Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas are at it again!

The American Indian Enterprise & Business Council is fully aware that we truly have a limited time in our lives to make and contribute money to Social Security, usually it ranges from 18-19 years old to about 50, by that time we are making the most we will make in our lifetimes and will have pretty much invested into some form of retirement. Unfortunately, because of the mass corruption, misinterpretations of definitions, despite knowing the interpretation they are using is completely wrong, the minorities of the minorities in this country miss out on EVERY bit of the training meant for them, the education and the funding meant to help lift them out of poverty. What usually follows is a breakdown in the community, crime, drugs etc. and most families will no doubt be dependent on the Government for some form of assistance and that is why we are an active member of the United Nations Global Compact and what this means is that we fully support the ten principles of the UN Global Compact with respect to human rights, labor, environment and anticorruption. With this commitment, we express our intent to support the Global Compact advancing these principles, and will make a clear statement of this commitment to our stakeholders and the general public.

We also pledge to participate in and engage with the UN Global Compact in the following way(s):

1. Through aligning the objectives of the Global Compact with that of the American Indian Enterprise & Business Council in areas of a common vision and interest particularly on issues relating to responsible
   public and corporate governance, participation in Country/Local Networks; involvement in specialized initiatives and work streams; engagement in partnership projects; and reviewing and providing
   commentary to participating companies on their Communications on Progress.
2. We recognize that a key requirement for participation in the Global Compact is the submission of a Communication on Engagement (COE) that describes our organization’s efforts to support the implementation of the ten principles and to engage with the Global Compact. We support public accountability and transparency, and therefore commit to report on progress within two years of
   renewing our pledge and promise to the Global Compact and every two years thereafter according to the Global Compact COE policy.

We as an American Indian Organization (a 501c3) saw the need to integrate ourselves in the so called “all Inclusive” and the “Diverse” community but the obstacles we faced were more like barriers, for some unknown reason, KCMO would not contract with some of our Indigenous clients who eventually went out of business while many others that were intimidated looked the other way, in one case a female client who had received her first largest contract, hired her employees, got the insurance required, bought the uniforms, had met with the owners and was ready to go to work, the contract was then yanked from her because she had an MBE certification and HRD for KCMO said that the contract was required to go to a WBE person, so SHE lost the contract to another woman because of certifications. It didn’t matter that she was also female, it simply came down to the certification, or so we were told. My client, after five long years has since been put out of business and went bankrupt having never received a contract through the city. You tell me what you walk away surmising?

We worked extremely hard at trying to be a part of the “Fairness in City Contracting” and “Fairness in Construction” Council that is an intricate part of minority contracting and participation sponsored by the City of KCMO. What we found is that its an organization of the city that is closed to anyone outside of the private club and allows only those members involved who are already a part of the program in perpetuity, with one exception, the Mayor can seat “one” person that he chooses to become a member and thats it. all the other dozen or so in each group remain the same (none of which are American Indian)

Unfortunately for the American Indian Community, we become victims once again at the hands of the “majority” races of the “minority race” the so called “Black and Brown coalition” as it has come to be known. Somewhere along the way the LA Times got wind of this issue and an article came out exposing the manufacturing of “fake Indigenous citizens”.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-na-cherokee-minority-contracts-20190626-story.html