Creative Fire

Please join me in Celebrating African Americans in the Arts.  The event will have film, "I'll Make Me a World and Daughters of the Dust" showing, performances by Jazz violinist, and Call of the Drums.  Workshops and a tribute to Gil Scott Heron.

The family event will share the accomplishments in the fine arts, music and more of people of African descent.  It is a free event and open to the public

Sheila E
Black to Our Roots

RED TAILS

Bronxites and New Yorkers in general must see this new movie of the TUSKEEGEE AIRMEN.  Not only is this the history of African American men, those real men, but it is a story of your neighbors.  For years I have known Roscoe Lee Brown from David Dinkins campaign, helping my son take a year at BX CC and that was a solid he gave me.  Then at a celebrity filled fund raiser he was introduced as a Tuskeegee Airmen.  It floored me.  A couple years later I was in Canada and met a woman who was a Tuskeegee Airmen and her story was exceptional since she recently became a member (30 yrs prior).  She lives in Queens with the title of only Black Female Single Propeller Pilot or something to that effect.  Our neighbors.  Making history, kicking ass and taking no names.

Roscoe is a wonderful person to know.  I hope that each of us support the movie.  I love seeing our history on the big screen and to know a couple of those same men because I have interacted with them is a double pleasure.  Thanks Akia for sending out the clarion call to our community.  Their motto of "WE FIGHT" has to be our calling card as we begin our fight not to return to Jim Crow laws and middle class annihilation.

WE FIGHT!
Alone, we can do so little, together, we can do so much.

Thoughts of the day

I was reading the Nature Conservancy magazine and it is heartbreaking to read of all that we are loosing in the world to expansion, greed and ignorance.  Animal species, flora, food sources. Woody Woodpecker was on the endangered species list!  Woodpeckers were reintroduced at the Disney Wilderness Preserve, FL after not being seen for decades..decades.  The alarm about Woody was sounded at Fort Bragg, NC!
It was because of the training activities at F.B.  Every action has an opposite and equal reaction.  You remember that from high school?  Which brings me to our everyday lives where we take for granted so many things will be here or do not notice that they are gone.  All forms of life are important and sometimes we do not see friends or family for a while and assume they are just hibernating..yes but, maybe not.  I remember a neighbor who had a heart attack and it was three months before any of her family thought they should check on her and another two months before they became concerned. 

I check on my close friends when I have not heard from them because they are my friends..even when we are not speaking, I check.  I never want to have regrets of why I did not call or stop by if the unthinkable happens.

This is like our environment..we need to constantly check on it because we may not have it any longer.  We take water for granted and since moving to NC I have become more conscience of my consumption (specially since I have a water bill).  Previously, I never gave much thought now through Nat'l Geographic and Planet Green stations,  I understand why we must all conserve.

These have been my thoughts for today.

Did he really say that..

The Iowa Caucus was  and is a hot mess.  Did you hear what Rick Santorum has said regarding black folks?  He states that only Blacks receive government assistance.  He would not give us assistance to use as leverage?  Please someone take me out of this Twilight Zone.  The crop of Republican candidates goes from nuts to critcally insane as it relates to the global community and the human beings which occupy the world.

If at any time I had thought I would ever sit on my butt for this election, after last night in Iowa I am putting on my pointy toe steel boots to kick some no nothing Republicans in the place where the sun don't shine.  Brothers and Sistas we have to fight the power or we will be out of house and home.  Sorry,  we are already out of house and home with no support from men and women we elected to represent our interest.  I can support differences of opinion but when white republican candidates refuse, whitewash, dismiss and ignore the plight of people of color, not just Blacks, all of us have to fight back.  Occupy Wall Street, Occupy K Street, Occupy every government center because the words out of these neckbones' mouths is detrimental to three quarters of the world's population.  I respect the need to purge programs, combine others, reduce waste but how do you justify that the most educational and economic $$ were funneled into a place like South Carolina which has the highest unemployment rates, educational drop outs, and health/HIV AIDS.  Where did those $$ go?  They claim they do not want to help those at the lowest end of the economic strata but they take the money and do not account for it either not being spent and leaving poor, black, white and native Americans suffering or they spend it on other state initiatives and their federal counterparts do not hold any of the local officials accountable.

If I had my way, I would want 435 people living in poverty all coming from the Legislative Building.  What can we do?  We can stay strong, stay focused and stand up and stand behind our President.  He is attempting to improve life for all of America.  Mitt Romney said he hired the best people for his campaign what's the problem if they are all white.  Mitt, there are talented, genius level, smart, experienced people of all colors, race and ethnicity.  If he was elected there would be one color White and we have been down that road before.  Get fired up, get moving,  get involved, otherwise
our way of life will be banned from existing.