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.