Archive for January 2010
Rev. Bernice King to head SCLC…Haiti…
I have been so busy lately trying to stay warm…that I really haven’t 
thought about much of anything else. But checking through my stats for this blog I did notice that a lot of folk had come on my site looking for information on the Kings.
So, thinking that maybe something new had come up with their legal battles…Bernice and Martin the 3rd against Dexter…I decided to go up onto the internet to find out if there was something new. And to my surprise…I saw nothing new about their court battles…but that the stories were about the baby girl. Dr. Martin L. King, Jr’s 
youngest child was now going to head up the organization which her father had not only headed in the 60′s, but was also one of its founding members… the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
It has not been easy…and my guess is Bernice would say that would be an understatement. What with watching their mother battle illness… then her passing… and then just about on the heels of their mother passing…
Yolanda died too… her only sister and the oldest sibling. And 
on top of all of that… Dexter started acting up and getting crazy. Which forced her and Martin the 3rd to have to go into the courts against him…and thereby thus bring private family matters came out into the open… opening them… a very private family… up to public scrutiny and commentary. That had to be hard decision to make.
No, it could have been easy. But yet she kept on going…and doing. And I have no doubt praying.
It is amazing.
She was just a very young child when her father was so brutally shot down
and killed during the summer of 1968. The summer that saw so many riots around the United States upon the announcement of his death. A man who had stood for non-voilence and peaceful resistance…he 
had been murdered.
Bernice was all of 5 years old only when it happened. 
Hardly able to clearly understand… much less comprehend truly what it all meant…or how even her father’s dying was destined to change a world…and this country for ever. But
I’m sure she heard her mother crying many a night over it.
Now, today she is stepping into her father’s shoes. At age 37 Rev. 
Bernice A. King, who holds both a Divinity degree and a dregree in law has become the first woman to ever hold the top post at SCLC. What a great way to honor the 
memory of Dr. King as we all celebrate his birthday this coming Monday.
Though there has been much controversy 
among the remaining members of Dr. King’s immediate family… his children… Martin the 3rd, Dexter and 
Bernice… this I am sure would make him smile. They both would be.
Poised…confident… well spoken… and a member of the 
New Birth Ministry under Bishop Eddie Long… as well as having been a law clerk under Judge 
Hatchett… and of course having been under the mentorship and leadership of her own mother, Mrs. Coretta Scott King… I see a new era in black leadership rising in this country. It has 
been long over due…a new guard is on the horizon. And it feels like a breath of fresh air.
It gives me great pleasure to write this on the King family… or a member of it. And I look forward to writing many more.
I had seen some of the headlines…but had just not taken the time to read 
anything on it…mostly because it just kept slipping my mind. I would get busy reading or doing 
something else...and then…well, you know… I would forget… that is until my son called me and began speaking to me about it. He told me that an estimated 500,000 people had been killed. For such a small island that has to be nearly a quarter of Haiti’s population.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010787604_haiti14.html
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/americas/HAITI-RECOVERY-81427942.html
http://www1.voanew
s.com/english/news/special-reports/Haiti-Earthquake-81317947.html
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/Thousands-Feared-Dead-After-Haitian-Earthquake-81311282.html
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/americas/Scientists-Explain-Haiti-Earthquake-81356387.html
Many many stories of are pouring out of Haiti of untold thousands upon thousands still being trapped. The Richter Scale hit 7.0
with a series of after shocks measuring at 5.9… with the International Red Cross saying that perhaps over 3 million people have been affected by the massive earthquake.
We can all remember still…I am sure… that massive mounting wave that rose up out in midst of the Indian Ocean back in 2004…which hit 11 different countries with so much force that everything near the shorelines for 25 or so miles inland was wiped out into the sea… including families, businesses, homes, belongings etc… perhaps leaving many of them feeling the affects probably still, while additionally trying to recover from it mentally and physically after having lived through such a terrifying and destructive thing.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/1227_041226_tsunami.html
I guess before it has all been said and done…we are bound to have much more devastation to come in our lifetime…and beyond if there is a beyond. The forces of nature are reaping havoc upon us in ways we are incapable of fighting. And Kartrina was just another example of it.
It can surely not be argued that we have not been one of Mother Nature’s best friends. And we are starting to see… and feel the a
ffects of it.
Or you can look at this way.
Prophesy coming to pass.
There is no dispute that within the text of the Bible all these things… including wars have been prohesied long before we got to this point , some more than 2,000 years ago. When I think of both Haiti and New Orleans…I 
think of 2 places steeped in the culture of witch craft and voodoo. When I think of those 11 countries hit by the Tsunami…I think of child sex trades and exploitation.
It is not a secret that many people get on airplanes flying out from this country to foreign shores, to indugle in many things illegal here in America…such as having sex with children. Though such laws have not stopped a lot of people from doing so… such as…Roman Polanski. A man who should have been locked away years ago…when he confessed to having sex with a 13 year old girl. Film director or not…the man should have been locked away. And the same for Woody Allen.
I once watched a film produced by some independant filmmakers. The most beautifully shot film visually that I had seen in a while. I was very impressed by it…visually. The lighing…the colors…just everything about it. But…
It was a 
movie about young children…very young children…super young children…some younger than 4 who were put into the sex for hire business. Children standing in shop windows waiting on someone to walk by and pick them out…like they were buying a suit or a pair of shoes. And shop window after shop window with little 
children standing in them…bunches of them…as if they were live little manakins on display.
It is hard to believe that such places assist…much less that they can so freely exploit their children in such a way. With families making decisions to give out their own children for a few dollars claiming that the hardships in their countries left them no other choice.
It is not hard to believe that God would destroy such places.
Most of these countries trafficing children… or where such practices are openly
allowed… are 3rd World Countries… such as Africa… Indonesia (which less than 2 years ago was hit by its own major and highly devasting earthquake)… China etc.
Even in terms of Haiti…besides the witch craft and practices of voodoo…it is routine to see one tele-evangelist after another showing pictures of children while pleading 
for financial support from viewers… and not only while in Haiti but other countries as well. When I look at those pictures of those little children I feel sorry for them. 
Because I know that many times these children are not only being used as a means to pull upon people’s sympathy. And I have no doubt that once those camera lights go off and their little pictures are taken… most of children fall prey to sexual abuse by the the very ones who claim they are their to help them.
It is sad all the way around. It is sad…very.
We… I have no doubt that we cannot begin to imagine the vastness of the devastation
which has hit Haiti.. .nor its awful after affects now and for years to come. Not to mention the danger that many Haiti’s people have fallen into by criminals and others who seek the exploit this time and Haiti political problems.
Many American artists…and partically all Haitians living in this country still have roots in Haiti…by way of love for their country and family members still there…such as Lauryn 
Hill, Wyclef Jean and others. It is very likely that within the whole of Haiti there is not one family whose lives have not been touched by this earthquake…whose strong and very high magnitude shook that small French speaking island just off the coast of Florida this past Tuesday…with such force that it almost virtuely destroyed Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince.
Those who can please let us all remember them is our prays…and send support to Haiti.
The images and stories flowing out of Haiti since the earthquake are saddening. Limited medical supplies and those who can care for them coupled with criminal elements…make it even harder upon those who somehow managed to survive…barely escaping with just the shirts upon their backs. Little children left orphaned… amputations…shortage of water…and no place to lay for the night or out of the blistering sun during the day. Missing persons…destroyed property…everything gone. Encompassed by the smell of death…while listening to the wailing crys…screams and moans of emotional and physical suffering all aound…while wiping at your own tears at the very same time. How hard it must be to go through such devastation.
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It is a little after 4:30 in the morning and I stayed up all night doing this. 
Well, I didn’t really get started until after 1. And now I am hungry…and need I say it…have to go the bathroom.
The bathroom is not going to hold out…but my stomac
h will have to. Because as much as I hate to say it…I desparately need to shed some pounds. My hair is falling out. My nails are getting too long. I think my teeth might be a touch too yellow. My toes are freezing. And…oh, I am a disaster. I truely am.
Will this weather ever break?
My son tells me on Friday…we are scheduled to get into the 50′s. Do you think it might be a bit too soon for me to begin singing ‘Happy days are here again...?’
Do you think?
Well, I just signed up for a blogtalkradio slot. This should be fun.
Perhaps since you have been reading these blogs…you have often thought about what it would be like to talk to me personally. Judging by reading some of the responses to my Juanita Bynum blog…and perhaps my blog on Chastity Bono…some of you may just be dying to get at 
me. Well, soon and very soon…you may just get that chance. Because yes…your girl will soon be coming to you live, baby. Bet you’ve been waiting for that.
Well, have a beautiful day. I hope you got a whole lot of warmth wherever you are. And please let us pray for all these people who are going through hard times right now. There are so many people suffering from all type devastating thing…earthquakes…loosing homes…loosing their jobs…speaking of which. I spent most of day today observing an on-line class on how to make 
ice cream. I actually have had the idea rolling around in my head for a couple of years now. But somehow I fell upon this internet site…and the next thing I know they were emailing me about a ‘free training session.’
Did somebody say ‘free?’
Yes, I did. And you know I took advantage of their offer. 
Today could not come fast enough. Though I over slept and missed the first hour and half. I managed to learn enough in the remainer of the session to more than make up for it…and to let me know that my consideration of the idea was not a bad one…not at all. I tell you this… in this time of unsurety you really have to be looking at your future options too. Look
into the future…. and see where you would like to be. And what you will need to do to get you there.
Now, start working towards that.
I am a believer that everybody should consider going into business for themself. Or perhaps you have aspirations of being a writer. Go for it. Do it…but you can’t if you don’t start somewhere. And I am one of those people who strongly believes that you can’t wait to start something…or hold back talking about ‘waiting on until you get the money to do it.’
You will be waiting forever.
I’ve got to wait… until I get the money…or some money 
to do it…is one of the biggest excuses for never doing anything.
Sometimes as the door closes in your face…because you have lost your job…or can’t find one…or had some other set back… then it just might be because it is time for you to become your own boss… run your own company… do something that you really like to do.
Think outside of the 
box… and don’t despair… there is something special waiting just around the corner for you. And it is that success you have always been looking for… had hoped would come… that real career that you have been putting off.
Just do it. And I would love hearing about it.
I’ll give you more information about when, how and where you can link up to me regarding to my blogradiotalk broadcasts… on both your ipod and by listening in to me right here over the internet. You know… try as best I can… I just cannot seem to get out of radio…and stay out of it. Oh…well..
And I almost forgot 1 other very important thing about my up and coming blogtalkradio program… You’ll able hear it right here too… right on this blog page…as I plan to add a link to the program. However, if you listen via your ipod or directly over the net to the live broadcast…you will be able to call in and talk with me over the air. It should be interesting. I look forward to chatting with you soon. And yes…there will be guest…perhaps you would like to be one. Send me a note via my comment box.
I
just love these pictures. So, I may just leave them up all winter long.
Well, God bless…
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4 comments January 14, 2010
Tiger Woods…a time of derision
Demoted to looking like a prison inmate at Riker’s Island or Sing-Sing…out in the yard lifting weights…in the nude. Tiger is finding out first hand just how much everybody in the media world…and maybe in the world of golf really loves him. Like the old saying goes-
You really never find out who your friends are until when you are down.
I had thought to finally say something on Tiger
Woods today…but this photo really motivated me to certainly do so. I am really feeling bad for him. For 1 thing …because his number 1 support and person that he turned to…his father passed and 
left him a few years ago now. So, who does he have that he can turn to…to talk to?
I don’t know?
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/657/Tiger_Woods_Car_Crash_Caused_by_Alleged_Affair%3F
But clearly he needs a voice with wisdom who can speak to him as a 
friend and confidant. Because when it has all been said and done…Tiger is still pretty much just a kid. And you can clearly tell that by some of the decisions that he has made lately.
Who in world told him to take a shot like the one which is currently parading around on the front cover of Vanity Fair?
And what a bad time for such a stupid magazine cover and photos of him to pop up. Clearly that photographer was no friend of his. But it just goes to show you that when you are down the vultures will start circling you like half dead road kill…closing in the finish off the job.
The truth be told…none of them ever really like seeing a black man with a white woman. Particularly…a black man with lots and lots…and lots of money…more money than them. And he didn’t get it pimping or selling drugs…or being a rapper?
Though Tiger does not consider himself black…or African American…but a mixture of several other things…he may well yet get to know that his real problem is much like that 
of what Ojay’s was…as in Simpson.
I am sure that you still remember him. How could you forget Ojay?
I spent many hours…days and nights…months…a couple of years maybe…watching television staying up biting my nails with each of the episodes and turns of his story…and as they unfolded. When I hit LA…was I not treated to a visit of that infamous house and street where everything happened?
He 
was well loved too…and though I never thought of it before …he had plenty of endorsements too. But of course…Tiger endorsements far exceed anything that poor ol’ Ojay could have ever hoped for. But they also have one other thing in common…and that is… being black men who love white women. And perferably…blonde.
In Ojay’s case it ended up in murder. And in Tiger’s…a few busted car windows…well, all of them… by an enraged wife swinging a golf club.
When I first heard about Tiger extra-martial affairs…and caught a glimpse of some of the women…all I could wonder was-
“When did all of this start?”
I wondered if it came about as some backlash or need out of lost following the pasting of his father. Which I know it had to have been a pretty big blow…devastating blow and lost to Tiger. Being that they were so close.
Though I offer no excuses for Tiger or his lack of discretions or wise thinking 
concerning
his involvement with several women outside of his marriage. No, I would never do that…as I do feel that marriage is something sacred.
And should be treated as such.
For the life of me…I never got over ‘the Donald’ leaving Ivana for Paula. And I was 
not alone in my thinking.
But men do some dumb things.
I couldn’t understand Michael Jordan cheating on his wife…or the problems in Shaq’s marriage. 
If you have a good woman…what in the street is going to make you ruin your good thing?
And not that I know that was the problem between Shaq and his wife…but it was for ‘the Donald’ and for Michael.
How do you mess up your family life like that?
How can your mind be thinking so uncorrectly?
Evidently, Tiger never read anything about what had happened to actor 
Morgan Freeman once he had his accident, and information was disclosed to his wife about him riding around in their car with some girlfriend…who was injured in that accident too. No, Tiger could not have read that story. Because if he had…I am so sure that Tiger might not have found himself in this position which he currently is in.
Morgan Freeman’s wife didn’t even wait 24 hours before she hit him with the divorce 
papers…bright and early…before day break the following morning after Morgan’s crashing his car…and having to be pulled out of it via the aid of the ‘Jaws of Life’...with his girlfriend seated right beside him.
Morgan’s wife’s lawyers went into his hospital room while one of his legs was suspended up the air…with the cast wrapping it still damp. But that small little thing did not stop them…or any consideration to the amount of pain he may have been…while they served him with her divorce papers. Which based upon the reports has cost him far more pain than those few scratches from the actual impact of that accident.
But Tiger’s situation is a little bit different. They have small 
children. Being that Tiger chose to marry her…I am sure that he must have found some likeable or even highly redeeming qualities in his wife at the time he proposed then later married her. And as I have never seen much of her being out in public view…with all the cameras flashing about her…clearly she is not one of those people out to make a name or gain some type of fame for herself.
Seeing how much he obviously loves his children…I would suggest that Tiger get down on his knees if he has to. But do it…or whatever it may take to save his marriage and win his wife back.
Of course she is angry. But what self-respecting woman wouldn’t be?
But beyond all that anger…most women start to think about their family and what is best for their children.
I have never been married but I do realize that if a relationship is worth keeping…and things can be worked 
out…or salvaged… then that is what should happen. Many times we have to put 
away our pride and hurt…and look at the bigger picture. And that is… (1) do I love this person… (2) can we make this work… (3) and be happy and a family in it?
And oh, yes…probably the biggest question of them all…(4) can I get over it…and allow us to move on in this marriage without it forever plaguing me?
I’m hoping that Tiger decides that his family is worth more to him 
than all the accolades …and money that he has won. And…yes, even more than he loves golf.
And I am also hoping that this very public stumble…and that is what it is…not a fall but a stumble…will prove to be a valued lesson to Tiger in this his time of derision. And that he will go on to aid him in becoming the best father to his children…and husband to his wife…whom I really do hope that he loves since she is the mother of his children.
In my life I have had to learn so many lessons. Most of them were not easy to take…some embarrassing…some down right stupid… and some even shameful to me. But in the end they were lessons that I needed to learn. And I am now glad I had them…but at the time they hurt and were hard for me to take.
Now, if Tiger goes on to play some of best golf of his life…watch how 
quickly the tide will turn around. And that is just what Tiger is going to have to do…from this point on.
If he thought he liked pressure before…it’s pressure that he is truly
going to get now. Because he will have to out perform and prove 
himself now in ways he never had to before.
At the end of the day…will he be able to do it?
That is the question.
Well…he’s Tiger Woods isn’t he…still?
Though it is interesting just how quietly the whole episode of Charlie Sheen and his threatenin
g his wife with a knife so quickly and quietly faded off the radar screen. Along with his other run in with the law…for driving under the influence (DUI). And nobody pulled any endorsements from up under him…or thought about cancelling his show.
http://www.fancast.com/blogs/tv-news/tiger-woods-charlie-sheen-is-there-a-double-standard/
I wonder why?
http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=4693657
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/27/tiger.woods/index.html
UPDATE: Thursday, February 19, 2010
Why is everybody bothering poor Tiger Woods. He does not owe any of us an 
apology. The matter is really between him and his wife.
How many men have been caught in the same trap?
John Edwards, numerous other politicans…such as the governor of New Jersey…now an ex-governor…Giuliani…aand others 
on Capital Hill…such as Bill Clinton…as well as numerous actors…such as Mel Gibson…and that list just goes on and
on…not to mention other male athletes.
For some reason seem…not all…but many…just seem to have a problem 
keeping their pants up. And some of them…like it both 
ways…but yet poor Tiger is being dragged through the mud like this is some type of new phenomenon…like 
this never happened before. Oh, please…it happens so often who can keep count. And then when 
these guys are caught with anything other than a woman…then maybe they too are dragged through the mud and through the streets.
(Just DOUBLE CLICK the video below and ignor the text to view it)
And it is not that I am excusing Tiger. No, not at all. But to me…he is just a kid who 
recently lost his hero…I would assume that this is when all of this started happening. So, I feel for him…and you should too. And we all should hope that this situation will bring something positive and a new direction to his life. Something that he may have lost focus of in the passing of his father. It does happen.
So, no…Tiger Woods owes none of us nothing. All of his apologies should be 
directed to his wife…and his children. And possibly to his mother…who I am sure may also be very hurt by his behavior…and recent poor choices.
None of us can say that we have never made any mistakes…or so poor choices at some time in our life.
Why isn’t anybody calling for Charlie Sheen when he pull a knife out on his wife…or for his latest family blunder? Which seem to be an on-going thing with poor ol’ Charlie.
http://jay-mariotti.fanhouse.com/2010/02/19/tiger-bares-soul-lets-leave-him-alone/
http://www.aolnews.com/article/tiger-woods-offers-measured-apology/19365282
http://www.fanhouse.com/news/main//tiger-woods-says-sorry-golf-return-still/791719?cid=10
Just let Tiger alone. Clearly the thing is tearing him up. He looks so old. He 
definitely is in great need of someone positive to step into his life to aid him…and to give him some sure and positive advice concerning this 
matter…and who can aid him in being strong through it. He needs a strong male figure…some with business smarts and plenty of wisdom to replace that person who he once had. He need someone like the one he lost when his father died.
(Again just DOUBLE CLICK the video and ignor the text to view it)
It is my hope, however, that Tiger gets a grip upon his life…and not become too reliant upon pyscho-therapy…or Buddha…or Budhism…but upon God.
It has been exceedingly cold here. But then…it’s winter and it is suppose to be cold. And it is suppose to get colder.
I knew all along that we were in for a real winter this year. And we are getting it…and I guess everybody is.
Had to shovel a couple more times. But it was fun. And remarkably the house really isn’t all that cold…considering that furance is blown.
Or maybe…it is just that I am getting use to it. I don’t know which…but I thank God for it.
So, needless to say…I have been sleeping late and spending as much time as I can up under the blankets. And it is working…it is aiding me in staying warm. I am even writing this up under the blankets…but I am beginning to look forward to Spring already.
Well, God bless…
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