Poem: My Clinched Fist.....

My Clinched Fist

A Poem By Brother Tracy Gibson

Yes I Clinch My Fist

From Time to time...

It is out of respect for the many

Hundreds of Black

People who have made things

Easier for me...

Or who dies for me in the struggle

\Or in the Middle Passage

[Thies bones now at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean]

It is to shake thing up for

The ``too comfortable''

And let the oppressor

Know who I am

and What I want

And that I am far from satisfied and that I am unfraid

Of his bullets, bombs and bayonets

It is for people who

Have paved the road and the Way, though it

Still be bumpy at times,

For me to follow

It is for people like.....

Those on my Freedom Wall:

Ms. A Harris

Aretha Franklin

Samuel F. Yette

Robert Mason

The Late Writer / Visionary / College Professor Manning Marable

Bradley Manning -- [Who may well be being tortured as I write this...]

Delbert Africa

Denise Nichols

Trent Pettus

Chancellor Williams

Brother Tracy Gibson

Vicky Wilmore [For the Courage to be a Grandmother to Nine Black male children]

Author Leslie Peterson

Ms. Iola Nelson-Harper

Ms. Kim Nelson

My eight Adopted SOns

The African American Freedom And Reconstruction League

My Eight Little Cousins and the REst of My Family

Charles S. Gibson And Beverly McCullough

Filmmaler Michael Moore

Steven Biko

Charles Ogaltree

Given Shakur and Sons

Marcus Garvey

Keith Bright

Muhammad Ali

Sistah Claudia [Aziza] Gibson Hunter

Huey P. Newton

Doctor Keith Hunter

The Liberation Book Store

Dennis J. Kucinich

Marie Nelson

Barbara Lee

Art and Stevie, and John Speer

Brother Brian Robinson and Brother Carlos Carter of UFCCP

Charles Gilpin

Brother Denzel Washington

Pastor Jeffery Haskins

Chris Blandfor from Adodi Philadelphia

Greg Reis

Gregory Jones and His Lover

Minnie Ripperton

Boris

Brother Paul Darling

BJ Tillman

Kamau Hunter

Jeffery Osborn

Anoa Hunter

Sistah Rosita Johnson

Minister Rodney Muhammad

Sistah Debbie Moore

Author Walter ROdney

Erth, WInd and FIre...

Mother Charlotte from UFCCP

Tyrone Smith

Doctor Ben

Minister Louis Farrakhan

Reverend Jesse Jackson

Chikh Anta Diop

The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.

Attorney / Activist Michael Coard

Earl Graves III

Medgar Evers

Chaney, Swerner Etc.

The FOuor Little Girls

Ms. Carris Engram

Reverend Al Sharpton

Wanda Wheeler

Brother Bruce Harvey

Brother Aaron DOnnerson

Brother Steve from Adodi

Delmar Thompson

Brother Haynes

Elsie Erwin

Sistah Gwyn Lawrence

Arthur A. Edens

Eve Thornton and Her Husband Levy

Cheryl and DOn FIscher

Godfrey Sithole

Ella Baker

Rosa Parks

The Queen Mother of South Africa Winnie Mandela

Senator Robert F. Kennedy

Senator Paul Wellstone

Malcolm X

Cynthia McKinney

Filmmaker Mrlon Roggs

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad

James Baldwin

Paul Robeson

Essex Hemphill

Harold Washington

Reverend Paul Washington

Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis

Clifford A. Rawlins

Ida B. Wells

Darrell Waters

Bill Smith

bell hooks

Old Time Activist and Trouble Maker Bill Hill

[Who was like a Father to Me]

Berta Jobert

The SIster who Started the New Democratic Party Down South

And Walked out on the 1964 COnvention

Charles Harp

Yupac Chakur

Michael Otis

Common

Stokley Carmichael

Maurics Bioshop

Ernesto Che Guevarar

Sister Falaka Fattah

Angela Davis

Ernesto Philpotts

Caesar Chavez

Asada Shakur

The Reverend Leon Sullivan

Spike Lee

Writer Joe Beam

Bishop Desmond Tutu

Bishop Carl Bean

AIDS Activist Arnold Jackson

Poet Audre Lorde

Patrice Lumumba

Professor John Henrik Clarke

Jose Martine

Hugo Chavez

Binta Edwards

Ardie Brown

Phylicia Rashad

Phillis  Hyman

Phyllis Wheatley

Harriet Tubman

Zachariah Jones

Gwendolyn Brooks

David P. Richardson

Pattie LaBelle

Senator Chris Coons

Senator Russ Feingold

Brother Rob Gray and Sister Silvia Gray

Maisha Sullivan

Aunt Helen Peterson

Mao Se Tung

Aunt Doris Thornton

Oaula Peoples

Daniel Ortega

Author Eduardo Galeano

Uncle Irv Thornton

and

Charlene Arcila

Sarah Burton

Cheryl Smith

Audrey Skeete

Mother Doris Lofton

and

Author Frantz Fanon

Mrs. Jessie M. Gibson.....

The Nation of Islam

Poet Sistah Sonya Sanchez

And Many Others too many to mention

It is for their continuing legacy

That I raise my Fist and

Fi=or this I do NOT apologize.....!!

But Remember, my fist,

Like the Thousands of other clinched fists,

Are not clinched

All the time.....

We also lend a hand where there os

a Fire or a disaster and open our hands

When the collection plae comes around

in church.....

We also pass the food around when there are needy people

in our midst...

We also stretch out our hands

And our arms to hug the ones we LOVe

And Care for

We also spend money with our hands,

in Black Communities.....

and at Black stores

Our hands are NOT always clinched...

But a time will come when you will

Realize in a steady and on-going fashion

The work that we have done

To help you maintain that job you are so satisfied with

OR

That job you hate and want to give up...

[It is a job none the less]

So let us do our Job....

And Our Work 

nd Clinch our fists at times.....

It is Well and Necessary

Freedom To The People NOW!!!

I clinch my fist.......

With PRide, Dignity and a Positive Temperament

I clinch my fost

As long as there is a foot on my neck

With Pride, Digniety and Positive Temperamant

I am Proud to be Gay

I have the Dignity of a Black man who sprang

from The Ancients

I have the Positive Temperament

of a man who wants to see and is dedicated to positive change

TODAY!!!

NOT Tomorrow or next week.........

A clinched fist is NOT something to scuff at or take lightly.....

Anger, defiance, oilitical resentment and oppression

Are all serious business

And harsh realities for far too many people on the face of

this great earth...

YES!!

I RAISE

AND

Clinch

My Fists!!

Get Used to IT!!!

Get Over IT!!!

And

MOVE on With Me to Help Others to see why

I Clinch My Fist.....

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Why Do Church Choirs not need the Most Gifted of Voices?

What About Talent and the CHurch Choir

Brother Tracy Gibson



I never understood why the church choir does not need the most gifted of voices. Why is it that we as Black Church goers and Black Church Choir Leaders, allow ``just any body'' to join the church choir?  My feeling is we come to church to praise GOD and lift out hearts and voices to GOD.... Certainly we should allow the best voices for the choir the opportunity to sing.  Those of us who are horse and sound as if a frog in in our neck SHOULD NOT be allotted the right to sing. I CAN'T SING a LICK!!! Yet my church choir [At the Unity Fellowship Christ Church of Philadelphia] was clamoring for me to join. I never did, insisting that I would think, you had better sing like Gabriel or Aretha Franklin if you want to truly raise your voice to GOD and be Blessed in doing so.  Later I joined the adjoining church to our regular church's choir [That would be the Arch Street United Methodist Church, My regular church is the Unity Fellowship Christ Church of Philadelphia--also [both sharing the building] at 55  North Broad Street in Philadelphia--I joined the Arch Street Church choir because they had so few members, weak voices and were a congregation of mostly Homeless, Disenfranchised and Poor People.  They needed me desperately.  The Unity Fellowship Christ Church of Philadelphia has a stupendous choir called Quiet Fire--the last thing they needed was someone sounding like a frog messing up their sound.  Quiet Fire is the Brain Child of Phil Hughes, the Choir Director.  It is a small choir, but one that is multi-talented, respected, Blessed, and doing the work GOD intended.  Brother Phil has created something truly beautiful in this All-Men's choir and it is something to be respected, cherished and loved.  [Check out the Howard Gospel Choir below sing ``Lift Every Voice and SIng'' and you will see what I mean.  If you can't sing, do something else for the church. ] GOD Still loves people with those horse voices, but why embarrass your church--there is so much to do like fight hunger in the community; make sure HIV and AIDS testing is available and paid for by supporting organizations like Blacks Educating Blacks About Sexual Health Issues; and generally fighting for more economic opportunities for Black people [Black Youth especially] and work against crime, sexual abuse, bullying, and poverty.  GOD BLESS YOU!!!









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Why We Need Your Support...!!!

We Need Support From The Community to Continue Our Important Work

Brother Tracy Gibson

We need your support because... We are organizing and planning to start a Black business endeavor that, we know,will change the picture of Our Economic situation as Black People in the Delaware Valley.It Will take time, it Will take effort,It Will take money. It will create jobs for Black youth NOW!!! We are developing a Business Plan for an effort called ``The Knowledge Hut Store...''The ideea is a simple one.We Will bring Books, DVDs,Cd's,Posters,Tee-Shirts,Greeting Cards and a few healthy nutritional items in front of our youth for them to select from.ALL the items will be selected by us to reflect good viable,healthy and ethical social values and build good habits and strong minds and bodies among our Black youth such as doing homework, reliability, responsibility, obeying the Law, respect for elders and others in our community who are working towards our collective good, and other such strongly positive constructive values such as generally being helpful and productive and staying out of trouble while achieving in school.  We also want to project our being against bullying....

We need help in  getting this idea off the ground.  Please log onto our goggle Page by Putting the Name ``Brother Tracy Gibson'' into Google and looking up ``The Politics of Real'' you will be able to read some of the articles there.  These articles reflect a new Way of thinking that can improve on values, end corruption in Government and the Corporate sector, and change ALL our lives for the better.  If you are so inclined, you might want to send us a donation for the work we are doing. We only want you to send between FIVE and TEN dollars.  You Will be contacted as to where to send it. [We only want money from people who have shown an interest in helping turn things around for the community to the positive.]  We always need stamps for the postings we send out to positively advocate for issues of concern to the Black community such as: jobs for youth; eating healthy foods and losing weight; staying in shape once you get into shape; attending Mosque and or Church; introducing positive concepts that Will help in the positive and sustainable economic development of the Caribbean and Africa; lower inner City unemployment rates in  the U.S.; ending the crippling economic blockade of Cuba; interacting more positively with Black stars and celebrities to help them bring more money and economic assistance back into the Black community; and looking at the root causes of the AIDS crisis in the Black community and how to find solutions...

If you are not interested in building jobs for young Black People or doing any of the other positive things we have mentioned here, we hope you will write us and let us know what are some of the positive things we can help YOU work with to turn our community  around.  Please don't throw this flier on the ground or in the  trash.  We want you to take the responsibility to give it to another Brother of Sister who is  of a mind  to make positive change or who  you think can make a difference with  a little help and coaxing.Write us @ BLockBoi75@Yahoo.Com

Or Call: 1.215.471.64.94 and ask for Brother Tracy Gibson or a Representative.....

This Article is still being edited.....

For My Homeless Friends......

I have one small suggestion that I am sure will help stabalize and make whole more than a few lives among the people who come to the Church Missions for Dinner.......

It would be great if financial counceling could also be provided.  One person said the men and women were King [or Queen] for a Day because that is how long they are able to hold onto their money that is supposed to last for a whole month.  The reality is We as poor, disenfranchised and / of Homeless People are only getting about 1/3rd of what it actually takes to Live on with any kind of decency, respect and GRACE--1/3rd!!!

That settled, there are things  We as poor, disenfranchised and / or Homeless People can do to make things easier for ourselves.

*Not buy fast food in such a hurry and in such quantities [especially sodas], ``100% Beef'' Burgers, french fries

Let The Boycotts Begin!!! Power to the WE!!

Corporations [Nasty Ones] To Boycott--If You are Interested!!!

1]Haliburton

2] McDonald's

3] Coco Cola

4] British Petroleum

5] Chick Fillet

6] Monsanto

7] Exxon

I thank you for your cooperation and guidance.

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