Rouge Affiliate Chapter
Open Letter to National Urban League President Mark Morial
The requirements:
The first Minneapolis Urban League, to be immediately put into operation Affiliate receivership.
A second open election to the Board of Directors.
A third choice for the Office of the MUL drawn from a pool of local candidates or the immediate appointment of Pamela Coxaum (Tucker) as president.
A fourth test the Social Wellness Cluster.
The fifth immediate re-adjustment of Cheryl Morgan Spenser as outreach liaison.
Dear Mr. Morial,
I'm sure you already have the Minneapolis Urban League attempt to establish a training program, such as in the Minnesota Public radio history, " MnDOT grant for minorities to get work. "The community were told that the model will be similar to a model in Milwaukee, WI are followed. Even today we have no published action plan, such as $ 150,000 in one Black people can give sympathy from Minneapolis to work.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) has found the "weak link" in the community and granted the Minneapolis Urban League 0.00015% from two billion dollars they have received in the last two years for roads, bridges and highways to get into the state of Minnesota.
The problem with the Minneapolis Urban League to accept $ 150,000 is created one of poor management and lack of vision and Business sense. A training program in the Twin Cities, in addition to the already established programs, would be a $ 4 million-dollar operation, including certified Be instructors, administrative staff and a curriculum that has been tried, tested, adapted and modified to meet the changing requirements for Highway Heavy, Green Construction and support needed to meet to compete in the market. This job is too big for the Minneapolis Urban League. Second, the amount of Grant money alone is not sufficient to meet the needs of a community, the unemployment ratio is meeting 3-1.
The Minneapolis Urban League may, in the Reality does not set people to create this mystical program, nor do they have the confidence of the community that it has neglected for far too long. The most important thing is that those of us that are on the inside to know is that the MUL will need resources, but it is very difficult to be cooperation with local authorities. As a good Example of this, for the first time in more than 40 years, the MUL not be a place where the community and their votes go in November. Sources have confirmed that no plans to set up polling stations in the agency in 2010.
The catastrophic breakdown of local Urban League chapter is in full swing. The Saint Paul Urban League offices are be shut down in fact. The people of Saint Paul to Mr. Herman Lessard, your affiliate director complained for some time – but even here they have received no response.
For the Minneapolis Urban League, "down-bow" and accept "token Negro-ship" Money is an embarrassment to Black Minnesota. It seems that every program "Created" by the National Urban League, leans heavily on an existing government program. The government has never succeeded in solving problems of black people. But neither the local or national Urban League chapters have done their homework and asked experts to help local, develop and implement innovative, effective fund re-capture program.
Mr. Morial, you're a businessman, politician, attorney for Black economy and a strong leader for civil rights. They understand the process of implementing a plan together and implement this plan for success. This is evident by reading your own story, "Urban League: Race equality gap remains. "What we have is a situation of benign neglect on the part of organizations that we are instructed to ensure that the poor, homeless and suffering can live to see another day. During the National Urban League employees stay in the best hotels, eat the best food to play with the best of the "players", the black people in the United States suffer a fate, in some cases worse than death – ". task of their speakers"
Why the Minneapolis Urban League is capable of "rouge" to accept and run such a small grant for a task to more than $ 5,000,000 need-plus dollars a year with the technical and pedagogical support would? "If one example for a" pimping to win " against MnDOT, I here you have to say, there has been no Pimps since 1974. "[That's your point? The money received is too little the job at hand? This is by far not clear. You need to create up to this point on the top]
In 2009, our Black President, Barack Obama, that the Minnesota Department of Transportation received more than $ 600 million dollars on the streets in major U.S. state of Minnesota to work. Black and other ethnic minority entrepreneurs with less than $ 500K that money. The Minnesota Department of Transportation is a governmental agency which has more than 15 years of documented history of discrimination against black contractors, despite federal law Regulations to tell them, 'Make it happen with all necessary means. "But the Minneapolis Urban League remains silent.
The MnDOT has published several Requests for Proposals (RFP) is to win on the issue of creating a better "widget" address minority ethnic entrepreneurs as DBE's.
The Minneapolis Urban League silent.
On a related issue, there are more than 30 murders of black youth in Minneapolis, this year. The best idea of the Minneapolis Urban League may cause a "sleep in" is for the youth. You and I both know that people committing the murders are not to participate in the search a "sleeping in."
Recently, the MUL and the Family Day Celebration event, which took place, canceled for more than two decades in the Twin Cities. What are the people appointed to run the MUL to do really?
The Minneapolis Urban League continues to remain silent about what is their plan, constitute a departure from its mission statement and bylaws.
People in Minneapolis, not only I will be out with the lack of critical thinking and positive action from the Minneapolis Urban League.
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Best in Success,
Donald WR Allen, II, Editor in Chief
The Independent Business News Network
U.S. Black Radical
About the Author
Donald is the Editor in Chief of the Independent Business News Network and USA Radical Black.com.
