The problems in the black community are overly discussed. All of the same issues are analyzed on panels and in books. My own understanding at the end of it all is that communities that do well have a great standard that anchors them. Black people did not have a standard, or so I thought. It became clear to me that black people have embraced a standard after all. It is called the “bills to pay” standard.
The “bills to pay” standard is simple. We are supposed to do whatever it takes to earn enough money necessary to pay our bills. Rent, car notes, clothing costs, etc. take top priority in our lives. Every other principle or activity is secondary to our bills.
This is liberating. I have always been one to fight for the larger principles like justice, freedom, equality of opportunity, and wisdom. With our new standard we do not have to protest when a police officer shoots an innocent person. That officer has bills to pay. We do not have to criticize prejudice employers. Those employers have bills to pay. We do not even have to be angry with Wall Street bankers who indulge in criminal activities. They too have their bills. With this new standard no action is off limits. We have finally arrived at the moment where it’s all good.
The new “bills to pay” standard is a savior. We have now been set free. We can sit back, throw our worries outside of ourselves, and watch as our humanity disappears.
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Friday, February 5, 2010
What Would King Think?
At a recent economic summit hosted by the Rainbow Push Coalition, a fatigued Jesse Jackson hobbled toward the door of a room where a panel discussion was about to take place. He stopped to look at finely dressed black men rubbing elbows. A slight look of disgust flashed across his face. It makes one wonder, what would Martin Luther King Jr. think about our country today?
What would King think about spending money to rent the 53rd Street Sheraton for the purpose of discussing how poor the majority of our citizens are?
What would King think about the fact that there are more social programs for former inmates of prisons than there are for children?
What would King think about President Obama’s concept of just wars?
What would King think about a memorial being built in his honor at the same time that the homeless are living in tent cities?
What would King think about New York City having a 28% illiteracy rate?
What would King think about a 40% unemployment rate among black men?
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What would King think about spending money to rent the 53rd Street Sheraton for the purpose of discussing how poor the majority of our citizens are?
What would King think about the fact that there are more social programs for former inmates of prisons than there are for children?
What would King think about President Obama’s concept of just wars?
What would King think about a memorial being built in his honor at the same time that the homeless are living in tent cities?
What would King think about New York City having a 28% illiteracy rate?
What would King think about a 40% unemployment rate among black men?
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
The Real Haiti Plan
It was impressive to see the world mobilize as an earthquake destroyed a fragile Port-au-Prince in Haiti. Citizens of the United States donated goods as well as money to the cause of rebuilding Haiti. Once the U. S. military and developers became involved the real plan for Haiti began to gain clarity. The U. S. wants to turn Haiti into a 21st century play place for their wealthy elite.
The wealthy elite of the U. S. have been looking for a great resort island every since Castro took Cuba from them. They need a place where anything goes. Most of all these elite want a space where they are in complete control. With the world media more developed and open eyes everywhere via small recording devices, it is difficult for the U. S. to just take an island. The world community will no longer allow Washington DC to invade countries while claiming to be purveyors of freedom. However, if the U. S. were asked to come in and rescue some island close to us from collapse, then it is an invitation, not an invasion. Of course the U. S. would be happy to send thousands of troops to secure the streets. To take control of the airport.
The first phase of the plan is complete. The U. S. has convinced the Haitian Prime Minister to declare martial law. We even loaned him our troops under our control. Now Haiti is occupied. The second phase of the plan is to coax the professional class out of Haiti to the U. S. with money and prestige. Obama has opened the door to a certain amount of Haitians to come to America to work. Who says a president cannot create jobs. The third phase of the plan is to kick out the socially conscious countries that are helping the Haitian people. The master stroke will be when U. S. developers come in to build resorts all across Haiti. Those poor Haitians that were unemployed before the earthquake will be locked into $3 a day jobs serving U. S. visitors. The U. S. will then turn to other struggling Caribbean countries and offer to duplicate the Haiti plan.
Haiti will become the paradise island of the 21st century. The United States tourists will visit. The impoverished Haitians will serve. All will be happy. Obama will be known as a modern Andrew Jackson, an expansionist president.
The wealthy elite of the U. S. have been looking for a great resort island every since Castro took Cuba from them. They need a place where anything goes. Most of all these elite want a space where they are in complete control. With the world media more developed and open eyes everywhere via small recording devices, it is difficult for the U. S. to just take an island. The world community will no longer allow Washington DC to invade countries while claiming to be purveyors of freedom. However, if the U. S. were asked to come in and rescue some island close to us from collapse, then it is an invitation, not an invasion. Of course the U. S. would be happy to send thousands of troops to secure the streets. To take control of the airport.
The first phase of the plan is complete. The U. S. has convinced the Haitian Prime Minister to declare martial law. We even loaned him our troops under our control. Now Haiti is occupied. The second phase of the plan is to coax the professional class out of Haiti to the U. S. with money and prestige. Obama has opened the door to a certain amount of Haitians to come to America to work. Who says a president cannot create jobs. The third phase of the plan is to kick out the socially conscious countries that are helping the Haitian people. The master stroke will be when U. S. developers come in to build resorts all across Haiti. Those poor Haitians that were unemployed before the earthquake will be locked into $3 a day jobs serving U. S. visitors. The U. S. will then turn to other struggling Caribbean countries and offer to duplicate the Haiti plan.
Haiti will become the paradise island of the 21st century. The United States tourists will visit. The impoverished Haitians will serve. All will be happy. Obama will be known as a modern Andrew Jackson, an expansionist president.
END
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Books For Sale
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1. The Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry. Robert Sam Anson. $8
2. An Experiment in Democracy: The New York Idea. Mario Cuomo. $8
3. The Webster Chronicle. Daniel Akst. $8
4. Hot Buttons: Unraveling 10 Controversial issues in Education. Donovan R. Walling (ed). $8
5. Algebra and Trigonometry: A Pre-Calculus Approach (3rd ed). Max A. Sabel and Norbert Lerner. $8
6. Mama. Terry McMillan. $4
7. Beloved. Toni Morrison. $4
8. Sula. Toni Morrison. $4
9. The Inferno. Dante Alighieri. $5
10. Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman? Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack. $4
11. Coffee Will Make You Black. April Sinclair. $5
12. The Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka. $4
13. Republic. Plato. $6
14. The Last Days of Socrates. Plato. $4
15. The Oxford English Mini-Dictionary. $4
16. Moby Dick: Complete and Unabridged. Herman Melville. $6
17. The 100 Steps Necessary for Survival in America for People of Color. Sam Chekwas. $4
18. My Beautiful Feeling: Correspondence with Ilona. Walter and Ingrid Trobisch. $4
19. Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe. $3
20. Even the Stars Look Lonesome. Maya Angelou. $6
21. The Stars Shine Down. Sidney Sheldon. $10
22. Birth of a Nation: A comic Novel. Aaron McGruder, Reginald Hudlin, and Kyle Baker. $10
23. Personality 6th edition (textbook). Jerry M. Burger $25
24. Mathemagics. Arthur Benjamin, Ph. D and Michael Brant Shermes, Ph. D. $6
25. Basic Skills in English Practice Book. McDougal, Little $10
26. Regents Comprehensive Examination in English Workbook $15
27. Birth of a Nation. Aaron McGruder & Reginald Hudlin $15
28. Historic Speeches of African Americans. Selected by Warren Halliburton $10
29. Great Issues in American History Vol. 1 1765-1865. Richard Hofstadter $6
30. The Communist Manifesto And Other Revolutionary Writings. Bob Blaisdell (editor) $6
31. Three Negro Classics: up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Avon Books. $8
32. One Step From Insanity Actual Words from the Psych Ward. Lady Charmaine Day. $15
33. The Cornel West Reader. Cornel West. $15
34. The Covenant. Tavis Smiley. $12
35. Nigger: The Strange career of a Troublesome Word. $12
36. The Critical Thinker. Richard Mayer and Fiona Goodchild. $6
37. How to Marry A Black Man. Monique Jellerette Dejongh and Cassandra Marshall Cato-Louis. $15
38. Blink. Malcolm Gladwell. $12
39. Selections From the Black. $15
40. Understanding The Purpose and Power of Men. Dr. Myles Munroe. $15
41. Every Man, God’s Man. Stephen Arterburn and Kenny Luck. $15
42. Life Science. Textbook. $25
43. Social Psychology 2ndedition. Eliot R. Smith Diane M. Mackie.$30
44. Personality 6th edition. Jerry M. Burger. $30
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1. The Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry. Robert Sam Anson. $8
2. An Experiment in Democracy: The New York Idea. Mario Cuomo. $8
3. The Webster Chronicle. Daniel Akst. $8
4. Hot Buttons: Unraveling 10 Controversial issues in Education. Donovan R. Walling (ed). $8
5. Algebra and Trigonometry: A Pre-Calculus Approach (3rd ed). Max A. Sabel and Norbert Lerner. $8
6. Mama. Terry McMillan. $4
7. Beloved. Toni Morrison. $4
8. Sula. Toni Morrison. $4
9. The Inferno. Dante Alighieri. $5
10. Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman? Patricia C. McKissack and Fredrick McKissack. $4
11. Coffee Will Make You Black. April Sinclair. $5
12. The Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka. $4
13. Republic. Plato. $6
14. The Last Days of Socrates. Plato. $4
15. The Oxford English Mini-Dictionary. $4
16. Moby Dick: Complete and Unabridged. Herman Melville. $6
17. The 100 Steps Necessary for Survival in America for People of Color. Sam Chekwas. $4
18. My Beautiful Feeling: Correspondence with Ilona. Walter and Ingrid Trobisch. $4
19. Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe. $3
20. Even the Stars Look Lonesome. Maya Angelou. $6
21. The Stars Shine Down. Sidney Sheldon. $10
22. Birth of a Nation: A comic Novel. Aaron McGruder, Reginald Hudlin, and Kyle Baker. $10
23. Personality 6th edition (textbook). Jerry M. Burger $25
24. Mathemagics. Arthur Benjamin, Ph. D and Michael Brant Shermes, Ph. D. $6
25. Basic Skills in English Practice Book. McDougal, Little $10
26. Regents Comprehensive Examination in English Workbook $15
27. Birth of a Nation. Aaron McGruder & Reginald Hudlin $15
28. Historic Speeches of African Americans. Selected by Warren Halliburton $10
29. Great Issues in American History Vol. 1 1765-1865. Richard Hofstadter $6
30. The Communist Manifesto And Other Revolutionary Writings. Bob Blaisdell (editor) $6
31. Three Negro Classics: up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Avon Books. $8
32. One Step From Insanity Actual Words from the Psych Ward. Lady Charmaine Day. $15
33. The Cornel West Reader. Cornel West. $15
34. The Covenant. Tavis Smiley. $12
35. Nigger: The Strange career of a Troublesome Word. $12
36. The Critical Thinker. Richard Mayer and Fiona Goodchild. $6
37. How to Marry A Black Man. Monique Jellerette Dejongh and Cassandra Marshall Cato-Louis. $15
38. Blink. Malcolm Gladwell. $12
39. Selections From the Black. $15
40. Understanding The Purpose and Power of Men. Dr. Myles Munroe. $15
41. Every Man, God’s Man. Stephen Arterburn and Kenny Luck. $15
42. Life Science. Textbook. $25
43. Social Psychology 2ndedition. Eliot R. Smith Diane M. Mackie.$30
44. Personality 6th edition. Jerry M. Burger. $30
Call 718-986-0774
Monday, January 18, 2010
What Martin Meant to Me
Martin Luther king Jr. is often quoted by intellectuals for a variety of reasons. With a figure like King all one writer can do is to explain how they are influenced by him. King means so much to me that I would need a whole book to explain it all, so I will discuss just a couple of the examples that King set for me. King teaches me to persevere and to make new paths.
King decided to embrace the greater principles of God and humanity – Justice, Freedom, Peace, and Empathy. He walked with those principles all of his life. King continues to fight for those principles even from beyond the grave. When King died he was not liked because he was against the Vietnam War, while his inner circle wanted to live comfortable. King died like so many prophets of God-alone. Sure there were people around him physically, but he stood way out front in many ways. At times we who hold those same principles feel like giving up, we can look to King for support. These days, King is often the only encouragement that we have.
One of the most important lessons that King teaches often goes overlooked. Sometimes we have to create a new path when we are pursuing a path with great principles. The powers that be will often close off paths for upright people. King was abandoned by the black church, so he created the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). When we find ourselves without an institution that will support our efforts, we should create our own.
King carried his cross until the end of his days in this realm of existence. I hope that those of us who are courageous today will continue to be courageous until the end of our time.
King decided to embrace the greater principles of God and humanity – Justice, Freedom, Peace, and Empathy. He walked with those principles all of his life. King continues to fight for those principles even from beyond the grave. When King died he was not liked because he was against the Vietnam War, while his inner circle wanted to live comfortable. King died like so many prophets of God-alone. Sure there were people around him physically, but he stood way out front in many ways. At times we who hold those same principles feel like giving up, we can look to King for support. These days, King is often the only encouragement that we have.
One of the most important lessons that King teaches often goes overlooked. Sometimes we have to create a new path when we are pursuing a path with great principles. The powers that be will often close off paths for upright people. King was abandoned by the black church, so he created the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). When we find ourselves without an institution that will support our efforts, we should create our own.
King carried his cross until the end of his days in this realm of existence. I hope that those of us who are courageous today will continue to be courageous until the end of our time.
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What is Your Record
The person in charge of closing a public high school stood before the community to tell them that the school was closing, it is final, and that we were not there to discuss saving the school. The parents asked this woman where their children would go to school. The person said that the children would have a chance to apply to the new school due to open in place of the old one. The parents grew frustrated because they were confused about what the new demands on their children would be. From this point in time, until further notice, the children will be judged on their records.
For the last decade or so public school children were able to go to any school they wanted as long as they were within a certain age range. The child could have a failing grade point average. The child could have a list of negative behavioral incidents. Some the children could barely read and write, yet the public schools had to take those children.
The days of the public school with the open door are over. From now on a child will have to take a specialty examination or be interviewed by a panel before they are admitted into a school. if a child is not at the proper intellectual level, they may be out of luck. At that point the children are at the mercy of the system. Parents have to run around and beg schools to take their child in, even if that school is across the city.
The old saying goes, you are what your record says you are. I have seen the abilities of many public school children up close. Good luck to all you parents, you will need it.
For the last decade or so public school children were able to go to any school they wanted as long as they were within a certain age range. The child could have a failing grade point average. The child could have a list of negative behavioral incidents. Some the children could barely read and write, yet the public schools had to take those children.
The days of the public school with the open door are over. From now on a child will have to take a specialty examination or be interviewed by a panel before they are admitted into a school. if a child is not at the proper intellectual level, they may be out of luck. At that point the children are at the mercy of the system. Parents have to run around and beg schools to take their child in, even if that school is across the city.
The old saying goes, you are what your record says you are. I have seen the abilities of many public school children up close. Good luck to all you parents, you will need it.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Disappearing Prince
Obama, where have you gone?
You were hope personified
The service seems all but done
Did they whisper grand ideas
Or shout a wall between us
Like “sir think of your career”
You enclosed yourself with rogues
With no loyalty to land
Humane acts are not in vogue
Our prince of what could have been
We’ll miss the almost movement
A mission heard, never seen
END
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