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• Urban Profiles: Tonya Phillips..A Visionary for Detroit by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  A Charter Commissioner reviews and formulates charter proposals by soliciting ideas from citizens, city staff and elected officials. A city charter is the constitution governing the municipal government that defines the powers the citizens agree to give their city government and how the government is to [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 4:49pm EDT
  

• Stop Gov. Granholm from Killing the Michigan State University Extension Program by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  The State of Michigan is going through a third world crisis when it comes to the state's economy. We have both Democrats and Republicans fighting over tax increases vs tax cuts. The same old song and dance.
  
  One thing that no one is talking [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2009, 4:02pm EDT
  

• Transforming Urban Communities into Real Digital Networks by Akindele Akinyemi

  Conservatives and liberals must understand that the world they once knew no longer exists. The resistance of evolving technology, education and infrastructure is fading away as we transition from a 20th century way of thinking into a 22nd century way of thinking. We are no longer secular but universal in [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 4:43pm EDT
  

• The Mythical Check and The Future of Detroit by Akindele Akinyemi

  Detroit is facing an economic crisis of proportions not seen in decades. Personally, I do not think people realize how deep the situation in Detroit is when it comes to stability. Most days people feel that we are headed towards anarchy in this city. When you add poverty to the [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2009, 3:32pm EDT
  

• Urban Profiles: Ron Edwards by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Oftentimes, I hear some far left wing liberals discuss how social conservatism is dead in the water. They point to people like President Obama and how people did not use the Bible to make a vote. Well here is the reality. Social conservatism is not dead. [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 2:12pm EDT
  

• A New Economy for Urban Michigan: Building A Hair Dynasty by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  In the City of Detroit you will find almost on every corner a hair and cosmetics business. The major problem is most of these stores are not owned and operated by people of color but our Asian counterparts. Now I do not have a problem with [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 1:31pm EDT
  

• A New Economy for Urban Michigan: Aquaculture by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  While urban planners here in Detroit are trying to "rightsize" the city by implementing urban agriculture one thing we have not discussed fully is urban aquaculture. The City of Detroit, Benton Harbor and Muskegon are ripe for urban aquaculture to help generate revenue into these cities.
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  Posted: October 05, 2009, 12:55pm EDT
  

• The Mackinac Experience: Reaching Out Globally by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Everytime I go to Mackinac City and Mackinac Island I am fascinated by the Jamaicans who work on the island. Their hard work and determination to do what's right should inspire all urban conservatives. However. when I come back to my community we have blacks who [...]
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  Posted: September 28, 2009, 12:26pm EDT
  

• The Mackinac Experience: Pushing for Conservatives of Color by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I was amazed of how 2100 Republicans registered for the Michigan GOP Leadership Conference on Mackinac Island. Unfortunately, only a few minorities were at this conference. In fact, it was so noticeable that people started asking me questions as soon as I got off the ferry [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 9:07pm EDT
  

• The Mackinac Experience: Fix Michigan by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  The Michigan Republican Party has just completed its 28th annual Biennial Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference and trust me it was worth the 4.5 hours getting there. As usual, the stakeholders in the party are here for one thing.
  
  Fix Michigan.
  
  Yes, while our state [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2009, 8:03pm EDT
  

• Chainging The Culture About Our Children by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Since President and CEO of the International Women's Forum Michelle Bernard has given educational activists the green light for us to push for an educational revolution tonight on her nationally televised town hall meeting on MSNBC with Dr. Bill Cosby we need to transform the way [...]
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  Posted: September 20, 2009, 9:37pm EDT
  

• Building A Better Regional Approach To Education by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  The founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Operation HOPE, John Hope Bryant, has a mission statement that makes total sense.
  
  "There is a difference between broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic condition, but being poor is a disabling frame of" [...]
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  Posted: September 19, 2009, 10:18am EDT
  

• The Challenges That Lies Ahead by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Presently, I am reading this document entitled, "RNC MINORITY OUTREACH:
  SAY ONE THING, DO ANOTHER." After reading the document I simply said to myself people still have work to do.
  
  To me, the document, written by the Democratic National Committee, speaks in volumes. Some [...]
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  Posted: September 16, 2009, 8:48am EDT
  

• A Global Vision For Detroit Will Help Build Innovation by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  
  

  The City of Detroit is in a position to transform itself into a modern day financial and global hub for commerce, trade and development. However, business and governmental leaders in both our city and region face a destructive social backlash that could foment political [...]

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  Posted: September 15, 2009, 9:44am EDT
  

• The Real Health Care Plan: Our Community by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I listened to President Obama's health care speech to a joint session in Congress last night while I was at State Senator's Hansen Clarke's health care town hall discussion that was sponsored by WDET 101.9 FM and Wayne State University. While I was listening to [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2009, 9:06am EDT
  

• We Cannot Be Distracted by President Obama's Speech To Children by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I just listened to President Obama's speech on education to our children. Prior to the speech there were concerns about the President trying to indoctrinate our children with socialism. It sounded more like personal responsibility to me than indoctrination.
  
  Did anyone hear anything different? [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 12:25pm EDT
  

• The Information Age of Education by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  In urban America educational reform is littered with failures. If you take a look at the various reform efforts over the years and see the same results you will find that our children are doing no better than their global competitors.
  
  What is never [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 11:34am EDT
  

• Racism Is A Disease That All Of Us Need To Fight by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I was at the Oakland County Commissioners meeting last night listening to Mayor Dave Bing speak. He discussed how both Detroit and Oakland County need regional cooperation to move Southeast Michigan forward. I agree with the Mayor because it is time that we put aside [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 9:15am EDT
  

• Are You In? by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I was at the Detroit Public School back to school rally with Robert Bobb and Bill Cosby. The theme of the school district "I'm In" rang throughout the auditorium of Henry Ford High School. The energy was positive and of course Dr. Cosby always telling it' [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2009, 8:56am EDT
  

• It's Time To Sell Detroit To The Highest Bidder by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  The City of Detroit is in a $300 million deficit and Mayor Dave Bing is trying to move our city forward. I often tell young people that the best leaders in the world are those who make the unpopular decision. They are the leaders that [...]
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  Posted: August 30, 2009, 8:28am EDT
  

• It's Time For A Detroit-Wayne County Consolidated Government by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I have a challenge to those who are running for Detroit Charter Commission. Instead of duplicating the same thing as Wayne County why don't we just consolidate governments?
  
  Take a look at Detroit. The city is in a $300 million deficit and Mayor Bing' [...]
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  Posted: August 20, 2009, 1:22pm EDT
  

• Wayne RESA Should Run Detroit Public Schools by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Educational reform is needed in the State of Michigan. One such reform is the one where U.S. Department of Education Arne Duncan is promoting incentives for state lawmakers to turn over cities that have failing school districts over to the Office of the Mayor.
  
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  Posted: August 18, 2009, 2:15pm EDT
  

• Radical Educational Reform Not Paying Students Will Get The Job Done by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I recently heard Professor Roland Fryer from Harvard University's Department of Economics speak at a forum held by State Senator Hansen Clark and moderated by Senior editor of the Michigan Chronicle Bankole Thompson. In January 2008, at age 30, Professor Fryer became the youngest African-American [...]
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  Posted: August 16, 2009, 8:31am EDT
  

• An Urban Conservative Perspective on Health Care by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  There is a raging debate over the need for health care reform here in the United States. We have town hall meetings where people have been disruptive. Other meetings not so disruptive. Personally, I do not want to be lied to by any Congressman or [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 1:27pm EDT
  

• Detroit: Our Neighbors Are Watching by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Tomorrow, the City of Detroit will vote in a very serious primary election. At stake is choosing the Detroit City Council, Detroit Charter Commission, Mayor, Detroit City Clerk and Detroit School Board. I am not concerned about the Mayor or City Clerk's position but I [...]
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  Posted: August 03, 2009, 8:16am EDT
  

• Detroit City Council Profiles: Small Businesses Will Bring Back Detroit by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Recently, I called Ken Harris the silver rights candidate who is running for Detroit City Charter Commission. I called him this because he fully understands how it is critically important to move Detroit into the 21st century through economic empowerment with global education. I have [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2009, 7:41am EDT
  

• Detroit City Council Profiles: Safety Is Key To Accountablity by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  In Detroit, we have a serious problem with safety. In fact, safety is one of the two major problems that are plaguing Detroiters (the other being education). It is absolutely ridiculous for me to drive down Schoolcraft or Linwood in Detroit and it looks like [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2009, 6:43am EDT
  

• Detroit City Charter Profiles: Time For A New Beginning by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  There are some very well qualified and highly educated people running for the Detroit City Charter Commission races next Tuesday. While the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News have picked mostly name recognition to lead their pack there is a new silver right movement happening here [...]
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  Posted: July 30, 2009, 7:55am EDT
  

• Detroit City Charter Profiles: A Woman of Integrity by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  While people are concentrating on the Detroit City Council races next Tuesday we are not paying attention to the other race called the Charter Commission race. Whoever is elected to the charter commission will have the wonderful task of reorganizing the city charter to make it [...]
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  Posted: July 30, 2009, 6:28am EDT
  

• Detroit City Council Profiles: Sisters On A Mission by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  While I support Dr. Corletta J. Vaughn and Raphael Johnson for Detroit City Council in the upcoming primaries there are three new people who support the silver rights movement who I have been in contact with and are impressed with. One of the candidates is [...]
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  Posted: July 29, 2009, 7:54am EDT
  

• Detroit City Council Profile: The REAL Raphael Johnson by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Raphael Johnson is one of the MOST QUALIFIED candidate for Detroit City Council. Not because I have known him for 20 years. Not because I consider him to be a vocal voice in the community. But because I know where he stands with the issues, I [...]
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  Posted: July 29, 2009, 7:25am EDT
  

• Detroit City Council Profile: The Vaughn Revolution by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  We are entering our final days of the Detroit City Council campaign and there are 167 candidates running for council. However, what people are forgetting is the fact that we do not need to vote by name recognition but by substance.
  
  In case you did [...]
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  Posted: July 29, 2009, 6:58am EDT
  

• The New NAACP: Armed and Read for the Silver Rights Movement by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  In many cases most Black Republicans I know feel that the NAACP cater to the special interest of the left such as Planned Parenthood and the National Teacher Association. They also cater to the Democratic Party. While most of this is true we must acknowledge [...]
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  Posted: July 17, 2009, 4:18pm EDT
  

• The Revolution Will Not Be Pretty by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb has announced Seventeen Detroit Public Schools high schools are being turned over to professional educational management companies as part of what DPS officials are calling the most dramatic restructuring of the troubled district’s history.This is awesome news. A real educational [...]
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  Posted: July 10, 2009, 3:51pm EDT
  

• Detroit Cultural Arts by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  One industry that is never discussed in public here in Detroit is the Cultural Arts economy. Why are we so quiet on this issue I will never understand in a million years.
  
  Nationally, the nonprofit arts and culture industry generates $166.2 billion in economic [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2009, 7:37pm EDT
  

• Detroit City Council Candidates Talking Same Old Garbage by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Detroit used to be the wealthiest city in America in 1950 on a per capita income basis. Today, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that it is the nation's poorest major city.
  
  What does that tell you? It tells you that Detroit has fallen from [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2009, 6:54pm EDT
  

• Detroit Public Schools Must Go Charter by Akindele Akinyemi

  

  
  

  Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb has stated that Detroit Public Schools may have no choice but to file Chapter 9 bankruptcy. DPS has a $259 million deficit that could well go higher as more [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2009, 6:21pm EDT
  

• Independence Will Come From Our Minds by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Today is the 4th of July. In other words Independence Day. We must reflect on our nation's birth.
  
  
  But I am declaring another type of Independence Day. An independence of our minds.
  
  
  
  Oftentimes, we cannot think for ourselves.' [...]
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  Posted: July 04, 2009, 9:00am EDT
  

• The Right Spirit for the Right Season by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Everyone is buzzing about Dr. Coreletta J. Vaughn who is running for Detroit City Council. If Detroit needed the right spirit for the right season this is the time now.
  
  Did I say right spirit for the right season?

  Dr. Vaughn, the Presiding Bishop of [...]

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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 4:31pm EDT
  

• Educational Incubation For Urban Communities by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  We are at a crossroads here in Detroit. For the next two years we will experience a leadership shift in ideology that we have not seen in decades. For silver rights activists this is the time to seize the time by creating educational incubators within [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 3:56pm EDT
  

• Creating Smarter Neighborhoods by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  The City of Detroit must utilize a Neighborhood Empowerment Initiative by way of a Citywide System of Neighborhood Councils to create the beginning of a profound restructuring of our city's government.
  
  This system is not dealing with council by districts. What I am discussing [...]
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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 7:31am EDT
  

• Real Teacher Reform Starts With Teacher Certification Requirements by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  With the school year fast approaching, many school districts blame the teacher shortage for their inability to fill teaching vacancies with certified teachers in areas such as math, science, English as a second language, and special education. But the so-called teacher shortage is a myth.

  [...]

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  Posted: July 03, 2009, 7:20am EDT
  

• A Vision for Detroit: Biotechnology by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Urban agriculture is the mainstay of the majority of our urban communities. Most of our people live in the urban areas and depend on neighborhood grocery stores that sells rotten or bad foods for their livelihoods. As the population of the City of Detroit decreases, [...]
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  Posted: June 25, 2009, 9:30am EDT
  

• A Vision for Detroit: Improving Public Service by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  For much too long, the City of Detroit was (and still is in many cases) considered a center of consumption and corruption, rather than a center of innovation, partnerships and service delivery. Indeed, amongst many in Detroit and the rest of Michigan, such perceptions continue. [...]
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  Posted: June 22, 2009, 9:26am EDT
  

• Breaking Down The Walls in Detroit by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Detroit is on life support as we speak. However, there are some well educated people in our city that is ready to usher in a new paradigm of thinking.
  
  Our city must embrace leaders that are fully committed to the building Detroit back through [...]
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  Posted: June 22, 2009, 8:57am EDT
  

• The Importance of the Detroit Research Park by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Urban conservatives should lead and strive to build a talented and globally competitive workforce, a vibrant economy and great quality of life and effective, efficient, and accountable government that works for the inner cities of America.
  
  Detroit right now has to redevelop its land [...]
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  Posted: June 09, 2009, 10:19am EDT
  

• The Political Plantation by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I find it interesting to hear how so many people think the Republican Party is the modern day Ku Klux Klan. Some go as far as saying how white people in the GOP hate Black people. Some go as far as saying that the GOP [...]
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  Posted: June 09, 2009, 8:22am EDT
  

• Earth to Black America: Obama is Not Jesus Christ by Akindele Akinyemi

  Here is the issue I am having with the Black community who expects President Obama to be Jesus Christ. For starters, he is not God, Allah or Jesus Christ and for all we know he may or may not even acknowledge Christ. But that is not the issue here for [...]
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  Posted: June 03, 2009, 2:11pm EDT
  

• Building An Aerotropolis Would Breathe Life Into Flint by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I talked a while ago about the need for an aerotropolis near urban communities. Flint, Michigan is no different. Once upon a time Flint was mass producing automobiles. Blacks from the South moved to the North (the first Great Migration) to find jobs in the [...]
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  Posted: May 24, 2009, 2:37pm EDT
  

• Moving Historically Black Colleges and Universities Into The Silver Rights Era by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I was talking to some adults yesterday on the need for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Some feel that they have passed their time. If we look at history around the 19th and early to mid 20th century, there was no question about it. [...]
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  Posted: May 24, 2009, 9:35am EDT
  

• Haters Beware by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Dear Candidates for Detroit City Council, Academicians, Community and Grassroots leaders:
  
  Today, I was speaking to a group of Arab children at an elementary school in Dearborn, MI. These were 4th and 5th graders who I was speaking with in the classroom. When we [...]
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  Posted: May 20, 2009, 5:59pm EDT
  

• An Educational Revolution Will Build Ownership by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Last night I attended the Black Enterprise Conference here in Detroit, MI. While I was at the Town Hall Meeting on President Obama’s Economic Agenda (the panel included Warren Ballentine who is a CNN Commentator, Joe Watkins from MSNBC, Washington Times editor Tara Wall and [...]
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  Posted: May 19, 2009, 10:04am EDT
  

• Thank You Robert Bobb by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  We heard today from our hero, Robert Bobb, the emergency financial manager of the Detroit Public Schools, that 29 schools will close and restructure 40 more.
  
  Schools include the following:
  
  Barbour
  Joyce
  Brewer*
  Chadsey
  Munger*
  Cleveland
  Clinton
  Cody 9th Grade
  [...]
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  Posted: May 12, 2009, 9:00pm EDT
  

• Twisting the Facts on Charter Education by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I am reading a very disturbing article on Michigan Charter School in this week's Sunday Free Press written by Peggy Walsh-Sarnecki. It's disturbing because there are some mis-information in the article.
  
  I am reading information like this in the article.
  
  "For the" [...]
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  Posted: May 10, 2009, 2:22pm EDT
  

• Time For a New Era by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  As I often tell urban conservatives the key to success is to read and analyze information. The power of education is based upon one's self-discipline to conquer ignorance. As we prepare to move into the Silver Rights Movement we need to remind ourselves that we' [...]
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  Posted: May 06, 2009, 7:55pm EDT
  

• The Detroit City Council Needs a Facelift by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  
  Since Dave Bing is now the 62nd Mayor of the City of Detroit it's time to turn our guns on the Detroit City Council. We know that all council members are vulnerable (including Ken Cockrel, who returned as Council President after being defeated on' [...]
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  Posted: May 06, 2009, 7:05pm EDT
  

• Thank God, Dave Bing is Mayor by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Finally, Dave Bing won his bid to become the 62nd Mayor of the City of Detroit. He beat incumbent Ken Cockrel by 52-48 percent.
  
  Is this the beginning of the Silver Rights Era in Detroit. Time will tell. I am still content that this movement [...]
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  Posted: May 06, 2009, 6:39pm EDT
  

• Let's Leave Robert Bobb Alone by Akindele Akinyemi

  You know you are tired when you go to an educational town hall meeting with the Detroit Public Schools financial manager, Robert Bobb, and you can barely get anything done because of people heckling like BAMN.
  
  That's what happened tonight at the Community Arts Building on Wayne State University's [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 10:45pm EDT
  

• Time For A New Synergy To Take Place by Akindele Akinyemi

  In the age of silver rights I wanted to take some time to address some of the issues that we are facing as a country and why we need conscious thinking individuals to come together to solve the problems in our community.
  
  Here is some advice to those [...]
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  Posted: April 24, 2009, 12:36pm EDT
  

• Innovation Through Entrepreneurship in a 21st Century World by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Urban conservatives must be in the business of eradicating poverty. For those who participated in the tea party protest on April 15, 2009 I hope this experience opened you up to the next level. Now it's time for us to be innovative if we want' [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2009, 8:33pm EDT
  

• How Does The National Tea Day Protest Fit In With 21st Century Solutions? by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Today is April 15, 2009 and this is the deadline where you file your taxes. Speaking of taxes are you participating in any of the tea party rallies that are held nationwide today? If so, great. If not, great.
  
  To give you a little [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2009, 5:44pm EDT
  

• Should We Build Another International Crossing In Detroit? by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  There is a serious dog fight in Southwest Detroit between the owner of the Ambassador Bridge and the citizens. The bridge is owned by the Detroit International Bridge Co., which is controlled by Grosse Pointe billionaire Manuel "Matty" Moroun. He is the same person that owns [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2009, 4:40pm EDT
  

• OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT: Dave Bing For Mayor of Detroit by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I was present at the Detroit Economic Club luncheon today at Cobo Hall in Downtown Detroit. Once again there was a Mayoral debate between Mayor Ken Cockrel and Dave Bing. This time I prayed for guidance on which candidate would fit the mode [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2009, 3:56pm EDT
  

• Get Rid Of The Good Ol' Girls Network in Education by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I want to begin by saying I am a staunch supporter of women in leadership. I support women in politics, business and other areas of non-profit, profit and international business. So what I am getting ready to say is not against women at all but [...]
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  Posted: April 10, 2009, 10:02am EDT
  

• Detroit Public Schools Must Face The Music by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  It's time for parents and students in the Detroit Public School system to face the music. Your schools are closing and there is nothing you can do about it.
  
  For the time being.
  
  I was present at the Detroit School Board meeting' [...]
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  Posted: April 09, 2009, 10:02pm EDT
  

• Financial Engineering Is The Key For Detroit by Akindele Akinyemi

  Detroit is currently under siege from poverty-stricken leadership. Insane individuals such as Detroit City Councilwomen Monica Conyers, Barbara Rose-Collins and even JoAnn Watson are pushing a higher level of mental illness.
  
  Urban conservatism through a silver rights platform can cure the illness here in Detroit. However, this will [...]
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  Posted: April 06, 2009, 1:53pm EDT
  

• America Needs To Go International In Education by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  
  America makes too many excuses for our children not being able to compete in a global society. It does not matter who controls the educational system what matters is the end results. A failing education in our society is a immediate threat to national [...]
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  Posted: April 01, 2009, 8:41pm EDT
  

• Mayor Ken Cockrel is Not President Obama by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  While Detroiters are trying to figure out who to vote for on May 5, 2009 I wanted to point out something of significance. Some people who are supporting Mayor Ken Cockrel for re-election are going around saying that the Cockrel campaign and personality is like President [...]
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  Posted: April 01, 2009, 3:54pm EDT
  

• What Does Dave Bing and Ken Cockrel Have In Common? Try Kwame Kilpatrick by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I went to the Mayoral debate tonight at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan between Mayor Ken Cockrel and Dave Bing. Of course, it was a who's who of political pundits in the Detroit area who were crammed up in' [...]
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  Posted: March 25, 2009, 10:11pm EDT
  

• The Need for Silver Rights Season by Akindele Akinyemi

  A silver right movement can make Detroit one of the nation's grandest and most influential city. After decades of failed leadership and excuses for high crime, filthy streets, endless borrowing and crumbling schools, it's time for a Mayor and City Council to capture the imagination of a city of 870,000 [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2009, 2:18pm EDT
  

• Where Is The Outcry To Support Black Children in Education? by Akindele Akinyemi

  For decades, liberals and conservatives have made school vouchers a policy battlefield. Many Republicans see them as a way to offer middle- and low-income students the same chance at a high-quality private education as wealthy children have, and to give public schools some free-market competition along the way. Many Democrats, [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2009, 11:02am EDT
  

• The GOP Urban Agenda: Dealing With Environmental Issues in the Inner-City by Akindele Akinyemi

  I find it strange that most conservatives will not discuss green issues. Many feel that these issues are a hoax (such as global warming). That is not the issue here. When we are viewing green issues from a silver rights perspective through urban conservatism we need to look at this [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2009, 9:54am EDT
  

• The GOP Urban Agenda: Financial Literacy by Akindele Akinyemi

  The movement for silver rights through family, eduction and wealth creation is connected to the way we conduct our lifestyle. It is critical for urban conservatives in this day and time to examine the way business is being conducted across the Diaspora. We cannot begin to discuss freedom and justice [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2009, 9:15am EDT
  

• The GOP Urban Agenda: Creating a Counterculture by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Oftentimes we hear from social conservatives and the religious right of how decadent our society has become in our community. We have Black men sagging their pants as if there are in prison. We have Black women walking around wearing scarfs on their head as [...]
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  Posted: March 14, 2009, 11:41am EDT
  

• We Are Wasting Precious Time by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  The Grand Old Party is at it again. They are still trying to kill Michael Steele because he is different. They hate the fact that he is trying to bring the party into the 21st century. My advice to Michael Steele is stop apologizing to [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2009, 8:26am EDT
  

• Let's End The Civil Rights Version of the Detroit City Council by Akindele Akinyemi

  
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  Posted: March 06, 2009, 9:32am EST
  

• It's Time To Prevent A Riot by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I am currently reading up on three cities that had outbreaks of violence in the past 20 years. These cities are Los Angeles (1992), Cincinnati (2001), Benton Harbor (2003) and Toledo (2005).
  
  
  All three cities have a similar pattern of issues. High crime, [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 10:28am EST
  

• CPAC: We Have Our Marching Orders by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I finally got a chance to attend the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington D.C. over the weekend. I must say the event was well attended with over 8500 people showing up from all over the country to discuss, strategize better to help push [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 8:35am EST
  

• The GOP Urban Agenda: Low-Income Families by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Michigan’s low-income working families are struggling to get by, too often forced to make impossible choices among food, housing, and health care. Government safety nets were reformed in the mid-1990s with the promise that work would pay. But that promise remains unfulfilled for many families. Part [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 9:40am EST
  

• The GOP's Urban Agenda by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  
  While both Michigan Democratic and Republican State Conventions took place over the weekend we, as urban conservatives, must move forward. Democrats are bragging about how President Obama has an urban policy agenda while Republicans do not even have one. A word to the wise for [...]
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  Posted: February 23, 2009, 8:16am EST
  

• Stop Crying Over The Fairness Doctrine by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Conservatives are crying over something called a Fairness Doctrine. This was a policy of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that required radio stations to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was honest, equitable and balanced.
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  Posted: February 16, 2009, 9:36am EST
  

• Who Will Lead Detroit? by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I read in yesterday's Sunday Free Press about Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans endorsement. I have no clue why the Free Press would endorse someone who is close to former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who, in my opinion, is a single issue candidate (crime) and have no' [...]
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  Posted: February 16, 2009, 9:01am EST
  

• The GOP Must Compete in K-16 Education and Ideology by Akindele AKinyemi

  
  Oftentimes I hear how conservatives complain about how liberals control K-16 education in our communities. The excuse I hear is how we cannot compete. That is a complete myth and here is why.
  
  Most people who lean liberal have a fundamental belief that government [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2009, 9:46am EST
  

• Speak The Issues by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Apparently, I have caused an uproar in some circles due to me pulling out of the Outreach Vice-Chair spot for the Michigan Republicans. I would like to say that I am NOT apologetic for my actions. If we are going to compete in 2010 and [...]
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  Posted: February 10, 2009, 9:01am EST
  

• Hydro Energy Is Good For Urban Communites on Lake Michigan by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  
  

  The cities of Muskegon, Muskegon Heights and Benton Harbor, Michigan could reboost their economic engines by embracing hydro energy. These cities sit on Lake Michigan and I have no clue why no one in leadership in these cities have discussed this.

  Hydro energy is [...]

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  Posted: February 08, 2009, 7:07am EST
  

• Resignation of Dead Weight Is Good For The GOP by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Newly elected RNC Chairman Michael Steele recently has asked for the resignations of the entire RNC Staff in Washington D.C. The question is now how many of us can resign from the same mentality that has plagued the GOP for decades leading up to implosion? [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2009, 5:52am EST
  

• The Muskegon Project by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  As an outreach expert on matters such as communication and messaging I often receive a call from people across the state to help them in their respective communities. One such community I visited this week was Muskegon, Michigan. If you do not know anything about [...]
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  Posted: February 06, 2009, 10:16am EST
  

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  Posted: February 06, 2009, 9:25am EST
  

• The Man Of Steele: Will He Deliver by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  I am happy to announce the Republican National Committee have elected its first Black Chairman in history. Former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael Steele won the RNC race beating Katon Dawson of South Carolina 91-77 votes. This is a BRIEF time to celebrate because we [...]
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  Posted: January 30, 2009, 6:06pm EST
  

• The Failure of Pontiac Comes From Education by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  The Detroit News is reporting this morning how the Pontiac School District in Pontiac, Michigan will close eight school at the end of the school year. Those schools are Crofoot, Emerson, Franklin, LeBaron Longfellow elementary schools, the Dana P. Whitmer Human Resources Center, Lincoln Middle [...]
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  Posted: January 27, 2009, 6:09am EST
  

• Detroit's Master Plan by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  
  Since we are past the inauguration of President Obama now we can move on to saving what is left of Detroit. I have always been one who feels that the only way this city is going to come back is to first fix the [...]
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  Posted: January 21, 2009, 9:58am EST
  

• The New GOP Must Be Diverse and Strong by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  
  
  As the United States turn the pages of history as Barack Obama becoming the nation's first Black President we must consider that this is a time when we must reflect on the struggles of those before us who fought against slavery, who' [...]
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  Posted: January 20, 2009, 9:35am EST
  

• Obama is NOT King or Lincoln by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  Today is Monday, January 19, 2009 and it is Martin Luther King Jr's birthday. We are celebrating for several reasons today.
  
  (1) We appreciate the efforts of Dr. King and his accomplishments to the world.
  
  (2) Children should not be in the bed.' [...]
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  Posted: January 19, 2009, 10:06am EST
  

• Standing On The Shoulders of Greatness by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  It is so interesting to see people running to Washington D.C. to see President-elect Barack Obama become the 44th President of the United States. I will say this he has generated so much excitement that we have parents pulling their children out of school and [...]
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  Posted: January 17, 2009, 5:25pm EST
  

• Are We Paying Attention To Renee Amoore? by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  It is incredible to find how we love to promote the inclusiveness of the Republican Party but we keep on letting credible people fall from the cracks. As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take office this coming Tuesday I have yet to hear ANY serious [...]
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  Posted: January 17, 2009, 10:53am EST
  

• Connecting Detroit To The Future by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  In the past 50 years, the population of Detroit, Michigan dropped by over 50%, from a high of over 1,849,568 residents in the 1950 US Census to just 871,000 in 2008. Due to a complex mix of social, economic, and political dynamics, a half-century of [...]
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  Posted: January 16, 2009, 6:58am EST
  

• The Urban Infrastructure Needs A Upgrade in Michigan by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  
  I was at a Mayoral forum last night here in Detroit. All of the candidates showed up except Freman Hendrix and Sheriff Warren Evans. If I had to vote I would be in limbo. None of the candidates impressed me at all and I [...]
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  Posted: January 15, 2009, 7:53pm EST
  

• Urban Conservatism Touches Michigan and the Global Market by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  
  Today in urban, suburban and rural depressed areas people feel increasingly hampered by what we know to be the free markets and capitalism. Just because we have a few thieves, and a few more merchants of greed, do not actually represent the system of [...]
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  Posted: January 11, 2009, 5:39pm EST
  

• The Real Outreach Begins With YOU by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  The more I talk to people I know in my neighborhood as well as in places like Inkster and River Rouge they are begging for leadership that works for them. They want a government that people can touch. While the powers that be are still [...]
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  Posted: January 06, 2009, 7:06pm EST
  

• Urban Communities Needs Restoration by Akindele Akinyemi

  
  The implementation of silver rights in urban depressed communities across the State of Michigan will take time, patience and work. When we are talking about silver rights we are not just talking about economic prosperity but a complete restoration of God in our community as [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2009, 10:39am EST