The National Black Republican Leadership Council to Join The Independent Business News Network in hosting the African American U.S. Congressional Forum

Washington, DC – The Independent Business News Network is pleased to collaborate with The National Black Republican Leadership Council during the RNC Convention, said Donald W.R. Allen, II General Manager of V-Media parent company of The Independent Business News Network and Twin City Business, the Twin Cities #1 Internet Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations Agency. The Forum will air live on Minneapolis Television Network Channel 17 from 3:30pm to 4:30pm and guests will able to join us in studio located at 125 Main Street (St. Anthony Main Area) in downtown Minneapolis, states Allen
The National Black Republican Leadership Council will cancel its town hall meeting scheduled for Tuesday, September 2, 2008 from 1-3pm and instead join with The Independent Business News Network in Co-Hosting the African American U.S. Congressional Forum scheduled for Tuesday, September 2, 2008 from 3:30-4:30pm, said CJ Jordan.
These two events are a worthy causes and we rather join forces to show our support for those who are seeking to run for Congress and who will convey the Black and Urban Center Issues upon being elected, further states CJ Jordan, President of the National Black Leadership Council.
In a continued effort to show solidarity, we will also be joining Twin City Business and The Independent Business News Network on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 from 6pm until 2am at Trocaderos Nightclub and Restaurant located at 107 3rd Ave North – Minneapolis, MN 55401 (612) 465-0440.
This event will feature the United States African American Congressional candidates as well as local GOP endorsed House candidates from Minneapolis and St. Paul. For more information, please call (612) 986-0010 or email IBNN at info@ibnn.org.
“Yes we Can?” – Yes we can…What? Maybe the worse of Two Evils?
“Yes we Can” has turned into the champion chant for Senator Barak Obama. But there are other issues in his home state of Illinois the people are still struggling with. If this is the way of the “Yes we Can” political platform, we as a community and country have to look very deep at the issues that for the most part have left Illinois worse off than “pre” Obama.
This video is moderated by Chicago’s 1st Congressional District Candidate Antoine Members. Be afraid…very afraid!
African American United States Congressional Candidates hold Forum on Minneapolis Television Network (Channel 17) on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 broadcasted Live from 3:30pm-4:30pm

Tune in on Tuesday to Minneapolis Television Network (Channel 17) from 3:30pm to 4:30pm for the African American Congressional Candidate Forum, brought to you by the Independent Business News Network. This forum will feature the Republican African American Congressional Candidates running for office in 2008.
The forum will feature Allen West from Florida’s CD 22nd www.allenwestforcongress.com; Barb Davis White from Minnesota’s 5th CD www.barbdaviswhiteforcongress.com; Eddie Adams JR from Florida’s CD 11th www.adamsforcongress.org; Dr. Deborah Honeycutt Georgia’s CD 13th www.honeycuttforcongress.com; and Antoine Members Illinois CD 1st www.antoinemembers.com.
The forum was developed to educate and inform communities of color about the political process as it pertains to the GOP and the functioning operations surrounding the Republican Party. This event sponsored by the Independent Business News Network and will also have a “Meet the Candidate” celebration and fundraiser on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 from 6pm-2am at Trocaderos Nightclub and Restaurant located at 107 3rd Ave North – Minneapolis, MN 55401 (612) 465-0440. This event is open to the public and everyone is encouraged to attend.
About the candidates: (By clicking on the candidates name you can visit their website)
Allen West’s campaign for Florida’s 22nd Congressional District! This site will give you the opportunity to learn more about Allen and his vision for the future of America. Please take a moment to learn more about Allen West and then take action to help Allen’s campaign!
We face many challenges as a nation. From the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to illegal immigration, to energy independence, to out of control federal spending, now more than ever we need leaders in Congress who represent our South Florida values.
Barb Davis White – Love is making a commitment and having the willingness to accept the sacrifices and inconveniences necessary to keep that commitment. This is true whether we are talking about another person, nation or society. Our forbearers came embracing a new spirit of responsibility. They built a representative form of government in which we are duty bound to participate. We now have a responsibility to follow their lead and build a more perfect union based on their example – not a celebration of diversity, but rather the assimilation of diverse ideas, and with it the people they represent.
Hello, I am Eddie Adams, Jr., a candidate for the 11th Congressional District of Florida seat in the U.S. Congress. Whether you are a lifelong Republican; a new member of our party; a Democrat, consider yourself an Independent or you are simply curious- what matters most is that, this is about you and you are always welcome here!
Dr. Deborah Honeycutt. I am running for U.S. Congress in 2008. I believe that our United States government is facing a moral crisis. As a country we are in danger of forsaking the moral cornerstone upon which our nation was founded. No longer do many of our leaders make decisions based on constitutional imperatives, time-honored values, or Christian principles.
Antoine Members. I am a lifelong resident of Chicago, born and raised on the Westside and now residing on the Southside. A family man, I am married to my beautiful wife, Tònia, and have two wonderful children, Destiny and Journey. Academically, I am a graduate of CVS High School and have attended East-West University.
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What Happened to the Republican Party – Who is the Republican Party and Who in History was a Republican?

On July 30, 2008 the United States Congress officially apologized to Blacks for Slavery…What got twisted between Abe and today? When you tell the minority community that they should support the Republican agenda, wait let me re-phrase that…the Conservative Republican agenda, the responses you get are from f*** off, to – you’re crazy! One of the main reasons that the African American, Hispanic-Latino, Asian, Hmong and Somali communities don’t embrace the party is because the party has not reached out to embrace them. After a recent meeting with point people of Minnesota’s GOP it came clear that the current leadership does not give a damn about attracting people of color to the party nor do they really care. I walked around the office looking for one person of color. There was none. My goal at this meeting was to ask them to use the local minority media, armed with facts about the Republican Party; why it was created and what the original mission was. Of course the “original” mission has changed due the “green” single minded players that make day-to-day decisions at the Minnesota GOP that care more about job security and their high since of “Stratification”. Just for the record, Black Spending Power in the United States Tops $630 Billion per year. This fact is not only ignored by the GOP but also by local and national advertising agencies, business and oh, don’t let me forget, the MSP2008.com and RNC Hosting Committee in Minneapolis. (Oops did I say that?).
Needless to say, when the meeting was over, I would have been better off shooting myself in the foot.
So, I’ve provided some information about the who’s, what’s why’s and where’s about the Republican Party that for the most part, no one talks about. It true that somewhere in history the party changed and we all know that “absolute power corrupts absolutely”, but in an attempt to “mend” the damage already done, I think you’ll enjoy the following information.
It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans. Why? From its founding in 1854 as the anti-slavery party until today, the Republican Party has championed freedom and civil rights for blacks. And as one pundit so succinctly stated, the Democrat Party is as it always has been, the party of the four S’s: Slavery, Secession, Segregation and now Socialism.
One of the strangest developments of the last 100 years has been the shift of the Black community to the party that fought hardest to keep slaves and segregation. The politically correct left has managed to maintain a system of racial separation in America and get the love and support of the people it’s subjugating. Society has NEVER been racial but cultural. There have been savage White cultures as there have been civilized Black cultures through history. The left has created a victim mentality and a culture of dependant poverty in America’s Black communities. From Johnson’s War on Poverty that created a culture of dependence to Affirmative Action, Blacks today have it as bad, though in a different sense, as 50 years ago.
It was the Democrats who fought to keep blacks in slavery and passed the discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. The Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize blacks. The Democrats fought to prevent the passage of every civil rights law beginning with the civil rights laws of the 1860’s, and continuing with the civil rights laws of the 1950’s and 1960’s.
One thing is true; the Republican Party needs to get back to the Party of Abraham Lincoln with a true Conservative voice and thoughts so everyone hears loudly…”We the People!”
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Rebuild Hugo – One Home, One Community! Sunday, August 24, 2008

The Orginal Relationship that Worked – Blacks and Republicans
This post is from THE ORNERY OBSERVER, AUGUST 14, 2008 titled: Black Republicans Face Rejection by Their Own Community – Why do black Americans forsake “The Party of Lincoln?” By Paul Gottfried. THE ORNERY OBSERVER is copyright (c) 2008 by Paul Gottfried and the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation, http://www.fgfbooks.com. All rights reserved. A version of this column appeared in Lancaster (PA) Newspapers in July 2008. Paul Gottfried, Ph.D., is the Raffensperger professor of Humanities at Elizabethown College in Pennsylvania. For Dr. Gottfried’s photo and biographical sketch, and to read some of his other columns on-line, see: http://www.fgfbooks.com/Gottfried-Paul/Gottfried-bio.html.
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We begin…. Black Republicans Face Rejection by Their Own Community – Why do black Americans forsake “The Party of Lincoln?” By Paul Gottfried.

In view of Barack Obama’s rise to national prominence, it might be worthy of note that some black politicians have failed to attract black votes. Lynn Swann — one such candidate — ran for governor in my home state of Pennsylvania. Lynn Swann is an articulate Republican and committed Evangelical Christian. I happily cast my vote for him against Ed Rendell. Like another black candidate, Michael Steele, who ran for governor of Maryland, Swann served with distinction as lieutenant governor. He lost the black vote because of his Republican affiliations. But unlike Steele, Swann did not have his character blackened by the NAACP, whose Maryland leadership had mocked Steele as an “Oreo.”
Allow me to raise this unsettling question: Why have black Republicans been singled out for noisy ridicule in the black community? And it is not only blacks who are engaging in this ridicule. White journalists and white intellectuals, who have rallied to Obama as a moral redeemer, treat black Republicans as hostile to other blacks.
Historical Ties to GOP
I am raising this query not as an unflagging GOP supporter (which I have long ceased to be) but as an inquisitive historian. American blacks were overwhelmingly Republican from the Civil War, in which the Republicans were the party of Negro Emancipation, down to the New Deal. In the 1950s, they voted twice with large pluralities for the Republican Dwight Eisenhower. Eisenhower’s Democratic opponent in 1952, Adlai Stevenson, ran with an avowed segregationist as his running mate, John Sparkman of Alabama.
Even as late as 1964, the Civil Rights Act passed because 90 percent of the Republicans in Congress, as opposed to about 50 percent of the Democrats, voted for it. The affirmative action programs that the Democrats now proudly support were introduced under the Republican Richard Nixon in 1969 as part of the Philadelphia Plan for urban redevelopment. Under this plan, federal contractors had to meet certain goals in hiring black employees.
Nor has the fact that the current Republican administration selected blacks for high cabinet posts meant anything to most black voters. Rice, Powell, and other Republicans who have worked for this administration are judged in polls taken among blacks to be disloyal members of their race. But why is the half-white Obama, who grew up in a non-black society, considered blacker than Clarence Thomas, who grew up in a segregated black society in Georgia?
Short Shrift from Democrats
Nor does it seem to me that Democrats have given blacks more than have Republicans. It was the supposedly pro-black Clinton administration that abolished welfare programs that went disproportionately to lower-class blacks. Clinton was able to do this because blacks would support him unconditionally. By cutting payments to a group that voted in relatively small numbers (the underclass), Clinton could therefore create the impression of being a fiscal conservative to balance his image as a social liberal.
I’ve no idea how such weird judgments are formed, except that Obama is positioned in the far Left of the Democratic Party, while Thomas is a right-of-center Republican.
But those positions have little to do with specifically black interests. Does Obama’s willingness to grant driving licenses to illegal aliens or his support for late-term abortions express identifiably black concerns? Or does Thomas’ opposition to gay marriage or to federal laws preempting state laws concerning the right to bear arms near school buildings show that he is against his fellow-blacks? Although by no means a fan of the Bush foreign policy, I cannot see how Condoleezza Rice’s position on the Iraqi War indicates hostility toward black people. Was Clinton’s bombing of Serbs in 1999 a more black-friendly act?
Kemp Outreach Failure
In the 1980s New York Congressman, Jack Kemp, who later became Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Ronald Reagan, tried to build a career as a Republican who knew how to reach out to blacks. Never did a politician try so hard to live up to a reputation. As a federal official Kemp favored set-asides for racial minorities. His addresses before Republican gatherings often featured long quotations from Martin Luther King and rhetorical questions intended to appeal to white guilt about “Where were Republicans when others were riding the freedom buses?”
But there were two problems with this strategy. First, Democrats like Jimmy Carter never rode Freedom Buses, but instead began their careers as segregationist politicians. Nonetheless, unlike Republicans who had talked out against segregation, such Democrats did very well in picking up black votes. (And so did that onetime famous segregationist George Wallace by the end of his career in Alabama politics.) Second, Kemp’s desperate reaching out to blacks did not benefit his party. Although in 1996 he managed to obtain the vice-presidential slot, the GOP received only 10 percent of the black vote that year. And Kemp got heckled when he spoke before black crowds.
What this failed outreach suggests is that the GOP’s attempts to appeal to black voters have generally not met with success. At the same time, the revulsion of blacks for Republicans, and particularly for black Republicans, seems unrelated to the history of either group. I for one am still searching for an explanation as to why this hostility is as deep and abiding as it seems to be.
RNC asked about African American Congressional Candidates that are scheduled to speak at the RNC

The following email was sent to the RNC today…
It concerns me as Barb Davis White’s Press Secretary and also as a General Manager for a News & Information Corporate Media Outlet that you have not scheduled, nor will confirm that any African American Congressional Candidates have been asked to speak at the RNC, according to the young lady that answers the phone at your office and you. After speaking with you (Ms. Webb), the answer that the information is “confidential” does not work. We already know that Barb Davis White, 5th CD Minnesota and Antoine Members 1st CD Chicago have not been contacted…who does that leave?
On Friday, August 15, 2008 I was approached by a gentleman who told me to “cool down”, don’t go after Ron Carey’s office or the RNC and we will get together later and work things out after the RNC. He went on to threaten Barb’s campaign by saying, “If you don’t, Barb is finished!” The RNC has given money to some local “point people” in the Twin Cities to have party events neglecting the most valued and important thing to attract voter’s of color to the Republican Party…”community engagement and outreach”. No one from Minnesota’s non-profit agencies have been contacted by the GOP/RNC to teach the community about the Constitution of the United States or even to register voters. Remember…Liberty does not have a color, it has soul!
This “slave mentality thinking” i.e.; “Be good you Black Republican’s while our White friends are in town” does not fly with me or the tools I have in place to distribute this message “top-of-mind” to the general public and national news affiliates.
Keith Ellison is not worried and rest assured that the Minnesota GOP will put no effort into an African American Republican candidate for Congress in Minnesota with the current leadership of the GOP.
Again, and for the last time – I will ask, what African American Congressional Candidates have been scheduled to speak at the RNC? What do we really have to loose, besides Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District?
Good day!
25-year-old Endorsed Candidate Claims to take back the North Side!
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Introducing Mr. Yoman Brunson. 
Yoman Brunson (R) is challenging incumbent Willie Dominguez (D) and National Association of Minority Contractors Executive Director and Stairstep Foundation Employee, Bobby-Jo Champion – DFL endorsed.
Yoman Brunson (R) officially filed for office to seek election to the Minnesota House of Representatives, representing citizen’s in House District 58B, which is in Minneapolis.
The 25-year-old candidate has already been endorsed by the Republican Party of Minnesota, and says he is not deterred by the opposition or his young age.
“Many say representing the Republican Party as a young African American will be challenging, but I see this as an opportunity for change. I will not back down from any candidate, nor will I back out of this race. For the past 60 years, 58B has been under the same leadership, and our district experiences the same problems each year. Without viable solutions, we will continue to experience the same problems of the past.”
Brunson is running on the platform of education, public safety, and increased community involvement; and chose these issues because they were consistently at the top of the list as main concerns for district residents.
“We have to be more efficient when spending valuable tax dollars to ensure district 58B students from all economic backgrounds receive the best education. The majority of violent crimes that occurred in 2006 in Minnesota have been on the North Side. Residents have the right to feel safe in their homes, streets and parks. We must ensure the residents are aware of the resources available to our community. By working together with community leaders, advocacy groups, and the residents of 58B, we will finally change the problems residents have been facing for far too long. I look forward to working with the community to bring about this viable change.”
Brunson is a board member of the Harrison Neighborhood Association, and remains active in the community.
Brunson is completing his undergraduate studies this summer and will earn an undergraduate degree in political science and communication studies from the University of Minnesota. House District 58B encompasses the neighborhoods: Near North, Downtown West and the North Loop, Harrison, Jordan, Willard-Hay, and Hawthorne.
If you would like more information about Yoman or schedule an interview, please email yoman@brunson58.org, contact his campaign manager Michael Phoenix at 612-298-8209, or visit www.brunson58.org.
iNetGlobal/AdPacs Steve Renner to speak at the Success Mastery Seminar in Atlanta

The first iNetGlobal/AdPacs Rally will be in Atlanta, GA. at the Renaissance Concourse ( Marriott ) Hotel at the airport. The event is FREE for all to attend, so plan to be there and invite your guests to attend. This will be the Last Time Ever to get 100% Match and 100% Double Match Bonuses, ( No Extensions, No Excuses, No Kidding! ). Get your flight arrangements made NOW, there are inexpensive flights to Atlanta now, but the price will increase the longer you wait! We have a special Rate at the Hotel for our Members and Guests: Discount Code: MMG Success Mastery Call: 1-888-639-6710.
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Steve Renner is a well known Internet Marketing Professional. Hailed as the $60 Million Dollar Man, Steve started Marketing Online in 1998. Since that time he has built an online business with over 250,000 Affiliate Members around the world and Generated over $60,000,000.00 in Online Sales.
Steve has been quietly making Millions online for years. He is the author of the Best Selling eBook “Million Dollar Secrets” which has been downloaded over 10,000 times, and is a highly paid Internet Marketing Consultant. Steve has only recently decided to step out into the limelight and share his “Million Dollar Secrets” with the world. Having helped 1,000’s of people from around the world to achieve their dreams of Making Big Money Online, he can do the same for YOU!
Take Your Online Business to a “Whole New Level of Success” you never dreamed possible, and learn from one of the most successful Internet Marketers in the world today. Steve is an Exciting and Motivating Speaker who will give you the Exact Blueprint that you can use to create your own “Million Dollar Online Business”! Check out Steve at www.steverenner.com.
About the Success Mastery Seminar in Atlanta:
Barry Donalson “The Success Master”
So who is Barry Donalson? Barry is the founder of the Success Mastery Seminar where Steve Renner will be speaking this weekend, August 1-17 in Atlanta GA. along with his good friend Robert Butwin. Barry Donalson is a hands-on practical facilitator, who has personally built sales organizations of over 150,000 representatives. He has been directly and indirectly responsible for enrolling over 300,000 people in Network Distribution. Barry personal sales organizations produced over $50 Million in sales, and Barry retired his efforts twice because of professional networking. Now, he is teaching his techniques to the general networking population on how he did it. Barry teaches networkers how their businesses can either become a “house of mirrors” or a dynamic and profitable business center that can pay them for years to come. He brings over 15 years of experience in professional & personal development, representative prospecting, “real retailing,” compensation plan progression, leadership development, and much more. Barry also brings a wealth of knowledge and successful strategic planning to the podium.
He delivers his thoughts with a high impact approach, full of anecdotes, word pictures, and compelling thoughts that ensure his audience will have an emotional embrace and they will logically follow. He delivers a message with a game plan that each attendee can begin to use immediately.
Barry has trained leaders from networking companies around the world, companies such as 5LINX, TFN, Metaluca, Mennetech, Liberty League, Nu-Skin, Pre-Paid Legal, USANA, First Class Benefits, Abundant Health, Tahitian Noni, Isagenix, Xango, Arbonne International, Big Planet, Agel Mary Kay, Warm Spirit, Avon and American Communications Network just to name a few.
Barry holds several generic training events through out the US and abroad where he teaches building techniques to empower networkers. He has also been featured in every industry publication such as Networking Times, Upline, Network Marketing Lifestyles, Money Makers Monthly, and Home Business Connection.
Barry has written numerous articles and columns for various industry and public publications. He has released over 25 audio & video training programs and co-authored a book entitled “Conversations on Success” written with Jim Rohn, Brian Tracey, and Dr. David Gray. This is to the followed with “Giants of Land” where he will co-author a book with the biggest networkers in the industry. You can visit Barry at www.mmgmarketing.com
iNetGlobal / AdPacs Rally
While in Atlanta I will be conducting the historic 1st ever AdPacs Rally. This will be the Only Time you can get Double Match Bonuses on your AdPacs. I will be hosting a special FREE VIP Dinner and Networking Party, Friday Night with my good friend Robert Butwin. We will be holding informal meetings all day Saturday, with the Rally starting at 7:00 PM Saturday night. There will be an opportunity Meeting and Training Sunday morning at 10AM. Don’t miss this Historic Event!
Community Child Advocacy Forum to be held this Saturday, August 16, 2008
Find Out Ways You Can Help Abused & Neglected Children…

We need people who care about children caught in our child protection system. Social workers, child advocates and families positively impacted by court involvement will share their experiences and stories. Becoming a Guardian ad Litem (court appointed special advocate), and other ways community members can become involved will be discussed. Sponsored by the Minnesota Association of Black Social Workers & Hennepin County’s Guardian Ad Litem Program.
About the Hennepin County Guardian ad Litem Program: Different from a legal guardian, the Guardian ad Litem has no control over the person or property of the child and does not provide a home for the child. The Guardian ad Litem does not function as the child’s attorney and does not provide direct services to the child. The Fourth District provides this service with a combination of paid staff and more than 250 specially-trained community volunteers. On any given day, guardians ad litem represent the best interests of some 2,500 vulnerable children involved in the court system through no fault of their own. There is a continuing need for child advocates due to the high numbers of abused and neglected children coming to the attention of the court.
What is a Guardian ad Litem? A Guardian ad Litem is an advocate for a child whose welfare is a matter of concern for the court. In legal terms, it means “guardian for the lawsuit”. When the court is making decisions that will affect a child’s future, the child needs and deserves a spokesperson – an objective adult to provide independent information about the best interests of the child. While other parties in the case are concerned about the child, the Guardian ad Litem is the only person in the case whose sole concern is the best interests of the child, and he or she is assigned as an advocate for the child for the duration of the court process. Different from a legal guardian, the Guardian ad Litem has no control over the person or property of the child and does not provide a home for the child. The Guardian ad Litem does not function as the child’s attorney and does not provide direct services to the child.
The Fourth District provides this service with a combination of paid staff and more than 250 specially-trained community volunteers. On any given day, guardians ad litem represent the best interests of some 2,500 vulnerable children involved in the court system through no fault of their own. The Fourth Judicial District Guardian ad Litem Program is dedicated to advocating for the best interests of children who have been removed from their homes as a result of abuse and neglect.
“Justice for children cannot be sought, let alone achieved, if their voice is not represented in the hearings that determine their fate. Guardians ad Litem are that voice.” -Former Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz, Minnesota Supreme Court
For more information on how you can become a Guardian ad Litem, contact Michelle Johnson at Juvenile Justice Center; Room C-35 626 South Sixth Street, MC L878 Minneapolis, MN 55415 Phone: 612-348-6824 Fax: 612-348-4154. Visit the GAL website at www.mncourts.gov/district/4/?page=535
About the National Association of Black Social Workers, Inc (Minnesota Chapter): The National Association of Black Social Workers, Inc., comprised of people of African ancestry, is committed to enhancing the quality of life and empowering people of African ancestry through advocacy, human services delivery, and research. The National Association of Black Social Workers, Inc. will work to create a world in which people of African ancestry will live free from racial domination, economic exploitation, and cultural oppression. In collaboration with national, international, and other appropriate groups, NABSW will continue to leverage its collective expertise to strategically develop capacity of people of African ancestry to sustain and flourish. NABSW’s vision is guided by the Principles of the Nguzo Saba, which are Unity, Self-determination, Collective Work and Responsibility, Cooperative Economics, Purpose, Creativity, and Faith, and the Seven Cardinal Virtues of Ma’at, which are Right, Truth, Justice, Order, Reciprocity, Balance, and Harmony.
For more information go to their website at www.nabsw.org
