Nature’s Hotline Foundation

By Jonathan Oseguera

October 16, 2010

Background• Founded in 1978 by Jacinto Anielle Rhines, Jr. • has outreached into inner city schools to self esteem uplift our

inner city parents children and youth of all ages, as well as our teachers on all grade levels in South Los Angeles, particularly at our local neighborhood schools, near Normandie Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard

• Has recently transformed what once was a storefront drug house into 3 connected units of Nutritional, Cross Cultural, Self Respect Upliftment at 1444, 1446, and 1448 West Martin Luther king Jr. Blvd in L.A.

• The 3 units are the Natural Soul Food Non-profit Café, the 1st Marathon Mom’s Mushland, and the Community Sensitivity Dining Room

Values

• It is a challenging task to sensitize White people with hard hearts toward greater needs of Black children in America, especially as it pertains to the black youth whose negative N word, B word, pants sagging, gangster rap influence is copied and admired by all other children and youth worldwide. Every White corporate apathetic executive, only concerned about his or her children, is unknowingly practicing institutionalized racism, passed on from generation to generation through most White families, with no concern at all for Black children victims of racism, thinking they are no worse off than other kids with greedy color blind selfishness cruelly and inadvertently helping to kill and destroy Black kids and their own kids.

Missions • The Natural Soul Food Non Profit Cafe in Los Angeles and its

connected cultural and artistic counterparts for other cities to similarly nutritionally and cross culturally serve other national communities. The first and foremost purpose is to use "Pay What Taste Buds Say" as the unique and unselfish theme as we have done in Los Angeles to gain trust and bring out integrity especially within a low income community where each non profit franchise in other cities should be located

• Unselfish living is our key

My personal connection

• As a student, I’ve taken classes where my pupils have been culturally diverse, and I’ve heard many stories of them having experience racism

• In my history classes I’ve learned about slavery, the civil rights movement and the dangerous process of arriving at the point of equality

• I’ve come to hate racism and wish for a better world where equality and peace exist

Community Need

• Racism has existed in the world for far too long. • America and the world have made great progress

towards reaching equality• Although, institutionalized racism still dwells

within our communities• This foundation is taking the path to end racism

and to educate the people of the community about equality, good role modeling and self-respect

Natural Soul Food Non-profit Cafe

• Explicating to citizens how good nutrition and healthy eating habits are as priority keys to happiness and success

• Planning classroom presentations and fieldtrips to the café to teach students about healthy nutrition

• Teaching parents good role modeling with unselfish concern in daily practice through cultural awareness

• Delicious, healthy dishes are served at the café

1st Marathon Mom’s Mushland

• Positive poetry and clean comedy artistic performances held

• Performances help parents and children understand the backgrounds and challenges of different people

Community Sensitivity Dining Room

• Jazz performances held as a multipurpose of reversing the negative influences of most rap music, to slow down to a happy living survival pace our parents and youth and children especially those who live in this area of LA

• Introducing healthy and delicious food alternatives to junk food, as you enjoy our Jazz presentations within a safe drug and crime free transformed low income section of Los Angeles.

Outputs and Outcomes• We have fed low income

people in LA delicious and nutritious food

• We have impacted the life’s of students in schools such as Centennial High, Loren Miller Elementary, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary

• We have also spoken to 150 inmates Lancaster at the Challenger Juvenile Detention Center about learning from mistakes and changing their rote life choices

•We have raised self-esteem in many black people

•We have Increased health in the community

•we have decreased unscrupulous, gang-related lifestyles of many black teenagers

•We have spread cultural awareness to the community

The Just Think Foundation

• Just Think teaches young people to lead healthy, responsible, independent lives in a culture highly impacted by media

• Our concentration and focus on African American parents and children is the priority focus for all other youth influenced by Black youth to be positively uplifted to change this negativity that is captivating all the youth throughout our world who are talented and confused.

• Issues Relevant to Just Think: human rights, and religious freedom

• Just Think helps students make healthy decisions• We use didactic presentations to teach students to make

nutritious and healthy choices

Linking to Critical Thinking

• We teach different races, and different people to evaluate major alternative view points of people discriminated

• We teach children to think metacognitively about their health decisions

• We inspire children to be fair-minded and to draw non-fallacious conclusions about the different races

Linking to Critical Action

• We encourage white and black children to make reasonable judgments about diverse cultures

• We encourage black teenagers who have made wrong decisions to correct themselves and to be disciplined

• We explicate the the depth of the problem of institutionalized racism to the public for its awareness

• We hope that the future generation will take in what we are trying to spread, and apply it to their own lifestyles and the lifestyles of those around them

• This foundation is taking the path to end racism and to educate the people of the community about equality, good role modeling and self-respect

• The Natural Soul Food Non-profit Café explains to citizens how good nutrition and healthy eating habits are as priority keys to happiness and success

• Positive poetry and clean comedy artistic performances held the 1st Marathon Mom’s Mushland

• Jazz performances held as a multipurpose of reversing the negative influences of most rap music, to slow down to a happy living survival pace our parents and youth and children especially those who live in this area of LA at the Community Sensitivity Dining Room

• Issues Relevant to Just Think: human rights, and religious freedom

How You Can Help the Cause

• Spread the message:

2. Healthy nutrition

3. Reverse the negative influences of today’s cultural differences

4. Cease the practice of institutionalized racism

5. Pay what your taste buds say