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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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The Media Stirring Up the Democratic Primary Pot

As a former journalist who has seen her share of questionable decisions made in a newsroom, I was glad to finally get out of the business and start living a stress-free, no more breaking news kind of life.

But then when I look at the news, I wonder if I made the right decision.

I said I wouldn't blog about the presidential primary because I haven't been following it all that much and there are enough people blogging who are doing a great job at keeping me informed when I want to be.

Today, however, I'm throwing in my two cents. I don't know about you but I am sick to death of the media's (primarily CNN) blatant unbalanced, biased coverage of Hillary Clinton. Leading up to the Pennsylvania election, they did everything they could to hand her the win on a nice, silver platter. Every time I turned on the channel, there was a Hillary story. And then Larry King turned around and did a one-on-one interview with Hillary the night before the election!  Isn't anyone else bothered by this?

When Hillary's camp felt Obama was getting too much coverage, THEY RESPONDED. They wrote letters, threatened to stop supporting advertisers and they got their way apparently. The pendulum did swing in Hillary's favor and now it seems to be stuck there.

I know how the media operates. Besides, most newsrooms around the country are run by "white shirts" who intentionally set out to sway public opinion. The media has made this campaign about RACE. If you leave rural America alone and let them just go out and vote, the rest of the country won't be privy to their racist beliefs. Why does CNN feel it's necessary to tell us about a small segment of the population? That's what ignites the flames and keeps the pot stirred up.

I have to also hold some African-American journalists at fault because some of them are too concerned about speaking up for fear of losing their jobs.

I guess you see now why I'm out of the business after 25 years, instead of running a newsroom somewhere in the country.