"BORN TO BE LOVED; LOVE TO BE HATED!"
His Anger Teaches Everybody Reality!!
It's your boy BOBBEE BEE "THE HATER" aka the trouble maker from the "city of brotherly love" I am an obnoxious, opinionated, third grader whose ego is bigger than T.O.! I am an "odd"combination of Terrell Owens, KOBE Bryant, Rasheed Wallace, and Allen Iverson!
by Eric D. Graham #TheRapProfessor. If you like what you are learning ($JeffreyBarnes)
Perhaps Mark Twain said it best: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did." It isn't the things we did that we most regret; it's the things we didn't do.
To succeed at a high level, you must start expecting more.
Even when you don't get everything you expect, you'll get a whole lot more than if you were expecting nothing at all.
The moment you choose to settle, you guarantee you'll never achieve your real dream. Choose faith over fear.
Decision 2: I focus on solutions, not problem.
The bigger you dream, the more opportunity for obstacles, challenges and problems. Choose a mindset that sees these problems as opportunities for growth, and you will eventually walk into your vision.
Decision 3: I choose to be authentic.
Be yourself. Who else can you be? It takes less effort and energy to be yourself, but it also takes courage. Fear that you will not be accepted or approved just as you are can lead you to send your "representative" out into the world. She looks like the real you, but she's not. She's a counterfeit, and whatever success she has built on false pretenses that you must keep up to maintain success.
Decision 4: I choose courage over fear.
Like problems, fear is evitable. But it's not a stop sign. Fear is the most common obstacle to achieving true success and happiness. Fear tempts you to shrink from your authentic desires. It causes you to rationalize yourself out of a great idea. It leads you to pretend you don't really want what you really do want. Refuse to succumb to it. Make a decision that fear won't keep you stuck. Expect to feel fear. And when you feel it, keep moving forward.
Decision 5: I choose relationships wisely and nurture them intentionally.
Success doesn't occur in a vacuum. You need people, and they need you. Those with a strong support system have the resources that open doors of opportunity and empower them to manage any challenge. Don't go it alone.
Decision 6: I actively seed feedback and use it to grow. You need people around you who tell you the truth. Resilient people know this. And even when they don't like what they hear, they listen, process it and ask themselves, 'Is there a grain of truth to this feedback, even if it's negative? Be humble, and use failures and mistakes as learning tools. Put yourself around people who know more than you, and learn all you can from them.
Decision 7: I know my purpose and take daily action in the direction of my vision.
Consistency is key. If you continually take steps in the right direction, you will eventually arrive at your destination.
by Valorie Burton, who is a best-selling author and founder of the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute.
And during the few moments that we have left, we want to have just an off-the-cuff chat between you and me -- us. We want to talk right down to earth in a language that everybody here can easily understand. We all agree tonight, all of the speakers have agreed, that America has a very serious problem. Not only does America have a very serious problem, but our people have a very serious problem. America's problem is us. We're her problem. The only reason she has a problem is she doesn't want us here. And every time you look at yourself, be you black, brown, red, or yellow -- a so-called Negro -- you represent a person who poses such a serious problem for America because you're not wanted. Once you face this as a fact, then you can start plotting a course that will make you appear intelligent, instead of unintelligent.
What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist or Baptist. You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no hell.
You catch hell 'cause you're a black man.
You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason. So we are all black people, so-called Negroes, second-class citizens, ex-slaves. You are nothing but a [sic] ex-slave. You don't like to be told that. But what else are you? You are ex-slaves. You didn't come here on the "Mayflower." You came here on a slave ship -- in chains, like a horse, or a cow, or a chicken. And you were brought here by the people who came here on the "Mayflower." You were brought here by the so-called Pilgrims, or Founding Fathers. They were the ones who brought you here. We have a common enemy.
We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we all realize that we have this common enemy, then we unite on the basis of what we have in common.
And what we have foremost in common is that enemy -- the white man. He's an enemy to all of us. I know some of you all think that some of them aren't enemies.
Time will tell.
BANDUNG CONFERENCE
In Bandung back in, I think, 1954, was the first unity meeting in centuries of black people. And once you study what happened at the Bandung conference, and the results of the Bandung conference, it actually serves as a model for the same procedure you and I can use to get our problems solved. At Bandung all the nations came together.
Their were dark nations from Africa and Asia. Some of them were Buddhists. Some of them were Muslim.
Some of them were Christians.
Some of them were Confucianists; some were atheists.
Despite their religious differences, they came together. Some were communists; some were socialists; some were capitalists.
Despite their economic and political differences, they came together. All of them were black, brown, red, or yellow.
The number-one thing that was not allowed to attend the Bandung conference was the white man. He couldn't come.
Once they excluded the white man, they found that they could get together. Once they kept him out, everybody else fell right in and fell in line.
This is the thing that you and I have to understand. And these people who came together didn't have nuclear weapons; they didn't have jet planes; they didn't have all of the heavy armaments that the white man has.
But they had unity.
They were able to submerge their little petty differences and agree on one thing: That though one African came from Kenya and was being colonized by the Englishman, and another African came from the Congo and was being colonized by the Belgian, and another African came from Guinea and was being colonized by the French, and another came from Angola and was being colonized by the Portuguese.
When they came to the Bandung conference, they looked at the Portuguese, and at the Frenchman, and at the Englishman, and at the other -- Dutchman -- and learned or realized that the one thing that all of them had in common: they were all from Europe, they were all Europeans, blond, blue-eyed and white-skinned.
They began to recognize who their enemy was.
The same man that was colonizing our people in Kenya was colonizing our people in the Congo. The same one in the Congo was colonizing our people in South Africa, and in Southern Rhodesia, and in Burma, and in India, and in Afghanistan, and in Pakistan. They realized all over the world where the dark man was being oppressed, he was being oppressed by the white man; where the dark man was being exploited, he was being exploited by the white man. So they got together under this basis -- that they had a common enemy.
And when you and I here in Detroit and in Michigan and in America who have been awakened today look around us, we too realize here in America we all have a common enemy, whether he's in Georgia or Michigan, whether he's in California or New York. He's the same man: blue eyes and blond hair and pale skin -- same man. So what we have to do is what they did. They agreed to stop quarreling among themselves.
Any little spat that they had, they'd settle it among themselves, go into a huddle -- don't let the enemy know that you got [sic] a disagreement. Instead of us airing our differences in public, we have to realize we're all the same family.
And when you have a family squabble, you don't get out on the sidewalk. If you do, everybody calls you uncouth, unrefined, uncivilized, savage. If you don't make it at home, you settle it at home; you get in the closet -- argue it out behind closed doors. And then when you come out on the street, you pose a common front, a united front. And this is what we need to do in the community, and in the city, and in the state.
We need to stop airing our differences in front of the white man. Put the white man out of our meetings, number one, and then sit down and talk shop with each other. [That's] all you gotta do. I would like to make a few comments concerning the difference between the black revolution and the Negro revolution.
There's a difference.
Are they both the same?
And if they're not, what is the difference?
What is the difference between a black revolution and a Negro revolution? First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking careful consideration [of] what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are.
REVOLUTION
When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, and the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words.
You may devise another program. You may change your goal and you may change your mind. Look at the American Revolution in 1776.
That revolution was for what? For land.
Why did they want land? Independence.
How was it carried out? Bloodshed.
Number one, it was based on land, the basis of independence.
And the only way they could get it was bloodshed.
The French Revolution -- what was it based on? The land-less against the landlord. What was it for? Land. How did they get it? Bloodshed.
Was no love lost; was no compromise; was no negotiation.
I'm telling you, you don't know what a revolution is. 'Cause when you find out what it is, you'll get back in the alley; you'll get out of the way. The Russian Revolution -- what was it based on? Land. The land-less against the landlord. How did they bring it about? Bloodshed. You haven't got a revolution that doesn't involve bloodshed.
And you're afraid to bleed. I said, you're afraid to bleed. [As] long as the white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled. You bleed for white people.
But when it comes time to seeing your own churches being bombed and little black girls be murdered, you haven't got no blood.
You bleed when the white man says bleed; you bite when the white man says bite; and you bark when the white man says bark. I hate to say this about us, but it's true. How are you going to be nonviolent in Mississippi, as violent as you were in Korea?
How can you justify being nonviolent in Mississippi and Alabama, when your churches are being bombed, and your little girls are being murdered, and at the same time you're going to violent with Hitler, and Tojo, and somebody else that you don't even know?
If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad.
If it's wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it's wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country. The Chinese Revolution -- they wanted land.
They threw the British out, along with the Uncle Tom Chinese. Yeah, they did. They set a good example. When I was in prison, I read an article -- don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison. When I was in prison, I read an article in
Life magazine showing a little Chinese girl, nine years old; her father was on his hands and knees and she was pulling the trigger 'cause he was an Uncle Tom Chinaman, When they had the revolution over there, they took a whole generation of Uncle Toms -- just wiped them out. And within ten years that little girl become [sic] a full-grown woman. No more Toms in China. And today it's one of the toughest, roughest, most feared countries on this earth -- by the white man. 'Cause there are no Uncle Toms over there.
*Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research. And when you see that you've got problems, all you have to do is examine the historic method used all over the world by others who have problems similar to yours. And once you see how they got theirs straight, then you know how you can get yours straight.
There's been a revolution, a black revolution, going on in Africa.
In Kenya, the Mau Mau were revolutionaries; they were the ones who made the word "Uhuru" [Kenyan word for "freedom"]. They were the ones who brought it to the fore. The Mau Mau, they were revolutionaries.
They believed in scorched earth. They knocked everything aside that got in their way, and their revolution also was based on land, a desire for land. In Algeria, the northern part of Africa, a revolution took place.
The Algerians were revolutionists; they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France: to hell with France. They wanted some land, not some France. And they engaged in a bloody battle.
So I cite these various revolutions, brothers and sisters, to show you -- you don't have a peaceful revolution.
You don't have a turn-the-other-cheek revolution.
There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.
[The] only kind of revolution that's nonviolent is the Negro revolution. The only revolution based on loving your enemy is the Negro revolution.
The only revolution in which the goal is a desegregated lunch counter, a desegregated theater, a desegregated park, and a desegregated public toilet; you can sit down next to white folks on the toilet. That's no revolution.
REVOLUTION IS LAND
Revolution is based on land.
Land is the basis of all independence.
Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.
The white man knows what a revolution is.
He knows that the black revolution is world-wide in scope and in nature. The black revolution is sweeping Asia, sweeping Africa, is rearing its head in Latin America. The Cuban Revolution -- that's a revolution.
They overturned the system.
Revolution is in Asia.
Revolution is in Africa.
And the white man is screaming because he sees revolution in Latin America. How do you think he'll react to you when you learn what a real revolution is?
You don't know what a revolution is.
If you did, you wouldn't use that word. A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.
And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, "I'm going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me." No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing "We Shall Overcome"? Just tell me.
You don't do that in a revolution.
You don't do any singing; you're too busy swinging.
It's based on land.
A revolutionary wants land so he can set up his own nation, an independent nation. These Negroes aren't asking for no nation.
They're trying to crawl back on the plantation.
When you want a nation, that's called nationalism. When the white man became involved in a revolution in this country against England, what was it for? He wanted this land so he could set up another white nation.
That's white nationalism.
The American Revolution was white nationalism.
The French Revolution was white nationalism.
The Russian Revolution too -- yes, it was -- white nationalism.
You don't think so? Why [do] you think Khrushchev and Mao can't get their heads together? White nationalism. All the revolutions that's going on in Asia and Africa today are based on what? Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a black nationalist.
He wants a nation.
I was reading some beautiful words by Reverend Cleage, pointing out why he couldn't get together with someone else here in the city because all of them were afraid of being identified with black nationalism.
If you're afraid of black nationalism, you're afraid of revolution. And if you love revolution, you love black nationalism. To understand this, you have to go back to what [the] young brother here referred to as the house Negro and the field Negro -- back during slavery.
HOUSE NEGRO AND THE FIELD NEGRO
There was two kinds of slaves. There was the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negroes - they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good 'cause they ate his food -- what he left.
They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near the master; and they loved their master more than the master loved himself. They would give their life to save the master's house quicker than the master would.
The house Negro, if the master said, "We got a good house here," the house Negro would say, "Yeah, we got a good house here." Whenever the master said "we," he said "we." That's how you can tell a house Negro. If the master's house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. If the master got sick, the house Negro would say, "What's the matter, boss, we sick?"
We sick! He identified himself with his master more than his master identified with himself. And if you came to the house Negro and said, "Let's run away, let's escape, let's separate," the house Negro would look at you and say, "Man, you crazy. What you mean, separate? Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this?" That was that house Negro.
In those days he was called a "house nigger." And that's what we call him today, because we've still got some house niggers running around here.
This modern house Negro loves his master. He wants to live near him. He'll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master, and then brag about "I'm the only Negro out here."
"I'm the only one on my job." "I'm the only one in this school." You're nothing but a house Negro. And if someone comes to you right now and says, "Let's separate," you say the same thing that the house Negro said on the plantation.
"What you mean, separate? From America?
This good white man? Where you going to get a better job than you get here?" I mean, this is what you say. "I ain't left nothing in Africa," that's what you say. Why, you left your mind in Africa. On that same plantation, there was the field Negro.
The field Negro -- those were the masses. There were always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house.
The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call 'em "chitt'lings" nowadays. In those days they called them what they were: guts. That's what you were -- a gut-eater. And some of you all still gut-eaters.
*The field Negro was beaten from morning to night. He lived in a shack, in a hut; He wore old, castoff clothes. He hated his master. I say he hated his master. He was intelligent. That house Negro loved his master.
But that field Negro -- remember, they were in the majority, and they hated the master. When the house caught on fire, he didn't try and put it out; that field Negro prayed for a wind, for a breeze. When the master got sick, the field Negro prayed that he'd die. If someone come [sic] to the field Negro and said, "Let's separate, let's run," he didn't say "Where we going?" He'd say, "Any place is better than here." You've got field Negroes in America today. I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking about "our government is in trouble." They say, "The government is in trouble." Imagine a Negro: "Our government"! I even heard one say "our astronauts." They won't even let him near the plant -- and "our astronauts"! "Our Navy" -- that's a Negro that's out of his mind. That's a Negro that's out of his mind. Just as the slavemaster of that day used Tom, the house Negro, to keep the field Negroes in check, the same old slavemaster today has Negroes who are nothing but modern Uncle Toms, 20th century Uncle Toms, to keep you and me in check, keep us under control, keep us passive and peaceful and nonviolent.
That's Tom making you nonviolent. It's like when you go to the dentist, and the man's going to take your tooth. You're going to fight him when he starts pulling. So he squirts some stuff in your jaw called novocaine, to make you think they're not doing anything to you. So you sit there and 'cause you've got all of that novocaine in your jaw, you suffer peacefully. Blood running all down your jaw, and you don't know what's happening.
'Cause someone has taught you to suffer -- peacefully.
The white man do the same thing to you in the street, when he want [sic] to put knots on your head and take advantage of you and don't have to be afraid of your fighting back. To keep you from fighting back, he gets these old religious Uncle Toms to teach you and me, just like novocaine, suffer peacefully. Don't stop suffering -- just suffer peacefully. As Reverend Cleage pointed out, "Let your blood flow In the streets." This is a shame.
And you know he's a Christian preacher.
If it's a shame to him, you know what it is to me. There's nothing in our book, the Quran -- you call it "Ko-ran" -- that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. That's a good religion.
In fact, that's that old-time religion.
That's the one that Ma and Pa used to talk about: an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, and a head for a head, and a life for a life: That's a good religion. And doesn't nobody resent that kind of religion being taught but a wolf, who intends to make you his meal. This is the way it is with the white man in America.
WOLF IN SHEEP CLOTHING
He's a wolf and you're sheep.
Any time a shepherd, a pastor, teach [sic] you and me not to run from the white man and, at the same time, teach [sic] us not to fight the white man, he's a traitor to you and me. Don't lay down our life all by itself.
No, preserve your life. it's the best thing you got.
And if you got to give it up, let it be even-steven. The slavemaster took Tom and dressed him well, and fed him well, and even gave him a little education -- a little education; gave him a long coat and a top hat and made all the other slaves look up to him. Then he used Tom to control them. The same strategy that was used in those days is used today, by the same white man. He takes a Negro, a so-called Negro, and make [sic] him prominent, build [sic] him up, publicize [sic] him, make [sic] him a celebrity.
And then he becomes a spokesman for Negroes -- and a Negro leader. I would like to just mention just one other thing else quickly, and that is the method that the white man uses, how the white man uses these "big guns," or Negro leaders, against the black revolution. They are not a part of the Negro revolution.
They are used against the Negro revolution.
When Martin Luther King failed to desegregate Albany, Georgia, the civil-rights struggle in America reached its low point. King became bankrupt almost, as a leader. Plus, even financially, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was in financial trouble; plus it was in trouble, period, with the people when they failed to desegregate Albany, Georgia. Other Negro civil-rights leaders of so-called national stature became fallen idols. As they became fallen idols, began to lose their prestige and influence, local Negro leaders began to stir up the masses. In Cambridge, Maryland, Gloria Richardson; in Danville, Virginia, and other parts of the country, local leaders began to stir up our people at the grassroots level.
This was never done by these Negroes, whom you recognize, of national stature. They controlled you, but they never incited you or excited you. They controlled you; they contained you; they kept you on the plantation.
As soon as King failed in Birmingham, Negroes took to the streets. King got out and went out to California to a big rally and raised about -- I don't know how many thousands of dollars. [He] come [sic] to Detroit and had a march and raised some more thousands of dollars. And recall, right after that [Roy] Wilkins attacked King, accused King and the CORE [Congress Of Racial Equality] of starting trouble everywhere and then making the NAACP [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] get them out of jail and spend a lot of money; and then they accused King and CORE of raising all the money and not paying it back. This happened; I've got it in documented evidence in the newspaper.
Roy started attacking King, and King started attacking Roy, and Farmer started attacking both of them. And as these Negroes of national stature began to attack each other, they began to lose their control of the Negro masses.
And Negroes was [sic] out there in the streets. They was [sic] talking about [how] we was [sic] going to march on Washington. By the way, right at that time Birmingham had exploded, and the Negroes in Birmingham -- remember, they also exploded. They began to stab the crackers in the back and bust them up 'side their head -- yes, they did.
That's when Kennedy sent in the troops, down in Birmingham. So, and right after that, Kennedy got on the television and said "this is a moral issue." That's when he said he was going to put out a civil-rights bill. And when he mentioned civil-rights bill and the Southern crackers started talking about [how] they were going to boycott or filibuster it, then the Negroes started talking -- about what?
We're going to march on Washington, march on the Senate, march on the White House, march on the Congress, and tie it up, bring it to a halt; don't let the government proceed. They even said they was [sic] going out to the airport and lay down on the runway and don't let no airplanes land. I'm telling you what they said.
That was revolution.
That was revolution.
That was the black revolution.
It was the grass roots out there in the street.
[It] scared the white man to death, scared the white power structure in Washington, D. C. to death; I was there.
NEGRO MISLEADERSHIP
When they found out that this black steamroller was going to come down on the capital, they called in Wilkins; they called in Randolph; they called in these national Negro leaders that you respect and told them, "Call it off." Kennedy said, "Look, you all letting this thing go too far." And Old Tom said, "Boss, I can't stop it, because I didn't start it."
I'm telling you what they said. They said, "I'm not even in it, much less at the head of it." They said, "These Negroes are doing things on their own. They're running ahead of us." And that old shrewd fox, he said, "Well If you all aren't in it, I'll put you in it. I'll put you at the head of it. I'll endorse it.
I'll welcome it.
I'll help it.
I'll join it."
A matter of hours went by.
They had a meeting at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City.
The Carlyle Hotel is owned by the Kennedy family; that's the hotel Kennedy spent the night at, two nights ago; [it] belongs to his family. A philanthropic society headed by a white man named Stephen Currier called all the top civil-rights leaders together at the Carlyle Hotel. And he told them that, "By you all fighting each other, you are destroying the civil-rights movement. And since you're fighting over money from white liberals, let us set up what is known as the Council for United Civil Rights Leadership.
Let's form this council, and all the civil-rights organizations will belong to it, and we'll use it for fund-raising purposes." Let me show you how tricky the white man is. And as soon as they got it formed, they elected Whitney Young as the chairman, and who [do] you think became the co-chairman?
Stephen Currier, the white man, a millionaire. Powell was talking about it down at the Cobo [Hall] today. This is what he was talking about. Powell knows it happened. Randolph knows it happened. Wilkins knows it happened.
King knows it happened.
Everyone of that so-called Big Six -- they know what happened.
THE TAKE OVER
Once they formed it, with the white man over it, he promised them and gave them $800,000 to split up between the Big Six; and told them that after the march was over they'd give them $700,000 more. A million and a half dollars -- split up between leaders that you've been following, going to jail for, crying crocodile tears for. And they're nothing but Frank James and Jesse James and the what-do-you-call-'em brothers. [As] soon as they got the setup organized, the white man made available to them top public relations experts; opened the news media across the country at their disposal; and then they begin [sic] to project these Big Six as the leaders of the march. Originally, they weren't even in the march.
You was [sic ] talking this march talk on Hastings Street -- Is Hastings Street still here? -- on Hasting Street. You was [sic] talking the march talk on Lenox Avenue, and out on -- What you call it? -- Fillmore Street, and Central Avenue, and 32nd Street and 63rd Street. That's where the march talk was being talked.
But the white man put the Big Six [at the] head of it; made them the march. They became the march. They took it over. And the first move they made after they took it over, they invited Walter Reuther, a white man; they invited a priest, a rabbi, and an old white preacher. Yes, an old white preacher. The same white element that put Kennedy in power -- labor, the Catholics, the Jews, and liberal Protestants; [the] same clique that put Kennedy in power, joined the march on Washington. It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it'll put you to sleep.
This is what they did with the march on Washington. They joined it. They didn't integrate it; they infiltrated it.
They joined it, became a part of it, took it over. And as they took it over, it lost its militancy.
They ceased to be angry. They ceased to be hot. They ceased to be uncompromising. Why, it even ceased to be a march.
It became a picnic, a circus.
Nothing but a circus, with clowns and all. You had one right here in Detroit -- I saw it on television -- with clowns leading it, white clowns and black clowns. I know you don't like what I'm saying, but I'm going to tell you anyway.
'Cause I can prove what I'm saying. If you think I'm telling you wrong, you bring me Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph and James Farmer and those other three, and see if they'll deny it over a microphone.
No, it was a sellout. It was a takeover. When James Baldwin came in from Paris, they wouldn't let him talk, 'cause they couldn't make him go by the script. Burt Lancaster read the speech that Baldwin was supposed to make; they wouldn't let Baldwin get up there, 'cause they know Baldwin's liable to say anything.
They controlled it so tight -- they told those Negroes what time to hit town, how to come, where to stop, what signs to carry, what song to sing*, what speech they could make, and what speech they couldn't make; and then told them to get out town by sundown. And everyone of those Toms was out of town by sundown.
Now I know you don't like my saying this. But I can back it up. It was a circus, a performance that beat anything Hollywood could ever do, the performance of the year. Reuther and those other three devils should get a Academy Award for the best actors 'cause they acted like they really loved Negroes and fooled a whole lot of Negroes.
And the six Negro leaders should get an award too, for the best supporting cast.
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Moziah Bridges started in Memphis, TN in 2011 at 9 years old.
He couldn’t find fun and cool bow ties, so he decided to use he’s grandma’s scrap fabric to make and sell his own.
Mo says “I like to wear bow ties because they make me look good and feel good.
Designing a colorful bow tie is just part of my vision to make the world a fun and happier place”.
You might recognize him from being on Shark Tank recently where he did not get a investment deal, but did make a mentoring partnership with Daymond John, who thought he was doing well without taking on the risk of investors.
Since then, Mo’s Bow’s rakes in over $150k a year and was just picked up by Neiman Marcus to be sold in stores worldwide.
Mikaila Ulmer Company: Bee Sweet Lemonade
Mikaila Ulmer got started selling Lemonade at the age of 4 when she found her grandmother’s old recipe books which included one for Flaxseed Lemonade from the 1940s, close to this time she was also stung by a bee.
Mikaila explain that she then became fascinated with bees and learned all about what they do for her and our ecosystem. So she thought about what if she made something that helps honeybees and uses my Great Granny Helen’s recipe? And well, Bee Sweet Lemonade was born.
Mikalika sells her lemonade wherever she can and takes great pride in donating a percentage of her sales to both local and global organizations that are fighting to help save the bees.
Mikaila also appeared on Shark Tank this past season, and received a 60k investment from Daymond John and is now being sold in whole food market across the country.
Jaylen Bledsoe Company: Bledsoe Technologies Jaylen started his own tech company that specializes in web design and other IT services, Bledsoe Technologies, when he was just 13 years old. Now at 16 years old, Jaylen’s company has expanded and grown into a 3.5 MILLION dollar global enterprise. Jaylen has grown his company from two workers to about 150 contracted employees in order to meet demand.
Maya Penn Company: Maya’s Ideas Founded when she was 8 years old.
Penn is an entrepreneur, a technologist, a philanthropist, an artist, an author, an animator and a coder, as cited by Tech Republic.
Maya’s Ideas is a site where she sells eco-friendly clothing and accessories, like scarves, hats and hair clips.
She started the business because she liked sewing headbands, and people started asking her to make them.
She began selling them on Etsy, but quickly realized she could build a brand of her own. And, this is more than just a cute idea — Maya’s Ideas generated more than $30,000 in 2012 and has been growing since.
Chental-Song created the company Honeybunch Kids at 14 because she is motivated to provide books to kids between the ages of 7 and 12 that will keep them entertained but also teach them.
She also wants to launch a literacy campaign to get more kids to learn to love reading.
She sold 500 books last year and is hoping to double that this year.
The Honey Bunch Kids story tells the tale of a group of black middle-school children who become friends after they miss the bus on their first day and end up having to walk to school in the rain.
She is currently working on finishing the 3rd book in the series.
Umar Brimah Company: Yumazu Anime Shop
Umar is the owner of his own anime store called Yumazu Anime Shop in Missouri.
His mother made a $10,000 investment for him to open the store.
It is hard to find anime stuff in stores so he is hoping to open a chain of stores that will allow people to find a cheaper alternative to buying anime collections as opposed to paying huge prices online.
Brea and Halle Holmes Company: Sweet Dream Girlz After a disappointing shopping trip to find naturally made beauty products for tweens and teens, this sister duo decided to launch their own, Sweet Dream Girlz.
Now 14 and 20, their natural beauty brand has expanded to shoes and clothing.
Sweet Dream Girlz has been seen in USA Today, Bloombergs Businessweek, Girls Life Magazine and celebrity endorsed by several teen, tweens and mothers.
The naturally made beauty products are filled with shea butter and natural oils. And, free from harmful ingredients such as paraben and talc.
The body product fragrances smell almost good enough to eat. The facial products teach girls that it is essential to learn good skin care habits at their age.
Zuriel Oduwole Filmmaker 12 year old Zuriel Oduwole, who lives in California, but was born in Nigeria, and who happens to be, not only a political journalist and interviewer, but is currently the youngest professional working filmmaker in the world today.
She started at the age of 9, interviewing presidents and prime ministers in Kenya, Liberia, South Sudan and Jamaica among other countries, and celebrities, such as the Williams sisters.
And, on top of that, she is still, to date, the youngest person in the world to be featured in Forbes Africa, was named one of the world’s 100 most powerful individuals by Business Insider magazine, invited to attend the African Union’s 50th anniversary conference, selected as Global Brand Ambassador for Ethiopian Airlines, and Heritage Bank’s Financial Literacy Ambassador in Nigeria.
Her feature documentary, “A Promising Africa,” her fourth one to date, was released last November at the Film House Cinema theater chain in Lagos, and will open this month in London.
This makes her currently the youngest filmmaker in the world to have her film shown in a commercial movie theater.
William Isiah Shakur 5th Production/Seminole Productions
William Isiah Shakur is a force to be wrecked with in the entertainment world, as well as in the educational environment.
Why? Because at the age of 10-years old, he became the face and the inspiration, behind a series of controversial children's book based on the cartoon character Bobbee Bee"The Hater,"which appears on ww.blackathlete.net.
The cartoon character, which is based solely on his own life, is a part of his successful "Back to School With a New Attitude" literacy program, that is designed to help children like himself, deal with issues such as: divorce, disappointment, anger management, character development, academic success, and self-esteem.
Due to the success of that program, however, he also helped develop, while becoming the face of a Anti-Bullying program as well as a Anti-Gun, Drugs and Gangs Campaign.
Along with all of that, he also stared in his first major film entitled Bobbee Bee "The Hater," which premiered in September of 2012, in which he gave a hilarious yet powerful performance.
Now, the budding superstar is getting ready to attend North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, NC, where he will be studying Psychology along with being the face as well as part of the advertisement team for the album Pocket Full of Ghetto Poems that is due to be released in August.
According to Eugenia Collier, "A measure of the Greatness of any artistic form is the extent to which the artist is able to reach beyond the content of the age and to address the wider concerns of man."
Well, ladies and gentlemen, this is what the North Carolina born and bred, self-proclaimed Black poetry writer-turned MC, Eric D.Graham, is attempting to accomplish with his yet to be released project Pocket Full of Ghetto Poems: The Making of A Hip-Hop Classic. "This album captures the moment we are living in right now" Graham said. "Yet, it also connects us to the past, while allowing us to take a peek into the future."
With a level of confidence, which many may mistake as a form of cockiness, the Magnolia native feels he has produced one of the best Hip-Hop album's of the year-if not the best.
"My brother and I laugh-when I say, 'I killed rap. I brought Hip-Hop back!' he said.
But, on a serious note, no laughing matter, with Graham's level of aggression and vocal tone, as well as, his unbelievable ability to write meaningful songs, with catchy hooks, he oddly, might have done just that.
For these very reasons, his highly anticipated album has an old school Hip-Hop feel to it.
Plus with an extensive Facebook and Sound cloud campaign currently creating a buzz on the Internet, his popularity is starting to grow, as people beyond the "closed" borders of Duplin County, slowly begin to listen to what the album Pocket Full of Ghetto has to offer.
And, shockingly, what it has to offer, is, a musical smorgasbord of songs on a variety of topics from the mind of a "so-called" Black intellectual.
With that said, many have already begun to ask, why did this "so-called" Black intellectual/ slash wannabe rapper-name his debut album Pocket Full of Ghetto Poems. His answer to this question, oddly enough, might shock you.
"Well, intellectually, the album title: Pocket Full of Ghetto Poems... actually comes from a line I ead in one of Maya Angelou's poem. May she rest in peace." Graham explained.
"So, in order to honor her legacy as a Black Poetry Writer, I named it after her-" "But, not only her,...all great Black Poetry Writers, who have influenced me-like Langston Hughes, Nikki Giovanni, Countee Cullen,Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Gil Scott-Heron, The Last Poets, and especially Sonia Sanchez."
Graham went on to say that while in college at Winston-Salem State, his English professor encouraged him to attend a Creative Writing Workshop taught by Sanchez..
"During my freshman year at WSSU, I had an opportunity to attend an extensive workshop with Ms.Sanchez on the art of Black poetry. However, she completely destroyed my mundane creativity and later showed me how to "really" express myself through words from a Black Revolutionary perspective " the Mass Communications mayor and History minor admitted.
"As a result, I prefer to describe my self as a Black Poetry Writer instead of a rapper or a MC" "Why? Because, rappers are simply glorified poets, who speak words over African drums."
"However, as the scripture states clearly, "There is life and death in the tongue...So, we, all must be careful what we say, and how we say it."
With Graham explaining his album title, and professing himself a poet, the Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Yung, who founded analytical psychologystated that "The poet has plunged into the healing and redeeming depths of the collective psyche, where man is lost in the isolation of consciousness and its errors and sufferings, but where all men are caught in a common rhythm which allows the individual to communicate his feelings and striving to mankind as a whole...this re-immersion in the state of participation mystique.
With such a deep definition, one can only hope Pocket Full of Ghetto Poems lives up to its meaning.
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NORTH CAROLINA-(BASN)-The self-proclaimed # 1 cartoon on the Internet, Bobbee Bee “The Hater” is back to answer all the difficult questions everybody else is afraid to answer. Yes, the comeback kid, from the “City of Brotherly,” is back with another episode of Here Comes “The Hater” on the Black Athlete Sports Network. www.blackathlete.net
1. What is your favorite subject in school?
HISTORY. Why? Because, ideas are peaceful. But, War is violent
2. What do you think about the mother in Baltimore who slapped her son around after recognizing him on television amongst the rioters after the death of Freddy Gray?
The Willie Lynch Letter may not be real. But, it is real. Because, this is a classic example.
3. Do you know who the Cleveland Cavaliers head coach is?
Yes. Lebron James is the head coach and Tyrone Lue is his assistant.
4. Did you heard that Lindsey Vonn broke up with Tiger Woods.
Good!!! Maybe, now, he will start to date Black women. Russell Wilson did.
5. Did you pay $100 to see the Mayweather/ Pacquino fight?
No. Why? Because, Floyd Mayweather is already rich. He doesn’t need my money.
6. Who is the only person that can stop Lebron James from scoring 30 points per game in the playoffs?
J.R.Smith
7. Do you think Dwight Howard will ever win a NBA Championship ring?
No!! Houston, there is a problem. Why? Because, he is too silly to win.
8. Do you think America is ready for a female president?
Hell No!!! Tiger Woods ain’t even ready to date a Black Woman yet.
9. What is wrong with the “Boys In Blue”?
They think our lives are cheap and easy to be wasted-just like Lauryn Hill said.
10. What should the people do about Police Brutality?
Eric D. Graham is a graduate of Winston-Salem State University, where he received a B.A. in Mass Communication with a concentration in Radio and Television and a minor in History, with an emphasis in African-American Studies. Currently, he is the Managing Editor at BASN, where his articles appear daily, along with his controversial cartoon character Bobbee Bee “The Hater.”Graham can be reached at lbiass34@yahoo.com
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