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Taxpayers, residents and citizens of South Dallas should have a say about what comes into their community. Leaving their input and voice out of a decision to spend $250,000 from the South Dallas Trust Fund to put surveillance cameras in neighborhoods is simply ridiculous. Black people in South Dallas and other Black neighborhoods get "watched" enough by the FBI, Homeland Security agents, undercover police officers, the White-controlled news media and we must not forget "Uncle Tom" Negroes. Surveillance by definition means to1. Close observation of a person or group, especially one under suspicion. 2. The act of observing or the condition of being observed. 3. The collection, collation, analysis, and dissemination of data. 4. A type of observational study that involves continuous monitoring. This issue is about surveillance… and hostile takeover, not crime prevention. The move to push this without taxpayers voices or without getting a thumbs up or down say from the community is simply one more thing "shoved" down the throats and forced on Black people by Dallas Mayor Laura Miller and her downtown echelons whose goals are to do whatever it takes to control and keep a "watchful" eye out on the "Negroes" in South Dallas. Cameras are not an appropriate use of South Dallas/Fair Park Trust Funds. The South Dallas Trust Fund is money used to provide loans and grants for community and economic development in South Dallas around Fair Park. This program targets community development in the 25 square mile area surrounding Fair Park roughly bounded by I-30, Dolphin Rd., Lamar and the Trinity River bottoms. Currently, there are three Trust Fund programs: a commercial loan program for businesses, a grant program for nonprofit organizations, and a challenge grant program for Fair Park neighborhood groups and associations. The trust fund also coordinates with Dallas' six Business Assistance Centers. About $400,000 funds remain available in the fund.Miller argues that putting the cameras up will reduce crime and improve the quality of life. IS THAT ALL IT TAKES TO BRING BLACK COMMUNITIES BACK? WHAT A REVELATION!!! Have we been wrong all these years? The real truth is someone wants to get their hands on the monies set aside for the Black business and community development. City hall knew what it wanted to do and voted to railroad the Black community thinking that no one would kick up a fuss or point out that citizens should have been invited for input. Trust Fund Board members are right to fight back for the people.This is a classic example of city leaders walking over taxpayers in order to accomplish their own personal goals and objectives. It is Real TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!! People living in South Dallas should be consulted. South Dallas taxpayers should be respected and given the same voices as those residents in af fluent areas of North Dallas."(City) fathers don’t always know what best for a community. Face it... Laura Miller, Mitchell Rasansky, Gary Grif fin, Bill Blaydes, Linda Koop, Ron Natinsky, Angela Hunt and Dr. Elba Garcia don’t live in the Black community.Trying to drain the South Dallas Trust Fund using "back door, smoke room" political moves is dirty and is one more piece of fuel feeding racism and the image of mistrust that Blacks harbor against some in the White community hell bent on controlling and exploiting Black people. Smoke and mirrors politics is politics of the worst kind. So MAYOR MILLER and the city council need to level with the people TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL!!! Is putting us on cameras going to stop a person from being robbed, raped, carjacked or killed? Do cameras and surveillance stop robbers who smash and grab or run into convenience stores and rob, beat and kill clerks in the process? NOT YET!!! Cameras only embolden batches of criminals out there who thrive on making sure that the "dirt" they do is "caught on tape" because in their minds the "rush" and "thrill of the kill" effect encourages them in some kind of twisted Hollywood fashion. You couple that crime prevention argument with the fact that response times to crime (or the lack thereof) by police in Dallas are among the worst in the nation…So, tell me how that will help that businessman, pedestrian or innocent bystander or motorist that is raped, robbed or killed? Cameras aren’t going to prevent crime, lower the crime rate or bring an economic boom in South Dallas. All cameras do are provide "footage" for the evening and nightly news shows and later footage from some weekly crime show. Beware… This is another move that will allow "Big Brother" to keep his eye on us and take away needed fund revenues that help the community heal itself!!! Respect the rights and voice of South Dallas citizens and registered voters who want this plan stopped before it is too late.
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