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I can’t help but gush and love the baby bro and older bro taking lead and breaking down one of my favorite joints… and then they all come in for a crazy harmony!!! WOWSERS!!!!!!! Check it out and their other acapella joints on YouTube at BruthaTV. But in the meantime… ENJOY!!!
Everyone has been talking, praying and blogging about the tragedies that have happened over the past few days to Jennifer Hudson and her sister. The murder of their mother and brother and now it is looking like Jennifer’s young nephew as well. I can’t even begin to imagine losing my mother, sibling, child or nephew all at once at the hand of someone you loved.
Where is our society going to where we glorify violence and abuse in our advertisement, entertainment, music and video games? Taking another person’s life is not a right and it shouldn’t be a common happening in our society. We have evolved into a brilliant state of being with the advancement of technology and communication and yet, we have become the most violent. Where are we going?? The negativity that festers in our urban communities has got to stop!! Though most of you reading this may not live in the south or central part of your city, you still purchase the games and the music for yourselves or your children allowing your minds and their minds to become apart of this hate. This self hate! It’s self hate and destruction. We are killing our own society and future generations. There is nothing glorious or genuine about “thug life”! Carrying a gun, being disrespectful to your spouse or significant other, promoting hate, not properly loving and caring for your offspring does not make you a man! Body count does not make you strong… it actually makes you weak! It makes you pathetic and ignorant, selfish and sick! Yes these things happen, but rapping about it and glorifying it isn’t fixing the problem. We have to start pulling these kids out of this cesspool of destruction and filth. Show them the rest of the world. In order to get positive results, you have to create the equation… it won’t create itself!
Three people died in Chicago a few days ago because a man wanted to teach a woman a lesson. And to hurt her he took the three most precious things from her, the lives of her mother, brother and son. And he isn’t the first to do so… but maybe we should start working on making him one of the last.
“Joe The Plumber” has been placed into the Republican script for John McCain, Sarah Palin and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. They are trying to make a man who has 7 homes and a woman who hunts Moose relate able to the “Average Joe”, playing up that the community organizer is out of touch and elitest. WOW!
Most of you have been preaching Obama and Biden policy plans, canvassing, volunteering, phone banking and sporting your Obama gear. We are 9 days out to Election Day, and you’re wondering what else can I do. Well, Hill Harper has created a website where he is encouraging the “Average Joe” to endorse Obama. We have to be a united front going into November 4th and this is another way to show that as your average American worker, you find Barack Obama more relate able than John McCain. Below is the instructional video and link.
My grandfather died in St. Louis, born on a reservation in Arizona, worked a ranch in Texas, moved to Chicago where he could no longer be apart of his heritage in order to survive. In a day he went from being a homosexual Navajo Native American to a straight Black American just to get a job. Before he died, he told me that the American dream was false but he hoped that I would live long enough to see America live up to it’s true destiny. I watched this video and cried, my grandfather missed this evolution of America by three years. His soul is at rest, but I know that it was joyous on this day!
We knew it was coming, there were rumblings over the past couple of days that Republican Former Secretary of State General Colin Powell would come on Meet The Press and endorse Senator Obama’s bid for the Presidency. Well, it happened. But what moved me and made me not hate Colin Powell anymore is not his actually endorsement… but what he said before actually endorsing him. The genuine manner in which he spoke and the power of his words and beliefs of what America is and should be was something I have not seen or heard from General Powell in a long time. He has broken from the chains of Papa Bush and his military allegiances and actually spoke from his heart about the direction this country, his country is going in. I had lost respect for him when I noticed him just going along with the program, allowing himself to be used as a scape goat and tool over and over again since the Gulf War. He gained some of my respect back today… He gained a lot of respect today. Not just from democrats, but independents and some republicans.
I needed to hear someone from the right speak the truth, and he did!