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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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Obama vs. McCain -- 59 days to go. What's the point really?

I have learned during this political campaign more than any other, that "political spin" makes a difference in the decisions that voters make.  However, political spin is a very tricky act.  Unlike entertainment, where a movie trailer is the spin that boosts ticket sales and gets people into a theater, often political spin reaches into our deepest emotional reservoirs to stir us to vote without considering the consequences of our actions.  Let me explain.

A good movie trailer may get us into a theater to see a movie that we don't enjoy very much.  But the next day we get over it.  If it is a good movie, we add to the spin and tell our friends.  But the very best movies only stay at the top of the box office for a few weeks then fade from memory.  With political spin, if we are lured into making a voting choice without fully considering the consequences, we have to live with the results a lot longer.

In this election, WE REALLY HAVE TO GET IT RIGHT.  We have to get the point of our decision, because the consequences and the stakes are higher than ever before.  This may sound like spin, but I will spend the next 59 days unraveling the choices for myself and those who join me in this dialog.

Tomorrow -- Unraveling the spin of the Republicans and the Democrats.