all too often

All too often, as my sister AZIZA proclaimed wisely to me, we as Black agitators often forget about the varied and important issues of the BLACK Middle Class. Remembering them and their issues will be easier from now on as GOD in Heaven - a Black woman - sits with me for dinner on May 4th, 2019 Saturday at the New Delilah  in West Philadelphia 40th and Chestnut Street location Indian buffet food, spicy chicken, vegetarian delights, salads, shrimps in a curry sauce with coconut milk and East India thinks properly about Rouldopph Guliana and Mahatma Ghandi: Forever. We can't and must not let the dollar { bill } rule us. Still, there is a financial imbalance I want to talk about today April 19th, 2019 Friday { 3535.57 }. Would it not make sense for a large centralized multi-faceted, un-corruptible, private foundation with public aspects to it and rotating leadership - including grass-roots people from all walks of life, all racial groups, all ethnic groups, all religions, all intimate persuasions, and both sexes { and it must include children } that such be formulated so that every human need deemed worthy and reasonable be fulfilled in a reasonable and timely fashion. Let's take the lack of access to the live arts, movies, films, concert venues and other entertainment venues for example. Middle income people MUST, from this fund have their incomes tripled. From $30,000. a year to $90,000. a year; from $90,000. a year to $270,000. a year. If people make over $270,000. a year they will not qualify for funds. If people own part of the means of production and have over $300 Million Dollars in their personal wealth holdings of more just sitting there, or $300 Million Dollars or more in corporate holdings as profits not being utilized to hire people or do capital improvements, donation to this super fund are voluntarily requested!  People on any Turtle Island { United States } disability or welfare will be able to get eight { 8 } times as much in benefits, from this Super Fund if they so choose to accept such benefit increases. This money will be considered a reparations payment for each and every person with any kind of citizenship in the United States { Turtle Island } no matter who they are including people behind bars or incarcerated or in mental institutions. Certain guidelines and legal stipulations must be taken into account in all instances to ensure the adherence to the letter of the LAW and excellent standards of ethics.  This is leveling the playing field and increasing the nation's access to wealth and the roads to wealth. More importantly, it will allow businesses of every stripe to benefit from the new income, hire more people, raise wages and benefit packages and help stabilize all communities economically. Raising taxes on the rich and wealthy, a plank taken by some Democratic Presidential candidates such as Elizabeth Warren, are retrograde, dysfunctional, and unworkable. Such tax corporate and personal tax increases are handed to the poor as higher prices for consumer goods, and are not helping lend an atmosphere of cooperation, cohesive friendship between businesses and the people, and such personal and corporate tax increases generate resentments and hatreds along party lines that are both arbitrary and useless. Such corporate tax burdens and personal tax burdens also are not helping the wheels of government and society turn successfully, adequately, properly and in a timely manner at all.  Voluntary participation in the well-orchestrated, well-run, responsibly-run Super Fund will smooth things out for us all and help curb wars and animosities along racial and ethnic lines internationally as other regions of the world take a good look at such a PEOPLE-FIRST PEOPLE FRIENDLY, CORPORATE FRIENDLY program.   Regional conflicts, fighting over clean water, fighting over food -- all these issues can be curbed and taken to a PEOPLE-FIRST World Court ( I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE  Workers World Party ) to resolve conflicts long before wars are necessary.  The mastering of running this whole process is crucial and must take on increased levels of efficiency, responsibility , balance and importance as the grand scale and international interests creates new freedoms, helps to block greed, and end-run worthless, meaningless  wars around the globe. Part of this process will help middle income people and formerly poor people gain access to the arts. have you ever experienced being left out when people like comic Kevin Hart, singer Dionne Warwick, or Singer, arranger Stevie Wonder come to Philadelphia and you can't even think about going because you simply don't have access to the money to go? Have you ever wanted to see Billy Joel, Taylor Swift or The Rolling Stones but just never had the money to go to the concert? Have you ever wanted to see a cable only, Netflix or first-run film like ``The Castaways,'' with Halie Mills or special event show or program and had to choose shoes or food instead? Have you ever walked by or seen advertised great restaurants like Ruth Chriss, Relish, The Pub, Miss Tootsies; The Commons; Red Lobster; Little Saigon Restaurant; Lue's Caribbean Cafe'; Quality Taste; El Cuscatleca; SA Café and Lounge; Uncle Bobby's; Kings and Queens Restaurant; Fanta African International and many others expensive restaurants or NOT SO expensive restaurants. Have you ever wanted to go to such places for dinner or lunch and just didn't have any money to go? This new government financial formation will help us all get what we want without so much pain, hemming and howling and even fighting when we should be negotiating and enjoying life. Have you ever wanted to go to something like a Broadway Show like ``Purley Victorious,'' ``The Producers,'' ``West Side Story,'' ``Dream Girls,'' or ``Ain't Misbehavin,'' that visit Philadelphia, or go to an Opera like ``Madame Butterfly,'' ``Porgy and Bess,'' La Travaita,'' ``The Barber of Seville,'' ``Adia,'' but just didn't have the funds to do so? Wouldn't you like to purchase some expensive stereo equipment or flat-screen televisions or expensive camera equipment from Macy's or Sears, but the prices, even on discount, were just too up there? GOD did not intend for us to go to the supermarket and not have the additional $300. we need to buy all the quality, healthy foods we want for our families. GOD wants you, you, you to have the asparagus, already sliced and packed watermelon, plumb organic honey dew melon, organic kiwi fruits, juicy seedless organic grapes, organic bananas, sliced and packed organic pineapple, fresh organic strawberries, fresh organic blackberries, fresh organic doubly inspected cantaloupe, A bag of lobster tails, plenty of fresh-cleaned fish like perch, rainbow trout, flounder, tilapia, halibut, and crape. No putting items back, you can afford them right now because this is true, real, now, active, alive, actual and accepted because we live in a Robust, Beautiful, Blessed, Wonderful, great place called TUrtle Island { No longer the United States of North America. Your budget is not endless, but it is greatly enhanced as you make your Way { 2000 Seasons,  By Ayi Kwei Armah } home from the Super Market Giant preferably in your new Chevy built in Turtle Island unionized, well paid auto workers and crafted by well-paid union engineers of all races. Remember, if you want to stay poor like one friend of mine who I don't and never will understand, you can. If you don't want to burst forth out of the hum drum existence of Middle America you can stay hum drum and not consider your self a citizen of Turtle Island where Native Americans are considered surviving heroes and are not forced to live on barren reservations and where, for now, all I'm asking you to do is read this article over once every three months and voluntarily give a sum of money equal to your federal taxes to the Native American Rights Fund, or less, if you don't have the money right now. THIS IS TOTALLY VOLUNTARY AND I DO'NT HAVE THE PERMISSION OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND TO ASK THIS OF YOU! Tracy Gibson**