Black Capitol

04/08/2020

Building a positive way forward in the Black Capitol

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Jeff Pierre and Kiazi Malonga killing it at a show at ashkenaz!

04/07/2020

Our Gold Mining Town of Negro Bar, California was established in 1849. Soon truth crushed to earth will rise.

Our ongoing efforts building Folsom Juneteenth will expand as we announce the opening of our 2020 National Juneteenth Food and Wine Festival Headquarters. Together, we will prepare documents to establish our World Heritage site, in Historic Negro Bar, California.

Sadly, California Black State Legislators, CA NAACP, Black Chamber of Commerce, and other key leaders are mis-educated relying upon false, incorrect, destructive and damaging information.

Clarence Caesar, a Government sponsored historian at California State Library’s California Historical and Cultural Endowment said Negro Bar is the state’s “first Black gold mining site.”

The park’s name has gone through several changes. It was initially identified as the racial epithet, “(N-word) Bar,” as described in the book “Riches for All: The California Gold Rush and the World.” (Reported by California Black Media)

Sadly, 170 years of primary source documentation means little, now that "Black Lives Matters" and authentic California Pan African Heritage means absolutely nothing in this current reality.

At some point the California State Archives, California State Library and official records will be considered salient to a positive new way forward.

29/06/2020

Consistent Wisdom

Many of my friends and people that I know, white, black and other, have approached me for a personal explanation of the intensity and longevity of the protests that are occurring at this time.

Some have even acknowledged the pint up frustrations of police brutality against black people and that what happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis happens practically every day across America, just not filmed.

Finally, the mood has changed to include the racism against African Americans, which occurs in every sector of our society and that must change.

Since the real statistics of racism are not available, I am compelled to explain why the protests are so intense, emotional and prolonged by way of of a personal story.

My Great Grandfather, Henry Jordan, was born a slave in St. Mary's County, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay in 1819.

Just one year later in 1820 Harriet Tubman was born a slave directly across the Bay in Dorchester County, Maryland. Her destiny was to establish the Underground Railroad.for slaves to escape to freedom and is the subject of the 2019 movie, "Harriet Tubman.

But more important, in 1818, within 1 year of my Great Grandfather's birth, across the Bay in Talbot County, Maryland was born Frederick Douglas, a slave.

I do not know if my Great Grandfather, Henry Jordan, knew either one, but like Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas escaped to Boston to become a brilliant writer, abolitionist and the first black person to hold public office, that of Advisor to President Abraham Lincoln.

Over 150 years ago, Frederick Douglas explains what must happen and is happening across the US today in 2020.

If there is no "struggle", there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

They want rain without thunder and lightning.

This "struggle" may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both, moral and physical, but it must be a "struggle."

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglas

We are fortunate to be here at this time to witness this moral and physical "struggle," and it is our destiny to exert every effort to bring about progress for African Americans in this unique time of a Global Pandemic

Frederick Jordan

17/06/2020

1442 a Papal Edict encouraged Spain and Portugal to invade Africa in religious military conquest. The inscription suggests state sponsored Terrorism that impacts Africa today and daily people of African Ancestry since 1849 and California Statehood. AB 3121 cannot remain silent on the plethora of signs and symbols within the California State Capitol hidden in plain sight.

Top California lawmakers on Tuesday ordered the removal of a marble sculpture depicting explorer Christopher Columbus and his patron, Queen Isabella, from the Capitol Rotunda.

16/06/2020

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A magic song from a magic voice lyrics Strange Fruit Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the...

06/06/2020

2020 Memorial Day brought attention to the open, festering wounds hidden in plain sight, fueling mandated historic systemic institutional racism that remains unaddressed, featured in the center of the State Capitol Rotunda, where a companion virus Xenophilia is blossoming during this global pandemic

27/05/2020

25/05/2020

It may be Veteran Affairs to open a broader conversation of Slavery in California, many US Army and Navy officers held enslaved Pan Africans during their duty in Alta California. Indeed it was Military Service that provided acknowledgement as a human being on the battlefield, stay tuned...

As we pause to remember the nation’s war dead, it’s worth remembering that Memorial Day was first celebrated by Black Union troops and free Black Americans in Charleston, South Carolina at the end of the Civil War. The free Black population of Charleston, primarily consisting of former slaves, e...

22/05/2020

California's 333 billion dollar working landscape may open up new opportunities to save lives and provide cost savings in the 2021 Budget conversation.

Epidemic levels of diet related disease exposed in mutations of a global COVID-19 pandemic.

Systemic problems require systemic solutions.

Principled dialogue is beginning to take root throughout our California State Capitol, Black Capitol is poised to do our part.

From farmers who have been on family land for nearly 200 years to local restaurants, coronavirus could cause long-term damage to the food supply pipeline.

20/05/2020

The Origin and Development of the State of California is seen behind the dias in the John L. Burton Room, indegenious culture speaks of Queen Califia and 1537 Spanish Conquistadors documented the conquest, soon cognitiion after principled dialogue as a foundation may help change the "hidden figures" of our current reality.

18/05/2020

May 18, 1770, Monterey secure preparing to become the Capitol of Spanish, Alta California, May 18, 1848 the "African Founding Father of California" buried, May 18, 1970 MLK Memorial Library Grand Opening, May 18, 2020 we rededicate efforts to open Leidesdorff Center at Historic Negro Bar State Park to build upon the living legacy of Leidesdorff Plaza established by my teachers May 1966.

14/05/2020

How do you get news about what is happening at the California State Capitol before it happens? 2020 the new paradigm of 2020 Democratic Capitalism is here... we will figure out a way to stay in the know...

03/05/2020

California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon has called lawmakers back to the Capitol. Monday, a legislative session interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic will reset.

2020 Cinco de Mayo, Battle of Puebla will open a new Afro Latino chapter in California, Black Capitol knocking on doors...

28/04/2020

The reset is on...

Physical distancing measures are in effect in the Assembly!

☑️ Remote testimony for witnesses
☑️ Public comment by email or phone
☑️ Safe, 6-feet spaces between Members, and guests in the audience
☑️ Plastic barriers to help protect against airborne particles

The Assembly is hard at work, making sure we are doing all we can to fight against .

26/04/2020

Beginning In 1849 the State of California was reset during the transition from Mexican Statehood to US Statehood... Spring 2020 the world is reset. Our 5th largest economy on Earth has a profound role and responsibility to help lead the positive way forward.

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Members of the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) held a conference call today with Governor Gavin Newsom to discuss a range of issues related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Black Community.

29/03/2020

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