You asked me to Speak English

 

You Asked Me to Speak English, Learn the Language

You said, “This is America”, learn the language.

You asked me to speak English.

You said, “this is the land of the Free, be grateful”.

You asked me to speak English.

You said, “To live here, you need to speak the language”.

You asked me to speak English.

You said, “To become a citizen, you need to learn the language”.

You asked me to speak English.

“The land of the free, where I do not have an equal opportunity”, I say.

You asked me to speak English.

They have their own culture, the black market it is called.

You asked me to speak English.

That is how they deal with your continued racism in 2024, they just do not participate in your system.

You asked me to speak English.

My answer.

I learned how to speak English, and my father and uncle did not.

They chose to be Americans, as in the Latin Americans, as in Hispanic Americans.

They chose to have their little hubs and communities in “America”.

They lived, they suffered, and had their head cracked open by police for just getting drunk.

Out of seven children, most college educated with degrees, some making six figures, all but one with homes of their own. No felons or career criminals. This our “American” family.

I learned to Speak English, as you wanted.

But did you learn to be Spanish.

I learned to be your friend. I learned to live with you.

I spoke your language, I speak your language.

Do you speak mine?

Because I learned to speak English, I have an extra set of friend.

Did you learn Spanish for an extra set of friends?

It is North America, at the top of South and Central America.

The United States is not “America” only. I am American by birth in Puerto Rico.

I learned the language to be at peace with you, it is not a symbol of being a US Citizen.

It is a symbol of my effort to make friends with you.

Where is your effort? It is not a one way street. Your atrocity is to call everyone whom does not speak English as being “un-American” and barbaric.

In turn, I ask you to learn to speak Spanish. The Indians were here first.

The Mexicans had most of “the United States”, so, learn the language to honor them.

Learn Spanish so we could be better friends. You assume when I speak Spanish “ahhh, he is talking about me”.

No, I am just communicating in my language.

I ask you to learn my language.

I ask you to learn Spanish.

In America, we should all be trilingual, with at minimum Spanish, English, and Sign Language.

God Bless.

South Wilmington Shootings and WC Failure

 Shootings at South Wilmington in Raleigh, does it mean a government failure?

Two fold, the new “System” they use is low barrier at the South Wilmington Center For Men thereat.

That system is supposed to ensure the homeless men, the drug addicts, the convicted sex offenders, the persons with mental illness, the homeless veterans, etc., will be guaranteed a place to sleep and eat for the night and off the streets.

Does it work? No.

Aside from the need for community policing in that high crime area. The greater need is for housing services. The services to help those men get off the street. The services to help treat their addictions. The services to help treat their mental illness. The services top help treat those medical conditions.

Their is a lack of programs there at. And, the homeless do not feel comfortable staying at the shelter, or are turned away from the shelter.

Poetry

A few days ago, the medically illness man in the wheelchair.

He slept at the bus stop for days.

The bus stop was right across the street from the shelter.

He ended up in the hospital, but here is the icing on the cake.

He was kicked out of the shelter for just about no good reason, during a “low barrier time”.

He slept and slept at the bus shelter across the street from the homeless shelter.

The police did not come to inquire. Neighborhood people did not inquire.

Where was the community activist? Where was adult protective services?

He did not hit anyone. He did not attack anyone. He did not bring drugs into the facility. He did not bring arms into the facility. He only made a comment and was kicked out. Wow. As a result, on the street and almost dead.

That is South Wilmington Street. That is the other side of the story. Housing Through Lorena McDowell failure. Housing through David Harris failure. Most importantly, the one whom kicked him out, Housing through Frank Lawrence Failure.

The center is a hub for criminals, but no programs or referrals for programs to help them thereat.

I remember LaSalle Street Residence and the MICA program. The degenerates and criminals were attracted their because the people in need where there. The drug dealers and gang members were right there, because the people trying to recover and the users were there. One stop shopping. This is South Wilmington Street where someone almost died right outside the door. Programs and services have to include looking outside your doors and patrolling. It requires a partnership with law enforcement and service agencies and community based partnership. That does not happen there thanks to the powers at be, the government employees. God Bless. This is all based on information and believe in my opinion.

What if that were your (X,Y, or Z)?

Your friend, your dad, your uncle, your neighbor, your ex-lover, your spouse?

What if that was your loved one, someone you cared for?

What if you did not known the person, but that person served and saved the lives of many?

What if that person served when no one else would, a Defender of North America?

That addict, that man on the street, deserves dignity of service.

That person already suffered the abuse of the drug dealer that contributed to putting him on the street.

That person already suffered due to the lack of mental health services.

Do you add to that burden as a government employee?

Do you wait at the shelter for the EBT card to arrive?

Do you wait for the paycheck or back benefits for the man?

Do you wait for the compensation from appeals and court cases?

Is the center your pot of gold? Do you hold their money as your own?

Is the center your pot of gold in overtime government pay?

South Wilmington Center For Men (Shelter for Men) is a long source of government employees pots of gold.

The predatory action of securing the money and funds and resources of the homeless. Those that may be out of their minds due to drugs and/or mental illness.

Grandpa’s money is the government employee’s pot of gold at times. I will hold your money. I will help cash those big retro payment checks. I will hold it for you.

Too often a crisis occurs at the center. Those men claim “that worker” took my money. Repeated claims, and “I got a picture on my phone …….. I have proof”. I have their personal cellular number. I have been to their house they claim.

Overtime is generated by simply not hiring and causing others to be fired. Continue a “shortage of workers” that means more double and triple pay for workers.

The claim is not enough applicants, BUT NOT SO, WE HAVE APPLICANTS AND NEW HIRES. But we create a hostile work environment if hired and you just won’t hire that qualified applicant.

So the cycle continues, the homeless are abused and preyed upon by the very government employees hired to help them.

No more programs to help complete applications for housing and move off the street. “We do not have enough social workers” to help them, not so, you just do not hire. That is the bottom line, the benefit of your pockets.

I ask that you treat them with dignity. I ask that you hire to help them. I ask that you abide by the ethics and regulations in place to serve the very people that are downtrodden. Remember, that is someone’s loved one. That is a person loved by God.

The meaning of the narrative is this. Men at the shelter are being preyed upon by the very workers, upon information and belief. The Hispanics are the shelter are just about gone. Nobody there to help them that talks their language. Upon information and belief, workers are continuing to use the resources of the homeless as their own personal pocket book. The thief is the government employee that caused a shortage of employees aside from hiring their own friends and family.

This is a repeated practice of discrimination in the work place and abuse, upon information and belief.

¿Qué pasaría si ese fuera tu (X,Y o Z)? ¿Tu amigo, tu papá, tu tío, tu vecino, tu ex amante, tu cónyuge? ¿Qué pasaría si ese fuera tu ser querido, alguien a quien cuidas?

¿Qué pasaría si no conocieras a la persona, pero esa persona sirvió y salvó la vida de muchos? ¿Qué pasaría si esa persona sirviera cuando nadie más lo haría, un Defensor de América del Norte?

Ese adicto, ese hombre de la calle, merece un servicio digno. Esa persona ya sufrió el abuso del narco que contribuyó a ponerlo en la calle. Esa persona ya sufrió por la falta de servicios de salud mental. ¿Se suma a esa carga como empleado del gobierno?

¿Esperas en el refugio a que llegue la tarjeta EBT? ¿Espera el cheque de pago o los beneficios atrasados para el hombre? ¿Espera la compensación de las apelaciones y procesos judiciales? ¿Es el centro tu olla de oro? ¿Tienes su dinero como propio? ¿Es el centro su olla de oro en pago de horas extras al gobierno? El Centro para Hombres de South Wilmington (Refugio para Hombres) es una larga fuente de ollas de oro para empleados del gobierno. La acción predatoria de asegurar el dinero, los fondos y los recursos de las personas sin hogar. Aquellos que pueden estar locos debido a drogas y/o enfermedades mentales. El dinero del abuelo es a veces la olla de oro del empleado del gobierno. Guardaré tu dinero. Ayudaré a cobrar esos grandes cheques de pagos retroactivos. Te lo guardaré. Con demasiada frecuencia ocurre una crisis en el centro.

Esos hombres afirman que “ese trabajador” se llevó mi dinero. Reclamaciones repetidas y “obtuve una foto en mi teléfono…….. tengo pruebas”. Tengo su número de celular personal. He estado en su casa, afirman. Las horas extras se generan simplemente por no contratar y provocar que otros sean despedidos.

Continuar con una “escasez de trabajadores” que significa más salarios dobles y triples para los trabajadores. El reclamo no son suficientes postulantes, PERO NO ES ASÍ, TENEMOS SOLICITANTES Y NUEVAS CONTRATACIONES. Pero creamos un ambiente de trabajo hostil si nos contratan y usted simplemente no contratará a ese solicitante calificado. Así que el ciclo continúa: los mismos empleados gubernamentales contratados para ayudarlos abusan y se aprovechan de las personas sin hogar.

No más programas para ayudar a completar solicitudes de vivienda y salir de la calle. “No tenemos suficientes trabajadores sociales” para ayudarlos, no es así, simplemente no contratas. Ese es el resultado final, el beneficio para sus bolsillos. Les pido que los traten con dignidad. Les pido que contraten para ayudarlos. Les pido que cumplan con la ética y las regulaciones vigentes para servir a las mismas personas oprimidas. Recuerde, ese es el ser querido de alguien. Esa es una persona amada por Dios.

El significado de la narración es este. Los mismos trabajadores están aprovechándose de los hombres en el refugio, de la información y las creencias. Los hispanos son el refugio que casi han desaparecido. No hay nadie allí para ayudarlos que hable su idioma. Según la información y la creencia, los trabajadores continúan utilizando los recursos de las personas sin hogar como su propia cartera personal. El ladrón es el empleado del gobierno que provocó la escasez de empleados además de contratar a sus propios amigos y familiares. Se trata de una práctica repetida de discriminación en el lugar de trabajo y abuso de información y creencias.

Last Comments

I am hoping you do not try to cite blacklisting as the reason.

I am here to help. I want to help. But, you are predisposed to not helping the population the center was meant to serve. Give the center back then to Urban Ministries. They did more than you.

Reflections and Opinions by

Reinaldo Olavarria, Elder, Universal House of Prayer of North Carolina.

https://www.wakecountyfails.com/

https://www.carolinajesus.com/

White Flag Kills Hispanics at SWSC

 El Racismo y Prejuicio Mata

 

Vamos a Decir, estas frio afuera.

No tienes un logar, y la temperatura esta mino de 30 grados

Llamas a un refugio. Llamas a el centro de hombres en Raleigh, South Wilmington Street Center for Men.

Quieres entrar. Quieres salir de afuera, estas enfriado.

El centro no tienes trabajadores que hablan español.

Resulta, no puedes entrar a el centro.

Pero, el condado dices que es noche de “White Flag”.

No es noche de White Flag para los hispanos, es noche de muerte.

 

Hacia es la muerto en Raleigh, Carolina de North, bajo de la administración de le junta de Comisiones y el departamento de vivienda, sobre control de Lorena McDowell

 

El Racismo y prejuicio mata, es claro, escuchas y vez.

 

Lo mas increíble es que la persona dijo váyase a el refugio de mujeres.

 

The most important take away it is was White Flag, the center is 24/7, no Spanish Speaking personnel in any capacity, that furthers any EEOC complaints about Racism and Prejudice in hiring practices, and, the result is the highest possibility of death among Hispanics because they just cannot get indoors during below 30 degree weather.  Death to Hispanics via Racism and Prejudice, and, definitively a result of discriminatory hiring practices.  The worker referred the Hispanic to a closed women’s shelter, wow. 

Quick Response and Recovery Predatory Towing

 There is a you tube video that shows evidence that Quick Response and Recovery Towing Company is preying on residents and non-residents at the Autumn Lakes Subdivision:

Here is the You Tube Video Link

Zebulon Town Ordinances are clear that all subdivisions must have street signs that meet NC DOT standards.  

Also, Wake County is one of the few counties that are covered by anti-predatory towing laws.  

Hence, the request is to terminate the towing license of Quick Response and Recovery Towing, and to close the corporation due to illegal practices.  

This is a plea for the Wake County DA to go ahead and start a criminal investigation.  

Please help.  

The documents and plea are found here.  

Google Drive Folder and Documents

Destroy the files says counsel for the King

 Once upon a time, a counselor for the King

The king here is Wake County Government.

The counselor is the Wake County Attorney’s Office.

The example:

2012, divorce starts, she leaves to be with “the other” [he is dead now].

I file for child support with Wake County.

I was horribly treated by a member of the office of County Attorney, Erika Frazier.

The child support office was run by just about all females and mostly blacks, from what I saw.

Erika Frazier was the black female county attorney.

We went to court, and she shafts me. She makes a motion to the court for dismissal. I objected to her and tried to say something in court but I did not having standing due to counsel.

Child support is denied due to a legal error caused by the county attorney.

How did I feel? What did I feel happen? I felt like being overwhelmed with females whom found it incredulous that a man was applying for assistance. I went all the way in terms of making complaints etc., but, female on females causes this male just to be left high and dry. Anyway, no child support meant I get to keep the kids without the fight to have the kids. She did not have to pay support, so they could stay with me all the time. She was without the supports because she was bound by the court orders not to rely on her support system.

2022, a notice received in the mail, from child support. They realized their error, I believe. Same case number from before. The nicety, salt in the wound, was when the child support worker asked for the court orders I submitted in the past [see attached proof]. That alerted me to the fact they destroyed or lost crucial public records. I have it all still on email accounts. The sending of multiple court orders.

Another thing is this, the Child Support Office in the Wake County Office Building is connected via sky-way to the Wake County Court House. So, when the new worker, Mr. Lewis, asked for a court order, I was like wow, not just salt in the wound, you put a fork in there too. Lost/destroyed records.

Real simple here. Emails can be printed as .pdfs . Attachments can be downloaded and saved or printed in a county case database. Or, just print the emails and attachments and put it all in the files. Nice. The file lacks the essential information I had provided years ago, again, see attached.

Child support cases are directly linked in most capacities to the courts. That is unlike food stamps and Medicaid that are totally not linked. So, a child support worker as part of their duties should know how to get archived records from the courts, just go down to the file room and request it in the adjacent building.

Where is the county attorney’s office in all this? Someone, as when I applied, from the County Attorney’s office should have been assigned this Child Support Case, and worse case scenario, obtained a copy of the destroyed and/or missing documents for the Child Support Worker.

Missing files, destroyed files, misplaced files, files with unknown whereabouts, etc.. Seems like Marisol Ortiz and standard operating procedure at Wake County. Does it equal out, when you consider my wrongful termination as a CPS worker? I left due to the destruction and the asbestos filled workplace.

The county attorney’s office is the one that should have oversight here. Could they not get the court file for Lewis D. Jackson? Did his supervisor or higher ups know how to get a file from the building next door? Where was the office of the county attorney there? The case was closed around September because “I failed” to provide the missing court order, wow. I could not be an accomplice to the destruction.

Reasonable person standard here is how I reflect on the following observations. The county commissioners made it just about impossible to communicate with them via email. One could extrapolate it is with the advice of counsel. Two years ago, I asked the commissioners to have an email receipt system. That way, you can email them and have proof you emailed them. Just tried it and they still do not provide a receipt of what I wrote to them, but now they do have an automatic response saying they will respond in two to three business days. Hum. It has been over one week and Wake County HR still has not responded, same auto emails. Will see what happens here?

Its been over 10 years and I am still waiting for a response from Angela Crawford. Wow. I am saying and believing that a reasonable person can come to the conclusion it is the county attorney and their officers that ask for certain departments heads/employees to not answer their emails, especially the County Commissioners. David Ellis for sure does not respond. So, when they do not respond, for me, it is a presumption of guilt, as in plea the 5^th, remain silent, and move on to legal action. I am able to show “I tried to communicate with them.”.

Two years ago I submitted public comments about discrimination against Hispanics and the Disabled, and still waiting for a response. Wow. Go figure, probably legal counsel here intervening.

I believe a lot of employment records were destroyed. Just like with the courts, I asked for a hearing recording, and, “we got a new system and many of the recordings were lost”. Wow. HR has a new e-talent system, I am sure if you applied in the past, your application is gone, and a reasonable person can conclude it was not an open and competitive hiring for the position. Wake County hates diversity as evidenced in its practice.

So, I am now over three weeks waiting for responses to certain emails. One response was “you should have not accepted anything from him,” you know, that is the way to conceal things. I am wondering if it is like the Enron thingy, higher ups said they could not open and attachment and read an email; that is why I dropped a letter off at a county building, and, the recipient (Jeff) was threatened termination and/or for sure was reprimanded for accepting service of process, right Frank (the letter to whom I dropped off).

What is the purpose of all this? It is my belief that the county, as in its employees and department heads, receives counsel and directives from the county attorney to not respond to emails and faxes and calls. I believe that is the reason they also in violation of my civil rights intimidate and harass me when I go to the county buildings. Wow. Dear King, Please consider new counsel. Thanks Angela, Lorena, Frank, Jennifer, etc., for your timely no responses.

2023 Call for OCR to Help End Blacklisting in NC

 

I think the county has to have and open and diverse hiring policy and move towards inclusion https://www.wakecountyfails.com/public-comment-2022/public-comment-2023/december-2023 also, check out https://www.reyoadvocacy.com/2023/11/team-wake-and-nc-rebuttal.html and https://www.reyoadvocacy.com/2023/11/an-example-of-discrimination-toward.html and https://www.reyoadvocacy.com/2023/11/a-call-to-end-black-listing-and.html

I Think His Name Was George.

 I Think His Name Was George.

I believe it was Thanksgiving 2011.

I Think His Name Was George.

The kitchen was filled with the smells; the green bean casserole. (Home cooked Food made with Love.)

I Think His Name Was George.

The turkey in the flavor sealing bag.

All the fixings included.

I Think His Name Was George.

The house was hot from the oven.

All ate and were full.

The X-mas tree was about to come out.

I Think His Name Was George.

This year, the new memory.

This year the new celebration.

This year there is a memory to have forever, there was a new George.

I Think His Name Was George.

I wanted him not to have only one George memory, so George the turkey was replaced with Jorge the Catfish.

I Think His Name Was George.

2011 was the last thanksgiving before the divorce.

All other ones that followed were mainly mixed with visits to the homes of friends and family.

I Think His Name Was George.

It was single parent mode, sometimes going it alone to the Turkey Day Celebrations on her Weekend.

I Think His Name Was George.

So, this year, invited again to go to the home of family to eat. This year that was declined.

I Think His Name Was George.

I like me Catfish, that was Jorge this year.

But we had all the fixings due to my brother and sister-in-law.

My son has a new memory in this home, it only took 12 years.

I Think His Name Was George.

Thank God, family came over, and we ate and were merry.

Divorce can disrupt lives of many. And, sometimes, that separation can take more than 10 years to recuperate. This year God put it in my heart to me sure we had at least one new memory in this home.

Thank God on Thanksgiving.

It was not much, but we were thankful. No six figures here, just a pull up table.

No mansion or oak dinning room table for 15, but we were happy.

I am thankful for the small things in life.

Meanwhile, my daughter and my ex-wife worked the shelters, those really that do not have.

I hope those in the shelters were thankful for life, health, and strength in the midst of their hard times in a city that wants to criminalize homelessness. God Bless.