Black writer / community organizer applies for job at Universal Networks in Philadelphia

July 23, 2018 Monday

 

Universal Philadelphia 

 800 South 15^th Street

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  19145-1021

 

From: Mr. Tracy Charles Gibson

 670 North 41st Street

 APT B

 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 – 5202

 1 (215) 823 9985

 E-Mail: BrotherTracy11@GMail.Com

 

 Dear Mr. Gamble or Universal Associate:

 

    I hope & Pray you and your family are very well.  I met you for the second time when I attended the Universal Companies Men’s Health breakfast last year. I want to thank you for having this event because it helps people, Black men especially, get more real about health concerns and health issues.

      I am seeking employment opportunities with Universal Companies. I would make a good substitute teacher. I also have a great kitchen / food prep worker and am Serv.Safe certified.  I presently work for Girls & Boys Club [ Caring People Alliance ] at 3512 Haverford Avenue. ] I have a great many skills in community building and advocacy for the Black community which I have utilized as part of my concern for the Black community. I am sending you a resume which has much of the work I have done for the community listed.  A friend of mine worked for you recently and said it would be a great idea if I write you. I would Love to get a job as a school administrator because I want to run my own school one day soon.  I also have some fantastic ideas for business, but don’t have copyrights or business plans for many of them.  I am in need of grant money to have some of these ideas formalized so I can present them to serious Black businessmen like you.

 

     I look forward to talking to you in the future & would like to schedule an interview.

 

 Gratefully True,

 

 Tracy Charles Gibson

 

 Post Script: You should also know that I am disabled (bipolar) but very able to function in a work environment that is low to moderate in stress level. Again, thank you for your consideration and kindness.

a ``lovely'' note to SEPTA

MR. Mayor, As you know, I LOVe SEPTA. I basically think they do a wonderful job providing transit services for the City of Philadelphia.

     Recently they added the new Key Card. I think and feel this was a very, very bad idea.  I feel it takes, somehow, more money from the very poor than from the more wealthy SEPTA riders. I can't prove this, it is just a feeling, but I trust my feelings very much.  The Key Card also has a tendency to be very intrusive in that it provides, if I am not mistaken, all sorts of information on riders that local, state and federal agencies can use for whatever purposes they want. I Am officially asking for a boycott of the SEPTA Key Card.  I AM a Johnny-Come-Lately with this issue. A rebellion against the Key Card has been brewing for months.  They are very costly and they cut off at the end of the month even if you don't use it for the allotted 8 rides a day.  THIS IS, frankly, A BIG RIP OFF!  Now a days, you can't even buy a regular SEPTA Transpass from the Center City headquarters of SEPTA.  You have to go to a store like Fresh Grocer at 40th and Walnut or the one at Progress Plaza or the one at 56th & Market Street like I do to get the SEPTA tokens  { which are very much more user friendly } or the regular transpasses -- which are much better than the Key Cards and more user friendly as well.  Maybe I am an old head and anti-technology, but I know for sure that the new technologies are very unfriendly to users and also pulling apart our Black community socially. [ One only needs to watch How Black youth now walk through our Black communities and never speak to their neighbors or FAM elders because they are too busy listening to music on their headphones to speak and get to know neighborhood FAM. This has an impact on the effectiveness of gentrification efforts as well, as organizing youth can be difficult if you use traditional methods.  Us Ole heads only know traditional ways here. ]   I also want to see SEPTA for free if you make under $25,000.00 a year as I do. SEPTA takes a real bite out of everyone's pocket and this support for the poor will be and is a great help in helping poor families feed themselves, find and maintain housing, go to school and buy needed items like clothing.  The money can be found by cutting the so-called defense budget at the federal level, and more state money can kick in, as well as that $50 million missing dollars from City Council. This sounds strong and partisan, but let me remind you that I am a registered Republican, but NOT a supporter of the gentleman who occupies the White House.  I AM tired of seeing our so-called social programs fall victim to budget cuts every time we get a more conservative leader. At the same time, the Black community would not have to beg for everything if we had a stronger private Black corporate structure, such as is found in WURD Radio { 900 AM; 96.1 FM} & TV ONE.  This is why we also need strong security for our progressive Black businesses.  No one wants to see what happened in 1921 at the Black Wall Street happen again.

An Open Letter to John Legend about Clean, Pristine Water for All of AFRICA!!

An Open Letter

Dear John Legend,

I Am MR. Tracy ChaRles Gibson. A Black writer & Black activist living & working in West Philadelphia. I want to start an international campaign to raise money to help create more fresh water wells in ALL of Africa & provide fresh, clean, pristine water for AFRICA. [ As you might know, access to fresh clean water is a big advantage in helping to curtail many, many diseases in AFRICA and in many other developing or Third World nations as well as in developing nations such as the one we live in which the Native Americans call Turtle Island.].

     I will use a large portion of the money collected to & distribute through a process we can agree on with the help of my lawyer MR. Ronald harper of Philadelphia. //


    I am contacting T. D. Jakes and Bishop of Potter's House Church and  Senior Pastor Alyn E. Waller of Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church locally in Philadelphia to help with this important work.

[ My lawyer, Mr. Ronald Harper, Esquire,  can be reached at 1 [ 215 ] 844 – 4848, Address – 140 Maplewood Avenue Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19144 . If his assistance is needed.]

      I can be reached at 1 [ 215 ] 823 – 9985. My home / office address is 670 North 41^st Street Apartment B Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  19104  --  5202. The best time to reach me is after 11 P.M. Eastern Standard Time.

 

Gratefully True,

 

GOD

dollar bill from GOD

**A Open Letter to Native Americans, Africans, The People of Turtle Island [ The U.S.], & the treasurer of the United States.

With great honor & as a decisive action from GOD, I write this letter.

     The eye you have used on your most basic currency is the eye of Horace.  It has been stolen from African People and African Black Ancients. Those Black children are crying out for their eye back  -- The African unborn Black children. I am demanding that the European eye used on your most basic currency  --  the dollar bill, be replaced with an African eye. This must be done so Freedom, Justice & economic justice can prevail in this blood-stained land called North America or the U.S. The children cry out for this simple change which will bring about positive, social change non-violently through peace and education. Out world will come out of the dark valley of despair it finds itself in as this process takes hold. This will result in World decency, LOVe & Peace.  

     The decent among Black humanity & all decent people in humanity cry out for this. It must happen or Europeans will have a problem on their hands.

 

Gratefully True,

Tracy Charles Gibson

GOD     7-17-18

SEPTA SHOULD BE FREE FOR THOSE UNDER $25,000.00 a year.

MR. Mayor, As you know, I LOVe SEPTA. I basically think they do a wonderful job providing transit services for the City of Philadelphia.

     Recently they added the new Key Card. I think and feel this was a very, very bad idea.  I feel it takes, somehow, more money from the very poor than from the more wealthy SEPTA riders. I can't prove this, it is just a feeling, but I trust my feelings very much.  The Key Card also has a tendency to be very intrusive in that it provides, if I am not mistaken, all sorts of information on riders that local, state and federal agencies can use for whatever purposes they want. I Am officially asking for a boycott of the SEPTA Key Card.  I AM a Johnny-Come-Lately with this issue. A rebellion against the Key Card has been brewing for months.  They are very costly and they cut off at the end of the month even if you don't use it for the allotted 8 rides a day.  THIS IS, frankly, A BIG RIP OFF!  Now a days, you can't even buy a regular SEPTA Transpass from the Center City headquarters of SEPTA.  You have to go to a store like Fresh Grocer at 40th and Walnut or the one at Progress Plaza or the one at 56th & Market Street like I do to get the SEPTA tokens  { which are very much more user friendly } or the regular transpasses -- which are much better than the Key Cards and more user friendly as well.  Maybe I am an old head and anti-technology, but I know for sure that the new technologies are very unfriendly to users and also pulling apart our Black community socially. [ One only needs to watch How Black youth now walk through our Black communities and never speak to their neighbors or FAM elders because they are too busy listening to music on their headphones to speak and get to know neighborhood FAM. This has an impact on the effectiveness of gentrification efforts as well, as organizing youth can be difficult if you use traditional methods.  Us Ole heads only know traditional ways here. ]   I also want to see SEPTA for free if you make under $25,000.00 a year as I do. SEPTA takes a real bite out of everyone's pocket and this support for the poor will be and is a great help in helping poor families feed themselves, find and maintain housing, go to school and buy needed items like clothing.  The money can be found by cutting the so-called defense budget at the federal level, and more state money can kick in, as well as that $50 million missing dollars from City Council. This sounds strong and partisan, but let me remind you that I am a registered Republican, but NOT a supporter of the gentleman who occupies the White House.  I AM tired of seeing our so-called social programs fall victim to budget cuts every time we get a more conservative leader. At the same time, the Black community would not have to beg for everything if we had a stronger private Black corporate structure, such as is found in WURD Radio { 900 AM; 96.1 FM} & TV ONE.  This is why we also need strong security for our progressive Black businesses.  No one wants to see what happened in 1921 at the Black Wall Street happen again.   

Gratefully True,

MR. Tracy Charles Gibson,

Educator  -- Activist

A New Adult Art Form [ must be oveer 18 to read ]

Pornography as an African Art Form

 

By MR. Tracy Charles Gibson

 

     Many people who know me well, know I watch Black male Gay pornography. It is an art form to me, be it  not a perfect are form. The type of pornography I really want to see doesn’t exist yet on the film market, that I know of.

     I have to get a bit graphic here, so you should be 21 to read further. I want to see a type of adult film that doesn’t include any spitting, any hitting, any cursing or showing of any body fluids except perhaps sweat. Taking body fluids in orally must also be excluded from this type of adult film & the films must have challenging story lines, expertly written scripts, high production values, as well as a high level of acting.

     I LOVe to see Black men make LOVe together. It, to me, is a form of high art. But I LOVe to see Black Gay men treat each other with LOVe, respect, dignity, honor & decency. Just castigating and rejecting such films as something nasty & disgusting doesn’t pay homage to the beautiful physical appeal of the human Black male body. It is that simple to me.

     This type of film watching, to me, lends me an avenue to relax, get excited and release some levels of stress through masturbation. This is very important in the high-stress world of Black  activism I live & work in.

     The Black male porn star is usually a beautiful, Black man with a beautiful smile, commanding physical presence and a superior muscular body build.

     To just tune out Black Gay pornography as if it were wrong is being very traditional in ones’ thinking, very Biblical and very shallow in ones’ thinking. For many decades pornography  --  which is now estimated to be over 50% of internet transactions  --  fills a basic human need for human sexual interactions. Pornography is sometimes used to spark sexual relations between consenting adults and helps people relax and end-run stress.  The aesthetic values cannot be over stated, especially when you are talking about Gay, Black male pornography. While some people choose to see it as corrupt and wrong, I look at it as an art form and as something freeing, lasting, and a fantastic thing to build the foundation for the entire Black Men’s Aesthetic movement on.

GOD gave us the human libido & the human need to have intimacy, sex and close physical contact.  It is not something to be ashamed of or blame on some evil force.

     I strongly suggest Black Gay men join me in advocating for more high quality pornography such as I have described here. Call me to see what you can do to make the adult movie industry more responsive to this growing, but largely ignored art form.  The need for it is growing and it is growing as a market share within the film industry.

 

 

    

guest post by MauludSaDiQ about Mazuri Ali's AFRICA

b-boy, old dude, Hip-Hop Investigating, music lovin’ Muslim

Feb 6, 2017

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Ali Mazrui’s The Africans is One of the Best (Forgotten ) Documentaries on Africa

From the outset, The Africans: The Triple Heritage was beset with racist critics and now it’s buried

Over the past thirty years I’ve watched a wide variety of Documentaries on the Continent of Africa, most recently I enjoyed Dr. Gus Casely-Hayford’s Kingdoms of Africa.

While most of them are informative, these Documentaries are often told by outsiders who work to discount myths often originated by their fellow countrymen. Basil Davidson’s Africa: A Journey of Discovery is still lauded as the go to series for understanding the Continent and is the first one that comes to mind in that vein.

Yet, the most profound, well-rounded and even-handed Documentary is almost impossible to find. Although Annenberg Media claimed that it was so, The Africans is unavailable on DVD and can only be purchased on VHS for $1,250 (Or if you happen to go to a school like Brown or Berkeley, you can rent it from their library). You won’t find the entire series on YouTube* either. In fact, the episodes that you do find are either in parts, incomplete, or both.

Once viewed as “the jewel” of PBS’ fall programs, Ali Mazrui’s The Africans ran afoul with the head of the NEH. Later, Ali Mazrui was even attacked by another prominent African. It is by and large the best Documentary on Africa, aired throughout my High School years, shaped my worldview and understanding of White Supremacy and hasn’t been seen by the general public in decades.

We’ll discuss the possible ‘Why’ behind this disappearance and why it’s important for our people to see The Africans in these modern times.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who sank in their seat when Nas’ character Sincere proposed that he and T’Boz’s Tionne get away from the madness and escape to the mythical monolith of ‘Africa.’

Like the word ‘Black,’ you could throw ‘African’ in the front of any word in the 70s and 80s and it became an insult. As a prefix, ‘Black’ or ‘African,’ thems were fighting words.

But as Black consciousness began to invade rap music, people became more aware of the importance of the Mother of Civilization. Sadly though, it was often just a romantic gesture. Students donned kente cloth at graduation, we wore African medallions, and many of us made a smorgasbord of various African cultures to fit our ideas.

Take me. After studying various African religions from West to East Africa my Freshman year at Clark Atlanta University, I was ready to form my own, personal, Frankenstein of African religions. Luckily, my competitive nature had me attempt to debate a brother who became my mentor, Wakeel Allah, with this newly acquired African knowledge. Wakeel swatted it all away with the simple question, “Now how you gonna live that out?”

But more often than not, we Black people of America, longing for a culture beyond the chattel slavery narrative that we’ve inherited, assume that we can either recreate or adopt a way of life that we’ve never lived.

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When The Africans: A Triple Heritage first aired in October of 1986, my Freshman year in High School, Africa was “far.” I never gave the Continent any thought.

If you had of asked me how many countries there were in Africa (54), I would have shrugged and changed the subject to Eric B & Rakim’s great 12" “Eric B is President/My Melody.”

It wasn’t until the winter of 1987 when Stetsasonic dropped “A.F.R.I.C.A” that I finally began turning my attention to the East.

My older brother Ade would begin his matriculation at Morehouse the next year and via his professor Dr. Davis, gave me a reading list, books like:

Kwame Toure’s Black Power

Alex Haley and Malcolm X’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X

G.M. James’ Stolen Legacy

& most importantly for this writing

Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

It was my Junior year in High School, the year was 1988 and I had a complete paradigm shift. I never gave thought to why I was teased for having full lips, never wondered why I was called ‘Blackie’ or jokes were made about being ‘Black.’

Furthermore, Africa to me and most people meant swollen bellies, flies, jungles, etc. Who would have ever thought that Africans had been explorers to the point of having mapped out currents in the Ocean that led to what would one day be called the Americas? Who would have ever thought that the philosophy that people revered, we’re talking Greek Philosophy, originated in Africa? And who would have ever thought that the rape of Africa didn’t end when the slave trade ended but instead continued on from Colonialism, through Imperialism, and up until modern times?

I certainly never thought about any of this but now my mind was open, open to the degree that when I heard of the return to PBS of Ali Mazrui’s The African: A Triple Heritage, I was ready with VHS tapes.

Episode 3 — New Gods

Asa practice, I read about Documentary Films all the time. From the Thames Television 26 part World at War series (I loved that Thames ident) to the plethora of Ken Burns’ offering (Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, etc), I’ve been a fan of the Long Form, sweeping Docs since I was a child.

In my reading about all of those Documentaries I rarely, if ever, come across the production budget. I’m sure the endeavor of making a multiple episode, historic piece is quite pricey. Maybe it’s crass to speak of it. Maybe it’s private. I don’t know.

What I do know is that if someone was writing about The Africans: A Triple Heritage somewhere buried in that article would be a mention of its $3.5 million budget. And that leaves me with a lot of questions.

Was it a marketing idea? Did Senior Producer Peter Bate feel that this was the way to show the scale of the project. The Africans was, after all, shot in 16 African countries, England, France, & the US. Maybe the publicized budget was put out front to give emphasis to that fact.

Maybe it was put out there to show that The Africans was a prestige project. Sometimes when budgets are paraded about it’s to show that the film is so important that it costs X amount of dollars.

Because the way it looks to me, and this may be opinion and perception, but it seems that the budget is dangled out there as an insult. Let me explain.

The film was conceived by the BBC, received a third of the funding from the Annenberg Foundation, the Arlington-Based WETA threw some money in the pot, and even Nigerian’s Television Authority added on to the cipher. But it’s the money from the NEH, their contribution between $500 and $650K, that brought the budget to light and was the source of the controversy.

Lynne Cheney, who earned a Doctorate in English and authored two books — “Executive Privilege,” and “Sisters” — was appointed to be the NEH chair by President Reagan…no surprise considering how tight the NEOCON clan was. Cheney was so offended by the content of The Africans that she went on a campaign to remove the NEH credit from the Doc…and she wanted to cancel the money that was given towards funding…despite the fact that it was promised two years before she held the post as Chair.

Of course the irony of Cheney’s criticism is her claims of Ali Mazrui creating an “anti-west diatribe.” This is largely based on her own bias that an African should be “pro-west.” Cheney’s claims were not based on anything other than how watching the Documentary made her feel. Mazrui, after all, was a Political Science major, son of a Kenyan judge, and had written several books on the subject of Africa’s Triple Heritage long before cameras began rolling on The Africans….but what does he know?

Cheney’s complaint was — and she said this in so many words — “we didn’t pay for this.” It was the finger waving of perceived authority. The money from the NEH was to be used for promotion, according to all reports of the time, and somehow Cheney was of the belief that she was hurting the Doc by speaking out against it.

She must have missed that Louis Jordan song, “Every Knock is a Boost,” because her complaints did far more for the promotion of The Africans than the NEH money could have ever done. Further, it gave the highly articulate Mazrui a platform to further discuss the issues that are brought forth in the series.

It was a short-term win for The Africans and Mazrui. But as we’ll discuss in a bit, Cheney and the machine that backed her would have the last laugh.

Which is a sad thing.

If you were privileged enough to see the series, you would understand the uproar and the desire to silence the truth brought forth in the nine part series and you would also understand its imporance.

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I saw The Africans: A Triple Heritage when I was a Senior in High School.

I had already become politicized. Me, my brothers (we called ourselves da fellas, an ode to School Daze), and a few of our women allies, started our own mini-protest in our Southeast Denver school.

We printed up flyers pointing out the racial disparities that existed in our society, I wrote a long ass, run-on sentence, one page call for unity among Black folk, and we topped it off by rolling out a divest now banner in the middle of a pep rally. Yeah…that went over well. That was all Junior year.

Those activities and my prior infractions (I had a folder held together with a rubber band…I got in trouble a lot) had me on academic probation my Senior year. The last thing in the world I needed to see was a project that would solidify my zeal.

For example, I was becoming educated to injustices all over the world (I thank the Autobiography of Malcolm X and Kwame Ture for that) and had become aware of the atrocities in the Middle East.

I learned about the early days of Israel, the Six-Day War, and the subsequent unrest. But I learned this tidbit from The Africans: A Triple Heritage - Episode 1 — The Nature of a Continent:

It was the first time the word Zionism clicked with me and it made me want to research the movement. When accusations of Anti-Semitism were hurled at Mazrui, he always deflected that by saying that he was simply a critic of Zionism.

I was beginning to lean more towards Islam…if not that, some sort of African “Spirituality.” Reading about how Christianity had been used on my people had completely turned me off to the religion. Not to mention, I had a child-like understanding of the Civil Rights Movement (which we’ll discuss in another article) and mistook what I was watching (protesters being beat, hosed, bitten by dogs) as another form of the weakness of Christianity.

But I didn’t know this:

That clip is from Episode 3— New Gods. Up until then I knew nothing of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church or any Christianity in Africa that predated Colonialism and the Missionaries. I had grown to think of Christianity as a “white man’s religion” but here were these African people practicing a Christianity that was unrecognizable in ritual and form…and one that predated European Christianity.

Walter Rodney’s book had turned my attention to the “Scramble for Africa” and the way that Europe sliced up and partitioned the Continent between themselves but the way it was illustrated in Episode 5 — New Conflicts really hit home.

That’s just three examples from three episodes and it’s not even touching the surface to how much this series enlightened me. Mazrui isn’t speaking about the topic as an outsider. The Doc is as advertised — Africa told from the perspective of an African. Mazrui loved to say during the promotion of The Africans that he was a walking embodiment of the Triple Heritage.

And, because Mazrui was an African, when he leveled criticism at Africans throughout the Continent, he was well within his rights to do so. It was done with love. There were no protests for that. Not in America, at least.

Cheney was cool with Mazrui talking about the greed of some African leaders, had no problem with him illustrating the facade of luxury in a hotel that had no running water. Speak of the ills of your Continent…just leave out the role of the European. Tell us about the Effects. Cause be damned.

Cheney and many of Mazrui’s critics were blind to the fact that the BBC sought Mazrui out…because he was the most qualified to do the job.

I had suspected that there was a connection between The Africans and Mazrui’s six part Reith Lecture, The African Condition, and was rewarded when I found a newsletter where He states that:

The idea of my doing a TV series for the BBC was first raised way back in 1979. Two years later David Harrison and John Reynolds wrote to me more directly about a proposed BBC TV series of Africa with myself as the story teller. The two of them subsequently came to the U.S.A. to discuss the matter further. Ali Mazrui

And then there was the Wole Soyinka beef brought on by Mazrui’s critique of Henry Louis Gates’ pedestrian African series, Wonders of the African World where Gates shifts the blame of the Transatlantic Slave Trade from the European enslavers to the West Africans who sold their conquered foes to the Europeans.

Mazrui’s concern was that while doing such a thing would endear Gates to the whites of America, such a conceit would also turn Black people in America against their place of origin.

Gates had studied under the Nigerian poet and scholar Soyinka at Cambridge and the two became fast friends. Soyinka was simply coming to the defense of his former student reliving once more the affects of Colonialism, divide and conquer.

Ifyou want, you can go to Amazon and get the series companion book for as little as a penny and shipping costs. And you should — Reading Is Fundamental.

But if you’re looking to watch the series, like I said above, try your local library — preferably your local college library. Owning it is impossible.

Last year marked the 30 year anniversary of the series debut and there was no retrospective, no replaying, or reissuing of the series. There’s no website, study, or any such thing based on the series. I thought I hit paydirt when I found a complete episode, Episode 6— The Search for Stability…but it was only that one episode.

Unlike Eyes on the Prize, it’s absence is not based on legal issues. Nor is it’s absence based on the material no longer being relevant — it’s more relevant now than it was then.

In my estimation, the only reason that The Africans can no longer be seen is Mazrui’s run in with Cheney and the Political right back in 86.

Cheney went on to serve two terms as NEH Chair, longer than anyone before her and only stepped down when Clinton took office. Yet, despite not being Chair, it has been reported that Cheney still wields a lot of power and influence.

It appears that Annenberg owns the US rights and for whatever reason they’ve done nothing to bring the series before an audience again.

So the question remains, why is this important? Why spend all this time writing all of these words for a Documentary that most people have not and possibly may never see?

The answer is simple but unorthodox — the answer is this thing called Hip-Hop.

In the mid 60s to early 70s it was the Revolutionary actions of Black people here that inspired the world to take on oppression. From that influence came a series of Pan African festivals which we discussed here.

Although some of that died down in the early 80s, the fervor for Revolution and conscious thought again rose up with the work of Public Enemy, KRS One and others. Rap all over the world reflected that.

But now the converse is true.

Our music reflects our obsession with materialism, drugs, sex, and the all out degradation of each other. It’s mostly a music devoid of love, attachment, and responsibility.

And the world is watching.

Google South African Rap, Nigerian Rap, Egyptian Rap, hell, Rap anywhere and you will see South Africans, Nigerians, Egyptians, everyone doing their best impressions of Black Americans from our dances to our drugs, from our stances to our rituals (flashing guns, motorcycle wheelies, etc).

A series like The Africans is important because we need to see that we are not in this condition by accident. That not only were we robbed from our home but our home continues to be pillaged. We couldn’t go home if we wanted to.

If we could see the images and hear the great analysis from Ali Mazrui on how Africa ended up in this position…perhaps…perhaps…it would wake up a sense of greater responsibility in us. Perhaps we would see that now, we — the Black people in America — have shifted the title of the series and reality in the Continent.

That Africans are no longer shaped by Islam, the Western European world, and their Native Cultures alone. That now Africa has a Quadruple Heritage, with Black people in America being the fourth influence. Our influence can either liberate our homeland or it can push it further into imperial debt and death.

We do Matter. But do we really believe it?

an open letter to MGM about investment opportunities

an open letter. // 7-16-2019 Monday

 

MGM [ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ]

Resorts International

Mr. Chris Ottinger,

International President

Mr. Gary Barber

CEO, Chair

245 North Beverly Drive

Beverly Hills, California   90210

From, Mr. Tracy Charles Gibson

670 North 41^st Street

Apartment B

Philadelphia, Pa 19104 – 5202//phone; 1 [ 215 ] 823 -- 985

Dear Friends,

     I am a current stock holder of MGM stock. I am sure I have seen the famous Lion growl over  3000 times as I have enjoyed movies promoted & distributed by you for over 53 years. I am taking this time to politely request more Black faces, Black actors, Black producers, Black Executive Producers [ such as Denzel Washington], & other Black professionals be hired in the entire general filmmaking industry & that you consider many of the best Black films being produced in Nigeria by Black filmmakers for major distribution internationally.

     There is a real need for a broader distribution of Black films of great diversity – professionally mastered --  to be released to more Black audiences in countries like Angola, Brazil, Mozambique & Cuba.

     If there is anything at all my company can do [ such as advertising concept help, public relations, plot and story line development, help in writing scripts, or even catering suggestions ] please let me know. I am sure I can work with you on many subjects.  I know for sure there is an excellent market for excellent Black films or films with mostly Blacks casts and crews.

    I plan to buy more MGM stock, not only an ambitious wedge to leverage work & influence with your global corporation, but to feel Spiritually a part of what you are doing every time I go to the movies and see that lion roar.  Your corporation is obviously quite adapted  to film distribution and film promotion On a massive scale, as anyone can see from your history ad record.  I am growing to find the field incredibly interesting  as audience preferences change and the impact of technologies are felt.

     My Uncle Kenneth Gibson, a now deceased Philadelphia police officer, used to come by my house from time to time & give our whole family information and knowledge about the stock market.  [ By the Way I made $140.48 on the market in June, 2018. Something I am very proud of considering I only have about $1,000.00 invested at the age of 61.] My father’s brother, Uncle Ken ``dripped’’ the information on us for over 40 years. It took until I was 60 for me to finally buy my first stock. [ I sometimes wonder where I would be financially if I had bought stock at 25 like I now suggest Black youth do today & had listened to my Uncle Ken earlier.

     It is my hope that you hire more Black film professionals for your entire film development process & that you will inform me of any executive opportunities that arise in your corporation.  [ I would LOVe to go to Black youth meetings and tell Black youth the advantages of buying stock in your companies, for example.].

     Also, for example, there are some terrific locations here in Philadelphia for making films. I have lived here in Philadelphia for nearly 47 years of my 61 years & I simply LOVe it here and know the city well.

     I have been in touch with Mr. Denzel Washington’s assistant & have sent him several film story ideas and suggestions. I have not heard from him as yet.   His name is Mr. Frank Sanchez and e can be reached at this number [*** - *** - ****].

     I thank you in advance for any ideas, opportunities & suggestions you may have.

 

Gratefully True,

 

Tracy Charles Gibson

 

 

dreams statement from Langston Hughes is visited by exotic birds....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxqIlaVBoH0






On the Wall near the bathroom at the Caring People Alliance Girls & Boys Club

At 3512 Haverford Avenue, first floor.

 

By Langston Hughes   [ below]

 

``Hold fast to dreams,

For if dreams die,

Life is a broken winged bird

That cannot fly’’

Do you realize how many beautiful, exotic

 foreign birds a nuclear war will destroy?

Important Words to Responsible Black Parents about teen intimacy

For Responsible Black Adults ONLY!

 

7-13-2018 Friday

 

     To each & every Black parent who ever lost a child through abortion, police murder or any other means & to any parent of any race who ever lost a child through any means what so ever.

AN OPEN LETTER,

From

MR. Tracy Charles Gibson

670 North 41^st Street

APT B

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  19104

1 [ 215 ] 823  --  9985

 

     GOD gives all of us who have children an enormous Blessing & an enormous responsibility that comes with their birth and never ends.  Children fill a void in our lives that is not easy to fill if they predecease us.  When they are taken in a cruel or odd way such as through police violence, the pain inflicted is almost unbearable, & truly hurtful. There is so much violence in our society I often don’t bother to turn on the television news.  I choose to watch pornography for Black Gay men instead. I know this sounds strange & I Know I have just lost 50 % of my readers, but please join me for this journey.

    We are told that Black Gay pornography is bad, reprehensible, corrupting & dirty. What I want to do is bring it up as an art form by helping the industry to offer Black Gay pornography that creates a different more aesthetic and beautiful category of film / video /  media. This new category would offer or provide Black Gay films that are free of People cursing, hitting or hurting each other, being emotionally abusive, spitting, sharing body fluids or being verbally abusive in any way what so ever.  Condoms must be used in all anal to penis interaction in these films and they must explore new realms of senses in intimacy as well as be written well, have quality production values and really strongly developed plots & story lines. No explosives, gun-play, knives, or violence what so ever!  This will do many things. It will allow the BLACK models in Black adult films a chance to act & develop their craft as actors. It will also help allow the viewer an opportunity to look at nudity in a better Way. Not just for sexual titillation, but for aesthetics, Black male beauty, physical prowess & in a more honest, up-standing & decent manner.

     [I am working to get the Black church and Black sexual health organizations interested in this new category as well.].

     If you as parents of lost children would like to make this dream of mine come true you can send seed money to me at the address above. Suffice it to say such films can also be used to fill this void that exist when it is time to tell our children about healthy sex options when they become sexually active & are seeking positive information about sexuality and sex. [ Believe it or not many parents are still not telling their children about sex in an organized and constructive manner, and allowing their children and teens to learn about it in the streets along with the misinformation, lies, deceptions and other such misrepresentations that come along with most ``street’’ information. ] I Pray you will join me in making this happen because our young men need this help in their development.  I will do & will continue to do my utter best at being financially responsible, reliable, up-standing & respectable in this work. I promise financial disclosures & honesty in my work.

 

GOD Bless You,

 

Gratefully True,

 

GOD

 

 

 

the debut of Cristolbol

     There is a gentleman named Cristolbol – Puerto Rican --  I believe, who is in Gay porn movies. He has to be one of the most in not THE most naturally talented actor since the likes of Denzel Washington came along. He is a screen gem, a jewel in the crown of what otherwise are some pretty lackluster actors on the Gay movie scene  -- in the Realm of Dawgpound  /  Pit bull Productions films. I don’t mean to be hurtful or mean to other Gay porn stars, mostly Black, but Cristolbol is hilarious in ``I FuXXed Up’’ from the ``New Adventures of Phat Daddy.’’

     Cristolbol is like the acting fid of the century. Like a Marlon Brando, but even cuter. I definitely want to see Him do what is forbidden,  --  successfully make the crossover from porn to the major Broadway stage or the Silver Screen.

     If Hollywood doesn’t discover Him they all should lose their jobs in Tinsel Town and start over with 100 % new Directors, talent scouts, casting directors and other crew. I Am NOT Playing.  Cristolbol is the best acting find I have seen since I saw a 20-something Denzel Washington play Malcolm X at The New Federal Theatre circa 1981 in ``When the Chickens Come Home to Roost.’’ [ By the Way when I ``discovered’’  Denzel Muhammad Ali was in the audience & theatre tickets prices were five bucks.]. No I’m not kidding.

     [Read my Blog at https://ThePoliticsofReal.Blogspot.Com for Mo Better such stories & a preview of my new Book.].