BOBBEE BEE: DIEZ DEMOCRATAS

DIEZ DEMOCRATAS
by eric d.graham

With ten political candidates and one stage, the first round of the 2019 Democratic debates held at Miami’s Arsht Center for the Performing Arts began and ended with politicians fighting for the soul of America and the attention of potential voters in the 2020 presidential election.

It was almost "sickening" to witness the candidates pander to a growing Spanish-speaking population in their opening remarks. Especially, with the debates being broadcasted on Telemundo.

This poor attempt to dazzle voters and impress others with their tongues, probably made most of Trump's "white-bread" "Let's Make America Great Again" supporters feeling isolated, angry, and uncomfortable in their "own country." (English please!!)

It, however, was obvious, the stage managers at NBC, whether consciously or subconsciously, positioned their top four candidates together, (Julián Castro, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren and Beto O'Rourke) making them the center of attention to the viewing audience, who, probably, weren't aware of their propaganda, as well as, to the of the moderators, Lester Holt of NBC News, Savannah Guthrie of the “Today” show and José Díaz-Balart of Telemundo in the first hour and Chuck Todd of “Meet the Press” and Rachel Maddow of MSNBC in the second hour, who at one point spoke to them directly, as if no one else was on stage.

Matter of fact, in the first hour of the debate, the moderators addressed all their questions, seemingly to Elizabeth Warren , while avoiding the other candidates on stage like New York's Bill de Blasio and John Delaney, as if, they were infected by measles.

Yes, it seems as if, the game is fix, the answers rehearsed, and the stage too small.

So, get ready for Round Two, tonight at 9 p.m Eastern Time on NBC, where six more Democratic candidates, try to compete with the next Fab Four, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Kamila Harris, and Pete Buttigieg for 60 seconds to answer questions and 30 seconds to respond to follow-ups. (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: FATHERLESS AMERICA

"'Father' only means that you're taking care of your children -- that's what it is to be a father. 'Father' doesn't mean that you're havin' some babies. Anybody can have a baby. Havin' a baby does not make you father. Anybody can go out and get a woman. But not anybody can take care of that woman. There's another word for it: It's called 'responsibility.'" --Malcolm X

 NOONTIME SUN-DAY SCHOOL LESSON

 According to David Blankenhorn in his book Fatherless America:Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problems-The United States is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today, an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood. The astonishing fact is reflected in many statistics, but here are the two most important.

Tonight, about 40 percent of American children will go to sleep in homes in which their fathers do not live. Before they reach the age of eighteen, more than half of our nation's children are likely to spend at least a significant portion of their childhoods living apart from their fathers. Never before in this country have so many children been voluntarily abandoned by their fathers. Never before have so many children grown up without knowing what it means to have a father.

 Fatherlessness is the most harmful demographic trend of this generation. As a cultural idea, our inherited understanding of fatherhood is under siege. Men in general, and fathers in particular, are increasingly viewed as superfluous to family life: either expendable or as part of the problem. Masculinity, itself, understood as anything other than a rejection of what it has traditionally meant to be male, is typically treated with suspicion and even hostility in our cultural discourse. Consequently, our society is now manifestly unable to sustain, or even find reason to believe in, fatherhood as a distinctive domain of male activity. 

 However, the core question (remains)..."Does every child need a father? Increasingly, our society's answer is "no," or at least "not necessarily." Few idea shifts in this century are as consequential as this one. At stake is nothing less than what it means to be a man, who our children will be, and what kind of society we will become. Therefore, to the grandfathers, new fathers, old fathers, stepfathers, visiting fathers, "part-time daddies" and even so-called "deadbead dads," remember this, despite what is said about you, your children still need to know you, still need to love you, and still need you in their lives. Why? Because, according to Ps: 127:3 Children are a gift from the LORD; they are a reward from him. (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: NATIVE SON

NATIVE SON

In the age of Black Lives Matter, where we have witnessed the death of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, and little Tamir Rice, HBO decided to retell Richard Wright's classic 1940 novel Native Son, which tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger Thomas, who dreams of a life beyond his impoverished Chicago neighborhood after entering into a seductive new world of money and power.

This new HBO adaptation of Wright's work from director Rashid Johnson and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks re-airs on June 4th, Tuesday night at 8:15 PM.

I encourage everyone, who decides to watch this film, however, to please read Dr.Tommy J. Curry's book: The Man-Not:Race, Class, Genre, and The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in order to get a better philosophical understanding of the image of Black Masculinity, which is depicted in the film. (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: The MASSARCE OF THE INNOCENTS

The MASSARCE OF THE INNOCENTS

 by eric d. graham

While debating issues about abortion, arguing about the relevance of the #MeToo Movement and fighting over terms like Toxic Masculinity, we continue to WITNESS the murder of innocent Black men by the hands of the government, police officers, white vigilantes, and white supremacist, which sometimes comes in the form of character assassination-by the way of images of blackface wore by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam in an old yearbook, the pushing of 1994 Crime Bill by Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden, the banning of the Honorable Louis Farrakhan from Facebook along with the recent sealed FBI audio tapes alleging Martin Luther King Jr. had affairs with 40 women, while watching a friend rape another... .

All of these incidents and ideas of discussion, create an atmosphere, where murder can be justified-regardless if the person is innocent.

Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies at Texas A&M University, Tommy J. Curry, in his book entitled The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and The Dilemmas of Black Man address these conflicting issues and their relationship to Black Male Masculinity in America.

"What does it MEAN to think of the Black Male-to pull the meaning of his existence away from his body to be used by thought? How possible is it for him to be thought of, studied, or engaged beyond the historical caricaturization(s) that relegate him to the Macho, the criminal, the liar, the rapist, the murderer, the thug, the deadbeat father, the abuser, the misogynnist, the beast, the beast cub, the super-predator, or the devil? Is he nothing more than an unactualized (hu)man, a fatally flawed thing, struggling not against the murderous logics that rationalize his death but against the savageness assigned to him that continues to justify treating him as a nonhuman entity?

The Black male is unthought. He is an intuitive problem, an analytic falling designated by the negative ascription of Blackness and maleness. He is being who is described and defined by his menace, with little need to be understood as a living and complex human being subject to external and environmental forces and vulnerable to the mental anguish or depression of his death, imprisonment, and abuse within the present order of American society."-

With that said, this criminalization and constant murder, or justified homicide of the Black male body is an every present narrative, on the nightly news, the daily papers, Hollywood movies, and historical myths, which appear and reappear in the sub-conscious mind, and psyche of individuals, who, sometimes, tragically, live out- these dramatize stories into the real world, making them a bloody

reality..."

We see evidence of these stories in the Bible, in the story of Joseph "The Prince of Egypt, where in Exodus 1;15-16, it is stated that:... the king of Egypt told the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, “When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth, look at the child when you deliver it. If it’s a boy, kill it, but if it’s a girl, let it live.”

This story, of course, reappears in the so-called new Testament as well, in Matthew 2:16, which states: "Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under...

Therefore, be mindful and conscious of your daily surroundings, preparing and protecting your children with wisdom and understanding during these troubling times, as the world debates abortion, the school to prison pipeline, guns in school, and even reparation.(bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)

BOBBEE BEE: FATHER'S DAY MESSAGE

LATE AFTERNOON SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON

Many parents make the mistake of always telling a child when he or she is wrong, rather than taking the time to tell them how to get right, and stay right. Biblical correction involves both. The number one extra-biblical Beatitude for all parents is: Blessed are the balanced."

When you police a child but never play with them, you're out of balance. Note carefully what King (Sol-om-on) wrote: "Correct your son, and he will give you rest; ...yes, he will give delight to your soul."

The word correct means to chastise to reprove, or to force back to the right way. Always remember that discipline is like a two-edge sword; it's not only to correct children when they're wrong; but to direct them to a way that's right. And you'll get better results from positive reinforcement than you will from negative reinforcement. Understand this: It's not your job to make your child happy; it's your job to nurture them into maturity. When you do that, their happiness is "guaranteed."

So you may as well quit trying to win a popularity contest with your child. They may always love you, but there are times when they definitely won't like you! Don't be discouraged.

"This too shall pass." Just keep administering the right mixture of nurture and discipline, and eventually they'll grow to like you again. More importantly, when they grow up, get married, and have children of their own, they'll have a role model and a plane for success. (Source: Word For Today) (bobbeethehater.blogspot.com)