Posted by Duane On June - 21 - 20072 COMMENTS
More info you will not hear Castro sympathizers (especially the Black ones) mention. ===== (miamiherald.com) HAVANA -- Six-foot-two, brown skinned and with semi-curly hair, Denny walked confidently into a government warehouse for a recent job interview. Sitting across from the white manager, he rattled off his qualifications: high school diploma, courses in tourism, hard worker. They weren't good enough: He needed his white brother-in-law to vouch for him, Denny recalled. "Black people tend to ...More
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Posted by Duane On June - 21 - 2007ADD COMMENTS
Neil Brown (excerpted) I wonder why people often hold me to a greater level of responsibility in this walk, when we all have to walk? I wonder why people get disappointed in me when I don't live to certain expectations. After all, whose expectations am I supposed to meet— theirs or God's? And when I become disappointed in them, why do they act like they're, “Only human,” and that they're supposed to ...More
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Posted by Duane On June - 21 - 2007ADD COMMENTS
From Inc.com: What Is an Inner City Company? The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City defines inner cities as core urban areas with higher unemployment and poverty rates and lower median incomes than surrounding metropolitan statistical areas. Candidates for the 2007 Inner City 100 must: 1. Be independent, for-profit corporations, partnerships, or proprietorships 2. Be headquartered or have more than half of their physical operations in inner cities ...More
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Posted by Duane On June - 21 - 2007ADD COMMENTS
For many, these are the people that you see standing in front of the train station or street corner declaring their gospel message. However there is little known about this sect beyond that for most folks as Simona Kogan for israel21c.org reports: (www.israel21c.org) Deep in the heart of Israel's Negev desert, where you would expect to find mostly camels and sand, a community of expatriate black Americans has made a new ...More
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Posted by Duane On June - 21 - 2007ADD COMMENTS
(hattiesburgamerican.com) NEW ORLEANS – A former New Orleans school board president who ran as a corruption fighter pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking more than $100,000 in bribes to help an unidentified businessman win school contracts for his employer. Ellenese Brooks-Simms, 67, was charged Wednesday in a federal bill of information with conspiracy to commit bribery. She pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lance Africk. [...] “She fully acknowledges and regrets being involved in ...More
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