Holla if You Hear Me

Through President-Elect Obama's victory, Black people were able to release years of being disenfranchised and feeling "the man's" foot on their necks. Up until now, we have had mostly our marches, protests, songs, poems and tears. Our celebrations have been reserved to a team winning a championship or an entertainer winning an award. Obama was not the first Black man to attend a Ivy League school. He was not the first Black man to receive a law degree. He was not even the first man to run for the highest national office. Yet, he was the first Black man that believed that he could combine his preparation, leadership skills and yes, his Blackness to become the leader of the free world. So, now that he did his job. It is time for us to do our job. Despite the fact that our brother is the president, he was elevated to office without any of the issues that face us being elevated. We have been committing ourselves through our votes and support to party platforms that do not fully address our values and our needs. There are hundreds of thousands of Black men incarcerated at this moment and hundreds of thousands of Black people with criminal records. Yet, we have ignored the plight of these brothers. We voted Democratic but where really does our community stand on the issues of abortion and gay rights. Our stance is probably not extreme as the Republican Party, but it is certainly not as liberal as the Democratic Party. Our views are not monolithic so we should not give totally allow one party to ignore us or another party to take our votes for granite. What good is it to have a Black president if we allow his entire time in office to be spent on the issues of other communities. Yes, he will be a leader for all Americans, but issues are elevated to the Oval Office from Congress and the Senate. Therefore, Republican and Democratic Senators and Congressmen should be feeling the need to respond to our issues as they have felt the need to respond to Evangelicals, gays, immigrants, feminists, unions and other groups. So, from now until the inauguration let us celebrate history. Then let us get down to business.

A New Order

Family,

Today is a day that God created for America. I will be brief, my brother Alex said it best:

"It's a done deal. No longer will an adjective be required. We are men. We are Americans. President-elect Barack Obama has established our new order."


May God keep him and protect him.

Barack Has 99 Problems And...

Sarah Palin has proclaimed she has ditched her Cinderella clothes and back to riding around in the pumpkin. Ashley Todd the face carver who put 'B' on her face is hopefully getting some mental treatment. Minnesota State Representative Michele Bachman who called Barack Obama un-American had the rug pulled out from under her by the Republican National Committee. I could go on and on but you the moral of the story is them old times damsel in distress games ain't gonna stop this brother from claiming what is his.

Don't Believe the Hypes

My Godmother use to say, "if you lie, you will steal and if you steal, you will kill." Growing up, I assumed that it was just an exaggeration to get me to maintain some integrity in life. While that may have been the case, I did see the truth in it when I began to see people I knew abuse drugs. I saw dope fiends and alcoholics say anything to get a fix or a drink. I have seen them steal and yes I know of many who as a result of their drug habits attempted to kill someone. So, I learned like so many other hood veterans, that you do not believe a damn thing a dope fiend says. In addition, I have learned that a dope fiend can stop getting high and still exhibit dope fiend behavior. A case in point is John McCain's wife Cindy McCain. Rush Limbaugh is another closet crack smoker and paint sniffer but we will deal with him on another day. The McCain campaign has become so desperate that they have given her the microphone at a campaign stops. She has somehow been able to fix her mouth to say disparaging things about Barack Obama. Now wait a minute, does Cindy McCain take the American public for fools? Just a few years back, she was getting high everyday like getting high was the thing to do. Her habit was so bad that she was stealing prescription drugs from a charity she ran. In the midst of her getting high everyday, John McClain claims that he did not know she was getting high. If we take Sen. McClain at his word, then that means his wife was pretty good at what? If you said what is lying and stealing then you have played "ghetto jeopardy" before because that is right. C'mon y'all think with me for a minute. You have seen this before. You have seen Claretha or Taqueeda get a couple of weeks clean under their belt and then come done to the strip all dressed up and want to tell the whole world about life, religion and economics. Then what happens? The next morning, that new outfit is filthy and stanky from them relapsing and passing out. Does Cindy McCain think she can fool the hood? We know when the cameras go away, she is in her hotel room tweaking and playing in the blinds. With all do respect Mrs. McCain, a dope fiend cannot tell America shit about Barack Obama.

Palin is a Dummy Bag

Newsflashes:

Palin does not know her timetables.
Palin cannot point out Washington D.C. on a map.
Palin thinks debate is what you use to catch defish.

How is it that a U.S. Senator with a Harvard law degree and the winner of the Democratic primary was compared to Sarah Palin? For almost two weeks, we heard non-stop spin messages about how Sarah Palin had more experience than Barack Obama. Now we come to find out that Sarah Palin is so dumb that all Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey has to do get a laugh is dress like Palin and repeat exactly what Palin said. Now Palin supporters have been hanging on to the notion that the interviewers are asking "gotcha" questions. Katie Couric sure asked her a real trick question. Couric asked Palin what newspapers and magazines did she read and Palin replied: "I've read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media." Giving her a second chance, Couric asked Palin to specifically name a few and Palin responded: "Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years." Now I could not get away with stuff like that in grade school and Palin is going to stunt while she is running for Vice-President of the United States of America? You know back in the day when you go to the spot to cop and you found out you they sold you some oregano, aspirin or brown sugar, people would say you got "whooped" or you bought a "dummy bag." John McCain is trying to trying to whoop the entire country. Now even a sell out is not going to be able to vouch for this girl. How are you going to use game to run for Vice President? I mean game may get you in VIP and it may get you a LINK card but the Vice President slot? You know Hillary brought her 'A' game and came up short. Hillary used the "crying game," the "I know y'all not gonna vote for no nigga game" and then we all else failed the "girl power game," but all of it was backed with very articulate words and flowery language. Hillary was tried to gangster the seat. Palin is trying to get on the bus and play three card monte so she can get your loot to shop at the mall. Vote for Barack, the sure thing.

Clinton's Hood Rats

Hood rat was a hood term that was reserved for females in the hood who were trifling and were known for cheating on their man. Somehow Hillary Clinton came into the hood and hypnotized affluent Black women and got them to cheat on Barack and get in bed with her and Bill. A sister told me that we should not vote for Barack Obama just because he is Black. This is the same sister who offered me free tickets to a Hillary fundraiser and added that "you know damn well Barack ain't gonna win." I was shocked simply because I had heard her name drop Barack's and Michelle's names over a hundred times in years past. Women who I looked up to were like Maya Angelou, Iyanla Vanzant and Maxine Waters were going on national television and not only backing Hillary but DISSING Barack. These women would have fought you for questioning why they were not backing the only viable Black candidate we have had in the history of America. Iyanla was constantly ranting in a very spooky way about the power of women and how she was all for Hillary because she was a woman. Okay, if being a woman is good enough to get the female vote why can't being Black be a qualification for getting the Black vote? After Hillary spoke at the convention, a sister was interviewed and she was moved to phony tears to tell America "didn't she (Clinton) look and sound presidential." Could somebody send an email blast that slavery is over? We are the only people on earth who do not get "accept your own and be yourself." How do you think I am going to let somebody trick me out of voting for my brother? White people have said openly, that they will not vote Democratic if it means voting for a Black man. Black people have been voting for White people for decades just because of party loyalty. Now the Black man is the candidate for the same damn party and he has to prove himself in a hundred different ways. But wait, not only does he have to prove himself, his wife has to prove herself too. I have not seen any of Clinton's hood rats jump on the camera and fake cry about how these people have insulted Michelle Obama. Of course we know there were some prominent Black men who were also pancakes (flip flopping from one side to another). So being a hood rat is not just reserved for women (Ice T said it best when he said some of you n****s are b####s too). Bob Johnson, Andrew Young and Charles Rangel made damn fools of themselves. The question is how are these two-faced buck dancers going to save face. They may have an American Express Black card but that won't get them back in the hood. I would welcome Clarence Thomas back before I let any of these hood rats back in.

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