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David James Wyatt
Candidate for City Councillor: At Large
David James Wyatt - 04-01-08
Today at Four O'Clock PM, a youth was shot: dead, at a park in Jamaica Plain. The "Boston Sunday Globe" reported last Sunday that a majority of Bostonians were satisfied with the performance of the "four-term" Mayor. If you ignore the shootings and stabbings that occur in "Greater Roxbury", and pay attention solely to how Ivy-League institutions are encroaching on your neighborhood; or how you can get free money from the Democratic politicians to keep from defaulting on your mortgage; then, you too may be satisfied with the Mayor's performance. People in Brighton who did not regard deaths in Greater Roxbury as having a bearing on whom they voted for last November Sixth; who cared only about their wallets are a disgrace for playing down the relevance to the whole city of these deaths that happen weekly where Felix Arroyo and I live. To tell who is responsible for these shootings, inner-city youths need to believe that what happens to them truly matters to the rank and file Bostonians: the ones who can and take time to vote: who don't wish to hid their identities to escape their obligation to serve on juries and to escape their obligations to their families and creditors. Having no citywide black and Latino elected official tells these youths that the system has contempt for them. I know for a fact that the problems of these young men matter very little to the voters of Brighton who cared only about their property values and money. I am not satisfied that this Mayor cares enough for the people who live in Greater Roxbury. He openly supported a white female over a black male in the Mass. Democratic primary. Why? What good is putting the School Department in the Dudley Station area? No blacks own any businesses in that area anymore in Tom Menino's Boston. Were his policies to continue, we won't be able to live in Boston anymore. Does he want this? We want to know the Mayor's plan for giving blacks a permanent stake in Boston in Roxbury. If you don't hear from the Mayor about this: please support any candidate for mayor other than the incumbant, and reverse the pattern established on 11-06-07 by electing a dark candidate for mayor and the city council at large. This shall give youths a sign that they can make it in Boston without resorting to crime and violence. Respectfully, David James Wyatt
David James Wyatt - 04-01-08
Recently presidential candidate Barach Obama was criticized for his friendship with an American cleric who delivered a sermon in which secular matters were probably more prominent than sacred ones; and where the rhetorical flourishes—not the substance—were objected to by many main-stream American citizens. I can tell you that any cleric whose pulpit be exempt from taxes should ever take sides in a political campaign from what pulpit without losing the tax exemption. From a sacred perspective a sermon or homily should extol the quality of the head of one's faith; this in itself is controversial enough to have the desired effect of offending evildoers and inspiring to proper response anyone with faith enough to do what their God would have them to perform. Too many clerics have accepted money from politicians and sold their soul by telling their members or parishioners to support a candidate—instead of following the dicta of their faith and its sacred leader. It is unethical, and the punishment is eternal. I tell you this as one who studied Systematic Theology at the oldest theological school in this country for one year. I can also tell you that when an argument is substantially correct in a courtroom; the only way to impeach it is to attack the one who makes the argument; or to attack the argument's grammatical clarity; any and everything but its substance. The people who have declared themselves: offended by the remarks by the instant cleric—inappropriate from such a pulpit as previously states—have never ventured to attack the substance. The United States of America did seek to exterminate the native American population; it did put loyal Americans behind barbed wire during WWII; it did enslave and degrade human beings on the basis of race and color; it did infect black men with disease as did Hitler experiment on Jews and other humans. The cleric in question was wrong to sell that pulpit to a political cause. He may have used God's name inappropriately; but, to deny the substance of his message is as wrong as to deny the Holocaust; not enough statesmen and clerics of all faiths have acknowledged this. Barach Obama may not become the first black president of this country because of inbred, inveterate racial bias against black men. If he denies slavery, Jim Crow, and the need for affirmative relief for Jews and blacks: relief that begins with an acknowledgement of atrocities and does not end with a simple apology, Mr. Obama may not deserve your support. Respectfully: David James Wyatt
David James Wyatt - 11-16-07
I need to thank anyone who took time to vote for anyone on November 6, 2007. I especially appreciate those of you who voted for me. I'm gratified that the Cardinal and Archbishop of the Boston Archdiocese recently requested that Catholics strive to vote for pro-life candidates as they are available to vote for; and several of you told me that you would vote for me on that basis; one, that she had voted for me when I spoke to her in West Roxbury on Election Day outside of Roche Brothers. I received no financial backing—not a penny. Accordingly, I had no signs, mailings, or precinct staff; and, I maintained my usual, important schedule of meetings with the Academy Homes Tenants' Council, Egleston Square Main Streets, District Seven Incorporated; while appearing around this city at forums as the only Republican; and, as the only African American; often, the only black person in a room of hundreds. I even pulled jury duty. I never criticized the mayor or an at-large candidate. My message was clear; but not for everyone. My coalition was to be; blacks, Republicans, pro-life voters, and those of you who were appalled by the death count in this city of 60 coming from Greater Roxbury. These aspects of my candidacy were too important to trivialize with a slogan; more important than the fact that I once was a "Herald" newspaper delivery boy in Somerville. Obviously, these issues—not the rain—failed to inspire citizens of Greater Roxbury to vote for one of their own ;and for a fresh approach to ending gunplay in our neighborhoods. I had so little credibility among blacks that my own tenants' council scheduled a meeting that I was required to attend—and did attend—on Election Day between 5:30 and 6:30 PM: while the polls were yet open; you and I know that there is only one explanation for that kind of insensitivity on that part of my own tenants' council: I have aroused their resentment somehow. In District Seven, "Team Unity" and the "Boston Banner" told my neighbors to decline to vote for me with their two extra votes. If Chuck Turner were right about this Boston would still be represented by the Honorable Felix Arroyo. The next time that Chuck tells anyone not to vote for a black person Boston may lose Same Yoon. It didn't work: not voting for me to preserve Sam and Felix. Had "Team Unity's" approach been positive; I believe that blacks would have turned out in sufficient numbers to elect Sam, Felix, and me. To ask blacks not to vote for a black was a major problem for prospective black voters; and, a puzzlement, I'm sure, for those whites who did vote for having a black person elected: citywide, in Boston; a matter that the "Boston Globe" commented upon in its City Weekly section: 11-11-07. Michael Jonas reports: "It's been years since there was a serious black candidate for a citywide council seat, a position from which a future mayoral candidate could burnish a reputation." To advise against voting for such a candidate when one becomes available is an abdication of duty for a black district city councillor. Such advice is detrimental to the image of the whole city of Boston: a fair city which persons of every ethnicity waiting to elect such a black candidate for the image of their city. If there is an explanation or apology, I'm prepared to hear it. I may not be serious, according to Jonas; or for some blacks; but, asking blacks not to vote for me was a serious miscalculation for those who, like me, appreciated having Mr. Arroyo as a citywide city councillor, and Latinos must educate their black neighbors to come out and to vote for blacks and Latinos for the good of this city—until the city council votes to allow non-citizens to vote. Don't make the error of obeying Chuck on this matter again. The death count is 61. You must locate Same Yoon, Steve Murphy, and John Tobin; ask them their plan to cease the killing; to be visible with the mayor and the police commissioner in order to give Bostonians hope. If you don't hear from them, or see them; then, what was the point of voting them in? I will stay in touch with Republicans, pro-life voters, and those persons whose only impediment to voting was the rain because Boston is a great city that deserves an honest and fair campaigner who thinks that the sun will be out next time. Respectfully, David James Wyatt
David James Wyatt - 8-27-07
On August 25, 2007, I received a letter from the Boston Election Department informing me that no At-Large preliminary election shall occur this year. This was determined many weeks ago by a vote within the City Council asked for by Mr. Stephen Murphy: an At-Large Incumbent and candidate; the Mayor's signature; legislative action, and the Governor's signature. Prior to these actions, the objections to the nominators' signatures of Mr. Martin Hogan were ominously withdrawn. The "home-rule" petition to increase from 500 to 1,000 the number of valid signatures that an At-Large candidate needs to be upon the ballot may still be pending. This At-Large election on November 6,2007, is the main event in Massachusetts for members of the Republican party. The winners in this race shall be the front-runners in a race for Mayor in Boston in 2009; and, in a race for Senator they shall start with name recognition and one tenth of the votes in Massachusetts for that race. One of these winners shall have the best chance of succeeding Messrs. Kerry or Kennedy—and only one candidate is a Republican. The Democrats know this. They are trying to keep me uninformed about all of the changes this year until the last moment; newspaper stories about this election are few and far between; there is a candidates' night planned for 10-11-07 that is sponsored by a coalition of groups that support my opponents: who are white; it is to take place at Roxbury Community College (in my town of Roxbury); and it is designed to encourage black favor an Asian or Latino to represent them and to care about them. This "team" continually backs a "home-rule" petition to permit non-citizens to vote. If/when they get that legislation passed and signed by the Governor, the Asian and Latino incumbents won't need black votes anymore and will cease coming into Roxbury. This candidates' night is scheduled for the same day that I am scheduled to be on neighborhood cable television with only one hour between the two events. Also, for the first time in ten years I have been scheduled for jury duty on 10-22-07; two weeks prior to this important election that the Democrats are quietly making very careful preparations for against the black/Republican who opposes abortion; supports education and jobs versus crime. I am an educator who has the experience and course preparation to administrate the Boston School District if and when necessary. I have litigated election and education matters with the City of Boston. I was the plaintiff, and prosecutor when one matter went to trail in federal court. I have passed: "Massachusetts Politics," and "Massachusetts School Law" at the graduate level with 3.0's or higher. There isn't another candidate for citywide office capable of devising and implementing a plan to educate innercity youth through public school and into waiting jobs that will bypass the cycle of crime and single parenthood we are mired in in the inner city. I'm the one who lives here and cares what becomes of black and other innercity youth: as a teacher and political activist. I have had the honor to take "Advanced Philosophical Foundations of Education" on the graduate level from Peter Kreeft and passed it with a 4.0. Only I can inspire these innercity youth and have them "buy-in" to the system that has failed them in the past. This task is the one I ask to be judged upon in 2009 when I shall need your non-partisan support for the office of Mayor—this is what November 6, 07 is about.
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I intend to attract to my staff persons who can multi-task and are familiar with every one of the 22 wards in this city; but shall have primary responsibility for knowing one-third of this city: very well; they shall have the task of liasing with one ethnic group primarily within this city. Along with knowing the streets and businesses of one third of this city and being the staff point person to an ethnic group, they shall be tasked to become familiar with the way that city government functions: in general; and particularly within cityhall. They and I shall function as a "shadow government" that can take over city government in 2010. I shall also seek advice from scholars in the Greater Boston Area when deeper questions arise that I or my staff need help on. Great responsibility require better than adequate compensation. The salary for two years is $48,000.00 for these three tasks. I expect to attend all of my meetings and hearings and to be on call 24/7 anywhere in the city—like Tom Menino. I collected my nominators' signatures in each ward: personally, and I believe I should be able to interface everywhere in this city. I have been to every fire station in this city; I know their needs; I have completed police questionnaire and knows their requirements; I hope Mr. Stutman of the teachers will make contact with me. Please ask him to call me. It won't be easy if I'm on jury duty; but, I pledge a vigorous grassroots campaign which is the only way I know. If you are serious and can assist me, please contact me at: David James Wyatt—Candidate for City Council 62 Weaver Court, Roxbury, Ma 02119-1223 Telephone: (617) 442-4191
David James Wyatt - 7-25-07
This is the strangest election year I've ever been involved in. First, I made it onto the ballot for the first time. Second, I have yet to receive my obligatory questionnaires from the National Organization for Women (NOW), and the G.L.A.D. people. Third, there shall be no interview with WBZ's David Brudnoy, or Paul Sullivan (Mr. Brudnoy said he would not be speaking with write-in candidates–only those upon the ballot). The silence is deafening about the two coming elections this Autumn; and there shall be two; Beacon Hill cannot act on a proposal to put all nine at-large candidates on the November ballots to their recipients and print the September 25th ballots. The silence surrounding this election shall prevent many from registering to vote in time, and none of the views or party affiliations of the at-Large candidates shall be heard. If you are wondering what party affiliation has to do in a non-partison election: the citizens have had their way. When I was collecting my One Thousand signatures I was challenged to divulge my Republican affiliation; fifty to one hundred times and only a handful of times was I given the benefit of the doubt for being a Republican. When, at the Ward Five Democratic Meeting I told everyone I was a Republican, Mr. Stephen Murphy took the opportunity to criticize President Bush. At an interview before A.C.O.R.N., I was asked to refrain from mentioning my party affiliation; but, I have not heard from them although they said I would be hearing from them. Accordingly, party affiliation is a factor in this election regardless of its non-partison format. I am the only Republican in this race. I am a pro-life candidate who believes in hetero-sexual marriage, Christian social ethics, and a free, market economy. I am also the only African American descendent of slaves (black) in this race; and as such, I would challenge the ability of housing developers to provide no rental housing (blacks earn less than the other ethnic groups in this city and need the availability of affordable rental housing); I believe that jobs must be targeted to blacks because they own fewer businesses than the other ethnic groups, and are discriminated against in hiring because of their ethnicity; and I would vigorously require that all public schools eliminate those teachers and heads of school who are in denial about slavery and "Jim Crow," and who try to wreck the educational careers of blacks students as headmasters have tried to in the past in Boston Public Schools. Of the other candidates, I am loathe to sling mud in the direction of my opponents; but, I have to tell you that the sentiment for abortion, divorce, same-sex marriage and fiscal irresponsibility runs high within their ranks; and the unwillingness to discuss and debate issues caused the at-Large incumbents to vote against having the lawful 9-25-07 election, in order to bypass a round or tow of discussions and debates and thereby exploint their name recognition and other powers of incumbency to their fullest. As the "Boston Globe" newspaper states on 7-2-07, several of these candidates receive support from groups with the term: "socialist," in them; therefore, its important that we take notice of the party affiliations in these elections. I am against the war in Iraq and against the death penalty; but, if this country were truly in danger of being deprived of the God-given rights our forefathers and mother held sacrosanet, you and I would fight and prevail over that enemy and make the foe pay with his life if the guilt was positive and beyond any shadow of doubt. Some say that the current mayor is planning to run again in 2009. The incumbents of the City Council are satisfied with the mayor's leadership on education, crime, and housing issues. I believe that a vote for an at-Large candidate on 9-25-07 and again on 11-06-07 shall be laying the platform for an opponent to Tom Menino, or for his replacement in 2009. All efforts, therefore, must be made to poll the at-Large field on all pertinent issues prior to 9-25-07 and to have as many voters to turn out as are capable in this primary for the mayoral race in 2009. Roxbury shall be the key issue in that election. A plurality for David James Wyatt shall put the mayor and anyone else on notice that black citizens cannot be disregarded; and that with the additional support of fair-minded Caucasian citizens, the nightmare of weekend murders may be eradicated; and our tax base may become, once more, the central concern for all Bostonians who realize that Boston is the most important city in the United States of America. Respectfully yours, David James Wyatt P.S. Please donate what you care capable of donating in the form of a check from $1.00 to $500.00 to: David J. Wyatt – Candidate for City Council, 62 Weaver Court, Roxbury MA 02119-1223
David James Wyatt - 6-28-07
Good-day. It appears to be the intention of both metropolitan newspapers in Boston to refuse to talk about the preliminary election on September 25: this year. In the past ten years, these "newspapers" were quick to mention that David James Wyatt of Roxbury did not make it onto the ballot. Is that the only time they dare to mention a black candidate for citywide office? I used to get at least a dozen requests to speak to ward committees and college forums when I was not going to be on the ballot; the National Organization for Women and other special interest groups had sent me questionnaires by this time, and I had to politely decline their offers (because they did not suppose my candidacy with signatures of valid voters). I am here without their support; I am not beholden to them—only to you; the voters that told me that anyone ha the right to be a candidate for office irrespective of ethnicity. Since they won't I need to inform you that there are nine men vying for eight positions on the ballot for the City Election to be held on November 6th: this year: Michael Flaherty of South Boston, John Connolly of West Roxbury, Matthew Geary and Martin Hogan of Dorchester, Stephen Murphy of Hyde Park, Felix Arroyo of Jamaica Plain, William Estrada of East Boston, Sam Yoon of Dorchester, and myself of Roxbury. This is the field of 9-25-07; unless someone by 7-3-07 challenges any of my endorers or those of any other candidate in this division; but, as I meant to tell my printer yesterday: because of the desire to keep authentic and qualified blacks out of office, the electors would have eliminated every possible endorser they possibly could on the orders of the mayor already. This is a touchy subject, and I do not wish to raise it; but, I am the only African-American descendent of American slaves running in this division if you desire to vote for someone like yourself. I am also the only candidate that can fill the void of black leadership that seems to exist at this time; that the media like to point to as a problem in this city when discussion turns to issues of crime and lack of respect for education in Roxbury and other inner-city communities. The time is coming, and now is for a black in order to show the blacks that you really do want us to be part of society, part of the solution to crime and joblessness; and that all of your carping about "leadership" be not rhetorical and a subterfuge for your racism that you are in denial about. As I said I don't wish to broach this topic of race; I may be changed with playing the race card; but it is important for an ethnic group that has been in Boston since colonial times to have a citywide voice and visibility; especially, in government; when this ethnic group si the only one that has had to cope with the impediments to succeeding that come from being called; chattel; being bought and sold; being fed garbage; and being unable to escape this identity because of the darkness of one's skin. There by be others in this race who have come up from poverty and oppression, but they have chosen to come to America; we blacks were brought here, at the suggestion of Bartholeme De Las Casas (a Roman Catholic cleric) to do all of the work of the native American immigrant and the European immigrant; and person who argues that we are all immigrants has already declared their desire to forget about blacks and slavery; and hopes to find an ally in the dominant Caucasian ethnic group in oppressing and ostracising blacks: not just out of Roxbury; but out of Boston. I have spoken with Caucasians in the Mission Hill part of Roxbury and on Broadway in South Boston who are aware of this urgent need for a citywide black voice and presence in Boston. If you are Latino and do not believe that dark skin, and the inability to speak Spanish or Portuguese makes one inferior to white humans beings I welcome your support as I welcome your signatures upon my petitions. If white, and you have but one option to keep from being a chronic complainer about black people in Roxbury. If you are an African-American descendant of slaves, you may be asked by Messrs Turner and Yancey to vote for a white-skinned, straight-haired "man" instead of a paper "boy". If you do this you cannot complain when no one in cityhall listens to you. They shall know that you don't have to be heard or responded to because you accept your inferiority to everyone else. This is harsh, but as I told the voters at the Ward Five Democratic committee last Thursday, things and language are different when a black is in the room from when one is not; and I wish I had a nickel for every time that a white woman refused to make eye contact with me (cultural?) or grasped her handbag closer to her (racism!) as she approached me. For you racists across the river, I stand against you; all other: I desparately require your support on my campaign on 9-25-07 and later. With that support I can apply my educational and civil rights expertise to the challenges of crime, racism, and joblessness because I care about Roxbury; that is where the task of creating a more livable city begins. Thank-you for your attention to these pressing issues. We need money for posters, bumper stickers, staff, telecommunications, and many other things to make our election sure. Please contribute any amount up to $500.00 to: David Wyatt, Candidate-City Council At Large, 62 Weaver Court, Roxbury, MA 02119-1223.
David James Wyatt - 6-1-07
On My 22, 2007, by 5:00 p.m. I submitted 34 petitions containing approximately 1,000 signatures to the election department at city all in Boston, MA. I might have submitted more; once again the office of Chuck Turner solicited signatures for Sam Yoon and Felix Arroyo. 1,000 signatures was the most I could collect on my own while working every day between 5-1-07 and 5-22-07—200 more than last time when I was not working. As before, I got them in every ward of this city. I canvassed the entirety of these streets: Center St. in Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, Washington St. in Roslindale, Dorchester, and Roxbury; Dorchester Ave. in Dorchester and South Boston; Tremont St. in Roxbury and the South End; Charles St., Harvard St. in Brighton; Hanover St. in the North End; Broadway in South Boston; Geneva Ave, Dudley St., Blue Hill Ave., and Gallivan Blvd. I spend hours at Maverick Station, Grove Hall, Uphams and Fields' Corners, and visited every fire station in Charlestown and Brighton. Rather than wait until 6-26-07 for city hall to inform me of my status of being a candidate on the ballot, or now; I am proceeding ahead as though I am on the ballot so as not to waste 25 days of campaign time. If they tell me I'm not, I have options to elect at that point. I shall be placing handbills on cars with my website info thereat; I shall be enrolling voters; and I shall be walking the city as a one-man peace patrol with the authority of a potential citywide city councillor. I shall answer all invitations to speak about the coming election; and my party affiliation is Republican—although the election is non-partisan. With your support, and with the Lord's help, we shall all presently enjoy a famous victory over pragmatism and indifference. Yours truly, David James Wyatt
Some Views Held by David James Wyatt - 3-19-07
Good-day. My name is David James Wyatt. I am a card-carrying member of the Republican Party. I exchanged Christmas greetings with the President of the United States in 2006. To my knowledge I am the only openly-Republican candidate for the Boston City Council this year. That was difficult to acknowledge; this part is simple. The Congress of our country denied the President the authority to accomplish regime change in Iraq. American intelligence organization told Mr. Bush that there were no weapons in Iraq capable of harming the United States; but in order to accomplish regime change Mr. Bush, Mr. Rumsfeld, and Ms Rice contradicted these correct intelligence findings and too the country to war. Finding no weapons capable of harming the United States, Mr. Bush declared that regime change was necessary. Since going to war in Iraq, the American people have suffered approximately 30,000 wounded or dead casualties; Iraq has lost over 100,000 lives; and we have borrowed foreign money to pay the cost of this un-declared war: upwards of 100,000,000.00 per year since March, 2003. The American people through their branch of government told President Bush not to accomplish a regime change in Iraq. He declined to serve the interest of this country as defined by the people. Mr. Bush swore to uphold the law in this country; instead, he violated the Constitution of the United States. In my opinion, to swear to protect two sovereign nations is to commit treason against one of them; The United States and Israel. Under the constitution it is not necessary to impeach a president if treason be the high crime being alleged. All that be necessary is for a country to have a Justice Department that is independent of the president and not beholden to the president. Americans should never again elect as president anyone who has visit a foreign country with a sponsor (witness) to vouch for him or her prior to one's announcing their candidacy. Before Saddam Hussein was indicted and executed for crimes against his own people, Ariel Sharon was in indicted war criminal who escaped facing the charge due to American influence. During the presidency of George W. Bush, Israel has been free to invade Palestine and eliminate anyone deemed threatening to Israel; or, non-Jewish people within Israel have been attacked repeatedly by the leadership of Israel. This is analogous to what Saddam was executed for. An authentic, just prosecution of a war criminal should be international; it must not be controlled by any one nation. The United States and its puppet regimes should not be allowed to protect its friends from prosecution or prosecute its enemies under the subterfuge of a valid war crimes tribunal. Too many of our war criminals have escaped severe punishment because they are American or British or Christian, such as Tariq Azis, without whom Saddam Hussein's government could not have functioned. We have a large Irish Catholic population in this country. They sympathize, I'm sure, with the Catholics in northern Ireland, and would like them to have equality with the protestants there. The Palestinians in Israel are entitled to the same equality and protection; and anyone who is in the government and who attacks and kills them before a just trial be convened ought not to be protected by the United States; but should be tried by an international criminal tribunal consisting of justices and prosecutors who could be objective in their considerations. In my opinion, Saddam Hussein is a martyr. His trial was unjust; there was no objectivity in the process that led to this execution; the government of Iraq is a puppet regime whose members, according to Colin Powell, were aided by us in their election campaigns; other tyrants of mass murderers escaped trial by being our friends; and, our protection of soldiers of ours who murder and rape demonstrates our cavalier indifference to egregious crimes. Under the Democrats in Congress, we are being made to stay in Iraq on behalf of Israel, when the people demonstrated at the voting booths resentment against the government that placed us in Iraq. Any plan to remove troops from Iraq by August of 2008 could be adjusted to December of 2008—just after the election. Americans must make their politicians accountable to the people again somehow. The elections must be publically financed, and the media once again must provide equal time to opposing viewpoints as a public service and as part of their mandate within the Bill of Rights. Foreign money and political influence must be eliminated from our electoral process as quickly as possible before the problem may only be solved through revolution. We must not fill the ranks of our armed forces with foreign nationals because we refuse to return to the draft. The draft distributes the obligation of defending America more fairly, and making citizens of foreigners who do not have to subscribe to the tenets of being American strengthens racism, sexism; and makes it easier for a autocratic president, like Mr. Bush, to wage war without fear of losing Americans in his class or caste. Again I wish to thank the president for his Christmas cards of the past and the future.
Views from 2005
Good-day. Many of you have asked to know more about me. I was told this by the director of Councillor Charles Turner's district office when she informed me that Chuck would be unable to secure for me thirty "good" signatures. "Good signatures" is the parlance used by an Irish gentleman who pointed to his name on the petition he had only just signed in reference to his signature; by the way, if you're not a citizen, and you cannot vote or nominate a candidate; if you're a convicted felon; or you have to "fudge" your address because your children won't receive public assistance if you tell the truth, you don't have to be "bad." You're bad only if by signing a petition for a candidate: fraudulently, you waste the time of the citizens who signed that petition accurately, respecting their correct voting address, and signed in good faith. Anyway, I'm Fifty-one, Black African-American (tell the people at the "Globe" and the "Herald" to capitalize "Black" as that word describes a people); during second grade I delivered documents between my elementary school and the school where sat a gentleman who was principal of three schools; I returned to school and excelled academically. That principal walked to my school and awarded me the Samuel Gross Davis Award for this service. I taught class for three days in the sixth grade while awaiting transfer to an advanced sixth grade; from there I passed the Latin Text and attended, there, for the seventh grade. My homeroom teacher made me proclaim to the class that my father and I washed floors for a living; I was also told I was "dressed funny"; I was not wearing a blazer. When I was not promoted, my mother cried in my presence for the first time in my life. I stayed with my grade by returning to the Tobin Middle School. On one day I taught my class in astronomy, on another day I taught history. On these days, the classroom was filled to capacity with graduate and undergraduate students from teachers' colleges. I passed the Latin and Technical tests and could enter either on I chose in September of '68. An Asian church friend was comfortable enough with me to say that I could "go" to Latin (where he was, graduated from and entered Harvard from), but only because of my color. I chose not to see my mother cry again and elected the Boston Technical High School. Had I graduated from the other school, I had graduated from Harvard College. While in high school, I was approached by my parents about the prospect of attending "West Point." Colonel John Wright had the ability to reccomend a candidate to either of senators: Kennedy or Brooke a candidate with academic ability, and his wife and my mother were sorority "sorors". I declined the recommendation of the man for whom the Roxbury boys and Girls Club had been named at the time. When we met we shook hands; it was the firmest handshake in human history. My hand felt broken; I knew I was a dissappointment. From college (Boston State College), I was asked to attend theological school by a pastor who was dying. I attended Andover Newton Theological. A condition was to serve a church as pastor without having the degree or the training one went to school for. I was twenty-five, clueless, and involved in the highest calling a man could possibly undertake: theology. I got out as graceless as i could, fighting the inevitable in every way. I was a failure before God: officially. Being rejected I slept three days; did not eat for three days. I ressurected when I answered a call to substitute teach in September of '80. For thirteen years I got by on five hours of sleep per workday. I turned down the responsibilities of Housemaster, head Boys Basketball Coach and Guidance Counsellor the first three years at Charlestown High School, and I was promised a high school Headmastership when I declined the guidance position. These are some accounts of the continuing soap opera that intrigues none of Mr. Turner's constituents according to his district office director. Before I run out of space, allow me to attempt to cobble a record of public service to this city. You may recall seeing some of my tracts placed upon your car in '96 asking you to restore the elected school committee to Boston: written and printed by me at my mother's expense (though deceased, she is still bearing the expense of such tracts as this pamphlet). In '99 I made my second appearance before the Governor's Council to oppose the elevation to Chief Justice of the Commonwealth of Justice Marshall; hoping, mainly, to have cognized the numbers of Blacks who are wrongfully sent to prison only to be released years later with hardly an apology. In '01, in an open letter to Larry DiCara: the man that Tom Finneran charged with some responsibility for drawing voting districts for the Commonwealth, I asked LSD to "remember the Blacks" when he performed his task. LSD and Tom Finneran were classmates in Latin, thought I never met Tom (he spoke a day ahead of me before the Governor's Council in '99). Larry and I had talked at Latin, and when he was campaigning for the office of Mayor of boston, we waved at each other. In '01 I was seeking the office of Mayor of Boston. Though I did not receive enough signature support, I ran "con gusto," and produced thirty-plus pages of position statements. My first six position statements were on the streets on 6-29-01. The second statement asked President Bush to recall for consultation our State Department staff from Israel because we risked attack by keep them there. I was a Republican: then; and am so: now; but "9/11" was predictable and avoidable; none of the costs of lives or of freedom were necessary. In '01 I spent a planned and announced six hours at Bunker Hill Monument to collect signatures for my petitions form patriotic Boston citizens. Not one person came to talk, or to sign. Several months later some of these patriots complained of not seeing enough flags on cars on Blue Hill Avenue. That was covered by Bunker Hill. You did not exhort your government to correct action in a timely fashion, and that is a prerequisite to complaining. Some would rather have a flag and a ribbon than a nation that doesn't make "mistakes" that cost five thousand of us and 100,000 people defending their home soil with manly firmness. The people that some obeyed by not coming to Bunker Hill for a candidate for office in Boston made the mistakes that caused "9/11," and will not be qualified, according to Albert Einstein, to solve the problems they have created. In '03 the Election Department of Boston challenged in court the validity of my petition signatures; although, their task is to compare one list of voters to the signatures on petitions - not to make the final decision of who were qualified to be a candidate upon a ballot on Election Day. If it become necessary, I want some of the true patriots of this city to come to your polling place on September 27, 2005 and to ask for the technology capable of placing a name on the ballot that City Hall, and Judges of Suffolk County have violated the law to keep from being on a ballot; but over 800 Bostonians have asked be placed upon the ballot in '03 and '05; this technology will be indelible ink pen; then the pen in hand, write: David James Wyatt, 62 Weaver Court, Roxbury, Ward 11, District 7, for one of your At-Large votes. As I was told in South Boston, "Anyone...has the right to have his name placed on the ballot." Help those 800 persons to have a voice.
Some Positions Held by David James Wyatt - 9-12-05
I have campaigned for the office of City Councillor-at-Large since 1997 with the exception of 2001. I always circulate my petitions myself. There is no possibility, therefor, of anyone mistaking me for someone else. My task has been to collect nominators signatures from every ward of Boston and from every ethnic group of Boston, as an at-large candidate–not simply Black citizen's signatures from Roxbury. Consequently, on my petitions you will see names of Asians from Dorchester, Latinos from Jamaica Plain, and Blacks from Dudley Station, Mattapan Square, Tremont Street, Columbus Avenue. I take pride in saying that I have been into every pub and package store I saw in Boston on Washington Street, Boylston and Newbury Streets, Broadway and Dorchester Avenue, Centre Street, Grove Hall; and, every barbershop and laundromat in Boston. The first problem I encountered was the significant number of those who told me they could not sign because of a past legal matter. As a Black, I have, frankly, been in many situations where I have been provoked by fighting words that have attacked my humanity; I have been jobless; and I have been the subject of false reports. I have been shot at from a distance, and I have been subjected to removal attempts from my neighborhood by those who claimed solidarity with Blacks. There are ligitimate reasons for people being in prison. Some of these citizens have received education from teachers who wanted them to fail to learn. Businesses are not hiring people outside of their ethic group: take industrial and office cleansing, for an example. Some citizens are framed by the police and police commissioners hide exculpatory evidence during trials. Not every convicted person committed the crime they were accused of. Should that person lose the right to vote and to sign petitions? Not in America. Therefore, to prevent injustice from occuring to Americans by mistake or by design, I would permit all incarcerated persons: past and present to vote and by petitions to select the slate of candidates in municipal elections. I encountered a homeless, hatless veteran at Maverick Station. I knew his signature would not count; he should not be denied the franchise simply because he cannot produce an address. Either of the mayor or the current city councillors are guilty of keeping homeless people like this veteran from enjoying the rights they fought for and preserved for those of us who did not have to go to Viet Nam. I met a man at Fields Corner who was embarassed by not being able to sign my petition as his co-worker just had done. Other near-by municipalities are exploring the posibility of allowing noncitizens to vote. The hatless veteran, who asked for my hat because it was raining, and all of us Bostonians must be allowed to have what folks in South Africa struggled for and died for. The police and the firemen need help to afford housing in Boston; or in the alternative, the right to live outside of Boston without forfeiting their jobs. The trade-off in losing the benefit of having city employees as residents is that those citizens who are being removed from their neighborhoods due to high prices may find lower prices as they supply of housing grows. I gave a speech at a firehouse and was shown antique trucks that are not safe to use. Fire vehicles ought to be replaced at a regular interval as ambulances and police vehicles are. As great as these needs are, Bostonians need to be assured that everyone who abides in Boston enjoy the same services and respect from City Hall and the person those workers are loyal to. I took offense when I head that some foreigners came to Boston and asked the current mayor to be allowed to visit the parts of the city that were difficult to police and the mayor took them to Blue Hill Avenue and other areas that Blacks frequented. I understand that the mayor believes that people in Roxbury don't respect life. I have no confidence in a mayor or police commissioner who express such sentiments in lieu of defending Blacks from crime. Before I vote for a candidate for mayor I need to know that my neighborhood is not being dismantled to remove "me;" that I am not thought of by Israelis as the target population by the Boston police. I need to know that city hall isn't spending millions to prevent citizens of Boston from having the candidates of their choice and voting for them. I am here in Boston for the duration and shall run for office until city hall tires of enlisting judges in its service to keep me off the ballot. Your vote is your most valuable possession. One write-in vote out of eight at-large votes is required to protect your voting rights from the usurpations of the mayor and his election commissioner. I'm the target; now; who's next? Write in: David James Wyatt 62 Weaver Court Roxbury, MA 02119-1223 617 442-4191
Some Positions of David J. Wyatt - September 19, 2005
I am asking all of you to make one of your At-Large votes a "write-in" form me. I am alleging that my name has been kept off the 9-27-05 ballot improperly by a court and a city hall that have a comity of interest. Let me substantiate my claim as briefly as possible without deleting important facts. The controlling case law is McCarthy v. Secretary of the Commonwealth, 371 Mass .359 N.E. 2d 291-306 (1977). In it you shall find at page 300 that the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) concluded that the Mass. Legislature did not intend to leave the final determination whether a particular candidate would have access to the...election ballot within the sole unreviewable discretion of local registrars. At page 301, the SJC concluded that registrars are precluded from making an independent investigation. The task of registrars is to compare two documents when confirming the validity of petition signatures: the petition (and its signatures) to the current list of valid voters. In addition, at 298 the SJC conclude that the Legislature confers upon the superior court (and the SJC) the authority to accomplish an investigation into whether a candidate's signatures (including the one's not certified by the registrars) entitle the candidate to ballot status. Briefly, Judge Thomas A Connors took the position that the "investigation" made by the election department of City Hall would never be errant or biased against a candidate, and that the word of the election department was indisputable. To be clear, the SJC stated in 1977 that registrar in an election department were precluded from making an investigation respecting petition signatures; and they were not intended by the Legislature to make the ultimate decision as to ballot worthiness of a candidate. Judge Connors had the responsibility of reviewing the work of the election department. This task had to be accomplished, if possible, prior to the time when ballots were to be printed and sent to absentee voters. According to a case cited by Judge Connors: 4,568 Registered Voters of Worcester v. City Clerk of Worcester, 392 Mass.424-426 (1984), at page 425, when the cost of an independent examination of the petition signatures, along with the propinguity of the election, made the examination difficult to impossible, the interest of justice required the inclusion of the matter upon the ballot (a character review petition, then; here: the name of the candidate). I believe that Judge Connors improperly relied upon a partisan package of documents from one side of the dispute where SJC precedents required him to conduct an unbiased investigation and examination; or, if time precluded such: have the name of the candidate placed upon the ballot. I could be wrong; I could be partisan. So could City Hall. In point of fact, every justice in Soffolk County Superior Court received a memo from Justice Linda Giles, dates: 8-23-2002, banning any more lawsuits from me against the City of Boston: asked for by Mayor Thomas Menino. Judge Connors knew that the papers he would base his judgment upon could be biased against a legal adversary of the Mayor and his City Hall departments. at page 299 of the "McCarthy" citation, the SJC stated in 1977 that the registrars have no interest in blocking ballot access to bona fide candidates, and hopefully any necessary litigation might be conducted as a cooperative venture to determine the truth of any matter. I respectfully dispute the impartiality of the combined forces of the election department and the judges of Suffolk County in this matter of determining who may be a candidate upon the ballot in Boston, and I don't think I'm in error this time. One more point is to be made here. The Boston election department made three reviews of my petition signatures in 2003; in 2005 they made two reviews. It was upon the third review in 2003 that 48 additional signatures were certified by that department. This year I declined their offer of this third review because I had read the law and now knew that every review of a petition above and beyond the first is illegal for that department's registrars to make, and that it was for the judge of the superior court to conduct an examination if time and costs permitted; or include the name of the candidate in the interest of justice as the alternative—not to rely upon possibly errant, biased machinations of City Hall. I did the correct thing and got punished for it. Can this oversight; the absence of a name upon the ballot, have a remedy? Can the voters who signed by petitions receive justice? We ask again for one "write-in" vote for David J. Wyatt on 9-27-05. The validity of that election depends upon this. Thank you.
Some Positions Held By David J. Wyatt - September 23, 2005
Good-day. Voting for a "write-in" candidate is an usual step to take in a democracy. You're being encouraged to vote for the approved candidates and told in subliminal and overt ways to avoid those ones that have not received the stamp of approval of city hall. O.K.; I'm unusual. When the mayor's redevelopment authority decided to make Jackson Square into a pedestrian mall that would attract high-salaried whites to that Black neighborhood I did not accept this development as an accomplished fact. I attended the developers' presentations; reviewed their proposals at BRA Hg: city hall, and wrote letters in opposition to plans that would remove Blacks from their signature neighborhood in Boston and bring an ice skating rink and stores that would not employ or be owned by Blacks. I've been in every store in Jamaica Plain, Roxbury and Dorchester. None of them are owned or operated by Black African Americans (except Dudley Station). Banks obviously are not loaning to those people. They lack collateral and the intangibles of other minorities who boast of their non-slave heritage and discriminate against Blacks in hiring and politically as mush or more than whites do. My own landlord and potential developer of Jackson Square: Urban Edge, will not be hiring Blacks in the future because they don't do so now. They play race and color in hiring and want a Black Roxbury to disappear. I don't, and what is more, I will fight for what I believe in. As a city-wide candidate, I'll take the unusual position of representing one neighborhood more than others. I expect that if you take the step of voting for me, you want to live in a city that can elect a city-wide Black person and not avoid the introspection and strife that accompanies that person by opting for a Hispanic or Asian who were not slaves in this country for white owners and who talk down Blacks more than whites do. It is true that there is a greater than average level of criminality in Roxbury and where Blacks are. Some Black parents say to potential crime reporters, "Leave the kids alone," don't call the police when their juveniles loiter all night long, block the entrances to buildings and damage property and property values. In the past eight weeks, one murder and two attempts took place where I live; all week the Boston Herald has showcased violent crime in Boston. What would I do? They can't get you if you're in-doors by 10:00 P.M. instead of sitting on a hydrant at 3:00 A.M.. If one were not attempting a crime by being abroad after midnight, to reduce the incidence of murder on Saturday mornings, and if you do have respect for your worth as a human being: don't present yourself as a target by being abroad on a weekend in the early morning. You are making all of us look like we don't respect life, as the mayor said a month ago. But I would challenge business to hire African Blacks, and I would get the U.S. Attorney to indict banks that demonstrate an inability to loan money to Black Africans and induce them into a life of organized crime to support their parents who warn neighbors to "leave those kids alone." As an at-large city councillor I would challenge the mayor daily, throughout this city to oppose organized crime, to challenge employers to employ African Black Americans or face the consequences. you would see the mayor on T.V. every day defending his/her action or inaction–not just as election time approaches every two years. I wish I had not been banned from attending that tenant council meeting where the parent warned us to leave delinquents to become life-long unemployables who can't vote or select candidates. Urban Edge must be acquainted with organized crime, and they do have contempt for Blacks. It's an unusual step to write a name on a ballot. These new voting stations have no privacy, and there shall be but one candidate: David James Wyatt, a potential pain in the image we want to project as a city; a painful reminder of the not-so-distant past who shall cause strife like no other councillor because he won't be satisfied with partial answers and the status quo. Writing-in a name is like taking politics serious; it makes one a player ina dangerous game of protected organized crime and their advocates in city hall, the D.A.'s office, and in the police force–not simply a uninvolved spectator. I won't give up if you don't give up. Please give me your permission: your write-in vote. Thank you. David James Wyatt for City Councillor At-Large Favorite quote: He who would be leader must be like the servant. Jesus the Christ Favorite song: Hold On, Hold Out. Jackson Browne, Craig Doerge Favorite Novel: Nine Prince in Amber. Roger Zelazny Favorite Sport: Tennis Favorite nonfamilial hero: Douglas MacArthur Please write-in: David James Wyatt 62 Weaver Court Roxbury, MA 02119-1223 DM 9-27-05
Some Positions Held By David J. Wyatt - October 6, 2005
Good-day. I have to report to you that your efforts to have my name placed on the ballot for City Councillor-at-Large for November of 2005 have fallen short and that I must concede that I shall not be able to be tested as a city-wide candidate this year. Some 300 write-in votes were recorded, and I hope that city hall shall be concerned about the activism within the electorate that might take the process of selecting candidates out of their tainted hands in the near future. I also have to tell you that, as a city: Bostonians have said by there vote on 9-27-05 that White, Asians, and Hispanics are acceptable city-wide representatives of Boston—not Blacks. The two mayoral candidates, and the four most-likely to be elected, at-large candidates for city council, as determined by the vote on 9-27-05 are one White woman, three white men, and one Hispanic man who resembles a Caucasian. Black candidates: Mr. Owens, and Ms Garrison finished out of the running on the ballot; as I did as a write-in. Owens and Garrison have been tested in 2005 and in 2003; they have proved unable to garner sufficient votes from the variety of cultures in this city. Respectfully, they were on the ballot; they were invited to the forums and states their positions; they received press coverage and had T.V. interviews; and again Blacks who look to Boston as a location for residence, or to bring a convention to must acknowledge that only Caucasians have city-wide power and electability in Boston; preserved with care by the courts of Suffolk County. National Blacks said this about Boston in the run-up to the 2004 Democratic National Convention and were denounced by White Bostonians as incorrect; but, this election is showing the true colors of Boston. The safest action for an ethic group to take has bee taken by Bostonians. I don't expect this action to surprise most Bostonians; but, I thank those of you who saw a need to include a Black person among the city-wide image of Boston and apprehended my argument for fairness in my particular case where I was intentionally excluded from the ballot. Now, those who have been sufficiently tested by the electorate and have failed should support some other person and work together with that person whose exclusion was a slight to the Black community as a whole which you chose not to seek satisfaction for, as I intend to run again for office and for our collective dignity until those who hate democracy give up their effort. I expect that the next mayor of Boston shall be he, or she who receives the majority of the votes cast by Blacks. I expect the incumbent and the challenger to court this vote. Ask the representatives of the candidates to define "Roxbury," and to discuss their plan to strengthen the African Black presence in Roxbury; or, do they plan to turn Roxbury over to immigrants whose ethnic appearance more-closely resembles theirs? Ask your district councillor to relate his concept of Roxbury and why he supports a Hispanic city-wide person over a Black one, and if he believes that someone other than a Black should win his seat in the next election. I'm disappointed; we're all disappointed that this city could not field a Black city-wide candidate in the November election. I was told by a White man who signed my petition to tell Blacks to support my candidacy because he; a White man had done so. I have done that at the risk of alienating those of you who hope for a city where hiring, firing and housing shall be truly color-blind. I've been approached by a dozen organizations who wanted by answers on questionaires. What I need from you: the electorate, is the opportunity to serve you and this city. I need your permission to do this. I need to have your interest in my candidacy prior to the signature collecting process; I need those persons on your staffs to endorse my candidacy: my right to be a candidate on the ballot in order for the electronic and print press to accord me the equal prestige of the qualified incumbents and challengers I'm asked to run against. City hall conceded that they possibly engaged in tactics designed to discourage voters. When I voted on 9-27-05, I was told to remove my hat first. I believe that the issue of removing a hat before ladies should not be settled for all time before a man can vote; but I believed that the Boston Police Officer was going to take the hat if I did not "dott" it. These folks did not get the word about not discouraging voters from voting; they did not discuss the write-in possibility; and when I placed my ballot in the hopper, the police officer asked for my name; received it and checked it off a list he had; and as a result could cross-reference my name and vote against a number within the hopper when I inserted the ballot which is a violation of privacy and a means of intimidation. I shall where a hat and vote in November, and not give my name to the police as I place my ballot in the hopper. Call or visit city hall and ask them and the mayor's task force to fully desist from violating the privacy rights of Boston voters before November. Contact me at 617-442-4191 and I will do my best to see that you receive satisfaction from your complaint or grievance; and offer me your signature support prior to the next election process. Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Some Positions Held By David J. Wyatt - October 20, 2005
Good-day. Please allow me to give responses to the six questions that appeared in the "Boston Sunday Globe" of 10-16-05 and were responded to by the eight finalists in the "At-Large" city council race.
David James Wyatt 62 Weaver Court Roxbury, MA 02119 617-442-4191
Some Positions Held By David J. Wyatt - October 29, 2005
Good-day. Recently I began to hear the phrase: "The New Houston" being used by candidates for office in Boston. My grasp of the meaning of this terminology is as follows: a Boston without African American Blacks (hereinafter: Blacks) who have a memory of the civil and human rights struggles that were fought by us to obtain a measure of dignity as human beings who did not have to accept the abuse of being compared to gorillas or monkeys; who did not have to send children to school where white teachers papered the walls with primates: some saying: "Homework, I never touch the stuff" while the primate pensively contemplated his genitalia; a Boston without Blacks who have jobs and affordable housing. Two years ago, the number: one rated sports radio station in America compared Blacks to Gorillas; the employees did not get fired over that assault against Black men, women and children. The politicians are pointedly ignoring Blacks and are playing-up to Latinos and Asians; even the Black elected politicians advocate for Hispanic leadership over Blacks. I talked to a Hispanic gentleman this morning who told me that he was not prejudiced; that he did not regard race or color in this associations. This is idyllic and Platonic. What I did not say to him is that the real-world situation is that if your skin and/or ethnicity be caucasian (White), you do better in this country respecting employment, housing and adjudications because whites prefer other whites and partial whites to Blacks. This playing of the race card is frowned upon by whites: who play that card constantly. The whites in Boston's most proud "white" community have a housing trust that allows families who have been in their community for several hundred years to achieve financial assistance in order to remain there. I know of no such trust for Blacks in Roxbury who are about to be priced out of that neighborhood by housing management companies with ties to the current mayor such as "Urban Edge." I am currently a tenant with Urban Edge. I read in a small, neighborhood newspaper, not under the mayor's control, that Urban Edge evicts families for having "messy" apartments. For a year after my mother passed on, Urban Edge intentionally passed over my apartment for exterminator services – thus: creating a condition of untidiness: to try to evict someone(?); and at a recent meeting with Urban Edge, I was made to wait for twenty minutes after the proposed start time of that meeting without explanation. If asked they'd answer that they were not prejudiced against Blacks; but, as I told you before, they don't hire Blacks and have produced a record that prognosticates and extrapolates a situation where Blacks are not part of the future of Roxbury in the hands of Urban Edge. I attended the 10-24-05 meeting of "Boston Connects, Inc." at the Boston Public Library: Dudley Station Branch to see what was being done to help people of Roxbury. Every plan that the presenters cited relied and depended upon the good will of the majority employers in Boston: Caucasians, who as we know prefer other whites and partial whites to Blacks, Ninety-nine per cent of these plans were designated for women who were post-incarceration-not men. Black women are not in danger of dissappearing from Boston. White guilt over the "troubles" of the past forces caucasians to employ some Blacks; these are usually the non-confrontational ones: the women–not the "bucks" or the "smart monkeys'(See MacBeth) or the ones the police call the "hard asses," as I was called on several occasions; the ones that district attorney Conley has to free from prison for being wrongly accused; but whose police record shall continue to stress the arrest and not the government mistakes that were, and are always, made with Black men, historically. If you are a Black man and can vote, nobody is perfect. The current mayor's opponent has not reached out to Blacks, recently. She is courting the Latino voters of her neighborhood and ignoring us; but we need a change up there at city hall. Under this mayor, we are being harassed, wrongfully arrested and convicted, evicted, priced-out, not loaned to, not responded to when we call the police for help because they exist to protect everyone from Blacks but Blacks. I have seen Tom Menino's minions place campaign signs up at midnight on abandoned property. He is most-likely tearing down the signs of his opponent; but we must not be complacent anymore. We have to return to the streets, the barricades and to the trees as the "strange fruit" of our forefathers or become extinct as an ethnic group or as a species as we continue to be called on WEEI with impunity; we must rejoin the struggle for recognition of our grievances or be written off as inconsequential by history. Vote reluctantly against Tom Menino; but be prepared to force the issue of grievances until triumph or death. D.J. Wyatt
Some Positions Held By David J. Wyatt - November 4, 2005
Permit me to respond to the categories cited in "Boston Globe" of 11-4-05. On the elected school committee, I favored this in 1996 when the issue was on the ballot and wrote and produced leaflets for this position at my expense, while the current mayor opposed returning to this form of democracy and funded his position with $500,000.00 of someone's money—perhaps yours. I have opposed the residency requirements since my first city council campaign (1997) to create more housing in Boston and to lower the price of it. A good mayor should look to the safety of his constituents and should bring businesses into the city that provide jobs for the members of the target neighborhood. This mayor has a mediocre record of caring about citizens in Roxbury as measured by the amount of unaddressed crime he allows here; also, he has made every effort to enhance the economic climate for Hispanics in Boston at the obvious expense of the African Americans (Blacks); yet, I haven't a clue on the Biolab issue. I thought we were implemented neighborhood schools in 1998. I believed it would provide more money for classroom activities while inequitable distribution of resources to community schools could be checked by a posting of those resources upon each school's website for comparison; staff qualifications could be posted this way, too. I was at the hearing that was held before the recent vote a rent stabilization. If a councillor or candidate oppose seeing to the needs of the residents of Boston over the concern for bringing into Boston the richest first-world people to increase the tax base and to maintain the high cost of housing, let one say so. Those traitors do not deserve your vote on 11-8-05. The number of shootings and murders in Boston is at a historically high level. The current mayor plans to obtain assistance from ATF officers (WACO) in order to remove firearms from Boston streets. When someone was murdered earlier this year, the current mayor said, "Those people don't respect life," instead of how he was going to find the assailant or provide viable employment for youths who can see their neighborhoods being turned over to newcomers who own the stores because, under this mayor: redlining and racial profiling of loan applicants has not been actively discouraged. Tom says he is not a front line person; what about his police commissioner? If a serious approach to routing out the causes of crime in Boston is lacking it is because the man in charge of the police, the teachers and the city is not sufficiently engaged and is over-matched respecting the quality of life for the underpriviledged members of this city. The one man who can do the most to fix this city simply has not elected to do so up to this point; if reelected, what be his motivation to act in the next four years: to admonish banks and employers to seriously consider Blacks as human beings with value? The "Globe" chose to report an instance of an unarmed Black man being shot in the head by police. They do this out of a lack of respect for Blacks as humans they need to respect. Their department heads have not told these officers to respect Blacks. This respect must reside within the person in charge in order for their staff to have it. In Boston, if the current mayor will not get involved in spreading a gospel of good will to all humans; blacks included, and he has not done this front line work: he out not be reelected. David James Wyatt
Some Positions Held By David J. Wyatt - November 26, 2005
Good-day. On Election Day: 11-8-05, I tried to vote at my polling station and could not for a variety of reasons. The first obstacle to voting was the street that connected my housing development to the polling place. It was blocked for road repair, coincidentally, on that day—not the prior day, or the day following the elections; but I drove around that impediment. Secondly, the parking lot that is usually open at that community center was chained shut to prevent voters from parking and to discourage voting; but I was early that morning and found something close by. Thirdly, inside, a sign was posted telling men to remove their hats which neither I nor the gentlemen before me heeded; but there cam an obstacle I could not surmount when I was asked to tell my name to the Boston Police officer before placing the ballot into the container. I had given the city my name upon arrival at the polling station so that no one else could vote using my name; what was the point of doing this a second time before placing the ballot in the hopper? People take different amounts of time to vote, and do not place their ballots into the hopper in the order of their arrival. If we did place our ballots into the machine in the order of our arrival, the city could know how each of us voted by calibrating our arrival with the order of the ballots in the hopper; thus, the purpose of the officer taking our name begins to make sense. I chose not to vote rather than that vote not be private. I called John Donovan to be sure that the procedure was correct; it was per city ordinance; and I know that Mr. Donovan believes that no possible violation could possibly occur; but there was a slight possibility, none-the-less. The city's ordinance ought to be changed. One identity check for the stated purpose is sufficient; two are inordinant. At the polling place during this incident, a woman Election Department employee stood rather close to me and stared at me in the threatening fashion as though she wanted to hurl me out of the room. Such behavior compassed assault. Her supervisor: Ms Alfreda Harris should be replaced for allowing her staff to intimidate voters, and the federal Department of Justice should investigate the imposition of obstacles to voting that still occur on Election Day in Boston after their suit against this city was settled weeks before this vital election for mayor and city councillors. I estimate that five (5) more murders have taken place in Boston since 11-8-05. The mayor has not made a statement about any of them on camera. He made a significant statement this week about public safety; that additional officers shall be deployed in the areas likely to be frequented by holiday shoppers. My translation of the statement is that the mayor's priority is to protect white shoppers and citizens from (Black) criminals and to confine murder to inner-city areas. This is what we voted for and have to look forward to until 2009. Respectfully, David James Wyatt
Some Positions Held By David J. Wyatt - January 21, 2006
Good-day. In the city of Boston the chief executive has the lion's share of the power and authority to address the perennial needs and the exigent needs that all Bostonians care ferently about. We have been asked many times the question: what does/can a city councillor do. Mostly, one can put pressure on the mayor and the media outlets to acknowledge problems and to act affirmatively to solve such problems. I hope to read in the newspapers and to see on television city councillors constructive advice to the mayor relative to the needs we and they cited during the campaign year of 2005, and I hope that remain visible and vocal during their term in office–not only at election time. I have chosen to forgo further litigation respecting the non-inclusion of my name on the preliminary ballot in 2005 and instead to use that amount of my deceased mother's money in a more productive and hopefully successful way. In the Fall of 2006, I shall solicit signatures and other support for my candidacy in 2007 for at-large City Councillor in Boston. Using the website and my telephone, citizen may stay informed about this candidacy and arrange a time to sign one of my petitions that is convenient to them; and the right of the people to sign petitions and select candidates shall not be tainted in 2007 as it was in 2005. Respectfully David James Wyatt
David James Wyatt for City Councillor - January 24, 2006
Good-day. I would like to respond to the opinion piece in the "Boston Herald" of 1-23-06 by long-time Boston newspaper writer: Alan Lupo. If I gave the "Herald" a chance to publish this response, "they" would not; therefore, I shall issue it hereat. Mr. Lupo made no allowance in his piece for Whites and others to change their defective, "Jim Crow" attitudes. Neither did the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954 in their "Brown v. Board of Education" opinion. Essentially Mr. Lupo is asking black "guys" to participate in the systems of their oppressors: education and legal for example, and at the end of the day be denied the opportunity to rate for jobs they are qualified for because of long-held prejudices and biases that "Jim Crow:: Mr. Lupo's term, represents. Alan Lupo is asking black guys to suffer and die the death that results from lack of jobs and the dignity of a job without uttering a single complaint. Once Pharaoh asked some of Mr. Lupo's ancestors to make bricks without being supplied straw; they found this to be intolerable and asked to be delivered from that harsh set of conditions. Mr. Lupo would not suggest that those hapless victims or the dead and living victims of the holocaust suffer the fate intended for them without a struggle or even a protest or a dying curse. The survivors of the holocaust have sought and are in receipt of reparations: from Germany; from Switzerland banks; they are even suing the United States for reparations currently. Meanwhile, blacks must survive on Plantitudes and beatitudes until someone comes up with another final solution to the nation's problem; because of "Jim Crow": the unwillingness and lack of necessity of/for whites and others to regard blacks as basically human? Mr. Lupo, if black guys self-immolate and remove their despised existence from the presence of the rest of humanity, white, Hispanic, French west-Indian, and Asian guys will be as inhumane and as barbaric as ancient Egyptian task masters and Nazi Tod/Arbeit Schlag guards. The ability and willingness to savage helpless, naked prisoners; or, of the "majority" to act out its frustrations and baser appetites against a powerless minority is a serious, egregious character defect that resides not in the powerless; but in the "majority" group. It is a defect that can prevent an educated, law-abiding black guy from reaching his fullest potential — regardless of what he does; and you have stipulated, Mr. Lupo, as did the U.S. Court of 1954, that whites will never stop trying to keep blacks down. I wish to thank you, Mr. Lupo, for calling to out attention the desparate situation that we black guys are in. If we must, let us die with our dignity: intact — not giving back the moral victory we won in the American Civil War by agreeing to make sacrifices that illegal immigrants must make, although we make them in our own homeland. Your failed attempt use of "street talk" is amusing to those you wrote to for many years before retiring; and talked to on the radio as well. You demonstrate that you really don't regard the black American genocide as a terrible catastrophe, and I need not lean upon my understanding as the U.S. Court said as must about you. I can't thank you for your heart-felt concern because you did not mean to help. Respectfully, David James Wyatt Boston Herald Newspaper Boy |
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