Marriage

I think people now-a-days think that marriage is just a faze you go through in life. None of them seem to take it as seriously as God intended it to be. We forget how marriage is supposed to be a sacred vow made before God, and to Him and your spouse. If we can't honor the vows we make to God, then what kind of foundation is the unity between two people based on?
When I look today at how "Hollywood" portrays marriage, or how influential people like politicians are facing the crumbling sanctity of their once happy union, all I can do is shake my head at how dreadful this world has become. Instead of a 'til death do us part' some want to add clauses that include, 'until we fall out of love, or I find someone better, ie: Swizz Beats and Alicia Keys, Antuan Cook and Fantasia Barrino.

In no way am I judging these people, because I feel that I am in no position to, but their situations were just sad. It hurts me to see a marriage break apart, especially under such controversy. I recently watched an interview E! News held with Swizz Beats where the reporter asked him how he felt about his life as a newly wed with a baby on the way. He described how he finally felt happy and every thing was great. Of course every thing is great in the beginning. Its the beginning!! But how in the world did he think that made the wife and child he left behind feel? Abandoned? Lost? Confused?

There was a letter posted on the internet where the wife of Swizz Beats explained how she had felt blind-sided by his sudden departure from the marriage. She wasn't bitter, she wasn't vindictive, but she was very hurt that her husband, who seemed to be living a double life, would leave her no indication that their marriage was over while carrying on with Ms. Keys, a woman whom she highly respected and had been introduced to through her husband. That was a cold thing to do, and while I still very much like Alicia Keys, her talent, and her music, I have to say that no matter how I tried, I lost respect for her when I learned how she played a part in the break up of a marriage.

No matter how many excuses we may want to use to break up a marriage, or to get out of one, the truth of the matter is; the fault of the dissolution falls right on the shoulders of the person staring back at you in the mirror. Fantasia is no exception. Yes, she had a hard life. Yes, she says the man told her that he was separated from his wife. Yes, he may look nice. There could be a thousand yeses, but it only took one NO to stop all of the controversy going on in her life now. That would be the no she should have told him as soon as she found out he was married. Separated or not, wait until after the divorce, then there would be no need for accountability. I'm sorry to say it, because I love Fantasia and her music, but she played a part in the drama as soon as she decided to be in that married man's life.

I pray that one day the world will realize how serious the vows we make to be apart of someone else's life are, and do every thing within their might to make it work. When you run out of strength God always has an extra portion. When you feel that you can't go on, God pulls out the encouragement you thought was all wiped out, because He never puts more on us than we can bear.

Lynched

Yesterday I was working out at the gym and happened to glance up. There before me flashed a picture of a man hanging. He had been lynched. The sad part was, there was a little girl standing next to this lynched man (along w/male adults) smiling!


Coming from a race of people who cringe when they hear the word lynch, I have to say this is truly appalling to be happening in the present day, no matter what part of the world its in.

I didn't get too many details about the story, so I'm trying to do some research, but I was shocked into a stupor for a moment.

We can try to say this society has grown away from Jim Crow, but the sore still remains, just not as prevalent. Just a little over a decade ago there was the lynching and dragging death of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, TX, and in 2008 the body of Brandon McClelland was found mutilated and dismembered in Paris, TX. This happened after he was picked up by two white men in a dodge truck.  So the world has not moved along much, it just seems to do a better job at covering up the sore.

I can speak out all I want about the nation taking full responsibility for its ignorant citizens, but there is no way to change the minds of those who choose to wallow in their so-called superiorism. Do you notice though, that a lot of the white supremacist usually don't have much going on in their lives, so they have to try and be better than somebody else, because when they look at the sadness of their situation, they feel they have no other choice? GET A LIFE!!! Then maybe you can stop worrying about other people because of their differences.

Read the story on Brandon McClelland at: http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_5348.shtml

Black People

My people. Black people. I love you from the bottom of my heart, but we don't have to assimilate ourselves to the culture of others in order to be apart.


We built this nation too, with our hands, and on our feet. Some of us going down in the struggle, being sought after and beat.

Our voices have been heard, and yes we do count. There's proof of that sitting right there in the White House.

He didn't perpitrate a fraud, or wear a blonde arm piece to get where he did. And though he's not all black, he claims it proudly, and doesn't base his image off of what other people think or have said.

Just because white rhymes with right, doesn't mean that it is. Not for us any way. Our strengh should come from who we are, not what other people say.
When God formed us in the belly of our mother's wombs, with our dark skin, textured hair, and defined noses, He was privy to what He did. He said His work was good, and I agree one hundred percent.

We SHOULD be proud of the GOOD in our look, our culture, and trends. Once I heard a preacher say, "My hair is good hair! When the wind blows, it does not shift or bend..."

Black men stop using the negative aspects of your women, which can be found in ANY woman, as an excuse date on the other side. Black women don't blame the black man when you turn away, not all of them leave, or do things to make us cry.

They say love sees no color, but of that I do not believe. 'Twas said in ignorance, because I say, love sees color and appreciates the beauty of its difference!

The Middle Class Tax Mules

If you happen to fall between the lines of rich and poor, then you're considered middle class.  What does this mean to the government?  Basically, it means for us, every January through April, to bend over and take it up the behind. 

I don't consider myself to be business savvy, neither am I a pro at numbers, outside of paying my bills, but what I do know is that for those who have so much money they don't want to pay, and for those who don't have enough to pay, the middle class has to come in and pick up the slack.  That's crap!

The main ones who are so vocal about not paying more taxes (the rich) are the ones with the keen knowlege and connections to get around doing so.  And I'm not letting some of the poor off the hook.  My problem with some of them is that the crooked ones are getting paid under the table and not reporting it to the IRS.  Personally, I can't say that I blame you (rich or poor), but the economy doesn't work together fairly when you do this.

See I look at the government and the American people like a parent/child relationship.  More should be expected of the eldest (the rich) because they know better, and as you go on down the line to the middle child (the middle class), there should be a little more leniency, because they are still caught in between learning the ropes and having a full grasp of them.  Of course the youngest (the poor) gets to be "babied" the most, because they don't know any better.  Not knowing any better is not necessarily a bad thing.  Being poor doesn't count you among the ignorant, but some poor do have less connections, which is what it takes to make it to the top in this world.  Ask any rich person at the top and you'll find that out.  Some of them are the most ignorant people on the planet, but they so happen to be hooked up to the right people to secure their places in the line of the priviledged.

This is the way I see things, but apparently the government says different.  They think we should be the mules to carry the load of the rest of the nation.  I don't know about you, but I'm tired and my back hurts...

Passion

Same Sex Marriages

I don't know about you, but I have to say that I am sick and tired of hearing about same sex/transgender marriages.  People!!  God didn't get it wrong when He made you the way He did.  That's Bible.  Look it up!

Sure the cliche' goes, "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve," but that's just the human spin on what's written in the word.  Though you may not want to believe it, it clearly states in Leviticus 18:22 - "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable." (NIV)  Romans 1:26-27: "For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence [sic] of their error which was meet." (KJV)  There you go.  No matter how you try to change it, the Word speaks it clearly.  Why is it such a debate for humans to get it right when even animals know the deal?

Now this is not to say that I have a prejudice against homosexual people.  I just recently found out that one of my best friends growing up has made the choice to live his life in this manner.  And yes I said CHOICE, because contrary to popular belief, that's just what it is.  Let me explain to you how:  A man/woman has a vision/fantasy in his or her mind, it may be intriguing, maybe a little uncomfortable.  The thought may continue to come and persist in staying, and whether or not a person is interested in focusing on it, they CHOOSE to keep dwelling on the thought.  First comes thought, then possibility, and then there's action.

I can't tell you how many kids are running around confused, not knowing whether or not they're straight or gay, because every time you cut on the television it's telling you to be free to "experiement."  There's no experimentation in nature.  We don't live inside of a lab, and we are not trying to find a cure for God's perfect work.

The Tea Party

I haven't heard about one of these sinse The Boston Tea Party in 1773.  Back then I could see some signifigance, I suppose, but now its seems to be a boasting revolution of hate-filled hooligans.

Why in the world the so-called "Patriot Party" would allow prostestors, standing under the use of their name, to wear a monkey around their neck with a sign that says, "Obama go back to Africa," is beyond me.  I have not heard not one member step forward to speak out against this blantant act of racism.  Do they condone it?  Who knows.  All I know is that the more I hear about this movement the more frustrated I become.

How come we didn't have this "Patriot Party" when Bush was running this country into the ground?  Its only now that America, the land of the free, and so-called melting pot of the world, finally has a black president, some one to represent more than just one people, is in an uproar.  Never have I heard so many racial comments in politics until he came to run our country.

Nobody is perfect, and although my opinion of Obama remains high, I do believe he is falling prone to the one mistake anyone can make and be sure to come back and bite them in the butt.  Its the mistake of trying to please every one.  George Bush certainly wasn't doing that.  He was about his own agenda, and none of these "Tea Party Patriots" seem to have any qualms with that!