The book The Sum of Us is a book that gives examples of racism being harmful to everyone, including white people. It helps dispel the false idea of the zero-sum paradigm that one person or group has to suffer for another to succeed. We will talk about the book's content and what we can do collectively and individually to help reverse the conditions in communities and institutions. Examples of false logic within the book help facilitate this robust discussion. We hope this will engender racial healing.
We ask that participants read the book and register with OPL and MOREomaha.org, a co-sponsor, or call our registration number 402-212-7083. We will offer light refreshments and opportunities for engagement. Amy and A'Jamal will provide an overview of the book's highlights from their perspective and then provide participants with ample time to discuss their reactions to the book and ideas shared during the session. Our goal is to build social capital around the themes of The Sum of Us. This book is available at the public library and the other book supply sources.
If participants have need for interpretation, and accessibility requests, or sign language let us know. We will be serving light refreshments.
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Date January 28th
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The Asian Experience and Racism in Omaha
Jennifer Dang talks about her experience of going to high school in Omaha, where racism is high and the mean spirited students used to call her names. Ms. Dang did not have a safe space or someone in the racist school system because it was an unsafe place. She also spoke about the need to learn about Asian culture and their contributions to this country.
Recent Murders in Omaha by the Omaha Police Department: Real Community Engagement and Dialogue.
Anthony Rogers-Wright talked with a host of community folks about the racism and elitism of the dysfunctional Omaha Police Department's inability to engage the communities of Color on their needs. The Omaha Police Department practices racism and apartheid behaviors and has been found guilty of sexual harassment. Omaha's lack of credible leaders fighting the oppressors is embedded in many publicly funded institutions. The incompetent DEI folks are afraid to speak, and many of them are not pushing back at police misconduct in our communities. Anthony provided solutions to address this segregated community's political and social gaps.
Herzon Maina Warui talks about the challenges of corruption, education, and issues in Kenya.
This interview provides an overview from an Indigenous Kenya about his country. We explore the current political and social administrations. Herzon tells the viewer what to expect when visiting Kenya and from the eyes or experiences of Grasstop residents of the country. We discuss African culture and how one captures the critical points of visiting the continent for those who enjoy other cultures.
The Learning Community of Douglas/Sarpy County and issues of race and diversity education.
This is an interview in which Gerald M. Kuhn discusses aspirations and issues for improving the Learning Community. The moderator asked questions most parents and community taxpayers would like to know about the services and outreach to communities of Color and Grasstops, who are not always allowed to be at those tables of education.
Selalelo Discussion of Maternity Crisis Botswana
This is an Interview of two women who are part of the campaign and advocating for policy changes for better maternal service in government hospitals. We are seeking support to change the horrible conditions in fifty facilities and Botswana's health services. Health workers make the childbearing experience horrible in health centers when it should be a powerful opportunity to bring new life into society.
MORE Research & Policy Report, 2024
THE STATUS OF HISTORICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS OF COLOR AT OMAHA METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: INDICATORS OF RACIAL EQUITY
Primary Author: Patrick Velasquez, Ph,D Chair, MORE Data/Research Committee
Contact: moreinfo@moreomaha.org
Suzanne Dau experiences Omaha Public Schools' dysfunctional action with parents in the community.
Omaha Public Schools are in the middle of a meltdown because school administrators don't have effective outreach or community engagement staff in the current overpaid positions. This plantation's educational system must be transformed if it wants to offer quality education to students. This interview outlines steps to reverse the low graduation rates to make education worth parents' engagement. Many of the teachers and families are leaving the dysfunctional district because of the difficulty of the growth of ignorant, monocultural administrators, who are lost in a time warp, and they can't understand that times changing.
Issues and Challenges in Black Studies: Problems with Miseducation of the Negroes in Omaha NE!
Dr. Nikitah Imani talks about the challenges of being a Black Scholar in a system that is racist and wants to maintain the plantation. Too many so-called scholars are not involved in nation or community building and have used the master’s tools to construct their homes. This program offers hard-hitting facts about the buffer elites and sell-outs who make up the plantation communities in Nebraska.
Kamau N'Namdi talks about the Racist and Broken Criminal Justice system.
Kamau N'Namdi talk about the racism and classism in the criminal justice system that is the jury pool is flawed. He outlines how citizens are sentence in a cottage industry that make money off the back of People of Color, namely African Americans and Latinos. There are low income whites who are also caught up in this maze of injustice because the criminal justice system criminal. If we are the change this corrupt racist system we must abolish it or defund it because too many white racist judges, and county attorneys and public predenders are making bank or Benjamins off the backs of the oppressed. This occurring in many cities, states, counties, and the federal system with the corrupt and evil FBI system. They are learning a great deal from the evil CIA who have blood on their hands.
Omaha Plantation Housing Authority and its Bed Bugs problems in the towers.
Hasani Lee shares the ongoing fight to get the incompetent staff to respond to the beg bug in the units. Mr. Lee outlines the lack of support from the racist and apartheid legal system in Nebraska. No ACLU, Legal Aid of Nebraska, or other so-called nonprofit organizations are working on these simple issues. Mr. Lee makes a call to arms to fight the superbugs that will not leave the seniors alone in the slum housing regime in Omaha. Also, the Queen Mayor and the dysfunctional HUD are sleeping at the wheel because they really don't care about the residents or our community.
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Racism and Racial Disparities with the Juvenile Justice Regime in Douglas County Nebraska.
Eliga Ali deconstructs the racism and apartheid nature of the system to continue to enslave African American males and families with their oppressive system that relegates African Americans to a cottage industry as the juvenile justice system in Douglas County, Nebraska. Many of these racists support the long-term confinement of African American males because they are intent on destroying the African American community. Eliga outlines steps we must take to get out of their bankruptcy system. The school-to-prison pipeline is working well in the apartheid school district of the Omaha Plantation Schools. The graduation rates are decreasing, and the white supremacy administration doesn't have a clue because they fail to engage the community members who have escaped from that oppressed pacification system.
Program Voter Education in and Engagement for the Community ft Y'shall Davis
Y’Shall Davis talks about the importance of getting grassroots families and individuals to participate in the voter system. Y’Shall provide an overview of her work, the issues of reentry of returning citizens from prison to the community, and why it is important to restore their rights despite the reactionary personality that wants to disfranchise them for life. She also talks about her younger years of dealing with hip-hop and rap music with some old-school music.
Dr. Donna Polk talks about Native and African American challenges we face in crazy time of 2024
Dr. Donna Polk is interviewed about problems we are dealing with racism, and Native and African American issues. We must confront the health care issues that Douglas County is ignoring and others who are not helping to review the negative conditions in the respective community. Prevention is key according to the issues for People. of Color. A'Jamal facilitated the questions and comments from the participants to make the is a robust discussion.
William King African Americans in Radio and Media in Omaha Nebraska
Bro King talks about the challenges he faces dealing with the community, the inability of folks to focus on dealing with racism, and the lack of financial support for media in the African American community. William King Jr. also responded to questions about policy brutality by the racist Omaha Police Department and the bystander role of the traditional Uncle Tom organizations that have historically not busted a grape for the masses.
African American Legal Issues & Anti-racism in Nebraska ft. Attorney Potso Mahlangeni
This program is about racism in the legal community in Nebraska and the failure of the law schools to educate African Americans to use the legal system to their advantage. Since there are so few practicing African American lawyers in Nebraska. Participants asked questions during the session. We also cover the problem of the various institutions that do not provide justice to African Americans in this apartheid city and state, such as Nebraska ACLU, Legal Aid of Nebraska, and the so-called advocacy organization that does not file cases on behalf of the African American community. Many do not have board members of Color who have a track record of working in our communities.
Anti-racism Advocacy and Education with Mike Poulin working for the Mercy Sisters
Mike Poulin talks about his experiences as a white male dealing with anti-racism, racial diversity topics, and advocacy education in the Mercy Sisters systems. Mike talks about his work as a white sharing information in Catholic circles and the need to improve various racial group contacts.
Past genocide in Rwanda's relationship to African diaspora and the current conversations.
Dr. Roost will discuss her research in Rwanda and its implications for women and others who deal with reconciliation and reparations within government and social systems. There is a disconnect between working with the government systems and communities in seeking redress, and we must involve more women in the process for real justice to achieve closure in this worldwide challenge.
Alex Johnson a parent of Omaha Plantation Schools fight functionaries educators about their racism!
Alex Johnson, a board member, provides a cookbook method on how to attack racism within a Plantation Educational System in the Omaha Public Schools. This district is known for its historical apartheid segregation and treatment of students of Color. Ops has one of the best school-to-prison pipeline systems, and other white supremacy folks come and study how to create this enslavement system. In 2022, the students were given a history workbook that says Africans voluntarily came as enslaved people to build this nation. These are the kinds of ideas that are discussed in this eye-opening program. Plus, OPS collaborates with Douglas County officials and the law enforcement system to keep the system of racism alive.
Manxoba Nxumalo (Swaziland) is interviewed by Merapelo Letebele from Selalelo about Eswatini.
This program explores issues, from women's rights in Eswatini to the role of the Monarchy and its powerful impact on the culture. Merapelo Letebele, the host and coordinator of Selalelo, interviews Manxoba Nxumalo from Eswatini to unpack the complexities of Southern Africa's past and pave the way for a more inclusive future. Selalelo, is a platform where African ideas converge. The program is dedicated to exploring the profound impact of colonialism, global racism, gender dynamics, regional integration, and the question of African unity. There is discontent among the citizens on political issues. There are questions about the murders of political opposition leaders to that system of oppression. This landlocked nation is the only African country ruled by a Monarchy leader who has many wives.
M,A, Yah Talks about the Black Leaders in Omaha NE and their Uncle Tom behaviors.
African women from various countries talk about patriarchal and sexist culture in their circles.
Merapelo Letebele, Selalelo Program Coordinator, interviews African women who have unfiltered conversations about their treatment in various countries. They also challenge male chauvinism in the 21st century in African nations. They also make the argument that the treatment of women is akin to the enslavement of Blacks. As they discuss such roles, they aim to help women achieve parity and equity in these societies and communities and stop the oppression of women by misogynist men.
Kamau N'Namdi talk about the racism in Omaha Nebraska dealing with his private property lots.
Mr. Kamau N'Namdi traveled to Omaha to expose the racist personalities of the local government. We have Kangaroo Courts, but Nebraska's property protest dances will shame other cities. The board of equalization conducted 60 protest hearings in 90 minutes and did not decide in favor of any of the city's residents. What a waste of time dealing with public functionaries and friends of the system. These clowns like playing the role of reverse Robin Hood and working in our hood.
Call & Response Book Discussion
Over the years, the Movement in Omaha for Racial Equity (MORE) has hosted book discussions featuring various authors. During March, which is Women's History Month, we are hosting a book discussion with author Ms. Gothataone Moeng. Her book is Call and Response: Stories. This book is a collection of short stories about family life in Botswana.
The Latest from MORE’s Southern Africa Project
Zambian immigrants in Botswana discuss colonialism, racism, African unity, and gender relations!
Merapelo Letebele, Coordinator of the MORE Selalelo Southern African Project, interviews and talks about ethnic and racial issues affecting many residents. This interview gives an overview of the challenges Africans face on the continent.
Conversations with Cheryl Weston Featuring A’Jamal Byndon
We invite you to watch the program dealing with challenges in the community on the nonprofit industrial complex. We have too many agencies with incompetent executive directors and racist CEOs who have rarely engaged African American families. Many of these great white saviors have no interest in the elimination of poverty because they consider it their cash cow. We only need to stand outside of the doors of these nearly boarded-up community agencies. If one looks at the end of their year report, there is not much occurring in these poverty-pimping organizations.
We might disagree on the merits of our arguments, but can the Omaha Plantation School demonstrate empirical data that the educational and achievement gaps between African Americans and whites have narrowed in recent years? Most national reports illustrate that COVID-19 illustrated the digital divide, and many students' achievement levels fell. Can the racist research Omaha Plantation Schools department, with its white supremacy mentality, demonstrate any report or data that illustrates that they care?
The same goes for the high or disproportionate number of youth of color in the juvenile justice system in Douglas County, YRTC, and the child welfare system. We have a Nebraska Children Commission that is just another bureaucrat state government organization with no meaningful outcome or involvement of African Americans and the Chicano Community. We waste more public funds on functionaries who spend excessive time discussing contrived issues but have yet to bust a grape on the enormous issue that affects People of Color, particularly African Americans.
The University of Nebraska administration recently cut thousands of dollars from its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Program (DEI). We won’t miss anything from them because they are packed full of Daughters of the Confederacy, White Supremacy personalities, and apologist collaborators type folks who have no social capital to speak truth to power against their fiends of the system.
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The status of underrepresented students of color at UNO ft A'Jamal Byndon & Patrick Velasquez PhD
Dr Patrick Velasquez and A’Jamal Byndon will be breaking down their report on the status of underrepresented students of color at UNO!
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Movement in Omaha for Racial Equity Research & Policy Report, September 2023
THE STATUS OF HISTORICALLY UNDERREPRESENTED STUDENTS OF COLOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA, OMAHA: INDICATORS OF RACIAL INEQUITY
Primary Author: Patrick Velasquez, Chair, MORE Data/Research Committee
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Primary Author: Jack Dunn
MORE STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
We are working on a report on the effectiveness of these civil rights organizations, such as the city’s Omaha Human Rights and Relations Department, in addressing their mission. It’s come to our attention that they have little to no empirical data on the success of addressing racism, and historical discrimination and, most of all, engaging communities of Color with the transformation of the problems into reasonable solutions. When a public fund organization does work have little or any social capital with oppressed African Americans and other People of Color, it is time to ask for change. What good are third-string quarterbacks who can’t play in the Superbowl of anti-racism? Can we point to one success story and whom they helped in the valley of the struggle that can offer testimonials to outcomes?
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