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Hair Braiders Endorse
Kafumba Kromah for MMA President
By: Campaign Staff
16 January, 2012
 It’s
been weeks since the Kafumba Kromah campaign was announced
at the MMA November’s meeting. Though the campaign is yet to
be launched formally but the candidate, Honorable Kafumba
Kromah and some senior members of his team have been busied
knocking on doors all across the Twin Cities seeking
support. The group of dedicated campaigners have made
contact and earned the support of hundreds of prominent
Mandingo community members both at homes, places of worship,
work/job (hair braiding shops), on the street and via
telephone conversations.
In late December, 2011, the campaign paid courtesy visits to
several Hair Braiding Shops in Minneapolis, Saint Paul,
Brooklyn Park, Saint Louis Park and Burnsville. The
candidate described each visit as being uniquely different
from the other by the sort of disappointments and
frustrations expressed by different people at different
location but yet within the occupation. As he notes the
peoples’ concerns and recommendations for community
improvement, presidential hopeful, Hon. Kromah tried to
reassure the aggrieved community members without overly
promising the impossible. As the campaign concludes its
final visit in North Minneapolis, it became apparent that
some supporters dearly wanted a platform made available to
ease their struggle of recruiting additional family members,
friends and other associates to the winning team.
In response to the people’s requests for a platform, the
Kromah campaign is pleased to present its community vision
in sequence beginning with, perhaps the most urgent of the
day listed below.
Low Turnout at the Once a Month Meeting:
With less than 15 people attending MMA’s once a month
meeting, as president, I plan to increase this number to a
reasonable and acceptable quorum for a given meeting. Unlike
the present administration, the Kromah led administration
will not settle for just a hand full of people attending
meetings month after month. We shall relentlessly seek for
maximum, attendance, participation; and representation in
key decision and policy making meetings. To accomplish these
goals, we will have all options on the table, including, but
not limited to the following:
A.) Setting up a committee, responsible for
conducting home visits to community members who have missed
three or more meetings, in order to ascertain the reason(s)
for their absences, and offer to help with any concerns or
issues;
B.) Re-considering rotational meetings, whereby members will
have the opportunity to sign up for scheduled meetings to be
held at their homes; this method of rational meetings had
worked for us in the past;
C.) Finding alternative meeting locations in or
closer to where most of our members reside, such as Brooklyn
Park/Brooklyn Center, as opposed to the current meeting
location in North Minneapolis where fewer or no member live;
D.) Entertaining suggestions to ascertain if the
outstanding meeting schedule, (last Sunday of every month)
is suitable; and if not, find alternative meeting schedule(s);
and
Finally and perhaps most importantly, we will consider
holding only emergency meetings in persons (face to face),
while we conduct regular meetings via teleconferences, which
we believe will enable all community members to participate,
given the overwhelming number of cell phone users among us
nowadays.
To be continued.
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