Bob Woodson

@BobWoodson

Founder and President of the Woodson Center, formerly known as the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise. Author of The Triumphs of Joseph.

Washington, D.C.
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Joined October 2011
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    Oct 12

    Many black Americans have spoken out against the looting and violence in their communities. Why are they being ignored? This powerful video amplifies their voices. They want more police presence, not less! Watch and RT!

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    Nov 30

    Could you help make this a productive week for the effort? Our founder 's book is coming out on Dec. 15th -- could you pre-order and help make it a best-seller?

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  3. Nov 26

    You've seen the same pattern in Stockton. Kevin Lincoln, a Republican, won against a Dem incumbent who won by 70% 4 years ago. So, you’re seeing that low-income black Americans are a sleeping giant & they're beginning to wake up...& / is helping them 3/3

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  4. Nov 26

    That's because 100,000 low-income blacks voted for the Republican. They voted issues, not race. So you voted against Obama & against Oprah…2/3 BobW on

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  5. Nov 26

    In the 2018 election for governor in FL, Ron DeSantis ran against the former mayor of Tallahassee, Andrew Gillum, who is black. Gillum had & campaigning for him, but lost by 32,000 votes…1/3 BobW on

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  6. Nov 26

    And this is a pattern that has happened all over the country with a dramatic upsurge in the number of murders occurring in these communities. 4/4 BobW on

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  7. Nov 26

    The murder rate went up 800% in one year in the low-income black neighborhoods, but none of the civil rights leaders, or the local leaders, lived in those neighborhoods that had to suffer the consequence of their assault upon the police…3/4 BobW on

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  8. Nov 26

    About 10 years ago in Cincinnati, a police officer shot a young man who had a gun in his hand. The civil rights leaders came in & boycotted the city, which resulted in the police being less aggressive in enforcing the laws in the low-income black community….2/4

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  9. Nov 26

    When you defund police it’s the “low-income black communities that suffer the most because of this outrage….” 1/4 BobW on

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  10. Nov 17

    If we can just get race out of the way, maybe we can come together across race and class lines and come together and teach each other and counsel one another how to find content, how to fill that empty space in our soul. BobW on

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  11. Nov 17

    She made $1.50 a day. She saved her money for 10 years & bought land in downtown Los Angeles & built structures, rented them, and became a philanthropist. She helped found the AME church out there. When she died, she was worth the equivalent of $6 million! 4/4 BobW on

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  12. Nov 17

    Like Biddy Mason, a woman born in 1818, a slave in Mississippi, and she was illiterate & walked behind a wagon… delivering children and tending the sheep. After a judge released her from slavery…she started delivering babies as a midwife… 3/4 BobW on

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  13. Nov 17

    So what we're doing at / is going back in history & calling on examples of people who achieved against the odds…2/4 BobW on

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  14. Nov 17

    People are inspired to change, improve, & cooperate when you can show them examples of victories that are possible, not always reminding them of injuries to be avoided...1/4 BobW on

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  15. Nov 17

    We are the only nation on the face of the earth that ever had an Emancipation Proclamation. We're the only nation that fought a civil war to end slavery. No nation in the world has done that. And so, America is defined by its promise. BobW on

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  16. Nov 17

    ....worthy only of punishment through reparations & blacks are to be forever victims in need of compensation. That's a recipe for destruction. 2/2 BobW

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  17. Nov 17

    There are those who are trying to use the black community’s past to indict this country as being forever and incurably racist... 1/2 BobW

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  18. Nov 17

    And as a consequence, we have what we have today…The government intervention did more to destroy black America than racism ever did. 2/2 BobW on

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  19. Nov 17

    We created a commodity out of poor people & government programs became a middle-class employment program….The government opened offices & actively recruited people, so millions came in-blacks flooded into the welfare system… 1/2 BobW on

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  20. Nov 17

    ...and therefore that's because America is irredeemably racist & that until & unless America changes, black America cannot expect to change. That is a recipe for defeat. 3/3 BobW on

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  21. Nov 17

    ...and to say that the current challenges of black-on-black crime, of out of wedlock births, of drug addiction--that these current conditions are the legacy of slavery & discrimination...2/3 BobW on

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