{"id":2187,"date":"2015-06-23T11:11:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T11:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bettina-network.com\/blog\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2018-09-24T09:58:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T09:58:34","slug":"response-to-dalezal-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/archives\/2187","title":{"rendered":"Response to Dalezal Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys,<\/p>\n<p>I sent you an email signing up as a member of The Black Race. \u00a0Why isn&#8217;t my name in the membership list yet? \u00a0I know you are busy, but pay attention &#8211; check your emails.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I stand with Rachel Dalezal!<\/strong> \u00a0What she has done takes guts. \u00a0In addition, &#8211; oh, btw, I used to identify as Caucasian. \u00a0So how do I give up my &#8220;White Privilege&#8221;? \u00a0You need to put out a blog with some suggestions. \u00a0One way I have is that whenever I am asked to sign anything which includes a check box for race I am going to check &#8220;African American&#8221; and ask why there is no check box for people like me who are a part of The Black Race.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think would happen if everyone checked the box for race and checked African American? \u00a0How do we get the government and others to add &#8220;The Black Race&#8221; to those check boxes?<\/p>\n<p>You go girl!<\/p>\n<p>_______________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bettina-network.com\/blog\/donation-page\">Learn More About How We Use Your Donation!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[give_form id=&#8221;3763&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want to join us?<\/strong> Have a home that you want to open to become one of <strong>Bettina Network&#8217;s Hedge Schools?<\/strong> Call us and lets talk &#8211; or email us.<\/p>\n<p>Ed. Note: Members of the <strong>Bettina Network Lifestyle Community<\/strong> can contribute to the <strong>Bettina Network Blog<\/strong> whenever they have anything they want to say and be heard by this fantastic group of people. Send your blog to bettinanetwork@comcast.net or mail it to us at P. O. Box 380585 Cambridge, MA. 02238 or call us on the telephone at 617-497-9166 to tell us what you want to say and we will write it for you.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer with <strong>Bettina Network Foundation, inc.<\/strong> to work estate sales; to help move items from one home to another; to contribute your ideas on how we can better use our resources in this effort to relieve and eliminate homelessness and poverty. We also need photographers; designers; and more. However much or little time you have, we are grateful.<\/p>\n<p>Send your event information to be included in <strong>Bettina Network&#8217;s Menu of Events<\/strong> to: bettina-network@comcast.net<\/p>\n<p>This is a curated blog so you cannot write your responses at the end of each entry. TO RESPOND TO THIS BLOG email bettina-network@comcast.net or info@bettina-network.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>TO LEARN MORE<\/strong> try www.bettina-network.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey guys, I sent you an email signing up as a member of The Black Race. \u00a0Why isn&#8217;t my name in the membership list yet? \u00a0I know you are busy, but pay attention &#8211; check your emails. I stand with Rachel Dalezal! \u00a0What she has done takes guts. \u00a0In addition, &#8211; oh, btw, I used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,377,351,396,420,391,414,416,417,418],"tags":[53,421],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4250,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/4250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bettinanetwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}