Category: Opinion-OW

It doesn’t seem believable but we may be on the verge of nuclear war. You look at all the continents on this earth and you will find unrest. There are many reasons causing this conflict and uneasiness. Perhaps the main reason is the failure of the United Nations. Before the UN there was the League of Nations which was formed after World War I for ending any future wars. It was impotent. Germany evolved into a racist war machine right in front of the League’s face. Japan walked out on a formal hearing and prepared for international conquest. Those major transitions led us into World War II. The death toll was horrific. Many millions of soldiers were killed with many times that for civilians.

Racism, exposed once more in the terror visited on Charlottesville, Va., still scars America. Hundreds of neo-Nazis, White supremacists, klansmen and other fervid racists gathered—some armed with assault rifles, and wearing camouflage. They marched with lit torches, yelling Nazi slogans, looking for trouble. They provoked violence, terrorized a city, took the life of Heather Heyer and injured many more. In the reaction to those horrors, character is revealed.

The silence from L.A.’s Democratic community on the recent death of a 26-year-old Black gay male sex worker in the West Hollywood apartment of 63-year-old prominent Democratic political donor Ed Buck has been astounding.

During a conference call with reporters, Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.), the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), pledged to revisit the debate around impeachment when Congress returns after Labor Day and announced a new campaign to #RootOutRacism in the White House.

Following the announcement that Elizabeth Duke will replace Stephen Sanger as Chair of the Board of Directors of Wells Fargo, Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-43), Ranking Member of the Committee on Financial Services, made the following statement:
“This superficial change in leadership at Wells Fargo isn’t enough to restore the trust and confidence of the American public. While Duke is replacing Sanger as chairman, She was a member of the Wells Fargo board during numerous scandals and failed to rein in the bank’s rampant consumer abuses. It is time that Congress recognize Wells Fargo for what it is—a recidivist institution that has committed millions of crimes and shows no remorse.

As millions of students return to school, the nation’s Justice Department (DOJ) is beginning an investigation that could potentially sue universities over affirmative action admissions policies. As first reported by “The New York Times,” the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division will carry out this effort to determine whether White applicants were discriminated against.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson has announced that Dr. Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana will be the sixth State Administrator to lead the Inglewood Unified School District.
A little less than five years ago the California Legislature passed an emergency loan bill, Senate Bill (SB) 533, approving an up to $55 million loan to Inglewood Unified. As a condition of accepting the state loan, the community surrendered control of the school district to Torlakson.