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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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CHANGE - WE HAVE TO RUN FOR IT.

African Americans accepting change has always been a major obstacle in the path of African American evolution. Even I am afflicted by the resistance to change especially when it comes to trying to get the same parking spot in front of my door.

One day I had to park down the street and though it bugged me the entire night knowing that I could not see my truck from my window I accepted change by resisting my strong urge to go out and get the parking spot that had opened up in front of my door later that evening.

It virtually killed me when I began imaging and contemplating all the horrible things that someone could do to my truck because I could not see it however I made a deep concentrating conscious effort to make me accept change by leaving my truck where it was parked until well into the evening of the following day.

For African Americans accepting change is very difficult. I know what I am up against when trying to get African Americans to accept something different. As I am a African American I understand and don't ask why.

In order for me to accept change I made myself understand that it is a ill wind that never changes direction and unless I learn to condition my mind to accept change I am a silent participant in my own vegetation.

If African Americans don't hear me and continue to live and resist change as if what's going on globally has nothing to do with them, then truly no person is blinder than the person that can see but refuses to.

For many years I have been telling African Americans to embrace global change, and do for self but they feel they can resist global change by simply praying on it and it will go away.

The strategy of putting your head in the sand and praying for change to go away reminds me of the story where a preacher and a deacon was standing one day when along came a vicious black bear up the way the deacon turned and told the preacher to say a prayer, the preacher told the deacon no prayer is going to stop this bear, we have to run for it.


Enoch Mubarak
President & CEO Mubarak Inter-prizes
www.mubarakinter-prizes.com