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  • Politics Is Like Hiring A Hitman
    by Scott Woods inPolitical on2020-08-13

    For me, politics is like hiring a hitman. I have values and things I care about. I care enough about them to at least bother voting for 5 minutes every year for one issue or another. And because I care at least that much, I vote for people who align with the ability to realize the things I care about.

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  • Punching Above Our Weight
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-07-24

    I believe our vote is the punctuation of our voice. Without that resounding exclamation mark, I believe our voices are just incoherent noise.

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  • BLACK PROGRESS AMIDST SOCIAL CHAOS
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-06-16

    Recent events have raised the profile of historical injustice and inequities here in the USA. The entire world has taken note of the fact that BLACK LIVES MATTER.   We invite all of our friends to engage in actions that result in the greatest movement for change in our history. It is imperative that we take advantage of this opportunity to affect a positive change by ACTING IN OUR SELF-INTERESTS.

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  • Living in a Black No-Man's Land
    by Roger Madison Jr. inOur Community on2019-10-28

    There are many narratives that define the Black experience in America in this 2nd decade of the 21st century. Our striving over the centuries of our sojourn in this nation is a tapestry of every human experience -- oppression, enslavement, forced assimilation, dehumanization, exclusion, segregation, isolation, struggle, perseverance, achievement, excellence, celebration, mourning, despair, progress, setbacks, lynching, assassination, genocide, terror, self-hatred, low esteem, pride,...

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  • Fighting Racism
    by Scott Woods inOur Community on2018-10-25

    I had a boss who was racist. Not an outright bigot, of course; her toolbox was more subtle than most. We bumped heads a lot over inconsequential things. She frequently couldn’t keep my name out her mouth. Lot of gaslighting. You know…2018 style. I tried a lot of ways to combat or navigate her issues. None of them worked, and that’s saying a lot because I’m really good at fighting racism. But at the end of the day – every day – she was my boss, I had to deal with her, and that was that. Finally I...

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I See You...

Greetings Busy Leaders!

Never ever again allow life's circumstances or what has happened to you: (past or present), hinder or discredit who God has made you, In Him.

No longer allow or tolerate fear and /or abuse:

Fear of people or anything the adversary may do or bring to you.

You matter! You count!  You are here to please God; not everyone else.

Your beginning is growth and development!

Your middle is training, ha!

It is your ending that brings everything into focus.

Here you realize and know exactly who you are, in God.

It is here you fully understand what you are made of, ha!

Had you not gone through what you had to go through; it would not be you!

Your set of circumstances are based on your destiny, In Him!

Before 'life' happened; you were on your way going somewhere.

You had a dream; a vision; a plan; an inspired idea....Something great!

Your imagination and faith were high; and standards set far above average.

Get back into the Word of God; begin to Speak Life! Allow Faith to come again. Be stronger this time around.

IF you had a set of different parents; you would not be you, ha!

IF you had attended a different church; you would not have had to grow, ha!

You would have had no challenges to cause you to cry out to your God.

You are an ambassador for Christ: your assignment is unlike any other.

Note: there is Only One Moses! One Paul! One Peter!

Only One Ruth! One Esther! One Rahab!

Only One You! ...With God! You are more than enough, ha!

You are Good Enough! He makes you good enough. He validates you.

His Love replaces fear, torment, and abuse!

Receive it.

Now Go Forth!

Renew your mind.

Move by the Spirit in Faith and Love.

Risk everything on God's Word: You cannot fail!

There is no fear in love;

but perfect love casts out fear,

because fear involves torment.  1 John 4:18. 

Nikki Jourdan, Writer