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Mr. Franklin has been an activist for over 40 years,he is a veteran of the USAF, worked in the Environmental field for over 38 years. Mr. Franklin led a class action lawsuit in 1995 (Franklin vs Metropolitan Council). He Chaired a Minority Coalition in Minnesota for over a decade.He was one of three dynamic personalities on the Jon Eliott Show (Friday Night Forum)on Air America. Worked as volunteer tester for Department of Human Rights.He ran for city council in 2004. He raised four children with his wife Diane and is grandfather of seven.
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Tuesday, June 25, 2019Whites in majorities enthusiastically supported George W. Bush and Donald Trump. The absence of human decency of Republican Presidents in the 21st century
Saturday, June 15, 2019Deliberate quagmire to aggrandize the Military industrial complex. This is about 21st century Presidents using war and the blood of other people's children as a political tool to maintain popularity and power with disregard for the human cost to the less affluent
Tuesday, January 19, 2016We find ourselves alone in a struggle Fear of Black life is predicated on centuries of race hatred
Friday, January 8, 2016It would be one of the old slave state representatives Our children are dying because of our government representatives selling out to the gun lobby with overtones of racism.
Friday, January 1, 2016Dissolve the Republican Party Addressing the Southern Strategy through a strategic legal strategy.
Thursday, December 24, 2015Incapable of representing Black life The US Senate has a history of confirming justices that have contempt for black life.The legislative branch clearly have greater percentages of legislators that have the sickness and are detriment by choice to the hopes and dreams of Black Americans
Friday, December 11, 2015The rise of something evil, American Fascism The philosophical underpinning of the Republican Party since Richard Nixon has been an affinity for fascism for sake of power, Aryan privilege and greed.
Thursday, November 19, 2015Judicial review is an abomination to Democracy and Justice Judicial Review has been used as another layer of insurmountable white privileged royalist power that Black protest or politics will never overcome.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011Another Stolen Election How the Democrats lost the 2012 election after the Republicans took over the State Houses in 2010
Sunday, October 9, 2011Blacks Get Hurt The Worst How race, sex and religion have been used as a tool to convince many Americans to vote against their own best interests.
Thursday, September 8, 2011Someone Had To Say It This is about the predictable backlash to the election of a black president.
