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i'll take that as my entrance music
thank you so much thank you thank
you good evening everyone thank you so
much for being here today welcome to
our ida b wells barnett keynote lecture
as we kick off black history month
for those of you who don't know
me on name of watson i'm the
senior vice chancellor
yeah diversity and community engagement here at
rutgers camden again thank you everyone for
being here and before i lean into
my remarks thank you so much to
my colleagues at rutgers camden for putting
this together today tierra neal who's our
director of d i simone owens who
was nervous to our team who oversees
our multicultural suit
in affairs and to our newest colleague
on campus dr christina jackson who leads
our africana studies program so let's give
a round of applause to them
so
yeah what a time to start celebrating
black history month but as i was
putting these remarks together today we need
it now more than ever we must
continue to celebrate the achievements of african-americans
and continue to make visible all the
amazing knowledge innovation and creativity that has
gone into making the united
states of america the united states of
america so take whatever phrase you want
black is beautiful black history three sixty
five i'm rooting for everyone black and
know that we sit here today because
of the sacrifices and contributions of those
who came before us or for those
who are working tirelessly right now to
make
our cities and our neighborhoods our communities
and our country a better place and
i thank them and the emotions of
anger fear resentment frustration and downright tiredness
come in and i would imagine many
of us and this room are feeling
that right now i am too this
is the work of black
like excellence this is the work of
black thriving of black existence and black
history month this is the work of
justice and justice as a marathon and
not a sprint do not grow weary
it is of the utmost that you
take care of yourselves everyone in this
room because the goal of right now
is to tire us out to take
our attention away from the issues we
cannot do that and when i say
us i simply do not mean african
americans or black americans i mean everyone
who is committed to justice to truth
and to equality
ta-nehisi coates wrote in his book between
the world and me a book which
he conceived as a letter to his
teenage son he wrote i did not
tell you that it would be okay
because i have never believed it will
be okay what i told you is
that your grandparents try what your grandparents
tried to tell me that this is
your country that this is your
world and that this is your body
you must find some way to live
within it all
we must find a way to deal
with this moment and the way i'm
dealing with it is to find and
create joy and my life could to
be in community like we are here
today to be patient and to be
kind to myself and to others as
a find the strength and gathered wisdom
that i can to press on and
keep the work towards equity
justice as many of you in this
room are also doing center that not
only for this month but for every
month afterwards and every day so as
we use this month to celebrate to
highlight and to reflect on the greatness
the sacrifices of african americans against the
backdrop that is trying hard to erase
and minimize
the contributions and histories and experiences of
black commit americans i leave you with
this quote that is plaster on my
wall and her picture looks at me
every day it's a quote from angela
davis that is guide me on a
daily basis as she said you have
to act as if it were possible
to radically transform the
world and you have to do it
all the time so thank you so
much for being here thank you so
much to reverend ops and i think
we need to talk because i come
from align adoption so we may because
anz and subway he's a passer i
cover my family passes so thank you
so much for bringing a word to
us today and thank you to everyone
for being here
ah
hello everyone and welcome to the ida
b wells barnett lecture and our black
history month kickoff um let's give it
a classic
my name is dr jackson as um
doctor watson said and i am the
new africana studies program chair here at
rutgers camden
yeah and i'm also a professor in
the sociology department and um i'm very
excited to be here and i'm excited
that you all came out um i'm
gonna be the mistress of ceremonies for
tonight um and we have um evening
filled with information knowledge music
iq and food so i hope you
stay with us um next up we
have our black national anthem being sung
lift every voice and i'm saying just
the first verse but we definitely have
the rest of it therefore you so
i'd like to welcome darrelle johnson up
who is actually a rutgers alum
wow
lift every year vu
seeing to the hey um screwing with
the hoe knees ah a neighbor's e
the regional saying rise high as the
knee things guys the eateries down loud
as the oozing see
see
so full of the faith that the
dark past has ah is see ah
song for the hope that the present
has bow
huh
facing the razzie suh oh new day
be gone let us march oh and
two v two e his wife
whoa
ah let's get through a one more
hand clap for the beautiful song
couple of things i forgot to mention
um i see i love the problem
of having too many people here so
um can you raise your hand if
you have a spot next to you
that is open and please feel free
don't be awkward just come on in
feel feel free to come on and
we want
everybody be comfortable okay
um and and before we continue on
just one more announcement that if you
are honor student feel free to see
dr westman right to get your credit
okay um so ah yeah thank you
to some seats up here please don't
be shy we want people to be
comfortable
um so next up we have queen
t j cooper who is a student
of mine actually my boys class i'm
teaching right now and we're also doing
independent study together and she will be
coming up to give us a little
knowledge of that actually who ida b
wells was
ah
okay okay evening everyone
i want to take a moment to
talk about a woman who's worked in
just challenge and justice it demanded accountability
ida b wells burnett was not just
a journalist she was a truth teller
a fighter and a woman who refused
to be silenced born into slavery and
eighteen sixty two she
came of age during reconstruction a time
when black people were told they were
free but were still being terrorized when
she was just sixteen both of her
parents died from yellow fever we've encouraged
to raise her younger siblings she worked
as a teacher to support them but
she didn't just stop there she saw
edgy
cation is power and she used her
voice to fight for something much greater
that fight became personal and eighty eighty
four when she was thrown off a
train for refusing to move to the
secretary segregated car she sued the railroad
company and she won until the decision
was later overtone
but that last in breaker if yields
her she turned to writing and soon
she became one of the most fearless
journalists of all time
at a time and speaking out to
get you killed she stood firm she
saw lynching for what it was racial
terror disguises justice and she exposed it
she didn't just write about it she
investigated she documented and she first she
forced the world to see what so
many trying to ignore and when why
it mobs just destroy your printing press
and memphis hoping to scare her into
silence she didn't back down she took
her fight to a national stage and
even an international one as she put
it so powerfully and her book or
read record when i present our cost
to administer editor lecturer or rep
genitive of any moral agency the first
demand is for facts and figures are
to be wells burnett demanded the truth
and she wasn't afraid to show the
world what it looked like but it
worked in stop there she understood that
justice isn't just about telling the truth
it's about action she co-funded
since that pave the way for the
civil rights movement such as the n
double acp she fought for women's rights
evil white suffragists tried to push black
women to the back should do what
so many before and after her have
done she stood in the gap for
people
and here's the thing her legacy isn't
just history it's a blueprint the fight
she led is still being fought today
the demand for justice and policing the
call for scherzo narratives about black people
it's all connected she showed us their
silence is complicity but if we don't
tell our own stories someone else will
and it
might not be right
so less so here i leave you
with a question what do we do
now how we carry her fight forward
because i'd be wells burnett dan just
speak truth to power she made power
listen and so miss we thank you
uh
we have another we give another applause
to ms cooper
thank you so much and visa
great way to kick start my name
is dr daniel torme i don't want
why do that now that was that
was just me and daniel dumais ah
director of community engagement part of our
division for diversity inclusion and community engagement
um i'm here to do a small
plug but also a little reflection in
regards to the woman who we are
recognizing today and
as we honor her in regards recognizing
the educator role that she played the
civil rights to have because what i'm
really focused on specifically big community engagement
work in the community service that she
did and how that is rooted in
all of the writing and essentially the
work that we continue to do today
and so one of the things that
i want to be conscious of is
that the power of collective action and
the importance of uplifting all of us
around us and so today as we
celebrate her legacy and let us recognize
the vital role that community service has
played in advancing social justice by actively
participating in our communities we can address
the challenges we face and
work towards creating a more just and
equitable society so today as you get
the opportunity to listen and we sit
and reflect on the work that has
come and those that we're continuing to
do i actively encourage you all to
please continue to come out to our
activities are events that dice is offering
here
here at rutgers camden but also recognize
if you're interested in getting involved and
if you're interested in finding ways on
how you can be actively engaged in
your community here at rutgers here in
camden please don't hesitate to show up
to our events find out our events
on gift pulse but also find ways
to connect and really why
to make sure that i'm just leaving
you with that but this is just
part of our conversation and this is
a continuation of the work that we're
gonna continue to do going forward so
thank you so much i'm going to
bring up dr jackson so that we
can do our introduction tour speaker
wow
right thank you thank you so much
back to tomi for those reflections um
so welcome yet welcoming again to our
lecture and our black history month kick-off
i'm just very excited that of that
we're here and i'm very excited to
see this room packed so i've you
all made my day um and i'm
also so gay
glad to see many of our students
here so thank you for coming and
we also have an amazing special guest
artists mr donald camp here in the
front it was received many awards from
the guggenheim foundation and the national endowment
for arts thank you for being here
appreciate it without further ado i would
like to introduce
our speaker reverend eric dobson who i
had the privilege of meeting several years
ago while i was organizing with black
lives matter atlantic city and he reminded
me of that and um every time
we talk i learned so much um
his biographies in the program but i
will highlight very quickly a few key
important asp
effects of reverend option is a self-described
faith leader social activists and political consultant
um with a deep commitment to social
justice he is also a senior special
adviser for the fair share housing center
spending the past fifteen years advocating for
affordable housing right here in new jersey
his advocacy has run the gamut from
securing funding for homeownership programs providing strategic
counsel for both local and national campaigns
on race relations among other issues and
winning numerous awards including the end of
the acp social justice advocate award reverend
dobson will speak for around twenty
minutes or so and then we will
have a question and answer and hopefully
we can have a robust question to
answer section after that i'll give some
brief closing remarks before we break for
our reception um so again um i'm
very excited for you all to be
here and sit back and now let's
give a round applause for reverend eric
dobson
uh
good evening everyone
i'm glad you guys came out for
this wonderful evening to to honor someone
who's very very important in our history
let me say this for all the
students over here like you i was
a student here at one time i
sat in this very room walk these
very halls got a little trouble
and i really actually enjoy my time
here at rutgers it was um one
of the most exhilarating parts of my
life just learning so much from the
professors here so i want to start
by thanking you all you all came
out don camp posted there over there
and many of my family members my
wife and my bones daughters here
my friend samantha so all the whos
came out just really appreciate you all
being here so let me let me
jump into the discussion for tonight and
the topic that out phrase my discussion
about is the cost of the dream
housing race and the fight for fairness
the costs of the dream the cause
most of the dream for a moment
let me just briefly tell you something
that happened to me there are moments
in our lives that actually changes us
right that defined us and define moments
and places and how we see the
world
and i remember vividly
when i was a kid spinning the
summers and mending home mississippi going to
visit my god parents meeting their parents
for every summer we would go down
there and it was mississippi was just
like so fun running into fields riding
back pickup trucks my job was feeding
the pigs um chasing fire
flies at night the sap felt different
from where i grew up in filling
but also very familiar until the day
it didn't
one day we were going into the
city jackson mississippi
and we're heading in a city but
before we got in the pickup truck
the adults pulled us aside me and
my god brother my guy system said
listen when we get into the city
don't speak don't look don't talk to
white people let us handle that
i didn't understand at first why why
what was so different about this day
then it hit me for the first
time in my life i realised i
was black
i realised my blackness was not just
a part of me it was a
limitation it was a warning it was
a threat to my own safety i
would never ever forget that feeling and
unfortunately so many young black kids must
endure that
years later when i was visiting me
and my wife was visiting in memphis
we visit the civil rights center and
i felt that feeling again when i
stood before the emet to exhibit
i stood there and looked
and for moment i burst out in
tears
getting motion was just thinking about it
now
a young black boy from the city
going to the south to visit family
members
and had interaction with a white woman
and that interaction stole his life
he was he was a kid murdered
i cried and wet because i realised
i could have been too
and this is the part that really
captivates me when i think about this
issue that many of us don't think
about as much as we should maybe
we do the issue of fear because
we don't always identify or see the
fear that looms around us
yours and our communities
but is there and we don't always
realize it is not always immediate or
obvious sometimes it's a fear of the
police sometimes the fear of violence sometimes
the fear getting evicted sometimes it's a
fear of the economic and emotional struggles
when we're trying to make ends meet
sometimes it's the fear of survival
it's a field that tells the little
children a little child when a police
officer was walking by to lower your
voice is the fear that erupts in
anger when someone in a neighborhood feels
disrespected and because respect is all that
they have ever had left it's the
fear of people being forced to stand
up and do some relationships because economic
condition
fear keep people from dreaming beyond their
circumstances because life has shown them that
dreams are dangerous yes it's the fear
of large corporations and some universities who
are being pressured to dismantle the d
ai programs under the gospel
of identity politics to distract what's distract
us from what's really the purpose of
the key power and money in the
hands of a few it's just a
distraction
as drake put it how can i
live if you're living in fear drake
or bagram you know
it's not just a metaphor for some
it's real life and the worst part
this fear doesn't come from within
it's worth asking where does it come
from who benefits when so many of
us are stuck in survival mode who
benefits from that survival mode
ida b wells knew it all too
well
over her legacy over centuries he stood
and faced his rachel terrible when a
young lady talked about it earlier and
and god blessed the musicians and the
singers that that that was awesome and
she talked about it she saw the
reconstruction error she saw when black wolf
started to happen she saw the success
of some black people then snatched away
re religion and murder in jim crow
laws
he didn't allow that fear to stop
her
she demonstrated by exposing the truth
this is what you said the way
to right wrongs is to turn a
light upon them turn the light of
eternal light on them
turn alone and i'll get to shine
a light on
shine a light on young i remember
that song gentlemen
if we honor ida b wells legacy
he must turn the light of truth
onto a modern-day systems of exploitation and
marginalized communities we must shine a light
on them and let's talk for a
moment about the tension that has been
existing in our communities around the g
word you'll note a g were
somebody
i mean i'm keeping this clean at
the g word gentrification we're talking about
now let's just talk about this for
a moment
gentrification and displacement now is easy to
blame
what's happening in our communities on gentrification
but what doesn't we really we need
to really take a step back because
who wasn't oh what community has been
disinvested for years what what more investment
in their communities right
for decades we've been experienced disinvestment why
wouldn't we want more investment back into
our community the problem isn't gentrification the
problem isn't this an investment the problem
is displacement
it's not gonna confuse cities and regions
across his country health fell to plan
to keep longtime residents in their communities
while welcoming new ones they have not
implemented policies to prevent families from being
just this place
imagine if we could do both imagine
it we could do both and this
and our communities without displacement people who
have lived there for years and generations
will be able to stay and foster
blended communities and these cultures the capital
honoring the old and bring it into
new connecting an emb
bracing each other it is not it's
not just possible it is necessary somebody
say necessary
the solutions belies the solution lies in
the policies of human connectedness and equity
and not just profits so let me
share with you a little bit about
the united black agenda are five five
twenty twenty five policy initiatives so i
don't stand here to give you a
false
into hope hope can be dangerous
hope can be dangerous are you listening
to him who can allow someone to
sit there and wait for somebody else
to do something to change
when you have within you the power
to change let me tell you some
i don't mean to knock on you
know not going to be religion but
jesus didn't teach hope
so let me ah christian that may
blow your ma jesus didn t ho
and o that what his message his
message was the kingdom of god is
within you have the power to change
and state your community not somebody else
y'all don't hear me i gotta close
so let's talk about this this is
what we're trying to do is i
stand here to talk about the fire
policy and issue the one is baby
bonds and vesting and young black communities
with little kids when they're born that
they created an account for them that
stays in an account invested in them
until they're eighteen they can either use
it to go to college build a
business buy a house maybe bonds or
some that we know will work number
two universal basic income
for years and sick we know this
works norc has done it patterson has
done in other cities have done it
if we put a basic income in
the hands and a and a whole
adult or more ap communities they were
used to pay bills right but we
use it to feed your children right
they were using that
experience some joy don't listen to the
nonsense of people already just want to
buy tds and buy cars let me
tell you some
all of us can afford a flat
screen tv now that's gone from fifty
five minutes for two hundred dollars
remember remember fifty seven tds was like
four grand
so don't listen to the nonsense technology
has changed right
so the third one is accountability for
lending institutions there have been five institutions
in new jersey who has been hit
with discrimination practices who has discriminated against
folks who's trying to get mortgages what
puts all these years up and fighting
the good affordable housing bill fighting affordable
housing laws
what good is it the banks won't
lend in discriminate redlining racial steering discriminating
housing practices
so let's wanna look at a report
card on banks and lending institutions make
sure they are lending in neighborhoods that
they had redline for years and overran
mining is that's when banks and more
companies will put red color neighbourhoods and
red and said don't live near
number for a racial impact statement on
all legislation you hear me that is
when someone presents a policy before the
government that that policy must go through
filtration make sure that does not have
a disparate impact or racial impact on
that on that community
richard impact statement on all legislation and
number five faith and education around affordable
housing this is something that's unique about
love the work on this and i
want to get this past new jersey
seven other states have done this allow
faith institutions and rutgers higher education institutions
the bypass local zoning to build affordable
housing
we know we have a short report
about housing we know we have a
housing crisis and we have faith institutions
and universities who have when it's somebody
who's universities and so many he's charged
to the paper institutions of hoof off
oct since perkins and covert nineteen april
i've got to change their strategy right
they have buildings that
be utilized but local municipalities are stopping
these churches and his faith institutions from
building
not in our backyard they say there's
a new movement somebody say a new
movement it's called gibi it's called yes
and golf backyard right that's what we're
trying to do these are just ideas
so what do you think about that
what do you feel about that
you imagine that
so let me close by this
let me close by
the cost of the dream the cost
of a dreamed have always been paid
by the most marginalized communities but we
have the power that changed that cause
to demand that american dream does not
come at the expense of black life
black culture and black belong to him
now listen
no no it's so funny how this
nation hides the history of exploitation racism
slavery right lynching murder rape we hide
the history we don't talk about everybody's
trying to get rid of the
what we don't talk about is how
this nation and this culture corporations use
black culture to sell products you can't
want to commercial today without having some
type of hip hop or some type
of black culture trying to sell you
something
i mentioned listen to me we're not
good enough oh god on here mean
we're not good enough to talk about
our history but we're good enough to
be exploited
and that was all the tip of
purposes what a board of here in
the first place to exploit us and
never intent us for us to survive
they never did audrey horne and the
horne said they never intended for us
to to buy we got to the
work of audre lorde not the lord
you are talking about
so let me close
so let me close by saying we're
quoting one of the great philosophers of
the day
when a greatest artists of the day
he wrote the book a hove
he wrote the book hope look
and he says remind yourself nobody's built
like you you design yourself
thus in the long dream you don't
talk about the book of the book
a whole
what i'm talking about j c
remind yourself nobody don't like you you
designed yourself
it was all a dream
you sample a biggie i usually read
ya yai with me i'll leave it
alone
and let me leave you with this
what does this moment acts of you
because it's bigger than housing this is
bigger than housing this is bigger than
economics this is about human connection
what are we here for what might
each of us do to build a
future that we deserve one of my
favorite quotes from mark twain
mark twain said the two most important
days in the person's life is a
dater born in a day they find
out why what is your why thank
you so much
ah alright so let's first of all
you remember naps and the hay classes
and work we have a little bit
of time for some question and answer
so feel free to raise your food
and you could um ask a question
or maybe there's some things that were
ever dobson said that really resonated
scared the hell outta you whatever
yes ma'am
yeah
that's a great question and i wrestle
with that as growing up as a
kid and trying to figure out where
my direction was going to go
so a young lady acts this you
should watch this program where this young
lady's twenty black young lady is trying
to advance in the corporation and she's
always getting pushed down but questioning her
black or code switching that's pretty much
code switching right and so she said
what would you advise young people to
do
in corporate america under these conditions and
imo lighting um
um
i think it's demeaning
i think you know here's the thing
and in america we are taught and
i'm not trying to not college we're
taught go to school get your degree
and your advanced but you know our
ancestors were entrepreneurs that's who we were
and that's who we are do we
get creativity that lies
within the us all gives us the
ability to know how to you know
make money as easy like that that's
not hard to do making money is
easy and what what you can't get
back his time so you spend thirty
years code switch and trying to live
up to someone's other expectations than who
you are
our than you're wrapping yourself of your
own identity i'm sorry i may not
be a popular answer but you know
when you have to live up and
i wrote on my blog you know
about the fear living up expectations i
was the past few years i'm repping
still call me a rep and i
don't know why and but because i
i
drink you know i love scots i
love cigars and i helped getting recreation
marijuana legal here so every now and
then i enjoy some like yeah i'm
just keeping a real so um so
so my point is like if you
can't be yourself then who are you
if you're trying to be somebody
or else you can never imitate anybody
else you can never like imitation like
jackson imitation flattery is annoying right quote
and drank again lowered immersion and so
really being yourself it may cost you
financially in the beginning it costs me
i'll walk out of jobs because i
know i'm not doing that
but i believe in myself like daisy
saddam built myself believing yourself so that's
a long answer but yeah
to answer your question
thank you
yes ma'am
yes
so yeah i was down there at
a very young age i spent my
summers every year going to mississippi probably
from age
seven through twelve
oh not now you know now you're
trying to touch
i got three grandkids i don't know
if i can remember what year that
was
yeah
so
three
yeah it was the eighties partly it
was it was ah
seventy seventies late seventies eighties year yet
mississippi haven't changed much
it's still mississippi you know
anyone else yes man judge ajax
being born here
yes yes so this is initiative i
think that is highly productive for our
communities particularly um
african american communities because you can't draw
two blocks without seeing four churches
four churches
let me let me catch myself i'm
our communities are inundated with churches and
sometimes these buildings are vacant mostly during
during the week and some so many
churches are big and they have a
lot of space i'm working with a
church up in newark right now who's
wanting to do affordable housing so this
law allows faith institutions and higher education
solutions the bypass
and zoning because local zoning is pointing
to key reasons why
housing disparities exist in our country when
you have local zoning who can control
what gets built in your community and
for years they wouldn't allow to build
multifamily housing just one new jersey have
you know most new jersey's housing except
for the northern cities or suburbs they
are on two three four acre lots
that's not by axis
agent that's intentional to make sure people
of color aren't able to move in
these communities about building multifamily housing that's
what it's for just one new jersey
have five hundred and sixty six municipalities
this little state have five hundred sixty
six kingdoms
local governments who determine what to build
in their community so this law and
now i hope y'all can help me
get it done what will allow us
to bypass local zoning to get affordable
housing done this sounds like a good
plan
yes
yeah absolutely universities have a big responsibility
in an area because the world's a
lot of power and control in certain
local communities so when when universities are
silent on that issue alright that's a
big problem because they have the power
to talk to local elected officials hey
what are we doing to make sure
longtime residents who lived through the suffering
who
who lived through the crack era y'all
remember the correction yep some year or
two younger well let's that's the opioid
epidemic epidemic y'all remember that knows why
it was open to uproar about that
they said nothing about the crack era
but that's a whole nother story and
um universities have a huge responsibility because
the power and land that they own
particularly public
universities don't pay property tax so you
wonder why some of our cities are
struggling when they the cities don't have
a tax base and those tax bases
not utilized to build housing or utilize
to help folks in the community standards
community that's a huge responsibility because our
neighbourhoods
when we experience that disinvestment when colleges
come in our communities and building our
community yea if you want to bring
you one of the welcome investment you
want to welcome you know development but
you want to make sure that folks
who suffer all those years get an
opportunity to stay like i said there's
nothing wrong with invest in africa who
don't care
investment in his community but it needs
the proper planning and a proper investment
that our elected officials that are business
owners about universities come together and say
listen how can we plan the mixture
the old and a new mix together
that cultures mix together the old tradition
stay in place that new traditions come
and welcome that's
fears like that's human development not just
profit-making so the power that universities have
the influence they have in the resources
they have is important is very very
important make sure our communities thrive and
we see it all over the country
university start to expand investment comes in
and longtime residents get pushed out universities
have the man we're going to expand
with on the auspice of making sure
that we're providing affordable housing that we're
providing homes that longtime residents don't get
this place how can we develop and
build that way
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because when people use gentrification they get
all an uproar in your post protesting
and you gotta change the conversation is
not about gentrification is about displacement we've
got to reshape that narrative right how
do we how do we make sure
folks don't get this place and how
do we make sure
that our local residents have a stake
in a say in what's being developed
you know so changing the narrative and
that's why i bring up this point
around gentrification because the g word everybody
oh identification go on protest we got
to stop this stop is what wait
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live do you see this shit like
do you understand what's happening
what the hell are you talking about
right and so is changing the narrative
let's have it have a community that's
have a conversation about this what type
of investment may want to see like
what do we want do we wanna
have a community that representative of the
old and new that's that's the conversation
we need to chase
change gentrification conversation to displacement that's what
we really have to do
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most folks are when you look at
how this country is set up like
they want to establish places and communities
were to have infrastructure right so they
know our cities already had that infrastructure
so they're just taking advantage of our
elected officials
that's right they don't need tax abatements
what we need to talk about how
do we have a gentrification tax in
other words longtime residents their taxes don't
go up so that's the conversation we
gotta start ya ya hear me like
change the narrative around this gentrification stuff
corporations that large
helpers they don't need tax abatements what
we need is a mixture they're they're
coming in paying their taxes now we
can we can we can now have
a discussion about managing that tax abatement
program but the real discussion is how
do we have a tax abatement for
longtime residents to make sure they're not
taxed out does that make
sense those are the conversations we've got
to have right i get asked all
the time in working in dorne for
about four years i was upstart arguing
one person who's running for governor now
in his city during the city and
he was talking about it costs too
much to bill i'm like the almost
cost like like
are you telling me that you can't
build affordable housing in jersey city because
like argued have you all been a
journey so that have you seen the
prices that are set may not try
to sell munitions i'm not cool man
like when they talk about developers can
afford to build in these communities now
i'm gonna be honest there are some
small developers who can but major developers
most of these developers who's developing new
jersey are large corporations
they can eat that cause they look
the corporation going to take advantage of
they can you know they if they
don't have to pay taxes they will
come and tell you all type of
stuff so they won't take advantage of
it you know
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white person in america who can prove
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me preach in churches no more
thank you so much appreciate
that's okay
and let's get replica one more round
of applause thanks so much
yeah um
i'm so happy so happy thank you
so much for giving that very compelling
talk um and in the words of
item b wells barnett quote the way
to right wrongs is to turn the
light of truth upon them and i
feel like that's what we have done
together tonight um so i encourage us
to move forward and live out the
principles revealing some of these
truths in our society right through our
work through our activism or community engagement
to our research um and so i
want to thank everyone for coming tonight
um we've come to the close of
our event and before we break i'd
like to give a couple thank you's
um i want to thank everyone who
made this event possible
including tiara um who's not here samo
samo given up the smoke that's okay
dr watson and dr tomi thank you
so much
and i also want to give a
shout out and thank you to queen
t j gave a speech at terrelle
johnson
thank you so much and so now
at this time we are going to
have a wonderful band of young picassos
play for us while we break bread
and eat together so i encourage you
to stay get to know each other
please eat all the wonderful food that
we have here and thank you so
much for being here
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