Get Over It!

I haven't blogged in so long because I have become a Facebook junkie :)
I decided that I need the blog to say what I am about say.

Can any of  you articulate exactly what goes through your mind when Slavery, Jim Crow and Civil Rights are mentioned?
What do you think about some of the comments that have been made by the people who are running for political office in our country?
If you are not someone who descends from slaves or has been affected negatively by the color of your skin through racial profiling or stereotypes you might not understand the mental exercises that we have to adapt to in order to maintain our sanity.

I do know some folks who when Slavery, Jim Crow or Civil Rights is mentioned the first thing that goes through their mind is what has been deemed "The Race Card."
Because there are a people who lay every unfortunate act on race and then there are those who when race is the cause of the disadvantage or tragedy they will ignore the role race played completely. 

Some are actually selective in their use of ethnicity like claiming to have black friends and not being racist but accusing all black people of voting Democratic as if on a plantation.
This would be the opinion of some in the boot strap group who left that plantation years ago, yet they got the premise of voting Democratic if you are black as slavery from their master's.

Some steer clear of the phrase " Race Card" in order to be perceived as politically correct, they will point to the upwardly mobile group of African Americans and say,
 " This group of Negroes hasn't been affected by slavery to the point of poverty and destruction, they have pulled them selves up by the bootstraps, were raised right, paid their own way through college, aren't asking for a hand out, they bought their home debt free, were married before they had sex and  are heterosexual" therefore racism surely is not the cause here.
REALLY?
This is the group who would suggest that your life would be a lot better if you would simply give and forgive.
And forgive to them means don't ask any questions or mention it any more.

I believe that your life is better when you forgive but I don't believe that your life is better when you forget.
Forgetting that a man put in a position of authority abused that position only lays the ground work for him to abuse that position again and it be forgotten, again.

I don't believe that your life is made better by forgetting that a young man with a bright future was murdered, I don't want to forget that.
Our lives are better when we remember.
When you remember the people who were beaten, dragged and died so that you would have the right to vote.
I don't mean be depressed I mean remember.
Remember the One who died so that you could be free.
When you remember the people whose homes were bombed and heads were beaten in so that you could eat in a public place, live and work in any place that you could afford, go to a public school, ride public transportation, walk down a public street.
When you remember the women who have been ostracized and slandered so that you could maintain the rights over your own body and it's functions.
When you remember the people who were fired and excommunicated so that you could earn a living wage and collectively bargain. 
When you remember the people who stood up for you when those who were against you thought you didn't have a friend in the world, this is how you can forgive.

Forgiveness is the one who the attack was launched against realizing the attack is launched out of fear, envy, anger, arrogance and ignorance.

Forgiveness certainly doesn't mean forget.
So to speak, teach or remind about Slavery, Jim Crow or Civil Rights doesn't mean that we are not over it, because we have overcome it.
Those who seek to dismiss Slavery, Jim Crow and Racism as a mere footnote have failed to overcome it and their theory is that if we would Just Get Over It the way that they want us to, they could get over it too.
This is something that many would rather not address and or think about because it warps and tarnishes the doctrine that relies on the founding fathers as led by the divine.

Do your self a service if you are a part of the "Get Over It" mindset because forgiveness is not your message.
Get over the fact that these things will always be talked about and they will be taught in context and in their entirety because it is necessary.

Do your self another service and stop trying to rewrite American history, omit Black history and redirect people away from the truth as studied and recorded by renowned scholars like Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Do your self a service and turn from fabricated history that repaints the dark past and veils the repeating of it in this present day. 

The study of and the discussion of the truth in our history doesn't produce a hard unforgiving heart like some would like you to believe, but the attempt by men to deny the truth and to erase it from our records does produce a hardness.
A hardness that won't allow  fabrications to go forth in the place of actual events.

Lesson: It is not necessarily forgiveness that is desired but what many seek after is to be agreed with to the point of you overlooking in them what they will not overlook in you, and their desiring the permission from you to commit the crime or offense over and over again.

They want you to" Get Over It!" they don't want to be forgiven because that would require that they acknowledge that they have taken part in something that would require forgiveness.
This is the mind of The Neo-Con as witnessed in the media with young women being called sluts and prostitutes.
This is how a man can pursue an unarmed teen and shoot him dead at point blank range for no reason at all.

Get Over It?
A man or woman who seeks forgiveness, seeks forgiveness and a man or woman who simply wants you to get over it, simply wants you to get over it.

Forgive
Don't grudge.
Don't hate.
Don't Get Over It.


Love Y'all :)

IT BEGINS AT...

THANK YOU FATHER.

Life begins at conception but ends in Vietnam.
Life begins at conception but ends in Iraq.
Life begins at conception but ends after Katrina subsides.
Life begins at conception but ends in inner city gun violence brought on by poverty and a neglected education system.
Life begins at conception but ends with capital punishment.
Life begins at conception but ends at the border of Arizona, Florida and California with big electrifying fences.
Life begins at conception but ends with uncorrected and uncalled for police brutality or negligence.
Life begins at conception but ends with laying off firemen who would run into burning buildings, homes, and be first to respond on 9/11.
Life begins at conception but ends with lax gun laws that take a child's life while she is on a school field trip.
Life begins at conception and ends in drug overdoses even for the wealthy children who lack guidance, self worth and a since of genuine love.
Life begins at conception but ends when a child is not given the opportunity to have a teacher because he or she has been laid off, who will care enough about them to help them and their parents learn to read.

So many people believe that life begins at conception and they believe that it is their job to protect the seed of men as soon as it drops, yet few if any believe in protecting the lives of these fully developed seeds when they reach the point of needing childcare, health care, education, counseling, mentoring, breakfast, lunch, dinner, a roof over their heads and clothes on their backs.

You say that you believe life begins at conception and then you work, fight and lobby to end the lives of millions of those conceived.

I can no longer look at the world from the perspective of the greedy, the lazy minded, the slow witted, the manipulated or the manipulators.

Life begins when you lay down your life for someone other than your pocketbook.
Think about it.

LOVE Y'ALL :)

MARK 12

THANK YOU FATHER I am so happy that people are reading what Jesus said. Let us look at the parable that the Lord spoke in Mark 12. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a place for the wine fat, and built a tower, and rent it out to business men. And the season came when the Lord sent to the business men a servant, that he might receive from the business men of the fruit of the vineyard. And the business men caught the servant and beat him and sent him away empty. And again the Lord sends to,them another servant; and at this servant the business men cast stones, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled. And again The Lord sent another; and him they killed, and many others, beating some and killing some. Having yet therefore one son, His well beloved, He sent Him also to these business men, saying, Surely they will honor and respect my Son. But those business men said among them selves, This is the heir; come let us kill Him, and cast Him out of the vineyard. What shall the Lord of the vineyard do? Mark 12:1-9 LOVE Y'ALL :) No worries.

YOUR PERCEPTION

THANK YOU FATHER

This is a poem that the Lord put on my heart yesterday.

You perceive that my potential is in the size of my hips, but success is being welcomed for your belly, thick thighs, jiggle in your arms and the genuine pout in your lips.

You perceive that I desire to have money and long blond hair because that is your desire, but success is the wealth of my butter cream skin, stretch marks and my curly flair.

You perceive that I want a news desk or book deal because that is what you crave, but for me the success of others is why my voice is raised.

You perceive that I hate men because I recognize that I am a woman, but success is having a man whose strength is in how he understands where I am going and from where I am comin'

You perceive that I am unaware like Eve the first woman, who had no since of her ability, but success is knowing for a true that God will never leave nor forsake me.

You perceive that I am waiting for a woman like Oprah or a man like Tyler to knock on my door, but success is hearing both of them say to my spirit in the spirit of Ida B. Wells, that I am the woman that I have been waiting for.

You perceive that the blessing of God is measured in wealth, that has been your story,
but success my friend, the real blessing, is Christ in me the hope of glory.

Your perception of me and my abilities or what you see as a lack thereof is my strength, because it is not my lack of formal education, or the size of my waist, or the melanin in my skin or the chromosome's that I possess that I rely on.

Whatever you present to me as being my weakness will be developed into power.

Your Perception is not who I am.
And who I am doesn't need a network to back it up.

Like Natasha Bedingfield says:
I'm only one voice in a million and you ain't taking that from me...
I don't need a microphone to say what I been thinking...
My heart is like a loudspeaker, it's always on eleven...

:)
LOVE Y'ALL

INNOVATORS

THANK YOU FATHER.

There is a trait that I have grown to admire in people more than I could admire them for anything else, and that is originality.
Oh my goodness I love an original idea or quote, it is a simple thing of beauty and music to my ears.
I just recently watched a documentary about the life of Vidal Sassoon and I fell in complete love with him, he's 82 years old and an original.

I love to listen to people who have their own ideas, people that haven't stolen every thought or sentence from someone else and tried to pawn it off as their own thought, that's what actors do and they do it well, but when the camera is off and you have walked off stage or laid the mike down, what are you?
When the camera's are off and the makeup is off I like to know what is original about this person outside of what they trained to do or their talent?

It is an absolute joy watching people who collaborate with someone else and they work back and forth to make a particular project better where everyone shares equal responsibility and equal rebuke and equal praise.

What I find more fraudulent than anything is someone who word for word takes the thoughts and talents of someone else and tries to pass it off as their own, especially without giving reference to the person whose idea it was to begin with.
This may be the reason I love famous quotes so much, because then the one being quoted can be named.
Who said that? is what I like to know because it lets me know if this is someone that I may have something in common with, I can learn from you and we can enhance each other when there is common ground.
But when you believe that you are above and everyone else is beneath we have lost all common ground.

These thoughts just surfaced in me with the passing of Steve Jobs.
Don't ask me why, I didn't know much about him or follow him, I simply heard him speak and the things that he said were so from his heart and not someone elses rehearsed marketing speech and problem solving plan that he drew me in to who he was.
Mr.Jobs Stanford commencement speech was so authentic and genuine that it made an imprint in my spirit.

Please all of the phoney's don't go and try and reproduce Steve's speech for your own like you are him, you can't be him.
God don't let copies of it turn up in these political campaign script's.
I never watched Mr. Jobs much as a man, mogul, or the mind that he was.
His products are in my home of course so I was aware of him but I was never fascinated with the technology to any extreme.
I'm not a tech convention person but I did recognize the far reaching impact that technology would have on our society.
My children still have to work things for me, they download pictures and help me load things to  drives and show me how to get things off the TV screen that I don't want there.
I have figured our how to operate my Ipad enough to say what I need and want to say.

When I think about innovative men like Steve Jobs, a man who changed the era that I live in I don't look to him as someone who followed a strict cookie cutter code or adhered to listening to people tell him that he had to be hooked up to any certain cause.
What Steve Jobs carved in my ears was to be different.
And when you are already different all you have to do is be true to who you are.
It's hard to find someone who isn't marketing them selves as the new improved them based in what the experts say is the way to be liked.
Yet only the people who stick with what is singing in their own spirit get to do and be what they were really called to do and be.
Happy and Satisfied.

Another one of the innovators that I recognize is Henry Ford.
The man who brought the automobile and the assembly line to the stage and introduced real
"Job Creation".

I also admire men like Walter Reuther who had to come to Mr. Ford for fair working conditions and wages.

I've heard talk about how hospitals are also a part of some sort of corporate clan of greed and I don't know what other hospitals in the country do but what I do know about the institution that I work for today in 2011 is that they were birthed out of a need and continue to be a pillar of innovation today.
Henry Ford Health System is one of the real job creators in Michigan.
Henry Ford Health System is one of the largest employers that we have in the Metropolitan area and they work together with Health Alliance Plan to not only keep as many people working as possible, but they also work to educate people who are going into the field of medicine,  our patients and the community that we serve with how to live longer, healthier, wiser and stronger lives.

Our system is philanthropic at it's core and works hard and encourages it's employee's by example to extend itself to the community through giving, volunteering, and multiple fundraising campaigns all year around.

Henry Ford Health System hired me straight out of technical school were I trained for one skill and they believed that it was possible that I could be trained by them to do another one, and for going on 11 years I have been privileged to be a part of this group.
I don't work at Henry Ford because I believe that health care is the safest place to be or I don't have any other options, or I'm just waiting for something better to come along and I'm out.
I enjoy it and it has afforded me the ability to support more than my family but to support my community.

Our hospital doesn't simply care for and treat illness that people can afford to cover.
We perform multiple surgeries, provide intensive and emergency care, we take big finncial losses every day and we do what we can so that we can cover losses and keep folks employed and a community serviced.
When the system profits, it's employees profit for their service.
I'm proud to work in a place were compassion, values and innovation is not squashed but encouraged.
The hospital knows what my personal views and beliefs are because they are documented. I would be blind to think that they don't know about my blog, but what they haven't done is told me that I don't have a right to an opinion.
That is innovative and I respect that.
So while folks may want to throw hospitals on the heap of twisted and corporate crazy, the institution that I work for will not be thrown there if I have a voice.
If the Lord ever sees fit that it is time for me to leave Henry Ford Hospital this would have already been said.

When you think about innovation don't simply think of one man or one woman but look at what these men and women have left our society.
Have they left something that not only touched and still benefits their own family and interests or have they left a legacy that extends to a betterment of other people all around the country and world?
Creating things that make life better and not so tough for us all.
Are they humble and have the opinion that if you are down it's your fault and step right over yo or do they give you a hand up?
Revolutionary folks.

Finally, I urge you to be original because anything less than that is not lasting, it's forgotten before it even hits the stage.
It can be hyped up like sham wow today and in the dollar store tomorrow.

Be You
it's easier and far more satisfying.
My perspective.

Thank You Father.
LOVE Y'ALL :)

IT IS OUR OWN FAULT

THANK YOU FATHER.

It is our own fault that we don't have enough jobs here in America to sustain the people who are not CEO's.
It is our own fault because we allow wolves dressed in sheep's clothing to speak to us and sell us lie after lie and we continue to follow these people and support them with our money contributions and votes.

It is our fault that we allowed industry to be hijacked from us packed up and moved to other countries and we continued to purchase the products.

It would be my fault alone after you clearly show me that your concern is not about me but about how you can exalt your self and anyone who looks like they can make you more money to then believe that you care about me or my interests.

What do I have in common with you if you believe that crooked loophole legislation is alright?
What do I have in common with someone who believes that they should escape paying taxes when they have profited abundantly from tax paying citizens?

It would be my fault to follow or support you.
If I believe that it is righteous to support widows and to look after the poor and provide a top notch education to our children and pay our teachers, police, firemen, paramedics, garbage men, barbers, house keepers, secretaries, baby sitters, cashiers, bank tellers, street sweepers, hamburger flippers or anyone else a decent wage and you are opposed to that, why would I or any of those people mentioned support you?

It would be our fault.
It would be the fault of anyone who isn't making over 200,000 dollars or more a year to support you.

What communion does the average American have with someone who has clearly and blatantly shown that they are better than the blue collar every day people who don't fly on private jets, yet believe that they are entitled to applause?

Will I follow passive aggressive, indirect threats, insults or rants and innuendo's about who I am?
And I wouldn't be as condescending to say that the rights that I have I earned them.
I was not born when people marched for the rights that I have today.

What do I have in common with anyone who believes that Jesus Christ or the Constitution has excluded any man from the privilege of Basic Human Rights?

What do I have in common with any man or woman who thinks more highly of them selves than they do of the entire country or human race?

What do I have in common with folks who will take money from anybody as a way of preventing their career from backlash failure do to their own ignorance?
Nothing.
That mindset doesn't value what I value.
They don't set the example that I wish to follow and grow to represent to my children.

Because my example thought Himself of no reputation.
He did not count Himself more highly than us, that attitude was left to the Sanhedrin, Sadducees and Pharisees.

My example was a real man who walked this earth and didn't brag or boast about who He knew, although He could have.

The One I follow didn't walk this earth with a "Don't you know who I am?" mentality and He is The Great I AM.

He was humble, humble till death on a cross..
He didn't threaten men, because only those who are weak and afraid issue threats.
Yes! He could have called down legions of angels to lift Him up and stop men from doing what they wanted to do.
They wanted to shut Him up.
They wanted to stop Him from calling their mess out on the carpet and if they had of known what good their evil would bring, where would we be?

So this is the common ground that I stand on.
Christ, who laid down His personal comfort and His personal concern without feeling victimized for the price that He paid.
He was mocked of men and made fun off by groups, Men were sent at every corner to trip Him up, He was falsely accused by men who feared that He was after their position.

He didn't come to squeeze into some lineup or work some circuit, He came to redeem men from bondage.

He is The Real Man.
JESUS CHRIST IS HIS NAME.

A man who kept His temper, is slow to anger and long suffering.
And I am thankful.
It is recorded that the only time that Christ allowed His anger to surface was when He whipped the merchandiser's out of the temple of God.

Where He saw unjust works.

So as a woman of God it would be my own fault to follow or to line my self up with or to support anything that does not rest on the rock that I deem righteous.

It would be my own fault to vote for anyone who clearly doesn't represent The Real Man.

The gospel is not entertainment or slick slogans, false prophesy or money and marketing techniques.
The gospel is Jesus Christ.
Take who He is to the world and see how people are all the incentive Christ needed to come and pay the price for us.

I ain't mad because I know in whom I have trusted :)
It would absolutely be my fault.

Amen
SO BE IT.

LOVE Y'ALL :)

PROBLEM SOLVER

THANK YOU FATHER.

I have a problem for the problem solvers to solve today.
If you were able to run a good race, I mean run a campaign on true character, integrity, good policies,
a genuine knowledge and concern for the needs of the majority of Americans, why would you have to cheat?
If a group of people actually possessed the qualities that make a nation great, why would they have to hinder it's citizens from voting?
Why if you are honest would you have to be deceitful?

While it is true that the Bible says, The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.
Does this mean that the desires of the wicked are fully satisfied?
Because it is so true that all hard work brings a profit, right?

You could work hard to purchase votes, you could rig the machines, you could deny a certain demographic the right to vote for a number of years.
You can be diligent at evil works, you could dig your heels in and refuse to look at a proposal from those hired along with you to make our entire country grow and prosper and the desires of your diligence can be realized.
The desires of your diligence to break down the government that afforded you the opportunity to serve it's people.

Because government is people too.
It is supposed to be of the people, by the people and for all of the people.
But many have worked diligently against 99% of it's people.
You can mock the poor who are people too, and in doing that you show contempt for their Maker.
This is rebellion and disobedience.

Which of you who read this believe that you should associate with and support people who mock the poor?
Do you believe that a man who is merciless towards the poor will be shown mercy or will a merciless official be sent to him who has shown no mercy for the poor?

I know that the merciless tactics have worked for evil men throughout history, how long do you believe they will go on?

As long as we allow it.
As long as we just give up our seat.
There was a day when a woman who was too tired to get up and stand for a man who wanted her seat, a woman who had paid her fare but was under law forced to move for a man who should have had the decency to honor and respect that she was a woman, she was there first, and she should not have had that basic human right denied her.

That was the day that men and women decided they could not allow wicked, evil, unjust practices and policies to go on.

I'm asking this of politicians and leaders this morning, the ones who profess to be called and blessed of God.
If these wicked ways are found in you, what do you think will be the fruit of that diligence?
What will the wage be?
Will it be minimum in your soul or will it be raised to a heightened level of awareness that what you allowed to happen to men and women, or what you supported or failed to support, while you slept and folded your hands and closed your doors and pulled down your shades and turned your backs, don't you know that will have been a seed that you have sown?

Is it wicked what you see happening in politics and in this country when men say that minimum wage is not necessary and if wages are raised that will deter employers from hiring?
It is wicked to go to court and try to stop U.S. Military men and women from receiving a ballot in the mail?

My folks, do you want to know how to solve this problem?

Don't fret because of evil men, avoid them.
Fear no evil because the LORD demands that the wicked forsake their way.
And just like Rosa did, DON'T GIVE UP YOUR SEAT!

Protect the vote!
Protect human rights!
Protect our constitution from being dismantled and twisted.

LOVE Y'ALL :)