03/27/2025
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For supporting REMOVAL of the NY 33 Kensington Expressway, the RESTORATION of Humboldt Parkway, and the RECONNECTION of Humboldt/MLK Parks, and the REVITALIZATION of the East Side Buffalo community. Those three objectives being obtained, will lend to the transformative improvement of our beloved East Side community, in Buffalo (NY). Clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and a healthful living environment to abide in are not only a necessity, they are all people's inalienable right. Minority communities' pathway toward enjoyment of their active and robust participation, within this entire Planet Earth's decidedly Green Future, is unquestionably paved with high regard for, and in fact adherence to, conscientious application of sustainable principles, that undergird all our external environment-facing decisions. These must routinely inform, and in essence govern, all our outwardly manifested actions. Such (a) moral and affirming virtue must now become a requisite, if it is not already, and indeed must now comprise our customary norm.
NYS Department of Transportationโs tunnel project in Buffalo, and anywhere else those projects are advanced in minority neighborhoods that are suffering, like our city's, from toxic infrastructures' polluting effects, fails to secure any deliverance from such direly adverse impacts, and fails to procure any crucially important quality-of-life outcomes. Tunnel projects, 'cap' projects, 'stitch' projects, and whatever else name they arrive to go by and including 'promenade park' projects, implemented where the environmental degradation along pollution lines is currently a factor, are not truly in any wise restorative. They are in fact a further exacerbation, of an already deleterious injustice. Our community in Buffalo, therefore, must now necessarily take the lead, to aid our own selves. We must now advance, secure, and enforce our own "best interests", in this very portentous matter that is also of national, and possibly even international, consequence.
One of the Biden-Harris U.S. Presidential Administration's overarching mandates and intentions, was for its once-in-a-generation Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation to literally "reconnect" this country's predominantly Black and low-income, urban, inner-core, communities. Such neighborhoods, and we residents who have historically inhabited they, were deliberately imperiled by a previous generation's unfair and debilitating public policies, which were facilitated to systematically encroach upon, and breech, the very threshold of our dignity. The construction of high-speed 1950s era limited access highways, inside in this nation's very densely populated inner cities, interrupted and uprooted the lives of nearly a million minority households. It destroyed thousands of neighborhood-based small businesses. It decimated countless downtown USA City business districts. Under the auspices of so-called 'urban renewal', but which was actually "negro" and "poor person" removal, our hearts were broken, our lives were shattered, our businesses were shuttered, our generational wealth was sabotaged, our health was hijacked, and what has become nearly a century and culture of yet another layer of institutionally imposed terrorism-by-stealth, was commenced. That we have somehow managed to survive, only to be confronted by the perversion of the Reconnecting Communities initiative to not actually fund such invasive highways' removal, but to procure their expansion in this so-called environmental justice era, is nothing short of incredible. The evidence of all of our monumental suffering, and of some of our (who accepted their state DOT's 'cap' or 'deck park' proposal) re-victimization, and of all of our collective trauma, however, is pervasive and clear. We are and will be here, for as long as God Keeps us in the land of the living, but we, like all communities of persons, are designed to do, and to be, infinitely more than merely alive.
Our East Side communityโs overwhelming opposition to NYS Department of Transportationโs short-sighted tunnel proposal is being heard loud and clear, inside the City of Buffalo, and throughout the Buffalo-Niagara Region. We took an unapologetic stand for what we knew to be correct, and that is, the absolute right our East Side community has to insist upon a โbetterโ NY 33 Kensington Expressway Project, for ourselves, and for our future generations. Thank you so very much, to each and everyone who stood ten toes down on our East Side communityโs urgent business, as we insisted upon Black Buffalo occupying a truly empowered and impactful seat at the table of decision-rendering, that will guide these developments. Ultimately, the decision of what variety of Kensington Expressway Project is to be performed in this city, in this generation, has always been ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ to make, and not State of New York's DOT's. Because we did not see ourselves as grasshoppers, we were able to stand up to, and to successfully oppose, even a very powerful and very insistent 'giant' regional government Authority, of these United States of America. We knew it was necessary that we do so, whatever the odds, because the agency insisted upon a public policy that neither honored our beloved East Side Buffalo community's "best interest", nor even at long last put forth any effort, whatsoever, to restore or preserve our community's residents' very lives.
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This unique opportunity to attain our aim is furthered, by a growing coalition of East Side focused activists, groups, clubs, agencies, foundations, think tanks, individuals, entrepreneurs, and organizations. What we share, is support for Humboldt Parkway neighborhood residents' bold vision of a restored and reconnected East Side community, and we have the utmost esteem for their vested interest. If it be the Lord's Abiding Will, our cityโs glorious Humboldt Parkway will once again become faithfully re-manifested, at this historic juncture. God Is indeed with us, and so it is indeed my pleasure, privilege, and indeed honor, to share in such (a) worthy and worthwhile mission. I am eternally grateful, and forever thankful, to my Source and my Sustenance in all things that I apply my hand toward. He Is, in truth, the Lord Jesus Christ. My Savior, and my King. Without Him, I am 'just' a woman who cares very deeply about her community, and who is acquainted with very many other such individuals, both young and old(er), and both male and female. With Him, I can do all things that strengthen me, and that also empower my beloved East Side Buffalo community. With Him as we rise, we'll surmount each and any challenge, on our way to thrive.
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Glory to God alone.
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East Side Collaborative Partnership can be relied upon to ensure that this very necessary MOVEMENT, remains active, positively impactful, and as very highly effective as is humanly possible to achieve. Nevertheless, ultimately, this battle is not ours, it is the Lord's. Nothing is impossible for God. He Can Do all things. Rest assured in the meanwhile, The Collab will remain vigilant, and we will be diligent, in striving to advance our beloved communityโs โbest interestโ. Throughout the entire Kensington Expressway Matter, we will endeavor to keep "our" East Side community INFORMED. We can be trusted with pursuing, and promoting, the enforcement and the reinforcement of the Black East Side's local and regional profile, as "we" too are made a beneficiary of our city's continued recovery, and in its still evolving "renaissance". I, and the members of East Side Collaborative Partnership, as well as my respective Covington Associates Consulting | CAC small business enterprise, and the members of East Side Parkways Coalition, have been all along and are unpaid laborers, in this incredibly rewarding neighborhood and community upliftment Effort. Let us, therefore, continue together while encouraging one another, and collaboratively dialogue as we walk this walk to its final conclusion, without fail. Stay safe, Take care, Remain blessed. Ever upward.
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Sherry Sherrill, Founder
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Watch "In Our Own Words" Documentary to Hear Current and Former Humboldt Parkway Neighborhood Residents Discussing the NY 33 Kensington Expressway's Negative Impacts And Their Personal Opposition to the Kensington Expressway Project's Tunnel+Mini Park Proposal
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