Crime a Political Construct

Behaviors that the community has been programmed to view as negative become behaviors that are codified into the penal code and the violation of these politically created behaviors become public crimes..

Some behavior has always been subject to community sanctions from homocide to sexual behavior involving both minors and adults. The more laws you have the more crime you have..The volume of police create the volume of documented criminal behavior.

The community determines the level and volume of crime it wishes to be controlled by the police. Certain behaviors i.e drug usage has always been underreported and subject to political variables at best.

Crime is more a myth than a reality.Most victims of certain crimes know the perp and most crimes involve some degree of property loss and personal assault..

Cultural Devaluation

Yet again the state of nothingness has inflicted carnage on the streets of Detroit. An entire city is being held hostage to the forces of hopelessness, despair, decay and now random violent displays of inhumanity and depravity....

Yet we travel these desolate trails before and still our wounds and broken egos cannot muster the attitudes to not only stop the meltdown but cultivate and harvest a new way of living for all in the city....

I know the modern american city is a lethal and dangerous zone where love, warmth, and shared respect is drowned by the noise and drama of nothingness. ..

Yet now is not the moment to lament and navigate around the truth about the state of life in our urban venues our existence is in peril as well....

To be continued.......

Myths of Education..

Often when I lecture to children I always incorporate a discussion about vocational opportunties as well as college . When I lecture with adults I often engaged in a discussion about how most of our state leaders have credentials that reflect the finest schools in America yet our state is almost a 3rd world venue under the tenure of these so-called educated elites..


Fact is often the most backward and underdeveloped people are the educated...These people will eat an egg roll and think they are experts on asian issues...They will drink a corona and become experts on hispanics..They will eat fried chicken and become subject matter experts of Black folks....

I have discovered in my adventures in life the most profound people are seniors, ex-inmates, unemployed, and children....hands down....

ME, MYSELF & I

My favorite parable....

Troubled, depressed, disappointed the winds of melancholy and despair entered the soul of my comrade, my lover, my friend. Unable to douse the flames of anguish the bouts of melodrama were now prepared to render a final blow....

I pondered, wondered, prayed and even chanted there must be a potion, a poem, an intervention which would release the winds of nothingness taking space in the drawers of my comrade, my lover, my friend....

Not a whim but a reason my mirror shared space with my face . I studied the lines of my personal portfolio discarded on the platform of my face and then I knew what to do....

I sent my comrade, my lover, my friend a map ..This map navigated through every alley, corridor, path, road and avenue of our city and it ended on the top of long winding hill which lead to a long winding series of steps which ended in front of a hugh massive rock covered and draped by a black canvass.

Attached to the map was simple directive :


Pull down the canvess and you will behold the greatest living being in the universe full of wonder, love, purpose, reason, being, passion, justice, touch, feelings, endings, beginnings, alive, real, hope, pain, forgiveness, essence.....Pull down the canvess and see the one that matters in the UNIVERSE

Immigrants Protests

I support the political activism which is coming out of the various immigrant communities across the country. The call for protests is long overdue these political activities by our country's silent immigrant communities hopefully will include an acknowledgment and recognition of the civil rights efforts and achievements made by Black Americans which has created a model for this type of political activism. There is a lot of tension between Black Americans and the immigrant communities for a number of reasons including our fear of no longer being this country's favorite victim and scapegoat. Black Americans can continue to make this country great by assisting these immigrant communities in achieving life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness..

Slavery Marketing

Our country's racial legacy is not only tragic but it still stings today, recently a number of well intentioned people expressed upset and discord over a political advertisement which invoked a background of a lynching as a part of the content of the advertisement. Many of these reactions from my vantage point were not only misplaced but are in reality actually counter productive. When a society seeks to suffocate and sometimes even bury and ignore its own evils it does so at the peril of our future and at the expense of those it claims to be protecting. When a society only allows for designated groups to promote and utilize provocative historical materials if increases the potential for censorship and ignorance. The idea that Black Americans should follow the rules and decorum of a civil and gentile white society with regard to this subject matter is unacceptable . Such a underdeveloped and myopic posture handcuffs the free flow of information and it allows for those in the dominant society to be the architect of honesty and truth even when such truth is graphic and ugly. It is a cultural conflict of interest which should not be the prerogative of those in the very dominate society which perpetrated the acts of evil. At the end of the day such a posture is inequitable and continues to rewards the beneficiaries of slavery while preventing the victims to used the capital of slavery for their own designated agenda and objectives. Black people should never be restrained by the decorum of a gentile society with regard to slavery and related historical topics. Black people in America should always have the complete spectrum of choices to employ this historical landscape including the use of slavery images and artifacts to not only educate and but to memorialize our country's disregard for our humanity. This scope of leverage in my view includes the marketing and distribution of slavery images for political campaigns and informational objectives . Black people should never seek pc permission to articulate our reality and history despite how dark a story it is. The suggestion by those that this materials should have selective shelve life is patronizing and wrong. To allow others to not only define but license how evil should be portrayed also handicaps those in the dominant society from understanding the depth of evil . Such a demeanor can also hamper those in the dominant society from sharing with the victims ideas and programs to address the destruction that such evil created. I reject the convention which claims it is offensive for people to employ lynching, slavery, and other dehumanizing images as a means to articulate a political objective in a campaign. When such images can galvanize and turn up the volume then by all means we need more not less of this type of graphic and brutal advertisement. Those in America who reject this type of advertisement are making a hugh mistake. The victims of America's inhumanity to its own brethren reserve the right to determine how such material is marketed and utilized...

Failure of Black Conservatism

The failure of the politics of conservative thought in the Black community>has never been a surprise for me I have always known that black people are>very astute in rejecting backward ideas,underdeveloped thoughts and>philosophies. The media fiction that the GOP and conservative principles>are>gaining a new foothold with Black folks is nonsense and is nothing more>than the exaggerated press releases of GOP balloon blowers and black>apologists seeking affirmation from conservative whites as they mine the>lucrative cottage industry of black conservatism.>>Conservatives when they dressed themselves in black face become even of a>more losing proposition because this partnership only insults the audience>the conservatives wish to recruit and indoctrinate. It should however be>pointed out that the failure of conservative politics in the Black>community>is not based entirely on the underdeveloped core themes and ideas of>conservative politics nor on the legacy of its racists beliefs as marketed>by white republicans.>>Some of the failure of conservative thinking in the hood is a direct>result of black folks who have embraced conservatism as a panacea for the>ills>of black folks as manta from heaven . Black conservatives are always their>own worst victim in this parade. Black conservatives continue to display a>patronizing and condensing posture when they interact with those who are>not>card caring members of the GOP. In addition these Black operatives never>seem to get pass touting the usual Black token darlings of the GOP. It>should be noted that the very ideals of some conservative principles have>existed in the Black community long before whites even entered the soil of>North>America.>>Black conservatives who have embraced conservative politics fail miserably>in the black community because they are viewed as agents of a political>philosophy that at it's core has contempt for black dignity and humanity.>Black conservatives simply cannot navigate around the ugly legacy of white>racism so when black conservatives seek to uplift and elevate black>masses with the failed themes of conservative politics they look like>minstrels and fools to the majority black electorate.>>>The truth is of course liberal political ideology and conservative ideology>>both are on their last days in the black community neither has been>effective in truly changing the life conditions of the majority of Black>Americans. Black cultural traditions and our very essence as a people have>liberated us from the obstacles that life has brought us in America not the>partnership with whites marketing political dogma from either side of the>aisle right or left.>>The Black electorate has always been vulnerable to the prospects>of a movement which values and respects the vast cultural and social>capital>the Black community has. Liberal conventions have at least offered some>basic features which have contributed to the well being of Black folks in>this country of course none of us are enshrining white liberals as our>saviors or liberators we have done that ourselves and no doubt we will>continue to be our own icons and legends.>>Black people generally are not obsessed with politics nor do they view the>political arena as being an integral aspect of their lives. Our greatest>assets have always outside the traditional mainstream orthodoxies.>>Black folks will embrace a political construct that has them at the core of>>it's paradigm. We are hungry for a new meal with a menu full of new recipes>>and ideas. Black conservatives would be best suited if they were the primal>>beginning of a new political movement one which is without the legacy of>white supremacy nor the>result of white architecture. The question is where is the origin of this>fertile spring it is apparent that the stream of conservative dogma>and propaganda have never truly flowed with our interests at heart....