When discussing the law of attraction sometimes it’s sold as a Manna from Heaven concept that if one absolutely positively controls their thoughts only the sun will shine. The truth is bad things happen to all people even the fabulous and the successful. Kornack in expounding on the Science of Getting Rich has written about a concept called energy redirection. According to Kornack bad things will happen to good people and people engaged in the Law of Attraction must redirect their actions to deflect and compensate even over compensate for the bad. When people are faced with the loss of loved ones, insurmountable natural disasters and other incidents it may seem odd to tell people to redirect their energies even if it is the right path to take for the sooner energy is redirected the sooner one can continue to live a wholesome and positive life.
If one has any doubt that it can be done under even the most trying circumstances, one should look at the holocaust survivor Victor Frankl author of the book Mans Search for Meaning. Frankl writes about his experiences in a Nazi concentration Camp. One of the key lessons to be learned from Frankl that supports the concept of the Law of Attraction is that positive thinking in the most trying circumstances is enough to make amazing miracles happen. Frankl states that he believes he was a holocaust survivor because of his ability to redirect his thoughts and constantly focus on what his ideal life would be. He would actively see himself teaching classes before students in a university, he would imagine himself seeing and doing things outside of the concentration camp and amazingly he watched others marched to the gas chambers but never him. Frankl states in the book that he felt the main difference between holocaust survivors in his camp versus those who went to the gas chambers was their mind set or in current day terms their use of the law of attraction. Frankl gives an example of people who would set dates in their minds for when they would get out of the concentration camp, these individuals would be happy and upbeat saying I know we are going to be out by this date, they would stay safe and not be led to the gas chambers but inevitably when the date came and went and the individuals had given up they would be chosen to go to the gas chambers. Frankl implies that even in impossible conditions the thoughts of these individuals determined whether they would live or die. Frankl did survive the concentration camp to go and live the mental vision he developed inside the concentration camp.
Sometimes individuals find themselves in impossible conditions and must use the concept of transmutation or energy redirection. Victor Frankl has proven that energy redirection can be done successfully in even the most difficult of situations.
Barack Obama has brought International prestige and acclaim to the United States with the winning of the Nobel Peace prize. While the prize was shocking to many, if the citizens of United States would close their eyes and remember why they voted for him they would realize that he deserves and earned the Nobel Peace Prize. I can not say that I necessarily agree or even know clearly the rationale of the Nobel committee for awarding the Nobel Peace prize to Barack Obama but I can articulate why I think he deserves the prize.
Barack and Michelle Obama deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for first of all being able to transcend themselves. In a world that frequently says you can’t and in a country that had never had a President of color The Obama’s said “Yes We Can”. They said Yes We can and Did. Barack Obama did not come from a two parent home with Daddy throwing him up to the sky every night, Barack Obama even mentions that he comes from a home where people may have told him they were scared of black men because he was raised by his caucasian grandmother. President OBama’s history and his subsequent accomplishments are a beacon of light to every child around the world who experiences controversies and problems in their lives. The ability of Barack Obama to overcome himself and his environment is a world class accomplishment, Nobel Prize worthy because one of the hardest things for people to do is to overcome themselves. Many great thinkers have written about this Napoleon Hill, recitations of the words of Jesus and others.
Barack Obama deserves the Nobel Prize by helping to prove to the world that the United States is not full of racists who hate black people and that the notion that an American Dream is possible for all is a reality not a notion for whites only. In a sociology class I learned about the third generational theory that all European racial groups who come to the United States can meld into the fabric of the United States and eventually become white or plain American, whereas people of color Asians, Blacks, Latinos, were subsequently out of luck and could never really melt because of their race into an American characteristic. Barack Obama and the United State shattered this myth by voting for him as President by actually implementing the words of Martin Luther King “not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. The various races of the United States gave Barack Obama a mandate. Barack Obama was not a president installed by force, given to the United States by some International Super Power he was democratically elected by the American people who said that we don’t care about race anymore just someone willing to work for our interests.
As for the significance of Barack Obama post election we the American People seriously hope that he will use the slogan YES WE CAN to solve our problems as well as take the attitude of YES WE CAN to the world and help solve their problems. As for what has gone wrong with the Presidency up to know, by and large Obama and the Democrats refuse to ignore the voices that did not elect them. The only way Obama can keep his promises is to ignore the voices of dissension and keep a straight path and fulfill his promise.
Sometimes people get so embroiled in their intragroup relationships and communications they forget that there is a whole world that is not in their group or their clique. They surround themselves with people that think the same way, act the same way, and only amplify their small view of the world. This is the conudrum of David Letterman and his Clique of Bitches. As an African American I have frequently run into individuals who only live in a certain social class who are used to saying certain things, believing certain things and verbally exclaiming very damaging stereotypes about poor and struggling blacks that in most cases simply are not true.
When Letterman cavalierly announced that he was sleeping with the women who worked for him and basically said, so what. Letterman revealed that he was hanging within a clique that I entitle the Clique of Bitches. I am not calling the women bitches but I am willing to bet that in his mind, in the minds of his associates and the men that he surrounds himself with, they think of women as bitches to be thrown away used and in the least a functional urinal. The caveat with Letterman was that in his mind he told himself just like the jock tells the virgin, everybodys doing it. Every man who is able to has a clique of bitches. Letterman told himself everyone’s sleeping with their staff not just in his industry but even the mom and pop waitresses are sleeping with pop. So he cavalierly announced that he had slept with his staff and made a two million dollar old fool out of himself.
Personally I find it disturbing that a man who has managed to make forty million dollars a year did it without having to possess a shred of sophistication or knowledge of the outside world. David Letterman revealed that in this mean society we live in that there are some men who only believe the only way a woman can get a job is on her back or her knees, and judging by the attitude towards his staff he assumes that women like it. He naturally assumes that women are giving free sex to a sixty-two year old man because they sexually desire him not because they need or want a job or the money. The sixty million dollar Larry King question of Letterman’s past female employees is DID YOU LIKE IT? . I hazard to guess not much. Please don’t forget to follow me on twitter blackhippychick
The arrest by Henry Louis Gates by police for disorderly conduct after being accused of breaking into his own home is quickly being associated in my mind with incidents such as the Katherine Johnson case where police wrongly kicked the door down in her home after thinking she was a drug dealer killing her and lying to cover the killing up by saying she had a gun. The profession of police is quickly becoming like other professions where results are not measured and one can readily blame those you are supposed to serve for why there is an extreme need for your services, ie. in some cases educators blame children for not learning when they are given checks for performing the service of teaching. The profession of policing is quickly becoming the profession of getting a check and doing anything and saying anything to make sure that check is collected and not protecting.
The irony about Henry Louis Gates and his situation is that his door was jammed in, indicating that at some point a real person had actually tried to break into his house and no one was around. A reasonable human being and police officer would have noticed this and showed some concern after Mr. Gates showed ID and offered to file a police report. Instead after Mr. Gates showed ID to the police officer, the police officer called for backup which indicates the officer thought he was being handed a fake ID or did not believe that Henry Louis Gates lived there. Therefore when Henry Gates entered the porch of his home the police charged him with a trumped up charge of disorderly conduct violating Gates Rights to be secure in his own home a fundamental constitutional right.
More and more the charge of disorderly conduct is becoming skewed with a United States Citizens right to protest, with their rights to freedom of speech, and in the Gates case to be able to reside peaceably in their own home. The charge of disorderly conduct is increasingly being used to substitute for disagreeing with the police which is not disorderly. The charge of disorderly conduct is literally rendering American citizens to the role of slaves and the police as overseer who have too much discretion to use this claim when Americans may be tired, hungry, and appaled by the treatment that is being meted out to them by the “authorities”.
There was a time when minority people understood that just because they shared the same race with an individual this did not mean that these people shared the same agenda or in the least they were allowed to criticize or critique these minorities and what they represented and stood for. This was never so illustrated as in the contradictions between WEB Dubois and Booker T. Washington. Prior to WEB Dubois’s death he said the following to Ralph Mcgill about Booker T. Washington and Washington’s benefactors:
“I wish you had gone,” I said . “Joel Chandler Harris was a good man, as were his closest associates.”
“No,” he replied, “it was no use. He and they had no question in their minds about the status of the Negro as a separated, lesser citizen. They perhaps were kind men, as you say. They unhesitatingly lived up to a paternalistic role, a sort of noblesse oblige. But that was all. The status slowly had become immutable insofar as the South’s leaders of that time were concerned. Booker T. Washington had helped them rationalize it. I do not think that he meant to do so. But he did. In fact, he put a public stamp of acceptance on it there in your city when he spoke at the Atlanta Exposition…………in that same speech he implicitly abandoned all political and social rights.”
The recent nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the supreme court and the blank check endorsement of her by organizations that are for the advancement of minorities is highly troubling. Sotomoyar has almost publicly avowed in her appeals court decisions that she does not believe that race based discrimination exists for anyone white, black, or green unless maybe you are Hispanic.
The case African Americans should be most aware of is the King vs American Airlines case. The Kings an African American couple who prepurchased tickets were asked to get off a plane because the plane was full. There were other non-black individuals on the plane, some who had purchased their tickets on standby and were not asked to leave the plane. A lower court ruled that this black couple had been discriminated against, upon appeal to Sotomayor the case was overturned and they were directed to file a complaint with a federal agency instead of a lawsuit. This is clearly a racist attitude towards black people. In another case a black nurse was fired from a hospital the nurse claimed it was because of race, age and disability. Sotomayor threw out the race and age claims and allowed the disability claim to precede. The above cases are an obvious case of a potential supreme court judge who is not for African American individuals.
However Sotomayor is loyal and ethnocentric in her decisions regarding Hispanic plaintiffs. In a decision involving a sexual discrimination in a case where one Hispanic made lewd remarks to another Hispanic and the woman who was the target of the remarks hit the man who made the remarks resulting in a fight and both individuals being fired Sotomayor prevailed for the plaintiff the woman who threw the first hit. While the lower courts who ruled against the plaintiff probably thought that the plaintiff should have reported him immediately to management instead of hitting him. Violence in the workplace can be just as harmful as sexual harassment. The contradiction of telling the black non-violent couple to report their problems to a federal agency and ruling for a violent Latino who initiated a fight at work is clearly a contradiction that should be examined.
In addition , the appointment of Sotomayer by President Obama conflicts with his statements that he was highly disturbed with the disparities in drug sentencing by the government as well as to his commitment to his constitutional law background. In. U.S. vs Santa Sotomayor accepted evidence from a search warrant that had been vacated and was seventeen months old. While some would say that a criminal was convicted and the illegal search should stand this is clearly not what the founders of the constitution meant when they made the fourth amendment against illegal searches and seizures. I don’t think the writers of the constitution would think that the kings representatives holding an invalid warrant should have the right to knock someones door down. I don’t have to be a constitutional scholar to figure this one out.
While liberals are rejoicing at the appointment of Sotomayor by Barack Obama, they should be mindful of the fact that Sotmayor is a protege of the First George Bush who appointed Clarence Thomas and like Clarence Thomas she is Catholic. Clarence Thomas has been a reliable voice against blacks and the little striving man. Sotomayor is probably likely to walk in the shoes of Thomas unless of course if you are Hispanic and Sotomayor may be likely use her Latino wisdom to rule in favor of Latinos; unlike Thomas who has no race loyalty. President Obama is perfectly aware of the fact that Sotomayor was appointed by a republican and considers it a plus, the other plus he has for her is that she was a tough prosecutor. This flies in the face with Obama’s murmurings that he was concerned about persons of certain races and classes treated unjustly by the Justice System. Viewing the video below, one wonders what party Obama represents and if he is a trojan let in by those who so wanted to believe that he was the “Black Hope”
One hundred and five years ago WEB Dubois wrote “The problem of the twentieth century is the color line” As we are well into the dawn of the twenty-first century the problem of the twenty-first century is still the color line. It may be a flipped color line but it is the color line and one should always be mindful of King’s words “not the color of a man’s skin but the content of their character”
African American women have been part of the American Landscape since the founding of our country and probably before. In 1776 the year the declaration of independence was written Phyllis Wheatley wrote the following to George Washington:
To His Excellency
George Washington
Sir,
I have taken the freedom to address your Excellency in the enclosed poem, and entreat your acceptance, though I am not insensible of its inaccuracies. Your being appointed by the Grand Continental Congress to be Generalissimo of the armies of North America, together with the fame of your virtues, excite sensations not easy to suppress. Your generosity, therefore, I presume, will pardon the attempt. Wishing your Excellency all possible success in the great cause you are so generously engaged in. I am,
Your Excellency’s most obedient humble servant,
Phillis Wheatley
1776
George Washington Wrote back the following:
George Washington’s Reply
Cambridge, February 28, 1776.
Miss Phillis,
Your favour of the 26th of October did not reach my hands ’till the middle of December. Time enough, you will say, to have given an answer ere this. Granted. But a variety of important occurrences, continually interposing to distract the mind and withdraw the attention, I hope will apologize for the delay, and plead my excuse for the seeming, but not real neglect.
I thank you most sincerely for your polite notice of me, in the elegant Lines you enclosed; and however undeserving I may be of such encomium and panegyrick, the style and manner exhibit a striking proof of your great poetical Talents. In honour of which, and as a tribute justly due to you, I would have published the Poem, had I not been apprehensive, that, while I only meant to give the World this new instance of your genius, I might have incurred the imputation of Vanity. This and nothing else, determined me not to give it place in the public Prints.
If you should ever come to Cambridge, or near Head Quarters, I shall be happy to see a person so favoured by the Muses, and to whom Nature has been so liberal and beneficent in her dispensations.
I am, with great Respect, etc.
African American women have been nursemaids, housekeepers, teachers, companions, and concubines to slaveowners and their families since the founding of the United States and when some men and women became fed up with the peculiar institution of slavery an African American woman by the name of Harriet Tubman led the wanting and the willing to freedom.
In the year of 2009 it seems strange that with the women’s movement, the immigrant migration, the gay movement, the abortion activists and all other special interests groups that no one is seriously writing about a black justice to the supreme court. Black women are being asked to go the back of the line behind the supplemental interests groups. The same black women who some depend on for their votes are being asked to not only go to the back of the line but to not even attempt to get in the line. Personally I do not know what President Obama thinks of the issue. I do know that this is the first time in sixteen years that a black women has not held a presidential cabinet position which considering that black woman are one of the interests groups that determine a presidential election this is disgraceful.
I do not know what Mr. Obama thinks about at night or even how he thinks of black women. I know that after a dog incident with my neighbors who were an interracial couple the black man of the couple preceded to call me epithets that you could not even imagine whore, bitch, you get the picture and then as my family listened a little closer we heard the white woman of the couple telling him what to say to me. What was so contradictory is he probably believed these words because one morning as I walked my daughter to her 5:30 am bus one day he propositioned me for sex and my son witnessed this from his bedroom window as it happened. As the relationship progressed between our neighbor and this family it ended with the white woman sending her five daughters over to our house daily for us to watch prior to their moving I felt like an aunt Jemima nursemaid. I do not know what messages they sent to their children about black women. Since Obama is a product of a white woman and a black man and raised by a white woman, his grandmother who he openly admits was afraid of black men one wonders what messages his parents and grandparents sent to him about black women. The messages he perceived and received were definitely different than those of the last democratic President Bill Clinton who appointed black women to his cabinet or those of the last President George Bush who did diversity well and gave a black woman the position of Secretary of State and still managed to satisfy all of the various ethnic groups jockeying for a voice. It’s sad to say but our first African American President seems to prefer white women and white men as his power team and this is just not what the U.S. has been about in the last sixteen years. The Obama administration looks like a post Bush Republican Administration all White and though his color is black its pretty obvious he identifies himself as white.
So while I can not read President Obama’s mind I can read his actions towards black women supported by the media hype and illusion. There are articles written about the Obama black women when the honest truth is their is not one single black women in the Obama cabinet. It is also pretty ironic that a black woman former appointed labor Secretary under Bill Clinton manuevered and hee hawed to deprive Hillary Clinton out of votes just so a black man could become president and women of Herman’s race are repaid with not one appointment to the Obama cabinet. This is pretty peculiar.
At this point black women and others who love black women are praying and hoping for a black female supreme court nominee. At times people are so fond of saying that there are no qualified black women for various things this is why we are relegated to various professions or some can’t even grow but I’m here to tell you there are some amazing black jurists out there who are qualified to be supreme court justices.
Leah Ward Sears - She is first on the list because she possess the requisite youth. She also has the depth and the breadth to be a supreme court justice based on her administrative experience. Her biography is as follows from wikipedia:
Judith Rogers is right in the mix but she’s in her seventies. I have heard that Presidents look for nominees in their fifties so they can have possibly thirty years of judicial sway. While her age may not be a deterrent to Obama if it’s not she is definitely the jurists most familiar with isssues before the high court and issues that the United States is currently facing. She has ruled on issues on GITMO and disabilities that have had far reaching consequences and effects. Judith Rogers also holds the seat vacated by Clarence Thomas upon his nomination to the Supreme Court.
Here is her biography taken fromt the court of appeals website: Judge Rogers was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in March 1994. She had previously served on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals since 1983, becoming Chief Judge in 1988. Following her graduation from Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia and subsequently at the Justice Department in the Deputy Attorney General’s Office and the Criminal Division. Then, after serving as General Counsel to the congressional commission on the organization of the District of Columbia, she worked for the Mayor of the District of Columbia on congressional and local legislation. She became the Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia in 1979 and served until her appointment to the bench in 1983. In 1988, Judge Rogers received a Master of Laws degree from the University of Virginia Law School.
Margaret A. Burnham
In 1993, President Nelson Mandela appointed Ms. Burnham to serve on an international human rights commission to investigate alleged human rights violations within the African National Congress. Conf. Wrongful Convictions a call to action She established theCivil Rights and Restorative Justice project at Northeeastern University which examines the failure of law enforcement and other governement agencies refusal or inability to enforce the law during the civil right movement. The partial biography is a s follows and can be found at the Conference on Wrongful convictions site
Ms. Burnham’s practice is limited to civil rights and employment litigation. She has served on several professional boards including the Council of the Boston Bar association, the Committee for Public Counsel Services and the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Individual Rights & Responsibility Committee.
A former fellow of the Bunting Institute at Racliffe College and Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Studies, Ms. Burnham has written extensively on contemporary legal and political issues, including human rights, criminal justice, race and the law. She is currently a lecturer in the Political Science Department of MIT.
B.A., Wellesley, 1972; J.D., Harvard, 1975. Practiced as deputy city attorney, Office of the Los Angeles City Attorney; and as staff lawyer, Western Center on Law and Poverty. Has served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin School of Law, City University of New York Law School, and Golden Gate University School of Law. Has been at Columbia since 1991. Fellow, at the School of Criticism and Theory, Dartmouth College, and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Has published widely in the areas of race, gender, and law, and on other issues of legal theory and legal writing. Books include The Alchemy of Race and Rights; The Rooster’s Egg; and Seeing a ColorBlind Future: The Paradox of Race. Columnist, The Nation. MacArthur fellow. Board of Trustees, Wellesley College.
Kimberle W. Crenshaw
Kimberlé Crenshaw teaches Civil Rights and other courses in critical race studies and constitutional law. Her primary scholarly interests center around race and the law, and she was a founder and has been a leader in the intellectual movement called Critical Race Theory. She was elected Professor of the Year by the 1991 and 1994 graduating classes. She now splits her time each year between UCLA and the Columbia School of Law.
At the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she received her LL.M., Professor Crenshaw was a William H. Hastie Fellow. She then clerked for Justice Shirley Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Professor Crenshaw’s publications include Critical Race Theory (edited by Crenshaw, et al., 1995) and Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech and the First Amendment (with Matsuda, et al., 1993).
In 2007, Professor Crenshaw was nominated the Fulbright Chair for Latin America in Brazil. In 2008, she was nominated an Alphonse Fletcher Fellow. In the same year she joined the selective group of scholars awarded with an in-residence fellowship at the Center of Advanced Behavioral Studies at Stanford.
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I am suing Vision Works for False Imprisonment as related to the accusation of shoplifting. To reiterate the facts
1. I took my daughters glasses to vision works to be repaired.
2. I left the store and walked directly to my car, pulled my coat off threw it in the back seat, got in the car stuck the key in the ignition, shifted into reverse, by that time an armed security guard knocked on the window and told me he had a video of my shoplifting a pair of glasses at vision works. I knew this was a lie because I had not taken any glasses> I told him I did not take anything. I looked back and was horrified to see that two security trucks had blocked me in. He insisted that I get out of the car. I was horribly afraid considering I knew that I had not or have never shoplifted anything in my life and I was told it was on video, if there was a lie of this magnitude being told anything could happen. I was extremely fearful. I had been blocked in and prevented from leaving the premises of stone crest mall and told that I had taken something that I clearly knew had not been taken.
I did whatever I could think of to show that i did not have anything because the concept that there was a video of me taking something and I had not taken anything made me afraid for my safety. I knew a couple of cases where people had been beaten and killed in shopping malls by security and I did not want this to be me.
I showed that I did not have their possessions, for this I was charged with disorderly conduct, not only was I charged with disorderly conduct but the very security guards who had made the false accusation and had been shown I did not posses anthing proceeded to take my picture and ban me from the premises for disorderly conduct. If this was not enough after about an hour of sitting around the manager of vision works came out, the police man went into my car without permission and went into my coat pocket where my child’s glasses were and the vision works manager had to admit that I had not stolen glasses.
Even after all of this I was taken to jail for disorderly conduct. The mall security and vision works had the ability to intervene and apologize for the accusation but did not.
The indignities persisted, I went to court and the charges were reduced but when I came months later to get a disposition the charged had been changed back to disorderly conduct. However my attorney had explained the circumstances to the judge and he did not assess a fine and my four hours in jail was the payment and I had been released on a signature bond because I had no criminal history . If he had not reduced the charges this court would not have agreed to waive payment. The dispositions were criminally changed.
The attorneys who represented me withdrew from the case after from my perception writing interrogatories that did not take into consideration all that had happened to me.
I was supposed to have ten days to appeal the withdrawal of the attorneys from my case. The judge signed off on it after two- three days. What is happening? The United States is about to become fond again of proselytizing about human rights violations perpetrated by others yet at every stage my rights have been trampled on and I am a United States Citizen
It started with lies and false imprisonment by Stonecrest security guards literally terrorizing me on the word of a vision works employee with a lie that they had me on tape taking something. I have an education. I don’t have a criminal record. The lie part ended with the Vision Works employee stating I did not have anything and walking away.
The court system violated my rights by changing the disposition of my case/ The court system is still further violating me without giving me proper time to answer to paperwork regarding my case. Ten days and the judge signed off in three days how horrible. At this point I cringe whenever I hear anyone from the United States talking about the violation of human rights. I live in the United States and I can tell you that I did not have a fair trial because the disposition was changed, my fourth amendment rights against illegal search and seizure were violated because I was told by an armed guard to get out of my car and I had put all of my things in the car. If I would have had anything there could have been no way of proving it by having me walk back into the mall because I had no pocket book just a coat and a wallet that were off of me at the time. This was clearly an illegal search and seizure if I’m in my car.
I have spoken briefly about race on the blog with the basic statement that as it relates to skin tone for blacks in the United States it’s a losing and a very conflicting game. The issue of skin tone came hurling to the front of my thoughts this Sunday night while exploring Black Planet’s website. They had done an article on P Diddy and his casting call request which read as follows:
The management company for Diddy’s Ciroc-Imperative Talent Management-sent out a casting call and they were very clear about their requirements:
Race: White, Hispanic or Light skinned African American
From: info@imperativemgt.com
Subject: Promo girls needed!!!
To:
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009, 9:49 PM
Ciroc Promotion
Ciroc promo is this Friday, March 27, 2009
Time: 3:00pm – 7:00pm and 12:00am – 3:00am
Requirements:
Race: White, hispanic or light skinned african american
Height: At least 5?6 or taller
Size 7 or smaller.
This is a cash @ wrap job and the booking will be thru our partner. Please submit asap. Talent will only be contacted if the client is interested in booking you!!!
Compensation: $35.00 per hour
Imperative Talent Management
3500 Lenox Road, Suite 1500
Atlanta, GA 30326
info@imperativemgt.com
www.imperativemgt.com
404-419-2565 Office
404-419-2564 Office
After seeing this ad two things occurred to me, Brown and Black girls are not allowed and after meeting all of these requests of height, skin tone and color, and size these girls would only get $35.00 and hour. Looking at this I recalled my conversation with a retired black prostitute formerly married to a retired dead SF police officer. Wow these girls will give sex away for anything she said, they’ll give out sex for a ten dollar crack rock. I used to go to Vegas and make thousands in a weekend, she said, I don’t understand. Diddy’s call and his pay was an insult to dark toned black women as well as an attempt to play all women short in terms of pay and what the going rate for a model is which I hope is more than $35 an hour. The cost of Ciroc Vodka is $30.oo a bottle. 8 bottles of ciroc is $240.00. I would hope these women would regognize that they are worth a great deal more than 8 bottles of Vodka.
In any event this post is not about model pay. It’s about race in the black community.
My first experience with race came at an Air Force Base Fair when my mischievous father challenged our next door neighbor to go to the kissing booth and kiss the “white” women at the kissing booth. Our next door neighbor who was a quiet man who I had hardly ever heard talk was pretty doubtful of the idea but my father egged him and taunted him on so eventually he gave in. They walked over and kissed the woman on the lips and that was it.
The Fallout
I don’t know how it got back to our neighbors wife but I still can remember her coming to our house discussing the issue with my mom. I can hear her loud shrill voice saying the following: As light as I am, and she was very light she was about ten shades lighter than a paper bag and could go easily for Jewish, anyway I remember her saying as light as I am he’s going to have the nerve to go and kiss a white woman. I’m leaving him. I then listened to her talk about his very dark family even his momma. I’m getting a divorce she said and she left him after many years of marriage.
She immediately moved off base and filed for divorce, all because of an innocent kiss with a white woman. “this was an extreme racial reaction probably in response to their private conversations where this man blacker than the silkiest of black cats probably told her in Diddy fashion, baby I love your skin etc. etc. etc. What probably went through her mind was he wants to go even lighter to whiter and she left. Diddy’s casting call is essentially what went through this very light skin women’s mind am I black enough, if he wants me this light he may eventually go over to another race. The very innocent kiss was like a bell in her head. He wants something else. Hypothetically but not realistically she could have been right as one commenter on Black Planet stated Diddy has gone from very dark skin women all the way up to white women and so has 50 cent.
The Reaction
I suppose anyone reading this may wonder how could someone else’s divorce traumatize me. I suppose being a witness to everything that occurred could have traumatized a little girl seeing the kiss, hearing the reaction, and watching the woman move out could have alerted me to the strange nature of race. However this was not all, this was not all. The quiet man who hardly ever spoke was so upset about losing his wife and family that he went to his wifes job, the Pentagon, met her in the parking lot and stabbed her fourteen times with gigantic scissors one more stab and she would have been dead. This was my first real experience with the peculiar nature of race in the United States and it’s consequences.
My first real insight into men like Diddy came with the reading of ablack woman’s autobiography. I thought it was Anne Moody but it’s been so long ago since I read the book I forgot the title of the book but I did not forget the contents. The writer of the book went into detail about what it was like to be black but almost white in the United States. She said she met a man married him and fell in love with him but there was a caveat he did not know she was black. She said she discovered that he thought she was white after they were married when he and his friends started having white women black men parties only. She said she was shocked at the things that she heard black men saying about black women and then when she went with the white women alone she said she was surprised with what they said about the black men. She states they said terrible things. The author of the book finally states that she got fed up with the dinner parties and started screaming my momma is black you better stop talking about black women. I’m black. The reaction was her husband beat her up and threw her down the stairs and kicked her out the house.
On the other hand as a brown woman I have been the victim of being not light enough and not black enough. Personally the men who love dark skin women are the creepiest. They make their discrimination ceremonial. If you are with a group they will have the darker women at the center of attention, and will drip on her every word. A perfect example is in one of John Legend’s live Videos he went out of his way to put a darker skin women on this video. He grinded all over her publicly he treated her like he was really into her and this was the type of woman he liked. Actually at the time his girlfriend was not even black.
While Diddy may be irritating he said what he wanted and we know where he’s coming from, the really irritating ones are the pretenders, pretend you like very dark skin women and then you’re caught in the corner with someone totally different. This is so disappointing.
I have been discussing the Chris Brown and Rihanna beating in a vacuum without knowing the true facts of the incident. There are several things that I have said that have been just wrong and uninformed. Honestly I have been taking my information concerning Chris Brown and Rihanna from the Television Media and not the online media blogs, newspapers etc that I take political news from. However I corrected this today by just being nosy and wondering about the 39 year old woman that it is alleged that Chris Brown had an affair with I found out that the Chris Brown and Rihanna incident is horrific. If everyone is speculating that Chris Brown will one day kill Rihanna the honest truth is he has already attempted to kill her. With that let’s begin the list of what really happened so we can have an intelligent conversation with children about the incident. Every parent in Boston should be ashamed that 50% of their teens believe that Rihanna is at fault for what happened to her.
Here are the supposed Facts that Show Rihanna was in no way responsible for what happened to her.
Fact #1 Chris Brown is Guilty of Attempted Murder
The following two sources are stating that Chris Brown left Rihanna in the middle of the street unconscious bruised and battered.
“He put his hands around her neck and, according to the insider, said, “I’m going to kill you!”
According to the source, the 20-year-old “Disturbia” singer told police that she lost consciousness, and when she awoke, Brown had fled.”
New York Daily News It was the first time she hit the town since cops found her battered, alone on a dark street and willing to identify Brown as her attacker the morning before the Grammy Awards.
According to the E! Online source, “He reportedly exited the car and tried in vain to find the keys, then grabbed Rihanna’s neck and began choking her, saying, ‘I’m going to kill you!’”
There are no gray areas here. If Chris Brown choked Rihanna until she was unconscious and left her in the middle of the street unconscious. He thought he killed her and left her there. This is without a doubt attempted murder. While LA is famous for letting women get killed by superstars ie. Phil Spector and the Actress Lana Clarkson. Rihanna is a huge superstar and the charges of attempted murder should have been attached to Chris Brown’s name.
Fact # 2 Rihanna tried to get out of the car, Chris Brown pulled her back in and beat her.
I am guilty of saying the following about Rihanna could have gotten out the car. According to a New York Daily News report Rihanna did get out the car Chris Brown pulled her back in and beat her.
“They started to argue. She got out of the car. He wanted her to get back in, so he grabbed her. She pulled away. That’s when she’s told people he hit her.”
The Daily News source explained: “She got out of the car. He wanted her to get back in, so he grabbed her. She pulled away. That’s when she’s told people he hit her.”
“If Brown did hit Rihanna early Sunday morning, it might not have been the first time. According to TMZ.com, the 20-year-old pop star told police that Brown had abused her before the weekend attack that reportedly left her bruised and bloodied and that the violence was getting progressively worse. “
Us Weekly magazine also quoted unnamed sources close to Rihanna who claim this isn’t the first time Brown’s beaten and bruised her.
” The problem with that, Greta — well, there are several, but one of them is she told cops he did it to her before and it was escalating violence”
Fact #4 Rihanna is suffering from Battered Wifes Syndrome. “
We all blame Rihanna for going back to Chris Brown but she is suffering from Battered Women’s Syndrome. This syndrome can ultimately end up in her death as it almost did the night of the Grammys. There is no where to go but down. If Rihanna stays with Chris Brown and he’s not locked up he will eventually kill her.
Resources for reading up on battered women’s syndrome can be found here:
Finally I’ve done a paper on the Battered Wife syndrome and the thing that any person needs to know is if a person hits you once in a threatening manner they will hit you again.
I am finished with this issue. I can only pray now.
Hip Hoppers are fond of imitating Gangsters in their videos. Some even imitate the Italian Mafia. However with the recent beating of Rihanna by Chris Brown. Many are questioning the depth and the breadth of Hip Hops ability to be self policing and in the least have the ruthlessness to control star talents such as Chris Brown who not only harm his bottom line when he beats up women but harm the whole industry. Actions such as P Diddy in inviting Chris Brown to his home after Rihannas beating further shed light on the falseness of the ruthlessness facade of toughness and Gangsterism.
If the Black Hip Hop world were truly like the mafia the consequences of beating such a big star and money maker as Rihanna would have resulted in swift justice for Chris Brown such as a broken leg or in the least a black eye. Instead the woman ended up with the black eye almost fueling fire to the homoeroticism rumours swirling around hip hop artists. Furthermore Rihannas mentor though issuing lip service to his disgust concerning the incident seemed to be powerless to do anything substantial before the publicly aired beating or after. The manner in which Rihanna quickly returned to Chris Brown leads me to believe that this was not Rihanna’s first time being beat at the hands of Chris Brown. If this is true this further sheds light on the weak individuals that are in the hip hop industry and are Rihanna’s friends and lovers. Even if Rihanna chooses to go back to Chris Brown it seems like someone in the tough guy hip hop industry does not have the balls to tell Chris Brown if you hit her one more time you’re going to be gone from this earth. It just goes to show cash does not always translate into power.
A southern father in a small town has more power than these wealthy hip hoppers. In my early twenties I took a cross country trip on the greyhound bus and sat next to a man who had just gotten out of jail. He wanted to talk and seemed to think that he had been framed by a southern gentlemen because he cheated on his daughter. He seemed to think someone had planted drugs in his car and sent him off to jail for three years making Bob Barker shoes. Whether this story was true or not this Southern Father did what it took to defend his daughters honor. In the meanwhile hip hoppers are getting Prissy on the runway and kissing each other in the mouth. You know who you are. They seem to have forgotten who the girl is. Are they beating on women to indicate to their secret lovers that the straight life is just a facade.
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Rahm Emmanuel is criticizing Paul Krugman, maybe it’s because Krugman should have been head of Obama’s economic team but Emmanual dropped the ball. Gordon Brown’s trip to the United States to talk about the Global economy just goes to show that the man who won a Nobel Prize for his global economic theories should be in the Obama cabinet; maybe the stock market would not fall every time the obama economic team opened their mouth if Krugman were heading the team.
A top economic man who is not smart enough to do his taxes correctly is troubling. I am also troubled that some Republicans are coming out with a stamp to stamp under the fed chiefs name on the U.S. currency that says tax cheat. Why doesn’t the current fed chief just resign and let the Nobel Prize Winner in Global economic Theories take the helm. This is not a game.
I just found out on twitter that today is International Sex Workers Day. This is a day where sex workers protest for acceptance and the right to make a living without harassment as a sex worker. I was going to write something long and detailed on this issue basically saying what’s the difference between someone who goes and gives it to a different man every week and someone who gets paid for it. In the absence of true love and affection between two people does it really matter whether its a free one night stand or a paid business arrangement.
During the Elliot Spitzer incident last year I blogged and linked to articles related to this issue. You know I blogged last year that there is a lot of hypocrisy going around. The Republicans are hollering about babies born outside of marriage yet the daughter of their VP candidate had a baby outside of marriage, yet one of their speakers of the house Newt or whatever his title was has been married to three to four different women that in the case of the last three he got them pregnant before he even married them. He had three shot gun weddings and his shotgun weddings were divorcing one wife and marrying another, in the case of Rudolph Gulliani he married his cousin, his cousin and stayed married to her for sixteen years and had an annulment an annulment and immediately married another woman who he had children by and then while married to her proceeded to move his mistress ,now wife into the government mansion he was living in; and finally Rush Limbaugh, a reformed drug addict of two years is trying to make the claim that he’s the head of the Republican party. And all these people have to do is hate on innocent women and children. This is so sad. Legalize Prostitution, these women are claiming that they can reduce the risk of AIDS.
Here are the Spitzer posts that I wrote last year on prostitution:
Hello Phillip recently because of you I had to stop open comments to my blog. This is something that I don’t believe in. I believe that anybody who wants to comment can. However I had to delete your comments because they were so full of lies.
In addition your wife proceeded to make comments also, by that time I was holding comments for moderation. Because of this your wife’s work url was revealed. If you all continue to write negative comments to the blog. I will have to fax the comments to her employer and request that their employees cease commenting to my blog. Furthermore in your wife’s comment she mentioned that what has to be paid is such a small amount. If it’s so small then why don’t you pay it. It’s not so small now since you’ve missed 4-5 months though. ” PAY IT”
With that said I am releasing comments to no-moderation because frankly I don’t want any-ones information emailed to me. I want people to be able to make totally anonymous comments.
This started because Phillip Smith you have not paid child support. You have not paid child support for the last 4-5 months. No one seems to care that you have not paid. Usually by now a court date would have been established like it has been for the last several years but this year someone has dropped the ball and is letting you get away with not paying.
I find it rather strange you are not paying. Your daughter in San Diego is now 19 and you no longer have to pay child support for her so you should be able to handle this child support payment to your son.
If individuals are looking for background on this issue, please refer to this blog entry
Furthermore Philip Tracy Smith I left a message with your mom that your son had Pnemonia two weeks ago and noone from your family could call and see if he’s OK. This is pathetic that you can comment to my blog but you can not enquire about your child. Let’s refer back to what your mom said when I met you she said you were a nice guy and asked me to please be nice to you. Your family can’t even inquire about a child with their blood, yet they are asking a 23 year old women to take care of a 43 year old man. This is disgraceful.
Furthermore, when your son was ill when he was little my mother was at a supposed friends house and she said you called this friends house who you had met at your sons christening. I did not believe her until I saw where your wife worked. I know this friend has gotten jobs at this place for many of her relatives especially the ones she pulled strings for to get them into undergrad and then medical school after they flunked out of a famous military academy. So if you see this mutual friend tellher I said hello becsue I’m pretty sure she pulled the strings to get your wife this job.
If the shoe fits wear it. Israel has behaved terribly towards the Palestinians, kicking them off their land, out of their houses, bombing and killing them and creating an extremely unstable situation for their lives and the lives of their children. In the least a dialogue should be had by the U.N. exploring the actions of Israel not just towards the Palestinians but towards Lebanon also.
Everyone understands that the Palestinians have shot over a few harmless missiles over the fence with a minimal loss of life but nothing justifies the mass murder of hundreds of people that occured late last year. I understand that the issues the U.N. wants to discuss are from before this year but surely the actions of Israel last year should be discussed and evaluated also. Is the administration refusing to attend this conference because of the high net-worth donors in the Jewish community. Even now some do not understand the Crucifixion of Christ, I personally do not understand the Crucifixion of the Palestinians. Hopefully the United States will not stand by and advocate the annihilation and genocide of the Palestinians.
You know I was sitting here thinking about Rush Limbaugh and his attitudes towards liberals and their efforts to in the least give lip service to helping American citizens in need and at most provide assistance and relief to United States Citizens of all income groups and I could not help meditating on Limbaughs profound misunderstanding of National and World Affairs.
The first thing that kept going through my head was the international food crisis that is factually sweeping the world and how smart our government has been to plan for the poor, for the poor are always among us and always will be among us. I also thought about the base of the Republican party blue collar religious individuals who are in desperate need of the programs and resources that the Democrats are proposing to help them. Rush’s solution that tax cuts will create jobs and resources for this blue collar base is frankly ludicrous. What Rush is failing to realize is that the world is increasinglya competitive world, an increasingly capitalist world, and captalists’ are playing on the international playing field not the National Playing field. The only way to attract capital and capitalists to any Nation or society is to have a skilled workforce . However according to several sources the quality of the United States Educational system is not competitive, is not even in the top ten of best educations in the world. According to U-wire:
Now Rush is so fond of the word capitalism, in an increasingly technological world surely a smart capatalist survival of the fittest corporation is not going to bring his capital to the United States for complex jobs when all sources show that this is not the best place to get smart capital. He’s going where the best capital is and it’s not the United States. This is what smart legislators and a president realize. If your human resources lack the skill to compete world wide, a smart government provides assistance so that they can eventually be able to compete.
Finally I don’t know who Rush represents surely he does not represent blue collar workers becaue there jobs have been gone for a long time and the job losses we are dealing with are the stragglers, surely Rush is not talking about the middle class becasue they are in need of help too. Is Rush Limbaugh representing the Very wealthy. Bill Gates has a foundation that provides food aide to hungry people all around the world and says that he’s grateful to public education and libraries for helping him to reach his full potential. Surely he’s not talking about Warren Buffet because he says he believes in helping also. I am a little confused as to who rush is representing. The only people he seems to be representing so far are the virulent racists who are so prejudice that they will work against their very own interests.
While yesterday Rush Limbaugh bragged on the fact theat he did not need a prompt to speak and could go on and on maybe Rush should do less talking and more studying the bible and world affairs. Below is a little bible lesson for Rush.
Man I got summer hating on me cause I’m hotter than the sun
Spring hating on me cause I ain’t neva sprung
Win-ter hating on me cause I’m colder than ya’ll
And I will neva I will neva I will neva FALL
I’m being hated by the season
So fuck ya’ll who hating for no reason
For the first time since maybe the constitution was written we have a President that actually cares about the people. We have a president that actually wants to make the United States “ideal” of Liberty and Justice for All, real. While I have wavered and waned on my support of Barack Obama during the election. Since he has been elected the only behavior I’ve seen from Barack Obama is a caring and concern for the American people that is unprecedented. The haters coming out of the woodwork have literally stunned me. I can honestly say that I was unaware of the hate that certain white people felt for blacks until Barack Obama was elected. I would have never dreamed that so many self proclaimed Republicans and Caucasians associated Blacks with watermelon and fried chicken.
The two incidents that I’ve heard about involved individuals on the government pay roll. This is really a cause for concern that in the first case, a mayor of a town sent an email with the following picture to his list:
The Mayor says the "President" Will Not have an Easter Egg Hunt But A Watermelon Hunt this Easter
stating there will not be an Easter Egg hunt this spring at the White House but a watermelon hunt. The second incident involved cops who stated on their face book pages that:
“the rose garden will be turned into the watermelon garden” that there will be a “KFC set up right in front of the white house”
The scary part about these comments is that these individuals interact with the public. We will never know how many people have not been hired, who’ve been falsely accused and arrested, and wronged just because of racists in the woodwork.
Meanwhile the conservative Republicans are meeting and they don’t have a clue why they lost the White House and a large number of congressional seats. This is really quite funny that they fail to realize that the reason they lost is because of their lack of concern and ignorance of the needs of ordinary people. Instead of utilizing a strategy of how can we show that we are concerned and how can we win in 2016. They are insulting the President of the United States. They are using the same tactics that caused them to lose the White House by close to double digits. “Pathetic” The only people who are fooled are the racists. WAKE UP REPUBLICANS!
(Republicans)
I been in and out the bank bitch
While ya’ll asshole niggas been on the same shit
I flush em and watch em go down the drain quick
Two words you neva hear WAYNE QUIT
Cause wayne win and they lose
I call them April babies cause they fools
And while they snooze we UP
I have begun a dreamboard. Today in order to be really thorough about what I was looking for I decided to look for a picture of a penis to put behind my dream board. I was a little taken aback to see that I could not find one that was straight or not with a Caucasian in the first several pages of Google. Even so the gay black penises outnumbered the black penises with Caucasians. I just finally gave up with an awful awful bad taste in my mouth. I had to sit there and wonder if black people could sustain a society where it’s beginning to look like a large group of the male population are openly gay or on the DL.
As my thoughts roared through my mind I understood that a percentage of every population will include people who are just absolutely positively homosexual and can’t help it but the male homosexual population seems to be accelerating in the black community like Moores Law, exponentially. While personally I subscribe some of it to the lack of male role models, economic hardship and exploitation, children without fathers, the water, the chicken etc. My personal opinion is that the generations and gnerations of different incarcerated men are one of the main factors contributing to the incredible rise and acceptance of homosexuality in the black community.
According to the American Sociological Association 20% of black men born between 1965 and 1969 had served prison time before they were the age of thirty compared to three percent of white men . The rate of incarceration for black males went up significantly based upon what level of education they had. Thirty percent of black high school graduates had served prison time by their early thirties and close to sixty percent of high school dropouts had served time in the Federal Penitentiary by the time they were thirty. These numbers are just totally unacceptable and indicate a profound problem in the United States of America as it relates to black Americans and black society. With dropouts in recent years reaching close to fifty percent, it is becoming increasingly obvious that if alternatives and solutions are not implemented to help these men that the United States will face a crisis that it will not be able to handle.
As for homosexuality and the prison population, I personally think that a coed solution needs to be implemented immediately while the risks are obvious by making the prison population coed like pregnancy. An implementation of a coed prison system could be a choice that prisoners make with the agreement that they take injectable birth control monthly. Obviously the penal system is not doing a good job in controlling sexual intercourse in the penal system, it does not make sense to keep prisons same sex and cause deviant behavior and increase the spread of AIDS not just in prison but out of prison also. Something needs to be done if prisoners are creating alternative lifestyles that will make it even more difficult to integrate into society we as citizens have an obligation to intercede.
I will be writing my congressman about this issue and idea. I think it is a sound one that may reduce the numbers of prisoners returning to prison.
The folowing sources reference or discuss coed prisons
” It’s a sort of penal mock-up of society, designed to reintroduce people who have been trying to survive in penitentiaries into a bigger world where the definition of survival is more elusive, a world that more often than not throws them and their prison-learned coping schemes off, like a body rejecting a transplanted organ. Nearly half the residents at FCI are in prison on drug-related charges. All are at least two years “short,” meaning they have two years or less remaining on their sentences. When they have six months or less to go they’re eligible for furloughs, community programs, family programs and other chaperoned sorties into the outside world.”
“But violence (judging from both official and resident sources) is sufficiently rare as to be only an occasional individual problem. Homosexual attacks, common in penitentiaries, are rarer still, and according to quite a few of the residents homosexuality itself is almost insignificant.”
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“I Wish I Could Take A Journey Through Your Mind and Find the Emotions You Always Try to Hide” JOE
Several years ago I was informed that their was a mind reading device that could read your thoughts and someone called the thoughts “computer thoughts”. While I was a believer and believed, I never thought that the technology would be mainstreamed and assumed that the technology would remain under some strange black project and would never see the light of day.
However a couple of innovative Australians have done what I never thought would happen. They will be main streaming a mind reading device that reads the brain waves in persons mind and translates them into their thoughts.
Two of the innovators behind bringing this technology to market were pioneers in early text messaging. They made their first millions by bringing text messaging technology to the masses. The other founder of the company is a Nobel prize winning scientist.
The writer from Inc. has tried the technology and has the following to say about the Mind Reading Device:
I‘m sitting in a darkened room, attempting to move a large block with nothing but my thoughts. I stare at it intently and imagine myself physically tugging on it, trying to flood my mind with a sense of strain and determination. But the block doesn’t budge. I try again, concentrating, concentrating: Move, damn you; I am your master. After a long moment, the block trembles a bit, then slowly skids toward me a few feet before stopping. Encouraged, I mentally bear down until the block resumes its sliding, and this time it keeps going. I’m gripped by the immensity of what I have just accomplished: effecting a change in the world around me without moving a muscle. Well, that’s not entirely true. I may have squinted a bit.
This isn’t a dream; it’s science — and soon, maybe, a big business. OK, the block was only a virtual one on a computer screen, but that’s a nit. The same technology that converted my thoughts into action on the screen someday could be hooked up to a real-life backhoe, robot surgeon, or microwave oven, placing any of those objects at my mental whim. This thought-conversion technology is composed of some extremely sophisticated software and a piece of headgear that looks like a cross between a telephone headset and a skeletal bike helmet. Embedded in the headset are 16 electrodes that press lightly on my scalp, monitoring the electrical signals generated by the 3 pounds of toothpaste-like goo sealed in my skull. The signals are my brain waves, the stuff of thought and emotion. The headset passes the signals to the software, which extracts patterns that can be used to control anything that’s run by electronics.”
Emotive plans to introduce the technology to the gaming community first because of their willingness to adapt new technologies and their openness to beliveing the technology could exist. The company then hopes to export the technology to as many areas of human interaction that it can. Some of the other uses the company hopes to export the mind reading technology to is to ipods and mp3 players, allowing your thoughts and feelings to determine what music is played.
Other areas that I can personally think of is answering the question do you really love me. Will people allow computer technology to do as Joe says “take a journey through their minds and find the emotions they always try to hide.” This device can answer the unanswered.
Personally while I know this stock will outperform Google I will be investing in the company that provides shielding from this type of technology because I’m sure it can be wireless.
I hate sharing my stuff. I have ideas and ideas and ideas some of them I write down some I don’t. Here are some ideas I shared with one person so I figured why not tell the world.
Business Idea 1: There is a surge in homeschooling. As a matter of fact I home school via online with my daughter and I am totally impressed and knocked of my feet with the quality of the program.
However before I began the online program I had an idea. Since there are some home school families that are hyper competitive and into test scores, it would be nice to start a business that gave groups of homeschooled students standardized tests together as a group sort of like the SAT and the LSAT bring them to a local college or central location and test them all together four times a year.
The second idea I have is for a tutorial service. Sometimes parents want to know the credential of those who test their children. I had an ideea for a tutorial/ personal teacher service that involved allowing parents to pay for a tutor based on their credential and test scores. For instance if you want a college student who’s made 1600 on the sat you could pay 100.00 an hour for his or her services. if you want an LSAT tutor maybe pay $250 an hour. I think you get the rough picture of my idea.
These are two idea I had, but will not be using maybe someone else can put them to use.
As many of you may be aware of I was falsely accused of shoplifting at Vision Works at Stonecrest Mall in Lithonia Georgia and accused and taken to jail for disorderly conduct instead. If you want proof you can view what I was taken into custody for at http://drop.io/falseaccusation . In addition I will be uploading other articles related to the subject as time permits.
In any event I had to write this post today because as I’m doing research on the issue I became afraid not just for myself but for everyone who walks into a shopping mall, place of business, or retail establishment. I am certainly afraid for folks to go to the mall that I went to. In this harsh economic environment one should ask themselves if they can afford the loss of reputation and the innuendo that can be garnered from a false and malicious accusation that can linger with you even if you have not done anything wrong. One should seriously weigh this issue before entering a retail establishment. The facts are in this climate shopkeepers can utter any amount of lies about you they choose to. The facts are also in that you don’t know who’s behind the counter and what their morals and values are. There are actually immoral people working as shopkeepers, police officers, and security guards who will tell lies just for fun and entertainment or just because they don’t like the way you look.
If you have places where you have shopped for years without incident and others have too. It is probably wise to stick to areas like this but if people are whispering about a location and it’s treatment of individuals is questionable, it’s probably wise to stay away from there especially if you have an employer, are young and have a future or just have dreams and aspirations. Furthermore the emotional toll and stress of being falsely accused and harassed is not worth it. Finally the parents of Teenagers should keep their children away from establishments that have a history and record of doing bad things.
While loss of reputation is something that most people can live with, the loss of life is something that no one can live with because they are dead. As I’ve been researching the issue of the falsely accused. I’ve come across disturbing incidents involving the not guilty and the guilty that have resulted in individuals being beaten to death in the back rooms of stores and malls, people being shot in the parking lot, and many deaths related to individuals being wrongfully and rightfully accused of shoplifting. I suppose if a person is a shoplifter they should go to the backroom and try to work it out but if you are minding your own business, have never ever been accused of stealing or shoplifting in your life, have never been convicted of a felony, and only convicted of misdemeanors related to traffic tickets like me you should really hesitate before you go into any back room with anyone or even leave the spot you are in, judging from what I’ve read and what’s been on the news lately in terms of officers shooting people in the back, and just plain killing people without cause. “DO NOT GO INTO A BACK ROOM IF YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG AND FEEL THAT YOU ARE BEING MALICIOUSLY TARGETED YOU MAY NOT GET OUT OF THE ROOM ALIVE.”
As for honestly what to do I don’t know, in my case I told the security guard I did not want to get out of the car but he insisted.
I am wondering if trying to call an attorney is even possible when falsely accused in a retail establishment. Isn’t it strange that as citizens of the United States we have rights and can not be detained without cause or proof but as soon as we step into a retail location evidently by the many cases that I’ve been reading. Individuals give up their constitutional and Miranda rights when accosted by a Security Guard in a retail establishment. Illegal search and seizure is against the law but because I was in the parking lot of an establishment the security guard could insist that I get out of the car with a gun attached this hip.
The following are quotes from blogs and other sources discussing the above issues.
The blog entry states that two of the killings involved people who actually had shoplifted something. They state one man stole a box of sunglasses. This by itself is believable but when you read the following it makes you wonder if items were planted on the individuals once they were dead.
The following is a shoplifitng rendition of a college student who was killed n Nashville and is at rest with the belief that he’s a shoplifter and a thief. This account is going to be a lot skewed because it’s coming from the police department. If you read my ticke at http://drop.io/falseaccusation . You will find the officer used words to skew the ticket instead of just stating the facts, he made statements that can never be proven.
Metro Nashville Police Department
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 29 , 2006
The shoplifting suspect shot during a scuffle with a Tennessee State Trooper in the parking lot of Hickory Hollow Mall Thursday night is identified as a 21-year-old Tennessee State University student from Las Vegas, Nevada. Efforts are continuing to locate his next of kin in Nevada. He is in critical condition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Trooper Aussie Thaxter, 41, who fired his state-issued gun one time, was treated at Vanderbilt for injuries sustained when he was dragged by the suspect’s car. He was released during the night.
Thaxter was working an off-duty security job at Dillard’s department store in a THP utility uniform when he was notified by an employee of a suspiciously acting man in the men’s department who was carrying several designer shirts and said he would be paying for them in another area of the store. While in Thaxter’s view, the man fled from the store to the parking lot carrying the shirts. Thaxter gave chase and ordered him to stop.
The man got into a Plymouth Breeze sedan that was backed into a handicapped parking space. As the suspect started the motor, Thaxter reached into the car through the open door in an effort to turn off the ignition. He was unsuccessful and the suspect put the car in gear and began to pull away with Thaxter still partly inside. Thaxter was dragged for about 20 yards before he managed to fire a shot. The suspect was hit in the neck and Thaxter fell to the pavement. The Plymouth continued on, entered a bank parking lot and came to rest against the bank building. A Metro officer who was in the mall was told of the commotion and rushed to the bank parking lot. He immediately radioed for an ambulance.
The investigation into the shooting is being headed by the Metro Police Department’s Homicide Unit. The THP’s Criminal Investigation Division, the TBI and an investigator from the District Attorney’s Office are assisting. The full investigative report will be forwarded to District Attorney General Torry Johnson for review when it is complete.
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The above incident is about a supposedly guilty shoplifter who did not live to tell the story. However I was falsely accused of stealing. I went to jail for disorderly conduct. I was stripped down, I had to put on a smelly orange jump suit and was being watched every second by an attendant. Not only did I pull all of my clothes off and put on others. I was given a drug test, an AIDS test and had to give urine, and finger printed. I had to leave my car on the mall grounds. Furthermore I had to give up my pocket book and everything in it had to be checked into the police locker. I was stripped of everything. Finally I was released on my signature because I did not have a criminal history what so ever.
I say all of this to say that the circumstances surrounding the dead college student above are eerily similar to mine. I was approached and accused of shoplifting while in my car, my keys were in the ignition and I was about to leave the premises. The security guard was at my window what if I would have tried to just leave, though I could not because I was blocked in by a truck. Would I have been shot and had a box of sunglasses planted in my car since it was a vision care place I went to and forever known as a shoplifter.
The parking lot killings are too similar I am wondering if anyone accused of shoplifting and shot in a parking lot while in their car is guilty. It’s too convenient. In the first quoted blog entry it’s stated that a man had a box of sunglasses and was shot in the parking lot with a “whole” box of sunglasses. It’s beginning to look like people target individuals to kill and plant items on them after they reach their cars because one can not plant multiple items on a dead body in the middle of a store but someones car is definitely a good place to plant items.
I refuse to recognize the state of Israel. As I hear of people who have been displaced for sixty years, in extended concentration camps, their homes taken from them and their peace. I am not recognizing the Jewish state and no matter what happens it will never exist for me. The area the Jews inhabit will forever be Palestine to me.
The Jews have made an alter to the Holocaust. The United States acts as if this is a carte blanche to let them do anything they want to whomever they want. The “Jews” are going to war against the weakest people they can find weakend by their actions.
The Jews say thy will be going house to house to fight the Palestinians. Yes they are going house to house and killing everything and everybody in sight. They are first and foremost killing every male in sight. They are performing the type of genocide written about in the bible. However instead of killing every baby they may be killing everybody in sight. Evacuation and safe houses have turned into places where the Jews bomb. Therefore knocking out 40 to a hundred people at a time.
Little as it’s told this will be the second genocide in the Middle East in the twenty -first century. The United States committed genocide in Iraq and I am convinced when they went door to door fighting they killed a sizable number of individuals. However at least we were humane enough to protect the innocent. If the United States sent individuals to a safe house. It was safe. The Jews are literally killing everything in sight.
The caveat is no matter how many people the Jews kill it will not make them feel empowered. It will not erase the holocaust. The Jews have become the fourth Reich in Palestine.
The land known as Gaza is definitely a concentration camp with gates, no one can voluntarily get out or get in. The people are stuck. The people have no weapons. Sure they have used tunnels since the Jews have cut off their supplies but the tunnels are very public and according to a recent NPR broadcast, broadcast before the genocide began, the tunnels were used to get such benign things to the Palestinians as washing machines and food becuase the jews were starving the people. They could barely get bread let alone serious weapons. I have seen no evidence of weapons. The bombs that are being shot at the Jews harm no one. If this is all the Palestinians have a door to door fight is going to turn into a massacre of the Palestinians by Jews.
The one thing that will come out of this is the Jews will no longer be able to wave the Holocaust in people’s faces. They will not be able to say to Europe and the United States and Japan why didn’t you help us sooner eighty years ago because their hands will be filled with the blood of Palestinians therefore nullifying the significance of the holocaust and placing what happened to the Jews in the realm of human nature. People will say that though the Jews were victims of the holocaust they turned around and committed genocide against the Palestinians, they expelled the Palestinians from their homes and killed them and killed them, therefore I repeat putting the ability to commit genocide in the realm of human nature,in essence the holocaust now means nothing and does not deserve remembrance because the descendants of the victims committed genocide themselves.
In all of this the one thing I can’t understand is how does Saudi Arabia and Egypt just sit their weakly and allow these things to happen. They have weapons and can defend and help the Palestinians and judging by the Jews defiance to the U.N. If a Middle East country interceded in the conflict the world would support them. I suppose the Palestinians are feeling quite helpless right now. I suppose they feel that no one cares about them and that their lives are helpless and useless. They have tried to go about their lives and live but can not find peace and stability. Someone some country needs to help the Palestinian, the UN needs to send in Peace Keeping forces to help these individuals. The status quo can not stand. As Jews sleep soundly in their beds, little children innocent women and men are terrorized by people who took their land. The decision to wipe Palestine off the map and give their land to the Jews was a BIG mistake. An International group needs to right this wrong.
Every one is gritting their teeth and waiting for Obama to be sworn in in ten days however the unfortunate fact is the Palestinians may not have ten more days. The Jews may have killed them all by then.
As for the rest of the Middle East that’s watching and doing nothing. The blood of the Palestinians will forever rest on the hands of the Middle East This is worldwide. The world is watching. The Middle East is big and bold enough to come over to the United States and kill thousands of people in one swoop but they are too weak to protect their Palestinian brothers and openly go to war with the Jews. It’s less than ten days until Obama gets in, go to war with the Jews for ten days and when the new President of the United States is sworn in make peace. Some country must help the Palestinians out. The Middle East must unify to keep their brothers from being victims of genocide.
This has been one of the strangest Christmases for me. Instead of riding around buying video games this year I actually had to go into another section and buy other things for my children this year. This has created an untold crisis in my life hah hah, not really funny though, when my daughter requested a bike I went into Toys R Us in Lithonia and purchased a simply gorgeous bike for her that had to be assembled. I asked the counter lady well can I leave it here until Christmas Eve, an adamant no I received, so instead of picking the bike up in 24 hours I picked it up in 48 hours and boy was I glad I did because I did not bring the bike home. As they brought the bike to the floor the first thing I noticed was that the tires were dirty, then as I got closer I noticed that there was dust all over the bike and the tires were flat. I told the man who brought it to me, this bike is used. No he said it’s not used. I looked at the handle bar and the black plastic part of the handle bar had a dent in it. I then looked down and the place between the kick stand and bike chain had some terrible gook in it, it had so much gook in it that I reached my finger in it and could rub it all over the toys r us counter. Oh no I said you’re going to have to give me a new bike not an old one. Just to make sure that I was not loco I walked to the back of the store and looked at the display bike, the tires were hard and not soft and the tires were clean. The mystery was clearly solved,they were not giving me a new bike; they were trying to give me an old and groddy bike to take home and put under the tree. This was a cruddy take back bike. The man who brought me the take back bike and had told me the bike was new came up to me and told me that he realized that the bike was old and that he could not tell the difference because he was raised by his grandparents and only knew what a used bicycle looked like but for some reason he know knew what a new one looked like since I had walked to the back and saw a new one. He agreed to assemble a new bike immediately unfortunately this did not happen because the man who assembled the bikes walked up to me and told me that he was “not” going to assemble another bike because it was time for him to get off. The bringer of the bikes guy then asked me to come back the next day and gave me a ten dollar refund for the assembly fee. When I returned home I saw my daughter had been taken out by her grandmother to get her hair fixed. My mother had taken her to Ricks Styles and Cuts. My mother and I had a conflict I was partial to Dominican hairstylists because of the texture of my daughters hair, but my mother had a thing for Ricks. As I walked in the door I started screaming, my daughters hair which is passed her shoulders when straightened from her curly box of hair was straightened to an upper neck bob. I also noticed that it looked mighty thin. When the Dominicans fixed it, it was fluffy and full. The one thing the Dominican said to me when I left her to fix my daughters hair is I will treat her like she’s my own daughter and she did. As I looked at my daughter who had gone to Ricks I continued to scream not talk but just screamed. I had braided my daughters hair for three years so when she hit middle and high school her hair could be down to her elbows. I would take it out for two weeks at a time in three month increments so that it could rest, it was in the resting period and my mother took her to a hairstylist who had just cut it off. Well my cousin came to pick up my daughter and they returned home the next morning and I started screaming more because my daughters hair had reverted to it’s curly state and the reason my daughters hair had appeared so thin when I first saw it was because the hairstylist had chopped off all of the back of my daughters hair and let the top hang down over the back of her head. I was floored. I was in Christmas Hell. At this point my daughter could not get all of her hair in a bow to the back of her neck. Honey I said it’s going to be a doo rag day for you and wrapped her head up in a scarf. Luckily she has a very beautiful face and looked great. She looked so great that while we were in Wal-Mart an apparently mildly retarded patron walked up and said that ones a girl, you don’t even have to look for her earrings.
As for the bike I had tossed and turned all night and made the decision that if Toys R Us gave us a wrecked bike we really could not trust them to assemble a bike for us. We went to Target, they were out of bikes, then we went to Wal Mart and though the first Wal- Mart did not have a bike we could use. They were sold out of 20″ bicycles for boys and girls. We went to our Lithonia Super Center Wal- Mart and they had a bike a wonderful bike that was already assembled that we took off of the rack. Less Christmas Hell but still mournful of my daughters hair, I think the hairstylist at Ricks Styles and Cuts needs to be put in jail, she’s done worst to my daughter than Micheal Vick ever did to a dog, but Hey That’s Life.
Was Christ born from a Virgin Mary or did he have two parents? A simple DNA test will tell ya? Technology can clear up the conspiracy. Was Mary a virgin or was she expelled from her village for having pre-maritial sex? Enquiring minds want to know?
Barack Obama’s recent trip to Hawaii came with photographs of his naked torso and tight abs. Nice picture for a president, the glam man but whoever protects Obama does not need to be protecting him, and if Obama is the one who persisted in staying beside a public beach and being accessible to the public. I urge him to remember Benazhir Bhutto who it looked like to me got her head shot off, but Pakistan says not, who insisted that she be a woman of the people and is know promptly dead. Obama’s handlers must take security seriously. We know he’s cute and all that fanatics don’t care about cute and will find a way to get their business done. Obama protect yourself, treat yourself and your family like all the other presidential families and keep security really high. It’s OK if we only see a glimpse of you. We don’t know if the picture of your abs were leaked or if it was a picture that someone actually got of you, but if it was a taken picture that you knew nothing about you should really revamp your security because it could have so easily been a bullet Protect yourself, no one wants Biden and nobody wanted Biden for president except you! Protect Yourself, we know you want to be a man of the people but hopefully at not the expense of losing your life. Envision a long life!
blackhippychick: Apple only has 10% of the market for personal computers if u are going to spend the money on a commercial u should try to reach more people
blackhippychick: saw the apple commercial on CNN is there market only young fresh faced people in jeans fat old folks in suits need not load up an apple
