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MY PERSONAL STOP MESSAGE
FORWARD
It is recommended you do not even touch this kind of truth about life on the down side if you are the ole’ fashion, with its philosophy thinking, very religious i…tag:www.leimertparkbeat.com,2016-08-14:677129:BlogPost:1625642016-08-14T07:03:10.000ZNathaniel J. Shaw, artist BeBophttps://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/NathanielJamesShaw
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>MY PERSONAL STOP MESSAGE</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>FORWARD</i></b></p>
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<p><b><i><font size="3">It is recommended you do not even touch this kind of truth about life on the down side if you are the ole’ fashion, with its philosophy thinking, very religious individual living with the rest on these lands. It is believed this may be too much for you to try and endure. If indeed you…</font></i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>MY PERSONAL STOP MESSAGE</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>FORWARD</i></b></p>
<p><b><i><font size="3"> </font></i></b></p>
<p><b><i><font size="3">It is recommended you do not even touch this kind of truth about life on the down side if you are the ole’ fashion, with its philosophy thinking, very religious individual living with the rest on these lands. It is believed this may be too much for you to try and endure. If indeed you are strong enough in whatever faith you live and you seek to know the thinking pattern and life style of the many suffering the negatives of life then by all means endure this one depiction of a gay, black brother in its diary kind of format. It will allow you the truth about life lived by just one unique individual among the many under the guidelines of the negative life so many live. This one life gives reference to many other lives encountered in the same wilderness and the suffering that gets so involved and intense. Be aware that what you are about to endure is a true encounter of only one individual having made it to hopeful safe grounds after the storm. That we as humans make mistakes on levels many would think could never happen. And for you who may be looking for a story of life similar to your own this may be what you seek; especially if you may be thinking of taking your own dirty laundry to the wash house. Many in this category could use some real inspiration to help make that one final and as well real decision to make that change. The truth about making that turnaround a reality will hopefully be endured in this story. For educators, doctors and others wanting more of the scope or picture of life in such a negative world and its thinking process as well, this story may pinpoint a more complete and overall view thus giving those in the mental, medical, counseling and other related fields a better focus on dealing more successfully in this area of life. It is especially noted in this story how those in the study field could maybe look more deeply into the desire for change and how so many years of such a pattern of life has its effects on making such a change. It is known how there continues to be the successful work to date in this area taken from expressed and open such stories and its experiences and I am sure more unique experiences are wanted in this area of study. Pay particular attention to the education level allowing for depiction of the negatives and even positives in life that lead to decision-making. For the one looking for entertainment this just may get you some satisfaction but may leave you with questions if indeed you make it all the way through without the excitement turning into the boredom of not really finding that </font> <font size="3">continuous nasty plot sought after. This continues to be my way of making sure I stay alert and on top of a new world free of the past – a past I term “Yesterday”.</font><font size="3"> </font></i></b></p>
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<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>AFTER MY PERSONAL STOP MESSAGE</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>FORWORD</i></b></p>
<div><p><b><i><font size="3">After all the trauma of the finale ending another’s life of just another addiction came the challenge for real life. Salvaging the past as best as possible and as mentioned the “moving on” entailed and continues to take the prior mentioned strength and courage needed to victory. If you were able to endure the finale of the addiction and the work for a new life given to me in the form of a challenge than I present to you even more and maybe seen as precise entries with the accomplishment of life after the addiction. </font> <font size="3">Pay particular attention to the flow of life now after all the hard addiction as it gets rather mentally involved. Here in these entries finds maybe the unique building from the ground up to where life is seen after again “yesterday”. It is hoped there is found the expression of the overall and specific encounters taking me through the laying of the first-time foundation and the building process specifically with all of its elements both positive and especially negative along with all the time it took to make facing up and dealing with life a huge part of that challenge found after again all the years away from the nightmare of addiction. Pay particular attention to the kind of redundancy that finds maybe new meaning in my life as I travel through this building process. Yesterday’s history of the ignorance demeaning my sexuality will hopefully find how dealing honestly with it opened up much of the building of my new first time successful</font><font size="3"> </font> <font size="3">empire of love for a new me. Wondering if such progress can be recognized by all entities of life especially that arena looking for answers to questions of taking on that challenge after the high? Making that emotional connection and staying abreast of this challenge may indeed help another taking on their own challenge and especially knowing of such a challenge when presented. Such can be a difficult time many times ending in rejection and thee ole ‘stuffing of continued pain’ lived in that nightmare nobody in his or her right enough mind ever wants. Wonder if you can see the bright future unfolding so wonderfully still yet for me in my life after the work done to date? Wonder if it can be noted the acceptance of and the desire for as well as the progression toward it all now after over two decades of this journey through a challenge put before me many times during my life and accepted on that day of surrendering yesterday for the success taking real shape today? Wonder if there could be, for those having never been addicted, the kind of empathy allowing for a perfect world to stay the myth it is and carrying on the best we as human beings on this earth can be? Don’t believe there is a “making it to the top” but instead making t</font></i></b><b><i><font size="3">he best of life made under the circumstances we all live together in on this earth. Yes; I am very, very proud of my success to date. It is felt such was planned for me to achieve. I express our Higher Power who I believe dwells in all of us. I speak of this entity outside of the church but I hope with great respect for the number of religions believing and knowing of our Higher Power “His” being everywhere…</font></i></b></p>
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<p><b><i><font size="3">Visit Barnes and Nobles and Trafford Publishing on line to view the preview of my book. (Both books are soon to become available) It can be found by simply plugging in ‘My Personal Stop Message by BeBop’. BeBop is the pseudonym (nick name) used instead of my birth name. This pen name was found necessary due to content of the books and the people, places and things involved. </font></i></b></p>
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<p></p>My Personal Stop Messagetag:www.leimertparkbeat.com,2014-02-18:677129:BlogPost:1230032014-02-18T19:04:37.000ZNathaniel J. Shaw, artist BeBophttps://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/NathanielJamesShaw
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70835987?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70835987?profile=original" width="339"></img></a> Wonder if I can express the great and crazy feeling of having published book to you folks of Liemert Park? It is a true story of having achieved recovery from addiction and details the finale of addiction to freedom. At this point I will not give information to look up this book on line. At his point I want to know what to do next to get it out to you through proper…</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70835987?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="339" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70835987?profile=original"/></a>Wonder if I can express the great and crazy feeling of having published book to you folks of Liemert Park? It is a true story of having achieved recovery from addiction and details the finale of addiction to freedom. At this point I will not give information to look up this book on line. At his point I want to know what to do next to get it out to you through proper channels.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>BeBop</p>
<p></p>WONDER IF THIS IS AN APPROACHIABLE MEDIUM IN TRYING TO COMMUNICATE WITH OUR YOUTH TODAY?tag:www.leimertparkbeat.com,2013-12-07:677129:BlogPost:1190022013-12-07T06:00:00.000ZNathaniel J. Shaw, artist BeBophttps://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/NathanielJamesShaw
<p align="center"><b><i><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70836180?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-center" height="350" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70836180?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="503"></img></a> THE BEAT GOES ON:</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>WE CONTINUE TO ABSORB AS WELL AS LIVE THE COURSE OF OUR BLACK MUSIC'S DIRECTION.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>CAN'T HELP THE VIBES FELT AS WE LISTEN TO FEELINGS AMONG OUR BLACK YOUTH OF YET AN ONGOING INFECTION.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>THIS DISEASE NOW USES PSYCHOLOGICAL AND…</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70836180?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="503" height="350" class="align-center" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/70836180?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024"/></a>THE BEAT GOES ON:</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>WE CONTINUE TO ABSORB AS WELL AS LIVE THE COURSE OF OUR BLACK MUSIC'S DIRECTION.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>CAN'T HELP THE VIBES FELT AS WE LISTEN TO FEELINGS AMONG OUR BLACK YOUTH OF YET AN ONGOING INFECTION.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>THIS DISEASE NOW USES PSYCHOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL INJECTIONS TO VERY NEAR PERFECTION.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>OUR SONS, DAUGHTERS AND GRANDCHILDREN ALL CALL IT RAPP.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>OH YAH; IT DEFINATELY CONTINUES WITH RHYTHMIC CLAP;</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>A NATURAL ASSET APART OF BEING BLACK.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>BUT IN THIS NEW MESSAGE OF RHYTHM THERE IS FOUND A GIANT GAP.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>AND IN IT TODAY'S SUFFERING YOUTH ARE INDEED TRAPPED;</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>REAL CREATION HELD CAPTIVE;</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>A GIFT YET TO BE UNWRAPPED.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>LISTEN TO WHAT SEEMS TO BE A SECOND BEAT.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>IN IT CAN BE HEARD THE SUFFERING AND AGONY OF DEFEAT.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>THUS WE; THE LADIES AND OGs OF YESTERDAY BRING TO YOU THE NEXT GENERATION IN OUR CULTURE TO REPEAT;</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> THE SAME OLE MESSEGE IN OUR GHETTO STREETS. . .</i></b></p>
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<p align="center"><b><i>CENTURIES LATER:</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>WHY IS THE SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES;</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>ALSO NOT MADE ILLEGAL AS IS THE USE OF DRUGS WITH ITS ADDICTING DAMAGES?</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>AGAIN AMERICA SHOWS ANOTHER INBALANCE</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>SEEN IN OTHER AREAS OF LIFE SUCH AS SEGREGATION'S HARD CALLUS</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>OR THOSE LIVING IN THEIR MILLION DOLLAR PALACE</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>NOT GIVING A DAMN ABOUT HOMELESS JANIS, ALICE OR ALEX</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>YAH ! I SAID IT ! SEGREGATION !!</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>A WAY TO KEEP UP THE CONTINUED FRUSTRATION</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>MONITORED LIKE STOCK IN THE WAREHOUSES OF AMERICA'S POVERTY STRICKEN NATION</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>WHERE LIFE CARRIES ON WITH PROGRESSING DEGREGATION</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>MAINTAINING AND BREEDING YEARS OF LOW CLASS GENERATIONS</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>AND INSTEAD OF LEARNING THE AMMUNITION OF TECHNOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>THERE IS CONTINUED DROPPING OUT OF MIDDLE SCHOOL ONLY TO ENHANCE THE FORMATION AND FRUSTRATION OF 'GANGOLOGY' AND ITS GANG COLONIES</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>YO MAN! HATE TO SOUND LIKE A REPEAT-QUACK</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>BUT WHAT'S UP WITH DAT ! ! !</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>GETTIN' TIRED OF BEING TAKEN BACK</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>YAH! IT WAS EASY ACHIEVIN' A DRINK, A HEAD FULLA PCP AND/OR CRACK</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>FOR THAT ONE MOMENT WE WAS HELLA FAT</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>AGAIN AND AGAIN LIFE TAKES CONTROL AND STEPS ON US LIKE A DOE MAT</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>WONDER IF AT 13 PLUS YEARS OLD IS ANYONE READY TO MAKE TO MAKE A REAL COMBACK?</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>DON'T KNOW 'BOUT YA' BUT I'M GETTIN' THE HELL OUTTA THIS DAMN SHACK!</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> YA'LL DOWN AT WELFARE AND IN THE STREETS OF NOWHERE CAN KEEP YO YACKETY YACK</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>‘CAUSE I AIN'T GONNA BE PART OF THAT CENTURIES OLD, WITH NO BENEFITS ATTACHED, FAKE CONTRACT</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>AND THAT MY YOUNG BROTHAS AND SISTAS SLATED TO BECOME TOMORROW'S LEADERS IS STRAIGHT UP FACT! ! !</i></b></p>
<p align="center"></p>Every so often a walk through "YESTERDAY". . .tag:www.leimertparkbeat.com,2013-11-12:677129:BlogPost:1186952013-11-12T07:17:23.000ZNathaniel J. Shaw, artist BeBophttps://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/NathanielJamesShaw
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<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>I took another walk through Skid Rowe this time for two days in a row. This was because I posted a message on the light posts interpreted after my…</i></b></p>
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<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>I took another walk through Skid Rowe this time for two days in a row. This was because I posted a message on the light posts interpreted after my own war “Out There”. Guess it is good for me to stay focused with memories of what I now call “YESTERDAY”. I will be visiting Skid Rowe again to post more of my thoughts and what I know is a message to all involved especially the dominate cultural entity suffering this part of life:</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>HOMELESS BASICS IN EVERY AMERICAN CITY</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>May I remind America of the levels in this progressing world call Homelessness?</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Downtown cities is where the base of this degradation of human life seems endless.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Tints, carts, cardboard and all such survival gear can be seen for blocks at a time.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Is such the result of the few help centers and shelters who, because of being full to capacity, must now decline?</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>One night is all it takes to brew a scent that stings with reek.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Add seven days a week to such a stinkin' heap;</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>And the problems of those without a home grows oh so deep</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Every doorway is occupied.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>There is no place to hide.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>On most downtown streets</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Can be found "Pete",</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>In his bare feet,</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Wrapped up in a dirty old sheet,</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Looking very meek,</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Holding a sign asking for a donation treat.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Business people and other successful careers take pride in their attire and groom.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Homeless on the other hand assume:</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>dirty dreads, untrimmed beards, old clothing less any hygiene consumed</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Every waking day all in doom</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>With a positive outlook on life seen no time soon.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>The bulk of panhandling, collecting recyclables and living a homeless life is easily found all round town.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>At night there can be seen for blocks</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>The thousands who flock</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Like ships in New York's east or Seattle's west coast docks.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Turning any city into a huge dorm</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Until another morning is born.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>When it is merchants must wash, disinfect and sanitize</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>So that sales can again be recognized.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>In America this is everyday life</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Who endure the bulk of such strife.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>To survive is knowing how to stay alive</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Even if one must do a head-first dive</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Into a garbage can to keep from being deprived</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Of food, recyclables and whatever he or she can find.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Be careful of all the disease left behind.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Take the bus or jump on the subway for outer areas of the downtown core;</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>And homelessness continues on even more.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>While on the subway</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>There is heard someone reciting his or her essay</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Concerning having no place to stay.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>And due to mainly inflation</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>They continue to ask for a donation.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>A covered bus stop is a great spot</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>For a snooze homeless can easily cop.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Freeway bridges provide a place of relief from another rainy day.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Under these bridges is where more of this society must lay.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Recyclables in the rural areas are a giant part of this breed.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>As seen by carts from the supermarkets filled with plastics, cans, bottles and things on its way to be redeemed.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Passing by an ad on a bus stop bench there is encouraged recycling.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Without note of protecting those bare-handed Americans from disease.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Society's hierarchy is indeed mean.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Contrary to the majority;</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>This homeless progressive reality;</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Is a big part of any American city;</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>With upper classes having little or no compassion and as well no pity;</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Others looking at the business end of such an entity;</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Leaving little room for any homeless dignity.</i></b></p>
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<p align="center"><b><i>THE DREAM TODAY</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>AFTER DR. KING</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Hey you at twelve, thirteen, older and even older years?</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>You with your locked down magnificent dreads and new era attire beginning to unfold in your new unseen lives with you.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>You who have nobody but each other in such early stages of wealth in a life that only turn into an ugly debt in the name of 'Gangs'.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>You who are indeed the very capable, faithful and wanted entity to become what you really are; if indeed momma and/or daddy preached any of yesterday's Black Power, Pride and Peace to you and what it really be about.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>You who continue not to fall short of the plan that is keeping us down - a plan termed today as 'New Era Slavery'.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>You who continue to let such a psychological game of yesterday's hate and violence become invested among what should be a wealth of love and understanding for all the suffering we have already done.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Instead you make plans to spread more hate and violence among yourselves leading to nothing but the day of slaughter while it is watched, endured and savored by what continues to be the dominate ruling power on these greedy grazing lands.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>You, I wonder if you ever heard those like the Eighth Wonder, Michael Jackson, Donny Hathaway or Marvin Gaye speak out in song about seeing what is really going on?</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i> </i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Yah you, our name is ‘Nobody’. We live in our homes the size of matchboxes. Roaches continue to dwell with us wall to wall. The hierarchy have killed all our leaders; but we don't have to do nothing to them for they may indeed have caused America The Great its own destruction.</i></b></p>
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<p align="center"><b><i>You, our Black Power, were supposed to be one of the strongest foreseen among the peoples of this so-called great United States and the world in building something real, honest and full of positive wealth we could all relish.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>Instead it seems the psychological pattern of the 'BLAST', the psychology of using our supposed heritage from overseas helping to create the success of the ruling power's plan, the hate and violence it has caused among what use to be a wealth of love as a Black People and the obvious time line used now against us in this great U.S. are all blocking the beauty and magnificence of our dreads and its Blackness that hold something real among us.</i></b></p>
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<p align="center"><b><i>You in the ghetto having given education back to your own real knowledge live today in ignorance as well as the pain and suffering felt again by the tools used in this hard life today to only survive. A tool used by the hierarchy to again rule.</i></b></p>
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<p align="center"><b><i>It is wondered if you may have found at your early stages of what is still life, how it is we continue to suffer and how such a pattern in life continues to spread more and more weak and contaminated roots as our generations and new eras of life continue on.</i></b></p>
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<p align="center"><b><i>Hey you; is it really true how so many of us must suffer so that those in Spelman, Morehouse and Clark can succeed?</i></b></p>
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<p align="center"><b><i>You! Does the name Martin Luther King mean anything today? Do the names Malcolm X or Rosa Parks not to forget Fredrick Douglas and the many in our plight for Civil Rights and the right to live mean anything to you who continue, again and again, to suffer?</i></b></p>
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<p align="center"><b><i>This pain hurts; my heart bleeds just a bit too much to carry on in such sadness without making at least this plea.</i></b></p>
<p align="center"><b><i>HEY YOU ! WHAT DO WE ! ! DO ? ?</i></b></p>
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