Ms. Stacy Holland,
President and CEO
Of: Philadelphia Youth Network
714 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
1-215-471-6494
BLockBoi75@Yahoo.Com
Dear Sister Holland:
I hope you and your family are doing fine and Well.
I want to make some suggestions for your Corporation and your Foundation to
invest in. My Corporation, which is called ``Brother Tracy Gibson and
Associates, INc.'' has four components I am interested in getting
funding for and I am hoping you can help me because we are very much interested in the same thing--helping Our Youth!!! I am hoping we can work in partnership on some of these projects
because I am very much geared towards helping our youth and young adults. I
really think they need help and direction and I feel very strongly about this,
as I am a survivor of sexual and mental child abuse myself and have grown a Big
Heart for Black Youth especially. I hope you will remember me, I am the tall Brown gentleman who spoke last at the WURD Forum at the Franklin Institute last week. The four components I am working on which I want to talk with you about are as follows.
1} I have
three books I Really, Really want to publish. The first book is entitled: ``A
Grassroots Criteria for Liberation.'' This two parts of the same book {Parts I; and Part II} and is dedicated to
Black Youth and there issues. It also relates to Latin youth and any other poor,
disenfranchised and or disabled youth who need direction, help in thinking more
clearly, and a better attitude about life. It will also help many youth who are
identified as Same Gender Loving or Gay in their sexual orientation, as it
contains much of my life’s story as a Same Gender Loving Black man and a
political activist in the Philadelphia region for about 35 years. It is
designed to build better values in our young men and women including more
responsibility for the decisions they make; more respect for the people in the
community including peers, the elderly, their parents, teachers, guardians,
police and firemen; more dignity about themselves; more interests in Black
History and Blacks in antiquity; more interests in business, finance and
becoming an entrepreneur; more interests in education and learning etc. This
first volume is designed and told by telling my own personal story and
interjecting political analysis and old family stories with life-lessons,
celebrity profiles and reviews of artistic events included. I need
$40,000.00 to get these books published. The third book is entitled: ``Let
the Children Gather--A Fantasy World of Real Life Poems.'' It is a
book of poetry that reflects the high level of anger, frustration and
resentment that is ramped among Black male youth at being blocked out of the
economic and financial progress they see going on in their community and at
seeing what little progress they are allowed to make often become suppressed,
stolen and or ignored. I need $20,000.00 to publish this book. 2} I want to
start a mostly Black, but partially multi-cultural security firm to help
protect the growing and valued Black infrastructure across North America protect itself from racially motivated negative violence and other security problems such as theft and other forms of destruction. I
especially want to help Black businesses right here in West Philadelphia, South West Philadelphia and North
Philadelphia. I am in contact with a Miss Stephanie White who has a successful
security company in Dallas, Texas {1.469.230.1849} Address: Post Office Box
181947, Dallas Texas 75218. I have also been in touch with a Mr. August Scott
of Brooklyn, New York who worked several years for the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a security guard. I plan to hire both
of them as consultants as I begin the process of starting my own local security
firm. {You may know the story from the 1920's in Tulsa, Oklahoma where what was
called the ``BLACK WALL STREET'' was destroyed after a racial incident sparked
a White Supremest Riot.} We cannot afford to have our valuable Black
infrastructure destroyed in a matter of days when it took us 50 years to built
it up. {Not only were some 350 Black people
killed in Tulsa, but hotels, restaurants, large stores, funeral homes and other
types of businesses owned and operated by Black people were also destroyed and
burned to the ground.} We need $150,000.00 in seed money for our security firm
to be centered and headquartered in Philadelphia. We plan to hire former police
officers, firemen and fire women, veterans coming back from the two wars our
Nation has been involved in; and young people who desperately need full-time and
part-time employment in the Philadelphia region to work with us. We will have training in
Philadelphia and a full, state of the art, Green, environmentally friendly
building for our headquarters. 3} Another aspect of our corporation is called ``The
Knowledge Hut Business Plan and The Knowledge Hut On-Line Store.''
This store will provide CD's, DVD's, Movies, Tee-Shirts, Greeting Cards,
Posters, Books and a few light and healthy snack foods for young people to
purchase and for their parents and guardians to buy for them and sometimes, to
enjoy for themselves. Grandchildren, nieces, youth, children, cousins, second
cousins and nephews will find delight in the products and will also be gaining
an education in the strong values and ethics that are so lacking in our
communities. The ONLY Products to be sold in our stores will be those products
that uphold high community standards and values; represent positive social
values and positive knowledge and understanding of complex political issues.
The products will not just be thrown at our young customers, our parents and
grand parents and guardians, they will be specifically selected to build, again,
positive values in our young people such as responsibility, reliability,
punctuality, obeying the law, business ethics, not to bully or smoke, how to
start businesses in a tough economy and a tough business
environment, and how to negotiate out of problems and conflicts instead of using violence and
intimidation to solve problems--a lesson our own national government and many
corporations could use to learn. Many of the products we are planning to
sell we will produce at our own factory and we will hire some of the youth to get paid
good living wages for their efforts. {We are starting as an on-line store to
avoid the tremendous cost of building a modern, state of the art, Green factory
right in North, South West or West Philadelphia at first, but we don't think it will take
too long before our dreams come to life and our hard work pays off.} We did
test marketing of greeting cards and Tee-Shirts from April 2006 to September of
2007 at 3819 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, Penn 19104, when
we had an office here in Philadelphia's Powelton Village Section.
We will be Progressive and stress education and knowledge building in every aspect
of what we do. Our whole corporate effort is aimed at helping stabilize and
support our youth. Our Books will not be selected to titillate and sexually
excite {such books will not be sold by us}, but our Books will be selected to
educate, inform, build self-help and self-survival skills as well as build
self-esteem, self-respect, family values and other positive traits for the
Black Family to build from. They will also help stimulate intellectual growth
while helping develop good study habits, good hygiene and neighbor-building
skills as our young people learn how to get along with other races, other
religions and other types of people who are different from them. We are seeking
$450,000.00 for ``The Knowledge Hut Business Plan'' and ``The
Knowledge Hut Stores.'' {You can see our full Business Plan by going
to Google: inputting Brother Tracy Gibson: and clicking on ``The Politics of
Real'' This is my Blog. You will see a section that says ``The
Knowledge Hut Business Plan'' 4} Another component we are planning is
our Talent Agency--NOT YET NAMED... I remember once taking a tenant {I have
been a Landlord and Property Owner and Property Manager for 28 years}. I took a
tenant to try-out for an International Star-Search Program and fond a line
wrapped around the Hotel on City Line Avenue for 4 blocks!! I have people in my
church and in the Black community who I know who want to partner with me for
this aspect of the business. My church's name is The Unity Fellowship
Christ Church of Philadelphia, which is part of a network of some 30
churches across the country. I have family members who work in the
entertainment business who I am sure will also help with consulting on this
matter.
That is it in a nutshell!! I hope you can help. I
have some 35 years of dedicated work behind me as a community organizer and a
community activist. {Please see my Resume (Under Brother Tracy Gibson's Resume)
enclosed or on the Blog-- http://thepoliticsofreal.blogspot.com/
My Corporate EIN number is 27-0145705
I have contacted several Billionaires about my
ideas including: Warren Buffett and George Sorros.... But
neither of them have contacted me as yet. I hope you will give me a chance,
because what I want to do will work towards the betterment of our entire
country in the long run, as our Black youth stop being seen as a major
``problem'' and start to live active, productive, viable and proactive lives as solutions to our facing head on the problems of sustainability, economic self-sufficiency and energy independence.
The more we do to help our youth become viable and productive on the front end, the less
we will have to spend on the back end for prison space, food and shelter for them as ``vagrants and homeless people, and in the
court system, detention homes and the prison system. Our Youth deserve our attention and our help as well as our direction, care, appreciation and LOVe. I thank you for your
consideration.
Post Script: I deeply appreciate the work you
have done and continue to do through the various programs you have founded and
supported. GOD BLESS YOU!!!
CC: Hitch; Queen Latifa; Mr. Shawn Dove, Campaign Manager for the Open Society Foundation's Campaign for Black Male Achievement.
CC: Hitch; Queen Latifa; Mr. Shawn Dove, Campaign Manager for the Open Society Foundation's Campaign for Black Male Achievement.
Brother Tracy Gibson
Visionary--Businessman--Activist
213 South 49th Street
Philadelphia, Penn 19139-4205
12154716494
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