BPP Community Organization

Belive, Participate, and Prosper
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
Contact: HD Obsiye
Telephone 612-423-6862

We are the ultimate dispute resolution organization; We deal with one’s own self dispute.

Dispute is not limited to countries fighting over borders, tribes fighting over grassing lands, or different ethnic communities in the same industrialized country, like the United States, fighting over their expected share of the pie. Sometimes, it is at a personal level, where one individual is in dispute with him or herself trying to identify with one norm or the other. This self confrontation always happens within immigrant families. They stay in tug of war between keeping allegiance with their native cultures and countries or accepting the new norms of their new countries. It is a difficult situation to be in, and the differences between the immigrant and the host countries’ ideologies towards life are the center of the dispute. Consequently, a lot of human beings suffer. Unfortunately, this is an ignored sector in the United States of America that requires attention, and BPP Community Organization is adamant in resolving or at least creating an awareness of the problem. I, Hussein D. Obsiye, a Somali immigrant, who came to the United States of America in 1979, founded BPP Community Organization.

After I graduated from college in 1982, I earned a Clinical Laboratory Scientist license which afforded me to get a laboratory job in any state that I chose at anytime that I desired. Hence, I started moving from one State to the other. As I moved from State to State, I noticed that some immigrant families became successful in the US, and others remained poor. I could not understand. And since I am a Laboratory Scientist, it would have been easy for me to set standards and indicators and study my observation, however, I did not get adequate sample at anytime. Hence, I decided to talk to people and gather unscientific data. After I studied several states, such as North Carolina, Texas, California, Maryland, and Washington DC, I found some consistency in my data. I gathered enough information which encouraged me to conclude that the immigrants who succeeded in this country were those immigrants who believed in their new country when they first set foot on it. Such commitment helped them try harder to understand the system and participate. They learned their rights and responsibilities that came with the rights, and eventually benefited from the knowledge, and prospered. But, those who kept one foot here and the other in their native land failed to understand the new system and suffered the consequences instead. This lack of understanding of the new system put them in a serious disadvantage which manifested in their off-springs who resorted to crime and welfare.

Moreover, I learned that the off-springs of those immigrants who did not embrace their new country identified more with their parents’ homeland; most of the times, these off-springs did have any clue of the country which they identified with. They lost all values, lost self identity, developed low self esteem, and resorted to crime and welfare. Every caring, working Minnesotan is paying for them.
In order to experience my observation myself, I decided to learn and understand the American system and culture. In addition, while I was learning the system I involved my son, Aman who was very young at the time, to learn with me and discover. As a result, my son and I became interested in the system and decided to become community advocates at wherever we lived. Now, Aman is a known community leader in Minneapolis. In addition, He is a graduate student at the University of Minnesota. He even tried to run for a Minneapolis city council for fall 2009, but decided against it and continued with his graduate education.
This issue of immigrant participation became very important to me and I decided to bring the issue to the public awareness. And after consulting with many immigrants, I decided to create the BPP Community Organization, teach my experience to the new comers regardless of their country of origin or religion, and discuss with them about my findings so that they can let go of any reservations which they had about this country before, believe in it, teach their children to belong, participate, and prosper. I will ask any participant the following questions:

1. Why did you come to the US?
2. Do you intend to stay and raise children in the US?
3. If you do, would you like to see your children accepted in the school and the neighborhood?
4. If you intend to stay in the US, would like your children succeed and prosper?
5. If yes, what are you doing today to make your goal a reality tomorrow?
6. Would you listen to BPP proposal with open mind?

This program concentrates on the concept of “First, believe in this country, then, prosper.” BPP Community Organization believes that if it helps even one individual believe in this country it achieved its goal, and everything else will take care of itself. If one individual adopts the norm of BPP organization, that individual will not need welfare, will pay taxes, and will raise off-springs who will succeed. Even though this program strongly encourages immigrants to integrate into the United States’ system, it does not, at any time, advocate them to abandon their cultures, because every culture has priceless norms that are worth clinging to.

The organization targets the parents and grandparents regardless of their ethnicity, culture, or level of educations. BPP community Organization shows them how to shape the minds of their children by showing them the evidences of all the behaviors that lead to prosperity in this country, and the behaviors that lead to poverty and crime. I am very passionate about this issue, and I want it to succeed. Nonetheless, I am aware that there are cultural, religious, community, and ethnic differences that can skew the success of the program. Hence, I decided to start with a pilot program on the Somali community in Minnesota, because, since I am Somali-American, I can compensate for the abovementioned biases in the data.

After such discussions, I am sure the community will be interested in participating in the BPP programs, succeed in this country by working hard, help their off-springs, and despise welfare; this can be done, because, I despised welfare for over thirty years, even when I was unemployed.

BPP’s goal is to reciprocate the “Minnesota Nice Phenomenon.” Minnesota welcomed a lot of immigrants, its time that the immigrants pay back and contribute to Minnesota’s economy. Anyone who believes in the same philosophy, and wants to participate is welcome.

E-mail me at hdobsiye@hdobsiye.com

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