Accountability:
America’s Reckoning
Formal complaints describing misconduct recognized under the laws, regulations, and Codes of Conduct governing individual professions in the state and city of New York, New York were submitted naming the following individuals and entities as perpetrators of described misconduct:
New York Law School
Anthony Crowell
Deborah Archer
Howard Meyers
Jeffery Becherer
Erika Wood
Oral Hope
Ella Mae Estrada
Victoria Eastus
Barbara Graves-Poller
David Schoenbrod
Stephen Nesbit
Magistrate Judge James L. Cott, SDNY
Michael Volpe, Venable LLP
Emily Tortora, Venable LLP
This is only a partial list: a full list will be published at a later date.
Implicated and named participants
Jason Singer
Security personnel of New York Law School
This is only a partial list: a full list will be published at a later date.
Notified parties and departments
New York Police Department
Board of Education Office of Civil Rights
Supreme Court of New York
Court of Appeals Second Circuit
Manhattan District Attorney
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio
The White House
This is only a partial list: a full list will be published at a later date.
To date, no party named or described above has been brought to justice for the injurious acts committed, and timely reported with an appropriate demand for justice, redress, and recompense in accord with the laws, regulations, and Codes of Conduct organized under the city and state of New York, New York City.
At no time did I release the parties from liability or the penalties and recompense which must follow – nor will I ever release the parties: recompense, redress, and accountability is demanded in full at a rate and with penalties appropriate and comparable to that accorded to citizens of the United States who who have been duly recompensed in accord with the laws, regulations, and Codes of Conduct recognized in the United States. Here, race is cited due to the unjust and diminished rates and penalties accorded by the United States to cases and incidents where the injured and aggrieved party is a Black American individual.
The unjust delay in holding to account parties that commit violations against Black American descendants of slaves has deep roots to America’s historical and enduring persistent refusal to view and treat Black American non-immigrants equal to similarly situated peers. It seems easy for the U.S. to decry injustices around the world, so long as the United States is not a named party and participant in the unjust acts, and so long as the party to receive redress is not a non-immigrant Black American citizen.
The United States of America treats and views Black immigrants as distinct from Black Americans who are non-immigrants, i.e., descendants of U.S. government sanctioned slavery. I will address why this distinction is beneficial to sustaining and maintaining racism in the U.S., and how this in fact hurts all parties invested in a democratic and successful America at a later date. Indeed, in America today, there is a reason why ads depicting poor Africans, Haitians, and other non-American Black humans are so popular (and profitable!): the logic, reasoning, and harm behind these schemes is as damaging as they are rampant and widespread. The answer is in the responses to inquiries along the lines of when are Black humans humanized by American standards, who makes the determination, what criteria makes some Black humans deserving of American empathy while excluding others, where must Black humans have ethnic or native origin or be located initially to be on the deserving list – and why.
My calls for justice, accountability, redress, and recompense remain unanswered by the U.S. government – yet, I will not release these violators or the U.S. government from its lawful duty to treat even Black American descendants of U.S. government sanctioned slavery as equal citizens.
As a leader, a businessowner, and a Black female descendant of U.S. government sanctioned slavery, I hold to account each individual, entity, and government department that unjustly denies to Black Americans equal status. Each participant of such violation is barred – along with any relation or benefactor, familial or otherwise – from any business, endeavor, or aid which bears my name, image, benevolence, or influence in any way for at least the same period which that party denied equal status to Black descendants of U.S. government sanctioned slavery.
This call for accountability is not about a single individual claim. Rather, this is about an entire community of American citizens whose claims and injuries are unjustly sidelined, denied, denigrated, disparaged, subjugated, diminished, unredressed, and unrecompensed by a nation that is well aware of the unjust denial of its citizens’ rights, and Black Americans’ continued fight for status, recognition, and equity in accord with peers.
Parties seeking an allied partnership with any entity of which I am involved are bound to this same principle (a partner who later joins forces with a party who discriminates against Black Americans based on race will be denounced, and treated as the discriminating party of which they became allied; to be clear, parties are required to perform adequate and responsive due diligence to ensure that they do not maintain relationships with parties who discriminate racially, if they are to be in good standing and partner with any endeavor which I am attached to).
Recompense, redress, and accountability is not complete until judgment is rendered in accord with the remedies issued to similarly situated non-Black or Black-immigrant plaintiffs and complainants: i.e., where white and non-Black complainants of non-physical sexual misconduct were found deserving of $4,000,000.00, within months of making an allegation, to cure the harm, Black non-immigrant complainants must be treated in the same manner – with appropriate additional relief for any delay or deviance from more favorable treatment extended to peers. Where white and Hispanic women had perpetrators of physical or sexual violence jailed, Black non-immigrant American complainants must be treated equitably, unless a Black complainant—without undue or unjust influence or threat—herself waives such right, after full notice and acknowledgment of the consequences of such a waiver.
The painful histories and accounts of those Black American descendants of slaves, and others, who have been aided by our efforts and organizations belong to them alone – to share or to keep private. Still, it is my duty to call for justice and accountability for each individual who has submitted a lawful complaint, under the laws of the United States, and for whom justice is unjustly lacking or denied for no cause other than that the complainant and aggrieved party is a Black American. Additionally, I also refrain from discussing cases and incidents, of which I am aware, which have been referred for criminal prosecution and which I have not been notified have been closed, settled, or rejected: I do want to give U.S. law enforcement the excuse that my public comments on their cases caused any delay or defect in their ability to investigate, prosecute, and convict. (In an earlier post I referred to a case involving a Hispanic prostitute, and we deemed that reference was appropriate, because law enforcement had in fact already convicted, sentenced, and jailed her attacker – and with great haste, I would add. Therefore, because the case was completely closed we felt I could safely refer to the case without causing any harm to the prospects of an open law enforcement inquiry, as the case was closed prior to my public commentary.)
It is also my duty, and profound pleasure, to share the full scope and breadth of my knowledge on this topic: to those awaiting justice – and those who wrongfully deny that justice – Black Americans will be recompensed for the unjust and inappropriate delay in the handling of our cases.
If you are a law-abiding, moral, and non-racist human: Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, Native-American, Italian, Brazilian, Indian, Romanian – from any ethnicity or nationality – we can be allies.
I, Theresa, will always fight for what is right, just, and equitable. There will be justice, redress, recompense, and accountability. It is my sincerest hope that you will decide to be on the right side of this fight.
Your ally in equity,
Theresa