Steve Harvey speaks: disparaging courtship

Tim Wise- Pathology of White Privilege 6 parts

"GLOBLIZATION"

The only one thing that people are preaching is that people open their minds to realizing TRUTH.

So many people are 'doing it wrong', wandering in pursuit of self-serving ventures that cripple the collective existence of mankind.
- So many people are willingly ignorant to the history of who we are as people, especially the lessons that can be learned from previous mistakes and successes we have made.
- So many people refuse to consider the possibility of global world peace and any other concepts that bring mankind together as one collective unit.
- So many people wallow and bathe in self-defeating, man-made concepts that only succeed to separate, generalize, label, and distinguish mankind into groups, groups that will only compare theirselves to, fight,, and compete against other groups.

The list could go on for days.

Incubus has a song entitled "Make yourself" which sums up what I'm trying to convey here and this two hour video would provide you to visualize what world we really live in. (Pleas watch for your own good)

"If I hadn't made me, I would've been made somehow..
If I hadn't assembled myself, I'd have fallen apart by now.
If I hadn't made me, I'd be more inclined to bow.
Powers that be, Would have swallowed me up
But that's more than I can allow.
But...

If you let them make you, they'll make you Paper-Mache
At a distance you're strong, until the wind comes
Then you'll crumble and blow away

"You should make amends with you,
If only for better health
But if you really want to live,
Why not try, and Make yourself?"

"I against I"

Fear Is one of the strongest motivating factors for humans and I'm sure the same thing has happened to alot of us who are now trying to better ourselves. It's exactly what happened to me. A couple years back when some friends and I were sitting around smoking, nothing out of the ordinary, a certain progression of thoughts made me go crazy and spin into this intense bout of depression. I became paralyzed with fear and overcome with physical sickness. Drugs make you think about things in strange ways, give you new perspective and under the weight of such strong emotions and uncertainty it just pushed me over the edge (Sidenote: that was the last time I smoked). The only escape was to stop believing the rumors and try to find some semblance of truth myself. So I set off on this "journey" and like you said, once the domino effect gets started, one thing leads to another and you just can't stop. All throughout my freshman year of college my grades started slipping because all I would do is read these books and try to enlighten myself instead of studying. It sounds silly but I'm sure you know that quest for knowledge can be quite addicting, especially with fear chasing you.

Nature of threat part 1

It's been discussed how we are losing our humanity because we've lost our original African roots, right? The "western" (or also "european", "American", "Christian", "white" or "capitalist") ideas of social and cultural progression all include ways of making life "better". This includes massive production of food (most of which is extremely and unhealthy and corporate owned, not a coincidence), cheaper cost of living, easier access to goods/services, etc..therefore we view other cultures (or I should say, non-Christian third world cultures) as backwards, regressive, and just plain dumb. The irony, is that often these people are usually in perfect synch with nature, their health, and their humanity as well. Their beliefs and traditions make perfect logical sense when broken down, and this gives you the foresight to see the disastrous effects of our current, capitalist lifestyle. In fact, it's been shown humans had more food and leisure time as hunters and gatherers.

The belief that consumption equates with happiness is what is killing our humanity and without change, we are going to hit a brick wall. I am specifically speaking about the extremely long-term damage we are inflicting on the world with our over consumption of fossil fuels, our current food system, and overall materialistic lifestyle. The bad news is that this change won't happen anytime soon. The good news is that it is all reversible, it's just that none of us will be around to see it.

I think believe that there is a strong possibility that it is to late and we can't change. Collectively we are much to reactive (instead of being proactive) and we are on a straight path and can't turn around. I'm no different. I still have to drive to work, I live in an house so I have to eat what corporate America makes available, and I'm still gonna be pissed if I don't get my vans next month. That's just how it is, I guess.

"...Will the real Cowards in Congress please stand up..."

Representative Joe Wilson’s outbursts are most reprehensible, disrespectful and outright cowardly in the history of Congress. Although the House and Senate floors have borne witness to physical altercations in the past, I used to tell my children that such spectacles only took place in the 18th and 19th centuries and we left such barbarism in the past. I told them that it is outside of the sphere of ethics of an elected representative to heckle a president. The Republican congressman’s lack of control of his emotions make a mockery of my words to my children.
It is outside the scope of my capabilities to express adequately my outrage at the cowardly, disrespectful and ill-advised outburst of Representative Wilson and wholeheartedly believe that his one word is something that people will make him regret for years to come. Perhaps Congressional Quarterly may edit out his outburst, but the press has already entered it into history and Representative Joe Wilson will go down in history along with such infamous figures as Benedict Arnold and John Wilkes Booth. People will call making outbursts in public doing a “Joe Wilson” just like the names “swift-boat” and “Lewinski” now have negative political connotations.
It wasn’t outside of my lifetime that calling someone a liar or a coward was to take one’s life in one’s hands. Although it was outside my lifetime that people believed that anyone would heckle a sitting president was an act of treason, I still believe that Wilson’s acts are consistent with treason. For someone to compare President Obama with Adolph Hitler, the executed Saddam Hussein or Kim Jong Il is to me tantamount to treason. As for the pastor whose hatred of our president is such that he prays that President Obama languishes from the ravages of brain cancer, people will know him for the fraud he is soon enough.

"RUN THIS TOWN" ft...Jay-z...

RIHANNA AND KANYE WEST.

But who is really running your town? Something to think about: Congress is essentially run by 1,500 major corporations or at least we can agree big business has big time pull in DC. Why do our law enforcement agencies waste so much time and money putting away non-drug violent drug offenders yet not nearly enough time is spent pursuing corporate criminals? Think about it: Who does more harm to America? The guy who got busted with pot and has the munchies or the corporate crooks that drain innocent peoples' 401k's and pension plans? Plus, this is coming from a guy that's never done an illegal drug in his life It's just insane. Or how about the $9 million the RepublicRATS took in campaign donations in the 2002 election cycle from corporate criminals?

As yall know I'm transfix into subjects pertaining hip-hop news and politics both fascinate me and help me enhance my critical thinking and gives my peeps something to talk about. May I add it also stirs up a lot controversy.