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White House and Political News
Washington, D.C. To Battle $1 Billion Gentrification Lawsuit
Virginia School Named For Confederate General, Changed To Barack Obama Elementary
The Richmond School Board in Virginia has voted to rename an elementary school honoring a Confederate gen- eral to Barack Obama Ele- mentary.
The result was reached on Monday (June 18) when the board voted 8-1 to drop the name J.E.B. Stuart Elemen- tary, WRTV reports.
Earlier this year, a selec- tion of names were submitted by parents, student and ad- ministrators.
Nearly 95 percent of the student body is African- American, reflecting the sug- gestions for the name change. The board’s lone vote against
School that has 95% Black children attending will be renamed Barack Obama Elementary.
the new name explained how she wanted the new name to give respect to the town’s local legends.
This isn’t the first school to
be named after the president. Mr. Obama has 17 schools named after him with some shared with former first lady Michelle Obama.
Seven years ago, The New York Times reported that, for the first time in history, Black residents no longer comprised the majority population of our nation’s capitol.
Within the last month, civil rights lawyer Aristotle Theresa filed the lawsuit against the district on behalf of native D. C. residents for the discrimination of age, source of income, race, family, religion, and matriculation in their agenda to “attract the Creative Class.”
According to the lawsuit, over the last 12 years “planning agencies have used land-use policy as a primary tool to im- plement this agenda.” Rather than implementing city-wide initiatives that cater to the needs of current residents, “these land-use policies lever- age amenities to attract the tar-
geted [anti-black] demographic group.”
More specifically, “new at- tractions such as the Wharf, a $2.5 billion mix of luxury housing, hotels and fine dining along the Southwest Water- front” are being added in loca- tions that are better suited for family units and affordable housing, wrote The Washing- ton Post.
In the pursuit to attract the creative class, the D. C. zoning commission, housing authority office of planning and office of the deputy mayor for planning and economic development are being sought after for damages and displacement that are ex- pected to exceed $1 billion.
The City has no comment at the time. Their response is re- portedly due to be filed by June 25.
Crumbling Under Outraged Voices Against Separating Children From Immigrant Parents, Trump Signs Order To Stop It
Pres. Trump signs the order to stop the separation policy.
The children who have already been separated from their parents will not be reunited with them for a while, because their parents have been jailed and the separate departments that have been as- signed to handle the horrendous act do not work together.
On Monday, the realities of the Trump administration’s policy of forcibly separating children from their adult guardians who cross the bor- der without U. S. citizenship were front and center.
From the outset, U. S. offi- cials defended the measures, including the president. However, the motive behind his top administrators to use innocent children to drive policy was obviously not well thought out.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly are both on record endorsing the practice as a means of de- terring undocumented immi- grants from entering the country.
Sessions announced a "zero tolerance" policy in April that all immigrants ap- prehended while crossing the U. S.-Mexico border illegally should be criminally prose- cuted under the country's criminal entry statute.
The result of the order, led
to over 2,000 children and youths being snatched and placed into concrete-floored cages in U. S. shelter facili- ties.
Congressional Republicans scrambled to craft legislation as videos and images of the youngsters in cages and an audiotape of wailing children sparked anger at home from groups ranging from clergy to influential business leaders, as well as condemnation abroad.
On Wednesday, Presi- dent Donald Trump signed an order to stop the horrendous act.
Prior to being force fed the move to halt the Zero Toler- ance order, President Trump and members of his staff repeatedly and falsely blamed Congress — in partic- ular Congressional Democ- rats, because they refused to fund ‘The Wall’, ie border wall into Mexico.
Most of the children are from Central America, espe- cially Guatemala, Honduras
and El Salvador.
Now that the temporary
order has been signed, it re- mains highly uncertain whether the president's hastily drafted order to keep families together in federal custody while awaiting prose- cution for illegal border crossings would withstand potential legal challenges.
Also, senior administration officials said the order did not stipulate that the more than 2,300 children already sepa- rated from their parents would be immediately re- united with their parents.
Trump implored Con- gress to provide a legislative solution as the House pre- pared to vote Thursday on a pair of Republican immigra- tion bills amid skepticism that either could pass. And in a bid to up the pressure, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen warned lawmakers during a private briefing on Capitol Hill that the family separations could resume if they fail to act.
Disney And Comcast Battle For Ownership Of 21st Century Fox
Bob Iger and Brian Roberts are the chairmen- CEOs of Disney and Comcast and are on a collision course now that Comcast has for- mally unveiled its $65 billion cash offer for most of 21st Century Fox, countering the $52.4 billion all-stock pact Disney reached with Fox in December.
Disney battled back Wednesday morning with a significantly higher offer that includes a mix of cash and stock for 21st Century Fox shareholders, bringing the value of the pact to $71.3 bil-
lion, or $38 a share.
The Fox board left itself
wiggle room to consider a new offer from Comcast or another contender, but Fox in
Disney’s Bob Iger and Com- casts Brian Roberts.
its announcement noted specifically that the board has “not concluded that the unso- licited proposal it received on June 13, 2018 from Comcast could reasonably be expected to result in a ‘Company Supe- rior Proposal’ under the Dis- ney Merger Agreement.”
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