Question of the Week?

Is gold-digging a fair term? Or is it that some women look for security in the financial status of a man?

Thoughts?

If a man is looking for a woman that had certain physical features is he a "body-digger"?

Stepping Out On Faith

So I've decided to pursue this graphic design thing! It's fun, I really have become passionate about improving my skills and I think it's something I'm pretty good at. I've invested in making it a business and now I'm just praying for the business itself. If it goes well I'd like to exit this coporate world in under a year!

Longevity Does Not Mean Legitimacy

I heard a minister say this over the weekend and I began to apply it to my own life. No matter how long you've been doing something that doesn't mean you an expert. There is always something you can learn. I think of people in corporate American when I hear this quote. Many times, those in management and executive level positions perceive us to be naive either because of age and sadly sometimes because of color. We have to work twice as hard and do twice as well to get the same respect and praise as our older or lighter peers. I've been the youngest and usually only African American for almost every company I've worked for and have experienced this first hand. The funny part is that my experience and skill set is not that of the novice new worker. My pedigree is legit, yet I still get the same treatment as the rookie in every job. In my current position I probably have as much sales experience and management skill as anyone yet again the perception is that I don't.

Well longevity doesn't mean legitimacy. It's a formula that has a multiplier.

Experience + Intelligence X Achievement Drive = The Success Rating

That multiplier Achievement Drive is a variable that is as random as life itself. It's the innate gut determination to be and do better and it makes all the difference in this game called corporate America!

My Rap Single

For those who didn't believe I used to rap..

Here is the snippet...
My Rap Single... Click Here

Make Me Wanna Holla... 2008

The Price's High/So I Can't Drive
A nation/just trying to get by
Complacent/So We Don't Try
Watching/Our Brother's Die

Oh! Makes Me Wanna Holla
The Way They Do My Life
This Ain't Living..

Inflation/No Chance
To Increase/Finance
Bills pile up/Sky High
Send that child off/too die

Oh! Makes Me Wanna Holla
The Way They Do My Life
This Ain't Living..

Live free/no drama
Pray for change/Obama
Gun down/more peace
Violence/must cease

Oh! Makes Me Wanna Holla
The Way They Do My Life
This Ain't Living..

Marvin Gaye will live forever because history continues to show us that times of injustice are cyclical.

Heaven Watching

"HEAVEN WATCHING"
Heaven Watching Closely Waiting
For A Man To Take His Path
Heaven Watching Anticipating
Roadblocks A Rigid Path
Heaving Watching A Young Man Praying
For God To Direct His Path.
Heaven Watching A Young Man Saying
This World's Pain I'll Outlast
Heaven Watching Black's Laying
Their Lives on Broken Lines
Heaven Watching Society Slaying
Blacks With Unchained Minds
Heaven Watching Mother's Craving
To Save Their Kids Before They Die
Heaven Watching Initiating
Strength To Stop The Cries
Heaven Watching A Young Girl Lying
Down Before Her Time
Heaven Watching Our Leader's Raping
Our True Leaders Vision Of Civil Rights
Heaven Watching Closely Waiting
For us to Make Life Right
J

God Is!

I woke up today. I began to think about God's infinite blessings and resided in the fact that the very idea of waking up is a blessing. Some people didn't wake up this morning. Some went to sleep fully expecting to see tomorrow and they didn't that opportunity. It's by grace and mercy that we are able to be.

I just want you to take a secong and think of those you love. Those people God keeps everyday safe and out of harms way. When you think about that kind of grace it's very hard not to be overwhelmed by God's goodness.

Peace,
JB

Diddy is Poison ..:Have You Seen This:..

Hilarious but kinda true huh?

The "You Suck" Award of the Week

This was a tough one for me being that I've had one of the worst work weeks imaginable but I had to go with Joseph C. Philips a.k.a Martin Kendall from the Cosby Show. First, I didn't like you character on the show (I thought you were kind of lame then). Then I watch the "Black in America" documentary last night and I have to say I so strongly disagree with so many of your statements it's ridiculous. I too like you Mr. Philips grew up in what our race would consider a privileged class but I'm not too self-righteous to believe that all the ills in the black community are self-inflicted. No a kid from the hood can't go to Harvard as easily as a kid from the burbs. After watching yesterday employers said that being black was no better than being white with a felony record in terms of hiring. So tell me how self determination and self sufficiency will fix that problem? So winner of the First Weekly "You Suck" Award goes to Joseph C. Phillips.

Runner Ups

John McCain

Mayor Daley for talks of cancelling the Bud Billiken Parade

ADD YOURS NOW!

The Coporate Complexity....

Lately, I've been realizing how difficult it is for Blacks to assimilate into corporate America.
I had a pharmaceutical ride day (that's where your manager rides with you to observe your work) and my manager got in the care and asked me to turn to the old school rock station....
The interesting part is that is tottally acceptable but I wonder what would have happened if I turned on the new David Banner CD or Nas...

I wonder..

Where Are My Brothers?

So I was sitting in the parking lot of Walgreen's today and I looked next to me and I saw a young black woman with two kids, no husband or man visible and I watched her struggle to get the kids together, get inside the store and run her errand. Then I looked over at the car next to me and I saw almost the exact same thing, except this woman had three kids. I proceed to look at the faces of both women and I saw strength, frustration, and a determination to be and do for their children. I got out the car and helped both women put their groceries in the car and God told me to"bless the woman with three kids with gas money for the week." Being obedient I proceeded to give the woman $25 (all the money I had) and I told her God told me to do it and that her breakthrough was coming. The woman was in shock and with a face welled with emotion she said, "thank you, you have no idea how bad I needed this." I began to think, where are the men?"


I was a fortunate one growing up. My dad, despite being young and probably very scared, stuck in their with my mother. He raised his children and worked hard everyday to assure that my sister and I had the best he could provide. My father, like his father before him, aspired to be more than just sperm donors they wanted to be real fathers and real men. They were men who disciplined their children, worked tirelessly to make sure their kids progressed in career and education further than they did during their time. Therefore it's hard for me to watch so many black women do it on their own.

Where are the men? Where are the fathers? Where?... I can't help but ask the question after looking at the world outside my window. I watch children hang out on the street late at night and watch young women dress and act in very womanly ways and I wonder where is dad to say, "come home."

As I anticipate watching the upcoming CNN documentary "Black in America" I'm expecting to see a large part of the discussion to be the absense of the black father.