I love my babyShe got soul
wakes up in the morning
makes me Nori vegetable rolls
before she takes her morning stroll
No bread no meat no mold
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can't let disease get a toehold
organic living food in my bowl
GMO got Plantation Negros on hold
prescription drugs got them under control
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yummy!!!
have mrs dv send me the recipe to my email...i know u got it..:)
Siiiiisstaaaaaa Nurssse!
You got it. Anytime!
How's our young man doing? He happy with school? Is he looking for his own place?
my bruhda,
all is well. cannot complain. the young man is doing exceptionally well in school. 3.89 gpa (4)! i could not be more proud...
now as far as looking for a spot...have mercy. he says he and his boys are planning on looking for something this summer. i will gladly give him every stick of furniture i own to get that ass out of my house!
it is impossible to parent a man. i have assumed the role of confidant and counselor (although, i will always be momma)...love him til death.
how are your cubs and cubette?
3.89?
Shiiiiiiiiiiii.
That's what I'm talking about.
Give my man a pound for me.
I aint get 3.89 since 4th grade.
Not since I started liking girls. Big Ups.
Crib with the fellas? Uh oh. That's always a trip. I'll never forget the look on the cats face who rented me and my boys a crib in DC when he made the mistake of walking up in the house unannounced one Saturday morning.
I think our security deposit had bounced or something.
He had the nerve to come ask us for it.
We had a 4 bedroom crib with a spiral staircase and a couple of fireplaces - $750 / month.
Less than $200 each.
We threw rent parties about twice a month. $5 dollars and all the 'mystery punch' you could drink.
LOL. You want my man out the house huh?
Good for you.
I'm worried about my wife. She's showing sings of being an 'enabler'. My oldest son has learned the art of acting like he "can't do" what he doesn't want to do.
He can't make make himself breakfast.
He can't walk to school.
He can't cook food, he can only eat prepared snacks.
(OK. OK. He gets that from me.)
He can't plan for his school projects (which might as well be her school projects)
He can't walk his sister to school.
I'm like baby ... necessity is the mother of invention.
Stop yelling at him in the morning that 'he's going to be late'.
Let his ass miss the bus.
Stop making his lunch.
He'll learn.
And be better off for it.
BamBam think he a grown man. He on some "don't need nobody" kick right now. Wants a rifle for his birthday. 10 years old talking about saving up for a car.
I'm like .. boy .. you betta go 'head.
Snack. Lawd ha' mercy I love that girl.
It's impossible not to smile when she is in the room.
Struggling in math though. Got her a tutor.
I told her mother ... 'fuck it. She don't need no math."
That didn't go over too well.
and there I'd heard "school is irrelevant"...,
'The Impending Irrelevance of School'
yup.
Remember where you heard it first.
yeah, he is very sharp with his studies, but keep in mind he is doing what he loves as opposed to what society "says he ought to know". He is an artist and very engrossed in his craft.
yeah man...they are trying to get a spot for next school yr. they all are very responsible, but dudes nonetheless...they own a business that promotes parties and events here in atl and it is a trip watching them take care of the "bizness". chicks love them...all of them have great business acumen and don't give a damn what others think of them...
your oldest sounds a lot like my son was at that age..tell mrs dv to stop now or it will be almost impossible to assist him in shifting that bullshit behavior.
the middle son...i love him! sounds like my kind of dude....teach him how to handle a weapon now so he knows it is not a toy and is meant to cause bodily harm. and saving now for a auto will be sweet come the time he turns 16..let him do it.
snack attack! sweet as homemade pound cake i am sure. continue to love her up....she will NEVER forget her first love(daddy)..I miss mine daily.
and the baby needs math....u are such a pushover when it comes to her :)
Classic DV.
Snack is struggling in math? Get her an ABACUS. Learn math naturally. I just copped one for I and he is working alittle on it already. He is 4 and can add numbers up to 10. Can count to 100. Math is power...a power I ignored until the last few years.
hey j!!!!
i still miss ya'll at tso...
good to know u are well.
TGN
"It is impossible to parent a man"
Truth.
...But sometimes it is possible. My mothering is still mothering and doubles as a close friend and my father still fathering and doubles as a life advisor but if my folks didn't do that, my life would be very, very different. I'm fortunate to have them as a lifeline whereas some of my friends have to see life on their own cos their folks don't do the parent gig no mo'.
Well done to Bishop for doing so well. Sounds like he's a pretty cool kid, I could def-o picture him rollin'. Fab!
DV,
That food looks really good, but I wouldn't eat it, seaweed just tastes too fishy. Sounds like interesting times in the Vesey household - the 'can't' cycle def can't continue thru life.
I struggled a bit with Maths in high school, but it was the teacher I had - some boring American lady stuck in a 70's time warp, who really rolled her r's - she was cool and all, but just not the teacher who got me. My mom got me two tutors - the first was the same as my class teacher 'cept she was a White Zimbabwean lady stuck in the 80's and smoked alot. Then she found this strict but brilliant Ghanaian man who broke things down real good and I got an A at GCSE O-Level (like SATs). It wasn't that it was hard, but I didn't understand it when it was taught in a certain way - y'get me?
Dunno what Snack's problem is, but maybe, just maybe it's not only the numbers.
kdub!
hey chica...
it is still very possible to parent a woman..but not a man. they are not built that way...
i will always be here for him and will if required offer mother-like advice, but when the rubber hits the road the man in him will have to raise up and take the wheel...
Sista Nurse!
My man's in the promotion business? I like that. Made my first $40K one night promoting an event in St. Thomas.
Lost over half of it the next night in St. Croix.
The lessons of youth. I'm going to have you talk the missus about that enabling thing. You'll get through to her as a mom. She thinks I'm too hard on him.
I like everything I hear about your son. He strikes me as very conscientious.
Yeah BamBam is a heart breaker. Swag & Dimples are a dangerous combination. Half of his teacher are in love with him. I hope it doesn't trip him up.
My girl is sweet as candy corn. She's just not testing well in that math.
Personally, I don't see the point. Sista Nurse when is the last time you found yourself having to do determine the square root of x?
She's into art. Ballet. Reading. Acting. Cooking. Writing sotries. Eating. Pretending. Playing. Trying on clothes. Audrey Hepburn movies. Rearranging the furniture in her room & Avocado sandwiches.
I'm having a hard time making her figure out what would happen if a train left Philadelphia at 3:30 traveling at 60 miles and hour and a train left Boston traveling at 70 miles per hour yada yada yawn.
Shiiii. Not her thing.
Big J!
An abacus?! Ahhhhhhhh ...
Makes sense.
Organic math.
I'm on it.
Kaaaay Dub!
LOL. You don't like seaweed?
Maaaaan. Sea Vegetables are some of the most nutritious things we can eat.
But you really don't like fish huh? I've cut way back on the fish. You know how when you transition to the vegetarian thing you go through a period where you try to substitute things for meat.
Then one day you look up and are like ... why? Later for the flesh.
Eating dead animals has become less appealing over time.
It's hard to picture you struggling in math. You strike me as the type pondering Euler's Number in the cradle.
"It wasn't that it was hard, but I didn't understand it when it was taught in a certain way - y'get me? "
GOT YOU.
And I think you might be right. I'm partial to Snack's teacher because she is a young pretty sista.
But the girl can't communicate to save her life.
I'm going to see what happens next year with a new teacher.
She get any more 71's on her math test though I'm throwing in the towel.
I'll be like "Math aint for women no way"!
(I'm just playin' Mahndisa. Didn't you invent pi or something?)
@ IW - An Abacus?
So simple that I missed it.
Good call - thanks.
Sista Nurse
Yea there are some things a mother can’t do for her son; he just has to struggle through, I see that difference quite clearly in how my folks treated the girls versus the boys in my house.
At home, my sis and I weren’t allowed to use public transport – my Pops would throw a fit, but wouldn’t bat an eye lid if my brothers did, rather it was expected of them. It’s still pretty much like that, if my car’s not working my Pops doesn’t mind using another car and giving me his main car to drive – *nobody* drives that car.
I think sending boys to boarding school really helps them become men. DV’s son’s “iCant” sickness would be cured instantly and Mrs DV could see her boy grow into a man. I am glad for you that your son turned out good tho’, there are so many misled youth. Keep doing, what you’re doing Mama!
...bless
Yung Veezey!
Nah seaweed taste like fish – too close to death! Lol! I never ate fish as a meat-eater – choked on a Tiger Fish fishbone when I was 3, I felt my throat closing up, tears running down the cheeks, struggling screams – the works, my Mom came to the rescue and ever since then I've never eaten fish.
So sea vegetables, nutrients and all – pass.
Plus the whole fishy taste makes me think am I eating fish flavoured veggies?
Yay, you’re going vegan big ups to that!
“Eating dead animals has become less appealing over time.”
Now that should on billboards in all cities across the world.
Lol, nah I was more like Aesop scribbling away fables and getting prizes in the Arts, but I didn’t too so well in Maths, as compared to my other subjects I did well in Physics with Chemistry and enjoyed it, but Maths was about getting by.
But ‘getting by’ wasn’t good enough for my Dad. If you didn’t have good grades or fail Maths and English, you wouldn’t be able to go do academic Sixth Form at my school; (you’d be ‘encouraged’ to do an Arts & Business package) so even though I was an Arts student, I needed to do well at Maths too.
Even if Snack won’t ‘need’ to know logarithms to get by in life; some of the courses she could take in College like Ethics and Philosophy would need some knowledge of Maths.
But for her, that’s a lifetime away. Right now see how she develops with the tutor, maybe it is more about how it’s taught to her rather than a reflection of her ability.
You might also wanna find out how the other kids are doing in her class if it’s that 50% of the kids in Ms Purrty’s class are struggling then maybe it’s the age where kids struggle with numbers or they don’t Ms Purrty.
Snack sounds real cute tho’ – don’t turn all strict on her or get too clingy when she hits 13, aight.
BTW do you use the email in the sidebar – I hollered at you sometime back.
...peace
Kaaaaay Duuub!
Your Pops sounds cool. But serious.
That's interesting stuff about your schooling in Zimbabwe. We don't often hear anything about the day to day experiences of the people in the Big Z.
The way they tell the story here, you all spend your time running away from Mugabe as he and his henchmen fire indiscriminately into school buildings and how you are all starving because you ran "da white folks" out and no longer know how to operate the farm equipment. {Right UndaCuva?}
What's happening in Zimbabwe now? The NWO hasn't put Mugabe on blast for a few months. The way they were telling the story during the last slow news cycle made it appear as if he was eating people in the middle of the street: "Mugabe The Monster!" was the headlines.
You went home during Christmas right? What was your experience?
I hear you regarding my girl and college. But I'm starting to question that paradigm.
She would be entering college in 2020.
Will the current educational system still be relevant in 2020?
It barely appears relevant to me in 2010.
Are we graduating viable capable effective people? Or are we graduating people with antiquated degrees, trained to do things no longer necessary, unable to sustain themselves without the largess of corporations who are seeking to outsource their functions anyway?
The colleges ... forgive me ... are producing DMG's.
How relevant will DMG be in 2010? The ability to diagnose and prescribe drugs will be an iPhone app by then.
A few surgeons may be necessary to operate to remove the vital organs of the hordes of cancer patients and victims of violence ... but other than that MD's will be about as useful as lawyers.
I'm steering my boys towards organic farming and clean energy. I'd like to see my daughter become an artist.
College as a springboard to a fulfilling life is a paradigm that worked for our parents, less so for us and not at all for our children.
The Impending Irrelevance of School.
Yes, she will still need math, and may end up being quite good at it, but I expect new education models to emerge before she is an adult.
The current one - aint working.
(You know, I looked for the email, couldn't find it. From which address did you send it? I'll look again)
Ah, Snack sounds like my kind of girl! I was just like that, minus the avocado sandwiches. :-) I sucked in math too, yet still graduated with all the requisite bells and whistles. She will be just fine!
Saaaaashhhhhhhhhaaaaaaa!
LOL. Where you been?
How's that handsome little son of yours? What's he talking about now?
You struggled at math too?
Cool.
That's all I needed to know.
Snack going to be aight.
Yea my Pops is NOT to be messed with, but he's aight, he talks alot tho' he shoulda been a lecturer ; )
Our school system is based on the old British model but harder; I’ve compared the text books we use to the ones my young cousins use and no offence, but the expression ‘school is for dummies’ takes on a whole new meaning.
Right now the government schools are not up to standard; teachers are on/off strike coz of low salaries and govt is unable to provide schools with the resources they need. A kid is better off in private school - it’s normal for a kid from a middle class family to go to private school and the traditional ones are the best but also the most expensive.
Right now the all-girl school I went to costs $1200 per term for a day scholar (when I was there it was 65% White, now it’s 40-50% White...and they say Mug chased Whitey away Lol!), a border pays $2 400, at the best private boarding school for boys my part of the country it’s $3 000. This is straight extortion and there’s no valid justification there is for a school to charge so much, but they do and folks pay.
The problem with media representation of Zimbabwe is that everybody focuses on extremes and negatives like the image of the rich, corrupt politician sharply contrasts the victimized opposition-supporter who sells Chinese rejects at a market stall or the poor White farmer whose ‘land’ was taken away by the Mug n Thugs Inc.
But what about the narratives of ordinary people, aside from these sometimes borderline-fiction extremes; the ones who made money the honest way like the bankers, lawyers and business people? My folks did alright in life and even though Zim has been through the worst of times they’ve held firm and been alright financially and so have the majority of other legit money makers.
But that’s not the story Western Plantation media wants to tell, they have one story and they tell it as though it were the only story. It’s funny that now they’ve got their media licence to report in the country nothing is forthcoming, but so much is going on right now; both good and bad.
There is currently national dialogue on constitutional reform and economically we’re doing a lot better like I said before, but the diamonds saga continues – on the one hand De Beers is taking the government to court for taking away their mine and whatever they had mined, but they never declared they were mining diamonds and that’s illegal.
But on the flipside the government there’s a 29kg sack of diamonds (!) missing (in a separate case involving the govt again; a govt minister claimed to have ministerial rights to the mine, but he lost the case & rightly so) – it was placed in custody of the Reserve Bank but yesterday the police came and took it and its whereabouts are unknown...
There are some really heartbreaking stories like in Nov ’08, the govt sent soldiers to the Chiadzwa diamond fields (in the eastern part of the country) to evict small scale miners and the soldiers shot and killed between 200 – 400 people. Of course they deny this, but everybody knows what happened.
The thing about having mineral wealth is that people can’t/won’t properly manage what’s theirs; if they did the country could tell the IMF to stay out they bizness.
But like a broke crack addict the Prime Minister Tsvangirai went begging for ‘aid’ and ‘loans’ from those sharks, and like a man with no pride, he went on an international begging mission and all our Kenyan brother in the White House had to give was some chump change and a lecture on democratic reforms and the rule of law. 10 Downing St wined and dined him and gave him lots of platforms to ‘tell the world how Zimbabwe had changed’ and in response pledged more vaccines and food aid. Sarkozy showed his pearly whites and said he'd do more of what he was doing – more food, more doctors with no borders and more journalists with no borders to tell the 'Zimbabwean story' - a perfect recipe for perpetual poverty.
There’s currently a lot of talk about this film called Mugabe and the White African that’s been released. It’s about Michael Campbell the mango farmer who took the government to the regional court over his farm being taken away and SADC (Southern African Development Committee) and the govt ignored their ruling (with the secret backing of South Africa and Namibia) so the case has been put forward to the African Union. The flick is yet another of those White Farmer sob story; oh woe is me the natives ran me off my land boohoo. Poor Whitey calls himself an African and then turns around and says Africans are hopeless at running governments they shoulda let us Whitey remain at the helm – what the???
...Maybe the email went to your junk mail coz I'm not in your contacts, I'll send anutha one to DenmarkVesey1822@hotmail.com -rite?
Hey DV! I'm around. Always sneaking a peek to see what you're talking about. :-) The boy child is great. Loving his school, bringing home all the cooties. He's Mr. Independent these days. It's all, "I want to do it by myself." So I let him. Slows me down immensely, but the pride on his face is a beautiful thing.
Yeah, math and I never got along. I was a reading/writing type of student. I never liked how I had to "show my work" when I did math problems. It wasn't creative enough to me that there was only ONE way you could reach ONE answer. How boring is that.....
"It wasn't creative enough to me that there was only ONE way you could reach ONE answer. How boring is that....."
Well you had shitty teachers. Reading and writing and math and inextricably linked. If you were good at reading and writing you might have a math gift that was never developed. Feynman said that if you don't know how to do a problem at least five ways, they you don't understand it.
Sadly, your experience is a reflexion on the shittiness of math instruction in our society.
KW, I utterly hate the depiction of Africa in our news media. I no longer blog with one fellow because he feels that white europeans 'civilized' the Africans and that Black Africans are clueless without white people. That attitude is so last century but apparently people still believe it, and our media sorta perpetuates that attitude.
"I no longer blog with one fellow because he feels that white europeans 'civilized' the Africans and that Black Africans are clueless without white people." M
So you stopped blogging with him? That sounds like a reason to continue blogging with him.
Show him, he is wrong.
Aint that why we blog with UnderCoverBlack Man?
"But on the flipside the government there’s a 29kg sack of diamonds (!) missing (in a separate case involving the govt again; a govt minister claimed to have ministerial rights to the mine, but he lost the case & rightly so) – it was placed in custody of the Reserve Bank but yesterday the police came and took it and its whereabouts are unknown..." KW
I LOVE IT.
I hope the Brothas get away with it.
It occurred to me Kay Dub, after reading Mahndisa ... in 2010 we BestNBrightest shouldn't be in the business of lamenting "how we are depicted".
We should depict ourselves.
That's the spirit that sparked this blog. That's the spirit behind The Blackest Man On The Internet.
As long as we allow others to depict us we will remain victims.
I'm sure that in a nation of 11 Million there are a couple of video cameras.
When are the peoole of the Z going to take control of their own narrative?
Is there any Hip Hop in Zimbabwe?
Is there a Wyclef?
Why are we reheating and serving BBC memes?
DV, if he ain't realized that he is wrong after blogging with my badass for five years, he'll NEVER get it. Besides that he is a white African. I've always loved him dearly but these attitudes are toxic to my very being. And no love lost to UBM either, but I tend to avoid contentious discussions with him because they can get nasty. And I've been nasty on occasion myself;)
Mahndisa,
Does this guy refer to himself as an African or you call him that because he was born there? Whites aren't automatically called African bec they were born in an African country in the same way a Black African born in England can call themselves Black British. Whites still call themselves European or White Zimbabwean and that's how people are classified - it stems from colonial days that African generally refers to the Black indigenous people.
When a White person calls themselves African; the culture, the history etc becomes a part of them. It's deeper than just being born there or being able to say a few words in an African language.
DV
Of course we got hiphop; (I know wat you mean tho')
This is Comrade Fasto and he's a poet who mostly does gigs in the country and a few tours outside. He's somebody that calls themselves African - yea he's got the dreadlocks and dashiki look down to a tee...but it's deeper than that.
And this is Witness, I think he's based in the US coz he was one of the first hiphoppers outside Zimbabwe calling out Western propaganda when the land issue began. There was another guy Zubz who is in South Africa and he had a song called Get Out but for obvious reasons it got banned on SA radio.
But I hear ya Bra, nobody can tell your story for you, but you. The image you get from outside the country is very different from the news people inside hear or what other African countries report. You're right about shooting something - I had an idea to do something but never got round to it, but I think I should and post it on youtube.
"The colleges ... forgive me ... are producing DMG's"
You really just can't keep my name out of your mouth...I just hope you aren't thinking of me in the shower.
"How relevant will DMG be in 2010? The ability to diagnose and prescribe drugs will be an iPhone app by then"
If biology and medicine were so easy...good luck with that app.
"A few surgeons may be necessary to operate to remove the vital organs of the hordes of cancer patients and victims of violence ... but other than that MD's will be about as useful as lawyers."
What...you got some sort of scalpel envy or something?
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