Happy Birthday To My Wife!

My Wife just turned ****** (I aint saying) But join me in wishing her a happy Happy HAPPY Birthday!

Is Racism Dead? You're Being Conned Part 5

With the election of President Elect Barack Hussain Obama it's easy to be lulled into believing that Racism is dead! That somehow we are in this New Era of race relations and that equal opportunity is the status quo.

We have now realized Dr. King's Dream!

If you go for it you're being conned! It's a crock!

Oh, yeah here's another one of these cynical knukka's who ain't ready to let that old ish go!

Nothing could be further from the truth but I ain't blind and neither are you.

Just a couple of weeks back this lil ole White girl branded a backwards B on her face and concocted a story about how she was robbed at an ATM by a Black dude and for good measure the robber carved a B for Barack into her face!

Is Racism Dead?

How many Afrikan American Men would have been accosted and harassed by the police because of that lie?

She only got probation for this horrendous canard. Would that have occurred if Shaniquah Jackson would have said that a John Mccain supporter called her a Nigger, slapped her and pissed on her before taking her money?

Is Racism dead? Is this a new Era?

What do you think would have happened to poor ole Shaninqah Jackson? She more than likely would be vilified in the press day and night, John Mccain and his Republican staffers would have made her the new Willie Horton and she would not have gotten off with probation. It would have been much more severe.

John Mccain questioned Barack Obama's experience by asking him why he had not gone to Iraq or any of the other theatres? Good question but why didn't not the same media that picked up on that question not ask Mccain had he ever been to the South side of Chicago, or South Central Los Angeles?

The Republican party has brought up voter fraud as an issue several times in spite of the fact that they have never proven voter fraud anywhere and the issue of voter disenfranchisement is virtually ignored. Who's tracking down all the misinformation and misdirection aimed at minority voters?

Is Racism dead? Are we in a New era?

In South Los Angeles (Watts) Martin Luther King Jr/ Charles Drew Medical Center is on the chopping block despite it being one of the only medical facilities in the area. Its trauma center which everyone agrees was world class has been closed down! It was closed down a few years ago. The closest trauma center now is County USC which is not close and who's Trauma center is also on the chopping block!

New era.....Racism is dead you say......

Last summer I traveled to an affluent, predominately White American but mixed area high school in Orange County in the city of Irvine. The high school had three gymnasiums, an actual theatre for it's drama group, state of the art science labs and classrooms. It has a snack bar, high tech vending machines in the food court and plenty of acreage. This high school was beautiful and served a large suburban enclave. About a quarter mile east was another nearly identical high school.

In Los Angeles Manual Arts, Dorsey, Fremont, Jefferson, Crenshaw, Locke and LA Jordan are old and falling apart. There are newer high schools that have been built such as Renaissance and Cabrillo. Both are large high schools but they resemble a correctional facility not a preparatory academy for college bound students! The Orange County kids wear their own clothing to schools and individuality is respected and encouraged. The minority kids in Los Angeles proper are forced to wear uniforms, have school id on them at the gates and the schools are fenced in just like a correctional facility. As far as green space and acreage the LA Kids have dead grass or in the case of the newer high schools have playgrounds on a fenced in roof just like prisons.

What's the message that we are giving these kids?

Is racism dead? Is this a new Era?

Dr. King spoke of equality and fairness that would not be denied on the basis of race. Character should be the basis that a person is judged on right?

There has been a constant assault on Affirmative action. Why? The math on it alone says that it could not have achieved anything close to it's intended goal. Think about it. We have the voting rights act of 1965. We have Brown vs the Board of Ed of Topeka Kansas in 1955, We have the desegregation of the Armed Forces in 1941. Think on it.

They were enacted but weren't enforced in those years. Black folks were still being killed, jailed, harassed whenever they tried to vote until almost the 1970's! Schools were still being desegregated in the 1970's and the armed forces still was fighting to desegregate in Korea. So you telling me that Affirmative action should be done away with. That's we are now so color neutral that it's no longer needed?

What about racial profiling? Sean Bell.....

Are we in a new era? Is Racism Dead?

If you believe the answer to be yes then I say that you're not being truthful.

Obama is a 1st! So in four hundred years we got a first! When just a year ago Rep Keith Ellison, Mich. Dem. Became the 1st Muslim American to serve in the house. He is also Afrikan American. You remember Keith. He was sworn in on Thomas Jefferson's Quran after Americans tried to make him swear in on the good ole American Bible and not his own Holy Book.

Carol Mosley Braun is also a first! Obama's presidency should not be diminished. Americans from all walks and races elected him but Obama is the best. Top of his class, his wife , also a lawyer and Harvard grad, were far ahead of academically than most of the candidates. They just didn't pick an average Black Politician, America picked the cream of the crop. And they did it at a time when the country is in dire straights! Our backs are against the wall. Funnie what you'll do when you feel you have nothing to lose.

So are we in a new Era? Is Racism dead?

Walk into work at your white collar job and count how many Non White faces you see then ask how many White faces think that you got your job not cause your overqualified and deserve to be there like you do but because of some quota they themselves (other White Folks) imposed.

You'd both be right! You're there cause they have to have a few so they picked the absolute best! When Time Warner and AOL were struggling who'd they pick to run the merger. The Absolute Best Gerald Parrsons. His resume reads like a CEO's Wet dream. He merged the two companies but when it eventually went south he was the one they blamed.

Fannie May and Freddie had issues long before the crisis. Franklyn Raines was CEO of Fannie, this dudes resume is incredible! He wasn't there just cause they needed the face, he was the best! He's suing the Gov right now because he alleges that the Bush admin tampered with Fannie and they were sound prior to his ouster and the eventual crisis!

American doesn't pick average when it comes to Black Folks! These dudes were the best of the best! The Best of Anyone and everyone not just Black Folks!

Racism is not dead! It just morphed and changed and adapted like all viruses.

BE Careful! BE Mindful! BE Prayerful!

Jaycee

Jheryl Busby Passes on!

This week I am saddened to report the passing of Music Mogul Jherl Busby. He passed on November 4, 2008 at home. Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles (Watts) Busby, a Pathfinder alum of John C. Fremont High School, he attended California State University Long Beach for two years before taking a job at Mattel. He began a career with Stax records, pioneered the Black Music division of MCA Records. He guided the careers of New Edition, Johnny Gill, Pieces of a Dream and countless others.

There is not a hit MCA album from the eighties and nineties that this Brotha is not being thanked on. He took over Motown Records after Berry Gordy had sold the company continuing the Legacy of Motown with its signature acts Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder and resigning Diana Ross to Motown after she had departed for RCA years before. He lit fire to the careers of Boyz to Men, Another Bad Creation and continued to find and guide new acts until his departure.

He pioneered the Black Music division of Dreamworks records then along with Producer Mike City helped to release Carl Thomas's latest release. He eventually became a board member for One United Bank, A large Afrikan American Bank. This Brotha was just bad. Over the years I have heard many music business war stories but I never heard a negative story about Jherl.

So on behalf of my Mother, one of Jheryl's classmates from the class of 1967, let me say Jheryl will be missed. He led a life on earth where he will be remembered but he also held on to a promised from God that he proclaimed God's name before men then God would speak his name before his father. He is remembered!

BE Mindful! BE Careful! BE Prayerful!

Jaycee

New Poetry from Mista Jaycee

My Choice of Weapon today is a beautiful photo and poetry.

“New Vines”

By

J. C. Williams


It would be easy to live life like a new wine vine
Fertile, bearing much fruit, lying in the sun waiting
For harvest time but I would not be the very best wine!

No stress!
Youth and vigor of life on my side, it would be easy to live life like a new wine vine.

But if you stretched me tight where I felt I might break, took me to limits beyond what I think I can take, placed me in the earth, the rain and the wind and added the sun’s searing heat all over my skin then…

The Great wine I might be would begin.

The Great wine I might be would begin!


I want to be like an old wine vine, stretched to the limit
Not bearing much fruit but yielding great wine
Crafted in fire of sun, fermented by time
I would be an old wine vine!

Rolled, sampled and left in the dark alone
I’d gestate in barrel
The oak and tannins my home

I, stretched to the limit, old vine in the sun
Cultivated are great wines and I hope to become one

You may taste the potential that I will be great
As I grow in the bottle and change from day to day
And when the oxygenated glass is christened with my final yield, the flavor, the scent of what I am and what I was and what I will be is what I’ll give.

So as I grow in bottle changing from day to day
Awaiting the glass that will testify of my final yield
Sample the earth, the fruit, the scent of what I am, what I was and the joy of what I will give.

Jaycee

California Marriage Amendment Passes!

Days ago in conversation with my wife about the election, I stated that "America is going to be America!" What I meant was that America would be Amerikkka! It would be bigoted, petty and spiteful as it always has been. Hey! We have over two hundred years of precedence.

But then Obama got elected! Was I wrong? I could be....There's a certain Jheri Curl fixation I had for a short time in the eighties. But I digress! America in times of desperation went against it's nature and elected Obama, a supremely qualified, very classy, highly educated, married Christian Father of Two with an unmistakablly Afrikan name. Wow! Go figure!

But then the pendulum swung back to its correct axis and Prop 8 got passed! The spell was broken! America was once again Divisive! Unfair! Un-Libertarian! Petty, Spiteful! Mean Spirited! And all justified with religion. Hey! We can ignore all the above, cause We, and only We have God (I AM) on Our side! How ironic that America elects Obama with his mandate of change and promise to reach out to everyone, building bridges, find common ground and not engage in petty set trippin partianship but among ourselves we did none of that? We (The State) voted this nonsense in. We set tripped!

I was against Prop 8 and still am. It changes the constitution of California and legally denies citizens what is rightfully theirs! Thier rights! Consenting Adults engaged in the pursuit of thier happiness. This was only about the status quo! What a certain group or groups were comfortable with not what was right, legal or fair. Plus it managed to bolster a marginal segment of the religious community even more.

For the record I am a Biblical Faith Believer but just so you know The Latter Day Saints, James Dobson and the so called Religious right don't speak for me!

Prop 8 hurts real people. People in our families, people who we work with, people from our Churches, Temples, Mosques, synagogues, coffeehouses and bars! People! Flesh and Blood!

I got a cousin who is gay and always has been since we were little. We didn't know it then but looking back on it he was always! I wouldn't make a law that sought to limit or deney him happiness and fairness and justice anymore than I would allow a stranger to hit him! Yes! It's real, my cousin is a real person, who works, pays taxes, saves his money, parties, reads, goes to church, worries about the future just like you. I know y'all got sons, daughters, cousins, friends, neighbors that are gay. You hurt them! Justify it if you want to but face it you did!

This was not just some abstract idea debated among two eggheads this is real and the fact that

the so called religious community chooses to remain blind to the pain and suffering that they have caused or the hatred and bitterness that they have fostered is the even bigger shame.

Yeshua (Jesus) would not have handled this situation like this at all. His ministry demonstrates that. Yeshua, Jesus or Nabi Isa ( All Yeshua's names by the way) would have spoke the truth as he knew it pulling no punches but he would not have taken away your right to choose your own path. He doesn't take away your right to do that!

There is a scene in Star Wars The Revenge of The Sith where Master Yoda faces off with Darth Sideous and he asks the question if the dark side is so powerful and so much better then why do have the need to rule?

I ask that question to the so called religious community. Why do you choose to break the legs of anyone who does not choose to bow before your religious ideas, your church, your choice?

I know that my God (I AM) is a good and just God! I know that anyone who let my God be a part of their life, their life would be good, sooooo goood! But if they didn't choose my God, while I would feel bad cause I know they would be missing out. But I would have to respect their choice and their path. Why? Cause that's what my God (I AM) would do!

What kinda God do you worship? You did your God's will! You hurt people! Oppressed them, denied them what was rightfully theirs. The right to marry legally to try to get what every other human wants and in some cases take for granted. I wonder who broke your legs so you'd bow down to that God? How did you feel when you were forced, oppressed and subjugated?

God (I AM) gave you choice! What God do you worship that takes choice away?

BE Mindful! BE Prayerful! BE Careful!

Jaycee

President Obama!

Strong Black Love, Strong Black Marriage!

The Fist bump felt around the world!

I just thought this was cute so I added it!

November 4, 2008 America has it's first Afrikan American Commander in Chief. Barack H. Obama, Senator from Illinois is now the America's 6th Black President (According to J.A. Rogers, There have been Five Previous Black Presidents But that's another Blog) well, actually the 1st undeniable Afrikan American President!

As I stepped into the voting booth and voted I was filled with unexpected emotions. I still am! Happiness! Excitement! Fear! Cautiousness! Hope! I think that the whole country feels the same thing. I loved seeing the beautiful Obama family. God Bless them.

It's been so long! Frederick Douglas, Marcus Garvey, Booker T., Dr. Dubois, Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vessey, Nat Turner, Malik Shabazz, John Brown, Sojourner Truth, Harriett Tubman, Ron Brown, Mickey Leland, JFK, RFK and even Jimmy Carter have waited for this day! It's a first! A wonderful, Long overdue first!

Tonight's your night Barack! You did it with style, God Bless you! Brother!

BE Mindful! BE Prayerful! BE Careful!

Jaycee

Give the People what they want - The O' Jays

VOTE DARN IT! VOTE!

My Wife's Election Night Menu!

My loving wife has just unveiled our

Election Night Menu !

If John McCain Wins!

Jive Time Turkey McCain Sandwiches!

White Turkey Small Breast Meat
Mayonnaise ( I got some Hot Sauce in my purse!)
Some White "American" Cheese

2 Slices of any *** No wheat Bread
And I wish they would Let-Us Run Things! Lettuce

Can't afford tomatoes or the red onion

We will try to be good sports!

Now, if Obama wins!




PIZZA!

Deep Dish or Thin Crust

Oh Yeah!

Pepperoni

Cheese

Italian Sausage

Mushrooms

Black Olives

And maybe some

Hot Wings!!!!!

I'm talking Chicken yall!!


Happy Election! Good Luck Candidates!

Go Obama!

No On Prop 8!

There is a beast that speaks like a lamb but it is as all the other Beasts!

St. John's Book of the Revelation (The Apocalypse)

Average American Voter: Do you think the President can turn this country around? It's been over a year since I've had steady work, my savings is gone and I can't afford to go to the doctor.

Other Average American Voter: No, It doesn't look like the man we voted for is doing much of anything for us working people but hey! We kept them Faggots from being able to marry! Whoo Whee! ( Slaps the other across the back)

Does this scene make since?

Tomorrow each of us will make our choice for who will lead this country. God help you and bless you!

That said this post is about an Anti Gay bill in California called Prop 8! It seeks to amend the state constitution and define marriage only as that between a man or a woman. This is wrong and it would be a mistake to vote for it.

Traditional marriage may be in trouble but not cause of Gay folks! Traditional marriage is in trouble because of human folks period!

Well, the Bible says that being is Gay is an Abomination! So!

Let God (I AM) work it out!

This proposition ain't about what God thinks! This prop is simply discrimination period!

Discrimination, not God! Not of God! Just plain discrimination!

If it passes, it will not stop there! Next, it will be housing! Someone will say I am a Christian, Jewish, Muslim and I don't want to rent to a Gay person. I don't want to hire a Gay person!

Think it won't happen, when has this not happened? It's happened already. We are in a war with enemies that speak Arabic but we discharged Gay soldiers trained to translate Arabic!

How dumb is that?

Well, Gay folks will undermine the unity of the Army! Really, and this was proven where? There are no studies of that! That's just a myth! A theory!

It ain't about marriage or the church or adoption or what gets taught in school about marriage. What it's really about is simply an attack on Gay folks! You don't want them to be Gay! You don't want to accept them as they are! The People want to discriminate!

Get over it! Gay people have been here as long as there have been people! People have been praying and psychoanalysing and oppressing Gay folks since time immortal trying to stop people from being Gay. Gay folks can't even do it! They are! They exist! And the rest of us will have to learn to live with it! Easier said than done, I know, But true!

Just to wrap this up! Will we not charge Gay folks taxes? You bet we will! We will take their money weather or not they have full rights or not!

Let's be straight (no pun intended) this is an attempt to instill a counterfeit wrong clawed so called Christian agenda. It ain't about the sacredness of marriage cause Gay folks can be as monogamous and faithful as a Man and Woman. If not more so!

Plus, what's so sacred about marriage when it's regularly paraded as a game show?

Gay Folks can be as religious and pious or as bigoted as Rush Limbaugh. They are human beings and there is no reason other than some groups twisted interpretation of Religious thought that this nonsense is even being entertained!

Ask yourself and be real. What reason would it be wrong for Gay folks to be able to marry each other? Don't include religion.

You can't give a real reason. There ain't one except your own biases and hatreds. None!

Well, a man and a man can't have babies! A woman and a woman can't have babies! So!

Plenty of heterosexual couples can't have babies and they are able to marry!

Well Gay sex is just icky! Really? So! Then I guess we won't have to worry about you having it then. Right? Everybody wins!

Who's asking you to look? What business of yours is it what happens in someone else's bedroom between two legal aged adults? None!

Well why do they have to call it marriage? Because that's what it is. Marriage the promise and legal binding obligation before Providence and family and friends that we (the Couple) will be faithful to one another, to society and are responsible to and for each other. That's marriage!

Couldn't they just call it Domestic Partnership? They could, some will but it will be their choice not everyone elses.

Well, what if the Church refuses? Then they find or start another church. What if my church chooses to marry them. Then again, you've got to find another church. What can you live with? Believe it or not there are plenty of churches that will marry them.

Well what if the church loses it's tax exemption? Since when has a true church been concerned about a tax exemption over what the Word of God as they believe it says? That's a crock! Plus The Church has preached more than it's share of bigotry since forever! Since when is the church concerned about how it looks? Since well, never!

The Church has been the biggest breeding ground for bigotry, intolerance and hatred! History bears this out!

What will God say? Let God handle that! God will have his say!

There is no reason for Prop 8! None! Prop 8 is nothing more than hate! And that goes for all the like minded bills across the country.

We have got to do better with working out these issues than resorting to bigotry and hatreds!

Fairness for everyone! Equal rights for all!

BE Mindful! BE Prayerful! BE Careful!

Jaycee

Nothing is as scary on Holloween than Dick Cheney in real life! Nothing bar none! Nothing!
Happy Holloween!
Jaycee