BOBBEE BEE:HIDDEN HISTORY; FEARS THE FUTURE: A MAN NAMED KING

HIDDEN HISTORY; FEARS THE FUTURE: A MAN NAMED KING
by eric d. graham


As the corporate media continues to dumb us down, educationally and politically, as a student of Baba Dick Gregory and Steve Cokley, I have learnt how to maneuver through their twisted labyrinth of lies. Therefore, in discussing the legacy of Dr. King today, always remember the political climate and historical backdrop, which defined the moment.


If you are unaware of the twisted turbulent timeline, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist,Chris Hedges brilliantly paints a ,"beautiful yet ugly image", when he wrote: "small, secret surveillance committee of goons and thugs hiding behind the mask of patriotism was established in 1908 in Washington, D.C. The group was led from 1924 until 1972 by J. Edgar Hoover, and during his reign it became known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
"FBI agents spied upon and infiltrated labor unions, political parties, radical groups — especially those led by African-Americans — anti-war groups and the civil rights movement in order to discredit anyone, including politicians such as Henry Wallace, who questioned the power of the state and big business. Agents burglarized homes and offices, illegally opened mail and planted unlawful wiretaps. Bureau leaders created blacklists. They destroyed careers and sometimes lives. They demanded loyalty oaths. By the time they were done, our progressive and radical movements, which had given us the middle class and opened up our political system, were dead."

After pondering this political reality, I encourage all of those, who are lovers of King to read two remarkable books entitled An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King Jr. and The Plot to Kill: The Truth Behind the Assassination of MLK Jr's written by Dr. William Peppers, Esq,, who was James Earl Ray's defense attorney as well as the King family's attorney that won the 1999 civil lawsuit, which proved "without a shadow of a doubt" that government agencies, were involved in the assassination of King at hands of the FBI, CIA, the US Military, the Memphis police department and the local Dixie Mafia Group.
I tried to bring out "a little bit" of this "hidden history" during my short yet impactful presentation (I Have a Dream: In the Age of Donald Trump) last year at the 17th Annual MLK Jr. Celebration in Kenansville, North Carolina, which offended some people and upset a few loyal Trump supporters, who had become accustomed to having a Kumbaya moment, while holding hands and reciting the "I Have Dream Speech" and singing "We Shall Overcome."
Despite the backlash that I received from trying to reveal Trump's racial rhetoric, white supremacist views, and Alt-right political ties, which fueled his 2016 political campaign to the Duplin County Event Center in September, as well as highlighting King's Anti-War stance in Vietnam, his Poor Man's Campaign along with his "newly" radical evolving philosophy that had him prepared to give the sermon entitled "Why America May Go to Hell" before his death.

How ironic, it is, to find out, that one year later, despite my critics, Trump is proving himself to be what I said he would be. And, America, as King had prophesied in 1968, but unable to deliver, due to being assassinated, seems as if it is heading to Hell. Especially, with the latest threats of nuclear war with North Korea, which left the US island of Hawaii in fear for their lives last week during a false missile attack.
Plus, we can't forget Trump's alleged "sh#$hole" comments, which referred to Haiti and African nations during a meeting with a bipartisan group of senators at the White House that occurred right before the MLK Celebration.
While Trump's comments were shocking, Dr. William Pepper's research and detective work in the book The Plot To Kill, is mind-boggling.
Why? Because, according to Pepper, it was actually a Memphis Police Officer, which pulled the trigger that fatally struck King on the side of the head, while he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. But, King, oddly didn't die as a result of a gun-shot wound. He allegedly died in the emergency room at the hands of the Chief Surgeon at St.Joesph's Hospital. Man, the Devil is in the Details. So, if you read Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury. You MUST READ Dr. William Pepper's The Plot to Kill: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in order to learn how "your" government really works. (bobbeeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE:GONE GIRL: IDENTITY POLITICS-(OBAMA 2.0) KAMELA HARRIS

Fool me once (Obama) Shame on you; Fool me twice (Kamela) Shame on me"

 by Eric D.Graham
GONE GIRL: IDENTITY POLITICS-(OBAMA 2.0)


With America getting ready for the 2020 election, the political scientist are behind close doors trying to create another (Black face) Frankenstein candidate with a bi-racial background like Barack Obama, just in a female form.


Yes, it feels like Deja Vu. Because, America is using another "person of color" without a Black Agenda to galvanize the Black and female vote during the rise of the #MeToo Movement to challenge the racist RedHats of Donald Trump after his historic defeat of Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Unfortunately, many feel the first-term Democratic Senator Kamala Harris of California is America's political version of "Megan Markle," ...Or, a political equivalent to the rapper Drake.

Yeah, many believe she is just a Zionist sleeper cell, a Manchurian candidate, a Democratic puppet, a false-flag feminist, and a Boule' Trojan Horse, who is trying to pimp the "descendant of slaves" by invoking the name of Shirley Chisholm, while having the audacity to announce her presidential candidacy at Howard University, to the shirking sounds of Swee-Wee from her sisters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority during MLK Day. Yes, it's all apart of the political theater being produced for the mainstream media. Politic is a dirty game ...ya'll.

But, despite her symbolic presidential announcement, political commentator, Yvette Carnell, gave a couple of warning shots to potential Black voters by suggesting that Harris was nothing more than a careerist, opportunist, representing the talented 10th, who was trying to bamboozle Blackness, in order to gain access to the White House, while playing the "person of color card" -just like Obama cleverly did.

Carnell said that Harris was using "African-Americans" simply as a backdrop for her political campaign, while making claims of wanting to be the first "Black Woman" President. Even though, she identified as Indian, Jamaican, and Canadian American.

"Politically, she is a Republican, who found herself as a Conservative Democrat...." Carnell implied.
For this reason, many see Harris as more Bobby Jindal, the 55th mayor of Louisana & former US ambassador to the UN, Nimrata "Nikki" Haley the first female governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American ( to serve as a governor in the United States than any other candidate in the past.

Yes. This identity politics can be confusing. Because, while some, like Roland Martin, sees this is as just another example of divide and conquer, in the world of plantation politics, where Kamila Harris is simply a Black woman from Jamaica running for President. Others, see her as a Jamaican, whose trying to be "Black" for her own political gain. Especially, with the recent marriage to her husband,Douglas Emhoff.

Therefore, we, as Black People, must make a clear distinction between American (Descandants of slaves and immigrants. Especially, when it comes to politics.

To make sense of this on a political landscape, Los Angeles based attorney and documentarian Antonio Moore suggested that we utilized the acronym LSCC, which stands for Lineage (ancestry or pedigree), Class, (perceived social or economic status).Struggle (political and economics) & Character (the mental and moral qualities) to judge people, understand politicians, and choose potential political allies.

This, however, is the sentiments of many scholars, during this earlier 2020 political campaign season, who believe Harris is not your typical Negro. She is, what some suggest, .... a chameleon, with corporate connection, a Jewish husband, and an open border policy. Oh,no....she is not a Black Diamond like Michelle Obama-is perceived to be. She is a Cubic Zerconia.

Matter of fact, some have even called Harris, (Jeff Sessions in a dress) after the NY Times opinion piece entitled Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor’ by Ms. Bazelon, a law professor and the former director of the Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent in Los Angeles, was published on January 17, 2018.

Yes. it seems Kamila Harris is just another problematic politician. And, as Dr. Cornell West stated "Race.....still Matters" Because, while we want to believe that we are living in a post-racial society, who we marry- still determines how we are perceived politically....So, despite, what anyone says...if Obama had a Caucasian wife when he ran for president, nobody would have voted for him in 2008. Michelle Obama, in fact, was the real reason Barack Obama made it to the White House and was loved by so many.

So, as we ponder all of these political angles, before the Homecoming parade begins, and the band starts to march, we'll have to wait and see if Harris, who invoked the spirit of Shirley Chisholm to jump-off her presidential campaign, can live up to Chisholm's slogan of UNBOUGHT AND UNBOSSED. Because, she can't "Skee-Wee" her way into the White House. (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: ALL US PRESIDENTS, LIVING AND DEAD, ARE WAR CRIMINALS.

..you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31-32

ALL US PRESIDENTS, LIVING AND DEAD, ARE WAR CRIMINALS. 
by Glen Ford

Especially at state funerals, media and politicians pretend that US presidents are honorable men, instead of the mass murderers that all of them become in office.

The daily whitewashing of imperial crimes that masquerades as “news” on corporate media becomes high ceremony when a Genocider-in-Chief dies. Now it is George Herbert Walker Bush’s turn to be canonized for bringing “'a ‘thousand points of light’ illuminating the greatness, hope, and opportunity of America to the world," in the words of the current CEO of Empire, Donald Trump. Former White House denizens Obama, Clinton and Carter also lauded the life and works of their accomplice in global predation, as did the son-of-a-Bush, George W., the under-achiever who wound up out-doing his daddy in mass murder.

As high priests of American Exceptionalism, corporate news anchors absolve the dead leader of culpability for the mega-deaths inflicted on those countries targeted for invasion, drone strikes, regime change, proxy wars, or crippling economic sanctions under his watch -- an easy task for the media glib-makers, since their colleagues sanitized those crimes while they were in progress, decades ago. But the whitewasher’s job is never done; the bodies keep piling up, “regimes” go “rogue,” meaning they disobey American dictat or otherwise get in the way of the imperial project, or run afoul of vital U.S. allies, as with the unfortunate Yemenis and Palestinians.

Whatever the human cost, it is “worth it,” as Clinton’s former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright said of the half a million Iraqi children that died as a result of U.S. sanctions and the bombing of Iraqi infrastructure – carnage begun by Daddy Bush and continued by Bill Clinton, and then begun again with Bush Junior’s “Shock and Awe” demonstration of U.S. military might. Obama got hundreds of thousands more Iraqis killed when he armed and trained head-chopping legions of Islamist jihadists to swarm the region in an attempted imperial comeback that has killed half a million Syrians, to date.

Presidential funerals are venues of absolution, mainly for crimes that are unacknowledged.

Most Americans would be shocked – or feign surprise -- if told that their country had caused the deaths of 20 to 30 million people since World War Two, a level of carnage approaching that inflicted on Europe by Hitler. But they do know the U.S. leaves dead bodies in its wake all around the planet -- Americans are not clueless, and that which they don’t know is due as much to deliberate, determined ignorance as it is to the failings of the news media. A nation born in genocide and slavery does not change its nature without undergoing a revolution, and the United States has not experienced such a transformation. (Source:Glen Ford )(bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE:THE PLOT TO CONTROL THE WORLD

THE PLOT TO CONTROL THE WORLD

THE PLOT TO CONTROL THE WORLD

The U.S. military state overthrows democratically-elected governments that it deems to be a threat to corporate interests.

Anti-imperialist, Human Rights lawyer and author Dan Kovalik in his "NEW" book The Plot to Control the World: How the US Spent Billions to Change the Outcome of Elections Around the World, addresses the broad scope of US election meddling abroad. The book provides much needed political and ideological life support to an anti-war movement in the U.S that has been rendered nearly invisible to the naked eye.

The Plot to Control the World is as detailed in its critique of U.S. imperialism as it is concise. In just over 160 pages, Kovalik manages to analyze the various ways that the U.S. political and military apparatus interferes in the affairs of nations abroad to achieve global hegemony.

He wastes no time in exposing the devastating lie that is American exceptionalism, beginning appropriately with the U.S. imperialist occupations of Haiti and the Philippines at the end of the 19thcentury and beginning of the 20th. The U.S. would murder millions of Filipinos and send both nations into a spiral of violence, instability, and poverty that continues to this day. As Kovalik explains regarding Haiti, “While the specific, claimed justifications for [U.S.] intervention changed over time- e.g., opposing the end of slavery, enforcing the Monroe Doctrine, fighting Communism, fighting drugs, restoring law and order -- the fact is that the interventions never stopped and the results for the Haitian people have been invariably disastrous.”

US expansionism has relied upon the ideology of American exceptionalism to silence criticism and weaken anti-war forces in the United States. American exceptionalism claims that the U.S. is a force for good in the world and completely justified in its wars of conquest draped in the cover of spreading “democracy and freedom” around the world. 

Kovalik, (however) challenges American exceptionalism by showing readers just how much damage that US expansionism and militarism has caused for nations and peoples in every region of the planet.Russia, Honduras, Guatemala, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Vietnam and many other nations have seen their societies devastated by U.S. “election meddling.” In Honduras, for example, a U.S.-backed coup of left-wing President Manuel Zelaya in 2009 made the nation one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist, indigenous person, or trade-union/environmental activist. Thousands of Hondurans have been displaced, disappeared, or assassinated since the coup.

The Plot to Control the World (ALSO) takes readers into the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the CIA’s coup of revolutionary Patrice Lumumba continues to haunt the resource rich nation in the form of endless US-backed genocide. It travels to Guatemala, where the CIA overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz led to a U.S.-backed slaughter of a quarter million Guatemalans under the auspices of several military dictatorships. Kovalik shows us that the election of the fascistic Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil was no aberration, as the U.S. was primarily responsible for the rise in fascism in Brazil through its direct role in placing the nation under the control of a military dictatorship in 1964. The military dictatorship predated the CIA’s ouster of Chile’s Salvador Allende in 1973, which handed the once socialist state to Augusto Pinochet’s murderous and repressive leadership. (Source:Danny Haiphong) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com) (edit EG)

BOBBEE BEE: TRUMPED-OUT LESSONS

"The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice"

EARLY MORNING SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON

When it comes to seeing ourselves clearly, we all have blind spots. So we need people who'll tell us the truth, and nothing but the truth. When someone really loves you, they'll feel compelled to point out the shortcomings in your life, the sinfulness, and areas that need improvement. You may be tempted to dismiss them, but you need to get beyond the sting of their word...s and listen for the truth in their message.

The writer in Proverbs tell us, "Wounds from a sincere friend are better than many kisses from an enemy." The truth sometimes hurts. But you must have faith that the encouragers in your life really have your best interests at heart. If you're ever to experience a sense of accomplishment in this life you need someone you can trust; someone who sees where you are; and where the path you're on is leading. If you want to really know yourself and how you come across to others, you need a trustworthy mirror committed to reflecting the truth back at you instead of what you want to hear.

And if you find yourself resenting the input you need, think about these Scriptures: "The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice. (Pr 12:15) "Pride.....breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice." (Pr 13:10). "Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed." (Pr 15:22) So, here's the question: Who tells you the truth? (Source: Word of Today) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

THE WEST IS IN DISMAY: Crisis of Political Leadership

If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials become wicked. (Pro:29:12)

THE WEST IS IN DISMAY: Crisis of Political Leadership

We are witnessing the withdrawal from Syria of the American military contingent, protests in France, the prospect of a British hard Brexit, the political decline of Angela Merkel in Germany, Netanyahu in crisis, and Mohammad bin Salman of Saudi Arabia suddenly becoming an international pariah. The contemporary crisis of leadership in Europe, the Unite...d States and among their main allies has thrown the West into chaos, leading it to one of its most critical junctures in recent decades. It is a situation brought on by the United States and its contradictory politics, which results in diminishing the sovereignty and decision-making power of Washington’s allies. Well before the election of Donald Trump, European Union leaders Merkel, Cameron and Hollande were already faltering and evidencing signs of failure.

Hollande fell in the polls because of policies favoring the interests of the elites at the expense of the increasingly poor and indebted French population. Cameron, to stave off a Labour victory under Jeremy Corbyn, promised a vote on Brexit, a decision that would eventually end up costing him his political career. Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, the undisputed master of the German political scene, suffered for the first time in fifteen years heavy electoral defeats stemming from recent migration policies.

(And)...in the United States there has been strong jostling between the political-financial-war elites for the dominance of Trump’s foreign policy. The President, either out of inexperience, ineptitude or intentionally, soon succumbed to the foreign-policy establishment, with its usual offerings of neoliberalism and brutal imperialism. Trump’s weaponized use of the dollar thereby ended up in an unintended blue-on-blue attack, with Trump’s money bags, Saudi Arabia and Israel, receiving some friendly fire in addition to the intended targets, Iran, Russia and China. An understanding between Trump and the foreign-policy establishment has therefore been reached, sealed with the appointments of Bolton and Pompeo, establishing a modus vivendi between competing interests.

This dogma of neoliberalism and brutal imperialism espoused by the foreign-policy establishment is at the heart of the problems between the United States and the rest of the world, Europe especially, only serving to accelerate the transition to a multipolar world order, about which I wrote the day after Trump’s victory. Neoliberalism and American exceptionalism are now entrenched in an “America First” policy, combining the worst elements of US imperialism and the interests of the financier oligarchy. (Source:Federico Pieraccini) (edited by EG)

BOBBEE BEE: CONGRATULATIONS TO KYLER MURRAY

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! to Oklahoma Sooners QB Kyler Murray, who played the 2015 season at Texas A&M before transferring to Oklahoma, for making history on Saturday when he was named the Sooners' seventh winner of the Heisman Memorial Trophy during a ceremony at New York's PlayStation Theater.

Murray, who was named the AP Player of the Year and the Davey O'Brien Award (nation's top quarterback) on Thursday, leads the nation in total yards (school-record 4,945), points responsi...ble for (306), passing efficiency rating (205.7; FBS record is 198.9), yards per pass attempt (11.9; FBS record is 11.1) and yards per completion (16.8, tied) garnered 517 first-place votes and 2,167 points, and was followed by Alabama's Tua Tagovailoa (1,871 points, 299 first-place votes) and Ohio States QB Dwayne Haskins (873 and 46).

By winning the 2018 version of college football's most prestigious individual honor, Murray vaulted OU to a tie for the lead — with Notre Dame and Ohio State — for the most Heisman Trophies won. With Baker Mayfield earning last year's trophy, OU also became the first school to produce back-to-back Heisman winners who were quarterbacks.

OU's Heisman Winners:1952 Billy Vessels (RB),1969 Steve Owens (RB), 1978 Billy Sims (RB), 2003 Jason White (QB),2008 Sam Bradford (QB), 2017 Baker Mayfield (QB),2018
Kyler Murray (QB) (Source: SoonerSports)

BOBBEE BEE: THE MID-WAY POINT

"The strength of the laborers is giving out." Ne 4:10 NIV

EARLY MORNING SUNDAY SCOOL LESSON
The story of Nehemiah highlights four major sources of discouragement. Lets look at the first of them: Fatigue. The people in Judah said "The strength of the laborers is giving out." Ne 4:10 NIV...

In other words, they'd worked themselves to exhaustion. They were out physically, mentally, and emotionally. Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking that discouragement is strictly a spiritual problem. We say, "Maybe I need to recommit myself to the Most High," when in fact the real problem is we're burned out. We need rest and renewal. Indeed, sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is relax, or go to bed, or take some time off. When do fatigue and discouragement Surface?

Look at verse six: "So we rebuilt the wall until all of it reached half of its height." Do you know when you're most apt to get discouraged? When you're halfway into a project!!

Everybody works hard at first. The Bible says the people, worked wit all their heart. Why? Because of the newness of the project. It was exciting and novel, but after the newness wore off and the work to boring, Life settled into a routine, then a ritual. Be careful: When fatigue walks in, faith walks out! That's why the Psalmist said: He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me besides quiet waters, He stores my soul (Ps 23:2-3 NIV)

Fatigue is one of the biggest causes of discouragement, and it often shows up about midpoint. Its why we leave so many projects unfinished. Bottom line: If you need time off, take it!!

That's way there is a halftime in football. It is time which allows the players to rest and regroup, while the coaching staff tries to make adjustments to their previous strategies made before the game after data is collected on the field.

That's why the midpoint is the most important part of an NFL season. Because, Week number 8 is when the season really starts. Because, it will determine whether you make the playoffs or make a run for the Super Bowl. or not.

So, relax Browns fans, Dolphins fans, Chiefs fans, Rams fans, and Steelers fans. We are only in week 4. (Source:The Word For Today) See More

BOBBEE BEE: LEONARD HENRY FINDS "HIGHER CALLING"

HENRY FINDS "HIGHER CALLING"

Leonard Henry, who was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the 7th round of the 2002 NFL Draft, with a three-year, $933,000 contract, has spent many hours on the football field — for the Clinton Darkhorses as well as the East Carolina Pirates, where he ranks second in career rushing yards with (3,089), which is slightly behind Hall of Fame (RB) Chris Johnson and fourth in career rushing scores (29).

Despite his short-NFL career, however,Henry, who is... the cousin of former Pittsburgh Steeler (RB) Willie Parker, has removed his shoulder pads and found a "higher-calling" in order to spread the "Word of God" in his hometown of Clinton, North Carolina at First Baptist Church, which is located on 900 College Street.

According to the Sampson Independent, "Henry has a new set of “plays,” which has him running with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and scoring “touchdowns” for the Kingdom of Heaven. In 2011, Henry married his wife Brittany and on Christmas Day in 2015, the couple was blessed by the birth of their daughter, Aliza.

As pastor of First Baptist Church, Henry says his objective is to advance the Kingdom of God by preaching and teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Henry had two well-known versus to share that he feels describes his passion. “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. — Matthew 28:19-20” (Source:SampIndepent) (fouls & fumbles)

TRADITION OF TOUGH: LEATHERNECKS LAND CANADY

TRADITION OF TOUGH: LEATHERNECKS LAND CANADY

by Eric Graham

ITS OFFICIAL!!!! former Wallace Rose-Hill Running Back Keyshawn Canady has transferred from East Carolina and committed to play football for the Leathernecks of Western Illinois University, which competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision and are members of the Missouri Valley Football Conference.
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The Missouri Valley Conference, consists of: North Dakota State, South Dakota State, Northern Iowa, Indiana State, Illinois State, Youngstown State, South Dakota, Missouri State, and Southern Illinois.

Western Illinois, who finished in 5th place this season with a (5-6) record, is located in Macomb, Illinois, with notable NFL alumni: Bryan Cox (NY Jets), Rodney Harrison (NE Patriots), Tyrin Holloway (Chi. Bears), Mike Wagner, Frank Winters (GB Packers), Rich Seubert (NY Giants), Mike Scifres (SD Chargers), Aaron Stecker (TB Buccaneers), David Bowens (Cleveland Browns), and Jason Williams(Dallas Cowboys) on its roster. (fouls & fumbles w/Patrick Williams & Eric Graham)

BOBBEE BEE: ECU FIRES MONTGOMERY

ECU FIRES MONTGOMERY BEFORE SEASON FINALE
by eric d. graham


We knew it was coming. But, we, just didn't know when.
Unfortunately, the day came before we were prepared. Because, East Carolina finally fired 40-year-old , head coach Scottie Montgomery, who posted a (9-26) overall record while in Greensville for the past three seasons, which included a disappointing 4-20 mark in the American Athletic Conference
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Montgomery, a former Duke and NFL wide receiver, landed the head coaching position at ECU after a successful stint as the Blue Devil's offensive coordinator in Durham, NC.
According to ECU, Montgomery, who once was the wide receivers coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers, had two years left on his contract with the Pirates with a base salary of $400,000, which will be paid by the athletic department.

With Montgomery out, defensive coordinator David Blackwell will coach the Pirates (3-8) in their season finale on Saturday at NC State. (fouls & fumbles)(bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: THE ARTIST

"I discipline my body and bring it into subjection" 1 Co 9:27 (NKJV)

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR TODAY


Artists not only love beauty and see it in places others don't, they're uniquely gifted to create it. They express their individuality in bold ways that enrich us all. They bring color and flair to a world that would otherwise be drab. But since none of us can live in the ideal world of our imagination, artists are sometimes all equipped to live in the real world with ...its problems and pressures. The same sensitivity that makes them creative often enslaves them to emotional swings that put people off, and ends up destroying the artist himself. (From Michael Jackson to Prince, the history books tell the story.)

The biblical character King David was artistic. He was a gifted poet, dancer, and composer of many songs. But his inability to control his impulses culminated in an affair that led to murder and the devastation of his family. Understand one thing: Every strength the Most High gives you has a corresponding weakness that must be identified and handled in the right way. The more talented you are, the more disciplined you must be. (The biblical character) Paul was wise enough to recognize his own proclivities: "I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest...when I have preached to others, I myself should be castaway."

The last few decades have proven that even people The Most High gifted to build great churches and lead great ministries aren't immune to temptation. Where there is great talent-there is great temptation. So, seek refuge in the wisdom of the Most High. (Source: Word of Today) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: IS TRUMP PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE?

PLAYING RUSSIAN ROULETTE

House of Trump, House of Putin offers the first comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Mafia that ultimately helped win Trump the White House.

It is a chilling story that begins in the 1970s, when Trump made his first splash in the booming, money-drenched world of New York real estate, and ends with Trump’s inauguration as president of the United States. That moment was the culmination of Vladimir Putin’s long mission to undermine Western democracy, a mission that he and his hand-selected group of oligarchs and Mafia kingpins had ensnared Trump in, starting more than twenty years ago with the massive bailout of a string of sensational Trump hotel and casino failures in Atlantic City. This book confirms the most incredible American paranoias about Russian malevolence.

To most, it will be a hair-raising revelation that the Cold War did not end in 1991—that it merely evolved, with Trump’s apartments offering the perfect vehicle for billions of dollars to leave the collapsing Soviet Union. In House of Trump, House of Putin, Craig Unger methodically traces the deep-rooted alliance between the highest echelons of American political operatives and the biggest players in the frightening underworld of the Russian Mafia. He traces Donald Trump’s sordid ascent from foundering real estate tycoon to leader of the free world. He traces Russia’s phoenixlike rise from the ashes of the post–Cold War Soviet Union as well as its ceaseless covert efforts to retaliate against the West and reclaim its status as a global superpower.

Without Trump, Russia would have lacked a key component in its attempts to return to imperial greatness. Without Russia, Trump would not be president. This essential book is crucial to understanding the real powers at play in the shadows of today’s world.

The appearance of key figures in this book—Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, and Felix Sater to name a few—will ring with haunting significance as Robert Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia closes in on the truth. (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEEE BEE: THE WRATH OF DONALD TRUMP

A gentle answer turns away wrath" 15:1 Proverbs

EARLY MORNING SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON

If you're an organized, time-conscious purpose-driven, make it happen kind of person you can get upset with incompetence and low productivity in others. And you can end up speaking words that hurt them and don't bring the result you hope for. In Proverbs chapter 31 here's how the Biblical character Solomon describes a wise woman: " On her tongue is the law of kindness (v.26 NKJV). Speaking ...kindly to and about others was one of this woman's core principles. And when you think about it, there's never any justification for being harsh or unkind in your communication.

Especially, if you are a so called "Christian". Hasn't the Most High been gracious with you? Then extend that same grace to others. The old adage, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me," isn't true Harsh words can impact a person for a lifetime. Many so-called "social outcasts" have been victims of verbal abuse at some point in their lives. They have suffered at the hands of parents, teachers, insecure spouses, and other battling their own emotional issues. If you find you're prone to speaking harshly to people, pray for the Most High's help (Higher Consciousness).
Whatever, it takes, including seeking help from a pastor or counselor, do it. The Bible says, "He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city." (Pr 16:32).

So,decide today to "rule your spirit" and make kindness a hallmark and guiding principle of your life. (Source:Word of Today) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: POLI-TRICKS: LIBERALS VS. CONSERVATIVES pt.1 (A MUST READ!!!)

POLI-TRICKS: LIBERALS VS. CONSERVATIVES pt.1 (A MUST READ!!!)

by Malcolm X

The American government is trying to trick her twenty-two million ex-slaves with promises that she never intends to keep. The Crooked politicians in the government are working with the Negro civil rights leaders, but not to solve the race problem. The greedy politicians who run this government give lip-service to the civil rights struggle only to further their own selfish interests. And their main interest as politicians is to stay in power.

In this deceitful American game of power politics, the Negroes (i.e., the race problem, the integration and civil rights issues) are nothing but tools, used by one group of whites called Liberals against another group of whites called Conservatives, either to get into power or to remain in power. Among whites here in America, the political teams are no longer divided into Democrats and Republicans. The whites who are now struggling for control of the American political throne are divided into "liberal" and "conservative" camps. The white liberals from both parties cross party lines to work together toward the same goal, and white conservatives from both parties do likewise.

The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative. Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro's friend and benefactor; and by winning the friendship, allegiance, and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or tool in this political "football game" that is constantly raging between the white liberals and white conservatives.

Politically the American Negro is nothing but a football and the white liberals control this mentally dead ball through tricks of tokenism: false promises of integration and civil rights. In this profitable game of deceiving and exploiting the political politician of the American Negro, those white liberals have the willing cooperation of the Negro civil rights leaders. These "leaders" sell out our people for just a few crumbs of token recognition and token gains. These "leaders" are satisfied with token victories and token progress because they themselves are nothing but token leaders. (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: TRICK OR TREAT-BE CAREFUL WHO YOU GET A BOO-ED UP WITH DURING ELECTION DAY

TRICK OR TREAT-BE CAREFUL WHO YOU GET A BOO-ED UP WITH DURING ELECTION DAY

"Our people need to understand when they are being called "ni***r". I am not concerned with people, who want to call me "ni***r" with words-I am concerned with people, who call me "ni***r" with their policies.

What Black people don't get-The Clintons were calling us "ni***r" a long time (ago)..All the way back to the 96 Crime Bill. Welfare Reform Bill. (Calling us ni***r)-Hillary Clinton ....Super Predators (Calling us n***#r).

You need to understand when you are being called n***#r). The only way for you to understand is- you gotta know how to read the spreadsheet. If you can't read spreadsheets-you can't read data. (projection studies, longitudinal analysis) If you can't read data, you are incompetent and unqualified to engage in this conversation.

The greatest example of this is-The Congressional Black Caucus. They voted for that Crime Bill-voted for Welfare Reform. These are Black Elected Politicians.

(See) We have REPRESENTATIVES. BUT, WE DON'T HAVE REPRESENTATION. (Source: BreakingBrownFamily) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: DEALING WITH INSULTS (NENE LEAKS)

That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.(2Co 12:10)

NOONTIME SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON

When you're insulted, you can retaliate with a stinging comeback or see it as a growth opportunity. According to the Bible, David said, It is good ….that I have been afflicted, that I might have learn Your statues." (Ps 119:71). Psychologist Dr. Brenda Shoshanna says: "The person who insults us is a teacher....come to help us reduce our ego, develop patience and compassion, practice unconditional forgiveness, and teach us about life and relationship. If you don't perceive an insult as an insult, but as a teaching or a gift, it loses its power to hurt you. On a practical level, if you're insulted, say nothing. Give yourself time. Much harm is created by lashing back, escalating the situation, and saying things you may not mean. Recognize its your ego-that false sense of pride acting up-and don't go along with it."

Paul reached a place where he actually "took pleasure in insults." Most of us aren't quite there yet, but with time and practice it can happen. Speaking of the biblical charcter Judas, one author writes: The Most High sometimes manipulates the actions of our enemies to make them work as friends in order to accomplish His will in our lives. The Most High can bless us through the worst relationships.. ones that are painful or negative. The time, effort, and pain we invest in them aren't wasted because The Most High knows how to make adversity feed destiny into our lives. We can't stop hurts from coming or promise that everyone who sits at our table will be loyal.

But the suffering (we experience ) gives us direction and builds character and in the end we find grace to REEVALUATE our enemies and realize that like Judas, they are friends in disguise. (Source:Word of Today)

BOBBEE BEE: DONALD TRUMP: THE RULE OF THE UBER-RICH

The Rule of the Uber-Rich (A MUST READ!!!)
by Chris Hedges

At the age of 10 I was sent as a scholarship student to a boarding school for the uber-rich in Massachusetts. I lived among the wealthiest Americans for the next eight years. I listened to their prejudices and saw their cloying sense of entitlement. They insisted they were privileged and wealthy because they were smarter and more talented. They had a sneering disdain for those ranked below them in material and social status, even the merely rich. Most of the uber-rich lacked the capacity for empathy and compassion. They formed elite cliques that hazed, bullied and taunted any nonconformist who defied or did not fit into their self-adulatory universe.

It was impossible to build a friendship with most of the sons of the uber-rich. Friendship for them was defined by “what’s in it for me?” They were surrounded from the moment they came out of the womb by people catering to their desires and needs. They were incapable of reaching out to others in distress—whatever petty whim or problem they had at the moment dominated their universe and took precedence over the suffering of others, even those within their own families. They knew only how to take. They could not give. They were deformed and deeply unhappy people in the grip of an unquenchable narcissism.

It is essential to understand the pathologies of the uber-rich. They have seized total political power. These pathologies inform Donald Trump, his children, the Brett Kavanaughs, and the billionaires who run his administration. The uber-rich cannot see the world from anyone’s perspective but their own. People around them, including the women whom entitled men prey upon, are objects designed to gratify momentary lusts or be manipulated. The uber-rich are almost always amoral. Right. Wrong. Truth. Lies. Justice. Injustice. These concepts are beyond them. Whatever benefits or pleases them is good. What does not must be destroyed.

The pathology of the uber-rich is what permits Trump and his callow son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to conspire with de facto Saudi ruler Mohammed bin Salman, another product of unrestrained entitlement and nepotism, to cover up the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, whom I worked with in the Middle East. The uber-rich spend their lives protected by their inherited wealth, the power it wields and an army of enablers, including other members of the fraternity of the uber-rich, along with their lawyers and publicists. There are almost never any consequences for their failures, abuses, mistreatment of others and crimes. This is why the Saudi crown prince and Kushner have bonded. They are the homunculi the uber-rich routinely spawn.

The rule of the uber-rich, for this reason, is terrifying. They know no limits. They have never abided by the norms of society and never will. We pay taxes—they don’t. We work hard to get into an elite university or get a job—they don’t. We have to pay for our failures—they don’t. We are prosecuted for our crimes—they are not.

The uber-rich live in an artificial bubble, a land called Richistan, a place of Frankenmansions and private jets, cut off from our reality. Wealth, I saw, not only perpetuates itself but is used to monopolize the new opportunities for wealth creation. Social mobility for the poor and the working class is largely a myth.

The uber-rich practice the ultimate form of affirmative action, catapulting white, male mediocrities like Trump, Kushner and George W. Bush into elite schools that groom the plutocracy for positions of power. The uber-rich are never forced to grow up. They are often infantilized for life, squalling for what they want and almost always getting it. And this makes them very, very dangerous.