"Due to the sensitive nature of real estate transactions, we are not able to disclose the recipients or their proposals. Six of the 13 have finalized their acquisitions and are listed below."
Can anyone collaborate on this claim made on the webpage:
"In 1968, Captain Aaron Dixon led a squad of armed Panthers to Rainier Beach High School to protect Black and Asian students who were under attack by violent, knife-wielding white students, as the school administration silently stood by."
During Africatown's 2020 State of the Union Dominique Davis (Community Passageways) and Will Jimerson (Credible Messengers) spoke about their restorative justice and youth mentorship programs they run.
Community Passageways:
From 2020-2024 they took in 46 million dollars, most of it from the government.
Dominique Davis
Public Safety policy co-lead for Mayor Wilson's transition team
Willard Jimerson Jr.
https://www.facebook.com/WillPower28/
https://kuow-prod.imgix.net/store/8c7dc1c5b796b2d028b88bf2aa6c37a5.pdf
There are a lot of things about the Balkanization of Seattle that are bad for the city.
One thing that stands out is this quote: "Family child care is where so many immigrant and refugee families find providers who truly reflect them."
It's clear that they want Somalians to run the day care their children go to. Somalians aren't even in the top 10 most populous immigrant groups in Seattle.
The group that hosted this, Voices of Tomorrow, gets 8-12 million a year in funding, most of it from taxpayers
Are we going to give every cultural group funds so they can get child care that reflects the cultural norms of the countries they came from? How exactly are people going to acclimate to the country they moved to when they demand services from people who "reflect them". And if it's important for them to keep their cultural norms, well, then shouldn't everyone?
Our city subsidizes this then complaints are immigrants marganalized, as though encourage insular programming isn't part of the problem.
Aren't "predominately white affluent neighborhoods" already culturally rich (both figuratively and literally) in their own way? Isn't this kind of condescending? And is "frontline communities" a euphemism? Who is the frontline community and what are they in the front line for?
I live in Seattle and every year this drives me crazy. It's especially obvious with the libraries. I don't even want to prod them anymore because then they put together a selection that is really obviously ideologically driven and not respectful: most of the selection are explicitly "anti Zionist", Norman Finkelstein, books criticizing Israel, encouraging Jews to be good allies to more deserving minorities, etc. Really not celebrating Jewish culture at all.
So a couple days ago I went into my branch library. There was a nice sized "Asian History Month Selections" display. Next to it was a "Staff Picks" display. I printed up a "Jewish History Month Selections" flyer and noted on the bottom "This is a patron created list since this library takes part in Jewish erasure". And I put it over the "Staff Picks" display sign. I took the books on that display over to the shelving cart. Then I filled up those shelves with Jewish authors and subjects I thought worth of display.
I would also recommend that if your library has a Jewish History month display, and you find it lacking, just pick out some books from their collection you think should be included and add it to the display. Or print up a list of recommended Jewish authors and put on the display.
Will at least one of you do what I did? Please?
Yesterday someone posted about the fact that childcare fraud wasn't going to get a deeper dig by officials. I mentioned Kwanza Academy, a school that had gotten $800K in funding but had no footprint. I was wrong, they got $1.2 million and it claims to be childcare. According to the City's EDI webpage they are "working towards completion". I encourage you to look at their website which includes links to 3 social media accounts, and tell me if there is any evidence you see that they exist at all. The website states they have served hundreds of families since 2019. They have been tax exempt since 2021 but have not submitted any tax forms. WA State records show its license expired in June 2023, having been created 3 years earlier. The record lists two addresses: one a small home in the Rainier Valley. The other located in the New Holly Housing Authority complex.
