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The Importance Of Having A Vision
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sional, corporate or organi- zational vision is that your vision is a source of disci- pline to guide you to your destiny. In life you will find that there are many issues that need to be resolved; is- sues in your extended family, community, church, local, state or national govern- ment.
Although these issues exist, it is imperative to your success that you understand that you can’t solve them all. You can’t be everything to everyone. However you can be something to someone that has need of what you have to offer. Your vision,
when adhered to, will help you say no to everything and everyone else.
In other words, if it does- n’t fit with your vision, you must quit it. Otherwise it be- comes a distraction that could be fatal. The Bible says that it is your vision that helps you to exercise re- straint. Your vision will assist you in setting priorities and staying centered on your plans.
The importance of your vision is to keep you focused and on track to meeting the needs of those, whom you have been called to serve and provide a service or product to. If you are going to be ef- fective in pursuing your dreams and actually obtain-
ing them, then allow your vi- sion to be the driving force that directs your decisions and actions.
Your vision is what will empower you to make the life that you live count so that you move beyond the status quo. This year let your vision be a source of hope that en- ables you to see farther than your eyes can look.
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When The Poison Infects Our Children
ord, no . . . please don’t let them be Black!” “Lord, no . .
. please don’t let it be our children!” A while ago, that’s what many of us used to say while reading a paper or watch- ing the news and seeing or hearing a news reporter announce another horrendous death. “Lord, no . . . please don’t let it be one of ours either who got killed or did the killing!”
But here lately, our luck has run out. It started when a mixed-up, crossed-up, soft-spoken, blonde-haired white boy who reminded many of the Beatles’ Paul McCartney . . . then introduced himself as Dylann Roof and quietly explained, “There’s nothing wrong with me psychologically” as to why he killed 9 Black Christians at Bible-study.
He reminded some of us of another soft-spoken white boy who – like Roof – wanted to start a race war, which is why Charles Manson and his Family murdered some of Holly- wood’s finest. “Lord, no . . . please don’t let them be Black.” And the Lord heard our cry and granted us our wish. . . but not this time.
This time when we uttered “Lord no, please don’t let them be Black,” Jehovah simply smiled, His will to be done. Thus, another “Family” in the dark streets of Chicago chose a men- tally challenged young man, tortured him unmercifully, and as they beat, kicked and scalped him screamed on their smartphones for the world to see and hear, “F --, Donald Trump! F—all white people!”
“Lord, no . . . don’t let them be Black,” we prayed. But the Lord wasn’t listening, or maybe, He was listening, but just got tired of the same old question. So, four Black teenagers beat almost to death a white mentally disadvantaged teenager, and people all over the world got to see how hellish we could be.
And we cried, “Lord, no . . . please don’t let it have hap- pened in the United States of America!” But too late! The poi- son had already infected our children’s souls.
Racism And Hatred Have No Place On Our Nation’s School Boards
BY MARC H. MORIAL President and CEO National Urban League
he national wave of
racist, vicious invective unleashed by the 2016 Presi- dential campaign is well-doc- umented. Hundreds of hate crimes have been reported to watchdog groups like the Southern Poverty Law Cen- ter. Social media is awash in cell-phone video of racially- motivated confrontations in- voking the name of the President-elect. But the recent hateful tirade of failed New York guberna- torial candidate Carl Pal- adino stands out among the others. Warning: his words are difficult to read.
When the Buffalo weekly newspaper Artvoice asked locals their hopes for 2017, many gave positive, commu- nity-minded answers: “A re- turn to shopping in communities and brick-and- mortar stores,” “the Bills get in the playoffs,” or “more kindness.”
Carl President “Obama catches mad cow disease after being caught having re- lations with a Hereford. He dies before his trial and is buried in a cow pasture next to Valerie Jarret, who died weeks prior, after being con- victed of sedition and trea- son, when a Jihady cell mate mistook her for being a nice person and decapitated her.”
Paladino is certainly no stranger to this brand of so- called “humor.” During his failed 2010 gubernatorial run, a local news site exposed racist and pornographic emails Paladino had shared with associates. While he lost the election in a land- slide, garnering only a third of the vote, he managed to be elected to the Buffalo School Board in 2013.
The Buffalo School Board is to be commended for its swift rejection of Paladino’s hateful statements, and its recognition that a man who holds such views cannot be entrusted with the education of children. If Paladino does not heed the demands of the Board and resign, we expect NYS Education Com- missioner MaryEllen Elia to pursue his removal.
The President and CEO of our affiliate in Buffalo, Brenda W. McDuffie, has been outspoken on this issue, and we urge the entire Urban League community to unite in opposition to Paladino’s hatefulness by signing the petition urging his removal.
In fairness, when ArtVoice asked Investigative Post editor Jim Heaney what he’d like to see go away in 2017, Heaney responded, “Carl Paladino.” We couldn’t agree more.
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What do Buffalonians want to see go away in 2017? “Hate.” “Discrimination.” “Preconceived stereo- types.” Carl Palidino wants to see Michelle Obama “return to being a male and let loose in the out- back of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.”
In response to the horri- fied national outcry over his reprehensible remarks, Pal- adino first rebuffed inquir- ing journalists with an obscenity, then penned a de- fiant non-apology, defending his words as “deprecating humor.”
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Throwing Rocks Or Bombs?
atching three United States spy-chiefs (National In-
telligence Director James Clapper, Adm. Michael Rogers, Director of the National Security Agency, and Marcel J. Lettre, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence) publicly testify before the Congressional Senate Armed Services Com- mittee hearing on the alleged Russian cyber hacking in 2008, 2012, 2016 and publishing of thousands of emails last year, we were concerned by a comment made by one of the com- mittee senators.
Accusing President Barack Obama of “throwing pebbles” at the Russians’ “house of glass” (meaning not responding harshly enough to cyber-attacks by either Russia, China, North Korea or possible suspects), one GOP senator said, “We will be throwing rocks after January 20th.”
But since the GOP has consistently found fault with prac- tically everything President Obama has done for the past eight years, we frankly were not surprised.
However, we wish the Senator would kindly clarify what he meant by “throwing rocks.” True to form, Republicans have consistently flexed rented muscles, borrowed testos- terone rushes, and started wars and conflicts more regularly than Castor Oil or Democrats (94 to 106).
So, did the Senator consider rocks to be A-bombs? After all, President Obama’s “pebbles” were sending 35 Russian
diplomats back to Siberia and levying sanctions against Russian leaders and corporations be- lieved to have had their hands in the cyber warfare cookie jar. That means “WAR” (cyber war without bullets)!
Not good enough? Obviously not. Thus far, no blood has been spilled. So, we will wait to see what real rocks (or rock-ets) will be lobbed after January 20th.
After all, we’re not talking about a school yard brawl; we’re talking about throwing the lives of our sons and daughters like bricks in order to satisfy old men who eat poached eggs and live in glass houses. (But here’s a newsbreak: Not this time!).
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