Open Letter to Beyonce & JAY- Z

Dear Beyonce & Jay Zee:

 

I was standing in the Black Bank in Philadelphia, Unity Bank, in Center City and a report came on about Beyonce. I didn’t hear much of it, but I did see a woman dancing with other Black women who I thought was out of control and living on the edge.  I Am a man who watches pornography, so please take this into account as you read this. I Am also a very decent and abiding and Loving man and a Man of God.  I don’t think that these things have to hold conflicting values or conflicting ethics in this strange and obtuse culture we live in.  One thing I know for sure, either the precious earth that God is said, in the Bible, to have created in six days, is going to go crashing out of control {Spiritually and religiously speaking} or it is about to be saved by mankind in Ways we can’t as humans, fully understand. When I saw Beyonce dancing I thought out loud and told the guard and the teller at the Bank – both of whom are good friends of mine – that Beyonce ``needs to put some clothes on.’’   If you go to Progress Plaza in Philadelphia and ask the teller and the guard if I said this they will tell you, yes I did say this.  I Am at a point of anger at seeing our young girls ``out of control’’ that makes me very sad and at the same times, makes me still. I Am still to listen to God about this and ask Him or Her what I can do to make things better.   That is a the crux of this letter being created.  I want you Beyonce to slow down and get some rest. You are on the same course our precious, gifted and lost Whitney Houston was on when we lost Her great personality and talent – a gift for the world to behold—when we lost Her to drugs and whatever else She was doing to death and destructing. I Am personally convinced that Her handlers, promoters, accountants, managers and hangers-on  were more responsible for Her death than She or Bobby Brown was. This was a loss that could have been snipped in the bud a few years before Her death, Whitney’s death that is, if She had taken another course and started to lead another life. I think you need to lead another life also.  It was great that you said something positive about Black Lives Matter and Black Youth needing to be helped and protected – often from the Police. But, we need you to slow down. Take time for your family. Listen to God. Read some Spiritual books. Take a nice vacation without all the hangers-on and just relax. I mean really relax with or without Jay Zee.  Rent an island if you have to, but rest is very important. So is time with your family. You need to do this. You also need to check your staff. Are you surrounded by People who have your best interests at heart, or are you surrounded by a grouping of White men and Jewish men who bring you the most money? I personally think  you need to listen to your heart and listen to God and listen to me and get a lot more Black employees who will take into consideration your need to be treated properly and with dignity and respect.  I have learned that no matter how much my thoughts put money before People, my job as a decent human being is to put People before money, appreciate People, speak to People on the street, understand their needs and motivations and where their corruptions come from.  It is not my job to avoid People, disrupt their lives unless they are really headed on the wrong path {like I feel you are} & devalue them as People. My job as a Black community leader is to value our Black People, show empathy, mercy and sympathy. Act as much as I can in a dignified manner, and work for truth, decency, LOVe in the world for everyone, and make my existence less financially and emotionally stressful for myself and my LOVed ones and my family and close friends, including my new LOVer.   Sometimes these things are not easy to balance, but I Am thankful to God that She or He gave me such a job and that

now, after years of work and struggle, my life is beginning to make sense to me.  Slow down and surround yourelf with decent People. Kind People and LOVing Black People.  Eat right. Exercise. Listen to more of the Blues & Jazz traditions. Talk to and call some of your ole friends from Destiny’s Child. They would LOVe to hear from you. Call your Mom and talk for about an hour or two. Go visit the ole neighborhood. Don’t do any drugs at all, except what a very reasonable and decent and trusted Black doctor has prescribed for you. Stop reading about yourself in the newspapers. Stop watching what’s on TV. It is there to mislead and corrupt, not to teach like it should be. I can replace yur name and Jay Zee name in this letter with just about any other Black star who is out of control.  I would have to change the details, but the basic letter would be the same.  You don’t have to listen to me, but I AM here writing you this letter at a late hour for a real reason. You must take care of yourself because there are hundreds of little Black girls running around who LOVe you and would be devastated if anything bad happened to you. For God’s sakes I hope and Pray I have reached you and that you will even get some counseling and help if you and Jay Zee need it. This is something you will benefit from, not something you need because you are mentally ill. I Am not joking when I say I want you to feel free to call me if you need to or send me an e-mail. {I can be reached at 1 215 823 9985 or at BrotherTracy11@GMail.Com. You deserve better for yourself and Jay Zee and the sweet, precious baby of yours. Read some of my articles at http://ThePoliticsofReal.Blogspot.Com and let me know what you think. Some of those dance steps you do look very edgy, unkempt, wild and unnecessary. I know young People basically need to slow down also and think about the course they are on. God bless you and I Pray you will be able to listen to your inner self& your inner God because you are a valuable asset to the world, to the Black Community & to many other Black activists & Black leaders such as myself. You deserve better.  God Bless you & your family.    

 

Peace & Blessings,

 

Brother Tracy Gibson,

Activist, Organizer, LOVer of Humanity.

 

I will have to read over for typos.

A Black Woman on the Supreme Court The Time is Ripe. Building Legacy.

Dear Mr. President: You and I know that we really don't have any representation at all for Black People on the Supreme Court, truly reflecting a deep understanding of Black issues and concerns. The last time we had that was when Thurgood Marshall was on the Supreme Court.  That was quite some time ago. Mr. Thomas is Black only in colour. He does not reflect any deep or even slight concern for Black People nor our issues which span from education to Housing and from Decent wages to properly financing Black Businesses. There has also never ben a Black woman on the Supreme Court. For these two reasons, I Am asking that you seriously consider putting a Black woman who has strong progressive views on the Supreme Court. I will let you decide who this should be as I don't have time right now to do the proper research. {This is why I keep advocating for more funds for my company.}  If you have any questions of me, please do not hesitate to ask. You know How to reach me.

Peace & Blessings,

Brother Tracy Gibson,
Founder, President & CEO of
Bro. Tracy Gibson & Assoc., Inc.
A Growing concern dedicated to making a legitimate difference in the Black Community & a positive change for
Black youth.

cutting back on the military budget

Cutting Back on the Bloated, Wasteful U.S. Military Budget… Who Says We Can’t?

 Our Nation spends $1 Billion Dollars of our hard earned tax dollars on the military budget each year.  We as Americans have been brain washed and lulled into believing that this money is spoken for, untouchable, off limits and not to be discussed.  Some reliable sources have suggested and even proven that one quarter of every dollar in military spending in the U.S. is unaccounted for, wasted or misspent.  And we are not supposed to question this—just accept it and go on to something else.  That is what CNN, MSNBC (which is supposed to be progressive), ABC, and even PBS & the BBC (for the most part) have proclaimed more than once right over the air ways on National TV & radio!!  Who Says we can’t cut the massive waste out of the military budget and bring the military spending into a more sustainable, realistic mode and make such spending work towards peace instead of the proliferation of war, armaments and destruction!!

The people who would question this position are NEVER asked to come on major TV or major radio programs or to be interviewed by the major publications with any kind of consistency. Many true progressives like me often question why we have to spend so much on the military in our quest to be the world’s policemen and policewomen; prop up White Supremacy; and dictate to foreign countries & foreign peoples how they should live…. {To me, this is really what the military intervention is all about.}  We have lost much of what the essence and temperament of what true democracy { within our own borders & around the world} is about.  We have a very violent, destructive and misguided culture and even celebrities like Danny Glover, Denzel Washington, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Will Smith & Jada Picket-Smith  and Cicely Tyson are beginning to speak up and speak out..  If we could cut the military budget by ten % a year for three years, we would have enough savings to get the homeless off the streets and provide health care for every American. We could stop the insane process of fining North Americans for not having health care!!

France and Germany don’t have the kind of exorbitant military budget that the United States has. Neither does England, Sweden, Portugal or Spain.  Why is it that the United States has to take up the mantel and provide military cover for the entire world in our endless quest to spread our version of so-call democracy around the planet? Why is it our mission as American tax payers to sustain and expand U.S. Empire? Our own democracy becomes weaker and weaker as our tax base is stretched to the brink of breaking while we spend more and more on military, national security (as we defend against the underhanded misdeed we carry out in foreign lands) and the so-called intelligence network. Do you feel any more secure with all that money going to defense and the intelligence network? Do you support the military exploits of our troops around the world? Do you even really know what they are doing? Do you REALLY feel we are getting our money’s worth? People are slowly seeing the light that this just isn’t working.

It has been proven by leading psychologist, sociologist & psychiatrists that raw & blatant shows of force and power, such as the U.S. military has exemplified in various parts of the world over the years find the response to that military force to be hostility, anti-social behavior such as looting, resentment, hatred, internal terrorism & retaliatory sacrifice bombings. Often such military occupation and Empire building & expansion also divides neighborhoods into supports of the occupation and those who oppose it—dividing families and creating deep-seated hatreds, resentments and animosities.  

In the U.S., our schools are falling apart. Our students are getting dumber. Our small businesses go without the needed Capital to expand, hire new people and grow. Our infrastructure (roads, bridges and city, state and federal buildings) is crumbling and weakening. Our job base is turning into a prison-industrial base. Millions have no health care. There is a growing homeless & Home-Challenged {People who are victimized by foreclosures,  not being able to afford homes & other such housing problems}  problem. Yet our military continues to fly the flag, suck up our money and no one who is extended much media clout or stature makes any consistent challenges to the basic status quo & Established Order rule that the military budget cannot be cut, tampered with or made more adherent to basic competent spending rules & budgets. Thank GOD this picture is changing. I strongly disagree with this hands-off contention as regards to the U.S. military budget. I suggest that the cuts I described above be made and I think it is high time we stopped our military expansion and occupation around the world (there are over 100 U.S. military basis around the globe). It is time we bring our troops home to be retrained as to how to rebuild OUR nation, not someone else’s.

Solution: Cut the military budget 10 percent for three years in a row and use the savings to help Americans in and on our land. Feed the homeless, create jobs, give desperately needed Capital to our small businesses, support small towns, cities and municipalities with needed money for infrastructure, better schools and qualified teachers and stop over taxing the middle class and the poor to pay for the foreign folly of a few crabby generals, international war criminals and Established Order henchmen who head up the Pentagon and who dominate the Republican Party

Job Posting

January 7, 2016 {Thursday}

Statement to the New Mayor, Mayor James Kenney; & The New & Older City Council Members.

From Brother Tracy Gibson,

I welcome you into office with LOVing arms from a Black activist, a Man who LOVes GOD, and a Man who will do anything within reason to advocate for Black People, Black Children & Black elderly. I have talked to a lot of People about the new People coming into City Hall and even the most difficult skeptics say they have a warm feeling about perceived change sweeping City government and a warm feeling about things getting better for the most poor & left out.   I often find myself reluctantly in line at area soup kitchens at the end of the month because the money just doesn’t stretch until the end of the month and into the new month without a little help.  My Sister, GOD Bless Her, always chips in because She knows I have high bold pressure and can’t always eat the food from church missions which can be high in salt, fat and sugar and unhealthy for me.  Yet, as a Man of Hope and a man of GOD, I feel this life continues to be promising, enriching, an educational experience and I cherish each and every day GOD grants me to live and help myself & others.  I say help others because I’m often pressed into service to help others because it doesn’t just work for me on Martin Luther King, Junior Day only.  I have to help others, or my life’s mission is erased and my purpose goes unheeded.  I often put myself second like any good Black Earth Father such as myself, often does. I don’t have any blood relative children of my own. So I have taken on the insurmountable task of adopting each and every woman, man and child {including transgendered People, White People, Asian People, Gay & Lesbian People, East Indian People, Palestinians, Jewish People, Arab People, Native People & Black People—these are all Spiritually my children even though many of them are much older than me or much younger—or even the same age.  I feel responsible. Even if I have volunteered for hours, for over two months like I recently did with the Church of the Advocate at 18^th & Diamond Street, for several weeks, even if I volunteer for the day and see a lady denied entrance to SEPTA because She is a quarter short, I will reach down into my pocket and give 25 cents, if I have it. Sometimes I won’t do this because the financial burden is just too great for me to allow.  I know How much it actually cost to run SEPTA. If I’m not mistaken, the Common’s Wealth of Pennsylvania has to kick in about another $5. every time someone takes SEPTA anywhere for a single ride.  That is a phenomenal amount of money even by today’s standards!!!! I know I have rung the bells for SEPTA several times before. I have written in about the daily heroism I see when SEPTA’s female and male drivers actually have to strap in riders who are disabled.  People have gotten used to being patient and waiting, but this is something People had to learn --   To be patient and wait for People who have a disability.  My particular disability is a behavior problem so People can’t see it. They call it a mental illness {Bipolarism with Schizophrenic features } but it has been more of a journey than a disability in my case. But all that aside, I want to wish you all the best. I applied for work with Mayor Kenney, but I have heard nothing yet. I have all kinds of qualifications including: years of college & a journalism degree; a lOVe for film; years of work in the entertainment industry (I worked for TV Guide Magazine as a listings writer for 13 years & for The Philadelphia Tribune for a year & a half); two certificates from a free Community Program at the Wharton School for Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania; a number of classes with the Money School in Delaware; Graduate level classes at Temple University and Jones International University; an extensive background -- spanning over 35 years --  doing activism work in the Black Community. (This has included successfully advocating that area pharmacies stop carrying cigarettes. The theory is what on Earth are pharmacies – a place of healing and health -- doing selling deadly cigarettes?  CVS was the only network of pharmacies with the courage to actually take cigarettes off  the shelves & stop selling them. I also advocated that socialist countries like Cuba and Russia NOT show off their military weaponry on May First, 2015 so as to not further spark a further U.S. and Western arms buildup.  I also devised, over six years, a Peace Plan for the Middle East {Write me and I’ll give you all the details}. Part of my community activism also included selling positive-message Tee-Shirts for Black families and others who have the courage to put their progressive politics on their backs. This was a test marketing program that went fairly well. One Tee-Shirt was a good seller for Black youth and Black families. I also financially supported and designed a program for a young Black man {27} which allowed Him to visit a working City Council session. We also went to the Liberty Bell, He studied electric wiring with a qualified teacher and took a vegetarian cooking class among other duties. He was paid a salary from my corporation. ). I also have a deep-rooted LOVe for media work; a good personality and a high level of social intelligence; a strong ability to be a team player & yet retain my strong proven points of view; contacts with civic leaders, religious leaders, community leaders and politicians in the City of Philadelphia; an ability to smooth over hurt feelings, negotiate, make things better for People & help them actually be included when this is the actual goal of the People in charge of a government at any level or any situation ; an ability to utilize money in effective Ways to make a lasting and on-target positive impact;  and a strong faith in GOD.  { I applied for work specifically in the Film Department  but don’t have a specific credential for such work}. I want to work as a consultant and Am in the process of filling out papers for disadvantaged and / or disabled workers.  I Am working to help the City discover and take full advantage of my skills and get full consideration and cooperation in this work matter from  Mayor Kenney.  I will send a copy of this letter to Mayor Kenney, Sister Jannie Blackwell, Brother Darryl Cark and others very soon. In the meantime, this letter will stand on my blog for the public to see.  There are over 500 articles on my blog so the public can see for themselves my own mastery of writing and check out my resume to see what qualifications I have.   {http://thePoliticsofReal.Blogspot.Com }.  With this letter I Am working to create a groundswell  of  public support from the community {especially the Black community & The Gay & Lesbian Community} because I Am very familiar with these communities in much of my work.  I Am a fine addition to Mayor Kenney’s steam’in team. I will keep the pressure on because I’ve never worked in City Government and I feel this is a good time to start.

 

Blessings & Peace,

 

Brother Tracy Gibson

Helping Build Up Decency & Fairness in the Middle East

Important Letter Rational:

I want you to join the Holocaust Museum and send them a copy of a letter stating something like this:

I Am joining the Holocaust Museum of D.C., not so much because I have so much pity for Jews, but so I can expose all oppression, especially that which happened to Black People and other non-Jewish People during the Nazi occupation.  Such information rarely gets into the public. Aside from Jews being tortured and murdered, there were Blacks being murdered and tortured;  Gays & Lesbians being murdered and tortured; Gypsies being murdered & tortured; and other foreigners being murdered and tortured by the Nazi menace. I strongly suggest you change some of your museum policies and make it so more of the other groups are represented.  I Am a Black professional, and I have almost always lived my life as one of higher ethics and inclusion.  I don’t like much of what our present President has done in regards to the State of Israel. I think, feel and know the State of Israel gets way too  much financial support from the United States when our public schools and inner cities go without. There is a crumbling infrastructure in the United States that must have jobs created for us to maintain safety and decency.   I think Israel would do better as an independently run free state with open borders for everyone including Palestinians, Jews, Arabs, Blacks, Africans Etc. An independent Board needs to be set up to actually run the country and leadership needs to rotate. There MUST be a shared and agreed upon flag and shared and agreed upon international policies of fairness, job access, inclusion, access to housing, and access to leadership and management. The Jewish people have proven time and again that they cannot lead Israel fairly, freely and openly. The persecution and discrimination of Arabs and Palestinians has been proven and documented. Jews have also suffered needlessly just so there can be an Israel / Jewish state. There MUST be checks and balances set up to maintain an incorruptibility in policy, fair policy creation, management and to make sure things are run smoothly, fairly and properly.  The influence of large amounts of money & the influence of Jewish people , or Arabs, or Africans or Europeans or others must not be able to have total sway in the region. Other countries in the Middle East & elsewhere should also be run in such an open & free  manner such as Egypt; Syria; Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Iraq, the U.S., North Korea  & Somalia. There may well also be other countries that need this free-state process in their management as well.  This is a fair and open solution and one that will dramatically decrease violence and terrorism in the region. U.S. trope movements in the region are not helpful to create lasting Peace, To create lasting world peace, access to jobs, access to education and access to a better life for everyone living there including women, children and men open and fair access to information needs to be mandatory and a proliferation of weapons needs to be outlawed. When the Security Council is abolished in the United Nations [the Security Council has historically vetoed U.N. policy that would have made a positive difference] a process will start that will lead to a positive solution. It is in that Spirit that I join the Holocaust Museum as a member. —It is my hope & prayer that World Peace, world Friendship; the saving of lives; the sharing of wealth, currencies and resources;  & the sharing of  cultural experiences such as dance, film, theatre, other mass media such as TV, Radio,  the internet, newspapers and magazines will create balance, openness and fairness throughout many parts of the troubled world.  Openly creating balance, Peace and ending the decades of hurt, violence and murder is a big job, and more Common People must take part. This is also why I’m writing this letter.  A very Common man once said something very simple, but true in regards to His own brutal beating by Los Angeles police ``Can’t we all just get along?’’ That Brother’s name was Rodney King. It is with Him in mind that I offer my membership at the Holocaust Museum and in with this work  I Pray for lasting Peace, freedom, economic & cultural sharing and maybe even a little LOVe in North Africa.  The process outlined in this important letter will lead to a safer world for People living in Brazil & Cuba as well as the United States & Europe & the rest of the world. But we all have to stop being afraid and get a handle on How to work effectively for World Peace.

 

Peace & Blessings,

 

Brother Tracy Gibson.

 

It is my hope that informed members of the General Public will also write such letters and send them to their political representatives and other leaders.

I Ask that you Listen Carefully

I ask that you listen carefully:

My work is to give decency to the world and to end the need for so many People to have to come together with bowed heads & with lighted candles, teddy bears and other stuffed animals, flowers, remarks, cards and letters to pay respects at the site of the senseless murder of yet another Black youth. Black Lives Matter & Black People deserve to live and Prosper in Grace.

 

 

Of bell & Lamont

Of bell & Lamont

By Brother Tracy Gibson

Thank you

From the bottom of my ashy Black feet to the

Top kinky hairs on my head

I thank you both for the words & thoughts

Of infinite wisdom you

Scrolled down over the years

Too often I couldn’t find

Time from my busy

Life as a Black activist

To hear you properly

An excuse as rotten

As week-ole figs

Now, I understand the deep-paced

Importance of our Black

Writers

Having spent time alone

With GOD in my small, but thanked apartment

She, God that is, has said we Black folk must LOVe our

Writers cherish them like fresh figs & fresh melon mixed with mint &

Raw Red honey == your words are yummy

The words you used over the years – Lamont Steptoe & bell hooks—

Have inspired Black multitudes

Someday soon I’ll have my company where it should

Have been financially a decade ago

& I will remember to reward you with the proper public gifts, accolades

& prizes,

But for now,

Know from the bottom of my bear Black feet

How much you are LOVed  Appreciated LOVed

As Progressive & even radical Black writers who hold

A Golden lamp before the path GOD has provided me for this Life. I Thank you.

And again I thank you.