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Posts Tagged ‘Minnesota’

Minnesota could tax my smokes to help pay for the “People’s Stadium” – Hey, F**K You!

Minnesota could tax my smokes to help pay for the “People’s Stadium” – Hey, F**K You!

Screw you and your stupid creative financing. Maybe governor Mark Dayton can raise money for the new people’s stadium by taxing some people in his cabinet members for dropping the ball on civil rights, contract compliance enforcement and that silly little oversight of not hiring any blacks on the state capital restoration project. Matter of [...]

The successful Outsourcing of Black Blight: The House Negro Syndrome

The successful Outsourcing of Black Blight: The House Negro Syndrome

"White America no longer needs the KKK. There are House N****rs that will get the work done for them." by Donald Allen, Editor-In-Chief - OurBlackNews.com Black Americans? How many you need? (photo:www.arabawy.org) Booker T. Washington said, “To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.” The great words from Mr. [...]

Jobs on the New “People’s Stadium” are wide open for Black Minnesotans

Jobs on the New “People’s Stadium” are wide open for Black Minnesotans

The "People's Stadium" (photo: Star Tribune). Editors note: IBNN NEWS and OurBlackNews.com would like to welcome “White Boy Living in Minneapolis” as a guest commentator. “There is not one black leader (oxymoron) that can tell me the public policy for Black Minnesotans. Furthermore, most of the issues black people have in the Twin [...]

Minnesota Republicans can’t dismiss Congresswoman Michele Bachmann

Minnesota Republicans can’t dismiss Congresswoman Michele Bachmann

It’s okay to be outspoken. This would have helped many candidates in 2008, 2010, and 2012 to build a foundation. The Minnesota GOP has lost an element needed to be successful: The winning way.  by Donald Allen – Candidate for Chairman of the Minnesota GOP  St. Paul, MN - I had the rare opportunity to be a guest on The Late Night Debate [...]

Designer Poverty: Come to the Twin Cities – we do it right!

Designer Poverty: Come to the Twin Cities – we do it right!

This is not Edina. We can see it, and it is here. (photo: Falconhive.com) If it were not for escaping the matrix, I would not be able to share this with you. Poverty in all forms is a curse on society. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, the opportunity reoccurs to put a drastic end to mass poverty; but this would mean stopping a flow of dollars, sex [...]

Terra Cole for President: Minneapolis Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP-MN)

Terra Cole for President: Minneapolis Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP-MN)

"It's time for a black woman to take the lead in Minneapolis." (photos: lifted from Terra's FB page - fair use). by Donald Allen - Editor-in-Chief, OurBlackNews Minneapolis, MN - Before I layout why Ms. Terra Cole would be the best leader for the NAACP in Minneapolis, I have to thank and congratulate current president Mr. Booker Hodges for [...]

Paulsen, Clayton questionable – Allen and Downey – the MN GOP Chair Contenders

Paulsen, Clayton questionable – Allen and Downey – the MN GOP Chair Contenders

Top: Don Allen. Bottom: Keith Downey. (photo by Aramis Wells) by Bartholomew Goteborg, Guest Editor for IBNN Related story: Candidates for state GOP chair agree the party’s a mess by Cyndy Brucato Eagan, MN - It was clear last night at the CD2 MN GOP Candidates Forum held in Eagan, Minnesota that only two of the candidates had somewhat [...]

Guns: The most Dangerous Community Assault Weapons in Minnesota

Guns: The most Dangerous Community Assault Weapons in Minnesota

The highest level of assault. The black elected official assault.   The violent assault on black students in education... Political plantations...      

Part 1: Minneapolis Urban League’s 13th Grade Pilot Program sends a clear signal nobody wants to deal with current K-12 educational issues

Part 1: Minneapolis Urban League’s 13th Grade Pilot Program sends a clear signal nobody wants to deal with current K-12 educational issues

Really? An almost vacant building; no money coming in and you want to tackle education? This is no better than the Minneapolis Foundation hanging signs in the skyway." This is not the first time the Minneapolis Urban League has attempted to become relevant in the 21st century. We need look no further than the grant from the Minnesota Department [...]

Will WCCO-TV air the brutal beating of Demario Booker by Minneapolis Police?

Will WCCO-TV air the brutal beating of Demario Booker by Minneapolis Police?

While we are big fans of the Fox 9 Morning Show, we understand the Fox 9 News evening and nighttime senior producers missed this story because of so many bathroom breaks. (photo: The Wrong Stuff on Tumblr) In December 2012, both Fox 9 News and WCCO-TV Channel 4 locked out the story about Demario Booker. On November 20, 2012 Minneapolis Police [...]

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