Separating black women from her kids in New York City

The following is from teh New York Daily News editorial column. It appeared on 23 June, 2018. It is about how the liberal city of New York is separating people from their children, and also offers an insight into cannabis use in a positive way. This is not to say I support people dropping out and smoking dope. But cannabis is a useful medical substance with no lethal or long lasting side effects, and sometimes it is used by honest working people who want to avoid dependency on a single drug that has been prescribed to them. I support the legalisation of cannabis for medical uses and recreational use for people over 21. For more info on that issue, check out www.hempforvictory.blogspot.com

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Shakira Kennedy, NYC

At a press conference this week, Mayor de Blasio said, “We will do everything we can to stop the federal government from separating parents from their children.”

But the city itself is needlessly splitting up New York families through the Administration for Children’s Services. I know because my own family is at risk.

Ironically, the mayor made his statement at a press conference in which he announced a new policy to reduce marijuana arrests. I myself have had my life upended by senseless marijuana enforcement. And the mayor’s new policy will do nothing to help people like me — because it is ACS, not the NYPD, that is targeting me.

I am a 28-year-old loving mother and a taxpaying citizen. I have a beautiful 7-year-old daughter in a gifted and talented program and two beautiful twin baby boys. I would do anything for my children.

What Is This?

Unfortunately, during my pregnancy with the twins, I suffered from extreme morning sickness and could not keep food or water down. I sought the best medical care, and my doctors told me I needed to gain weight for the health of my babies.

But the medicine they prescribed didn’t work. Nothing did, until I tried cannabis.

Making sure to tell my doctor everything, I disclosed that I smoked cannabis and it helped me eat normally. That’s when I became a victim of circumstance. When my children were born, they tested negative for marijuana. But still the hospital called ACS.

I made clear to ACS that I had to use marijuana under unique circumstances — but that I would not continue to use it. I asked to schedule a drug test to prove that it would no longer be in my system.

They made me go to court or face the loss all three of my children. Then, instead of ongoing drug-testing, I was compelled to go to an outpatient rehab program three days a week for an addiction I don’t have.

Now, I have complete strangers from ACS coming into my home and telling me what to do as a parent.

Unless I am able to win my case in Family Court and get my record sealed at a later hearing, I will be blacklisted for alleged child neglect — and unable to get any job near children until my twins turn 28.

Even as the state appears to be moving toward full marijuana legalization, most of the other parents in my rehab program are women and men of color who were sent there by ACS due to marijuana use.

People call mass incarceration the New Jim Crow. As a black woman, I am living the New Jane Crow.

Before ACS got involved, the father of all three of my children and I were doing well and planning to get married. Then, ACS scared him away, accusing him of neglecting our children by smoking marijuana while our daughter was home.

Now he is out of contact. He was my support and they ruined that.

Whatever you believe about cannabis consumption while pregnant, you should know that middle-class white mothers join in Facebook groups crowing about the benefits of marijuana, and they never seem to be investigated by ACS.

I am the face of another reality. While we fight to legalize this drug, we have lots of urgent work to do to unravel the many pernicious consequences of prohibition at the local level. That includes punishing parents simply for marijuana use.

Kennedy lives in Brooklyn.

Support grows for Trump among Blacks and Latins

Last week former Bronx Bombers outfielder Johnny Damon joined the growing chorus of Donald Trump supporters. Damon sets the record straight about Trump when he did so: "He just wants people to come into this country legally and fill out the proper paperwork. That's how I'm viewing it. He's trying to make the country great again. We're worrying too much about what's going on in Cuba, the Middle East. We have enough to worry about here."This, despite having  been fired by Trump on Celebrity Apprentice last year. Damon rises above any feelings of recrimination and is not influenced by the page-after-page anti-Trump rants in some papers.
Another sportsman who weighed in for Trump was Reggie Jackson, who went on record with this: "I believe he's fun. I think he's going to have some battles. Being smart and having a good heart will overcome."
Jackson, whose father is half Puerto Rican, certainly does not voice with those who are calling Trump Hitler. And for that chorus much disapproval is coming from New Yorkers, as it is just getting on their nerves. From Brooklyn, Jo-Ellen Sanders wrote in to the New York Daily News: "I am not a Donald Trump fan, but I find your coverage of him very spiteful and childish (Letters, p. 30, 11 March)." On the same page, Joanna Hughes of Maspeth reminds us that the Pope may not  be the best person to judge another Christian, Trump does not go after the Pope despite the rash of child abuse in the Pope's house. More Christian is Trump in this regard. Again, I urge the NYDN to listen to their own readers. And do not that other papers are more objective, the New York Times does not embark on this childish nonsense and sets a more mature tone. Older paper, more wisdom. Please grow up Mr. Zuckerman. Take a cue from your elder, the Gray Lady on 8th Avenue across from the Port Authority.
And take a cue from a top surgeon - Dr. Ben Carson, who, like Damon, puts aside some differences and is man enough to endorse Trump. You just might reconsider your stand that Trump is a racist.
And now I'd like to propose that Dr Carson, about whom I had very positive things to say on a previous post, ( http://brothers4trump.blogspot.com/2016/02/trump-vs-carson.html )  even if I do think Trump, what with his business experience, would at this time make a better president, be picked as the VP. A very smart guy in the White House for years adding to his top surgical skills the top political experience in the nation - and voila my dudes, a REAL black president in 2015 (hoping Trump stays in for eight years). He will have had much more experience professionally and politically than Obama should this be the case. And we can all be proud not just that a (partially) black man is residing at 1600, but that one who really can do a good job is there.
On that note let's look at reasons to vote or not to vote. Some people vote because of race or gender. Dumb. Real dumb. I mean, if you need a doctor, and you are black, and a white surgeon who can do a good job and save your life is there, do you refuse and risk your health? Did white people refuse having a top qualified, board certified surgeon like Dr Carson wield the scalpel when the needed? Not unless they were stupid.
In real life we need the right person for the job, not the white or the black person. So now there are people wanting to vote for Hillary just because she is a woman and all that jazz. As noted on previous posts, where were their votes when Cynthia McKinney ran for president? A woman...AND black. Where were the brothers and sisters? Too busy reading the mainstream media which ignored her, and us.
Trump does not ignore us. He in fact courts our vote AND said outright, we would be the vote that counts.
So that is the point of this blog. Be what counts, and I will be contacting the Trump Campaign HQ to recommend Dr Carson. Common sense political strategy.
And in 2024, we might be running this same blog but for a professionally qualified and politically experienced individual, in whose hands many people, black or white, have trusted their lives.

Super Tuesday pits Trump vs. Clinton/terrorists freed from jail in the US

Super Tuesday was a great day for Donald Trump, leaving him to battle Ted Cruz, a candidate who was not born in the US as a president needs to be, and hails from a state, Texas, with not just a low rating in the school system, but the LOWEST in the USA.
Cruz took his state and Oklahoma; Trump took most other states, and not surprisingly, Marc Rubio took his state of Florida. Also no surprise were Hillary Clinton's wins among the Dems, she even took Massachusetts away from Bernie Sanders, who is definitely a better person and politician than she. I know about him, he is from Brooklyn, I was born in Brooklyn.
And I know about Clinton and another politician from NY -  I am alluding to Clinton's friend in the Left
Melissa Mark-Viverito. She is so deranged she writes letters to the president asking for terrorists who killed Americans on the 4th of July in NYC and who will not renounce violence to be freed from jail.
And if Hillary gets in, guess what, terrorists the world over are going to be happy. You will not; they will and you will be paying for it.
That is why black people are NOT going to vote for Clinton or support her idiot friends like Melissa Mark-Viverito. It has not so much to do with their alleged sexual predation on young girls, but on the fact that black people do not want idiots and terrorists in power. Nobody wants to walk down the street and see something they don't want to see. Like maybe people running from the scene as a dirty bomb is detonated.
That is what is brewing, and so let me give you some facts the House and Senate are not going to give you.
Behind the scenes, the Iranians have stopped enriching uranium in Iran.
So that's good, right? Wrong. I said IN IRAN. They are now working in South America, with strong links to Argentina, and an ever increasing foothold in Bolivia. Clinton did nothing to combat this, even though there is uranium and lithium 6 (used to facilitate dirty bombs) in South America where they are secretly creating enrichment facilities.
Former USMS Sargeant Joe Humire testified before both House and Senate about this, and edited a book, "Iran's Secret Penetration of Latin America." Clinton did NOTHING. And she will do NOTHING. Intel people and former military guys I hang out with tell me she is being blackmailed partly on account of her sexual proclivities, and also that she is working drug cartels in the Balkans etc. She messed up Serbia and this pleased a lot of Moslem extremists and criminals in that part of the world.
So the US in in DEEP trouble with the likes of Clinton and Mark-Viverito anywhere near a public office.
On the other hand, while I cannot say too much, Trump is privy to a plan that would lead to diplomatically getting Iran OUT of South America while strengthening ties to South American countries, he is NOT like the Bushes and Obama who have make trouble for Evo Morales etc. He can reach out to Morales, which Clinton did not - and this puts the US on the track of getting rid of the Iranian nuclear scientists working in the backyard without any stupid Bay of Pigs scenario which the DEMOCRATS tried to pull off, with very bad results and all kinds of lies and cover ups. Kennedy messed it up, and Clinton could easily what with her sending top secret email on her hotmail make it worse.
If you are Joe Neckbone enough to believe Clinton's nonsense about a tender loving country then you deserve her. Wake up my man and talk to someone who has (BTW, I am a former demolitions expert with experience in the Gulf) time in service and NOT these luvvy duvvy lefties who wanna save the world AFTER their sex romp and a nice letter to the White House asking to release TERRORISTS on US soil.
My man, Trump may not be your bestest friend in the whole world, but he has his hands on real work and gets things done and does NOT mess around trying to help out terrorists.