Friday, November 25, 2016

The voice of a naturalized American󾓦

Gerrishon Sirere II November 25, 2016 0 Comments

By Nikita Boudreaux

Today, I was fortunate to meet a Mexican woman who represents my America. She reounted coming to America over streams and between bullets at 4 years old. "Raised traditional Mexican", she described as marrying at 18,having four kids before 25, and living a pessimistic life. She defied her ex-husbands howls to hold her back from becoming an RN.

Even though, always "the sister that always needed help", she never expected to become a homeowner but she gave in to a realtor friend who implored her to begin working on her credit. 7 months later, she is in the back of my Uber, selectively telling 1 friend she is going into escrow. In 7 months, this divorced mother of four paid her debts and saved enough for down on 450k home. Not only did she sacrifice, but her children as well! " I'm sorry no Christmas this year, we have to save guys" , she would say, but her 5 year old would respond, "It's ok, we will be happier later, right?" - no crying while driving uber. I asked how this might change her dating life, but she mentioned that she is dating a well to do Jewish guy who is also divorced with children as well. At at recent party at his home in Newport Beach, all of his friends treated her "like a novelty" and literally surrounded her. They were all rich and white and sincerely asking her feelings about Trump, but simultaneously making Tequila jokes, etc. about being Mexican. She said she laughed to be agreeable, which I responded, "have you ever considered that you live as a 2nd class citizen?" Of course she said no, but I asked her if she had ever taken the 'White Temperature" of a room, waiting to see how one will interact with you so you know your place with them. She gasped and said she had been doing it her whole life bc her mom sent her to a white school in junior high. "We must conform to be in their presence, in their places, however the same is not true for them in our places", I said. I ended the ride by elating that her story needed to be heard and shared as a true voice of a naturalized American. She may be the 1st of my Coming to America series... #rollingpapers

Sonita Alizadeh- Activist against child marriage

Gerrishon Sirere II November 25, 2016 0 Comments

Sonita Alizadeh, rapper, activist against child marriage

“Rap music let’s you tell your story to other people. Rap music is a platform to share the words that are in my heart.” - Sonita

By Gerrishon Sirere

Each year, 13.5 million girls are married before the age of 18. That is 28 girls every minute. 1 every 2 seconds. This is unacceptable and therefore we stand in solidarity with Sonita Alizadeh and all global advocates campaigning to end child marriage for good.
Child marriage is not only a basic human rights infringement, but also exposes girls to reproductive health risks and early pregnancy, as well as violence and exploitation. This perpetuates the cycle of poverty and the disproportionate effect it has on girls and women.
With the recognition that this brutal practice often leads to girls feeling disempowered and can prevent them from accessing healthcare and education, we call on world leaders to enact and enforce laws to make child marriage illegal, as a key step forward in achieving gender equality.
We call on you to #LeveltheLaw by committing to end child marriage. As Sonita says, we must work together to “build a world where every girl is allowed to reach her full potential, make her own choices, and live the life she chooses for herself.” We stand alongside Sonita and all girls and women to create a brighter future for all.

When Sonita Alizadeh was 16 her parents were prepared to sell her to a man for marriage. Now, thanks to bravely using rap to speak out and tell her family how she felt, she's studying on a full scholarship in the United States and working to end child marriagefor girls all around the world.

In Afghanistan, where Sonita is originally from, 57% of girls are married before they are 19. And this year alone, 13.5 million girls worldwide under the age of 18 will be forced marry before they have finished school or their bodies have matured. Almost one third of these girls will be under the age of 15.

These girls are being robbed of their childhood and their right to live a life of their own choosing, while they could grow up making significant contributions to the social and economic development of their communities.

To end forced marriage we need to ensure that governments enact and enforce laws against this abusive practice. We must also work at the grassroots level with families, communities, religious leaders and advocates like Sonita to effect change.

Sonita is a true champion of human rights. After liberating herself, she directed her attention to all the other young girls who are unable to break free from child marriage.

Stand with Sonita and sign the petition to make sure world leaders #LeveltheLaw and hear our message: The time to end child marriage is NOW.

The time to end child marriage is NOW.

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

San Antonio Shooter Apologizes For Shooting Cop, Has Interesting Reason For Why He Did It

Gerrishon Sirere II November 23, 2016 0 Comments

By Jen Nicole | November 22, 2016

By, Jen Nicole
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When 31-year-old Otis Tyrone McKane was asked if he had anything to say to 50-year-old Detective Benjamin Marconi’s family after he fatally shot him Sunday afternoon, he responded with, “I’m sorry.”

“Marconi was pulling over a driver and went back to his car to write a ticket when McKane allegedly pulled up in a car behind him. He then reportedly shot Marconi in the head, and then a second time, before returning to his car and driving away.”- theroot.com

And as a Black man I know everyone thinks oh he shot the cop on purpose because he hates cops, he is probably with Black Lives Matter and all these other assumptions but McKane actually had a VERY different explanation for why he chose to shoot Detective Benjamin Marconi that day.

When police asked McKane on Monday why he was upset, McKane said, “Society not allowing me to see my son. I lashed out at somebody who didn’t deserve it. I’ve been through several custody battles, and I was upset at the situation I was in.”
So that wasn’t the answer most people expected lol but you know Black people are human and we go through personal problems. Not everything we do is because of the hate we have for others (cough cough).
Of course even after the answer he gave above, the cops still think he specifically targeted the cop though because most Black men have issues with the cops (eye roll).
“Based on the actions of this individual prior to the shooting, we have a fairly good video documentation of what he was doing,” said San Antonio Police Chief William McManus. “I am still convinced that he was targeting blue—targeting a San Antonio Police Department officer, no matter who it was. It was any officer he came across.”
So basically because he probably had pro-black posts on his social media, from the standpoint of the cops he purposely chose to shoot and kill a cop. Isn’t that what they are saying, without actually saying it?
McKane was arrested by a SWAT team on Interstate 10 on Monday while riding with a woman and a 2-year-old child.
Source: theroot.com

Monday, November 21, 2016

Black Student Schools White Teacher On Racism, White Privilege

Gerrishon Sirere II November 21, 2016 0 Comments

Black Student Schools White Teacher On Racism, White Privilege

By Jen Nicole | November 21, 2016

You know things are very tense in America right now and since school is supposed to be a learning environment many of the things taking place in the country right now known as RACISM in full bloom are being discussed in the schools- which I think is a good thing.

A young lady schooled her teacher on racism and white privilege by calling him close minded for wanting to preserve “American culture” and not want the country to become a Latin country.

She went on to tell her teacher: I’m sorry this is the way it is. It is f***ed up. But white people control everything. And that’s not fair. And when anybody, any other minority, tries to say anything about it or change it, we’re complaining or we’re ungrateful.

PREACH!

Watch the video hereHere

What I am proud of this young lady for?

Speaking so eloquently, and being clear and concise.
Standing in her truth and what she knows is right(And what we know is right too).
Not being afraid to check her teacher.

What I am proud of this teacher for?

Letting her speak.

You know so many teachers nowadays have been caught on camera calling their Black students ni**ers and verbally or even physically punishing them. I like that this teacher allowed her to say her peace and accepted open dialogue with her. Now should he be teaching kids of color? Probably NOT since he- according to the student said he did not want America to become a Latin country, but you know what he may need to be in that class so he can have his White Privilege checked at the door, you know what I am saying?

This video made my day because this is what school is supposed to be about. Teachers are supposed to learn from their students just as much as the students are supposed to learn from their teachers. That is the way school is supposed to be- constant questioning and debating what is truth and what isn’t and constant growth from these healthy debates and from these varying opinions. I love it!

Source: thegrio.com

Friday, November 18, 2016

Is Georgia Trying To Make Niqabs And Hijabs Illegal In Public?

Gerrishon Sirere II November 18, 2016 0 Comments

Is Georgia Trying To Make Niqabs And Hijabs Illegal In Public?

By Jen Nicole | November 17, 2016

In Georgia, they are trying to make it a law that you cannot wear your niquab and hijab while driving and in public spaces.

Yes, foreal.👀👀🙎

So there was an anti-masking law that was passed in 1951 to keep the Ku Klux Klan members from committing anonymous racist violence while wearing white hoods and now one Georgia lawmaker wants this to include niquabs and hijabs so they can openly target Muslim women.

“House Bill 3, written by state Rep. Jason Spencer (R), aims to alter the language of Georgia’s anti-masking law to include women. This would make it a misdemeanor for anyone to wear any type of hood or veil — including niqabs and hijabs — while , according to a report by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.”- huffingtonpost.com

Currently, the law reads:

A person is guilty of a misdemeanor when he wears a mask, hood, or device by which any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed or covered as the conceal the identity of the wearer and is upon any public way or public property or upon the private property of another without the written permission of the owner or occupier of the property to do so.

Spencer wants to insert the words “or she” into the above law, expanding the restriction to Muslim women, says the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Oh and there is more, the bill would also add this line to the current law: “For the purposes of this subsection, the phrase ‘upon any public way or property’ includes but is not limited to operating a motor vehicle upon any public street, road, or highway.” It would also forbid Muslim women from wearing veils in government ID photos.

WOW.

Local Muslims are aware of the upcoming bill, and community leaders say they won’t allow it to move through the legislature without opposition.

“The bill is a bad solution to a nonexistent problem,” Edward Ahmed Mitchell, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Georgia, told The Huffington Post. “[These Muslim women] are not endangering themselves or anyone else. We have a new president, but not a new Constitution. The bill is unnecessary and unconstitutional, and we intend to oppose it if it goes forward.”

Well said Mitchell! I hope they get this bill opposed and quick. See what Trump getting elected has done? They are trying to make America, Germany in the early 1940’s.

Source: huffingtonpost.com

Thursday, November 17, 2016

2 White South African Men Arrested After Chilling Video Shows Them Forcing Black Man Into Coffin.

Gerrishon Sirere II November 17, 2016 0 Comments

One of Victor Mlotshwa’s attackers can be seen attempting to shove him into a coffin in video footage.

Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Martins Jackson are facing charges of kidnapping and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm after they were seen on video forcing Victor Mlotshwa into a coffin and threatening to light him on fire. https://cdn1.truelancer.com/user-picture/172460-57bb1c4640a93.jpg

BY: BREANNA EDWARDS AND gERRISHON SIRERE

Horrific footage that has since been taken down from YouTube shows a black South African man’s harrowing ordeal as he was forced into a coffin by two white men who threatened him.

According to the Washington Post, Victor Mlotshwa was walking and minding his own business when he was approached by two white men who accused him of trespassing on a ranch.

Before Mlotshwa could run away, he said, the men forced him into a coffin that happened to be nearby. The men then threatened to pour gasoline on him and set him on fire. One of the men recorded the awful incident.

“There was a footpath there and I decided to use it,” Mlotshwa said, according to the Post. “The next thing, there was a grave and then a coffin. There was nothing I could do because the other man had a gun.”

In a short clip of the video shared on Twitter by the Economic Freedom Fighters, one of South Africa’s main political parties, one of the men can be seen attempting to close the coffin over Mlotshwa’s head as he cries.

According to the Post, the resurfacing of the video has given Mlotshwa a chance at justice, almost three months after the incident.

“He didn’t have evidence to prove what had happened; it’s only two weeks back that he decided to open the case. He didn’t think anyone would believe him,” Mlotshwa’s brother, Thobile, told local media, the Post notes.

South African authorities have detained Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Martins Jackson in connection with the video. Both men appeared in court Wednesday; they face charges of kidnapping and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm. A judge postponed their trial until January, but the men will remain in prison on remand.

“This humiliation can be based on nothing else but his blackness, which means it is in actual fact a humiliation of black people as a whole,” the EFF said in a statement, according to the Post. The party has called for protests at the ranch where the incident occurred.

Read more at the Washington Post.

Thursday, November 10, 2016

THE FADING REGION(S) :Science meets Religion

Gerrishon Sirere II November 10, 2016 0 Comments

THE FADING REGION(S) :Science meets Religion

Having to prove existence of God to an atheist is like having to prove to him/her the existence of the sun!

In recent years, news media have highlighted what appears the decline of traditional religion, as exemplified by the rise of the "nones" -- persons who decline to be identified by any particular religious denomination. Their fraction of the U.S. population has risen from 16.1% in 2007 to 22.8% in 2014. Among younger adults, those born 1981-1989, the unaffiliated have increased from 25% to 34% in this time frame. This increase has come at the expense, predominately, of Catholic and mainline Protestant faiths.

But even among the unaffiliated, according to a 2012 poll, 27% attend worship services at least occasionally; 68% affirm some belief in God; 33% say that religion is very or somewhat important in their personal life; and 41% pray on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Young adults are less convinced of the existence of God than older people are today, but their belief in God and religious practice closely resembles the levels seen among the older groups when the older groups were similarly young. For example, in 2008, 53% of those Americans born in 1981 or later say they have no doubt that God exists, which is very similar to the 53% reported in the late 1990s by those born between 1965 and 1980. Also, more aged 18-29 reported engaging in daily prayer in this study than the similar age group did 20 years earlier.
What's more, 39% of Americans (including 37% of self-described atheists and 48% of agnostics -- more than the population at large) say that they experience a "deep sense of wonder about the universe" on at least a weekly basis. Shouldn't we describe such persons as "religious," in a broader sense of the term?

Even among professional scientists, there is little indication of significant decline in religious belief or spirituality. In a 2010 study of approximately 1700 natural and social scientists in the U.S., nearly 50% identify with a religious label; roughly 18% attend weekly religious services; 15% consider themselves "very religious;" 13.5% read some religious text weekly; and 19% pray at least once per day.

The essence of Christianity
Another study found that although 30% of the scientists surveyed considered themselves atheists, many of these consider themselves "spiritual atheists," meaning that although they do not subscribe to a traditional Judeo-Christian notion of God, nonetheless they have a deep sense of awe and wonder at the magnificence of nature. Many report a deep craving for "something beyond themselves". A scientific colleague of the present author recently declared that in spite of the fact that he hasn't practiced conventional religion for many years, with regards to the magnificence of the universe and the elegance of scientific laws, he is a "devoted worshipper." Such scientists (and others with similar worldviews) defy simplistic categorization into pigeonholes such as "religious," "nonreligious," "agnostic" or "atheist."

Even allowing for lapses such as the numerous religious wars and persecutions in the historical record (not to mention the intolerance exhibited by some religious groups even today), religion has indisputably played an enormous role throughout history as a governor of moral conduct and a promoter of civilized society. For example, historians Will and Ariel Durant (neither of whom were particularly religious) wrote in their 1968 work Lessons of History that "Even the skeptical historian develops a humble respect for religion, since he sees it functioning, and seemingly indispensable, in every land and age. ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion."
However, for every one of these grand tragedies there are ten thousand acts of personal kindness and social good that go largely unreported in the history books or on the evening news. Religion, like all social institutions of such historical depth and cultural impact, cannot be reduced to an unambiguous good or evil.
A recent U.S. study found a very strong correlation between religious participation and charitable giving. The most charitable states (in terms of the percentage of discretionary income paid to charitable causes), namely Utah, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina, are among the highest in religious participation, while the least charitable states, namely New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, are among the lowest in religious participation.

It is also interesting to note the prediction, by the Durants, in their volume Lessons of History (published in 1968), that if communism in the former Soviet Union would some day fall, then it is likely that there would be a resurgence of religion, long repressed, in that region. Indeed, this appears to be happening. In fact, a 2008 law in Russia allows theological academies to offer degrees recognized by the state. A editorial comment in the western press noted that healthy traditions such as this are "badly needed" as bulwarks against totalitarianism .
While grinding hard and making ourselves richer,we have to keep in mind that religion is waining among some populations. We all may be one catastrophe away from rediscovering religion.
An asteroid strike can serve as a wake-up call so that we may revive our need to worship God.

Below are some Videos to broaden your horizons on religious issues.

The Key to the christian life.

Can you handle the truth?

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Thursday, November 3, 2016

The Touch of Master's Hands 👐

Gerrishon Sirere II November 03, 2016 0 Comments

THE TOUCH OF MASTER'S HANDS.
'Twas battered and scarred,
And the auctioneer thought it
hardly worth his while
To waste his time on the old violin,
but he held it up with a smile.

"What am I bid, good people", he cried,
"Who starts the bidding for me?"
"One dollar, one dollar, Do I hear two?"
"Two dollars, who makes it three?"
"Three dollars once, three dollars twice, going for three,"

But, No,
From the room far back a gray bearded man
Came forward and picked up the bow,
Then wiping the dust from the old violin
And tightening up the strings,
He played a melody, pure and sweet
As sweet as the angel sings.

The music ceased and the auctioneer
With a voice that was quiet and low,
Said "What now am I bid for this old violin?"
As he held it aloft with its' bow.

"One thousand, one thousand, Do I hear two?"
"Two thousand, Who makes it three?"
"Three thousand once, three thousand twice,
Going and gone", said he.

The audience cheered,
But some of them cried,
"We just don't understand."
"What changed its' worth?"
Swift came the reply.
"The Touch of the Masters Hand."

"And many a man with life out of tune
All battered and bruised with hardship
Is auctioned cheap to a thoughtless crowd
Much like that old violin

A mess of pottage, a glass of wine,
A game and he travels on.
He is going once, he is going twice,
He is going and almost gone.

But the Master comes,
And the foolish crowd never can quite understand,
The worth of a soul and the change that is wrought
By the Touch of the Masters' Hand.

Here's classic the video of the classic poem The

Touch of Master's Hands.

This is a song by Walter Brennan its called The Touch of Master's Hands. Listen to it and drop your comments below

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Friday, November 25, 2016

The voice of a naturalized American󾓦

Sonita Alizadeh- Activist against child marriage

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

San Antonio Shooter Apologizes For Shooting Cop, Has Interesting Reason For Why He Did It

By Jen Nicole | November 22, 2016

Monday, November 21, 2016

Black Student Schools White Teacher On Racism, White Privilege

Black Student Schools White Teacher On Racism, White Privilege

Friday, November 18, 2016

Is Georgia Trying To Make Niqabs And Hijabs Illegal In Public?

Is Georgia Trying To Make Niqabs And Hijabs Illegal In Public?

Thursday, November 17, 2016

2 White South African Men Arrested After Chilling Video Shows Them Forcing Black Man Into Coffin.

Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Martins Jackson are facing charges of kidnapping and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm after they were seen on video forcing Victor Mlotshwa into a coffin and threatening to light him on fire. https://cdn1.truelancer.com/user-picture/172460-57bb1c4640a93.jpg

Thursday, November 10, 2016

THE FADING REGION(S) :Science meets Religion

THE FADING REGION(S) :Science meets Religion

Thursday, November 3, 2016

The Touch of Master's Hands 👐

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