Applications are now being accepted from prospective members of Martinez’s new Anti-Racism and Discrimination and Pro Inclusion and Equity Task Force.
The nine-member task force will review city policies, procedures and programs, and advise the Martinez City Council on how they could be tweaked, adjusted or otherwise changed to help eliminate systemic racism and other biases, including anti-LGBTQ attitudes, from city government.
City Manager Eric Figueroa said this week that task force members will be chosen to reflect a variety of ethnicities and ages, with diverse issues or causes for which they advocate.
Also wanted is for task force members to be from all parts of Martinez. Those nine people will be selected through an interview process that will involve both the City Council and a community panel.
Final task force member selections will be made by Mayor Rob Schroder, with the concurrence of the City Council.
Interviews are expected to begin in mid-September.
Applicants must be residents of Martinez or have substantial involvement in a community organization or local business.
Completed applications may be downloaded at https://bit.ly/3gNWAgb and must be completed by 5 p.m. Sept. 1. Applications may be submitted by mail to the Deputy City Clerk, 525 Henrietta Str., Martinez, CA 94553, or electronically to cityclerk@cityofmartinez.org.
We have fallen a long way in recent years. I’m sure we have not yet hit the bottom.
How about they work on their METH PROBLEM first.
“The leftist of the oversocialized type tries to get off his psychological leash and assert his autonomy by rebelling. But usually he is not strong enough to rebel against the most basic values of society. Generally speaking, the goals of today’s leftists are NOT in conflict with the accepted morality. On the contrary, the left takes an accepted moral principle, adopts it as its own, and then accuses mainstream society of violating that principle. Examples: racial equality, equality of the sexes, helping poor people, peace as opposed to war, nonviolence generally, freedom of expression, kindness to animals. More fundamentally, the duty of the individual to serve society and the duty of society to take care of the individual. All these have been deeply rooted values of our society (or at least of its middle and upper classes [4] for a long time. These values are explicitly or implicitly expressed or presupposed in most of the material presented to us by the mainstream communications media and the educational system. Leftists, especially those of the oversocialized type, usually do not rebel against these principles but justify their hostility to society by claiming (with some degree of truth) that society is not living up to these principles.”
So you’re quoting the Unibomber why? Is he some fount of knowledge you felt you needed to share? Some noted authority on ANYTHING? We should believe him why?
Nice ad hominem attack, it doesn’t matter who said it, Uncle Ted was right on the money here.
So they are gonna create what they think are problems out of thin air to keep their job and look like they are doing something.
Great they will create more hate and division between the people who buy into their nonsense that look for problems where there really is none just to have something to complain about or to feel part of the “cause”. We don’t need more caring karens in this world we need unity of the people.
Bahaha. Get out of Martinez while you can, there is going to be a flood of new taxes from this in the name of equality. That’s their new marketing scheme to get people to buy into new taxes.
Better yet…. vote the spineless city council, mayor and DA out. Enough of this creating problems where there are none.
@It’s Me martinez, and this entire area, is already lost. Best to move on to another part of the country so you can live to fight another day. We can come back after the coming hot civil war has ended.
You think this Idiocracy is limited to Martinez? Should I escape to Clayton or Walnut Creek?
@MartinezMike clearly the idiocracy is in the entire Bay Area and most of the California coast. Since California is ruled by one overload in Sacramento the entire state is lost. I’m saying someone would need to leave the state completely to get away from it, which myself and many of my closest friends will be doing over the next couple years. Not that anyone cares, just explaining the only way to escape the hegemony of California is to flee completely.
I certainly hope so. Please apply and let us know.
“Systemic racism and other biases” were created by the left to fill their empty skulls.
Martinez is embarrassing themselves more everyday..
The racists never fail to show up to a simple discussion on racism to show why racism still exists.
Hey Rob,
I’ve NEVER done anything nor have I been in a position to hold any “blacks” back…….nor would I if I were in a position to do so.
That being said, the blacks who I work with have 9 lives so to speak. They have done things on the job that anyone else would have been fired for.
So who Has the Privilege???
PS: If the company work for keeps insisting that there is a racial problem, all talks will be stalled until we get a list of those whose jobs were spared because of the color of their skin. Trust me, the employees are talking about it.
Not long ago the vast majority of people in this country were not racist. Events that have taken place in our country for the last few months will change that. People see what is happening in cities like Portland and Seattle and the murders going on in our countries inner cities and they are thinking nothing I ever did is causing that. Why am I being called a racist? Think about this, 461 people have been murdered in Chicago this year and White people had nothing to do with it.
Wanna freeze Rob? Ask him for specific, verifiable examples of systemic racism.
In 2020, just Seattle and Portland have set race relations back decades. Even though you don’t see a lot of black folks rioting, the fact that the rioting is deemed to be for their benefit scares responsible adults. People who would have considered patronizing black owned businesses will silently boycott them. People who would have considered moving to communities with a large black population will choose not to. People who would have voted for a black politician will not. So in effect, everyone loses. Therefore factually speaking, the rioters have become the racists.
Is this the same “Rob” that is the mayor of Martinez? 😄
Forget waiting for a vote you people need to get a recall Petition on all of these hard-core anti-white racists running your city that’s all this amounts to blame Whitey because I can’t apply myself it’s everybody that’s whites fault what a joke
“Systemic racism…”
Please provide some factual examples.
@concord Res:
“politicians declaring a war on drugs that weighs more heavily on minority communities”
And why, pray tell, does it weigh more heavily on those communities?
While you’re at it, if the disproportionate incarceration rate of people of color is systemically racist, is the disproportionate incarceration rate of males systemically misandrist?
No. You have to support their whole agenda.
It’s somewhat reactionary to assume the task force will discover racism where there is none. I think it’s important to find racism within the system and adjust if needed. I agree that the efforts could be spent many other places also, but this is a just cause. If the constitution doesn’t protect everyone’s rights then it protects no ones. I’m sure over time the focus will adjust as needs for task force efforts will apply to other injustices. Think of it as a bill of rights task force. They are here to protect everyone’s rights under the constitution. It’s a good thing
well put Sam.
How about a Mental Health Task Force!!!! I see much more people suffering and living on the streets with NOTHING and no institutional support available and while racism does exist I don’t see that as being our biggest problem in our society… When will we as people start to focus on the root causes of these issues and not some political bs agenda… Let’s try to come together for solutions to real problems and stop wasting time on the games
Sorry, you barely move the needle on the Woke Meter your hooked up to.
It’s a relief to know that the county seat has solved all the big problems and can now concentrate on fixing a fiction.
AD
I’d love to have a recording of their first meeting. SNL would have enough material for months.
Where’s the “systemic” racism???? Other blacks would like to know:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3AJBj8KhsiU
They misspelled anti-white task force.
it seems like the left and the bleeding hearts are going to drag us down even further…
Certainly hope they’ll do something about white racism which has been completely neglected over the years and appears to be on the rise of late.
I see this quickly functioning much like BAAQMD or the Oakland Police Commission. A bunch of people drunk on their authority and acting in their own self-interest.
Justice for 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant who was murdered in cold blood.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha…..CA, what is going on with you guys??
“Anti-Racism and Discrimination and Pro Inclusion and Equity Task Force”…sounds very liberal, Orwellian and dystopian to me. Let’s make everyone equal – no one can be recognized above anyone else, if you achieve then there’s something wrong with you as you reached higher than others. If you’re a criminal then you’re just disadvantaged or discriminated against…everyone equal but there are always some who will be “more equal” than others.