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I left court the other day after a particularly bruising hearing and thought to myself, “I’m now starting to understand what it must feel like to be a minority.”

Now I’m not going to overstate this, I’m not suggesting that I’ll ever know the full breadth and depth of the horror and inhumanity that is our national history or racism, but the whole experience of walking into an environment where no matter how hard you work, no matter how right you are, the deck is still stacked against you.

I remember years ago someone explained the lasting impact of generations of racism.  It was described as having your legs tied up and hobbled for years, then having the binds removed just before you lined up on the track to start the race.  The gun goes off and the race starts…everyone’s equal right?  Same track, same distance….all the runners are equal, right?  Of course not.  Generations of hobbling make the race inherently unfair.

So I walked into a hostile courtroom and as usual, I had page after page of motion and caselaw highlighted…the facts and law totally on my side.  But after I made my argument…the argument that was totally one sided…..my side….I lost.

I couldn’t believe it.  But then I’ve been there countless times before.

It’s time we all look around us.  At our neighbors, at our co-workers, at the people that are passing us on the street.  We are all different colors. We have dramatically different social, economic, religious and political backgrounds.  But the fact of the matter is, the dyed in the wool lower middle class rebel flag waving pick up truck driver has so much more in common with his inner city, tinted window low riding brother than he has with any of those political leaders that inflame the us v. them divide.

That’s a reality that we all have to start to really consider on a very deep and humanistic level.  When you’re down on your luck, way, way down on your luck…look into the eyes of those around you who are suffering.  Break through the decades of learned divide and separation.  Sit down on the same level and share together the stories of suffering, the sense of betrayal and abuse.  We’re all in this together. Brothers and sisters who must stand together and form unions of mutual protection and support.

I urge you all to search the speeches of Martin Luther King on YouTube.  Just search a few speeches and listen to them in a quiet place.  Listen carefully to the words, the language, the tone and inflection. Breathe in the heart and the soul and the solid as granite resolve in those eyes and those words.  Look at the intensity in the eyes, the passion in the soul.  Carl Jung spoke of the Collective Unconscious, the shared identify of all humanity.  Seek that out as the message behind all of this.

Now, on your way over to Youtube, let me share with you an inspiration I found. My beautiful sister who shared with me her love and joy…

YOU TUBE

From Forbes Magazine:

The AGs are seizing upon behavior which looks bad and may technically violate the law, but is hard to link directly to consumer injuries.

As with tobacco, the AGs are attacking a tragedy with many causes by going after the least popular actors in the drama. It’s good theater, but hard to see how beating up on the processing companies will prevent housing prices from finding their natural bottom. That will only occur when the economy recovers and a new wave of buyers bids on houses now occupied by people who can’t afford what they agreed to buy at the peak of the bubble.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2012/02/07/mortgage-settlement-talks-look-like-tobacco-ii/

LINK HERE

THIS BAD, BAD BILL COMES UP FOR VOTE ON WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 8!

IT IS A BAILOUT AND A GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD FOR THE BANKSTERS AND THE FRAUDCLOSURE MILLS

FLORIDA’S ELECTED LEADERS SHOULD NOT BE REWARDING CON ARTISTS AND FRAUDSTERS

THIS WILL GUT THE RIGHTS OF ALL FLORIDIANS IN FORECLOSURE

First, the bill and my notes on why it is bad.

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Next, look at the House Analysis Here

Then, read the bill and make your own notes

Finally, when you are fully informed….

CLICK HERE AND CALL THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE AND TELL THEM NO ON UNFAIR FORECLOSURES!

EVERY AMERICAN MUST SEE THIS

It looks like the Florida House of Representatives will move on Wednesday, February 8 to hear the Florida (un)Fair Foreclosure Act.

The bill number currently under consideration is Committee Substitute for House Bill 213.  Please take the time to read the bill in full here.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE CLICK HERE AND CALL THESE LEGISLATORS

It is expecially important to call the chairperson Dorothy Hukill and make sure she knows this is a bad, bad bill:

Capitol Office
204 House Office Building
402 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1300
Phone: (850) 488-6653

But make sure you hit all the legislators on the committee.  They need to know that this bill it toxic and will be very, very controversial. It is still being amended and more bad news is being thrown into this every day.  The bottom line is it is a reward to the banksters that caused all this mess, paid for by the little guy.

Among the most disturbing aspects is that it would turn some foreclosures into “show cause” proceedings that could deprive a homeowner of the right to raise defenses and could result in a sale in as little as 90 days!

The bill would require some Defendants to make payments to the pretender lender as a condition of having their voice heard in court.

The bill would apply to all foreclosures currently pending

DO IT CALL THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE BEFORE WEDNESDAY