Top 3 Don'ts

MY TOP 3 "DONT'S" FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIAL PROGRESSION AND INTELLECT

1. OVER VISIBLE TATTOOS

Respectable Living 101 suggests that you try not to tag yourself in a way so you're limited in life from the beginning with making a choice like this. Unless you plan to be in the profession of body art, there is always going to be a limit on how much money you can make, which kind of people will accept you, what kind of life you can lead with...well, looking like a convict. These so-called badges of pride will leave you with little respect from others that could help you excel and advance in the real world.

2. TYLER PERRY

As a friend's sister eloquently put it "I have little respect for someone that makes their living [and large amount of success] by exploiting the short comings of Black people." Instead of putting something on the screen that would stimulate and educate our brothers and sisters this presenter of "Coonery Baffoonery" (-Spike Lee) makes millions on degrading Black folk on the screen and tails in a sordid "message" to trick the viewer into thinking what they have just seen was deep and insightful, nice try.

3. LIL' WAYNE

The most dangerous force that propels this guy is the admiration from today's youth. A drug trafficking, slack jawed, ill mannered, foul-mouthed pop star has the undivided attention of today's youth culture. Children have him so "down to a science" that their permanently marking themselves in obvious ways to keep within that box of non further advancement (bringing us back to point #1 Visible Tattoos), and if anyone doesn't accept you now that you've branded yourself for life, its their problem--more like you're going to grow up to scrub their toilets for a living.

Happy Black History Month

IDA B. WELLS
(aka Ida Bell Wells-Barnett; aka "Pistol Packin' Mamma" b. July 16, 1862–March 25, 1931)








Civil rights activist Ida B. Wells presented the fact that African-Americans had to take law into their own hands for personal protection by baring arms in their homes since they were living in a nation that was doing little to protect them anyway: "a Winchester Rifle should have a place of honor in every black home; and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give". Wells, being an anti-lynching advocate during her time, was a firm believer in armed protection of the black race due to all of the violence that was inflicted upon them from all aspects of racism: segregation, fear tactics and murder. Later examples of injustice for blacks such as the Emmett Till* incident showed blacks had very few to count on to be on their side...the only logical solution, according to Wells and many followers, was to 'fight fire with fire' in defense.
Wells also noted one of the most effective ways to drain the powers of the white supremacy was to drain their finances. This led to several boycotts of white owned businesses that were often frequented by blacks yet still offered no reciprocating respect or even consideration: "the appeal to the white man's pocket has never been more effectual than all the appeals ever made his conscience". Ida expressed concern over the social inequalities so she also formed arguments for boycotting white businesses to hurt the racist power sufficiently: in its pocket.

*Emmett Till an African American boy from Chicago, Illinois, who was murdered at the age of 14 in Money, Mississippi, after reportedly whistling at a white woman






Buffalo Soldiers
originally were members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, formed on September 21, 1866 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.



Although several African-American regiments were raised during the Civil War to fight alongside the Union Army (including the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and the many United States Colored Troops Regiments), the "Buffalo Soldiers" were established by Congress as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army.

On September 6, 2005, Mark Matthews, who was the oldest living Buffalo Soldier, died at the age of 111. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

the nickname was given out of respect for the fierce fighting ability of the 10th cavalry; Some believe Native Americans called the black cavalry troops "buffalo soldiers" because of their dark curly hair, which resembled a buffalo's coat. Still, other sources point to a combination of both legends. The term Buffalo Soldiers became a generic term for all African-American soldiers. It is now used for U.S. Army units that trace their direct lineage back to the 9th and 10th Cavalry, units whose service earned them an honored place in U.S. history.


W.E.B. DuBoise
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963)






DuBoise emphasized the education for African-Americans on all age and scholastic levels, "intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge for the world that was and is and of the relation [of] men to it--this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life." DuBoise also stipulates there is need for outright demand of social equality for Blacks in America: "We want laws enforced against rich as well as poor; against Capitalists as well as laborers; against white as well as Black."

Historian David Levering Lewis wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism— scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity."

In 1888 Du Bois earned a degree from Fisk University, a historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee.

Du Bois wrote many books, including three major autobiographies. Among his most significant works are The Philadelphia Negro (1899), The Souls of Black Folk (1903), John Brown (1909), Black Reconstruction (1935), and Black Folk, Then and Now (1939). His book The Negro (1915)

in his epic work Black Reconstruction, Du Bois documented how black people were central figures in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, and also showed how they made alliances with white politicians.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY

IF YOU ARE A BLACK MAN, THIS IS FOR YOU.

IF YOU ARE A BLACK WOMAN, THIS IS FOR YOU.

IF YOU ARE AMONG ANY SOCIAL OR MUSICAL AFFILIATION WHICH UPHOLDS POPULARITY AMONG THE MASSES FOR THE SAKE OF SALES, THIS IS FOR YOU.

IF YOU ARE A PARTICIPANT / VICTIM OF THE URBAN SUBCULTURE KNOWN AS "THUG LIFE" THIS IS FOR YOU

IF YOU TOO ARE WORRIED ABOUT YOUR RACE AS A PEOPLE, THIS IS FOR YOU

IF YOU HAVE UNPROTECTED SEX, THIS IS FOR YOU

IF YOU HAVEN'T READ ANYTHING ASIDE FROM A PERIODICAL (MAGAZINE) IN A REALLY LONG TIME, THIS IS FOR YOU!!!





MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)



information directly cited from

Nobelprize.org
(http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html)


Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.

In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.



Selected Bibliography

Adams, Russell, Great Negroes Past and Present, pp. 106-107. Chicago, Afro-Am Publishing Co., 1963.

Bennett, Lerone, Jr., What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Chicago, Johnson, 1964.

I Have a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King in Text and Pictures. New York, Time Life Books, 1968.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., The Measure of a Man. Philadelphia. The Christian Education Press, 1959. Two devotional addresses.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Strength to Love. New York, Harper & Row, 1963. Sixteen sermons and one essay entitled "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence."

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Stride toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. New York, Harper, 1958.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience. New York, Harper & Row, 1968.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? New York, Harper & Row, 1967.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Why We Can't Wait. New York, Harper & Row, 1963.

"Man of the Year", Time, 83 (January 3, 1964) 13-16; 25-27.

"Martin Luther King, Jr.", in Current Biography Yearbook 1965, ed. by Charles Moritz, pp. 220-223. New York, H.W. Wilson.

Reddick, Lawrence D., Crusader without Violence: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, Harper, 1959.

From Nobel Lectures, Peace 1951-1970, Editor Frederick W. Haberman, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972

This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished in Nobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.



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