review of COMMON's New Book `` Let LOVe have the Last Word

Open Letter to Rapper / Actor / Writer / COMMON from Tracy Gibson { GOD ALMIGHTY }

A Review of His latest book, ``Let LOVe Have the Last Word,’’

By Common

   I must say I am at least more than half way through Common’s new book, ``Let LOVe Have the Last Word,’’ and I am very impressed.  Examining LOVe from a BLACK inner city perspective – a RAPPER’S perspective – is indeed uncommon to say the least.  

       Always impressed with the fact that COMMON has used more and more good sense to interplay RAP lyrics with a caring heart, a tempered demeanor, and authentic LOVe for BLACK people, I was very taken with His theme to the movie ``Selma,’’ for which He got raves along with co-writer and His partner singing on the song, John Legend.

       But, getting back to the book, I like the fact that anyone BLACK will spend time ruminating, thinking and pondering such a massive and misunderstood subject as LOVe, what it is, how to attain it, how to make in last past the ``jitters’’ stage, how to deal with breakup, disappointments, and actually having someone in your family – like a beloved daughter - say you ``failed’’ them by not being there for them when they were young.

        Below: From GOD ALMIGHTY, Tracy Charles Gibson

``I think you – Common - did and are doing an excellent job as a father to Omoye. While you were away from Her while She was young, you may not have spent the time with Her you expected, but you were like the squeal hiding nuts for the winter in your focusing on your rap career, concerts and professional acting career. By doing so, you made your present and Her present more comfortable and easier. You also gave yourself and your daughter more options and helped make it so that you can help more now and spend more time with Omoye now.  You took time in the past so that your future { now } would be more delightful, and smoother. Working hard in those past years while Omoye was growing up has paid off with the level of success you have now. Had you spent the time with Her earlier, it would have been nice, but I know for sure ( sorry if I sound like Mama Oprah ), you made a better future for yourself, your Mom and your daughter. I know for sure our Ancient African Ancestors – Our Black African American Ancestors – are looking at you and saying ``you have done great things with your time, level of dedication, loyalty, honesty and integrity.  You now have hardly any cursing in your RAPs  - something many, many other Rappers should learn from you and your level of success. ‘’ What else you taught many of us is to prepare for the future and times in that future will be much better.  Please tell Omoye and your Mom this and that GOD ALMIGHTY said this and wants you and your family to enjoy great happiness, balance and the wealth you deserve.

 

SOME POYANT AND PROLIFIC QUOTES from COMMON :

Page 125 second paragraph, of Common’s ``Let LOVe have the Last Word.’’

       ``This is the beginning of the work: consistently checking in on why I’m feeling a certain away, or to see if I’m falling into old patterns again, all while building myself up, instead of tearing myself down, or running away in fear.’’

Page 134 Second Paragraph, of COMMON’s ``Let LOVe Have the Last Word’’

 

       ``Because if you work on consistently allowing yourself to be here in the present, you’ll naturally let go of so much of the drama and negativity; you won’t hold on to things that happen, or hold things against someone for what they’ve done, especially when someone has made a mistake. You become more forgiving without really trying or thinking about it. When you’re present; you understand that that was something that happened in the past; nothing you can do about it now, and no amount of grasping onto the negative energy will change what happened.’’

       I ask that young BLACK people, grandparents and their parents read COMMON’s new Book: ``Let LOVe Have the Last Word,’’ it comes highly recommended by me and is highly entertaining, thoughtful, well-written and helps even me - with a very stressful job - relax and know that our future generations have more of a handle on things than we have given them credit for.

 

 

Suggested films, books for the BLACK Family, Please preview for your younger children as much as possible.

Suggested Curriculum for BLACK men of all ages. Here underlies positive media experiences for Black Progressive males, who want to follow GOD’s path, and make a great life for themselves and their families – no matter what their orientations are.

[1] Go See the Grinch and discover what you should NOT be  --  greedy.

[2] Nothin But a Man  --  positive Black images from the 1960’s about a BLACK man who is scorned and unemployed.  His BLACK mate sticks by Him, no matter what. Good for positive-BLACK character development, no matter what your orientation is.

[3] Kevin Hooks in a short film called TC about His life in the ghetto. Look under Kevin Hooks in You Tube & put the short story about a cat and a young boy from the 1960’s. I may have the title wrong.  Needs research. Please inform me.

[4] Blues for Mister Charlie. The best play I have ever read. See if there is a video play acted out on stage available on You Tube. Written by MR. James Baldwin.

[5] Get OUt. This film is about many things, but look especially at the loyalty His friend – an airport security person -- has for Him and HOW it ends up saving His life.

[6] Get on the Bus. About the Million man March. Directed by Spike Lee. Notice How the gay males relate and HOW they CAN fight. Also notice the magic of the day that changed the Black movement forever. Available at the library or at the You Tube Port.

[7] Fences  Look at the Father Son relationship between Thespian Denzel Washington and the young man who plays His son. Excellent.

[8] Black Panther.  Look at the cartoons as well as the major North American { Turtle Island } film.  What was the conflict between the two young handsome Black men?

[9] The Learning Tree. Directed by Gordon Parks, a BLACK Renaissance man who was a writer { He wrote the book the learning tree } a director, a photographer and if I am not mistaken, also a painter. You can be a RENAISSANCE Black Man also, if you study enough. If you don’t have the $ to go to school, the library is always open!

[10] Listen to Jeffery Osborn’s On the Wings of LOVe, and Denise William’s Black Butterfly, on You Tube.

[ 11 ] The next one is absolutely fantastic. Look up a young Bill Cosby on You Tube teaching a Black History class in the 1960’s. Great for Home Study.

 [12 ] Look up songs by  Caston & Majors on You Tube. What are the important values they are teaching?. Light Inn My Window, etc.

[ 13 ] READ Let the Children Gather by Tracy Gibson.

Sharp political poetry. Available on Amazon for $10.00 ½ of the proceeds go to my church -- , Unity Fellowship Christ Church Philadelphia. OPEn to all, church service at 55 North Broad Street in the Chapel at 1:45 P.M. on Sunday. Spiritual Study at 6:30 on Tuesdays at the same location. A self-proclaimed healing and thinking church.

 

[ 14 ] If Beal Street Could Talk is a James Baldwin book recently adapted for the Golden Screen. It is one of the best works by Baldwin. I will not give away plot secrets.

[ 15 ]  A Warm December is about something we all need to pay more attention to, our health and our relationships. Starring Sidney Potier.  {  Please do the research and spell MR. Sidney’s last name correctly and write in the name of the female co-star.

 [ 16 ] READ parts of Basketball a LOVe story by Jackee MacMullan; Rafe Bartholomew & Dan Klores Also look at the film Coach Carter starring Samuel L. Jackson.  What are the values the book and movie are putting across? Why are they important?

[ 17 ] Hamburger Hill, a movie available on You Tube.  I don’t know much about this film about Black men in Viet Nam. What does the film tell you about hurtfulness towards people and among people?

  [ 18 ] Do the Right Thing Directed by Spike Lee. What is the main thrust of this film? What did you learn from it. Did you know that Mr. & Mrs Obama went to see this film on their first date?

 [ 19 ] South Side with You about President& MRs. Obama’s first date. Well-acted, funny and up-beat. Available on Yu Tube.

[ 20 ] The Book of JOY by the Dalai

Lama & Archbishop TUTU. About building good values and living with truth.

The above document is offered in the memory of my first cousins, Leon, Wilmore, Frank Wilmore & Larry Wilmore. May their Spirits be with us everyday to guide us to a more positive and fruitful future as BLACK MEN and BLACK PEOPLE!

just 67 pounds

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There is a 67,000 Pound Gorilla in the Room…

Radio Host Reggie Bryant formerly of WURD and WHAT - once said, and I am paraphrasing here, He said that it is the things you think are true that really aren’t true that are the problem.

You can’t see HIM, but when Common told our country about being sexually abused, one was released.  { Please note how Common spoke of forgiveness and listening to people and being humble. }

 

You can’t see HIM, but when they said we can’t have a BLACK woman on the Supreme Court and made it impossible to have a congressional meeting saying we can’t limit the terms of Supreme Court Justices to 10 years, a BIG FAT OLE 76,000 pound Gorilla got out of HIS cage and started screaming.

WHEN people can’t get food and have good supermarkets in their neighborhoods their shouts of pain and anger are letting seven such 76,000 pound gorilla’s lose in rich people’s neighborhoods, -  regardless of the color of the property owners and the color of the business leaders in that neighborhood - but the gorillas disappear without breaking any windows or killing anyone, but they have made their point!. …

When you have a therapist – GOD BLESS HER  -  who gives you a rather glum look after you spill out your emotional guts and you think maybe nothing will change – improvement is much better than change – IMPROVEMENTS ARE AND WILL HAPPEN AS I WRITE THIS -  you might have to hold tight and PRAY that your own personal gorilla doesn’t get lose. THINK POSITIVE, TAKE POSITIVE ACTIONS, TAKE NON-VIOLENT ACTION.

 

GOD Almighty, Tracy Gibson

 

 

 

 

        

new work report August 29th, Thursday 2019

Work Report from Tracy Gibson

August 27^th, 2019 Tuesday - August 29th, 2019 Thursday

*****Personal Computer # 16; at 1:10 PM; Blackwell Library; on August 29th, 2019 Thursday; Personal PIN number 6576; for 60 minutes or more. THANK YOU! 

*****December 4^th, year not known; Computer Number 3; Personal Identification Number 1350; Time: 1:45P.M.; Senior Section, Main Library of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

*****December 6^th, 2018; Second Floor Hallway; Main Branch of the Free Library, 19^th and the Parkway; Computer -Number 2; Time: 4:45P.M.; Personal Identification Number 1810; for 60 minutes.

*****July, 29^th, 2018; Personal Identification Number 4880; Social Science and History Department; Main Library, 19^th and the Parkway; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Computer number 39; Time: 1:40 P.M.; for 30 minutes, Probably a Sunday.

*****Second Floor Hallway; Computer Number 11; Time: 9:35 P.M.; for 60 minutes; at 9:35 A.M.; August 11^th, 2018; Personal Identification Number 7692.

*****Date: January 3^rd, 2019; Personal Computer Number 4; Time: 3:10 P.M.; Wait: 15 minutes; Personal Identification Number 8237; Time: 30 minutes; Specific location unknown but in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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*****-Music Department; The Main Library, 19^th and the Parkway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Personal Identification Number 3332; Personal Computer Number 50; Time: 5:25 PM; for 60 minutes; Date: August 27^th, 2019.

*****-Business Department; Personal Computer Number 1; Personal Identification number 3993; Personal Computer number 1; Date; August 27^th, 2019 Time 3:15 PM; For 120 minutes; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Main Library 19^th and the Parkway.

*****_ Second Floor Hallway; Computer Number 3; Date: March 6^th, 2019; Time – 11:35 P.M.; for 60 minutes; Personal Identification Number 9638; Second Floor Hallway; Main Library at 19^th and the Parkway; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

*****-Social Science and History Department; The main Library at 19^th and the Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Computer Number 40; Personal Identification Number 1949; Date – March 6^th, 2019; Time 1:30 PM; for 60 minutes.

*****-Personal Identification Number 3638; Social Science and History Department; Main Library of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19^th and the Parkway; time 3:05 P.M. ; February 8^th, 2019; Computer number 40; for 60 minutes.

*****Social Sciences and History Department, the Main Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19^th and the Parkway; Personal Identification Number 9636; Computer number 39; at 9:10 AM; February 5^th, 2019; for 60 minutes.

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**

Safe and Clean Places to live FOr Homeless People and or Those Living Temporarily Without Shelter

Safe and Clean Places for Homeless People ( Those Living Temporarily Living Without Shelter )..

** The Logan Hotel at 18^th and the Parkway near the Free Library ( Main Branch )

*** 3675 Market Street at the Quarum Apartment Building.

Please call me to increase the number of such places so we can all live with decency, cleanliness and honor. - 1 215 - 823 - 9985  Tracy Gibson

Escaping Poverty. Saturday July 27th, 2019 Saturday.

JULY 27^th, 2019 Saturday

From Tracy Gibson

670 North 41^st Street

Apartment - Office B

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 – 5202

1 – 215 – 823 – 9985

KOKAYIJESUS333@GMail.COM

An Ode to GALUSHA PENNYPACKER –

By Tracy Gibson

   **Poverty is not a dead end without an opening for escape.  There are people living without shelter right under our noses at Vine Street near 19^th Street right on the way to or from the Free Library, main branch.  They are stretched out laying near and or around a statue of Galusha Pennypacker.  When I see this my heart sinks and I think that we as a city could do so much better. As a nation we in Turtle Island’s North America { The U.S.} could do so much better.   Being ever vigilant is not enough.  We often have chosen the wrong tactics or have given up or don’t vote, or just feel frustrated and head for the bar or the nearest illegal drug dealer.  DON’T GIVE UP! Here are some tactics you might not have thought of:

** Ask and demand that BLACK people in power – the BLACK private sector, the BLACK elected officials, BLACK church and BLACK civic leaders – ask them for a ``HOMELESS UNIVERSITY’’ specifically designed to teach homeless people { People living without shelter} about how to budget money better; how to respect themselves by refusing to eat the poor-quality food offered by the Church Missions and food pantries; cook for themselves; not visit stores like WAWA, McDonalds, Burger King, Hardy’s, Wendy’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Bob’s Big Boy - which flourish off of poor-people’s dollars and offer nothing back to stem the falling tides of poverty - and go to Salad Works, BLACK VEGETARIAN PLACES LIKE HABISCUS AT 49^th and Baltimore Avenue, and Sweet Greens at 40^th and Walnut Street instead or, even better, cook at home, if YOU have a place to stay;; Cook low salt, low fat, tasty foods omitting foods like white rice, white potatoes, white breads, pork, beef and fatty oils { These cooking techniques can be taught at the New Homeless University};learn how also, to stay away from illegal drugs, illegally-gained prescription medicines, alcohol, cigarettes, and the human trafficking culture; learn how to contact people in the community who are responsible, reliable, hard-working and honest – there are plenty – and learn how to avoid much of the technologies that are separating our people and pitting our people against one another; learn inner strength through music and other media choices.  

     ** Making it off of pennies is not an option. We need to introduce legislation that demands the quadrupling of disability benefits, welfare payments, food stamps, and other government plans. The rich will get richer because the poor will have more money to spend on good and services owned and distributed by corporations owned by the wealthy. The middle class will expand. More store ownership by formerly poor people will commence.  Poor people will be able to lift themselves out of poverty. THIS IS A WIN-WIN SITUATION. I tell you, this is not rocket science. My father was a rocket scientist. I know what I’m talking about. READ MORE ON MY BLOGS at http://ThePoliticsofREAL.BLOGSPOT.COM

     **Meanwhile, watch more educational video on You Tube and read more books. (Write me for my book list). The endless mind-numbing and dumbing down of media will turn around as public expectations grow for more diverse and educational media. Watch movies like ``The Learning Tree’’ and ``Sounder’’ and ``Hunter Killer,’’ ``Five on the Black Hand Side,’’ ``12 Years a Slave,’’ ``Green Book,’’ and ``The Hunt for RED October.’’ Listen to songs like those by Caston and Majors ``Light in My Window,’’ and Stevie Wonder’s older songs like ``Living for the City’’ and some of Marvin Gaye’s tunes like ``What’s Goin On.’’ 

     **Get plenty of rest and exercise. Join Planet Fitness when they have a One-Dollar special. Stay there when you need rest. If you have a locker you should be able to stay there for at least three hours when you are on the street and can’t get to the Free Library.

**Also: If you are brave and really angry don’t steal ANYTHING! What I want you to do is go to the supermarket and place everything you dream of buying in the shopping cart and take it to the front of the line and say ``Sorry Miss, or Sir, I don’t have any money to pay for this.’’ Let them put the food back. Don’t do this at a Black supermarket like the Fresh Grocer at Broad and Jefferson. Go out in the Burbs to GIANT or an elite market. They can’t arrest you for forgetting you don’t have any money. {IF WE LIVED IN A DECENT COUNTRY YOU WOULD HAVE MONEY. THERE IS NOT EXCUSE FOR THE GREEd AND FINANCIAL DISARESPECT!} . }  I felt embarrassed doing this but I have done it in the past and experienced a good feeling of taking action that helps make waves of change. Tell them GOD Almighty told you to do this, if they ask questions.

** If you are an activist, don't let them criminalize you just because you have political work to do.  STAY WITHIN THE letter of the LAW don't even JAY WALK or jump over the turnstile at SEPTA stations. Work to keep hygiene up as much as possible. I am not being hurtful when I ask you to take a bath. I have to also. If I had a magic wand I would make sure you have the things you need. Go to your doctor's appointments and therapy appointments and share as much as possible in therapy.  I have to also. Believe me, I know these things are not easy, but they pay off. Sometimes it doesn't take long! 

**Write me with your ideas. I promise to give you credit for the ideas as I am able to. 1 - 215 - 823 - 9985

Gratefully TRUE,

Peace, Justice, Economic Sharing,

GOD Almighty,

Tracy Gibson