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Hispanic Business and Professional Association Foundation
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HBPA Foundation of the Inland Northwest
HBPA Foundation is a non-profit organization affiliated with HBPA Spokane providing college scholarships, promoting an annual Recognition Ceremony to celebrate educational success among Hispanic/Latino graduating students, and recognizing scholastic achievement of Hispanic/Latino youth in 7th through 11th grades with a GPA of 3.0 or above.
Bunker Roy on TED – ideas worth spreading. SEE VIDEO
Their philosophy is simple – enable the local community. Working in villages that were nowhere near a town, they saw how the absence of regular power supply affected every aspect of local life – from health and education to farming. “There was need for local power production, so we brought in more than 3,000 solar lights to the villages and trained locals in operation and maintenance,” said Bharti.
Dr. James Burnley in a recent article for students exhorted them to go beyond what they were presented in classes: “…. go further and seek the truth about your history. Seeking such truth means that you will have to read beyond what you are required to read in most if not all of the degree programs you are seeking to attain.”
Burley discusses the work of Mamie & Kenneth Clark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RqsGTS5TPQ&feature=related
Marva Collins is the teacher I was looking for all my life. She started a school on Chicago’s Westside one block from where we lived when I was growing up but it wasn’t until I got to Spokane after graduate school that I discovered her – too late for me and for my son. We don’t know about these things until we start communicating with each other. What are the resources in our community that could improve our children’s futures?
The Boondocks : Return of the King
In “Return of the King,” McGruder offers a “what if?” episode which theorizes that Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t die but, rather, has been in a coma all this time; when he awakens, he ends up going from being a hero to all those seeking equality of the races to being accused of a terrorist sympathizer. When he attempts to hold a rally to inspire his brethren, it’s so overtaken by attempts to make it into a party . . . . . . . . Will Harris wharris@bullz-eye.com https://www.bullz-eye.com/television_reviews/2005/the_boondocks_1.htm
I think that all people should be taught what their rights are before they encounter a police officer; it’s something you should know. And you should not start thinking at the moment when suddenly there’s the police officer, See This Video Will Keep You Out of Jail
This Christmas story was forwarded to me and I laughed. I thought about posting it here. But I didn’t think it was politically correct. So I googled the story and found that it was published online by The Jewish Magazine. When I laughed I wasn’t laughing at little Jimmy Cohen but at the irony of spending so much money on toys for our children. Wouldn’t it be great if instead we opened up a savings account for them, bought educational software, clothes or books?
The teacher was very curious about how each of her students celebrated Christmas Eve “Tell me Patrick, what do you do on Christmas Eve?” she asked.
Patrick addressed the class. “Well Miss, me and my twelve brothers and sisters go to midnight Mass and we sing hymns, then we come home very late and we put mince pies by the back door and hang up our stockings. Then all excited we go to bed and wait for Father Christmas to come with all our toys.”
“Very nice Patrick, now Jimmy Brown, what do you do?”
“Well Miss, me and my sister go to Church with Mum and Dad and we sing carols and we get home ever so late. We put cookies and milk by the chimney and we hang up our stockings. We hardly sleep waiting for Santa Claus to bring our presents.”
Remembering there was a Jewish boy in the class and not wanting to leave him out of the discussion, she asked, “Now Jimmy Cohen, what do you do on Christmas Eve?”
“Well Miss, it’s the same old thing every year. Dad comes home from the office. We all pile into the Rolls and drive to his toy factory. When we get inside we look at all the empty shelves and sing “What a friend we have in Jesus”. Then we go to the Bahamas.”
With GOP presidential contender Herman Cain’s presidential candidacy effectively dead, now’s a good time to turn a hard glare on the suddenly surging GOP Presidential contender Newt Gingrich’s racial skeletons. His closet is stuffed with them. The first reminder of that was his off-the-cuff crack at Harvard that ghetto children are lazy and chronic thieves and should be dumped into menial jobs early on to break their alleged ghetto slothful habits. This racially loaded slur was vintage Gingrich. . . . . .