YOU CAN NOW OPEN YOUR EYES

 The election is over and you can now open your eyes. Donald Trump is now your new president. I always say be careful what you wish for.  Donal Trump yes and his wife your first lady is a porn star. Just let that sink in your first lady is a porn star. The world has seen her naked.  You will find nothing classy or sophisticated about her at all. That is not hating, that is just fact.
If we can have a porn star for a first lady then all of our skeletons should be able to come out of the closet now. We shouldn't be ashamed of anything. All the respect and dignity and let us not forget class has gone out the door. 
Is it now true anything goes? I guess so now that we have seen the first lady in her birthday suit.
Could Donald Trump be the antichrist? Look, at his credentials check out his cabinet that he will attempt to appoint.  I really believe we will all fall victim to a lot of his policies that will change as he goes.
The fear on the faces of his constituents and the faces  of the ones who didn't vote for him. To show that he is not what they want for a president they have been protesting for the last week.
So now that you can see, please make sure to  look forward to some disappointments. And there can still be some hope and unchanging of some issues that we may face.
So say it with me  OUR NEW PRESIDENT WILL BE DONALD J. TRUMP.
Let's come out of shock remove your hands from your eyes and dig in.

CAN WE BREATHE CLEAN AIR, DRINK CLEAN WATER, AND GROW GARDENS IN CLEAN SOIL?

Our people are dying from Cancer in Alexandria, LA.

Ms. Agnes Francisco of Alexandria has lost three family members of Cancer. Ms. Agnes will explain what made her start the fight for clean air, clean water, and soil. The area we are talking about is the southern part of Alexandria where there are about 50% African Americans reside.
In this area not only did Ms. Francisco  loose family so did others. It is also very important to know that this also a low -income area of  Alexandria which has no grocery stores, or shopping malls.
Most residents have to walk or take the bus, cab or get a ride to wherever  they need to go. These  are some of the things residents have to deal with on top of  burying or fighting cancer.
I was very surprised at the death toll as of now is about 116 and people are still dying.
Ms. Agnes started to complain to the LDEQ( Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality) and EPA ( Environmental Protection Agency).

Environmental Disaster

  The smell and vapors of the nearby Creosoting Operations ( Colfax Treating) in this area what concerned Ms. Francisco was the fact that in Cresote a chemical contaminant called BENO(A) PYRENE.

BENO (A) PYRENE IS  (BaP) is usually found as pale yellow crystals. It does not dissolve in water, but will dissolve in organic (carbon-containing) solvents. BaP is one of a group of compounds known as the Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (PAHs).

 How does chemical affect the environment?

 According to the Scottish Environmental Protection Agent  Pollutant Fact Sheet
The most serious environmental impact of BaP is its significant accumulation in organisms exposed to it. Aquatic organisms will also concentrate it. In water, BaP attaches strongly to sediments and any other solid matter. BaP released to soils tends to bind very strongly to the soils particles, but small amounts can leach to ground waters. BaP is stable and can remain (and travel) in the environment for a long period of time - it is a Persistent Organic Pollutant (POP). Releases of BaP   therefore cause concern at a global environmental level as well as on a local scale.  http://apps.sepa.org.uk/spripa/Pages/SubstanceInformation.aspx?pid=22

How does chemical affect humans?

The long-term health effects of BaP were last  assessed by the federal government in 1987. At that point, it was classified as a “probable human carcinogen”; the new assessment upgrades BaP’s cancer classification to “carcinogenic to humans” and sets a limit on the amount of BaP a human can breathe without the risk of developing cancer and other serious illnesses; it also sets a limit on the amount of BaP that can be safely ingested and, for the first time for any EPA chemical assessment, estimates the risk of cancer when human skin is exposed to the chemical.

Research Shows Links to Cancer, Developmental Damage, and Low Birth Weight

Since 1987, the scientific literature examining the health effects of BaP has grown significantly. Studies have shown that BaP is associated with cancer, as well as developmental damage and immunological effects. Epidemiology studies involving exposure to BaP have reported associations with decreased fertility, low birth weight, postnatal body weight, and smaller head circumference in children. Animal studies show exposure to BaP to be linked to a variety of cancers, including alimentary tract, liver, kidney, respiratory tract, pharynx, and skin cancers. Workers exposed to BaP over long periods have been found to have a significantly

On Aug. 21, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a draft revised health assessment of the toxic chemical benzo(a)pyrene (BaP). This chemical is widely found in the environment and in a number of workplaces, and in its assessment, EPA declared that BaP causes cancer. by Ronald White, 9/10/2013 EPA Scientists Deem Benzo(a)pyrene a Cancer-causing Chemical  http://www.foreffectivegov.org/epa-scientists-deem-benzo-a-pyrene-cancer-causing-chemical

Mrs. Joyce White, General Honor'e &  Ms. Agnes Francisco

( picture courtesy of The Alexandria Town Talk by way of Google)

Ms. Joyce White has been living in her house for many years. In the background is the back of  the cross ties of one of the companies that have the citizens health at risk.  Ms. White states that one of daughters has  a severe case of Asthma.

Once it was found that the land where there were  contaminate BaP you would think it would have some urgency to clean up and make the people of South Alexandria whole again. No this was not so. There were three lawsuits against Roy O. Martin two of them  lost and the third was a class action suit where the people who the plaintiffs were awarded from $100.00 to 7,300 this was depending what your illness was. The Lawyers were paid $1,600,000 for their services.  We have to take  in consideration that it was over 500 plaintiffs.

There were some plaintiffs that were on medicare and Medicaid so they would have to give some of their money up. Leaving them with next to nothing.

WHO IS ROY O. MARTIN?
 You can say that Roy O. Martin had a vision and he stepped and made his vision happen from the beginning, one of the key factors to the long-term success of the company has been the acquisition of tracts of timberland. Today, RoyOMartin has a land base of 570,000 acres of prime southern pine and fine hardwoods throughout Louisiana, made up of tracts from 20 acres to over 10,000 acres in size. This natural-resource base supports two state-of-the-art OSB- and plywood-manufacturing operations in Louisiana. In all, RoyOMartin employs approximately 1,000 committed, competent, and contributing team members. https://www.royomartin.com

                                                   

                                                     WHERE ARE WE NOW

At this moment, we have lost many people and now Miss Agnes Francisco has gotten the attention of the EPA they have come up with this two-year initiative called Making a  Visible Difference Committee. Purpose- EPA focus on providing better support to communities, especially in environmentally overburdened, underserved and economically distressed areas where the needs are the greatest.

http://www.blaccnewsweeklyradioredjournalradio.com/

ITS NONE OF MY BUSINESS

You know, it's funny when we always say that everyone should mind their own business but every time an issue with an entertainer, movie star, singer, artist has something going on in their lives we are all up in their business. If it hits home then we are ready to throw punches about your business. Are we that confused? Or is it because those people mentioned above are to the public or because they have no right to privacy just like you?

What sense does that make? You don't want any one in your business but you are all on the websites that dropping all kinds of private information on them, let's compare your privacy to theirs: You both have lives, some of  you are married, some have kids, you both have personal, physical, mental problems on some levels, both really don't want their business told. The only thing different is probably they have more power and money.

Why is it our business to be all up in their business but get bent all out of shape when someone knows our business?  Are we embarrassed about what goes on in our own lives and we feel better that others are suffering like us even though they have the money?

I will say this, we have to stop making everybody business our business and stop getting upset when you are being questioned about your business. I would love to see one of the entertainers turn around and start asking personal questions about us. Just to see how that feels. Why do we really need to know what is really going on in someone else's personal life?

When you think about those stupid reality shows about our Black women such as Atlanta Housewives, Love and Hip Hop, it seems that we are so obsessed with these reality shows that we relate or try to emulate their lives. I find that creepy. There is no way I would want that much drama in my life. I can't handle the little drama I might have my mental, emotional couldn't handle.

Now just imagine how these people feel when they have to bear all with millions of viewers on a constant basis.  They have no private life they get abused by their spouse, their son is on drugs, their daughter is pregnant, their finances are in a turmoil. Think about what if that is you and you really don't want people to know that side of your life. Again do you think it's fair that we are all up in their business because we can?

Is there a possibility that we can for once not listen to gossip, I know a lot of people will lose their business because their whole life is dishing the dirt on others. But get truly offended when it comes to their business.

Sometimes we have to shine the light on ourselves and ask ourselves is it really my business who Rhianna is sleeping with, where she shops to buy her clothes really?

Dishing the dirt on entertainers, artists, movie stars is it really important or because we purchase their movies, music, and clothing that we have the right to know what goes on behind their closed doors?

So is that a slave and master or boss and employee relationship?

You don't want your boss in your personal business, some of us get straight mad when someone asks you some of the simplest questions about our  so-called personal business.

Now the business that would interest me, is how my children are doing in school, how is the economy, what is the political climate at this time and what is going to the job market. Those are the things that I would think would be important to me.

Don't get me wrong, entertainment is entertainment but no one's personal hardship and bad times should be something we find interesting unless you are lending a word of encouragement.
Celeste B. McCall

I MIGHT TO BE CRAZY

I am sitting here thinking to myself, is life really this complicated or is it just me. Why do I feel as though that all the work that I have achieved who was it really for? Did I do this to please others or did I do this for myself self- gratifications was these all my true goals or were they goals that I set for others.. I guess you wonder who 'others' are the people who celebrate when you are down, who walk all over your dreams, who could really care less about what you are doing but always find time to secretly stalk you, like watching what you tweet, what you say on facebook, watch your videos and secretly criticize  how you look or how you pronounce a word, are these the people that we spend our times attempting to impress or looking for that approval from?

I might be crazy if I spent all my life trying to please all the wrong people. People who don't  even really pay attention to me and don't give a damn about my hopes, dreams, and aspirations. They just want to see how far I will fall so that they can turn away and laugh never trying to pick me up to see if I was okay. That is not their job, they have one purpose that is to look at my faults, point them out and make me spend all my time looking for their approval.

I allow my seeking approval to take over my mind and my emotions, how I think and what I think about, never wanting to disappoint the ones who really are not relevant.  But don't care about the ones who really should matter.

I  might be crazy if I can't stop punishing myself for the minor setbacks that take place in my life.  My ungratefulness because I was not able to impress those people who really don't care what I say or do but they really do.  I hope I haven't confused anyone  I dare not make you disappointed in me since how you see me is very important to my state of  mind.

I might be crazy if I truly believe this I really spent all my time trying to please people who really will not add to or subtract from my true goals.

Celeta B.McCall

WAKE UP AMERICA WE WILL NEVER BE A UTOPIA

         We as Americans are so disillusioned about America and we will continue to believe that America is a Utopia. So let's see what does the word UTOPIA means according to Dictionary.com an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.

Now some say they want to make America great again, my question is and what does that mean great in what ways. Economically, politically, and socially?

        Well, let's look at this so-called Utopia because that is what comes to my mind when you say great, they want everything from their perspective perfect?  Maybe they think that bullying, lying, stealing, creating wars, killing innocent people with no regard for human life to other countries makes America great? The problem is that we are still doing those things to other countries.  So what made America great back then? This slogan was rebirthed from the 1980's era when Ronald Reagan was running for president. At that time, America was on a down swing inflation, jobs, the economy was not working well at all Gerald Ford was the  president back then Ronald and Jimmy Carter ran against each other with Ronald Reagan coming out the winner.

         During his presidency, several events took place the war on drugs which made it easier for Blacks to be incarcerated, also on the foreign affairs front, Reagan sent 800 U.S. Marines to Lebanon as part of an international peacekeeping force after Israel invaded that nation in June 1982. In October 1983, suicide bombers attacked the Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 Americans. The same month Reagan ordered U.S. forces to lead an invasion of Grenada, an island in the Caribbean, after Marxist rebels overthrew the government. In addition with the problems in Lebanon and Grenada, the Reagan administration had to deal with an ongoing contentious relationship between the United States and Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi (1942-).

http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/ronald-reagan

      When dealing with race Reagan found a way to change the rhetoric  of racism into government cutting programs that were supposedly effect undeserving black people. And appeal to the anti-black prejudice and racism of the whites that resided in the  North and South sounds familiar?

.http://www.shmoop.com/reagan-era/race.html

This is what sums up what Making America great again really means.

Now looking at this Utopia from another angle, America can definitely say that we were never a Utopia and we can never be one, we have too many debts to pay especially when it comes to wars and our involvement in them let's check our record when it comes to some of the killings that we participated in where millions of  innocent men, women and children died. America invaded over 70 countries.  We occupy 700-800 military bases world wide and we have military personnel in 156 countries.

http://www.countercurrents.org/polya050713.htm 

       

So about that Utopia, I think America really need to do some soul searching and realize that all capitalism, thievery, pillaging , raping and dominating countries will never be perfect actions to take and soon we will wake up to reality.

Celeta  McCall

I AM A LITTLE CONFUSED

I  guess you are wondering what is it that I am confused about, actually I am confused about several things let  me see:


Stacy Dash- Why do we make her revelant someone called her a black  Ann Coulter. They call her a coon and confused and lost  or even out of touch. I am confused that why is what comes out her mouth she is paid  to say the stupid shit that she says.  I don't know why we should even give her any attention at all.  We as Black people need to stop trying to sit at the table with them. Think about it like this if I invite you over for dinner and I fix everyone a plate but you. How would you feel?

Whoopie Goldberg & Raven Simone- Now these two are really funny they claim that they are not Black they are  Americans  what?  This is another example of  trying to sit at the table. How can you look into the mirror and not see you color the melanated hue.  Black and African. I am so tired of this circus of people who look like us. Everyone is entitled to  their opinion but  this is ridiculous.  Let me enlighten you  YOU ARE EITHER BLACK AMERICAN OR AFRICAN AMERICAN.

I am also confused at the Janet Hubert and Jada Pickett Saga- Okay  why is this again  revelant we have fallen to a trap and this has become a distraction. What is the reason for the distraction ?  I  think its the Flint water crisis.  I don't  don't  give a rat's  a## who goes to the Oscars  another example of trying to sit at the table. Who owns  Hollyweird?   So why are we so surprised?  Its really has nothing to do with us. We have bigger fish to fry. 
Pay attention this seems to be a fascination for other races of people, we like to be confrontation and confusing and then there is the angry Black woman syndrome. Again everyone is entitled to their opinion but I think  the way its conveyed could be the problem.

Its a new year and we need  a new perspective on everything. The entertainment world is not  to me, not that important. 

WE DID IT!!!!

  Yes!! we got our station yes Universal Collective Network is up and running despite all the work we put in it to get all together, we are still working on how to operate it. Like setting up so listeners can call in. It goes with the terriotory and the territory is looking good. We are very excited about this whole notion of actually running a radio station.

We are in the process  of  now building up our  programming for example our talk show because they will play a very important part in making our station successful.

I would like for  you to enjoy. 


 
http://universal-collective-network.radiojar.com/

NEW ONLINE RADIO STATION ( UNIVERSAL COLLECTIVE NETWORK)

We are an online radio station that will provide listeners our opportunity to listen to the good news, great talk, and various music that will feed your mind, body and souls. Radio has been moving in a different direction for a while now, because of certain restrictions that are now changing how terresteral radio station operate it gives a great opportunity to the online market.
Black radio is very important to the Black community because it's  not enough of us giving others a chance to  have a voice.

Universal Collective Network would like to change this and we will. Remember we are a radio station that will ' Always give you sound you can invest in.'

 https://www.facebook.com/universalcollectivenetwork/

THIS IS WHAT I ALWAYS WANTED TO DO...

THIS WHAT I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR

This is our video pertaining to the up and coming radio stations that we are trying to launch I am so excited. Can't wait...

https://youtu.be/E4_Hg6RHjH0   HEAD FULL OF HAIR PRODUCTIONS 1

HEAD FULL OF HAIR PRODUCTIONS 2

https://youtu.be/DgeK0GiN21A

Universal Collective Network

Yes, I finally have an opportunity to start my own radio station. Never thought I could do this, thanks to my friend and mentor  Mr. Leroy Vallot for helping me find the correct platform to work with. This is a lot of work, but I am anxious to make sure that I can make it happen...
He helped me chose the name Universal Collective Network which means a lot, that we are not going to be like the status quo in radio stations, I want to be able to give all our listeners a variety of flavor when it come to education, information, music, business and social issues.. We are at this moment looking for radio shows that will fit our criteria, for all these genres. We want not only encourage Rythm and Blues, but we want some reggae, African music and talk, we want to talk about sports and deal with all the social issues that are plaguing all our communities...This is another way of finding our place in the online radio industry.. We as Black people refuse to be silent and if this is a way to 
place our stakes in an almost silent voice of black media so be it.
So look forward to Universal Collect Network to offer you sound you can invest in...

Second 2 None Network

I  would like to make this our music network  this would make sure that music will be the main existence of this network. Our history of music runs deep in our veins why not continue that legacy by giving our listeners our sensation sound...

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....

Phabulous by Design News

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.

Women History Month on Through the eyes of the Black Woman Radio

We will feature Author Desiree Future on Through the eyes of the Black Woman Radio show. Thursday @ 7pm on www.blogtalkradio.com/sayyourpiecenetwork

Author Desiree Future’s name alone sounds like it is a character in one of her books.  But this native of Jersey City, NJ is as real as they come. While single handedly raising her son she intends to write her way out of her circumstances.  With a life-long dream of becoming a writer, she has spent years polishing her craft.  Having written a children’s book and a slew of poetry, she intends to publish them by January 2014.  One of her poems proudly sits on display in the Glenn D. Cunningham Library in Jersey City NJ for which she wrote a poem for the first African American mayor after his death titled You Made a Difference.  Her current project consists of working on a sequel to the Pastor’s Heart.

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Through the Eyes of the Black Woman

Through the eyes of the black woman we will love to keep you informed on all the things that pertain to the black woman her ups and downs. We would like to keep you in the know when it comes to what seems to be relevant to who you are what you are and how do you have to handle yourself in all aspects of  who you are.
So stay tuned for more information.

We are celebrating Women History Month

We will be interviewing  Diva Publishing  today on the show www.blogtalkradio.com/sayyourpiece network. Join us @ 7pm.

Part 2 The Stolen Women by Dr. Gail Wyatt 01/01 by Say Your Piece Radio Network | Blog Talk Radio

Part 2 The Stolen Women by Dr. Gail Wyatt 01/01 by Say Your Piece Radio Network | Blog Talk Radio
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