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New RFD Fire/Rescue Boat Named After Former Deputy Mayor Leonard E. Redon

Rochester Mayor Lovely A. Warren announced today that the Rochester Fire Department’s new fire/rescue boat, call sign Marine 1, will be named the “Leonard E. Redon,” in honor of the former Deputy Mayor who passed away in 2017. “Len Redon was an avid sailor who understood the complexities of maritime safety,” said Mayor Warren. “As Deputy Mayor, he made a strong and convincing argument to add this boat to the Rochester Fire Department inventory. He was also the kind of man who was always willing to help, so it’s very fitting that when a call for help goes out along Rochester’s waterfront it will be the Leonard E. Redon that responds.”At 37-feet long, the Leonard E. Redon is deployed by firefighters from the Lake Avenue Fire Station for water-based emergencies on Lake Ontario, within the Port of Rochester and on the Genesee River up to the Veterans Bridge at Rt. 104. t is the most capable fire/rescue boat on the south shore of Lake Ontario.

City Tax Bills Due July 31; Property Owners Advised Not To Risk Late Penalties

The City of Rochester has completed mailing its 2021-2022 property tax bills. For residential property owners who have not received their tax bill or property owners who do not have escrow arrangements with their mortgagee are urged to contact the City’s Tax Information Office at 428-6940, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The first installment of the 20212022 City property tax bill is due by July 31, 2021. Payments may be mailed to: Property Taxes, City Treasurer, P.O. Box 14270, Rochester, NY 14614-0270. Taxes can also be paid in person at the Finance Department’s cashier window located at City Hall, 30 Church St. City property owners can also pay their property taxes online at www.cityofrochester.gov .

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Howard Eagle: Rochesters Anti-Racist Activist Toots His Own Horn!

Depending on who you ask, people will either tell you that I have a deserved or undeserved reputation for bashing or judging White folks. It is not true. I make every effort never to judge, nor necessarily bash anyone. However, I will, and I do routinely call White folks out on racism. Also, I do not shy away from debunking the widespread, popular mantra and myth that the sole, or even major problem with racism is institutions and systems, as opposed to individuals. Instead, I also routinely emphasize the vitally important, objective fact that institutions and systems do not establish, perpetuate, and/ or maintain themselves --- individuals do. As a deadly serious antiracist activist, and aspiring, authentic, anti-racist expert --- what is less known about me is that I actually praise White folks who get it right (whom by the way, as far as I can determine, are few and far in between) --- such as the woman whom I refer to as the queen of whiteness, Dr. Robin Di Angelo. I was first introduced to Dr. Di Angelo's work years ago I've been studying her ever since. White people like Dr. Di Angelo are valuable, not only because of their extensive knowledge regarding the historical and contemporary existence, functioning, and many manifestations of racism, but because she and others like her, produce a reality by which Black and other anti-racist experts and practitioners of color (make assertions like: 'don't argue with me --- argue with your own whiteness expert.' This type of challenge will sometimes stop White racists in their tracks, and actually move them toward introspection, which is an important step, in order to get past what the man whom I refer to as the King of antiracism, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, calls the "heartbeat," i.e. ., chronic denial. Di Angelo is so skillful as an anti-racist writer and educator that many racist, White conservatives seem happy to see her latest book, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm. That is to say, many racist, white conservatives are intentionally interpreting her latest work to mean that white liberals are the "real racists," as opposed to conservatives. On the contrary, she's making the point that many liberals cause more race-based harm mainly because they spend more time around Black folks and other folks of color (attempting and/or pretending to be allies). On the other hand, we know that white conservatives don't pretend, and generally don't hobnob with Black folks, nor other folks of color. With regard to her new book, we congratulate Dr. Di Angelo for "keeping race on the table," which she argues, most, if not all White folks, constantly attempt to push as far underground as possible (based mainly on their own deep-seated, White fragility, and cognitive dissonance). It is interesting to note that our Brother Minister Malcolm X taught us about the very same liberal/conservative phenomenon almost sixty (60) years ago --- via his "wolf or fox" analogy. Brother Malcolm was saying (in his own unique way) the same thing that Dr. Di Angelo is saying today --- when it comes to racial harm --- "that Liberal [e.g., 'fox'] is the most deHoward Eagle

ceitful; the most dangerous thing in the entire Western Hemisphere," and of course the 'wolf' is not far behind.

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