Building Bridges to Our Future
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November 9, 2008
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Michelle Roberts, Publisher
Not Ur Mommas News
The Vote Heard Around the World
by Michelle Roberts, Publisher
No, I am not about to launch into a full-page article about President elect Barack Obama. Yes, I am proud as an African American to see, in my lifetime, another African American in the White House.
The face of change that I speak of is the one that is taking place all across America. The change that we see is the one in our own circumstances. That change may be good or bad, depending on what has happened in your life recently. My focus today is on what you, not Barack, plan to do and how you, not Barack, intend to improve your current situation.
All About Wellness
by
Belinda Anderson, Health & Wellness Writer
Moving On
The election of 2008 increased anxiety for many who already had been dealing with issues like unemployment, a fragile economy and just a sense of uncertainty in the future.
According to Richard Chaifetz, CEO of ComPsych, the largest employee assistance mental health provider, for the six months prior to Election Day there has been a 40% increase in counseling requests.
The Age of Aquarius
by
Neighborhood Computer Hero, Staff Writer
Last week the computer tip ended with John Lennon’s song “Imagine”, in that song John was envisioning a world not separated by religion, politics, race, gender or country boundaries. John released that song in the fall of 1971, it was a year full of turmoil and innovations, some believe it was the birth year of the digital age. Fast forward 37 years, some of the same turmoil that plagued the world then has not changed today. We see people hopelessly clinging to the old and we see even more people ushering in the new. Is this truly the dawning of “The Age of Aquarius”?
The winds of change is sweeping the nation and the world, we have just witnessed the election of the first person of color in the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama. We can sit back and watch the old guard stifle and try to kill this seedling that has broken through the soil of intolerance or we can knuckle down and till the soil, supply the nutrients the seedling requires, seek to change ourselves and work to bring about a new age of enlightenment, an Age of Aquarius; Imagine.
In my years as a computer geek I’ve used maybe all of the
has been under Mr. Bush’s or would be had we elected John McCain. The door is open; what has been so long deferred can no longer be denied; it can however go unclaimed.
Farther down the listing, change is defined as: (n) a transformation or modification; alteration. We’ve only just begun. While many are basking in the throes of impossible dreams realized this is still America. The inequities, atrocities, anger, mistrust and fear that have so long been the crux of our relationships at home and abroad did not blow away on winds singing yes we did, they did not acquiesce and join the Rodney King choir in a heartfelt rendition of, “Why Can’t We All Just Get Along.”
Two days after 52% of Americans voted for change ABC reported that gun sales have increased exponentially; storeowners are struggling to obtain stock. There appears to be a pervasive fear, particularly in the western US, that Barack will strip us of our right to protect our home and family. Are burglars the only fear haunting the primarily McCain voters now rushing the gun shops? Also on November 6th, Jim Quinn, co-host of The War Room with Quinn & Rose, said,
The Face of Change
by
Jessica Angelique, Staff Writer
Many came out to vote for the first time with emphasis on voting Democratic/Senator Obama. Many of us came out to vote for CHANGE, but change of what? Many came out to vote against the Republican Party. Many came out to vote for the Black Brother. Some came out to exercise their right, responsibility, obligation, and privilege to vote. Some even came out to prove something to themselves and even to prove something to others. Many came because the process and results “turned them on” and it turned out to be
Barack Hussein Obama is President-elect of the United States of America. Rejoicing overflows hearts and streets the world over. Change has come to America; it is a bright new day in a shiny new world.
Dictionary.com defines change first as: (v) to make the form, nature, content, future course, etc., of (something) different from what it is or from what it would be if left alone: There is no doubt we have achieved this change. America will most certainly be different under Mr. Obama’s leadership than it
Many on the Gulf Coast, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, waited for the Federal Government to improve their circumstances. They waited for money and aid, which is their absolute right, as a citizen of the United States. They waited and stood in line for help and badly needed
assistance. All around them lay grim reminders of death, and destruction and nothing was the same as it once was.
We Got More than We Bargained For
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Dr. James Alvin West, Staff Writer
