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I wrote a post titled “Money can buy anything if you have enough of it” where I talked about the illegal Black Market for organs. I made a reference to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs who was reported to have just had a kidney transplant. While I had no knowledge that Mr. Jobs had purchased a kidney, and I still don’t, I speculated that with enough money you can indeed buy one.
 
I was immediately chastised by people who said that I was one of those “irresponsible bloggers” who make statements with nothing to back them up. They said it was virtually impossible to buy an organ and that even though I had referenced two other “real news articles” that I had watched the movie “Coma” one too many times. For you young heads, the premise of the movie is that relatively healthy people wind up in comas after minor surgeries. A suspicious doctor finds out that the coma patients are being used as organ donors.
 

 
This past week, over 44 people were arrested in New Jersey for corruption. This is not news. New Jersey has been corrupt for decades. What is news is that most of the people arrested were either in local or state politics and were well known and respected Rabbis! But it doesn’t end there. The real story is that many of the Rabbis involved in this scandal were involved with Black Market organ sales!
Continue reading “How much is a Kidney Worth?” »

If you have been watching the news lately, you know that a Prominent African American Harvard Professor was arrested at his house because a white neighbor, Lucia Whalen, called the police to report that “two black males with backpacks were on the porch, with one attempting to wedge his shoulder in the door.” With that call, police came “a runnin.” I have linked the police report for you to read. Make your own conclusions. But there are three things that stand out in my mind.
 
The first thing is that after Gates handed Officer Crowley his Harvard ID verifying that he lived there. Why was there a need for the police to still be in and around Henry’s House? The report clearly says that ID was given.
 
The second thing is that Crowley admits having verified Gates’ Identification. Then why didn’t the police clear out? Why were “several Cambridge and Harvard policers still standing around? If Crowley felt it was OK to leave the residence, why stand around? Clearly there was no break in. Clearly there was no crime. And contrary to published reports, Gates did comply with the request for identification.
 
The third thing is that Henry was asked to leave the house by Crowley and he would answer his questions there. With the EXCUSE that the kitchen was having an echo effect and making it hard to hear and transport information to “ECC.” It was only after leaving his house was Gates arrested. Hmmmmm. That alone seems suspicious to me. And I will explain why I feel this act, asking Henry to leave his house, amounts to ENTRAPMENT!
Continue reading “Entrapment” »

I’m not going to lie, I’m not really a baseball fan at all. I haven’t been to a game in decades. I find the sport to be boring and unless you are physically at the game where you can people watch and/or get you “eat on“, I’d much rather be doing something else. Damn near ANYTHING ELSE! The only time you will see me watching part of a baseball game is if I happen to flip through and see A-Rod, Manny, or someone who might hit the ball out of the park up to bat. Other than that, baseball doesn’t grace my TV screen. But I did happen to see the beginning of the All Star game last week and I watched President Barack Obama throw out the ceremonial “first pitch.” I didn’t get to see if it was a strike or not because they didn’t show it. But I did see him throw the ball.
 
A few days later while surfing the web, I saw a story about someone saying that the president was wearing “baggy jeans” and how it was not something a president should do. Thinking back, I didn’t remember seeing anything wrong with the jeans. And when I did a web search, nothing changed. I then went looking for the article and the reporter who said the jeans were baggy and saw that Meredith Vieira made that statement. I guess it must have been a slow news day because that comment held no merit whatsoever.
 
If you are a regular follower of this blog, you already know that I spent five years working with kids who were in the system. Many of them belonged in gangs, clicks, or crews, and I can’t count the number of times I saw true “baggy jeans” being worn. The style is called “jailin” and got its origins from prison. That is how some prisoners took to wearing their pants. I can remember one kid who I literally had to stop every morning and have him pull up his pants and buckle them correctly. And if I got distracted and didn’t see him walk in the door, he would wait for me to “chastise” him about his jeans. I even teased my mother when she would wear her “denim jean” outfit and ask her if she was “jailin.”
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One of the world renowned African American scholars, Henry Louis Gates Jr., was arrested IN HIS HOUSE because someone in the neighborhood called the police saying “two black males with backpacks on the porch,” one of whom was “wedging his shoulder into the door as if he was trying to force entry.” The fact that Gates lived in the house and had been there for quite some time didn’t matter. It was the fact that a “white women” could call the police and have the “owner” arrested is what matters. Gates was charged with being “disorderly.” I guess not being able to get into your house and then when you do, you are confronted by police accusing you of breaking the law might make me “disorderly” too!
 
The police version of the events are that they received a call about two Black men, attempted to force open a door. Upon arrival, they found Gates was already in the house, on the phone with the property managers. Police are saying that Henry refused to provide ID and got “loud and was agitated.” Certainly a reason to arrest someone no doubt! Gates contents that not only did he give the officer his driver’s license, but he also gave him is HARVARD ID too! Oh yeah, did I forget to mention that Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a professor at Harvard University!!!!
 
We may never know the true story. But from personal experience, I certainly don’t believe the police version of events. Gates had just came off of a plane trip from China. His ID was readily available. I find it hard to believe that he didn’t show his ID!
 
The Cambridge police have termed this event as “regrettable and unfortunate” and have dropped the charges. REALLY! Wow! Thanks for not charging me for breaking into my own home! And thank you for saying that “disorderly” is just a BULLSHIT law on the books that police use when you haven’t really broken ANY LAWS, but they want to harass you anyways.
 
I would love to hear from “Gladys Kravitz“, the person who set this ball in motion. Does she not know her neighbors? Or was this more of the “Obama backlash” that is occurring all over country. I guess she showed that “uppity” NIGro something?

As I wrote in my post on July 1, 2009, “How old are you, anyways“, I spoke about the NBA requirement that players be at least 19 years old and a year out of high school before entering the league. Since most players entering the league are African American, I positioned that the rule was racist and prevents MEN who are old enough to die for their country, from being able to support their families. Recent events have given further proof that racism is alive and well in the NBA!
 
The next “great white hope” to enter the NBA in a few years is a kid named Ricky Rubio. He is from Spain and is supposed to be Magic, Nash, and Pete Maravich, all rolled into one. At 17, he played for the Spanish National Team and is said to have held his own against the United States team. At 18, just a few months ago, Rubio was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves. And needless to say, he isn’t very happy about it. The wolves have been AWFUL since the “Big Ticket“, Kevin Garnett left a few years ago. And the Wolves are pulling out all of the stops to get Ricky to come to Minnesota. But isn’t he only 18 years old? Wouldn’t that be against the NBA rules?
Continue reading “How old are you again?” »

I worked for a Teen Drug and Alcohol abuse center for five years. I have done interventions, enrolled teens into the program, ran groups, and conducted Urine Analysis testing. I have read and interpreted Drug testing results, and Behavioral analysis. I believe, without a PHD, that I was able to be a part of a great Petrie Dish experiment where I learned a lot about human nature from both a clinical and hands on point of view. So when I read that a professional tennis player, Richard Gasquet, tested positive for cocaine, it didn’t shock me. But when I read his excuse, and that the Governing body actually believed it, that did shock me. Gasquet said that he tested positive for cocaine because he “French Kissed” a woman in a nightclub!
 
Gasquet withdrew from a tennis tournament because of an injury. He and some friends decided to go to a nightclub to hear a French DJ spin. Sometime during the night, a woman named “Pamela” French Kissed Richard. And since the club is NOTORIOUS for drug use, that must have been how he got minute traces of cocaine in his system. The fact that “Pamela” was never tested, never came before the board, and whose whereabouts are unknown, seem unimportant. I guess when facing a two year ban, you become very “creative” when coming up with an excuse to save your ASS!
Continue reading “Just a Kiss” »

SCLC, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, has decided that the reason for their very existence, Tolerance and Equality for All, doesn’t extend to Same Couple Relationships. The amnesia of the leaders of that organization as to what they stand for, is being played out by their threats to fire a straight, African American Reverend, Eric Lee, who was public in his opposition to Prop 8. And his very public opposition just might cost him his job!
 
I find it amazing that the one group of people, African Americans, who have and continue to experience hate like no other group, thinks nothing of doing that to Lesbians and Gays. I understand your feelings that the Black Civil Rights movement is being overshadowed by the Gay Rights movement. And I understand that the comparison can be offensive. But the bottom line is this. Because our Black elders have failed to teach the younger generations our collective history, far too many youngsters don’t know anything more about the Civil Rights movement other than what we learned in school. And as we all know, that is minimal at best and a complete JOKE AT WORSE. And whether you like it or not, the comparisons are EXACTLY THE SAME! The same arguments that were used to try and justify not giving African Americans Civil Rights and stopping Interracial Marriage 50 years ago have been dusted off and are being used to discriminate against Same Couple Relationships. In a post I wrote on May 21, 2009, titled “Is Gay the New Black?” I listed eight different reasons why the struggles are the same. And these reasons include: education, religion, employment, housing, violence, health care, government, and marriage. Anyone with an open mind can’t deny the comparisons, PERIOD!
 
Slowly but surely, African Americans are alienated the very people who helped, fought, stood, and died for us to be in the position that we are in now. And our failure to say “thanks” and to return the failure won’t be forgotten nor should it be. So when the next atrocity occurs, like Hurricane Katrina, and we are shown and told EXACTLY where we stand in this country, and we run for help, we should be surprised when the Lesbian and Gay neighbors lock the door, close the curtains, and turn off the lights! Nor should we be surprised when African American Lesbian and Gays who have plenty of discretionary income to spend, stop spending it with you!
 
Time is going to show that opposing Same Couple Marriage was wrong. And when our children and grandchildren as us why we did it, what are you going to say that makes sense? That the bible, the same bible that STILL SAYS WE SHOULD BE SLAVES AND BE CONTENT WITH OUR LOTS IN LIFE, told us to do it? Or that an organization that fought for EQUALITY is now against it. The SCLC should be ashamed of themselves.

My last post titled”Blacks can’t Swim” talked about how a group of Creative Steps Day Campers from the inner city of Philadelphia, were at first allowed to swim at a private, again read “WHITE” swim club only to face racial slurs and then told they had to leave because “minorities don’t swim here.” When the incident became public, the president of the club, John Duesler, stated “there was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club.” When that statement became public, the excuse became “it was a safety issue.”
 
There has been a update to this story. The Valley Swim Club voted “UNANIMOUSLY” to allow the Creative Steps Day Campers to come back to the club. I had to laugh out loud when I read this story because the heat is on and this is what’s called “Damage Control!”
 
U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) has stated that he finds these allegations “disturbing” and plans on launching a “full investigation.” The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, which has opened an investigation, is to make a fact-finding visit to the club July 30. People have been picketing the Valley Swim Club. Could any one or all three of those reasons be why the vote to allow the Day Campers back to the club was UNANIMOUS???? Member Amy Goldman, who has been a member for two years, has stated that she hasn’t seen a “Black member this year.” Any takers that when the PHRC makes its fact finding visit on the 30th, that it will look like a revival of “The Wiz!”
 
Lastly, if you let me know, IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS that you don’t want me around, on what planet would you think I would EVER go back? If you want to apologize, fine. But 12, 13, and 14, year old African American kids, who probably saw their mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, and grandparents cry for the first time after seeing President Obama get elected, now know that we haven’t come as far as people want his election to indicate. And instead of these kids remembering “not in my lifetime” on November 4, 2008, as something positive, they are now hearing that again. Except this time, it’s what we expected. That racism is alive and well in America and an election did NOTHING to alleviate that FACT!!!!!

What began as an innocent trip to a swimming pool on a hot Monday afternoon, turned into a Civil Rights lesson, for 65 African American kids who visited a private, read white, swimming pool.
 
From looking at the pictures of the children from the Philadelphia Creative Step Day Camp, most of them looked to be under 12 years old. These kids were told that they could come swim at the Valley Swim Club every Monday. Upon getting into the pool, most of the white kids either got out on their own, or were pulled out of the pool by their parents. Many of the Day Campers allege to have heard racial slurs aimed their way. They were then told by the lifeguards that they had to leave the pool IMMEDIATELY because “minorities aren’t allowed to swim there.”
 
When the president of the Valley Swim Club, John Duesler, was contacted, his initial statement was that “there was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club.” After that comment became public, Mr. Duesler and many of the parents who pulled their children from the pool are now saying that it was a “misunderstanding.” Even a child can recognize racism when he or she sees it!
 
By the next Friday, there was such an outrage about how these children were treated and how these white parents acted, that Mr. Duesler was compelled to speak out.
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Political LOUD MOUTH Bill O’reilly recently stated that the late Michael Jackson was not a “Black Icon.” His reasoning was that while MJ talked about saving the world, “he spent money lavishly” and that should make any clear thinking American “nauseous.” Since when did o’reilly, lower caps on purpose, become the the arbiter of ANYTHING BLACK?
 
I can remember getting up on Saturday mornings and while eating my bowl of Captain Crunch cereal, watching the Jackson Five cartoons. And after going through one of their adventures, they would usually sing one of their hits. Which could be considered one of the first “music videos.” At that time, the early 70′s, there were very few shows that featured African Americans of any age. For a Black show to be on tv at all was an event. And the Jackson Five cartoon was on EVERY SATURDAY! And it aired on the network channel so everyone was watching it. That in itself is iconic!
 
For people of a certain age who were in high school when MTV first came along, we remember watching the channel and seeing few African American artists. And when we did see them, it was usually after 10:00pm. Initially, MTV refused to even run videos by African American artists. It was Michael who broke the “MTV color line” and whose videos aired on MTV hourly! And don’t think for a minute that MTV “made” Michael. He was a star long before MTV came along. MTV brought Jackson into the homes of white teenagers and reminded their parents of the talented performer they grew up listening to and whose cartoon they had watched! I wonder how many kids rode with their listening to Mike? How many parents were able to start a dialog with their kids on important issues, that began by having a mutual like for Michael Jackson’s music? Did MTV create an icon? NO! MTV rode on the coattails of an icon. And that icon is named Michael Jackson!
Continue reading “Pathetic” »