HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 2021.03.25 - 34253MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION #21094 March 25, 2021
BY: Commissioner Marcia Gershenson, District#13, Bob Hoffman, District#2; Adam Kochenderfer, District
#15;Thomas Kuhn, District #11; Christine Long, District #7; Gary McGillivray, District #20; Chuck Moss,
District #12; Philip Weipert, District #8; Charlie Cavell, District #18; Yolanda Charles, District #17; Janet
Jackson, District #21; Karen Joliat, District #4; Penny Luebs, District #16; Gwen Markham, District #9;
William Miller, District#14; Kristen Nelson, District#5; Angela Powell, District#10; David Woodward, District
#19; Michael Gingell, District#1
IN RE: BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS — OBSERVANCE OF APRIL 2021 AS GENOCIDE AWARENESS
MONTH IN OAKLAND COUNTY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS genocide is the ultimate display of hate, fear, and violence that may cause persecution and
annihilation of innocent people. Genocide ideologies are learned attitudes and behaviors; and
WHEREAS the dictionary defines genocide as the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political,
or cultural group; and
WHEREAS genocide can result from multiple dangerous factors or conditions, including the promotion of
one group's social, economic or political advantage at the expense of another's human rights; compliance
with authoritarian leaders, governments or groups; a crisis of resources; and/or prejudice resulting in
negative reactions to, or evaluations of, groups and their members; and
WHEREAS the negative effects of genocide magnify distrust, fear, vigilance, suspicion, anxiety,
stereotypes, and disconnection; and
WHEREAS basic human rights of survival, security, development, and social participation are threatened
by genocide; and
WHEREAS over the years, millions of survivors of genocide were forced from their homelands and
scattered around the world; and
WHEREAS genocide continues to occur throughout human history; and
WHEREAS the psychological devastation of genocide has been established in psychological studies of the
genocides of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, Africans in the Trans -Atlantic Slave Trade, Jewish
people in the Holocaust, Armenians, the Tutsis in Rwanda, Cambodians, Guatemalans, Ukrainians,
Chinese in the Nanking Massacre, Muslims in Bosnia, Christians in Iraq, and most currently the Black
people of the Darfur region of the Sudan; and
WHEREAS genocide has long term intergenerational traumatic effects on whole communities; and
WHEREAS even as we confront the inhumanity of genocide, we also are inspired by the remarkable spirit,
strength, tenacity and courage of people who are survivors and their contributions which have enriched our
communities, spurred our economy, and strengthened our democracy; and
WHEREAS the people of Oakland County should always remember the horrific persecution of innocent
people throughout history from genocide and remain vigilant against hatred, persecution, and tyranny; and
WHEREAS as citizens of Oakland County, we should actively rededicate ourselves to the principles of
individual freedom in a just society; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners opposes all manifestation of hate, prejudice,
discrimination, and violence and affirms the basic human rights of all people for survival, equality, dignity,
respect, and liberty.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners hereby declares
April 2021 as Genocide Awareness Month in Oakland County in remembrance of the victims of genocide
and in honor of all survivors.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we, as citizens of Oakland County, should work to promote human
dignity and confront hate whenever and wherever it occurs.
Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
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LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE VOTE:
Motion carried unanimously on a roll call vote.
Resolution #21094
March 25, 2021
Moved by Weipert seconded by Luebs the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda be adopted.
AYES: Charles, Gershenson, Gingell, Hoffman, Jackson, Joliet, Kochenderfer, Kowall, Kuhn,
Long, Luebs, Markham, McGillivray, Miller, Moss, Nelson, Powell, Spisz, Weipert, Woodward,
Cavell. (21)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted in favor, the resolutions on the amended Consent Agenda were adopted.
HEREBY APPROVE THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lisa Brown, Clerk of the County of Oakland, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is a true and
accurate copy of a resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners on March 25, 2021,
with the original record thereof now remaining in my office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Circuit Court at Pontiac,
Michigan this 25th day of March 2021.
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Lisa Brown, Oakland County