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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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Nows the time to Get Creative!

During our sojourn here in North America we have experienced many harsh realities surrounding 'finance':

1) During the 1600s our people were introduced as 'property' via the form of chattel enslavement;

2) During 'formal' enslavement we worked from birth til death without compensation as our labor built one of the worlds most formidable economic, social and military mechanisms in 'modern' times;

3) During 'formal' emancipation and up to this day we have been scrambling to play catch up economically, financially and commercially.

It goes without saying that anyone attempting to succeed and triumph in a system not of their making or design, which also appears to be out of sync with their inherent ideological makeup, will be at a disadvantage under the best of circumstances. Notwithstanding our propensity to 'do the impossible' and 'make something out of nothing' we are strapped with generations of '$$' issues that often show themselves in peculiar ways.

One of those ways is our insistence on utilizing mimicry* (see definition below) in order to create and maintain viable businesses in the capitalistic system. It isn't working for us and it's time for us to examine why. . . . .

Traditionally Afrikan descendants are a communal people. With regards to child rearing, agriculture and economics we have always created from a standpoint of 'we' as opposed to 'I'. As a collective we must return to our mindset of 'we' when designing businesses AND financing, maintaining and elevating the community via our businesses.

I've been examining a way to pro-actively launch a 'Business-to-Business' buying club that mirrors the Afrikan practice of collectively supporting one business (or individual) at a time with a given 'pot'.

Anyone wishing to strategize or even provide successful models of this type of collective give me a 'shout out!' This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Looking 4ward 2 Building with you,

YE is HERE!

*mimicry: [mimicry (also known as mimetism) describes a situation where one organism, the mimic, has evolved to share common outward characteristics with another organism,. . .Collectively this known as a mimicry complex. . . .The signal-receiver is typically another intermediate organism, e.g the common predator of two species, but may actually be the model (mimic) itself (such as an orchid resembling a female wasp). As an interaction, mimicry is in most cases advantageous to the mimic and harmful to the receiver, but may increase, reduce or have no effect on the fitness of the model depending on the situation.]