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Charles Barron Should SHUT UP!!!!!
This post was originally going to be titled “MJ, de Blasio, and the Black/ White Wealth Gap.” I was going to explore how some successful Black men like Michael Jackson haphazardly form family with seemingly no awareness of the role they play in the Black/ White wealth gap. For instance, some Black males date, marry, and mate with white women. There is nothing wrong with that. But they cannot then complain about the lack of intergenerational wealth in Black communities when they take their resources out of the Black community via mating with women outside the race. Some of these men say they could not find a Black woman on their level to marry. Well, what was Michael Jackson's excuse? He married his dermatologist's assistant. He couldn't find a Black woman with a working class job? Considering the children were allegedly conceived by sperm donation, they are not even genetically his. Yet they will be the beneficiaries of MJ's inherited wealth. Another wealth loss to the Black community. And too many Black women live their lives without ever having been married, even though they would like to. There has been much commentary about the de Blasio marriage in the Black community. I say, at least Chirlane de Blasio has a husband. In a NY Post article about de Blasio featuring his wife and children on campaign mailings, Charles Barron is quoted as saying, “The insulting part of it is that if you want to appeal to us based upon our issues, not based upon who you're married to.” This from the same man who single-handedly caused a change in policy towards politicians at a local church when he spoke in a negative manner about de Blasio, then commented about de Blasio's “Black wife” in a published report about the incident. The same man who began calling himself “Mr. Inez Barron” after his wife won the 40th Assembly seat. Guess what? Many things Charles Barron says, and does, are insulting to segments of the Black community, and I am not talking about the wanting to “slap white people” comment. Earlier the year, Barron and his “henchmen” came into my district (the 41st) to confront a small business owner who named his store “Obama Fried Chicken.” The business owner was told if he didn't take down the sign, it would be taken down for him. All that did was bring to the business owner community support from people who did not think anything is wrong with the sign. Many saw it as a symbol of pride, along with the Obama t-shirts, posters, and commemorative newspapers. The sign is still up, and the business is still being supported. I have heard many in Barron’s district, and mine, say they are offended that he chooses to roam outside his district looking for empty racial issues. Here's an issue for Councilman Barron. Try developing much needed small business ownership in his district. He can start with attracting the supermarkets the district needs. Last winter, I interviewed Barron for an article I wrote about the prostitution of middle school girls three blocks from your district office. It has been going on for years. Barron’s own constituents have complained directly to your district office about the activity all hours of the day and the resulting residue, including used condoms, left on the streets right in front of the middle school on Pennsylvania and Stanley. I have seen them. Barron assured me he was working on community action regarding the issue. To this date, he has not organized even one march, rally, or community forum to challenge the issue. Maybe, if little girls in Gaza were being coerced into commercial sex exploitation, he would address it. As easy as it is to speak up about so called “racial issues” it should be just that easy to stand up for little Black girls. Harlem's Rachel Lloyd filmed in your district regarding the issue, which can be seen in her documentary “Very Young Girls.” Isn't the well being of little girls in Barron’s district a community issue? Or must the 42nd council district’s little girls to be victimized by white pimps and tricks in order to turn it into a racial issue? The prostitution of little girls in ENY is a symptom of a bigger problem – the breakdown of marriage, dearth of family values, and disrespect of Black women and girls among some residents in your district. Single parenthood is the norm, with all the attendant problems it causes. ENY has high rates of HIV and other STD's, foster care, welfare dependency, and imprisonment. In fact, ENY residents are the largest group of those incarcerated on Riker's Island. Barron should focus on those families, and leave de Blasio’s alone. The de Blasio's are a family. Married almost 16 years, their children were born to a stable, married couple. No matter what happens in this election, we can be assured their children will not become liabilities to tax payers, unlike many in your district. If the problem is a Black woman married to a white man, get over it. More Black women should consider marrying outside the race, since not enough Black men develop the manhood required to step to the altar. Hey Mary Alice: can we do a DNA test on you? You are showing a lot of BALLS with this column. LOL. Seriously though, I do admire you having the guts to speak your mind. I do admire your journalistic courage to tell it as you see it. I don't agree with five or ten percent of your positions here, but the ones I agree with surely took strength for you to express, given your relationships with the nationalistic types who will probably condemn you for this. Barron is a racist in the truest sense of the word. The black media fears writing the truth about him, and compromises its journalistic integrity by not doing a single bit of investigative reporting. I saw what you wrote, Mary Alice, about the Black Media and Barron and it was so true. Barron was pretty well behaved at the impromptu candidates forum last week, however it was rigged to favor him, so why wouldn't he behave? But at the very end he launched a very nasty, personal attack at one of his opponents. It was yet another embarassment in a long list of embarassments. As well behaved as he was, he made sure he continued his lies. Lies about creating jobs. Lies about his fight for good education. Lies about housing development. Lies about social services. He even tried to attack people in the audience, having close to a shouting match with someone doing development in the audience. Hey Barron, here's a tip: That's not the best strategy to get votes! So here's a question: If DeBlasio had a white wife and kids, and featured them prominently in his ads, would Barron take issue? How about another: If DeBlasio DIDN'T feature his family, wouldn't Barron still spew his racism about that? Barron, you are disgusting, embarssing, and real piece of garbage, trying to create a double-standard. DeBlasio absolutely loves his family. Anyone that knows him knows that this is nothing new at all. That is a fact. He has also brought them on the campaign trail before. That's another fact. Barron on the other hand hasn't proved a single thing in all his race baiting, other than giving evidence that, once again, he hates whites. And his race baiting at a church a few weeks ago ended in a major policy change disallowing candidates (or giving them severely limited access) to speak to its congregation on Sundays. What does that mean for legimitate candidates trying to communicate their platform for the masses? This church's leadership should share in the blame because they have given Barron a free pass for far too long. What did they think a loose cannon like Barron would do? Did they really think he cares enough about protecting their reputation (and for that matter, their 501(c)3)? Mary Alice, the only issue I have with your post is the title. I wish you had named it "CHARLES BARRON SHOULD GO AWAY!" I wish I could use my real name but I am tied to an organization he funds, and if he found out who I am he would demand my dissmissal or threaten their funding. Yeah, that's right, Barrron makes the same exact threats as everyone else. So much for the big difference. Anyone else attend the candidates forum last week? Anyone else hear him tell his lies? Anyone else notice how the "timekeeper" let Barron run for over twice the alloted length every time he spoke? Of course it has NOTHING to do with that it was organized by United Community Centers, a long-time Barron affiliate. What a farce. The staff there lives in fear of Barron, as do many others. And for those tracking his ever-shifting position on why he is running despite his opposition to term limits, at the candidates forum he said that he was oppossed to it being overturned through LEGISLATION. So in other words he had no problem with the term limits extension, but only with the way it was done.He went further to say that he wants term limits: 3 terms, though, not 2. Of course this is the ever shifting platform of Barron. He fought against it. Voted no. Then made public statements that he would not run, and that the ones running were doing so because they had no where else to go. Hey Barron, does that mean YOU TOO had no where else to go, since YOU TOO are running? If so, you are wrong. I know a good place for you to go: STRAIGHT TO HELL. But the hypocrasy doesn't end there. In a NY1 interview with he, his wife, and Dominic Carter (he always allows Barron to run amock) he made very public statements about something called OPERATION POWER, with his wife Inez in the Assembly and new leadership being developed in the form of Paul Washington as the next councilmember. So here's yet another question: What happened that Paul didn't run afterall? A look at the CFB website shows he was indeed raising money. What happened? Other than the obvious, that Barron told him to step down. And the real disgusting irony is: Charles prides himself on the work of his business, "Dynamics of Leadership". What does it say about Barron's ability to develop new leadership to replace him? I mean its not like Dynamics of Leadership was a bakery right? Or a pizza shop? Or a shoe store. THEY ARE A LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT COMPANY. But the sad fact is that Barron will most likely be reelected. And probably by a decent margin. And he will continue to spew his racial hatred. IS HE THE BEST WE CAN PRODUCE? If he wins, I will be working with others to begin to organize protests at his office and his home. He does it to everyone (especially if there are TV cameras). Why can't we protest him? My last bit: To the congressional and state representatives of the same area: He called every one of you out as being ineffective. He is more effective than every single one. Senator John Sampson: you don't do as much as he does. Senator Martin Dilan: you don't do as much as he does. Assemblyman Darryl Towns: you don't do as much as he does. Assemblywoman Inez Barron: yeah you too don't do as much as he does, because he was clear in his statement that it was EVERYONE. Congressman Ed Towns: you surely don't do as much as he does (as he relished in singling you out). The message was clear: God Bless Charles Barron for being with us. He went on and on about how lucky we are to have a councilmember that works so hard. Yeah it's luck alright to have Barron. BAD LUCK. Thank you Mary Alice. What you did took real guts. You are doing what journalists used to do before they became compromised.
 I mis-wrote the quote and mixed a few pronouns. Corrected Barron quote from the NY Post: “The insulting part of it is that if you want to appeal to the black community, then appeal to us based upon our issues, not based upon who you're married to.” There is much that rests underneath that statement. It conjures up long running conversations in the black community that have been re-hashed recently. For years, Black women have been told if they marry a white man they are a traitor to the race, or the white man will treat them like a slave, as slave masters did for centuries. I have heard those same assertions lately, from unmarried Black men. The truth is since the 1960''s, the nationalist crowd taught Black women to expect little or nothing from Black men. Even “enlightened” women bought it. An example is the promotion of ghetto polygamy – which does not work in Africa – so that Black women would not expect Black men to faithfully commit or be loyal to one woman and their children. Women with self-esteem would not have bought that folly. It could only be sold within the community by teaching the women to de-value themselves. This was done through the culture. Blaxploitation characters such as Superfly and the Mack taught everyone it is OK to pimp Black women, and children. Wasn't it an underage Mario Van Peebles who simulated sex with an adult woman in “Sweet Sweetback's Bad Ass Song”? Fast forward to rappers like Snoop, who told the world that Black women and girls are nothing but B's and Hos. As much as the Taliban hate their women, even they do not tell the world their women are nothing but prostitutes. Lately, there has been some lip service regarding the issue. It is too little, too late. Disrespect for Black women and the attendant dysfunctions have permeated throughout the culture. Healthy Black children need more than just a stressed single parent trying to handle everything alone. Ideally, children need two stable adults, committed and married, living in the home. What is required is more healthy Black men to discipline themselves and become stable husbands. In the absence of Black men willing or able to become husbands, what are Black women supposed to do -- accept the culture of tricking? One alternative is for healthy Black women to marry outside the race. My eyes were opened a couple of years ago when, speaking on behalf of children, a variety of women, including me, went to various nationalist, grassroots leadership, asking for a march, rally, or public forum to denounce the rape, prostitution or sexual exploitation of young girls. We were told “We can't do that; it would be divisive.” Yet they call for unity. It became obvious to me that “Black issues” as defined by male leadership is only what Black men want or think they need – no matter what they do to Black females. Since then, whenever there is a call for community action on behalf of Black issues, I ask myself if it includes the well-being of Black women and children. This litmus test excludes a lot of necessary actions. I decided I will no longer attend any march, rally, or protest, nor will I make and distribute flyers, fry the chicken and lick stamps, or put money in the collection basket, if the issue does not include improving conditions for Black women and girls. Period. As a journalist, I no longer chase police brutality stories. There are enough people who do that. It is not a state of emergency for me and a lot of Black women. Let the men handle their business, without hiding under their mamma's skirts. Anyone who has read Our Time Press over the past few years knows my position. I have written articles about family formation, STD's, child prostitution, and one economist's theory regarding the rational behaviors of Black women in response to urban culture. I also had a column called the XY Chronicles, in which I explored how Black male behavior impacts Black women and children. Some may get mad at me for speaking out, but so what. What are they going to do –ostracize me? As a Black woman, I am already excluded from the mainstream of community attention. I speak out because Charles Barron stepped over the line when he began talking about de Blasio's wife. At least, she is a wife.  Mary Alice, Charles Barron mentioned Bill DeBlasio's Public Advocate ads at last week's candidates forum, held on 9-3-09. I have audio from the event. It misses part of the opening statements (my apologies to candidates Carlos Bristol and Regina Powell) and cuts off just before the closing statements, but the balance, almost 2 hours worth, is the complete Q & A. I can't post it here so I put it on my website for download as an MP3. You can get it by visiting: NOTE: It's a big file so when you're on the page and click on it, be patient. It's about 95MB so may take a few minutes to download and then load in the approproriate browser plug-in. --- Manny Burgos, This is a very passionate post. I appreciate the honesty and emotion you have put in this piece, but I cannot say I 100% agree with some of the things you say. When it comes to Charles Barron, I agree 100% with what you are saying. My issue is with yoru comments about interacial marriages. You say there is nothing wrong with it and yet you blast the choice to do it for the full first paragraph. Like Michael Jackson, I have biracial children and never once did the thought cross my mind, maybe I should marry a white man so my wealth can stay within my race. That line of thinking is borderline racist in my opinion. You love who you love and if you are lucky enough to produce beautiful children as part of that relationship, more power to you. We visitors; public are very credulous. You opinion makers think twice before openning up your mind in the public. 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I admire your courage. The community does have a problem of men in leadership positions that attempt to use undue influence in negative ways. He is blinded by his well known racism, can't support his dirty tactics attacking a Biracial loving marriage and targeting children.
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Whenever I read your work i'm reminded of what Jack Nicholson said in "Carnal Knowledge":
"These days the women are hung better than the men."
I wouldn't touch this post with a ten foot pole (and clearly, I'm not the one in the conversation who is so equipped), but I do wonder when we are going to get together and have a few beers.