By Raynard Jackson
Columnist
Last week I wrote about “Liberalism Being On Trial In
Baltimore.” In that column I talked
about how all the leadership in Baltimore was Black, but yet they seem to blame
all the issues surrounding Baltimore on racism and the Republican Party. How can that be when the city is 63% Black
and run by Blacks?
I argued that Baltimore has nothing to do with racism, but
rather the liberal policies these Black leaders are advocating.
Let’s look at three of Baltimore’s so-called leaders, Mayor
Stephanie Rawlins-Blake, Congressman Elijah Cummings, and State’s Attorney
Marilyn Mosby.
Aside from being mayor of Baltimore, Blake also serves as
secretary of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and vice president of the
U.S. Conference of Mayors. She was born
and raised in Baltimore. Her mother was
a pediatrician and her father was a professor of mathematics at the University
of Maryland, Baltimore County and a former member of the Maryland House of
Delegates.
She has an undergrad degree in political science and a law
degree. She served on the city council
and became president of the city council before becoming mayor.
Cummings represents Baltimore as their 7th
district U.S. Congressman. He has held
this position for 19 years. Prior to
that, he served in the Maryland House of Delegates. He has an undergrad degree in political
science as well as a law degree.
According to Mosby, she comes from a family of policemen that
spans five generations; both her mother and father were policemen in
Baltimore. She is a lawyer by training
and her position as Baltimore’s State’s Attorney is her first elective
position.
All of these elected officials are liberal Black Democrats
and I have one thing to say to them, “mene, mene, tekel upharsin.
These words are taken from the book of Daniel in the Bible;
it has to do with the expression, “the handwriting on the wall.” The full text in the book of Daniel is
chapter 5: 25-28, “and this is the writing that was written, mene, mene, tekel, upharsin. This is the interpretation of the thing: mene; God hath
numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and
art found wanting. Peres; Thy kingdom is
divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Blake’s political career is over. She will never win another elective
office. Last week she asked the
Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch an investigation into her police
department for any hint of racism and police brutality. Really?
No, really?
You were born and raised in Baltimore and you need someone
from the outside to investigate that which you already know? According to the Baltimore Sun newspaper,
“The city of Baltimore paid out judgments or settlements in more than 100 cases
alleging police brutality since 2011…They have been involved in 317 lawsuits
stemming from complaints of assault, false arrest, and false imprisonment…They
have paid $ 5.7 million to alleged victims of police brutality between 2011 and
September 2014 (coinciding with Blake’s tenure as mayor).”
So, what is it that the DOJ is going to tell you that you
don’t already know? You have truly been
weighed in the balances and have been found wanting.
Cummings has been an elected official representing Baltimore
for over a generation and has nothing to show for it. Did he really just become aware of all the
negative pathologies of Baltimore as a result of Freddie Gray’s death? Cummings has helped direct hundreds of
millions of dollars to Baltimore over the years for liberal programs with not a
damn thing to show for it. You too have
been weighed in the balances and have been found wanting.
Mosby has displayed her lack of professionalism with her
constant desire to be in front of the cameras.
During her first appearance before the media while reading the charging
documents against the six policemen; she went into this rant about “to the
people of Baltimore and demonstrators across America, I heard your call for no
justice, no peace...your peace is sincerely needed as I work to deliver justice
on behalf of this young man [Freddie Gray].”
Every lawyer knows this type of commentary is totally unacceptable for a
prosecutor. She should be brought before
the Maryland Bar for ethics violations and should be sanctioned. She too has been weighed in the balances and
have been found wanting.
If the residents of Baltimore do not vote each of these
people out of office during the next election, they have no one else to blame
for the condition of their city other than themselves. Elected and non-elected Blacks have presided
over the destruction of their own community and now want to blame others for
their condition.
Everyday, supposed Black leaders
are selling out the very people they claim to represent. They are aggressively pushing a homosexual
agenda that is in contradiction to the Black church; they are promoting amnesty
for illegals while the Black unemployment rate continues to be in double digits;
they are constantly sentencing Black school kids to non-performing schools
because they are beholden to the teacher’s unions.
The current Black leadership both in Baltimore and nationally
has been weighed in the balances and has been found wanting.
Raynard
Jackson & Associates, LLC is an internationally recognized political
consulting, government affairs, and PR firm based in Washington, DC. Jackson is an internationally recognized
radio talk show host and TV commentator.
He has coined the phrase “straticist.”
As a straticist, he has merged strategic planning with public
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