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Raymond Carnation · 5 months ago

Dear Staff,
My name is Raymond Carnation and I was a Philadelphia Police Officer our case set precedent on police racism in Philadelphia.
We need ask President Obama to place police racism on the national agenda. We are seeking national attention on this serious ongoing matter.
I hope you and the members of your church can help get this story out to the public. It is truly sad and needs to be address.
The City of Philadelphia hired a private law firm Cozen and O'Connor to fight us officers'
who broke the blue wall of silence on police racism and were forced off the department in 1999.
It then took us 10 years and we won our case that set precedent in May of 2008.
The Mayor and his staff are still fighting us in Federal Court at the taxpayer expense.
I find this very disturbing for a Mayor to act in this manner when the people and children of this city
could utilize that money for positive projects and not for protecting racist police officers.
He took a oath to protect all the residents of Philadelphia which I and the other to ex-officers were.
I fell that means the city should not support racist police officers, and protect the office that come forward on police racism/misconduct.
I think the public needs to be aware of all the money being spent on this Racism case Myrna Moore vs. The City of Philadelphia.
Which is being used to support the officers that were found in the wrong by the jury.
And for us, setting the record straight,coming forward on police racism,and setting precedent on this case we are struggling emotionally, mentally,spiritually and financially.
The Mayor will not help us and make us whole again. He is still spending tax dollars to continue to support the high ranking officers that retaliated against us for coming forward.
If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.was still with us how do you think he would feel about Mayor Nutter's position?
I honestly believe the Mayor is sabotaging the civil rights movement on racism that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Died for.
Below are articles on our case so you may have a better understanding on our traumatic experience working for the Philadelphia Police Department.
I hope to hear from you and your staff in the near future on your thoughts and possibly assist us by writing letters to Oprah, Dateline, 20/ 20 so they are informed
and will do a national story on the major problem of police racism in Philadelphia that the city will not correct. I feel this is the way the President and our government officials will that proper action
on this matter that has been going on for way too many years. Thank you for your time and effort. God Bless.



Warmest Regards,
Raymond Carnation
Phila. Pa. 19135

around4life@aol.com
Cell# 267-231-8143


http://www.counterpunch.org/washington05162008....





Racism in Police Departments Must Be on the National Agenda

By Keith Rushing
I hope that the U.S. Department of Justice in the Barack Obama administration on will he do what no ne have done before: take serious measures to end the rampant racism and abuse of power in police departments across America. O f course, we can’t expect miracles in the span of...
URL to article: http://www .justdemocracy blog. org/?p=791

navasodesk · 5 months ago

Here are the keyords in the essay:

13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, 2012 Election, B.E.T., Barack Hussein Obama, Booker T. Washington, Bryant Park, Cipriani's, Colin Powell, Criminal Industrial Complex, Deb Slott, Do The Right Thing, Heidi Klum, Hip-Hop, Mark Penn, Melting Pot, Pink Elephant, Racism, Reconstruction, Robert Johnson, Seal, Segregation, Shelby Steele, Sidney Poiter, Sonia Sotomayor, Spike Lee, Tavis Smiley, Terrence Yang, The Dance Flick, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Virginia Davies, W.E.B. Dubois, Zero Mostel, Politics






Prologue to Obama 2012







We approach the future walking backwards, our gaze forever fixated on the past. Predicting the future is not a passive exercise; we invent it every day with our actions.

I began the sketches for what would ultimately become Obama 2012 in March 2007, a month after Barack Obama declared his candidacy. I had spent much of the previous 18 months living abroad as an entrepreneur and statesman of sorts, and I was slightly out of touch with the pulse of life on the street in the United States. I learnt about Sen. Barack Obama’s Springfield, IL speech formally declaring his candidacy for president of the United States through one of the international cable news channels and thought how great it would be to have a fresh start after years of mediocrity in Washington and a plummeting reputation around the world.

By September, after what seemed like raising a six-month-old child, my sketches had turned into Why the Democrats Will Win in 2008 the Road to an Obama White House. It was my answer to the burning question everyone had back in March: Can he really win? Actually, not everyone thought it was a question. For many people, including Mark Penn, director of the Clinton campaign, the answer was an easy “no way.” This strategic blunder made it that much easier for the Clinton campaign to be defeated. Then there were Black pundits like Shelby Steele, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, who came out with a 2007 book entitled A Bound Man, Why Obama Can't Win.

Being Black did seem to be an automatic disqualification, but then why did someone need to write an entire book arguing what should have been patently obvious? Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell came to my mind and I remembered that he could have run for president in 1992 as a war hero. But Colin Powell was Ronald Reagan’s protégé and got a special pass on the race question. Black conservatives like Justice Thomas, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell were careful to disassociate themselves from liberal thinkers and activists like Jesse Jackson, who lost, as expected, the 1984 and 1988 Democratic primaries. Ultimately, Colin Powell, in spite of all his honors, declined to run for president. His wife Alma feared for his safety. Common sense said that a candidate like Obama, for numerous insurmountable reasons, didn't stand a chance of winning the Democratic primary, let alone a general election in which 10% of the electorate is African American and Republicans controlled the White House for 20 of the preceding 28 years. But I decided that Obama's chances merited a closer examination. In it, I would bring to bear my gambling skills.