The Family of Leaders Dinner

At 7:00 PM on Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, I attended the Family of Leaders Dinner at the Pmega PSI PHI House. That is the place that I call the 20/20 Club. Justin Coleman of the Prudential paid for the gathering. He is also a MLK LDI Scholar. Joseph Robinson, Jr., Executive Director MLK LDI was the Master of Ceremonies. The Honorable Peter Speaks, Esq., of the MLK LDI Steering Committee introduced the speaker for the night.

The speaker was Author Dr. Jarik Conrad. He grew up in the ghetto of East St. Louis. Dr. Conrad came with a presentation, showing how the Harrisburg Community could work together to eliminate poverty in the City. He says that his methods have been tried in other areas of the country with great results. He started out the night by showing pictures of the East St. Louis ghetto. That ghetto, as bad as it is, has fewer robberies than the City of Harrisburg. His message was simple and most of us have heard it many times before.

He talked about the successful people in all aspects of life, working with the young to give them hope and to show them the way. He talked about everyone in the community working together to promote a united way to get a positive program off the ground to change the thinking of the people over a long period of time.

Then he started to lose audience attention little by little. First he said that we all should work with Mayor Reed. He never mentioned that over the past 20 years, Mayor Reed reduced the police force with little or no knowledge of the 14 City Councils that approved his budgets over that period of time. He never mentioned that the Mayor manipulated the public to change City Council every 2 years so that City Council could never figure out that the Mayor was systematically destroying the community.

Toward the end, he said that he met with the Mayor earlier in the day, discussing his ideas with him. The Mayor was not at this event so anything Dr. Conrad said about the Mayor’s reaction to his ideas fell on deaf ears. At the end, Dr. Conrad was presented with a gift from the Mayor. I guess the Mayor could not do that himself or maybe the Mayor had to tell the audience that this man had his seal of approval.

What could have turned out to be a positive night for community building and inspiration was destroyed by the need to make this night about the slave master, Mayor Reed.

The Reed Team Nightmare!

This "Family of Leaders" Dinner was a show to get the Mayor’s name out in front of the Black Community as to get us to think that he supports raising the income and status of our people. On Pennlive today, the Reed Team took time out of their day to attack me for telling the world the truth. Because of this they slipped up and told us more than they wanted us to know. The Mayor and his fat cat friends have been taking us for granted. Here is proof of how Mayor Reed and his people really feel about the City of Harrisburg and its residents. Below is taken from Pennlive. The subject, who are the people attending this dinner;

5217.5.2. Thank you by Wright, 11/18/08 12:58 ET Re: The Family of Leaders Dinner by DLW1, 11/18/08
Northphil. These are people that are in predominately black fraternities and sororities that think they are above any african-american who hasn't pledged one of these organizations. They are elitists.

This is when I replied the following;

5217.5.2.2. So this is how the Mayor's people talk about Black People when they are not in the room. by DLW1, 11/18/08 15:23 ET Re: The Family of Leaders Dinner by DLW1, 11/18/08
So you just insulted the best and the brightest in the Black Community. I am glad it was you not me. You just called the ministarium names as well as the Black middle class of Harrisburg.
Now they can see for themselves why they should not be following the Mayor because this is how you people talk about Black people when they are not in the room.

Thank you. I could not have made a better case than you just did.

Many of these people in the room worked a job while going to college at night. Many of the ministers had to work the streets before they became ministers. Many worked while going to college. Some of these people at the dinner were children who are working hard in school and in the community. The Pennlive people judged them in a negative light because they are trying to help their community.

Here is the reason why the Black Community should vote Mayor Reed out of office. He mismanaged the incinerator and caused hundreds of Millions of Dollars of debt that we as tax payers will have to pay back. The City has already raised our trash pick up, disposal fee, water rates, and sewer line rate because of the Mayor’s incompetence. According to Councilman Dan Miller, Mayor Reed hired his boyfriend to the tune of over $90,000 per year to do nothing all day. The Mayor secretly spent over $30 Million on artifact. We will be lucky to get back half that amount due to the Mayor’s mismanagement of these assets. I plan to tell you more as the election comes closer.

But you have to be ready to vote this man out so that all of Harrisburg can give you better returns to you and your family.