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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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Here's More Information About Me And My Organization

Hello, my name is Emmanuel Barbee. I am a new entrepreneur as well as a new urban author of the book "The Solution For Black America: Reclaiming, Rebuilding, and Restoring The Urban Ghettos In America" This book is an auto-biography about my experience growing up in the inner city of Chicago ghettos.

I also wrote this book to  promote my new organization (The Grass Roots Community Activist Movement) I plan to starting this organization on the Westside of Chicago either in Austin or Garfield Park. In time we will expand to the Southside of Chicago and eventually in every ghetto in America. It has three main components: social service, spiritual, and political. For example, the social service component would consist of the single family. services which would assist single black mothers and single black fathers who reside in the ghettos with job training, education, and violence prevention.

The Grass Roots Community Activist Institute is our business wing. We will offer four basic classes that will focus on students natural talents. An acting class, journalism, oil painting, and music workshop. We will also offer onsite child daycare.  Unlike other organization that do a partial part of addressing the issue we will focus on the entire black family and the environment.

We will fulfill Dr. King's dream of ending poverty and  structural inequality once and for all. I wrote this book in hopes of  recruiting reasonable brothers, sisters, and others to assist me in turning my vision into a reality.   

I also want to develop long term friendships, professional relationships.  I assist others who have accepted my hand of friendship online with finding college scholarships - grants, small business grants; housing; legal services and employment on a national level all for free.