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Posts tagged with "Black Focus V"
Changing of the guard with the T-Wolves
May. 15 | Flip Saunders’ good calculations will replace David Kahn’s poor ones Because of my November 7, 2012 column (“The smartest White team in the NBA: T-Wolves team return to the 1950s?”), we took heat from those who took exception...
Update on MPD’s 2012 assault on Ames Elks Lodge — No contact with MPD for over a year
May. 8 | My May 2, 2012 headline was about the April 21, 2012 assault by the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) on the Ames Elks Lodge. What a shameful MPD disgrace. My subheading: “A 150-year-old Black Fraternal Organization was brutalized...
People’s Stadium in trouble! — Can the funding really be found?
May. 1 | How does “the People’s Stadium” stand at this hour? Answer: wobbly, as we see from the fierce and personal debates within the Minnesota legislature regarding how to pay for the “People’s Stadium.” Why the silence from the...
Legislature caught whistling in the dark — Financial problems for Viking stadium construction project
Apr. 17 | For years I have defined as ill-conceived any planning that mostly serves the planners and their agency/bosses and not those they plan for, that too often leave African Americans out of their equations, purposefully failing or refusing...
Congratulations, Tubby!
Apr. 10 | Texas Tech hires Tubby Smith while U of M keeps looking There is no mystery about the well-designed plan to oust six-year U of M Gopher men’s basketball Head Coach Tubby Smith. Well designed, but ill-advised and poorly executed,...
Thank you Tubby for an excellent run! — Tubby Smith: a man of principle and integrity
Apr. 3 | First things first: we join and support the observations made by our longtime friend Sid Hartman in his columns last week that “Firing Smith would be a big mistake for Gophers.” Once again, the University of Minnesota (1) showed...
White unions get $1 million to train workers of color to build stadiums? — It’s time for the B.S. to end
Mar. 21 | Which legacy for the Vikings Stadium? Only qualified White workers or qualified workers regardless of color? Employment apartheid or inclusiveness? Employment inclusiveness and fairness, or employment apartheid and unfairness? The 100...
Let the games begin: the selection of stadium construction manager — Fraser, Davis and Tomlin: quota guys in the NFL?
Jan. 30 | The push-Black-Americans-in-football-to-the-back-of-the-bus games have begun, raising “Blacks need not apply” signs not only for stadium construction jobs but also NFL team head-coaching jobs. This is not about quotas. It is about statistical...
Still waiting for the Equity Plan for the new Vikings’ and Minnesota’s People’s Stadium
Dec. 5 | Where is the long awaited/anticipated Equity Plan for the People’s Vikings Stadium, a plan to guarantee inclusiveness (all of “we the people”) in the development, construction and operation of the stadium? Inclusive means diversity (more...
