Saturday, August 24, 2019
Elect Devin Pickens
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
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
If Dollar General 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
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Pain
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Black Folks
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Friday, July 19, 2019
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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