by: Marceline Donaldson

I have started writing my memoirs. Especially since life does not go on forever I am trying to leave the story of my life for my childen, grandchildren, etc. so I thought I would share this one with all of you.

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When I was about 15 and older at Central Congregational Church in NOLA with Rev. Nicholas Hood, Sr. as pastor, our youth group engaged in lots of civil rights activities.

One that I look back on today as most amazing were the Sundays we traveled to White churches in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida as a Black Jr. Choir. We spent Sunday mornings singing as a choir at several such churches. Rev. Hood graduated from Yale Divinity School and came to pastor at Central. He was part of a circle of friends – all ordained – all White, serving churches in the south and these were the churches we visited.

We were not invited by the congregations we visited, we were invited by the pastors of the churches working through and trying to live the Christian message they were preaching in their own congregations.

It was quite a period of time. We also went to a couple white churches to their youth group meetings in New Orleans, but nothing compared to our road trips.

We would sing as a choir; process behind the Sr. Choir of the church and followed by the Church ministers. Rev. Hood usually processed with the Church’s ministers because he generally preached the sermon – or – as time passed Rev. Martin Luther King, jr. who was young and just beginning his ministry would preach the sermon. Where Nick Hood didn’t preach, Martin was the preacher for that Sunday. On one trip, Andrew Young was the preacher.

We had some memorable encounters. One that stands out was a church in Alabama which was excited about this Jr. High Group, especially meeting with their Jr. High Group. At that church as at others, when we made these trips we stayed with the family of one of the Church’s Jr. High Members. We each stayed with a different person.

At this particular Churdh the neighbors and others in the area were not pleased with these “N——” corrupting their wonderful children and after we arrived and were dropped off at the homes where we were to stay we very quickly had to grab our things and get back into the station wagons that brought us. The neighbors had gathered and were on their way down the road with rifles intending to kill those “N——” and get them out of town. Wendell Butler – one of the Jr. High group was one of the last to get into Nick Hood’s car. Wendell was taking a shower when all of this exploded and so the family and others wrapped him in a towel and shoved him into the car. It took a long time before Wendell lived that down. The last time I saw Wendell that was one of the first conversations we had – remembering.

As Wendell dressed in the back of the car – they shoved him and his clothes into the car because everyone was afraid we would not get out in time – we drove down the country road back to NOLA at quite a fast speed, however, not so fast that we missed the effigy of Nick Hood and Andrew Young hanging from the trees above the road.

Of course, it was something our group talked about once we got together again at Central to try to make sense out of and incorporate what happened into our religious lives.

Those were the days.

Racism, sexism and moneyism are horrendous problems in these United States. Clearly, some of the U. S. media succumbs constantly. The WSJ is the latest to do a horrendous, clearly racist and sexist article with no investigative reporting and no reason for such an article, which outlines for you why and how racism works; why is it so strong for so many generations; how African Americans – no matter how hard they work or how incredible the business ideas they surface and work hard to bring into existence, their hard work along with the hard work of women and other minorities finally winds up in the pockets of white-male-northern european types.

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal, for no reason except promoting Airb&b reads more like a marketing piece than a news piece.

The purpose of the article seems to put down in a respected media a made-up history of Airb&b trying to give once and for all the death knell to any claims that Bettina Network, inc. might have —-but God is good and always and forever on the side of the down trodden, the discriminated against, those who work and receive mud in the face for their good deeds while others just steal and seem to thrive, but my “Mama Marcy” used to say “their time is coming”.

This Wall Street Journal’s article’s existende seems to be to put one African American against another. Marceline Donaldson and Rev. Dr. Robert Bennett against ex-president Barack Obama. How awful.

What it actually does is gives us a look further into what happened after the Donaldson-Bennett’s worked so hard to build a corporation with a unique idea and were beginning to succeed establishing a corporation which made reservations for, marketed, collected from guests, etc. for those who traveled bed & breakfast instead of hotels, etc. The one thing they needed, but could never find was the money to grow the business at a faster clip with more substantial structuring. They reached the point of having homes, not only within the United States, but also in other countries. The business was moving very fast, however the money struggle was horrendous. And we are discovering horrendous because Venture Capitalists were not going to invest in a corporation run by African Americans no matter how great the concept and how good the rolling out of that concept was. Putting their resumes alongside each other, there is no parallel between Brian Chesky and Marceline Donaldson with her Harvard Business Scnool background. The Donaldson/Bennett’s African Americanism negated everything about them in the eyes of those investing. It ignored the work they were doing and their qualifications to take that work further as against those without even a fraction of the qualifications of the Bennett/Donaldsons.

Those running to support the concept rolled out as Airb&b didn’t have the guts to go against the society’s racist/sexist structure except as allowed by ones supporting them. A black who supports other blacks is not very high up in the eyes of most in this society. A black who allows himself to be the one who can be used to show that “I am not racist, my good friend is this black man not this other black couple so my money is going to these white men – under qualified and taking their ideas and the execution of those idea from the black couple, but hey – who is going to notice my extreme racism when I have this kind of African American ex-presidential cover.”

Who would have thought Elon Musk and all those other olks were involved and especially ex-president Barack Obama. He comes across as “wimpy”. But then – to do a Donald Trump thing – he has always come across as not being either willing or able to move decisively and stand up for what is right and just until others have shown it is “safe” to take such a stand. Instead, in this case and in others very similar, he takes the side of the white man to help him succeed at a heavy cost to black men and women along with African, Asian and others to keep himself moving forward. Isn’t that one of the reasons why racism, sexism and all the other isms have lived so lavishly in this society and show no signs of decreasing, but continuing its up and down future.?

From the Wall Street Journal article, Obama was clearly working with Brian Chesky and Airb&b to bring about the success of one – the white guy – at the expense of the other and this article “outs” him. While the Donaldson/Bennetts were trying to move ahead and grow their business – including many contacts to this wonderful ex-president asking for his business, he was – according to the Wall Street Journal article, – working with and for the success of Airb&b at the expense of Bettina Network, inc. He was not just being a client – he was, according to the article – working in a “free” advisory capacity to Brian Chesky and friends.

We have been researching for many years to discover what happened that life was so incredibly difficult for Bettina Network, inc. and the Donaldson/Bennett’s. At every turn they faced enormous problems including even recently as they are moving to bring Bettina Network, inc. back with a changed business model (which, by the way, Airb&b is claiming they are also doing and on an exact schedule just hours away from Bettina Network’s announcements).

We have come a long way putting the pieces together. It is not a pretty picture because the racism, sexism, “better than ism”, money-hunger without ethics, shows starkly. What is also relevant is that along the way as we were working to discover what and how the Donaldson/Bennetts were so trashed and their business almost decapitated, we discovered several other companies owned by Blacks, Africans, Latina’s and some Asians were also treated very similarly with their ideas, work, and more stolen as viciously and crudely as happened with Airb&b stealing its genesis and continuing life, even until today, by its founders and their hired help.

We started our research with the arrival of Brian Chesky and his two friends in Cambridge and being told about Bettina Network, inc. by The Capital Network, inc. – a City of Cambridge venture capital company – and having made reservations for them to stay, very specifically, at the home of the Donaldson/Bennett’s. What the Wall Street Journal article did for us was to open the door to look at the “before” the arrival in Cambridge and who was involved in all of this that we missed.

Appartently, Brian Chesky and his two friends were traveling the country from New York looking for businesses and business ideas they could take and use to start their own company. They, apparently, were not the only young white males doing that looking around thing. And most ended up with the funding, contacts and help from top corporate types working with them to establish the corporations they stole, except now in their names and under their structures.

We knew there were others doing the same thing at the same time, especially in and around MIT and being successful in their search as many minorities and all the hard work they were doing bit the dust – which when cleared – we understand and were told – there was Elon Musk standing in the midst – and – standing around him were the Silicon Valley billionaires who call themselves venture capitalists. We have another name for them, but since we don’t engage in Donald Trump’s rhetoric and name calling we will quietly demure from making those names public.

In history and in the literature moving forward our children will be told of the great entrepreneurs in the white male groups and look what they came up with, founded and brought into greatness. And they will be told either explicitly or by implications that other groups did not and could not come up with such greatness in business as did those white males. The real history that will be covered up will be the very racist and sexist way they were able to find, steal, develop and turn to the group promoting their theft for the venture capital money they needed to become the large, great corporations they have become on the backs of others.

The hard work, major sacrifices, experiences of being stolen from – of the minorities and women and yes, even sometimes white men who did not have their resources – will not be mentioned in history as these minorities are mauled, mutilated, destroyed while these few grew even wealthier on the backs of others.

It is time for major changes in these United States, particularly in the long, horrendous, evil of this kind of racist, sexist theft that has gone on for generations. We have many stories to tell and we hope you will work in your space to make sure all of this is exposed and stopped. We are continuing to investigate and will continue to publicize what we discover. We hope you will support and contribute to our effort – both with money, ideas, and information so a more complete picture evolves.

AND NOW Bettina Network Hedge Schools

as told by: Marceline Donaldson  and Rev. Dr. Robert Bennet

  Once upon a time, two people came together with an idea to supplement their income because their bills were overwhelming.

At the time, they lived on the campus of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts in faculty housing.  She, a student in the ordination process and he, a professor of Near Eastern Studies, Hebrew, Hebrew Language, Archeology.

She discovered an age old way of extra income through bed & breakfast.  He went along with the idea because he wanted to please his wife and because his payments to his ex-wife were huge and they were sinking into more debt. That was 1982.

That turned out to be a life saver in more ways than one.  It was highly successful; they enjoyed the company of people who stayed with them; they were exposed to people – ideas – and more they never would have been exposed to or known about without their new “hobby.”

Friends asked them to send their overflow because they liked what they saw and also needed the extra income.  Marceline and Robert did that and the friends sent them lovely plants in return.

Marceline, having been a student at Harvard Business School and having been in  business herself saw the opportunity and they turned their “extra money hobby” into a real business.  They established Bettina’s Bed and Breakfast, inc. and continued having guests.  They also continued sending their overflow guests to friends, but instead of plants they received money in return.

Realizing the business they were creating, In 1984, Marceline saw the future and they looked into purchasing a house and moving from the seminary campus and from Bettina’s Bed & Breakfast, inc  to a private home of their own with a business involving not one individual home, but many and incorporated Bettina Network, inc.

Bettina Network, inc. was a corporation which took homes into the Bettina Network for which they did the marketing, advertising, collecting of funds, putting out a newsletter with stories, suggestions, etc. which went to guests and people who owned the homes where guests stayed.

It was not easy.  It was the first time such a network was established and they had to work out everything.  It was also doubly difficult bringing in homes of whites as well as blacks and other minorities sending people to stay in the homes of this very integrated network without telling anyone the race or ethnicity or sexual orientation of the people in the homes where they were going to stay.

It was also difficult because people who saw the network and wanted to join were put off by the fact that Marceline and Robert were African Americans – well, Marceline was from the 7th Ward in New Orleans and a Creole which is still, by society’s definition, a black woman.

As time passed, the Bettina Network grew and they had homes across the United States and were beginning to take homes into the Bettina Network from other countries.  They also kept refining how to best do this until they created a structure which worked.

Marceline and Robert did all of this with only their own resources because the attempts they made to contact possible venture capitalists were not only rebuffed, their telephone calls to places like Silicon Valley in California were never returned.

In 2007, along came Brian Chesky with two friends to stay in the Bettina Network.  When they arrived in Boston they knew nothing about Bettina’s. They went to the Capital Network – the city of Cambridge’s venture capital arm – where they apparently stated their purpose for being in Boston (to look for businesses and business opportunities they could copy)

The Capital Network sent Chesky, Grebbia and another friend to stay with the Donaldsons because they thought that would be an ideal business for Chesky and company to “steal.”  After all, it was a black owned business and isn’t that why blacks knock themselves out and sacrifice years of their lives building these new business ideas. (so whites males could come along and step into the business taking credit for everything and not having to start from scratch making the kind of sacrifices Marceline and Robert had to make for a couple decades before the business started working beautifully and showing its future.)

Brian Chesky, Grebbia and another friend stayed three days at the Donaldson’s home.  They could have stayed at any other homes in the Bettina Network, but the Capital Network called the Donaldsons and said Brian Chesky would be calling and she should put him and his friends with the Donaldsons.  Apparently, the set-up for these was being put in place.

Marceline was well acquainted with the Capital Network, the venture capital arm of the city of Cambridge.  She went to their Thursday afternoon sessions trying to understand how to reach venture capitalists because it was clear they were at that point where they needed substantial investment into their corporation because of its growth potential and their limited resources to fund such.

The Capital Network barely spoke to Marceline and even though she set up several appointments to talk with people about their need, that didn’t happen.

When three white men appeared, however, the story changed and the doors to the resources available to them were open wide.  So wide that when Marceline went to the next Thursday afternoon session of the Capital Network her company name had been removed from the list of those attending.  She had to create a stir to get someone to address the issue and put her name back where it had been before the advent of Brian Chesky.

What she did not know at the time was Chesky’s influence; his intention of putting together a copy of what she had done in California and the Capital Network opened its doors wide to help him in this quest – including blocking the person whose business he found he wanted.  Not to buy, but to steal.

When Brian Chesky and his two friends stayed with Marceline and Robert they were amazed and overwhelmed by what they saw.  One of Brian Chesky’s remarks was that he had no idea you could put together private homes in a network such as Bettina Network.  He somehow found a copy of the business plan, read it and waxed eloquent about how fantastic it was – before Marceline took it back and was quite upset about that little scene.  She told him her business plan was not open to him or anyone else and didn’t appreciate his having it.

It is easy for Marceline and Robert to prove the Chesky trio’s stay at their home because everyone who stayed at a Bettina home filled out a Guest form which gave their information – mailing address, how to pay – their credit card number if they wanted to be charged, etc.  Marceline and Robert kept all of those forms and has the one Brian Chesky filled out during his stay at their home.

After a few months, the telephone calls started to come into Bettina Network, inc. from people who claimed to be interested in staying in one of the homes in the Bettina Network, but they needed to know more about the business.  They asked everything from soup to nuts about how the business operated.

This went on for quite some time until Marceline and Robert began to wonder why these new kind of calls started.  At the beginning they accepted the lies that were being told by those who called – that they were interested in doing business with Bettina Network and just wanted to make sure of the company.  After a bit it was clear this was not why people were calling.  When the calls came in, Marceline asked them not to call back.  That was ignored and other people called.  Apparently, Brian Chesky was starting to set up Airb&b and when there was a question about how to do something new they encountered their way of dealing with that question was to call Bettina Network anonymously.

One call was particularly horrible.  A couple called and wanted to put their house into Bettina Network.  What Robert and Marceline did when such a call came in was to make an appointment to go out and see the home.  If it came from another city or state, they would have someone they knew and who knew what they were doing go out to visit with whoever was calling to see if there was a match.

Marceline went to visit with the couple.  He described himself as a professional chef.  She described herself as the treasurer of Bose.  

When Marceline arrived it became clear quickly that something was not quite right.  They wanted to see a business plan because they said they wanted to make sure where the company was going, the road map – so to speak – of its future, etc.

Marceline gave them a copy of her business plan and said it was not for public consumption.  They could read it at the table while she was there, but she was taking it back with her because she did not pass her business plan out to anyone.

They agreed.  After a few minutes the many excused himself to go to the bathroom.  He took the business plan with him while Marceline was occupied talking to his wife.  When he returned he said he had emailed a copy of the business plan to friends in California and Colorado and a couple other places and mentioned sending a copy to Brian Chesky.  Marceline was furious, took her business plan from him.  He said everyone gave him the same response – they were delighted to see it, praised how great it was, etc. etc.  That didn’t mollify Marceline especially since his wife had just told her, when she asked what bedroom they were going to use for bed & breakfast guests, especially since the one they showed her was clearly and permanently occupied.

They said they didn’t have an empty bedroom at the time, but when their daughter moved out they were going to use her bedroom and that was the room they showed her.

That with the business plan saga was too much – Marceline left.

Bettina Network, inc. started to run into some incredible headwinds which seriously hurt the business.  They didn’t immediately make the connection between the problems they began to have and the Chesky group, but as time passed and they saw what was happening, it became clear to them this was one business trying to injure another.

About two years ago, Robert and Marceline started to change Bettina Network, inc. and began to make Bettina Network Hedge School s a more prominent part of Bettina Network, inc.  They decided not to change their web site because the problems were too immense and they didn’t want more.

About six months into their changes as they sent information out to former guests and others they then heard about Airb&b changing its services and those changes were almost word for word copying the changes Marceline and Robert were making to Bettina Network, inc.

That continues into today.

He also wants to fire a second person, Penny Pritzker, who is also a Jew. This is after he and his administration fought to have the African American woman president of Harvard University removed, who preceded Alan Garber. “No Jews or Blacks need app;ly.”

It is time for some serious consideration about what to do next. We think it is time for a law to be passed in these United States which gives some criteria with requirements of people who want to run for public office – particularly the presidency of these United States. The first part of those qualifications which anyone wanting to run should have to meet is the one which says “no criminals – no one under indictment for any form of criminality – no convicted felons”. There is no way the United States of America should have as its president anyone under criminal indictment. In partricular, Donald Trump, the current president is a convicted felon. The people he has appointed just about all of them show their willingness to compromise any ethical standards they may or may not have held – which they have scuttled to be able to be the big deal person they think they have become upon this appointment to office.

It is amazing to me that this has not happened before now. What happens when someone with Trump’s background – not just a convicted felon, but someone who has filed bankruptcy several times and has a reputation for screwing over people who do work for him expecting to be paid and he refuses to pay them. I could go down the list, but that is all public and we are now being led a man who runs the United States Government as though he is a mafia boss and the rest of the citizens of this country are his criminal mafia. He is turning these United States into a crime family with Donald Trump as the crime family boss.

It is not over reach to expect the President to have followed the laws of the institution over which he wants control and to manage. It is not too much to expect of the citizens to want to put qualifications in place to make sure the persons running for public office are fit to serve.

Trump’s current rush to get minority immigrants out of this country belies his goal of bringing in even faster Afrikaners (White South Africans who fought to maintain South Africa as a place for whites only with Black South Africans serving in the most menial jobs and subject to extreme persecution for simply being black) so he can be re-elected to a third term in office.

In addition to putting down qualifications for those running for elected office – especially the presidency of these United States – we need to start the process of Impeaching Donald Trump. There is too much on the table he has done to destroy even every little nuance of human decency that shows up in people he wants to do his thing – and there are too many laws he has deliberately broken and has shown he has the ability to break any law that stands in his way and to destroy any human being who he thinks is blocking something he wants done. Trump has shown his disdain for anyone and anything that does not pay obeisance to Donald Trump. —- and the list goes on and on and on.

Most pointedly, Donald Trump has shown he totally disrespects and does not intend to honor anything about these United States. His path is strewn with the awfulness of what he has done so far in his presidency and clearly that is only the beginning.

Most of the people Donald Trump has appointed have ethics in the dumpster and can lie with straight faces while doing horrible things to others using their power through Trump to carry out evil.

May God give us all the power, foresight and strength to remove such a man from the Presidency of the United States. May God give us also the power and strength to stop and survive the repercussions he will throw in the way of anyone who tries to move against him.

Today it is Trump vs. Musk. Ugliness strewn all over the media because we have as president of these United States and the world’s wealthiest man both really leading and have led putrid lives. How come they are in the position they are in today? It certainly goes against everything I was told as truth and how to succeed and work in these United States as a child growing up. None of that was true. It seems today to have been the creation of a system which was training those who had good morality and ethics into becoming the support system for the evil which rules the country and sometimes the world.

Trump is clearly in the middle of a run for his third term as president. How can we say that? Take a look at his actions:

1. He has made immigration his number one area. That he promised, but not in the really degraded way it is happening. He is doing two things at once. He is not ridding the country of the illegal, criminal immigrants, but mostly he is ridding the country of the hard working, law abiding immigrants who are quietly going about their lives; doing what is necessary in a good way to raise their familiesa and more. These are being destroyed and sent to countries where they can’t come back and will have been eliminated-destroyed-evaporated.

Why?

2. Because this is a very important part of Trump’s re-election campaign. He can’t win with the country as it is and he knows he is alienating voters at a fast clip. What does he do? He opens the door to kick out the “good” immigrants to be able to replace them and increase the numbers of immigrants with Afrikaners and people like them – the people who kept South Africa a horrible racist violent country – who will swell the ranks of his MAGA group and thereby insure his re-election. Note that when he brings in his large numbers of Afrikaners he has already cleared the way for their citizenship to happen as quickly as possible. Some say they are getting their citizenship papers when they enter the country.

This fight with Elon Musk is a little glitch, but he will (uncharacteristically) stay calm, cool and collected and that will soon be history. Musk, afterall, started supporting Trump and voted for him after Musk’s father pushed him out of the path he was travelling into this Trump path, apparently convincing him to move from those he then supported to Donald Trump. That is turning out to be a path Elon Musk has not been able to walk. Too much inteference from Trump.

And then there was the embarrassment Trump gave Musk by having an event which gave a bit of glory to Musk’s rival or “used to be” partner without Musk’s knowledge and doing it publicly in a way seemingly meant to deliver extreme embarrassment to Musk – that was his session with Sam Altman. Men don’t seem to be able to handle those things and Musk and Trump are no exception. Trump meant it as a power play to show Musk who was really in control and it failed and apparently was the last straw for Musk with Trump which has led to this blow-up.

Don’t you think it is time to create and live a more equitable role in a society where the “power” is not in the hands of the stereotypical white northern european-type men but where it is shared amongst the entire world.? What a mess they have created and we have gone along with. The only non white,etc. who reach that “upper” level are those who have learned the “white” system and work hard to keep it going, growing and keep down in the low levels those who threaten to bring about total integration killing off the sexism, racism, and all the rest. “Equal to” is such a threat to that “white” group. Do you think that is because they have such a deep down innate feeling of inferiority and can only live in the society they force on others defining “better than” using physical characteristics rather than that which requires brains, great emotion, etc.

WE NEED YOUR HELP AND YOUR INPUT TO MAINTAIN ONE PART OF THIS DEMOCRACY!

We have received many requests from followers of Bettina Network Blog and from those who know Marceline and Robert asking us to outline exactly what happened when their business was invaded by Brian Chesky, Joe Grebbia and others who stole their entire business and claimed the ideas and work as their own.

We found the requests particularly timely because  Marceline and Robert have worked over the past years since then to put in place a third iteration of their business to try to move away from the extreme damage caused by Airb&b. 

Somehow, the exact ideas they came up with and put into practice are now being touted by the same group that stole the Bettina Network’s work and called it Airb&b.

We have done a lot of research around what happened, but we were not going to make it public until we heard Brian Chesky on television outlining the new ways Airb&b was now moving and they were an exact replication of what Bettina Network has been putting into place.

This is not the only company we have so documented.  Have you heard of “My Chart”.  Did you know the original idea for such a company came from 10 Nigerians who worked for several years – when there was nothing even close to what they were doing.  They did the work – taking their idea, doing the research, computer coding, trying their finished product out in a small hospital and were moving on when they heard from Silicon Valley venture capitalists who were interested in investing in what they were doing.  The result of that contact was disaster for the Nigerians and a great windfall for a few White Males who are now in a very substantial position financially.  Not very different from what happened to Marceline and Robert and others we have and are researching. 

Please notice one thing Bettina Network and the 10 Nigerians have in common is their African and African American roots.  What we discovered is there were people running all around the country looking for such companies; taking their ideas; and putting therm out of business.  We made that discovery one afternoon just sitting at MIT enjoying the company of friends and coffee.  We were joined by a couple white guys who talked about what they were doing and asked who and what we knew.  They were willing to pay us for any leads we gave them – especially companies being developed at MIT.

We followed through after that as to who would be behind this – it takes quite a bit of money to do what was and probably still is being done and we did come up with who was funding this – starting a few decades ago. The Bettina Network discovered what was happening to them starting in about 2010 when they had a series of ugliness with which they had to contend; many attempts to destroy them financially; and so did the others we discovered.  

If you know of any such stories of this happening to other companies, please let us know.  We are now working very hard on putting all of this together and we do need your help.  We have discovered four more such stories and are looking for more.  We will do the research to determine if what you send us fits the pattern of what we have discovered.

                             Let us start from the beginning of this intrusion at Bettina Network, inc.:

1) Brian Chesky and two friends came to Boston and attended a session of The Capital Network.- the venture capital arm of the City of Cambridge.  They said they were in town looking for new ideas to start a business.

2). They were looking for business ideas to take with them as they traveled across the country from New York to California.  What we didn’t know until later is that there were several people like them all across the city, especially focused on MIT looking, especially for minority-owned businesses.  Not as companies to help or in which they wanted to invest, but companies which really should not exist.    Even when we discovered this, we didn’t know what was behind this until fairly recently.  This kind of research is a long, difficult process and in the end depends to a great extent on meeting the right people at a time when they are willing to talk.

3). Chesky and his two friends, when they arrived at the Thursday afternoon session of the Capital Network,  were pointed to Bettina Network, iInc. – one of the few to only black owned businesses involved with The Capital Network.  One had to register to attend these sessions and Marceline had duly registered Bettina Network, inc. and attended these Thursday afternoon sessions which were supposed to help one with your search for venture capital funds and to help you evaluate if your company qualifies for what venture capitalists were looking for. Not only was Chesky and his friends pointed in their direction and told about Bettina Networik inc. and its African American founders, but reservations were made, by the Capital Network,  for them to stay at one of the homes in the Network to get more detailed info. The people in the Capital Network insistence was that they stay at the home of Marceline Donaldson, president of Bettina Network.

4). Marceline was not present on that Thursday and knew nothing about this ‘referral’.The Chesky group had contacts within The Capital Network – particularly a young man  who was at all of the sessions – always with a white apron tied around his waist making his way tthrough and around, ingratiating himself with everyone except Marceline and clearly was a part of the Capital Network’s organization.  He seemed to be involved in making sure he answered questions people had; that folks knew about snacks, etc. and just generally talked with just about everyone.

5)  We don’t know who made the reservations under the name of the Capital Network, but from the Bettina Network records Brian Chesky called in addition to the Capital Networks call making sure he would be able to get reservations, gave his credit card number, gave the name for the reservation as Brian Chesky and made it for three people.

6). The group arrived and from Marceline’s recollection they were very talkative and wanted to know all about what she was doing – how, why, from the beginning, etc.  they gave the Capital Network name as who referred them.

7). They stayed three nights. – which we have documented.During their stay, Brian Chesky said to Marceline over breakfast that he was amazed at what he was experiencing because he had no idea one could put private homes together in a network, especially the way Marceline and Robert had done this within the Bettina Network.  He expressed his amazement to Marceline several times during his stay.

8). The next week when Marceline appeared at the Thursday afternoon session of the Capital Network there was a procedure you went through when checking in.The Capital Network kept the names of those attending in their computer and you looked up and checked off your name.When you did that your company name appeared in the large reception area where most people congregated and everyone could see who was there and who was arriving.

9). Normally, that check in was done by Marceline with no problems.This time – one week after the Chesky group had been through – Bettina Network’s name was no longer in the computer and Marceline was being denied entrance after having been a part of this group for several weeks.

10). One person, who worked for the Capital Network, was called when all of this happened.  He arrived at the front desk, was told the problem and suggested Marceline re-register because of course she could come into the session.  No one knew admitted to knowing who or why her company name was erased.

11). When she checked in and the company name was once again on the screen announcing the arrival of Bettina Network into the session, Marceline asked many questions about why she had been removed, why Bettina Network’s name was no longer among the participants, etc. No one could give her any answers.  She was encouraged to forget the incident, her company name was back with the others and she should just join the group.

12). When she went into the room, the young white male who was one of those working in the room with his white apron was unbelievably hostile to Marceline and suggested she leave.She ignored him, pushed past and for the rest of the evening had a very difficult time because this guy stuck close to her and made the evening very ugly. She was able to identify him  because during Brian Chesky and his friends’ stay, they mentioned this guy.

13) A couple months later the telephone calls started coming into Bettina Network, inc. with people asking different questions about Bettina Network and some of the every day ways it functioned.  Alll the questions were very particular about something in the business and how it was done.  The people calling claimed to want to do business with Bettia Network, but nothing ever came of their questions except more telephone calls and more and different questions

14). One call was from a couple who wanted to put their home into Bettina Network and asked how that could happen.  Marceline made an appointment to go out to see their home bringing business materials.  

15). The couple identified themselves as – the husband a professional chef and the wife the treasurer of Bose.

16). Marceline told them the normal things.If they wanted to put their home into the Network someone from Bettina’s would spend the night in the room they wanted to use and be treated by them the way they expected to treat guests.

17). The couple was particularly interested in the Bettina Network’s business plan and wanted to see it. Marceline gave them a copy of the business plan; told them they could not keep it, but could read it while she was there..Once finished she would take the business plan back because it was not publicly circulated.They were all sitting around the dining room table.

18). The husband took the business plan to read and excused himself from the table because he had to go to the bathroom – so he said.

19). Back from the bathroom he said he had emailed the business plan to friends of his in Colorado and California and they thought it was unbelievably great. He complimented Marceline on her business plan and Marceline was not pleased. She told him she specifically said he could read it while she was there, but the business plan was not for public consumption and she had told him that and did not want it circulated, especially the way he did by emailing it without her knowledge or permission.With that, Marceline left and did not give the couple a go ahead to put their house into Bettina Network because of that incident and because they really did not have a room to use.They said they were investigating this for the future when they were ready to do more.When Marceline asked why did they lead her to believe this was something they wanted to do right then, they had no answer and made no attempt to find one.

20)_. As it turn out, the business plan was emailed to Chesky and his group along with whoever else they emailed it to in Colorado.

21 )After a few more months passed, we heard from Marceline who asked us to look into what was happening to them. The telephone calls continued even after she asked the people calling not to call again, They apparently were trying to get someone else on the phone other than Marceline who would answer their questions.  She didn’t know what she was going to do with whatever we found, but she wanted to know why all of this was happening to them and did it have anything to do with other problems that were being dropped on them.

22). We started looking elsewhere because this was not the first time we heard about this kind of problem and always with a minority – especially African American owned company striking out in new ways and being very successful in the process.  

23). We are continuing this research and going public now with all of this in great detail because we see the same thing happening within the United States government and there is a connection.

24) As we saw what was happening, we began to draw our own conclusions as to where it was coming from, but we wanted to make sure so we started trying to get close to some of the young white males who were into all of this..We discovered there were rewards and punishments for what was happening.  If you successfully found such a company and it was something of interest to you, you could move aside, begin to develop it, investor money would come your way and you would be in a substantial position in life.

25) You would also have to be loyal to the few people making this possible who seemed to have a particular hatred of blacks and did not see women as worth much along with other minorities all of whom needed to stay in their places because they were not seen as those who could bring such great ideas and businesses to fruition.

26). Among the people we discovered willing to talk they were beginning to be concerned because of what else they were being asked to do.

What is most amazing to us is that we are dealing with people who want the world to be White Northern European and anti everything else.

.We see them as trying to re-create the world as South Africa was pre-Mandela and they are today moving along taking large leaps and bounds in that direction.  

Obviously there is much more.  We wanted to make sure this got out with our experience and findings so you could look around and add your findings to the above.

To contact us, please go through Bettina Network, inc. and ask to leave a message for Samuel.

P. O. Box 380585

Cambridge, MA. 02238  

email: bettinanetwork@comcast.net

telephone: 617 497 9166

Trumps’ signature should be – Make a Mess and then force a benefit!

Trmp is retaliating against those he feels have “wronged him.

After the grand mess he made and all the money and grief he caused others when he set up and ripped off many under the guise of Trump University, he should have been stopped then. Instead, he didn’t even pay the amount of money he was to pay from the court settlement. Someone else, apparently, paid that for him.

Now, he is pushing around Universities, just because he can as president of these United States.

I used to wonder why racism, sexism and all the rest have lasted so long and been so intricately tied up in the structure of these United States. With this Trump saga it is spelled out in everything he does.

Trump has accused Harvard of being anti-semitic and on that platform he has been able to do a lot of damage and waste a lot of time, money, effort of others which could and should have been spent on productive efforts rather than on shoring up Trump’s ego, his money fortune, taking his time which he doesn’t seem to know how to spend on anything except the most negative of projects.

When the stark attacks against Harvard started the university had elected an African American woman as president. Trump and his people acted against her in a way to force her resignation. They also forced the resignation of several white women who had just been appointed president of large, substantial universities – including Columbia.

After the resignation of Harvard’s black female president, the next person appointed president of Harvard University was a Jew.

Trump University sits as the smiling recipient of these actions against the Universities Trump has targeted. I haven’t heard any voices raised to point out that fact. We are so demurring in our responses to such outlandishness.

In all of Trump’s actions he has shown himself to be RACIST, ANTI-Semitic, anti-FEMINIST, anti-GAY and a few other anti’s. He has collected the vilest section of the citizens of these United States to back him with their votes for president. Maybe in the long run what he is doing will move out those who have worked underground to maintain structural racism in these United States and replace them with those who prefer equality.

Trump, a convicted felon, was elected president of these United States. How did that happen? What does that say about the United States voting citizens. Trump, accused of abusing many women and who himself articulated his support of such abuse of women, especially vocalized in a van broadcast to many, was elected president of these United States. Trump, who was supported and moved from Queens to Manhattan and put on a path to being able to set up the Trump Hotel and other movements which moved his fortune along and his fame with it and this was done with the help of a small group of gay jews, who he then turned against and left to flounder as they ran into problems after spending years helping Trump in ways without which his ascent would not have been possible. Along the way many brought up and outlined their thoughts that Trump was actually gay with much reporting on his other abnormal sexual activities including one which Putin observed and is supposedly holding over Trump’s head controlling him. That was something like Trump standing over women in bed while a sexual orgy was going on and peeing on them.

I remember a time in these United States when even the whiff of any of the above allegations would have ruined the persons political, business and personal life. It seems to have put Trump on the road to ultimate success. That speaks volumes for the road the United States has been traveling when such a person is elected president of these United States.

Oh – and let me not forget Trump’s immigrant relations. A man is throwing people out of these United States and making the life of others difficult to impossible because they have come from other countries seeking asylum, education, a new life after having been abused by the country they have come from. When you look at Trump’s marriage history, three wives – two of whom were immigrants. One made her way being a nude model. Would he have thrown her out of the country? Or put her on a pedestal because she fit his lifestyle?

When you look at his family – he comes from a family of immigrants who have made their way through what is claimed to be illegal ways. His grandfather apparently came from Germany with some Hitler involvement and made his way in these United States by using women as prostitutes. Is this where Trump’s proclivity to abuse women comes from? Trump seems to have an attraction to men who abuse and misuse women. His grandfather was so successful at it that he wound up with a hotel – which was a bordello. His father was quite racist in the way he carried out his career refusing to allow blacks into any of the buildings he built, adding substantial impetus to the racism existing in housing in these United States. And Trump did not object to what his father was doing, he was a strong part of moving his father’s racism along by institutionalizing and practicing and walking along the path his father set out for him. It was not the father accused of racism in the buildings he built – it was the father and the son.

It is time for Donald Trump to sit down and shut up. But then, maybe he is showing us where others are coming from as he interacts with them and they treat him as an equal. Are they complicit in similar activities such that they see nothiing wrong with Trump, his background and his current vicious activites against substantial people and institutions in these United States?

Who does Donald Trump bring along as his closest adviser? A man who comes from a wealthy white south african family and whose racism makes Donald Trump look saintly.

Everytime we think we have seen this current presidency sink as low as it is possible to sink, Donald Trump shows us he can go even lower.

Recently, as we all known, a picture of Donald Trump appeared with the current president of these United States dressed as pope.

Donald Trump, who is charging Harvard with anti-semitism and fighting that University and others claiming they are bigoted reached the depths of anti-Catholic bigotry and apparently thinks that is just fine and elevates him in the eyes of his supporters.

“President” Trump has given bigots in these United States a green light to express and act on their extreme prejudices in every way possible and this latest – celebrating Pope Francis’ death with pictures of himself established as pope is beyond anything we have seen in recent times.

Where do you stand?

Did you think it was funny – laughed and found yourself amused for sometime after you saw and/or heard about this continuing extreme prejudice practiced by the President of the United States? – check off yourself as anti-Catholic.

Do you remember how anti-Catholic we were and still are in these United States? – Jews, African Americans, Latina peoples, women, LGBTQ peoples, Catholics, other religions outside of the traditional Protestant denominations, and on and on we go. With the bigotry/prejudices/abuse against those who are not ‘white’, not northern european ancestry peoples, not male now have to deal with those actively practicing their bigotry with impunity and those bigots find themselves led in their bigoted practices by the current president of the United States – Donald J. Trump.

We are seeing a man leading a pact of bigots into acts which are constantly slammed against those we consider “minorities”. The “others” Those whose blood sweat and tears actually built this country. Isn’t that why “President” Donald Trump and his supporters are rampaging through and negating – getting rid of – and threatening those peoples and institutions who keep such guidelines and laws alive which strive to make this a better, more equal country? –

The Affirmative Action/Diversity/Voter guidelines put in place to make this a better more equal country are constantly being torn down by “President” Trump and his followers. Those guidelines and laws for which many – including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – gave their lives so the rest of us could begin to experience a more equal business, educational, personal life and so thereby we all could thrive?

All of that history, all of those sacrifices so we could elect a president who thinks it is alright to dress up as the pope and mock Catholicism while his followers laugh?

I used to wonder how racism, sexism and all the rest could still be around after so many decades and so many lives were sacrificed to destroy it. When Donald Trump was elected president after he had shown himself to be an abuser of women; financially irresponsible with many bankruptcies; a person who contracted for work, materials and labor refusing to pay; abused the educational institutional structure to steal from those trying to get an education to move ahead in this country; who becomes president and tries to take down legitimate positively functioning universities because he could not make a fortune illegally within the “university” he constructed to rip off those who registered within his so called university; and who has done so much more with impunity, I finally have begun to understand and so do the rest of you.

My life has been spent fighting for a better world – a more equal world – a kind and caring world – and I have received extreme retaliation in return. It is clear to me today that all of that happens because a little over half the voters in these United States lack the moral values to cast their votes for goodness, kindness, graciousness, caring, reaching out to those in need, constructing constantly a country which recognizes and responds positively to religious values instead of setting up a few religions they can hide behind, negating and doing evil without accepting any responsibility or need to do good – as long as material wealth and the promise to continue their need to be “better than” comes from those running for office.

My religion tells me to say at this point – God forgive! However, I can actually only ask – my God how can you forgive?

What is going on when a man, who is known to be racist and extremely sexist, starts a campaign against institutions and others demanding they address their anti-semitism?

Well, if the man is Donald Trump, you know he self-serves and does little else and in the case of his anti-semitic campaign – could that be because his sin-in-law (Kushner) is an Orthodox Jew? And his daughter (Ivanka) – Kushner’s wife – converted to Orthodox Judaism in 2009?

Is that what made Donald Trump able to fight anti-semitism and threaten to destroy Universities and more if they didn’t address the issue? And – at the same time strip African Americans of their jobs because of their skin color, ancestors, etc? And – at the same time work to eliminate Gay and Trans folks from any involvement in society along with Latina’s and so many more “minorities”?

It is too bad Trump’s “campaign” to eliminate anti-semitism hasn’t cleaned up his, Elon Musk’s and their circle of folks ethics, morals, etc.

One thing all of this has done for many of us is to show how slavery held on so long and how folks were able to own slaves; treated their African slaves; the dirt poor Chinese living in these United States building the structures on which the railroads ran and who lived in horrendous circumstances and still suffer to this day from being one of the American Minorities; and so many more from other parts of the world and along with those who lived on the continent we now call the United States, who suffered under the Donald Trumps and Elon Musks in the past and in the present.

These were people stealing from every one and living in the most abominal, vile, unethical ways. They and those who inherited their immorality are now in society doing everything they can to make sure only those like them thrive. They make sure only their own kind are able to exercise their talents like everyone else without the immorality of Trump supporters destroying their lives.

To have elected such an immoral man as President of these United States makes quite a statement about United States many of the United States’ voting citizens. Trump has been accused of sexually abusing many women. Elon Musk has 14 children by 4 wives most of whom know only negatives about their “father” because of the way he treats them – ignores them – and goes on making more children. Does money and the power it brings give you the right to do this?

What Trump and Elon Musk are doing today is showing the world how immoral you can be and still have people who idolize you and want to do your will because of their money and power.

Many of us have long looked at the two opposing ‘governments’ in these United States. The one with people working to maintain and grow a democracy where all people are created equal. The other pushing forward in positions of leadership those who created and continue and grow an autocratic, fascist society which uses the corporate structure to gain ever more money, power and arrogance to attempt to exercise their unethical, immoral and arrogant lifestyle.

We have seen and experienced how minorities and women with great businesses don’t get to bring all of their hard work to fruition because it is usually – with very few exceptions to disprove the rule – stolen from them when their businesses show their creations moving into great, very lucrative money wise ways.

Will it ever stop or will this be the way of this world as long as humans live on it? Will our priorities ever change to make it a necessity for humans to reach out to those who have less and work with them to bring them into enjoying the fruits of their labor?

Dear God – you promised that when two or three were gathered in your name you would be in the midst of them. Please make your presence felt during thiis time of great need in these United States as the horror of what is happening here is gradually spreading across the globe.

One of the first attacks by Donald Trump, very shortly after he took on the job of president of these United States were the attacks he made against Harvard University, Columbia University and who else?

Interesting the side issues to that – in the background – the woman who was out front, Elise Stefanik, lost her job as Ambassador to the United Nations before she got a chance to be sworn in. She was front and center trying to take down the female presidents of some of our best universities. Had to do with Trump’s gratitude to those who prostrate themselves to him?

Go back into recent history and take a look at what happened with Trump University! There are many articles which have researched this topic. One is https://www.americanprogress.org/article/trump-university-look-enduring-education-scandal/

The above article mentions Columbia Business School. It says “Columbia Business School made clear that “individual faculty” helped develop early programs but have nothing to do with the real estate program that became the heart of Trump University”. In a statement provided by the university, Don Sexton, a professor at the business school, said, “If the allegations are true, then they took something that was designed to help struggling small business owners and corrupted it.”³²“

That does answer some questions as to why Trump went after Columbia University.

Thousands of students paid between approximately $10,000 and $35,000 to attend this University founded by Donald Trump and from which he benefitted at a time when it looks as though he was having tough financial difficulties. Those who were trying to gain an education and better themselves paid the price for his next step up. Some of these articles claim Trump was paid a sum for each student who signed up for the very abbreviated learning they received.

The lawsuit itself resulted in a $25 million dollar settlement against Trump! It is claimed, Trump did not pay that settlement, someone else paid for him and he continued life as usual.

Trump had to do a lot of explaining during his first run for president. During this second run it was almost not mentioned and after he was installed as president and went after Columbia University and others there was barely any reporting in the media showing the relationship between what happened then and the possibility that what substantial universities are now having to deal with that Donald Trump, president is foisting on them is RETALIATION.

Read about Trump University and you will see that the schools attacked by Trump seem to have been attacked because of Trump University.

Wikipedia write: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University

Trump University was never an actual University despite calling itself such and Donald Trump owned 93% of the LLC. The lawsuits filed claimed “racketeering” amongst other claims. New York State Department of Education forced a name change from University to whatever else. – and now Trump is trying to close down the Federal Department of Education. Does one have anything to do with the other?

Trump University was also sued by the state of Texas for engaging in false, misleading and deceptive practices.

Many of the people now involved running the United States government at the highest level are talked about as you read what happened with Trump University. Pam Bondi – currently one at the top of the U. S. Government is one of those people. She was then Florida’s Attorney General.

From 1973 through 2016 Donald Trump was involved in over 4,000 cases. Giving a different look at why he is now pressuring law firms and receiving free future legal help.

Northwestern University was involved in all of this. Trump publicly claimed that major universities supported his institution and he named Northwestern University, Stanford and Columbia. All three denied that they had any involvement. Northwestern said Trump’s claim “apparently involves a former professor here named Roger Schank. He retired from Northwestern in about 1998. We do not have any information regarding any subsequent affiliation he may have had with Trump University.”³¹ And so, Northwestern University was listed wherever Trump keeps his list of grievances against people and institutions and when he had the chance he did what he could to malign them and attempted to make their lives difficult.

This could go on for pages. However, if you want to know more, it is readily available on your computer, simply search for Trump University, Donald Trump, etc. and you will find enough to read that will make you need a bath at the end of your readings. It is putrid to see so much about someone who is now president of these United States. We wonder if those who voted for him don’t also feel as though they need a good cleansing.

We see where this comes from and where it is going. When you read about the latest Trump horror story where he and Elon Musk took Maya Angelou’s book out of the military libraries and left Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler in the library for our military people to read it brings back the divorce statements when Trump and Ivanka Trump divorced where she told the court Trump kept Adolf Hitler’s writings on his bedside table. Most of us keep the bible in that spot. It certainly explains Trump and Musk’s relationship and Trump’s life story. Doesn’t Musk come from a wealthy South African family?

Dear God, we are trying very hard to keep your commandments and to reach out to those being misled and walking an evil path. Don’t know if our efforts are successful, but we will keep praying, believing and walking and doing according to your will. Please look at what is happening in this world and bring about your justice, your peace, your reconciliation. So many people’s lives are being destroyed because of one man’s ambitions with the help of so many more who have let greed and power obtained on the backs of others blind them to what they are doing. Opportunities many being so seriously hurt have worked hard to achieve for themselves and their families and those opportunities are being taken away from them in the ugliest and most vicious of ways. Your hand is needed more than ever in this morass of lies, cheating, stealing, and so much more. Help us all, dear Lord.

It is time for psychologists and psychiatirsts, who have noticed the mental problems Trump is showing to speak out. The United States and its future is at stake.

There are beginning to be calls for Donald J. Trump to resign as United Sates President. That is not going to happen. The United States saw what happened when Trump lost the election. His ego and arrogance and fast progressing mental illness will not allow him to resign.

There is a much more serious problem which the United States must face. By a very small majority, the citizens of these United States elected a president who was and is showing signs of mental illness; who is a convicted felon; who has been accused of and it has been proven in Court that he sexually assaulted women. From the accusations against him, it was many many women and from looking at the backbrounds and tendencies of the men he has appointed to serve in his government , his preference of people with whom he wants to work are those who engage in sexual deviancy – particularly the sexual abuse of women.

Our question has always been – what kind of people would vote for and want such a person to lead the country in which they live and raise their children. What happens to your children as they grow to maturity with such an example held up to them as the kind of person they should strive to be?

Donald Trump has led quite a stressful life, which we feel has resulted in his current mental incapacity. Everyone around him and much of the general citizenry of these United States has been trying very hard to ignore this and we are all paying the price. Not just United States citizens, but the world economic, financial and political systems.

How is this exhibited? One way – there is not an appearance Trump makes and at which he says anything that he does not trash someone and use that trashing to build himself up. This is not an occasional trashing of others and glorifying of Donald Trump. The way he does this shows he is quite far along in his mental “craziness.”. The tariffs he is now imposing on the world are a clear indication that his economic vision is impaired and is impaired in a way that clearly shows his mental illness.

As a very young man, Donald Trump was surrounded by and helped to move ahead financially and otherwise by a small group of gay people who surrounded Roy Cohn. They helped him move taking along his father’s money and the influence his father built over a lifetime, from Queens to New York. Unfortunately, Trump also took along his father’s bigotry, having worked with his father to keep African Americans out of their apartment buildings.

The group most influential in; most helpful to Trump’s acquiring Trump Towers and other business moves was the gay group around Roy Cohn, a man who did not deny his gayness and worked to help others even though his ethics and in the way he did this was quite questionable. The way Roy Cohn moved in his business life as an attorney was quite similar to the way Trump now moves – although Trump is moving on a much larger scale.

As a result of all of the help and sacrifices Roy Cohn and the group around him made to help Donald Trump move out of his father’s sphere of influence and into Manhattan, they and the entire gay community has been repaid by Donald Trump in the most negative of ways. By Trump moving very strongly against the gay community and characterizing them in the ugliest of ways making sure their lives today will be exponentially more difficult because Donald Trump is and was president..

We don’t believe Trump is gay. From what we have looked into, our conclusion is that Donald Trump is a sexual deviant of the worse kind and he is uplifting and spreading his sexual deviancy by the way he empowers those like him and with the same tendencies, appointing many of these to be his co-workers – many of those who have been accused of the same tendencies to sexual deviancy to high office in the United States of America..

Once upon a time there was no questioning the sexual identity of members of groups like those who planned the Krystalnacht march complete with lanterns marching down a hill. Today, the first question that we hear asked about such groups has to do with the sexual identity of the members of such groups. That questioning parallels the ascendancy of Donald J. Trump and his use and sometimes abuse of these groups.

As Trump has moved away from those groups, except to use them when he needs their help, he has not moved away from the talk and questions about his sexuality.

Today also, many of the prominent people who have worked the hardest to move Trump back into the White House are rumored to be gay. There are rumors about Vance, Trump’s choice for vice President. Mostly about why he was chosen. Vance worked for Peter Thiel, who is appaarently the only person Vance has worked for most of his life, totally admits his gayness. Was that choice (Vance as Trump’s running mate) put in front of Trump, who was not allowed to turn away from that because of what was known about Donald Trump? Like Roy Cohn, Thiel and his group have not denied their gayness having lived into it most of their lives.

During most of Donald Trump’s life indications of mental illness have been front and center. Mostly, the people around him have tried to deny that, probably because they used his mental illness to their economic and political advantage.

Today, it is time for these United States to acknowledge what is “in your face.” Donald Trump needs to be taken down as United States president because the country cannot properly function with a leader. who shows indications of a very destructive form of mental illness and has been showing suchfor quite some time. Trump has clearly shown everytime he makes a speech – even short and very brief comments – the extent of his mental illness. His being president the first time ended in this country’s first ever insurrection during which the police, White House guards and many others lost their lives because Trump lost the election for a second term in office. He is now back and mentally even worse than he was those four plus years ago. The people surrounding him who are aware of this are using it to their benefit and to the detriment of the United States.

IT IS PAST TIME TO CALL FOR – NOT THE RESIGNATION OF DONALD J. TRUMP AS PRESIDENT OF THESE UNITED STATES, BUT FOR HIS REMOVAL AS PRESIDENT BECAUSE OF MENTAL ILLNESS CAUSING A SEVERE PROBLEM FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD.

If that does not happen, things will most definitely and quickly move DOWNHILL.

An entire world is being subject to gaslighting. The expert and top dog at the sport is Donald J. Trump. He is followed only by Elon Musk. I would put Musk first, but he didn’t have what it was to run for and become president. Instead he has taken the backseat, but not backstage positioning allowed to him by Donald J. Trump.

This is the second time around that Trump has shown off his gaslighting ability to the whole world and it is a spectacular talent.

The American stock market is the latest subject. He has gone about his job with talk, talk and more talk. None of it clear. None of it true. None of it particular to the stock market in America and – incidently – actually affected world wide stock markets. Now that is a first class gaslighter.

Elon Musk’s gas lighting ability and use of – or should I say abuse of – his talents has made me back away from wanting to become the world’s wealthiest woman or man. Maybe I should rather say the world’s wealthiest person.

Unfortunately, Donald Trump’s gaslighting has cost most of us tens – no – hundreds of thousands of dollars that we worked hard to acquire, save, invest. Those facts, however, never touch a gaslighters conscience. He/she just continues to gas light.

We wonder – just an aside – if Donald Trump’s big emphasis on fighting bigotry against Jews comes from his guilt from the way he treated his mentor – Roy Cohn.

We used to work hard to bring about change for the betterment of humanity. We don’t anymore. We understand human beings better than we did at a much younger age. The best of us can turn into the worst of us in seconds and continue on the most despicable way to live and relate you have ever encountered.

The laziest way to do that is through gaslighting and then stepping aside to enjoy the results of one’s talent. Even lazier is to combine gaslighting with lying. Now that should bring down empires.

God help me to remain centered in all that I do with my eyes, ears, heart tuned to your word and my deeds reflective of your plan for my life. It is really hard to do that, but I will keep trying.

What a day – what a world – what a country!

We have Elon Musk doing everything he can to turn this country into what White South Africa was like many years prior to Nelson Mandela, so Musk can be comfortable living here being the power and money behind the Trump Throne. And then, we have Donald Trump living out Joe McCarthy and Roy Cohn’s dream. Trump was well mentored by Roy Cohn for years and now he gets to fly solo putting into practice what he learned at Roy Cohn’s knee and what he added to at Vladimir Putin’s knee.

Who was at the head table for the McCarthy public/political meetings and rallies!!!! Who made up the McCarthy trinity and who has succeeded them:

1. Joe McCarthy – with his successor who we can’t accurately name

2. Roy Cohn – who mentored Donald Trump

3. Robert Kennedy – succeeded in this political iteration by Robert Kennedy Jr.

What most amazes ue is the fact that these people were allowed and mostly elected to destroy these United States in the attempt to keep it white, male, mostly northern european, with power and money belonging only to the few.

If any of us thought these United States were becoming this beautiful country living out its constitution we have unrefutable proof that it is a country doing its best to become one of the most bigoted countries spending its energy and resources exploiting its lower to middle class citizens, while building into its structure that place for its billionaire class which would be ‘better than” all others. Slavery has just bveen redefined, it has not been eliminated.

The people who voted for Trump and Company should be on their knees begging God’s forgiveness for having violated all of God’s commandments – some vicariously through supporting and putting themselves under those who have and continue to flagrantly violate those commandments and way of being.

It is tragic to see Peter Hegseth join Donald Trump. What do they have in common? – The abuse of women? Doesn’t Donald Trump have a weakness for those who do just that. Who has he chosen for his cabinet who is not such a violator of women? It is as if the Presidential Cabinet’s job descriptions have been re-written to add abuse – sexually and otherwise – of women and if that is not your thing, then immigrants and others who are not white, not northern european ancestry, not in that group.

If you have been about the abuse of women, a short investigation will show the rest of your life has been about the abuse, disrespect, etc. etc. of many, many others.

Trump and those working with him are busy destroying the lives of those they designate as “Criminal Immigrants.” Tragically, a look into their backgrounds shows -Trump particularly – that they have ancestors and family who could be categorized as what they today call “Criminal Immigrants”. Those ancestors and family to come who have the stage set for their past and future family to carry their horribleness which they inherited from the past into future generations. And Trump’s children? Are they on the same path? We have seen their self-absorption, but where is their care and concern for others.

Well Joseph McCarthy – former United States Senator – see what you have wrought. There are no words to describe your sins. And to you Attorney Roy Cohn, may God have mercy on your soul. Robert Kennedy, former U. S. Attorney General, you moved the end of your life to a better purpose than the road on which you started your career. May your last work on this earth help to ease the burden you had to carry into your next life. Maybe the example of how you changed your course will leak into the life of your son who will feel moved to do a bit of repentance and good work instead of calling what he is now doing good work as he helps Donald Trump and Company destroy so many others to help him totally change these United States into a country which continues the slavery and awfulness of its early beginnings into today.

Unfortunately, looking at one’s life and seeing the desperate need for change and the awfulness of where you are currently does not seem to seep in when it is power you are seeking. The corruption that power and money brings into ones life blinds one to the incredible price you pay and that you force others to pay for your extreme misdeeds.

These United States have everything it needs to become a strong, caring, sharing nation. Unfortunately, every time we come close to crossing that threshold into goodness we put up blockages to make sure we don’t cross over. It is past the time for us to leave ugliness, bigotry, greed, the lust for personal power and so much more evil that you all are creating today and walk into the beautiful garden of God’s promise.

Is Trump threatening the position of King Charles? Is trying to become “King Donald” what is causing his prejudices, jealousies and visions of the future? Is this all about Donald Trump trying to bring about his royal/authoritarian dream.

Is this why he started with Columbia University? – If you go back in history you will find Coluimbia University was founded in 1754. Its original name was King’s College. It was founded by a royal charter issued by King George.. It was located in the vestry room of an Episcopal/Anglican Church and its first head of the school was an Anglican priest. We have emphasized Columbia’s Anglican roots for a reason – keep reading!

Then comes Canada – with a very clear Anglican involvement. King Charles is the royal head of Canada whose history is totally mixed with its beginnings with the British monarchy and the Anglican Church.

Most recently the media covered Donald Trump threatening to move against the EU and CANADA to do awful things to them. Not the EU and England. He has not included England in any of his threats, so far.

Given his history and ways of functioning, does this mean he is threatening England and King Charles through all of this because he has designs on becoming Englands next monarch? Or to have the United States somehow involved in bringing back its English roots with Donald Trump being the hero of the piece if he can’t make king?

Interesting also is Trump’s family roots – didn’t his grandfather come from Germany? Isn’t that also the origins of the British Royal family?

Trump is now trying to clean up his family history so the world will not be focused on the Trump family’s CRIMINAL IMMIGRANT background? Our research turned up the grandfather coming from Germany to the United States and establishing his fortune using women as prostitutes and working his way up to owning a Bordello. For those of you who don’t know – a Bordello is a “hotel” where women prostitutes live, with the person who owns and manages the bordello benefitting extremely well financially from the “work” of the women.

Are we all suffering because of Trump’s dream of becoming “King Donald Trump”. Is he moving to bring the United States into this authoritarian mode so he can merge his Presidency into the British Royal Family or take it over ousting King Charles and establishing “King Donald”?

 

All the newspapers and other media are full of Donald Trump and what he has done lately.

A couple articles struck me. Everyone wants to know where Trump is going with the tariffs, his friendship with Vladimir Putin, etc.

As I read about Trump and Putin the question that crossed my mind was what is it Trump wants from Putin? The answer came back very quickly.:

Some claim Trump has been a Russian Asset since he was a young adult. Some conjecture that the gathering when Trump was president and after an hours long meeting with only Trump and Putin in the room (highly unusual for one head of state with another), Trump appeared very stripped of everything and fearful. Many guesses about what happened in that meeting to turn Trump into a scared looking child whose father had just knocked the crap out of him, took up much media space. But then Trump recovered his composure and just started heralding Putin as a “friend”.

It seems to me – with Trump apparently unable to see anyone except in terms of what they can offer him, Putin has added much. After tha meeting, Trump may have been down for the count, but it didn’t take long for him to see what was in it for him.

Coming back as President of these United Sates, it looks as though the Russia-Ukraine war gave Trump new life. He would become U. S. President and among the other things he could do – expanding U. S. territory would be one to get his name securely in the history books. If Russia could just appear and attack Ukraine to annex more territory to Russia – wow! – Trump, as president of the United States, could annex Greenland and Canada for an even better deal. And, in the process swamp what Putin was trying to do with an all out war.

Trump saw what he could gain if the war between Russia and Ukraine settled with Russia winning and keeping Ukrainian land. What an example set out for the world to see so when Trump goes after Greenland and Canada in serious ways there is an example to follow. How much easier than just going after Greenland and Canada seemingly out of the blue. It has happened in recent history – look at Russia and Ukraine. And so it goes. Male sexism (read male superiority) is a bitch. it takes away your humanity and makes you do awful things in the process of keeping up appearances.

Is there nothing better Trump and Putin could do with their lives than to live amongst such horribleness flexing their male (better than everyone) muscles?

And then comes Elon Musk!

This is a stock we have followed for quite a long time and it has been amazing the way it moves.

Lately, it has run into problems. Not with the company – nor with its results which are nothing short of spectacular, but clearly someones want to see this stock stall, drop, disappear or better still, run into serious problems.

After coming out with what only can be called spectacular results for this last quarter the stock price barely moved. Same thing happened the quarter before this. Most companies with such results would have doubled within a day or so – NVIDIA went down.

You know we could not let this pass without doing some investigating.

We noticed some time ago an advertisement, which could only be called anti-NVIDIA. A man comes on, gives his credentials and warns you against buying NVIDIA stock. Then there runs in the background lists of ‘billionaires’ who are selling all of their NVIDIA stock because, according to this guy, it is going to tank. The names and other particulars of these ‘billionaires’ who are getting rid of all of their NVIDIA stock runs in the background the way credits at the end of a movie giving credit to those who created the movie would see their information running. That advertisement has been running on the business channels for quite some time. The man narrating it gives a very substantial background and seriously tells you to sell your NVIDIA stock or not to buy it in the first place because all of these very important and wealthy investors have dumped NVIDIA.

That advertisement has been running for quite awhile and is clearly geared to the everyday people who buy and sell stock especially who are buying NVIDIA. It is your warning to stay away.

One reason we like NVIDIA, besides all of the financial reasons pointing to it as a great investment is the way Jensen Huang handled the advent of DeepSeek.

When DeepSeek came along NVIDIA stock dropped like a huge rock thrown into water, as did many other stocks and the market in general. The good news is the way Jensen Huang responded. Today, there is an article out, with NVIDIA’s results and comments from Huang amongst which is the announcement that he has paired up with DeepSeek and they are going to do business together. What a great response.

The normal response for such a happening would be to begin a campaign to destroy or seriously injure NVIDIA. We have a president who sets an example on how to handle such – lie about the company, crap all over its top executives, etc. etc., do whatever underhanded and public thing you can think of to destroy the company and those who work there.

NVIDIA’s results for this quarter are nothing short of fantastic. They say to me this company has a continuing fantastic present and future.

by: Marceline Donaldson

Many years ago when I was in college at New York University I lived on Riverside Drive and walked to church at Riverside Church on Sunday mornings. It was an amazing experience.

In those days Riverside Church was mostly all white. The minister when I was there was Harry Emerson Fosdick. Riverside Church was interdenominational and quite an experience for me. It was at Riverside Church that a very strong call was made for reparations to African Americans for all that they experienced in these United States including slavery. James Forman, executive director of SNCC took over the pulpit at Riverside on May 4, 1969 and read the document created in Detroit Michigan for the National Black Economic Development Conference. The document came to be known as the Black Manifesto and was written because racist white America had exploited and still, to this day, is exploiting the resources, minds, bodies, labor of blacks who helped to build this most industrial country in the world.

Formans demand was that white churches and synagogues pay reparations for Black enslavement and continuing discrimination and oppression. It had been written by Forman and delivered by him commandeering the pulpit of Riverside Church disrupting the regular service. The Black Manifesto was first presented at a conference funded in part by the Episcopal Church and the National Counsil of Churches amongst others hoping to bring Black leaders together to discuss how to socially and economically implement Black Power. If ever there was a time to go back into history it is today as Donald Trump and Elon Musk try to bring about in these United States what even South Africa has rejected.

Given that history, through which I lived, Robert and I decided to go back to Riverside Church, knowing where it was we wanted to see where and what it is about today.

We are including for you a service from the church. Their services are recorded and you can access them; join the list of those who “go to church on the internet” on Sundays; or just to watch and listen to what has happened since the very emotional events involving Riverside Church in the 1960’s.

It is a very moving service. As you can see the church is no longer mostly White. Today, it has a black female pastor and is inclusive of many cultures and different kinds of people with a commitment which is very strong. It is a place where one could raise children in the Christian faith and they would be quite happy to be there – not many churches today can say that.

We would appreciate your feed back.

Please ignore our lack of media experience. We somehow put up two film of the same service and don’t know how to take down one leaving the other for your use.

Marceline Donaldson

“We spent the day watching the Trump Campaign – hearing the media stories leading up to it and the Donald J. Trump rally itself at Madison Square Garden.

It was an amazing time. At the end of the day we felt as though we needed a thorough cleansing because what we saw and heard was mud slinging all over this country, the world and its people in the ugliest way.

We have a couple people who knew Trump back in New York many, many years ago. Given that and our own knowledge, to hear the claims in the rally by several participants that Trump built New York was beyond the pale.

We thought over all we heard at the rally and several things we knew before the rally started and lots dropped into place;

The first was what we heard about Trump being gay and that it was the gay community in which he was intimately involved that brought him and his business from Queens to Manhattan. We reheard about Roy Cohn with several people telling us how deeply involved Trump was with Roy Cohn. We heard a bit of that gayness from Trump when he talked about Arnold Palmer’s private parts on television. It was almost as though if confirmation of Trump’s gayness today was needed – here it was.

In that context it made sense to us that Robert Kennedy, Jr. chose to be a part of the Trump family. Robert Kennedy Sr. apparently was involved with the McCarthy happenings back in the day, before he saw the light and moved over working with the Democrats on a very different level. Jr., who came along later didn’t do that. His family’s McCarthy connections had too strong an influence on him. He went in one direction resulting in his joining the Trump campaign and the rest of his family took a different less racist, sexist, etc. route.

Listening to the people who came to the podium to give their testimonial speech and to knock Kamala Harris was also amazing. I felt, after all of that, seriously in need of a really good cleansing bath. The foul language, the lies made each person who took the podium a little lower in our esteem than they were prior to their talk..

One strong thing that came out of the time spent watching all of this was a clearer understanding of why racism, sexism, homophobia and all the rest of the bigotry which has pervaded this nation almost from its beginnings has been practically impossible to get out of the structures of this country – the political, family and religious structures inclusively.

To support Donald Trump and his vice presidential choice (Vance) one has to be a real, true bigot whose ethics are in the dumpster. There have been many excuses made as to why people support this vile bigotry and dumpster ethics, because you can’t support people who clearly have horrible, vicious, ugly, vile and illegal ways of being who are running for office without your vote being cast giving them positive back-up for who they are – how they are – and permission to bring all of that up front into this country, its political system, its corporate structures, into the lives of the individual families and into its religious beliefs and structures.

We are talking, not just about Donald Trump. We are talking about tens of millions of people who have spent their lives destroying the lives, the quality of life, the future of others causing many deaths in the process.

When one looks back at just Donald Trump you see a man who is and has been gay from at least his young adult years who has no problems acting in a horrendous way against other gays, making their lives as difficult as possible because it suits Donald Trumps need to move ahead in this society denying and denigrating others with his same sexual proclivities because it helps him financially and otherwise without a thought to those he is seriously hurting.

One sees in Trump a man who had no problem ripping off people trying to get an education at great cost to themselves and their family looking forward to a better future only to discover they were doing it through Trump University which has been shown to be a place ripping them off for the millions of dollars it put into Donald Trump and his cohorts pockets.

All through Donald Trump’s life there have been incidents like Trump University. Some not so big and ugly – some which have made what happened at Trump University look like just a beginning to what has escalated now to a country-wide horror and if Trump wins the presidency, soon to a world wide dumpster fire

We don’t have to go back through each incident, I am sure they are well known to you making you not notice the little bits which just slide through, but which are strong parts of the Institutional Racism and other institutionalized bigotry making it hard to impossible for others. Something as small as media referring to Trump by his last name and to Kamala Harris only by her first name – sort of in the style which prevailed during slavery. The master referred to by his last name, the slave or servant only by their first name and even that didn’t happen often – just like with Trump and a description of what is being talked about acknowledging the other person at times without any name being mentioned.

Trump’s immigrant stance with his threats as to how awful immigrants are and what he is going to do to stop most from entering this country and according to Trump – turning it into a garbage dump. That is the most telling of all his lies. Trump himself came from a German immigrant family. Their money came from Trump’s grandfather who made his living once he was in this country by using women as prostitutes and eventually built a hotel -a bordello – where women lived and entertained men sexually for money. None of that, along with the abuse of the women has ever made the media although it should be very relevant given Trump’s anti-immigrant stance.

His anti-immigrant stance continues when you notice that his first wife was an immigrant and so is his current wife. To look at their lives, what have they contributed to this country as immigrants – other than marrying Donald Trump and becoming citizens? His current wife was a nude model and in pictures is nude on a bear rug in the ugliest way along with pictures which are practically nude standing next to a Trump plane or inside the plane with a case full of jewels in a mostly nude pose. That clearly carries a message – especially to the young people who see such pictures and then connect the picture with someone who was the wife of the president of the United States who is now running to be president once again. The rewards of such behavior?

We could go on for pages, but I think the message we want to put out is clear. Until the citizens of this country get their ethical lives together and live good, caring, positive lives without needing to be better than; without needing to lie, cheat, steal and more; without needing to abuse and prostitute women to achieve their financial goals for themselves we will always be in a spot like the one we are in today. We can’t really talk issues, policies, how to move ahead making sure that all of our citizens are whole and able to live good, caring, substantial lives until we stop supporting the likes of Donald Trump because we are caught up in his money, etc. That brings us to the spot we are in today where the billionaire class is taking over and using the rest of us to earn more billions in crude and unethical ways.

The latest influence Trump has is to cheat trying to be president by bringing pressure on newspapers not to endorse Kamala Harris or not to endorse at all if they are not going to endorse Trump. IS IT TIME TO BOYCOTT THE WASHINGTON POST, THE LA TIMES AND AMAZON to get their billionaire owners to stop playing lets pretend they are good and whole people and when the chips are down who they really are surfaces? Don’t we deserve better than that?

Help us, Dear God, to live lives of caring, of truthfulness, to acknowledge our sins and work to correct them, to do what we can to remove evil from who we are and from this world we did not create, but in which we now live. Help us to live with concern and caring for those traveling with us on this journey and remove the likes of Donald Trump, his followers and those who support him in his evil ways hurting whoever gets in the way or does not cooperate or who wants to make billions at the expense of others or who have made billions and that money has only served to awaken and accelerate the evil ways they live their lives. We have so much and we give so little and we justify the evil we do without conscience keeping us back. Keep in front of us the lives of those who are good and just and have managed to move ahead doing good, not evil. Lift us up as we try to lift others through this coming election in these United States. Help us to create a beautiful, just and giving country no matter our status. Amen!”

What a headline!! What an incredible end to the presidential election in the United States.

This is one of the few places where you will see such a headline from people who live under, accept and think this capitalistic democracy has something to offer the world – just not this bit of horribleness.

How that happened can be seen in all the people who now will spend lots of time and money sucking up to Donald Trump – the one who now has power and that power will deliver much money into his coffers. Those sucking up to him are those who want a small piece of that money and power to flow to them and they are willing to pay whatever price is asked for that to happen. Sit back and watch, America. You will see where many of those moving up in this administration have had their ethics, lifestyle and beliefs compromised way back when.

The United States has been a racist/sexist/misogynist country almost from its beginnings. We thought, this time, things would be different. Change would happen. Equality would flow into all the lives in this country, especially those who have had to live without experiencing such.

We saw many areas over the past several years where racism/sexism and all the other isms were having a time when those very bigoted areas were being pushed back and on the horizon was a more equal America. It shone brightly for all to see – or so we thought.

We thought we saw America becoming the country it claims to be. We thought we saw an America coming into being which actually respected every man and woman as equal – no matter their financial background – their racial background – their sex – their sexual orientation – their religious beliefs – and no matter the country from which they and/or their parents immigrated to these United States. We thought we saw mutual respect one for another. We thought all of the past ugliness was fading in the way we thought we saw Kamala Harris’ acceptance as vice-president and as a presidential candidate.

How wrong we were. Our dreams were interfering with reality. Donald Trump and his surrogates were, instead, re-enforcing the negative racist stereotype of black women; they were doing everything they could to portray Latina’s in negative ways; they took every such group and denigrated them as much as they possibly could so a White Nationalist who is also a Convicted Felon could emerge and rule this nation/this country in ways to bring it into alignment with Hitler’s Germany. “Hitler speak” was all over the Trump campaign. It was recognized and talked about by all, but those backing Trump were those referred to as “less than” under Adolph Hitler so why would they notice; be worried, or see anything other than – “this could possibly be the way to re-elect Donald Trump.”

The clearest example of how this bigotry works is shown in the life of the woman Trump has chosen to be his number one representative. We all know the most effective African Americans to keep down other African Americans are those who are imbued with the same racism as their White Racist brothers and sisters. Here we have an example of a White Woman, imbued with the sexism which the man who chose her has in his DNA. She spent lots of time, energy, and more getting him elected in spite of the way he has publicly treated, talked about, joked about, put down women of all colors, complexions and sexual orientation. In spite of knowing the history of the man she was promoting and working extremely hard to get elected as president of these United States she persevered and her reward has been to be appointed Trump’s Chief of Staff and I am sure in coming days she will be acclaimed as a fantastic example of Trump’s ability to ignore the sexism in which he is steeped. Her example of the future where white women will be so honored, who are the counter part the African Americans who can only see themselves as moving ahead and up is to knuckle under accepting and promoting the inferiority of their own group while the rest of society “exceptionalities” them.

We go over the same things from one generation to the next and here is an example of how we maintain the sexism is which we and our ancestors have lived for generations.

CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA! You have managed once again to maintain white northern european type males as superior to everyone else and to make sure the top of the ticket remains in their hands. One day there will be a reckoning – God’s reckoning for which we pray every day all day for it to come soon.

Having watched the returns come in and listened to the people commenting, I heard everything except what really spoke to this election – and probably others as well.

The United States is a racist, sexist, anti- minority country. Trump’s election says it will be continue to be so for quite some time. This country started out using Africans to do the work of building, cleaning, and doing everything else while those who called themselves “citizens” did very little of that kind of work – or any kind of work except building a culture and society which denigrates those considered to be “less than.” Africans were stolen and held in bondage being forced to work free. We are a country which had its beginnings and growth using slaves. Human Beings we stole from Africa and forced to live out their lives in the most horrible of circumstances.

Over the decades, things changed and gradually Africans became African Americans – others joined that ‘minority group’ and continued to work for very little. Their lives and talents were controlled on many levels to keep these second, third and fourth class citizen building this country and receiving little in return.

After many generations of this, we put up the lie to which all were forced to subscribe, that we were actually a country of “separate, but equal” citizens.

Today, many thought this election was going to turn things around – finally – and we would have a more equal country with the structural/institutional racism and all the other -isms which pervades everything we have/do/think would gradually fade away and equality would be Americas gift to the world.

However, some things about this election bothered us even while we tried to put them to rest. We would like to share them:

Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of these United States in spite of his ethics and way he has lived and acquired his assets. What does that say about the people who elected him – who voted for him to be their president? His is and has been a life lived destroying others, threatening even more, taking what he wanted from those who had less than and generally moving ahead living on and taking from whoever whatever he could rip off.

One example is Trump University, which destroyed the dreams of a college education for many and took the money of people who saw their dream of a college education go up in smoke. He took their money – gave back nothing – and added their money and wrecked dreams to his coffers and his history. This was only one of many such schemes and they continue to this day. His treatment of women is abominable and he has destroyed the lives of many women through sexual assault, rape, and so much more – this now 47th President of these United States.

We could go through his life and list his sins, but you know them as well as we do and yet many of you even knowing all of that still voted to make him president of these United States. What does that say about your lives, ethics, ways of being?

Many of us thought the institutional bigotry woven tightly into this society was lessening and losing its grip as a more equal society was coming to be – BuT some things about Trump’s ‘ascendency’ still bothered us and as we see this election, our concerns were well founded.

Did you ask yourselves why the person running against Trump was always a woman? Once – when Hillary Clinton was his adversary we could push that off and look at it as just something that happened in the normal progression of our lives in these United States. But, when Trump ran again and he was running again against a woman – this time an African American-Asian woman with a Jewish husband – that was a bit much and today, the covers have dropped from our eyes so we can see clearer. – if only we will look and see and act in our lives with the knowledge of that which is in front of us.

Kamala Harris arrived on the scene of presidential hopefuls when Joe Biden clearly was losing the race. And then much upheaval around that and Joe Biden is removed and Kamala Harris is in his place. What did that do – rock bottom? It kept a white male from suffering the humility of running against someone like Donald Trump and losing. Let that role be taken up by a woman – and it was at a time when Trump and his followers felt he was winning easily. So maybe Trump isn’t the only one trying to preserve this racist/sexist society’s ways.

So the Institutional structure of bigotry against African Americans, Women, Jews, Latina’s, Gays, American Indians and so many more could be kept in place and the white male northern european ancestry people could maintain their position as “better than” for much longer because clearly Trump and his followers are going to put bigotry solidly back into this country’s structure so it remains for several more generations. Trump’s campaign and campaigners did much to restore and renovate the structural bigotry under which many live and made clear what the future will be like letting everyone know where they stood as far as the “better than” structure goes and as far as taking down those considered less than in as crude and vicious a way as possible. Remember the island of garbage – didn’t they call that Puerto Rico? And if you have any doubts as to how Trump’s time as president will go as far as bigotry is concerned, when he took to the stage and made his talk about accepting this presidency there were no blacks to be seen anyplace on that stage and no one noticed or cared. The first salvo in “cleaning up” the society that others have contaminated by including minorities as equals.

One of our hopes that minorities would be able to build multi-billion dollar corporations is now gone. We experienced the destruction of that hope when the City of Cambridge set up the Capital Network as its venture capital arm and sent the three guys who took everything they could from us and who sent others to take what they could not take at the time to destroy one black-owned company with an original idea in which other venture capitalists wanted to invest. They did invest, when Bettina Network, owned by African Americans was handicapped as much as possible and Airb&b was established by three white males, taking everything including the business plan of our owner to raise the money they needed and so, the work to destroy Bettina Network, inc. went into high gear. And this was not the only company. Three generations ago Marceline Donaldson’s family was involved in the establishment and growth of United Fruit – now United Brands and received nothing for their work, ideas, etc. And take a look at My Chart just recently. A company whose original idea was brought forward and worked on for several years by 10 Nigerians who came up with the idea; did the programming and hard work of the beginnings of a company which has revolutionized one part of health care and they received nothing for their years of hard work, but the ability to watch as their work was stolen, their company was destroyed and they were pushed aside in very ugly ways by venture capitalists who thought those were great ideas and wanted to invest, but not in companies started and owned by black folks – especially Africans. Those companies – and many others, where the ideas were original to the minority founders and the companies were turned into companies supposedly put in place by white males even though the work and ideas were put in place and were originally the work and ideas of minorities – stolen – outright stolen. And I could go on describing such thievery for pages.

The continuation of such is what you voted for when you voted to make Trump your next president.

Trump used his pulpit as he held one rally after another to create around Kamala Harris a negative black image with all of the negative and ugly stereotypes this society has created and kept around black women, while all of the vile, illegal, vicious and ugly things he has done in his life are held up for society to cover their racism and raise him up to president of these United States.

His first time as president was bad enough. His campaign brought out the ugliest parts of this society. His presidency made clear there was no mistake in who he was and there was no change in Trump to a nicer man who moved his past ways on the side and took on a better way of being. The power of the presidency only made him worse. We saw what he would do as president and today all through his campaign, he and his supporters told us who he would be as the 47th president of these United States and we voted to say YES, that is how we want this country to be and YeS all of the ugly that we saw we want continued and YES his breaking of laws and threatening to destroy these United States as we know it and how we think we want it is going to happen under this man. A man who -according to court records in his first divorce – kept Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kampf on his bedside table and read it nightly. We claim to be a society which keeps the Bible on our bedside table to read to keep us walking that straight and narrow path. This has shown that to be a lie.

This time Trump has experience. This time he is surrounded by people who clearly have no problems destroying a few hundred years of building a democracy. This time he has laid out in advance exactly who he is and what he is going to do. And this time the people who voted to make him president did so knowing exactly who he is and what he is about. Saddest of all they are willing to tell the most outrageous lies to the rest of us to get what they want. One of the worset they told during Trump’s candidacy was that he built New York.

God forgive!