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These writings are about traumas and abandonments seen, experienced and echoed in her surroundings.  It will tell how invasions alienated and isolated the main character throughout her life as she struggles to keep the pure infant of her dreams alive.  As an adult her life is disrupted, and her vulnerabilities uncovered.  The wounds of her past ignite her compassion to find the strenght of her treasures within and to embrace the current demons inside.  Her wisdom compels her to write this book so that other hearts may listen and souls may see.
 
 
The CHOICES you make are sometimes the result of the demons born by society of yesterday and the hidden injustices and opinions influenced upon you from the past and the current. 
 
THE PAST 
                                                    Education is a  major facter in life chances.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Reputed Klansman found guilty in 1964 Black teen deaths.(NATIONAL REPORT)(James Ford Seale of the Ku   Klux Klan)

A federal jury in Jackson, MS, recently convicted reputed Klansman James Ford Seale of kidnapping and conspiracy in the 1964 deaths of two Black teens in southwest Mississippi.

 

Seale, 71, faces life in prison in the deaths of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee. The 19-year-olds disappeared from Franklin County on May 2, 1964, and their bodies were found later in the Mississippi River.

Article from:
Jet
Article date:
July 2, 2007
Author:
Parham, Marti
 

THE BEGINNING OF THE FUTURE

 

I Spy

9/15/1965 - 9/2/1968
NBC 60 minutes
Color - 82 episodes

Sept. 1965- Sept. 1967 Wed. 10:00-11:00PM
Sept. 1967- Sept. 1968 Mon. 10:00-11:00PM

Produced by Sheldon Leonard, Mort Fine and David Friedkin
Robert Culp and Bill Cosby

I Spy Cast

Robert Culp as Kelly Robinson
Bill Cosby as Alexander Scott


Historically, I Spy will be remembered as the first television show to feature a Black actor, Bill Cosby, in a lead role. Fans will recall it as great fun.

Kelly Robinson (Robert Culp) was an Ivy Leaguer whose spy cover was that of a top-seeded tennis pro. Alexander Scott (Bill Cosby) was a scholar and language expert who posed as Kelly's trainer.

The show was filmed all over the world in exotic locales as the American intelligence agents plied their secret trade. Culp and Cosby never took life too seriously and often found the humor even in dangerous situations.

 


MARTIN LUTHER

KING

 RODNEY KING

 

Screenshot of footage of King beaten  by   LAPD officers on March 3,

1991

 

 

The coon stereotype (1600s - ) is one of the main ways white Americans have of looking at black men. It sees black men as being not particularly bright or hard-working, as shiftless and good-for-nothing, as someone you cannot count on, who would rather live off of the work of others. Whites saw them that way as slaves and still tend to see them that way even now.

 

THE CURRENT  &  THE PAST
THERE ARE NO MORE EXCUSES?...................
   

Black crucified in front of
Congress

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

There is little doubt that psychologically, racism is harmful to its victims. The most profound effect associated with situations of extreme degradation is the acceptance by the oppressed group of the dominant group's definition of the situation. This is the phenomenon of self-hatred. Self-hatred is often accompanied by symptoms of apathy, anxiety, and depression or by forms of self-destructive escapist reactions such as alcoholism or drug addiction or, in extreme cases, by paranoid, schizophrenic or manic depressive psychoses. In such situations of extreme degradation then, the oppressed group frequently reacts in an 'intropunitive' fashion; that is, it turns its frustrations inwardly against the self or the 'in' group at large. At the social level, this intropunitiveness takes the form of predatory crimes by an organized underground against the oppressed group. Racial ghettos in the U.S. and South Africa, for example, have very high rates of crime committed by blacks against other blacks, a phenomenon that is encouraged by the disinterest of the police in providing adequate protection.

 
 
40  acres and a mule

After slavery all former slave families were supposed to be given 40 acres and a mule which most never got.

 
 
African American

History

Africans led a very happy life in Africa.What they didn't know is that they would be kidnapped and brought to America to be worked to death.The Americans brought them over and called them all by the same name,"SLAVE." For a long time slavery was getting worse.When the slaves misbehaved they were whipped or hung.

 

This had been going on for a long time until the Civil War.The Union won the war, but it didn't stop there. In the 1930's something was happening in Georgia, Alabama,and Mississippi. Those 3 states were showing a new way of segregation.Signs on hotels, hospitals,and just regular stores said, "Whites Only" and "White door" and "Coloreds in back."

 
 
 
 
Everyone should know where they come from, even if their ancestors suffered an evil as great as slavery. Background is more than just tracing a geneology. Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley was a seminal work in helping black Americans evaluate their past. For Americans who are not black the series is an important lesson in the evils of oppression.
 
  

A couple of statistics for you:

  • From 1976 to 2005, blacks committed over 52 percent of all murders in America.
  • Blacks constituted 39.3 percent of all violent-crime arrests, including 56.3 percent of all robbery and 34.5 percent of all aggravated-assault arrests

 

WHY?:  There is a continuing impact of racism, which most blacks face every day of their lives which may influence their behavior.    DISCONNECTED is just one of those.
 
 
..........ARE THERE?

Contacts
 
I read it straight through, which is a very good sign. You have a wonderful, natural voice and I would like to help you if I can. I love the part about Alfred wanting to touch her hair. White people are always surprised that african american hair is really soft. Raw details like that are important. One thing that makes good writing is to not temper it. If it's a nasty cuss word that comes to mind, put it down on paper. If you find it doesn't fit later on, you can take it out. Talk about the little things that are not considered politically correct or that people are afraid to ask.
 
It reminded me of a friend I had in Florida. My family moved there in the seventies (we came back to GA) and I hated it. None of the other girls liked me for some reason except for an african-american girl named Vanessa. They wouldn't play with her either. We were best friends throughout that fourth grade year. Here I am 42 years old and I've never forgotten that friendship. I felt terrible for leaving her behind when we came back to GA, I hated for her to be alone around those mean girls.
 
Now, is this fiction or non-fiction? or a little of both, in which case it could be considered a historical drama.
 
Thanks
 
Cilla
 
Cilla McCain I'm currently in the final editing of my book Murder In Baker Company due for release in Fall 2009.
 
 
Janet,
 
I love the site!! I am at work right now, but I will check it out later at home. I am so excited!!!

Arnedia Davis
IT Specialist, Business Owner, and Sister 
Atlanta, GA
 
Oh, I forgot to give you my web addresses. 
 
 
Cilla may be just who you need so treat her well, as again she could be a blessing!  ...Oh one last thing, tell Oprah that you, Cilla and Paul Dunfee will be glad to spend some time on her show to explain your new blockbuster book!
 
Paul Dunfee
Friend, Previous Manager, Marketing Adviser, Financial Specialist at Edward Jones, and a LinkedIn Connection
 
 
              
 
 
Deon Robinson
Artist, Professor of Art, Nephew
 
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Author Articles:
 
 
Voices of Poverty Surround Us
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 8/18/1992

Being a step from poverty, I considered myself lucky. Lucky to have found a $4 full-length silk blouse at a thrift shop. I was looking pretty fine, better than I could afford. I dropped my daughter off at school in the Loop.  On the way to my destination, I heard the cry of poverty.

 

I was walking just behind a family of three on State Street, two young boys and one young lady - clearly the result of poverty. I wanted to give them something, as I often do when I am asked. I began to think, but I only had $5 myself.  I proceeded quickly to pass the family when one boy, around the age of 10, turned to his mother, "Mommy, don't you have a quarter left?" She answered with a mumble that I could not understand. I heard him continue to speak to her. "We gotta have something to eat. I don't know if I can stand it no more."  The trembling voice of pain, hunger, weakness and helplessness was the cry of poverty. I felt his tears enter my eyes. The pain he endured entered my heart. My strength weakened from fighting back the tears as the sound of his trembling voice echoed in my thoughts. "Mommy, I don't know if I can stand it no more." His cry was all around me. I began hearing my own child's voice saying his words, feeling his pain, crying his cry. Tears began to fall.  I began to pray. "God give me strength to move on." I cannot change the world. I walked on, wanting to turn back and give them all that I had. I had other options. I could have gotten more money. But I walked ahead with everyone else.  Not long after, I spotted another man about 25 years of age. Another victim of poverty, a homeless, puny little man, hair not combed, clothes falling off and so dirty it looked as if he had been dipped in a barrel of black oil. He approached a lady standing at a bus stop in her business attire. He held out his filthy, blackened hands. She turned her head and looked at him with disgust. He stood there awhile with his head down as if he were trying to gather more strength to move on. Again, tears began to well up in my eyes. I asked "God, what do you want of me?" I cannot save our people from poverty.  I continued to walk on. Less than a block later, a voice spoke to me - a man around the age of 68, intelligent, probably not long a victim of poverty, "Hey, lady, can you help feed an old boy?" I turned to him, and I faced him and said, "I'm sorry, not today." As I walked away from him, I asked myself: Why would he call himself a boy after so many centuries of fighting to be respected as a man? Was this his plea for dignity or his admission of defeat?

 

In one day, I encountered a child and heard his cry in poverty. I saw a young man, begging to be acknowledged as a man, and I heard the plea for dignity.

  

Janet Woods is an office manager at National Decision Systems, a major marketing and demographic firm.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOCIAL CLASSES determine the opportunities and resources you have for education and the type of occupation you can obtain thus resulting in the kind of life you live.  Because of discrimination, a high percentage of Blacks from generation to generation fall in the Lower Middle Class, Working Class, and Working Poor.  The Working Poor can easily fall into the category of Under Class.

 

 

April 4, 2009 - WASHINGTON -Unemployment zoomed to 8.5 percent last month.

  

Percentage Rate by Race

 

          White        -   7.9

          Hispanic  -   11.4

          Black         -   13.3

 

 

 

 LIFE IN SACRED WORDS

 

 Below is are two samples of a poems written out of 56.  The first one in particular "Love's Torments", received an offer to make a song in 1976 from Century 21 (a Division of World Wide Music, Inc.) in Hollywood, California. 

 

 

 LOVE'S TORMENTS

 

I am but a star in the midst

of this great cluttered universe

Falling so fast yet so very slow

through a hell that can't be worse

 

The gravity of love's strength is

upon me pulling until I am no more

And a great fall I endure with tortures

upon me like no other creature before.

 

I am but the end of this star and soon

among you I will disappear

I'll hide from the world forever for

upon mer lies a great fear

 

For love has surely beaten me, I have

weakened until I have lost all

And I'll never again merert love's torments

and I will never again answer its call

 

For I was but a star in  the midst of

this great cluttered universe

Until love captured and placed on me

this endless damnation of a curse.

 

Janet Woods

 

 

 

 THE RAINBOW

 

My life like a storm

filled with drop of tears

My heart, thundering to

be free from all wordly fears

 

My dreams are only winds like

the whispering of a word

And my mind a dark cloud with

thoughts longing to be heard

                                     

                                                                                 Janet Woods

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ll the children want peace in the world, but not all are raised free from the venom of discrimination and prejudice, and capable of looking at people of different race, color or creed as endowed with equal dignity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A DAY TO CONNECT