WOOOOOOOW!!! Man you have got to read this... I knew it and felt it. He hasn't done much to change Harlem in 20 fricken years!!! But he still keeps getting voted back in. Read this to get the skinny.
Harlem has only seen improvements because of efforts made by concerned residents. One in particular has caught my eye. I totally APPLAUD Geoffrey Canada. "He is an American social activist and educator. Since 1990, Geoffrey Canada has been president and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone in Harlem, New York, an organization whose goal is to increase high school and college graduation rates among students in Harlem." [source: wikipedia] This is who you should be voting into public office to represent your community. Just take a good look at all the beautiful changes he's made within your community. Use Geoffrey Canada as your role model for ALL future elections!!! This man has done more to IMPROVE the lives of the residents in the Harlem community than all of your politicians combined! Think about that for a moment.
The taxpayer money that has been spent paying Charlie Rangel's salary WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER SPENT (allocated) contributing to Geoffrey Canada's community efforts. In fact, I believe the 20 years of Charlie Rangel's 20 yr non-service salary and expense allocation would have completely abolished poverty in Harlem! TRUTH be told!
The taxpayer money that has been spent paying Charlie Rangel's salary WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER SPENT (allocated) contributing to Geoffrey Canada's community efforts. In fact, I believe the 20 years of Charlie Rangel's 20 yr non-service salary and expense allocation would have completely abolished poverty in Harlem! TRUTH be told!
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written by Bud Meyers
March 31, 2010
Charlie Rangel and members of the Congressional Black Caucus had once complained that Blacks were being used as "cannon fodder" in the Iraq war, until they were confronted with the fact that only five percent (5%) of the troops in Iraq were African-Americans, while 14% of the US population are black. Rangel backed off from making that allegation when speaking with whites, yet he continues to use the canard when speaking to black audiences.
Some things never change. Back in 1966 Charlie was the general counsel to the National Advisory Commission on Selective Service (The U.S. military draft board - when troops were being sent to Viet Nam.) He had argued then that a supposedly disproportionate amount of "Afro-Americans" were being drafted into the Viet Nam War.
"This is vintage Charlie Rangel. He’s adept at distortion and his proposed draft in 2003 wasn’t meant to improve the military, but to create a Vietnam era military of draftees. Anyone who knows anything about the military knows that conscription brings about negative results," says former Marine intelligence officer and NYPD detective Sid Francis, himself an African-American.
In addition, most men and women in today’s military come from middle- and upper-middle class families.
Republicans understood Rangel’s motive for calling for a renewed draft. He had been opposed to all military actions undertaken by the Bush Administration and was a vocal opponent of the Iraq war, but he saw an opportunity to undermine the military by infusing it with draftees who didn’t want to fight. He is also aware that conscription creates civil discord.
"Rangel’s draft was part and parcel of a "class warfare" strategy that the Democrat Party uses to divide the country," said a high-ranking military officer.
Rangel’s critics pointed out that he has a penchant for making outrageous statements and if he’s asked to reiterate them on television or radio, he backs off from those comments with tepid excuses. For instance, in a speech in Harlem in New York City, Rangel said that President Bush is "our Bull Connor" a reference to the southern sheriff who used attack dogs on civil-rights protesters. Rangel, however, failed to mention that Sheriff Connor was a Democrat.
Let’s take a look at the real Charlie Rangel as evidenced in a little known story of how a New York City detective knocked the robust politician on his keister following the utterance of a Rangelism in the 1960s:
Sidney was one of New York City’s first African-American detectives. In fact, he was so good at policing in the city’s toughest neighborhoods, that he was promoted to the coveted rank of 1st Grade Detective in the NYPD, the youngest in New York’s history. A former Marine - one of the first blacks to be accepted into the Marine Corps in 1945 - Sid was your consummate police officer. Tough, relentless and proud, Sid tempered his tough street persona with intelligence and a sense of fairness that won the respect of his superiors, his fellow cops and the citizens he served. Sid came from a black family of achievement with one brother becoming a police captain and another serving as a colonel in the US Army.
Sidney saw action in Korea at about the same time as Charlie Rangel took to the battlefield with the US Army. While Rangel brags about his military service and being awarded a Purple Heart for wounds he received, Sid believed a good marine does the wounding and killing not the other way around. He openly admired General George Patton and Sid repeatedly viewed the motion picture "Patton" in which, during the opening monologue by George C. Scott portraying General Patton, he says, "No one wins a war by dying for his country. You win a war by making the other poor son-of-a-bitch die for his country." Sid was a blood and guts Marine and a blood and guts cop. I know. I partnered with him during his later years.
While still a young detective, Sidney arrested a black man who was dealing drugs on streets and schoolyards of Harlem. The drug dealer sold heroin to black youngsters who were being told over and over again since they were knee high that their lives were hopeless in an America that at best cared little for them, at worst wanted them in prison or dead. They were indoctrinated with this rhetoric by the likes of Charlie Rangel, white liberals and their echo chamber, the mainstream news media. Detective Sid had little compassion for a man who sold drugs to black kids.
This was when Frank Lucas (featured on American Gangster), was a heroin dealer and organized crime boss in New York City - and had operated in Harlem during the late 1960s through the 1970s. Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in over a million dollars a day. So many heroin addicts were buying from him on 116th Street (Just 8 blocks away from Charlie Rangel's District Office) that he claimed the Transit Authority changed the bus routes to avoid them.
At the time, Charlie Rangel was an up-and-coming political hack in the local Democrat Club and a lawyer more adept at shooting off his mouth than arguing his position on jurisprudence. Rangel ended up representing a drug-pushing punk - whose parents, by the way, were financially very well off. The punk’s dad was a bigtime contributor to the local Democrat Party and a supporter of Rangel for congressman which led to Rangel acting on behalf of an unrepentant drug pusher. Ironically, Rangel later would become chairman of Congress’ Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control. (A fox in the henhouse?)
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