The Good, the Better, and the Absolutely Random!

This week has been a super busy week due to the Monday off, and because I'm going on vacation next week, so I've been working at a feverish pace all this week. I've been getting home after 8pm, closer to 9pm, but I thought I should watch some of the RNC. It was tough. When I'm exhausted I just want to take a shower and relax. The last thing I want to do is get all riled up and angry by stupid speeches at the RNC. I almost missed Sarah Palin's diatribe, because when I got home guess who was on the tube? Good ol' Rudy Guliani . . .my former mayor! He's the reason I missed half of her talk because I had to turn away. "Why?" you ask . . . because the very site of him, to borrow the words of Gayle King (XM Radio listenenr), makes me want to gnash my teeth to powder. I really can't stand him. Seriously.

Getting back to Sarah for moment . . . . this lady actually had the unmitigated gall to sneeze at the work of community organizers. I'm mean, really Sarah? Thank God for community organizers like Martin Luther King Jr., César Chávez, Susan B. Anthony, Stokely Carmichael, Mary Harriman, Fannie Lou Hamer, etc

OK, I'm getting tired now, so I'll end with this . . .before I lay my head down I'll pray that folks wake up and stop believing the Republican rhetoric that they are all about family values, that their in the moral majority, blah, blah.and that to be liberal is to be anti-Christian. The hypocrisy makes me ill. I mean, they trotted out any woman that Bill Clinton so much as winked at, and both Guliani and McCain are married to their former mistress'!?!?!? . . . .OK that was a little catty and I should have kept it to their stance on issues like poverty, starting a war under false pretenses, etc. etc . . .but oh well, I'm tired. I'll let Jon Stewart speak for me tonight.

Posted by Brainy Brown Girl in NYC at 9/04/2008 09:54:00 PM Comments

For years I thought the following statement was apart of a speech given by Nelson Mandela, I've since learned that that's not the case. Nevertheless, it really speaks to me.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”- by Marianne Williamson

Posted by Brainy Brown Girl in NYC at 7/19/2008 10:19:00 PM Comments

*SIGH* Rev. Jackson, please sit down. I mean, really. Please stop talking about how you're supporting Barak Obama's campaign but then turn around and say something so crass during an interview break (of all places - FOX NEWS!?!?!), when you thought no one was listening. I wish he would quit thinking so little of Black people. I personally do not know of any Black person (whether its a blue or white collar worker, or middle class or rich) who believes the lie that Obama "talks down" to them. This is not to say that every black person agrees with every single comment or position of Senator Obama, but I certainly don't know of any who feel belittled by him.



Could Rev. Jackson really be insinuating that the Black community is not ready to, or capable of, having a real and thorough conversation about the issues that persistently and adversely affects the community? And, by thorough conversation I mean a conversation that goes beyond a discussion of racism, both past and present, but a real dialogue about the ways in which WE self-sabotage. Could it be jealously? Is he afraid that he might not be considered relevant anymore? Give us some credit, Mr. Jackson. I don't hear too many Black folk protesting the comments made in Senator Obama's speeches. I guess that's because we make the very same comments in our private conversations. We have to do better. And guess what, its OK to say it on a national stage.



Ordinarily, I am overly deferential to my elders, but this type of nonsense needs to stop. I am thoroughly disappointed and disgusted with Jesse Jackson. . . . .Just when I thought we were getting over that crabs in barrel mentality.

Posted by Brainy Brown Girl in NYC at 7/10/2008 10:15:00 AM Comments