april6263 wrote:

CEK40 wrote:

I wonder how Vmmm's daugther is doing at the Robotics meet today...she was sick last night but they made it to the hotel she said this morning...
 

Oh I hope they did well    and I hope D2 got to go to the meet

Yes.........and we need a R2D2 update.........hopefully, their circuits are still going strong. LOL

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

OK....have to take a dinner break. It's ready. Hope to get back while you guys are still on. If not, I'll check in tomorrow and have a great evening! I'll stay signed on...and hope I don't forget to log out!! LOL

enjoy dinner Jet  

LuvSeason18 wrote:

JetmamaDiDi wrote:

april6263 wrote:

LOL....ok so should I admit I love romance novels too.....LOL........and I posted earlier...her counts were too low for them to restart chemo but not low enough for a transfusion sooooo......we get to spend Easter at home!!....we go back tuesday and try again  

Well.....every cloud has its rainbow! So glad you'll get to be home for Easter. YEA!!! 

Rainbows.......perfect in every way.......especially for Easter.......I mean, really think about it. LOL

 

yes they are perfect for Easter   

KeepOnSinging wrote:

LuvSeason18 wrote:

KeepOnSinging wrote:

The dinners are going well and are attracting a lot of attention.  I promise to write a post about all that has happened.  In the meantime those of you who do Facebook.  We have an FB page, Beloved Community of DeKalb County, Illinois.  Activists from Chicago showed up on Sunday night.  The price of these going well is that all sorts of folks now want to partner.  Sometimes that means take over.  My younger son, the singer wants to do a video essay about BMI (Black Male Initiative), their realtionship with both police departments (university and city) and the fact that when the dinners are not near campus, the NIU police chief and his officers provide rides for these young me.  My son said, "This, I bet, is the only place in the nation that there is this kind of relationship between the police and young African American men."
 

He is probably right.  You know, it would be nice if something like your community dinners hit the mainstream media, showing all of the "good" out there instead of all of the riots and such.  That being said, I kind of hope that your dinners/groups kind of stay small and connected.  When you get others involved, especially in a "take over" thing, you lose exactly what you were trying to accomplish in the first place.  Does this make sense?

It absolutely makes sense.   But we also know that we need to shape the inevitable growth that is coming.  I have found, to my delight, that being almost 75 has been a plus.  But is also helps enormously that I threw my lot in with an African American church in 2001.  I am not viewed as an activist by other white people; but, to my utter surprise the white activists listen to me when I tell them that they are "barking up the wrong tree" with their top down initiatives.  If we want to build trust, it has to be grassroots or from the bottom up.  And when numbers drop you do not give up.  Now it is obvious hat if we did a major publicity campaign, we could be getting 250-300 people to our dinners.  So a small group of us is talking about how to pull this off while maintaining the wonderful vibe that permeates the dinners.  The conversations at the last two dinners have been particularly good.  
 

do you guys record the talks and share them anywhere????.....like you tube?????

LuvSeason18 wrote:

april6263 wrote:

LuvSeason18 wrote:

We are a chatty bunch tonight. LOL

I know....I am still trying to catch up....lol....I have missed these chats

Me too.....and to think I was only going to be on for a short amount of time....lol

LOL....I know right....me  too