BABY CARE BASKETS FOR TEENAGE/YOUNG DADS!!!

Teenage/Young Father Care Packages: It is important for Men to get involved in assisting struggling fathers with accessing information, gathering resources, and securing real support in their efforts to raise their children. In this respect ‘The Peoples Point of View” is designing a BABY BASKET for teenage and young fathers to help in their process of getting organized for their family. If you know any teenage and/or young fathers struggling over their responsibilities as a dad please direct them to THEPEOPLESPOINTOFVIEW.BLOGSPOT.COM! Post their email address and/or phone numbers so we can get them the information and resources they will need to effectively take care of their RESPONSIBILITY!!!

Dedicated to that young father Joe

Pope Benedict XVI Resigns from the Papacy! Why?

Ok so...(1) 'Mea Maxima Culpa - A documentary by Alex Gibney, which details the intimate role Cardinal Ratzinger played in the child-sex-abuse-scandal that hit the Catholic Church - debutes on HBO last week; and (2) Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from the Papacy!!!

In my heart I don't believe this is coincidental, but nonetheless I will be in prayer for Pope Benedict XVI!!!

Assault on Dignified Black Women

Assault on Dignified Black Women

Of the new film on Lifetime ‘Betty and Coretta,’ TheRootDC columnist Barbara Reynolds asks the question: Why didn’t Lifetime executives consult with the children of King and Shabazz to ensure the film would be historically accurate, especially since the siblings were part of the drama?



In my view I believe that this is yet another attempt at “Entertainment Racism.” Similar to the Steven Spielberg hacking of the beautifully told Alice Walker story ‘The Color Purple’ or the botched Ntozake Shange rendition of ‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf’ by Tyler Perry, Lifetime producers (using the Ruby Dee connection to the powerful Betty Shabazz) bypassed the King/Shabazz siblings in order to popularize these two powerful black women to a female-based ‘youth audience’ disinterested with historical accuracy.



Lifetime is marketing to a ‘Girlfriends’ culture more acclimated to the age-old Cindy Lauper “Girls Just Want to have fun” mantra.” The choice to use Hip-Hop Diva Mary J. Blige as Betty Shabazz was not only egregious, but blasphemous to the legacy of the dignity and honor that the matriarch Shabazz represented.



Today’s female American culture is inundated with Bad Girls Club, Desperate Housewives, The Real Atlanta Housewives, Mob Wives, Military Wives, Basketball Wives, Wife Swap and many other disgruntled wives that many are numb to family values. Along with a core of Neo-Hippie songs that glorify alcoholism, free sex, and abortion American women are fast becoming proponents of a new-Woodstock movement geared towards feeding their appetites to party.
Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz are women in a long tradition of dignified black women who found honor in living for their God, husbands, families, and communities; the type of women that helped to produce a First Lady Michelle Obama. Lifetime has just fired their own shot in the assault on Dignified Black Women!

 

Ode to Trayvon Martin

Ode to Trayvon Martin

Do Stand Your Ground you wise King of the Lord,

In Grace you're David who did slay the beast.

That character you showed, most can't afford,

Your giant shoulders he could not police.

Do Stand Your Ground you wise King of the Lord,

In Grace you're Sampson who was betrayed.

Trusting the fury of those who were scorned,

A final act of triumph as you prayed.

Do Stand Your Ground you wise King of the Lord,

In Grace you're Joshua with Jericho,

Destroyed trusting the power of God's sword.

Through your sacrifice our world will grow.

Do Stand Your Ground you wise King of the Lord,

All of your people watched as your spirit soared.

Jobs, Income, Housing!!!

Poor Peoples Campaign 2012

If a father is broke, and his wife and babies must be fed immediately 'we the people' are obligated to making sure there is relief 'immediately.' If a single mother loses her income, and can no longer cover the rent then 'we the people' must cover her bills until she is once again safe. When America (our nation) decided to take on the 'burden' of Capitalism then we also decided to take on the burden of the poor (they go hand-in-hand). If our government fails to keep the promise that it made to all of its people then it's people must act! How that 'action' manifests is up to THE PEOPLE!!!

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR FOOD COMES FROM?

A Goal and a Standardl? Really!!!

I just completed reading Midnight: A Gangsters Love Story written by Sister Souljah. I completely enjoyed the read, but seriously asks the question (which by the way I will answer): Is the character Midnight a goal and a standard for men in America?

Answer: Midnight is NOT a goal and standard for men in America!!! A male protagonists in literature whom I would consider a goal and standard would be Grant from A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines. It is important to note that to understand and embody manhood (it's aquisition, practice, and perfection) is a process. The transformation from Boy to Man (as articulated by Naim Ak'bar in his book 'Visions for Black Men - and be mindful that this text can represent ALL MEN regardless of Race) - is as great a challenge as any that we mortals must grapple with. Many have fallen short of achieving the feat of manhood, but remember - only a MALE can truly understand, practice, and perfect manhood. Women have enough of a task trying to aquire, practice, and perfect womanhood, so I usually become weary when a women expresses her opinion concerning what she feels the goals and standards of men should be. I enjoyed the Character of Midnight, but experiencing his weakness in the face of adversity (he kills two men who posed a challenge in the silence of the night) leads me to many questions about his aquisition of manhood, as asserted by brother Ak'bar. There have been many people I have wanted to choke the life from over my years, but in many of these cases time, and emotional healing brought about kindness and friendship. Was Gold and Conflict that big a threat to the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness for Midnight and his Umma and Naja? Is Sister Souljah saying through her text that some homicides are 'justifiable' for boy's in the projects? I pray she is not, because it would be as culturally damaging as Beyonce's Soldier which articulates the idea that a SOLDIER is one whose status is HOOD and STREET with the ability to FLIP MONEY THREE WAYS! In my humble opinion MEN who are goals for other men or those who are standards are those who have saved lives or become presidents. I would argue that Grant or Barack Obama would be a goal and standard for manhood, and I doubt very seriously that either of them would conclude (if faced with the same circumstances as Midnight was when he DECIDED on ending Gold and Conflicts life) DEATH TO THEM BOTH! A MAN would have found another way to protect his family, even if it meant recreating the business plan and taking some of the aquired income that Umma Designs secured and moving into a safer community. Midnight had many qualities that MEN have, but unfortunately at the end he was still a BOY not a MAN; so to speak of his as a goal and standard for men raises my eyebrow to Sister Souljah! Question to Sister Souljah: Is Midnight: A Gangster's Love Story and INDICTMENT of men within American culture?