Saturday, December 19, 2009

Happy Holidays!!!


Hello all I know I have been away for a while but I am working on making this blog and my radio show even better than before. I will be retuning January 11, 2009. May you have a wonderful holiday and and blessed new year.


Sista Girl

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Today on Sista Girl Talks Radio 10/10/09

Check out my Radio show Sista Girl Talks Saturdays at 10:00 a.m (EST)

www.blogtalkradio.com/sistagirltalks

We will be talking about President Obama's Nobel Piece Price win with Jame Walker of Walker and Assoc. Mr. Walker is a Entertainment Lawyer, Real Estate Owner, Community Worker, TV legal analyst, and Author of "THIS BUSINESS OF URBAN MUSIC" Please visit www.walkerandassoc.com and Mr.Thomas DeWolf author of Inheriting the Trade:http://inheritingthetrade.com


We will also have our new sports segment in our P Squared sports segment with Paul Robinson of www.offsidz.com and Pat from Atlanta.

Please join us it will be fun.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Good job Mr. President Keep it up



Congratulations President Obama on your Nobel Prize. Well deserved!

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Radio show 9/12/09 Health care Social Media and Sports

Join us today as we talk about how race has affected the health care debate, and how social media how changed everyting. Also it is the start of football season how is your team gong to do? Please join us at www.blogtalkradio/sistagirltalks at 10:00 a.m. (est)

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Ted Kennedy Novemer 7, 1962 to August 25, 2009


Every American should have the right to have a quality education, a job that respects their dignity and protects their safety and health care that does not condemn those whose health is impaired to a lifetime of poverty and lost opportunity

Monday, August 10, 2009

Let's have a real health care debate

About 16 years ago I lived for a year without health insurance. Of course I was much younger and the thought of coming down with a serious disease was not an issue but in the back of my mind was always the fear of being in a serious accident or breaking a limb. The blessing was that I was not resposible for a child or sick parent and in that entire year not one thing happened to me. I felt a strong relief when I did get finally get health insurance and could see a doctor on a regulare basis.

The statisitcs show that 46 million Americans do not have health insurance, and many of those people have childern. In a country this rich that is a travesty, and for over sixty years Washington has tried to so somethning about it. This year for the first time since the Clinton administration there seems to be a clear path to universial health care.


During the August recess members of Congress are having town halls meetings to talk about the issue of health care and unfortunately they are being shouted down in meetings by people on the right who disagree with the proposed health care bill

Therefore no one wins, not the people withourt healthcare, not the peoploe with healthcare who need something better and not the people who need thier health care premiums to come down.

What needs to happen is true civil converesation on this subject. This is the most serious subject we will face as a country and if we do not treat it as such the price we will pay is one that we can not cover.


Stop the shouting, stop the lies and let's have a conversation.

Let's have a real health care debate.

Let's have a real health care debate.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Today on Sista Girl Talks Radio

Today on Sista Girl Talks Radio we will talk about Black men and thier relatioship with the police.

On the show today we have Dr. Charles Williams,clinical professor and director of the Center for the Prevention of School-Aged Violence at Drexel University. He earned his PhD in educational psychology from Temple University. Co-hosts The Grimaldi&Williams Show on CBS Radio in Philadelphia.

Website: www.drchuckspeaks.com

Also joining us our resident blogger Citizen Ojo. Check out his blog on the blog roll. The Desultory Life & Tims of a Public Citizen.

We will also introduce out new Sports segment we will be talking to Pat from Atlanta we will preview the NFL season and if we will see Micheal Vick on the sidelines, please join us.



Please join us at: 10:00 a.m. (EST)
www.blogtalkradio.com/sistagirltalks

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Today on Sista Girl Talks Radio

Today on Sista Girl Talks Radio we will talk about Black men and thier relatioship with the police.

On the show today we have Dr. Charles Williams,clinical professor and director of the Center for the Prevention of School-Aged Violence at Drexel University. He earned his PhD in educational psychology from Temple University. Co-hosts The Grimaldi&Williams Show on CBS Radio in Philadelphia.

Website: www.drchuckspeaks.com

Ronald Wadley his website is:
http://rhanw4560-speakingupspeakingout.blogspot.com/


James Walker
Entertainment Lawyer, Real Estate Owner, Community Worker, TV legal analyst, and Author of "THIS BUSINESS OF URBAN MUSIC" Please visit www.walkerandassoc.com

Please join us at: 10:00 a.m. (EST)
www.blogtalkradio.com/sistagirltalks

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Cnn article on Henry Louis Gates.

This CNN article came out today and I am quoted in the article. It is regarding Henry Louis Gates.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/22/gates.arrest.reaction/index.html

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Skip Gates and Racsim

I have to tell you I love reading the newspaper, however this mornig was an excption,. My hero a gentlemen that I admire had a mug shot in this morning's paper. Here is the irony the first African American President was on the cover of the newspaper so I started reading the paper with a smile. And then I got to that page. What page? The page where a Harvard educated man had a mug shot becuase of an arrest. Why was he arrested? Well he was trying to get into his own home on the campus where he is a tenured proffesor. Someone called the police becuase they thought that Dr. Gates was breaking in his own home. After he showed his Harvard ID and an ID to show his address of the home he was in he was still arrested The police officer said the 5' 7"/150 lb Gates was disorderly to a police officer with a gun in Cambridge. HMMMMMMMMMM. I know Obama gave a speech last week about no exuses and about hard work , but that is what Dr. Gates has done all of his life and he still ended up with an arrest and a mugshot. Are there really no more exuses?


Here is an update about the case.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

RIP MJ


TO ALL

I will continue to blog tomorrow but I don't feel too much like blogging today.

So as the world says good bye to MJ today so do I.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

MJ and Me

I it safe to say I had a wonderful childhood. It was not perfect but it was one filled with parents who loved me,brothers who I laughed with and the music of Micheal Jackson. My earliest memory of a Micheal Jackson song was at the end of my Headstart graduation, my teacher put on the song ABC and while the other kids were shy I danced, danced and danced. When Micheal Jackson sang "shake it shake it baby" I did and according to my Mom I was the star of the show.

When I was about 11 years old my cousins took me to see tHE JACKSON FIVE and I remember being mad because my cousins go to wear thier fly clothes (hot pants and tube tops) and Mommy made me wear jeans and a t-shrit. I was prepared to wear a crush velvet purple and pink dress and dreamed of MJ noticing me and whisking me off to California where we would have a wedding to end all weddings.

I saw him years later at Soilder Field in Chicago when he reunited with his brothers for the Victory tour and I was horse from screaming his name.

Over the years Micheal got stranger and lighter but whenever there was a family gathering we would always play his musick, dance and laugh about our crushes on the Jackson Five. Micheal changed but our love affair with his music did not

This past Thursday I lost my first love my first crush my first guy. I will miss him and all that he was and I am glad he left us so much to remember him by. He was BAD and he was a THRILLER!!!

Today on Sista Girl Talks Radio

Listen to James Walker close friend of the Jackson family and also Ronald Wadley GLBT activist today at 10:00 a.m. at.blogtalkradio.com/sistagirltalks

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Sista Talks Radio Show 6/20/09

On today's show we will be talkig politics with Citizen Ojo of the blog http://thedesultorylifeandtimes.blogspot.com/, the Event Planner and Marketing Specialist and founder of the http://www.theperfect-date.com/ will talk about using Facebook and Twitter to enhance your business.

Finally Rashida Ali Campbell of Love Loving Love Inc. will talk to us about building green houses. Check out her website at http://www.lovelovinglove.com.

Please join us at 10:00 a.m (EST) or list to the archives at:www.blogtalkradio.com/sistagirltalks

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Palin Needs to Study Hillary.


One of the things that I am learning in life is that if you want to be successful in a certain are look and study people who have been successful in that arena. If I wanted to be successful in marriage and mothering I would look to my Mother and Michelle Obama. Oprah Winfrey would be my model to be successful businesswomen and entrepreneur. If I could get five minutes of face time with Sarah Palin I would tell her to study, study and study Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mrs. Clinton has handled whatever life has thrown at her with grace and strength. She has done it I under the scrutiny of the media and landed as one of the most powerful women in the world. While late night hosts and comedians were making fun of her husband and her she spent the time preparing herself for greater things and by doing so having the last laugh.



During the last election I enthusiastically supported President Obama but I was overly impressed with Mrs. Clinton and I knew that no matter who was the Democratic nominee would eventually win the November election and be a successful President. Mrs Clinton is strong, knowledgeable , tough and capable. In other words SHE IS A BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD GIRL.


So my advice to Mrs. Palin is quite simple study your foreign policy, figure out that Africa is a continent with counties, get some Black and Hispanic friends (listen to them) and study Hillary Clinton because she is a true model of success.
One of the things that I am learning in life is that if you want to be successful in a certain are look and study people who have been successful in that arena. If I wanted to be successful in marriage and mothering I would look to my Mother and Michelle Obama. Oprah Winfrey would be my model to be successful businesswomen and entrepreneur. If I could get five minutes of face time with Sarah Palin I would tell her to study, study and study Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mrs. Clinton has handled whatever life has thrown at her with grace and strength. She has done it I under the scrutiny of the media and landed as one of the most powerful women in the world. While late night hosts and comedians were making fun of her husband and her she spent the time preparing herself for greater things and by doing so having the last laugh.



During the last election I enthusiastically supported President Obama but I was overly impressed with Mrs. Clinton and I knew that no matter who was the Democratic nominee would eventually win the November election and be a successful President. Mrs Clinton is strong, knowledgeable , tough and capable. In other words SHE IS A BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD GIRL.


So my advice to Mrs. Palin is quite simple study your foreign policy, figure out that Africa is a continent with counties, get some Black and Hispanic friends (listen to them) and study Hillary Clinton because she is a true model of success.
One of the things that I am learning in life is that if you want to be successful in a certain are look and study people who have been successful in that arena. If I wanted to be successful in marriage and mothering I would look to my Mother and Michelle Obama. Oprah Winfrey would be my model to be successful businesswomen and entrepreneur. If I could get five minutes of face time with Sarah Palin I would tell her to study, study and study Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mrs. Clinton has handled whatever life has thrown at her with grace and strength. She has done it I under the scrutiny of the media and landed as one of the most powerful women in the world. While late night hosts and comedians were making fun of her husband and her she spent the time preparing herself for greater things and by doing so having the last laugh.



During the last election I enthusiastically supported President Obama but I was overly impressed with Mrs. Clinton and I knew that no matter who was the Democratic nominee would eventually win the November election and be a successful President. Mrs Clinton is strong, knowledgeable , tough and capable. In other words SHE IS A BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD GIRL.


So my advice to Mrs. Palin is quite simple study your foreign policy, figure out that Africa is a continent with counties, get some Black and Hispanic friends (listen to them) and study Hillary Clinton because she is a true model of success.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Newt Gingrich has already lost the 2012 election!

It is interesting to me the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich had to retract his statement about calling Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a racsist. I think somone showed him the percentage of Hispanics that President Obama won in the 2008 election and informed him that the last group of people he shoud be pissing off are Hispanics. However by making this statement it is clear to me that "Newt" does not have any Hispanic friends, and if he does he does not make it his business to talk or consult with them on a regular basis. This shoot from the hip talk is the exact ideology that got us in the war in Iraq. This kind of thinking says: get a quick opinin, don't think about it, don't listen to reason and just act. America does not need this. So if anyone who happens to read this blog and knows Newt tell him not to waste his time in thinking about runnign in 2012 becuase he has already lost election with one stupid and insesitive comment.

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Judge Sotomayor and same sex marriage

Today we will have blogger Citizen Ojo of the blog: http://thedesultorylifeandtimes.blogspot.com/ to talk about the new nominee Judge Sotomayor and the controversy about her nomination.

We will also have GLBT activist Ronald Wadley to talk about the same sex marriage issue, prop 8 in California and the debate around the country. Please join us at today at 10:00 a.m (EST) at: www.blogtalkradio.com/sistagirltalks

Saturday, May 23, 2009

I am not sure who is right but we have to get this right!

On all of the morning, afternoon and evening talk shows, pundits have been comparing President Obama and former Vice President Cheney's speeches on the methods of torture , what is toture, and the question of national security. Of course former Vice President Cheney's defense is that the Bush administration's methods were effective and kept the country safe after 9/11. President Obama's opinion is that tourture did happen and did not work,Gitmo should closed and perhpas these prisoners in Gitmo who are terrorists should be put in maximun security prisons in and around the United States.

I have a mixed opinions about this entire subject for a number of reasons I will not bore you with. However this is what I know for sure. WHOMEVER IS IN CHARGE HAS GOT TO GET THIS RIGHT. It is fine to make speeches, it is fine to have conversations but at some point each side has to sit with the other and come up with a solution that is effective. I am not a foreign policy expert by any means but I do know how important it is to keep not only America but the world safe. So enough with the speeches, talking heads and editorials let's get to work becuse if we do not get this right the alternative is dangerous and unacceptable.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Is Mr. Cheney being Patriotic?

I know that is a shock to those who know me know that I am not a big fan of former Vice President Dick Cheney. I think as Vice-President Joe Biden said in a debate, Mr Cheney is the most dangerous Vice President in history. During the eight years he was Vice President Mr. Cheney was rarely seen, he rarely gave interviews and sometimes would not be seen for months at a time. However now Mr. Cheney seems to have found his voice since being out of office and is sounding the alarm that President Obama has made the United Staes less safe by some of his recent policies. I am not going to talk about Mr. Obama's polices and if Mr. Cheney is right. However, I do believe what Mr Cheney is doing is dangerous and it as if he wants the United States to be attacked just to prove him self right.

The Republican party always wants to potray itself as being a party who is so patriotic. But is Mr. Cheney being patriotic talking against the policies of the current adminstration? I think not. He would be well served to keep quiet and the Obama administration to do what they think is best as the Clinton administration did the Bush administration. Mr. Cheney must understand that the atmosphere of fear has been replaced with hope and he would serve this country best by going back to his undisclosed bunker and being the mean old grumpy man he has always been. That would be patriotic.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Radio Show Today May 2, 2009

Please join me today for Sista Girl Talks Radio Show. We will be talking about President Obama's first 100 days and also talk to comedian Razor. Hope you can join us at 10:00 a.m. (EST) www.blogtalkradio.com/sistagirltalks.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Today's radio show will be about money management

Today is an excting show we will have Mr. Freddie Pepper http://www.fdirep.com/pano.cfm and Ginger the founder and publisher of:
http://www.girlsjustwannahavefunds.com talking money mangement. We will also have Pastor Authur Thompson of Living Water Church at: www.livingwaterdc.org, he will be talking about the principals of tithing. And finally commedian Ayanna Dookie will make us laugh. Hope you can join us at 10:00 a.m. (E.S.T.) at:www.blogtalkradio.com/sistagirltalks. Hope you can join us.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Palin's Personal Choice

I was going to blog about this but Ms. Ruth Marcus said it so much better.
By Ruth Marcus
Monday, April 20, 2009
I'd like to thank Sarah Palin for her bravery in explaining the importance of a woman's right to choose. Even braver, the Alaska governor made her eloquent case for choice at a right-to-life fundraising dinner.
THIS STORY
• dot.comments: Readers on Palin's Choice
That was not, of course, Palin's intention in revealing that she momentarily considered having an abortion. Twice, actually -- once when she discovered she would be a mother at 44, again several weeks later when she discovered that her baby would have Down syndrome.
I'll quote Palin at length, partly because I want readers to see that I'm not taking her remarks out of context, even more because the account of her anguished choice about whether to "change the circumstances" is so gripping and so genuine. Instead of the Tina Fey caricature, we see a flesh-and-blood woman whose moral certainties are being put to a real-world test:
"I had found out that I was pregnant while out of state first, at an oil and gas conference. While out of state, there just for a fleeting moment, wow, I knew, nobody knows me here, nobody would ever know. I thought, wow, it is easy, could be easy to think, maybe, of trying to change the circumstances. No one would know. No one would ever know.
"Then when my amniocentesis results came back, showing what they called abnormalities. Oh, dear God, I knew, I had instantly an understanding for that fleeting moment why someone would believe it could seem possible to change those circumstances. Just make it all go away and get some normalcy back in life. Just take care of it. Because at the time only my doctor knew the results, Todd didn't even know. No one would know. But I would know. First, I thought how in the world could we manage a change of this magnitude. I was a very busy governor with four busy kids and a husband with a job hundreds of miles away up on the North Slope oil fields. And, oh, the criticism that I knew was coming. Plus, I was old . . .

"So we went through some things a year ago that now lets me understand a woman's, a girl's temptation to maybe try to make it all go away if she has been influenced by society to believe that she's not strong enough or smart enough or equipped enough or convenienced enough to make the choice to let the child live. I do understand what these women, what these girls go through in that thought process."
Except that, of course, if it were up to Palin, women would have no thought process to go through. The "good decision to choose life," as she put it, would be no decision at all, because abortion would not be an option.
This is not a particularly complex point, but it is one toward which Palin seems deliberately obtuse. It came up at the Republican convention last summer, when the Palins issued a statement about their daughter's pregnancy: "We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby." Again, in the world according to Palin, there would be no decision at all. Abortion would be illegal except to save the life of the mother.
I respect Palin's decision not to "make it all go away." She describes her doubts about whether she had the fortitude and patience to cope with a child with Down syndrome, and, with the force of a mother's fierce love, the special blessing that Trig has brought to her life. She speaks as someone who is confident that she made the correct choice.
For her. In fact, the overwhelming majority of couples choose to terminate pregnancies when prenatal testing shows severe abnormalities. In cases of Down syndrome, the abortion rate is as high as 90 percent.
For the crowd listening to her at last week's dinner, Palin's disclosure served the comfortable role of moral reinforcement: She wavered in her faith, was tempted to sin, regained her strength and emerged better for it.
As for those us less certain that we know, or are equipped to instruct others, when life begins and when it is permissible to terminate a pregnancy, Palin's speech offered a different lesson: Abortion is a personal issue and a personal choice. The government has no business taking that difficult decision away from those who must live with the consequences.
marcusr@washpost.com

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Today's radio show on helping young black men

Today's show was about reaching young black men. Listen to the archived show at:http://www.blogtalkradio/sistagirltalks.com

Below is the information about our guests.




Randall Phillips and Sherita Bolden better known as P D B G R O U P V E N T U R E formed their Entertainment / Business Networking consortium in December 2006 with the much anticipated live concert event “Music 4 The People Vol. 1” in Chicago, Illinois.The inspiration for their partnership and this event stemmed from the " Mastermind Principle " mentioned in Napoleon Hill’s classic book “Think and Grow Rich.”


wwww.PDBGROUPVENTURE.COM.




WWW.PEntertainment Lawyer, Author, Real Estate Developer and Community Worker. He is the author of the best selling book "THIS BUSINESS OF URBAN MUSIC" released by BILLBOARD BOOKS. Please visit www.walkerandassoc.com



Living Water Church Pastor Arthur Thompson
http://WWW.livingwaterdc.org

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Despite the outlook I feel good.

For the past few days I have neglected my blog. Work has been a bit overwhelming and when I am not there I am usually unwinding from being there. One of the reasons for starting this blog was to record my own thots and opinions about the presidential race and now that the race is over and my candidate won, I find my thots probably a bit boring. The truth is this I see the bleak economic forecast for this country and I listen to more commentaries than a human being really should. I tune in to CNBC and watch my personal stock plummet and after looking at my retirement portfolio the other day I think I can retire at the old age of 80. That is cool I have nothing better to do. But let me say this I am confident in where this country is and is going and I think our future has never looked better.

As much as I love President Obama my faith is not in him it is truly in Jesus Christ. However, I feel better knowing that there is someone in the White House who seems to care, not be afraid of hard work and knows what they are doing.

For the past few days there has been chatter about President Obama and if he is trying to do to much. When I hear people asking this question I wonder what they do for a living and what their in box looks like. I think about my own work life, and I have about five projects to complete, several different reports due and it changes everyday. I nor the President have the luxury of just focusing on one thing and if I were a betting person I would guess most people do not.

Even thought we have not seen this in the past eight years this is what a competent, intelligent President does . Time and history will judge the success of President Obama and he is working like mad to make sure it does just that in a positive way. I say GO MR. PRESIDENT!

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Great show on domestic violence today

We had a great show on domestic violence today. It was so powerful.

Please check it out on the archives.

God bless.

www.blogtalkradio.com/sistagirltalks

Friday, March 20, 2009

Let's try this again.

Our show last week had to be canceled so we are going to try again on tomorrow 3/21/09.




We will also have James Walker and Pastor Author Thompson talking about this topic.Check out my Radio show Sista Girl Talks Saturdays at 10:00 a.m (EST) www.blogtalkradio.com/sistagirltalks

Hope you can join us.

Friday, March 13, 2009

Domestic Abuse show on 3/14/09

On tomorrow's we will have Waneta Dawn author of the book Behind the Hedge and Hannah of the blog Emotional Abuse and your faith talking about domestic abuse. We will also have James Walker and Pastor Author Thompson talking about this topic.

Check out my Radio show Sista Girl Talks Saturdays at 10:00 a.m (EST)
www.blogtalkradio.com/sistagirltalks

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Domestic Abuse


I will be talking about domestic abuse on my radio show this Saturday. It is my hope that you will join me and perhaps in the process we can help somebody.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Check me out on News and Notes today.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101621110.


As the median home price in Detroit falls to $7,500, what does the future look like for the Motor City?
Plus, Ebony and Jet magazines struggle to stay afloat. Will black America let them fail?
Tony Cox moderates our bloggers' roundtable with K. Tempest Bradford of The Angry Black Woman; Eric Brown of the Detroit News; and Kimberly Coleman of Sista Girl Speaks Up/www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101621110

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Mr. Steele confesses he is inarticulate to Rush!

On yesterday Michael Steele issued an apology to Rush Limbaugh, The apology included the following statement: My intent was not to go after Rush - I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh," Steele said. "I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. ... There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership."


What is sad about this is not the apology, that is appalling! The sad part is the content of the apology. This is an educated man declaring himself inarticulate to another man who has less formal education than he. But not only that, Mr. Steele is apologizing to a man who spews hate against another black man every day, I don’t know how Mr. Steele is going to look at himself in the mirror every day, better still how is going to look at his kids?

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

The Republicans Need another star!

The Republican party has tried to put two people out to counter the OBAMA phenomenon. Each time it has fallen short first Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and now Governor Bobby Jindal. Last night Governor Jindal attempted to give a response to President Obama’s Congressional address. After listening to President’s wonderful address many people were disappointed with the New Orleans Governor’s response. I wonder who the Republicans will try to make their next superstar? They better do a better job 2012 is right around the corner.

Monday, February 23, 2009

A little too early for the 2012 campaign

In my opinion President Obama showed his toughness today. After the Governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal and the Governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford went on Meet the Press yesterday to un-officially start their 2012 Presidential campaigns, President Obama checked them for doing so by stating “there will be plenty of time for campaigning later”.

It is very interesting to me that these Republican Governors refuse to take money that will help their constituents but in the next few years they will raise millions of dollars to run for re-election and higher office. As Governor Schwarzenegger said yesterday he is a Governor first and a Republican second and it is his duty to take care of the people of his state. He needs to talk to his fellow Republican Governors and remind them of that. But perhaps the voters of their states will do that for him.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

I do not have the answers but I have some advice.

I wish I had the answer to this whole dialogue on how to prevent domestic violence. Every since the allegations about Chris Brown hitting Rihanna it seems that it is all everyone wants to talk about.
I do know one thing this “cause of the month “will be swept under the rug until the next celebrity fiasco. However those who are going thru domestic violence right now do not have the advantage of sweeping it under the rug and as sure as I write this blog someone right now is frightened for his or her life because a lover/ wife/husband/friend is on their way home. I am a survivor of domestic abuse I was never hit but I was verbally abused. Things were said to me that still hurt me to this day, but I thank God and I got thur it and i got our of it , everyone is not so lucky.

Recently I was on a panel about emotional abuse and was asked if I could give young women five pieces of advice before entering into a relationship with someone what would it be. Here goes:


1) Be secure in yourself-Of course not all of us are 100% sure all of time. But it is important to know who you and who you belong to. God entrusted your heart to you take care of it, it is important to do so. Proverbs 4:23Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.

2) When people tell you who they are BELIEVE THEM –Maya Angelou. When I went out with my ex on the second date he told me and I quote “ I have a whole dark side and you don’t bring that out in me.” HMMMMMM! I should have gotten out of the car and walked home even thourgh I was in Atlantic City. So often folks tell on themselves, and they are usually telling the truth.

3) If he or she talks bad about every person they have ever been with take that as a hint. The only common denominator In all of those relationships is them. Hence the problem

4) If that person goes around telling you how great they are all the time and have to put other folks down to do so run. If they are so great their actions will dictate that.

5) If that person shows any side of anger to ther kids, thier family, co-workers etc… take that as a sign that you are next. Behavior all behavior is consistent.

Those are my rules I tell young sisters and brothers all the time And believe me it is not just what I preach it is what practice.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

The High expectations of Low expectations

Yesterday I made a pledge that I would not watch any politico shows for a while because, well I needed a break, and I almost kept my promise. I found a great movie called Night and Day with my favorite actor Carey Grant. Before I found the movie I briefly stopped by Fox News (don’t ask) and saw Carly Fiorina being interview about Barack Obama’s presidency thus far. For those who don’t know, Ms. Fiorina is the former Chairman of the Board at Hewlett Packard and a former economic advisor to John McCain’s campaign. During the interview Ms. Fiorina stated and I quote “ President Obama’s biggest problem is that there are such high expectations of him.” After that statement I quickly turned back to my dream man Mr. Grant.

But I got to thinking when did having high expectations become a bad thing? Perhaps it became a bad thing when weak intelligence was used to engage in a war that we had no business starting. Or perhaps it was during Katrina when Mr. Brown was told he was doing a” heck of a job” while hundreds of people were begging for basic food and water at the convention center. I could go on but think that is enough I mean why revive an old nightmare?

The truth is President Obama knows all about high expectations because he has had them most of his life . So Ms. Fiorina don’t worry about President Obama and high expectations he has been having them and meeting them most of his life.

Yes we have high expectations of the President but here is what we expect. We want and need a President who is going to listen when we need to be heard, think when an action is tough and act honorably when faced with a crisis. That is not just high expectations it is called doing the job.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

I am not listening!!!!!

I am going to make a confession; I have not read the details about the stimulus package. Unfortunately I made the mistake of allowing the media to tell me about it and trusted that the President and Congress would have the intelligence to pass a bill that would help the everyday American, do what is best for the country and get us out of this mess as quickly and realistically as possible. But I have to admit I am a bit miffed with what is going on. All I hear is political pundits putting down the bill, then I hear Republicans and Democrats going back and forth about political ideology and who said what to whom and how this person is not listening blah blah blah. Are these people crazy? Do you they watch the news? People need help like YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!.

ENOUGH!!!!!!!!! Is it really too much to ask the President and Congress to sit down and work on a plan TOGETHER to get folks working and banks lending? I mean is it really that difficult? Tell you what I am going to take a break from listening until you guys & gals get it together because nobody is making sense.

I love this country but if all of you can’t do something about what we are going thru and fix this mess then do not come looking for my vote when it is your turn to bere- elected because then I will not be listening.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

A Full Circle Moment for Me

When my brother and I were younger we attended a school that at the time was about 95% white. St Paul Lutheran was a private school, and my parents sacrificed a great deal to send us there. Although the school offered many benefits; there was one major problem, the small number of us who were black and attended there were incorrectly taught our history. One day my brother came home and told my Mom that his teacher told him that our ancestors were from Europe.

The next day my Mom went out and purchased the book Great Negros Past and Present. From that day on my brother and I would write book reports on black history both for school and home just using that book. My parents began to make sure that our home was a place where we learned about our history. We spent many Saturdays at the DuSable Museum, Chicago’s African American History Museum. We attended the Kuumba Theater and saw plays like The Jonestown Massacre by Charles Fuller and The Amen Corner by James Baldwin . Black art showcased our home and Sundays was of course church where we met prominent people like, the late Mayor Harold Washington, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan and the list goes on and on.

Recently my job hosted a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration and the speaker was Dr. Russell Adams. Jr. When I found out he was the speaker I noticed that his name sounded familiar to me. As I looked at his biography I noticed he wrote the aforementioned book on black history. When I had the opportunity to speak to Dr. Russell I wanted to tell him what his book meant to me and how it influenced my home life. When we did speak I thanked him for all he did in the name of history and for me it was a full circle moment

Monday, January 26, 2009

Check me out on NPR today: News and Notes today.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99868650

New findings suggest President Obama is positively influencing black students' performance on standardized tests.
Plus, the first lady says she thinks two new dolls named after her daughters, Sasha and Malia, are "inappropriate."
And what chances do this year's black Oscar nominees have of winning? Tony Cox speaks with Ron Scott of the Detroit News; Kimberly Coleman of Sista Girl Speaks Up; and Chris Rabb of Afro-Netizen

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Mission Accomplished!

My Inauguration weekend did not turn out the way I wanted it to. The first sign came in the way of a bad cold which forced me to stay inside both Friday and Saturday and after that it was down hill or so I thought. My invitation to an exclusive ball fell thru and so did my ticket to the Inauguration. After all of this happened I thought about staying in my home and just watching CNN for the weekend, but I made a promise to work on Radio Row and interview policy makers in the new administration.

When I got off of the train in Union Station it was truly a remarkable experience to walk amongst the crowd, to see all of the people speak in different tongues was a spiritual experience. I saw people of every size and every hue wearing Obama gear of every kind; it was an amazing a sight and I will never forget the electricity that filled the air!!

I got a chance to interview members of Congress and other policy makers but the most moving experience was interviewing a group called Rednecks For Obama. This is a group started by citizens from Union, MO self proclaimed "Rednecks" in support of President Obama. I wish words could capture this interview but they cannot and their support of the new President was the most sincere that I have ever heard.

When I asked one of the members if some of their friends gave them a hard time because the color of the new President one of them said "Yeah, but so what I don' t care what color he is I just want the best man for the job." I cried during this entire interview because it really is a sign of how far we have really come.

I will let historians put this day in history, but for me I will take this little nugget with me because I know that my ancestors, and the ancestors of those "Rednecks for Obama" are looking down, smiling and saying " Mission Accomplished"

WOW WOW WOW!!!

We are about to witness something real today. May God bless you all and may God bless the United States of America.

Monday, January 19, 2009

I wish you all could be here!!

The Vibe in DC is amazing. People are here from all over the world and wearing Obama gear and giving love to each other. I know on this MLK day Marting Luther King Jr. is looking down all on us and smiling.



HAPPH MLK JR. DAY!!!

Saturday, January 17, 2009

I cannot find the words!

I know that I should be blogging but it is hard to find the words. I am overwhelmed with emotion about this inaguration. Perhaps after everything happens the words will come.

Monday, January 12, 2009

CNN Story on Former Slave.

I found this to be so uplifting.


Editor's note: The n-word appears in this piece because CNN feels the context in which it is used is pertinent to the story of James "Little Man" Presley.

James "Little Man" Presley has worked in the cotton fields of Sledge, Mississippi, since he was just 6 years old.

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SLEDGE, Mississippi (CNN) -- James Presley stands amid chopped cotton, the thick Mississippi mud caked on his well-worn boots. A smile spreads across his face when he talks about voting for Barack Obama and what that might mean for generations to come. His voice picks up a notch. He holds his head up a bit higher.
"There's a heap of pride in voting for a black man," he says.
At 78, Presley is a legend of the past living in the present and now hopeful for the future. A grandson of slaves, he's one of the few men left in America so closely tied to his slave past, still farming cotton on the same land as his ancestors. He's picked cotton since he was just 6 years old.
He and his wife of 57 years, Eva May, raised 13 children and six grandchildren in a cypress-sided house in the middle of cotton fields in northwestern Mississippi. He was a sharecropper most his life, but rarely qualified for food stamps. Watch "Obama, he come up like" »
His father died in 1935 when he was 5, and he had to step up and be the "Little Man" of the house, a nickname that has stuck seven decades later.
He's lived a raw-knuckled life where hope moved at a molasses-slow pace. The last time he had hope for a better future was four decades ago -- first with President John F. Kennedy and then with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Obama has changed everything to the poor in these parts.
"I'm a church man," he says. "And I kind of figured this here is about like it was with Moses with the children of Israel. On that day, when he gets to be president, we're all going to be rejoicing."
Does he have plans to celebrate on Inauguration Day?
"Oh man, it's gonna be nice. I believe we're gonna have a good time," he says. "I never thought one would get there." See photos of the weather-beaten home where Little Man raised so many children »
As the nation prepares for Obama's inauguration on January 20, CNN.com traveled to Sledge, Mississippi, a forgotten town of about 500 people in the heart of the Mississippi Delta that some consider to be the birthplace of blues in America.
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Nearly 20 percent of residents over the age of 60 live below the poverty line, according to the 2000 census. That number nearly doubles, to 37.5 percent, for residents under the age of 19. About three-quarters of the population are black. Two-thirds of the people here make less than $35,000 a year.
Presley says the fact the nation will have a black president will have a ripple effect in poor communities like his. For the first time ever, he says, black parents and grandparents can tell youngsters in rural America that through education, anything is possible -- that the White House isn't just for white folks.
Three of his children graduated from college. Two have died -- one as a youth, one as an adult. It never gets easier, he says, no matter what age they die. Obama has already brought inspiration to future generations of his own family.
"I might be dead and gone, but it's going to be a good thing to me, because I know that they ain't gotta go through what I went through. They'll have a better time, a more joyous time, than what I had when I come along. It is gonna be grand to them and to me, too."
After Presley's father died, he was raised by his mother, and he finds comfort that Obama was raised by a "single mother, like me." Read: My great-granddaddy hired Little Man as a boy
"He knows what it is to come up without a father and what it is to come up for what you work for," Presley says. "Me and the poor man coming up, we had to work for what bread I got."
Presley shifts back and forth on his feet as he speaks. His flannel shirt and oil-stained jeans seem befitting of his life on the farm. He peers out from a camouflage hat, the fuzzy ear flaps pulled up over his head. He speaks in an accent as thick as the mud on his boots.
His hands speak to decades of hard labor. His fingers appear swollen with overworked muscles. The skin seems about a quarter-inch thick. If his hands could speak, he says, "They'd be crying, instead of talking, for what they've been through."
"You see how rusty and rough they are. They've been through something, ain't they?"
At 6-foot, 2-inches and 214 pounds, Presley has what seems an odd nickname. "They call me Little Man," he says.
He wears the nickname with pride. The youngest of three sisters and four brothers, he says that after his father died in 1935, he became the "Little Man" of the house. "I was tall, but I was small. So they called me Little Man," he says.
He doesn't remember much about his father. He can't recall the day he died or the sound of his voice. He was too young. He never met his slave grandparents either. They died long before he was born. But the fact they were slaves still stings.
"That doesn't make you feel too good, you know, to be sold like a cow. But back then, they couldn't help it. So I reckon I'm just glad that things come out better like it is now."
A thick fog hangs over the fields on this day. Presley pauses. He scans the fields and says, "I think about the good times and the hard times."
"When I started farming, we planted with hands ... and hauled it to the gin by wagon, a mule and a wagon. One bale at a time," he says.
He worked the fields when he was 6, the age of a typical kindergartner these days. "I was making 50 cents a day, from sunup to sundown."
"Back then, you know, I didn't get no schooling. I had to get out, come home and break the land, cut the stalks, plow the land and get it ready for the crop."
Presley has a total of four years of education, classes that he took in between growing seasons. His mother taught him to read and write, but he admits even to this day he struggles with both.
When it comes to life as a black man -- a sharecropper -- in Mississippi, he says it's tough to explain how difficult it was. He points to a nearby bluff and says that when he was just a boy, a black man was lynched from a tree. "I never saw him hanging up there," he says. "All I seen was the tree."
Blacks were segregated from whites. They couldn't go to the same schools. They had separate water fountains. Blacks couldn't go in the front doors of businesses. And just about everywhere you went, he says, racism was rampant.
"You go into a place, and they say, 'Nigger, get outta here.' You don't want nobody telling you that. You're a citizen around town. If you're a citizen, I'm a citizen like you," he says. "It makes you feel mighty bad."
"When I was a young boy, they was bad about that, calling you that."
He registered to vote for the first time in 1959 and cast his first presidential ballot for Kennedy. He says he's voted in every presidential election ever since.
"We felt like we were moving on up when we voted for him," he says. When Kennedy was assassinated, "everybody was kind of sad on that day, because he looked like the first president that had come in and was trying to help the poor folks."
King brought hope, too. "He was the only hope that we were looking for -- to bring us out," Presley says. But when King was killed on April 4, 1968, he says, it "put us right back where we was."
"It was pitiful that day," he says. "Everybody around here was in mourning."
He says Obama has brought inspiration to blacks in these parts, the likes of which hasn't been seen since 1968.
"With Obama coming in, it's gonna be another Martin Luther King helping us," he says. "Maybe in the next 40 years, we'll be better off."
He says Americans should never take their voting rights for granted. He was 30 years old before he first voted. "It means a lot to me, because I can put in for who I want to be president and who not to be president," he says. "So I just feel proud that I can vote."
Before parting on this day, Presley gives a tour of the weather-beaten, four-bedroom house where he raised his 13 children and six grandkids. The wood-framed house was the first home he ever lived in with running water, a bathroom and electric stove. The house is dilapidated, many of its windows broken, its doors barely hanging on hinges.
"I've had a good life, despite the hard times. I sure did," says Presley, who is retiring after 72 years of working the fields.
What's his message to the world?
"The important thing in life is to try to live and do the best you can," he says. "We done had it bad. Let us help give our children a better life, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren. Let's try to give them a better life than we had. But anyway, just keep the good work going, is all I say."
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EIGHT DAYS UNTIL PRESIDENT OBAMA!

Well it is almost here. DC is alredy jumping with anticipation for the inaguration. I will be giving updates and pictures. Stay tuned!

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Check out Roland Martin's column

I am having bloggers block so I will let Roland speak for me.

Editor's note: A nationally syndicated columnist, Roland S. Martin is the author of "Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith" and "Speak, Brother! A Black Man's View of America." Visit his Web site for more information.

Roland S. Martin says Gov. Rod Blagojevich had every right to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat.

(CNN) -- It is total hypocrisy for the naysayers of embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to assert that he didn't have the legal right to appoint Roland Burris to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
According to the Illinois Constitution, the governor of the state has the sole responsibility for appointing the replacement. Did Blagojevich resign, or has he been impeached? Nope. If you call Springfield, Illinois, and ask for the governor's office, they'll tell you that Blagojevich's name is still on the door.
It seems a lot of folks are excited and happy that Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White took a stand by refusing to sign the paperwork certifying Burris as the Senate appointee.
Yet what these same folks somehow refuse to recognize is that Blagojevich isn't some guy sitting around in his office, twiddling his fingers, flipping through the cable channels with a remote and waiting to get impeached. He is still carrying out his duties as governor.
Did you know that since his arrest in December, Blagojevich has pardoned 22 people? I haven't heard a huge outcry over this tainted governor setting folks free.
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Did you know that Blagojevich continues to sign bills that were passed by the General Assembly? U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald cited a pending bill on the governor's desk related to horse racing as a reason for arresting him, but Blagojevich can still sign any bill he so chooses.
Did you know that two days ago, Blagojevich, as determined by state law, set March 3 as the primary and April 7 as the general election to fill the congressional seat of Rahm Emanuel, who resigned after agreeing to become Obama's chief of staff? By the way, guess who signed the certification of that election? Jesse White.
The law says the governor can set a special election to fill a congressional seat, so doesn't the same law state that he can fill a Senate seat?
Yes, Blagojevich's appointment of a U.S. Senate seat is easily seen as being tainted because of what has been described by federal law enforcement officials in their criminal complaint against him. But the reality is that Blagojevich hasn't been indicted, convicted or impeached. And whether we like it or not, no matter how smelly it looks, he still maintains the absolute right to do the job he was elected to do.
I was one of the many voices who said that in light of what he was arrested for, Blagojevich should resign his seat because his presence paralyzes state government. And I still believe that.
But we are way beyond that now. He chose not to do so, which is his right.
Then the Illinois General Assembly had the authority to strip Blagojevich of the right to choose the U.S. Senate replacement, but the Democratic-controlled body got greedy and chose not to do so.
Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, who is also chairman of the state Democratic Party, had a bill in committee to do so, and had signaled that he was going to pass the legislation. But Democrats were scared that a Republican could win a special election, and they didn't want to risk it. I'm sure they also were banking on Blagojevich resigning.
So in the end, could the spectacle of Burris being turned away at the door of the U.S. Senate been avoided? Yep. But Democrats chose not to do so, and now they look like fools for leading this circus.
But let's go back to Blagojevich and the law.
Critics contend that Blagojevich doesn't have the right to appoint anyone to the seat. Yet even Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid conceded that according to the body's rules, and not law, Blagojevich has the right to walk on the floor of the U.S. Senate and talk and fellowship with Senate members.
Think about this for a second. Senate Democrats are objecting to Blagojevich's appointment, saying they will reject Burris and not allow him to walk on the floor. But the same guy whose appointee they want to reject has the right to floor privileges in the Senate? So have we gotten to the point that we are picking and choosing what rules and laws with which Blagojevich can comply?
It's worth noting that Sen. Larry Craig was arrested in an airport bathroom and later pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, but he got to keep his seat and focus on his job. Sen. Ted Stevens was arrested on corruption charges, was tried and convicted, but he was still able to carry out his official duties.
So if Craig, Stevens and any number of other House members who have been arrested were allowed to continue doing their job even after state or federal charges were brought, should the rules be different for Blagojevich?
We have moved beyond what we all think Blagojevich should do. Folks wanted him to resign. He didn't. Others wanted him not to appoint a Senate replacement. He did. All we are left with is the real question -- and that is whether Blagojevich had the legal right to do what he did. And the fact is yes, he did.
It may not look right, feel right or smell right, but when it comes to the law, it's crystal clear. And if you don't like it, change the law.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland Martin.

Monday, January 5, 2009

FOR ALL THE ATHEISTS OUT THERE !!!

Ann Coulter's "Today" Show Appearance Canceled



PLEASE KNOW THERE IS A GOD!!

I have been so busy trying to catch up on life that I have not had a chance to blog!! UGH!!!
But Ann Coulter is a waste of energy and space and I think that all networks should ban her.

She is not making money on having an educated opinion but she is making money from being cruel.

Ann Coulter's appearance on the "Today" show has been canceled.
NBC had come under fire for booking Coulter, who had been scheduled to promote her new book, Guilty, on the "Today" show Thursday morning.
But on her website, Coulter announced that the appearance had been "cancelled" (via):
TODAY SHOW AND TODAY SHOW FOURTH HOUR: CANCELLED!
I guess this ends the "they just want to get ratings" argument about liberal media bias.
The liberal media watchdog group Media Matters launched a campaign last week asking, "Is NBC going to help Coulter sell this book?"
In the book, Coulter repeatedly refers to President-Elect Obama as B. Hussein Obama, and mocks Michelle Obama's style while praising Cindy McCain's.
Coulter will appear on CBS' "Early Show" Tuesday morning to promote the book, ac

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Happy 2009!!!!!

Wow I cannot believe we are in a new year already. Here is to making all of you new year's resolutions!

I wil begin re-posting on Monday January 5, 2009. There is so much to talk about.

I belive this year is going to be great great. Here is to happy blogging.

God bless.