HAITIAN NEGROES
Posted by tolliver in My Prerogative, National & International, Tollivision on January 27, 2010
What IRKS me about people in the media (and I’m sure I urked/erked some for one reason or another) is their delivery of non-truths. I don’t mind a person saying NIGGER, because whether they say it or not, (they could just think it - and even some ‘niggas’ think some of the Black people are niggers - so don’t get it twisted), that’s where their head is at, and I would rather have a straight count, than have CLOSET nigger-callers, they only say nigger when no niggers are around. That’s what I like about racists and bigots - THEY LET YOU KNOW WHAT THE SCORE IS - IN THE BEGINNING, no IFS ANDS or MAYBES. And like my mother said - STICKS AND STONES CAN BREAK MY BACK, but WORDS?
And there are other things, other slurs for races, and fag & all that. If you fit the definition of what a fag is, or what a fatty is (I’m a fatty, but trying to get some of that fat off my back (actually butt & gut), but I’ve never had my feelings hurt being called FAT, or CHUBBY, or as they had it in a clothing section - HUSKY. I’ve been called a fag, but I’m not - so it’s a lie. Why would a lie hurt you? If a woman was thinking about getting with me, and she THOUGHT I was a fag, she had doubts in the first place and really didn’t commit to doin’ me - so I didn’t lose anything. And who says I sleep around, anyway? Every guy isn’t a ho. I’ve had my share, but you couldn’t call me “ho” stacked up to what I know about other guys - unless you are referring to the AMOUNT OF TIMES I’ve done it, yeah, then, well - I’m a ho if it’s a numbers thing. But let’s get off the sex kick and nigger kick, let’s talk about the title here.
HAITIAN NEGROES.
There are no Haitian negroes. There are only Haitians. Now if you are talking about a Haitian man, and a American Black woman having a baby - THAT WOULD BE A HAITIAN “NEGRO” baby. But the people from Haiti, are not Negroes. And what qualifies you to be a Negro? The color of your skin, or your origin of country? Here’s a clever form of description. In the dictionary, and there are several versions - a classification of people South of the Sahara, but that is no longer a technical definition. It is also a river. It also means BLACK, the color - and there are few TRUE BLACK IN COLOR or WHITE IN COLOR people, they come in all colors, beige, pink, tan, brown, light brown, reddish brown, peach, yellowish, flesh (is that a color), dark brown, yellowish brown, you name it - collect people from all over the world and they are colored like Crayola 64, or 128.
So, if we are saying people from HAITI are Haitian Negroes, then, we could say, people from INDIA, or Indian Negroes, or people from Puerto Rico, or Puerto Rican Negroes, or people from South America, are South American Negroes, wouldn’t think? What if a person was born in France, from Black parents from let’s say, Africa, from Egypt and Ghana. Both would have a nice rich color to their pigment, but they moved to France and made their homes there. And they had children. Those children stayed in France - and you see, they are French, with African parents, so would that make them African French? Like if they had come to America, either Canada, Mexico, or even South America - that would make them AFRICAN AMERICAN. Those children had children with other’s of the same combination, but maybe, a woman came from Afghanistan and married a man from Somolia - and they moved to France, and met the people who moved there before, and their children had children, being French, would they all be French now, except for the color of their skin?
When I first heard the term, African American for the BLACK race, I thought, that’s terrible, because it isn’t who WE are as a people. We have just clumped ourselves with everyone from Africa to anyone in ANY of the American properties, and when it comes down to employment and equal rights - the American Black man/woman is going to be SHIRT out of luck in the long run, if they don’t get back to being who they are.
They are HAITIANS. Will an Egyptian accept being AFRICAN? Will someone from Somolia accept being AFRICAN, in the sense of the word that it is? Is the word “NEGROES” actually a put down? In one of my western movies, which stars Burt Lancaster, and Audie Murphy, when they find out their sister is not blood. One says, I’m getting away from this REDSKIN NIGGER. The other wanted to have sex with her. There are more Woody Allens and Morgan Friedmans than you think, if you get my drift. So often we find it tough to call a spade a spade, especially when you are one. Because of the small indifferences that we are not clear on, we as a people, in nations of nations, will never harvest the valuable crops of prosperity, while we remain divided and ignorant.
With all the INTELLIGENT people that think they are running the countries and world, there should be no person without food or shelter. There should be 0 homeless. There should be a vat of wealth to rescue ANYONE AND EVERYONE in need, but you know what that would mean? Everybody would be trully equal - and those who are running over us now, can’t have that, so they needle us needlessly, to a point of separation - I’m not saying everybody have a FUCHFEST (you know what I mean) and blend in, and just come together as one, I’m not saying that. I’m saying you eat your rice and beans, we’ll eat our collard greens, they’ll eat their bagels and salmon, others will eat their porridge, and from time to time, we’ll all laugh together, work together and play together - but it’s not about color, it’s about class - CLASS - and those who think they are better than the rest of us, and - and - and - if we all had a perfect understanding - the wool couldn’t be pulled over our eyes anymore - but as long as we react passionately, incorrectly - we will remain a world divided and doomed. You just watch.
COMMENTS ARE ALWAYS WELCOMED
ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD/The Stimulus Package
Posted by tolliver in Cleveland, National & International on January 27, 2010
After watching a feature about where some of the stimulus dollars have been spent, the story continues the IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE department. If the data is true, 3.8 MILLION dollars have been spent to make the signs, and 0 jobs as a result of it. The story featured my hometown, Cleveland, Ohio & Eastlake, etc. One of the mayors in one of the cities points out, instead of spending the money on signs, the money could have been spent on repairing some road, and creating employment. My personal opinion of this is - Americans are being siderailed for a bigger picture. As long as worry for security, health and employment are in the forefront of our minds, those who control and run the country, will always continue to have the upper hand. Politicians are not here to help us. They’re just not, they are here to help themselves.
QUICK REMEDY - If the politicians had to use the insurance OR NONE of what 51% or more of what Americans have or have not - IT WOULD BE FIXED.
The money of the stimulus package should BENEFIT the people who paid the taxes and that is not happening. If the money was given to the real-estate mistakes and credited to the people’s accounts, that would have been THE ONLY RIGHT THING TO DO. You can’t give a criminal money to buy something, not go with them and expect them to do the right thing, can you? If the money given to the automobile industry was used so people who needed automobiles to help them better themselves, as far as transportation, that would have been a great injection into the people of the United States, instead of a side step, and slam dunk of failure in our faces, don’tcha think?
Whatever they come up is or will not be designed to bail the common man out. Too many people have lost their homes, lost their jobs and lost hope. How is that a victory? Politicians, regardless of who they are, will never do a Spike Lee - DO THE RIGHT THING. The system is not programmed for great results - there are flaws, and false expectations. UNTIL WE THE PEOPLE WAKE UP, we will SLEEP THROUGH THIS DISASTERS FOR ETERNITY. Trust me, as I tell you -
How Soon We Forget -
Posted by tolliver in National & International, Tollivision on January 19, 2010
I can’t help but cry in my heart, every time I see the story updates on HAITI. Just to think how terrible it was before the storm - all the problems that country has gone through, and not to single them out because there are a lot of countries like that - very little prosperity - again I must say to you - YOU DON’T KNOW HOW BLESSED YOU ARE.
We will never get to a place where EARTH is like heaven, as we have been told. TOO MUCH VIOLENCE, too much disasters - PRIORITIES thrown in all directions and so many innocent suffer. SUFFER. SUFFER. So many. Too many bullies and ill-mastered countries and people - TOO TOO MANY.
How many of you are thinking about the little five-year-old girl that was probably raped, sodomized and murdered not too long ago. What about that former police officer’s third wife and fourth wife, the 3rd they say will speak from the grave, because she told people that her police husband was going to kill her. What about the girl who went on a school vacation/celebration and came up missing, Aruba? Anyone thinking about Jon Benet? Or the woman who had her baby cut from her body and was buried in the garage of the woman who did it? And on and on, the mass killings that happen this last couple of years, and the step-boy who may have been killed by his stepfather, but claimed to have been mugged, and left a ransom note?
Don’t want to take away the devastation in HAITI, or low ball its intensity. That is a tremendous tragedy - tremendous, but so many things have happened in our lives and will continue to happen. Whether it’s ONE person who didn’t need to die so soon, or ONE MILLION people - if God is not the answer what is? And the MEDIA rattles off the data, like it’s cake or just stats. Anderson Cooper, to me, is the only one who seems like he really cares. I saw him crying during the Katrina bit, and heard his voice tremble during HAITI.
My question to all of you -
WHAT IS THE NEXT EPISODE OF CHAOS going to be?
Is God asking us to change our wicked ways - (although I don’t credit God for disaster - I don’t think God does NEGATIVE THINGS. I just think, when you stop believing in him, he removes your protection.) And natural disasters are what happens on this earth. Earthquakes - floods, hurricanes. READ THIS WELL. With all the technology that gives you the information of the things that may happen to us - and all the available land that major disasters don’t touch - why can we move the people of the world to those places? And I know the answer is - IT’S NOT THAT SIMPLE
YET IT IS…
IF WE WERE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE - WORKING TOGETHER TO LIVE AND SURVIVE THE BEST FOR ALL OF US, but it is never, going to happen - EVER.
Where are they selling tickets to HEAVEN? Can I put in my reservation now? (But I don’t where I’m going, the air conditioning is going to be working - I have sinned, believe me, but I have asked for forgiveness.)
Brings Me To Tears -
Posted by tolliver in INSPIRATION, National & International on January 14, 2010
Although some people think that I am hard, and tough - there are things that have NOTHING to do with me, that moves me to tears. I think it started around the time David Jansen(?) was playing the fugitive, running for the EVER-SO-FOCUSED detective that needled him and everyone that helped him escape from the law, and he didn’t do it - you all remember it was the ONE ARMED MAN. When Richard Kimball came in to towns, his demeanor, the way he carried himself, his word presentation and care, said other things than the killer he was hounded for being. PEOPLE, which even true to today, were so trusting, and extended whatever they could do, for the man they met and they believed in. I would weaken and tears would fall, because I think of the people that are constantly persecuted, not doing anything, but being who they. I’m sure you’ve seen movies where a very attractive woman would get approached by a priest or high official and she would decline his advances and then she would be put on the witch-block. Because someone in power couldn’t have what they wanted - THEY TRIED TO DESTROY that woman who turned them down. The Jewish culture, the American Indian, the history of Black, remember the Somolian episodes? And women all around the world get tortured and mistreated for a various numerous amount of reasons and so many do not have anyone to turn to. This make my heart cry - because it is so easy: IT IS SO VERY EASY, to help someone, OR - - - LEAVE SOMEONE ALONE, if you don’t like them. How hard is it, to just let be and move on?
This recent earthquake business. So much tragedy - the comments of Pat Robertson. I understand demons, and Satan and devil pacts and all of that - but you can’t tell me ANYONE deserves disaster. This reminds me of the Tsunami, Katrina and 911. As a world, there have been many incidents of horror. As a people we have endured sadness intense, and sorrow, beyond belief. Here’s even a sadder thing, let me tell you a story.
While watching - HAVE GUN - WILL TRAVEL with Richard Boone, which is a show BEYOND it’s time, it was back in the 50s - while going on a trip to San Francisco, he was accompanied with a couple, the guy who was the banker in The Beverly Hillbillies, and an Indian woman who had gone to a prominent school and traveled the world. All but Boone harassed and belittled her before the stagecoach ride and during the trip. On their way to their destination, they were held up - AND - because of the respect the lead criminal had for the Indian woman, all the rest of their lives were in her hands. Because of her, she had the yay/nay vote on whethered the others lived or not. They begged her to help them, and said she was equal to them and blah blah blah. After R-B got the drop on the guys, and solved the problem, on their continued journey, they immediately went back to being racist, bigots against her.
While we come together during this time of heavy hearts and misery - maybe we should reflect where we have our priorities, what we concentrate on, so that when other trials like arise, we can rapidly move to assist, and not saying that we are not moving quickly now, it just seems that only in negative do we all become positive. Only when there are TEARS do we seek joy, smiles and laughter - Why can we make the necessary arrangements it will take to come together when things aren’t so bad?
And one POWERFUL QUESTION, I will end with. Do you see the SPEED the United States responded to help HAITI? Where was that speed when KATRINA was the foundation for our own sores and bloodshed? Although the story is being read, pages are being skipped, and ripped - chapters are being overlooked - but let me end - THE STORY ISN’T OVER YET.
Thanks for spending a little time with me -
just in case;
G o d’s REMINDER!
Posted by tolliver in INSPIRATION, National & International on January 13, 2010
Amid the squash talk of Jon & Kate PLUS 8, and the skirmish of the jungle where the TIGER ran free - the problems of Bill Clinton’s effect on his wife’s campaign - and blah blah blah come the tragedy in Haiti. THE EARTHQUAKE which has been rumored to have taken 100,000 lives. And even though we will only see a few tens, and those who suffer alive, the number sounds large, but the number’s impact is small, because MOST OF US do not have any relatives or friends in Haiti.
Obama makes the speech about how swiftly we will assist in the assistance needed in Haiti, with food and man power - and that this is an INTERNATIONAL situation. THIS IS GOD. See, how they run? This is the way it’s suppose to be - EVERYBODY HELPING. EVERYBODY. Why must it take a terror/tragedy deal to get us together? Why can’t we get together WITHOUT IT BEING HORROR??????
GOD’S REMINDER
Says once again - COME TOGETHER. WORK TOGETHER. LIVE TOGETHER. If we could ever GET TOGETHER and come to terms without it being a madness scram, do you know what life could be like for all of us? I guess not, because we only make efforts to do - when something needs to be done - but if we were to include GOD in our every day schedule, at least mentally -
JUST THINK!!!!!!!!
JUST. THINK.
THE LORD’s PRAYER
Posted by tolliver in INSPIRATION on December 4, 2009
I want to preface this by saying, I’m not a biblical scholar. I’m not an authority on religion, the practices or the beliefs. I have witnessed miracles, and I am sure you have witnessed some, too - you just may not be at full conscious to know what a miracle is.
One of the profound things I have said over the radio is, when one of the Pope’s died, I asked what was the big deal, because the Pope can’t get you any closer to God, than you can get on your own. You don’t need a MAN, regardless of his faith or occupation to be the middle-connection between you and God. You can establish your own direct relationship with him - IF YOU WANT TO. And bear in mind, this is not a campaign to get you to stop going to church, or stop participating with church functions. But it is fact you can have YOUR OWN relationship with God.
I will bet you - that if you have a group of Methodist, or Baptist, Catholic, or whatever standing side by side, you will get a variance (is that a word?) of different angles how each of them perceive religion. And I don’t mean, Catholic vs Methodist, or Protestant vs Baptist, I mean, get a group of Catholic together, and get a group of Baptist together, and you will find variety in the word.
As I was doing some research on this, I ran across http://www.robinsweb.com with a proverb from a guy named Albert Camus. It says, the only way evil can triumph is if good men do nothing. I’m sure there are quite a few sayings at that website, if it is good when you hotlink yourself there. And - I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die then find out there isn’t, than to live my life as if there isn’t a God and die, then find out that there is. If the site is not active, you can probably do a google/yahoo search on Albert Camus and find them, correctly.
As you read your bible - what it says in the bible, is what it says. How it is INTERPRETED by each person, will be different. But you can’t have one person speak in front of all of them, listen to him then ask the others and they respond - “what he said, yeah”. You will have to get them separate, and you will see my point. Remember these are MEN (and women if that be the case) now, not spirits. These are MEN now - some of those men, those clothed men of God have molested children. Some of them have stolen funds from church, some of them have BEAT their women, some of them have had SEXUAL AFFAIRS with other married women - some of them have had GAY relationships… I’m not judging anyone - it’s not for me to judge - the only conclusion I’m coming to is that each and everyone of us, can have our own personal relationship with God, and no one else can get you closer than you can get on your own - if you want it that way.
When you pray at home, do you have any cloth man with you? More than likely not, unless you’re sick or the man of the cloth is visiting you and you are praying together, but more than likely, you are praying on your own, without a religious AUTHORITY.
Do you ever think about what you are praying? The Lord’s Prayer.
Our father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, that will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever, Amen.
Let’s take a look at the prayer - and see if we are on the same page….. and this is my look at it - you, being a different person; may have a different view of it completely. My final suggestion - Be careful what you wish for, because you may get exactly what you wanted. (Or thought you wanted)
Our father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, that will be done on earth as it is in heaven. We open up the prayer with direct contact with God. Heaven is where we are directing our attention. From what little I’ve learned in my sessions in church, God is everywhere, but I guess for prayer sake, and the sake of human belief heaven. And we wish that what happens in heaven will happen here on earth. Give us this day, our daily bread, Please allow us to have another day, and please allow us nourishment and food as the days come. and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. We are asking God to forgive any mistakes we have made, as WE FORGIVE others who have made mistakes or violated us, regardless of what those violations are. I will elaborate on this later.** And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Here is the tricky part, to me. Keep us away from things that are not good for us, things that are evil, or devilish. DELIVER US FROM EVIL. That is the part. When you say that, do you mean it? What if your marriage is evil, or where you work is evil, or your friends, are they evil? Do you really want to navigate away from what you are currently doing or where you live if it has an evil environment? Or are you content with where you are, and you are just saying the prayer to be saying it. I think that in all of my praying and saying those words, I have managed to be away from evil, and this is where I want to be, for better 0r for worse. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever, Amen.
** as we forgive those who trespass against us. Here I believe that we are to forgive those who have trampled us. However it does not say, continue relationships with this person. It does not say knowing this person has trespassed against you, TRUST them, it says FORGIVE them.
The George Lopez Show/Lopez TONIGHT
Posted by tolliver in Entertainment Reviews on December 3, 2009
It is an amazing show! Not deducting anything from any of the forebeez, the guests are top shelf, the joke monologue in the beginning is more-in-touch with where people’s heads are. The last time we had ENTERTAINMENT like this, where it was ON-THE-REAL, was when Arsenio Hall was on, and I know he’s from Cleveland, like me - but George Lopez isnt. I am in stitches from laughter. I don’t find it offensive and he is a show host that can relate to everyone. I think his stand-up, and the sitcom success he had/has contributed to the acceptance of the audience, I would be interested to see what the ratings are like. If something political doesn’t happen, I predict this show to be on for a long period of time. Refreshing, exciting - realistic and again - very, VERY entertaining…. trust me, if you haven’t seen it already - CHECK IT OUT!!!!!
The CRYING Game
Posted by tolliver in My Prerogative, National & International on December 2, 2009
Yes, that was definitely a excellent display of creative talent. Jaye Davidson - not once did you think he was a man, did you? Until the robe scene after the shower, where Stephen Rae lost his lunch, after making out? That, I guess was just like eating roaches and ants, and you thinking it’s CRUNCHY BACON bits only to find out - you bugged out and then you puke your guts. Isn’t the mind a powerful, yet wonderful thing?
Not once did you think Forrest Whitaker was a Black American, did you? With that accent? If you were to close your eyes and listen to him talk - you would have never selected FW as the actor - you would have had one hundred other guesses before you even considered it was him.
This was the story, a love story. Where after Stephen made the promise to Forrest (run Forrest run!), to tell Whitaker’s character’s girlfriend what happened. So if you didn’t see the movie, go see it - but if you did, you know what happened - Stephen FELL IN LOVE WITH JAYE DAVIDSON (their characters), where I said once after I was no longer with one of the girls that I fell in love with - LOVE IS NOT PHYSICAL. Jaye Davidson won the admiration & love of Stephen Rea regardless of the sexual utensils. The reason I came to that conclusion was, Stephen Rae went to prison for Jaye Davidson, which to me was an act of love. I SAID ALL THAT TO SAY THIS:
And you can check all my previous writings anywhere - I can’t tell you whether or not your sexual preference makes you a bad person. I can’t tell you that gays and lesbians don’t have rights, I can’t say this - who am I to judge ANYONE, for ANYTHING, except murder, pedophilia and domestic violence. Who am I? And after saying that - who are you????
Recently in a vote, the current state that had it up for grabs VOTED AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE. From the gathering of talk and media reports, the conversations - up until BENEFITS AND RIGHTS, I never heard anyone say they were EAGER AND AGGRESSIVELY SEEKING matrimony. Never heard a peep. I remember a Redgrave acting in a movie, the title escapes me at the moment, where she was the lesbian partner of a woman who had died, and I believe the family of the deceased had turned their back on their relative, but when she died, denied anything from the Redgrave character. I can see where a person who has shared the bed, and grief and agony and joy, and stood against the odds having a bitter remorse of not getting ANYTHING from the relationship after expiration.
GAY MARRIAGE is about HEALTH BENEFITS AND RIGHTS, because it’s for sure - IF ALL OF THE STATES OF THE WORLD DECLINE gay marriage - those who are gay and in love - WILL NOT STOP LOVING EACH OTHER. Are we so blind not to see that? Why do political figures EVADE issues - why shouldn’t the HEALTH BENEFITS AND RIGHTS be on the bill for approval and not marriage? I believe for those who are gay and lesbian, they already have accepted each other as significant. Let God deal with the moral issues, let us be fair to ourselves, fair to each other and fair to the world - how HARD IS THAT? All this energy and time we are burning up and wasting, when - we can be better than that and better - but we CHOOSE to struggle - choose to bicker - CHOOSE it, when there are so many alternatives that can be a working thing of beauty for everyone.
But I know that is never going to happen in my lifetime…… and it is so sad to see…
As tomorrow waits for us to make it better - why don’t we????????
And by the way - tomorrow never waits for anyone.
Jaimie Grubbs //// Elin Nordegren-Woods //// Rachel Uchitel
Posted by tolliver in My Prerogative, National & International on December 2, 2009
Caught in the middle she is. Mrs. Elin Nordegren Woods. Rachel Uchitel (a party planner) who was first assumed as the mistress of Tiger Woods, and now admitted Jaimee Grubbs (a cocktail waitress). In the story as reported by NANCY GRACE - on CNN’s HLN (Headline News), Tiger is reported as saying in a recording left on Jaimee Grubbs cell phone - “Hey it’s Tiger. I need you to do me a HUGE favor”.
Let me end this, though with this -
Isn’t it NICE that the story on NANCY GRACE is not about a missing child? I think so. And is this new, desperate housewives? No. Sex has been happening since the beginning of man - by the way - SEX IS MAN’S BEGINNING, is it not? Oh, I don’t want to leave out the “house-husbands”
Out.