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INSIDE Va. amends the Human Rights Act - 2 Eliminating hate & discrimination - 4 Talking about Kirk Franklin & abuse - 5
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Virginians convicted of felonies will regain right to vote upon release VICTORIA CHAMBERLIN Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced last week that Virginians serving time in prison for felonies will regain a number of civil rights — including the right to vote — upon release, a policy that will immediately apply to almost 70,000 people across the commonwealth who have already completed their sentences. “Too many of our laws were written during a time of open racism and discrimination, and they still bear the traces of inequity,” Northam said in a statement. "We are a commonwealth that believes in moving forward, not being tied down by the mistakes of our past. If we want people to return to our communities and participate in society, we must welcome them back fully—and this policy does just that." Current Virginia law prevents any convicted felon in Virginia from voting, serving as a juror, running for office, and even becoming a notary public. The governor has the sole discretion to restore those rights, excluding the right to carry a firearm, though those decisions came after a person had completed any form of supervised release like parole or probation. Under the Reforms Restoration of Rights Process eligibility Northam outlined last week, 69,000 Virginians will see their civil rights restored immediately, even if they are released on supervision. Northam said the executive action mirrors a proposed change to the Constitution of Virginia that would automatically restore voting rights to individuals upon completion of their sentence of incarceration. Several bipartisan reforms have been made in this area over the last decade, including the
Gov. Ralph Northam Roughly 5.2 million Americans have lost the right to vote because of a felony conviction. elimination of a requirement that court fees be paid prior to the restoration of one’s rights. Former Virginia governor and current gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe praised Northam’s actions, citing his own fight with the then-Republican legislature to restore voting rights to disenfranchised Virginians. During his term, McAuliffe restored voting rights for more than 170,000 convicted felons. “Here in the commonwealth, for more than a century, this racist Jim Crow law that was enacted specifically to disenfranchise Black
Virginians has done just that. This is a moral and civil rights issue, and one that speaks to the core of who we are as Democrats and as Virginians,” McAuliffe said. State lawmakers approved an amendment to the constitution during the 2021 legislative session that affirms the right to vote and would automatically restore the civil rights of any Virginian upon completion of their sentence. The amendment must be passed again by the legislature in 2022 before heading to a voter referendum. - NPR
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Lawmakers amend Va. Human Rights Act; kill workplace harassment bills DAVID TRAN CNS - The Virginia General Assembly passed several bills this session expanding employment protections for people with disabilities and domestic workers but killed a pair of workplace harassment bills. Five bills were introduced during the 2021 session to amend the Virginia Human Rights Act. Three passed the General Assembly. The Virginia Human Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, among other groups. Virginia last year became the first Southern state to pass sweeping anti-discrimination protections for the LGBTQ community through the Virginia Values Act. House Bill 1848 extends employment discrimination protection to people with disabilities. The legislation unanimously passed both chambers and Gov. Ralph Northam recently signed the bill into law.
“I am very happy that the bill has widespread support,” stated chief patron Del. Mark D. Sickles, D-Fairfax, in a press release. “I can’t thank our advocates enough, and am grateful for the leadership in Attorney General Mark Herring’s office and for the guidance of the disAbility Law Center.” Employers with five or more employees must make reasonable accommodations to workers with disabilities unless the employer can demonstrate such accommodations would place an “undue hardship” on the employer. Current federal law prohibits discrimination under the basis of disability for employers with 15 or more employees. Del. Kathy Tran, D-Springfield, said during a House subcommittee hearing that in 2019 the unemployment rate for people with disabilities was twice as high as those without disabilities. “People who have disabilities, who are able to and want to work, I think we should try to help them be part of the workforce,” Tran said.
A person who claims they were denied reasonable accommodation must file a complaint with the Office of Civil Rights. They would need to exhaust all administrative processes before pursuing a lawsuit. Colleen Miller, executive director of the disAbility Law Center of Virginia, an advocacy organization, said the bill’s passage is “an important development for Virginians with disabilities who are in the workforce and wish to be fully employed.” A trio of bills centered on domestic workers’ rights, dubbed the Virginia Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights, were introduced in both chambers this year. Last year, Virginia lawmakers passed a bill guaranteeing minimum wage to domestic workers. The bills’ patrons highlighted the impact of excluding domestic workers from employment laws, which they said are bound to the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow-era laws. Domestic workers include occupations such as “cooks,
waiters, butlers, maids, valets and chauffeurs,” according to the bills. A majority of domestic workers are women of color and are three times as likely to live in poverty than other workers, according to the Economic Policy Institute, an independent economic research organization. Introduced by Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan, D-Richmond, Senate Bill 1310 extends employment nondiscrimination to employers with one or more domestic workers. It also expands employment protections to domestic workers, including laws regarding the payment of wages. “This is a huge step forward to provide stronger workers rights and a safer workplace for 60,000 Virginia domestic workers,” McClellan stated in a press release. “As the daughter, granddaughter, and great granddaughter of domestic workers, I know how essential domestic workers are
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Eliminating discrimination PRESIDENT JOSEPH. R BIDEN
Oyster Point On-Ramp Access Improvements City of Newport News Find out about the proposed plans by Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to improve ramp access from the City of Newport News to Interstate 64 east, in the vicinity of City Center at Oyster Point. This project will widen the eastbound entrance ramps to I-64 at both J. Clyde Morris Boulevard (Route 17) and Oyster Point Road (Route 171) from single-lane ramps to double-lane ramps to alleviate congestion on the local roads. The ramps will be widened at the entry points to add vehicular capacity and merge to a single lane before entering the interstate. Traffic will be maintained during construction and few and no full roadway closures are anticipated with current design. No right-of-way acquisition is anticipated on this project, although there is a potential for some utility relocations within the existing right-of-way. Review the project information and current plans online at VDOT’s project website www.virginiadot.org/OysterPointRamps or in person at VDOT’s Hampton Roads District Office located at 7511 Burbage Drive, Suffolk, VA 23435 757-956-3058, TTY/TDD 711. Due to current visitor guidelines, please call ahead to make an appointment with appropriate personnel to review documents and/or answer your questions. If your concerns cannot be satisfied, VDOT is willing to hold a public hearing. You may request that a public hearing be held by sending a written request to Mr. Samba Secka, Virginia Department of Transportation, 7511 Burbage Drive, Suffolk, VA 23435 on or prior to March 31, 2021. If a request for a public hearing is received, notice of date, time and place of the hearing will be posted. VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need more information in regards to your civil rights on this project or need special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact Project Manager Mr. Samba Secka at 757-956-3058.
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One of the core values and beliefs that should bring us together as Americans is standing against hate and racism, even as we acknowledge that systemic racism and white supremacy are ugly poisons that have long plagued the United States. We must change the laws that enable discrimination in our country, and we must change our hearts. Racism, xenophobia, nativism, and other forms of intolerance are not problems unique to the United States. They are global problems. They are human problems that we all need to recognize, name, and dismantle. Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, all nations and people should recommit to the fundamental truth that every human being has inherent dignity and deserves to be treated with fairness. We must recognize the ways that racism, gender discrimination, and other forms of marginalization intersect with and compound one another. And, we must all strive to eliminate inequities in our policies, remove barriers to full participation in our societies, and push for open and inclusive processes that respect all people everywhere. Under my administration, the United States will lead the conversation on these painful issues—at home, in international institutions, and around the world. That is why, on my first day in office, I signed an Order establishing a whole of government approach to equity and racial justice. We will not shy away from engaging in the hard work to take on the damaging legacy of slavery and our treatment of Native Americans, or from doing the daily work of addressing systemic racism and violence against Black, Native, Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and other communities of color. Neither will we fail to speak out against the horrific mistreatment of the Rohingya in Burma, the Uyghurs in China, or any racial discrimination we see in the world. Hate can have no safe harbor in America. It should have no safe harbor anywhere in the world. We must join together to make it stop.
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Kirk Franklin is abusive. There aren't any two ways about it. His son shared the recording because he feared for his life. He makes that clear in the video. His apology isn’t for any hurt caused to his son or his children in general, it is for that he was seen in poor light. Whichever way we look at it, “I’ll break your neck boy!”, is not normal. Not even in anger. Two years ago, that same son went on record saying if he was ever to die, the first person the cops should look for is his father. I know there’s every theory flying around about what kind of contact the son has with Kirk, about the living arrangements about all kinds of other things but the fact remains... threatening to kill your child and requiring us to understand it as the human, sinful side of you we should understand without any apology issued to the son, says A LOT about you. I saw a much deeper problem... The very foundation upon which Abrahamic religions are built is an abusive relationship with the divine. It is no wonder that fundamentalists of the three main Abrahamic religions are grossly abusive. A God who kills for disobedience, who instructs wars in his holy books, who has a hell as an ultimate tool of punishment for “rejecting his love and sacrifice on the cross” cannot be the height of devotion for a kind people. There’s no way the best of your adoration, the being you look up to as an example of love and maturity, of mercy and patience, is one with a fickle temper, getting angry over a long list of things he decided all
on his own to be his pet peeves, one who must be approached a certain way and who only listens in certain calling it “holiness” and leaving that to loose interpretation, who is easy to manipulate depending on who is speaking in the name of “touch not the anointed”, who can be prayed to against others and call it defending you against enemies because not all his children are his chosen ones, whose hells are punishments for unrequited love and are eternal but still gaslights by saying his love is unconditional. My heaven has a competitive entry exam called “living righteously” that I compare to a camel entering a needle’s eye and I think it’s okay to tell you that while asking that you try anyway because I enjoy the narcissitic high it gives me to keep people trying and failing and blaming them for my shifting goalposts telling them they don't try hard enough or some nonsense .... There is no way to have that as the height of your worship and not be a problematic person. It's impossible to worship that and remain kind. To even look up to that says EVERYTHING we need to know about what a person considers acceptable behaviour. Period! To think of this god as a parent tells you all you need to know about the ways we parent today in the name of “discipline”. I mean we as a world worship gods who tells us we are evil and bad and then wonder why so many people raised that way do evil? They believed our gods that’s why! And of course treating people as “born in sin” means that children get brutalized. Ciru Ngigi
(from page 2) on the bill’s absence of employers’ to the economy and how poorly mistreated they’ve been for generations.” McClellan’s bill passed the General Assembly and now heads to the governor’s desk. The House companion bill, HB 1864, from Del. Cia Price, D-Newport News, also passed the General Assembly and awaits the governor’s signature. Lawmakers also passed HB 2032, patroned by Del. Wendy W. Gooditis, D-Clarke. The measure does not amend the state’s Human Rights Act, but it ensures domestic workers are not excluded from employee protection laws. Workers will be able to file complaints regarding workplace safety. Virginia is the 10th state to pass such legislation. Portions of the bill that would include domestic workers under the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Act were removed. The two bills amending the Human Rights Act that lawmakers could not advance would have strengthened current workplace sexual harassment laws. Del. Vivian E. Watts, D-Fairfax, introduced HB 2155 to expand and clarify the definition of workplace harassment and sexual harassment. The bill passed the House but died in the Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 6-7. It was the delegate’s second attempt to pass such protections. The Senate companion bill, SB 1360, reported out of the Senate Judiciary committee, but was sent back and never picked back up. Patroned by McClellan, the legislation died over concerns
liabilities, especially for small businesses. Watts said her bill aimed to provide clearer definition of workplace and sexual harassment. The language in the bill comes from federal court harassment case decisions over a span of two decades. Watts’ measure clarifies that employers would be liable for the supervisors’ actions. She said committee members who voted against the bill failed to understand the guidance of employers’ liability is not currently spelled out in Virginia’s law. Employers may be alleviated from any liability if they can prove they “exercised reasonable care” to prevent and correct harassment or if employees “unreasonably” fail to take actions on “preventable or corrective opportunities” to avoid further harassment, according to the bill. Both bills defined workplace harassment as an unwelcome conduct based on race, religion, natural origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and more. Sexual harassment includes a sexual advance, a request for sexual favors, or any conduct of a sexual nature in the workplace. Watts said her bill will remove a glass ceiling and “power differential” that contributes to workplace and sexual harassment. “If you don’t go along (with the workplace harassment), then you will be denied professional opportunities, work opportunities moving forward,” Watts said.
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