MLK Day: The Caribbean Community in Philadelphia Empowering the World

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I recently submitted this letter to the Jamaica Gleaner for consideration as a Letter to be published in its Newspapers. I also did a podcast episode on The Neoliberal Round Podcast on the matter to be presented in summary below. Here's the link to the Audio podcast, available on any stream:

Caribbean Community in Philadelphia Give Back on MLK Day on The Neoliberal Round Podcast via The Google Podcast Link



Please find the Letter to the Gleaner below:


Dear Editor,

I bucked up on a group in Philadelphia at Broad & Olney on MLK day giving back to people. We had described the Caribbean Community and it's diaspora as peoples who are "Dependent" when thinking about the type of capitalism or socio-economic dynamic of the post colonial communities of the Global South and their diaspora to a lesser extent. However, on MLK day we visited a group in Philadelphia at Broad and Olney who were giving back to the community, providing various resources and information to improve the community. The group called "Caribbean Community in Philadelphia" was comprised of not only people from various parts of the Caribbean (such as Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Barbados, Guyana, Antigua etc) but also US peoples of all races those born here in the US and those Naturalized citizens or residents who originated from other parts of the world. They came together to make difference. The group's Executive Director Miranda Alexander discussed how the group started and stated that Philadelphia resembles her community in Trinidad and Tobago, in a sense. She discussed the group's involvement with the Global 360 movement helping to provide solutions to global challenges including poverty, inequality, discrimination etc. We met up with several individuals including locals from Philly, the Caribbean and Dr. Camille C. Ragin, PHD, Professor and Associate Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Temple University Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. She shares her work in the US but also how she's giving back to Jamaica, working with the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus on a study with the United Nations to explore Life Science and behaviours in Jamaica with a view to improve life and science in that country. I've been a big proponent of investing heavily in the Caribbean through science and technology if they are to be competitive in a world that has become technologically advanced. We have interviewed Dr. Andre Isaac's a former Jamaican now Chemist and Professor at College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts working to develop "ring cycles" to improve vaccines and drugs. These former Caribbean Nationals are working "to make America great", while doing work that can improve their former countries. However, it's not coordinated very well in the sense that we can coordinate the efforts better so that it has greater and targeted impact in the Caribbean. Dr. Andre example wanted to give back but does not know how to. We hope that this program provides a way those who want to give back can do so by contacting their local Caribbean Community in their state/city or by contacting Miranda Alexander of the Caribbean Community in Philadelphia or The Neoliberal Corporation www.theneoliberal.com or Rev. Renaldo McKenzie @Jamaica Theological Seminary. I Lecture a course "Caribbean Thought" at the Seminary which considers the diverse currents and movements of Caribbean including it's diaspora and those connected to Caribbean experience from here in the US as an Academic, Author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance and the upcoming book Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered with contributions from Prof. Emeritus Dr. Martin Oppenheimer, formerly of @Rutgers and @Penn and is currently my unofficial Dissertation Advisor at Georgetown University. I am hoping to develop a Caribbean Thought Academic Journal of Young scholars from the Caribbean and it's diaspora and the class Caribbean Thought and the discussions here will help to facilitate that. The podcast is free and the episode on this and the Opening of the Caribbean Thought Lecture Series are available to the public on #iheartradio, #anchor.fm #spotify, #applepodcast #amazonmusic, #googlepodcast, #Radiopublic #podvine, #audible #amazonAlexa #stitcher, theneoliberal.com and renaldocmckenzie.com.

Best Regards,

Rev. Renaldo McKenzie, M.Phil, M.A, Notary,
Doctoral Candidate,
Georgetown University

Adjunct Lecturer, 
Jamaica Theological Seminary

President
The Neoliberal Corporation

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