Anonymous said...
I have tears in my eyes!! I JUST LOVE IT!! I am raising a young Black man and he poses just like that!! It makes me sad though, because society will teach these BEAUTIFUL BLACK BABIES that they are worth nothing. What can we do? I try to teach my son morals and values (he's only 4), but what happens when he gets older and being smart, intelligent, and proud of who you are isn't enough?
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Somehow despite what I see, I sense ten beautiful, brightly lit smiles.
Me too Jasai, me too.
I smiled as soon as the pic came up. I'll say again, I love us!
The best part are those little rail skinny arms typical of most children as compared to those stick out tummies. You can tell the older boys because they have a bit more stomach muscle and lil less "tummmy". :-)
The kid on the far right is mean muggin'....lol...my mother actually emailed me this pic next to a pic i took when i was around the same age w/ two of my friends. We all had our shits off flexin' trying to look hard and was nothing but skin and bones...lol
You should add this photo to the imagery on the right.
I LOVE BLACK MEN!!!! I am raising a Black young man and I absolutely loved him when he was around these little ones' age. He is now 16 and has more muscle than tummy!But I still see the little boy in him....
thegoodnurse
oh, what a nice photo! these boys are so cute! they make me smile (and laugh a bit). it should definitely become a fixture on your blog.
Thanks anonymous
You made me smile. I'll make sure the fellas stay.
i like your graphic, and your subjects...it made me think, and i like to. can we link eachother?
zeeo.blogspot.com
I have tears in my eyes!! I JUST LOVE IT!! I am raising a young Black man and he poses just like that!! It makes me sad though, because society will teach these BEAUTIFUL BLACK BABIES that they are worth nothing. What can we do? I try to teach my son morals and values (he's only 4), but what happens when he gets older and being smart, intelligent, and proud of who you are isn't enough?
[quote]society will teach these BEAUTIFUL BLACK BABIES that they are worth nothing. [/quote]
Anon:
If when you say "Society" you also mean:
1) These boy's parent(s)
2) These boy's extended family
3) These boy's community
4) These boy's city
5) These boy's state
6) These boy's country
with the OBLIGATION to INDOCTRINATE THEM WITH A SOUND SENSE OF SELF being most intense at the top of the list and then slowly losing the power to do so as we go down the list - THEN I agree with you.
There is nothing about these young boy's presence in the United States of America in 2009 that would have them with a defacto track toward a destroyed life more than the missed opportunities that the adults who play the significant role in their lives could have done to insure otherwise.
THIS BLACK BOY RIGHT HERE was told that he was NOTHING via a Black peer of his that shot him in the back 3 times last night:
http://www.viddler.com/explore/ConstructiveFee/videos/388/
CF
I can get with your thesis.
All of those things you mentioned are paramount in any child's life.
But let's not pretend those things exist in a vacuum. Each of those things is impacted by other factors, which in turn affect the quality of life provided to the child.
So parents are more important in a child's life than a city. Yet, your city affects your parents, who in turn affect you. It's all linked together.
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But let's not pretend those things exist in a vacuum. Each of those things is impacted by other factors, which in turn affect the quality of life provided to the child.[/quote]
Big Man:
I have no problem with what you have said.
My major grievance is with the Racism Chasers. They are unable to indoctrinate and enforce a FUNCTIONAL CULTURE at the local level so that a transformed child will one day be produced as a result of going through the "incubation" that the present control of all of the key institutions of Black America afford them the POTENTIAL to do so. This is the flaw of pegging "Black Development" to Black increasing "head count" in these institutions. EFFECTIVENESS must be the primary enforcement action.
Some people have so many "VACUUM TUBES" in the cascading external VACUUM that they point to as the reason for their failure that they cause a POWER OUTAGE.
Not even the hair brained alternative energy schemes proposed by KCNulan can generate enough electricity for the vacuum tubes that they say are harming them, despite having control of the city and schools.
CF
You think black folks control cities and schools?
You and I have a different concept of control.
I think that the "control" you are describing is based on a simple "head count" not on a true examination of where ultimate power rests in the education system. The same is true for most public systems in this country.
Just because there are a whole bunch of black folks hanging around doesn't mean they are the ones in "control."
I would direct your attention to the NBA.
[quote]You think black folks control cities and schools?[/quote]
Big Man:
First allow me to introduce my "IF/THEN" response to that which you say - when I hear other people make the same case.
IF "Black people who are School Superintendents, the majority of the Principles, the bulk of the teaching staff" DO NOT HAVE control over these schools as you say........
THEN
The Next time an ELECTION for School Board comes up.
The Next time a NATION WIDE SEARCH for a School Superintendent is executed.
The Next time the issue of the school principal comes up.
The Next time the question about the racial balance of teachers in a majority Black school comes up.....
SINCE IT DOESN'T MATTER I want you to REBUKE those Black people who stand up and make the case that WE NEED TO SUPPORT THE "People who look like us and who have our children's best interests in mind as their main calling card for YOUR support.
Tell them "NONE OF THIS MATTERS. SUPERIOR FORCES to you ultimately control this vital institution. Lets have a random lottery instead"
For other Blacks (I don't know your ways just yet - but keep posting and I will pick up on you good and bad) functionally they should allow White folks to take back over ONLY BECAUSE they are most VOCAL and ACTIVE when the Whites run the institutions that are failing to educate their kids.
With likeminded Blacks running things - they are too easily stroked as they feel PROUD about the head count.
Constructive
You said:
"For other Blacks (I don't know your ways just yet - but keep posting and I will pick up on you good and bad) functionally they should allow White folks to take back over ONLY BECAUSE they are most VOCAL and ACTIVE when the Whites run the institutions that are failing to educate their kids."
Clearly you believe that black folks now control the public school systems because they are superintendents, princpals, board members and teachers.
You appear to have decided this based on a head count, not on some system of explaining how ultimate decisions about funding, curriculum and testing are made. Yet, you decry black folks who use head counts to decide whether or not an institution is fair.
You have to make up you mind here. Either head counts are a stupid way to determine fairness, effectiveness and control, or they are valid.
Personally, I think that the group that makes decisions about funding and overall curriculum has the most control over an educational insitution. From what I've seen across this country, that group is composed of mainly black people. Maybe you've seen something different, or you disagree with how I define control.
Also you said you wanted me to reject people who called for candidates that"
"...look like us and who have our children's best interests in mind..."
You honestly think that it's a bad thing to hire somebody of the same race as most of the children in a school system, who also has their best interests at heart? Really? Because that's what you wrote.
I'm guessing that you meant that there is no connection between being black and having black people's best interests at heart. That's quite true.
Yet, I think the bigger problem is that you have a different idea of what is in black people's best interests than do most black people, and like Clarence Thomas, you're having a difficult time convincing black folks to agree with you.
Am I right?
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