How many times do I have to tell you that a prophet is never honored in his or her own home and nothing screams take me to jail with Mark Ridley-Thomas Jr more than Inglewood Councilman Alex Padilla’s override of the Planning Commission’s denial of a Special Use Permit (SUP). The council’s own handpicked commissioners’ denial or better yet failure to move on a motion to expand a pre-existing storage business in Padilla’s district resembles Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail or a knockoff version of Las Vegas reminiscent of the shiny new toy feel when you hit the strip…
Author: Marvin McCoy
Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here? I couldn’t help think of Russell Crows movie Gladiator when he challenges the empathy of the raucous crowd that gathered to see gladiators fight to death as a form of sickly, and oddly enough thrilling spectator sport for the rich to quench their unhealthy appetite for excitement and vicious brutality even to the point of death. There’s no other way to describe the rush of adrenaline I felt when I scrolled through my social media feed and read that Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr. suffered another bruising defeat…
Didn’t I say politics is nothing but theatre, but with much more severe consequences? I don’t understand why I’m reading an article titled Sheriff Robert Luna backtracks, says fraud investigation was handed over to FBI on yet another blunder by the head of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. As the old saying goes we’re all characters in this game called life and unfortunately newly elected Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna’s performance thus far can’t be described as any less than horrible and not worthy of a repeat performance. I would even go on further to say that those…
Thank God for 2UrbanGirls coverage because if it weren’t for your dogged coverage of the deficiencies and the inadequate communication and public participation in the discussion of the planning of the still grossly underfunded Inglewood Transit Connector project the public would have no idea what was in store for them despite City consultants saying otherwise I had to find out about the readjusted costs of this project in the Los Angeles Business Journal article titled Inglewood Rail Project Gets $407M in State Funding, exemplifies the standard practice of disrespect that has long existed between Inglewood officials since the controversial…
The Los Angeles Times released an article titled “Special counsel urges sheriff [Robert Luna]to ban the ‘cancer’ of deputy gangs” but didn’t former Sheriff Alex Villanueva already issue that directive? They say politics is nothing but theater and if any party gets that description to a tee it’s the democratic liberal left wing of the progressive party or as I like to refer to them as the knock-off TJ- Maxx version of Marjorie Taylor -Greene of the Pro-Trump party where the rhetoric from the most extreme voting blocks of both parties are equally dangerous. Why? Their ideology is extreme and…
There’s an old Southern saying that I think aptly applies to Mark Ridley-Thomas “a hard head makes a soft behind”. The Los Angeles City Councilman’s pending criminal trial, slated to start this Tuesday stems from an indictment levied against him and former USC Dean Marilyn Flynn. They were charged as co-conspirators in a scheme that alleges the highly respected longtime lawmaker traded his office for the personal gain of not only himself but also for his son Sebastian, who has amazingly avoided being indicted too. This scandal is unfortunate as Ridley-Thomas rose from being an obscure math teacher whose amazing intellect…
I must admit since Inglewood began hosting it’s King’s parade years ago I must admit I was disappointed that this year’s event has morphed much more into a festival and arguably a show if you were to view it differently as it appears like Inglewood and most municipalities “celebrate” the life of the honorable Dr. Martin Luther’s King work and legacy but spit on the principles and ethics he taught and practices in an never-ending on slaught of introductions of legislation and or policy that appears genuine in nature but upon further inspection causes more harm than advertised as some…
I must admit if you like political folly and satire you can’t beat the antics of the newly “selected” Sheriff Robert Luna who has within a few short months has already acquiesced his day-to-day duties as Sheriff to Eileen Decker a “highly” respected attorney who will serve as the guiding light so to speak in righting everything that is chronically wrong with LASD. But based on Ms. Decker’s time on the LAPD commission and her tenure as vice-president justifies in theory and practicality handing over the day-to-day operations to someone with an impressive resume but there’s a lot to be…
Once again I say this, a prophet isn’t honored in his own home, and the public admission of newly elected Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna admitting that deputy gangs have been around for decades defies this urban myth that they originated under former Los Angeles County Board Board of Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, whom may I add for context is facing fraud and corruption charges and viciously perpetuated by his successor Holly Mitchell that deputy gangs originated and consumed the daily operations of the Los Angeles Sheriffs Department under former Sheriff Alex Villanueva isn’t only slanderous but in essence is libel…
Where are the elders in the room? Twitter / @TinaMcKinnor1 Where is the moral and conscious and the wise of the Black political elected officials because there is a pandemic of ineffective, soulless politicians that exhibit leech like behavior in their quest for undeserved riches and visions of grandeur as a select group of politicians of color have mastered the game of musical chairs with a relentless and endless pursuit of pursuing and positioning themselves to be re-elected or the insatiable desire to adhere to a “higher” calling while promising to deliver manna and honey to their impoverished but hopeful…