“Great Songs” of CAPITALISM
My country ’tis of FEE
sweet land by purchase / lease
of thee I’m singed
Land where my fathers hung
Land where they worship dung
Land where false freedom’s flung
of the I’m singed
My country cannot FLEE
this rot must surely cease
of thee I’m singed
Land thought of gold lined fares
Land selling dubious wares
Land once were more than FAIR
of thee I’m singed
My country was Free Trade’s SEE
far / wide come happily
of thee I’m singed
Land stole’ from someone else
INTELLIGENCE is shelved
WHERE’S gone the “MORE THAN SELF”
of thee I’m SINGED
After the “RATINGS” Can ‘THEY’ “GO BACK” ?
With ALL the women “coming” out of the Wood(s’) WORK the age old adage of, “ONCE“you go NOIR can you free him from the car (?), is the new way of stating “it”. We, still have no admission to the marring of Tiger’s features, but the [\"onslaught\"] of, possibly, [nipped and tucked] Blondes definitely are saying a lot. ADD being the PGA’s [top MONEY maker] and you can envision why these, (so far.), young women are looking to a lucre for their future. Because, everyone knows that a steady diet of being a “Pop’s” [TART] leads one on the way to becoming someone that I know the choir will PREACH OF….
Now that these women have been paid,( AT THE LEAST ONCE BEFORE !), in emotional, financial, or “BIOLOGICAL” gratuity you’d think that they’d realize that a Long-Term cont(r)act provides a lower tax-rate… capitalizing early on an investment usually means that down the road one loses much. But like the “trickle-down” theory , by the time that which is to trickle “DOWN” has passed its first few ‘feet’, that unless there is a “pool” for collection the momentum/ speed of the wanted substance is too great to contain/ gather.
Now that the lot have divulged their personal training styles of swimming in an OLYMPIC size pool of chocolate do you think that ANYONE will welcome them back to the pond they grew up in ? Do you think that they even WANT to go “BACK”?
And , to the “gents” that have been/ were dating these “fine” young Fillys… do you know the name given to the “stud” that prepares them for their “real deal”?
He’s called a [TEASER], not the Pleaser.
Just When I Thought I Would Get Away
It’s wonderful living amongst country folk. The sweet cacophony of the symphonic chorus of the Baritone blasts of twelve gauge shotguns aimed at FOOD, (It’s DEER hunting season in Ohio right now.), instead of a neighbor. The nice thing about spending time in a city that takes 20 minutes to walk ACROSS is that there are more Olive to Cocoa skinned beings in it than in ‘ THE METROPOLIS’. And 90% of the people passing by you, whether by Pick-up truck ,Motorcycle, ( Tonnes of Harleys !),is that they wave their ENTIRE hand to/ at you… Single digit salutes are rare, except between fellow class competitors of the dirt tracks.
And they don’t have so many problems as the sectarianists in the “burbs”. I only was spurred into into this by the news out of [\"Hot\"-lanta, GA] on how ‘[black] [college][\'educators\'] attempted to sway the mayoral elections by passing their sham opinion onto the voters as if they were a group of “NOTED” thinkers of a nationally recognized forum. Doing so by [race-baiting]. It’s amazing that when a group finally achieves that which had proved a BARRIER to THEM is so quickly added to their arsenal.
I was smacked on the back of my head, and NOT by my Grandmother, by this read action. WE must remember that just after the end of the “Civil” WAR that the FIRST politicians, like [John Roy Lynch], most likely had the urge to “do to those that had been done to them”, but knew they had to set a new and BETTER STANDARD. The question that they had to ask was what IS freedom, and knew that it wasn’t what they had been shown. Then, as now, hand caressing the chin “in study”…
“I…WISH…
I write this to the area where I was conceived, I’ve left it probably for good. And with that acknowledgement I have a better understanding of Frederick Douglass’ written content from England, Richard Wright from France… so many that “LOVED” their home.. but couldn’t continue to “LIVE” there.
WHY Are YOU Here ?
I began this blog as short time ago thinking that I could say something that would INSPIRE the tiny mass that call the “Near East Side” home. I went to the coffee shop ,at the corners of Long St, and 17th, even though they have periodicals all along the walls I’ve seen them there, still, dust cloth / Zen garden patterns across their covers. Attempting to anger a readership the transfered post of [They\'re still our slaves] got no response, just as the article proved true.
It’s a wonder how we ever got a man of colour into the highest office this country has. But as I notice more and more “Moors” have begun magazine publishing companies that charge close to five dollars an issue, the content of these are WHO, in “your”neighborhood, is going TO or getting OUT OF a Federal, State or Municipal penal facility.
All the predecessors who fought and died for African heritaged people to render themselves free have gotten (almost) NO return on their considerable INVESTMENT. This Post is DEFINITELY my last attempt to “give back” to the area that inspired my conception and birth.
As Paul Harvey, (NO, not Steve’s Uncle !), would say… Good Day.
100 YEARS of GOOD
In this new century we have begun to lose those who gave US the needed lessons of PRIDE, SACRIFICE, and INTEGRITY. When just ONE of those harbingers is allowed to live long enough to give their lessons it is PARAMOUNT that there be a constant record, (and reinstatement.), of what a GOOD life is.
Dr. John, ( James R. ), Dumpson was given to the world by James and Edyth Dumpson in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the date of April 5, 1909. [The first of five: 4/5/1909] As this entity has tried to inform the area’s citizenry of its history,( and CONTINUED responsibility. ), this article is a view, and example, of what can happen to ANYONE who makes the choice of a good enterprise, one of SERVICE in our ‘race’… the HUMAN one.
The FIRST, in so many ways.
Dr. Dumpson assisted the administration of President John F. Kennedy , and has been called on by so many other nations throughout his lifetime [A MAN: of HIS/ OUR time.], and so now is quietly being recognized for
being ” a good and righteous MAN”.
There is a, (vague), quote that says: “as a man thinketh…” [Dr. Dumpson on DIVERSITY.]
There are, (NOT !), too many stories in ANY “Naked City”, this is but one that was brought to me by WIllard Scott. And as EDUCATION is the KEY that is being handed out to the reader of this blog, here are more views of this remarkable man, [A life of good.], make sure that every one of ‘OUR’ children CAN and WILL read these.
“They” ARE Still OUR SLAVES.
I began this blog to give a small “VOICE” to the ‘community’ that I began life in. Now, some 55 years later, I am still looking for a “LIFE”. I came back to Columbus, Ohio after beginning a career in theatre at the newly built MGM Grand-Reno(Nevada). As I’ve watched Mayor Coleman begin his efforts to revitalize this BRONZEVILLE area with the serious effort in the remaking of the LINCOLN THEATRE I’ve noticed that the spirit of the ‘ODD FELLOWS’ , and their unity in providing the “NEGRO” a foundational foothold has been legislated away from those who gave us the history of sharing the “pulling of BOOT-STRAPS”.
Once upon a time this interesting bit of real estate held the ’seized’ bits of the “promised” ‘FORTY ACRES and a MULE’, procured through EDUCATIONS and “SIMPLE HARD WORKS. “Linen” societal “upgrades” changed who and how ACCESS to those new institutions achieved the always needed BOTTOM LINE. And the “powers-that-be” did so by developing a system that removed the equality of EDUCATION when it lost the ability to regulate WHO they educated. At that I give you who refuse to move into the future. (Not only for yourselves but your offspring as well.) This article that is being brought to you first came to my attention from an African (Ghana) market located in the ‘PATIO SHOPS’ shopping center. The name of newspaper they distribute is called ‘The STAR’ (July-August 2008). I now give you the article as it was emailed to a prominent regional V.P. of a local financial institution (SCHUMATE ?) by Orthell L. Adams / Visteon Corporation.
This article was read on a New York radio station by Dee Lee. It is very deep and also true in a very offensive way. The article was written by a Caucasian.
We can continue to reap profits from the Blacks without the effort of physical slavery. Look at the current methods of containment that they use on themselves: IGNORANCE, GREED, and SELFISHNESS. Their IGNORANCE is the primary weapon of containment. A great man once said, “The best way to hide something from Black people is to put it in a book.
We now live in the Information Age. They have gained the opportunity to read any book on any subject through the efforts of their fight for freedom, yet they refuse to read. There are numerous books readily available at Borders, Barnes & Noble, and not to mention their own Black Bookstores that provide solid blueprints to reach economic equality (which should have been their fight all along), but few read consistently, if at all.GREED is another powerful weapon of containment. Blacks, since the abolition of slavery, have had large amounts of money at their disposal. Last year they spent 10 billion dollars during Christmas, out of their 450 billion dollars in total yearly income. Any of us can use them as our target market, for any business venture we care to dream up, no matter how outlandish, they will buy into it. Being primarily a consumer people, they function totally by greed. They continually want more, with little thought for saving or investing.
They would rather buy some new sneakers than invest in starting a business. Some even neglect their children to have the latest Tommy or FUBU, and they still think that having a Mercedes, and a big house gives them “Status” or that they have achieved their Dream. They are fools! The vast majority of their people are still in poverty because their greed holds them back from collectively making better communities.
With the help of BET, and the rest of their black media that often broadcasts destructive images into their own homes, we will continue to see huge profits like those of Tommy and Nike. (Tommy Hilfiger has even jeered them, saying he doesn’t want their money, and look at how the fools spend more with him than ever before!). They’ll continue to show off to each other while we build solid communities with the profits from our businesses that we market to them.SELFISHNESS, ingrained in their minds through slavery, is one of the major ways we can continue to contain them. One of their own, Dubois said that there was an innate division in their culture. “Talented Tenth” he called it. He was correct in his deduction that there are segments of their culture that has achieved some “form” of success. However, that segment missed the fullness of his work. They didn’t read that the “Talented Tenth” was then responsible to aid The Non-Talented Ninety Percent in achieving a better life.
Instead, that segment has created another class, Buppie class that looks down on their people or aids them in a condescending manner. They will never achieve what we have. Their selfishness does not allow them to be able to work together on any project or endeavor of substance. When they do get together, their selfishness lets their egos get in the way of their goal. Their so-called help organizations seem to only want to promote their name without making any real change in their community.
They are content to sit in conferences and conventions in our hotels, and talk about what they will do, while they award plaques to the best speakers, not to the best doers. Is there no end to their selfishness? They steadfastly refuse to see that TOGETHER EACH ACHIEVES MORE (TEAM). They do not understand that they are no better than each other because of what they own , as a matter of fact, most of those Buppies are but one or two pay checks away from poverty. All of which is under the control of our pens in our offices and our rooms.
Yes, we will continue to contain them as long as they refuse to read, continue to buy anything they want, and keep thinking they are “helping” their communities by paying dues to organizations which do little other than hold lavish conventions in our hotels. By the way, don’t worry about any of them reading this letter, remember, ‘THEY DON’T READ!!!!
As you can see the special number ‘44′* can only work if WE provide the anchor point for the success that those whose backs looked like a billion tic-tack-toe boards. (* Barack H. Obama is U.S. President #44.)
My only request is that those in the Bronzeville area leave some sort of mark as to their telling me that this HAS been read and that they are doing something positive to “CHANGE” this article’s “TRUTH”.
I write a small footnote to this as I KNOW that there are TWO very significant “E-Portals” located on East Long Street just TWO city blocks apart.(The new Coffee shops.) They, both, have provided access for reaching the WORLD via WIFI,yet even with knowledge of this blog being OPEN to ALL with interest in the growth and well being of the BRONZEVILLE area there has been NO ENCOURAGEMENT for their customer base to PARTICIPATE in giving their FELLOWS pertinent informations or publicly accessible views in how to make the area vibrant again. This IS a COMMUNITY FORUM open to anyone who has something to tell the world of what’s happening HERE. Or is this ARTICLE TRUE ? Even our “OWN” elected seem to “fall” into these catagories. [Education needs to be coupled to CHARACTER.]
Contact= dellisr.mccammon@yahoo.com
P.S. December first is WORLD AIDS DAY where we “of colour” need to make this disease non existent. The URBAN LEAGUE is testing, get there!!!
This post was written 12/01/2008 and had a total of THREE READERS… the sad thing about my reposting this is that IT’S NOT ONLY the “AFRICAN-AMERICAN” community that IS NEGLECTING to keep abreast of those things that are MAKING “US” SLAVES… the WORLD, as a WHOLE ISN’T PAYING ATTENTION.
Of or A: CHARACTER
Hello, again, I haven’t written anything for awhile because I do so for SIX other MORE WELL READ blogs that show that there IS CONCERN for what’s going on AROUND THEM, and will comment to give an opinion to HELP OTHERS.
While walking, after dinner, I was going back towards “home”. I was passing a small community church, I read…
“SORROW looks back,
WORRY looks aside,
HOPE looks up,
FAITH looks to the HORIZON”…
…on the front sign.
Even though the words are from someone “selling” the doctrine I WAS inspired to write my own downpayment for the betterment of MY “RACE”… the HUMAN ‘RACE’… one that I HOPE eventually WINS its most challenging contest… SURVIVAL.
THUS… Of or A: CHARACTER
Which will they say
at your “eu-lah-jay’
Will the words
be kind or be cruel ?
Will your offspring sob
or bicker over cheap fobs
Will your “partner”
be wracked or stew ?
Will the words inferred
be dissertations or blurbs
Was there more
of kindness or greed ?
You (may) still have time
to distill Life as fine wine
If you’ll practice
a simple, peace filled creed.
So, as time is the Barrister
to plead for the “CHARACTER”
Prosecutor, defenseman
your choice.
It was said, “ALL life’s a STAGE”
was your’s loving or rage
Your name called…
by your very own voice.
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Black (Panther) History
‘It’s a JUNGLE out there, sometimes it makes wonder how I keep from goin’ under…”[\"The MESSEGE\"], and the “JUNGLE” always has something “OUT THERE” just waiting to make a “meal” of those who don’t PROTECT themselves. DON’T THEY !?![Not far from the Bush\'s.]
In the Sapien’s darkest dreams of not being a part of “the world” those that have been transplanted AGAINST THEIR WILL have the toughest of success if they insist on retaining their “IDENTITY”. Even though it may well be the catalyst of PROGRESS and THE SUCCESS for those that don’t attempt to UNDERSTAND or ACCEPT them. Thus WE , the STOLEN children of Africa, found ourselves in “need” of the MENTOR/ PROTECTOR/ HUNTER-GATHERERS named The BLACK PANTHERS, [\"From the very begining...\"], a group of undisillusioned men AND women who had armed their minds with the strength to feed the children of their community, first through their stomachs, that the society that lost ownership of their bodies had tried to discard through starvations. Then feed the malnourished MINDS that were the remnants of those who had built the libraries of ALEXANDRIA… had DRIVEN ELEPHANTS to, then ACROSS the ALPS, conquering parts of EURASIA.
It WAS by Greatness.
Many of these MEN and WOMEN had the seeds of the MOORS, [And the TRUTH WILL set THEM free.], imbeded deep within COLLEGE EDUCATED, but empty of the feeling of HOMELAND and HISTORY, hearts that grew angry with their surroundings of having to live without. But NEVER was this PANTHER to HUNT in ANGER or REVENGE, [FOR community, not AGAINST society.], outside of its territory, even though there are some that continue the misdirection of basic truths.[This may be why she is U.S. Secretary of State.],[The truth \"of\" it.] Even as the originators are passing into the dust of the Universe, [Kimbro] and [The Panther\'s \"reach\".], the true LEGACY of just how GHOST-like the Panther truly is may never be understood by those who’ve NOT felt its embrace, but its “terrible” strengths when HUNGRY, or perturbed when caged. But a real ‘Panther’ IS NOT that that has been newly bred [Is this from Sigfeid and Roy\'s Collection ?], it IS always without the superfluous.
Even a Tiger’s old haunt can yield some TRUTH on the subject. [\"And the truth shall set you free.\"]
One for each day until they can rest.
You DON’T Care
This is February, the year 2009. You ‘knew’ that didn’t you ? What does this month MEAN to YOU, that you’ve gotten all your “Dub-ya Toos” ? That you’ve only got one more quarter before the “Kids” get out for summer vacation ? (What’s their Gee-Pee-Ay ?) Yes I am writing this as an insult, because I started this blog for a reason, that of disbursing necessary information to a group of people that SORELY NEEDED IT, but are too lazy to read , then follow the instructions… OR are so wrapped up in the RUSE of having “MADE IT” with their city, state, or “GUB-MINT” “GAR-N-TEED” employments. Well, how’s that Ohio Jobs and Family Services CHECK filling in those blanks ?
I used to live in the BRONZEVILLE area of Columbus, Ohio, but have seen a better light shining in an area that most of “us Black Folk” would find scary, (as in possible cross burnings scary.), farm country: diesel trucks and NASCAR. The funny thing is that these folks know more about BLACK HISTORY MONTH than 80% of Bronzeville’s residents. Either from their anger at the holiday, [\"Tol-jah\".], or their genuine concern for the betterment of the world,[The British have been at this longer.], we have been sold a “BILL OF GOODS”by those that have made it a study of manipulating populations… and have done so through the “Americanized- African”, so readily willing to be led to the glitters of “non-assimilation”. We “think” that we’re keeping our societal differences. Where ARE our Nikki Giovanni’s, Gil Scott-Heron’s, Alberta Hunter’s, Dukes, Counts and Cabs. A Phyllis Wheatley ,Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou. An actor turned author: LeVar Burton- AFTERMATH, (Something to think about in today’s ENVIRONMENT.) Where is the James Baldwin, Æsops, poems by Tuskeegee’s Peregrines [Africa\'s transplanted Peregrines.].
The examples of why the HEARTS and SOULS of “WE, the PEOPLE of these United States”, (though not of a group of land masses, but states of EXISTENCES), of re-establishing a DIGNITY… for our children, and the nation they may never “leave” to call someplace else HOME…
I left BRONZEVILLE because as I walked to the corner store I saw only three men of African descent working to restore a place of ARTS and Dreams that was built by, and for, those who had no other place that would accept their patronages… out of several hundred that only saw the area as a place to TAKE a PAYCHECK from, to a neighborhood where the residents of Bronzeville wouldn’t be allowed such an income. But, as I walked each day, there was no one OF the neighborhood complaining, or applying for the PREVAILING WAGE “DUCKETS” fleeing the area. And NONE of the new “shop owners” saying their “TWO-CENTS” to the PORCHES OCCUPANTS… JUST like in the OLD DAYS… BUT you DON’T CARE.
Here’s a shot for you, can ANYONE, (that may actually read this post.), tell me 1.) IF there is actually an UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, and where it really is located ? 2.) AFTER getting to Dresden, Ontario, CANADA ? 3.) Where did most of the now FREE/ ex-slaves settle ?
BLACK HISTORY MONTH is not a CELEBRATION unless you’ve PARTICIPATED.
So, with only one or two “in readership” I believe that this may be my LAST attempt at sharing any thought of “worth”, the original thought was to give “an open parchment to any and all” who had “no other” avenue of expressing what they HAD to say. But, as most things available to the us, we won’t use them until we are not allowed.
We aren't often in on what our "MATTERS" are.
It’s ONLY a START
At noon (est) the collective breath of this world was partially held as a man, “NOT LIKE the OTHER ONES”, will accept his new place in HISTORY as PRESIDENT of THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA. As the CONSTITUTIONAL RULE gives a clear path of what must be done TODAY, Barack Hussein Obama will become “Mr. President”to EVERY citizen of the WORLD, not ‘JUST’ to “WE, the People of THESE United States…”.
Since Harriet Tubman’s leading many to “DRINK” from a far away “LADLE” the health rich brew called FREEDOM… Through “STOLEN” African citizens’ learning, then TEACHING, to read and write by the small lights of a candle or the fireplace… For every sad harvest of “STRANGE FRUIT” that was forced on Africa’s permanently “INDENTURED”… This IS the day that could be likened to JOSEPH greeting HIS family as a “Ghost/ Savior”. BUT, it is ONLY the first tentative step of a “SON of GENIUS” who is the first of his line to EMBRACE his NATION as its GUIDING hand.
With a world that is “ONE GRAIN of SAND” from falling OFF the UNIVERSE, and moving into a home that has been suffering from far too many types of VERMIN that have, and ARE, still ensconced in the walls and FOUNDATION(S).Think of TODAY as a new national/political version of “THIS OLD HOUSE”. The only difference is that everyone in, and of, this moment is to be on the CREW that assists the RESTORATION of , the [\"Rebirtth of a NOTION\"], of why we are the United States of AMERICA.
The only WANT/”WISH”/ HOPE I have for TODAY is that ‘EVIL’ has been confused enough that THIS NATION can take its first clear breath in a while then set its feet firmly in a better set of “starting blocks”. For a “RACE” that WE are ALL part of… the HUMAN ONE.
This is how some of the world “sees”it…
1.)[From Australia]
3.)[From RUSSIA, \"With LOVE\".]
5.)[The very NATIVE Son.]
7.)[The COUPS de GRAS.]
At the start, in the original CONSTITUTION, “I” was ONLY THREE-FIFTHS of a ‘WHITE’ MAN NOW “I”AM “HIS PRESIDENT”.
The only problem I, and three-quarters of the WORLD had with Rick Warren’s prayer IS that he purposely Ignored ALLAH’S mention thus denying , as the BIBLE says ‘HIS’ MANY NAMES. (A sad AND significant OMISSION to the SON OF a MUSLIM FATHER.) Whereas the Benediction given by the Reverend Joseph Lowery included “ALL GOD’S CHILDREN” as Rick Warren would NOT.
As a final thought: My Grandmother and Grandfather sat with me to watch an Ohio ‘farm-boy’ “…Take a small step for MAN”… in the year of 1969. My Grandmother had told us of where she was when the Wrights skipped across Kitty Hawk’s beach front, telling us… “that if God had wanted man to go to the Moon he’d have given Man wings”…, just days before. She held her head in prayer that moment. Esther and Verdrie would have held each other TODAY. And my SLAVE-born GREAT-Grandmother would have SMILED … IN VICTORY.
Success: 233 years long.
