Clarence Woods III
As a African American man coming from the streets of Miami Mr. Woods has earned his way into the toughest job in Miami if not Florida. Mr. Woods job is to change one of the poorest communities in the country into one of the best. African communities have been the target of economic hate and disenfranchisement since colonial times. Africans have bore the heaviest burden since the discovery of North America up into its present with President Obama.
African Pedro Alonso Nino navigated Christopher Columbus, African Conquistador Juan Garrido help discover Florida, African Crispus Attucts the first casualty of the American Revolution, African Harriet Tubman Civil War master spy the only woman to lead an armed troop into combat, and countless other Africans to shape, build, guide, and educate America into the power that it is today.
African Communities like Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma (Black Wall Street); Jackson Ward, Richmond, Virginia; Durham, North Carolina; Rosewood Florida and many more have paid the price of being successfully economically independent by being burned to the ground.
Red lining and just an all out fear of African success has beat our community into the condition we our forced to live with today. But America has made a mistake and left one door open. That door is SEOPW CRA. With this door African communities across this great nation will have an example of what it will take to lead us back to our natural state.
Fighting against failing schools, drugs, negative stereotypes and economic sanctions we have taken a hard look at Mr. Woods for over the past two years. Some actions we have not agreed with, some we have, while letting all be known. We have watched Mr. Woods in the streets of Overtown talk to people and try to give them a better understanding of how the SEOPW CRA can better help them and for that we take our hat off.
Let's stand behind our Brother.
