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POEM… “SOME”…PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FIRST INAUGURATION…2009
Some
came by bus…
some by train….
some by plane…
some by car…
some by whatever…
however….
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but they got there.
Some late in the night…
some in the wee hours of the morn…
some by daybreak…
some by noon…
some by midday
some by the time it was nearly through….
some at the end…
but they got there.
Some lined the streets…
some sat on ice cold street curves…
some bundled together…
some crowded the gates…anxious to get in.
Some cried…
some cheered…
some screamed…
some shouted ‘GLORY!’…
some rejoiced…
and some
just gave
God glory.
Some came in furs…
some in overcoats and gloves…
some with ear muffs and thick heavy scarves…
some in knitted caps…
some in baseball caps…
some in boots…
but you made it there.
Some white…
some black…
some Native American Indian…
some hispanic…
some jew…
some italian…
some polish…
some russian…
some african…
some asian…
some muslim…
some christian…
Some young…
some old…
some yet born…
some nearly able to walk…
some barely able to stand…
some barely understanding english…
but they got there.
Some travelled through 
the night…
some caught early morning flights…
but they got there.
Some slept in cars…
some in hotels… 
some in motels…
some with friends…
some out in the streets…
but they got there.
Some came by faith…
some motivated by desire…
some by history…
some by pride…
some by curiosity…
but they got there.
Some will remember…
some will forget…
some will cherish forever
what this day truly meant…
but they got there.
Though history many not truly relay it with all of its glory…f
or its great importance
and significance…
nor may it be kind…
and some facts left behind…
but you were there…
you made it there out of ‘no way’…
Through pain…shame,
heartache and
chains…somehow we made it
there.
So, some
travelled by car…
some from afar…
some said ‘no matter how far’…
hours…years…centuries…bondage…hangings…whippings…and burnings…
tar and feathers…
but… we made it…
we were there.
But you were there…you
and some
million…zillion other folk.
You made it there…you and some more than 2 million
and more poured into that place…that city…those streets…those 
sidewalks…
the corner stores…
the restaurants….
the Mall of Lincoln Monument…
places that used to not seat us…
feed us…
or give us a place to rest…
You were there…
praising and singing ‘We’ve Come This Far By Faith’…
to see the dream…
no longer deferred…
to see the courage…
and the pride…
the trust…
the hope…
and to see the promise rise up like Moses…
and the Red Sea once again stand on end…
and destiny again be
fulfilled.
some…
Now, you fill the rest in…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090120/ap_on_go_pr_wh/inauguration_rdp
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28749799/displaymode/1107/s/2/framenumber/4/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22887506#22887506
Some…
Some came to get caught up in the moment…
Some to get a touch of the spirit…
And some to celebrate a time long-awaited…
when the tail has finally become the head.
| http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/world_news_america/7838851.stm
CLICK the LINK BELOW to see and hear Martin L.
King,
Jr.’s prophesy regarding an African-American
President in the United States.
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Well, God bless…and in case I make to D.C. this time to celebrate both President Obama’s second inaugural and Dr. King Martin L. King’s birthday… then I will see you there.
But if I do not… for those of you who do please celebrate for me too. And forget to touch Dr. King’s memorial for me…as I will truly be remembering him too on this great day, Monday, January 21, 2013… when we along with all of America…and the world celebrate two great men American heroes.
Add a comment January 16, 2013
Martin L. King Memorial…
Gotta come back and write on this but for now. Look and hear…
http://blog.al.com/montgomery/2011/10/civil_rights_movement_a_seed_p.html
Add a comment October 18, 2011
King saga 6… Dexter… Dexter… Dexter…$800,000+
I see where I am being hit by folks looking for the latest on Dexter King and the law suits filed against him by his older brother, Martin L. King, III, and his younger sister, Rev. Bernice King.
At present I do not see anything new…except for what I last informed you of…Dexter hired EMI to license the intellectual property of his father. Meaning that you could start hearing…
“I have…have…have…ah… ah-ah dream” mixed down with some funky beats. Yes, because that is what ol’ Dexter boy did. He has made it legal for anybody to use his father’s speeches in any kind of music, song or movie etc….as long as they pay him for it.
Need I say anything more…about little Dexter boy.
The unfortunate part is…is that the law is on his side since his…their mother turned over the day to day operation of the Martin L. King, Jr. Non-Violence Center and everything else bearing their father’s name and likeness over to little Dexter.
The only thing that Bernice and Martin the 3rd can do is try to stop him via the courts. But unless there is some loop hole…or God intervenes…and He has been known to not only change hearts…but minds. He changed mine.
But unless He does not intervene…little Dexter boy has the straight-away…to do as he wills. However, both Bernice and Martin and the 3rd are still legal heirs to their family holdings and as thus…they are entitled to whatever revenues that come in…even though little Dexter is the head of the Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Center for Non-Violence. But since they are also on the board of directors…I just do not see why they do not vote Dexter out of a job. Undoubtedly, the situation is a bit more complex than that.
How very unfortunate. Not just for his siblings…Bernice and Dexter the 3rd. But for us all. There are some things which should always be protected and held in high regard…and never sold to the highest bidder…or given away for a buck.
All I can say to Bernice and Martin is never give up faith…it is the thing that made your father great…and he is who we know him to be today.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for…and the evidence of things not seen. I have hoped…and seen impossible situations turned around in my own legal woes. Surely, what God is able to do for one…He can do that same work again. I have been in court where lawyers didn’t show up. Where judges decided in my favor when I didn’t even know what I was talking about. But I know He is able…
Keep the faith…nothing worth doing is ever easy. But it is the end of the road that tells the story.
Now, I am going to really lay down…and get some sleep. And I don’t want anybody to touch me until some time tomorrow night.
Got the story.
Well, everybody by this time knows that national government has been involved in building a monument in honor of Dr. Martin L. King
, 
Jr. on the grounds of the Lincoln Monument. You know…that place where Obama placed his hand on that old Bible and was sworn in as President of the United States of America. Yeah…here.
Well, ol’ Dex is forcing the society of national monuments to cough up 
$800,000 to use his father’s likeness in the making of that monument in his honor. Not to mention that the foundation has been paying the Martin L. King Center…Dexter…all along for the use of the words and likeness of Dr. King in its ads and other various fund raising activity they have used in order to raise the money to build the memorial in Dr. King’s memory.
That Dexter…what a son.
You would think he would have been out their helping to raise that money for the funding to build a memorial monument in honor of his father’s work and sacrifice…instead of robbing it to line his pockets. And not dime has he shared with his brother or sister. So much for the character of Dexter King. I doubt highly that his father would be proud.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2009/04/17/king_memorial_family_fee.html
Now, that some of the major corporations and other organization that pour money into the building of the monument have heard about Dexter’s little licensing agreement…they are re-negoiating their contributions and/or reconsidering them.
God bless…
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Add a comment April 18, 2009
Condoleezza Rice’s knockout punch… John Hope Franklin… Ryan Moat incident…
See…I said it. And she hasn’t proved me wrong.
I love her.
I really hate people who don’t know how to go home and just be quiet.
It is not like Cheney and his friends did anything but put this country into a whirlwind spin downward. And we have yet to set the turbulent waters still.
Cloaked in secrecy since they went into the White House…it is hard to believe that they had not planned this whole mess from the very beginning. To get in steal what they could…and cause havoc just because they could.
Or maybe all the chaos was just a shield…to cover 
up the crime. You know how the criminals do…create a disturbance or some type of confusion somewhere else to divert the attention from what they are really doing.
Man…you know I never thought of that before.
But what if it was?
What if 9/11 had been cooked up by some of our own people…in high places?
It would certainly address the issue as to why they never really went after Bin Laden.
I hope with all my heart that would never be found to be true.
I personally believe that every covered record, tape and piece of video…recorded phone calls, messages, emails, faxes, text messages…and everything else used to imprint messages on…or 
engendered dialogue…including documents…should be thoroughly gone over by some high commission seeking illegal irregularities by the Bush Administration…pacifically the lying and untruthful behavior of now ex-Commander and Chief, George Bush, and his bully, Dick Cheney. And they should be dragged before some court or tribunal to face charges of some sort…if for nothing else but for all the lives which have been lost and the families destroyed by an illegal war that 
not only devastated a country but the world economy…as well as, our own.
What a herculean mess the previous administration has left behind.
From 4.2% under Bill Clinton…to 7.6% unemployment by the time George Bush left the White House.
The number of Americans living in poverty when Clinton left the White House under 33 million…by time Bush left White House 37.3 million.
When George Bush went into the White House…Clinton had left it the country with a $128 billion surplus…while George left us with a deficit…of $1.3 trillion.
So, how dare Dick Cheney sit around on the sidelines now…sipping his champagne and smoking his big Cuban cigars chirping like a canary over what the Obama Administration should be doing…and is now doing…calling it ‘a risk’…in trying to bring this country out of the Bush/Cheney mess…and to get this country back on track again.
Who put us here…where we are today?
Inflated gas prices…highest ever in the history of America. Unprecedented number of home foreclosures. Failed economy…massive job losses…daily bodies flying back from Iraq…corporate thief…Enron…Bear Sterns…Halliburton…war…inflated cost of living…etc…etc…etc…etc…etc…
If only Dick Cheney could have been but so wise in the advise he was shoving down his fellow Texan’s throat…while they both were sitting in the White House.
Who put us here?
And then want to question how Obama is running the country?
Are you kidding me?
I know exactly where Obama is trying to take this country. OUT OF THE MESS THAT YOU GUYS PUT US IN…that’s where.
Thank you, Condi Rice…tell Cheney to put a lid on it again…and again…
He seems to be the type who just can’t seem to stop talking.
I can’t stand big fat hypocrites. Particularly, when the hypocrites are the ones to blame.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/15/cheney.interview/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/15/cheney.interview/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
How could something like this happen?
On their way rushing to the hospital they get stopped by the police in the parking lot of the hospital while leaping from their vehicle trying to rush inside the hospital.
A cop tells them to stop prohibiting them from going inside. He tells them that they ran 
a red light…all this mind you while they had their red hazard lights flashing while rushing to the hospital.
The officer is told over and over and over…”my mother-in-law is dying.”
To which the officer acts as though he is making an ordinary…what they call a routine traffic stop. And he did so without any kind of concern or consideration regarding the situation of his captives. Well, that is what they were to him…because that is what he acted like with regard to them. He acted as though there was no type of any emergency…and that Ryan Moats was just out joy riding to the hospital.
All the pleading and trying to get the police officer to understand…it all fell upon death ears. He could have cared less…as you hear in the video because he turned a deaf hear to everything that Moats was saying to him.
The cop threatens to arrest him…tells him that he is going to tow his car…etc. But the cop does everything but attempt to even try to comprehend…or make any sense out of the situation…as to what is being told him. Nor did he offer any help or assistance to the family members of the vehicle of near death mother as they tried rushing to her bed side.
How had this scene might have played out differently…if…
If the occupants of vehicle had not been African Americans but some other race…namely white?
The officer might have ran into the hospital with them. Maybe…
He might have been a lot more understanding and helpful to them…probably.
But I doubt that the above scenarios…and the way that it actually happened did get played out as it did because of…who they were…or are. They were black…African Americans. This officer saw their color…and paid no attention to their situation…or anything else.
And the police chief’s apology wasn’t much better. Near the end of his apology…he states that to the credit of NFL player Ryan Moats-
“At no time did Mr. Moats state that he was a NFL football player. Or expect any special consideration.”
What kind of statement was that?
Was that meant to be a compliment?
It is all on tape.
Historian John Hope Franklin…didn’t know him and never heard of him before. But just read something about him…how he had a way of telling 
our history. It really made me feel like I would have liked to have known him. Would have loved to have heard his name before now…and certainly would have loved to have heard him lecture on our history. There had been a time when I couldn’t read enough on it.
http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk/tribute/franklin/3050019
There is something about our history that amazes me. So, many many stories…as varied as the people. Stories of lives shattered… broken… and often torn…and yet many victorious. Stories of a peole who were really a mixture of various people…thrown into chains…transported on ships…carried across the Atlantic…to stand upon auction blocks…and herded like cattle.
Yet, they were able to turn scraps into meals…later called Soul Food. Messages into songs…that later transformed into gospel, blues and R&B. People who turned hardship into culture. People meant to have not to survived…but did. Kind of like the stories of the blankets infected with smallpox given to the American Indians. They weren’t suppose to survive either.
I guess that is kind of why I cried when I saw them riding…strong and tall upon their horses…all dressed up in their traditional headdresses and everything…in the parade for Barack Obama on Inaugural Day. That was special. What a sight they were…just like all of us who flocked to D.C. to see…to hear…to cheer…and to cry as we bared witnessed to the dawn of a new American era.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2009/03/26/pn.anchor.death.cnn?iref=mpvideosview
Wow…I wish I had heard him. Had known of a place where he had been lecturing…or had booked him myself.
Now, that I have had an opportunity to find more info on Dr. Franklin…I had heard and seen him once. He was on Charlie Rose…a show I used to love to watch…at a time when I used to watch television.
They said he had a gift…a gift for telling our history. Wow…I sho’ wish I could have heard that. Not much of it going around any more. Soon, I guess it will all be dead…all our real history…dead and gone…buried when all our elders have all gone to their graves. Because nobody will be left carrying it on. Nobody studying it…nobody who thinks that it is now still important…or relavent.
So, now…almost all of the African American Studies departments have been done away with…removed…squashed…vacated…because “ain’t nobody taking the classes no ways.” Yeah, because they need to make room for all of this new stuff…like the history of rapp. ..and hip-hop.
No one taking an interest…too busy thinking about rapp…hip-hop…and baby/mama drama. I hear those classes are jam packed.
Or maybe we should wait on others…others to come and pick it up for us…and start claiming it for their own. Like they came and picked up jazz. That was on its way out too. It was dying as the masters began to die. And would have been dead too…ifin’ they hadn’t.
Our history in this country sprang up out of the toil and sweat…and out of bearing chains in this 
country…and there is no reason why we should ever let the memory of those who walked before us…and broke those chains die. Nor our history prior to slavery ever be forgotten…which so few of us know little if anything about.
Teach it!
Preach it!
Recite it!
Pass it on to your children…because a tree without roots will fade away. Strengthen the roots.
Don’t let it die. It is far too important for our children…and the legacy we leave behind.
I had said to myself-
“You are going to go home and go to sleep early tonight.”
And I did get in early.
And I did shower and get ready for bed.
But then I started writing this blog…and here I am at almost ll:30 PM…and I got in before 5. And I am still not finish yet.
Eleven Native American tribes from all across the country participated in the ceremonies celebrating Obama’s Presidency by marching…or riding if you will…in the inaugural parade and various other events that day and week in Washington, DC.
God bless…
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http://www.aaanativearts.com/article1632.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Indians-on-the-Inaugural-March.html
3 comments March 27, 2009
Who doesn’t have a clue?
I just finished listening to the most hypocritical piece of garbage I have ever 
heard…or maybe I should say in a long time. It has to do with some white woman announcer talking about First Lady Obama who recently paid a visit to a local D.C. school and began sharing with the young students about her earlier years 
growing up. Being bright and well spoken the kids in her school and neighbor used to tell her that she ‘talked like a white person.’
This white woman announcer pounced all over that and began saying, “We have trash in the White House.”
Clearly, she is in need of loosing her job…besides having been way off the mark.
For some reason white people just can’t seem to get it right. They think everything is about them. They have no understanding of the black experience…yet want to say that they do.
Because we are the only group of people who came here in chains…there is no other group of fellow country men who can quite grasp this with any kind of clear understanding because they never went through it. Sure, many groups were ostracized, joked about, called names, belittled and many hated…some more so than others…as they came here to this country in search of a better way of life for them and their family…same as those who came before them. But their experiences were still not the same as ours.
Having worked on a job…my last job with a bunch of black folks. The first time in 
my life I had ever worked with all black people. I must say it was the worst job I ever had. They put me through the ringer…and it was all because…as I came to find out over time…because I had a highest level education than anyone else in the building including out of all the workers, other managers and upper management.
I did not talk like them…I did not swear…nor did I stand around telling nasty jokes…and I did my job far above average. They hated me because I was not like them. They hated my work ethics…everything about me. To them…I have no doubt…they felt that I thought I was white. Because this is something which many black folks have been called when they were smart, or well spoken…good workers… etc…etc… Which for those of you who may be white…it means they thought that I thought…I was better than them.
So, that white woman radio announcer had not a clue of what she was talking about when she started to bite into Michelle Obama. Because had she had a clue she 
would have known that Michelle Obama was telling the students in that class that it was okay to be smart and not to be ashamed of making good grades…and not to worry about what the other kids might call them. This was indeed what Michelle Obama was telling those students…and vast numbers of African Americans, if not all, hearing that speech knew right off what the First Lady was saying without thinking twice about it. She was not talking about some ‘white/black thing’…but a ‘black on black thing.’
But white people do not have a clue. They feel they know us. Have a handle on how we feel about things…how we operate…behave…and react. But really…they do not have a clue.
Take for instance shock jock-Imus in the Morning. He thought he was being 
funny…that what he was saying was cool and that he could get away with continually degrading and belittling black folks. And he felt this because of Pop culture…rapp music…rapp videos…and how the brotha’s talk in the streets.
But he failed to understand that there are other groups of black folks who felt that even the brotha’s and sista’s on the streets, in the videos etc…speak things we too find offensive and unacceptable. Because the kids…the rappers etc…do not have clue…didn’t mean that Imus could also operate within that same clueless realm 
and feel it was okay…because as he said, “They say it.”
Like Imus…the kids are clueless. The kids know nothing about the history behind much of what they say…nor take it, unfortunately, as being serious. But those of us who know the history…know also the pain…and saw the cost…we know. And not only take it seriously…but personal.
But…so isn’t that female announcer who would dared to want to call the First Lady of this country ‘trash.’ She is definitely quite clueless…and maybe so to a even higher level.
Would anyone dared to have called Barbara Bush that…and then felt that they could have gotten away with it?
How about Jacqueline Onassis-Kennedy?
Never.
And if you tried…everybody would be up in arms coming at you.
But you can get away with things when you are talking about black people or other minority groups that would never be acceptable or allowable when talking about someone white who sits in such a high position as the Obamas…or anywhere.
After all the stuff that Bill Clinton did while he was in the White House with Monica…never once did anyone call him outside of his name. They may have went after Bill but they never called him anything but Bill Clinton…or Mr. President.
Two semesters ago in a communications class we had to read about the uproar 
about the making of a TV movie about Ronald Reagan. The first part of the controversy was about the belittling of an American President…making him to appear erratic…and lost.
The second part of the argument had to do with party lines…the Republicans were staunchly against the TV mini-series about their beloved President Ronald Reagan claiming that the mostly liberal Democrats of the Production’s Executive Directors and writers were trying to tarnish the memory of an American hero, as well as, President…which should not be allowed.
I doubt that any of those people will stand up for First Lady Obama. But clearly 
large groups of people should including the owners and affiliates of that radio station that she works for and the syndicated stations she airs on.
Not only did not the woman have a clue as to what she was talking about by trying to under-cut what the First Lady had said to the students…but she was also highly out of order and offensive…and racist. There was an air about her tone which spoke…”I can say whatever I want about those n…..s and nobody will stop me. Because they are just n…..s anyways.”
So, it is not Michelle Obama who has a problem. No, but anyone who thinks and talks like this woman announcer. CLICK the LINK BLOW…if you want to read more about what this woman had to say…and you will also hear what it was that Michelle Obama said to the students. This woman clearly did not have the slightest clue to the real meaning of…outside of possibly pushing up some negative ratings for her radio program.
I wish I were the Program Director or manager at that radio station…she would have been pulled immediately…and sent packing.
And oh, yes…I purposely did not call her by name. Some people just are not worthy of the bother…I have given her more than enough play…(many of you might not understand that either…but I will let you try and figure it out). She is in dire need of a proper education.
This is America…and we do have freedom of speech. But she went way overboard. And for that there should be a penalty…as was in the case of Imus. And no appology will do. We are in the 21st Century…when do people start to grow up?
I get so tired of people saying whatever they want to say whenever it comes to black people…and then have the nerve to feel that there should and will not be any reprecautions for doing so.
Still working on the web site. I have to admit that it is really shaping up far better than anything I have done in the past. God is so good…He has endowed me.
And oh, yes…the weather has turned again. It is freeeeeeezzzzing.
God bless…
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1 comment March 25, 2009
True to his word…Let the Presidency begin..
Already getting started President Obama signed the order to close Guantanamo Bay, 
the high security prison housed on the shores of Cuba…where thousands of detainees had been stored and warehoused since post-9/11…not to mention where they had been tortured by the Bush Administration.
Obama also ordered a review of all the trials and then placed a banned upon the harsh methods of interrogation used to extract 
information from detainees within that prison.
http://news.aol.com/?feature=310532
The behavior of the Bush Administration concerning enemy combatants and those 
thought 
to be enemy combatants…or possessing information went against the Geneva Convention concerning the handling and treatment of detainees, combatants and non-combatants. The time has long been overdue for Bush’s policies regarding such matters to change…and the standards lifted once again as to how America carries herself.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012102009.html
The problem, however, that arises with the closing of Guantanamo Bay is what to do with all those angry prisoners?
And, yes…I can see them being very angry…particularly those who may have been housed 
in that high security prison system for years now…who may have been innocent of any wrong doing. But are now more than ready to blow America to smittereens due to what happened to them. That is what a bunch of bad policies can do. It creates long time and hardened hatred…and lasting enemies
Two semesters ago I had to pay a visit to the court house in regards to some family matters. While before the judge…I was ordered to put my hands behind my back. I could not imagine what was going on.
They were arresting me…and the charge was… Well… ’Not serving Jury Duty.’
The only problem here was…was that I had served my jury duty. Not only there but in New York a couple of years earlier.
I protested before the court. I called it an ‘outrage.’
I called it an ‘injustice.’
I proclaimed my innocence.
But no one heard me. In fact, they took my actions for a joke.
I was outraged.
I was enraged….I was mad…insulted…and had been made to be embarrassed.
And I knew while I sat down in that cold jail cell after they un-handcuffed me and bent to remove the shackles…that that day was going to be revisited. And I knew it beyond a shadow of a doubt. Because yes…I had already made up in my mind that I was going to sue them.
So, I can understand the outrage and anger of people treated badly or unfairly…and those even treated in such as way…without due cause. You don’t forget.
http://news.aol.com/article/obama-signs-order-to-close-guantanamo-in/314749?cid=12
Well, Hillary Clinton is looking happier these days…and certainly more confident. And 
there is little wonder. Today she was sworn in as Secretary of State.
Though Hillary was indeed truly a heated contender in her fight to the White House…it is evident that the President saw something in her. Perhaps he admired her aggressiveness…or maybe her doggit determination. I imagine that these type of qualities are much needed when dealing various world leaders and other big time politicans. If so…then she certainly has all the right credentials.
…and in a vote of 18 to 5 of the Senate Finance Committee Timothy Geithner was approved as consideration as Treasury Secretary of the United States of America. Now, his confirmation goes up for a full Senate vote in order for him to take over that position.
http://news.aol.com/article/clinton-takes-the-reins-at-state/314201?cid=12
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-clinton,1,3732593.story
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090122/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/clinton
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=11658795&ch=4226716&src=news
Caroline Kennedy has withdrawn her name from consideration as the replacement for Hillary Clinton’s old Senate seat, as the Senator from New York. Though the Governor of 
New York, David Patterson, had been toying with who his decision would fall upon…he has now allowed too much time to slip by. What seems to me…should have been a fairly easy decision by way of choice…he now longer has.
Having spent much of her younger years growing up on 5th Avenue in New York…I am sure that Caroline would have brought much to the State of New York. Whatever the reason…it is New York’s great lost. Too bad it was not seized upon earlier…it might have made a difference.
Boy, it is amazing that little Carline Kennedy is now 51 years old. Seems only like yesterday when she and her brother, John, were the 2 little kids in the White House.
http://news.aol.com/article/kennedy-associate-says-decision-was/287640?cid=12
CLICK on this LINK BELOW to see how Obama’s team is shaping up and where they currently stand in the process of their confirmations.
http://projects.nytimes.com/44th_president/new_team
I bought an IBM computer a few years back…but haven’t seen any more of them around since. So, I knew that IBM had folded her hand in the desktop business. But who knows what IBM sells any more?
UNIX…Servers…LINUX…Power Systems…massive digital storage systems…
So, I guess IBM is still pretty much in the computer industry…and as they have pretty much have been in the past…more corporate use…and less commercial consumer use. Maybe, IBM needs to get it’s feet back into the everyday consumer market again.
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Some…
Some
came by bus…
some by train….
some by plane…
some by car…
whatever…
however….
but they got there.
Some late in the night…
some in the wee hours of the morn…
some by daybreak…
some by noon…
some by midday
some by the time it was nearly through….
some at the end…
but they got there.
Some lined the streets…
some sat on ice cold street curves…
some bundled together…
some crowded the gates…anxious to get in.
Some cried…
some cheered…
some screamed…
some shouted ‘GLORY!’…
some
rejoiced…
and some
just gave
God glory.
Some came in furs…
some in overcoats and gloves…
some with ear muffs and thick heavy scarves…
some in knitted caps…
some in baseball caps…
some in sneakers…
some in boots…
but you made it there.
Some white…
some black…
some Native American Indian…
some hispanic…
some jew…
some italian…
some polish…
some russian…
some african…
some jamacian…
some asian…
some muslim…
some christian…
Some young…
some old…
some yet unborn…
some nearly able to walk…
some barely able to stand…
but they got there.
Some travelled through 
the night…
some caught early morning flights…
but they got there.
Some slept in cars…
some in hotels…
some in motels…
some with friends…
some out in the streets…
but they got there.
Some came by faith…
some motivated by desire…
some by history…
some by pride…
some by curiosity…
but they got there.
Some will remember…
some will forget…
some will cherish forever
what this day truly meant…
but they got there.
Though history many not relay it with all of its glory…
it may not be kind…
some facts left behind…
but you were there…
you made it there out of ‘no way’…
Through pain…shame,
heartache and
chains…somehow we made it
there.
So, some
travelled by car…
some from afar…
some said ‘no matter how far’…
hours…years…centuries…bondage…hangings…whippings…and burnings…
but…
we made it…
we were there.
But you were there…you
and some
million…zillion other folk.
You made it there…you and some 2 million
and more poured into that place…that city…those streets…those 
sidewalks…
the corner stores…
the restaurants….
the Mall of Lincoln Monument…
places that used to not seat us…
feed us…
or give us a place to rest…
You were there…
praising and singing ‘We’ve Come This Far By Faith’…
to see the dream…
no longer deferred…
to see the courage…
and the pride…
the trust…
the hope…
and to see the promise rise up like Moses…
and the Red Sea once again stand on end…
and destiny again be
fulfilled.
some…
Now, you fill the rest in…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090120/ap_on_go_pr_wh/inauguration_rdp
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28749799/displaymode/1107/s/2/framenumber/4/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/22887506#22887506
Some…
Some came to get caught up in the moment…
Some to get a touch of the spirit…
And some to celebrate a time long awaited…
when the tail has finally become the head.
| http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/world_news_america/7838851.stm |
At it again…Venus and Serena WILLIAMS…
| Sorry, Venus and Serena…I am just too filed up thinking about Some… the future…the events of these past couple of days…about our new President…our new First Family…and this country…to pay much attention to tennis right now. But you keep doing what you are doing…winning. |
You can read how they…Venus and Serena are at it again…CHa-CHiNG!
| Australian Open Tournament Prize: $20,600,000.00 Should I say it again? CHa-CHiNG! |
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First Lady…Michelle…Inaugural wardrobe
Okay…okay… I have gotten the message.
Everybody wants to see what Michelle Obama was wearing today during the inaugral of her husband, Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America. There has been so much talk about what Michelle would be wearing and who made it…that…
Okay. I too have been bitten by all the talk.
However, I am not a fashion anything. So, don’t expect much from me. But she looked 
fabulous.
So, here you are…feast your eyes…
Absolutely stunning.
There can be no doubt that the President has 
much to be proud of when he looks upon his beautiful wife. What a great pair they 
make. No country could have better…or any 2 people more meant for each other.
The yellow suit dress First Lady Obama wore 
to the Presidential Inauguration was made by a Cuban born seamstress by the name of Isabel Toledo.
Her gown for the Inaugural Balls was made by a young designer named 
Jason Wu.
For those of you who are really into this fashion stuff…these are Michelle’s shoes in a low angle shot of her gown…which was made of ivory silk chiffon, embellished with crystal rhinestones and silver thread embroidery…etc…etc… Really sounds like something to behold. 
http://news.aol.com/main/inauguration/article/obamas-dance-to-at-last-at-first-ball/312613
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/inauguration.balls/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1872698,00.html
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Talented…
I had never heard a group that I thought more should have made it than these girls.
The Jones Girls…I really didn’t play much by them when I was on the radio…basically, because I was not the one programming the radio stations that I worked on back then. But if I had…
It is hard to say exactly why their career as a recording group didn’t take off. It certainly was not because they couldn’t sing. Because they could definitely sing. Nor was it because they didn’t want it bad enough…because they did. Nor was it because they were from the wrong place…because they came from the Motor City…Detroit. And everybody comes 
out of Detroit. Stevie Wonder is from Detroit…the Clark Sisters are from Detroit…Rance Allen…Aretha Franklin…Temptations, Diana Ross, the Supremes…Motown…etc… Almost everybody comes out of Detroit.
In fact, when I first saw or heard of the Jones Girls they were on tour with Diana Ross. They were so good it was hard not to notice the singers backing up Diana in that show. And then Diana showcased them…and I have never forgotten their names since that night. They were more than just talented…far more. And far better than just good.
And even the Boss Ms Ross knew it…who was far from being shabby herself that night. And so didn’t Motown to have packaged the Jones Girls on tour with their diva of all divas at the time…Diana Ross.
So, then what happened?
I don’t know. But whenever I hear ‘Nights over Egypt’….I think of them…those Jones Girls.
It sadden me to read last year sometime while searching the internet 
for something or other at the time….that one of the Jones Girls had passed some years ago. And more surprising was the fact that she had died supposedly…based on the information I was reading…that she had died from sclerosis of the liver…due to alcoholism.
What a sad end to a story I would have thought would have ended otherwise.
http://www.radiocafe.co.uk/jones-girls
http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Respect2001.html
Valorie Jones died in Detroit on December 2, 2001…she was the 
middle sister of the Jones Girls. She was 46 years old.
Have another young nephew who will be heading to DC for Obama’s inauguration on Tuesday. And I am so happy.
It is so important for our young children to know that nothing can hold them back…block them…or stop them from achieving success in their lives but them…themselves.
I believe in successful living…and living well. And to do that is very hard to achieve…today…without a good education.
There is something about accomplishments that make you feel good
all over. No wonder Barack Obama’s smile is as pretty as it is….he has managed to achieve one accomphishment after another. And he never let 
anything hold him back…or let anybody tell him that ‘he couldn’t.’
The sky is the limit. Set your goals and start working towards them now…you just may surprise yourself.
But remember to be deligent in everything that you do. And never let anything bearing your name not be done to the best…or to its highest level.
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For history on Diana Ross CLICK LINK BELOW.http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/r/diana_ross/index.html
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Interesting… Obama…Martin L. King, Jr’s Holiday… History
I think that it is interesting that Martin L. King, Jr’s Birthday Holiday should be celebrated the day before Barack Obama is to be 
sworn in as President of the United States of America. It is funny to me just how things seem to line up…as if in some kind of historical order.
Considering the years of fighting it took to get Martin L. King, Jr. recognized as an American hero and then to have a day proclaimed in his honor was no light feat. Stevie wrote the song…Jesse preached about it…the Black Caucus voted on it…the NAACP said it must be…and black folks agreed upon it. And finally over time it was done. The Federal Government of the United States of America proclaimed it to be so…Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. Holiday the 3rd Tuesday of every January since 1986, signed into law by President 
Ronald Regan.
I have decided not to go to Washington, DC on Tuesday…not because I would not like to be there. But to be there simply to say “I was there”…is really not a good reason to be going. But to say…
“I was there to see the manifestation of years of struggle and sacrifice combined with hope come to life…in the life, breath and limb of Barack Obama.”
Now, that would be a good reason for going. I am happy that my family is 
being represented in the form of my sister…who is definitely going to be one among many to see and hear Barack Obama take his oath and take his place in the corridor of American History as the 44th President of the United States of America. It is exciting.
http://www.thekingcenter.org/holiday/index.asp
Upon having gone down to Memphis this past November for the Holy Convocation of the Church of God in Christ, my son told me how he 
visited the Lorraine Motel, the place where Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the age of 39.
My son said that the day that Martin L. King was shot that the black men around him had refused to allow anything to be touch. So, the hotel room that Dr. King stayed in was exactly the way he had left it upon leaving his room that day…the cars and everything are in the exact same spot that they were in when Dr. King was assassinated. And that the site is now a National Museum.
From that time to this…this country has only celebrated the life of one black man though thousands have died through the course of the building up of this country into a nation. Most of the greatest inventions in this 
country have been invented by unrecognized fallen black heros and she-ros. The highest bounty ever put upon the head of a Wanted person prior to the 1900′s was put upon the head of Harriet Tubman…$40,000 Dead or Alive, in 1852…due to her travels back and forth into the South bringing with her on her numerous trips over 300 slaves into freedom via the Underground Railroad.
When Tuesday comes there is much to be reflected upon…many memories to be thought of. Some tears I am more than sure…shall be shed. And they shall be tears of joy…promise…and more hope.
There is much to be thankful for. I am so happy 
that Tuesday is coming and I look forward to it with much hope and anticipation for my nieces, nephews and my son…and his and their families for futures to come.
God bless America.
Just found out that another one of my sisters is going…and that she will be taking one on my nieces and nephews. This is so great…we will talk about it for years to come. Washington, DC will never be the same…nor this country. Change is on the way.
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CLICK LINK below to hear Bill Cosby speak on Meet the Press regarding Obama. I read in the transcript of that program that Bill said on Election Day he 
took with him into the voting booth a picture of his father, his mother and his brother, Russell who had passed at the age of 9. Then Bill said he pulled their pictures out of his coat and spread them before him and said-
“We’re going to vote now.”
I think that is so beautiful.
On Election Day…I took my ballot and wrote upon the face of it the full names of my mother, father, my grandmother and great-grandmother…and cast my vote in their names…as well as, my own…and for the sake of our family history in this country.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28604541#28604541
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28605356/
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Hitting the ground running in 2009…
Just getting in from cracking ice. My hands are all blistered…and I am cold. The ice on the sidewalk was about an inch thick. It didn’t take me 
long to decide that if I could only make a walkway…then I would have to be satisfied. I enjoyed it though…but now my hands are aching me. And I ripped some skin on my thumb…but I got it done. Now, I don’t have to worry about someone slipping on ice in front of the house.
Yesterday while it was coming down…the freezing rain and ice…I started 
wondering if it was still true…you know that saying ‘through the rain, the sleet and the snow…”
Well, it is still true. And I told our mail man as he hiked up to street to our house looking more like an astronaut than a mail man…I told him that I was 
happy to see that that saying was still true. And he said-
“Yeah, it’s still true.”
But he didn’t seem to be too happy about it…but I was sure happy to see him. Not that I was expecting anything in particular. And as I looked up the street I saw where the ice and sleet hadn’t stopped UPS either. When 
you pay for these services you want to know that your stuff is getting delivered just like they promised it would…the next day…or whatever you paid for…no matter what.
With all the talk about email through the years…and the possiblity of it replacing the old stamp and envelop system…all I can say is this-
“I hope not.”
Can you imagine not being able to go the Post Office to send out your mail, packages, or to purchase stamps and boxes etc. ? I can’t.
I am a believer that the more options there are the better off we are. I don’t mind email…I use it everyday. And some days several times a day. 
But I sure would hate to see it replace my receiving the hard copy of actual letters, bills etc. There is something about being able to look at something in my hands…and being able to review it as often as I want without having to turn on a computer to do it…that is what I like best of all. And I like the hard copies of everything…magazines, books etc… even copies of cashed checks, but they don’t send them to you anymore.
The only thing that viewing over the internet is probably best for… well, for me…is reading news stories. I hang onto things…so I definitely don’t need to have any newspapers in my house…or magazines. I get tons of magazines though…and rarely touch any of them. But if I were to…I can flip through it at my leisure. But I can’t read magazines on-line…but newspaper articles I can. I only read certain stories and have never read the whole newspaper… not even half of it.
I get those little on-line cards sometimes in my email…and it is not the same as an actual card. I barely glance at them. I appreciate people sending them to me…but I think that they are a waste of time. They can’t beat a really beautiful or funny card that you can glance at from time to as you want to.
There are companies that no longer print their catalogs anymore…they tell you to go to their websites and see what they have to offer.
Who wants to do that?
I’m sorry…but there went a sell. Because I hate going to a website when I am interested in checking out what a company has to offer me by way of products and/or services. When I buy I’m a comparative shopper…so I go over info back and forth until my ultimate decision is made. This means a hard copy of the companies catalogs are invaluable to me.
I am all for technology and advancements in the improvement of how man lives…but some things are more a hindrance than an aid. When you look at cable television the ability to be able to view a wide variety of TV channels was a great offer.
But do you remember when television channels used to be free?
You may have had a limited selection but the channels were clear for the most part…and best of all you got them for free. And comparatively… I think a lot better… can’t stand all the reality shows.
When you consider it…whether they tell you it or not…most people still 
watch network television more than the ton of other channels that they can chose between. The problem with network TV today, however…NBC, ABC and CBS…they offer far less than what they used to. They used to make movies, run mini-series…and had a lot of other more interesting television programs than they do today.
Today television offers nothing but a bunch of reality shows and everybody trying to become millionaires. It is boring…and I just stopped watching television for the most part a long time ago. And they had the nerve to change over the system this year to force everybody to get a digital television. The whole thing is one big racket…and I am so glad that 
people didn’t fall into that trap twice but rushing out to pay for radio too.
Lets face it…who needs another bill?
And for something you used to enjoy for free?
And that is how I feel about the Postal system…I don’t mind paying for the service. And even though today email is free…I guarantee you if the US Postal Service closed their doors today…email would cost us something by tomorrow. So, I am all for keeping things just as they are right now…because even though the rates go up occasionally the increase is not enough to be a hardship on any of us.
Though I must say that the phone system has changed for the best. Now, that is something I can applaud. I remember the day when a single phone 
call could have cost me $40 or $50. Yeah, I like the fact that gone are the days of the $300 to $500 phone bills for long distance calls. I am so glad those days are long gone. The funny thing though is that I now don’t have anyone that I want to sit up all night long on the telephone with…like I did back in those days. But that’s okay. I’m happy…and I won’t complain.
But you do have to keep your eye on your cell phone bill…because the cell companies will get you if you don’t watch your bills. And I do mean…get you….and get you good. You have to closely monitor your 
cell phone bills because they will ease all kind of charges in on you. And definitely look out for charges like ‘roaming.‘ They did that to me…and I had not gone anywhere.
The other thing with your cell phone that you have to be careful of is that you don’t go over your minutes. I had a concert promotion thing going on and I had to make a ton of calls…and had a ton of calls coming in. Before I knew it…my minutes were gone. I had to rush a $100 to the cell company every day for several days just to keep my lines on.
They really got me…but I got smart quick. I quickly revised my cell phone plan. I never even come close to my total allowed minutes now. And the plan is much better than the one I had before. I have a family plan now. It cut out having multiple cell phone bills to only having one bill and at a monthly cost that averages out to about what I had been paying for just one bill alone before.
In these times you really have to look to…’how can I knock out a bill or two? ’
- First thing…get rid of cable. There is nothing wrong with just having local stations…which you probably watch more often than you think.
- Second thing…check into getting a family plan for your cell phone service. It really could save you lots of money…and give you all more minutes monthly.
And this is something my father taught me…
- Third thing…keep your gas tank on full. When it gets down to about a half of a tank fill up your car…it will save you money. And if where you live is like here…the gas prices have already started going back up. We’re at $1.69 per gallon now…had dropped down to $1.39. Do you remember when gas $.99 per gallon?
In my forthcoming book, THE BISHOP’S WIFE…I write how due to 
technology no one knows anyone actual street address anymore. Because most people contact each other via email rather than by sending actual letters today. This is really not a good thing. (not that that is what my book is actually about…it is a fictional story about a woman… Well, yeah…it’s about THE BISHOP’S WIFE…and it’s unlike anything you have read before)
At any rate, we should all know the actual street addresses and zip codes of those people who are important in our lives.
Do you remember the day when you used to remember everybody’s phone number?
Those days are gone too.
Unless you have experienced loosing a cell phone or breaking your cell phone…you will never know just how problematic not knowing anyone’s phone number can be. With speed-dialing and all the other quick reference and access technology in the marketplace today…we are using less and less of our brain.
We have calculators, speed-dialing and I don’t know whatever else. But our brains are being put out to pasture and on an everlasting holiday.
Have you ever heard-
“If you don’t use it…you’ll loose it?”
Take a look around the number of people with Alzheimer’s is raising. And it is starting at earlier ages.
We no longer have to remember anything anymore. Everything is done for us. This really can’t be good. It may be convenient…but it is not good. If all of the sudden the electic went out…and you were unable to go up on-line who would you be able to contact?
Do you know and remember every person on your email list off the top of 
your head?
And I am not talking about knowing their actual names but their email names and addresses. I would bet you don’t…and I don’t either. Who can keep up with all those (alias’) letters and various numbers people go by over the internet. I can barely keep up with all of my own…and we won’t talk about passwords.
But if something happened to your cell phone…if it went dead or became unusable…lets say all the cell companies lost service. How many people could you call? Who would you still be able to contact?
How many of the numbers in your cell phone do you actually remember?
This actually happened to me sometime this past year when my email carrier’s server was hit with a virus. I tried all day trying to sign-on and couldn’t…and it was at the worst possible time. I had emailed myself some 
documents that I needed to print out for a class assignment and I could not retrive them. And the only place I had saved them was in an email that I had emailed to myself.
It was a good lesson in technology…it will let you down. Let me say it again…technology will let you down. Don’t put your trust solely in it. Some people say-
“Back up everything.”
But even this can let you down. If there is no electricity…nothing works. If the cell lines go down…you can hang it up. Because you will definitely be out on a limb. Or if the server goes down…yeah, it happens. Then there is this thing called ‘out dated formats.’
Have you ever heard of that?
Well, we have all experienced it. It is when you saved on a floppy disc…but they no longer make computers with that type of hardware…or a firewire in-put because everything is flash drives now.
A few years ago the whole Northeastern part of the United States was faced with this problem…of all the electrical lines going down. I remember it well…I was in New York and BOOM!
Luckily, I had just finished my editing session or I would have lost everything I had sat there for hours editing. But I remember the number of people walking the streets with their cell phones plastered to their ears trying to make calls and couldn’t. They were all lost without use of their cell phone service…and no one could figure out what was going on.
Then cars started riding by with people shouting out their windows-
“There’s a blackout! There’s a blackout…and there’s no cell service.”
I didn’t have a cell phone at the time so that didn’t affect me. But I remember hearing that none of the cell phones worked…but 
the land lines did. Whether you know it or not…there are far less land lines today than there were some 10 or 20 years ago. A lot of people have cell phones but not all of them have regular home phones any more.
Since most people walk around with cell phones…the outdoor phones that used to be on every corner…have your noticed that most of them are gone? And the ones you do see… Well, most of them do not half work. And they are so filty you really do not want to pick them up…much less place them to your ear.
Cell phones, computers, email, laptops, cable etc… all of these things may be great but do you see the draw backs to them?
Now, there are cars that park themselves…cars with GPS systems designed to get you where you want to go. I was even in a car the other day that didn’t need a key.
I don’t know about you…but I don’t feel safe if I’m in a car that doesn’t use a key. I don’t trust them. And I definitely don’t want any car parking for me.
In the on-set it all looks great…I thought having a hundred different channels to chose from was great too. But soon you all learned something that we had not been anticipating…they keeping showing the same shows over and over again. So, what good is having a hundred different television channels when you keep thinking to yourself-
“There’s nothing on television?”
It doesn’t make sense.
“So, why do you continue to pay for it?”
I don’t want a car with GPS. When I get lost I want to ask somebody and hopefully they will give me the right directions.
I don’t want a cell phone that takes pictures, text messages or has a thousand different ring tones. I just want a cell phone that is audible. I 
want it so that the person can hear me clearly and I can hear them clearly. I don’t need to text anybody or take pictures with my cell phone. I just want a good phone…that is all I need. And not more charges for things on my cell phone account that make no sense to have on a cell phone…like texting somebody when you can call them.
Why do all that work of trying to type something out like your cell phone is a typewriter?
As I end this let me just say…that we are becoming too dependent on technology. We are relying upon it to store and maintain information that we used to easily extract from that thing which sits between our 2 ears…that we now barely use. And we should all get back into the practice of writing letters…not emails…or dropping a real card into a mail box addressed to a friend or love one every now and then. There really is something nice and quite special about receiving an unsuspected letter or card in your actual postal mail.
Think about it…outside of signing our signature every now and then none of us writes anything anymore. I mean physically picking up a piece of paper and then put a pen or pencil to it to write a letter, a poem or something. We do everything on our computers or in our calculators, cell phones…and whatever else we might have.
Well, one of my sisters has her train ticket to catch Amtrak into DC on the 20th. I’m thinking about taking 2 of my younger nieces and a nephew
and that we might drive down the night before and sleep in the car somewhere nearby. I mean I was at the Million Woman March in Philly…I was in New York for 9/11…and I was at the 25th Anniversary March on Washington.
How could I not be in DC for Obama taking his oath as President of the United States of America?
I know that I can watch it on TV…but when you get right down to it…it is not the same as saying-
“I was there.”
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