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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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Don't Just Resolve...Achieve!

  The New Year, better yet, the New Decade is upon us. This is the time of year when people resolve to lose weight, quit smoking, stop procrastinating, change careers, etc. The average person sticks to these resolutions for about a month, and then they slowly fall back into their old routine. It's February now and you may be falling back into your old routine. I've found some secrets to not only sticking to your resolution, but making it easier and more fulfilling while doing it.

The first thing is, when you make a resolution, you should write down why you've chosen this resolution; why it's important to you. Don't just say I want to stop smoking, say I want to stop smoking because my grandchild has asthma and I want them to have a healthy environment when they come to my home.

Don't put pressure on yourself to be completely finished on New Year's Day, be realistic. Let New Year's be the day you begin your journey to quit smoking and not the day you must quit forever! Cut yourself some slack, forgive yourself, and move on. If your resolution is to lose weight, but you find yourself snacking on the wrong thing, don't dwell on it and just toss the diet out of the window. Forgive yourself and start fresh the following day. If your resolution is something big like writing a book or starting your own business. Write down a plan of action and break your New Year's resolution into 52 New Week's resolutions.

At the beginning of each week, give yourself small goals to accomplish that will eventually lead to that large goal. Whatever you resolve to do for the New Year, make sure it is something that YOU want to do and not something someone else thinks you should be doing. This is a sure way to fail. Give yourself a fair fight by being prepared and understand what your true desires and passions are!

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