Barack Obama's Acceptance Speech

I am a much better reader than listener (that's a bit tragic) so to that end I am posting the link ( because the actual text is too long) of last night's acceptance speech so that I can revisit it should he actually become our next President.

http://www.demconvention.com/barack-obama/

I thought the speech was amazing last night but after reading it -- I'm convinced that it was amazing. This guy's has so much finesse, charisma and intelligence that it's difficult for me to hold against him his voting record relating to abortion (particularly late term). Although I must confess that the tribal part of myself wants to see a black President of the United States.

But McCain made an absolutely brilliant move politically with his VP selection, Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska. She is a right wing christian conservative (yeah, yeah and yeah) who after learning that the child she was carrying had Down Syndrome made the decision to continue the pregnancy. My friends, it is ON!!!! I am sure that I am not the only "on the fence christian conservative" who felt moved by Mr. Obama's impassioned acceptance speech last night, who now as a cooler head prevails is thinking Ms. Palin is just the type of person we want to see in the White House (Or at least next in line) So, I can't wait until the Republican convention next week.

Well, here is Mr. Obama's acceptance speech if you wish to watch:

70% of Black Women are Single!!!

My friends are really in complete denial!!! I want to make the point that I am not bashing black men because I feel that "Mini-me" should be open to the possibility of dating outside of our race. It's just that statistically the odds of "marriage" aren't good and this stupid-azz notion of "wifey" (definition: (n) a stature which is a above girlfriend, or one acknowledged as wife material yet still a single black woman) is becoming ever more prevalent and acceptible to these silly women (but I digress). I want to make the point that black men aren't completely to blame. Women, we need to stop being loosey-goosey with our "stuff" and keep our legs closed. We show people how to treat us and if we act like whores we will be treated no better than whores. Wait.... I hear it playing again in my head by the "legions of black women in denial" heretofore called BWID's "White women are loose too" to which I respond--"SO WHAT!!!! 70% OF WHITE WOMEN ARE NOT HAVING BABIES OUT OF WEDLOCK AND 70% OF WHITE WOMEN AREN'T SINGLE!!!!" Anyway, check out this clip....


So, there are good black men in the world!!! Yippee!!! Mini-me, listen to your Mommy...Don't limit yourself or you will be a part of the stats my Love.

Toby Keith brings chickens home to roost

Toby Keith gave his commentary on how black folks feel about Barack Obama and why he has made it so far in the race for the White House. According to Toby-- Barack has made it so far because.... well, listen for yourself



Now what's most upsetting about this is some of us are stupid enough to think that way about Black people who are educated and feel no need to stay inside of the "black box". If only I could count the number of time I have been accused of acting and speaking white because I properly conjugate my verbs. How many times I have been accused of this very thing by people who look like me because I choose to be Me and not some caricature of what a "down" black woman.

Toby Keith is just regurgitating the same disparaging nonsense that he has no doubt heard some ignorant black person say. These folks (ignorant black people) have no right to be indignant because they put this stupid crap out there so why get angry when the chicken comes home to roost!!! Same goes for the "N" word but that's a blog for another day.

Believers Vs. Thinkers....Can't we all get along?

My faith informs my world view and there is hardly a day that passes that I am not the recipient of some random and even unintentionally disputatious comment by friend, family member or co-worker. It causes me to pause and think "Do they really hear what they are saying?" I can almost understand "non believers" going along with the agendas and notions that are at play in our Godless culture, but what baffles me is how Christians are often indistinguishable from the non-christians in this regard. I am not referring to our daily deportment or our lifestyles (which is another subject for another day) I'm talking about where we (Christians) stand in the marketplace of ideas. I wonder if we are too busy, too pre-occupied, too complacent, or just too lazy to think for ourselves. Is it easier to just let someone else define what we believe and why we believe it?

For fear of being annoyingly opinionated and confrontational and because I sometimes don't have the energy or the inclination to engage in debate, I let it go and I blog. But I can't help but wonder what it would be like if more "Believers" would think and if more "Thinkers" would believe-- ah.... Utopia!

African American....Why did we let Jesse do this to us?

When I was in my sophomore year of college circa 1983 I went to bed one night black and woke up African-American, well at least that's what Jesse told me to call myself....NOT!!!!

Below is an article by my favorite scholar Thomas Sowell:

Did anyone ever call Franklin D. Roosevelt a "Dutch American" or Dwight Eisenhower a "German
American"? It would have been resented, not only by them and their supporters, but by Americans in general. These men were Americans -- not hyphenated Americans or half Americans. Most black families in the United States today have been here longer than most white families. No one except the American Indians can claim to have been on American soil longer. Why then call blacks in the United States "African Americans," when not even their great-great great-grandparents ever laid eyes on Africa? It is certainly understandable that activists, politicians and others who wish to divide Americans for their own purposes would push the notion of "African Americans." They also push such things as the "African" holiday Kwanzaa -- which originated in Los Angeles -- and "black English" or "ebonics," which originated centuries ago in particular localities in Britain, and is wholly unknown in Africa. Names are just part of the process of creating wholesale frauds about the past, in order to advance special agendas in the present. Personal names are also part of that fraud. The vogue of repudiating black family names that supposedly were given by slaveowners in times past is another reflection of the widespread ignorance of history among Americans in general, as a result of our dumbed-down education. Slaves were not only not given family names, they were forbidden to have family names. In many parts of the world, family names began with the elites, and only over the centuries moved down the social scale until ordinary people were allowed to have them. In England, common people began to have family names only after the Middle Ages, and in Japan it was the late 19th century before commoners could use family names. It was the 20th century before ordinary people in Iran were allowed -- and directed -- to have family names. Slaveowners in the American antebellum South were especially opposed to slaves having family names because such names emphasized family ties -- and the only legally recognized tie of a slave was to his owner, who could sell him miles away from his kin. The slaves themselves, however, used family names to create a sense of family, though they were careful not to use these names around whites. Even after Emancipation, blacks who had been raised in slavery often hesitated when some white person asked them their family name. The so-called "slave names" that so many blacks began repudiating in the 1960s, were neither given to them by slaveowners nor were they usually the slaveowners' family names. They were names chosen despite prohibitions, in order to symbolize family ties that were often stronger than those in today's ghettoes. The late Herbert Gutman -- a tough-minded historian -- was once on the verge of tears as he described the desperate efforts of blacks in the years after Emancipation to try to find family members who had been sold, sometimes hundreds of miles away. These poor and illiterate people would find somebody who could read and write, who would write what were called "inquiring letters" to black churches in the South. In these churches, someone would then read these letters aloud to the congregations, asking if anybody who knew anything about the person being sought would speak up, so that this family could be reunited again. Those who try to claim that the shattered families in today's ghettoes are "a legacy of slavery" ignore the fact that, a hundred years ago, a slightly higherpercentage of blacks than of whites were married and most black children were raised in two-parent families, even during the era of slavery. As late as 1950, a higher percentage of black women than of white women were married. The broken families of today are a legacy of our own times and our own ill-advised notions and policies. Of all the reactions against the supposed "slave names" among blacks, the most painfully ironic has been the taking of Arab names instead. The Arabs engaged in massive enslavement of Africans before the Europeans began to -- and continued long after the Europeans stopped. One of the many reasons for studying history is to prevent history from being misused for current hidden agendas. Names are just one of the things being misused in this way.

Painfully provocative,uh...........When will we stop falling for the liberal left-wing rhetoric of our time and start thinking for ourselves???

Know Thy Party....

"If Black people get off of this plantation of the mind that the unaccountable democratic machine has us on -- then we become a threat to them" - Pastor Harry Jackson

Do We Raise Our Sons to Anticipate Marriage?

As my cousin, daughter and I drove to get crabs at "Ruff & Ready" this Sunday our casual conversation turned into a heated debate. As usual I was the odd woman out. My daughter was discussing the fact that one of her very best friends is dating a white boy and I casually made the off the cuff comment that "if she (my daughter) had any sense she would too". I really didn't think I meant it until I was forced to defend why I made such a comment.

Being a mother who wants only the best for her beloved little "mini-me", I want her to date and ultimately marry someone who is going to value her and love her as Christ loved the church. I want her to be with a man who understands the institution of marriage who will put her needs before his own. Now, I certainly do not think that white men corner the market on husbandtry-- but white men generally start looking for a wife in their late 20's to early 30's and that is not generally the case with black men. I have been told by many of my friends and family members that I place far too much emphasis on marriage so my natural conclusion is that we don't really value marriage very much in the black community and therefore we don't encourage or son's or daughter's for that matter to marry. With every fiber of my being I believe that therein lies the problem. It puts us at a natural disadvantage in terms of asset and wealth accumulation because how much more can two people accomplish than one -- TWICE AS MUCH!!!! (Assuming of course that we are talking about two enterprising and productive people). So am I a horrible, bourgeois, elitist because I want my "mini-me" to be loved, covered, valued and appropriately partnered? Or am I just pragmatic to a fault because I'm calling a spade a spade (oops, no pun intended) If she limits her dating pool to men who are more concerned with being "ballers" than with starting a family and building a future with one woman then isn't she setting herself up to be yet another "single, black women" getting things done (albeit quite well) on her own. Why would any mother in her right mind want her daughter to struggle through life alone (Yeah, I know she'll have Jesus -- Don't we all )?

I ultimately did not win this argument with my dear cousin and daughter as I wasn't able to effectively communicate my point with all the screaming going on between us. But hopefully this will all be a moot point because "mini-me" will meet one of those black man who actually wants to take a wife and build a life and legacy together-- but I think chances of that are as good as "mini-me" buying a million dollar lottery ticket. If I'm wrong then why are there so many single black women? By the way, these women are lying if they say they don't need a man. While we may not need a man to take care of us financially or even physically (some of us can do a better job of that ourselves anyway) on an emotional level our deepest human need is to love and be loved in return.

OBAMA CLINCHES THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION!!!

Well, we have finally done it. A black man may well in fact become the next President of these United States!!!!! I wish he weren't such a liberal democrat! I love this photograph.... A man who loves his wife -- What a team!!!! I hope Mr. Obama really meant it when he said last night:

If we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth. This was the moment – this was the time – when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves, and our highest ideals. Thank you, God Bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America.

-- Barack Obama, June 3, 2008

I would really be on cloud nine if a black conservative man or woman were running on the Republican ticket. Perhaps in 2012 Condelessa Rice or Alan Keyes will run. By that time hopefully Black America will have awaken from delusion that the Democrats actually have our best interest at heart and entertain the possibility that Republicans may have solutions which would better serve our community. Social welfare programs are not the answer. Remember the old African adage -- Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day-- Teach him to fish and he will eat for a lifetime..... We need to break the cycle of poverty that has plagued our communities for generations. We need to keep families intact in order to accumulate wealth. Single moms can accomplish great things but how much more can be accomplished with two working together like the Barack and Michelle Obama.

A Word about the "Strong Black Woman"....

I think it's time we let this moniker go. It doesn't serve us well....

That by the sole virtues of my race and gender I was supposed to be the consummate professional, handle any life crisis, be the dependable rock for every soul who needed me, and yes the classic--require less from my lovers than they did from me because after all, I was a STRONG BLACK WOMAN and they were just ENDANGERED BLACK MEN.
Retirement was ultimately an act of salvation. Being an SBW was killing me slowly. -- Joan Morgan, "When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost"

Our Strength is personified in our quiet perserverance not in our bold proclaimations.

Booker T. Washington on Race Pimps.....

In 1911, former slave Booker T. Washington prophetically wrote about "black leaders"....

"There is (a) class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. … There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."

WOW.... Can you say Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright

See What Happens When You Cast Your Pearls to Swine....

Well yesterday I send out a silly little joke which wasn't even very funny to a few of the most arrogant men I know and look what I started:

This is the stupid joke.... thereafter the debacle with my "poor deceived friend - (PDF)"

CBW : Slightly blasphemous but funny none the less.

"Lord, I have a problem."

"What's the problem, Eve?"

"I know that you created me and provided this beautiful garden and all
of these wonderful animals, as well as that hilarious comedic snake, but
I'm just not happy."

"And why is that Eve?"

"Lord, I am lonely, and I'm sick to death of apples."

"Well, Eve, in that case, I have a solution. I shall create a man for you."

"Man? What is that Lord?"

"A flawed creature, with many bad traits. He'll lie, cheat and be vain;
all in all, he'll give you a hard time. But he'll be bigger, faster and
will like to hunt and kill things. I'll create him in such a way that he
will satisfy your physical needs. He will be witless and will revel in
childish things like fighting and kicking a ball about. He won't be as
smart as you, so he will also need your advice to think properly."

"Sounds great," says Eve, with ironically raised eyebrows, "but
what's the catch Lord?"

"Well ... you can have him on one condition."

"And what's that Lord? "

"As I said, he'll be proud, arrogant and self-admiring, so you'll
have to let him believe that I made him first. And it will have to be
our little secret ..... you know, woman-to-woman."

PDF: Hey, your not going to heaven with lies like this.

CBW: Well I conceded that it was blasphemous but I'm sure God has a sense of humor.

PDF : Is past life regression blasphemous? Am I going to hell? Will you save me?

CBW: I'm not sure if it's blasphemous but I will get back to you on that. Are you going to hell? not my call. Will I save you? I can't save you but Jesus can, if you spent as much time in the Bible rightly dividing the word of truth as you spend in your new age literature you may be surprised at how intelligent God is.

PDF: I do spend time on the bible cause God IS NEW AGE. God is everything, and New Age is based on biblical teachings. So maybe I will be saved.

CBW: My poor deceived friend. Please read the attached as soon as possible....then let's reason together. (I attached literature about the spiritual dangers of the new age movement)


PDF: Get some sleep tonight. You need a break. Clearly you lack the will to reason and to know the "truth" as it is as plain as day.

CBW: The Truth is between Genesis and Revelation and you are right it is as plain as day. Too bad you are afraid of the light. I never tire of reasoning with anyone from the scriptures. If it's not in scripture it's not relevent to my life because I am a child of the KING!!!!! Not a child of the darkness and would love for you to join my family --- you should become a King's Kid!!!!!!

PDF: I have seen and been "Embraced by the Light" I too am a child of the most high. I wish you could experience it, but you seek sin.

Well, there you have it folks the Conservative Black Woman seeks sin because she rejects past life regression and new age ideology. Oh yeah, as if you couldn't guess PDF is a liberal. As you can see PDF certainly has a liberal definition of God because according to PDF God is... I can't even bring myself to rewrite it.

I couldn't agree more Mr. Larry Elder.....

A Word From Micheal Steel on Conservatives....

Black Political History: The Untold Story

H i s t o r y T e s t
Black Political History: The Untold Story

NOTE: All answers are “b”

1. What Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery?

a. Democratic Party

b. Republican Party

2. What was the Party of Abraham Lincoln, who signed the emancipation proclamation that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today?

a. Democratic Party

b. Republican Party

3. What Party passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote?

a. Democratic Party

b. Republican Party

4. What Party passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, and was the Party of most blacks prior to the 1960s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

a. Democratic Party

b. Republican Party

5. What was the Party of the founders of the NAACP?

a. Democratic Party

b. Republican Party

6. What was the Party of President Dwight Eisenhower, who sent U.S. troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation?

a. Democratic Party

b. Republican Party

7. What Party, by the greatest percentage, passed the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s?

a. Democratic Party

b. Republican Party

8. What was the Party of President Richard Nixon, who instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables?

a. Democratic Party

b. Republican Party

9. What is the Party of President George W. Bush, who supports the U.S. Supreme Court’s University of Michigan Affirmative Action decision, and is spending over $200 billion to fight AIDS in Africa and on programs to help black Americans prosper, including school vouchers, the faith-based initiative, home ownership,and small business ownership?

a. Democratic Party

b. Republican Party

10. What Party fought to keep blacks in slavery and was the Party of the Ku Klux Klan?

a. Republican Party

b. Democratic Party

11. What Party from 1870 to 1930 used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks their rights as citizens?

a. Republican Party

b. Democratic Party

12. What was the Party of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman, who rejected antilynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission?

a. Republican Party

b. Democratic Party

13. What was the Party of President Lyndon Johnson, who called Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “that [N-word]
preacher” because he opposed the Viet Nam War; and President John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a Senator, then as president opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King, and had the FBI investigate Dr. King on suspicion of being a communist?

a. Republican Party

b. Democratic Party

14. What is the Party of current Senator Robert Byrd, who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Senator Fritz Hollings who hoisted the Confederate flag over the state capitol in South Carolina when he was the governor, and Senator Ted Kennedy who recently insulted black judicial nominees by calling them“Neanderthals” while blocking their appointments?

a. Republican Party

b. Democratic Party

15. What was the Party of President Bill Clinton, who failed to fight the terrorists after the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, sent troops to war in Bosnia and Kosovo without Congressional approval, vetoed the Welfare Reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan?

a. Republican Party

b. Democratic Party

16. What is the Party of Vice President Al Gore, whose father voted against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s, and who lost the 2000 election, as confirmed by a second recount of Florida votes by the Miami Herald and a consortium of major news organization, and the ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that blacks werenot denied the right to vote?

a. Republican Party

b. Democratic Party

17. What Party is against the faith-based initiative, against school vouchers, against school prayers, and takes the black vote for granted without ever acknowledging their racist past or apologizing for trying to expand slavery, lynching blacks, and passing the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused great harm to blacks?

a. Republican Party

b. Democratic Party

Wake up my bretheren and stop letting the Democratic Party take your vote for granted!!!!!!!!

What are You First and Foremost...Black or Christian?

I am hard pressed to find one black christian who is not a cheerleader for Barack Obama. I find this quite puzzling in lieu of his very liberal stance on partial birth abortion.

I am ready for an African American president but at what cost? Can I let that zeal overide the fact that I'm pro-life?

Check out where Mr. Obama stands and votes on the issues or our day.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Barack_Obama.htm%20-%20149k%20-