The city of Martinez will seek the help of a professional facilitator not only in leading a newly formed racial and social justice task force, but also in helping recruit and select committee members.
This week, after months of discussions and a member selection process panned for selecting too many white people for the initial group, the council formally created the Anti-Racism and Discrimination and Pro-Inclusion and Diversity Task Force, and opted to change up the recruitment process to be more aggressive in seeking out people of color.
A facilitator experienced in social justice and equity issues, council members said at their Wednesday night meeting, will drive that process.
“I think that will be the key to the success of the task force no matter who’s going to be on it,” Mayor Rob Schroder said.
The City Council first approved the concept for such a panel on July 29. Its main tasks will be to review city policies, programs and procedures for bias, and to help make city committees and commissions more inclusive.
Everything about this is racist. The left is dividing us. We are losing America.
we already lost it Darwin
I nominate Prof. Glenn Lowrey.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OL5G2Y6LMpE
Wasn’t this guy Rob Schroder the mayor of Walnut Creek at one time. What is he doing in Martinez? Sounds to me like Martinez is back in the reconstruction days somewhere around 1880. If you want to make sure Blacks are doing good make sure they get a good education. Those that do seem to be doing just fine. Stop making people victims. Snap out of it.
Sounds like the are discriminating against white people to me. They need to look in the mirror at that them self’s.
Isn’t it racist and anti “pro-inclusion” to say there were “too many white people”?
Congrats! Looks like they got just about everything covered.
Creates anti-racist task force gets mad at white representation on said task force … do you guys not see the irony? What exactly are you going to do? Besides discriminating white people on your own task force what are your intentions specifically? What exactly do you do why is tax money being allocated to this? Did the people of Martinez ask and vote for this?
Stuff like THIS is why in 10 years you will no longer recognize CA… My whole family is planning on leaving the state by next summer. I don’t see people suffering on the streets because of racism, but I do see is people suffering on the streets from mental health issues. Why not put together a mental health task force to help address the homeless and drug problems in the area. This is absolutely ridiculous.
Notice they say Equity, and don’t even mention Equality.
What has this world come to? This whole idea is racist in itself.
BS BS BS
Hey Martinez you flushed yourself down the toilet..
The City Council first approved the concept for such a panel on July 29. Its main tasks will be to review city policies, programs and procedures for bias, and to help make city committees and commissions more inclusive.
isn’t that what the council is supposed to do
it appears councils are creating ways for them to do nothing
accept to judge us and rule us
So in other words, the “task force” will resemble the diversity of an NBA team.
Sounds very equitable.
It appears as though the City Council members are confused and have lost their way. Perhaps the good citizens of Martinez can attend a few meetings and remind them what their function is and direct them to the correct path? Better yet- Recall or vote them out and start over with some normal thinking humans.
“This week, after months of discussions and a member selection process panned for selecting too many white people for the initial group, the council formally created the Anti-Racism and Discrimination and Pro-Inclusion and Diversity Task Force, and opted to change up the recruitment process to be more aggressive in seeking out people of color.”
I could have sworn Prop 16 didn’t pass.
Spending more money to solve problems that don’t exist. All the while creating division and more racism. I miss the 1980s. We all got along fine and none of this garbage was supposedly needed.
Yep
Agreed!
Who would’ve thought we’d go backwards?
What a waste of band width and tax-payers time(=money!) to establish a useless “task force/council”!.
It is just unbelievable!!
I had no idea Martinez has such problems…
I’d like to point out to our rather lame city council in mtz that maybe just maybe the people of certain ethnicity that they are hoping for know how stupid and waste of a time this is.
Oh and thanks again! To the owner of states coffee that started all this! He who lives in an all white expensive neighborhood.
The hypocrites of the left!
We actually have two problems here, maybe more. While I confidently say we all want Blacks to succeed. At the same time we see them killing each other, looting stores, burning businesses, and now in Oakland they have organized gangs robbing stores at the same time when the police are otherwise occupied with general disorder. In the last week they have cleaned out everything from shoe stores to weed shops. Some of these businesses Black owned. My problem is not one Black leader has said a thing about it. I’m sorry but my sympathy is waning.
IM OUTRAGED!!!
This task force is going to be out of a job. With help from the media our new president is going to cure us of racism.
Have no fear woke warriors. In three years racism will spike again and you can have your little task force.
Sounds like a fine expenditure of all those excess funds in the cities coffers.
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Seems a crucial part of the announcement has been left out, tell us Mr. Mayor, just how much this professional facilitator is going to cost ? Martinez is pathetic, couldn’t find it’s ass in the dark with both hands, a flashlight and a map – all while living on the dreams of becoming a destination spot in the Bay Area. Why don’t we try just covering the freaking basics….fix the streets, replace aging water mains, fix the marina. Nah, too simple.
After riding my bike across the bridge to Benicia and exploring their marina and downtown, it’s even more apparent how the city of Martinez has failed. Not to mention the homeless living in the amphitheater.
This is your team.
Let’s call it what it is: anti-white task force.
Will the same considerations be give to presumed Caucasian people? It appears reverse discrimination is now alive and well in the US. Everyone professes we are equal but it sure seems that only the law abiding citizenry, tax payers are having to do the heavy lifting and being taxed to death to pay for many of these enabling changes government is making arbitrarily even when issues are voted no.
How foolish of me to also note that all media is now bought paid for and controlled by the left.
I’m done doing business in Martinez. To racist for me.
It already has. Not calling someone by their preferred pronoun is already a hate crime in CA. Look at Canada too. Employers are required to train and enforce this crap.
We’ll have to start referring to everybody as, “Hey, you.”