Blessed1 wrote:jbock13 wrote:
Martin's mother has trademarked his name. Does it sound like to you that she's grieving this loss? And trying to get paid? This is the kind of foolishness and bullcaca that I will call out, no matter if it's taboo or not.
And good post bball84.
Who's to say that she trademarked his name to make sure that the family has control over what is being printed on t-shirts, bumper stickers, etc? That doesn't mean she's not grieving! It means that they can control their son's name, not bandwagon/run-of-the-mill "business people."
Cmon now. That's quite a stretch. They know full well that people are using his name, and will continue to regardless of the trade mark. But why not make a little cash on the side? I know his parents have nothing to do with this case, but I'm still calling out what I see as absolutely disgusting. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson profit every time a young black person dies. Is humanity really meant to be this way?
Okay, now the rest of this post is a new general reply for the topic.
A new rap song has been released in rememberence of Trevon. I think this song will promote racial healing and understanding. Here are some of the lyrics.
"All black in my hoodie
All black in my hoodie
Strapped up with them AKs
(@#$%) protesters
Let’s start a riot
Fight, let’s start a riot"
And folks, that's just the beginning. You can view the full lyrics here, (DO NOT IF YOU'RE EASILY OFFENDED)
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/lets-st ... -violence/
But here's the line of the song that disturbs me the most.
"Ain’t trying to talk like Dr. King
Like Malcom X I’m runnin"
This case is more than just a young black man dying. What we see here is the decline of black American culture. It's sad. Remember all those motown hits you listened to when you were kid? Songs about men providing for their wives? Coming home after doing so and loving their wives, and never cheating on them? Remember when black families were the most solid families? They always have been, from when they were slaves in America, all the way up to the 1970's. Discrimination held them down, but they knew they had to be better. And they did it. And now it's just falling apart. Illegitimacy is through the roof, men no longer know how to respect women [and that's across racial lines]. Blacks are 7 times more likely to be victims of murder than whites [whites include hispanics in government statistics]. Why is nobody speaking out when a young 6 year old black girl in killed in Chicago by crossfire between two rival gangs? Is nobody allowed to speak out on this, except the race vultures like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the Black Panthers? America has always been the place where people of origins could all reach their dreams, but we're losing that. And it's time, no matter what race we are, to educate the nation to what is going on.
Let me be clear, it is not the blacks fault. But think about it. Young middle black boys are listening to Jay Z, on how to treat women. Where does that lead us to? How many black youth are being gunned down in gang violence everyday. Yet we just except this reality because we're afraid to speak out. Well, I'm not afraid. You can say what you want about Dr. King, but he had the vision to see what the future could be for blacks. I know this is about to be the longest post ever on FF.com, but I love the speech Dr. King gave at a middle school in Philadelphia in 1967. My true hope is that hopefully blacks in America can continue to understand the ideas and values that Dr. King espoused. Here's my favorite part.
I want to ask you a question, and that is: What is your life's blueprint?
Whenever a building is constructed, you usually have an architect who draws a blueprint, and that blueprint serves as the pattern, as the guide, and a building is not well erected without a good, solid blueprint.
Now each of you is in the process of building the structure of your lives, and the question is whether you have a proper, a solid and a sound blueprint.
I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one in your life's blueprint, should be a deep belief in your own dignity, your worth and your own somebodiness. Don't allow anybody to make you fell that you're nobody. Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance.
Secondly, in your life's blueprint you must have as the basic principle the determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor. You're going to be deciding as the days, as the years unfold what you will do in life — what your life's work will be. Set out to do it well.
And I say to you, my young friends, doors are opening to you--doors of opportunities that were not open to your mothers and your fathers — and the great challenge facing you is to be ready to face these doors as they open.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great essayist, said in a lecture in 1871, "If a man can write a better book or preach a better sermon or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, even if he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."
This hasn't always been true — but it will become increasingly true, and so I would urge you to study hard, to burn the midnight oil; I would say to you, don't drop out of school. I understand all the sociological reasons, but I urge you that in spite of your economic plight, in spite of the situation that you're forced to live in — stay in school.
And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. don't just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn't do it any better.
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.
Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
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(credit to:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/specia ... print.html)
Is that what young black men are being taught today?
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