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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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It's Your Life

You were gifted this life by the creator.  It is yours to do with whatever you please.  You can choose good or bad.  You have the option to choose life or death.  You are able to decide what you do and what you accomplish.  It is even your option to decide to spend your gift doing absolutely nothing.  You are the only one who can decide to be happy, to be successful, to remain depressed, or to be a failure.  You are in charge of being the victim or the victor. 

I challenge you to choose well, to live your life to its fullest, to use your gift as a valuable tool for inspiring and helping others.  I challenge you to choose confidence over self doubt.  I invite you to choose optimism over worry.  I encourage you to choose enthusiasm over anxiety.  Use your tongue to speak life to yourself and others.  Move into the mainstream of life.  Know what you want out of life and go for it.  Give up loneliness and build great new healthy relationships.  Get out of the rut of a boring and stressful job and lauch a promising new career or home business for yourself.  Take care of yourself and look as good as you feel. 

Make God glad that he gave you the gift of life!