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
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
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