago. For more info, call 917.334.6492.

SUMMER PLEASURES

The Essence Magazine Festival in New Orleans runs for four days from July 5-8. The “Show of Shows” is a marathon celebration of music, culture, empowerment and entertainment. Muckity mucks from the entire African Diaspora will be among the festival participants like Janet Jackson, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Mary J. Blige, Queen Latifah, Xscape, Idris Elba, Lester Holt, Dapper Dan, Rev. Al Sharpton, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Michael Eric Dyson, Snoop Dogg, Cheryl Wills and more.

The Jazzmobile Summerfest 2018 tentacles are far-reaching, and it arrives in Brooklyn on July 14: A BROOKLYN BLOCK PARTY on July 14 at 4 pm with Antoinette Montague on MacDonough Street between Ralph and Patchen Avenues; A Bronx date on July 24 at 7 pm at CO-OP CITY, 140 Benchley Place, featuring the Bobby Sanabria Multi-Verse Big Band. For the 2018 JAZZMOBILE NYC calendar, visit jazzmobile.org.

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A Harlem-based management consultant, Victoria can be contacted at Victoria.horsford@gmail.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Drama in District 16

Marlon Rice
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The Drama in District 16

Brighter Choice Community School sits at the corner of Hart Street and Marcus Garvey Boulevard, at the northeastern end of Bedford-Stuyvesant. This part of Bed-Stuy isn’t known for sprawling blocks of brownstones or for Spike Lee movies. Tenements anchor each block here, houses peppered sporadically between the large buildings making them easy to miss as you drive through. Roosevelt Houses, Sumner Houses, the projects make it difficult for gentrification to get a stronghold here, and yet fitting in perfectly like the right piece to the puzzle is Brighter Choice.

Fabayo McIntosh-Gordon launched the school in 2008. She had a goal to inspire the children of this community, her community. She wanted to start with love. Aside from building an institution that would enrich our children and challenge them to be their very best, she simply wanted to build an environment of love, upliftment, the kind of inspiration that causes those affected by it to jump higher, to reach further. I’ve known Fabayo since we were kids. When she first opened the school, she offered me the chance to run an after-school program. My partner and I created the EGOS program, which stood for Education, Growth, Opportunity and Success. We worked with the 1st– and 2nd-graders. It was an amazing experience of being able to open the eyes of our community’s children to new things. Our end-of-semester project was an exchange project with the children of Masca City, Honduras. We designed T-shirts to send to them. They created small drums to send to us. From the very beginning, Fabayo’s vision for the school was boundless. She was determined to offer the best possible education for the children of this community.

Back in 2008, Brighter Choice replaced a failing school. In a matter of a few short years, the school was regularly posting the best language arts state exam scores in District 16. It became the first school in the district to provide dual Spanish and English language programs. The school’s motto is a resounding one: Every Child, Every Day, College-Bound. The teachers buy in. The parents buy in. The students buy in. The parent community at Brighter Choice is tight-knit, constantly sharing their time and resources to help aid in the vision of the school. One such parent is Earl Silas. Earl has two daughters attending Brighter Choice. For nine weeks, Earl facilitated an anti-bullying and mentoring program in partnership with the 79th Precinct. The program was for the 25 graduating 5th-grade boys. I know Earl. His goal for the children of Brighter Choice is similar to Fabayo’s. Starting from the perspective of love, investing time and resources in our community’s children so that they may be prepared in every way to succeed. And, as far as the parents of the student body go, he isn’t the exception. He is the rule.

Recently, Fabayo submitted her letter of resignation, transitioning into another role within the DOE. The DOE has a guideline for leadership transitions that District Superintendents are to follow, it’s called the C-30 Process. Step Five of the Process is to create a Level 1 Interview Committee. That Committee is to include between 4-7 parents of the school. In following the guidelines, the parents requested a meeting with Superintendent Amon-Harris to discuss the very pivotal transition of leadership at Brighter Choice. The meeting was to be held on June 21st, over a calendar month after Fabayo submitted her letter of resignation. Superintendent Amon-Harris agreed to meet. On the 21st, over sixty parents convened in the auditorium to meet with the superintendent. The superintendent, without prior warning, arrived and notified the school that she was not prepared to meet with the parents, virtually leaving the parents hanging, not able to express themselves and not able to be more educated on the process.

This past Monday, Earl penned a letter to Superintendent Amon-Harris and the School Chancellor, calling the decision to nix the meeting after having more than a month to prepare for it “not acceptable.” The letter went on to point out several incidents over the past year where the superintendent exhibited “unprofessional” and “embarrassing” behavior. One such incident occurred in May of 2017 at The Brownstone School. Richard Beavers, owner of The House of Art Gallery, who coincidentally also has a child attending Brighter Choice, was contracted by The Brownstone School to facilitate an art presentation and a book-signing with award-winning illustrator Bryan Collier. The event was to take place from 5pm-7pm. At 4:45, Beavers received a phone call from Collier explaining that due to traffic, he would be approximately ten minutes late. When Mr. Beavers explained the situation to Superintendent Amon-Harris, she began berating Beavers, yelling at him in front of children, staff, parents and his own son. Mr. Beavers remained calm and expressed his displeasure at being humiliated, to which Amon-Harris replied, “You work for me!” She then demanded that the auditorium be cleared, moving the children into the cafeteria in an aggressive tone and manner. Other parents who were in attendance verify the story as such. Although Collier arrived at 5:10pm and he and Beavers were eventually able to do the presentation in the cafeteria, Amon-Harris chose not to pay the agreed-upon amount.

Earl’s letter speaks to an even bigger concern: that being the stability of the progress which has defined District 16 for the last decade. The already-challenged district has now lost three of its top principals over the last two years. PS 25, another elementary school in the district, currently has a court injunction in place to prevent Amon-Harris from closing it. The parents at Brighter Choice are concerned about the overall instability of District 16, and whether or not the superintendent is capable of guiding the transition of Brighter Choice in a manner indicative of the vision that Fabayo McIntosh-Gordon has set in place. He states in his letter: “Bed-Stuy is my home, my kids’ home. They deserve the best opportunity to excel​ academically, ​but (Superintendent Amon-Harris’) action​s on several occasions are contrary to that sentiment and run counter to the dreams we have for our children and our community.”

Good News / Bad News

David Mark Greaves
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Good News / Bad News

The retirement of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy means President Trump has another opportunity to solidify a conservative/corporate elite/white supremacist agenda while the historic win of 28-year-old Latina Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over 10-term NY congressman Joe Crowley, shows why the Republicans are fighting so hard to cement their ideology into the system with lifetime appointments to the federal bench.

And while the nation is transfixed by Trump’s three-times-a-day assault on the constitution, the citizenry, their children and their children’s children, are being robbed and their way of life degraded.

Commenting on the 2018 Long-Term Budget Outlook by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Michael Peterson, Chairman of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation had this to say: “Today’s report confirms that our nation’s fiscal outlook is on a dangerous and unsustainable path. With substantial imbalances between spending and revenues projected well into the future, we are on course to burden America’s children with trillions more in debt and hurt their economic opportunities.”

Any claim we had to be the shining city on the hill has been lost, as the ruling elite, in tacit collusion with Russian oligarchs, work to control and use the citizenry of the United States, each to their own ends. The Russians want Trump, their useful idiot, to remain exactly where he is, effectively disrupting alliances and weakening the U.S. long term. Anything they can do to assist him and those who are with him in the midterm elections, they will do.

For the White supremacists, Trump is their Great White Hope come alive and giving them what may be their last taste of absolute power. Nothing will sway them from his side. And as for the rich, well, with the masses preoccupied with just surviving, the rich and their minion are able to romp through the tax laws and pillage like deed thieves, “all nice and legal-like,” and then retire to their estates to wallow in our money.

The interesting thing is that as big and bad as they are, the African American community has proven we can stop them, and stop them all coming at the same time. Did it before and can do it again. That is why they are so afraid of us and make us the targets of voter suppression tactic all across the country. Serious voter suppression tactics aided and abetted by a Republicanized Supreme Court.

And we can safely assume that overt voter suppression is only the visible part of the agenda. The other and potentially more deadly, is the hidden assault through social media and the internet. Based on public testimony by all of the U.S. intelligences agencies saying that the Russians worked to subvert our elections and will be back at it, we should expect they may already have in place a campaign, or series of campaigns, ready to be responsive in a divisive way to a crisis in the community, or just a general campaign to make the viewer less likely to vote.  The only defense is to flood the digital space with positives vibes and actions, as a counterpoint to negative messaging. Stay alert out there and watch those hot buttons.

Cuomo / Nixon

I remember growing up and my mother saying that when something political was happening, a Jewish person always asks, “What does this mean for the Jews?”   And in looking at the contest for governor between incumbent Andrew Cuomo and challenger Cynthia Nixon, the question is, “What does it mean for African-Americans?”

One litmus test item would be ethics. Being anti-corruption is very pro-Black, because the corruption usually involves taking something away from Black people. Not only from the loss of tax revenue which hurts all, but from the real estate considerations and illicit deals that foster gentrification and corrupt development in our neighborhoods.

Ethically, Governor Andrew Cuomo and President Donald Trump both have the same aspirations, to control any investigation of them and their associates. The difference is that Trump only wishes he could halt Special Counsel Robert Muller’s investigation as easily as Cuomo disbanded the Moreland Commission when investigators began to come too close to his office. Ethics reform is not coming from this governor.

One can imagine a second litmus test being education: Cynthia Nixon’s bold, aggressive and wholistic plan for education is not pie in the sky as the governor would portray it, but rather what must be done for Black children to achieve an equal shot at life, from birth to college.   To call that wishful thinking, is to say our dreams are impossible and that is unacceptable.

Like former actors-turned-California-governors Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cynthia Nixon is no lightweight and she is not beholden to good-old-boy political and financial relationships and understandings. She’s free to fight the progressive fight and she has nothing to lose, except probably some sleep.

There’s about 75 days between this week and the September primaries and there are things that can change in the blink of an eye. Cuomo can ask soon-to-be former Congressman Joe Crowley about that.

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