New Rochelle, New York African American Group Says That Westchester County Executive Candidate Noam Bramson Is Racist And Hostile To People Of Color
Democratic Candidate Bramson has had trouble with the New Rochelle African-American community for years.With the most recent incident being his expulsion of New Rochelle NAACP President Ron Williams from a public New Rochelle park.
The New Rochelle Lincoln Zuber Riders for Justice which is publicizing the longstanding issues between the black community and Bramson.
http://lockedoutbybramson.com/
NO AFRICAN AMERICAN SEAT AT THE TABLE
The group is upset that Bramson is destroying New Rochelle’s District 3, the city’s African-American council district, by lowering the percentage of African-Americans.
Census figures show that the black population had shrunk below 50 percent in the district from 2000 to 2010.
Further, minority citizens across the county feel that Noam Branson's insular campaign has set to the side minority democrats who initially supported county legislator Ken Jenkins bid for county executive.
http://jenkinsforwestchester.com/
NO AFRICAN AMERICAN VOICE IN THE COMMUNITY
When Ron Williams, the president of the New Rochelle NAACP, endorsed Bromson's opponent Rob Astorino, he had his news conference expelled from a public New Rochelle park.
http://www.newrochelletalk.com/content/doh-bramson-kicks-naacp-new-rochelle-branch-president-out-park-located-site-landmark-school-
The New Rochelle Lincoln Zuber Riders website says: “New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson has a long and disturbing history of hostility and discrimination against the African American community,” and “Mayor Bramson is no friend to people of color.”
The name of his organization is a tribute to a New Rochelle school desegregation case 50 years ago.
"A THREAT TO JUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE."
- Reverend Martin Luther King
All Westchester County Residents Be Concerned When A Newspaper Tries To Suppress Minority Voices In An Effort To Be A King Maker In Local Politics.
GHETTO NEWS STEREOTYPES OF BLACK PEOPLE IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY
The Journal News wants to place African Americans and other people of color in stereotypical boxes. But Asians, Blacks and Latinos are a very politically diverse group in Westchester County.
Gannet Publisher Janet Hasson would probably be shocked to learn that African Americans in Westchester County vote for Liberal Democrats, Independents, Conservative Republicans....and Oh My God!!!!....TEA Party candidates.
The Journal News seems to think that uppity Negros that speak badly of their Democratic party masters are suspect should be silenced.
Newspaper Conglomerate Gannet's Refused To Place An Ad In The Journal News From The New Rochelle Lincoln Zuber Riders, That Detailed Their Charges And Calling On Bramson To Apologize.
The County's Only Daily Newspaper Refused To Run The Minority Groups Advertisement.
Here Is The Ad That Gannett, The Journal News And Lohud.Com Did Not Want You To See....
http://www.newrochelletalk.com/files/Open%20Letter%20to%20Mayor%20Noam%20BramsonFINAL.pdf
THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE: Gannet Publisher Janet Hasson Is Now Backtracking And Finally Put out A Tiny Story About The New Rochelle Lincoln Zuber Riders
The story was placed bellow the fold on the front page of the Journal News in response to articles that have started to go viral n social media websites in Westchester County.
You know that a newspaper has failed its readers when they don't just report the news, but become a news story themselves.
SUPPRESSING FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN THE MINORITY COMMUNITY
Gannet Publisher Janet Hasson did not return calls seeking comment, but stated in her paper that Gannet wanted The New Rochelle Lincoln Zuber Riders to change wording in the advertisement, linked above, and the African American group refused
The Fact Is Gannets Journal News has a long history of trying to control and suppress the many varied voices in the African American community, by only interviewing the same handful black voices over and over and over.
ARE MINORITIES GETTING A FAIR SHOT IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK?
The Answer is “No” And It Is Now Time To Ask What Can be Done?
The Journal News, has tried (and repeatedly failed) at minority outreach many times,but the bias against the new bread of minority activists is clear in the Journal news editors refusal to publish concerns raised by The New Rochelle Lincoln Zuber Riders until now.
But Gannet Publisher Janet Hasson fails to realize that Westchester County is bubbling with a growing population of talented, lively minority students eager to prepare for careers in film, television, theater, print and broadcast journalism.
These minority communities want to bring a richness of culture, ideas and perspectives to the pages of the Journal News and are even willing to buy ads to do so.
Yet African-Americans, Latinos and Asians from all over the United States, Puerto Rico and Central America, many of them children of immigrants from Jamaica, Barbados, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Nigeria, Cameroon and South Africa are ignored by Gannet Publisher Janet Hasson in Westchester County.
Here Is The Story That The Journal News Finially Put Up About New Rochelle Lincoln Zuber Riders Yesterday....
GROUP CALLS BROMSON, HOSTILE, RACIST
Accusations of racism were injected into the Westchester County executive race over the weekend when a newly formed group from New Rochelle accused Democratic candidate Noam Bramson of hostility toward the African-American community in the city where he serves as mayor.
The Bramson campaign immediately hit back, saying the accusations came from proxies for the campaign of Republican County Executive Rob Astorino. The Astorino campaign denied involvement and his spokesman, Bill O’Reilly, said they don’t want the distraction from the campaign.
“It’s just not our issue. We don’t want to be involved in this,” he said.
http://www.lohud.com/
Mayor Bramson's resume includes being twice sued for racial discrimination, dismantling New Rochelle's only black majority district, using race against two African-American opponents, capping the number of minorities allowed to live in a new housing development, shut out minority businesses from government contracts, proposed eliminating the Human Rights Commission, and banned the NAACP President from historic Lincoln Park.
Here are the facts:
- Twice sued for racial discrimination: FACT
- Noam Bramson was sued for violating the civil rights voting act when he created the redistricting plan that diluted New Rochelle's only black majority district.
"A federal judge has ruled that the recently redrawn boundaries of New Rochelle's City Council districts violate the Voting Rights Act because the sole black majority district was diluted" (Associated Press, 12/12/03).
- Noam Bramson is currently being sued for racial discrimination over the creation of his garbage fee which unfairly targets minorities.
"The fee is without regard to the actual cost of trash collection", said David Finger, attorney for the plaintiffs. "The people living in multifamily housing are paying a disproportionate portion of overall trash-collection. These people happen to be disproportionately minorities" (Talk of the Sound, 6/11/13).
- Created the plan to dismantle New Rochelle's only majority black city council district: FACT
In 2011, after the latest census, Noam Bramson was finally successful in dismantling New Rochelle's only black-majority district.
- Used the race card to undermine and defeat his last two African-American opponents: FACT
- Used the race card to undermine and defeat last two African-American political opponents.
Found guilty of an "unfair practice" by the Fair Campaign Practices Committee when he sent out an anonymous mailing essentially attacking his African-American opponent for Mayor for being an unwed dad (New Rochelle Patch, 11/5/11). Bramson intentionally did not send the mailer to members of the New Rochelle African-American community.
- Ken Jenkins, looking to make history as Westchester's first African-American County Executive was called the "front-runner" for the Democratic nomination for years (Politics on the Hudson, 1/11/12) but at the last minute Bramson somehow stole away the nomination pushing out Jenkins.
- Shut out minority contractors and laborers from lucrative contracts and jobs: FACT
- Failed to enforce the city's Non-Discrimination and Employment Policy, also known as Resolution 205, in the building of the city-supported $100 million Heritage Homes Project.
- "... record of local minority hiring of skilled labor and subcontracting on the Heritage Homes Project is abysmal" (Talk of the Sound, 2/6/13).
- Voted to cap the number of minorities in a brand new housing development: FACT
- Voted to limit the number of low-income blacks and Hispanics from the new Heritage Homes low-income housing development
- "The goal of (Bramson's) Hartley House redevelopment is to… attract persons of other racial backgrounds to purchase affordable housing in the complex in an effort to reduce minority concentration" (Talk of the Sound, 4/2/13).
- Proposed eliminating the New Rochelle Human Rights Commission: FACT
- Proposed eliminating the Human Rights Commission
- "Noam Bramson proposed eliminating the commission to eliminate the conflicting jurisdictions…" (Journal News 3/19/02).
- Noam Bramson was sued for violating the civil rights voting act when he created the redistricting plan that diluted New Rochelle's only black majority district.
"A federal judge has ruled that the recently redrawn boundaries of New Rochelle's City Council districts violate the Voting Rights Act because the sole black majority district was diluted" (Associated Press, 12/12/03). - Noam Bramson is currently being sued for racial discrimination over the creation of his garbage fee which unfairly targets minorities.
"The fee is without regard to the actual cost of trash collection", said David Finger, attorney for the plaintiffs. "The people living in multifamily housing are paying a disproportionate portion of overall trash-collection. These people happen to be disproportionately minorities" (Talk of the Sound, 6/11/13).
In 2011, after the latest census, Noam Bramson was finally successful in dismantling New Rochelle's only black-majority district.
- Used the race card to undermine and defeat last two African-American political opponents.
Found guilty of an "unfair practice" by the Fair Campaign Practices Committee when he sent out an anonymous mailing essentially attacking his African-American opponent for Mayor for being an unwed dad (New Rochelle Patch, 11/5/11). Bramson intentionally did not send the mailer to members of the New Rochelle African-American community. - Ken Jenkins, looking to make history as Westchester's first African-American County Executive was called the "front-runner" for the Democratic nomination for years (Politics on the Hudson, 1/11/12) but at the last minute Bramson somehow stole away the nomination pushing out Jenkins.
- Failed to enforce the city's Non-Discrimination and Employment Policy, also known as Resolution 205, in the building of the city-supported $100 million Heritage Homes Project.
- "... record of local minority hiring of skilled labor and subcontracting on the Heritage Homes Project is abysmal" (Talk of the Sound, 2/6/13).
- Voted to limit the number of low-income blacks and Hispanics from the new Heritage Homes low-income housing development
- "The goal of (Bramson's) Hartley House redevelopment is to… attract persons of other racial backgrounds to purchase affordable housing in the complex in an effort to reduce minority concentration" (Talk of the Sound, 4/2/13).
- Proposed eliminating the Human Rights Commission
- "Noam Bramson proposed eliminating the commission to eliminate the conflicting jurisdictions…" (Journal News 3/19/02).
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