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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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No comments on Cash Gifting so what are we doing here?

I posted something on what I've discovered is referred to as Cash Gifting. I see that over four hundred people viewed it, but I see no comments. That leads me to wonder what is going on.

Just for some background - I joined iZania a while back because I embrace the concept of building a strong Black business network that can act as a resource to its members. Now that it's 2008 I've decided that I need to play a more active role in making that the case rather than sitting back and watching to see if it happens. So I upgraded my membership and took some action on the site, in the process I've got a couple of observations:

Is it just me or are we not participating?

Maybe I post things no one cares about or maybe the stats lie, but I don't see very much (i.e. NONE) interaction on the posts that show up. For example, last year I saw a post where a member was basically saying college and higher education was a scam. In order for someone to say that they are a living and breathing example of one of my favorite quotes:

YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW

The problem I had was that very few of us chimed in to offer any insight that we might have. Some of us probably thought how ridiculous it was some may have thought it was down right scary, but I didn't see a lot of input or feedback.

That being said, in my last post I asked for input on cash gifting. I got nada. No one said they tried it, no one said it's a great system, no one said it's a scam, no one said the site looks like a scam, nothing.

So is it the system or is it us?