Me & God time

I was just thinking to myself......What do I do whenever I am stressed or in a situation when I feel depressed or just need someone to talk to!
This is exactly what I do....Here are a few biblical versus that I reflect on when I just need that Me & God time

"It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to stand on the heights. He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze. You give me your shield of victory, and your right hand sustains me; you stoop down to make me great. You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn."
Psalm 18:32-36

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong.
1 Corinthians 16:13

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10


Many times when we feel we need to get a few things off our chest or when we feel that we need someone to talk to we often call on our mothers or best friends or another individual when in reality, the only one that we NEED is our ever powerful & ever lasting GOD.
There have been several times when I needed someone to talk to but didn't know who to turn to because it seemed like no matter what, no one could say or do anything that would make it better.

Daily Inspiration: July 26, 2010

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.
Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Question of the day: July 26,2010

I've decided to start the day off with a question of the day and see how much feedback I get before I blog about it. So here it goes....

Does the environment that man comes from make him or does the man make his environment?

let me go a little deeper with this....

Does the "hood" make the man or does the man make the "hood"?

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The most functional word in the english language..

What's the most functional word in the English language?


Well, it's shit...that's right, shit!
Shit may just be the most functional
word in the English language.

Consider:
You can get shit-faced,
Be shit out of luck, or have shit for brains.
With a little effort, you can get your shit together,
Find a place for your shit, Or be asked to shit or get off the pot.
You can smoke shit,
buy shit,
sell shit,
lose shit,
forget shit,
and tell others to eat shit.

Some people know their shit, while others can't tell the difference
between Shit and Shineola.

There are lucky shits,
dumb shits,
crazy shits,
There is bull shit,
chicken shit.

You can throw shit,
sling shit,
catch shit,
shoot the shit,
or duck when the shit hits the fan.

You can give a shit or
serve shit on a shingle.

You can find yourself in deep shit
or be happier than a pig in shit.

Some days are colder than shit,
some days are hotter than shit,
and some days are just plain shitty.

Some music sounds like shit,
things can look like shit,
and there are times when you feel like shit.

You can have too much shit,
not enough shit,
the right shit,
the wrong shit or
a lot of weird shit.

You can carry shit,
have a mountain of shit,
or find yourself up shits creek without a paddle.
Sometimes everything you touch turns to shit and other times you fall in
a bucket of shit and come out smelling like a rose.

When you stop to consider all the facts,
it's the basic building block of the English language.

And remember, once you know your shit,
you don't need to know anything else!

Daily Inspiration: July 25, 2010

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
-Thomas Paine

Student kicked out of Seattle class because of her hair!!!!!

Story brought by: http://s2smagazine.com/node/3013
Read the father of this little girl's blog : http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/my-daughter-her-hair-and-the-seattle-school-district/Content?oid=4180400

Ok so....I essentially wanted to only post the video footage and the story and wait for feedback before I commented on this post, however, I was WAYYYYY to eager to respond to the RIDICULOUSNESS of this news story!

Back in the 1950's -1970's I couldn't see something like this getting that much attention because it was common for this to happen...But c'mon its 2010!!! You have to be kidding me!!! So this teacher, she HONESTLY believes that she is allergic to the girls hair product that she has been using for over a year and asked her to leave her room because she was getting sick by the smell.

Let me first ask this, do you think this is an act of racism or an honest act of health issues?

....Mind you....

This little mixed girl went to THURGOOD MARSHALL elementary school (which might I add was the first African American Appointed to the United States Supreme Court!!) . Out of all school you would think that this would NOT be the one with the issue right? Well apparently, this doesnt matter. What made it even worse is that the little girl was the only minority girl in accelorated classes!! This in which her father said traumatized her...which it very well should. Who gives this women the right to kick this 8yo out of her class because of an accusation that PROBABLY was bullshit in the first place.... Apparently the same people who felt it necessary to accuse every African American in America on November 4, 2008 of voting for Obama not because he would be a good fit....but because he was black.

This is an a few paragraphs from her fathers blog (the rest u can find on his blog which is posted under the video):

"What was significantly missing from this report is that my daughter is black American (the only black student in that teacher's class) and the teacher who forced her out of the classroom is white American. The reason why this racial dimension was not exposed or addressed in the KIRO report is understandable: My daughter and her teacher were not interviewed. But my wife was interviewed—and she is white. So it follows that viewers would assume that her daughter is also white. But if the public had seen that the little girl has brown skin and curly hair, and her teacher has white skin and straight hair, then it would have been impossible to exclude race from this story.

If a white teacher—a person who is supposed to have a certain amount of education and knowledge of American history, and who teaches at a school named after the man who successfully argued before the court in Brown v. Board of Education for equal opportunities for racial minorities in public schools and went on to become the first African-American Supreme Court justice—removes a black student from a predominantly white class because of her hair, it is almost impossible not read the action as either racist or expressive of racial insensitivity, which amounts to the same thing for someone in that teacher's position."

The parents were not informed when the girl was asked to leave the class room but instead when the girl got home from school by the girl herself. What type of school is this! Not to sound crude or racially bias but the fact the they only interviewed the mother of the child and not the child herself or the teacher in question is beyond me. You would think that a news channel would want the ENTIRE story to be told.....Or would they?

I commend this child's mother and father for getting the NAACP involved. When I first watched the news report my friend (who is white, who was also watching it with me said ) but the mom is white so why?....This caught me off guard, not in a bad way or in a WTF way it caught me off guard because did it really matter either way if the mother was white or black. It shouldn't have but it subconciously was said without a care in the world. As you just read in the fathers statement, the mother was the only one interviewed but not the father (whom is black) nor the daughter or the teacher (who is white). Race would be IMPOSSIBLE to exclude.

This shows how no matter how far we have come in the fight against racism or racially bias acts, whether be we have a minority president or any other minority government officials, the acts of these people will never seize and will always prevalent. They will not go away in my life time or your lifetime....Hell they might even be here when my son (who is 2) has kids and they have kids life time (Ok maybe that was a little exaggeration...but you get the point I'm trying to make).

This blog is not posted to show only how I strongly disagree with this situation, but to INFORM as well.

my response to "white womens opinion"

so I got a lot of feed back on my blog about the sister 2 sister magazine reply. This post if you haven't read it already is EXTREMELY deep and is a situation that happens all the time.

Clearly, its time for me to address the people who say I am a hypocrite because I also date white men....

So here's to you....

Yes I have and will always date white men. However I will not only date white men but I will also date black men, Latin men, Asian men....ill even date a Turkish man.

Race does not define how a person acts or how they live or treat a woman....stereotyping racists is what defines that. Although people are hesitant to believe it, people are still uneasy about black men being with white women and vice versa. Me dating a person isn't determined by their race, but instead by the characteristics I look for in a potential husband, those characters very well could come from a black man. but on the other hand it could come from someone of a completely different race.

The women who posted the comment to the magazine was bashing black women in general on every level possible. I will not bash any other race, ever, for what they do regardless if I think its wrong or not. I do not date white men because I think their women aren't worth it, I date them because regardless of race (Believe it or not), other things about them intrigue me.
I will not say that I prefer one over the other because then I'd be lying.

Lastly, people who call me, and people like me, hypocrites because I will date a man of another race need to take another look before judging someone because not only will i date a man of another race but I will date a man of my race and I will be proud to tell the world that he is mine!!

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Back when the music.....WAS GOOD!!!!!

Sooo y'all ever wonder what happened to GOOD music from back in the day. Granted I'm young but damn, music now is LAMMEEEE compared to what it was in the 60's & 70's they use to get down. Now we have the Beyonce's and the T.I's but I mean damn what happened to James Brown, The Stylistics, The Delfonics; just to name a few. Guarantee the generations now a days don't have a clue what music is. But I bet their parents....now them folks know what it what!

I can remember the days when I was little when there would be James Brown blasting on my grandparents radio as soon as I walked in their house and out of no where my grandpa came and started doing the James Brown funky legs. That old man can still get it at damn near 80 years old! Go head Gramps!!!! Us kids (all 30 of us) would be right next to him dancing like we were back in the 70's all over again.

Those were the days.... now that I started you off with a little James Brown, I guess I'll end it with a lil somethin somethin ;o)

Until next post y'all...MAKE IT FUNKY

White womans opinion of Black women & a black mans response

White Woman's Opinion of Black Women

White women's opinion of black women & a brother's response

Please take a moment and read this. Pretty Deep! Thumbs up to this black man.. Enjoy.

It seems that an article was written to Sister 2 Sister magazine by a Caucasian woman who requested a response from black men. I'm so glad she got what
she asked for (and more) !!!

Dear Jamie:

I'm sorry but I would like to challenge some of your Black male readers.

I am a White female who is engaged to a Black male-good-looking, educated and loving. I just don't understand a lot of Black female's attitudes about our relationship. My man decided he wanted me because the pickings amongst Black women were slim to none.

As he said they were either too fat, too loud, too mean, too argumentative, too needy, too materialistic or carrying too much excess baggage.

Before I became engaged, whenever I went out I was constantly approached by Black men, willing to wine and dine me and give me the world. If Black women are so up in arms about us being with their men, why don't they look at themselves and make some changes.

I am tired of the dirty looks I get and snide remarks when we're out in public. I would like to hear from some Black men about why we are so appealing and coveted by them. Bryant Gumbel just left his wife of 26 years for one of us Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen, the model Tyson Beckford, Montell Williams, Quincy Jones, James Earl Jones, Harry Belafonte, Sydney Poitier, Kofi Anan, Cuba Gooding Jr., Don Cornelius, Berry Gordy, Billy Blanks, Larry Fishburne, Wesley Snipes... I could go on and on. But, right now, I'm a little angry and that is why I wrote this so hurriedly. Don't be mad with us White women because so many of your men want us. Get your acts together and learn from us and we may lead you to treat your men better. If I'm wrong, Black men, let me know.
Disgusted White
Girl, Somewhere in VA


RESPONSE
Dear Jamie:
I would like to respond to the letter written by A Disgusted White Girl.

Let me start by saying that I am a 28-year old black man. I graduated from one of the most prestigious universities in Atlanta, Georgia with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Management. I have a good job at a major corporation and have recently purchased a house. So, I consider myself to be among the ranks of successful black men.

I will not use my precious time to slander white people. I just want to set the record straight of why black men date white women. Back in the day, one of the biggest reasons why black men dated white women was because they were considered easy.

The black girls in my neighborhood were raised in the church. They were very strict about when they lost their virginity and who they lost it to. Because of our impatience to wait, brothers would look for someone who would give it up easy without too much hassle. So, they turned to the white girls.

Nowadays, in my opinion, a lot of brothers date white women because they are docile and easy to control. A lot of black men, because of insecurities, fears, and overall weaknesses, have become intimidated by the strength of our black women. We are afraid that our woman will be more successful than us, make more money than us, drive nicer cars and own bigger houses. Because of this fear, many black men look for a more docile woman. Someone we can control.

I have talked to numerous black men and they continuously comment on how easy it is to control and walk over their white women. I just want to set the record straight. I want A Disgusted White Girl to know that not all successful black men date white women. Brothers like Ahmad Rashad, Denzel Washington, Michael Jordan, Morris Chestnut, Will Smith, Blair Underwood, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Samuel L. Jackson, and Chris Rock all married strong black women And, to flip the script, there are numerous white men, in and out of the spot light, who openly or secretly desire black women over white women. Ted Danson, Robert DeNiro, and David Bowie to name a few.

I just don't want a disgusted white girl to be misinformed Stop thinking that because you are white that you are some type of goddess. Remember, when black Egyptian Queens like Hatsepshut and Nitorcris were ruling Dynasties and armies of men in Egypt, you were over in the caves of Europe eating raw meat and beating each other over the head with clubs. Read your history!

It was the black woman that taught you how to cook and season your food. It was the black woman that taught you how to raise your children. It was black women who were breast feeding and raising your babies during slavery.

It is the black woman that had to endure watching their fathers, husbands, and children beaten, killed, and thrown in jail. Black women were born with two strikes against them: being black and being a woman. And, through all this, Still They Rise!

It is because of the black women's strength, elegance, power, love and beauty that I could never date anyone except my black Queen. It is not just the outer beauty that captivates and draws me to them. It is not the fact that they come in all shapes, sizes, colors and shades that I love them.

Their inner beauty is what I find most appealing about black women. Their strong spirit, loving and nurturing souls, their integrity, their ability to overcome great obstacles, their willingness to stand for what they believe in, and their determination to succeed and reach their highest potential while enduring great pain and suffering is why I have fallen in love with black women.

I honestly believe that your anger is geared more toward jealousy and envy more so than snotty looks. If this were not so, then why do you continuously go to tanning salons to darken your skin? If you are so proud to be white, then why don't you just be happy with your pale skin? Why do you continue to inject your lips, hips, and breasts with unnatural and dangerous substances so you can look fuller and more voluptuous?

I think that your anger is really a result of you wanting to have what the black woman has.

BOTTOM LINE: If I were looking for a docile woman, someone I can walk over and control, I would give you a call. But, unfortunately, I am looking for a Virtuous Woman. Someone that can be a good wife and mother to my children. Someone who can be my best friend and understands my struggles. I am looking for a soul mate. I am looking for a sister and; unfortunately, you do not and CANNOT fit the bill.

No offense taken, none given.

Signed, Black Royalty

I am a Christian

When I say... "I am a Christian" I'm not shouting "I'm clean livin'." I'm whispering "I was lost, Now I'm found and forgiven." When I say... "I am a Christian" I don't speak of this with pride. I'm confessing that I stumble and need Christ to be my guide. When I say... "I am a Christian" I'm not trying to be strong. I'm professing that I'm weak And need His strength to carry on. When I say... "I am a Christian" I'm not bragging of success. I'm admitting I have failed And need God to clean my mess. When I say... "I am a Christian" I'm not claiming to be perfect, My flaws are far too visible But, God believes I am worth it. When I say... "I am a Christian" I still feel the sting of pain. I have my share of heartaches So I call upon His name. When I say... "I am a Christian" I'm not holier than thou, I'm just a simple sinner Who received God's good grace, somehow!