Hello, your main point is being addressed.
Click to www.caslight.org. Download the document and see page 34. The World Bank, African Union and European formally acknowledge the harnessing power of Africa Diaspora and the AU is exploring channels to facilitate the transfer of brain gain. The three bodies already launched the African Remittances Institute. It is in the document.
By the way, nobody has argued that Jewish Diaspora weakens Israel.
Best,
MsJoe
In a message dated 9/16/2013 10:31:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, publisher@portofharlem.net writes:
While I welcome new African blood into the US, I think the most
devastating and detrimental effect on African people is the
continuing brain drain by those, who for whatever reason, have, at
least, physically, abandoned their country of their birth.
Let me share with you an example: I was in an African country
meeting with some very able people about using the Internet. I
showed them a PowePoint slide of an African who helped create the
Internet as we know it today.
Instead of being inspired, they were deflated and shifted the
focus of discussion from his contributions to why he left Africa
and how he was only able to succeed in the freest and most
inclusive and diverse country on earth - - and it's led by an
African.
I was blown away by the strong, self-defeating message that is
being sent by those who come to the United States and Europe and
help further develop these parts of the world with their energies
- - that could be used to develop Africa – and not token energy –
all their energy.
In a similar vein, my hometown is an economically challenged city.
I voluntarily left it for DC, which is more comfortable.
Therefore; I am mindful that despite the fact that I pay taxes and
vote in the more advanced DC, I limit my negative thoughts about
DC and its leaders.
After all, my knowledge of the city and its history is limited
since I was not schooled here. And sometimes I feel like I am
selfish to have abandoned my hometown and relatively difficulties
those back at home face.
So, while I am enjoying the relative luxury of DC, I am always
looking for anyone willing to support my hometown and share
information about her. And, while I sit and enjoy the material
things that come with DC, I am mindful not to pontificate what is
good for my hometown and its people.
At most, I can only open my arms to diverse thoughts and welcome
them to help. The goal is to help my hometown, not to devise and
promote an academic ideology.
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On Sun Sep 15 09:30:18 CDT 2013, MsJoe21St@aol.com wrote:
> Montgomery County, Maryland and Elsewhere
> Africans:
> The response to the public official (after my mail) is what can
> be said for the other jurisdictions. I would rather say it as it
> is: The Continental African population is growing with an
> expanding voter and tax payer base but without equitable, public
> resources that other New American populations have. It is
> unfair. The cities and counties can tell how many businesses
> were created, received resources; how many are in public sector
> employment in these populations and their health programs are
> funded. Nobody knows the data for the African community. Civil
> rights gained cannot be selectively denied and disguised. It is
> not the job of a government agency to operate skin color
> subjugation in order to justify why competent African service
> providers are being marginalized and their collective
> intelligence insulted. It is unfair.
> I do not ask for a personal favor, a position or contract from
> politicians, neither will I compromise my independence by doing
> so or entertain a conflict of interest. I use my own money for
> community organizing, to advocate and conduct research and I do
> not get paid. I don't want to be paid. It is about community
> first. After working to establish to establish the DC Mayor's
> Office in African Affairs in 2005/06, in 2007/8 a cross-section
> of us put together a comprehensive Needs Assessment and
> Recommendation Report, and one of the Recommendations resulted
> in the creation of the African Advisory Group in Montgomery
> County and Liaison Office. So where is the change and how is
> the change measured? It is a fair question.
> The only indigenous cancer program serving African women, the
> African Women Cancer Awareness Association, was de-funded.Yet
> our grandmas who use indigenous services are dying. But the
> government funds groups that are hardly known in the community
> to address African issues when willing and able African groups
> are more effective and efficient.Why would competent African
> groups be de-funded or not funded but the government gives
> monies to other groups to help Africans? Does this make any
> sense? What does the 74 year old grandma diagnosed with cancer
> do? Assimilate to fit into the agency's scope of skin color
> thinking? How many people in the community, including more
> vulnerable grandpas and grandpas, have heard of the program that
> the official is taking about?
> I have deleted the official's address and name because the
> purpose is not to create unnecessary discord but to shed light
> on a germane, public health issue. The health groups got the
> mail and they need to meet with the Council member. Prince
> George's and elsewhere are no better. I have to make it known to
> the politicians what I believe in and what people in the
> community think. My purpose is not to 'be nice, liked to be
> accepted, appointed or invited" when my community is not
> treated fairly. I am not interested in all that, never shall. We
> just want to know how and why the HHS and other agencies make
> policies and how the African community gets its fair share. It
> also has to do with the conscience or expedience of government.
> Fair is fair.
> Thanks for reading and have a blessed day.
> MsJoe
> ============================================================================
> =
> From: MsJoe21St@aol.com
> To: _Councilmember_ (mailto:Councilmember@montgomerycountymd.gov)
> CC: _Staff@montgomerycountymd.gov_
> (mailto:Staff@montgomerycountymd.gov) Sent: 9/14/2013 11:26:12
> A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
> Subj: Re: Demand answers from the Mrs. Uhluwalia and HHA/
> Uncooperative group
>
> Hello Councilman:
> While it is the responsibility of the African community groups
> to collaborate in order to effectively serve constituents, the
> fact that Montgomery County HHS is using color of the skin to
> make decisions to fund the African American Health Program
> undermines the African community in Montgomery county and, by
> implication, the public health of the county. Elderly
> grandparents are slowly dying when diagnosed but do not qualify
> for services, the uninsured are helpless, it is the unfunded
> African mutual aid associations and social networks who are
> reaching these hard-to-reach populations.
> I do not run a health program nor seek to do so. I do not need
> any grant. I speak for the competent groups that can run
> programs and efficiently so. I see them struggling. Sometimes I
> cannot help but cry when a patient is more responsive to the
> culturally relevant, developmentally appropriate and linguistic
> specific service of an African organization, yet the services
> do not have bare necessitates and volunteers are using their own
> money to take patients to health appointments.
> I am appealing to the African groups to work together to reduce
> some of the crisis. A substantial gap in service is addressed by
> Latinos groups, especially La Casa, not African American
> groups. Councilman, it is not easy to look into the eyes of the
> dying and say...you have use the African American Health program
> when the person knows nothing about African American culture.
> Some naturally stare blank and ask why, some are afraid of the
> unknown or baffled by laws and red tapes. With a growing
> population comes attendant woes. Today, Continental Africans are
> experiencing deaths just like any population; diagnoses caught
> at late stages, corpses are being sent back home to Africa and
> most are citizens of this country and residents of the County.
> If we are saying that the Continental African population should
> be treated differently, unlike other transnational, New American
> communities like the Latinos, Asians and Jews receive funds
> these groups to provide heath and human services to their
> populations, it is unfair.
> Let us even look even at the Council and County Executive Grants
> and the unfairness is stunning. Same thing with the Arts and
> Humanities Council. The black Latinos and dark skinned Asians
> are not expected to use the African American program. The HHS
> blackness policies seems to apply only on the African community,
> which is influenced by immigrant orientations and most of the
> members do not use the African American Health Program as their
> primary source for Health and Human Service information in
> Montgomery County. Councilman, I am just stating the frequent
> and prevailing questions in the community. If I do not reflect
> the views, I would not be an honest person to myself, you or the
> community. Others may play safe or coy for any favor but that is
> not my style. It has been demonstrated that the African and
> African American communities share very little in common in
> terms of socio-cultural orientations, especially on behaviors
> that affect health. Dr. Bola Idowu privately admits the fact.
> She also knows the African American Health program has no
> presence or influence in the African community. So what is the
> purpose of prioritizing the African American health program to
> serve as a Community Health Navigator?
> At the HHS discussions, false presentations were made to give a
> wrong notion that the African American Health Program works with
> African health groups like African Women Cancer Awareness
> Association (AWCA). That was an unnecessary lie. I checked it
> out. The last time the African Americans had contact with AWCA
> was in 2007. If the African health and human service groups were
> allowed to speak, the picture could have been clearer. They came
> and left disgusted and perhaps humiliated by the "African
> American Show" that had little bearing on realities on the
> ground. The US HHS and Office of Minority Health had an
> outreach meeting with the African community on Obamacare and a
> Community Health Navigator was explicitly suggested. My appeal
> to the African groups is to work together because they are
> better able to understand the needs. If the County does not want
> to support the African community in face of good evidence, let
> that be plainly and publicly known. But is not fair to fund a
> group called Beta that runs the African American Health Program,
> which has no presence in the African community, and believe the
> African community is being served. Let the funded African
> American Health Navigator provide the data and it can be
> compared with the data of the unfunded African health and human
> service groups. It would be clearer who is reaching the
> population.
> Councilman, we submitted a comprehensive Needs Assessment and
> Recommendation Report to the Leggett Administration. One of the
> outcomes was the practical distinction between African
> Africans and African communities, which resulted in the African
> Affairs Advisory Group. It is evident that the African American
> Health Program is largely unknown in the general African
> community. The community knows the decision to subjugate a
> growing population in order not to fund its services is not
> fair. We are working to get the African health and human service
> groups to develop a common health agenda and a Community Health
> Navigator. The service providers would have meet with the
> Leggett Administration to review how the community is being
> served based on the Recommendations it received . Currently,
> Montgomery County is unfair to the African community in terms of
> equitable services that empower a community.
> Best,
> Evelyn
> In a message dated 9/14/2013 7:51:00 A.M. Eastern Daylight
> Time, _Councilmember_
> (mailto:Councilmember@montgomerycountymd.gov) writes:
>
> Dear Evelyn,
>
> As you know, the African American Health Program does provide
> community health navigators working specifically with the African
> immigrant community.
>
> All the best
> Deleted
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