Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
JACK GREENBERG – NAACP Legal Defense Fund
by: Marceline Donaldson I read this morning of the death of Jack Greenberg and it hit me much harder than I would have expected. Jack Greenberg, Percy Julian, Dolores Orey and so many others are among the people who surrounded me at a very dire time of my life. I am so grateful for the fact…
Read MoreThe TRUMP TICKET Exposed!
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2016 The Vice Presidential debates for the 2016 campaign for the Presidency of the United States happened last night. They laid bare the American soul. The candidate for president – Donald Trump – has shown himself to be unstable, irresponsible, saying one thing today and another tomorrow and basically someone who…
Read MoreMelania Trump’s Convention Speech
An amazing speech! It had nothing to do with anything except a hollywood script writer planning a movie of pure fiction. We watched her come on stage and the greeting by her husband was anything but warm. It looked like – don’t touch me, I am made up and dressed and don’t want you to…
Read MoreA 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 MoreJuneteenth
We celebrated Juneteenth in several ways this weekend and wanted to share some of that with you. It was a fun time over breakfast and dinner. How could such a sharing be called “fun”? When you share something this serious with friends around a table with food you can talk about much that you might not…
Read MorePochahontas and Warren
What a morning! We must share with you a breakfast during which Elizabeth Warren was discussed – because it had to do with a sighting of Pochahontas. Pochahontas danced all around the breakfast room. She was so excited that we could see her. Most people can’t because she died ages ago. Her excitement was because…
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 MoreChristmas – A Joyous Occasion?
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2015 We are so accustomed to celebrating holidays with a certain emotion which seems intrinsic to that holiday that we generally don’t think about why or if that emotion is appropriate to the holiday. Good Friday is clearly a somber occasion and our emotions are quite turned down on that day.…
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…
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