POWERSPEAKS

Shame on CNN'S Lou Dobbs & others fearing OBAMA truth!

2008-03-22T20:22:00.005-04:00

Just watched lou dobbs on cnn and other mainstream media who just don't get it that OBAMA represents a new day in American politics, they just don' get it. To make matters worse they don't get it that they are trying to create fear in the American people by trying to paint OBAMA as a reverse racist. Remember this is the same "mainstream media" that help keep Bush in office for 2 terms , that hailed the war in Iraq, that was a day late and a dollar short on the economy and now these same news analyst are now trying to CONvice the American people they know what's wrong with OBAMA and what's best for the rest of us? Please don't tell the rest of America who hears what OBAMA is saying and have responsed by putting OBAMA on the theshold of victory. Shame on you Lou Dobbs and others for trying to sway the Popular vote of the American people! We are smarter than you are and we see through your fear of the truth which OBAMA speaks to ALL of Americans! And once we get a new president in OBAMA we need to get a NEW mainstream media ! Shame on you Lou Dobbs & others! Fool me once shame on you , fool me twice shame on me.... this time it ain't gonna happen....Shame on you Lou Dobbs & others!

OBAMA Speaks on Race & Religion

2008-03-18T14:05:00.003-04:00

Thank God for Obama !
Just finished reading Obama’s speech on Race & Religion
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/
I am even more looking forward to hearing this great speech of his on the air. Obama’s vision for bringing unity out of the ashes of division is just the type of leadership and statesmanship that is needed in our country more than at any other time in our history! We should all be proud and pray for Obama’s leadership,which is capable of rising above the muck and mire of race diversion and staying focused on the real issues that divide that our country such as the war in Iraq and the ecpnomy.
I am thankful that God has given Senator Obama this platform to address our nation, and that what the enemy meant for evil God meant it for good. Good for our country, good for the world and good for our political system. I pray that we as country will become even more unified and that the hopes and dreams of America will finally be realized. Obama sees the greatness of our nation more than the bitter in fighting and he embraces the higher ground that God is calling us to! Also I thank God that Obama’s speech has cause me to resurrect my blog and let my voice be heard and that there are millions of others like me who will let their voices be stirred by Obama to fulfill the destiny of America, to right our people as one nation and that God will heal the land!

Anxiety help for Christians

2007-09-26T12:54:00.000-04:00

i recently saw a christian blog about someone who had anxiety attacks- who i sent the following link and message- we all can help one another
the internet is the knowledge base and social networking is the platform!
God Bless - I'm back to blogging because of this! (ck it out below)

Praise God!The Glory of the Lord is here.keep the faith
Please check out the site below. I think it may give you some insight and revelation regarding your anxiety.The devil is a liar!
http://books.google.com/books?id=3CvCvrRf7KIC&dq=rabbi+yitzchak+ginsburgh&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=QbMKxwKng9&sig=SkBKJz1IkjnZ1ir5J5T1SLmbmhc#PPA12,M1

Iphone EMOTIONS!!!

2007-07-17T10:44:00.000-04:00

My Emotions from a post by Scoble on the Iphone.
http://scobleizer.com/
I just activated my Iphone last night and it has frozen up on me my EMOTIONis where is the battery to shut down and it is running HOT in my pocket?The sliding, brushing stroking, pokingadjectives which she uses give me the EMOTION that she is hard up for a real live personal relationship rather than getting off on a gadget or a game. I am unsure which psychologist, but certainly not Freud would agree with me. Anyway I am on my way to the Apple store to return my Iphone.My 1st EMOTION is that the Iphone is a over hyped toy. Apple makes great computers and that they should stick with what they know and leave the phone guys alone now that they have woke the sleeping giants up. My EMOTIONS tell me to go and stroke my MAC which makes me feel "warm & fuzzy".Have a Nice Day!

Baltimore City School System -School Closings - Feb.27th, Its A Damm Shame!

2007-03-02T10:40:00.000-05:00


Brian Morris, Chair -Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners open public session on school closings and relocations.

Baltimore City School System -School Closings - Feb.27th, Its A Damm Shame!

2007-03-02T10:18:00.000-05:00


Michael Carter -Community Involvement spokesperson commenting on lack of community participation in School Board CEO search.

Baltimore City School System -School Closings - Feb.27th, Its A Damm Shame!

2007-03-02T10:10:00.000-05:00


Michael Carter -Community Involvement spokesperson commenting on lack of community participation in School Board CEO search.

Baltimore City School System -School Closings - Feb.27th, Its A Damm Shame!

2007-03-02T10:04:00.000-05:00


Michael Carter -Community Involvement spokesperson commenting on lack of neighborhood participation.

Baltimore City Public School System - Closings - Feb.27,2007 - It's A Damm Shame!

2007-03-02T01:03:00.000-05:00


Angry parents protesting school closings!

Baltimore City Public School System - Closings - Feb.27,2007 - It's A Damm Shame!

2007-03-02T00:54:00.000-05:00


Pimlico PTA - President Madeline Sailes speaks to keep Pimlico Middle School open!

Baltimore City Public School System - Closings - Feb.27,2007 - It's A Damm Shame!

2007-03-02T00:04:00.000-05:00


Keith Scroggins, COO recommends Pimlico Middle School closing and sending kids to choose where to go in the fall and says that the building is in "POOR" condition.

Baltimore City Public School System - Closings - Feb.27,2007 - It's A Damm Shame!

2007-03-01T23:43:00.000-05:00


Tom Stosur ( who it was recently announced at a School Board will be working for Mayor Shelia Dixon administration) with Facilities Solution Phase II committee speaking on what will be the process for disposal of Pimlico Middle School.

Baltimore City Public School System - Closings - Feb.27,2007 - It's A Damm Shame!

2007-03-01T21:55:00.000-05:00


Pimlico Middle School voted to close 2007with two Board members Mr. Van Hook and Mr. Hecht who had the intregity to vote to keep Pimlico Middle open. God Bless them!

Baltimore City Public School System - Closings - Feb.27,2007 - It's A Damm Shame!

2007-03-01T21:42:00.000-05:00


Dr. Lillie M. Jackson #315 be closed 2007

Baltimore City Public School System - Closings - Feb.27,2007 - It's A Damm Shame!

2007-03-01T21:27:00.000-05:00


Keith Scroggins School Board COO Thurgood Marshall Middle #170 be phased out and closing in 2009

Baltimore City Public School System - Closings - Feb.27,2007 - It's A Damm Shame!

2007-03-01T20:48:00.000-05:00


Keith Scroggins, School Board COO, makes the case for closing Southwestern

Baltimore City Public School System - Closings - Feb.27,2007 - It's A Damm Shame!

2007-03-01T20:27:00.000-05:00


Interim CEO Charlene Cooper Bostontrying to justify the closing of Sothwestern H.S. summer 2007 and relocating Augusta Fells Savage #430 to Harlem Park Middle with promises.

Don't "RAPE" Our Schools!

2007-02-13T10:44:00.000-05:00

& Especially Pimlico Middle One of The Largest School Campus in the System!
The Latin term for the act of rape itself is raptus. The word rape originates from the Latin verb rapere: to seize or take by force. The word originally had no sexual connotation and is still used generically in English.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape
The Baltimore City School Board thinks that it can allow the state to "FORCE" its will upon the city schools and the communities it is elected to serve.
The following schools have been slated to be closed by the Board: Canton Middle School, Hamilton Middle School, Lombard Middle, Lafayette Elementary, Thomas G. Haynes Elementary, Augusta Fells Savage Institute of the Visual Arts and Dr. Lillie M. Jackson Alternative Elementary, Southeast Middle, Thurgood Marshall Middle, and the Pimlico Middle School in Aug.07.
When will the African American community stop allowing our educational resources and wealth be "SEIZED" by a State and Local political system that will not hear the cries of it most venerable neighborhoods?
We have the lowest reading scores, the lowest math scores, the highest truancy rates, the largest number young males incarcerated, the highest number of HIV/ AIDS, the lowest income, the largest number of homeless people, the highest number of homicides, the most heart attacks, highest incidences of diabetes and NOW the State of Maryland and the City dares to try to SHUT DOWN the very institutions, our SCHOOLS which have been our most valuable asset and the stepping stone for our people to try and achieve the so called American dream. Our schools have allowed us to be able to overcome and for many of us to excel in spite of their neglect by decades racism, segregation, private schools, hand me down books, white flight, and all the other ills of that have tried to kill us and enslave us.
We owe it to the legacy of our ancestors and elders as we celebrate Black History Month to FIGHT to ensure that the continued RAPE and pillaging of our communities STOPS!
We cannot allow another generation of our children to be told there is not enough money. Our children are OWED computers in every class room, the best books, best trained teachers and best paid teachers, best buildings and best campuses. Don't offer us a carrot of building better schools, FIRST build up the schools we have NOW!
Governor O'Malley fought back when the Ehrlich administration tried to take over / RAPE our city schools which O'Malley thought would have been perceived as a blow to his leadership and diminished his run for Governor.
We have an African- American Lt. Governor, Baltimore City Mayor, City Council President, Controller and various other Black elected officials that need to FIGHT BACK when our communities are seized/ RAPED with HIGH incidences of HIV/AIDS, HIGH drug abuse, HIGH homelessness, HIGH unemployment, HIGH incarceration rates, HIGH, HIGH, HIGH. Everything is HIGH except the test scores of our children!!!
We have an African-American Baltimore School Board C.E.O., Board President, and other African- Americans who sit on the Board. Will they fight back against the RAPE of our schools? Our parents who are too often stressed out and workedout must FIGHT BACK! Our teachers who must worry about losing a job, being transferred, and told to be quiet and not to get involved, must speak up and FIGHT BACK! During Black History Month we should not allow our SCHOOLS, one of our most empowering instititutions to be RAPED / forced to be closed. Those of us who God has blessed to have fought a racist system and to have overcome cannot be silent and watch this RAPE occur, we must FIGHT BACK! We must FIGHT BACK for our children!
Rev. William Wingo
Publisher, Power Magazine
powerspeaks@yahoo.com
1-800-336-3290

Revive Pimlico Middle School!

2007-01-24T15:45:00.000-05:00

Letter wiritten to the Editor:
Baltimore Sun
http://www.baltimoresun.com/
Thanks for enlightening the community (Pimlico is being missed already, Jan.19th) of the plight of Pimlico M.S.
It's time that the citizens of Park Heights and African-American community rise up and protests this school's potential closing. Pimlico M.S. is in one of the richest areas in our city (Northwest Baltimore). This school should be the crown jewel for children in the community. When are we going to stop trading lack of dollars for maintenance and a boiler for the human capital, our children that is not being nourished and empower by this valuable resource? Why are we trying to close and shut down Pimlico M.S. when we should be pouring more money into this community school to fight the neglect and high crime in Park Heights area that is killing so many of our children especially our African American males.What message is the closing of Pimlico going to send to the community? This resource which has been a institution in the community for 50 years with its large fields and play areas should not be lost. A more creative approach needs to be taken to revive Pilmico M.S. just as the community surrounding Pimlico needs reviving! If we can revive a once stagnant Inner Harbor, Canton, Fells Point, etc, why can't we revive Pilmico M.S.?

The Hardest Sale is VISION!

2007-01-16T07:33:00.000-05:00

below is my response to :
Visionary Sales Person...where are you!??!?!
posted at the Jason Calacanis site:
http://www.calacanis.com/

Oftentimes we think we need money when what is more important is SALESVISION!

I think we should hook up!
I got the sales and you have the tech.
I've been publishing a magazine for 17 years
that was ahead of the curve then and is still ahead of the curve now!
My biggest drawback has been money to go out and hire some tech savvy people to develop the social networking / citizen journalism/ email marketing/ blog,etc; software I need to
develop my niche. (faith based /African American community). I beleive in empowerment
and your empowerment should start with a "base" your so called "ground roots" and expand from there. I beleive whats missing in the above "base"/ niche is the social networking technology that would form the fiber for the collective wisdom to be harness. If you can see the vision of what I am describing then we have a SALE!

Yahoo Local News beta -has NO African American-YET

2006-12-19T01:57:00.000-05:00

Yahoo seems to be gaining on Google with a very innovating news gathering approach Baltimore Area (BETA) by partnering with local newspapers, the Baltimore Sun, Citypaper etc, and tv stations wbal,wjz - to offer late breaking and all in one viewingof local news sources in one place. The only problem is that there are NO African -American news sources?The Afro, The Baltimore Times,The Power Magazine and other African-American sources are great for staying abreast of what happening in a city that will have a African -American mayor and is over 60% black.Yahoo has a great concept which just needs to be broaden and "yes" I know its in beta, butdrill down and get some African Americans on your local search so we can be empowered and empower Yahoo. Maybe the NAACP should not move so soon?

REGINALD F. LEWIS MUSEUM

2006-12-15T11:54:00.000-05:00


Clergy Luncheon on Thursday Dec.15th to promote ways to increase awareness in the faith based community

REGINALD F. LEWIS MUSEUM

2006-12-15T11:40:00.000-05:00


Clergy Luncheon on Thursday Dec.15th to promote ways to increase awareness in the faith based community

REGINALD F. LEWIS MUSEUM

2006-12-15T11:32:00.000-05:00


Clergy Luncheon on Thursday Dec.15th to promote ways to increase awareness in the faith based community

Healthcare For the Homeless

2006-12-14T10:24:00.000-05:00

attended a forum " Changing the Paradigm:Providing Housing First at Beans& Bread a outreach shelter offering services for the homeless and here's what I found out
1- 80% of the homeless people in Baltimore are
African-American
2- 3000 - 4,000 people per night are on the street
3- Baltimore is in the process of developing a 10 year plan and procuring a federal grant to combat homelessness fron HUD
4-ex-felons are not able to receive housing
5- there is NO hotline for a centralized call center (800#)
for homeless organazitions or support services
6-our new soon to be African -American mayor can make a difference
7-the faith based community needs to be at the table on activating the political community to combat homelessness
8-there is a leadership council, made up of i.e.developers, bankers, the Downtown Partnership, etc who are meeting to
plan the process for the grant from HUD.

these are just a few of my observations, stay tuned for more
as I hope to be covering the upcoming forum on Dec.20th-3pm
@ the University of Md School of Social Work - 525 W. Redwood St