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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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James Somerset, African slave, possible NFL Players Ancestor?

James Somerset, African slave who was purchased by Charles Stuart in Virginia in 1749. Stuart was involved in English government service and traveled as part of his duties accompanied by Somerset, who at the time did not have a first name. In 1769, Stuart along with Somersett traveled to England. While in England, Somersett met and became involved with people associated with the anti-slavery movement in England including the well known activist Granville Sharp. During this period, Somersett was christened with the name James in a church ceremony. Somersett was recaptured after escaping, and his trial ultimately spelt the end of slavery in England.

Take a http://www.lookupancestry.org/ to see if there is a relationship to more than one NFL football player who will be playing in the Pro-Bowl this Sunday

Undoubtably there are more relationships between our best football players and some famous persons of old.

I bet you'll have the best superbowl party in town with a list of players and their ancestors. Some of you history students will take to this idea like candy, others will have to just close your eyes and imagine the joy it will bring when you toss in some skeletons from Reverend Small family of pirates.

So go ahead and have the best superbowl party ever, America's past is the best, and worst of human kind. You'll truly be glad you added this touch of class to the theme of all themes party this year.

Some of the information is funny, some will make you cry, some will raise the hair on your neck, but give it a shot, one thing I know you want be board, because America is The Beautiful.
 
I got the idea when I took a look and found some real Vikings, and possibly a Saint, give it a shot you'll find it easy finding family history at http://www.lookupancestry.org/

I don't think Africans would have ever left Africa, had there not been slavery, no excuse for the crime, however G-d works in ways we don't always understand.

Moses lived in the house of Pharaoh in Africa, Obama's father was never a slave from Africa?

Take a look and maby you see something you already know, and maby something you didn't know about your family tree.

Respectfully,

Lee