Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Open Letter to Mayor Quinton Lucas and the City Council of Kansas City International

Kansas City International




Kansas City International: 

Addressing the City Council of 2019 Specific to Mayor Quinton Lucas, Katheryne Shields 4th District-at-Large, Melissa Robinson 3rd In-District, Brandon Ellington 3rd District-at-Large, Lee Barnes Jr. 5th District-at Large,  Ryana Parks-Shaw 5th-In-District

Adenike AmenRa· Wednesday, March 4, 2020

*IN ORDER TO FREE OURSELVES- WE MUST FEED OURSELVES!

*I AM an Urban Farmer, living in the 3rd District 64130, exercising the right to farm Ordinance Chapter 88-312. I have lived with my students in the Kansas City Public School District. I am a 15 year, retired K-12 Special Education Teacher, Grand Mother, Community Activist, Artist, Writer/Essayist/Poet, KMT Minister, and a Black Woman-Owned business partner. 

*WE Ask that you SUPPORT ZERO FARE TRANSIT to open the pathway for healthy neighborhoods and move us into a green sustainable future! ZERO FARE TRANSIT works for walkers and bike riders and park and ride commuter services. As an older bus rider, those who are challenged by disabilities, Mother's with children, and Students, it would be so refreshing to not have to count and hold onto change for bus fare, or be embarrassed or humiliated with the scrutiny of displaying a Medicare card to justify a bus pass discount. Public accessibility and safety is pinnacle for ALL Kansas City residence.  

A community is rated by the quality of care of the weakest members. Accessibility and safety is very important. Yes, a bus ride to find a safe place to escape abuse and receive resources can be pinnacle to lowering crime in greater Kansas City and establish Her as a Model City in the United States!

We are building an international airport- let's have an international transit system!








We are EMWOT (East Meets West Of Troost), a micro Economic Development Corporation. We have established our Flag Ship organizations: Kingpen coalition, Derrison Palea, President, and Amen Communications, Adenike Amen-Ra Managing Partner, Executive Director, and Engineer, CEO, Kenneth L. Mosley .

  #EMWOTKC #AmenComm #AmenAnkh 

Kenneth L. Mosley is the CEO of EMWOT as well as my partner and Engineer with Amen Communications. We are a Women Minority Partnership. We work with Green sustainable initiatives, Recycling, Solar energy, Composting, Energy conservation, and IT Contracting. 

Ken Mosley has dedicated his life to the Eastside Urban Kansas City Area. He is a graduate in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Electromagnetics. He has served as a Navy Veteran, working as a Submarine Nuclear Reactor Operator and U.S. Navy Flight Officer. 

 https://emwot-kc.blogspot.com https://amen-comm.blogspot.com 

To the City Council of Kansas City, Missouri

*We also ask that you please support COMMUNITY POLICING over more police officers, to empower our own residents, and Council of Elders, for management of minor disputes, neighborhood watch, and local security patrol. To implement more safe-spaces and houses, for victims, more community activism and patrol initiatives for recycling and cleanup. For instance; (Tire collection and shredding sites, Pothole patrols, Urban Green business community enterprises and Greenhouse production, Food composting collection patrols, etc. These venues and Centers will be able to provide Youth chaperones, and be able to receive, report, and process dangerous situations and zones, )

*We ask that you please support more recycling initiatives like Local food composting, and repurposing buildings, and using warehouses and their rooftops for Growing foods as a bio-security zone. We need more state-of-the-art Solar and wind energy fixtures embedded into new construction. and hiring and training our own local residents as section 3 workers to implement this process.

*We would like to see more recreation and cultural centers in the 3rd district, that are locally owned by Black people or cooperatively owned (Movie Theaters, tourist attractions, Cultural Art and performance arts centers and museums, Amusement Parks, Skating Rinks, Bowling, Dancing, Convention Centers, and other Recreational spaces for the local people of the 3rd district. Every Summer, Our youth are like a ticking time bomb, with very few resources and variety for recreation. They need local accessible and safe places to socialize, and outlets for exercise and physical fitness and not re-gentry capitalist exploiters of the African American community. 

Kansas City, Missouri has played their role in the history of Redlining, segregation, and racism/white supremacy. We are presently surrounded by Businesses with owners who don't look like us, or don't have as their agenda, for our Black dollars to recirculate back into our community for enrichment. These businesses don't represent our best interests. Fast food restaurants sell unhealthy foods, Liquor/cigarettes stores sell addiction and dependency. 

We need to have more Support for Urban Agriculture. We are under siege by city ordinance inspectors who refuse to acknowledge the Urban Agricultural ordinance Chapter 88-312. Anyone should be able to grow food-Not-Lawns in an effort to promote access to food, Healing, and Health conscious Black businesses, known as Home cottage industry, that are owned by our own neighborhood residents, along with buildings and cottage home industries for manufacturing and production. THIS WILL STOP THE KILLING. Black Americans are dying first from Heart Attacks, Strokes, High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, and Cancers- BEFORE Homicide!

*Please support Black Lives- Family initiatives. Historically Black youth and Black Businesses were systematically Racially Profiled and pushed out of The Power and Light District. (We held a White T-Shirts and Cultural Dress Codes protest back in 2010.) Every summer, Our youth of Afrikan descent, are still shoved out of the Westport and the Plaza areas, just for choosing to go to the movies or eat some ice cream. Kansas City , Missouri was the last slave state to acknowledge the Emancipation Proclamation. Kansas City also has a history of Jim Crow Laws, Segregation, Redlining, and hostile, nefarious, and blatant racism in business practices, Banking, Business Ownership, Real Estate, Insurance practices, Construction contracts, Employment, as well as Education. People of African Descent need more recreation centers in the 3rd district, that are locally owned or cooperatively owned by the People of Afrikan descent. We need our ownership of (Movie Theaters, tourist attractions, Cultural Arts and performance arts centers, museums, Amusement Parks, Skating Rinks, Bowling, Dancing, Convention Centers, and other Recreational spaces for the local people of the 3rd district. 


We need to see more health conscious businesses that are Black owned by our own neighborhood residents, along with buildings and cottage home industries for manufacturing and production.

*Instead of teaching our youth to leave the hood, EMWOT, Amen Ankh Enterprises, and Amen Communications teaches our youth to be the caretakers of their neighborhoods, and become the Re-Gentry for the next generation by supporting Land ownership, Business ownership, and Entrepreneurs. We are establishing Homeschool Networks and Adult Communiversities in STE-A-M Education, through local Recycling and Urban Agricultural initiatives. It should be mandatory that Section 8 housing and Rental properties be state-of-the-art, with proper exterior insulation, Energy efficient appliances and fixtures, and Green Solar and Wind Energy alternatives. The Utility monopiles are having a field day ripping off and over charging the poor public residents, only to provide free energy to the corporate private and wealthy. EMWOT stands for East Meets West of Troost. Troost has a history of being the racial dividing line for Kansas City, Missouri. 



King o da HOOD



*We are creating positive pathways to heal ourselves from trauma through Cultural Arts, Urban Agriculture; STEAM Careers, including Vocational Arts.

I know We can create our own local, Green Sustainable, Black Cooperative owned Businesses right here in the 3rd District and all over Metro KC! #AmenAnkh #AmenCommunications #EMWOT #HealthIsWealth #FeedYourselfFreeYourself #UrbanFarming #NationBuildingHowTo #IBelieveInQ



Nation Building How To:, By Sasteh Meter Mosley -25

The Mission of EMWOT (East Meets West of Troost) To re-build an Autonomous, self-sustainable community Green-Nome* To advance the economic conditions of people adversely impacted by arrested development, Racism, and redlining, as a backlash of the Emancipation Proclamation, the civil rights movement, and subsequent integration. To provide Green Sustainable solutions. business education, and service excellence. *Green-Nome= 5 Klans=25 Families (5-family networks). emwotkc@gmail.com