@TariqNasheed & Renegade Culture & #theSANKOFAnetwork & #ChooseSekoVArner

Prosperity Conscious 757,

     Conscious757 has recently been in talks with the Uber-controversial-yet-conscious figures Dr. Umar Johnson & Tariq Nasheed. We decided to support sister Chrystal who is bringing Umar to Suffolk in July (see below) and we began talks with Tariq Nasheed. We are in the process of arranging a talk with Tariq in the 757. Date and Time are to be announced. If you are interested in investing (for a profitable return) in this effort, email WhereBlackBiz@gmail.com and They'll provide details as they come available.

Dr. Umar Johnson in Suffolk, Virginia. 7/15/18 Sun. 4pm
Temple Beth-El, 3927 Bridge Road, Suffolk, VA
DrUmarSuffolk@Gmail.Com 757-609-0166
http://www.eventbee.com/event?eid=107560862

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One of the podcasts to enjoy is the new podcast called RENEGADE CULTURE. You can check them out on your podcast player or on Soundcloud. Here's their link:

https://soundcloud.com/renegade-culture

"Our podcast is speaking truth to power and the powerless. We are having a conversation on moving forward for Black people. In the streets, in the boardrooms and everywhere in between. We be doin it for the Culture!!!"

• renegadeculture.org
• renegade culture
• @KamauFranklin
• @KalonjiChanga
• Siafu Movement

Also check out Seko's podcast - The Fly Guys Podcast (#FlyGuysPodcast)

https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-fly-guys-757 

He recently did a FLY episode with Starr Armstrong on #MeToo vs. Hip-Hop.

https://www.spreaker.com/user/positivevibesinc/metoo-vs-hiphop-more-men-should-be-outra

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This Friday The SANKOFA will include members from Project Inclusion!

Time for some networking and fun in one venue! The Project Inclusion Alumni Association is on the move and invite you to a Friday After work Bash at the Montego Island Grille Friday June 29th at 7:00 pm 829 Lynnhaven Parkway Virginia Beach. United Way of South Hampton Roads Project Inclusion Leadership Development Program Alumni Association is creating a platform for non-profit organizations to connect with the community and leadership groups of United Way. United Way of South Hampton Roads Women's United and Project Inclusion Alumni Association members will be in attendance for more information on community impact. 

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By the way.........................

Did you know that Seko is running for an At-Large seat for the Virginia Beach School Board?

If you can assist, let him know!

www.ChooseSekoVarner.com

ChooseSekoVarner@Gmail.com

757-932-0177

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STAY WOKE....and then do something....

Stride with Pride y'all.
CONSCIOUS757

Dr. Ben Carson on Obamacare - "Worst thing.....since slavery." - Atlanta Black Star

Ben Carson Confronted by Roland Martin on Obama

October 19, 2013 | Posted by Nick Chiles

 http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/10/19/ben-carson-confronted-and-4-other-noteworthy-events/
Roland Martin Confronts Ben Carson

After conservative darling Dr. Ben Carson made his head-shaking comments that Obamacare was “the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery,” Roland Martin got a chance to confront him on Martin’s NewsOne radio show yesterday.

Noting that atrocities like Jim Crow arose after slavery, Martin asked him, “Did you go too far?”

“That’s my opinion,” Carson responded. “First of all, I recognize that slavery was a horrible thing … I realize how horrible it was … I didn’t say this is as bad as slavery, I said this is the worst thing since slavery.”
“Which includes Jim Crow,” Martin interrupted.

“Yes, absolutely,” the neurosurgeon and author said. “This nation was founded on the principle that it would be a new type of nation, that was for, of, and by the people. A constitution was put in place that would assure that the people remain at the pinnacle of power and that the central government would never reach the point where it had control of the people. [Obamacare] fundamentally changes the relationship.”

Carson said the Affordable Care Act will give the government control over “everyone’s health,” to which Martin responded by saying it empowers the individual.

Carson said the law gets in between the patient-provider relationship.

“This is only the beginning,” Carson continued. “What you will see is that a lot of the insurance companies will begin to fold … Ultimately, we will have a single-payer system if we don’t stop this from happening.”

Obamacare Opponents Bring Their Fight to the States
The effort to derail Obamacare, having failed in Congress, has now moved to the states, where well-funded groups are pressuring local lawmakers to resist the expansion of Medicaid — a major part of the law’s efforts to cover 48 million uninsured Americans.

In Virginia, Emmett W. Hanger Jr., a Republican state senator from the deeply conservative Shenandoah Valley, is feeling heat from the Republican right, specifically from groups like Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by the billionaire industrialist brothers Charles and David Koch.

Hanger told the New York Times the group is waging “an attempt to intimidate me” in Richmond and at home by phoning his constituents, distributing leaflets and knocking on 2,000 doors in his rural district.
“This has been one of those trench warfare kind of efforts for a year now, and I think it is one of those hidden stories of the whole fight against Obamacare,” said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity. “It’s not flashy; it’s just in a whole bunch of state capitals and in the districts of a whole lot of state legislators, but it’s such a crucial aspect of the overall long-term effort to roll back Obamacare.”

The expansion of Medicaid, a joint federal-state program for the poor, is critical to the law’s goal of covering the nation’s 48 million uninsured. Hospitals and insurers are counting on more Medicaid patients to make the economics of the law work. The federal government would pay 100 percent of the cost of new enrollees for the first three years and 90 percent after that.

But in June 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that states could opt out of Medicaid expansion, which opened the door for conservative opponents of the law to use Medicaid as an arena to oppose it. Americans for Prosperity has paid staff members in 34 states and is running aggressive campaigns in states like Arkansas, Florida, Ohio, Louisiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Tea Party Patriots recently gave $20,000 to organizers of a referendum drive to put the question of Medicaid expansion on the Arizona ballot.

So far, roughly half the states are moving forward with Medicaid expansion and an increasing number of Republican governors are expressing interest.

Travon Martin broke the Sundown Rule - Tariq Nasheed

Travon was killed because he broke the Sundown Rule...... Tariq Nasheed

Tariq Nasheed's video: http://youtu.be/gPvy8jAP6uw 
In this video Tariq Nasheed discusses the ignored pieces of the George Zimmerman Case.

The Loewen video:  http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/189492-2
For decades after the 14th Amendment was ratified, and continuing well into the 20th century, America’s blacks suffered insidious discrimination that came in many forms. One of the most humiliating was “Sundown Towns” part of what was called our “hidden history.” Sundown towns were those communities that systematically excluded blacks from those communities after dark. There is still some evidence them. James Loewen, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Vermont has researched the issue extensively, and is the author of Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, the first book ever written on the subject.

http://books.google.com/books/about/Sundown_Towns.html?id=lx4Kwap0gCwC

James Loewen: "I thought I would discover maybe ten of these in Illinois and maybe ten across the country. And, to my complete astonishment I am now at a count of 501 in Illinois alone. Which is 70 percent of all the incorporated municipalities within the state and I think there‘s a similar percentage in Missouri except for the southern part which is actually along the Missouri River. These sundown towns are not common in the South, and the southern part of Missouri along the Missouri River is like the South in that regard. 548."

SUNDOWN TOWNS WENT TO SOME LENGTH TO GIVE THE IMPRESSION THEY WERE INTEGRATED. SOME COUNTED PRISONERS, MENTAL INSTITUTION PATIENTS, LIVE IN DOMESTICS AS PART OF THEIR POPULATIONS, OR EVEN ALLOWED ONE OR TWO FAMILIES…JUST TO SAY THEY WERE NOT DISCRIMINATING. ALTHOUGH SOME HAD SIGNS DISCOURAGING BLACKS…THE POLICY WAS MORE INFORMAL THAN CODIFIED BY ORDINANCE.
http://stlhistoryblackwhite.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/sundown-towns-1890-1910/

In addition to the expulsion of African Americans from some small towns, Chinese Americans and other minorities were also driven out of some of the towns where they lived. One example according to Loewen is that in 1870, Chinese made up one-third of the population of Idaho. Following a wave of violence and an 1886 anti-Chinese convention in Boise, almost none remained by 1910.^[6] The town of Gardnerville, Nevada, is said to have blown a whistle at 6 p.m. daily alerting Native Americans to leave by sundown.^[7] In addition, Jews were excluded from living in some sundown towns, such as Darien, Connecticut.^{[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town} 

In some cases, signs were placed at the town's borders with statements similar to the one posted in Hawthorne, California, which read "Nigger, Don't Let The Sun Set On YOU In Hawthorne" in the 1930s.^[2]
In some cases, the exclusion was official town policy or through restrictive covenants agreed to by the real estate agents of the community. In others, the policy was enforced through intimidation. This intimidation could occur in a number of ways, including harassment by law enforcement officers.^[3]

Though no one knows the number of sundown towns there were in the United States, the largest attempt made to determine how common they were estimated that there were several thousand throughout the nation. The highest proportion of confirmed sundown towns were in the state of Illinois^{[citation needed]}, but that may not be truly representative of their distribution, as sundown towns are difficult to accurately determine given the reluctance for the towns themselves to have, or to reveal, official documents stating their status as sundown towns.

Since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and especially since the Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibited racial discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing, the number of sundown towns has decreased. However, as sociologist James W. Loewen writes in his book on the subject, it is impossible to precisely count the number of sundown towns at any given time, because most towns have not kept records of the ordinances or signs that marked the town's sundown status.^[4] His book, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, notes that hundreds of cities across America have been sundown towns at some point in their history.^[5]

Fresh water keeps us well, fresh water opens the way, fresh water is our sustainer, freshwater is from above. We are thankful for the fresh water in the life of Travon Martin. May his memory be a blessing. May his life-gift wake the sleeping giant. May his parents tears water a new freedom. May our pain of loss be soon replaced with a smile of realization that fresh water has returned to it's source. May his name ring synonymous with change. May America be improved.................Ashee, ashee, ashee !

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BANNED IN THE USA - Lil Wayne & Rick Ross for their own stupidity

UPDATE - 04.12.2013 - Reebox has dropped Rick Ross as a endorsement image !

Michigan Radio Station Bans Lil Wayne & Rick Ross Over Lyrics

Posted by Tony Neal on March 28, 2013 at 7:52pm 0 Comments 2 Likes

Controversial lyrics from Lil Wayne and Rick Ross result in both rappers being banned by a Michigan radio station.

Following news that a particular and heavily controversial lyric from Rick Ross on Rocko’s “U.O.E.N.O (You Ain’t Even Know It)” was enough to warrant a petition, a Michigan radio station has just announced that they plan on banning the Miami rapper’s music unless he issues an apology.
XXLMag.com reports that the radio station, Michigan’s WUVS 103.7, will also ban Lil Wayne and his music unless he too issues an apology.

“Effective immediately Muskegon’s WUVSlp 103.7 the Beat has pulled ALL Lil Wayne and Rick Ross music from rotation. We pride ourselves on playing music that is non-degrading and non-violent. While we believe in freedom of speech, creative writing and individualism, we refuse to be part of the problem by spreading messages that could harm or end someone’s life,” read a statement from WUVS.
Lil Wayne recently brought about tremendous criticism from fans following the release of Future’s “Karate Chop (Remix).” On the song, Lil Wayne insults slain teen Emmett Till as he raps, “Beat that p*##y up like Emmett Till.”

“Karate Chop (Remix)” was ultimately pulled by Future’s label Epic Records, but Lil Wayne has yet to publicly acknowledge his Emmett Till lyric. 

Tricky Rick Ross turns Rap to RAPE and then punks out.

MITCH ALERT !!!!

Is Tricky-Rick Ross back-pedaling from a line he provides in a Rocko Mixtape that seems to promote the use of  a Date Rape drug to rape someone ? (The answer is yes - He's a MITCH. Note how his response not-so-cleverly skirts' the issue of the message in the lyric and only deals with the fact that the lyrics don't use the word 'rape'........Very MITCH-like)

An activisit site named Ultra Violet is promoting a presure campaign to hit Rick Ross by forcing his removal from a Reebok sponsorship. UltraViolet is a community of women and men, fighting to expand women's rights and combat sexism everywhere - from politics and government to media and pop culture:

In his latest single, Reebok spokesman and rapper Rick Ross brags about drugging and raping a woman, saying, "Put molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it / I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it." ("Molly" is drug that distorts reality and reduces inhibitions.) "Reebok needs to know that we won't stand for them promoting rape culture. Will you sign the petition telling Reebok that rape is NEVER okay and they should drop Rick Ross right away?"
http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/reebok_rick_ross/?referring_akid=366.107713.erlIoP&source=mailto

The lyrics in question talk about drugging a woman and taking her home. "Put molly all in her champagne/ She ain't even know it/ I took her home and I enjoyed that/ She ain't even know it," raps Ross. 

MITCH !!!!! (Male + #itch = MITCH)

[WOW] A$AP Rocky Says Dark Skin Women Can’t Wear Red Lipstick

• Posted by Tony Neal on April 8, 2013 at 7:00pm
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The Harlem hipster rap star said that darker skinned women shouldn’t wear red lipstick because only women with lighter complexions can pull the look off.
Via The Coveteur reports:
On girls wearing makeup:
“But you girls don’t understand how much you mess up your skin. You can’t help it, but make-up is the worst thing you can do to your skin. I love girls natural, but I don’t mind make-up. There’s nothing wrong with it, there’s really nothing wrong with it.
I feel like with the red lipstick thing it all depends on the pair of complexion. I’m just being for real. You have to be fair skinned to get away with that. Just like if you were to wear like—f*cking for instance, what do dark skin girls have that you know fair skinned girls cant do… Purple lipstick? Naw, that looks stupid on all girls! Purple lipstick, guys! Like, what the f*ck…”
what do you think about this??

........HE gotta' f'in problem............

Tricky Rick Ross turns Rap to RAPE and then punks out.

MITCH ALERT !!!!

Is Tricky-Rick Ross back-pedaling from a line he provides in a Rocko Mixtape that seems to promote the use of  a Date Rape drug to rape someone ? (The answer is yes - He's a MITCH. Note how his response not-so-cleverly skirts' the issue of the message in the lyric and only deals with the fact that the lyrics don't use the word 'rape'........Very MITCH-like)

An activisit site named Ultra Violet is promoting a presure campaign to hit Rick Ross by forcing his removal from a Reebok sponsorship. UltraViolet is a community of women and men, fighting to expand women's rights and combat sexism everywhere - from politics and government to media and pop culture:

In his latest single, Reebok spokesman and rapper Rick Ross brags about drugging and raping a woman, saying, "Put molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it / I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it." ("Molly" is drug that distorts reality and reduces inhibitions.) "Reebok needs to know that we won't stand for them promoting rape culture. Will you sign the petition telling Reebok that rape is NEVER okay and they should drop Rick Ross right away?"
http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/reebok_rick_ross/?referring_akid=366.107713.erlIoP&source=mailto

The lyrics in question talk about drugging a woman and taking her home. "Put molly all in her champagne/ She ain't even know it/ I took her home and I enjoyed that/ She ain't even know it," raps Ross. Check out Ross' response in the below clip (around 4:55) and share your thoughts in the comments section below. The video link is: http://youtu.be/KzR-yTSWZgI

Rick Ross has taken to the airwaves to respond to the controversy surrounding his lyrics in the song 'U.O.E.N.O.'. While the Maybach Music frontman is known for rapping about his luxurious lifestyle, he stirred up a bit of a firestorm with a line in the single that seemed to glorify date rape.
But the rapper said that couldn't be further from the truth. During an interview on New Orleans radio station Q93.3, the Miami lyricist calls the criticism a misunderstanding, saying he doesn't promote or condone rape in any way.

"Woman is the most precious gift known to man," he said. "And there was a misunderstanding with a lyric...a misinterpretation where the term rape was used. I would never use the term rape, you know, in my lyrics. And as far as my camp, hip hop don't condone that, the streets don't condone that, nobody condones that." Ross went on to say that he thinks rappers have a responsibility to clarify their lyrics since hip hop songs are often misinterpreted..... (Right.......)

"I feel like us being artists that's our job," he said. "To clarify the sensitive things and the things that we know that really need to be clarified such as a situation as this." Ross collaborated with Atlanta rapper Rocko for the single, titled "U.O.E.N.O.," off Rocko's mixtape "Gift of Gab 2." Although the mix dropped in February, the track featuring Ross is just now gaining traction because of a lyric presumably about date rape.

Rigggggggggggggggggght. Sounds like a 'Tricky-Ricky' back-pedal to the conscious..........Rick needs to admit that he F'ed up and wasn't considering the message in his message and get on board in the improvement of the community starting with an apology. Maybe he should use the Reebox platform to fix this issue....... But that would be more like a man and much less than the Nigg@' he defines himself as....

File This Under "Obvious": It's NOT Okay For Rick Ross To Rap About Date Rape

By Leila Brillson

"Put Molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it/I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain't even know it." So raps Rick Ross in his newest song, “U.O.E.N.O.” To clarify, Molly is a name for M.D.M.A, and Mr. Rozay is insinuating that he is putting a drug in his date's drink and then taking her home, which, both colloquially and in courts of law, is known as date rape.

Sadly, talking about rape, disrespecting women, and drugging or abusing women in music, specifically rap, is nothing new, and it has generally been looked upon as an unfortunate but acceptable practice. (See: Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, Lil' Wayne, a particularly egregious example from Notorious B.I.G., and many more.) Indeed, female rappers are particularly well-known for turning around and serving it straight back to men, but for the most part, misogyny in rap has been generally accepted as a part of the music — either as a reflection of cultural norms or inherent class divisions in the music. But, guys, it is not okay. (It was never okay, but in 2013, it is less acceptable than ever.)

Of course, as members of the human race (and owners of a couple Rick Ross albums) we should get angry. But at this point, anger isn't enough. The author of this post has (on several occasions) interviewed or met Rick Ross, and he was incredibly friendly and gentleman-like. (This isn't to say that friendly, gentleman-like people aren't capable of date-rape, but chalking up Rick Ross to an Eminem-style provocateur isn't going to work in this instance.) The reason we mention this is because Rick Ross, at this point, should know better. His album label should know better. His producers should know better. His friends, both male and female, should also know better. The attitude of, "Well, this is okay because it is a part of the culture, even though it is ignorant" is now imploding on itself, with Steubenville, Adria Richards, and with Todd Akin. In fact, it seems that, even though foot-in-mouth misogyny is running rampant, rappers are particularly complacent in their acceptance of disturbing imagery like date rape.

Let us also remember that even though it is unlikely Rick Ross intended to rape a girl, it is this speech that contributes to "rape culture." This is a clear moment in time — with "legitimate rape" and Steubenville and #SafetyTipsForLadies fresh in our collective minds — that we need real, actual discussion. In the '90s, kids and teens used the word "f*****t" a lot, and one of the reasons that usage slowed significantly (in tandem with raising awareness of the cruelty of the word) is because a lot of peers turned to one another and said, "Hey man, that isn't cool to say."

Most importantly, we need to stand up for one another, to point out that an off-the-cuff comment in a song about people "not even knowing" what Rick Ross is up to, having sex with a drugged woman is not one of those things that's cool to mention. Instead, we need to challenge each other — especially if we are peers — to think before we speak, weigh our words and the meanings they carry. And we need to help each other in doing so. So, listen up, Mr. Rozay.

Romney / Ryan in 2014 - What Could Happen: (Short Film)

Romney/Ryan in 2014 - What Could Happen
The short film starring Marlon Hargrave, Darla Grese, Sommer Mitchell, Vince Martinez, and Jermelle Simon that peeks at what a Romney/Ryan administration in the Oval Office could look like.
http://youtu.be/oOKbtIP8YWo

Written and Produced by Tomeka M. Winborne
Associate Producer: Garrett "Bigg" Williams
Photographed, Edited, and Directed by Cetre Pegues

Memorial Day started by Blacks in America

A celebration and burial of dead soldiers held by African-Americans on May 1, 1865 on a South Carolina burial ground was the first recorded Memorial Day, according to Yale University history professor David Blight. Blight says many Union soldiers were buried improperly in a burial ground that once was a race track. After the Civil War ended, many blacks returned to the grounds to give the fallen soldiers proper burials. “Blacks, many of them recently freed slaves, buried the soldiers properly. They put up a fence around the area and painted it. More than 260 were buried there. We don’t know the names. We don’t know the race,” Blight told BlackAmericaWeb.com.

African Americans Invented Memorial Day
Posted by JOE WINDISH, Technology Editor in Society, War
Click here for the original article

According to Professor David Blight of the Yale University History Department, the first memorial day was observed by formerly enslaved black people at the Washington Race Course (today the location of Hampton Park) in Charleston, South Carolina. The race course had been used as a temporary Confederate prison camp in 1865 as well as a mass grave for Union soldiers who died there. Immediately after the cessation of hostilities, formerly enslaved people exhumed the bodies from the mass grave and reinterred them properly with individual graves. They built a fence around the graveyard with an entry arch and declared it a Union graveyard. The work was completed in only ten days. On May 1, 1865, the Charleston newspaper reported that a crowd of up to ten thousand, mainly black residents, including 2800 children, proceeded to the location for included sermons, singing, and a picnic on the grounds, thereby creating the first "Decoration Day".

David W. Blight in his own words from The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877, lecture 19, To Appomattox and Beyond: The End of the War and a Search for Meanings:

African-Americans invented Memorial Day, in Charleston, South Carolina. There are three or four cities in the United States, North and South, that claim to be the site of the first Memorial Day, but they all claim 1866; they were too late. I had the great, blind, good fortune to discover this story in a messy, totally disorganized collection of veterans’ papers at the Houghton Library at Harvard some years back. And what you have there is black Americans, recently freed from slavery, announcing to the world, with their flowers and their feet and their songs, what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a second American Revolution. That story got lost, it got lost for more than a century. And when I discovered it, I started calling people in Charleston that I knew in archives and libraries, including the Avery Institute, the black research center in Charleston–”Has anybody, have you ever heard of this story?” And no one had ever heard it. It showed the power of the Lost Cause in the wake of the war to erase a story. But I started looking for other sources, and lo and behold there were lots of sources. Harper’s Weekly even had a drawing of the cemetery in an 1867 issue. The old oval of that racetrack is still there today. If you ever go to Charleston go up to Hampton Park. Hampton Park is today what the racecourse was then. It’s named for Wade Hampton, the white supremacist, redeemer, and governor of South Carolina at the end of Reconstruction and a Confederate General during the Civil War. And that park sits immediately adjacent to the Citadel, the Military Academy of Charleston. On any given day you can see at any given time about 100 or 200 Citadel cadets jogging on the track of the old racecourse. There is no marker, there’s no memento, there’s only a little bit of a memory. Although a few years ago a friend of mine in Charleston organized a mock ceremony where we re-enacted that event, including the children’s choir, and they made me dress up in a top hat and a funny old nineteenth century suit and made me get up on a podium and make a stupid speech. But there is an effort, at least today, to declare Hampton Park a National Historic Landmark.


Buffalo Black Soldiers:

“Inside Buffalo” is an Award winning film documentary , Best Documentary at Black International Cinema Berlin 2009, about the untold history of the 92nd Buffalo Soldiers Division, the all African American segregated combat unit which fought during World War II in Italy. The Italian-Ghanaian director Fred Kuwornu has been inspired in producing and directing the first film work about the 92nd Division after his meeting with Spike Lee on the set of his film “Miracle at St. Anna “ shot in Italy where he worked as assistant. It’s the first film work about the Buffalo Soldiers in World War II told collocating the plot in the contest of the struggle for the Civil Rights and telling for the first time the untold friendship and bond built at the time between African American Soldiers and Italians. These 92nd veterans fought for many things, fueled by their love of freedom and their passion for their country. Many of them sacrificed their lives to buy freedom and civil rights for future generations. It is important that their work is never forgotten.

A narrator carries the program forward; historical photographs, documents and re-enactment footage illustrate the unique contributions of these men. These elements are complemented by interviews with contemporary African-American soldiers who served in World War II. Courtesy appearance by President Barack Obama . Texas Black Film Festival and Pan African Film Festival 2010 in Los Angeles has been officially selected the documentary. “Inside Buffalo” will be shown in New York and will be aired on Pentagon channel .The project will be on tour around the schools and colleges of US, inviting African-Americans 92nd WW II veterans in front of the eyes of the students to” make the history alive”!

The DVD, Inside Buffalo is available only in these days at the special offer 9.95 $ at http://www.insidebuffalo.org/ and at http://www.amazon.com/

Happy Memorial Day ! - An American form of African Libation

Ashee, ashee, ashee !

August 4th Celebrate & Support the President

Since his historic election, President Obama has been inundated with a barrage of venomous criticism. From the first cries calling for the failure of his administration by Vitter and Limbaugh to the media critique of his handling of the BP oil spill, his critics are unequivocal in telling us that he can do no right.

In the face of contrary evidence, “Birthers” rant that the President is not a US citizen and should be removed from office. Once closed by Senator Barry Goldwater, the “father” of modern conservatism, the Republican leadership has opened the doors of their party to the John Birch Society and other reactionary extremists. With cries of wanting to “take back OUR country” and “we want OUR America back,” the Tea Partiers clearly tell us that there is no room for his (The President’s) kind in their America – at least not in a position of leadership or Presidential Authority. Who remembers someone ever disrespectfully calling out “You Lie!” to either of the Bushes, Reagan, Ford or Nixon in the chambers of the US House of Representatives or someone openly carrying a loaded weapon to one of their political events?

For years our borders have been as porous as cheesecloth, but suddenly critics tell us the Administration is failing to live up to its responsibility to quell the flow of immigrants from our southern border. Without questioning the impact of our non-existent northern border on illegal immigration, reactionary responses from municipal to state governments tell us that if “Obama won’t do anything, we’ll stop these Mexicans from coming here.”

Living up to expectations, the actions of Fox News have denigrated from constant criticism of President Obama to their appeal, by the likes of Beck, to the basest elements in society to “revolt” against the oppressor Obama or to “spill the blood of tyrants to water the tree of Liberty .” Disappointingly, most mainstream media just turned its attention and focus to President Obama’s critics, while excluding a balanced assessment of the political landscape.

That having been said, there are millions out here who support the reasoned and measured approach of the President. We understand from the evidence he presents daily that he has an extraordinary, almost encyclopedic understanding of issues impacting this nation and the world. We see him lauded by his peers around the world as a “thinker” or as a no-nonsense leader who understands, and can articulate, the positions of friends and adversaries alike. While not addressing or achieving goals the way the media “puppeteers” would choose, HE GETS THE JOB DONE!!!

An overwhelming number of Americans elected President Obama and millions still support him, but too many of us do so silently. If the progressive agenda we elected the President to achieve is to be successful, we must help the President achieve it. We cannot allow the media to report from negative positions without challenge. Just as others demonstrate their hatred and disrespect of President Obama, we must actively demonstrate our support.

We call on ALL who support President Obama to take action. On August 4th, the President’s birthday, we ask those who support him to wear any campaign item from the Presidential election as a demonstration of our ongoing support. Bring out your old campaign paraphernalia.

If you don’t have caps, buttons or tee shirts, wear a red, white, and blue tri-color ribbon or clothing on August 4th. If nothing else, this simple demonstration of support for our President will provide a counteraction to the negativity that spews forth daily. We can do this. YES WE CAN. YES WE WILL.

In the unlikely story that is America , there's never been anything false about hope.

~Barack Obama