Yele!!!

A smile came to my face as I heard the news through cnn that tax experts find little fault in Wyclef Jean and Yele Haiti! As usual my people are bombarded with the attempts of the media and politicians to instill the white savior complex. If Haiti became free because of leader like Toussaint Lu'orveture why can't its native son save its people from the worst natural disaster to hit the island nation in 200 year. Sizzla said it best dem cyant keep a good man down... Yele!!!! Rouge et bleu!

MLK

RT @aliciasanchez: "we know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. " -MLK

RT @divalutionary: J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, called Martin Luther King, Jr: "the most dangerous man in America, and a moral degenerate"

RT @divalutionary: "The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government." Martin Luther King Jr

RT @chela816: In 1951 MLK began doctoral studies in systematic theology at Boston University & received his Doctor of Philosophy from #BU on June 5, 1955.

RT @gapconsulting: "All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem." -- Martin Luther King

chela816: RT @gapconsulting: RT @luis2010: Martin Luther King Day: Volunteering And Giving Back: http://is.gd/6uwpY

RT @gapconsulting: On Martin Luther King Day (US) we honor this incredible man and global symbol of peace and non-violence. Today we let his words speak.

RT @chela816: RT @Harvard: On Jan. 10, 1965, Rev. Martin Luther King gave the Sunday sermon at an overflowing Memorial Church. More: http://bit.ly/7YCRUD

@oscaroliverjr Let's start with an easy one... Isn't it ironic that I'm black & work for african americans but I don't get MLK off... I'm just saying..

RT @aliciasanchez: "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality..." -MLK

RT @aliciasanchez: my favorite and (imo) most bad-ass #MLK quote: "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's (cont) http://tl.gd/4785j

RT @LiberatedMuse: May we remember Martin Luther King, Jr. for his voice for the movement, his vision prior to his death and his... http://bit.ly/4Oq9Vc

RT @BostonTweet Coretta Scott met Martin Luther King in Boston while completing her degree in voice & violin at the New England Conservatory

RT @divalutionary: "A man can't ride your back unless it's bent." MLK

RT @divalutionary: "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." MLK

RT @ladygcg: "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." MLK http://myloc.me/2ZUe3

RT @gapconsulting: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Martin Luther King, Jr

RT @andersoncooper: The meaning of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday http://bit.ly/8zJed8

RT @chela816: "We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." üMartin Luther King, Jr. (via @ntylion92 @RayBeckerman @Greetums)

RT @gapconsulting: "At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love." -- Martin Luther King, Jr

RT @ladygcg: RT @AnswersDotCom: More than 730 cities in the U.S. have streets named after Martin Luther King Jr. #answers

RT @BarackObama: Today we honor the legacy and ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Watch Sunday's remarks in DC: http://bit.ly/8-e #MLK

YELE Haiti!!!

As we all know Wyclef is under investigation for poor accounting practices involving his foundation Yele Haiti. I was speaking to highly intelligent individual, and she said if Clef was tight about his foundation this wouldn’t have happened. Everything is cool until the government gets involved in your shit... White folk get uneasy when shit isn’t filed right. Unfortunately a balk man must always be tight so as not to come under fire. How y’all think Barack became president? If his operation wasn't tight he wouldn't have been any where near the white house. After all the investigations republicans did on President Obama, cause you know they just wanted one reason to say he wasn't fit to be president he won the election. President Obama is the tightest brotha on the planet. He turned that white house to the black house. This proves that to make it on a world stage we must be tight at all times. I gave a donation to Yele, and I will give to them again & again. Whether you decide to give to Yele or the Red Cross is not what’s important what matters is that you gave... But as black folk we must be tight at all times...

Mo's Golden Globe... give it back Mo

Its MLK weekend and Monique wins the golden globe setting her up for an Oscar win. The trend of negative black images being awarded continues! Denzel won being a crook, Hale is sexually assaulted in a gross sex scene and Monique just reminds people how abusive we can be. As if I haven't heard enough stories from friends whose hands have been burned for stealing a dollar or beaten with a pot spoon or rope. I think Monique should’ve simply looked for a role in a biography of a plus size actress or singer preferably one from the Harlem Renaissance period. These are the only ways we win Oscars by looking negative or singing... We are dream girls... And I am telling u... Georgia, Georgia. So if I had to pick between a negative mom who thought us nothing (because there was no break through in Precious) or a singer, give me the singer. At least a singer in the movies brings back to life some good oldies that I can later download for my ipod.

Do it like the white boys do, although...

While at work today my girl, my homie, my dog Ms. GAPconsulting aka Divalutionary tweeted this quote from Junto Diaz. I retweeted it because I think this quote is AMAZING!!! As AFRICANS (yes I said it, AFRICANS) we must love and embrace not only the africa in our skin but also the AFRICA in our HAIR! For those of yall none twitteres here it is:

Run a hand through your hair like the white boys do, even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa. --Junot Diaz

Reverse Racism? Hmmm...... Really?

Not sure who did this cartoon but who ever did is a genious and demonstrates the mentality of several individuals of the "paler nation".

This Thanksgiving, Let America Be America Again

While sitting at my work station, a few thoughts about thanksgiving, the excessive amounts of food we shall eat in the name of America, the harvest, freedom and the pilgrims who raped the New World and killed millions came to my mind. Something about thanksgiving doesn't feel right, I love America and America loves me back. But is America truely mine? Is America yours? Is America ours? I have faced alot of adversity in America as an immigrant but I can still give thanks for life, and an opportunity to pursue my happiness. Although I don't celebrate the pilgrims or their oppressive actions, I enjoy the food of the season and at time even a little family company (most times I don't). I end this blog post with a poem from the great Langston Hughes Let America be America Again!!!!!!

LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN
Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.

(It never was America to me.)

O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.

(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")

Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!

I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean--
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.

Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings

In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home--
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."

The free?

Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay--
Except the dream that's almost dead today.

O, let America be America again--
The land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME--
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.

Sure, call me any ugly name you choose--
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!

O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain--
All, all the stretch of these great green states--
And make America again!

Langston Hughes
retrieved from: http://www.poemhunter.com/langston-hughes/