| *“I’m kind of shocked to be attending my first community board meeting [Community Board 9 in Brooklyn] to see someone come and clearly stand on a political platform and then so many voices here silenced.”
*The comments above and below were done by a community resident who attended for the first time, CB’s Public Safety virtual meeting on June 11, 2020, where Political Candidate Chaim Deutsch running for Congress, was given a political platform despite a very racist and offensive ad being put out by him to divide and instill fear in the community.
| Dear Fred Baptist Chairman of Community Board 9 |
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| As people all over the world are right now fighting for Black people in America; to be respected, for our voices to be heard, for our lives to be valued, for our oppression to be stopped, your political stance to conduct business as usual; to allow the continued racist and oppressive nature of a few in our community to dominate; to ensure their power stays in place and Black people continue to be at the bottom of the economic and political structure is a slap in our face!
Shame! Shame! Shame!
You should be ashamed of yourself, for how you described Community Board 9 in Brooklyn Public Safety Committee meeting which happened on Thursday, June 11, 2020 *“as a difficult discussion that we need to keep having” as if there were any true dialogue, participation from the community and various voices heard.
You stood by while Rabbi Yaacov Behrman used our meeting to not only produce a political campaigner, Chaim Deutsch who did a political speech but who has never before attended any of our meetings, who is not our elected official in our district and who has produced one of the most offensive, racist and anti-black ads the community has ever seen! https://www.kingscountypolitics.com/deutschs-campaign-plays-to-jewish-black-divide/ |
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| “I found that ad to be incredibly anti-Black and racist. It was offensive to me and I know many other people found it was offensive.” |
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| Chairman Fred Baptist you watched as Rabbi Yaacov completely ignored the many “hands” that were raised requesting to be heard and the “chat” area where people were demanding to be heard. Rabbi Yaacov used his mute button to silence any dissenting person who did not follow his view point and paraded in front of the entire community; a police officer, Vincent Martinos, who lied by omission the arrests of residents on their own property that occurred June 5, 2020; a sell-out, Jeffrey Davis, who described our Black youth as criminals that we are all afraid of; and the producer of a racist ad, Chaim Deutsch, who described in his political ad Black Lives Matter protesters as “looters”!
You should be ashamed that your own political aspirations have allowed you to ignored the community’s fundamental rights to be heard, to voice our own opinions and to have our community board address our needs, not the needs of its board members to push their own political agenda for profit or gain.
You should be ashamed of yourself for you have also been a victim of these same entities cutting you short, not letting you speak, when you were just a community board member and Rabbi Goldstein was Chair and in power.
We the people demand better, we demand a right to be heard, we demand a right for our needs to be addressed and we will not stop until our demands are met.
Alicia Boyd
The Movement To Protect The People
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