HAPPY HOLIDAYS NO NEW YEAR RESOLUTION FOR ME

Okay if you decide to make a new year resolution that is fine but its not necessary. Because there is time for right now to make any changes you want to take place.
New Year Resolution not interested but what I will do is set goals and stick to those goals. Resolution- to re solution... No. just want to get to the finish line of anything that I know I should go ahead and do...

So just check out this videos to check out how I do this I am also
 like to have fun....

ALWAYS TRYING SOMETHING NEW

Okay here I go, trying something new. I love this side of me because if I fail at it. The freedom of taking a chance is the success part.

Now what I have done is  I have started two different stations with my music and  my podcast. I thought that it would be fun to listen to my shows on another platform and also allow others to know what type of music I sometimes listen to.

So after my research and advice from others I chose two  platforms.podbean. com and voscast.com.
So last night, I started uploading my podcast on podbean so far I upload two episodes of my show The Red Journal Radio. The name of my podcast is WE SPEAK NEWS NOW...  Just hope that it works out.
Then today I uploaded some music on my voscast.com- http://station.voscast.com/54d44692253df/
Can't wait to listen to it, to see 
 Tell me what you think about them so that I if there is any improvements I will be able to make them.

 

  http://celetamccall.podbean.com
I hope that these work out so I shall keep you updated with all the changes I will be making and at the same time working on improving my position.



I also have a paper that has some great information it covers news, fashion, business and the skin care industry.  http://paper.li/f-1378518857 so I attempt to stay busy. Now that is not including my blogs. So much is out there to write about and so much to talk about, my head has to organize my thoughts so that I won't overwhelm myself.
So if you get a chance please stop by and check out my work....

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For the Business of the Body

How important was the bombing in France to me?

I thought I would give you opportunity to see who I am and see what I love to talk about this video describes my books and my opinion on the issues that we are facing today. I discuss the bombing in Paris. I give history about how France throughout has declared genocide on Africans and have they have been robbing at least eighteen countries of the money through taxes that have to be paid to France.

WE ARE REAL WOMEN MADE OF FLESH AND BLOOD WE HAVE FEELINGS TOO

Through the eyes of this black woman, I would like to encourage women of  color to continue to speak out because in the wake of  the Oklahoma police officer who raped 12 Black women who now will be serving 263 years in prison. I believe he thought he was going to get off, maybe justifying that Black women don't matter.

When you think about what these women went through, only another Black woman would understand  there is a  difference in how rape effects  us opposed to how it effects white women.
Let's take a look at history, during slavery  our women were raped by their slave masters on a daily basis even to go as far as to conceive babies with them.

We have been destroyed from the inside over and over again. But as you know, this story about the Officer Holtzclaw got little media attention because it was BLACK WOMEN we have become so insignificant to society by  some of the small minded people, also the idea that we as Black women don't appreciate or honor each other doesn't help change that persona about us.
There are some white people who think of us as ANGRY BLACK WOMEN they don't think we matter.

Men in general have long since taken advantage of us in every way that's  possible. This is not a man bashing  blog.  I just want you to understand that WE DO MATTER the black woman matters. We have souls we have feelings, we have aspirations, we have dreams, and our bodies  belong to us. You have no right to invade us without our permission.

Being a survivor of rape and sexual assault I can truly understand how those women felt. Especially when it comes to someone of authority.  I felt powerless even before the threat if I told on him.  My rape happen while I was serving my  country.
Which makes it so much crueler to me,  Because just like those women the same people that is supposed protect you, took total advantage of  you.
But I feel very proud of them because they spoke out whether it was sooner or later they did speak out.
I was told I didn't report it to the right people but they forgot that I was threatened if did tell no one would believe me.
So how do you go against a verbal threat or a known fact. You can't so you go through life just dealing with life because that is what we Black women are supposed to do.
So again I say to them my hats go off to those brave women....
Because we not valued by all our men, we are in this battle to be relevant  to each other, to ourselves and to our men.
WE ARE REAL WOMEN MADE OUT OF FLESH AND BLOOD WE HAVE FEELINGS TOO.

BLACK WOMEN WHY ARE WE SO MEAN TOWARD EACH OTHER?

BLACK WOMEN WHY ARE WE SO MEAN TO EACH OTHER?

Growing up in the Renassalier Projects in Albany, New York and being the darkest in my family  I was always called big nose and blackie.  Even though my nickname was Lee Lee I got accustom to those names. Now that was at home, in school I was called ugly, skinny and any other names that went along with the way  I looked. I was bullied and made to feel ashamed about who I was. 

Is it really natural for us to be so cruel to each other? Or do we learn that from others such as your mother and other family and friends. Because I was called these terrible names by people who looked like me, I started to hang out with white girls. Yes, Conscious  Celeta hung out with white girls at one time in my life. Why did I feel comfortable because I was not judged by what I look like.

As I grew into a young lady the name calling and bullying didn't stop and it really made me feel like I could never meet the standards of what they would call beautiful or pretty. 

 I tried to make friends with some black girls it was only a hand full of them in high school who would really talk to me, that was fine to me, I liked the idea that they didn't talk to me, but they continue to talk about me, Even though they didn't stop to ask anything about me,or get to know me, they would have found that I was an all right person.

We truly have so many issues dealing with body image and looks stacked up against us, it should make us closer to each other. But instead we find ourselves being  jealous, insecure and mean toward the very person that we should be bonding with.

I have sisters and we have said very vicious things to one another at times. But when we are dealing with our own demons its easy for us to take our dissatisfaction of what we look at in the mirror every day out on others.

Some of the meanness I will blame on society and the other I will blame on our home life. Society damages young black girls by telling them that being light-skinned and the so-called pretty hair is the only black they can identify with, leaving the dark skinned girls out in the cold and not what people want to see.  But we all know that what society excepts is not all the time realistic. But it doesn't  stop us from trying to look a certain way. 

Society has also brought their propaganda to the minds of our men also which again the light-skinned gets the attention. Black is truly beautiful despite what society has shown us. We have to love ourselves first  and feel comfortable in our skin. 

Our home life can carry the same type of stigma. I think about my mother and others who were taught that if you were light-skinned you were favored more.   But also have to understand that this came from slavery and of course it would trickle down to the rest of the families.  I always noticed how my own mother made a difference in the grandchildren the light-skinned ones got a different treatment than the darker ones. 

I wish when it came to us as a people that our shades of  black wouldn't really matter but it has and the damage has been done.  

Even though now some of us our on the natural tip are we doing this for us or are attempting to make society  accept us?  Just like all other things we do, for some I think going natural is a fad and it has nothing to do with our African roots. 

I do know that  I have learned to accept my looks even though my black sisters still might say some negative things about me,  I have to understand that its truly not about me its about them.  I am just a sounding board for their inner dissatisfaction of themselves.

Black Friday what does that really mean?

The true meaning  of  Black Friday 

 

NEW YORK (PIX11) - A disturbing story wrongly tracing the origins of Black Friday to slavery has been circulating on social media, but the real roots of the modern day shopping extravaganza can actually be found in Philadelphia.
A post being widely shared on Facebook claims that Black Friday dates back to the age of slavery in America, and took place on the day after Thanksgiving when traders would sell slaves at a discount to plantation owners preparing for the winter.

(Snopes.com)

In fact, Black Friday didn't become a household term until nearly a hundred years after slavery was abolished, according to fact-checking website Snopes.com.  Black Friday, which has since been co-opted by major retailers, had an entirely different meaning in 1951.  It was originally used by business owners to describe the annual plague of sick calls by employees trying to score a four-day weekend.
Ten years later, the term was used regularly by the Philadelphia police to describe the hordes of shoppers that descended on shopping centers on the Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Philadelphia cops were not allowed to take off on Black Friday, according to a Philadelphia Bulletin reporter Joseph P. Barret.
Making matters worse, the annual Army-Navy football game drew thousands of out-of-town visitors to the city.  Philadelphia reporters covering the annual phenomenon say their regular use of the term helped it spread to television broadcasts finally to the nation's vocabulary.
The site investigated another popular explanation -- that Black Friday is aptly named for the sales that take retailers out of "the red" and "into the black."  Snopes found that this factoid didn't enter the cultural conversation until the 1980s, decades after it was uttered with dread by Philadelphia police officers.
Article by Jeremy Tanner
http://pix11.com/2014/11/27/how-did-black-friday-really-get-its-name/

If the above story is really true, then why was the first story  told was this to make Black people angry?  It's  that  anything black always means something negative except when it comes to finance or making money. We know that when you are in the RED you are in trouble financially but if you are in the BLACK that's positive.
So let me understand this  BLACK = Finance or Money so maybe I am reaching a little but when it comes to finances our color equates to the dollar bill. Everything seems to go back to the dollar bill. That includes the 1.l trillion dollars we put into the economy.
I personally have no desire to get up out of my bed fight traffic and people for a few discounts. The idea that we do this every year is astounding. I have and will support anyone who desires to  BOYCOTT BLACK FRIDAY so that we can use our dollars in our community.
We need to start from somewhere and why not do it now There will be some boycotting and I am hoping that it will effect their economy. We realize that they only understand  green.

WE SEE PAIN AND SUFFERING BUT STILL LOOKING FOR A BRIGHT FUTURE

As you know the black woman has been under attack for the past two or three years in some shape form of fashion. Some say its made us bitter and angry when all it has done is make us more confused about who we are and what role we are supposed to play in society.  We have been called rachet, chicken head, hoodrats and  thots... by our own men who are supposed to protect  and love us. We have demonized the very essence of who we really are by making fun about how we should wear our hair calling them hair hats. Now these are the same men who have mothers, sisters, daughters, aunties and nieces.

Our black men have become our emotional oppressors by always making us feel that we are not good enough for them. That no matter how many times we stand beside them and fight with them or we fight for them we are still not good enough.  Every man and woman  have their own standards of beauty and we either respect it or just keep some of their opinions to themselves.

Sandra Bland and many others were not worried about what their hair looked like they were trying to understand why it had to be them to die. Our children are being brutalized by police and murdered by others. So why is it that our hair is so significant? Its really not, what I believe is that some of our men have lost their way and they don't want to walk alone. What is that saying misery loves company?

Our hair is an accessory what is under it ie our brain is what is important at a crucial point like now.
People both white and black have been wearing weaves, and wigs for ages why all of sudden now there is a problem with the way we wear our hair.

The next time one of our brothers make a derogatory remark about your hair ask them this when was the last time I asked you to buy it for me. See what they tell you.