Poem : Love

by Patrica Britt

LOVE

Love is everything.
Love is the real thing.
Love makes you sing.
Love makes you believe,
You can do anything.

True Love stands the Test of Time.
Devotion to Emotion.
Is the Essence of LOVE.
Being to Being.
Soul to Soul.
Forever and a day is really OK.

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Kids Corner : Halloween Sweetness

by Patricia Britt

This is a night of ghosts, goblins, grimlins, and things that go bump in the night.

This is a week of keeping children's tender hearts safe while they trick, or treat at downtown business sponsored events, and the brisk streets with crunchy orange, tan, and brown autumn leaves.

Thirty years ago kids could trick or treat on Halloween by themselves without parents watchful eyes bringing home pillow cases full of sweet goodies like tootsie rolls, and sweet tarts. Even then it was the dawn of twisted malicious minds putting razor blades, and pins in candy for innocents to consume.

Now with the watchful eyes of police, and parents, kids can still have fun playing dress up as angels, fairies, warlocks, and superheroes one spooky week each year.

Song

Double Dutch Bus by Frankie Smith

Quotes

Ignacio Estrada If a child can't learn the way we teach, 
maybe we should teach the way they learn.

Graham Greene There is always one moment in childhood 
when the door opens and lets the future in.

Jokes

Question: How does an elephant open his trunk?
Answer: With a key.

Q: Why was 6 afraid of 7?
A: Because 7, 8, 9.

Q: What do elves learn in school?
A: The elf-abet.

Q: What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work?
A: A stick. 

Q: What is a ghosts favorite position in soccer?
A: Ghoul keeper.


Poem 

A Child's Light

Children are the light of the world.
Kids make you smile,
And act so wild.
From ga ga goo goo,
To I love you.

Monopoly,
Go Fish,
Operation,
And Play Doe,
Baseballs,
Basketballs, 
Soccer, 
Checkers,
Tennis,
Kites,
Merry go rounds,
Swings & Things.

Roller Skating,
Dancing,
Music, 
Cards,
Boomerangs, 
Bikes, 
Puppies, 
Merry Go Rounds,
And Frizbees in the park.

Sing along songs,
Campfires,
Beaches,
Hula Hoops,
And Summer fun,
Are a kids arena,
In a kids dream,
To be sure,
To keep you forever young.

Reading until the sun goes down.
A child's light makes you feel shiny,
And new through,
And through.


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Don't forget about http://www.toysfortots.org/default.aspx this year.

http://www.ducksters.com  fun with jokes, science, and other info




https://www.google.com/search?q=cartoon+animation+images&oq=cartoon+animation+images&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.12549j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8

Modern Women : The Marilyn Complex

by Patricia Britt

Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Carmen De Lavallade, Audrey Hepburn, Gladys Knight, Barbara McNair, Demi Moore, Beverly Johnson, Iman,  Tia Carrere, Halle Berry, Jennifer Hudson, Tyra Banks, Angela Bassett, Sophia Loren, Sheila E, Mel B, Leona Lewis, and the Kardashian girls are testaments to brunette power, however it's been said blondes have more fun. Now that changing the color of your hair from, green to blue to honey blonde, or platinum is at every woman's command like changing your shoes ... Women of today are not confined by any barriers beyond the equality of the dollar, and their quintessential strength. Income equality is still out of reach for the majority of women, although it's getting better, and better with time.

Most modern female entertainers have mastered the soft feminity of Marilyn Monroe in a cat suit, packed with Charo's "Gucci Gucci" excitement. Translating to a percentage of every day women who compete as a given necessity in this century for men's attention, and a chance at the female Superbowl ring. Entertainers know the easiest way to launch a bank account is by being a blonde boom boom glitter girl, with razzamatazz for days. With the advent of Bravo television reality shows about self absorbed women, and spin offs across network platforms have some everyday women thinking, not to be outdone are adopting a flashy strategy to keep their man from getting lost in various platforms of virtual reality, and taking them for granted in the real world, or keeping their distance for fear of a selfish vs selfless woman to settle down with.

Some women like men, are saying whatever it takes to get to the next level of love, or business is a practical step whether it is a conscious, or sub conscious decision in many cases with their children in mind. Women are jewels to be cherished whether quiet, or bold.

If a woman walks down the street in a bikini she's still in a protected class, and no means no. She's similar in that case to young black men with saggy pants. They think they're being fashionable, so they follow the crowd, and wear what suits them, even if it means McDonalds, Wendys, Taco Bell, Subway, or Burger King might be the only place willing to hire them. We live in times when a woman can dress any way she pleases, whether it's like an entertainer on stage, uniquely, or like Dianne Keaton in the public sphere, and it's all acceptable. Women's opinions are on many levels about femininity, style, and assertiveness, some women keep the goodies hidden, and others display them 24/7, just weekends, or every now, and then. It's all a matter of choice up to the individual woman, based on her confidence level, sensitivity level, and profession.

Yesterdays songs were filled with supreme love, and angst. Today's tracks are telling each other what we won't accept as women, while men are telling us what they desire with a dash of romance still around.

Perhaps 2016 will be the year of love creating the bronze age of hollywood.

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Pillow Talk by Sylvia

blob:https%3A//www.youtube.com/139b9167-602c-43be-8bb3-92d463199968

Starship by Norman Conners

Brahms Lullaby by Jewel

https://youtu.be/Y0eASoAXTx0

Summer Breeze by the Isleys

Patti Labelle Somebody Loves You Baby

I Try by Talib Kweli featuring Mary J. Blige

https://youtu.be/nlQjK6vpgzQ

Cowboys to Girls by the Intruders

https://youtu.be/1_yh70iCx6I

Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel by Tavares
https://youtu.be/bmzWzfd2WN0

You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else by the Jones Girls

Haven't You Heard by Patrice Rushen

Square Biz by Teena Marie

Golden by Jill Scott
Pray by Rebecca St. James

I Try by Angela Bofield

Back to Life by Soul II Soul
25 Miles To Go by Edwin Starr
Honey by Mariah Carey

Soul Makossa by Manu DiBango 

Dancer by Gino Soccio

Nothing Can Come Between Us by Sade

Love Song by Adele
Escape (Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes

Love is in the Air by Paul Young

Hero by Enrique Iglesias
'll Be Good To You by Brothers Johnson

It's the Real Thing by Angela Winbush
Baby Come To Me by Patti Austin & James Ingram Ava Maria by Celine Dion

Quote

Quote by Mae West: When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

2 Hours of Sleep Songs for babies ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVDgVe1yGOg

Must See Movie : The Women http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430770/
All Star Cast : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430770/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm

Movie ~ The Statistical Price of Fame

by Patricia Britt

Will Smith. Mr. Summertime Independence Day is so wise. He chose a good woman to be by his side, built a family, and an empire. Concussion is due out Christmas. Lets support this Academy award contenderhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt3322364/ by supporting him you support a loving family. Muhammad Ali's the only guy who's got anything on the Fresh Prince's lessons in perseverance.

With this critical time in sports rules modification you will undoubtedly think about the price star athletes like Tony Dorsett paid, even though he got paid tremendous amounts of money to be the best.

As a woman I get more excited to see those guys run for yards than getting tackled. Ouch! Google Tony Dorsett's 99 yard touchdown to see the glory days in Internet infinity. Unnecessary roughness will inevitably be a thing of the past. I have to believe this movie being made at this time is in part a tribute to the Tony Dorsett's of the world who gave us many Sundays of thrilling smiles.

Give the gift that keeps on giving dignity, with a sense of humour is the essence of the Fresh Prince legacy. He's won lucky guy. If getting into rap was a lark, it worked out well.

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www.patbritt.blogspot.com, www.pmbritt.blogspot.com

Tony Dorsett Touchdown - click on link below.

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search…

Concussion movie trailer http://www.movieinsider.com/m12723/concussion/

Songs 

Hughes Corporation Rock the Boat https://youtu.be/KWEn-a3wD48

Hot Chocolate - You sexy thing 1975

Ernie Isley Fairweather Friend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0J0A6YBjo0

Ernie Isley - Fare Thee Well, Fair-Weather Friend

Stormy Weather & If You Believe sung by Lena 

Hornehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMf0Z7EPdLo

Spooky by Atlantic Rhythm Section

https://youtu.be/cMAo0m4E4Lc

Mona Lisa by Nat King Cole

Walking in Rhythm by Blackbyrds

Unbreakable by Alicia Keys https://youtu.be/2xUuIdDJj7E

Pleasure Principle by Janet Jackson

Places & Spaces by Donald Byrd

Like a Love Song Baby by Selena Gomez
You Ought To Be Having Fun by Tower of Power

2015 CNN Democratic Debate

by Patricia Britt

The 2015 Democratic debate on CNN as compared with the Republican debate.

The majority of the second Republican debate was about war, and rumours of war.

The Democratic debate was about people.

Bernie Sanders showed he was a gentleman defending Hillary Clinton on the email controversy, and let the voters know the Republican campaign superpacs are funded by the fossil fuel industry, therefore clean air, and climate change is not a Republican priority. Look out for some "Superstorms" on the horizon if there's a party change.

Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley, and Bernie Sanders last two minutes was the best summation of what they stand for.

https://www.democrats.org/person/donna-brazile

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See www.cnn.com for video

Togetherness : Poem 2011 Reprinted from Blue Print Concepts

“Togetherness”

by Patricia Britt

I dream of you.

You dream of me.

I love you.

You love me

Togetherness is so cozy!

You’re my buddy,

My soul mate too.

You’re so true blue.

We run together.

We are one,

In the light of the son,

Through whatever may come!

Copyright 2011

$15.00 Laminated poetry available by contacting zimation ~@gmail.com

Love : Poem 2011 reprinted from Blue Print Concepts

Love, what is it to you? Is it the easiest, and most essential element, or the most difficult elusive mutual state of existence to grasp? Isn't it true love that makes the world go round, and makes living, working, and striving so much better! So let love rule and see where love takes you.with loving vibes around you...

Love Is All That Matters

by Patricia Britt

Love is all that matters,

When love makes your heart soar.

Love makes your heart race,

to keep pace.

Love is the utmost high

that can make you fly & touch the sky.

Soaring hearts together as one,

are very mello.

Souls united make everything right.

When love is right every night is bright.

When love is found you wanna stay around.

Mighty love strengthens the soul at any age, 
it sets the stage, 

for your heart to expand!

Copyright 2010 - Rev. 2013

Here are some sites on love for you to explore:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Love

Love is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. In philosophical context, love is a virtue representing all of human's kindness, compassion, and affection.

• www.answers.com/topic/love
• www.love.com

• www.lovecalculator.com

• www.wikihow.com/Love

   

• en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Love

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ~ eden ahbez

• dictionary.reference.com/browse/love 

–noun 1. a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.

Blue Print : Poem 2010 reprinted from Blue Print Concepts Blog

“Blue Print”

by Patricia Britt

I gave you a blueprint for life.

You followed my instructions to a t.

I see you & you see me.

Now I’m free to be me,

And run with the wind,

Signs & wonders through time without end.

I’ll be watching your steps as always.

Through your hearts we win.

A love supreme is what I’ve known,

And give to you to carry on.

Pulling together in a huddle,

To determine plans for tomorrow.

Like I taught you have no sorrow.

Character, grace, & charm is our mindset.

I’ll lift you up when you get down,

And guide you as I always have.

I saw your dreams come true.

I’ve done all I can do.

I followed God’s precepts.

Heaven is my reward.

Apply your hearts to wisdom as we’ve always done.

Proclaim his name we pray.

I yield the balance of my time.

Copyright 2010 Zimation Poetry & Arts

A poem for your spiritual leader whether it was a family member, or public leader.

Race, Violence & Envy : James Blake's Motivation

by Patricia Britt

Serena Williams lost the 2015 US Open. What happened? Could it be her emotions were effected by what did, and what could have happened to her friend on the way to see her assured victory?

At the top of his game James Blake ranked number 4 in the world on the tennis circuit. Now he's involved in another game. The game of justice for the masses. In the video we've viewed this past week of James Blake's encounter with a New York police officer he goes limp when he's tackled to the ground which could have saved his life by not resisting in any way, and 100 % cooperating with the officer even though he was cuffed for 10 - 15 minutes. The considerations of violent possibilities, and outcomes are endless.

In Blake's ABC, and CNN interviews he said treatment like that isn't fair because it effects a whole family. Initially Blake didn't want to respond to his internal wounds, and just let the matter go until his wife convinced him to speak up. It's understandable he was willing to let it go. He was known for winning on the field of tennis with respect, and dignity. He knew any comment would only prolong the risk of a negative perception by people unfamiliar with his tennis accomplishments, that might want to believe he'd done something to deserve it in blind loyalty to the police. He must have considered that in speaking up he ran the risk of being smeared with the repetition of the incident throughout the Internet through infinity.

Then it must have clicked in mind that he would have to live with the opinions of people embracing, or rejecting his story even with video? Perhaps he thought, if he has small children, he has to see the story through for them to search out, and read someday when the kids think back to the day that daddy was so sad.

James Blake announced that he's chosen to be a bridge through the miscommunication in New York between police, and young black men, and open a dialog between the mayor, and police department, because he is an individual with indisputable character who became a public victim of the evident resentment some white people have toward black men whether they're in a suit, and tie or saggy pants due to perceptions, and projections.

James Blake plans to articulately approach the representatives of the City of New York with how to make it a better, and safer place for everyone involved, essentially saying if a small percentage of police are making the larger percentage look bad through their actions then the city needs to look at alternate policies. If race turns out to be the precipitating element in all its citizens safety, because perception matters in a just calm country that can be measured in institutions based on objective facts it will be an indisputable example. If only there was a way to change the 5 % who aren't police officers to see, and treat everyone as equal, but it won't happen this decade nor probably the next, because fairness moves incrementally slow when the ether of concern is ultimately about dollars, cents, and prestige. Some of us admire each other for our strengths, and tenderness while some of us could careless about each other in whatever profession.

The police officer's intent to make physical contact with James Blake might have been based on his accumulated perceptions of men of color. He didn't know James Blake was a retired athlete when he tackled him? But America has to have the conversation about white males resentment of blacks not only from crime ratio statistics, but from resentment of so many millionaire black athletes, and esteemed black, and brown professionals at every level, possibly taking out aggression on the poor, because they can't touch who they wish they could?

James Blake was thrust into a spotlight he's secure in from his past fame as an athlete geared towards excellence. I hope he's able to make a difference in the country as time goes by. I would guess that 95% of police officers become police officers to protect, and serve that have now universally been cast as bad guys because they've been tarnished by the visual reality of the 5% who might join the force in order to hurt people if given an opportunity to do so.

In addition to the eyewitness events in the news, Hollywood plays a  major role in law enforcement perception from great movies about the 5% of bad police like Internal Affairs (Richard Gere), Training Day (Denzel Washington), House Party (Kid & Play), and so many others about the dark side. Years ago we used to have pure portrayals of police officers like Andy Griffith in Mayberry, or Marshall Dillon on Gunsmoke. Now we have shows with the complexity faced today where no one is 100% good, or 100% bad like Tom Selleck's force in Blue Bloods, Hawaii 50, Criminal Minds (Shemar Moore), Law & Order (SVU), you name it. James Blake saw the reality of a single minded unchangeable intention to make him pay physically, perhaps for being a good looking guy, parked in front a swanky place he wished he could visit in his off hours, asking questions later?

Everyone on all sides of the equation involved in cases of perceived racism are wasting valuable time that prevents people from spending time respecting, acknowledging, and learning about each other in order to move faster toward scientific breakthroughs for the human race instead of being bogged down in cave man stupidity. There is currently a 2 million person technical shortage today in America. With full employment people would be able to spend their time thinking about love instead of their personal safety.

All it takes is 5% to hurt 95% whether it's with police officers, teachers, lawyers, judges, athletes, politicians, reporters, rabbis, pastors, priests, scientists, corporations, the plutocracy oops that's 1% in order to ruin any altruistic efforts to let each person live up to their potential. You can never recapture wasted time, or lives that could have made a difference like Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life for instance or in the disadvantaged youth who might have discovered the cancer cure if he'd lived, or been guided to greatness, diverted from joining the over-hyped ranks of the rap world where like athletes only about 5,000 become millionaires with no mortgage worries, with the ability to make a difference, shed light on reality, and, or create good vibes, and beatz.

James Blake's motivation is to enter a new phase of his life as a different kind of leader. To meet with police leaders motivated by the public good in New York, and perhaps elsewhere in time. He'll surely learn the statistics of black on black crime as well, as he immerses himself in what's going on that will require a nationwide team to stop the violence of internalized self-hatred absorbed from repetitive broadcasts of worthlessness causing some to hurt people, neglect their right to vote as an American birthright, precious to so many, or not to even lobby for a fair minimum wage, and except the status quo as their fate. What are the true percentages of lives gone wrong, lives gone right, and lives with possibility?

Violence stemming from envy is an American epidemic. Firefighter Dennis Rodeman was allegedly killed in a hit, and run by Grant Taylor in Lansing, MI while collecting money for a charity called Fill the Boot for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ( http://kfor.com/2015/09/10/firefighter-intentionally-hit-killed-by-car-while-collecting-donations-for-fill-the-boot-campaign/ , http://www.people.com/article/grant-taylor-murder-charge-dennis-rodeman-firefighter ).  Why on earth would someone run over a life saving fireman other than the envious, idiotic thought he's a goody two shoes? We've had too many sad chapters lately. It's time for a change in New York, and across the country with regard to letting people live, and let live. Not being envious of positive spirits from Hollywood to the streets.

God bless that handsome James Blake in his specific efforts to improve things in New York, and God bless America in general.


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"The Humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others." - by Julian Bond

"None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots." by Thurgood Marshall

Some people are cowards...I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice. by Tom Hanks

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour. by Tom Hanks

I like criticism. It makes you strong - LeBron James

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it. by LeBron James

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Songs ^ Free by Deneice Williams
            ^ Des'ree You Gotta Be
            ^ K-os ~ Man I Used To Be

            ^ Cupid by 112
            ^ Wishing on a Star ~ Rose Royce
            ^ Joy & Pain by Maze
            ^ Replay ~ Zendaya
            ^ Jason Derulo ~ Marry Me
            ^ AWB Soul Searching
       

Related Amateur Journalistic Opinion & Articles on how we've arrived where we are today.
October 5, 2015

People have known about Inaccurate textbooks in general for at least a decade.

https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/mcgraw-hill-to-rewrite-textbook-after-moms-170440446.html


People have raised the issue of corporations taking over prisons for at least a decade.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/for-profit-prisons


This article coupled with the two above might partially explain why OJ's alleged horrific crime is the equivalent to the Columbine slayers, and so on in media coverage over decades that subconsciously plants the seeds of assumed guilt, and hatred toward young black men for ratings profits on various channels with the added result of self hatred for possibly 10% of black men.

http://www.ew.com/article/1994/07/08/commercializing-oj-simpson-scandal


Upon a Google search of Thurgood Marshall's legacy erased here's what I came up.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=thurgood+marshall+legacy+erased

Upon a Yahoo search of Thurgood Marshall's legacy erased here's what came up.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=thurgood+marshall+legacy+erased

To spend time on these articles is to discover unconscious views materialized with the roughly 25% of the 2.4 million prison population being men of color. Where do we go from here if we really care about i.e. injustice, or coming together for each other?


Blacks live with two realities in regard to the police as both heroes, and villains.

1. Two of the Oregon heroes were policemen that don't want to praised as heroes.

2. Ronald Weekley Venice skateboarder lives with the joy of knowing he survived, and the lifetime pain of fear from what happened.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-venice-stakeborder-who-claimed-lapd-beat-him-loses-case-20140623-story.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EcdA_QaNvY

October 29, 2015

Many of us as citizens, and professionals need more compassion, and empathy. Many professionals need to be required to listen to Soul Searching by Average White Band, and His Eye is on the Sparrow by Deneice Williams while watching a 15 minute video on deescalation techniques to begin the day if interacting with the public is part of the job. police officers need annual psychological evaluations, in addition to body cameras.

Scientist have begun to study dark matter. Dark matter interacts in the universe with a visible effect, while being invisible itself. There are many effects on America, and the world. The concept of the Ferguson, and the Baltimore effect has become a topic of conversation, and concern. It might better be called the blue effect of say 5% of police officers. But the total effect is an equation: Blue Effect + Obama Effect (Landslide voting for a smart admirable guy by all ethnicities) + The OJ Effect + The Interfaith Effect + The Envy Effect + The Journalist Effect + The Budget Effect + The Fashion Industry Profit Effect + The Mariah Carey Effect + The Anti-Hero Effect + The Hollywood Effect + The Povich / Bravo TV Effect + The Dr. Oz Effect + The Legal Justice Seeker Effect + The Howling Love Effect + The Sportsmanship Effect + SPLC.org ap for smart phones effect + The Exploration / Quest Effect + The Pixels Effect. Add, subtract, multiply, and divide, and what does it all leave us with?

Five % of police say journalists, and citizens video taping them aren't their boss, and aren't helping by shedding light on the bad apples, but a silent majority are probably glad the 5% are being exposed for not being fair, so the good guys can uphold the standards of the job, come home each day after protecting citizens, community policing, coaching little league teams, and giving boots to homeless people. How can the good guys help but be ashamed of the bad guys? As any person from any ethnicity is sometimes ashamed, and sometimes proud of others heroic actions.

Police officers need to remain alert, however 10 minutes of instrumentals across the country at the beginning of each shift while watching a de-escalation video of the same length of time, certainly couldn't hurt moral, and community goals at this moment in time. I know there's a few DJ's in law enforcement somewhere who could put together 12 CD's for nationwide distribution to elevate, and illuminate perspectives. There could be a nationwide cops contest with a cash prize to submit the best CD to a cops board for review. For some cops it would release tension while proactively studying what's on youth's minds, while also studying the musical pillars of American thought in its evolution, and the heart of cops with multiple selections of the same songs across the country inevitably being submitted due to the Internets unifying connectivity. Basia's song New Day For You might even make the cut if an alternate dimension such as this is ever considered a practicality.

12 CD's to eventually be played in rotation for 5 years as quiet background in squad rooms at the start of each shift. Then order a new contest for a new set of 12 CD's. CD's that could even be used for policemen's charities. Each CD would include 1 song from 10 musical genres. 14 songs / tracks per CD. A national contest outline could be developed, perhaps sponsored by itunes, or universal entertainment, etc with perhaps each city competing within each state, then each state competing within the country for the best 12 CD's to be distributed to all police departments nationally, available online. Each department could work with a local radio station to sponsor the 12 policemen from each precinct who comes up with a selected song by his entire department.

There is a deep sadness among black men at being targets of so many hunters (pay day loan corporations) over such a long period of time with the extensively documented common knowledge in historic facts of runaway slaves to modern day tragedies at the hands of authorities, to sacrificing each other for personal gain, or envy, that has to be acknowledged, if not empathized with i.e. Bone Thugs n Harmony's classic modern day track "Crossroads." The definition of blackness is rising above sorrow, locking the joy of simplicity in your soul, when your avenues of elevation are blocked. If you study Dr. Ben Carson's hopeless circumstances, and analyze him today, you see the potential in every youth, as you do in President Barack Obama's hope principals, developed in the Hawaiian sunshine. It's time to change the climate of projection.

Deepak Chopra says we're all made of stardust. If we keep that concept in mind we might all look at each other as dazzling.

2015 Zimation Arts & Letters Ink

Deepak Chopra Quotes ~ http://thinkexist.com/quotes/deepak_chopra

“If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.”

www.deepakchopra.com

Meditation at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditation

SONGS

Person to Person by Average White Band 

A Fifth of Bethoven by Walter Murphy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MFbn8EbB4k

You Gotta Be by Des'ree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oZXJD1NVW0&feature=player_detailpage



A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwkej79U3ek&feature=player_detailpage

No One by Alicia Keys

October 31, 2015

America's fascination with the outlaw mentality didn't start yesterday. It's been ingrained for hundreds of years (Christopher Cross ~ Ride Like the Wind https://youtu.be/4SOu9MwlwrU) in all types of men. The weapons industry, coupled with the NRA have a stranglehold on youth in every ethnicity. Law enforcement has to consider their are bigger fish to fry than surly youth in saggy pants walking down the street, or driving with loud music, that are subject to lose their jobs, or life when confronted by law enforcement. A percentage of white men declare it is their right as Americans to have guns while some ethnic youths carry guns for protection from other youths. If black lives became more valuable to blacks as well as whites reversing the need to be armed, you'd still have 2nd Amendment whites armed for protection of life, property, and nefarious reasons. A percentage of Americans in authority across the spectrum of impactful professions have to work on the Twin Peaks of perception i.e. 1. Innocent, until proven guilty 2. Live & let live. 

If every one was given the benefit of the doubt maybe everyone could relax, and enjoy the sunshine in the spirit of cooperation in a perfect world ...


Note: Not only are there dignified statues of civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King  Jr., Thurgood Marshall, and Rosa Parks immortalized across this country in reflective repose, for changing this country's heart, there are also irrefutable statues of beatings in motion on southern American soil, cast in metal, lest anyone were to forget, and be condemned to make the same mistakes, again of enslaving people physically, spiritually, or economically.

The civil rights community should copyright a "flag," and sell it at the Civil Rights Museum to develop, and maintain one all encompassing go to web site about Civil Rights including statue images from across the country, just like the pink lapel ribbons sold to fight cancer.

God bless America.

2015 Copyright Zimation Arts & Letters Ink

Songs

Don't Disturb This Groove by System  https://youtu.be/0wqUDylYcnY

What is this by Bishop Walter Hawkins

Marvelous by Bishop Walter Hawkins 


Quote 

The right to vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have in a democracy.
by Congressman John Lewis

Also See Race: The Road to Unity earlier in this blog

See http://www.si.edu to learn more about valuing all this country has to offer.

See 60 Minutes Overtime for more on the slave ships & the slave trade October episode.
https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=iba&hsimp=yhs-1&type=rmds_5056_CRW_US&p=60+minutes+overtime+african+slave+ships



Post Script December 2015

On November 20, 2015 the A&E channel introduced a concert with Bruce Springstein, John Legend and others to eventually restore trust & peace between police & black youth communities supported by iheart music.

See concert iniatives here 
http://www.aetv.com/shows/shining-a-light-a-concert-for-progress-on-race-in-america

The Black Lives Matter movement was born from tragedies committed by non-blacks against blacks whether civilian, or police officer, specifically stemming from Trayvon Martin after George Zimmerman pulled the trigger. Explore their site for a key to understanding young black men who feel under siege. Excessive Force is not a part of their current platform.

http://blacklivesmatter.com/guiding-principles