Elect Devin Pickens

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The time has come for me to run for office. For our city to be such a diverse city, our city government doesn't reflect that. I have been an activist in my community, fighting for our minority  & poverty stricken citizens! If we dont stand up and have our voices heard, elect city officials that resemble us, understand our pain, suffering, & not afraid to fight for what our communities need, then our needs will not be addressed. I ask you for your support as I take this leap of faith. $5, $10, $2 or whatever you can give will be greatly appreciated. Nothing is too small & nothing is too big! I cant stand down any longer. Thank you for your support, thoughts, & prayers. 

Devin (D.P.) Pickens

If Dollar General only knew

If #DollarGeneral only knew.

I have submitted a few applications for employment, and never once received a call. I have many years in retail. My experience includes management, sales, and asset protection. I'm the kind of employee you would love to have. I have the knowledge, people skills, personality, and everything it takes to manage, work as an associate, and everything it takes to have an successful store. As a manager, I can stop the bleeding of associates or job turnover, the loss of revenue from poor customer service, and stores from being improperly stocked. I could make any one of your Muskegon/Whitehall Michigan stores more profitable. But for some reason my application is always overlooked. If they only knew what a excellent employee they would have in me.🤔🤔🤔

Sincerely,
Devin

Pain

Life is a journey beginning at birth! Sometimes that journey can last one minute or less, and sometimes it can last a hundred years, depending on what you believe in! It's all in Gods will. Some celieve life begins at conception, and some celieve life begins at birth. We all have different views on different things. But one thing I think we can all agree on is that, "Pain" is very much real! It can ce physical pain, or emotional pain! Either or, it is a difficult situation to deal with. Some people can go on with life day to day, concealing their pain, and live their life as if it (pain) doesn't affect their ability to perform their every day duties, only to explode into a midlife crisis

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It amazes me how blind people are to what's going on around us! Race bating, stripping us of our rights that many people have died for, how so many of our people are killed on a daily basis, and it's never talked about on the news, or outside of our neighborhoods! When our people are killed, its justified, or swept under a rug. They target our people with unjust laws! You say well Blacc people act crazy, or other dark colored races act crazy. Well if you put their people in poor neighborhoods, defund their schools taking away their education they'll get the same result. It's a movement in place against our people, and if you can't see it you don't want to see it. Call me crazy, and think I don't know what I'm talking about. Just start paying attention to the news, & politics, and the laws Republican politicians are trying to pass. Look at the hundred...s of young Blacc males and females are killed everyday. But their is never any real push against gun control laws until its their people. They dump illegal gun in our neighborhoods on a daily basis, and literally hundreds of our people are killed daily. But who cares we don't look at the real problem we just say we're ignorant and don't know how to act. Well quit taking from are education and our neighborhoods so we can be taught how to act. The majority don't have the money to ship their children to other school districts, so we adapt to the environment we're in. But you rarely see us snapping killing a room full of innocent people, or killing are whole family. One of the reLeat things I read today that triggered these thoughts is from one of the realist to touch the streets of Muskegon!!! "if some of you all lose y'all day job, we'll read about y'all killing you're family then yourself" and that's real. We have to have the resources to teach our people how to act, for them to know how to act. Until then we'll continue to ce a product of our environment. Not an excuse, I'm looking at the whole picture, and facing reality. Keep thinking we just don't know how to act, it's bigger than that!!!

Black Folks

Black folks! You actually think someone that don't look like you (JoeBiden, DonaldTrump) is going to do more for you & your community than someone that do like you (KamalaHarris, CoreyBooker)? They really have minorities discombobulated, confused, or pick a term you like!

They got y'all believing President Barack Obama didn't do nothing for you, when you didn't go back & vote to give him a Democratic #Senate so he could do something for you. No President can do much of anything outside of limited ExecutiveOrders. All minorities in #America, it's time to pull the blockers from your eyes, & understand what is happening in America!

America's President is constantly making #Racist remarks, directly targeting four minority women in #Congress. Telling them they need to "go back where they came from", and anyone that dont like it, or like how this racist administration is destroying our democracy, they can do the same! Then make it even more pathetic, the #Media is scared to call it what it is. #Racism. We all know that 5 white families own & control all the major news outlets. From your #Local newspaper, to national broadcasting outlets. So Journalists know what to say, and what not to say, in order to keep their job.

We all know that money outweighes truth, integrity, respect, morals, and the law. Until minorities stand up, and vote in every election, electing individuals that look like us, faced the hate we've faced, endured the racism, traumatization of being murdered by the ones we pay to serve and protect us... We will never be equal, we will never be safe, & we will never have #Wealth, and without money, a man has no #Power! Not even in his own home.

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Cruelty

Stop leaving your pets in the car with the windows up in this heat! That's cruelty to animals.

Racism

Racism - Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different #Race based on the belief that ones own race is superior.

#Racism has no place in #America! This is supposed to be the land of the free, home of the brave. No man/woman, Black, White, Hispanic, Chinese, or Canadian should have to face discrimination in a “Free Country” full of immigrants! Yet every day, human beings of color, have to face racism in some form, shape, or fashion. Either on the job, at the store, in traffic, or when we sit down, turn on the news & listen to how much the most powerful man in the world, America’s #President, dislikes me, & everyone that looks like me. Telling us all, if we don’t like how white men/women in the #Republican Party are running the country, then we need to go back where we came from. Go back to #Africa!!!

Living in the #UnitedStates as a “Black Man”, on land our ancestors were brought to, forced into slavery, bled on, raped on, families were separated on... We made it through being spit on, lynchings, dog attacks, mob attack’s, cross burnings, segregation, riots, we made it through hell, & back through hell again, to make it where we are now... Continued lynchings, our folks continue to be murdered in the streets by #PoliceOfficers with little to no consequences! The persistence of America’s racism is a huge problem. We are far away from Dr King’s vision of a land where each person would be judged by the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin.

Still in 2019, the hate is so thick you can cut it with a knife! With a Racist President encouraging hate, white supremacist groups on the rise, #Republican leaders embracing this racist president, protecting this racist president who has broken #Campaign finance laws, obstructed justice, & have been accused of #SexualAssault over 20 times! Republicans in both the House & Senate, with the exception of 4 Republicans, continue to Aid & abet this racist, rouge, authoritarian wanna be president #DonaldTrump as he continue to trample all over the #Constitution, encourage racism, & obstruct #Justice. America is still generations away from #Equality for all women & men, generations away from not being judged by the color of our skin. Sad part is that racism is taught.

All minorities should ask themselves why do white republican leaders, & white republicans running for #PublicOffice, want to suppress the #Minority (Your) #Vote? Why do they spend so much time & money on advertising false information? The answer is simple... If minorities vote, they know minorities won’t cast a vote for them because their policies are for the rich, & take away from the poor communities. They know this, so they feed false information to poor communities, turning them against those folks that are for them & helping them. It’s all fueled by Racism. Until all Black men/women, & all minorities come together & stand up to racism, it’ll NEVER END!!!

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