On Nov 12, 2007 41 shots were fired with a standard issues police hand gun and killed Sean Bell. Three other black men in the car received an excessive amount of bullets ranging from 8-15. This was not a mob style gang execution this was a case of mistaken identity by the NYPD. On April 3, 2008 the police officer was acquitted of all charges and was suspended with pay for 30 days. Before I get into my opinion please allow me to let you know the demographic that makes up New York’s finest. The NYPD is predominately white men with Italian and Irish ancestry they are 90% of the police force while Hispanics are 5% Blacks are 3% and Asians 2%. It has been well documented that the NYPD hates minorities. Abner Louma was brutely beaten by two Italian police officers and sodomized with a toilet plunger he was unarmed. Amadou Dialou was shot 16 times by one Irish and one Italian officer he was unarmed. Sean bell shot 41 times by an Italian officer he and his friends were unarmed all the other officers who joined in the shooting just opened fire without shots being fired at them. Each one of those officers all were acquitted and received paid vacations I mean “suspensions”. Ever since I can remember I never once went a year without hearing that the police killed a black person in such a manner were no gun was found nor was their any physical scars on the police officers who claimed self defense and probable cause. Justice is blind towards blacks in New York, here in Ft. Lauderdale a group of black guys shot and killed a Broward sheriff deputy. They got away but a bounty of 250,000 $ has been placed on them. A new law has passed were BSO (Broward sheriff Officers) are allowed to use semiautomatic guns. If the law enforcement officer feels the pain and fear we the community feels when one of our own dies from a misjudgment by the one holding the gun why aren’t they doing something to remedy this injustice? Race plays a huge part in New York, if you live in the projects (low income housing) and call the police to report a crime it takes the police 2 hours to arrive where you live. When they do show up it is always a black or Hispanic officer. In Manhattan New York (the white side of the city) if you call the police, 2 squad cars arrive within 10 minutes and all four officer (two to a car) arrive they are white(Italian or Irish). It is a known fact the Italians and the Irish naturally hate black people for no reason at all. New York is the most segregated place I know, everyone lives in a neighborhood that is known to be dominated by their own nationality. They call it heritage pride; all neighborhoods have their own people Jews, Arabs, Blacks, Hispanic, Asians, Italians, and Irish all live in their respective neighborhoods( I am surprised inbreeding hasn’t accrued). Invisible lines making up borders and boundaries have been drawn by gangs and police. No one is allowed to go to the others neighborhood and each race blames the other if a break in to a car or home happens. Needless to say the first to be accused are you guessed it the blacks. We have accepted the fact that we are the most hated race on this earth years ago. That is why most black people do things they like and say fu@k the tradition of others. This is why many black people loved the O.J Simpson verdict from 1995. We feel as if we got one over yes the percentage is bad 1out of 174 that I know. Change will happen one day but until then all the highest position held in NY law enforcement are held and have been held for many years by Italians and the Irish. I am talking from governor to district attorney, Judge to police chief, and Police officer to mafia boss. In conclusion Hatred is running and protecting the New York streets. Can you really blame minorities from not talking to police to help them investigate a crime or the whole stop snitching rule that dominates the hood?

My older brothers' first son made my mother cry one day while she was babysitting. I have two great nephews the oldest is 2 and the youngest is 3 months old as cute as they want to be. During this month I have been reminiscing on my father's life with us and thinking that my nephews will never know their granddad. My mother has been on edge just as I have been lately. I told her instead of staying home mourning my dad’s death got to my brother’s house and celebrate the life of his two children. While babysitting she finds an old family photo album of us. As she is flipping through the pages she see’s a picture of my dad and brother at my brother’s High School graduation. Now my nephew’s name is Andrew and my father’s middle name is Andre. My brother did my honored my dad’s memory by naming his first son with a similar name. Andrew has not developed himself yet as a talker he says some words and uses facial and hand gestures to express himself. He tells my mom “Sit” meaning he wants to sit on her lap. She picks him up and places the photo album over in front of them. Andrew says “read” meaning he wants a story read to him, he thinks the photo album is a reading book. The first page Andrew flips to a picture of my parents at the beach together in a warm embrace during a sunset. Andrew points at the picture of my mom and say ‘momma” with a huge smile on his face. My mother replied yes it’s”momma” (my mom doesn’t like to be called grandmother it’s momma or nothing else). Andrew then proceeds to point at my dad’s picture and said “poppa” while having his arms spread apart and shoulders shrugged upwards in a gesture meaning I don’t know. My mom teary eyed say yes that is poppa, but Andrew repeated “poppa” again with the same gesture this time my mom interoperated it as if he was asking a question. Now Andrew uses a similar gesture when his toy is are missing. He would say “ball” and use the gesture to ask you have you seen my ball. That was the exact notion that popped in my mothers head, she uncontrollably busted into tears in front of Andrew. Andrew comes grab my hand and said “momma cry” and pulls me to follow him to where she is. When I arrive I see she was crying and I asked her what is wrong and she opens the album and Andrew looks on and repeated poppa with the same gesture again this time he looked me directly in the eye as if the question was directed at me. My 2 year old nephew asked my mother and me a question we hope that would not come up until he is of enough age to understand life and death. My mom saw a reminder of her pain. I who was very emotionally distraught felt the same way she did. I now realize that this question is a blessing. For a child who bares the name similar to a person who he doesn’t know or ever seen before in his 2 years on this earth and to said child point him out and know who he is, is nothing short of a miracle to me. Andrew may not remember this when get’s older and he may asked where is granddad one day, I know it is inevitable. One thing I do know he does know his granddad not in the physical but in the spiritual. I can truly say that all my prayers for God to reveal himself to me was answer that day Monday April 21, 2008 a l0 years and 2 days since my dad’s death through my nephew as the pure human vessel for his voice! I thank God for hearing me and answering .my prayers.

If am alergic to people with allergies does that mean I am alergic to myself?

I was over a friends house the other day and I was asked a why is their a channel like BET (black entertainment channel) and no WET (white entertainment channel)? I laughed it off and said “if we had a WET channel people might think it has porno on it”. When I saw I was the only one laughing I grew concerned, with a very concerned voice I ask why is their silence in the room and no laughing was that a serious question? My friend said yes he felt as if it was an insult. To make matters worst we were watching the show “black poker stars invitational”. The fact that he felt the whole situation was racist made me think, why this situation would be racist when not one black person was invited to ESPN’s poker invitational. When I saw the look of disgust and anger in my friends face I asked him his train of though on such situations. He goes into a long speech of how Black people are the ones who are discriminating now. “When ever a situation occurs they play the race card”. He then recites a list of unfair, unjust, and bias decisions made because of race. He ended this train of thought with “Black people, gays, and handicap people are way too privileged”. Now I know this dude we have been friends for about 4 years now and he never struck me as a racist or a white supremacist. I know he had a great grandfather who fought in the civil war and he wears his confederate flag proudly whether it’s a hat or T-shirt he always told us it ifs for southern pride. Another friend of ours who happens to be in the room with us asked “why are you so angry man it’s just a channel”. He replied “Oh it’s just a channel to you because you have about three channels”. At this time I see a heated argument is about to take place so I d o what I usually do make a silly joke, No one in the room was going for it. Therefore I made a stand by sayings that if you guys really look at it all the other channels are mainly white. Here is an example remember the show friends? It was about six friends three girls and three guys living in New York doing day to day things I use to watch that show and I always said I never saw not one black person in the show not even a cameo or in the background. When more and more people noticed this the last season before they call it quits they hire a black actress to appear on the show. I also stated that we can flip through all the channels on TV right now and it will be dominated by white shows. My friends DIRECTV line up goes up to 150 channels including premiums. In that little experiment we saw that even with Direct TV channels were minority shows being air range a 3% of his premium package. This made him feel better; I then proceeded to let him know the history of BET. In the beginning man black people were stereotyped on the TV by white actors painted with what was called Blackface makeup. The show who hired black people also gave them degrading roles for them to portrait. As times changed and black people gained more rights BET was developed with the idea to uplift black morale by have more realistic and positive roles. He then asked the big question if Barak Obama becomes president what changes is he going to force on the white people next? HE then states such laws like affirmative action, welfare, and the “N” word.