Can you hear it” The stench of homicide and poverty is calling to be recognized among Black and Latino families of color in every urban city throughout the state of Connecticut. Newtown, Connecticut is not the only neighborhood affected by gun violence.
Gun laws will not stop
poverty or crazy.
There is a
beast roaming the impoverished Cities of Connecticut. “Any Man that does not work shall not eat”. Do you hear it being goaded by crime, political,
religious and social corruption? Thousands of residents living in Hartford,
Connecticut are hooked on marijuana, crack, heroin and other chemicals. Men
possessed by poverty are taking the lives of men, women, and little children.
Prostitutes, homosexuals and drug addicts share AIDS with the innocent. Social media has kept me informed that
“between the ages of 5 and 14 the average child living in Hartford has been a
witness to the violent destruction of poverty and homicide “.
The City of
Hartford , The State Of Connecticut and The United States Department of Housing
and Urban Development; created “Contagious Housing” at this present date they fail to protect housing as a human right. To take advantage
of laws that suppress the human rights of impoverished residents is a violation
of civil liberties. The City trembles.
Mothers scream harshly, fathers vow retaliation terrified struggling people,
line the street together as City leaders pronounce that hundreds of youth have
perished in Hartford, Connecticut. The
unfortunate give groans of despair as they bury children, in greater numbers.
The oppressed and persecuted from all districts have looked to elected
officials with fear in their eyes.
The shifting
of moral values and opposition in times of need have been replaced with
gunshots. Political and religious corruption has caused the people to become
livid with resentment. Something’s happening in the City of Hartford, Something
strange. Have you noticed the Homicide effect? Crime doubles every year in
Blood-soaked districts. Religious leaders are in the pulpit saying “Turn back
to God; it’s the only way we can improve our sorry circumstances”. “If
Christians unite we can do anything”.
Political leaders quote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
to encourage impoverished residents to pull themselves up by the boot straps
and vote for change with democracy.
Let me say
something now that’s very important. You see, the reason I am speaking strongly
against the gate keepers, Educators, and CEO’s of color. They have no Love for
the citizen living in the belly of the beast.
Listen to this- when it’s a question of life and death to the one it
loves, no one needs to experience the awful fate of following behind any leader
whose message of empowerment and encouragement is fraudulent.
It all starts at City Hall a “Brain Trust” built
on past and present ethnic and economic disparities; created by the City of
Hartford and maintained by The State of Connecticut. Get ready for a shock.
You’re going to go behind the scenes and see devastating things that are
happening in the City of Hartford. It’s no surprise that one of the leading
causes of poverty is corruption among elected officials.
Whose
responsibility is it to tell the truth? The truth will set you free, yet we
have been lied to continuously by a Government whose Historians have recorded
and woven in a Constitution built on the institution of freedom, justice and
liberty for all, What was once a linked between freedom and equality has been
paved with lies and failed the societal needs of its average citizen. There is
no longer a fork in the road that leads to economic independence for any
citizen of the United States; unless you utilize the Constitution as a remedy
to support the notion that all people are equal in the eyes of the law. This
belief system consists of many shortcuts utilized by the forefathers of a
dominant race to suppress people of color.
There has been no emancipation in the division
of classes… to be poor is to be disgraced no matter what gender or nationality
you are considered a second class citizen.
14th Amendment
“All persons
born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction there
of, are citizens of the United States and of the State where in they reside”
“Nor shall
any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process
of law”
“Nor [shall
any state] deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of
the laws”
No
descendant of Slavery has received and inheritance from their forefathers. Neither has any American of color, no
immigrant of color has received and inheritance from their forefathers. No
citizen of color living or dwelling in the City of Hartford has been giving
anything. Put your fingers together. Are they touching? Everyone that I have come
in contact within the last 24 months is broken as a result of the lack of
economic development in the City of Hartford.
The Newtown
shooting attack took the lives of 6 adults and 20 young children a year
ago. The State of Connecticut has
rallied around the families to offer them love and support. In addition to
building play escapes in the children’s memory; trust funds, marathon runs and
monetary support to anyone who was on hand that tragic day a year ago in New
town Connecticut.
I was there,
two years ago and I was a witness to the shooting in Newtown,
Connecticut. Breaking news!! Breaking
News!! Shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut;
visions of paramedics, firemen and police carrying tiny bodies invades my
thoughts every day. The Governor
provided support and empathy to the families waiting to find out if their child
was a victim. Every channel covered the shooting. All day everyday for the last year I have
heard thousands of sound bites about the Sandy Hook shooting attack. I have
seen the bodies, the parents; the report on the shooter, Social media has told
us all about how this gun violence affected a suburban community.
Every day I
am a witness or second hand witness to homicide and the effects it has on the
people of color living in North Hartford Connecticut. I have witnessed over 15 of my school class
mates bury their children. I have witnessed over 30 of my class mates be buried
by their parents. Only 10 of the 45 died of natural causes. Homicide is the number one killer in my
neighborhood. It is the leading cause of babies being buried as the result of
neglect and abuse. Hartford elected official’s local and Federal continue to ignore the
problem with no name.
Currently I have been diagnosed with Post
traumatic stress; secondary to being a witness to the Sandy Hook shootings....
However past
and present gatekeepers have failed to guarantees the rights of impoverished
citizens living or dwelling in the State of Connecticut. “The guiding principle in human rights should
be freedom”. All Individuals have human rights, and no other person and no
government should be allowed to take away those rights. The government
prescribed the Declaration of Independence and has failed to fill the
prescription. Most of us live on the edge of poverty in a State that sing its
own praises; “Hartford is where it’s at?” That sound bite is uncalled-for. Hartford is
not where it’s at!
Ceo’s of
Color have skimmed federal monies and grants for so long that they created the
ethnic and economic disparities that currently exist today in all urban cities
throughout the nation. Gate keepers failed to commit! They are still using the
1964 civil rights acts as a visual aid, while telling people of color to “get
it the best way you can”. Their
explanation to end the War on Drugs & Poverty has created an unpleasant
smell that makes your bowels grumble.
Political,
Religious and Social corruption allows poverty to run rampant in every urban
city throughout the country. Decade
after decade each CEO of color has dropped the “problem with no name “. The
problem has a name. The Problems name is “Freedom”. It is the first cousin of
poverty. Her son and daughters are victims of poverty and homicide.
Just take a
close look at Soup kitchens, the lines are growing longer as impoverished
residents line up to eat “Stone Soup”. They are fed bowl after bowl of
propaganda, cups of rhetoric filled to the brim with quotes from elected gate
keepers.
They have
produced “Stone Soup”; one of the most startling things about the recipe. The
kettle pot was created in 1964 and has never been washed.
The pot has been
handed down from one gate keeper to the next. Layers of ethnic and economic
disparities liquefy in the bottom; Education, Housing, and economic
independence no longer float to the top. Homicide and poverty; are served on
the side with protest from civil officers demanding increases in pay. The city
leaders know what they are doing, they intentionally refuse to comply, and alter
the words of the recipe to suit their needs and desires. Pay close attention. To save
their jobs or to save their necks people compromise.
I refuse to
bow down or lay in the bed with Local or Federal Welfare pimps and Political
Prostitutes that door knock in penniless districts; using ethnic and economic
disparities to secure the vote of insolvent workers. I refuse to compromise for
“Stone Soup” that is seasoned by Political, religious or social corruption.
Sincerely
yours,
Martha Hood PhD
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