Let's See What Will Happen To Everyone Included and Excluded If We Don't Talk About This Civically?

Your host Min. W.D. Patterson is a participant in this year's 9th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference now in progress through Sunday 2/7/2010. The conference was held at The Washington State Convention and Trade Center This conference is organized and sponsored in-part by the Local Government Commission (LGC) out of Sacramento CA. The attendance thus far has been a record nearly 2000 people from all over the nation. Working together for Equitable Development: Voices and Lessons from Environmental Justice and Smart Growth. The participant list is available. I refuse to allow blacks to be left out of these mainstream American processes again as they have been so blatantly done in the past. Even though there were black speakers and participants in the past they were NOT REPRESENTATIVE of TRUE BLACK CULTURE and upward mobility interests. Next weeks show will cap some of the topics and experience that I had during the five day conference and discuss why it happened like it did for me. Are we there yet? 'Sho 'ya 'Rite. I'd love to have you as one of my guest hosts to further delve into the information that you shared with me on tonight's show. The American policies that promoted and enforced the intentional exclusion of Blacks and Indentured Servants as early as the 1619 "Maryland Doctrine of Exclusion," 1638 policies of the same magnitude, and The 1665 Slave Laws. We will use these as tools for educating the masses. Especially our black brothers whose behaviors surely reflect the repressive mindsets inflicted upon our forefathers and inherently projected into today's black populous while being fueled by systemic "White Privileged" attitudes and like mindsets. Yes, there's work to be done and the choice does not belong to us as to whom will do it. It's everyone's responsibility now. In next weeks show I will share with the listening audience the reason this involves everyone