New York City – Melanoid Nation Foundation https://www.melanoidnation.org Sun, 05 Jun 2016 20:30:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Black Religious Leaders On Hand To Pray For Donald Trump https://www.melanoidnation.org/black-religious-leaders-on-hand-to-pray-for-donald-trump/ https://www.melanoidnation.org/black-religious-leaders-on-hand-to-pray-for-donald-trump/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:20:33 +0000 http://melanoidnation.org/?p=2592 NEW YORK — On Monday afternoon, religious leaders-with a substantial number of them being Black–were in attendance at Donald Trump’s Trump Tower office with the 2016 GOP presidential hopeful for what was billed as a private meeting at the time.

The meeting was held on the premise that Trump would be able to “reach out to an influential set of Republican primary voters”, according to CNN.com. Of course, the meeting itself should not come as a surprise as it is par for the course and indicative of the typical dog and pony shows put on by political candidates. The real disappointing factor is the presence of highly influential Black clergymen in the meeting that afternoon who, at this point, would likely be averse to “handling issues at home”, such as the long dirty laundry list of issues plaguing Black Society.

One of the Black pastors in attendance, by the name of Mark Burns, participated in the closing of the meeting which involved the religious leaders gathering around Trump, and extending their collective hands toward him in prayer. Burns’s wife, Tomarra, uploaded this video to her Facebook page. Dr. David Jeremiah, the white religious leader who led the closing prayer, prayed that God “bring into his life a strong African-American who can stand with him (Trump) and represent that community, so that his voice can be heard in an even stronger way there.”

Given Donald Trump’s long history of racism against Melanoid people, don’t expect David Jeremiah’s prayers to be answered…even if hell freezes over.

B. Clark

]]> https://www.melanoidnation.org/black-religious-leaders-on-hand-to-pray-for-donald-trump/feed/ 244 NYPD Officers Now Required to Issue Receipts During Stop-And-Frisk Attempts https://www.melanoidnation.org/nypd-officers-now-required-to-issue-receipts-during-stop-and-frisk-attempts/ https://www.melanoidnation.org/nypd-officers-now-required-to-issue-receipts-during-stop-and-frisk-attempts/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:33:05 +0000 http://melanoidnation.org/?p=2579 For the entirety of its existence, the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy has been deemed highly questionable and controversial in the way that it targets Melanoid people in New York City.  According to the New York Civil Liberties Union, the first half of 2015 saw New Yorkers getting stopped by the police 13,604 times, with 11,124 of them being totally innocent. 7,158 of the people stopped were Black.

In what appears to be an attempt to curb such a heavy trend in NYC, police are now required to give a slip with a title that reads “What Is A Stop?” to the people they stop for questioning. As of Sept. 21st, NYPD cops will no longer be able to stop-and-frisk a person because they “look nervous or suspicious”. Stop-and-frisk is an ongoing problem that has even caused long-term trauma among Melanoid people who were targeted by this policy. Watch the following video to see the report about the debilitating affects of stop-and-frisk on Black Society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzxfDViRlJ0

Here’s a link to the story.

B. Clark

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