The Repetitive Exploitation of Black Minnesota: Here we go again…

November 24, 2009 · Filed Under "Spreading the Wealth?", Black Helath Care Disparities Rise, Black leaders in hiding, Black on Black Hype, Cunningham-Walker-Harris-Babington/Johnson, Fiscal Responsibility, Follow the Money, General Mills, General Mills with dirty hand in the community, Headwaters Foundation for Justice, Leadership Class 101 has been missed, North Minneapolis, North Minneapolis Ethics Committee, North Minneapolis Politics, Same People-Same Results, Stairstep Foundation, Where is the Minneapolis Urban League and NAACP? · 1 Comment 

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“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

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