Vulnerable and Insubstantial: What Will It Take?

By David Adams

Federally identified as the most vulnerable citizens in the nation to the destructive effects of disaster and emergencies, cultural citizens across the nation and world are more vulnerable today to the catastrophic effects of disasters than ever before in history. But why do cultural citizens, organizations, and institutions of faith ignore and turn blind eyes to the practice of effectively preparing and planning for disasters and emergencies? Written in an urban straight with no chaser, unrestricted style, What Will It Take reveals cultural and internal barriers and introduces to readers cultural systematic solutions. A must-read for those interested in/or working with cultural organizations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524583552

David Adams

David Adams served as an Officer in the Australian Army Reserve, trained alongside United States Marines Corps and Special Air Services SAS personnel, and served in the A.D.F as a Platoon Commander of Military Police. He has worked alongside Queensland Police Officers and held investigative roles with The Commission for Children and Child Safety.

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Vulnerable!

A real-time corporate citizen-research report detailing current extreme gaps and barriers that actually creates citizen vulnerabilities in disaster resilience-focused efforts, in Pennsylvania state and local citizen emergency planning, training and operations… critical information that citizens across the entire Nation need to know and deeply understand.

AND

Insubstantial

What will it take for the Black and African-American Community to Actively Engage, in Disaster Preparedness?

A deep examination, introduction and solutions to the citizen-research discovered, Cultural Internal Barriers directly responsible for unproductive, fragmented cultural mindsets and steers the collective inability of the southwestern Pennsylvania black and African-American citizens to communally survive any Major Disaster, Emergency or Extreme Crisis Event in Southwestern Pennsylvania and many other states throughout the nation.

Written by,

David C. Adams, President

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Contents

Author’s Note

•   Foreword

•   Corporate Purpose

•   Abstract

•   Background

Part One: Vulnerable!

Introduction

The Risk Management Process

Allegheny County Citizen- Identified Barriers Leading To Citizen Vulnerabilities

Disaster Resilience Emergency Management Awareness Pennsylvania (DREMA PA)

Conclusion: Significances In Collaborative Failures

Part Two: Insubstantial!

What Is Wrong With Black-Folk?

An Exclusive: The Song Of Our Father:

New Systematic Avenues To Redemption: Solution-Oriented Systematic-Approaches To Cultural Vulnerabilities

Bring The Transitional Case Home

For The Sake Of The Children: Establish Cultural Leadership

The 12 Highest Organizational Priorities To Address Cultural Citizen Vulnerabilities To The Destructive Effects Of Disaster And Emergencies

Bonus Chapter: FEMA CAMPS

Coming To A Neighborhood For You… And Your Guns!

About The Conscience Group Corporation

Vulnerable and Insubstantial

What will it take for the Black and African-American Community to Actively Engage, in Disaster Preparedness?"

DAVID C. ADAMS

To Florence and Willie J. Adams

Who chose me, in a crowded room full of parentless children needing love and someone who cared.

You did, and because of that loving action, I am forever grateful and have dedicated my fortunate life to also master the art of serving and loving others outside my comfort zones and bubbles.

Vulnerable

A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or perhaps both.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people that mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge brings.

James Madison

And

Insubstantial

American black and African-Americans, have very different ways in which they see, address, engage and participate, in both American and cultural social, political, economic, environmental, global and even their very own local threats, risks, and hazards.

Until a process with the strict ability to construct a bridge connecting these two clashing fragments of cultural dysfunction; that once upon a time, represented a connected collective people… is welcomed, discussed in closed session, and all citizen-identified and recognized cultural leaders are present and accounted for, and the cultural internal barriers are both, killed and buried; up-to and including, a final collective and solid decision of self-identification.

In lieu of our collective cultural mindset and cultural engagement, the question must be asked… Will we be Black or African-American?

Only then, can we entertain the discussion of sustaining our culture, children and living environments, past the vulnerabilities, threats and barriers of our past and current history.

By, David C. Adams, CESDS

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Author’s Note

IN WRITING THIS BOOK, I am reminded of my direct responsibilities in serving as President of The Conscience Group Corporation and in leading the often complicated duties and performances of the only actively-operating, private National Public Service Corporation in the nation. Regardless of our cultural identity, our national public services are directly focused upon empowering all American citizens, just as the corporation has and always will continue to do. However it is our corporate recommendation, that any local community organization conducting citizen services specific to vulnerable cultural citizens and living environments, must understand, the African-American and black-American citizens, are historically, as well traditionally susceptible to direct and indirect, intentional and unintentional barriers; ultimately preventing cultural citizens ability to increase their collective and individual resilience to the effects of disasters, engaging emergency preparedness and understanding science-based climate threats and risk awareness. Ignorance thrives more in cultural neighborhoods, than the most vulnerable, non-black neighborhoods across the state of Pennsylvania and many other states across the nation. This fact is broadly representative on local-levels, nationally and most pointedly, negatively affects both the black and vulnerable white citizens, living throughout the the western side of the state of Pennsylvania and the Mon-Valley region. It is there where we will discover some of the most vulnerable citizens to disaster and emergencies, political and emergency agency corruption and extreme cultural exclusion in public emergency-related operations. With this entire negative backdrop actively existing and practiced in the state of Pennsylvania, we maintained our focus, kept our personal emotions and feelings in check, and succeeded in one of the most difficult geographical areas in the nation. At any-rate, the solving of cultural vulnerability issues negatively affecting those who unfortunately are identified as the nation’s most- vulnerable, citizens, must have direct and specialized emergency planning attention, but must also and at all-times, be directly in-line with inclusive new and innovative approaches to the cultural internal barriers directly preventing cultural discussion and actions; in addressing the highest and most destructive cultural and general threats, risks and hazards of our time. This book was originally written as separate corporate citizen-research discovery reports conducted in 2012-2016. The four-year corporate response to the federal call for increased national resilience, was both extremely successful and suffered major barriers, as most new development will, but it was the barriers, gaps and vulnerabilities in the industry that we sought to discover, and to successfully respond to the Presidential Policy Directive (PPD-8) and the National Disaster Imperative, by creating a new and innovative, citizen sustained, complete and total, emergency system-of-systems; to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security that has been mandated and delegated in fixing them. The first of two reports is Vulnerable. This report highlights information of the 2013 unveiling of the National Disaster Imperative and how The Conscience Group Corporation discovered state-level emergency planners have no idea what the federal emergency agencies and planners are doing. This posed the initial gap-discovery question of what is the point of Presidential Policy Directives, Imperatives and Mandates, in national emergency efforts; if the states pay no attention or could care less? Readers will also discover how emergency managers and political representatives are directly and indirectly creating citizen vulnerabilities to the effects of disaster and emergencies; despite new and innovative development.

The second report is controversial and meant to drive strict public cultural discussion. The question of what will it take is a critically serious cultural question created straight out of the man-made, New Orleans disaster; of which cultural lessons-learned, barriers, and vulnerabilities after eleven (11) years, still have not been answered, effectively addressed, or remotely eliminated… not even by the cultural victims negatively affected themselves. Our corporate methodology in answering the critical cultural questions of what will it take, was in discovering why emergency and disaster preparedness is not on the cultural radar. Why is the collective black and African-American church