From a message I wrote today to Don Ramón: ” If i was gonna be POTUS, i would have created a job title to TRAIN and MAINTAIN a “Internet Sexual Content Reviewer”. Not just use technology to recognize & alert off ANY type of upload, especially Mobile, but start going through ALL OF IT, flagging the tapes or still images for consent or health ?s. … Continue reading Hello Mudder, Hello Fadder (Cleaning Up 3)
An alternative in presenting this idea: Empowered/Educated And Dignified, Understanding People (‘EAD UP) To End Crime You’ll see National Geographic is compiling the genetic information for human genomic research. I, personally, believe we do not know enough about ourselves as humans yet to refuse to contribute “our information” to such a project. I, also, am certain, not everyone agrees with me. There are trust deficits aplenty for … Continue reading Empowerment, Dignity and Understanding (E-D-U) Ending Crime
This is a major issue, and connected to everything from the quality of education to the serious consideration of our worth as people in this nation. And in other people’s lands. As men and fathers, we need to acknowledge that American society really might be better off if no one’s daughter or son were selling their body for sex here. That there’s a great deal we … Continue reading #ConfrontingTheFact: We Sell Our Own Bodies Sometimes To Survive in America
The prompt: PERSONAL STATEMENT: In 500-700 words, please describe what qualifications you have that makes you deserving of this scholarship. Also, please tell us about your current AND future academic, career, and personal goals. From a scholarship app I completed tonight. My response- Over 5 years ago, I found myself across the country from my Brooklyn hood, in San Francisco, California. I didn’t have the … Continue reading Deciding We Are Worth It
We absolutely need every capable person, and, most essential to peace, we need every person capable. Continue reading Statement on Defense and Peace: Responding to the CNN GOP Presidential Debate on National Defense
364 Days 9 NOVEMBER, SAN FRANCISCO We are now less than a year from Election Day 2016. Voter turnouts in states east to west saw participation levels as low as 29%. 2014 statistics for young voters were atrocious; a California adult 24 or under was more likely to have been arrested. No nation can survive failing on buy-in at this scale without a military … Continue reading 355 Days
Eight years ago, I wrote to the candidate who became President, Barack Hussein Obama. I urged him not to contribute to the “all talk” approach of the politigentsia (the politicos so entrenched they are nearly a ruling class) by wasting money on ads, when Black people (in the racialized, unfair America in which I was raised) and small towns were in such a desperate state. … Continue reading Americans across the nation declare their candidacy and fitness for leadership: Show Your Tell
Originally posted on Danewze:
Lots of our budget problems are locked in, principal light AND long term. Terrible agreements reached in a more chummy time, obviously. We need our budgets written right, right now. We need NO open-amount government contracts. All of these must be renegotiated to determine the sustainability of the produced good or offered service, and to examine the real tenability of the… Continue reading What? N.O. Part II
Originally posted on Danewze:
5 years ago, I wrote, published and publicized “An Open Letter to Barack Obama.” 5 years later… Our process-engaged citizens seem, again, locked in election’s monogamous 2-headed embrace. ? Living legends have long lain out leader roads and ways that last, culled from life. ? Change of course so central to a new direction, there are several I would set out… Continue reading What part of N.O. didn’t you understand? (Part I)
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