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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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ESSENCE MAGAZINE ALSO HAS WATER CONCERNS

HELLO IZANIA MEMBERS, 

BY COINCIDENCE, ESSENCE MAGAZINE  JULY 2007 HAS AN ARTCLE TITLED "TROUBLED WATERS". IT'S ABOUT A WOMAN WHO NOTICED THAT TOO MANY PEOPLE IN HER TOWN EITHER HAD OR DIED FROM CANCER. AFTER DOING HER RESEARCH CAME TO FIND OUT THAT THE WATER WAS CONTAMINATED WITH TOXIC WASTES THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD REPORTED WAS SAFE. THIS DOES NOT CONCLUDE THAT MY RECOMMENDATION FOR ALKALINE WATER IS VALID, BUT IT IS A REASON TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION WHAT YOU ARE CURRENTLY DRINKING AND IF THERE IS A BETTER SOLUTION. THE ARTICLE ALSO NAMES SEVERAL CITIES WHERE THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE ARE BLACK AND THEY HAPPEN TO BE NEAR TOXIC WASTE SITES. IF YOU GO TO THE SITE http://www.ionizers.org/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?goto=/&code=JOSIAH YOU WILL FIND ARTICLES ONN CONTAMINANTS IN THE WATER, WHAT'S IN OUR TAP WATER ETC.  A WEALTH OF INFORMATION FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW AND THEN DECIDE THAT THEY SHOULD TAKE WHATEVER MEASURES NECESSARY TO ENSURE AT LEAST THE WATER THEY ARE DRINKING IN THEIR HOUSE IS CONTAMINANT FREE. THAT IS WHERE HAVING A WATER IONIZER COMES IN. YOU CAN FIND OUT ABOUT THIS AND MORE BY GOING TO THE WEBSITE IN THIS ARTICLE. PLEASE EDUCATE YOURSELVES AND SHARE WHAT YOU LEARN WITH OTHERS. OUR COMMUNITIES ARE AT RISK. IF WE CANNOT COUNT ON THE GOVERNMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR HEALTH IS AT ITS BEST WE HAVE TO TAKE OUR HEALTH IN OUR OWN HANDS. BELIEVE ME EVERYONE ONCE YOU TRY ALKALINE WATER YOU WILL NOT WANT TO DRINK ANY OTHER WATER EVER AGAIN.  HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH. GOD BLESS.