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A gem that not alot of people saw.... Hope this brightens up your day.........

Where is Phylicia Barnes?

When you hear that a teenager has disappeared or is missing a lot of things come to mind. Maybe there was family disagreement and she left to blow off steam. Maybe she went to a friend’s house and didn’t tell family members where she was going. Teenagers are strange creatures and their habits can be very confusing so you just never know. As a parent you never want to think the worst. So when I first heard the story of Felicia Barnes being the parent of a teenager I said to myself maybe she is with friends. Than the news reports started to share details that just did not make sense. She is not from Baltimore she is from Monroe North Carolina and she was here visiting an older sister. She was left alone during the day while the sister was at work. Felicia updated her face book status to say that she was in the house with my sister’s boyfriend and that was last thing ever heard from her and that was on December 28, 2010. The police are saying that they believe foul play was involved but there have been no new leads or information. The police are baffled and are stuck, they have been pleading with the public for help. My heart goes out to the family because not knowing if she is ok and where she is has to be absolute torture. The odds of a missing African American teenager making national headlines are very slim they use this crazy point system for their stories and a missing African American teenager just doesn’t score high enough to make the slate for national news unlike a missing Caucasian Female. I will applaud the local media for keeping Phylicia in the headlines long enough to make sure that she made the national headlines. I will keep a close eye on this one and give updates as they come out. If you think that you have seen her Please contact 855-223-0033.

Who is Otis Rolley and what does he mean to Baltimore?

Well Otis Rolley was Baltimore City’s seventh planning director. He held that job from July 2003 until 2007. When he accepted the job he was the youngest director of a large city planning department in the US he held that job during the O’Malley administration. If you live in Baltimore he is also running for the office of Mayor. He believes that he holds the keys to improving Baltimore city and making things better. He feels as though he will be able to lower the city’s taxes, remodel City Hall, streamline property acquisition process for developers and implement the city’s master plan which he helped to push to policy when he was in his position. And it all sounds great at least the lower tax part, but as a working class citizen his other priorities sound a lot like BIG business. He has a great amount of followers who believe in his campaign and support whole heartedly. There is also a large group that oppose Mr.Rolley and all that he stands for. Some Baltimoreans state that working class Baltimore City residents are the last thing on his mind and that he is all about the almighty dollar. Citizen groups state that Mr Rolley sided with slum lords and predatory lenders, leaving the city’s homeowners to become the prey and victims of house flipping and ridiculous loans. Citizen groups state that concerns and valid issues were ignored when he was in his previous position. They say he would devalue the citizens input and side with and protect the lender (Citibank, Household finance to name a few). They say that he was the gate keeper who locked citizens out of those meetings. One leader states that it was not until question P that citizens City Hall took citizens seriously and allowed them to attend the house flipping and predatory lending task force meetings. So we all have a few things that we are not proud of and some people even make compromise for their positions. But when reading Mr. Rolley’s website he has manage to act as though those things never happened and that he will ride in like a Knight in shining armor to restore Baltimore City. I know plenty of Baltimore citizens want to see major change in city government, but we have to be careful and really pay attention to who is running. I do not expect to agree with every decision made in government but I want it to at least make sense. If contractors are at the top of the agenda doesn’t really play out well in my mind. Our votes can push Baltimore into a better place or make the situation as such that it will not be able to recover. Here is his website http://www.otisrolley.com/platform

"It is US policy that Gadhafi must go"

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Breaking News pertaining to the US response to Gadhafi.
I have come across alot of criticism about how President Obama is handling this situation. Check out the article below and let me know what you think.
http://www.thegrio.com/politics/would-blacks-back-bush-if-he-bombed-africa.php

Test or Blessing?

PLEASE.....WAKE UP.

Whether it be morning, noon, or night when you see this........

Its definitely time to wake up people!
Wake up your minds..
Open your eyes...
Make a difference...

Carpe Diem

Whos an "Uncle Tom"

ESPN aired a compelling documentary on the GREAT Michigan Fab Five the other night that almost brought me to tears. The story was amazing as if featured and shared an intimate look at 5 players that changed both the game and the face of basketball as we knew it. However, putting aside the shared pride, dissappointment, and revelation that it really wasnt Chris's fault, a new controversy was born.

Jalen Rose, member of the Fab Five was quoted as calling Dukes Grant Hill an "Uncle Tom" and a bitch. Here is Jalens' quotes:

"Schools like Duke didnt recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited black players that were uncle toms." "I was jealous of Grant Hill. He came from a great black family. Congratulations! Your mom went to college and was roommates with Hilary Clinton. Your dad played in the NFL and was a very well spoken and successful man. I was upset and bitter that my mom had to bust her hump for 20 plus years. I was bitter that I had a profesional athelete that was my father that I didnt know. I resented that more so than I resented him. I looked at as..they are who the world accepts and we are who the world hates."

Jalen goes on to speak about the Duke Program and makes the claim that Duke and Coach K dont look for kids in the inner cities. Its a private school that goes after private school kids.
"My mom didnt have 15000 dollars to send me to high school" Jalen says.
"Duke would have never recruited me even today, maybe my kids, but never me"

Dukes Grant Hill is quoted as saying in response:
"It was a sad and somewhat pathetic turn of events, therefore, to see friends..calling me a bitch and worse, calling all black players at Duke "Uncle Toms" and to a degree disparaging my parents for their education, work ethic, and commitment to each other and to me. Jalen seems to have changed the meaning of those very vitriolic words into his own meaning, i.e., blacks from two parent, middle class families.

We are a people with a stolen history and a stolen culture. For centuries, we have been fed the lie that being black is synomous with being at the bottom, being last, weak, and sub par. However, when we transcend those stereotypes and defiantly succeed in a system not created for us, we are often called "Uncle Toms". While I emphysize with Jalen's emotion and understand his admited jealosy as it exposed his own pain, I have to question.......
By todays standards, what do you consider an "Uncle Tom"?