Our Blog is a conglomeration of conversations which took place around the breakfast table in one or another Bettina Network home. We cover a wide range of topics.
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What is the Abortion fight really about? Why has it surfaced now?
We are living in a very racist/sexist society which is changing from majority white northern european male in charge of everything; better than everybody; all accolades go to them and etc. That is changing and the society is becoming more “diverse”. There are women and minorities coming along who don’t take kindly to living in…
J. P. Morgan Chase Bank – institutional Racism?
Chase Bank recently came to Boston and set up offices around the area. They organized and internalized what they needed to succeed in this New England area. That includes internalizing the extreme racism of the area. What is it like to be African American in these United States? We talk about addressing racism and wanting…
What a Trial the Donaldson/Bennett’s have endured. Did we tell you about the attack on them by Massachusetts Dept. of Revenue? Which is still going on?
All timed to make sure huge dumps on them happened at the same time. It is the same kind of “dump” which happens to many of the elderly when their assets are being targeted by those who want to lock them up and have access to those assets before the next generation is helped by…
Akron, Ohio – Highland Park, Illinois – Ukraine
The above refers to three related happenings, which we do not connect. There is much talk today, on the major media sites, about the horrible shooting in Akron, Ohio. It was a horrible shooting, but we talk about it as though it stands apart from Ukraine and Highland Park, Illinois. It is not separate from,…
How to Mitigate your Trash!
What a topic! We are now a society which has to manage its trash. We should be ashamed that we have put together and are living a lifestyle where our trash can hurt us and others; takes up much of the world as we export it to other countries to let them handle what we…
Real Estate – Is this the cause of the extreme racism which refuses to break and go away?
Because of the business we were in, we spent many years closely aligned with the real estate community. During that time our discoveries were shocking and as we try to sell our house all the lessons we learned and tried to address are incorporated in that attempt. The racism in the real estate industry is…
A Series – Part ONE: Racism, Sexism and more…. – the structurally divided system we call the United States of America! But, it could also be called the World in Which We Live! This series will cover what maintains it in such an evil way with individual examples!
We write and talk a lot about the bigotry of racism, sexism and so much more. We keep that talk on an institutional level. Very seldom do we write and talk with individual, real -true-to-life examples. That would interfere with our ability to deny – which is the foundation of what allows those structures to…
What does Emmett Till, Uvalde, Buffalo all the way to the beginning of the massacres of children have in common?
by: Marceline Donaldson I remember when Emmett Till was murdered. The horror of what happened to him didn’t strike me until I saw him in his open casket. Once you saw the reality of the brutal way he was murdered; once you saw his face which was unrecognizable; once you came close to the reality…
Are you a member of — Bettina’s Lifestyle Community? _ _ _
Bettina Lifestyle Community is many things. One is a private selection of wonderful homes where members can choose to stay when they are traveling. The homes in this collection vary dramatically from one another. Some are exquisitely beautiful, some are works of art, historical, interesting, primitive, farms, businesses where you can learn and participate in…