This young man, Jonathan Emil McCoy, says it all! And his rendition of “Lift Every Voice & Sing” is awesome!
Out of the mouths of babes…
(Thankx, Danielle!)
March 18, 2010
Walmart-Ur Drawls Are Showin’…
Wal-mart has dominated the news in the last few days ( at least for me!) showin’ they natural asses!
First we hear that they have fired an associate with sinus cancer and an inoperable brain tumor because he tested positive for Medical Marijuana, and will not rehire the dude.
They sympathetic tho…
Joseph Casias, 29, the 2008 Associate of the Year, was fired in November from a Wal-Mart store in Battle Creek, Mich., after marijuana was detected in a routine drug screening that he underwent after he sprained his knee at work.
And to top that off, the UI benefits he was gettin’ since his lil accident, Wal-Mart at first wanted to ‘challenge the eligibility”, but have since decided to allow him to still receive his benefits. Hmmmm.
Grass-roots wants a boycott…
The Epic Fluckin’ Fail!~
“Attention, Wal-Mart shoppers. All blacks need to leave the store.”
THIS was announced over the loud-speaker at a NJ Wal-Mart, right in the middle of ‘after-work rush hour’, a lil before 7 PM.
At first, people just kinda stood there, and waited for the next shockin’ thing to happen, and then just left their carts, disgusted and said they couldn’t believe it.
I can’t either.
Victoria Arter, a 29-year-old assistant bank manager who is black, didn’t know what was going on, but she was not happy. Neither were other customers, who began dialing their cell phones and demanding answers from managers. Some were just quiet, still in shock at what they’d heard.
A few moments later, a store manager got on the public address system and began apologizing and contacted the local police.
SOMEBODY in that store either was in on it, and knows what happened or was lax on they duties to allow someone (male) access to that system. Havin’ worked for Wal-Mart that is done either at the fittin’ room, customer service, or at the CSM podium!
Authorities have said they’re investigating the episode as “a suspected bias intimidation crime”. (Ya think??) They betta hurry up; if this becomes a trend, somebody gonna get hurt. All they needed was a crazy, militant-ass nee-gro, with a bad attitude , to pop it all off from there.
We woulda tore Wal-Mart up, fa sho’.
January 9, 2010
Is “African-American” Really A Race?
The Census has recently decided to add “Negro” to the census form, and this has evidently created some drama. In response to that, the resident Shyt Talker and All-around Racist and Obama Hater, Glenn Beck has declared that “African-American” is not a race. It’s just a PC-correct, bogus, made up term.”
“That is not a race. Your ancestry is from Africa, and now you live in America. Okay, so you were brought over, either your family was brought over in the slave trade, or you were born here and your family immigrated here, or whatever. But that is not a race.” Really…
WHO does this cat think he is? Doesnt he know he sounds stupid? I guess he’s mad about the new Census documents that give folks three boxes from which to choose from: Black, African-American or Negro. He went further to say: “Negro used to be — is it still — not acceptable, is that still the clinical term, I don’t know. It has negative connotations in this country. But what I’m asking is: what are the clinical categories?”
Well then, mofo, WHAT would you have us be called? WHAT do you call a person who was snatched up in Africa and brought to America? An AFRICAN AMERICAN? And one that was BORN here in America most certainly would be thought of as a Black American, ya think?
What I’d like to know is when did Beck become an authority on African-American/Black American history? Does he know where he came from, and the ‘proper term’ for his pasty ass?
Beck is part of the FOX News Network , the most racist and Obama-Hatin news channel in the world. I guess we should expect this from him…
I’m not sure he’ll ever be able to top this level of stupidity. I think he has actually outdone himself…
January 7, 2010
Where in the World is Abraham Shakespeare?
::on the beach in Jamaica, "layin' low??::
Somethin’ really ain’t right about this…
Abraham Shakespeare was a homeless, down and out bum with a rap sheet big enuff to make a California King bed! Everything from arrest and prison time for burglary and battery and even child support issues. Regular Nee-gro.
Till he won $30Milli in the Florida Lottery. Instead of takin installments (to keep some income comin in?) he took the lump sum of 16.9Milli, and ran.
He bought him an Nissan Altima, a pawn shop business, and a million-dollar home in gated community. Everything seemed to be goin’ along fine.
He came up missin’ in April.
Y’all know when people come into money, roaches start comin out the woodwork with they hands extended, palms up. In this crowd of beggars, Abraham was ‘approached’ by a woman named Dee Dee Moore. Dee Dee said she wanted to ‘write a book’ about his life’. She got involved in Abe’s life, eventually becomin’ something of a financial adviser. Now he missin’ and she can’t be reached for comment.
But her company American Medical Professionals, bought Abe’s $Milli- home for only $665,000. His mama says the last time she saw him was shortly after that, around her birthday in February.
Five-0 says the last time anyone saw Abe was in April — but it wasn’t until Nov. 9th that he was reported missin’, by a “police informant”.
But it gets better: According to a local newspaper, The Ledger of Lakeland, Dee Dee contacted a reporter there, and said Abe is ‘layin low because people are tryin’ to suck money out of him.” Now that really sounds like a load!
She “helped him” disappear, but now wants him to return because detectives were searching her home and car and looking for blood on her belongings.
One reason he wanted to leave, she said, was a child support case for a child he allegedly fathered after winning the lottery. “Abraham sold me his mess to get a better life,” she told the paper.
WHAT!!! He had a better life with 16.9Milli!!
She even gave the paper a video that she said she took of Abraham. In the video, he says he is tired of people asking him for money. “They don’t take no for an answer,” he says. She asks him where he wants to go and he is ‘seen’ in the vid sayin’ “it doesn’t really matter.”
This is some bullshyt! This man is either bein’ held somewhere, or dead and this Dee Dee person has control of all his money. They just don’t have a body now… I don’t see why he would run on the child support case. He HAD the money to pay whatever they wanted…
The Five-0 thinks he dead too. They should really investigate this. I’m sure if they really did, the trail would lead them right to Ms.Dee Dee…
JMO*
June 12, 2007
12 Things The Negro Must Do
::Nannie Helen Burroughs ::
By Nannie Helen Burroughs (Circa 1890′s)
1. The Negro Must Learn To Put First Things First. The First Things Are: Education; Development of Character Traits; A Trade and Home Ownership. * The Negro puts too much of his earning in clothes, in food, in show and in having what he calls “a good time.” The Dr. Kelly Miller said, ”The Negro buys what he WANTS and begs for what he needs.”
2. The Negro Must Stop Expecting God and White Folk To Do For Him What He Can Do For Himself. * It is the “Divine Plan” that the strong shall help the weak, but even God does not do for man what man can do for himself. The Negro will have to do exactly what Jesus told the man (in John 5:8) to do–Carry his own load–”Take up your bed and walk.”
3. The Negro Must Keep Himself, His Children And His Home Clean And Make The Surroundings In Which He Lives Comfortable and Attractive. * He must learn to “run his community up”–not down. We can segregate by law, we integrate only by living. Civilization is not a matter of race, it is a matter of standards. Believe it or not–some day, some race is going to outdo the Anglo-Saxon, completely. It can be the Negro race, if the Negro gets sense enough. Civilization goes up and down that way.
4. The Negro Must Learn To Dress More Appropriately For Work And For Leisure. * Knowing what to wear–how to wear it–when to wear it and where to wear it, are earmarks of common sense, culture and also an index to character.
5. The Negro Must Make His Religion An Everyday Practice And Not Just A Sunday-Go-To-Meeting Emotional Affair.
6. The Negro Must Highly Resolve To Wipe Out Mass Ignorance. * The leaders of the race must teach and inspire the masses to become eager and determined to improve mentally, morally and spiritually, and to meet the basic requirements of good citizenship. * We should start an intensive literacy campaign in America, as well as in Africa. Ignorance– satisfied ignorance –is a millstone about the neck of the race. It is democracy’s greatest burden. * Social integration is a relationship attained as a result of the cultivation of kindred social ideals, interests and standards. * It is a blending process that requires time, understanding and kindred purposes to achieve. Likes alone and not laws can do it.
7. The Negro Must Stop Charging His Failures Up To His “Color” And To White People’s Attitude. * The truth of the matter is that good service and conduct will make senseless race prejudice fade like mist before the rising sun. * God never intended that a man’s color shall be anything other than a badge of distinction . It is high time that all races were learning that fact. The Negro must first QUALIFY for whatever position he wants. Purpose, initiative, ingenuity and industry are the keys that all men use to get what they want. The Negro will have to do the same. He must make himself a worker who is too skilled not to be wanted, and too DEPENDABLE not to be on the job, according to promise or plan. He will never become a vital factor in industry until he learns to put into his work the vitalizing force of initiative, skill and dependability. He has gone “RIGHTS” mad and “DUTY” dumb.
8. The Negro Must Overcome His Bad Job Habits. * He must make a brand new reputation for himself in the world of labor. His bad job habits are absenteeism, funerals to attend, or a little business to look after. The Negro runs an off and on business. He also has a bad reputation for conduct on the job–such as petty quarreling with other help, incessant loud talking about nothing; loafing, carelessness, due to lack of job pride; insolence, gum chewing and–too often–liquor drinking. Just plain bad job habits!
9. He Must Improve His Conduct In Public Places. * Taken as a whole, he is entirely too loud and too ill-mannered. * There is much talk about wiping out racial segregation and also much talk about achieving integration. * Segregation is a physical arrangement by which people are separated in various services. * It is definitely up to the Negro to wipe out the apparent justification or excuse for segregation. * The only effective way to do it is to clean up and keep clean. By practice, cleanliness will become a habit and habit becomes character.
10. The Negro Must Learn How To Operate Business For People–Not For Negro People, Only. * To do business, he will have to remove all typical ”earmarks,” business principles; measure up to accepted standards and meet stimulating competition, graciously–in fact, he must learn to welcome competition.
11. The Average So-Called Educated Negro Will Have To Come Down Out Of The Air. He Is Too Inflated Over Nothing. He Needs An Experience Similar To The One That Ezekiel Had–(Ezekiel 3:14-19). And He Must Do What Ezekiel Did * Otherwise, through indifference, as to the plight of the masses, the Negro, who thinks that he has escaped, will lose his own soul. It will do all leaders good to read Hebrew 13:3, and the first Thirty-seven Chapters of Ezekiel. * A race transformation itself through its own leaders and its sensible ”common people.” A race rises on its own wings, or is held down by its own weight. True leaders are never “things apart from the people.” They are the masses. They simply got to the front ahead of them. Their only business at the front is to inspire to masses by hard work and noble example and challenge them to “Come on!” Dante stated a fact when he said, “Show the people the light and they will find the way!” * There must arise within the Negro race a leadership that is not out hunting bargains for itself. A noble example is found in the men and women of the Negro race, who, in the early days, laid down their lives for the people. Their invaluable contributions have not been appraised by the “latter-day leaders.” In many cases, their names would never be recorded, among the unsung heroes of the world, but for the fact that white friends have written them there. ”Lord, God of Hosts, Be with us yet.” * The Negro of today does not realize that, but, for these exhibits A’s, that certainly show the innate possibilities of members of their own race, white people would not have been moved to make such princely investments in lives and money, as they have made, for the establishment of schools and for the ongoing of the race.
12. The Negro Must Stop Forgetting His Friends. ”Remember.” * Read Deuteronomy 24:18. Deuteronomy rings the big bell of gratitude. Why? Because an ingrate is an abomination in the sight of God. God is constantly telling us that “I the Lord thy God delivered you” –through human instrumentalities. * The American Negro has had and still has friends–in the North and in the South. These friends not only pray, speak, write, influence others, but make unbelievable, unpublished sacrifices and contributions for the advancement of the race–for their brothers in bonds. * The noblest thing that the Negro can do is to so live and labor that these benefactors will not have given in vain. The Negro must make his heart warm with gratitude, his lips sweet with thanks and his heart and mind resolute with purpose to prove the sacrifices and stand on his feet and go forward– “God is no respecter of persons. In every nation, he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is” sure to win out. Get to work! That’s the answer to everything that hurts us. We talk too much about nothing instead of redeeming the time by working.
R-E-M-E-M-B-E-R * In spite of race prejudice, America is brim full of opportunities. Go after them!
She had a point back then, and still has one today. It’s amazin’ how this applies today…
