We live within the 6th US Congressional District located in Middle Tennessee. Emancipation is a term that refers to the public process by which people are instated to their legal rights, as citizens. When citizens remain uneducated or uninformed of the entire scope of their rights, the potential of their capacity to exercise those rights is deemed "unemancipated".
Despite the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation was signed into law c. 1867, and the fact that the Twentieth Century witnessed the enactments known as the Civil Rights Acts and their statutes, many citizens remain 'unemancipated', meaning that although they may have heard about the potential legal standing they possess as citizens, until each, as an individual, participates in the EXERCISE of a specific right, the status of enforcement by the public, legal authority of that specific right (legal status quo) is untested and, therefore the level of protection of those rights as real exercises remains collectively "unemancipated" among the citizenry of that jurisdiction.
When the people who have been elected to the offices of public trust, as judges, officials and delegates fail to honor the law and, therefore, preserve it as it is published, the citizens who are members of the class of persons protected by those laws remain unemancipated in those rights.
Within the 6th US Congressional District (Tennessee) there is a demonstrated need for changing of the guard among those who are charged with public duty to uphold and preserve the published laws.
In 2001, a couple purchased a home. The owner and, thus, seller of the property and its premises is Cavalry Banking, a former small-town bank which has become a charter member of the Federal Reserve system. Unbeknownst to this couple, ....and undisclosed by either the bank or the title company (each of the principals involved being small-town, "old money comrades", i.e. local "good, ol' boys") was the fact that this property had housed an illicit, criminal enterprise and that the bank knew of the criminal activity throughout its duration for approximately 5 years.
Subsequently, the new owners discovered a cache of illegal drugs secreted within the house. When the bank refused to respond to their letters of conern, they went to the Offices of their Congressman in the 6th US Congressional District.
Unfortunately for this couple, because they did not keep the illicit, illegal drugs in their possession, the congressman's office refused to be of assistance. Two years later, the same congressman appears in the local newspapers supporting a different couple who have had a similar, if not identical, experience in the purchase of a home that formerly had housed a drug operation.
The question is this:
Why did the congressman from the 6th US Congressional District help one couple, but not the other? One couple is Caucasian, the other is non-Caucasian. Middle Tennessee may be part of the "new South", but it is the South, nonetheless. Period.
The significance of raising this issue is not to inflame a heated debate about racial equality. It is, however, about accountability by the people who are elected by a public process to act, as our public officials to safeguard the integrity of our collective desires for one another and ourselves, in order to live peaceably together, even those of us who cannot hide behind the wrought-iron security of a gated community where they reside in a lifestyle afforded by revenue and salaries which originate as the voluntary tax contributions of ALL citizens, black and white, affluent and poor.
Censuus Tract No. 0419 is within the 6th US Congressional District; it is also in the same town that the small-town bank that has grown up to be a big, ol' federal reserve bank was originated.
The former drug-house that was sold to the non-white couple by the bank is situated in Census Tract No. 0419.
Census Tract No. 0419 happens to be the area of that town where the highest density of poor people live; and, most of them are black and indigenous to that town. Who knew? Go figure.
Despite the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation was signed into law c. 1867, and the fact that the Twentieth Century witnessed the enactments known as the Civil Rights Acts and their statutes, many citizens remain 'unemancipated', meaning that although they may have heard about the potential legal standing they possess as citizens, until each, as an individual, participates in the EXERCISE of a specific right, the status of enforcement by the public, legal authority of that specific right (legal status quo) is untested and, therefore the level of protection of those rights as real exercises remains collectively "unemancipated" among the citizenry of that jurisdiction.
When the people who have been elected to the offices of public trust, as judges, officials and delegates fail to honor the law and, therefore, preserve it as it is published, the citizens who are members of the class of persons protected by those laws remain unemancipated in those rights.
Within the 6th US Congressional District (Tennessee) there is a demonstrated need for changing of the guard among those who are charged with public duty to uphold and preserve the published laws.
In 2001, a couple purchased a home. The owner and, thus, seller of the property and its premises is Cavalry Banking, a former small-town bank which has become a charter member of the Federal Reserve system. Unbeknownst to this couple, ....and undisclosed by either the bank or the title company (each of the principals involved being small-town, "old money comrades", i.e. local "good, ol' boys") was the fact that this property had housed an illicit, criminal enterprise and that the bank knew of the criminal activity throughout its duration for approximately 5 years.
Subsequently, the new owners discovered a cache of illegal drugs secreted within the house. When the bank refused to respond to their letters of conern, they went to the Offices of their Congressman in the 6th US Congressional District.
Unfortunately for this couple, because they did not keep the illicit, illegal drugs in their possession, the congressman's office refused to be of assistance. Two years later, the same congressman appears in the local newspapers supporting a different couple who have had a similar, if not identical, experience in the purchase of a home that formerly had housed a drug operation.
The question is this:
Why did the congressman from the 6th US Congressional District help one couple, but not the other? One couple is Caucasian, the other is non-Caucasian. Middle Tennessee may be part of the "new South", but it is the South, nonetheless. Period.
The significance of raising this issue is not to inflame a heated debate about racial equality. It is, however, about accountability by the people who are elected by a public process to act, as our public officials to safeguard the integrity of our collective desires for one another and ourselves, in order to live peaceably together, even those of us who cannot hide behind the wrought-iron security of a gated community where they reside in a lifestyle afforded by revenue and salaries which originate as the voluntary tax contributions of ALL citizens, black and white, affluent and poor.
Censuus Tract No. 0419 is within the 6th US Congressional District; it is also in the same town that the small-town bank that has grown up to be a big, ol' federal reserve bank was originated.
The former drug-house that was sold to the non-white couple by the bank is situated in Census Tract No. 0419.
Census Tract No. 0419 happens to be the area of that town where the highest density of poor people live; and, most of them are black and indigenous to that town. Who knew? Go figure.
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