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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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Adopt A Cemetery Plot: help clean up the past!

Start an  Adopt A Cemetery Plot Program in your city or town, there is the chance you may locate headstones of long ago family members, the information will be invaluable for starting a family history tree. Not to mention the innovative concept in cemetery restoration, beautification, and preservation. Your city will be ever grateful in these times of low budgets. I think it'll give you some good civic pride also.

The idea can also be used as school projects, company projects. With the right kind of intentions and imagination, a picnic while doing these volenteer projects could produce a town's  history and unimaginable fun.

It offers individuals, groups, organizations, societies and companies the opportunity to play a vital role in saving and preserving a towns historic landmarks

I think I'll give it a shot soon, I like the idea so much. I'm sure it will produce some dates I'm not sure when persons past. Am I afraid?  (smile). I'm interested in seeing which of my family members I can depend on helping?

When visiting your home, if you're from another State will certainly produce some information you will wqant to include in a family records website. Research your particular pioneer family's history which, in itself, can be a truly rewarding experience.

you also help to preserve history. So you see, you can play a vital and important role in beautifying any City, and I think have fun while doing it, after all isn't that what life is all about.

I also think it may well make some of you famous? Why I don't know, I just feel there is something very rewarding about "Cemetery Janitor" I bet you'll be on the 6:oclock NEWS in 6 month's!

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PUT YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE


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