Racism
A Solution to Police Violence
“When you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind.” That is truth and a quote from some fount of wisdom. Back in the 1970’s when I lived in Minneapolis I was on the board of the Minneapolis Urban Coalition. We worked hard to attempt to establish Civilian Review Boards which would work with the police…
Read MoreTO CELEBRATE JULY 4th AND TO REMEMBER
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (Ed. Note: 25 to 35 Million Africans were robbed of their freedom; taken from their country and put into slavery for 400 plus years – first by the Arabs and then by Europeans and Americans – Southern Americans, but the people in America who most benefitted from…
Read MoreThe ‘Sharing’ Community????
The first thing we note in that name – which has become attached to several kinds of businesses – is the fact that it is an extreme misnomer. There is nothing “sharing” about that group of businesses. Unless you call the lower to middle classes sharing their small assets and ideas in ways to make…
Read MoreThe Rev. Nicholas Hood
by: Marceline Donaldson, April 11, 2016 Some remembrances write themselves. This one is being written through heavy grief because it is not only a memory of Nicholas Hood, but long overdue grieving of my youth and someone who contributed majorly to who I am as a Christian today. Nicholas Hood is in my heart and…
Read MoreDogs = Emotional Slavery
copyright 2015 Bettina Network, inc. We are and have been for hundreds of years a society/world of slaves. Either you are a slave or a slave master. Many have tried to break free, but in some part or parts of life, that historical connection gets us and changes us from a free people to a people…
Read MoreThanks for the Sandra Bland blog
It is amazing how little there is about Sandra Bland in the major media outlets. What is there that I have heard talks about her committing suicide and whatever else negative could be found. I am sending this list, which I got from the FMF (Feminist Movement Foundation) newsletter. I think Sandra Bland needs to…
Read MoreSandra Bland – Strange Fruit
Once upon a time, the “Strange Fruit, hanging from the trees” used to be from trees with green leaves, a trunk and branches growing up from the ground splattered with red. Today, the “Strange Fruit, hanging from the trees” is hanging from man-made trees with blue reflected all around. But look! Isn’t that the old…
Read MoreTrump, Thurmond, Duke
Thank you for the blog on Donald Trump. I am amazed at how edited the press reporting is on this man and his political machinations. Too many people are calling this a “Republican” phenomenon. I want to remind them that Strom Thurmond, in whose shoes Trump is walking politically and otherwise, was a Democrat –…
Read MoreDonald Trump? How to ruin a great breakfast!
A brief breakfast conversation, which most of us killed almost immediately, but not before several points were made: 1) While his first wife was working hard to help develop the Trump empire, the man was womanizing! And who knows what kind of sexual activity happened after and through the rest of his life and marriages,…
Read MorePresident Obama’s Eulogy of Rev. Pinckney
We have been asked by many of our readers for the URL address of where they could find President Obama’s eulogy. Apparently, you folks didn’t think it was going to be great so you were doing other things while this incredible statement was being made. At the end, President Obama was referred to as “the…
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