After Thanksgiving Health Tips!!!!

Well after the Thanksgiving get full stomach mission, Some of y’all have to put extra work in on losing some of those gained pounds. So, I got an email from Cathy Harris with a good twelve tips for you to get back in the groove. I’ll drop some on you but you’ll have to go to her site to get the rest! FANGGGGGGGGGG Thanks Cathy Harris! HAAAAAAA!

How To Take Control of Your Own Life: Healthcare 101(www.howtotakecontrol.com);

Top 12 Steps to Become  Healthier Over the Next 30 Days

(by Cathy Harris)

Have you been feeling tired, sluggish and run-down?  Do you consider yourself to be healthy? What do being healthy really feels like? Being healthy is simply having the energy and vitality to move forward and enjoy life.

After conducting extensive research on how to become more healthier, I learned that it’s a good chance that all the following have contributed to your organs becoming clogged, turning hard and slowing you down:

• Eating the Standard American Diet (SAD)
• Swallowing undigested foods over the years
• Eating junk foods over the years
• Taking pharmaceuticals (either prescribed or over the counter)

Even though you are not experiencing any pain from your liver, kidneys or other organs, it doesn’t mean that they are operating at 100%.
The problem is if you don’t do something to reverse the damages that have occurred to your organs over the years, they will eventually give out.  If one organ gives out, they all give out…and you will die!

The problem is if you don’t do something to reverse the damages that have occurred to your organs over the years, they will eventually give out.  If one organ gives out, they all give out…and you will die!

If you have bad breath, pass gas that has a foul odor or have a bad odor when you defecate, that means you have something inside of you that is dying or in other words – a disease is developing in your body.

Remember disease cannot exist in a healthy body! The goal is to look at your environment (inside and outdoors) and lifestyle (diet, etc.) and develop habits that will give you a “disease-free body” and bring you the vitality and energy you had years earlier.

Don’t beat yourself up if it takes some time for you to adjust to your new lifestyle.  After all you did not pick up all those bad habits overnight. The goal, however, is to transition into this new lifestyle before it becomes too late.

Remember chances are you are the cause and you will also have to be the cure for what is happening to your body.

Here are the top 12 health tips to make you feel better in 30 days:

1. Detoxify your body:

The first step is to get the bad stuff out of your body and put the good stuff in. Did you know you can hold up to 20 pounds or more of fecal matter that can back up in your body and cause diabetes, asthma, epilepsy, and other diseases?

There is a really good chance that toxins and parasites have invaded your body and is causing you to feel run-down, sluggish and weak.

Everyone needs to detoxify their bodies because stored physical and mental garbage breeds what we know well as diseases.

Therefore, there are 3 types of detoxes/cleansers that you need to do at least 2 or 3 times a year:

• You should do an intestional detox at least three times a year
• A liver detox twice a year
• A kidney detox twice a year

Make sure you give yourself at least a 2 to 3 week break between each detox period for the toxins to continue exiting your body.

You can buy a good herbal product such as http://www.renewlife.com) from any health food stores to assist you with clearing these parasites and toxins from your body.

2. Eat Organic Raw Fruits and Vegetables:

The goal is to slowly take yourself off packaged, canned, processed foods and other non-foods that you have been consuming over your lifetime.
Your food should be fresh and organic which means you might have to shop every week because organic food spoils quicker than other food. You want to stay away from molded foods which allows toxins and parasites to enter the body.

Vitamins can’t take the place of nutrients in food;therefore, you should be eating at least 75% to 80% or more of organic raw fruits and vegetables every day. You should eat broadly at all times to get all the nutrients you need to stay healthy.

If you don’t have access to organic raw fruits and vegetables then buy the regular kind and wash them off with just plain water. But remember you should always wash off all (including organic) fruits and vegetables thoroughly (with plain water) even if they come in a bag.

You should also juice organic raw fruits and vegetables throughout the day especially when you are detoxing and fasting. Not only will juicing fill you up but it will provide key nutrients that your body has probably been going without.

Juicing (spinach, carrots and distilled water) first thing in the morning will also help you pass regular bowel movements.  You should have 2 or 3 bowel movements every day. The goal is to keep your food moving through your body and the body will take what it needs as nutrients and enzymes.

3. Take a Vitamin Supplement:

Your goal is to receive the proper nutrition and your energy will increase. Cooking food depletes nutrients! If you are eating COOKED foods, it has no nutritional value and you need to take a vitamin supplement daily.

It’s okay to steam your vegetables which allows the nutrients to remain intact.

If you are buying vitamins from drug stores and other community stores which are not health food stores (or vitaminshoppe.com), chances are you are buying vitamins that have dead chemicals in them which means they were made in a lab. So remember, unless you are eating right (organic raw fruits and vegetables), you should be taking a vitamin supplement.

4. Fasting is Good for You:

Every night when you sleep, you are fasting.  When you are sick you fast because most of the time you lose your appetite.  Fasting will allow you body to heal so make sure if you have been feeling weak or run-down, you should be fasting.

The ‘common sense’ definition of fasting is “the abstinence of food and substance, or a reduction in normal consumption.”  This goes on around the clock, for 24-hour periods.  A dictionary definition is “to keep from eating all or certain foods; to eat very little or nothing.”

Reasons for fasting are as varied as the types of fasts:

• to lose weight
• to grow spiritually
• to enhance prayer
• to cleanse the body
• to purge the mind
• to heal the body
• to recover from some debilitating state

Basically, just cut down your consumption.  The body can’t heal if you are filling up on food at every meal.  You always want to leave air in your stomach when you eat.  Try not to eat 3 hours before bedtime.

5. Stay Away From Meat:

Remember if you eat meat, it will stay in body for 3 days or longer turning into parasites and toxins. So try to eat from the land (organic raw fruits and vegetables) or the sea (Salmon, Mackeral, Tuna (only twice a week because of mercury), Sardines, etc.).

If you are suffering from asthma, bad allergies and other illnesses that leave you congested in your sinuses and chest, it’s a good chance you are also eating MUCUS-producing foods such as:

• eggs
• chocolate
• dairy products
• fried foods

Test yourself!  Stop eating all the above mucus-producing foods for 2 to 3 weeks to see if you feel better.  If you feel better after not consuming the foods, then cut them out of your diet completely!  You don’t need these foods.

6. Chew Your Food:

Some people chose to eat  6 small meals a day instead of 3 big meals.  Remember don’t go 3 and a half to 4 hours without eating something.

When you don’t chew your food, you are swallowing undigested food particles which will turn into parasites and toxins in your body.

If you drink lemon juice and water (with cayenne pepper) 20 to 30 minutes before a meal, it will open up your digestive system so whatever you eat will not stay in your body. That’s why it’s extremely important to chew your foods at least 30 to 60 times before swallowing. You make your own saliva by chewing your food so you don’t need liquid when you eat. The goal is to get nutrients from your food and not fill up on liquids.  You can resume drinking liquids one hour after a meal.

Remember it takes 20 minutes for your stomach to tell your brain you are full so eat slowly. Try to avoid watching the T.V. or reading a book while you are eating so you can pay attention to how much you are eating and your chewing habits.

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Sammy Sosa says skin rejuvenation process reason his skin appears lighter

Talking about some damn lighting. Son, you got your hair slicked out too. Smh

Maintains photo makes it look more pronounced than it is

By Fred Mitchell

Sammy Sosa tells friends he is comfortable in his own skin.

But a widely circulated photo of the former Cubs slugger makes his skin color appear several shades lighter.

“He’s not trying to be Michael Jackson,” said former Cubs employee Rebecca Polihronis, who talks frequently with Sosa.

Sosa was photographed recently during an appearance at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

“He is going through a rejuvenation process for his skin,” Polihronis said. “Women have it all of the time. He was surprised he came out looking so white. I thought it was a body double. Part of (the photo appearance) is just the lighting.

“He is in the middle of doing a cleansing process to his skin. The picture is deceiving. He said, ‘If you saw me in person, you would be surprised. When you see me in person, it is not going to seem like the picture.’

“People who saw him in person did not react the same way. He can’t believe it is such a big deal.”

Polihronis, the former Cubs Care/Community Relations manager for the team, said Sosa told her he has used moisturizing treatment at night on his face.

“He has always been concerned with the way he looks,” she said. “Probably just bad timing going to an awards show.”

Among the possible side effects for some laser skin rejuvenation methods include discoloration of the skin. The treated area may become lighter or darker in appearance.

“He was doing a dermatological skin process after years and years (of playing baseball) in the sun,” Polihronis said. “It did come out looking weird (in the picture).”

 

Oh Really?

Sounds Like common sense to me but… that’s not how we doit in the West(Western Hemisphere). HAAAAAAAAA! This Article was sent to me courtesy of Cathy Harris! FANGGGGGGG!!

Poor Education May Lead to Poor Health

(by Kathleen Doheny -Yahoo News)

SATURDAY, Oct. 10 (HealthDay News) — Adults with a poor education are also likely to have poor health, a growing body of evidence suggests.

Study after study has confirmed the link, and now experts are zeroing in on the reasons for it and what can be done.

“Persons with a higher education tend to have better jobs, and better income, better benefits,” said David R. Williams, a professor of public health at the Harvard School of Public Health and staff director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Commission to Build a Healthier America. Those benefits, he said, go beyond health benefits to include such other factors as having the leeway to take a day off or part of a day to see a doctor. People with higher levels of education “tend to have more resources to cope with stress and life, to live in better neighborhoods,” Williams said. They have stress, of course, but also more resources to cope with it — such as access to a health club to exercise away the stress — than do people with less education, he said.

Being better educated also means that a person is more likely to understand the world of modern medicine, said Erik Angner, an assistant professor of philosophy and economics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who has researched the link between literacy and happiness. ”Modern medicine is incredibly complex,” Angner said, “and if you lack the constellation of skills — including basic reading and numerical tasks — required to function adequately in the health-care environment, you might find it harder to effectively request, receive and understand your [medical] care.”

A report issued in May by Williams’s commission found that, compared with college graduates, adults who did not graduate from high school were 2.5 times as likely to be in less than very good health. High school graduates, it found, were nearly twice as likely as college graduates to be in less than very good health.

The report suggested that factors outside of the medical system play an important role in determining people’s health, including how long they will live. Access to medical care is crucial, the report authors said, but it isn’t enough to improve health. What’s needed, they suggested, is increased focus on schools and education — encouraging people to obtain more education — as well as more promotion of healthy living in the home, community and workplace.

From a “big picture” perspective, Williams said, health promotion should be emphasized and taught more — and earlier — in schools. Health habits in adulthood, he said, are built during childhood. It’s also crucial, he said, to have a healthy neighborhood and workplace.

Angner said that he’s found in his recent research that the older adults he has studied who could read and answer questions on medical forms without assistance were likely to be happier than those who could not.

Improving literacy — and thus improving the ability to read and understand medical forms — could boost health among adults, he said.

For adults whose education was stopped early, returning to school might help their health as well as their job prospects, the experts say. And if that’s not an option, Angner said, simply trying to improve reading skills should make a difference.

More information – The National Institute for Literacy has more on literacy services.

 

Morehouse Has A Dress Code(It Ain’t That Bad)!

WOW!!!

All-male college cracks down on cross-dressing(courtesy of CNN):

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — An all-male college in Atlanta, Georgia, has banned the wearing of women’s clothes, makeup, high heels and purses as part of a new crackdown on what the institution calls inappropriate attire.

No dress-wearing is part of a larger dress code launched this week that Morehouse College is calling its “Appropriate Attire Policy.” The policy also bans wearing hats in buildings, pajamas in public, do-rags, sagging pants, sunglasses in class and walking barefoot on campus.

However, it is the ban on cross-dressing that has brought national attention to the small historically African-American college.

The dress-wearing ban is aimed at a small part of the private college’s 2,700-member student body, said Dr. William Bynum, vice president for Student Services. “We are talking about five students who are living a gay lifestyle that is leading them to dress a way we do not expect in Morehouse men,” he said.

Before the school released the policy, Bynum said, he met with Morehouse Safe Space, the campus’ gay organization.

“We talked about it and then they took a vote,” he said. “Of the 27 people in the room, only three were against it.” There has been a positive response along with some criticism throughout the campus, he said.

Senior Devon Watson said he disagrees with parts of the new policy, especially those that tell students what they should wear in free time outside of the classroom. “I feel that there will be a lot of resentment and backlash,” Watson said. “It infringes on the student’s freedom of expression. I matriculated successfully for three-and-half years dressing so how is this a problem?”

Senior Tyrone McGowan said he has mixed feelings about parts of the policy. “But I have been inspired by the conversation it has created,” he said. “We have to find a way to create diverse leaders from this college. I don’t want this to place all of us in one box.”

Those breaking the policy will not be allowed to go to class unless they change. Chronic dress-code offenders could be suspended from the college.

Bynum said the policy comes from the vision of the college’s president, who wants the institution to create leaders like notable graduates Martin Luther King Jr., actor Samuel Jackson and film director Spike Lee.

Senior Cameron Titus applauds the change. “The policy is just saying that you have to show more respect in how you dress and there are things that are just not acceptable at Morehouse,” Titus said. “We have a legacy that we are trying to uphold.”

 

Labor Day!?!

Labor Day … Where does it come from? Wikipedia says….

Labor Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September (September 7 in 2009).

The holiday originated in Canada out of labor disputes (“Nine-Hour Movement”) first in Hamilton, then in Toronto, Canada in the 1870s, which resulted in a Trade Union Act which legalized and protected union activity in 1872 in Canada. The parades held in support of the Nine-Hour Movement and the printers’ strike led to an annual celebration in Canada. In 1882, American labor leader Peter J. McGuire witnessed one of these labor festivals in Toronto. Inspired from Canadian events in Toronto, he returned to New York and organized the first American “labor day” on September 5 of the same year.

The first Labor Day in the United States was celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York City. In the aftermath of the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the US military and US Marshals during the 1894Pullman Strike, President Grover Cleveland put reconciliation with Labor as a top political priority. Fearing further conflict, legislation making Labor Day a national holiday was rushed through Congress unanimously and signed into law a mere six days after the end of the strike. Cleveland was also concerned that aligning a US labor holiday with existing international May Day celebrations would stir up negative emotions linked to theHaymarket Affair. All 50 U.S. states have made Labor Day a state holiday.

The form for the celebration of Labor Day was outlined in the first proposal of the holiday: A street parade to exhibit to the public “the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations,” followed by a festival for the workers and their families. This became the pattern for Labor Day celebrations. Speeches by prominent men and women were introduced later, as more emphasis was placed upon the economic and civil significance of the holiday. Still later, by a resolution of the American Federation of Labor convention of 1909, the Sunday preceding Labor Day was adopted as Labor Sunday and dedicated to the spiritual and educational aspects of the labor movement.

Traditionally, Labor Day is celebrated by most Americans as the symbolic end of the summer. The holiday is often regarded as a day of rest and parades. Speeches or political demonstrations are more low-key thanMay 1 Labour Day celebrations in most countries, although events held by labor organizations often feature political themes and appearances by candidates for office, especially in election years. Forms of celebration include picnics, barbecues, fireworks displays, water sports, and public art events. Families with school-age children take it as the last chance to travel before the end of summer recess. Similarly, some teenagers and young adults view it as the last weekend for parties before returning to school. However, start dates for schools vary widely, beginning as early as July 24 in urban districts such as Atlanta, Miami, and Los Angeles. In addition, Labor Day marks the beginning of the NFL and college football seasons. The NCAA usually plays their first games the week before Labor Day, with the NFL traditionally playing their first game the Thursday following Labor Day.

International Workers Day:

May Day can refer to various labour celebrations conducted on May 1 that commemorate the fight for the eight hour day. May Day in this regard is called International Workers’ Day, or Labour Day. The idea for a “workers holiday” began in Australia in 1856. With the idea having spread around the world, the choice of May 1st became a commemoration by the Second International for the people involved in the 1886 Haymarket affair. The Haymarket affair occurred during the course of a three-day general strike in Chicago, Illinois, United States that involved common laborers, artisans, merchants, and immigrants. Following an incident in which police opened fire and killed four strikers at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. plant, a rally was called for the following day at Haymarket Square. The event remained peaceful, yet towards the end of the rally, as police moved in to disperse the event, an unknown assailant threw a bomb into the crowd of police. The bomb and resulting police riot left at least a dozen people dead, including seven policemen. A sensational show trialensued in which eight defendants were openly tried for their political beliefs, and not necessarily for any involvement in the bombing. The trial led to the eventual public hanging of seven anarchists. The Haymarket incident was a source of outrage from people around the globe. In the following years, memory of the “Haymarket martyrs” was remembered with various May Day job actions and demonstrations. May Day has become an international celebration of the social and economic achievements of the labour movement. Although May Day received its inspiration from the United States, the U.S. Congress designated May 1 as Loyalty Day in 1958 due to the day’s perceived appropriation by the Soviet Union. Alternatively, Labor Day traditionally occurs on the first Monday in September in the United States. People often use May Day as a day for political protest, such as the million people who demonstrated against far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen in France, or as a day for protest against government actions, such as rallies in support of undocumented workers across the United States.

 

“Pathways (Seans Lament)”, Movie coming soon!!!

Yo this is a new movie coming out 2010!! HAAAAA! They are shooting now though. Produced by Atl’s own Eljay and Shari Williams(Comcasts: The Stand on Demand) comes the story of young man Sean Pathways entrepreneurial trails. Starring Ozy Reigns, Joel Coleman and Naira, this film… well I can’t give you that info. HAAAAAA! Also featuring Boog Brown, Adrift Da Belle, Rita J, Fluxwonda, Fort Knox and Senor Kaos. This is a debut for most of them but the script is BANGin’  and the skill of these artists are amazing. If I do say so myself! HAAAAAA! You can come to a live taping that will be going on Tuesday night at The Drunken Unicorn(back side of MJQ) at 9pm. Also, just for y’all people out there…. A FREE show! That’s right. come on down, it’s FREEEEEEEEEEEE! Hosted by Senor Kaos with sounds by Dj Rasta Root and Dj Fudge. Performances by by Kazy, Clan Destined and the film Featured Artist… “Undeniable”. FANGGGGGGG! And oh…. IT”S FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! So come on out! Do you here me COT DAMNIT!!!?!!?!?!? HAAAAAAAA! FISKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!! Yo, Yo… if you need some info check: www.pathwaysthemovie.com, pathwaysthemovie@gmail.com and twitter.com/pathways2010

 

No Justice for Leonard Peltier!!

The author Cathy Harris has a e-newsletter called “The National Black Agenda” and it exposes some great info. I received this  this morning:

 

Manic Monday’s!!!!!!!

Oh Shit! If you didn’t think it was coming… you were dead ass wrong! Peep this info from News.Cnet.com.

Bill would give president emergency control of Internet

(by Declan McCullagh)

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

The new version would allow the president to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” relating to “non-governmental” computer networks and do what’s necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for “cybersecurity professionals,” and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.

“I think the redraft, while improved, remains troubling due to its vagueness,” said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which counts representatives of Verizon, Verisign, Nortel, and Carnegie Mellon University on its board. “It is unclear what authority Sen. Rockefeller thinks is necessary over the private sector. Unless this is clarified, we cannot properly analyze, let alone support the bill.”

Representatives of other large Internet and telecommunications companies expressed concerns about the bill in a teleconference with Rockefeller’s aides this week, but were not immediately available for interviews on Thursday.

A spokesman for Rockefeller also declined to comment on the record Thursday, saying that many people were unavailable because of the summer recess. A Senate source familiar with the bill compared the president’s power to take control of portions of the Internet to what President Bush did when grounding all aircraft on Sept. 11, 2001. The source said that one primary concern was the electrical grid, and what would happen if it were attacked from a broadband connection.

When Rockefeller, the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced the original bill in April, theyclaimed it was vital to protect national cybersecurity. “We must protect our critical infrastructure at all costs–from our water to our electricity, to banking, traffic lights and electronic health records,” Rockefeller said.

The Rockefeller proposal plays out against a broader concern in Washington, D.C., about the government’s role in cybersecurity. In May, President Obama acknowledged that the government is “not as prepared” as it should be to respond to disruptions and announced that a new cybersecurity coordinator position would be created inside the White House staff. Three months later, that post remains empty, one top cybersecurity aide has quit, and some wags have begun to wonder why a government that receives failing marks on cybersecurity should be trusted to instruct the private sector what to do.

Rockefeller’s revised legislation seeks to reshuffle the way the federal government addresses the topic. It requires a “cybersecurity workforce plan” from every federal agency, a “dashboard” pilot project, measurements of hiring effectiveness, and the implementation of a “comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy” in six months–even though its mandatory legal review will take a year to complete.

The privacy implications of sweeping changes implemented before the legal review is finished worry Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. “As soon as you’re saying that the federal government is going to be exercising this kind of power over private networks, it’s going to be a really big issue,” he says.

Probably the most controversial language begins in Section 201, which permits the president to “direct the national response to the cyber threat” if necessary for “the national defense and security.” The White House is supposed to engage in “periodic mapping” of private networks deemed to be critical, and those companies “shall share” requested information with the federal government. (“Cyber” is defined as anything having to do with the Internet, telecommunications, computers, or computer networks.)

“The language has changed but it doesn’t contain any real additional limits,” EFF’s Tien says. “It simply switches the more direct and obvious language they had originally to the more ambiguous (version)…The designation of what is a critical infrastructure system or network as far as I can tell has no specific process. There’s no provision for any administrative process or review. That’s where the problems seem to start. And then you have the amorphous powers that go along with it.”

Translation: If your company is deemed “critical,” a new set of regulations kick in involving who you can hire, what information you must disclose, and when the government would exercise control over your computers or network.

The Internet Security Alliance’s Clinton adds that his group is “supportive of increased federal involvement to enhance cyber security, but we believe that the wrong approach, as embodied in this bill as introduced, will be counterproductive both from an national economic and national secuity perspective.”

Update at 3:14 p.m. PDT: I just talked to Jena Longo, deputy communications director for the Senate Commerce committee, on the phone. She sent me e-mail with this statement:

The president of the United States has always had the constitutional authority, and duty, to protect the American people and direct the national response to any emergency that threatens the security and safety of the United States. The Rockefeller-Snowe Cybersecurity bill makes it clear that the president’s authority includes securing our national cyber infrastructure from attack. The section of the bill that addresses this issue, applies specifically to the national response to a severe attack or natural disaster. This particular legislative language is based on longstanding statutory authorities for wartime use of communications networks. To be very clear, the Rockefeller-Snowe bill will not empower a “government shutdown or takeover of the Internet” and any suggestion otherwise is misleading and false. The purpose of this language is to clarify how the president directs the public-private response to a crisis, secure our economy and safeguard our financial networks, protect the American people, their privacy and civil liberties, and coordinate the government’s response.

Unfortunately, I’m still waiting for an on-the-record answer to these four questions that I asked her colleague on Wednesday. I’ll let you know if and when I get a response.

 

Marcus Garvey!!!

I was reminded of the importance of Marcus Garvey this past Black August Weekend By his Bornday celebration yesterday Aug. 17th in Indian Creek(Although I came after the rain), as well as the sista Sheeda Rippertone(What up Sheeda). Marcus Garvey set it off as far as the resurgence of asiatic awareness here in America. Although he was falsely accused of cheating on taxes and later deported from America for reasons of  national threat(to the governments control), he put a lot of things in place. Peep the History:

Bio(from africawithin.com):

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, one of the greatest leaders African people have produced, was born August 17, 1887 in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, and spent his entire life in the service of his people–African people. He was bold; he was uncompromising and he was one of the most powerful orators on record. He could literally bring his audiences to a state of mass hysteria. Garvey emphasized racial pride. His goal was nothing less that the total and complete redemption and liberation of African people around the planet. His dream was the galvanization of Black people into an unrelenting steamroller that could never be defeated. I consider myself, along with many others, as one of Garvey’s children.

As a young man of fourteen, Garvey left school and worked as a printer’s apprentice. He participated in Jamaica’s earliest nationalist organizations, traveled throughout Central America, and spent time in London, England, where he worked with the Sudanese-Egyptian nationalist Duse Mohamed Ali. In 1916 Garvey was invited by Booker T. Washington to come to the United States in the hopes of establishing an industrial training school, but arrived just after Washington died. In March 1916, shortly after landing in America, Garvey embarked upon an extended period of travel. When he finally settled down, he organized a chapter of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. The UNIA & ACL had been formed in Jamaica in 1914.  Its motto was “One God, One Aim, One Destiny,” and pledged itself to the redemption of Africa and the uplift of Black people everywhere. It aimed at race pride, self-reliance and economic independence.

Within a few years Garvey had become the best-known and most dynamic African leader in the Western Hemisphere and perhaps the entire world. In 1919 Mr. Garvey created an international shipping company called the Black Star Line. By 1920 the UNIA had hundreds of divisions. It hosted elaborate international conventions and published a weekly newspaper entitled the Negro World.

No other organization in modern times has had the prestige and the impact as the UNIA & ACL. During the 1920s UNIA divisions existed throughout North, South and Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and Australia.

Official Site(www.marcusgarvey.com): Garvey Speaks “MAN KNOW THYSELF”;

For man to know himself is for him to feel that for him there is no human master. For him Nature is his servant, and whatsoever he wills in Nature, that shall be his reward. If he wills to be a pigmy, a serf or a slave, that shall he be. If he wills to be a real man in possession of the things common to man, then he shall be his own sovereign. When man fails to grasp his authority he sinks to the level of the lower animals, and whatsoever the real man bids him do, even as if it were of the lower animals, that much shall he do. If he says “go.” He goes. If he says “come,” he comes. By this command he performs the functions of life even as by a similar command the mule, the horse, the cow perform the will of their masters. For the last four hundred years the Negro has been in the position of being commanded even as the lower animals are controlled. Our race has been without a will; without a purpose of its own, for all this length of time.

Because of that we have developed few men who are able to understand the strenuousness of the age in which we live. Where can we find in this race of ours real men. Men of character, men of purpose, men of confidence, men of faith, men who really know themselves? I have come across so many weaklings who profess to be leaders, and in the test I have found them but the slaves of a nobler class. They perform the will of their masters without question. To me, a man has no master but God. Man in his authority is a sovereign lord. As for the individual man, so of the individual race. This feeling makes man so courageous, so bold, as to make it impossible for his brother to intrude upon his rights.

o few of us can understand what it takes to make a man – the man who will never say die; the man who will never give up; the man who will never depend upon others to do for him what he ought to do for himself; the man who will not blame God, who will not blame Nature, who will not blame Fate for his condition; but the man who will go out and make conditions to suit himself. Oh, how disgusting life becomes when on every hand you hear people (who bear your image, who bear your resemblance) telling you that they cannot make it, that Fate is against them, that they cannot get a chance. If 400,000,000 Negroes can only get to know thesmelves, to know that in them is a sovereign power, is an authority that is absolute, then in the next twenty-four hours we would have a new race, we would have a nation, an empire, – resurrected, not from the will of others to see us rise, – but from our own determination to rise, irrespective of what the world thinks

 

Ex-boxing champ Forrest’s charity work remembered

The science of death happing in 3’s is a myth right about now. Damn, (R.I.P)

By CHARLES ODUM, AP Sports Writer

ATLANTA (AP)—Vernon Forrest made his living with his fists, but his true calling, friends say, was helping children and others with disabilities, treating them like members of his family.

The 38-year-old former two-division champion, who gained stardom when he became the first boxer to defeat Shane Mosley, was shot to death Saturday night in what police are calling an attempted robbery in Atlanta. Police Sgt. Lisa Keyes said in an e-mail Sunday that Forrest was shot several times in the back on a street just southwest of downtown and that there were no suspects.

Longtime publicist Kelly Swanson called Forrest “a caring humanitarian who always stood up for what he believed to be the fairness of life.”

“It was truly his calling,” Swanson said of his work with children. “When he wasn’t boxing, this was his full-time job. … When they would see him, they would just light up, and some of them couldn’t even talk. Vernon was very much involved. He’d have some of the kids over to his house on Sundays. They were part of his family.”

Forrest’s manager, Charles Watson, said the 1992 Olympian stopped at a gas station to put air in his car tires when a man asked for money. When he pulled his wallet out, the man snatched it and started running, and Forrest took off after him, Watson said.

“The guy turned the corner and Vernon didn’t see him. He turned around to go back to the car. That’s when he started firing,” Watson said.

“Maybe Vernon’s lasting legacy will be for Americans everywhere to rise up and end this kind of senseless violence,” said HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg, who helped put on eight of Forrest’s fights.

Fulton County medical examiner Michele Stauffenberg confirmed the case was a homicide and that the autopsy showed Forrest died from “multiple gunshot wounds involving the torso and thigh.”

The death quickly sent a ripple through the close-knit boxing world, which recently lost two other champions to violence.

“Vernon was one of the few decent people in boxing,” his promoter Gary Shaw told The Associated Press. “I don’t know what to say. I’m still in disbelief, I’m still in shock.”

Forrest, a native of Augusta, Ga., who lived in Atlanta, was a member of the Olympic team along with Oscar De La Hoya. The popular fighter later won welterweight and junior middleweight titles and compiled a professional record of 41-3 with 29 knockouts.

Those who knew Forrest praised his role in launching the Destiny’s Child group homes in Atlanta, which work to provide homes for the mentally disabled. Swanson said Forrest was not married and had one son, Vernon Jr.

Forrest turned pro not long after the Barcelona Olympics, when he was stricken by food poisoning and lost in the opening round. He won his first world title by defeating Raul Frank at Madison Square Garden for the vacant IBF welterweight belt in May 2001, and less than a year later handed Mosley his first career loss to capture the WBC title.

The smooth-punching Forrest defended the belt against Mosley, winning by unanimous decision six months later, before losing to Ricardo Mayora in January 2003. It was Forrest’s first loss, and he’d lose again to Mayorga in a close bout many believe he won.

After taking two years off because of injuries, Forrest embarked on an impressive comeback that included a win over Ike Quartey and a victory over Carlos Baldomir for the vacant WBC junior middleweight title. Forrest defended it once, before losing it in a stunning upset to Sergio Mora in June 2008.

Like a true champion, the soft-spoken yet hard-punching Forrest reclaimed it when he won a lopsided decision last September in what turned out to be his final fight.

“He was a great fighter, a great champion,” said Ken Hershman, vice president in charge of boxing at Showtime. “He was coming to the end of his career, but wasn’t ready to hang ‘em up. He still had a lot of life ahead of him.”

There were tentative plans for a title fight against Sergio Martinez, perhaps in October, Shaw said. Plans for an August fight against Martinez were pushed back because of a rib injury, and the delay led the WBC to strip Forrest of his title.

This is the third high-profile death of a boxing champion in recent weeks.

Hall of Famer Alexis Arguello, the mayor of Managua, Nicaragua, was found dead at his home on July 1 in an apparent suicide. Two weeks ago, popular brawler Arturo Gatti was found dead in a condominium in Brazil. Gatti’s wife remains the prime suspect in that case.

AP Sports Writer Dave Skretta contributed to this report.