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    Posted February 1, 2009 by
    zennie62
     
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    This iReport is part of an assignment:
    Day do-over

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    Zennie Abraham's No-Do-Over-Day: Jerry Brown and The Email

    By zennie62  |  Posted February 1, 2009  |  Oakland, California
     

    The iReport team wants to know what my do-over-day would be. Well,

    the one I was thinking of, when I -- as Chairman -- wrote an email

    to the board of the Oakland Super Bowl Bidding Committee basically

    explaining why things were not going as planned and pointed out how

    some people could have performed better, acciused then-Oakland

    Mayor Jerry Brown of being racist because I felt then that he could

    not really deal with anyone who was African American and

    intellectually confident, and that was why he never met with me

    while meeting with everyone from interns to mid-managers -- all

    that I saw at the time were white. Meanwhile, I'm trying to bring

    the Super Bowl to Oakland. That day was one I will never want a

    "do-over" on. It increased my self-esteem.

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