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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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Black Man who is President, or President who is Black

IT'S THE ALTERNATIVE, STUPID! 

There are still too many people in America that refuse to allow Barack Obama to govern as The President; they will oppose him at every turn because he's an African-American who is The President. 

They oppose health care reform, and call it Obamacare.  They decry deficit spending, and now call the $trillion folley of George W. Bush "Obama's Wars."  They oppose the stimulus package that saved thousands of jobs for firemen, police officers, and teachers  and call it "out of control spending and big government takeover."  George Bush lost 8 million jobs and nearly crashed the economy with tax cuts and deregulation, but the leadership of Obama to stabilize the economy and get us out of the ditch is called "socialism."

This is the subtle presentation of THE ALTERNATIVE that is stirring the fears of white voters across the nation.  Recent political ads are depicting blue collar "actors posing as voters" who are linking the failure of our economy to Obama.

The only way to  combat these attacks is with action at the polls.  Get out and vote in November, for those Democrats who will support the President's agenda.

Remember -- NO VOTE, NO VOICE!