Books of Brother Tracy Gibson Available.

⇗Dear Friends, Associates, Fellow Black Church-goers, cousins, lovers, teachers, poets, doctors, lawyers, Black women, Black men  and Black engineers, :

 

I want you to know that my book of poetry is available for Christmas, Kwanzaa. The Book is entitled ``Let the Children Gather’’, By Tracy Gibson.  It is available on www.lulu.com The book was specifically written to help Black male youth deal with their personal political anger in a constructive and positive Way.   Our new manuscript is available at http://thepoliticsofreal.blogspot.com

Look for ``The Re-Awakening of the African Diaspora ‘’ A book written as a blue print for living life as a positive-thinking Black person and not just surviving, but flourishing.  Turning your slave mentality into one that thinks positively, is no easy turn of events. This manuscript is sent to you for free through my blog. I would like you to send in a free-will donation

I Am the author, Mr. Tracy Charles Gibson.

 

Please send postal money orders to : MR. Tracy Charles Gibson

                                                                                670 North 41^st Street

                                                                                APT B

                                                                                Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 – 5202

 

 We will also have tee-shirts available soon.

 Please call us to find out more about them.  1 (215) 823 – 9985.

Mo Than Just Say No!

The Legacy of Nancy Reagan and ``Just Say No’’

 

By Mr. Tracy Charles Gibson

..**Many Black people made fun of Nancy Regan’s anti-illegal-drug slogan `` Just Say No.’’  They really should not have. I understanding them, our Black community, scoffing at the thought of how easy the Nancy Reagan slogan made things sound and the fact that it never took into account how difficult it is to overcome hopelessness when your job is taken over by a White person, and your home is taken over by a White person, and your fellow Black person just snatched all the life out of you by killing a loved one.  This anti-illegal-drug slogan ``Just Say NO!’’ stands as something not taken very seriously facing all those difficulties including homelessness, poverty, an open availability of illegal drugs in the hood, poor educational opportunities, and a penal system that where houses Black men and Black women.   It still needs, however, to be the positive battle cry for many Black North American communities.  If we say no to illegal drugs more often, we open less healing places that are assigned to treating Black people with drug addictions.  That treatment process usually takes several hundred thousand dollars and several years of an inability to work or do anything much that is very productive for oneself or one’s community. Certainly there are exceptions.  Gil Scott Heron was drug addicted as he made history in producing some of the greatest pre-rap, poetry- inclined albums of all time.  Several other Black performers made it through drug addiction by producing great music such as Miles Davis and Charlie Parker.  But if they had listened to the former First Lady – who many Black People didn’t like at all – they would have been able to stay alive longer and maybe even produce much better music and hold even greater live performances that might even have been as memorable as they were important to our Black community.  The moral of this story is, don’t turn things out of hand right away just because they come from a messanger we don’t like….  Just Sayin.

proposed debate on National Black issues.

A proposal sent to Black community leaders about a possible debate on political issues including race, ethnicity and gaining greater economic advantage for Black people and Black youth. __From Tracy Charles Gibson.

     ***************I would LOVe it if Ramona Africa and / or Pam Africa could arrange for, with my help if you need it, arrange to have a two-hour-long nationally televised debate with two Known Republicans about race, the treatment of Black youth by police, the Mumia case, MOVE and their abuse, economic development for small Black businesses, How to reach the proper education of Black children and Black youth, and Who really owns this great land that ( I feel ) was stolen from the Native Americans and should be called Turtle Island and given back to them over a ten-year period.  (I heard from a little Gibson Bird that ABC is very interested.  This would get great ratings in the current national climate in our land, which is heated politically and, strangely, opening a great deal of opportunity for Black People.  Let me know what you say. Talk to some of MOVE's financial supporters.  If you want to do this, I can help with PR and getting funding and sponsors.  There would also have to be ground rules set up for the debate. ( You can use video images of President Ronald Reagan signing the King Holiday bill, Stevie Wonder singing Happy Birthday,  Delbert Africa's beating, Mumia talking, the Black Panthers being stripped by Philadelphia police under Frank Rizzo, The massacre of 300 Black People at Black Wall Street in the 1920's & the destruction of Black Wall Street,, Black Lives Matter's demonstrations and their points of view, the views of Black preachers like Jeremiah Wright and Paul Washington, the murder of Black Panther Fred Hampton, James Baldwin and Arnold Jackson giving speeches or on Television, Black Gays and Black Lesbians at Black Prides ``wasting money'' at White-owned hotels in Atlanta, a Black citizen asking why we can't raise money for student salaries at Black colleges and Black universities, a preview of my new book ``The Re-Awakening of the African Diaspora'', Angela Davie, Ramona and Pam giving speeches, Rizzo with a black nightstick in his cummerbund,  the beatings of Black school children by Philadelphia police, and the Frank Rizzo Statue demonstrations for starters. Meanwhile, I want you both, if you can find time, to watch ``The Great Debaters,'' starring and directed by Denzel Washington and ``Black Is, Black Ain't,'' and ``Tongues Untied,’’  by director Marlon Riggs .*****

*****(One of the things I do as a Black political activist& promoter of Black businesses is advocate for clean, pristine, clear water for Black Africa.  Lack of clean water is at the root of many diseases on the continent of Africa, according to many reliable health sources.)

Gratefully True,

 

Tracy Gibson,

 

Founder, President and Chief

Of

Brother Tracy Gibson & Associates, Incorporated

 

PR; Education; Philanthropy;  Black Advocacy; & developing better life processes and more choices to help Black youth.

Editor’s Note: Above is an edited version of what I sent to many Black community leaders recently.

Contact me at,

MR. Tracy Charles Gibson

670 North 41st Street

APT B

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 - 5202

e-Mail,  BrotherTracy11@GMail.Com

Phone, 1 ( 215 ) 823 -- 9985

Thank you for your interests and concerns.

Revive Friends of Somafco! AVenge Steve Beko! and others who died for a fre South Africa!. Amanda!

Echoes  for Africa -- out of the shadows. !

 I don't want to see the end of Friends of Somafco. In the names of all those who suffered and died under apartheid and who still live on for a better, free, more open, disciplined, justice-oriented, caring, sharing,  and economically balanced South Africa, I beg you to help me find a way to revive and keep alive Friends of Somafco. We must get more young people involved in Somafcos restoration. What about the youth from Enon Baptist Church? What about getting some other Black youth groups involved like Black Lives Matter?

Please respond:

Tracy Charles Gibson

670 North 41st Street

APT B

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 - 5202.

1 (215) 823 - 9985.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoNGCSgWQEQ

Steve Beko's death must be avenged.

Black Cotten from Africa

There are some delightfully colorful small animal coffee table figures, necklaces, rings and other such hand-made items available at Black Cotton on the South East side of City Hall [ Center City Philadelphia ] in a booth there. Many of the items are made in Kenya, Africa. Please call  Flora Maranga at 1 - 484 - 508 - 8279. for more information or log onto www.blackcotten.biz. You will not be disappointed.

The Rabbit & The Squarel

Mr. Rabbit truly LOVed Mr. Squirrel


People said ``Mr. Rabbit, why do you LOVe Mr. Squirrel, He has a funny tail and looks odd & stands out among us Rabbits. I think He needs a psychiatrist. We Rabbits hate Him and think you should find a Rabbit to go with.


Mr. Rabbit said ``I LOVe Mr. Squirrel with all my heart & I think GOD endorses our Relationship others just don't understand our special friendship..


25 years go by & Mr. Rabbit & MR. Squirrel have 7 children and 7 Grandchildren & stayed together for all those 25 years. MR. Rabbit is very happy & hung there with MR. Squirrel. even though all of Mr. Rabbit's friends laughed at the beginning and said they would never make it.


The moral of the story is you sometimes have to stand by the Person you LOVe even when everybody else just doesn't understand. True LOVe will out because .  ``Ain't No Mountain High enough . & Ain't no river wide enough.  Sometimes People outside of a relationship truly can't and don't understand How the relationship works.


 

a humble article about an arsenal of HOPE

                                           Arsenal of HOPE






By a Humble Human GOD




     GOD wakes us each morning and asks us to use His arsenal of HOPE--  to fight for Justice, to fight for equality, to work towards economic empowerment for poor Black People and instead some of us buy worthless lottery tickets and sell loose cancer-causing cigarettes .  Then some of us complain that GOD doesn't hear us or answer our Prayers. Don't waste your God-Given Arsenal of HOPE. WOrk with Real Kindness in your heart, a LOVe for humanity and a knowingness that GOD's HOPE & Promise will make a path to wealth, happiness, stability. joy & good LOVe relationships for us all, as we enter the Gates of Heaven without having to die. We make Real peace, prosperity & decency here on earth.


We do this with respect for each other's differences.

bLACK pANTHER tRAILER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt9UZo32KMk  Black PaNTHER

job letter to Trader Joe's { Recent }

	to me

October 25th, 2017

From: Mr. Tracy Charles Gibson

670 North 41st Street; APT B

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 – 5202

1 ( 215 ) 823 9985  //BrotherTracy11@GMail.Com

TO, Trader Joe's //

2121 Market Street

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

Dear Team Captain Rana Oh, and Crew member Jammie:

        **Hello and good afternoon. My name is Mr. Tracy Charles Gibson. I had the good honor to visit your store at 2121 Market Street yesterday ( October 24th, 2017 ), and talk with a Mr. Jammie about possible employment there.  I was not sure if I should have taken the time, at that particular time, to mention some other opportunities for Trader Joe’s as a company, that I Am willing to extend. I thought it would be better to mention those opportunities here and now.

     **As an unpaid consultant, I have been working to help a store move into the space between 41st and 40th and Lancaster Avenue as an area supermarket.  I would be able to work for you as a consultant, if you would like that. I have written ACME Markets and Fresh Grocer, but with little success. ( Fresh Grocer did write back, but made no promises. )   It is a prime location in a changing neighborhood. I am dead set against the gentrification of our neighborhoods, but change happens and there is really not much I, as one person, can do to stop it or change its’ grotesque impact on Black individuals and Black families very much.  I think Trader Joe’s would make a fine addition to the neighborhood at this location because Trader Joe’s has a reputation of being a bit more neighborhood- friendly, fair and diverse in personnel.  I live right around the corner there, and I can tell you, this is a food desert.  There is no really viable supermarket except for the Fresh Grocers at 40th and Walnut Street, the Sunshine Market at 43^rd and Lancaster Avenue,  and the Shop Rite at 52nd and Lancaster Avenue in a small shopping mall there.  ( I often visit the Planet Fitness there ). 

     ** Aside from needing a job, I own stock in companies and want to see companies do well. I have advocated for better wages for working people, and I have advocated for more bank branches for United Bank. (I was told by a branch manager at Progress Plaza that they need a branch back in West Philadelphia, one in Upper Darby, and one in The North East. )

     ** I Am doing the research to see if Trader Joe’s offers stock on the New York Stock Exchange. ( From what I know you either already offer stock, or are moving in this direction ). I am interested in buying stock in Trader Joe’s in the near future.  With a greater income, I’ll be able to buy more stock.  I am on disability, for problems with depression, but I don’t think this will hold me back from working the 20 to 25 hours I have applied for in my application.  I have not been hospitalized for depression in 12 years, and have been highly functional for about 6 years.

 **I Am a businessman and a journalist and want to have my own successful businesses soon. I Am interested in finding out if you have an Associates program used for marketing by many big corporations. What it does is track a persons’ personal shopping choices in spending and track trends and habits that are helpful to advertising and marketing plans. Please send me more information on how to become a Trader Joe’s Associate, if you have such an on-line program.  As a business executive, I  Am also interested in finding out if and when you want to break into the home-shopping and home delivery market for Philadelphia.  I know that if you bought a rather large warehouse and sent groceries from there, you would save money and reach a high level of profitability and productivity.   One other thing I wanted to mention, and this is something I thought up myself after thinking about it for a while. Have you even thought of having a person with a small table in the store to give out free information about investing in Trader Joe’s? Reason being, there are hundreds of people who shop at Trader Joe’s who are upper-income who would be viable Stock buyers. Even people like me who are extremely low on the income scale ( as far as I know ) , would be interested if you got with a company like Fidelity Investments and or Vanguard Group who make it very easy and less threatening  to invest in the stock market.  This could be a fantastic boon to your existing stock-holders, executives, and workers!       

**Thank you for considering me a possible executive at Trader Joe’s.  If there are any possibilities for assistant manager positions, I would also like to be considered for them as well.  I appreciate your kindness, especially considering the climate of self-centeredness we presently live in emanating from leadership in Washington, D.C. Like the former First lady Michelle Obama says ``When they go low, we go high!’’.     (   a direct quote.  )

 

Gratefully True,

 

 

Mr. Tracy Charles Gibson,

Community Advocate / Stock Owner,

President, Founder and Chief of Brother Tracy Gibson &

 Associates, Incorporated.

Helping bring about a better world through local work, advocacy, education and philanthropy .

Mr. Tracy Charles Gibson's Resume

Tracy Gibson

670 North 41st Street, Apartment B ● Philadelphia, PA 19104
(215) 823-9985 ● BrotherTracy11@gmail.com ● thepoliticsofreal.blogspot.com

SUMMARY

10+ years of advocacy experience serving the public and small business communities
Trained in basic food service and safety standards

Experienced journalist skilled in public speaking, promotion, writing and research
Able to work effectively on a team or independently to meet your company’s goals

WORK EXPERIENCE

MANNA                                          Philadelphia, PA

Line Intern                                    06/2016 to 09/2016

• Completed 80-day training program on food handling, kitchen standards and safety skills
• Prepared hundreds of nutritious, healthy meals delivered to residents in need
• Trained on kitchen equipment such as slicers and industrial mixers
• Learned knife skills and other kitchen techniques

Brother Tracy Gibson and Associates, Inc.                             Philadelphia, PA

Writer/Community Advocate/Consultant                        12/2006 to Present

• Dedicated community advocate with excellent research and communication skills
• Generate public awareness and support through my blog thepoliticsofreal.blogspot.com
• Regular contributor of articles, letters and event features to local media such as WURD radio
• Initiated pilot program for at-risk youth
• Participate in promotion and fundraising activities

Careers USA                                             Philadelphia, PA

Receptionist and Registration Coordinator                                         01/1995 to 12/2001

• Greeted clients, answered the phones and managed schedules
• Edited business and legal documents to ensure proper use of editorial style
• Performed detailed office work including filing and record keeping

EDUCATION

Ohio State University                                                      Columbus, OH

Bachelors of Arts degree in Journalism/Public Relations

University City High School                                               Philadelphia, PA

High School Diploma

CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING

The Salvation Army                       Parenting Class training                                           Philadelphia, PA

The Center for Employment & Training                             Philadelphia, PA
Special Commendation for Perfect Attendance

ServSafe Certification    (#14312656)                                                10/2016

Proposed Nutrition Program for Black Churches

Below is a sample of a proposal I sent in support of a nutrition & healthy eating program for our city’s Black churches. __From

Tracy Charles Gibson

 

September 12, 2017 ( Tuesday )

 Dear Black Churches, I have attended one or more of your church services (except in the case of enon Tabernacle Baptist Church where I have seen and visited the main sanctuary, but I have not attended church there and don’t plan to).

     **I am a real and actual member of Unity Fellowship CHRIST Church of Philadelphia; I am deeply concerned with the state of Philadelphia’s Black churches. What I mostly hear and see is a continuation of public proclamations about the Bible and Biblical text with added persecution about people’s personal behaviors instead of helping people overcome poverty, find jobs, establish good or great personal relationships with a partner and with GOD, and establish and maintain positive family relationships regardless of their sexual backgrounds. Our Black community is suffering financially, emotionally and physically. Some Black families and Black individuals don’t have enough nourishing food to eat and the Black churches are often giving food away that is not wholesome and healthy. I feel  we need to be persecuting & judging a lot less and find more open and honest solutions a great deal more.

     **I think Bible Way Baptist Church with a very young Pastor is really effective at bringing young Black people to church services.  This is a good and great thing because GOD wants to be responsible for building good values in young Black people. In my opinion GOD works through people. It is up to us to bring about more ethical values in our Black families and better ways to bring new life to the Bible, but also discover that there are current texts such as ``Bottom of the Well,’’ by Derrick Bell and ``Ethical Ambition,’’ also by Derrick Bell that serve an important purpose in our Black young men and Black young women being raised with the kind of values that are not predominate in our North American culture any longer.  Such good values as, being on time for jobs and appointments, dressing in a clean outfit that is not sexually suggestive, reading a variety of good books, not watching hours and hours of television, eating nutritious food, learning a salable skill, being respectful to Black elders and all members of the Black community, valuing education, never texting of talking on the telephone while driving, and being concerned about hygiene while staying neat and clean. These values are basic and can be taught while a child is young while sitting at the dining room table and having a home-cooked meal.

     **By the Way, enon Tabernacle Baptist Church – as far as I know --  has a superior youth program and an active congregation of hundreds of people seeking and utilizing many programs that are already doing some of the things I can help you with.  ( I still think they need my help, however ).  So does Bright Hope Baptist Church (But I still think my help is needed there as well.). 

    ** I have been a successful Black community advocate for over 25 years and am reaching out to Black churches to ask if they can use my help. I feel I am being sent by GOD and doing GOD’s work, but no more than any number of other such people who are motivated by GOD, justice, wanting to do good, wanting to see fairness, wanting to experience equality, wanting good jobs in out Black communities and finding effective Ways to achieve these goals and values in a timely manner. 

     **I must also mention that Church of the Advocate’s former pastor, Pastor Miller and Pastor Paul Washington and His wife were mentors of mine and that I recently worked in their soup kitchen which for me kicked off my whole interests in learning more about food, food safety and How to prepare and buy the best food properly. 

     **I Am open-minded, progressive and really want to help your church especially reach our Black youth & help Black churches provide better food. It is ironic how we have repasses for our deceased church members and serve food that will sure enough put the next five loyal parishioners right in the next five grave sites.  Are we thinking about what we are doing as Black churches, as church leadership and Black church members? Do we question the use of lard, butter, salt, pork, oils, white potatoes, white rice, white breads, fried chicken and beef when these elements have been proven time and again to cause real health threats in our Black church members such as high blood pressure, diabetes and cancer?  I don’t need to run down the scientific studies that are far too many to mention.   My staff and I can show you How to make vegetables and fruits and healthy items like tofu, cauliflower rice, brown rice, 12-grain breads, Earth Balance buttery spread, naturally low sugar fruit drinks, buckwheat pancakes , and less fried items taste great even though they contain much less sodium and much less  saturated fat. 

     **I’m not going to ask you for a thin dime, much less one of those cursed pennies for my work.    I have no idea How I’m going to provide the services I want to provide to you for free, but all I know is I’m not standing by and letting my people continue to fee ourselves the kind of food we are – through our churches – without saying something about it.   

     **I know our Pastors mean well. I also know there is a great deal of money that goes around to stabilize Black churches financially, and I also know we can do better.  One other thing I know for sure is that a side of beef now a days, unless you got some grass-fed beef, with no preservatives, is not the same side of beef your grandmother used to serve in the 1960’s and 1970’s.  There are a lot of growth hormones, preservatives and chemicals there that were not there in grandmother’s day.

 **Being honest is not an easy thing when we have not only a government that isn’t even fairly elected, but many hundreds of people who are out to make money by any means necessary, not matter who is in the way or who gets stepped on or hurt. We can do better.  A resume is enclosed.

 

Editor’s Note: I finally attended enon Tabernacle Baptist Church a few weeks ago, but did NOT join since I am a member of Unity Fellowship Christ of Philadelphia, which meets in the Arch Street United Methodist Church’s Chapel at 1:45 P.M. on Sunday.

to the government of portugal

To the Government of Portugal and all people of the world who care about all people, regardless of melanin levels or race, religion or color.

There is a place in Africa called Angola where there are land mines that are still dangerous to the area Black villagers including Black, African, indigenous Angolan children.

                                These potentially dangerous and potentially explosive land mines were placed there almost exclusively by the Portuguese government and the Portuguese army and other Portuguese military officials during Angola’s and Mozambique’s fight for Independence against Portugal  from 1961 to 1974. These mines, many of them have remained an active threat to innocent Angolan children playing on Angolan soil. Lady Diana of England was just about to get on the Peace Path to expose the existence of these land mines when she was brutally murdered along with Her finance’ Dodi Fayed. The English Monarchy { in my opinion } made it look like the paparazzi killed Lady Diana and Dodi Fayed accidently during a desperate attempt to get coveted photos of the wealthy couple. My contention is it (the murders) were planned by the not – so-- Royal Family – especially the Queen of England.

     *****But I digress, Lady Diana was about to make quick work of the explosive mine issue when She was killed. I am taking on this issue out of sheer LOVe for the Angolan and Mozambique People the latter of which --- Mozambique -- I have always felt a positive Spiritual connection with. This connection started when I was a freshman at The Ohio State University and studied about Mozambique in a Black Studies class under the tutelage of one Professor Smith. ( One student stood up and cried after reading about How Angolans and Mozambicans were brutally colonized, forced to work and hurt by the Portuguese settlers and Portuguese colonizers.

     *****I Am openly demanding that the present Portuguese government make good on the vast human promise to do the  right thing and peacefully rid { and with care } the Angolan countryside of those potentially deadly mines and help the children and people of Angola who they profited from and exploited for several hundred years. Repair the Angolan People and repair the Angolan land. Provide clean water, food. Create economic stability from Portugal { which is based on those hundreds of years of degradation of the People and Children of Angola.  }

     *****The Lord will look down on you kindly as soon as you take on this responsibility and do the right thing by ridding Angola of those land mines and do the proper work to restore Angola to Glory .

     ***** Equally important, but not Spiritually un-related, I ask Black Fathers to be honest and stand up as Fathers and send in their child support ; be there for their children; and take on the role – as most Black Fathers already do – of provider, head of household, protector and great role models and teachers for Black children. God Bless.

stop gentrification Cold at the LINE 36th and Filbert Street.

From 400 A.D. -- In the Black Library of Alexandria, Egypt (The Major Branch)...


By Brother Tracy Gibson

I have not done this yet, but I think if I asked a group of Black youth if they had ever bought a lottery ticket, many hands would go up. By the same token, if I ask a group of Black youth How many of them had invested in the stock market {In Black companies} or bought stock in Black companies, I don't think the majority of hands would go up at all. Is this the fault of the White man? Yes. The School system the White man largely controls does not teach much about investing in Black companies through the stock market and How this can help our entire Black community. I have to also ask where are the Black scholars, Black thinkers, and Black School Executives who don't ask why we don't have these things in the curriculums and why our Black students are not saving money, putting money in Black banks, etc.? Let's over ride the White man and his influence for about 9000 years. If you know of any Black youth about 20 or 25, they can make a great amount of money on the stock market if they invest consistently for 40 or 50 years. I Am 60 and I Am just getting the message. There is a great deal of Hope for Black youth, but they have to start changing some behaviors and think more in a can-do Way and more positively. For Black youth, this means only two pair of sneakers, few new clothes and less hot tickets for Hot movies and Hot live concert events. {I have to remind you that some stocks pay dividends, so you may only have to do without for a short time}.  It mean investing in the stock market instead  of buying so many consumer goods and doing the proper research on the net to find the correct and proper stocks to buy. Investing in Black stocks is a Way to stabilize Black communities, bring about Black prosperity, help Black institutions like Black schools, Black churches, Black Think Tanks, Black sororities and Black fraternities, and Black Social Service agencies. The best stocks are those with companies that have the kind of good or great values, ethics and standards you want to emulate or perpetuate. Read the company's Mission Statements and read their Annual Reports back a few years. Find out what their values are and if they match or compare to some of your best, good and highest values.  (If you buy stocks in companies that don't treat their workers correctly, have clean air-conditioned factories, places for people to eat, pay good wages, good health benefits, etc. you are really supporting the oppression of People who probably look just like you -- People of color in usually a foreign land.). I think this would not be a good thing. Choose good stocks with good companies that really care about their workers, the industry they are in, the environment and people in general. Read up on How to establish good ethics and good values for yourself. It is not only about going to church or Mosque. You can pick media icons like Angela Bassett, Will Smith,  Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, and or thespian Denzel Washington. (I know they are People and not stock, but hold on and keep reading).  Such People are not only great to watch on television and in movies, but have the kind of values about Black People, and themselves, that you should consider worthy of emulating. You don't have to meet such Black People for them to be characters you will want to emulate. This activity sure will get you ahead a great deal quicker than hanging around with troubled friends who might be wanting to pull you down. This is why I don't smoke pot or joint. I don't need anything that is illegal or not recommended or subscribed by a doctor, that will make my thoughts unclear, cloudy or unbalanced.   Making stock picks is a life line to a better life. I can tell you what I do. I use Fidelity Investments as my stock company. I also used Vanguard in the past. There are other companies. You can call them and ask How to invest. Don't try to scam someone. This is not at all recommended. Just keep investing and find out that reading the Wall Street Journal, the stock pages of the New York Times, or the Philadelphia Inquirer can be even more exciting than hanging out with your friends all the time or buying products you can't afford.  This can lead to great things and a mind set that will, in a few years, have you wanting to buy Real Estate. Instead of seeing your parents forced out of growing neighborhoods, you might be able to help your parents pay property taxes, and be an big asset for your family. You might want to give more money in church and be a giver in the Black community in which you live in. Look up the names of Black men such as Walter Lomax Reese who once owned WURD in Philadelphia; Mr. Earl Graves, Senor owner of Black Enterprise Magazine; and Percy Sutton who once owned WBLS of New York and read about How they lived their lives and helped entire Black communities, by creating great wealth and sharing it.