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It looks like Mayor Sheila Dixon and the city of Baltimore are getting a lump of coal as an early Christmas present. A jury convicted Dixon today on one count of embezzlement, a misdemeanor, for stealing $630 worth of holiday gift cards. It acquitted her of three other charges, including the most serious felony theft charge.
Dixon said, "The city will still continue to move forward," as she left the courtroom after the verdict, adding that she was headed to City Hall to get back to work.
The conviction could very well end her career as mayor; however, the Maryland attorney general's office says she can stay in office at least until she is sentenced, reports the Baltimore Sun. She still faces a trial in March 2010 on two perjury counts, stemming from an accusation that she failed to report gifts, according to the New York Times.
As previously posted, Baltimore's first black female mayor was put on trial for spending gift cards on herself, when they were intended for needy families at Christmastime.
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Sheryl Huggins Salomon is contributing editor of Black Voices, where she writes about politics and society. She is co-editor of the 'Nia Guide for Black Women' series of self-improvement books and the former publisher of Shade magazine. Follow her on Twitter or contact her at BVCEditor@aol.com.
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By: Michael Lofton on 12/23/2009 8:53AM
...it is disgusting that so many of our leaders, Mayor Sheila Dixon, Congressman William "Thieving" Jefferson, Congressman Walter Tucker, former 2nd District LA County Supervisor Yvonne "Brentwood" Burke, no good 2nd District Supervisor Mark "Little Napoleon" Ridley Thomas, choose to use such a valued position of influence for their own personal and selfish gain, use false pretenses to hold elected office, join ranks with the perpetrators at the expense of their Constituency, play games of deceit when petitioned for redress by law abiding Black people violated by the atrocities of government.
As U.S. born Black people lose ground because of our own incompetence, you can be rest assured newly arrived illegal/undocumented/legal immigrants who promote their own into the position of elected office holder, who displace U.S. born Black men, women, and/or their siblings won't be the first to step up to the plate to protect the posterity of U.S. born Black men, women, and/or their siblings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZRJCs34g0k
It is disgusting and very disturbing, that so many misguided U.S. born Black people are making excuses for what President Barack Obama can't do, while the Black community continues to be the least represented community in the U.S.
"There are cases when an individual has been wrongfully treated by his government and about the only way, unless the individual resorts to court, and even in some cases the courts are not able to give proper relief, the only area or avenue open to the individual is through his representative. When you find a bona fide error has been made, I suggest that you make a maximum effort to remedy it. This I feel is a vital and important function of those of us in the House of Representatives."
In instances where the government has egregiously violated the lawful rights of the citizen, just as the above paragraph states, the courts can't give proper relief without the input of a responsible elected representative, namely an elected representative who through "Consanguinity" has a connection to the truly oppressed.
These individuals fail to realize that elected officials, especially the President of the U.S., play an important part, in making it certain that "Equal Justice and Protection Under Law" becomes a reality, for individuals of their same ethnicity.
Consanguinity ("con- (with/together) sanguine (blood) -ity (noun marker)") refers to the property of being from the same kinship as another person. In that respect, consanguinity is the quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
"We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity." an excerpt taken from the "Declaration of Independence"
This should be especially the case, of any President who is of the same ethnic heritage, because the term "consanguinity" makes that association.
http://againstallodds.blogtownhall.com/2009/12/21/if_you_succeed_inner-city_black_man,_woman,_or_child.thtml
The Execution/Enforcement of U.S. Constitutional protections is so important because without such protection, any individual or group of individuals egregiously violated by truly serious atrocities of government can lose the lawful right work without just cause, have wages or property taken from them without just cause, be deprived of their freedom, lose one or more family members to unwarranted government supervision, be maimed without cause by rogue police officers, or even more extreme be killed by the atrocities of government.....all with impunity!
U.S. born Black men, women, and/or their siblings, being the most Constitutionally misrepresented, under-represented, or void of competent representation communities within the U.S., faces becoming extinct in the U.S. Extinction is well on its way in many communities formerly predominated by U.S. born Black people, who now no longer exist, or the chances of holding on have been diminished due to the huge void of competent representation that exists in the Black community!
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