Part Two – The Solution? Minnesota Department of Transportation – Executive Order 11246
By Donald W.R. Allen, II – Editor in Chief IBNN and USA Radical Black
“Taxes are collected in a non discriminatory manner. MNDOT discriminates when they only award contracts to White companies.”
From slavery to the civil rights movement “White Privilege” has sought to hide information in an effort to control, obstruct and delay deployment of “processes” put in place by overseers to avoid catastrophic failures, present and future.
One of the “processes” put in place to assist Transportation agencies across the United States in administering their respective DBE programs is Executive Order 11246. Again, MnDOT sidesteps the language of the order. Read more
The Repetitive Exploitation of Black Minnesota: Here we go again…
African-American Men Project; Prostate Screenings; HIV/AIDS; Breast Cancer Screenings; Dairy Queen;Tires Plus; Siyeza, Inc; NRRC; Synergy…
“Good intentions have funded projects with the same point people that continue to fail Black Minnesota. When will Black Minnesota get tired of the blatant Exploitation of their Community?” ~Don Allen
By Donald W.R. Allen, II – Editor in Chief/IBNN
Several years ago, St. Paul Pioneer Press journalist David Hawley wrote a story titled “Minneapolis: Study Details Problems Facing City’s Black Men,” dated January 24, 2002.
The story details, the results of a two-year study in which Hawley stated the outlook for African-American men in Minneapolis is grim. In the article Hawley wrote: “If you’re an African-American man ages 18 to 30, the odds are roughly 50-50 that you live in one of the city’s poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhoods and that a single mother reared you. There’s also about a 50-50 chance that you didn’t finished high school and only a slightly lesser chance that you will be arrested in the next year, most likely for a minor offense. If you are arrested, the odds are greater than 50-50 that you will be charged again within the next two years.”
In response to Hawley’s “grim” article, Gary L. Cunningham, the former Director of NorthPoint Health and Wellness and the overseer of the African-American Men Project, an organization that once had the power and respect of the community to make meaningful change, but has now has been reduced to a glorified referral service, had only one thing to say, “This report deals with what people call “wicked problems’ in our society.”
Wicked problems” are still not solved today – even by the people who identified them 8 years ago despite an incredible amount of funding and resources. Read more
Green Job Politricks to North Minneapolis…Return to Sender, Address Unknown
As reported by Insight News on Friday, June 5, 2009: Democratic Rep. Margaret Anderson Keliher, Speaker of the Minnesota House, praised the work of HIRE-MN, the expansive network of community service and environmental advocacy groups that succeeded in passing a bill directing $2.5 million for training and outreach for green jobs and infrastructure stimulus spending.
According to Alex Tittle, about 7,000 jobs in infrastructure repair and renovation will be created from federal stimulus spending in Minnesota. (Tittle is responsible for training programs at Summit Academy Opportunities Industrialization Centers-SAOIC and one of the partner stakeholders in HIRE MN).
…Fast forward to September 8, 2009. “Where are the 7,000 jobs related to the passing of the bill for $2.5 million?”
How about this, “Where is one job” created in North Minneapolis from the passing of this bill? Why are local north Minneapolis news outlets reporting a “win” when in fact the journey has just begun?
“Self-interest journalism” in north Minneapolis misleads the community into thinking that because it’s a front page story, it must be true. Example: Stories about the “great accomplishments” of the Minneapolis Urban League appearing in one particular north Minneapolis based newspaper, when the MUL is facing a possible scandal concerning the numbers of people it actually serves, compared to those it claims to serve. Is it possible that this newspaper is getting money from the MUL for advertising, and therefore has a vested interest in publishing “fluff” rather than “fact?” Would this not add to the already-corrupt practices in north Minneapolis’ Black community, where some “self-appointed” leaders have positioned themselves as gatekeepers for stimulus dollars, state construction contracts, politics, jobs and community interests – clearly working outside of their field of expertise.
Okay, back on point: Let’s take a closer look at why no jobs have been created in north Minneapolis since the passing of this bill.
Sources from the Minnesota Department of Commerce-Office of Energy Security say they are pushing for the $2.5 million to be routed through the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System (MSCU), which is comprised of 32 state-supported technical colleges, community colleges and state universities.
Students that receive training through MSCU are more likely to succeed in their careers than those who attend a non-accredited colligate institution. In some cases, students that are paying for Green Job Training could in fact receive the same training for free at technical colleges.
The MnDOT Piece:
Interestingly, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is currently within compliance standards based on the ethnic breakdown information that has been supplied by the City of Minneapolis. However, there is a problem here: the City of Minneapolis has not completed, or commissioned, a Disparity Report (which would provide current figures on minority hiring) since 1997 (!).
MnDOT’s contractors are required to make a “good faith effort” to use DBE’s (Disadvantaged Business Enterprise) and WDBE’s (Women Disadvantaged Business Enterprise). This clause is problematic however, as it implies no obligation to actually contract with a minority-owned business, instead allowing MnDOT to define what a “good faith effort” means.
In other words, MnDOT cannot stipulate that an all-White general contracting firm from St. Cloud, Minnesota must use a Black business for any project…that’s against the law.
Despite being fully aware that this law needs to be modified, and a new Disparity Report must be commissioned, Michael Jordan, director of the Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights has failed to act. In our opinion, he continues to display a lack of true concern for the minority-ethnic workforce of Minneapolis.
Enter Representative Bobby Joe Champion.
Representative Champion’s committee assignments include, Civil Justice; Finance; Transportation and Transit Policy and Oversight Division; Transportation Finance and Policy Division (Vice Chair) – with the ability to put fourth legislation to change the law, Rep. Champion has not acted accordingly, instead preferring to hold “circus style” town hall meetings with Congressman Keith Ellison.
Ellison and Champion have delivered neither jobs nor economic development to the Black community they claim to represent. Ironically, however, their “celebrity” status remains very high.
Allegations of Fraud: Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights, who’s running the shop?
In a letter sent to Vincent Brown Trucking from the Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights (MDCR) compliance officer Leslie Woyee stating that his company has been ‘listed’ as participating in the contract “2009 Construction of Sidewalks –District 2 & 3 Project” with a request for an activity report, Mr. Brown is at odds with what’s going on.
The general contractor is Concrete Idea, Inc. – phone calls of inquiry have not been returned to IBNN.
Mr. Brown tells IBNN that he has no contract with the City of Minneapolis for the above mentioned project and doesn’t understand why he’s getting this letter. Brown goes on to say, “I am certified as a minority-owned business. The City of Minneapolis has not given me any information about my “supposed inclusion” on this contract. Somethings wrong.”
IBNN contacted to Ms. Woyee at the MDCR to inform her about the letter and the possible mistake, she told IBNN, “Could you please return the letter to me?”
After further investigation, the MDCR should have never sent this letter to Mr. Brown, nor it been produced by Ms. Woyee. A source outside of the MDCR who wishes to remain unidentified, told IBNN that this particular contract needs to be looked at for possible and alleged fraud issues by the contractor and the MDCR compliance unit management.
Below is the letter sent to Mr. Brown:
If this letter is one of many that go out from the MDCR to vendors working on city contracts. the question we have is, “Why the Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights doesn’t have procedures in place to catch mistakes like this – if it is a mistake…or done to cover up some other misguided funds.”
On the other hand, a full investigation must be sought to find out why Vincent Brown Trucking was sent this letter – but also to backtrack the dollars paid-out to find who is responsible for listing this non-participating vendor on a city contract.
More to come…
“History” – Minneapolis Branch NAACP…Follow the Money – If you can, “NAACP branch ‘misplaced’ $86,000 in 2001-2002”
The overwhelming response to the previous article about the NAACP – and the emails sent to IBNN about more data on when the Minneapolis branch of the NAACP started to crumble, IBNN did some digging that we’d like to share with you.
After several interviews with sources and former board members of the Minneapolis NAACP that allege sexual misconduct, excessive limousine use and other events not in accordance with the NAACP’s mission, IBNN attests that this “can of worms” needs to be re-opened.
IBNN has obtained emails sent to the national NAACP and point persons to “try” and get some attention focused on what was going on at Minneapolis NAACP.
Minneapolis NAACP goes broke…
Subj: Ron Edwards: NAACP branch “misplaced” $86,266 in 2001-2002
Date: 3/22/2005 9:35:34 AM Central Standard Time
From: (Withheld by IBNN)
On the Sunday, March 20, 2005 edition of “Black Focus,” (a cable show hosted by Ron Edwards), Ron Edwards again called attention to $86,266 in investment funds which [Minneapolis NAACP] branch officers say were misplaced in 2001-2002 [Edwards also voiced rumors that in 2001-2002 about $86,000 in Minneapolis NAACP branch funds were loaned to someone for investment in grocery stores]. Read more
North Minneapolis Politics: Part 3: What is the Strategic Plan for the Empowerment Zone? Where has it “worked” in North Minneapolis?
On 2005 12/01/2005 the Minneapolis Empowerment Zone (EZ) announced the release of a $1 million Request for Proposals (RFP) for the purpose of spurring private investment in North Minneapolis. “The idea is to encourage businesses and organizations to locate on or expand in the Northside for job creation and increase economic development,” said Jonathan Palmer, former head of Minneapolis EZ (circa 2005).
In a phone call today (7/16/09) to Maria Conley, EZ Project Coordinator, who says the EZ has “no money,” it makes you wonder what really happened to millions of dollars meant to build, brand, and grow a blighted community. One of 14 areas zoned by the Federal Government as an Empowerment Zone, meant to uplift and build blighted areas like north Minneapolis. (City of Minneapolis Empowerment Zone Areas)-(Link: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/ez/docs/ez-map.PDF)
When viewing the list of recipients, payments and status as of 2009, (which you can view “everything” here: http://ibnn.org/ez – Excell Workbook) it would seem that the EZ missed its mark as it pertains to the mission of assisting groups challenged by racial disparity and poverty, while race and class paid a huge part on who actually received the dollars from the Empowerment Zone.
Take a visit to the City of Minneapolis website visit the section titled The Minneapolis Empowerment Zone at (http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/ez/govboard.asp), when you arrive at the page, click on the link for “Strategic Plan.”
There is no “Strategic Plan” – file not found.
Could this be another example of the City of Minneapolis flying by the seat of its pants and failing Minneapolis along with other catastrophic failures like the Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights?
Minneapolis is long overdue for a “better breed” of politicians, representatives and even self-appointed leaders who will address the issues, not covertly throwing “hams” to people that don’t live in north Minneapolis or don’t look like us.
North Minneapolis residents (Black and White) must be “frosty” and pay attention to the plans of City Hall for our community. Still as we move forward, no “official” statement from the 5th CD Congressman, who could flex his perceived political power and address many items.
Secondly, we have to address agencies that are “business focused” like the West Broadway Business Area Coalition, whom for the most part is carrying water for the Peace Foundation and a couple of local politicians. It is IBNN’s position that this non-profit be dissolved or re-structured to be an effective entity for Businesses in north Minneapolis.
When we read the description on what the EZ does, it comes to question who in the area challenged by racial disparity and poverty are they talking about? North Minneapolis or NoMi has not changed much, despite the Billions of dollars over the last 10 years pumped in for programs, roads, buildings and to build capacity for residents that are $12,000 under the median income of the City of Minneapolis as a whole.
The website goes on to say, “The majority of Minneapolis’ minority population resides within the EZ, and close to one-third of all EZ households are on public assistance. The extreme poverty of EZ residents coupled with racial discrimination directly affects the health of EZ children and their families.
The Minneapolis Empowerment Zone or EZ, has for the most part completed projects like the Midtown YWCA which according to them, located at 21st Avenue and East Lake Street, the facility lies in the heart of this underserved community and gives residents a chance to improve their health more conveniently than ever.
The Empowerment Zone and rumors of multi-forgiveness’s makes us wonder, what is the plan; who is part of the plan and looking at North Minneapolis: “Where are the deliverables to the community?”
African American Leadership Meetings assume power and representation where there is none. More important: Who speaks or represents the Twin Cities Black community in 2009?
“They’d like to say, ‘Well, you know, that’s just a handful of niggers out there. Just a handful of them. And they don’t represent nobody. They ain’t doin’ nothing,’ says Staten. “Well, that’s just the most insane thing in the world.”
…Rev. Randy Staten – serves as the head of the Coalition of Black Churches and serves as an official spokesman for the African American Leadership Summit. Comments from a 2003 interview with MPR’s Brandt Williams. See it here.
With the recent “waffling” of the Council on Black Minnesotans as it pertains to addressing issues in the Black community (including Somali’s in Rochester; Stimulus dollars; Economic Development; Health Care issues; and Civil Rights) within the last 90 days and the attempt by the Minneapolis Urban League to present propaganda to accomplish relevancy in the form of articles which appear in weekly issues of Insight News, who continues to give “photo ops” to people that don’t represent the African American community in Minneapolis, but continues a grand public relations coup without being fair and balanced to sway and skew the community, one thing going unnoticed by the group is that people are catching on quickly to what is going on. What you think you have…you don’t; most African Americans in the Twin Cities now look elsewhere for news and information, including IBNN. Read more
Stairstep Foundation Part 3: Where has the money gone for Programming in 2007, 2008 and 2009?
Editors note: Just for fun “Google” the Stairstep Foundation and see what comes up.
“Based on factual information taken from the Stairstep Foundations 2007 IRS 990’s, IBNN attests that “No programming” in accordance to ‘line item’ listings happened in 2007. Furthermore we give the foundation the opportunity to respond and show the community on a National platform that funds were spent, lives were changed and that the listings on the 2007 IRS 990’s for the Stairstep Foundation are true and correct beyond a reasonable doubt.”
In reviewing the most recent and available (2007) IRS 990’s for the Minneapolis’ Stairstep Foundation, Part II: Statement of Functional Expenses and Part III: Statement of Programming Service Accomplishments, IBNN has questions as it pertains to line item expenditures and also programming dollars for the calendar year 2007.
The reason for concern is that in 2007 Minneapolis had a significant rise in Gang activity and Gang related deaths within the Black, Hispanic, Asian and Somali communities and we were wondering what programs affected the reduction or engagement with local Gang leaders. Read more
Ode to the Community “Spokespersons” – Hello. How are you? Won’t you tell us your “Game?”
True community leaders and spokespersons, Councilman Don Samuels and MADDADS VJ Smith hold vigil (on Sunday, January 18, 2008 in front of the abandoned house) for 15 year old Annshalike Hamilton who was seven months pregnant and found dead in a garage on the 22nd block of 4th Street North. No sign of the community “spokespersons” that cried foul at the Jordan Area Community Council press conference on Saturday.
Definition: Leadership: The ability to guide, direct, or influence people
Attention Community Leader(s), Spokespersons,“Frankenstein’s” and poverty pimps;
I don’t know if you’ve noticed that north Minneapolis especially the “City of Minneapolis – N ½ of Section 16-29-24” is suffering from the lack of leadership. Because we have no one to guide, direct or influence people, our community has fallen into a state of moral and economic demise. Members of our community are being killed and no one seems concerned; our homes are going into foreclosure and nothing impactful is being done to save the homes; our neighbors are moving to the suburbs, leaving our communities abandoned, and no one has taken a stand.
As I participated in the vigil for Annshalike Hamilton, the pregnant 15-year-old who was found in an abandoned garage, I realized no one has stood up to question the death of this teen. If she were a young white girl, our city would be up in arms. Then I realized, no one has taken a stand to question the death of Quincy Smith, the young man who was tasered to death by Minneapolis police.
These are two significant events that have gone without an official word from the leaders or “spokespersons” of our community. This silence that seems to have infiltrated our community, has also affected the leaders of community organizations such as Northway Community Trust, Stairstep Foundation, Minneapolis Urban League, NorthPoint and many other organizations inside and outside north Minneapolis purporting to represent the North side. Many have written in the mission statements the words “to help or assist the community” – we know that is not the case.
This is not an attack, but a request for information on how such “spokespersons” have come to be called leaders in the community and yet have not stood up to decry the killings and the economic demise occurring in north Minneapolis.
In the National Black MBA Association-Twin City Chapter 2008 catalog for their Annual Scholarship Gala, held on August 1, 2008 – on page 22 the quote from Isaiah Reese at the top of the page says, “Our stance as a people should be to serve as one common denominator for all not as a separate unit.” For years some of the organizations “spokespersons” have been working as a separate unit not addressing the facts, concerns and issues of north Minneapolis, and discounting African-Americans. The local community organizations are in need of your unique expertise.
Many of the esteemed, distinguished organizations community members turn to you for leaders. But, where are your leaders? How can you lead a fledgling community when you have no history with the community? I must admit that I have not seen any of the people in gala brochure (for the NBMBA-TC) at any meeting or community gathering or making a public statement when an injustice happens to African-Americans in Minneapolis. I have never seen the President or the VP of the Twin Cities Chapter of the National Black MBA Association or the local chair and vice chair for the Urban Financial Services Coalition (based out of Wells Fargo) condemn the killings in the community cry foul the current economic state of north Minneapolis. In fact, in the past two years, I haven’t seen a single Black leader taking a stand against what’s going on in our community. But, our so called “spokespersons” will attend a party or the General Mills MLK Breakfast. I question the ethics behind the process of choosing a leader or “spokesperson”; I challenge theses spokespersons definition of Leader. Before you “flinch” remember I have some history with this subject matter.
I understand that Black people in the Twin Cities get comfortable being comfortable and maybe don’t think they need to address the issues and concerns regarding “those Black folks in north Minneapolis.” But soon, sooner than you think, the issues will directly affect you, your organization and your past actions, or inaction’s. Your inaction will hasten the continued redirection of funding streams, which should be directed toward north Minneapolis – to predominantly White organizations that should have no business conducting outreach in the underserved communities of north Minneapolis.
There is a reason for your inaction. Collaborating with point people and organizations in north Minneapolis could affect your status. With the corruption and lack of deliverables, your organizations could become “transparent” and fall into the same categories we have been speaking about. The “flip side” is that you could be helping the community and don’t want to tell anyone…if that’s the case, God bless you.
I would like to share an applicable piece from W.E.B. DuBois – “The Talented Tenth, from The Negro Problem: A Series of Articles by Representative Negroes of To-day” (New York, 1903), he wrote, “The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races. Now the training of men is a difficult and intricate task. Its technique is a matter for educational experts, but its object is for the vision of seers. If we make money the object of man-training, we shall develop money-makers but not necessarily men; if we make technical skill the object of education, we may possess artisans but not, in nature, men. Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools—intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it—this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life. On this foundation we may build bread winning, skill of hand and quickness of brain, with never a fear lest the child and man mistake the means of living for the object of life. . . .
In closing, if the north Minneapolis “Spokespersons” are truly a network of business professionals with a commitment to education, career development and promoting the economic wealth of the African-American community, where does the word and the work involving “community” fit in?
“Lift Every Voice and Sing…Where is the Outcry from our self-appointed African-American leaders?”
Part 4 in a 4-part series titled, “$103,770.00 – Without a Trace”
HEADLINES: A 15-year-old pregnant girl is found dead in north Minneapolis garage; Brooklyn Park Police beat man while children and fiancée lay in the snow… in their underwear; Minneapolis Urban League Fails Community; NorthPoint and the University of Minnesota (Let the “U” take it over, at least we’d have an “end game.”)
"Let the U of M take over NorthPoint, then you won't have to stand guard!"
As the toll on human life mounts in north Minneapolis, I am shocked that no action or verbal commentary has been offered by our “self-appointed” African-American leaders. The only time these leaders respond is when money is involved. These self-appointed leaders are poverty pimps, in my opinion. The dictionary defines “poverty pimp” as any self-appointed leader, usually of a racial or ethnic heritage, who extols the perpetual poorness of his/her ethnicity, yet is quite financially well-off as a result of his/her efforts. Such a “poverty pimp” is usually a reverend of a well-known church, a non-profit organization leader, or a man who sells out the community to the White man and then is seen standing before the TV cameras. Poverty pimps are also people who rely on the White man’s guilt to gain credibility, money and influence, and are usually racists themselves. But beware, poverty pimps are the same people who always show up for development projects in north Minneapolis – you’ve heard the names, they’re at the “table” now (2009).
This apathy, this indifference to the concerns of our community is a serious problem that is rampant on the North side. For example, a pregnant 15-year-old girl was found dead in an abandoned north Minneapolis garage, and no one has expressed outrage or concern. No one in the community has uttered a word about her death. The only communication about her death has been the reports that appeared on the teenager’s high school website, TV and in a suburban newspaper, The Lake Minnetonka Liberty.
The suburban paper featured the story: “Turns out the body found in the garage of some boarded-up property in North Minneapolis earlier this month was that of a pregnant 15-year-old girl who police now say was murdered. The girl has been identified as Annshalike Hamilton of Minneapolis. The property owner found her body inside the garage at 22-22 North Fourth Street on December 15th. The medical examiner says both Hamilton, and the fetus she was carrying, died as a result of blunt force injuries. Police are treating the case as a double-homicide”.
This story was also reported on AM radio WCCO 830. But so far, the long-time north Minneapolis newspaper, Insight News, has not reported or commented on the teen’s death.
On Saturday, January 10, 2009 young Ms. Annshalike Hamilton was laid to rest at funeral services held at St. Philips church in north Minneapolis. (Our condolences go out to her family and her fellow Patrick Henry High School students).
Isn’t it time the community to come together and express our outrage about the toll these heinous crimes and misdeeds take on human lives? Isn’t this teen’s death newsworthy information the community should be informed about?
If Insight News is the “go-to” paper for the African-American community, why has the African-American community been so ill-informed about this teen’s death and other important issues? Instead of telling the story of this teen’s life and unfortunate death, Insight News chose to re-publish a story about the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s (MNDoT) failure to sufficiently hire women and minority contractors. Was it really timely and newsworthy to re-publish this story about MNDot’s hiring practices, which was featured in mainstream media, including Minnesota Public Radio’s (MPR) website? In my opinion, there is never a slow news day in north Minneapolis. Therefore, I question whether news is really the focus of the Insight News “paper.”
No assistance from the Minneapolis Urban League…again!
At 6:30 a.m. on Friday, December 19, 2008, Brooklyn Park police knocked on the door at 6300 82nd Place. As the residents inside the home slept, the police broke a patio-door window and the front door to gain access into the home of Victor Took and his fiancée Courtney Totten and their six children. The children and Took’s fiancée where ordered outside the home and were forced to lay in the snow for nearly 20 minutes with no shoes, shirts or socks while the police beat Took and ransacked his home. After beating Took and destroying his home, the Brooklyn Park police learned that this was a miss-directed tip. The couple’s two-week-old baby was later rushed to the hospital suffering from a respiratory infection. Took’s fiancée telephoned the Minneapolis Urban League to talk to someone about the traumatic event and its affect on her children, and to possibly file charges against the police officers for human rights violations. Ms. Totten said regarding her phone call to the Minneapolis Urban League: “When I call them, they just take your number and never call back. What’s the problem?”
NorthPoint and the University of Minnesota:
A savvy business strategy for the University of Minnesota in 2009 would be to implement a takeover of NorthPoint Health and Wellness Centers (The City of Minneapolis and Hennepin County might go for this). The U, which initially proposed $60 million to partner with NorthPoint to develop a new facility, could give the City of Minneapolis/Hennepin County $10 million for the sale of NorthPoint, which would help ease the City’s deficit. The remaining $50 million could be used to develop the proposed new, innovative center offering resources and access to jobs – a facility never before imagined in north Minneapolis. (Personally, I would love to have a Dairy Queen or Jamba Juice on the North side!)
These are just a few of the examples of how people, organizations and systems have failed north Minneapolis and the African-American community. If our self-appointed African-American leaders continue to be apathetic regarding issues of dire importance to our community, then how will we as a community become socially and economically self-sufficient? In some respects, we residents must blame ourselves for our failure as a community. If we continue to appoint the same people to sit at the table and then demand nothing of them regarding access to jobs, the reinvestment and redevelopment of our community, and improved health care, then we are just as culpable, maybe more culpable than those we appoint to the table. In essence, we’re getting back exactly what we expect of ourselves and our community – nothing!
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In 2008, the Minneapolis Urban League, Northway Community Trust, the Stairstep Foundation, Jordan Area Community Council, and the African American Men Project did not step up to the plate to address issues or to coordinate efforts to add value for the life’s of the north Minneapolis residents. We need new people with fresh ideas that believe in action. As of January 2009, we don’t own any Banks, Hotels, Airlines or Car Dealerships.
Do the Minneapolis Urban League and other agencies have a contingency plan for 2009?
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