As you may know, Rev., Dr. Robert Bennett died November 6th.  Robert’s funeral will be Saturday November 29, 2025 at Trinity Church Copley Square Boston, MA. at 10am (Rev. Julia Whitworth, Bishop Diocesan of Massachusetts,  officiant) followed by a reception.  We hope you will be able to attend.

Robert will be buried in New Orleans, LA. on Friday, December 5, 2025 after a 10am service from St. Luke’s Episcopal Church NOLA.(Rev. J. Wiggins officiant). Why NOLA? Robert is the grandson-in-law of O. C. W. Taylor (co-founder of the Louisiana Weekly) and Marceline Bucksell Taylor (modiste for the Original Illinois Club for over 50 years) and that is where his wife will be buried.  He is also the great grandson-in-law of Rev. Dr. David Franklin Taylor, a former rector of St. Luke’s and a saint in the Episcopal Church.  

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                                    Rev. Dr. Robert Avon Bennett, Jr.                                 

January 11, 1933 – November 6, 2025

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Rev. Bennett was the son of Robert Avon Bennett Sr. and Irene Harris Bennett. He was one of three children having two older sisters – Audrey Bennett Pinkney and Vera Bennett Flint.

As a young boy, Robert served as an altar boy at St. James Episcopal Church in Baltimore – where he also taught in the Sunday School. These early ties to the church as well as the strong call to the ordained ministry which he heard very early in his life, set Rev. Bennett on the path which he followed his entire life.

Rev. Bennett attended Paul Lawrence Dunbar Junior High School and completed Frederick Douglas High School in 1950, graduating as the class valedictorian. He was on the high school track team and traveled with the school’s model United Nations.

After high school Dr. Bennett had very few choices for college in Maryland, which was still totally segregated.  The state of Maryland, however, was willing to assist black students by paying for out-of-state colleges so off he went to Kenyon College, an Episcopal affiliated college in Gambier, Ohio

Robert entered Kenyon as a pre-theology major. His interest was in the humanities and he became a philosophy major. His interests expanded substantially as his roommate was James Yoshiro, a Japanese exchange student who later went on to become Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Japan following his father who was Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Japan at the time..

Dr. Bennett pledged the Archon Fraternity during his freshman year. Since the Archons had divisional housing in Hanna Hall that is where he lived. Towards the end of his stay at Kenyon, Rev. Bennett became president of the Archon Fraternity and sat on the Pan Hellenic council.

Dr. Bennett found it ironic that he was making rules and passing legislation for other fraternities that he was not allowed to join because he was African American. Most Kenyon fraternities at the time would not admit black members. Archon was the only one to do so. The GPA of Archon’s members was 3.5. Robert helped increase that number.  He graduated both Magna cum Laude and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

While at Kenyon College, Rev. Bennett enjoyed and participated in several sports, but he was very intense about Lacrosse. He still has the equipment he used for those sports at his home even unto today.  He also traveled with his sports team mates to sporting events in which they all participated.  In spite of all that, Rev. Bennett was not allowed to stay in the same hotels as his fellow team mates when they traveled, because of the extreme racism still prevalent in society.

In addition to sports, Dr. Bennett participated in the debate activities at Kenyon. and he worked in the president’s house to help cover some of his college expenses. 

From 1954 through 1955 Rev. Bennett studied at the University of Copenhagen Denmark as a Fulbright Scholar. 

In 1955,  Dr. Bennett attended General Theological Seminary in New York and graduated in May 1958. He worked as an Assistant to The Rev. Cedric C. Mills. and served as Chaplain to the Episcopal students at Morgan State University. and was ordained a Deacon in the Episcopal Cathedral in the Diocese of Maryland and a Priest in 1958 at St. James Episcopal Church.

Rev. Bennett received a Masters of Divinity Degree from General Seminary in New York in 1959. He also studied at Johns Hopkins In Baltimore.

Harvard University came calling on Johns Hopkins and hired the entire faculty of Johns Hopkins University’s Near Eastern Studies Department in which Dr. Bennett was enrolled. 

The Johns Hopkins faculty that moved to Harvard established a Near Eastern Studies Department.  They took their doctoral student – Rev. Robert Bennett – with them. This was one of Robert’s favorite stories.   He received a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies at Harvard University.

Harvard did not have another African American student in their PhD program in Near Eastern Studies for some 20 years after Dr. Bennett graduated and then only after Dr. Bennett and his wife, Marceline Donaldson, challenged Harvard’s rejection of yet another African American applicant – a former student of Dr. Bennett’s – who was imminently qualified with substantial credentials. That former Harvard student, once rejected,  is now head of a department in a major American University.

After receiving his degrees, the Rev. Dr. Bennett continued his studies, teaching and working with the Episcopal Church and other institutions in various ways. He  was a visiting professor at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific; became a full professor of Old Testament at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA.; moved out of faculty housing to just a block from EDS where he lived for 41 years.  Dr. Bennett  was an adjunct professor at Princeton University and Atlanta University. He served the wider Christian Church, among other ways, by working on Committees for the National Council of Churches – particularly the Inclusive Language Lectionary Committee which produced the Lectionary still used today. The goal in that project was to help shape a more inclusive church reflecting the unity and universality of God.

Robert Bennett has been married to Marceline Donaldson for the past 43 years.They lived in Harvard Square and fought numerous civil rights battles together. Those years were spent with husband and wife never even one day apart from one another with Dr. Bennett teaching, researching, ministering to others while helping his wife build a business – Bettina Network,inc – which was the original network of bed and breakfast homes around the country and which was beginning to move internationally with homes in other countries. 

The business, conceived – managed – grown by the Donaldson/Bennetts was doing exceptionally well until the forces of racism, through people like Brian Chesky and Grebbia came along as young white men traveling the country looking for minority owned businesses.   Chesky, Grebbia and another friend formed a company they called Airb&b.  It was formed out of the theft of the business plan and other information they took from the Donaldson/Bennetts’ along with the information they continued to take after they spent several days in the Donaldson/Bennett home.

Rev. Dr. Robert Bennett is also survived by his son – Mark Robert Bennett and Mark’s wife Karyn Anthony Bennett; four step daughters – Elise Karen Frazier, Michelle Marie Aronowitz, Maliça Alyson Aronowitz and Jacqueline Gaynelle Aronowitz, five step-grandchildren, a step-great grandaughter and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews around the country. Robert’s daughter, Ann Elizabeth Bennett, preceded him in death.

A foundation – Bettina Network Hedge School Foundation, inc. – a 501(c)3 organization has been established so the work of Dr. Bennett’s life along with that of his wife will be remembered, honored and used to help others move along in this society.

Rev. Dr. Robert Bennett’s life has been a life of devotion to God and to helping to bring about God’s kingdom on this earth.  May he be forever remembered, blessed and surrounded by God’s love and happiness.

Questions – Comments – Additional Info

Call:  Marceline Donaldson 617 497 9166

email: bettinanetwork@comcast.net

P. O. Box 380585

Cambridge, MA. 02238

It was not a surprise that Donald Trump turned to Cuomo from New York to attempt to gain control over New York and other places during this election just finished.

Mamdani does not have even a hint of the sexual criminality which surrounds many, if not most, in Trump’s circle of political “bros”.

If you remember, Cuomo resigned his post in New York because he was being surrounded by accusations of sexual deviancy. The same atmosphere surrounding Trump pre-his election and many of those he has appointed to high levels in his government.

It is clear those so appointed have brought the moral reputation of the United States and those working in important places, either elected by U. S. citizens or appointed by Trump down into the gutter.

None of us are perfect, but looking at the fact that we have a president of these United States whose best friend for a decade or more was Epstein. Surrounding him were those who carried the whiff of being “blackmailed” to do Epstein and/or his friends’ wants and needs even to the point of violating children.

We are a country which has and is falling deeper into sexism, racism and so much more. That sexism has allowed many U. S. voters to ignore what is public about Donald Trump’s reputation and to ignore hiss own words when they were broadcast from a van via a loud speaker . To make sure you understood it really was Donald Trump talking so horribly about women, the film with his words showed Donald Trump leaving the van and totally patronizing sexually a white woman who came up to the van.

That is only one time and place where Trump’s words and deeds, dripping in heavy racism, sexism anti-LGBTQ content and so much more evil have been made public. No one – probably in the world- can say they do not know this side of Donald Trump.

How awful that a country in which so many gave their lives, futures, careers in the fight for equality and against everything Trump stands for now sees the country moving towards evil and away from goodness..

It looks as though he has even cowed the U. S. Supreme Court taking it back into the late 1800’s when it interpreted the U. S. Constitution to say racism was legal in the case which held sway until Brown vs the Board of Education happened and started moving this country onto the path of goodness, righteousness and away from the evil of what went before. The United States Supreme Court’s ruling back to those days that separate and unequal should remain the law of the land is very much alive and thriving amongst many in this current Supreme Court – especially those appointed as justices by Donald Trump..

We don’t know how to pray over this Dear God! It is unbelievably foul and violates all of your laws. Slavery was the law of the land for a few hundred years and today the remains of those laws , instead of being wiped out with your grace, goodness and love shining through, we see them and those who espouse such bringing them back and held up to be used by those in the current political system of the United States with its president out front leading the charge and the fight against your laws and your ways. This is being done not to bring about your kingdom, but for the personal aggrandizement and to line the pockets of Donald Trump,s his family, his friends and so many more who follow his path and copy trying to bring about his ways and the evils of his administration.

How long, O Lord do we live under such rule – how long do we ignore the fact that we brought this about – how long before your love, your kingdom, your will, your goodness breaks through.???

Amazingly, Donald Trump is constantly accusing others of ugly things. That, in spite of the fact of what he is and has been doing.

He accuses Lisa Cook of the Federal Reserve Board of mortgage fraud. Trump has been accused of mortgage fraud. Lisa Cook, however, has not been guilty of such and yet – so it goes.

One of the filthiest was Trump leaving office the first time taking government documents with him that he should not have taken and putting them in his toilet. The thought of those documents being kept in Trump’s bathroom where people shit and pee is a horrendous thought. And yet, his followers hang on and praise him to the rooftops.

Trump starts a University – Trump University – and so badly takes advantage of students so that some who worked hard to try to get their degrees via Trump University are stiffed out of their money and lose the opportunity for which they worked so hard to gain a foothold in this society. We know that because Trump had to pay some $25 million dollars to begin to make amends and what does he do as soon as he gets into office a second time – he starts to attempt to destroy the major universities in this country. Ruin their reputation – limit the work they can do for others – destroy the research their science departments have been doing for decades and so much more.

And then there is the Supreme Court. The fight to keep Epstein’s papers, pictures, etc. away from the public and all the prominent people involved with Epstein who was into some horribleness makes one wonder when you see the Supreme Court so compromised – who and how many of the justices were involved in all of that and are they now being blackmailed?

With Trump’s close friendship of over a decade with Epstein one wonders how much of what he did is now what he is doing within the United States government?

We have had some questionable presidents of these United States, but I think Donald Trump tops the list of those who took their role as president to actually be the mafia boss of these United States – and who are those following him?

Trump was moved from Queens to Manhattan and the people doing most of the work making sure the move was up and better than the business situation he was in when he was in Queens were gay. Trump’s small group of friends who stood by him and kept up with him during his time growing and moving into this new society in New York were well known gay folks. Today, with all the people Trump craps on have you noticed how he craps on gay folks? They stand at about the same level Trump holds black folks and other brown, yellow and purple people.

What other gay associates Trump has had? Wasn’t it Peter Thiel who brought together a small group of gay billionaires to get Trump started on this next presidential run for office? Do they ignore the ugliness of the way gays are treated in this society by Trump and his associates? Do they think because they are quite wealthy, their gayness is not noticed nor condemned in the way other gay folks suffer at the hands of Trumpa and those like him?

Trump has a reputation with women which is not good. If you read the articles what you find is Trump is talked about as having spent the night in a hotel with the woman who eventually successfully sued him – one of the first – and she describes Trump as not having touched her even though he was in the room with only his underpants on. That is quite a read. Parallel that to the accusations around Trump of the claim that he is gay.

I thought I lived in a country ethically sound – a “Christian” country. Being a Christian myself the Christianity I learned about growing up and then teaching to others in Sunday School was nothing like what the so-called Christians are like who surround Trump and there are tens of thousands of them. Their leaders, however, have the same kind of ethical base which is where Trump comes from. And this is the United States of America.

Help us, dear Lord to come back to some semblance of the ethical and moral base we need to have as a country. I can’t say that we once had because I wonder if Trump with his set of lewd ethics is not what proceeds from those who lived under slavery, benefitted therefrom and want to continue to benefit from a more modern form of slavery where they are “better than” the rest of the world. Is that the group supporting Donald Trump as he starts to try to change the immigration laws to allow only whites in and to keep out all those others; as he tries to maintain that blacks who have attained the level of leadership some blacks have worked hard to attain should be taken down as quickly and viciously as possible amidst accusations of criminality and other such activities so that the myth of “whites better than all others” is clearly the major belief which rules everything? Clear our minds and hearts, dear God, so that we can all work together to move these United States into a place where love, grace, kindness, truthfulness and so much more prevails instead of the evil which now stalks this land.

Trump University is the place where Donald Trump got his experience in the structure, reason for being, offerings, and so much more of universities. This was his creation. He showed us what he thought of education and what would happen when he was in charge of our universities and our children/’s education.

As a result of his time as founder of Trump University he was sued and had to pay $25 million dollars because of the way he beat university students out of their money and their opportunity which they paid much for to expand their knowledge, their opportunities in life and so much more.

This is the man now negotiating with Harvard University and other Universities which he took on to tell them what to do – how – and so much more.

There is something really wrong with these United States when this is who we have elected and allowed to intefere with our children’s education and future when he has shown when given the opportunity his method of dealing with our children’s education and futures is to cheat them out of that future so he could line his own pockets. Are those bcking him and working to help him achieve what he wants these universities to be and to help create and/or re-create structures that are set up to cheat them out of their future so he could put more money in his pockets along with those helping and working with him using this as a means to line their own pockets? Will they wind up with more, better after they have helped our children wind up with less with what they were working for stolen from them?

What is wrong with us!!

It has been a horrendous time for all of us and we are all probably trying to make sense out of what is happening, while Donald Trump celebrates what he sees as a victory, but it is a victory only for him and his billionaire supporters. There have been many like Donald Trump throughout the years in these United States and they have been supported by the people we think of as our heroes and wonderful citizens working hard for all of us to thrive.

Because I have lived so long, I have seen what is happening today. It has happened before and each time it has been horrendous, vicious, extremely painful with blame pushed onto the people experiencing the pain – the displacement – the loss of everything they worked for. It is a study in humanity which is repeated over and over again with little change.

One day, at the end of September, we went into the Court House and there was no one outside. Not one soul. When we dropped off the papers we were there to deliver and walked out it was an unbelievable scene. I felt transported to the endings of slavery.

A very young, very attractive young womanm- not a slave – was being shoved to the ground by about five large white men. To say they were being cruel is an understatement. The men all had large scarves around their head, hiding their faces, guns in their hands – long guns – and they were pushing and stomping this young woman to get her down onto the ground on her stomach. She is not the first to experience such lately and clearly won’t be the last.

I understood slavery in that moment more clearly than I have before. To the white men stomping, pulling, pushing this young woman into the grass, she was not human. They clealry did not see any reason to stop hurting her. They did not see nor care if they killed her in the process. They were free from any responsibility to treat her as though she could be hurt; they were free of feeling anything except the enjoyment they were getting and the power they were experiencing at being able to so freely let out their power over her which was providing them with whatever they needed to keep going and get more strength and so much more from her suffering . The fact that they were causing that suffering was clearly so good to them. People standing around were imploring them to stop and that apparently made it so much better to them that they continued and increased their kicking, stomping, pulling, hitting her with their guns.

With the group – with the same kind of scarf over her face – was a young woman – who got on top of this young girl’s back with all of her weight and hands, feet and legs helping to push her into the ground. The woman on the grass was screaming for help – lots of people were now standing around including the guards from inside the Court House.l. When I asked why they didn’t stop this they said they had been told to stay out of it.

One man was taping what was happening with his telephone. At that point, I decided as one who hates mobile phones and does not carry one – to never be without my mobil phone in case something like this needs to be taped.

I was looking at what AI is causing around the world.

We are in a time like the one just before industrialization came in. As its history has been written, the horrible things suffered by the “excess” people is not written about in those terms. We talk about it in terms of a “depression” and we have other terms worse, none of which outlines what I saw that day on the Court House lawn. That is the “depression” of AI and the role it takes away from humans.

In the days before we acknowledged Industrialization and how few people were needed compared to before the machines came into being, millions of human beings must have suffered so a few could thrive. There was a need to get rid of many people because industrialization with its machines and more made it possible to do more with fewer people and that is what happened. Right before our eyes I was witnessing how the United States was going about getting rid of many people because the AI coming in needed fewer workers and we had let in many immigrants because they were usually in desperate straights leaving countries doing horrible things to them, whereas we were much larger with more money and ability to have much and needed these fleeing other problems into the United States.

We are just now beginning to destroy our immigrant community to reduce it and even including some local citizens to a point where companies could function with lesser overhead and the excess would be gone. Before this, we needed to destroy our slave communities because the work they were needed for and had been enslaved to carry out was no longer there needing so many people to keep others going at a much higher, comfortable, work-free existence. The progeny of many slaves are still around reaching high level in this community and workforce and to show their history, Donald Trump and his people are doing everything they can to take down as many of those, who have risen from their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents labor as slaves – to take them down to the level of beggars for penniesl.

As the woman screamed, I asked her name and if she had a lawyer – screaming overl the others standing around. She scrteamed out her name and the name of her lawyer.

I went back into the Court House and was directed to where trials were held to see if I could find her lawyer who she said was inside waiting for her.

I met three lawyers sitting on a bench on my way to the trial court and asked if they knew what was happening outside and what could they do. I told them the woman’s lawyers name and asked if they knew him. They did and had already texted him to let him know the condition in which one of his clients was struggling and being beaten.

When I came from inside the Court House the woman had been freed, the men and one woman who held her in such horrendous conditions were gone and she was in bad shape trying to telk to a young man who we assumed was a reporter. What struck me as I passed her was – if she had done some horrendous act which caused all of those hitting, stomping, treating her so badly to push her into the grass, jump on top of her and more – why were they now gone and she was standing free – in bad shape – but not taken away with the others trying to destroy her. If this was about some wrong she had done to be treated so badly they would not have left without her – so exactly what was that about? Their coffee break during which they needed that kind of blood rush?

We came home and it took quite awhile before we were able to do anything. The pain of those moments was horrible.

That took us back to the time when horrific things happened to those working and trying to make a living as the United States worked to industrialized itself and get rid of excess laborers. People pushed out of their homes with no place to go because they could no longer pay the bills;children pushed out of school because parents were trying to relocate so they could continue their lives; the violence that happened caused by such major upheavels which everyone experienced in one form or another and here it was againl. We are at the beginnings of such a time which will certainly get worse and get blamed on the people suffering from forced displacement so billionaire investors making it big could make even more.

The very beginnings of that time was also the ending of slavery. One didn’t need slaves anymore if machines could do the same thing costiing much less than the cost of feeding, housing and having people over slaves to keep them working and in line so they could work another day.

This kind of structure is what we created in these United States from the beginning and now it has reached the point of horrendously negatively affecting what will be millions of people before society reaches a level where many are no longer alive – or have disappeared into some hole where most of society cannot see them or care about them and the rest having found a place where they have acquired the tools and talents to be useful in this new society until we reach the point of yet another “step up”.

This is not how history is written. These are not the connections made by most historians. Those who do make these connections and have the temerity to write about them don’t last long. They quickly die, are killed, wind up in an accident or just get thrown by the wayside if it is found that can happen without them being so set in their message that they don’t go quietly into that very dark, dangerous night.

The killing, destruction, deportation and more of immigrants will continue until the numbers reach what the society needs to carry on. They will be pushed out even with United States citizens who resist and are of more harm than pushing forward this new society. It will be very ugly, bloody and beyond belief, but it has happened before and will probably happen again when new discoveries and the need arises.

The ethical issue has been raised to the highest level by the government of Donald J. Trump.

One of the strongest issues is the extent and limits of power of any one person in whatever office to which they have been elected.

Does the voting public expect its representatives to be honest; to be truthful as it moves on to the many areas of its authority; does it overstep its authority ahd claim vindication because it moves the government into a bigger better place? Do the elected representatives have the right to lie, cheat and steal to move the people they represent into a place where some of them are wealthier, have more power and will move to create a Nirvana for the rest of the citizens.

The tariff issue facing the Supreme Court is one of the largest of the issues facing these United States. Another very ethical issue is destroying a government officials reputation including firing under circumstances which make another position in government or business not likely so that the president can take over the Federal Reserve Board and have it bow to his wishes the way Donald Trump is doing with Lisa Cook?

It has become very clear and provable that the charges Trump used to attempt to fire Ms. Cook were not true and made up for the situation.

Should the Supreme Court ignore everything that their ruling will affect and move to rule in a way that those in power are most benefitted? Even if those benefits might also trickle down to the lesser citizens?

Should the United States president be allowed to demean, insult, embarress whomever he chooses just to let off steam so the person he is attacking will have their reputation smeared by the President of these United States and he then feels better emotionally because he has let out his frustration at only being president and not being God?

Donald Trump has claimed that for the Supreme Court to rule against his tariff power that he has assumed it would spell doom for the American Economy. Does that set in place the grounds on which the Supreme Court should rule – ignoring the laws and the constitution? Taking into consideration Trump’s claims about the damage ruling against him would bring on the economy and the country and ruling so as not to embarress the president and/or to help bring about a definition of president very changed from what this country has always been about? Or should it rule taking only into consideration the dictates of the laws and the constitution?

Didn’t we have a time in this country when the Supreme Court of the United States upheld racism, sexism and more by ruling that separatism was legal? Are we going back to visit that kind of Supreme Court in a society very much changed from the one surrounding the Court when it made that ruling?

With a president in office like Donald Trump, who has shown his ethics to be in the dumpster, when does that kind of leadership, if followed by the government structures like the Supreme Court ,cease to be a democracy and become a criminal enterprise/mafia with Trump being not president, but the Mafia Boss head of a country that once was a democracy?

Everybody can do something!

A new group under Bettina Network Hedge Schools Foundation, inc.

The brain child of Marceline, of course.  She does things.  Sometimes we wish she would retire, but that won’t happen so here we go – again.

She says “I am so tired of being old.  It shows me too much about what people are really like.  When you grow old in this society the assumption is you can do nothing, know nothing, want nothing, etc. and everyone tries to help you walk when, actually, you exercise and ride a stationary bike everyday.  That help comes if you falter in your walk or trip over something – the assumption is that you need to stop walking.  There are other assumptions made if that happens and you have no gray hair or wrinkles.

What is the problem?  The very segregated society in which we live is the problem.  The denial of our common and equal humanity is the problem.  We continue that kind of society and follow the leaders who re-enforce that kind of separatism because it makes us feel “better than.”  And that is a feeling we refuse to abandon.

Everybody can do something.

I remember Spencer Rice – the rector of Trinity Church Copley Square in the 1980’s who hired retired Episcopal priests to help with the services on Sunday mornings.  What did they do?  He had six each Sunday.  They served communion.  No matter your mental or physical condition, as a priest you can assist with the service by serving communion.  

I remember they processed behind the choir, as normal.  Some could not walk without a cane or more; some had trouble communicating because their minds were going or gone, some were just old and retired and no one else would hire them because they should stay retired – as some of us promote that to happen in this unequal and oppressive society trying to portray some of us as superior to others both mentally, physically and emotionally..

Sometimes it was funny seeing these elderly priests hobble into church in the procession and leave at the end of the service in the recession out of the sanctuary along with the other Assistant Priests.

That stuck in my mind because today I have a retired Episcopal priest husband who – outside of Bettina Network, inc. and its subsidiaries,- with his Harvard University doctorate and so much more – is considered someone who can’t function and should stay retired.  It is amazing what he can do, but is treated in such a way that he can do nothing.

I do a lot – because our vocational choices were different.  I struggled for decades trying to succeed in the traditional ways and as a black woman had many “vocations”.  In each, I had to fight the system that did not want a black female to do anything except clean other peoples houses and/or other such work.

That is the society in which we live.  I tried many things, but in the end my job as a stock broker (first African American registered broker in the country) and then gave it up because the racism and sexism were extreme.  I did not lose interest in the market, however, I just didn’t have time to focus on things like day trading.

Today I focus on that because I can.  I can because it is too difficult to push my way into other things and my family background and most of my many vocations have been entrepreneurial.  I can because no one hires or fires me and I am on my own doing this in my own space.  The only limitation is if I lose all of our money and then I have to find something else to do.

So every morning about 3-4am I get up (which is what my age dictates I do); turn on the television and hit the papers and other financial materials getting ready to do my thing for the day.

Needless to say that is my only choice in finance, the only thing I can do in that area, because no one would hire an 87 year old woman to do anything.  What is expected of me is to retire quietly; do nothing; gradually physically, mentally and emotionally deteriorate and then die – preferably quietly.

Something is wrong with that picture.  I can function and Robert can function, until we die, doing something.  Maybe my thoughts about this come from my grandmother who was an entrepreneur.  She designed and made clothes, gowns, all kinds of things.  She was in the process of designing and sewing a gown for a Carnival Queen in New Orleans the day she died.  She was well into her 80’s.  Her creations only got better with age and she hired people to do what she could no longer do in that design process.  The people she hired could not get jobs in other places so that worked out for many.

WHAT ABOUT YOU?  Are you going to join me – doing something or working with other really old people to do something?  Everybody can do something and it is time we started a society in which everyone has worth and can contribute – what they want to contribute; what their talents say they can contribute; what their abilities allow them to contribute and so much more.  That is what we are adding to Bettina Network Hedge School Foundation, inc.

You don’t have to be perfect, wealthy, in good health, or even sane (whatever that means).  You can do something.  It is one way to help create a society of equals instead of this society in which we live of the “better than” and all the rest of us.  You don’t have to be perfect you just have to be alive to do something – make some contribution to this world on a constant ongoing basis.  If what you choose to do doesn’t work for you and the society, try something else, but constantly use your life to do something.

I had no idea how horribly the elderly are treated in this society.  You used to be sent to the “Old Folks Homes”.  Today you are sent to “Assisted Living”, “Retirement Communities”, “Nursing Homes” where you are separated from the rest of the world so they don’t have to come to grips with the fact that they too will age soon.

Junk those concepts and get out and do something.  Anything – one thing turns into something else until you find something you can do.  When your physical or mental ability changes then you change what you do.

God forgive us for turning your creation into this place of “I am better than you so I will provide lesser places for you to be until you die.”  We will try to change that into “my contributions in this life are important and I will continue to make some kind of contribution until I die.”  Others will just have to accommodate and move ahead with me and my infirmities until they have learned magnificent lessons in the process about accepting and working with their and my humanity and abilities.“

Last time we had someone like Trump as president, his name was Herbert Hoover. Today, Trump is re-shaping America in such a way that we think of Hoover as a reprieve from someone like Trump.

LISA COOK was given a temporary stay in her post with the Federal Reserve Board. We hope she continues and moves the needle against Trump who is accusing her of something he was accused of and many people think deservedly so – mortgage fraud. He has no problems raising himself above those who have worked hard and not come close to his reputation nor his horrendous deeds. Trump is the stereotype of the White Male Northern European type who has caused multi millions horrendous problems and has cost many their lives and families.

A man who has been involved in mortgage fraud, four bankruptcies, is convicted as a felon for sexual abuse, tries to distance himself from his decades long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein who is being shown to be one of the largest and most horrible criminals of our time. Epstein’s criminality evolved around, but was not limited to children. It looks as though Donald Trump’s does also.

It also looks as though some of his appointees at the highest level were also involved and used the sexual deviants ring to procure adolescent sex, sexualized massages and so much more. What does that say for the United States government? Sexual offenders and deviants of the highest order at the top of our government – the one at the very top has no problems accusing others of that which he has done and is he still doing? Is Trump using his office for cover, protection and to gain entrance into the private parts of children he would not otherwise be able to reach? Think

It is really tiresome to see such deviancy – such criminal deviancy on the news practically daily and a president of these United States involved at the top level with such people. He clearly had a decades long involvement with Jeffrey Epstein. Now he turns around and is trying to smear the reputation of good, hard working people. It is Lisa Cook today – who will it be tomorrow? Is his cabinet defending him because they are also guilty of similar deviancies and crtimes? Think of that America!!!!! You have put your children within reach of sexual deviants and those who would take them down evil trails.

WAKE UP America before it is too late – if it is not already too late. Trump has and is contin uing to remove mostly African Americans from every top spot he could reach – one after another with Lisa Cook only being the latest such casualty of Trimp’s racism. And his sexism? And his attempts to remove all Latina’s from this country so he can replace them with the equivalent of White South Africans who have the attitudes that such people held pre-Mandela and who wanted and still want South Africa to be only White at the top levels? Those are being encouraged to hold dual citizenship so they can be of use to Trump who is trying to do the same thing in these United States?

Having filed FOUR bankruptcies your way of living is set. When you become involved with another institution, company, etc., especially as its head your persona and ways of being automatically start to move to bring that institution, company, country into bankruptcy, especially if you are trying and don’t know how to bring wealth to yourself AND others, but must destroy to accomplish bringing worldly gold to yourself – or should we say worldly crypto?

Trump’s reputation and deeds are public – God only knows about the parts of Trump and his deeds that are not public.

Is this where you want your country to go, how you want it to be and who you wanht it to follow? Is this the type of person you want your children to grow up to be like? Is this the role model you are putting out to the rest of the world which really says – this is America and this is who we want the rest of you leaders to mimic and follow?

God, it is time to take your revenge and bring goodness back into these United States. Evil has overtaken this United States government. PLEASE GOD, let us know you are still here and still God!

Donald Trump headed four businesses and bankrupted all four. Why? Because he did not know what he was doing – he did not know how to develop and run a business growing it and making it a successful corporate entity.

The Bettina Network Blog copied the list of bankruptcies and what they were about from the information put together and distributed by Marco Rubio when he was running for president against Trump. It tells you what is happening in these United States today and yes it is accurate. In fact it is not as ugly and viral as it could be describing Donald Trump’s bankruptcies, how they occured, how Trump’s inability to lead without resorting to evil, bigotry and more caused those bankrupties.

What is amazing is that Marco Rubio – now Secretary of State under Donald Trump as president – knows what is happening and is noy only standing by watching while the rest of us go down the tube into a state no one should have to endure, but doing and saying nothing while he watches – his effort and energy is being put into promoting himself while allowing everyone else to go down into the evil Trump is creating.

What we are constantly asking is bankruptcies, sexual abuse, dozens of accusations from women of sexual assault and so much more are all known to the general American public and yet the collaboration of Trump and Epstein is held into question. We are still saying – maybe Trump really didn’t know what Epstein and Maxwell were doing. Maybe he was an innocent just being friends with someone he really did not know. Being Epstein’s closest friend for over a decade who did not know the kind of evil he was actually a part of. That was all known before Donald Trump became president.

What is wrong with the people who supported and voted for him as he ran for president.

Donald Trump’s decades long close friendship with Epstein was well known. Pictures were in the media and lots of columns written. Epstein’s reputation and career as someone who sexually assaulted even young children was known as was Trump’s reputation in the same areas. He is today a man who is a convicted felon. He was convicted because of his sexual abuse of a tremendous woman and now has to pay her substantial sums of money. Many women came forward to testify as to how Trump assaulted them. We heard and saw all of that and still voted for the man who was a part of the Epstein sexual abuse community, which included children, for president of these United States.

What are the hidden activities of those supporting Donald Trump? Those who were appointed to positions in his government know very well his history and reputation. Are they there supporting him because they themselves are people who see nothing wrong with sexual assault, pedophilia, etc and their greed and power needs outstrip their needs for decency and honesty in this U. S. Government? Are they guilty of it themselves? Or are they so over the line into other kinds of criminality that their ethics are in the toilet and they see nothing wrong with a man making choices for the country out of that kind of ethical belief system that they can support him?

Donald Trump’s racism, sexism and other negatives in the commission of which he uses seeing himself as “better than” are on high display and always have been since he was a very young person. It is not likely that with that kind of history he would be able to separate himself from his bigotry. His sexual abuse proclivities go back to his grandfather who used women to “succeed” with prostitution and a known brothel.

There are many conjectures as to why he is going after immigrants in such a vicious, cruel and evil manner? Take note that the immigrants he is having ICE and others to seek out and remove in horrible ways from this country are almost 100% Latina, Hispanic, – some kind of minority. People most Americans saw as becoming too prolific in this country with racism and more against them beginning to rise.

Trump is now having a problem with India. Is that a surprise to anyone from a man who considers people of color – as Indians most certainly are – not those who should be acknowledged on any equal level?

His immigration acdtivities are bringing into this country White South Africans – preferably those who were a part of the APARTHEID in South Africa and who could and would help develop such in this country. The United States with its history of slavery and its current practice of racism, sexism and more is not a difficult place in which to develop what we are seeing developed by Trump right in front of our eyes as we jockey to be a part of his government. As immigrants of color are being moved out of this country, white immigrants preferably from places like White Afrikaner South Africa are being brought in with their citizenship papers practically meeting them as they cross the border.

As they come in, Trump is readying this country to receive them and to help him move along with his programs to get rid of African Americans who have struggled against racism and made their way to top positions. He is also setting up concentration camps in the ugliest of places where the people in them will not be treated as well as the Germans of Hitler’s day were treated. His Alligator Alcatraz is a prime example of what he is developing and the horrendous conditions in which people of color – today mostly Latina’s, but increasingly others of color including United States citizens and United States veterans.

May God open your eyes – unplug your ears – clear your mind so you can see what is happening in these United States and may God give you the courage and intellect to act on what you have to do so this does not come into being as Trump has pictured it to be.

May his family look at their father and see who he really is and may they have the ability to help change and stop the flow of what is happening before it is so moved ahead there will be years before any moving back to a country where the people see their mistakes, regret their misteps and ask forgiveness for the enormous sins they are currently committing. And please, let us not blame Stephen Miller for what is happening. He works for Donald Trump, he is not president of these United States.

The man trying to destroy Lisa Cook’s reputation because of an email from Pulte with no proof, just clearly something Pulte sent to help Trump gain control of the Federal Reserve Board, needs to be called upon to repent – resign – and apologize for his horribleness to the world in which he lives and functions.

Trump – a man with lurid charges against him is now trying to claim Lisa Cook should resign for ethical reasons. With the minor claims without proof against her It smacks of a normal Trump ugly move to gain control, probably to increase his power to be able to increase his wealth.

Trump has been charged with falsifying business records, attempting to overturn the U. S. Presidential election of 2020 because he lost, mishandling of national security documents, sexual abuse which resulted in a very substantial cash serttlement which he has refused to pay, many complaints against him for sexually assaulting – raping – abusing dozens of women which gives much credence to the extent of his decaes long relationship with Epstein (who was apparently his closest friend) and paints a picture of Trump involved in the same sexual deviancy which characterized Epstein’s life and work, mortgage fraud, setting up a University which took the hard earned money and the opportunity for an education from many people and has led Trump to attempt to destroy substantial Universities doing their job without such destruction of the dreams and ripping off the money of others, and so much more. None of which is summarized in the reporting of many in the media to give a total picture of who this man is and what he is and has been about.

Marco Rubio, Rubio Campaign Press Release writes – Donald Trump Has Declared Bankruptcy Four Times. This article was used by Marco Rubio during his campaign for president. It is online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project – which goes into detail about these bankruptcies. The latest was filed in 2009. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/325847

Given the numbers of unethical and horrendous things Trump has done to others which are life destroying and the way Trump has led his life, today he is adding retaliation against those others and the society because of their exposing his viciousness, evil and greed.

By showing his racism against African Americans from the time he lived in Queens, New York with his parents and helped run his father’s real estate business in which Trump and his father were sued for racism because they refused to rent to African Americans and so many more incidents of such outrageous racism Now, with that kind of history and no payment for his crimes, Trump thinks the email without any proof whatsoever was enough to demand Lisa Cook resign. It is clear that Trump understands the horridness of his ethical and moral failings and he should immediately resign while apologizing to the citizens of these United States and around the world as he has tried to imprison and has sent innocent people to be incarcerated in places like one of the worst jailings in the world today.

Trump should also acknowledge and apologize for the many years he spent studying and reading about Adolph Hitler, who he has extenively imitated and gone beyond what Hitler tried to do. His concentration camps he is currently establishing in which foreign immigrants, United States citizens and U. S. veterans have been placed without cause, without legal representation and more.

The media is ignoring all of this and reporting on what Trump does as though it is just an event in itself.

To have as president of these United States someone with the morality of Donald Trump is a disgrace of the worst kind. The U. S. will not overcome the reputation he is building for this country for many generations.

To get the answer to that we need to look at the early life and young adulthood of Donald Trump. What books did he read? Who was his greatest hero? etc.

For the answer to that we owe Ivana Trump because during their divorce she outlined that in her divorce papers. She was very clear that on his bedside table Donald Trump kept the “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler. And what else?

How do we see that carried out in his current life and work?

Why did Donald Trump really call up the United States National Guard? What example was he following? Why does he have ICE wearing masks and picking people up off the streets incarcerating them without charges, without a hearing, without anyone knowing who was picked up, without any record of those picked up and shoved into the modern version of Hitler’s concentration camps? How mamy people are missing because of these “raids” about whom we know nothing?

Why are substantial people being investigated for no reason except that they criticized Donald Trump?

Isn’t that what Hitler did when he started having Jews picked up off the streets and shoved into concentration camps or into rail cars taking them to concentration camps? Isn’t this all acting out what Hitler put into the world when he started his attempts to prove Northern Europeans were superior people and Jews were ruining the world and needed to be eradicated – killed – incarcerated?

We hear much on the news about what Trump is doing – very little about what example he is following – why he is doing this – wherefrom comes his examples – what is his history?

Trump used a small group of homosexuals who were friends and worked together to help him move from Queens and become established in Manhattan. And again, he used a small group of gay billionaires to get him into the White House as president. In each case he then turned against those homosexuals and included people who were homosexual amongst those against whom he mischaracterized, has had picked up by the police and has described in the worse way and has been trying to remove from society.

During Donald Trump’s time on television he was pushed to have blacks on the shows because there was a grave lack of African Americans in what he was doing. He agreed and his response was to suggest there be separate shows and blacks be on their own show separate and apart from what whites were doing through his showtime. And the rest of his life and work has been characterized in the same way.

Trump should have been removed before he was allowed to become president of these United States. If we don’t now have a restriction – one needs to be put into the election laws that convicted felons cannot run for office. That is basic “law and order.”

Trump survived and thrived in New York because the person closest to him was Jewish and someone he treated with great disdain. When his “Jewish mentor” became old and ill and could no longer be of use to Donald Trump he was quickly disposed of. Donald Trump was missing amongst those who cared for and showed their love for this Trump mentor. Trump showed up for his funeral at the synagogue – stayed just a few minutes standing in the back of the building and left.

This is the convicted felon we call President of these United States. A man who calls for the resignation of Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve or he will fire her. He is calling for her resignation for having been accused – without proof – of something Donald Trump himself was accused of – apparently with proof.

Just one example of the ethics of the man we call president of these United States. A man who backed a resurrection planned to keep him in office in spite of the fact that he was not elected by the voters and who has done so many illegal things without paying the price for his crimes they become too long to list. A man who has promised in many ways to end this democracy – not the least promising voters that if they voted for him this time they would never have to vote again.

And now he is threatening to go into Chicago after he has gone into Los Angeles and Washingtoon, D. C. with the misuse and abuse of the National Guard. Are they not sleeping and eating under some really extreme circumstances. They are certainly not staying in places considered, at least, adequate during their time in D. C.

Well, America!!!! Do you now understand how you were able to live with and promote and benefit from using Black Africans as slaves against their will – selling them as though they were a commodity to be so abused? Have you not moved into a more human and caring place after all these decades of abusing other human beings? This is not even for your benefit. This is for the benefit of Donald Trump and the billionaire group which is financially and otherwise backing him.

His current plan? To copy South Africa pre-Mandela at its worse. He is removing immigrants – who are minorities – from this country and replacing them with White South Africans who are in the mold of the Afrikaners pre-Mandela. He is picking up people without any record of their having been picked up and for no legal reason without the proper papers to do so and sending them to other countries who accept these from America because they are being paid to do so with the average Americans tax money to do this. He is creating concentration camps in these United States in which minorities are being contained. Those today being picked up are beginning to be Americans born and raised in these United States. without any record giving these supposed “officials” to be able to pick up the people they have incarcerated or sent out of this country without cause4, having committed no crime and without anyone knowing they have been picked up by these out of control ispposed mmigration agents, police and God knows who else because they are armed and masked with no identification nor papers giving them the right to pick up the people they are going after. And what are you doing? Ignoring and certainly not researching and investigating what is actually happening, but having these panel discussions on the news which contain none of the above.

What Hitler did and Donald Trump’s commitment to doing the same thing only worse is known and easily documented. Wny is he still president and why are his “helpers” still in the offices to which he assigned them doing his dirty work? Hitler did not act alone – he was supported by many who believed, followed and wanted to see Jews removed, killed and more. Today we have Americans undergoing the same things along with those who came to America looking for a better place to live and work and finding instead a country duplicating Adolf Hitler’s Germany at its worse.

The most ridiculous person in what he claims to be a civil rights fight is Donald J. Trump. His racism, anti-Semitism, anti-gay, anti-feminist stances are clear. Take a look at the latest one of his most bighoted stances now on public display.

Trump is out fighting Harvard University and others for what he claims are their anti-Semitism and in reality what do we have. The president of these United States excluding the head of Ukraine from a meeting which will attempt to negotiate some kind of settlement of the war between Russia and Ukraine where everyone is invited to the meeting to discuss ending this war, except the head of Ukraine. What’s wrong with that? The head of Ukraine – a man by the name of Zelensky – is a Jew.

How could Trump allow such a meeting to go ahead including such a person. It would simply be another crack in the cement foundation of racism, sexism, and more. This has to be a meeting in which white male european types – especially with the inclusion of all white Russia – keep their superiority and do not allow any cracks in that bigoted system under which the world lives by including a Jew in the negotiations, especially because that Jew is the head of his country and the country about whom the meeting is supposed to be happening on Friday in Alaska.

How is it possible to justify holding such a meeting including the white Russian representative – Putin while excluding the Jewish representative Zelensky.

And then Trump can go back to his fight against Harvard University continuing his claims of anti-Semitism against such a University. Who is head – president of Harvard? Alan Garber – a Jew. And who is head and very influential on their board, etc.? Pritzker – another Jew and – oh my god – a woman.

Let us now bow our heads and pray for our inability to see such anti-Semitism even when it masquerades as fighting for the “underdog” when in reality it is an attempt to resolve a problem in the world which includes a minority head of state while maintaining the superiority of the white european male.

To you Donald Trump what we have to say is GO#&>@TO#@^&?@$**HELL!

That is where you are going anyway. On the bright side for you – there you will be in the company of many of your friends and supporters.

Is this what Trump means by eliminating DEI? He really means eliminating any and every kind of black leadership/ownership/politicians and more. He really means to turn this country around and make it more and more like Germany under Adolph Hitler.

Trump spent years with Hitler’s books on his bedside table and read the book regularly according to the divorce papers filed by his ex-and now deceased-wife.

He is now in a position to carry out his Hitler-type tactics against minorities in these United States and he is wasting no time doing just that.

Trump has taken over Washington, D. C. – a city with a black mayor and other black officials. He has also taken over Los Angeles – another city with a black mayor, etc.

Trump has moved to set up concentration camps into which he is putting Immigrants – minorities all, – mostly Latina. And he has moved to bring WHITE SOUTH AFRICANS – Afrikaners – into these United States while facilitating their movement to citizenship.

It gets really ugly when a President of the United States has bnecome as foul and filthy as Donald Trump.

His latest is this firing of the Burueau of Labor Statistics Commissioner. We won’t even talk about the horrible things he is saying and being allowed to say about Jerome Powell and others who cross his path in ways he doesn’t like. Who do not do his bidding – immediately.

Nothing else has worked to stop the Epstein talk so Trump has decided ‘ “lets try this”.

We have a president of these United States who is a CONVICTED FELON. The convicted felon married a woman who made a living modeling in the nude in very lewd poses. He also talked publicly about how viciously he treats women and gerts away with it because they let him do things to them sexually because he is an important person, with the claim that this is what famous men can be do to women and they allow it.. And I could go on with a long list of such horrific actions, comments, etc. He sexually abused a woman in a very upscale, exclusive, department store for which he now has to pay because he lost the law suit, but not until he has abused her legally as viciously and as long as he can get away with it. It is time for this to stop and for Donald Trump to pay the piper.

I can’t believe I live in a country with a president elected by millions of people who knew his sexual proclivities and knew he was a convicted felon and yet they voted for him to lead this counry. What is wrong with our ethics, our values, our respect for ourselves and for others????? I now totally understand the slavery inflicted upon Africans by the citizens of this same country when I look at the foulness of what is happening in 2025 daily. This same Trump has just accused the first African American elected president of these United States of treason – no proof, no nothing, just character assassination because he could do it in an apparent attempt to cover his own sexual deviancies within his relationship with Epstein to which he has already bragged sbout. And what are we doing? NOTHING! Accepting all of that filth.

Tariffs were common a few generations ago because that is how the government paid its bills. There was no such thing as income taxes at that point. This same Trump is now wrecking peoples lives with bringing back tariffs in the most irresponsible ways and doing absolutely nothing to eliminate income taxes so the American citizens must pay the tariffs being put on goods and services from other countries brought into the United States and must also pay income taxes. Those same tariffs are being talked about as though the country selling their goods into this country are the ones who will be paying the tariffs. Are we that stupid and gullible? We are supposed to be so stupid that we don’t realize that Donald Trump’s tariffs are going to be paid by the people who buy the goods and services on which his tariffs are being placed.

This recent very public firing of a federal employee – this Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner – who was simply doing her job and doing it well, Trump uses that as an apparent attempt to quell the talk about his relationship to Epstein is a bit much. There is nothing to this firing except for it being used in such a way. What happens to the federal employee so misused? And abused? And her family? And her reputation? And her future?

Well – what happened to the African slaves and their lives and families down the generations?

What happened to women badly treated – raped – sexually abused – used to satisfy the likes of Donald Trump and Epstein and their ego needs?

Are we going to go on through history with such ethics? Are we going to deny – obfuscate and whatever else has to be done to allow the likes of Donald Trump to move ahead as president of these United States? It is time for this horribleness to stop. It is time for these gutter ethics to be destroyed. It is time for those trying to move ahead using the ethics of someone like Trump and Epstein to get ahead and have an economically comfortable life exercising bits and pieces of power to satisfy their ego to be controlled. STOP THIS FILTH. MOVE IT OUT OF THESE UNITED STATES. We are better than that.

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