Posts Tagged ‘Class’
Many reasons not to watch KARE-11 News | Community ratings released
African Americans (and Friends) Against Mainstream Media have released their third-quarter Twin Cities television ratings. AAAM is an ad hoc group of editors, bloggers, business owners and community members that are concerned about the level of news produced and aired in and about communities of color. By Donald W.R. Allen, II – Editor in [...]
Civil Rights, Unemployment and Racism half-ass discussed on “Taboo Thursday!”
This is a gentle reminder to attend the Community Forum on Racial Disparities in Minneapolis on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, Moot Court Room, 1000 LaSalle Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55403 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Bring your voice signs. Another missed opportunity with a Dog & Pony show.
Silly Politricks: Community Forum on Racial Disparities in Minneapolis – Send in the Clowns
“There once was a Black man from the land of civil rights. He looked high and low to solve his plights; He went to a forum, it really bored him; and he finally figured out there’s not really a fight.” ~Don Allen Going through the motions is not enough to address civil rights issues in Minneapolis. Those who govern civil rights aren’t [...]
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak’s ongoing practice of Destructive Selfishness
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” ~Martin Luther King Jr. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak has been nominated to become vice chair of the Democratic National Committee. This is even more proof that DFL political hacks have not looked in at the actions [...]
Is President Obama responsible for the highest Unemployment Rate for Blacks ever in 27 years? Join us today on BlogTalkRadio’s ON POINT! Saturday at 4
CNN Money announced on Friday, September 2, 2011 that Black unemployment: Highest in 27 years. Join co-hosts Ronald A. Edwards and Don Allen as we discuss the lack of opportunities in the Black community along with the plantation infrastructure purposely set up that denies Blacks and people of color to live the American Dream. Tune into at 4 [...]
Race, Class, and Obama
"The president's ethnicity shouldn't exempt him from criticism for selling out poor people, and poor African-Americans especially." by Clarence Lang, Orginally posted on August 28, 2011 in The Chronicle Review In his latest book, The End of Anger: A New Generation's Take on Race and Rage (Ecco), published in May, the journalist [...]
Dr. Ron Paul: US Congressman and presidential candidate tells why residents of north Minneapolis will never get a penny from F.E.M.A. – others will get rich
Someone other than the residents of north Minneapolis made money off the disaster that displaced over 5000 families. If you drive through north Minneapolis today, in some places it looks like the storm happened yesterday; trees still uprooted on city sidewalks, homes still with tarps and a race and color of people who have been denied to [...]
Tar Baby: The Exclusive “Whites-Only” club of the Republican Party of America (Updated)
IBNN NEWS will post a 10-part series that will explain why the Republican Party of America and local state offices continue to attack a Black president versus putting something on the table. I, (Don Allen) as a Black man cannot support the rhetoric of the Minnesota GOP and their low-hanging fruit theory that “If you get professional minorities [...]
The Republican Party of Minnesota: Bigotry in the MN GOP – You Hostile Bastards!
A bigot is a person or group who obstinately or intolerantly devoted to their own opinions and prejudices especially one exhibiting intolerance, and animosity toward those of differing beliefs. This includes persons hostile to those of differing race, ethnicity, religion or spirituality, nationality, inter-regional prejudice, gender and sexual [...]
The Republican Party of Minnesota and Blacks: It’s time for straight talk and solutions – what we’ve been doing isn’t working
Readers of IBNN NEWS know that we are focused on conservative political values while being an advocate for Black businesses, Black media, education, jobs and living the American Dream. Some Black people in Minnesota say “everything is fine.” Those that say everything is fine are a part of a culture that has abandoned poor Blacks in favor of [...]
