Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:35:21 GMT <![CDATA[Serious Conversations for Serious People: Blog]]> Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:35:21 GMT I find it very interesting that no other press other than The Community Milwaukee Journal (Black Press) chose to cover this story of a Black Man who walks  from Florida to Washington, D.C. (1100 miles) to bring attention to the issue of the education of Black children. Other communities get full mainstream coverage of adults taking charter buses to Tallahassee (approximately 440 miles) to stand in front of our Capital. Sadly some Black parents will not walk around the corner to a PTA meeting. Amefika walked to D.C. This is first a Black man who loves his community, understands the importance of education for Black children, and sojourned this distance to make a statement of factual historical inclusion. The Black Community should not wait for others to celebrate Amefika Journey. He did this for our children and for their future.

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HOMOCIDES

 

35 DEAD BLACK YOUTH IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS IN CHICAGO

 

55 DEAD BLACK YOUTH IN THE PAST 12 MONTHS IN SOUTH FLORIDA 

 

 

Similair situations are occurring across the country......

 

TOO MANY SCHOOL AGE BLACK YOUTH ARE BEING KILLED!!!!

 

Time is of the essence. We must take action now to save our children.

 
 

 

 
 
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"We must go back and recapture those "old" values, for it is those "old" values that have helped to get us to where we are today. We must do this for the sake of our children." 

 

What are your thoughts?

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Amy Goodman, Truthdig.com: "As many as 5,000 children in Pennsylvania have been found guilty, and up to 2,000 of them jailed, by two corrupt judges who received kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities that benefited. The two judges pleaded guilty in a stunning case of greed and corruption that is still unfolding. Judges Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. and Michael T. Conahan received $2.6 million in kickbacks while imprisoning children who often had no access to a lawyer. The case offers an extraordinary glimpse into the shameful private prison industry that is flourishing in the United States."

http://www.truthout .org/021909J]]> <![CDATA[Jailing Kids for Cash-Have Black children been sold as slaves to the Prison Industry?]]> Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:10:09 GMT Many are saying that the Black community has allowed President Obama's Election to take the wind out of their sail, regarding advocacy to address issues facing Black and Hispanic families. What are your thoughts? 

How is the present economy affecting those who were poor before the recession/depression? Share your thoughts?

 
]]> <![CDATA[Advocacy for Black and Hispanic Families]]> Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:14:31 GMT Black folk must come to grips with and admit that the Black culture is in chaos. Black families seem to have lost their grip on cultural pride, education and family as priority.  Racism, discrimination, slavery has nothing to do with the daily Black on Black killings of Black children, and the dysfunction of many Black families. While we are waiting on the Messiah, we better move into action, until he comes.  Obama’s in the White House folk, now what? 
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Joel A. Rogers and Dr. Auset Bakhufu have both written books documenting that at least five former presidents of the United States had Black people among their ancestors.  The president’s names include Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding, and Calvin Coolidge.

 
 Thomas Jefferson was our 3rd president from 1801 to 1809. During his inauguration one speaker states that Thomas Jefferson was “a mean-spirited son of a half-breed Indian squaw and a Virginia mulatto father.
 
Andrew Jackson was our 7th president from 1829 to 1837. The Virginia Magazine of History Volume 29 says that Jackson was the son of a White woman from Ireland who had intermarried with a Negro.
 
 Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president from 1861 to 1865. J. A. Rogers quotes Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, as saying that Abraham Lincoln was the illegitimate son of an African man. 

 

Warren G. Harding, our 29th president from 1921 until 1923. Harding himself never denied his ancestry. William Chancellor a white professor of economics and politics at Wooster College in Ohio said that Harding's only academic credentials included education at Iberia College, which was founded in order to educate fugitive slaves.

 

 

Calvin Coolidge was our 30th president, and he succeeded Warren Harding. He proudly admitted that his mother was dark because of mixed Indian ancestry.  Calvin Coolidge's mother's maiden name was "Moor." In Europe the name "Moor" was given to all Black people just as the name Negro was used in America.

 

  

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The study, to be released today  by criminologists at Northeastern University in Boston
 
Last year, for example, 426 black males between the ages of 14 and 17 were killed in  gun crimes, the study shows. That marked a 40 percent increase from 2000.
 
'We need a bailout for kids at risk'
 
Similarly, an estimated 964 in the same age group committed fatal shootings in 2007, a 38 percent increase from seven years earlier. The number of offenders is estimated because not all crimes are reported, said Northeastern criminologist James Alan Fox, who co-authored the study.
"Although the overall rate of homicide in the United States remains relatively low, the landscape is quite different for countless Americans living, and some dying, in violence-infested neighborhoods," Fox said.

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28411203/from/ET/

 

It is time for Black people to stop talking, and having meeting on the issues. This statistic is not a suprise to me. When prevention and parent education is not the priority, this is the result. What does it take for the Black community to take the responsibility for our children into our own hands?  
 
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 I don't believe the hype that Black men are so busy, or that they are all in jail, or that they are just trying to survive, as reasons why they are not involved with providing solutions to the many social ills that plague the Black community.  Why is it so difficult to get Black Men involved with the movement to help Black boys, and the movement to help save the Black community?

 

 

 

]]> <![CDATA[Why is it so difficult to get Black Men involved with the movement to help Black boys, and the movement to help save the Black community?]]> Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:06:39 GMT I watched a BET special last night entitled Heart of the City -Chicago War on Violence. This documentary was about teen deaths related to violence and guns. These are some of the beliefs of the young people in Chicago:
 
Guns, you going to school or hussle
Don't believe I have choices
We just out here
It's about disrespect and money
Don't expect to live past 25
After fighting there is going to be gun play
 
This is not just the mindset of teens in Chicago, it is the mindset of many urban youth in cities across America.  
 
What must we do, to to change the mindset of our teen youth?
 
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