Reality check or stay in the cheep seats... 2010 You have arived at the promise land.

It's 2010...

A new Decade.
The change has come.

Time to shake the bonds of insecurity and mental slavery and hit the bricks like everybody else!

The only thing stopping you now is yourself.

And that old slave mentality you think you still got to bitch about.

You got a Black President.
Rather you like it or not.
That means you aint got nothing to complain about no more.

Time has changed.

So get off your fat lazy ass and do something!
*evil grin*

It's just that simple!
Just listen/read what Ole Russel Simmons said:

Message For The New Decade

At the dawn of a new decade, we have arrived at a moment unlike any other in the history of our beautiful nation. We have endured the brutality of slavery, we have survived the pain of Jim Crow and we have overcome segregation to declare our dignity and equal rights. We witnessed and participated in one of the greatest achievements in the history of our country when we elected our first black president, Barack Obama. And here we stand, with great opportunity, this year, this decade, to once and for all, emancipate ourselves from the mental slavery that is limiting our society and our people from moving forward.

To remove these shackles forever, we must take advantage of the opportunities that we have created. To me, during segregation, the black community was strong, because we had black dentists, doctors, drug store owners, grocery store owners, and many other business leaders providing our community with care and services. Integration came and although it gave us much more freedom and liberty, it also presented new challenges that we continue to face.  New  cultural and entrepreneurial groups came into our communities and took over many of these businesses and destroyed potential economic opportunities. However, now more than ever, the 89% of this country that is not black, is thirsting to buy our products and follow our cultural lead. If we ignore this 89%, we will never be able to move forward. We should not limit ourselves to just interact and do business with each other. I don't want to address just 11% of the population. I want to speak to100% of America. If I had segregated myself and  my businesses when I started Def Jam, then I never would have brought Melle Mel, Kurtis Blow and Run-DMC to the Mud Club in the Village, which was a White club. Black people didn’t like rap music, they rejected it at first. It was the White press that made us popular…the first time I heard my record on the radio was in Amsterdam on a Dutch station! I say all this, not to criticize you, but to challenge you to recognize your power.

I am saddened by many of my peers who continue to perpetuate the notion that diversity is wrong. When  black TV executives compare the multiracial programming I produce to “black” shows on their networks, it reminds me that we are also responsible for limiting ourselves. When online “black” gossip sites make an issue of inter-racial dating it exhibits our own responsibility for not progressing forward. If you only interact with “your group” in university or the work place, you not only do yourself and your company a disservice, you diminish the possibilities of a generation.   We have nothing to fear from integration because our culture is the New American Mainstream, the entire world is embracing us.  It’s our time to be open to the world.  At this point in our history as a people, we must uplift each other and encourage each other to change how we see in the world. It is honest integration that the next generation is bringing and they are challenging the old guard to step down and stop their old ways.  Similarly, too many mainstream companies today are limited by their inability to honestly integrate some of the most powerful American ideas because of their lack of diversity.  To speak to the new America, you have to completely rethink your “diversity” approaches in an integrated, fast-forward way, or risk being overtaken by an unstoppable tide of demographic and cultural change.

So, as we enter this new decade, let’s practice loving everybody and everything. Let’s be proud of our diversity and make sure it means what the word actually is supposed to mean. Let us not be agents for others to co-opt, let us be the agents of change. It is the wisdom from having experience and inside perspective from the most important cultural phenomenon our country has ever seen that this new generation carries forward. And damn, it is exciting.

-Russell Simmons

OUT WITH THE OLD
In with the new!

So are you ready?

*blank stare*

I wanna say you are but I doubt it!

As I glance around at many of you and your words it's the same old sad shit.

Waiting on a handout.
Blaming the invisible white man.

Well all bets are off now.

The only thing stopping you now...

Is you.


You are standing on fresh new images of change.

You may not see them right now.
But it's here.


Now what you gonna do?






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Obama wins a Nobel Prize! And it's only His first year...

For just being the First African American President.
For His stance on Nukes.
For His style and His class.

And for His ability to be respected by the world more than the past few presidents we have had thus far.

He won!

President Barack Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

By KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE, Associated Press Writers Karl Ritter And Matt Moore, Associated Press Writers – Fri Oct 9, 5:25 am ET

OSLO – President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.

The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama's name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.

"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the committee said. "His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."

The committee said it attached special importance to Obama's vision of, and work for, a world without nuclear weapons.

"Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play," the committee said.

Theodore Roosevelt won the award in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson won in 1919. Former President Jimmy Carter won the award in 2002, while former Vice President Al Gore shared the 2007 prize with the U.N. panel on climate change.

The Nobel committee received a record 205 nominations for this year's prize.

In his 1895 will, Alfred Nobel stipulated that the peace prize should go "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses."

Unlike the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded by Swedish institutions, he said the peace prize should be given out by a five-member committee elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Sweden and Norway were united under the same crown at the time of Nobel's death.

The committee has taken a wide interpretation of Nobel's guidelines, expanding the prize beyond peace mediation to include efforts to combat poverty, disease and climate change.

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Associated Press Writer Ian MacDougall contributed to this report.

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The miseducation of our own mentality. Taking back our humaity.

I was chatting with a old friend of Mine.

We were talking about the current issues.
Mostly our people and our children.
And what needs to be done.

And he said:
I Just look at our babies and our homes, and thats the bottom line.
and with that said i also feel we as brother's have to fine more time being king's, treating, and reminding our women that they are Queens and not so called Diva's

And I replied;

Yeah...

But being Kings and Queens in theory is great.

I think the problem with that theory is the conduct of many Kings and Queens are not very impressive too. It gives off a Elitist midset that most can't handle humbly.

Ladies and Gents is better. Because you can teach the difference between what they are and what they should do.

The ROYAL mentality is KILLING our people.

*blank stare*

We have to get back to Humanity.

Being better humans to each other.

Being better partners to our mates.
Being better friends to each other.

And being better at not just knowing our selves, but knowing our deeper selves and striving for a deeper knowledge of our greater selves to be.

I think we are teaching with the wrong images and causing our people to compete and not relate.

That's what we have competitions and not relationships.

They don't KNOW any better.

If it takes a village? Then we have to find a better reason to respect the need of community and get back to being better people to other people.

We as a people have lost sight of what's right for what we have been learning right now.

And our children are mutants and not little animals. We have to learn how to help them learn how to better MASTER their mutations and not try to mimmic(sp) our inferior images of the past.

I was a prodigy child. Gifted.
But nothing as gifted as many of todays children are becoming.

We have to stop trying to make robots.

And make better humans who are trained to respect all of humanity

We as a people have been mis-educated.

We have been taught to be elitist and not humble humans.
We have been taught to be Diva's and not Ladies.
We have been taught to be Players and not Gentlemen.
We have been taught to be Royals without responsibility to whom you serve.
We have been taught it's Us against Them and not that we all are communal people in need of building better bridges and support and not barriers and enemies.

We have been taught a warped sense of reality.

And it's less important to mention who and why more than what we should be NOW and HOW.

Because we as a world of people are becoming a new world of new people who are in need of learning from each other and not trying to dominate over each other.

We need to take back our humanity.

And learn to become better humans with each other.

Because that's all we have left.

Each other.


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DRUM

I often drift back in my memory of days past
In my young adulthood
When times were good
In the hood

And I remember the celebration of realities of our culture
And the "what if's" of that reality

Being a Alpha Dominant Black Man in America

And I remember

Drum





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQXVUutxD2w

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/drum-ken-norton-blaxploitation-excerpts-mandingo-sequel/3031813701

What if there were no niggas, just Master teachers...?

I stay woke!

EB





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