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September 1, 2008 at 6:40 pm · Filed under 17 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF VICE PRESIDENTIAL PALIN IS PREG, A MOTHER'S ADVICE TO HER CHILDREN, A MOTHER'S ADVICE TO HER SON, ACTIVITIES FOR SUMMER CAMP AND TENNIS KIDS, Activities for Teens, AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILY AND REPARATIONS, AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE US OPEN QUALIES, American History, AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE MAKING, Black Children, Black Family, Black History, Black Male Children and Poverty, BLACK MALE TEENAGERS IN TENNIS--2008, black male teens, Blacks in Politics, Blacks in Sports, BLOGS ABOUT ALASKAN GOVERNOR, BLOGS ABOUT CHILDREN SAFETY, BLOGS ABOUT HUMAN LOVE AND COMPASSION, Children, Children of All Races, Christain Faith and Love in Action, Christian Counseling about YOung Marriage, Faith, FAITH IN A HIGHER POWER, Family in Crisis, fear of being alone, Fear of the unknown, FREE CONDOMS GIVEN AT HIGHSCHOOLS, GIVE OF YOURSELF TO YOUR CHILDREN AND YOU WILL BE HAPP, GOLF, GOLF AND NYC PARKS DEPARTMENT, Health, health of black male teens, HOW TO COPE WITH TEENAGE PREGNANCY, PALIN SUPPORTS HER DAUGHTER, Selfesteem, single parenting, SUPPORT YOUR CHILDREN AND THEY WILL BE SUCCESSFUL, TEENAGE PREGNANCY, Views from Within and tagged: 17 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF VICE PRESIDENTIAL PALIN IS PREG, GIVE OF YOURSELF TO YOURCHILDREN AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY, HOW TO COPE WITH TEENAGE PREGNANCY, PALIN SUPPORTS HER DAUGHTER, SUPPORT YOUR CHILDREN AND THEY WILL BE SUCCESSFUL, TEENAGE PREGNANCY
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I may not be able to afford certain things like cable tv, or direct tv…but I take my son to the park and help him to train toward tennis scholarships! Also he wants to work on competitive tennis.
So I go with him and toss the ball at him fast, slow, low to the grow and high in the air. So what am I telling you? I just try to help as much as I can.
Some people like to tell me to stop focusing on my kid so much. But you know what? If I do not help him now…he may not be able to support himself or his future wife and kids. So what is wrong with being there now?
Oh, some people have told me…you need to keep yourself happy. Look, when I am past the age of 48 that I am now….I would hate to have to look back and see that I did not do all I could to help my child acheive.
Hey, everybody has a diferent reason for what they do in life.
I am sitting here blogging….so am I totally consumed with my son 24 hours a day????? OF COURSE NOT! My son plays tennis with other people. I do not actually play the game.
I am there to help him to stay focused on the actual training.
How do you think Tiger Woods and Venus and Serena made it to the top of their sports and careers?
The parents helped those kids stay focused and become the men and women that they are today.
Last week ( at the Kids Day in Queens of the USOPEN) Serena won $15,000.00 for a charity that she began her own name…to give back to the community.
So all of the effort that the father of Venus and Serena Williams (Tennis Champions) placed and focused on helping the two young ladies paid off and it now helps others!
—– So when my son gets up to play…I am about 200 to 300 feet away from him. I also am either shopping, or checking in on my mother…reading a newspaper, or talking to other parents.
My son has to come to his own conclusions about his goals and dreams.
I AM ONLY A FACILITATOR!!!!!
I drive my son to the golf course in Dyker Brooklyn to the children’s golf course. I take him to the SPORTS AUTHORITY look at tennis rackets, tennis clothing, golf clubs, etc. I take him to Barns and Nobles for books for school, and reading material. I drive him to competitions, and to coaching lessons. But the rest is up to him.
So is that wrong? Hey, look, my child did not ask to be born. My child was a WANTED CHILD!~ I was legally married to my husband for 5 years before I finally got pregnant.
I have not had any other pregnancies, or any other husbands. Soooo for me to sacrifice….is absolutely nothing. My child could not raise himself.
When you have a child you have to consider atleast….20 years or so to help him or her get educated, have food, shelter, training how to live in this life, and be able to get a job or career.
So for me it will not be the EMPTY NEST SYNDROME….it will be happiness that I gave as much as I could to help someone to accomplish his goals.
If he turns around and changes his mind about his goals, and throws it all away…he cannot blame me.—for I have given all of myself to him to become a man… of stature and respect.
If he turns his back on whatever ideals and concepts that have been carefully taught to him….I will bare no shame in this….it will be his choice as a man.
But if I turn away now…as he just enters his 10th grade in highschool and is finishing his 15th year of life…then I will be to blame.
My selfishness will begin later. So right now…I enjoy blogging! Is there anything wrong with that? I am on vacation…when I express my views here with you.
So that is why I challenge all of us parents…focus on HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD BECOME A SUCCESS…YOU WILL NOT REGRET HONEST HARD WORK….AND PURE LOVE GIVEN TO YOUR CHILDREN.
Remember..even Vice President hopeful Elect Palin has 5 children and her oldest daughter who is 17 is pregnant according to the news reports on 1010 Wins and AOL NEWS MEDIA, she fully supports them in all that they do. She supports her 17 year old daughter in her goals for herself and soon to be new family.
The most important thing is keeping an OPEN COMMUNICATION WITH YOUR CHILDREN. NO MATTER WHAT!
That will mean your children should come to you with whatever the condition is.
It is not easy to do that. I know. I am a single parent.
I want the best for my son…but I also know that no one’s kid is an angel. So pray with your kids, and love them…just as the Lord above loves you and forgives you of all your mistakes daily….correct?
Remember no one is perfect, and everyone makes mistakes.
Love your kids….love yourself and don’t be too hard on your kids or yourself.
You and your family will live happier, and longer lives. TOGETHER!!!
till next blog….
RIVEROFLIFELISAJOY!~
June 5, 2008 at 10:31 pm · Filed under American History, Barak Obama for President, EVAN ALMIGHTY....NOAH'S ARK....WE NEED ONE RIGHT NOW!!!, EvanAlmighty, Have Faith in Spite of the Circumstances, HILLARY CLINTON AND BARAK OBAMA, Lincoln and Douglas Debates, THE KENNEDY FAMILY BACKS OBAMA and tagged: Back Seat Driving and the Vice President Office of the, blogs about politics, Blogs on Hillary Clinton as Vice President, President Obama and Vice President Hillary Clinton, The benefits of Hillary Clinton as Vice President
The tables have turned. The history books have not yet been written, but the printers and computers are buzzing and very HOT!
Hillary Clinton has not broken down and conceded the Democratic run for the President of the United States. However, despite her concession or not….BARAK OBAMA HAS BECOME THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTCIAL CONTENDER WITH MCCAIN!!!
So, in reality, it has been a long hard road. However, I do not believe in all of my 48 years as an American citizen, that I have witnessed such a power struggle. When Jessie Jackson had attempted to wage a bid on the White House, it was met with a bit of respect, but not the fury or the shock that Barak Obama has been met with.
The Kennedy Family, has stood firm and strong behind Barak Obama. The Kennedy Family are staunch supporters of Barack Obama. They must know something that many of those against Obama do not know.
I would watch carefully, and study the next few months. The moves behind the scenes and the actions taken in public will determine how much the democrats will be able to influence the Congress, and the Senate. The voting of the SUPER DELEGATES has determined that Barack Obama is the presidentcial choice of the democratic party.
So what is the problem for the other half of the democratic party? Why would voters who state that they want WANT CHANGE….WANT TO GO IN A NEW DIRECTION….WANT TO GET OUT OF IRAQ, WANT HEALTHCARE, WANT JOBS, WANT CHANGE IN THE OIL CRISIS…..why would the HILLARY CLINTON supporters state that (based on 1010 WINS NEWS REPORTS OVER THE PAST FEW DAYS), that they will turn their votes over to John McCain?
John McCain represents the same last 8 years of our current president’s thoughts and paradigms….so WHY wouild Hillary Clinton’s supporters want to even suggest or threaten to vote against their long fought for views of a NEW TOMORROW that Hillary Clinton has PREACHED, AND SERMONED, AND ADMONISHED HER voters and co-presidential candidates about?
Just because Obama Won….and Hillary did not win the intra-party Democratic vote; is that enough to make Hillary Clinton’s supporters “jump ship” and join the opposing party, one which does not agree with universal health care, and getting out of Iraq immediately, etc., etc., etc.,?!!! STRANGE….STRANGE….STRANGE….How an election could swing in the opposite direction midstream because the person that everyone wanted DID NOT GET THE NOMINATION FOR DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL! Is it that the Hillary Clinton Supporters are dismayed!????
If that was done in the Obama Camp, Obama would have been reprimanded by the Democratic Party for the behavior and negative counter statements of his staffers, and supporters. To state that half of the democratic party will turn and become republican voters to prove a point….is “like throwing the baby out with the bath water….or cutting off your nose to spite your face!!”
If the supporters of Hillary Clinton really were concerned about “CHANGING THE COURSE OF HISTORY AND THE COURSE OF AMERICA….WHY ARE THE SUPPORTERS TRYING TO DESTROY THE ONLY HOPE THAT THE DEMOCRATS have?
Why are the Hillary Clinton supporters willing to run behind John McCain….someone who will continue business as usual? STRANGE HUH?
It is so very sad that the run for president by Barack Obama has struck a DEEP, DEEP cord in some HILLARY Clinton Supporters. There have been some people who have been making very negative statements about Obama.
There was recently a Hillary Clinton Supporter who was ranting so much that it got on U-TUBE! This woman stated that she would not vote for Obama because he does not meet the standard and that he would not be in the race for president if it was not for Hillary Clinton!
Wow! It would appear that the credit would go to Obama’s mother and father for giving birth to him. The credit should go to his grandparents, for raising him.
Some people in MIDDLE AMERICA do not have half as much education and world experience as Barack Obama!!!!
How about that Barak was raised by his white grandmother, and grandfather. Although everyone is calling Barack Obama black, simply because his father was black, he was not raised by any black people.
Barack Obama’s father was an educated man however….but he was not raised by his father at all. So if you want to look at Obama as SO—SEPARATED FROM MIDDLE AMERICA….I think that we need to rethink about Barack Obama’s upbringing.
His white mother was an anthropologist, a very liberal person, and free spirit who traveled the world and lived her life in persuit of helping others.
She could not instill more public service ideals than that. Despite his grandparents, and his mother being white….it seems more comfortable to call Barack Obama black. BLACK, BROWN, YELLOW SKIN is simply that….SKIN, SKIN, SKIN. Does a black cow give better milk than a white cow?
Is a black cat evil? Does a pink flower smell better than a orange flower?
Society has created a border and a way of separating each other by a color line. So again…..Why are the Hillary Clinton Supporters trying to separate from Obama and run to John MCCain? Just think about it for a minute.
Oh, I forgot….people are concerned about Obama’s experience, right? Well, how many foreign policy, crisis in military, economic meetings with former president Clinton, did Ms. Clinton sit in on?
I will not challange this topic too much. There are others who are already doing a good job of that.
What I really want to discuss right here and now…is why it would not be good for Hillary Clinton to be Vice President to Obama’s President.
A back seat driver does not have the right to turn the wheel of the car. Although the combined effort of Hillary Clinton and former President Clinton would possibly be a good choice to aide in strenghening the new, president Barack Obama (((if elected)))….it could possibly turn into a battle of power and test of the “wills.”
If the new president has a former opponent as a vice president….it would appear that issues could arise behind close doors between the two.
For example, if the newly president elect Barack Obama has to make a decision about a foreign policy and it would affect our interacton with Russia….it might turn into a power struggle.
Because, Hillary Clinton as vice president, {who would not concede the night she was fully aware that she was closed out from being the presidential hopeful of the democratic party}, might then use the influence of her husband former President Bill Clinton.
Now, the question would be, does Hillary Clinton have the right to challenge the sitting president and his decisions on foreign policies, etc., in a pubic and political arena?
Would she keep quiet if she does not agree with her president’s policies…or would she wage a full scale campaign if her views on how to procede on a specific policy by Obama were not in accord.
Hillary Clinton is a strong woman, which I admire for her candor, and her tenaciousness…however….it may not bode well for a new president. Each president has to carve his or her own path and agenda for the country that he or she may lead. However, to have a formidable foe, close at hand picking and judgeing may not prove will for Obama.
Could Hillary Clinton and Former President Clinton possibly drive the car from the back seat? Could Vice President Hillary Clinton sit quietly while President Obama makes decisions that she does not agree with? Would Vice President Clinton be able to maintain decorum and not challenge President Obama’s goals, or moves as president?
I have never heard Mr. Cheny say anything that could be interperted as questioning or challenging President Bush. Mr. Cheny appears to always have been supportive.
Therefore it might be a general thought amongst more people than just myself, that Hillary Clinton might be able to help get Obama elected…but may prove to be more of a staunch critic of Obama and his(((lack of experience)))) under the spotlight of former President Bill Clinton.
Such powerful company to keep… but the question is ….can Obama not be intimadated by such a powerful husband and wife team?
What do you think?
******riveroflifelisajoy!
May 25, 2008 at 1:50 pm · Filed under ABOLITION OF SLAVERY WAS DONE TWO CENTURIES AGO...WHY D, Al Sharpton on Human Rights, American History, and The Politics of Economics, Barak Obama for President, Black Children, black crime and its affects on the family, Black Family, Black History, Black Male Children and Poverty, black male teens, BLACK WOMEN DESTROYED DURING THE MIDDLE PASSAGE DURING, Blacks in Politics, BRUTALITY OF SLAVERY AND MIDDLE PASSAGE, CHARLES DARWIN THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND THE ENDANGERED P, Children, children and mothers's in slavery, CLINTON ON JOBS, Compassion for the Needy, Coping with Death, Coping with Emotional Pain of Tradegy, Coping with Loss, Culture lost and regained through slavery, DEATH AND MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS DURING MIDDLE PASSAGE, Decline of African/Black American marriages, drugs in the black community, Faith, Family in Crisis, fear of being alone, fear of death and dying, Fear of the unknown, FICTION WRITING ABOUT SLAVERY, FREE WRITE, Health, How to Respond to another's troubles, Human Rights Issues, Obama and his personal struggle, PAT BUCHANAN RACIST REMARKS ON SLAVERY IN AMERICA AND I, PAT BUCHANNON AND HIS VIEWS THAT BLACKS SHOULD BE THANK, plantations and broken black families, POLITICIANS IN 2008 PRESIDENTIAL RACE AND THOUGHTS ON R, POWER OF LOVE AND MEMORY, Racism, Religion and our Faith, Selfesteem, slavery and broken black men, slavery and destroyed families, slavery and separated families, SLAVERY AND THE BLACK AMERICAN MARRIAGE IN TODAY'S SOCI, SLAVERY AND THE WEST INDIES AND ABROAD, The Black Christian Church, THE KENNEDY FAMILY BACKS OBAMA, THE VOYAGE FROM MOTHERLAND AFRICA TO THE NEW LAND AMER, Views from Within and tagged: AMERICA TODAY MORE THAN 200YEARS SINCE SLAVERY WAS ENDE, BLACK MALE CHILDREN AND SLAVERY, BLACK WOMEN DESTROYED DURING THE MIDDLE PASSAGE DURING, BRUTALITY OF SLAVERY AND MIDDLE PASSAGE, DEATH AND MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS DURING MIDDLE PASSAGE, FICTION WRITING ABOUT SLAVERY, FICTION WRITING ABOUT SLAVERY BY RIVEROFLIFELISAJOY, PAT BUCHANNON RACIST REMARKS REGARDING SLAVERY, SELF ESTEEM AND SLAVERY, THE VOYAGE FROM MOTHERLAND AFRICA TO THE NEW LAND AMER, THE WEST INDIES AND ABROAD
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This picture was taken from archives on slavery. It was placed in this fiction story written by me….I thought a real picture would help the reader to understand the harsh treatment of slaves. It was a course that I took that enlightened me to the terrible experience of the MIDDLE PASSAGE and what it did to the many tribes that had been taken hostage by the SLAVE TRADERS.
That is why I had written an earlier post regarding PAT BUCHANNON’S shallow view on the slavery of African Americans and how he, (((PAT BUCHANNON))) thought that black people should be thanking “God” for slavery.
I will be writing short stories based loosely on the readings and course work I took for my education. I am not an expert….but being African American and having lived in circumstances as an Afrcian American for 48 years may give me a little insight to attempt to “channel” some of my ancestors and their struggles through fictional dipictions of slave experiences.
I hope I do them justice.
At the bottom of this you will find a discussion I raised and copied regarding the emancipation of the slaves due to Lincoln.
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******************** Middle Passage and the Loss of my Village and Family—-Slave Memories…#2
OUR VILLAGE WAS CLOSE BY THE SEA. MY MOTHER HAD A GARDEN AND MY FATHER HUNTED FOR OUR FOOD WITH THE OTHER MEN FROM THE TRIBE. There was a rival tribe that had stolen some of my mothers, and other women’s vegetables from their gardens.
Everyone was angry and running around. I was 8 years old. My brothers were 12 years old, and 15 years old and a 7months old. My parents talked and then my father and my older brothers ran with their spears to meet the other tribes men. They had put on body paint, and war feathers.
The tribesmen gather in the center of the village and began to chant and sing and jump up and down until the air was filled with their voices and the dust rose up making swirling clouds around our heads.
My father and the tribesmen ran from the village in anger and excitement chanting with raised spears. My mother took me back to our hut and began to prepare the midday meal. The war was on! I did not know if my father would be back.
My mother cooked yam and potatoe and meat. She seasoned it and then we ate. Suddenly there was a noise at the far end of the village. Women were screaming and running in our direction. My mother dropped her bowl and looked to the center of the village.
She screamed and then grabbed me and my baby brother. She pushed us into the jungle and ran, and pushed me and ran some more. When we came to the beach we saw big things on the water floating.
I had never seen anything like that before. It was brown on the bottom, and had cloth on the top floating in the wind. Suddenly my mother screamed and I looked up as saw my mother being dragged away from me with my baby brother in her arms. She looked back at me and screamed again and I was picked up and carried away too.
I began to scream and cry for my mother, and my father. I remember being in a small boat that carried us to the big brown boat with the floating clothes. My mother was forced to climb the boat, and I was forced too. When we got on the boat we were chained together and then put down in a black place that smelled so strong that I gagged and threw up.
I was hit from behind and forced to lay down next to my mother and baby brother. My baby brother had not stopped crying since this all began. My mother held my hand and I was sobbing.
I heard a language I did not understand. I could only see legs, and arms of people I had never seen before. They looked angry and they shouted at us. There were many people from our village, some old men, and some sickly men who had not gone to war with our rival tribe.
Young boys, girls, and women from our village were on this big boat too. Everyone was throwing up from the smell. Everyone was crying and scared of this new tribe that was attacking us in our tribesmen absence.
What would happen to us? Where were we being taken? Why did these tribesmen look so different from us? Why did they seem so angry at us? What law of their tribe had we broken?
Some of my tribesmen and women I heard talking amongst themselves thought that these were evil spirits from our rival tribe that had been sent by their witch doctor to destroy us!
What a powerful witch doctor they had…some of the people said. What will my father think when he comes back from war? Our tribe was the stronger of the two….we had more people, and our tribe was tall and the rival tribe were not so tall.
So our wars with them were usually quick. Our men would fight and battle for several hours, and injure some of their tribe and then fall back to our village until the next conflict…showing our dominence over them. But now, who would cook for my father and brothers?
Who would cook for all of the tribesmen. How could they fight this new foe who had taken the whole village captive? I began to feel sick, and I had to relieve myself. I was laying down on my back and my legs were aching. My baby brother was wimpering now.
My mother was chanting and squeezing my hand. The angry strange looking tribesman started pulling some of the villagers out of the areas that we were chained to.
My mother and baby brother were taken away from me and all I remember was my mother wailing and screaming my name, my baby brother’s name and then her voice cut short and then other villages started to wail and scream to our ancestors.
Their was alot of noise coming from above my head in the blackness. I could see specks of light….something dripped on my head and it smell bad. I threw up again, and then I passed out.
I woke up again seeing that my mother was gone and so was my baby brother I began to cry. One of my captors hit the bottoms of my feet with something very hard. I cried more and then they left me alone. I had relieved myself on myself. I smelled it and I threw up again.
Next to me was an old man from the village. He had been quiet for a long time. I called out to him but he did not answer. He never answered me. I knew he was dead. I screamed for the ancestors to take me away from this black hole and torment.
I prayed as my mother had taught me to. I asked forgiveness of my ancestors for any thing I might have done. I felt a tug and a yank on my feet and I felt myself pulled to my feet. The old man came out dead on the floor next to me.
My captors separated the chains and then reconnected them to a living villager man. They took the old man away and moved me down to the next villager. They took us out into the open air.
Something stuck into my foot as I walked. I stumbled and one of my captors hit me in the back again. I began to wimper. I know what wailing would cause to happen so I wimpered to myself and prayed to my ancestors again.
The sky was clear, blue and few clouds were around. The big boat rocked from side to side. I began to feel sick again. They thrust a liquid in my mouth. I began to throw up again. I was hit again from behind and they yelled something at me. I heard screaming and I saw a woman from the village being chased.
She ran around the boat while the captors chased her. They were laughing this time. She finally was caught and they did something in a crowd and encircled around her while she screamed out the name of her husband and ancestors.
I saw blood come crawling from beneath the crowd of captors and the woman stoped yelling.
There was silence again. Suddenly one of the captors tossed her dead body over the side of the boat. Many of us who saw that gasped, and moaned and sung the song of sorrow for the dead. We called as one voice for the ancestors to come to carry her away to our ancestral home.
We were taken back down to the hole and left until the captors took us out again. Some men and women and children were beat, until they bled. Some men were beat until you could see pieces of meat from their backs fly off in different directions. Then we were taken back into the black hole.
Day turned into night and night into day. One day the big boat stopped and we who had survived were taken from the boat and washed brutally, and greased.
New chains were placed on our hands and feet and we were taken into what appeared to be a village with more of the tribes people who looked and dressed differently then us.
They looked angry and laughed at the same time. I passed out. I awoke on a wood floor. There was a large animal that looked like something I had never seen before.
One of the captors had been sitting and looking away from me. I looked around and saw some of the villager men who had survived the trip. I sat up and then I saw a big white hut. There were other tribes in this new land. I did not recognize any of them.
When the big animal stopped we were all yanked off the wood floor and put on the ground. I was very weak, and sick. I began to throw up again. I was hit again.
I was yanked to follow my fellow villagers to a small white hut. When we arrived more of the strange looking tribesman and some tribes men from my mother land were there. We were handed bowls of food and we ate.
This was strange food but it tasted better than the food on the large boat. I began to feel better. I looked around and saw animals I had never seen before. Some were funny….a white bird with a red wobbly skin on its head and neck. It made funny noises.
I began to miss my mother and I cried again. I was hit again. I began to wimper to myself and pray to my ancestors. I wondered what ever happened to my father and the other tribesman and if they knew what had happened to us.
I was given a hut to share with other tribesman, and clothes. I was given work to do in a very, very large garden. I never forgot my mother, baby brother, and my father and kinsman.
I worked until I died from a severe beating.
~~~~~riveroflifelisajoy
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This is a document regarding the emancipation of the slaves……
COPYWRITE 2003-2008 SON OF THE SOUTH
WWW.SONOFTHESOUTH.NET
paul@sonofthesouth.
Abraham Lincoln and
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Abraham Lincoln and Emancipated Slaves, April 1865
Richmond Virginia, the Confederate Capitol fell on April 3, 1865. The following day, April 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln went to the fallen city. Throngs of slaves were in the streets, celebrating their first day of freedom, and welcoming Lincoln. Thomas Nast captured this historic event with his drawing presented at your right. This is perhaps the best portrait of Mr. Lincoln ever produced. It shows that while Lincoln was to tragically die 10 days later, he did, if only briefly, get to see the fruit of his leadership and resolve. He was able to see the grateful tears of the emancipated, and hear their cheers of appreciation. There is a fascinating story about this day, so please click on the image for the full story of the day that Abraham Lincoln walked the streets of the fallen Rebel Capitol.
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braham Lincoln Entering Richmond Virginia
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May 24, 2008 at 11:52 pm · Filed under 46 HEALTHY SOUL FOOD RECIPES, American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, American History, BLACK AMERICAN HEALTH AND STROKE, COOKING AS A HOBBY, HOME ECONOMICS, Uncategorized and tagged: 46 HEALTHY SOUL FOOD RECIPES, Add new tag, AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION/STROKE ASSOCIATION, BLACK AMERICAN HEALTH AND STROKE
UNIVERSE AND WEAVE IN HARMONY
This is another installment to inform and assist all humanbeings. As I stated before I went to a job related function and I received this lovely little book on receipes for people of color. This information was given to me by a nice lady that represented the American Heart Association. She wanted all of us to get out the word about black Americans and stroke.—-So please understand I am copying from the booklet…the information you are about to read is from the booklet called 46 HEALTHY SOUL FOOD RECIPES—
EDITOR Sandra K. Nissenberg,
CEO Louis Weber,
President Magazine Division Jerry L. Croft,
Editor-in- Chief James M. O’Connor.
BEST RECEIPES TM SPECIAL
VOL.1, no. 23, June 12, 2007
2007 Publications International, LTD.
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REMEMBER: according to 46 HEALTHY SOUL FOOD RECEIPES AND AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION……
STROKE TARGETS BY COLOR.
KNOW WHERE YOU STAND. The odds are African Americans are twice as likely to suffer a stroke as white Americans.
Beating the odds isn’t about winning. It’s about living. You have the power to end stroke. 1-888-4-stroke/ StrokeAssociation.org.
Now to the receipe of the day!
Chicken Soup with Mustard Greens and Tomatoes!
Serves 4…1 cup per serving
4 cups fat-free, low sodium chicken broth
1 small carrot, thinkly sliced
4 large mustard green leaves, coarsely chopped (about 4 cups)
2 medium italian plum tomatoes, diced
2 ounces diced lower-sodium, low-fat ham (about 1/4 cup)
2 medium green onions, thinly sliced
1 tablespoon imitation bacon bits
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
Now, according to the receipe follow the next set of directons….
In a large saucepan, bring the broth and carrot to a simmer over medium-high heat. Reduce the heat and simmer, covered, for 5 minutes, or until the carrot is almost tender.
Stire in the remaining ingredients. Increase the heat to medium high and return to a simmer. reduce the heat and simmer, covered, for 10 minutes, or until the greens are tender and the flavors blend.
Ladle into soup bowls.
Per serving: calories 61, Total fat 1.0g. Saturated fat 0.0g, Polyunstaturated fat 0.0g, Monounsaturated fat 0.5g, Cholesterol 6 mg, Sodium 297 mg. Carbohydrates 7g, Dietary Fiber 3 g, Sugars 3 g, Protein 7 g.
Dietary Exchanges: 1 1/2 Vegetable, 1/2 Very Lean Meat
So there you have it…page # 10 in the Soups chapter of the 46 HEALTHY SOUL FOOD RECEIPES!!!!
NOW GET TO COOKIN!
TILL NEXT BLOG~~~~
RIVEROFLIFELISAJOY
May 24, 2008 at 2:10 pm · Filed under ABOLITION OF SLAVERY WAS DONE TWO CENTURIES AGO...WHY D, Al Sharpton on Human Rights, American History, Barak Obama for President, Black Army Reservists, Black Children, Black Family, Black History, Black Male Children and Poverty, black male teens, BLACK WOMEN DESTROYED DURING THE MIDDLE PASSAGE DURING, Blacks in Sports, BRUTALITY OF SLAVERY AND MIDDLE PASSAGE, Business and Human Rights Ethics, CHARLES DARWIN THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND THE ENDANGERED P, children and mothers's in slavery, CLINTON ON JOBS, Coping with Death, Coping with Emotional Pain of Tradegy, Coping with Loss, Culture lost and regained through slavery, Decline of African/Black American marriages, Faith, Family in Crisis, fear of being alone, fear of death and dying, Fear of the unknown, FICTION WRITING ABOUT SLAVERY, FREE WRITE, Have Faith in Spite of the Circumstances, Health, HILLARY CLINTON AND BARAK OBAMA, Hillary Clinton for President, Human Rights Issues, Lincoln and Douglas Debates, Negro Doll Makers, Negro Men In Medicine, Obama and his personal struggle, Obama on RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE FOR ALL AMERICANS--spee, PAT BUCHANAN RACIST REMARKS ON SLAVERY IN AMERICA AND I, PAT BUCHANNON AND HIS VIEWS THAT BLACKS SHOULD BE THANK, plantations and broken black families, Poverty in America, Racism, Religion and our Faith, Religion and Trust in God, Rev. Wright and his Racist Comments, Save the Children, SELF REFLECTION, Selfesteem, Selfishness, Short stories by Amatuers, single parenting, slavery and broken black men, slavery and destroyed families, slavery and separated families, SLAVERY AND THE BLACK AMERICAN MARRIAGE IN TODAY'S SOCI, SLAVERY AND THE WEST INDIES AND ABROAD, THE KENNEDY FAMILY BACKS OBAMA, THE VOYAGE FROM MOTHERLAND AFRICA TO THE NEW LAND AMER, The wipping post and slavery, Thoughtless words, Trusting God for All things, Uncategorized, Views from Within, Writing and tagged: children and mothers in slavery, Culture lost and regained through slavery, Mini Short, plantations and broken black families, Short stories by Amatuers, slavery and broken black men, slavery and destroyed families, slavery and separated families, The wipping post and slavery
Ma name is John Smith.
Ah, been in dis here plantation since a
was a young chile..sold offin’
my Mama befo’ I was ten.
But Ah memba’ my Mama face
and my Mama hands.
My Mama face wuz brown
tired and sad.
She wore a ole’ faded
red head rag. She would
take me wid her to clean
the chicken coups
and feed the cows.
Ah would play and chase
the chickens!
One day the master
of da house came and
picked me out from
ma friends and told
my Mama it wuz time
fo’ me to go!
I wuz too big to
be playin’ anymo’.
The master sent ole’
Joe, the helper to carry me off
to the market to be
sold.
Ah cried and kicked and
screamed fo’ my
Mama.
She just stood a lookin’
after me and did not
move to help me!
Ah watched my Mama
grow tiny as the horse,
cart pulled me and the otha’ slaves who
was packed into it away from
my birth plantation to a
new and dangerous beginin’!
Ah wuz sold to the Williams.
Mr. Williams was kind, but
his son was the mean one.
He liked to beat slaves fo’ nuthin’
and then leave um to die if they
put up a fuss.
He would jus’ buy mo’
slaves the next day.
The Williams plantation
was a cotton plantation.
Hard work, pickin’ cotton,
cuts up yo’ hands and stuff.
Ah grew big and strong.
I could carry three times my weight
on a good day.
So young master Williams took
good care uh me.
But ah hated ta see
my friends suffer so.
One day we heard of the
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
Ah decided to run awa’.
No, Ah told ye, that Master Williams
wuz good to me. Ah just wanted to see
my Mama so bad.
Ah did not care about good treatment.
Ah wanted to be free!
Ah made a chance run fo’ it
one night.
Ah wuz tryin’ ta meet
up wid the UnderGround RailRoad
in the forest.
Ah, made a mistake.
I told ole’ Buck, who curries the
Master’s horses. He warn’ me
not to try it! Ah, told him to minds his business!
I could out run any dog, or horse….cause the master
fed me the best food cause ah carried the heavy loads and pulled
plows when the horses went lame.
Sos’ I think that is why I wuz caught so fast.
When they draggs’ me back to the
plantation, there was ole’ Buck a lookin’
at me. From a distance he kept gettin’
bigger, and bigger. He stood right at
the wipping post and look at me….just starin’
and shaking his ole’ grey head.
When they tied me up I could see dried
blood where other slaves had been beat.
It wuz a cloudy day.
It wuz a hot night.
They found me in the day and wup me
deep into da night.
Young Master Williams took a break
from his workin’ my back, and
then told his workers to continue on
till the next mornin’ just wupin’
my back.
I stop yellin’ and then I don’t
member nothin after dat.
All I know is that I found ma’self
sittin up here wit Jesus, and da
Angels.
Oh, and I found Mama too!
Except she got a big smile on
huh face, and she wearing a white
dress and she don’t look tired no’ mo’.
Fini~~~
Fiction Depiction of Slavery
by Riveroflifelisajoy
May 24, 2008 at 9:11 am · Filed under 5 STAR RATED SPAS, American History, Black Family, BLACK HAIR STYLES, Black History, BLACK HISTORY WOMENS HEALTH, BLACKS IN HAIR CARE, HAIR CARE THROUGH THE CENTURIES, HAIR STYLING AND GREY HAIR SOLUTIONS AT QUEEN OF THE WI, HAIR WEAVING, HAIR WEAVING IS FOR ALL RACES AND BACK GROUNDS, HIGH END HAIR SALON, HIGH END SPAS, PAMPER YOURSELF SPAS, Park avenue in Jamacia Queens, QUEEN OF THE WINK HAIR SALON, SELF ESTEEM AND GREY OR THINNING HAIR, SPAS IN NEWYORK, Uncategorized, UPSCALE SPA FOR HAIR AND FOOT, WHAT DO YOU DO WITH PREMATURE GREY? and tagged: 5 STAR RATING SPAS, BLACK HAIR STYLES, HAIR STYLING AND GREY HAIR SOLUTIONS AT QUEEN OF THE WI, HAIR WEAVING, HIGH END HAIR SALON, HIGH END SPAS, PAMPER YOURSELF SPAS, Park avenue in Jamacia Queens, QUEEN OF THE WINK HAIR SALON, SELFESTEEM AND GREY HAIR OR THINNING HAIR, SPAS IN NEWYORK, UPSCALE SPA FOR HAIR AND FOOT, WHAT DO YOU DO WITH PREMATURE GREY?
I desparately needed my hair DID! CHILE! You hear me? Oh, the grey, the grey …the premature grey! What makes it grey you ask?
Family tree and all like that. But any way…let me tell you about my new MAKEOVER FROM QUEEN OF THE WINK! I was trying to contact my hair dresser and I finally found her! Lordy! I prayed she would be available because I needed a hair rescue!!
My hair was so grey and over chemicaled from hair spray….I was so embarressed. But everyone in the salon was so nice, that I had to finally relax!
Wow! I am truly happy to have gone there! Everyone is telling me how great I look!
I will feel great everyday when I can hide my old grey hair and come out into the sunshine with this great head of weave.
No, I am not embarressed at all!
I love it! ILOVE IT!! I LOOOOOOVVVVVEEEEE IT!
The owner of the shop is called QUEEN….I began to look around the shop and it was very very beautiful!
It has an Arabian Nights Look!
Quite Stunning INDEED!
THE ceiling has triple large broad cloth black and burgandy alternate cloths connected giving the ceiling the look of a very large tent! The walls are burgandy too…some type of marbled effect. Looks very expensive! But it makes you feel like you have really entered a whole different era or world!!!!
Two very large luxurious couches with gold accents, the oh, so soft pin cushion pillows placed on them at the entrance to the salon. There are white columns about 3 1/2 feet tall and taller that hold imitation large floral arrangements.
The mirrors are gigantic 16th century look….You know the looking glass type that are 5 feet plus tall! You have seen those mirrors in some pricey stores with the carved beviled wooden frames right? I told you this salon is stellar!!!!
But realize the hair workin’ go’in on in that place is STELLAR TOO!!! My hair stylist picked the right place to go and set up shop!
WOWOWOWOWO!!!!! I am telling you ….if you want a great look….get to QUEEN OF THE WINK! QUEEN OF THE WINK!! IS THE LOOK!
Got a dinner, or a prom, a wedding, or just want to hide that grey like me? HURRY AND DON’T DELAY! GET TO QUEEN OF THE WINK!
The floor is a great wood plank and has the name of the shop professionally printed on it.
I felt so honored by the desplay of respect given to each customer. The Queen, the owner herself addressed each customer throughout the day. She was very positive with me.
She also asked to hang everyone’s coat! What a nice feeling! The Queen was very caring about her clients and her staff!
I felt comfortable! Which is very rare for me! I am always self concious in hair salons! You know what I mean right?
Buy I had found my hair stylists who had moved from another location and told me that she could be found in Queen of the Wink! I am so happy about my hair stylists move! What a great place! Fabulous!!!!
Hair Weave Process:
- HAIR IS WASHED AND CONDITIONED
- HAIR IS BRAIDED DOWN(((CORN ROWED FLAT TO HEAD AS AN ANCHOR)))
- HAIR HAS A NET THAT IS PLACED ON IT BY A SEWING TECHNQUE
- HAIR HAS WEAVE WOVEN TO HEAD
- HAIR WEAVE IS SHAPED AND DESIGNED TO A STYLE
- HAIR WEAVE IS THEN FLAT IRONED OR CURLED TO DESIRED STYLE
- MINIMAL SPRAY IS USED FOR SHINE AND HOLD
Hair weaving has been done for centuries….I wish I had done it before.
Take a look into it for those of you challenged by hair thinning or severe premature grey like mine.
Check out QUEEN OF THE WINK!!!! ON HILLSIDE AVENUE AND PARSONS BLVD. IN QUEENS, New YOrk. *************************************************************************************************
EXACT NAME AND ADDRESS…
QUEEN OF THE WINK
SALON & FOOT SPA
www.queenofthewink.com
159-10B
Hillside Avenue
Jamaica NY 11432
718 262-8049
You must try it!!!!…… you WILL love it!
~~~~~RIVEROFLIFELISAJOY!!!
April 29, 2008 at 9:10 pm · Filed under Al Sharpton on Human Rights, American History, and The Politics of Economics, Barak Obama for President, black crime and its affects on the family, Black Family, Black History, Black Male Children and Poverty, Blacks in Politics, CLINTON ON JOBS, Obama and his personal struggle, One man can destroy a political campaign, Rev. Wright and his Racist Comments, Who is Rev. Wright? and tagged: 1 Man can Destroy a Political Campaign---, Obama and Clinton Democratic Race, Obama and his personal struggle, Rev. Wright and his Racist Comments, Who is Rev. Wright?
Poor Obama. If Obama did have a chance at the White House as the first black president….We all know who does not want that to happen…..Rev. Wright!
It would seem that Rev. Wright more than Hillary Clinton, or the Republican party or even Pat Buchanan for that matter does not want Obama to become the first black American president of the United States!
But why Rev. Wright? What did Obama do to deserve this apparently dilberate assualt on the minds, and mentality of the American public…black or white?
You, Rev. Wright keep spouting irrational statements about the black church in America.
You have disrespected the very memory of Dr. Martin Luther King.
It is shameful, and humilitating to me as an American.
Rev. Wright…you continously bring yourself into the spotlight for no reason at all.
Even Al Sharpton is more controled than that.
Please, members of Mr. Rev. Wrights congregation, talk to him. Reason with the Rev. Wright….even if Obama decided to walk away from the fight with the Clinton Team in defeat…do you have to make Obama walk away in shame?
Why should Obama have to walk away unable to hold up his head to battle forward for the rights and the new changes that he was attempting to bring to America as a country?
Even Obama’s mother who was an anthropologist would have disagreedwith the negative division that Rev. Wright is throwing into the Democratice race toward the White House.
Where was Rev. Wright years ago? Why does he continue to trash the Obama campaign?
*********** Is Rev. Wright being paid to talk, and talk, and talk and say things that are out of character for Obama? So strange….so very strange and so very, very sad.
Whatever Obama’s message ….it is getting trampled by the talkative Rev. Wright.
—riveroflifelisajoy
April 25, 2008 at 1:24 pm · Filed under ABOLITION OF SLAVERY WAS DONE TWO CENTURIES AGO...WHY D, Al Sharpton on Human Rights, American History, and The Politics of Economics, Barak Obama for President, Black Army Reservists, Black Children, Black Family, Black History, Black Male Children and Poverty, Blacks in Politics, Children of All Races, PAT BUCHANAN RACIST REMARKS ON SLAVERY IN AMERICA AND I and tagged: Black Children, BLACK FAMILY DESTROYED BY SLAVERY, BLACK HISTORY AND SLAVERY, BLACK MEN, BLACK WOMEN DESTROYED DURING THE MIDDLE PASSAGE DURING, ENGLAND ABOLISHED SLAVE TRADE TWO CENTURIES AGO...BUT P, PAT BUCHANAN, RACISTS REMARKS BY PAT BUCHANAN ON SLAVERY AND ITS BENE, THE HISTORY OF THE HYMN "AMAZING GRACE"
QUOTED FROM E.POLITICS.COM… REGARDING REMARKS OF PAT BUCHANAN
“America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known. “
I DO NOT GENERALLY TAKE OTHER WRITS ON THE INTERNET—BUT THIS STRUCK ME SO HARD THAT I HAD TO GIVE MR. COLIN DELANY ANOTHER AREA IN WHICH TO VENT. IT WOULD APPEAR THAT MR. PAT BUCHANAN SEEMS TO FEEL THAT PEOPLE OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE ARE TO BE THANKFUL FOR THE “BENEFITS” OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA.
I RECENTLY VIEWED THE MOVIE “AMAZING GRACE”, AN HISTORIC MOVIE ABOUT THE BATTLE HELD IN ENGLAND BY WILLIAM WILLBERFORCE, A MERCHANT WHO BEING IN POLITICS AT THE TIME FOUGHT AGAINST SLAVERY, HAVING BEEN INFLUENCED BY HIS PASTOR, JOHN NEWTON, ( A REFORMED SLAVE TRADER WHO WROTE THE FAMED “AMAZING GRACE” HYM THAT EVERYONE TAKES FOR GRANTED).
THE EVENT TOOK PLACE, ACCORDING TO THE MOVIE REVIEW WRITTEN BY REV. BRYAN GRIEM “OVER TWO CENTURIES” AGO–DURING THE TIME BETWEEN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AT THE END OF THE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.” (1 MOVIE REVIEW- CHRISTIAN SPOLIGHT.COM)
THIS MOVIE WAS TOUCHING, AND MADE ME REALIZE THAT NOT ALL EUROPEANS WERE FOR THE SLAVE TRADE. YES, THERE WERE THE REFORMED SLAVE TRADERS….BUT THAT ENGLAND HAD RENOUNCED THE SLAVE TRADE BEFORE AMERICA …IS THOUGHT PROVOKING TO SAY THE LEAST. I HAD NEVER THOUGHT OF ENGLAND HAS HAVING ANY COMPASSION, OR HUMAN AWARENESS THAT THE SLAVE TRADE WAS WRONG…ON SO MANY LEVELS. ——-BUT YET, HERE TWO CENTURIES FROM THAT DATE…..HERE IS PAT BUCHANAN TELLING BARAK OBAMA AND HIS ***NEGATIVE ****BASED ALLEGED MINISTER MR. WRIGHT, THAT (ALTHOUGHT HIS STATEMENTS WERE INAPROPRIATE) THAT MR. WRIGHT SHOULD BE THANKING G-D FOR SLAVERY?
I WONDER IF WILLIAM WILBERFORCE HAD READ OR HEARD PAT BUCHANAN’S RATHER SHALLOW, LIMITED VIEWS ON HUMAN ENSLAVEMENT—WOULD HE HAVE AGREED? I THINK NOT!!!!
IN THE MOVIE, AMAZING GRACE, JOHN NEWTON, STATED THAT THE SLAVES WERE NOT THE ANIMALS, THE SLAVE TRADERS WERE THE BARBARIANS. THEY ABUSED, MISUSED, MURDERED, RAPED, ETC., ETC., ETC., THE CAPTIVE AFRICANS DURING THE “MIDDLE PASSAGE FROM AFRICA TO ENGLAND, AMERICA AND OTHER PORTS OF CALL.
HOW COULD PAT BUCHANAN MAKE SUCH A COLD, SICK STATEMENT THAT SLAVERY WAS GOOD? IF IT WAS SO GOOD….WHY DID THE X-SLAVE TRADER JOHN NEWTON WRITE THAT HYM “AMAZING GRACE” EXPLAINING HOW HE HAD BEEN WRONG FOR HIS ACTIONS AND REALIZING THE LOVE OF GOD INSPITE OF HIS OWN EVIL ACTIONS TOWARD OTHER HUMANBEINGS. EVEN IF SOMEONE LOOKS, SMELLS, LIVES, ACTS DIFFERENT THAN YOU AS A HUMANBEING
….DOES THAT GIVE YOU THE SUPREME RIGHT TO DEMORALIZE THAT HUMAN BEING? I THINK NOT…..THUS THAT BEAUTIFUL HYMN “AMAZING GRACE” AND THE MAN WILLIAM WILBURFORCE WAS BORN TO FIGHT THE INJUSTICE OF SLAVERY AND THEN WIN IN ENGLAND…SETTING THE STAGE FOR THE CHANGE TO TAKE PLACE IN AMERICA.
IS PAT BUCHANAN STATING BASICALLY THAT BLACKS OR ANY OTHER PEOPLE OF BROWN, OR YELLOW SKIN WOULD NOT, COULD NOT HAVE BEEN A PART OF TODAYS SOCIETY WERE IT NOT FOR THE SO CALLED BENEFITS OF SLAVERY?
IS HE SO LIMITED ON WORLD HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF HUMAN PSYCHO BEHAVIOR THAT HE WOULD DECIDE THAT TO HARM AN ENTIRE RACE OF PEOPLE BY ABUSE, AND ENSLAVEMENT IS BETTER SO THAT THEY COULD BE TRAINED, EDUCATED, AND CIVILIZED?
MY COLLEGE COURSES CONTAINED SOME AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND THE SLAVE TRADE. THERE WERE NO BENEFITS TO SLAVE TRADE. I AM THE FIRST GENERATION WITHIN MY MOTHER’S FAMILY TO ATTEND COLLEGE, AND MY MOTHER ATTEMPTED TO FINISH COLLEGE, BUT FAMILY CONCERNS TOOK THE CENTER STAGE IN HER LIFE.
WHY DIDN’T MY MOTHER GO TO COLLEGE BACK IN THE THIRTIES? MY MOTHER”S FATHER WAS UNEDUCATED, AND SO WAS HER MOTHER. THEY COULD READ ENOUGH TO CLEAN, OR DO BASIC WORK IN DOMESTIC LOCALS. SO WHERE IS MR. BUCHANAN GETTING HIS BASIS TO JUSTIFY HIS THOUGHTS ON THE BENEFITS OF SLAVERY?
WHY ARE SO MANY BLACK AND LATINO PEOPLE NOT HAS SUCCESSFUL AS THEIR COUNTERPART AMERICAN’S? THIS TOPIC WOULD TAKE ME SEVERAL IF NOT HUNDREDS OF BLOG SPACE TO ADDRESS.
ANY HOW, PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THE MOVIE CALLED, AMAZING GRACE , FEATURING:
- IOAN GRUFFUDD
- ALBERT FINNY
- BENEDICT GUMBERBATCH
- MICHAEL GAMBON
- RAMOLA GARAI
DIRECTED BY MICHAEL APTED
DISTRUBED BY SAMUEL GOLDWYN
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING OPEN LETTER TO PAT BUCHANAN FROM
A WHITE MALE NAMED “COLIN DELANY” AT e.politics.com
AND THEN CONSIDER “THE BENEFITS OF SLAVERY” ACCORDING TO MR. BUCHANAN—THANK YOU…riveroflifelisajoY
April 18, 2008 at 1:36 am · Filed under All Race Families, American History, Black Children, Black Family, Black History, BLACK HISTORY WOMENS HEALTH, Black Women Journalists, BLACK WOMEN PREACHERS AND ITS AFFECTS ON THEIR MARRIAGE, Blogs About Wendy Williams, Charlemane The G-d @ WBLS Wendy Williams Experience ***, Decline of African/Black American marriages, Decline of American Marriages Period!, Domestic Violence, Ethics in Media, Faith, Family in Crisis, fear of being alone, Fear of the unknown, Health, Hot 97 Ms. Jones, How Professional Mentors influence the Young, How to Respond to another's troubles, How to strengthen your Marriage, Leadership and Its Responsibility, Ms. Jones at Hot 97 and Domestic Violence topics, Ms. Jones at Hot 97 attacking The Wendy Williams Queen, OEEO on the Job, Power House Juanita Bynum and the Black Man that Loves, POWER HOUSE WENDY WILLIAMS AND THE BLACK MAN THAT LOVES, POWERFUL BLACK WOMEN AND THE MEN THAT LOVE THEM....CAUS, Queen of all Media, Selfesteem, Selfishness, single parenting, SLAVERY AND THE BLACK AMERICAN MARRIAGE IN TODAY'S SOCI, Trophy Wives, WENDY WILLIAMS EXPERIENCE, Wendy Williams Experience 107.5 wbls and tagged: A Preachers Wife, and the Preacher is a Wife, Blogs About Juanita Bynum, Blogs About Juanita Bynuma and Domestic Violence, Blogs About Kevin Hunter, Blogs About Nicole Spence and Wendy Williams EEO Case, Blogs About Wbls 107.5, Blogs About Wendy Williams, Blogs About Wendy Williams Experience, Juanita Bynuma Power House Woman, Wendy Williams Experience---Power House Woman
Before I proceed allow me to explain. It is important to understand this one major point. NO WOMAN SHOULD BE ABUSED FOR ANY REASON AT ALL! NO HUMANBEING SHOULD BE ABUSED FOR ANY REASON AT ALL!
Now, I will proceed. I looked at the blogs and news paper articles on Minister Juanita Bynum and her marriage abuse/domestic violence episode that is ripping her marriage and ministry.
Then I looked at Wendy Williams of the Wendy Williams Experience, and her EEO case with Nicole Spence involving her husband Kevin Hunter and –the domestic violence episodes that are threatening her very lucrative career.
I began to wonder. Wendy has a following of faithful listeners, and Juanita Bynum has a following of faithful listeners TOO!
Strange huh?! Except Wendy does not preach the Gospel.
Wendy has a daily four hour show that goes from 2:00 P.M. until 7:00 P.M. . Juanita Bynum has a church, has CDs, DVD’s for sale, she tours the country and many, many other options for reaching her flock of faithful followers!
The obvious similarity is that they are both HIGH POWERED TYPE- A- PERSONALITY BLACK WOMEN!
Who can rival them?—–THEIR HUSBANDS!
Both Wendy Williams and Juanita Bynum are both powerful black women that stand tall and stong in their own work and careers.
Yet they are challenged by the problems of domestic violence in their home ((((which is being displayed publicly))) despite their efforts to keep private pain private.
Why are their husband’s possibly challenging these two strong women in their careers?
Why would the husbands of these two very opposite…yet equally powerful and influential women– allow their private marital behavior jeopardize their very successful wives in the year 2007 and 2008?
Let us think for a moment….As African Decent women, Wendy Williams and Juanita Bynum have come a long way and have taken the lead within the black community in the United States, and possibly even in the world and the “global economy!” **Not to mention Ophra of course***
Wendy Williams was broadcasting from California today! She attracts all walks of life, despite her sporadic rants about “white people” and her blackness.
She recently complained about how her son’s Montclair New Jersey school district have suggested that the children wear “green” for St. Patricks Day. But when she had inquired as to what the children could wear for “Black History Month,” or “Martin Luther King Day”….she was flatly told that there was nothing that the children could wear for such annual events in American Society.
So Wendy did not say that she would not have her son wear green….or wait a minute …my mind is not clear if she was against him actually wearing the green but I remember Wendy Williams stating “I have a plan for that day.” This is a strong woman.
She maintains her “HOW YOU DON’IN” AND “Hee Haw” for the “Donkey People (folks who do not know how to avoid being used and abused, and coming back for more…or the people who “steal” other people’s mates etc., etc.,) But as she states….”At the end of the day …I am a mother and a wife!”
That is why this whole circumstance of the domestic violence and the Nicole Spence EEO issue has floored me.
That is why I looked at Juanita Bynum, whose “No More Sheets” sermon stirred so many Christian and Non-Christian Believers to stop taking less in life; stop taking less in their personal relationships; and take back from the devil what he stole from them….their pride, their self esteem, their will to live, their joy…..etc., etc..
Believe it or not….Wendy Williams and Juanita Bynum have alot in common….They just reach people in a different way. Juanita Bynum preaches and uses scripture and Wendy Williams uses a SideKick Charlemene. Wendy Williams also uses her various interactive draws called Dons and Divas Dances, and even children in events for Easter (last year 2007).
I did not hear anything about a children Dons and Divas Kiddie affair for 2008—I might have missed it. Sound Effects, Ghetto Street Talk, Alternative Life style talk and various genres of communication to preach her message of intelligence.
Wendy always tries to tell those who feel like misfits in the current society that they will be accepted on her show.
Now, unfortuneately I have seen, and heard about the Christian Church…not so nice things on the level of accepting the”misfits of society” based on religious reasons….(((despite Jesus reprimand of men who wanted to stone the harlot woman for her sins….
Jesus said, “He without sin cast the first stone….and No one cast the stone….they all walked away ashamed.” Jesus truly turned to the harlot woman and told her to “Go and sin no more, your sins are forgiven!” Sometimes this verse is very seldom discussed or preached….I wonder why?
Well, any way….I will continue this further later on.
But just think about it for a minute….The two women I am comparing and contrasting here are both black, high powered…..and very, very, very famous in the black community for different reasons…yet they both suffer from domestic violence.
But my question still remains….Is it the effects of the power and the fame on the marriage that causes the stress and the strain?
Did these two women, or other women permit themselves to stay in bad marriages, or abusive relationships in order to maintain that appearance of SUCCESS to the OUTSIDE WORLD AT LARGE?
To many Christians, it does not seem proper to have a broken marriage after telling people how “Jesus can set the sinner free from bondage to death, hell and the grave.”
It looks odd that Jesus is seemingly unable to prevent two Christians from breaking up, or fighting with each other over serious or silly issues.
Personality conflicts, irreconsilible differences that legal documents site for marriage break ups…seem strange in the Christain faith…because we are suppose to look beyond our differences and look at what fits the marriage like glue….JESUS!
So that is possibly why the Powerful Juanita Bynum and her abusive marriage/domestic violent episode is rocking the Christian Church and is so very painful and humiliating to watch, and hear about in the media.
We want Jesus to fix it. But see, it has to be fixed within the two people….they have to both be willing….they have to release the issues that have bound them and then open themselves to healing.
How difficult is that for such a Powerful Preacher Juanita Bynum and her Powerful preacher husband?
With Wendy Williams, the struggle is severe but also it takes a different turn. Wendy’s job as a Radio Shock Jock Journalist, is one in which she constantly opens the private lives of well known celebrities to public view through discussion, or interview.
Now, listen, Wendy always states….”I did not do the actual research….I only repeated what I read National Enquirer or “Life and Style” Magazine. So you can’t say I had an insider tell me and I let the cat out of the bag.”—Wendy Williams…(paraphrase only)
No, but she does discuss celebrity gossip as a major part of her show ~~~~just like I am writing about and comparing and contrasting her and Juanita Bynum.
If you do not pass gossip along…then you are not a gossiper….but if you join in on the chain of lies…or truths…or whatever they be….you then cannot say that you are not part of the problem….can you?
Example, Britney Spears personal struggles have been so hightlighted by the media that every body knows that Britney Spears may go out on the town with out underwear on ….to night clubs etc. How do we all know about that?
Because the media gossip columnist and Rag Mags, and Shock Jocks on the radio, and even the regular news channels are constantly showing pictures, or describing Britney Spears even doing mundane activities like shopping with a friend.
Thus Wendy Williams is being trashed by her rivals for being a gossip shock jock and now she is embroiled in her own personal dilemmas.
So her rivals on Hot 97 are jumping up and down at her troubles and Wendy is catching the Heat!
Wendy is catching the heat like no one else…except Janet Jackson did after her “wardrobe malfunction” during that football game a couple of years ago. Perfect lovable Janet Jackson made a big mistake and it took several years to live it down.
The public is not very forgiving of its’ “American Idols”–so it seems. Thus the troubles of Wendy Williams—high powered black woman in a high stakes position in the radio and television media/journalism industry….So again I ask…
.Why would her also “black” husband not realize the opportunity they both have to pave the road for young minorities of all races….are the issues in the marriage that severe or that trivial?
It is like being at the top of a mountain….Let’s say Mount Everest….a very tall mountain upon which you can see the future….and yet you worry about a splinter in your finger!
To remedy that splinter is easy….but that distance you wish to travel will be a long, long road filled with bumps, valleys, dark places, and bogs….so move forward and not look back.
It is sad to see our hopefuls that give our youth vision….for the Old Testament states….”Without a Vision the People Perish!”
So that is why I focused on these two women and the men they are married to. Do they not realize that their lives have impacted on so many generations to come? Probably not.
The problem I have with domestic violence is that it appears that the man (any man) who either rapes a woman, or beats a woman….uses those extreme methods to have POWER over a situation inwhich the man feels powerless. This is a difficult issue to say the least.
What do you think?
Riveroflifelisajoy
April 2, 2008 at 11:11 am · Filed under All Race Families, amateur poetry and prose writing, American History, and tradegy, Art, BAD BEDSIDE MANNER OF DOCTORS, being disabled and dependant, Black Children, Black Family, Black History, Black Male Children and Poverty, black male teens, Children, Children of All Races, children with seizure/epilepsy, EPILEPSY, Faith, Family in Crisis, Family Leave Act and Epilepsy/seizure, fear of being alone, fear of death and dying, Prose Poetry and tagged: Child Reaction to Doctors, Doctors Bedside Manner, Medical Diagnosis, Prescriptions and Their Side effects, prose poetry on coping with severe medical conditions, prose poetry on family in crisis, Prose Poetry on health
Cross Over and move out the way
Sometimes the river does not
sway, the tide is high and
my spirit is low
I do not want to look back
or let go
What do I say to my child
to day
His love of life has
been challenged,
like a dry twig broken
and chips of it splinter
and fall away
His health is limited
yet a picture of health
is he
So why this sad problem
that plagues me today
The doctor looks cool, and
medical team too serene
Your child has to take
xxxmiligrams and
that is all…
Have a nice day
Go forth, leave the
hospital and jump back
into the stream. river of life
and move on
after this limited 5 day
hospital stay
But wait, I have more questions,
What about the side affects….
“OH, he just might be a bit sleepy…that is all
any way…have a good day!
No, NO! I need to say this, I have to ask
that….do not dismiss me so easily
For I must fight for my child
I must question, and stay longer if
I must
For though you are the doctor…I cannot
entirely trust
for each patient has
different needs, and questions…so let us reason,
let us rationalize before we say our goodbyes!
So again I say dear Doctor
today—crossover from your generalized sermon, and
medical doctrine
Crossover to a parent who is human, and alive..
Because the condition of which you speak
is not simple to me
not simple to my child
just simple medical diagnosis to you
So please….cross over from the cold
cruel world of illness
disease
and speak
Woman to Woman, possibly Mother to Mother
please.
Fini
Riveroflifelisajoy
MIDDLE PASSAGE AND THE MEMORIES OF A SLAVE~~~Fiction by Riveroflifelisajoy
May 24, 2008 at 2:10 pm · Filed under ABOLITION OF SLAVERY WAS DONE TWO CENTURIES AGO...WHY D, Al Sharpton on Human Rights, American History, Barak Obama for President, Black Army Reservists, Black Children, Black Family, Black History, Black Male Children and Poverty, black male teens, BLACK WOMEN DESTROYED DURING THE MIDDLE PASSAGE DURING, Blacks in Sports, BRUTALITY OF SLAVERY AND MIDDLE PASSAGE, Business and Human Rights Ethics, CHARLES DARWIN THEORY OF EVOLUTION AND THE ENDANGERED P, children and mothers's in slavery, CLINTON ON JOBS, Coping with Death, Coping with Emotional Pain of Tradegy, Coping with Loss, Culture lost and regained through slavery, Decline of African/Black American marriages, Faith, Family in Crisis, fear of being alone, fear of death and dying, Fear of the unknown, FICTION WRITING ABOUT SLAVERY, FREE WRITE, Have Faith in Spite of the Circumstances, Health, HILLARY CLINTON AND BARAK OBAMA, Hillary Clinton for President, Human Rights Issues, Lincoln and Douglas Debates, Negro Doll Makers, Negro Men In Medicine, Obama and his personal struggle, Obama on RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE FOR ALL AMERICANS--spee, PAT BUCHANAN RACIST REMARKS ON SLAVERY IN AMERICA AND I, PAT BUCHANNON AND HIS VIEWS THAT BLACKS SHOULD BE THANK, plantations and broken black families, Poverty in America, Racism, Religion and our Faith, Religion and Trust in God, Rev. Wright and his Racist Comments, Save the Children, SELF REFLECTION, Selfesteem, Selfishness, Short stories by Amatuers, single parenting, slavery and broken black men, slavery and destroyed families, slavery and separated families, SLAVERY AND THE BLACK AMERICAN MARRIAGE IN TODAY'S SOCI, SLAVERY AND THE WEST INDIES AND ABROAD, THE KENNEDY FAMILY BACKS OBAMA, THE VOYAGE FROM MOTHERLAND AFRICA TO THE NEW LAND AMER, The wipping post and slavery, Thoughtless words, Trusting God for All things, Uncategorized, Views from Within, Writing and tagged: children and mothers in slavery, Culture lost and regained through slavery, Mini Short, plantations and broken black families, Short stories by Amatuers, slavery and broken black men, slavery and destroyed families, slavery and separated families, The wipping post and slavery
Ma name is John Smith.
Ah, been in dis here plantation since a
was a young chile..sold offin’
my Mama befo’ I was ten.
But Ah memba’ my Mama face
and my Mama hands.
My Mama face wuz brown
tired and sad.
She wore a ole’ faded
red head rag. She would
take me wid her to clean
the chicken coups
and feed the cows.
Ah would play and chase
the chickens!
One day the master
of da house came and
picked me out from
ma friends and told
my Mama it wuz time
fo’ me to go!
I wuz too big to
be playin’ anymo’.
The master sent ole’
Joe, the helper to carry me off
to the market to be
sold.
Ah cried and kicked and
screamed fo’ my
Mama.
She just stood a lookin’
after me and did not
move to help me!
Ah watched my Mama
grow tiny as the horse,
cart pulled me and the otha’ slaves who
was packed into it away from
my birth plantation to a
new and dangerous beginin’!
Ah wuz sold to the Williams.
Mr. Williams was kind, but
his son was the mean one.
He liked to beat slaves fo’ nuthin’
and then leave um to die if they
put up a fuss.
He would jus’ buy mo’
slaves the next day.
The Williams plantation
was a cotton plantation.
Hard work, pickin’ cotton,
cuts up yo’ hands and stuff.
Ah grew big and strong.
I could carry three times my weight
on a good day.
So young master Williams took
good care uh me.
But ah hated ta see
my friends suffer so.
One day we heard of the
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
Ah decided to run awa’.
No, Ah told ye, that Master Williams
wuz good to me. Ah just wanted to see
my Mama so bad.
Ah did not care about good treatment.
Ah wanted to be free!
Ah made a chance run fo’ it
one night.
Ah wuz tryin’ ta meet
up wid the UnderGround RailRoad
in the forest.
Ah, made a mistake.
I told ole’ Buck, who curries the
Master’s horses. He warn’ me
not to try it! Ah, told him to minds his business!
I could out run any dog, or horse….cause the master
fed me the best food cause ah carried the heavy loads and pulled
plows when the horses went lame.
Sos’ I think that is why I wuz caught so fast.
When they draggs’ me back to the
plantation, there was ole’ Buck a lookin’
at me. From a distance he kept gettin’
bigger, and bigger. He stood right at
the wipping post and look at me….just starin’
and shaking his ole’ grey head.
When they tied me up I could see dried
blood where other slaves had been beat.
It wuz a cloudy day.
It wuz a hot night.
They found me in the day and wup me
deep into da night.
Young Master Williams took a break
from his workin’ my back, and
then told his workers to continue on
till the next mornin’ just wupin’
my back.
I stop yellin’ and then I don’t
member nothin after dat.
All I know is that I found ma’self
sittin up here wit Jesus, and da
Angels.
Oh, and I found Mama too!
Except she got a big smile on
huh face, and she wearing a white
dress and she don’t look tired no’ mo’.
Fini~~~
Fiction Depiction of Slavery
by Riveroflifelisajoy
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