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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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Marion Jones Loses Fortune

Why is everyone hating on Marion Jones?

She has only been accused of using anabolic steroids; she was never convicted. More specifically, the only positive test that she failed proved to be invalid, resulting from the negative results of a B sample. Marion Jones is still the greatest, womens sprinter competing today, and she is DRUG-FREE.

Florence Griffith-Joyner, God rest her soul, ran some amazing times (10.49 in the 100, 21.32 in the 200), Because she ran as fast as many men, you could easily build a case that she was on "the juice". While I enjoyed watching her compete, I still had a difficult time believing she could run that fast without a little help. Her records should have been wiped from the books if she was indeed using steriods. But her quick retirement following her astonishing records, and unfortunate death, prevented us from getting at this truth. Consequently, she will always be considered the all-time world's fastest woman.

But getting back to Marion: She lost her millions not because of a lack of wisdom when it comes to the management of her finances. She lost her millions by hiring high-powered lawyers to protect her good name. God has shown favor on Marion's track and field career, allowing her to become prosperous through the exercise of her gifts, and it's a shame that we, the American public, allowed the media to tear her down rather than build her up.

If anything, Marion opted to be equally yoked with unbelievers - shot putter C.J. Hunter, sprinter Tim Montgomery. Because of these associations, we perceive her as guilty of the same crimes Hunter and Montgomery were proven to be guilty of. But Marion Jones is not a cheater. She's a daughter to a mother, a mother to a son. And because of one common lie from a few cheaters, she has been robbed of the prosperity that she accumulated through her hard work and dedication to the sport.

We Americans need to stand up and say "Enough is enough.!!!" Let Marion return to the track and submit to drug tests after each of her races. If we allow her to do this, I believe she will rise from the pit of despair to be redeemed, once again becoming the darling of track and field.