My Dear Good Brother Richie: You are
forgiven for the people you have hurt along the way in your life. ( I have
hurt people also). I don’t know what you are said to have done. Maybe you did
nothing much bad. My contention is that BLACK people don’t really want to hurt
others, BLACK People are doing things cooked up by a very ambitious so-called
``intelligence’’ BANTER bent on world domination by forces who must be curbed
and controlled if there is going to be enough fresh, natural healthy food;
clean, fresh and pristine water and
decent land for crops and decent, clean , sustainable places to live throughout
this planet. Don’t fret and bother with feeling guilty. Look at the
beautiful music you have contributed to our people and our world. GOD ALMIGHTY,
the Lord, GOD, Jesus, and all other formations of GOD LOVes you for what you
have taught us through your mistakes and taught us through your charity and
what you teach us through your music. I do NOT pity you, I LOVe you and
appreciate you and I need your help. * Don't wait around for other people to accept your interpretation of who and what GOD is, Find Him or Her in your own soul if this is what will fulfill you!
Gratefully True, Peace and Justice, Sharing Wealth and approving
Economic Sharing,
GOD ALMIGHTY - Tracy Gibson
*What there is to know about why we can’t function!
By a Black man who is also an independent thinker.
The thoughts we have are sometimes orchestrated by outside forces. I cannot put my finger on them. I know they are there. I know this is real. But the source seems as elusive as an Federal Bureau of Investigation budget with all the EMPTY SPACES NOT MAKING SENSE .....
Black Gay Activist Visits Center City to Demonstrate Against Food Insecurity!
By Tracy Gibson
I did a live and active food-security demonstration at the Rittenhouse Market at 18th and Spruce Street’s ritzy Center City area of Philadelphia. The reasons are four fold:
1] I almost always have to borrow money or a friend’s food stamp card to make it through the month. Last month { JULY} I had to borrow $153.00 from a friend just to have enough food for that month.
2] As a Black prideful & powerful Gay man of 63, I find it demeaning to have to constantly borrow from friends and family. People, bureaucrats, rich businessmen, investors, the wealthy and successful politicians often fail to realize that most poor people have pride, dignity and respect for themselves and don’t want to take government handouts, LET ALONE FIGHT OVER THEM!..
3] I have a college degree, several years of experience in my chosen professions { writing, public relations, BLACK community relations and BLACK youth advocacy }, and have taken several classes and workshops including two free two-day free classes at the Wharton School at the Univ. of Pen. ( 38th and Walnut Street in West Philadelphia ) ; Also: I took several workshops at Delaware’s Money School; and a free parenting class at the Salvation Army at 55th and Market Street in West Philadelphia. I am qualified to work at least 12 to 15 hours a week even though I’m disabled.
4] According to Van Jones’, who is a very qualified writer, lawyer ( YALE LAW SCHOOL ), and environmentalist, his book ``The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems,’’ says at the last paragraph of page 126 and the top of page 127: ``Meanwhile, people in our own country are actually going hungry. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture ( USDA ), in 2006, 35.5 million Americans lived in ``food insecure households,’’ comprising 22.8 million adults and 12.6 million children. Many low-income communities, particularly in urban settings, don’t have access to a single real supermarket. They are forced to patronize liquor stores selling Cheetos and Snickers – if they’re lucky maybe a potato or a banana – all at 30 to 70 percent higher prices than regular stores. And of course there are the ubiquitous ( from Webster’s dictionary ubiquitous means to be everywhere at the same time ) fast-food chains. Medical costs to treat diet-related ailments like diabetes and heart disease run more than $75 Billion a year in the United States.’’ END QUOTE.
5] The brash emotions of deep-seated guilt and equally deep-seated shame are part and parcel of living in poverty. Poor people are criminalized. I don’t want it to be this way, but it is true and has been for many years. { But the criminalization of the poor needs to end today ! } We must not forget that our country once had debtor prisons. They might as well call prison time the same thing here and now because a large preponderance of poor people are either the same people going through the court systems, out on parole or criminalized in some other ways just for being poor - from being looked at ``funny’’ while shopping in the department stores like Macy’s, Barney’s New York or Bergdorf Goodman’s , to having guards follow you at the WaWa Food Markets, at Broad and Walnut Street in Philadelphia, to having people ``mistakenly’’ think you were the other brother down the street who just robbed the jewelry store around the corner, to thinking you ``gave’’ some diamond necklaces broaches, and diamond rings to another brother who asked to see them way back when you worked as an associate at Macy’s in some far-off suburb you forgot all about several years ago. . . These things are compounded when your sexuality is also criminalized and again, even when the race you belong to is criminalized in 50 ways I didn’t even mention here. There are too many excuses to put BLACK men in jail. IT ENDS TODAY!
As machines take human jobs at the check-out lines, less and less people are able to afford to check out at the supermarket anyway. All too often getting food at a church mission means not being able to eat the fresh leafy green vegetables nutrition authorities like myself ( I have a up-to-date Serv.Safe certificate) say you and I are supposed to eat - along with fresh organic fruits, good bead like Rye bread, pumpernickel bread or 12 grain bread from Arnolds’, or organic Quakers Oat Meal, raw organic honey, and Wheaties with determined Wimbledon Tennis Champion and human rights activist Sistah Sarena Williams on the box or Brotha Russell Wilson, who plays for the Seattle Seahawks and is also concerned with the issues facing our youth and human rights. . .
I strongly suggest BLACK and progressive people do what I did today and go to a ritzy neighborhood and put the best food possible in your cart. Don’t take a dime, a penny or any money or credit cards or your food stamp card with you to the supermarket. Let me be clear, I AM NOT SUGGESTING THAT PEOPLE STEAL ANYTHING from anyone OR at any time! ( We don’t want you stealing like our labor was stolen from our BLACK African ancestors years ago). Don’t take anything! When you get everything added up at the checkout counter tell them : ``This is a demonstration against food insecurity. Here is a pre-written letter for your managers and owners. Have a great day.’’ My bill for the food I couldn’t afford to purchase today came to about $202.58 for one and a half weeks of good, wholesome and nutritious items. Leave the food right there for them to put away or put back on the shelves. I know this takes courage, but think of the courage it took for the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior and the Freedom Riders Down South { don’t forget some of these Freedom Riders were of European descent as well } to sit at Woolworths lunch counters and get spit on, kicked and beaten just to be served food back in the early 1960’s. This was done just to get things to where they are today. Things, places and situations may not be where we want them to be, but I think we have made some improvements and progress. Some Freedom Riders paid for their bold and courageous actions with their very lives such as Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner ( please look them up and read about them. I will be advocating for a major motion picture about them soon ) who were murdered in Mississippi on June 24th, 1964. I know what you are going to say, and you are correct, Brother Eric Garner was killed by police on July 17, 2014 just a few years ago just for selling cigarettes in Staten Island, New York. I know you, like me, will never forget Brother Eric Garner and carry Him and His Spirit on your shoulders with you when you go to your local ``uppity’’ supermarket. Remember when you take this action, that you are not really breaking any know laws that I know of. Ask your parents, grandparents or guardians if you are under 21, and make sure NOT to take any money at all with you. Don’t get an attitude, this is a quiet demonstration.
I honor and thank myself for doing this demonstration today and I equally honor and thank you and your family and your friends for taking similar peaceful actions to make situations better for us today and for our children and grandchildren in the near and far future.
GOD Almighty,
Peace, POWER, and Justice through sharing,
Many Blessings,
Tracy Gibson,
Fellow activist and businessman in Philadelphia.
( The real irony of writing this article is that I actually have very little food at home due to the cost of the food I need as a surviving Black man with high blood pressure. I also have a very low income and only work for the community at little pay, for my Herculean efforts. I can't eat hardly any salt, white flour, white rice, or white bread. I need your help. Please send certified envelopes with postal money orders - whatever amount you can afford - I am already thanking you and am very appreciative! Send to Tracy Gibson; 670 North 41st Street; Apartment - Office B; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 - 5202 ) My opinions are my own and not those of any corporations or individuals who will support me. )
Hallelujah! If you would like to give non-tax deductible donations to this writer for His continued work you may do so by writing Him at Mr. Tracy Gibson; 670 North 41st Street; Apartment - Office B; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 - 5202 or calling - 1 - 215 - 823 - 9985. I can send you a synopsis of what I work on regularly and some of the results of my work. I appreciate what you do as well. Together, we will make the world safer, richer and the people healthier and more wealthy and fare.
