Robert F. Kennedy's 'Day Of Affirmation' Speech Speaks Volumes

Ever heard the song 'We are the World'? What about 'The Greatest Love of All'? Or 'Hero', 'Firework', and 'Born This Way'? 

These songs share a common message of unity, defiance, acceptance, uniqueness and love. Each of these musical creations was prepared with thought given to the message, and all seem to bare significant outreach to the youth of the world.  

Outreach to our youth and making the world a better place for them to live in, has always been our nation's mantra. And after reading Robert F. Kennedy's 'Day of Affirmation' speech it becomes unequivocal yet again, that our children deserve for us to fight for their future.

See below excerpts from RFK's 'Day of Affirmation' speech.

• Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth.
• This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease -- a man like the Chancellor of this University. 
• It is a revolutionary world that we all live in; and thus, as I have said in Latin America and Asia and in Europe and in my own country, the United States, it is the young people who must take the lead. 

Timeless words from a powerfully conscious leader.

2013 LA

George W. Bush's Ancestor's Were Slave Traders/Masters/Investors

Another racist story hit the media waves today but instead of it being about Paula Deen, this time it's about our 43rd president, George W. Bush.

A new three-page report in Slate provides explicable detail about Bush's ancestor Thomas "Beau" Walker, who was a notorious slave trader in the 18th century.

Slate investigated claims of two historians from Yale University who claimed Thomas Walker was involved in 11 slave voyages to West Africa, between 1784-1792.

The Bush family’s spokesman had no comment on the findings but Slate notes that in 2003, George W. Bush called slavery one of the “the greatest crimes of history.”

Now if George W. Bush really felt that slavery was "the greatest crimes of history", why was it so hard for him while he was president to offer a binding apology for the crime of slavery? Why did an apology only become popular after then Senator Obama, began running for the Oval office? 

Why was his "no child left behind" program a total sham and ended up leaving many children behind? 

Was Bush's aid to Africa really helping the population, or simply helping conservative made programs masked by the Africa AIDS agenda? I'm just saying, the proof is in the pudding. 

You know what Kanye West, I think you're on to something.

For FULL slave trader article click here.

2013 LA

1957 Documentary On Race In America

Researching America's history I came across a documentary titled, 'A Series on Changing Neighborhoods' by Dynamic Films Inc. 

The video footage was taken back in 1957 in Levittown, Pennsylvania, which is midway between Philadelphia, PA and Trenton, NJ. The comment and analysis was done by Professor Dan W. Dodson, Director Center for Human Relations and Community Studies, School of Education, New York University.

I felt it was important to post this piece of history because it's indicative of the 21st century.

In the documentary it displayed a typical family friendly neighborhood that became extremely tense when new neighbors arrived. The new neighbors were the Myers, a college educated married couple with two children. What made the Myers stand out to their neighbors wasn't the fact that they were college educated and married, but instead the brown hue of their skin is what caused an uproar within the white middle class community.

Various neighbors were interviewed on the basis of their feelings, in regards to the Myers moving into the community. There were progressive neighbors and there were racist neighbors, which I felt the racist neighbors were simply misinformed and were raised to be prejudice. 

It was most interesting when one of the neighbors actually stated that a black family would "bring home property values down" if they were allowed to reside in the community!

Another neighbor came to the Myers' rescue stating that the "Myer's have nothing to do with property values increasing or decreasing, it's a white problem not a negro problem. The majority group will influence property value not the minority."

The narrator then goes on to say, "If a negro family can afford what you can afford, how do you justify your feelings of superiority?"

I see the elephant in the room do you? It's called superiority. That's the problem. A person shouldn't ever feel that they're superior over anybody, otherwise the racist cycle will continue. This video is way deep.

2013 LA