The silencing of Kaepernick is bigger than Kaepernick.

I understand that a lot of people are looking at Keapernick's former fortunate position as an NFL quarterback, and feel he had it made, and should have kept his mouth shut. Only the top 1% of people get to earn the amount of money Kaepernick has earned during his short illustrious career as an NFL quarterback. That's a position of a lifetime earning for most people. Some people don't even get to earn a quarter of what Kaepernick has earned during his short career. Okay, now that we have that out of the way, we can now look at what he has risked and lost for the betterment of black people. At the age of 29, Kaepernick is just beginning his career as a quarterback. Even the worst quarterbacks in football history have gone on to play in their late 30's. Kaepernick has only signed one big contract after taking his team to the super bowl. Essentially, he was positioned to earn at least 2 more long term contracts, which could have easily placed his salary over 200 million dollars in the next 10 years. If you don't believe 200 million dollars is a lot of money for a man who was adopted by white people, led pretty much a privileged life, and could have chosen to turn a blind eye to the injustice against back people, but took a risk on us instead, then we shouldn't even be engaged in any type of exchanges about social injustice.

If every black leader took a selfish disposition to only worry about themselves and their immediate family, black folks would still be in shackles today. Dr. King could've easily led a prosperous life as a preacher, but he chose to forgo all of it by making the personal sacrifice to fight on behalf of black people. It takes a very selfless person to turn their life on options that most people are willing to denigrate themselves for, in order to attain the American dream. That's just one side of the equation.

There's always more than one side to every complicated situation. We have a myriad of black people who swallow their pride and lose their dignity on a daily basis for survival sake. The white bosses don't necessarily have to humiliate with action, their intent with words can sometime force the marginalized into silence. Once a person's voice is taken from them, they've pretty much assumed the position of subhuman. Jerry Jones was the first owner to threaten his players, if they didn't stand for the National Anthem, and fall in line with their own subjugation. Don't be fooled with white billionaires who are willing to pay millions of dollars for football players with checkered past. It doesn't mean they aren't racist. Jerry Jones has put his racism on center stage, and James Harrison who plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers, echoed those sentiments to his teammates before his master even had a chance to say a word. The battle against white supremacy will not easily be won, because we have too many white supremacists in black skin. These lost souls are the reason why white supremacy thrives. The list will get longer by the weeks, because people like George Foreman who's been hit too many times on his head, feels he has a valid opinion on Kaepernick that supports the white supremacist system in place that allowed him to be exploited with a grill that bears his name that only nets him less than 1% of the annual revenues. People like Michael Jordan who stayed silent on social issues during his career are only netting about 1% of the revenues that white supremacy has built on his name. Nike generates billions of dollars from the Jordan brand every year, but Jordan gets a check for about 90 million dollars, which is less than 1% of Nike's annual sales for his brand. It's difficult to get these people to see their own exploitation, much less somebody else's.

While we should all band together to fight for Kaepernick, this fight is actually bigger than Kaepernick. We are standing for all those black people that are silenced every day, because they have financial responsibilities to their families. The mortgage/rent, utilities, food. clothing etc must be paid, and in order to do that, some black people must relinquish their voice, which is why the courageous ones must always have our support, and we must do everything in our power to push back this white transgression toward a marginalized group. Money tends to have a "rosy glasses" affect on the less fortunate. A Ray Lewis can pay so very little attention to his own son's situation who's under investigation for sexual aggravation against 2 women, because his voice against Kaepernick gives credence to white supremacy. We must learn!

The Media and Facebook work in Cahoots with the NFL

I'm sure many of you have seen the picture of Marshawn Lynch sitting on the bench during the National Anthem by himself. His heroic efforts have rubbed the overt Nationalists the wrong way, but the covert Nationalists are the ones downplaying the movement that has been joined by many other Raiders players, as well as other NFL players. I'm sure many of you have not seen the picture of the myriad of Raiders players who knelt for the National Anthem, in support of Kaepernick and Marshawn Lynch. The media hides those pictures on purpose, because they don't want us to know this movement is moving full speed ahead.

The job of the media is to keep black people uninformed and misinformed. They want us to believe that no one black person can stand alone to fight against them, and it's difficult to get black people to unite in support of one another. You should be able to smell bullshit when it's thrown in your face. There are plenty of players who are willing to kneel or sit during the National Anthem, and many have done so. The televised games work in favor of the NFL owners. It's no coincidence that ESPN had a fantasy football auction yesterday, and all the people buying players were white. They can't get away from who they really are.
We have to be mindful of the fact that most of these white billionaires and millionaires who control sports and the media are very close friends. When you see a guy like Bob Kraft or Bill Bellichick canoodling with Trump, you must wonder if they share the same views or not. Racist people owned slaves, so racist coaches can coach black players, and racist owners are more than willing to pay big money for the black players who will yield them the highest return. Don't be fooled or deterred by the amount of money these athletes are making. A slave is still a slave, no matter how posh his lifestyle may be. If his voice is taken away, he's a slave nonetheless. While they are quick to talk about Michael Bennett, Malcolm Jenkins and Marshawn Lynch, they're purposely leaving out all the other unknown black players who decided to risk their job by taking a knee for the cause. For this reason alone, no Black household in this country should tune in to the NFL games for the entire season.

The other day, I wrote a post addressing Hue Jackson's and James Harrison's comments regarding players taking a seat during the National Anthem, and I was quickly blocked by Facebook. While Facebook encourages cooning by men like James Harrison, Ray Lewis, Hugh Jackson whose Cleveland Browns I hope will end up with a record of 0-16 this year, they are quick to shut down anybody who's willing to shed light on white supremacy. These rich black men have become the voice for white supremacy, and white people give them full access to the media.
I made the decision to terminate my account on Facebook, because of their racist policies toward the enlightenment of black people. If nobody on my page is offended by what I post, Facebook shouldn't have the right to tell me I'm not in compliance with the Facebook community. The community on my page is created by me. My friends are selected by me, and some of them choose to be on my page, because they support what I have to say about the issues regarding the state of black people. Everyone on Facebook has a community that's created by them, not Facebook. The owners of Facebook seem to forget that Facebook is only a platform used by people to create communities. White people and control go hand in hand, as it relates to anybody but white people. The Alt-right has spread hate on Facebook without any interference. The censorship by Facebook has everything to do with racism and nothing to do with compliance. I don't have a public page. Everything I write is private, and there should be no reason for Facebook to tell me I'm not in compliance. The bigger picture, though, lies in the fact that Facebook is now considered the biggest media conglomerate in the world. They've bought every social media company and outlet, and you can't join anything without signing on with your Facebook page. I'm on to them, and you should be too.

The fact that we are at a point in this country where white men feel the need to walk around with Tiki torches to intimidate people for their white privilege, should be enough to wake us out of our coma. The multitude of issues facing the black community is being censored on a platform owned by a bunch of rich white billionaires. Think about that for a minute!

The black elite

The black elite tend to mess up everything for black people worldwide. I have yet to visit a country where the black elite wasn't one of the reasons why education, healthcare, social services, and overall black poverty existed.

The problem with the black elite is their undying quest for acceptance in white society. Most elitists didn't even plan to become elitist. Most of the time, it just happens. It's so easy to become an elitist, that few people put any thought into the process. Black elitists love to recruit other black people to become elitists like them. Obama and his wife are both elitists, but black people would never label them as such. Obama totally forgot about the role and reason for affirmative action when he told black people to pull themselves by their bootstraps during one of his speeches. That couldn't be more of an elitist statement. He and his wife have demonstrated their elitist status from the time they left office. They are now rich and totally disconnected to the people. Now they're hanging out on 300 million dollar yacht, with Wall Street moguls, and all the other things that elitists do, because that was their quest from the very beginning. Not that they were connected to the populist to begin with, because Obama's goal was to become the first elitist Negro president of this country.

A lot of people are not going to like what I'm saying here, but it's the truth. Most elitist Negroes in America, the Caribbean and Africa tend to be light skinned. Elitism starts when one of these Negroes obtain a college education from a respected/prestigious white institution of higher learning. They get to connect with other elitist Negroes who influence their thoughts and their being, and they suddenly see being an elitist will work to advance their careers and stance in society. Now, I'm not absolving the dark skinned elitist from the list, because they tend to either marry white people or very light skinned people after obtaining degrees from prestigious white institutions as well. The dark skinned elitists are the worst, because they now hate dark skinned people. Everything light or white is right, and everything dark turns them off. The weird thing about the black elite is, they all have the same attitude toward black people and the poor, no matter where they are in the world.

The most destructive place where the black elite has suffocated the people, is Haiti. Jamaica comes a close second. In Haiti, the black elite sometimes believe that they are white. The light complexion and sometimes curly hair of these mutts, make them believe they are higher on the hierarchy of color, as it relates to their fellow black people. Those same people in Haiti are behind the economic destruction of Haiti, as well as the destruction of infrastructure, security, jobs, development, and growth. The poverty stricken young black men in America are no different than the millions of poverty stricken black children in Haiti who have grown up without hope for the last few decades. And it's all because of the black elite.

There's no place in America to find black elitism than the Congressional Black Caucus. Those assholes are behind many legislation that keep black people in a state of destruction. Charles Rangel is a notorious elitist. They create delusions and false hopes by acting as ambassadors for the poor, while they spend their entire lives in Washington getting rich at the expense of black people. In America, the black elite tend to marry white as well. However, in America a prestigious college education is not the only thing that leads to elitism. Money also plays a major role in that. Rich Negro athletes can't wait to have a white woman on their arms to be accepted by white society, even those who grew up in the projects. Suddenly, they start having blurred vision about the roadblocks that prevent other black people from climbing the ladder of success, and the obstacle course created exclusively for black people who don't have any athletic abilities. Charles Barkley is a prime example.

Black folks are their own worse enemy sometimes, because they have the hardest time accepting who they are, and most of them can't wait to run from their roots the minute they attain any amount of success. Once the root is disconnected from the tree, that tree's soul is as good as dead.

I actually wrote the post before I EVEN READ THE ARTICLE BELOW. I added the article, because it emphasizes Obama's elitism that most people can't seem to grasp.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/05/the-real-obama

Pour Le Pays, Pour La Patrie is a thing of the past in Haiti.

We must understand that Haitians suffer the most devastating identity crisis known to mankind, due to illiteracy.  After watching a tape of Haitian fanatics going crazy over the national Brazilian team, I'm convinced that we have no patriots left in Haiti.  Everything non-Haitian has a better outlook. There are no more patriots left in Haiti. You’re not a patriot, my parents aren’t patriots and most people in Haiti are not patriots. You can’t be patriotic when your goal is to escape Haiti for the next destination for a better life. Brazilians and Argentinians are better to them, because they offer better results and outcome. Psychologically, we have been doomed for a while. We are a nation with no direction. Mediocrity is acceptable and no one is willing to risk their lives to enforce change. The status quo remains. White people have managed to run Haitians out of their own country. They've taken away their hopes, only to humiliate them when they show up on American shores.

Just think about the fact that Haitians are willing to risk their lives over the deadly waters in the Caribbean sea to reach Florida, they are willing to allow themselves to be treated like animals in countries like Brazil, the Dominican republic and more, but they’re not willing to risk their lives to change Haiti. What does that tell you about the psyche of our people? Getting elected to any political office in Haiti is a quick scheme to riches. No allegiance to the country whatsoever on the part of the politicians.
Haitians have very little to be patriotic about. Since I was a child, I have seen nothing but chaos in Haiti. Through no fault of my own, I was raised out of Haiti. My parents brought me here for a better life as a young kid, because they didn’t have the fight in them to fight for a better Haiti, as most Haitians do not. There’s no dignity, pride or anything left in Haiti. Haitians are proud abroad, while their country continues to suffer the brunt of poverty in the western hemisphere. Haitian politicians ought to be shot for not giving a damn about their country, and for stealing Haitian resources and allowing foreigners to steal whatever else remains.

Please check out the link below:

http://rockmasterspromo.wordpress.com/2014/07/26/was-it-the-pope-the-messiah-or-haitis-liberators-delivered-from-heaven-a-must-read-by-jean-claude-elie/

Team light skinned VS team dark skinned.

Here we are in 2014, and we're still struggling with an issue that has kept the black community divided since the white man set foot in Africa.

While embracing the fact that the black race offers so many different hues would be beneficial to our community as a group, instead, we choose to disband ourselves and continue to engage in a prejudicial battle that was created mostly through rapes and forced relationships by our former enslavers. Sometimes I wonder what it is that doesn't click for us psychologically. I understand that people should have their preferences when it comes to choosing a mate, but creating a new form of racism to breed a new subculture within the black race is detrimental to our development.

Our children should not be dealing with issues that our forefathers dealt with on the plantation. The House Negro vs the Field Negro philosophy should be abandoned. To be quite honest, the House Negro has carried all the different hues within our race, in order to advance his career politically.  It's not the same house or field Negro anymore. Do the names Clarence Thomas and Herman Cain ring a bell?  Some black people are born to sell their souls for their own benefit. There's simply nothing we can do about that. However, when people are forced to waste their breath discussing Zoe Zaldana's not being black enough to take on the role of Nina Simone, it just seems like we're taking two hundred steps backwards. When has Hollywood ever done a biopic using a black actor that looked remotely close to the person being portrayed? I can't recall any.  Malcolm X was affectionately known as Red to his friends on the streets of Boston, because of his red hair, freckles and light complexion, but nobody complained that Denzel did a great job portraying him on the big screen. I'm not gonna go tit for tat and list every black biopic that has been filmed in Hollywood by an actor or actress who didn't fit the physical description of the legend portrayed, but I do find it sad on our part that we can't let go of that separatist state of mind among black people. It's bad enough that we have to deal with racism from white people, and prejudice from every other race. We need to use that energy to strengthen ourselves as a people, not weaken our community through division.

If light and dark skinned blacks are having issues, what would then become of the honey complected black folks? Are they gonna be lost like the mixed children who struggle with identity crisis most of their lives? Wouldn't it be stupid for a child born from two black parents to have to deal with  identity issues because he or she might be light brown? I'm starting to feel stupid even writing about this bullcrap. Maybe I need to stop before I fry any more brain cells.
It's time for us to wake up and unite, in order to deal with the real issues that impact our community daily. Stop the madness already!

Death Of the Black Publishing Industry, Book Distributors and Bookstores.

The excitement of hitting the road with a few authors to tour the country, while visiting America's quaint African-American bookstores has become nostalgic. No longer Am I able to reach out to some of the more tolerable author friends of mine, to ask them about the possibility of a road trip while earning some money as writers. The weekends were the most exciting. There were so many events to plan for, and so many cities to visit. Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Jackson, Miami, Boston, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Baltimore, Newark, St. Louis, Richmond and so many other cities welcomed us with open arms. As authors, we shared our personal experiences with each other on the road, because it was viable to the growth of our literary community. It seemed like the second coming of the Harlem Renaissance, but everything must come to an end at some point, right? Many of the doors of opportunity started to close. Black bookstores are no longer a staple in our community. One by one, we saw the doors closed as each dedicated book retailer was forced to develop a new economic plan for survival sake.

Most of the black distributors have been served the same fate as well. No longer can I pull up my truck and unload dozens of cases of books at a store, while my car is illegally parked on the sidewalk somewhere in Brooklyn, Baltimore, Chicago or Philly. Those days of bringing a lookout with me to keep from getting a parking ticket are over. No more will I have to worry about carrying my infant daughter into a book distribution center, and set her down by the desk of a polite secretary, while I conduct business. Those exciting days expired. Those people have had the pleasure to witness the writer,  hustler, publisher, businessman and father that I had become. In the beginning, I thought those relationships would last a lifetime. I'd become acquainted professionally and personally with some of those people in the literary industry. Some of them are still good friends, while financial hardship forced others to become my enemy. Nonetheless, I treasure those moments that we shared together, doing business as black people, trying to create our own niche in a world dominated by white writers, publishers and distributors.

I remember when I finally received word that my company, RJ Publications, would be accepted by a major distributor. I was overcome with joy and excitement. No longer would I be restricted to just the Mom and pop bookstores, I thought. Borders, Barnes and Noble and Books A Million seemed like my gateway to financial freedom. My publishing company was flourishing. I could afford to pay new authors and offer competitive contracts like the traditional publishing companies. It felt great being able to make the dreams of many people from my community come true. The dedication was at an all time high, and the future was steps away from the shining sun. I could feel the burns of the bright future and the heat that was going to be bestowed upon me under the spotlight, and I was ready, ready to take on the world. Here comes the next mogul, I thought. I was gonna be the P Diddy of black literature. And then, all of a sudden it came to a halt. Amazon decided to stake their claim in the publishing game by introducing the Kindle. First was the burial of Borders, and next came all the independent bookstores that supported my business before the big companies came calling. I feel a bit of gratitude to those independent bookstores, because they helped me establish my name in the game. However, it was hard to make end's meet when consignment was the name of the game. It was difficult and humbling to walk into a bookstore to find that all my books have been sold, but the owner couldn't cut me a check owed to me.

We ignored many things that were going wrong with the industry, and at the end, we have to suffer the consequences. Some of us became complacent, while others embraced the new change that was to come. At the end of the day, I can only say that I'm still a writer, and the ride has yet to end.

Please check out all my books on amazon and my website  at  www.rjpublications.com

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The significance of daddy

It's fair to say that some men don't really take the time to think about what it's like for a child to grow up without a father, especially in the black community.

Today's a very special day to me because it's my daughter's 7th birthday. I have not written a blog in a while, but I want to take the time out today to write this blog, because I want the brothers to start thinking about the impact of their presence in a child's life, as well as, their own lives. There's quite a few angry men out there who aren't afraid to use the lack of a father figure in their life when they were kids as an excuse, or a crutch for their failure in society. However, these same men are also turning their backs on their children today. Have they lost consciousness when it comes to parenting? Why would they want to repeat a cycle that was so detrimental to their own upbringing? Does psychology have more to do with this than we're willing to admit?

To me, being a father wasn't a choice, it was what I needed to do and what I wanted to be after my daughter was born. Though my own father isn't the best example, but I can still remember the great things he brought into my life. I try to one up on him when it comes to my daughter. Whatever my father did, I want to do it ten times better. Whatever he did wrong with me, I want to correct it with my daughter. And whatever he didn't do, I want to make sure I do it for my own child. That's how I can improve life for my next generation. You have to set the bar higher, so that the examples are better for each new generation. It may take a few generations, but eventually things will be better and the standards will stick.

There isn't a moment that I spend with my daughter that I'm not amazed by her. She says the darnedest things, sometimes. I learn so much from her as a man. She has changed me as a person and I know that she's  happy that my presence is constant in her life. My daughter is very territorial when it comes to her dad. No one can touch me or say anything bad about me around her. She gives me hugs and kisses for no reason at all. I also do the same. The benefits of being a dad is not only for the well-being of the child, but also for your own well-being. I feel so much better when I'm with my daughter.

See, children look at their parents as the god and savior we are supposed to be for them. Just imagine if you grew up without your God? What if your God turned his back on you? Most people get on their knees and pray whenever they're searching for answers to their problems, but children think parents have all the answers. When a father is not involved in a child's life, that's one less solution that child can find. Dads are the in-thing now, so why not be part of the trend? The only benefit that you will have is a great and loving child.

We all want our children to marry a great person, someone decent, with integrity and a lot of character. Well, we have to start rearing better children, in order for them to find better mates. Your bad examples of today can very well be their worst example for tomorrow. Let's break the cycle and raise generation-next better!