By: Lynn Green

Black folks often whine, pout and stick their lips out regarding the fact that oftentimes we are disregarded and shunned in society.

On yesterday, I posted a video that is more disturbing to me today than it was yesterday.  Link to video HERE

In that video we watch a black female, between 18 - 23 years of age, obviously insane and possibly a drug addict, make the following types of comments to a helpless old woman who apparently had said something to her based on her bizarre behavior:

Threats made by insane girl:

“You assassinated”

“I’m a kill her, shorty”

“You got 5 minutes to do it [apologize] or it’s over, bitch”

“I’m a beat that ass on this train”

She also referred to this old woman as a “ho”

Based on this freak’s threats of violence and MURDER against this old woman, I’d like to see her locked up. This video needs to be distributed to the Atlanta news stations and police stations, the girl should be sought and found, and she should be arrested and prosecuted for making terroristic, murderous threats against the elderly.

Now if I were a white person or person of any race and not very familiar with blacks, I would look at that video and based on what I saw, I’d write the race as a whole off as trash and not want to be bothered on any level with them.  And it’s that type of sick behavior that has our race as a whole viewed as a “junk” race by the world as a whole.  I’d like to see the perception of our people brought UP and it can’t be done with the type of trash that I watched in this video.

What was so disturbing?

a. Initially as the girl jumped in the old woman’s face, there was giggling in the background

b. Initially a young man could be heard jumping in and helping the mentally ill girl “rap” to the old woman

c. GROWN black men and women sat by and looked the other way as this piece of filth jumped in the old woman’s face, threatening to murder her and beat her.

I can’t help but wonder if they would have continued to sit still and look the other way had the girl jumped on that old woman and started to beat her to death, as promised.

Sure, I can understand not wanting to get physical with the girl. But at a minimum, 911 should have been called and everyone these days has a cell phone!

It was not until a young black man spoke up that the insanity was brought to a close and I truly am sorry that he did not beat her to the point of hospitilization. She needed to be beated to a pulp. I resent what she did to that old woman. How dare she do that to somebody’s mother, grandmother, great grandmother. And how dare those GROWN men sit there and ignore it.

That garbage showed the bowels of the black community. Because she obviously is insane and drug addicted, now the world is being forced to suffer at her hands and no one is spared. Would a five year old child have been a victim also?

Again, I’d like to see her arrested on charges that she threatened to murder and beat a helpless old woman. I’m just really bothered by this and I DO want people of other races to know that NO, she is not representative of blacks. Most blacks are decent, upright people.

Another thing. In DC or Maryland, that girl would have been stepped to immediately. She would have been beaten out of that old woman’s face right away.

I’ve been speaking on Atlanta on this blog for some time now. There is something peculiar going on there, and I’m serious.

  I truly enjoyed Jeremiah Wright last night. Very entertaining speaker, gifted and brilliant.

Every black parent who is indeed interested in the difference in the way the average black child learns, as opposed to how white children learn, also should check this out and even discuss it with their children.

One thing about me is, I never allow anyone to tell me who I am to cut off or cut out. No one will tell me to dismiss Jeremiah Wright. I pick and choose my own speakers, etc. I happen to agree with much of what Jeremiah says and when you listen to him in entirety as opposed to in a soundbite, he makes a tremendous amount of sense.

GO HERE to listen if you have not yet heard his speech to the NAACP.

Makheru sent the following LINK which is interesting.

The questions are still being asked, Where are the black men? Why are they not marrying? And why aren’t more black women marrying outside of their racial group?

It’s an interesting discussion. Check it out.

As one who is a firm believer in marriage, I am so happy to report that JayZ and Beyonce got married yesterday. Good for them!

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Young black children need to see high profile black couples getting married, as marriages are the back bone of civilized society.

Now of course there are skeptics who don’t believe they are married:

Skeptics said that the party could merely have been a celebration of the $150 million deal Carter made with Live Nation this week, an engagement party, or even an elaborate hoax for Ashton Kutcher’s E! show “Pop Fiction.” The naysayers pointed out that there have been numerous wedding rumors about the couple in the past, that Carter would be back on his concert tour Saturday night, and that too many of the “clues” seemed way too obvious.

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Looks like Jay-Z and Beyonce will finally tie the knot. As one who believes firmly in marriage, congrats to both of them! This sets a good example for black children, as marriage in the black community is decreasing instead of increasing.

Beyoncé and Jay-Z arrived at Scarsdale Village Hall shortly after it opened at 9 a.m on Tuesday to get their marriage license. “It was just the two of them,” an eyewitness tells PEOPLE. “They were very polite and smiling as they filled out the paperwork. They were holding hands for a while. They looked really happy.”

Could their happiness be because the longtime couple is finally putting the constant wedding and split rumors to rest? Although a rep for Beyoncé, 26, had no comment and a rep for Jay-Z, 38, could not be reached, the courthouse trip is the first real indication that the pair – who first started dating in 2002 – will walk down the aisle.
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Check out this little boy holding a sign about being rude to his teacher. I like this. I hope he learns a lesson from it.

My guess is that his mother is a single parent doing the best she can. She is teaching her black male son about the importance of personal responsibility.

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Hat tip to my husband for sending me the clip

  I will never forget how shocked I was the first time that I heard that MLK had been a womanizer and that the FBI had tapes of him with various women. It shook me to the core. But I quickly recovered because it reminded me that he was real. He was human. He was not perfect and he was not God.

Since then I have heard many horrible things about MLK, including people saying that he had strange religious beliefs or that he was not saved.

You know what I’ve learned? I don’t know people’s hearts. That’s God’s lane and His job. I’m not in a position to determine whether or not MLK ever accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. I certainly hope he did. In fact, I believe he did. But that’s for God to sort out. 

I’ll tell you what I do know. I know that there is nothing anyone could ever tell me to turn me against this great man. Are you aware of the fact that MLK was not even 40 years old when he was murdered?

Think about that. This is a man who KNEW that he was going to die and leave behind a wife and four children but in spite of that, he moved forward for his people.

It is because (in part) of the late, great MLK that I can walk freely into any public bathroom or bus I desire. I’m free. I can work any place I choose to as long as I have the qualifications. I was able to freely choose my college of choice. And I was able to choose to get my Masters degree and live a comfortable life in a comfortable neighborhood of my own choice with my husband! In fact, my husband and I have just started our own business and it is because of MLK and people like him that I did not have to stop and ponder if it was okay due to the fact that I’m black.  

I LOVE you, MLK and respect what you did for your people. I respect the fact that you bravely and boldly died for what you knew was right. I’m reaping the benefits of your labor and so are many others.

I have a Dream

Happy Birthday song

I was feeling sort of down over the past two days, as it appeared that there was so much awful news. Pastors fleecing the flock, fathers throwing their own children off bridges and mothers abandoning their own children.

Well, we have GREAT news this evening. I have blogged about Genarlow Wilson in the past. While a 17 year old teen, he was locked up for engaging in mutual sexual relations (not forced) with a 15 year old girl. He was set to do 10 years—yet this young man was and is an intelligent person with a great amount of potential.

Due to bloggers and news outlets and public figures, the spotlight was shone on this sad case and Genarlow eventually was freed by the Georgia Supreme Court.

Morehouse College and Tom Joyner have just given this young man a second chance at life!

Genarlow Wilson, the Georgia man who spent two years in prison for having consensual sex while a teenager, will attend Morehouse College in Atlanta this spring.

Wilson, who was freed from a Georgia prison last October, will be a part-time student at the 140-year-old predominantly male liberal arts college.

The Tom Joyner Foundation, an educational non-profit founded by the nationally syndicated radio personality, will pay for Wilson’s tuition, books, and room and board.

“He’s been through so much over the past couple years and I’m glad the Foundation can play a role in helping him shape his future,” said Joyner in a release.

“Genarlow Wilson is representative of many of our young black men who must overcome incredible obstacles before finding a place — like Morehouse — where they are valued, mentored and given the opportunity to reach their full potential,” said Morehouse President Dr. Robert M. Franklin. “We firmly believe that Morehouse is Genarlow’s ‘house’, and that he will grow to embody the tenets of a Morehouse Man.”

Go HERE for remainder of story

I have also blogged about this story in the past. Go HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE and view how I have followed this story.

New York will always hold a special place in my heart because that’s where I met my husband and we always have a great time in New York. I can say that I love New York.

  Something interesting is happening in the Big Apple, though. Crime is on the decline there. I guess the gansta rappers and thugs need to move either to Killadelphia…oops, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, New Orleans or even Baltimore City to show off their “hard” persona.  New York has lost its thug/gansta touch!

On a serious tip, cities with high crime rates need to sit down with the powers that be in New York, find out how they got those crime rates down. Then they need to emulate New York.

I’m really proud of the blacks who live in New York who have lifted themselves up and regrouped from the deadly drug/heroin/crack addictions and drug dealing that they endured over the past years that brought crime into their communities.

CONGRATS to New York! Keep up the great work and keep down the crime.

New York City could look back on 2007 as the year it recorded the lowest number of homicides in more than 40 years.

A preliminary tally of recorded homicides was 494 as of midnight Monday compared to 596 for all of 2006, police said. But the number could change depending on if a 2007 crime is later reclassified, they said.

The tally for 2007 is the lowest number of killings since reliable record-keeping started in 1963.

Crime has plummeted since 1990 when homicides reached an all-time high of 2,224, making the city the murder capital of the U.S.

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PRESS HERE for a special song from Frankie, Baby!

    I’m a poetry lover. Check this one by the late, great Langston Hughes:

Mother to Son by Langston Hughes

Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor
Bare.
But all the time
I’se been a-climbin’ on,
And reachin’ landin’s,
And turnin’ corners,
And sometimes goin’ in the dark
Where there ain’t been no light.
So, boy, don’t you turn back.
Don’t you set down on the steps.
‘Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.
Don’t you fall now
For I’se still goin’, honey,
I’se still climbin’,
And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

What I LOVE about that poem is the fact that the mother is basically telling her son that he has no excuse to sit down and give up. She used herself as an example, through her broken English. 

As I read the poem, in my mind’s eye, I picture a handsome, brown skinned young teenaged boy, fatherless and giving up hope. I see a loving mother, maybe a domestic worker with a scarf on her head telling him that her own life has had pains and trials, yet she has persevered and expect the same of him.

Hmmmm…… I’d love to see us return to great literature in this country. We have a nation of young black boys who could benefit from such a classic poem and classic words.