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.
Monday, October 30, 2017
job letter to Trader Joe's { Recent }
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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 43rd 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
(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
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
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
Special Commendation for Perfect Attendance
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Proposed Nutrition Program for Black Churches
Tracy Charles Gibson
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.
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