2007 September

Archive for September, 2007

AT THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS

CLICK HERE Hopefully this works! Push button 18 for MY SPECIFIC COMMENTARY. SIDEBAR: While I have a degree of revereance and respect for Mrs. Eldelman, you have to observe how quickly they take the positive affirmation of the acheivements of black men, and again drive it back to elevating the more negative. Two points I [...]

HEADLINES CAN PAINT A PICTURE

So after receiving about a 100 copies of this most recent press release (thank you very much Associated Press for attempting to show black men (and Hispanics) in a negative light…again! And thank you very much for jumping on the band wagon Urban League. We as a people have got to READ beyond the headlines, [...]

WHO DO YOU CALL?

I seldom engage these discussions and usually allow them to folow their course, however, the constant reference by blacks to the JPI as the “authority” on the issue of jail vs. college, somewhat disturbs me, on multiple levels, of which the willingness to accept without question any organizations advancement of negative statistics about black men. [...]

KILL 100 GET 16 MONTHS? BEAT UP A STUDENT GET?

Man who lit deadly R.I. club fire to be released Band manager whose pyrotechnics led to 100 deaths has served 16 months Updated: 10:02 p.m. ET Sept 19, 2007 CRANSTON, R.I. – The band manager whose pyrotechnics ignited a nightclub blaze that killed 100 people was granted parole Wednesday and will be released after [...]

FROM CNN (WHY I DIDN'T INCLUDE WHITE RESPONSES)

“The Reverend” Jackson evidently doesn’t like Senator Obama ‘stealing’ the limelight from him. Although I’m a card carrying Republican, I can honestly say that Senator Obama has more class than Jackson can ever hope to have. Furthermore, if Jesse Jackson truly did care about the plight of African-Americans, he would address the dilemmas facing them [...]

THE GAME

So the ruckus of mis-information continues….The JPI has finally caught wind of the film and decided rhetort by going back to the same (flawed) study that has a particular sore spot with me. This is the JPI’s response to an article by the Baltimore Sun…please watch the language and the assembly of the argument to understand [...]

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW AT HOMELAND COLORS

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR JANKS MORTON GIVES AN EXCLUSIVE TO HOMELANDCOLORS, ABOUT THE FILM, POLITICS, AND CULTURE. WHAT ONE BLACK MAN THINKS.

SITE OF THE WEEK

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN RAVING OVER THE FIRST 3:30 OF THE FILM, I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE TSION “THE WORDSMITH”

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“do not what thou wast brought here to do, but do that what thou wast sent here to do” From one amazing black man in Canton, OH Q&A session

THE CANTON REPOSITORY

‘What Black Men Think’ plays tonight at school Tuesday, September 11, 2007 BY CHARITA M. GOSHAY REPOSITORY STAFF WRITER CANTON Janks Morton said an “undeclared civil war” is unraveling the very fabric of the black community. Tonight at 6, the Washington, D.C.-based filmmaker will host a free viewing and discussion of his new documentary, “What [...]