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i love sleeping in late

Why do people (especially businesses) leave messages on your voicemail telling you to call them? Why don't they just say what they want?

Why, oh why, do smokers hang their hand out of the car window?

Especially considering the expense of cigarettes, shouldn't they want all that smokey goodness in the car with them? Why share it with me?

Why do co-workers knock on your closed door, stick their heads in and ask: "Are you busy?"

Why do we teach our children that it's an Easter Bunny and not an Easter Chicken that brings eggs to hide for them to find on Easter Sunday?

quote:

Originally posted by EbonyRose:
Why do we teach our children that it's an Easter Bunny and not an Easter Chicken that brings eggs to hide for them to find on Easter Sunday?

Bunnies are cute and cuddly, chickens are not.

because rabbits represent fertility to pagans...

Why do people assume you are standing right by the answering machine and say

"Hey, it's me, pick up"


As if i'm standing right there waiting on a phone call 24/7.

Couldn't I actually be "unavailable right now"?

I really do not like selfish people.

But I gotta wonder ... why do selfish people expect to be treated BETTER than 'they' themselves treat others? I just don't get it.

They take and they take and they take BUT ... expect to give NOTHING in return [sometimes not even respect].

*I* say: GROW THE FOCK UP!

There's nothing special about you [selfish person]... and one day when you really, really, REALLY need me to be there for you, I'll be looooong gone.

because I simply cannot STAND 'selfish' people.

last day to work today
And then I am on vacation, 2 weeks

Peace....

A bunch of bullllllllllsh...

That is what it is......



Moat

When did poker become a sport??

I went to a wedding yesterday. And I realized that the answer to why some of our young people are so screwed up is: Their parents!

Is it ever funny when caucasians make tanning jokes to an African-American?

Ma'at hotep Family

These are some of the things that bother me. I hope they give you food for thought.

AID's was meant for the demise of non-white people who are dying by the millions. Why do we hear more about immigrants and abortions and less about AID's which is killing our people in untold millions all around the world? We need to talk!!

Why are millions of Black folk in our mother country dying from everything including starvation, disease, AID's, wars, famine, genocide, explotation, and enslavement but little is revealed to us about these problems? Why is it that the Congressional Black Causus remains silent about these situation but the jewish people in this country yell if there border are being breached? Why is this? Why don't you hear from those lying pimping preachers about this situation? I know why, do you?

Why is the mother country is still be stripped of its naturall resources by europeans and european countries through the enslavement of the peoples of these Afrikan countries and yet these people enjoy nothing more than a little food and shelter for their labors. What happens to the riches amassed from the exploitation of the Afrikan people and their countries? On Tuesday night please watch 'Diamone Row' on the Discovery Channel at 2000 hours (8 PM CST). It is a 'must' see for Afrikan people in amerikka. I will never buy a ' blood' diamond because I know how it came into being and where it came from.

Black women are dying of breast cancer at an alarming rate world wide. This was unheard of when I was young, at least not in the numbers as they are today. Why is this happening to Black women all of a sudden?

Black women are having unnecessary hysterectomies at an alarming rate. Why is this? Why are they encourged to have abortions when they just might want the child? If they want a child, thats a differt situation.

Black women are being disrespected by both Black and white men. Why is this? It doe's not help when they walk around with their boobs and behinds hanging out.

Why doe's our youth disrespect their elders? Why do they use profanity in front of women, the ederly and children? Why do they prey on the elderly by snatching elderly women's purses and breaking into the homes of the ederly and sometimes killing them?

Why are our youth killing each other at an alarming rate? Why can't the gang violence be stopped? If terrorism can be stopped why can't gang violence? In the Chicago area we have lost over thirty of our youth. since September, to gang violence. When doe's it stop and how.

Ever heard of a Black cop killing a white youth? No and you won't because there would be an outcry unheard of in this country. Why are white cops still killing our youth and nothing is being done about it? Where are our pimps in the pulpit? Why are they silent on this issue? Too busy counting the money collected for lying to the people about Jesus. They carry a lot of clout but remain silent when our youth are being 'murdered' legally by the white cops. Why is that?

Why do so many of Black people walk around looking like hogs? Some are so big they wobble down the street rather than walk. Some can hardly walk or stand. Whats going on? Why are some of our kids weighting over three hundred pounds at such a young age? Go into a smorgasbord and you will see so many huge people you would think you were in a hog convention. I am not talking about fat people because fat people have been around forever. I am talking about people who have moved beyond being fat. When I was young you knew who the fat people were. Now days, you know who the thin people are because over half are fat or on their way to becoming hogs. In Afrika and the rest of the world you don't see so many excessively over weight people like you do in amerikkkka. Come on Black folk, it is unhealthy to be as hugh as some of our people are, especially our youth.


Men are making abortion decisions for women when they, themselves, cannot have babies. Why is this? Women should be the one to make the decision since it's their bodies. Men need to chill out and let this situation be handled by women. We cannot be chauvinistlistic in this matter. It's for women and women only my brotherxs.

Why is it that our people filty up their own neighborhoods? No matter which city or Black neighborhood you go to you can always know then you hit the hood because there is debris strewn everywhere. Why is this? Why is it that some Black folk don't even clean up around their own homes or porperty? Why don't Black people people teach our children to thow their trash somewhere other than in the streets? I have asked children to pick up the item they threw in the street and have been cursed out and threatened. What is it about our neightboods that makes it the litter capital of amerikkka?

Why do white drug pushers on college campus's sell their drugs (and more of them) and not have to worry about being caught and going to jail?. Why no drug raids on college campuses? White students have more money so spend and have a larger quanity to purchase. Why are there more white crack heads than Blacks but they seldom get serious jail time? There are more whites strung out on drugs than Blacks. The same for the white porostitute.

Why is it that a young Black drug pusher can get more jail time for selling drugs when a white person can commit a much more serious crime which sometimes results in a death and still recieve less time? Why is there no outcry about this disparity? Where are our so-called leaders and why do they remain silent when our youth are losing their right to vote and other so-called freedoms we take for granted? Where are T.J, Jesse, Creflo, etc. Stop counting the money for a minute and take action.

Why are our youth going to jail in astronomical numbers for victim-less and non-violent crimes and white youth get a slap on the wrist or a 'light' fine but no jail time for the same crimes? I recall speaking with the 'white' chief of security of a major department store and was told that they have to prosecute young Black shoplifters but call the parents of young white shoplifters and send them home with them. I was also told that most of the white shoplifters had money and shiplifting was more of a dare or game to them and the young Blacks had little or no money but they 'had' to be prosecuted. Thats why so many of our youth have criminal records and most white youth don't. There is a reason for this and it is alarming. Black men in jail means no Black babies can be sired by them. Most Black folk won't believe it but far more crimes are committed by whites than Blacks.

Why is Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Martin Luther King, and a few other Black leaders (hand picked by whites) are taught in our school systems and not the likes of Malcolm X, Fredrick Douglas, Marcus Garvey, Elijah Mohammad, E. Franklin Frazier, and others we deem as leaders are not being taught to Black students? We have to listen about the lies of George Washington (I cannot tell a lie) and the cherry tree and the lies of the rest of the so-called founding fathers. Who's founding fathers? Cwertainly not ours.


Why are Black folk still admended to the constiltution of the united states and not a part of it since most of us were born in this country? Why do Black folk still have to have civil rights and voting rights laws? Why is it that every group of people ill treated by this country received reparations but Black and Native Americans? What happened to 'Affirmative Action"?

Why is it that we are were taught (and most still believe) that the jews are GOD's chosen people when nothing can be further from the truth? And Black preachers are still teaching this lie. Why do we still adhear to the way-of-life of our enslavers when we were before them and had our own way of life? Why is this?

Why do Black's still call themselves 'Greek' organization (Alpha's, Delta's, etc) on college campus's when there are no 'Black Greeks'? Why can't they be changed from 'Greek' to 'Afrikan"? What are they afraid of? Boy or boy, white people can'thave anything without Black folk copying. No race emulates white folk better than Black folk. Black folk still believe that the white folks way of life is better and is still the rule rather than exception. To hell with Homer and the rest of the lying Greeks who stole everything from our ancestors just like the Italians and the rest of the european enslavers. When do th so-called educated wake up?

When will Black folk realize the economic power we posess and when will we start to use it? Why do we but Caddies, Lincolns and Benz's but own few, if any, of their dealerships? General Motors, who Blacks support more than the rest and without question, should have hundreds if not thousands of dealerships owned by Blacks. What happened to the dealerships we oowned in the sixties and seventies? Boycott GM, Ford and the rest until we get dealships.

Why do Hispanics own hotels, motels, grocery stores, television and radio stations, bank, etc. What do we, as a race, own? After the so-called abolishment of slavery we owned five times more banks and newspapers. What happened to them? Why do we have 'negro' magazines and no "Afrikan' magazines? Why can't the rich Black athletics and entertainers get together and use their purchasing power to buy the above mentioned businesses and employ Black folk instead of buying cars, jewelry, hugh houses and then give back the money to white agents who give nothing but advise?

Why do our young men walk around looking like clowns? They wear pants big enough for two people to fit in and then have the nerve to wear them below their butts thereby revealing their dirty, filthy stinking underwear. Why is this? And why are their pants legs much longer than need be? Also, why do they wear shirts large enough to be worn as a 'dress'? Why do they wear baseball caps a size larger than their actual head size? What is this all about?? Why do they only wear gym shoes? Why is it that they don't buy or wear suits of clothing? Why is it that nearly every time you see young 'Black's' who've committed a crime's, why do they almost always look alike?. Why do they seem to have 'nappy' braids? As for me, braids are for women, not men. I guess one would have to be in a hip-hop fame of mind to understand this. Well, I'm into Black music (jazz) and R&B not hip-hop or rap music. So, that leaves me out.

When will our leaders start to visit the schools in the hood and speak with the young students to encourage them away from a life of crime and into the educational way of life? They seem to always show up for photo shoots after a crime is commited but not prior to. The reason our youth don't see these leaders is because they are too busy playing golf or partying instead of encourging our youth to get a good education, to go to college and become productive instead of distructive ciltizens. Our athletic's could be a tremendous help by speaking to our young, especially males, like the white's do. If they could stay away from the clubs and Vegas and do something productive for a change, perhaps this would give our youth a glimer of hope. Notice how football and basketball playes get into trouble for living such a destructive life style? They just can't stop partying and having fun like the grasshopper. They had better learn from the ant.

This next issue in a serious problem for me. Why is the first music originated by this country, Black Music (jazz)' being killed off by our own people in this country? Jazz has been around since slavery yet the Black DJ's refuse to play it, the radio refuse to play it and sponsors refuse to sponser it. Why is this? . Jazz is more revered in europe and asia than in the countryj of it's origin or by it's people, the origionators. Where is the outcry from Black people in amerikkka? Why is this Black art form being allowd to die a slow death? Why can't this beautiful music (with it's genius's creators, writers and musicians) not being played on the radio and on television? White folk came up with 'west coast' jazz and now 'cool jazz' which is being played but not the real jazz (Black Muksic) creatd by Black people. Kenny 'G' is no John Coltrane or George Coleman or Joe Henderson. But Black folk have purchased more of Kenny 'G's" music than the other three combined. Why is this? There are no singers out there like Sarah, Ella, Nancy, Carmen, Betty Carter, DeeDee Bridgewater, and manyj others I cannot thimkk of at this time. No Eskine's, no Eddie Jeffersons, Johny Hartman and other males I can think of at this time,. The point I am trying to make is 'what's going on?'

Why are Black folk still the followers of the religion created by our enslavers and not by us? White folk don't want Black folk in their heaven and Black folk need to understand this. They don't want Black folk to have a Black Jesus in their church's. In some Black church's you can still find a picture of a 'blue eyes, blond haired white jesus' hanging on the wall. They still have him on a cross when it is impossible to hang on a cross in that manner for any length of time. The eropeans bibles are full of lies and Black folk cannot see this. Those people in the bible never, ever existed and the proof of their existenance cannot be proven.. That includes from Adam and Eve to Moses to Noah and fronm Genesis to Revelations. The bible was created to keep us exactly where we are today yet we still follow the path of destruction laid out by the bible and our enslavers who continue to enslave us with their lying bible and their various other tricks of their trade. I dare say that the majority of the people who go around with king james bibles don't have a clue as to who this murdering king was. Nor do they realize how many different versions of the bible there are and why. Nor do they know why their religion have so many differeent denmoniations, unlike other religions. Nor do they know why we, according to the bible, are desendants of 'Ham" (swine to me) and why, supposedly, we were cursed by our beautiful Blackness. It is supposedly because of something disrespectfully done to 'Ham' by one of his children who we are supposed to be desendendants of. What a joke. We are all, also, suppose to be from Adam and Eve. What another joke and a cruel one at that.

I just want to get some folk into thinking. Some of our people don't think about some of the things I brought up and I know I made some folk angry which was not my intention. We need to focus more on the things that devide or separate us aa a nation within a nation and we need to bridge the gap if we are to grow as a nation. Therefore we need dialog more and talk about the destroying us as a people.

Please overlook the mispelled word, bad grammer, etc. I never said I was smart, I just said I was not stupid. Hotep Beautiful Black People. Olu Olufemi Chike.

Religion makes my head hurt.

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Trust me. I do understand. Hotep. Olu Olufemi Chike.

Is there really a relationship between looming deadlines and writer's block? Or, is it just a coincidence?

{Kweli gets up leaving a blank screen behind.}

It's been soooo freakin' HOT here ...

[wiping sweat from brow]

I can't stand the heat, it gives me a damn headache.