From: Eli El
Hello Friends, Family, and Neighbors,
I hope that you and yours are all doing well. Great…thanks for your feedback. Based on some feedback, I slightly modified the tone of the previous letter and resending. A lot of my friends, relatives, and other teachers did not get the previous letter. So, if you know someone who does not get this one, please feel free to forward them this email.
If you are actually someone who did get my previous e-mail…Our President needs your help. I encourage you to write your own letter to him. The links directs you to my letter to President Obama. Making the right moves elevates an ordinary moment to a moment that matters…siege “your” moment.
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* Focus on helping our President in key growth opportunities that will have greatest impact.
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Warm Regards,
Eli
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Letter To The President.doc
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February 24, 2013
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President:
Congratulations on your re-election. I am proud that I was able to help and be a part of Obama For America. It was an experience that I will treasure for the rest of my life. The first time you won, most of us {including myself}, couldn’t contain our happiness and found ourselves in tears of joy.
As I navigate the Plumbook of your administration, which is located at
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-PLUMBOOK-2012/content-detail.html
and
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-PLUMBOOK-2012/pdf/GPO-PLUMBOOK-2012.pdf, I see that your administration establishes public policy that impacts every single aspect of humanity in America. In a world full of persistent contradiction, we are losing the good fight to secure the substance of what defines us as empathic and moral beings. Not only are there cultural practices that threatens our sense of humanity, but also there exist institutional and systematic policy that have negative effects on the socio-economic well-beings of many of “us”. Within the Plumbook, I see that there are tens of thousands of hardworking people implementing the policies of your administration. Before I humbly make my requests for you to openly acknowledge and/or change policy, I would like to make to argument of why protecting humanity from wrong public policy is vital…not tomorrow, but right now –
EMPATHY
Empathy is our greatest deterrent to crime and violence against people. There is current public policy that emotionally, systemically, and institutionally de-humanize(s) and demonize(s) good people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonize
A contradiction consists of a logical incompatibility between two or more propositions. It occurs when the propositions, taken together, yield two conclusions which form the logical, usually opposite inversions of each other. If contradiction is delineated by results, I ask that before the end of your second term that you transform policy “contradiction” to equality” thereby resulting in true “freedom”. One of God’s greatest gifts to mankind is Empathy. In order for us to have empathy towards each other, God took off His shoes and walked in “ours” for 33 years. In respect to this letter, I ask that you do the same.
The “current” legislative process continually proves itself inadequate as a systemic solution to our problems. I further ask that you unconditionally think through all the things going on in our lives:
Ambitions: Give wings to your soul, by nourishing your mind. If you can see the invisible, you can do the impossible.
Career Aspirations: When I examine charts of upper echelon leadership of companies, I seldom see men who look like me. However, janitors, security guards, service workers, etc…Yes.
Debt: Policy needs to adopt to generational poverty and we need to act right now to abolish interest rates on federal student loans.
Education: Education which at its basic level, still results in displacement Also, we need to restructure our education system overcome poverty and provide free job training.
Faith: Reward those churches that are effective in deterring and/or decreasing violent crime.
Family Issues and Sustainment: It’s getting ridiculous on all fronts – http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1209/10/ddhln.01.html
Fears: Since most states are “at-will”, most folks are scared to take a stand for fear of being fired from their jobs.
Foreign Affairs: We have to prepare for any possible future Cyber Wars – http://friendsofeli.com/live/video_popup.php/Eli8570.pdf?filename=dl_file&gallery=true&id=55&download=1&start_dl=1
Healthcare: WOW! GOOD JOB! SINGLE PAYER / PUBLIC OPTION – CONTINUE THE FIGHT!
Passions: Through pain, there comes passion. Policy should remedy what pains us.
Security & Gun Control: Policy needs to reward intelligent law enforcement and folks need to stop playing the “political games”.
Vulnerabilities: Public policy must provide hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice.
Workplace Pressures: If federal government had not intervened, some states would likely be practicing variations of Jim Crow. We have to end the states’ practices of “at-will”. It’s being used as modern-day oppressive measures.
DEMONIZING
Movies, music, our judicial system, and media outlets cause us to believe that social failures of our nation are caused by the marginalized race, a certain demographic, or class. During the era when the African-American culture was protected, the pride, struggles, and dignity of our culture was pronounced through our music, television, and print. Due to the lack of responsible public policy and commercialism, the paradigm has shifted. Demonizing is the reason why we can travel to any major city in the United States, turn to any radio station that plays rap and hip-hop {some R&B} music and continually hear degradation of women, reference to drugs, the praise tumultuous behavior, conspicuous consumption, and the glorification of money. I propose that we provide tax breaks to radio stations do not play this form of music. I am no psychologist, but it is really funny to me how most of us don’t even acknowledge healthy dialog on social issues unless YOU validate the issue.
Gun do not kill people; People kill people. It has become typical for “us” to be demonized. As a result, there is an objectification and conditioning process that causes us to lack empathy towards each other and not think critically about systemic and social failures. Again, please consider the grave implications of you leaving office without making “Wrongs” into “Right”. Most folks do not think critically and politicians take full advantage of that vulnerability. Our children have been getting killed for many years…Why is Gun Control is just now being addressed??? It is typical for the Chris Matthews and Chris Hayes types to asks critical, hardline, and smart questions on issues that impact their culture. However, it is a crying shame that it is also typical for the Tom Joyner and Steve Harvey types NOT to asks hardline questions on “our” issues. The few allies that we have actually contribute to the marginalization of their own people.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/prince-georges-county-jolted-by-killings-of-six-teenage-students-in-six-months/2013/02/23/0800d2f6-7d09-11e2-a044-676856536b40_story.html
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/15/health/trauma-centers-guns/index.html
We should use the power of social intelligence to promote social good. I pray that during your second term that you maximize your positive impact on the world by making Wrongs into Right. I’m writing this letter to encourage you to examine and me to provide recommendations to public policy that undermines the common-good.
There exist many federal incentives that tax payers provide to states for social service efforts. When the federal incentives involve the well-beings of “our” children and families, the decision is largely based on the money that it provides the state. There are governors who are preparing to run for President in 2016. The most effective way of garnering votes is to lower the state’s deficit.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2012/0420/Martin-O-Malley-for-president-in-2016-He-drops-a-few-hints
Since there are federal incentives to states based on the number of participants in the system, these governors are pressuring states lawmakers, courts, and agency directors to put more people in the system. This has led “us” being pulled into the system unjustifiably. This leads to harmful effects on the marginalized. Here are just a few of hundreds of examples:
http://fathersandfamiliescoalition.org/news-and-events
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/25/141662357/incentives-and-cultural-bias-fuel-foster-system
http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/enews/cv/enews-20130215.html
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/10/27/354306/south-dakota-removes-native-american-children/?mobile=nc
http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2005/may05/05-05-11.html
http://www.fathersandfamilies.org/2012/07/27/feds-spend-499-in-child-support-enforcement-for-every-1-for-access-and-visitation/
Most Americans don’t have the time to critically recognize what policies within our current administration that pays states to harm the marginalized. I will be honored to assist you in this manner. Historically, African-American have been a little more compassionate and empathic to the plight of the lesser classes. Unlike Justice Thomas {http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clarence-thomas-breaks-long-silence-during-supreme-court-oral-arguments/2013/01/14/a7c6023c-5e7a-11e2-9940-6fc488f3fecd_story.html}, I hope that you validate that belief by ending these forms of state incentives. As you have found out…Our political system is driven by competition among voters. As long as there exist federally incentivized programs that monetize the act of conferring legality, sanction, or formal warrant that culturally, financially, and socially disenfranchise “our” people, it would never be acknowledged by the media nor professional politicians.
As a 13-year-old boy, I remember how some of us would get excited and that excitement often lead to a “bump” in the pants. Now it is jovial to tell about it, but most guys have been there. An unfortunate case occurred in Montgomery County, Maryland several years ago. A 13-year-old boy…LOL…had a little bump in the pants. With nothing exposed and acting silly, he brushed his “bump” against a girl. To make a long-story short, at only 13-years-old, he was classified, by the court, as a sex-offender. Since governors are pandering for votes and public policy provides financial incentives for placing more folks into the system, we going to have more and more jaw-dropping ridiculous cases like this one. The worst part is that our judicial system has also incentivized custodial parenting without the traditional family structure. It has become public knowledge that some women who want are targeting financially secure men {Athletes, professionals, etc.} and leverage courts to also get paid tax-free money…sometimes 10, 20, 30 thousand or more per month. The social steering of our current policy on family issues has caused a cultural debacle that will have a generational impact comparable to the American slave trade. When unjustifiably labeled, financially deprived, and/or sanctioned by public policy, history shows that we believe that we are being treated less than human. Cultural Anthropology and hundreds of clinical studies prove that when public policy treats people less than low dignity, that’s how they act out.
President Obama…Sir, “African-Americans” can’t even think about generational wealth, stocks, retirement investing, think tanks, etc.; simply because even after we have elected an “African-American” president, we “African-Americans” in 2013 continue to be victimized by public policy that promotes, monetizes, and incentivizes modern-day injustice. We don’t need a Clarence Thomas type Brother as President. We need a Barack Obama type. As you know, we didn’t elect for simply because you are “Black”. When God’s children have innocent fathers and mothers in jail, we don’t give a damn about the political game, we need for you to do fix public policy. We need for you to right wrongs:
https://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&site=&source=hp&q=false+allegations+of+domestic+violence&oq=False+allegations&gs_l=hp.1.1.0l10.2068.475164.0.477799.21.15.0.6.6.0.176.1600.8j7.15.0.les%3B..0.0…1c.1.5.hp.wwq1U2Qx824
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/13/17292929-innocent-man-cleared-after-14-years-behind-bars-for-attempted-rape-of-girl
http://www.ferris.edu/htmls/news/jimcrow/question/nov04/man.jpg
http://media.commercialappeal.com/media/img/photos/2010/02/22/Copley-horiz_t607.jpg
From a historical perspective, African-Americans have only recently been granted the right to vote in America. I ask that you correct public policy to end harmful Redistricting: http://www.thernstrom.com/pdf/Thernstrom_23-Stan.-L.-Poly-Rev.-373.pdf
http://www.governor.maryland.gov/blog/?p=3422
http://amarillo.com/opinion/opinion-columnist/weekly-opinion-columnist/2013-02-17/rangel-redistricting-battle-rages
Our generation is the first to have the right to run for political office without the threat of harm. Brave and innocent people have been imprisoned and/or died for us to simply have the right to vote. In today’s world of contradiction, not only was it my right to run for public office, it was my duty {http://www.friendsofeli.com/html/downloads.php?dl=5&psi=32&page=2}. I am a member of TWO fraternal organizations. For most of us, membership within fraternal organizations are not simply for fun, but a chosen way-of-life. Both organizations have adopted aspects of the “political game”. Throughout the years, I have gained an understanding of how important it is for “our” culture to build and protect our Social Capital. Social Capital is the value of a group above the sum of the human capital of its members. Through my participation in these organizations, I have seen both successes and detriments to the health of our Social Capital. This is why Martin Luther King, Jr would have NEVER been a political…There is absolutely no “politically correct” way to get this done; Through some of those good people listed in your Plumbook and changes in your policy, you have got to end these federal incentivized programs that de-humanize(s), demonize(s), and lessen the Social Capital of marginalized groups in America.
Most Respectfully Yours,
Elihu Eli El
Phone: 301-906-1292
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