Political Dynasties, King Makers, And the Movement for Black Progress

Political Dynasties, King Makers,  And The Movement for Black Progress…Face the Powers that Be, And Never Give Up the Struggle For HOPE!!!

By Brother Tracy Gibson


Throughout North American history there have been king makers—wealthy, powerful men (almost always White)—who have decided who gets to control the joy stick of government. Who gets to be on the inside of power and control the billions upon billions of federal dollars that get spent annually in America and on what federal projects, programs and considerations those dollars are allocated for as well as who we go to war with and for what reasons. Prescott Sheldon Bush (1895 -1972), a U.S. Senator from the state of Connecticut and a Yale graduate like his grandfather was the father of our 41st President (George Bush Sr.) and the grandfather of our 43rd President (George Bush Jr.) was such a man. Actually born in Columbus, Ohio, Prescott Bush would move on to become a well connected Wall Street executive and the author of books on finance. He might have failed at business early in life, but he knew how to interact with the right kind of people and push all the buttons to become wealthy, educated and well healed. He made sure, before he died in 1972, that his children & grandchildren would one day roam the inside hallways of Washington, D.C. and other corridors of power and control the purse strings connected to the billions of dollars we are forced to pay as tax-paying American citizens.

Prescott Bush made sure his son George Sr. (also a Yale graduate) went to all the right schools and hob knobbed with all the right people who would one day make his son the King of America—although he would not live to actually see that day… The end result was his son George Sr. getting a Congressional seat & his grandsons becoming Governor of Florida (Jeb) and Texas (George Bush Jr.). (By the way, did I also mention that George Bush Jr. also went to Yale?) Prescott had created a political dynasty. George Sr. went on to become the head of the notorious CIA during the last year of the Gerald R. Ford Administration) & then Vice President of the U.S. under Ronald Reagan through out most of the 1980’s. Finally George Sr. went on to be a one term President after Reagan. (George Bush Sr. was defeated in 1992 by Bill Clinton.) But low & behold, Father Bush (George Sr.) was not to be outdone. He made sure his son came back with a narrow, although contested, win in the year 2000 Presidential race against Democrat Al Gore. (Gore actually won numerically, but was defeated in the Electoral College.) The Dynasty was sustained & complete. Big Daddy Prescott Bush would sleep quietly in his grave knowing he had set the pace for his son & then grandson to lord over the so-called ``free world’’ as Presidents #41 and #43 of these United States—even though he had never actually witnessed those victories…

A while ago, there was another Dynasty in the making. Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. (1888-1969) wanted his son Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. (1915-1944) to become President. Joe Kennedy was educated at Harvard University (as was President Kennedy) and graduated in 1912. He went on to serve in many capacities during the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration including a stint as Ambassador to Great Brittan (1938-1940). He groomed his children, again, by sending them to the best schools. Boot leg whisky and working on Wall Street (some of his practices would later be described as ``insider trading’’) helped build the family fortune up to some $200-$400 Million Dollars by 1957. Tragedy struck the Kennedy clan early. Because of the death of Joseph Jr. in England during WW II , John F. Kennedy, the young Senator from Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960 (he also served in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1947 to 1953) , would actually be the only Kennedy in the Twentieth Century to be elected President of the United States. The ``Kennedy Dynasty’’ was not quite as successful as the Bush Dynasty—at least not in reaching actual success as far as real time served in the highest office in the land—the Presidency. But the Kennedy White House was thought, for years afterwards and even up until this day by some Baby Boomers and others, to represent an almost dreamy Camelot era of fine clothing, good natured humor with reporters and high levels of professionalism and prestige on the world stage. The Kennedy Dynasty, however, was also fraught with family tragedy including the assassination of our beloved President during a motorcade in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. Forty five years later our Nation still hasn’t fully healed from this family tragedy which impacted the entire Nation & much of the world--as so many baby boomers still remember little John John saluting his father’s casket and the sad but ever gracious Jacqueline Kennedy acting with such solemn dignity through all the ceremonies that are attached to losing a sitting head of state in North America...

Robert Kennedy (1925 -1968), the President’s younger brother, soon took up the mantel for his brother & had Presidential ambitions of his own. These ambitions were acted upon in 1967 when he decided to run for the Presidency that year. This Kennedy was a Senator from New York State and had served as Attorney General under his brother. But the Kennedy’s tragic story was to continue as an assassin’s bullets put an end to those ambitions in Los Angeles just after the June 6th California Primary which Robert Kennedy had won handily.

I remember as a child not believing the news of Robert Kennedy’s death. I sat on the front steps of the house next to ours on 49th Street playing jacks by myself when someone came up to me with the newspaper headlines blaring of the murder of R.F.K. I was shocked because his death came on the heels of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4th of the same year (1968). Had our Nation gone mad, I thought... What would this mean? There were already riots in many U.S. cities after the King assassination. It seemed the underpinnings of our Nation were crumbling. This perception of instability was shared by many Americans as they went to the polls that November and elected a Republican ``Law and Order’’ man from California named Richard Nixon.

The Kennedy Dynasty would have to be satisfied with a leading role in the Democratic Party for the family and a Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy (1932 – 2009) for quite some time. (Ted Kennedy was unable to unseat President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic Nomination in 1980.)

Dynasty, it seems, was more than just a tawdry, scandal-ridden TV show produced by Aaron Spelling in the 1980’s. It is a way of political life in America. There seems to be very few people who get to hold high office in North America & there seems to be a selection process through which all these men (and so far it has only been a men’s club) have to go through. It is almost as if they have to belong to some exclusive club fraught with high initiation fees, blood line requirements and educational background checks.

The 1939 Frank Capra film ``Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,’’ explores the concept of King Makers & corruption that has been married to Washington, D.C. politics for almost 20 decades. How do you get to be a King Maker? What is the process? Is being wealthy & well connected enough or do you also have to be a funky old White male to join in this process? Is there any chance that corruption and scandal can be divorced from D.C. politics within our lifetime? Jimmy Stewart played Smith in the film and said ``Things sure happen fast around here. Don’t they’’ when he was taken a back by some events taking place around him as he was about to take office as the junior Senator from a Midwestern state. He said a mouth full. He was (in this fictitious film) appointed Senator through a quirky mishap & some of the powers that be were not pleased with his taking power. He seemed too innocent, bright eyed and bushy tailed for a major position of power in D.C.

Generally speaking, things don’t happen by mistake in D.C. and they do sometimes happen fast--sometimes. President Obama was thought to be a Renegade by some writers when he came into power in January of 2009 on the massive National desire for change in D.C. during the November 2008 election. In most instances he has not & most probably will not deliver on his many promises he made for real, lasting and needed change for our Nation. . . [Maybe we should have made him sign a Progressive Pact that he would carry out specific duties and end the war(s) (for example) at a certain time.] The progressive and liberal wings of the Democratic Party are not pleased at this point in the end of 2009 with many of his appointments and actions. While he has changed the temperament of the White House into something less Right Wing and has been a good international ambassador for the country with a ``message’’ of hope and possible peace, he has done many things that don’t look very forward moving or progressive. Chief among them: he has named three of the most old funky or established White males to major positions of power in his administration (read Dangerous Triangle in Chapter 13); he has not created any new inner-city initiatives to work with corporate America and create summer jobs for youth and thusly stem some of the crime in those areas; he has not even given much lip service to a needed major overhaul of our financial system, military and infrastructure; he has not said one word about military cutbacks in a time when it has been proven that the Pentagon wastes about twenty five cents for every dollar it spends; he has supported the status quo, the existing military & the ``same old war-like White line of hegemony, politics as usual & White power domination in policy initiatives & military actions as his speech in Oslo [when he accepted the Nobel Prize for Peace] proved beyond a reasonable doubt. There are ``just’’ wars he said. There are ``real evil people’’ in the world, he said. The next day he had moved so far to the right in his address in Oslo that even Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin had to fall in line with some sweet words of support for the first African American President of the United States.

I am sure members of the Congressional Black Caucus such as Congresswoman Barbara Lee and progressive members of Congress such as Dennis Kucinich sat in dumb-founded amazement at such a speech. The Major Goliath White media, however, lapped it up. He had effectively picked up his peace prize while not batting an eye about his proposed military build up of an additional 30,000 troops for Afghanistan. Never mind where the money is coming from to effectively stage such a troop increase. (Some experts predict it will cost a million dollars for each trooper due in part to the rough terrain and the lack of basic necessities such as running water and housing.)

Bogged down in trying to get more encompassing health care legislation passed, the President has not created or even given much more than lip service to the business community about creating the thousands of new jobs that are needed for the teeming numbers of unemployed Americans. (The unemployment rate is about 10 % as of December 2009). The Brother obviously needs some help on the innovation and clear and new thinking side of things in his Administration.


Moreover, Mr. Jefferson Smith (in the Capra movie), upon taking a bus tour of D.C. after he was appointed Senator was deeply and profoundly impressed with the words enshrined at the Lincoln Memorial. A child and an older Black man looked on as he took in the site. So many Americans have, once again, been disillusioned with Obama—the President who had reignited our hopes and dreams & gotten people who would never vote—young & old, Black & White—to vote and believe in him--has largely let us down. There is a new face on things, but bracing up the underpinnings of our Nation is a man who represents mostly the same old line of thinking that got us into the economic morass, war(s) and partisanship of the Bush Jr. years. Mr. Smith soon became disillusioned as he found out the work & difficulties involved in doing a seemingly simple thing like starting a national boy’s camp for orphaned and wayward boys in his home state…

I remember a few years ago during a trip to Washington, D.C. that I also was moved by the Lincoln Memorial. How even before Obama came on the scene, I felt our country could move past the economic morass and political partisanship it was stuck in during the Bush (Jr.) years and become something fresh, new & hopeful. Something was needed that would really help the less fortunate and reflect peace and tolerance instead of war profiteering, White world domination and exploitation & destruction of so-called Third World or developing countries across the globe. Lincoln reflected aspects of that ``something’’. I had worked so hard for 30 years to move things along in a progressive direction, but it seems things only work quickly in D.C. if you have the deep pockets &, frankly, White skin & connections to make this so. If you want to be a mover & shaker, and you have Black skin, if you are in or out of office, it appears you have to play the game, support the status quo & belly up with the insiders & the fat White money boys. That is if you want to ``make it’’ on the world stage. Who knows what kind of deals President Obama has made with the Wealthy? It certainly seems that there was some kind of an agreement that things would be changed as far as style, but the substance has mostly remained in tact…

I remember going door to door in Philadelphia to generate support for the REPARATIONS movement & I remember running as a write-in candidate for U.S. Senator from P.A. in 2005. I’ve tried so many things to bring the human rights agenda some heat and some light—some truth and some inspiration… Then reality sets in when we see Mr. Obama exclaiming the virtues of war in Oslo and never saying a blessed word about the U.S.’s undermining of peace throughout the world through military intervention and the unscrupulous work of the U.S. intelligence network including the NSA and the CIA (along with the rest of the multi-billion dollar North American intelligence Network). The Right Wing; the War Mongers; the defense contractors like Halliburton, GE and Lockheed Martin; Wealthy Republicans; the Pentagon Brass—they all have a new friend in Mr. Obama who was elected to change things, but who pealed off what little was left of his progressive skin and threw his chips in with the Status Quo in Oslo, Norway... I guess the old adage IS true—you can’t beat City Hall… But I for one look onward & know just like at the actual birth of this country in the 1700’s tyranny can & will be defeated. In all its’ forms, ways and means, tyranny will be defeated... Don’t let yourself be easily disillusioned, fooled & like Denzel Washington said as Malcolm X in Spike Lee’s 1992 film ``hoodwinked, fooled & bamboozled.’’ We as Black people can’t afford it. Keep your eyes on the prize and keep supporting people like Barbara Lee and Dennis Kucinich in Congress. Write them and let them know they are doing a wonderful job in keeping the progressive fires lit, hot, active and alive. Here are their addresses if you want to write them:

Congress Woman Barbara Lee
2444 Rayburn HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515

Phone # 202.225.2661


Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich
2445 Rayburn HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515

Phone # 202.225.5871


They are some of the REAL progressive thinkers and shapers of our progressive tomorrows along with Former Congress Woman Cynthia McKinney (of Atlanta, Georgia) who ran for President in 2008 under the Green Party banner. To Write Sister McKinney log onto:

www.AllthingsCynthiaMcKinney.com


Keep moving in the direction of Black Progress—forward each and every day. Keep your eyes on the prize: What is the Prize? The prize is real economic development; social justice, true freedom, equality; prosperity for our people; a coming of economic parity for the poor. Even political dynasties, deal makers; war itself may have to be thrown on the ash heap of history before this is all over. We must be ever vigilant, work hard and never, never give up !! Power to the people!!! Never give up!! Find new ways to take your issues to the powers that be; create your own power base by creating a Black business; organizing with other Black Business Men and Black Business Women to bring greater political leverage to progressive causes in D.C. and around the globe—throughout our Diaspora… If you have a few dollars to give please check out the organizations our company has given to on our web page at www.btganda.com. They need your support, especially in these economically hard times when grants and donations are drying up!!... But never give up and never give in!!

Why We Need Reparations and NOW!

Why We Need Reparations and now!!

I was involved with the REPARATIONS movement in Philadelphia for about three years. Most of my work centered on the work I did with a group called N’COBRA—the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. We met in North Philadelphia. The work was hard, but it was some of the most enjoyable political work I have ever done. I got to meet with other Black community leaders, political representatives in Washington, D.C. and their staffs as we traveled to D.C. to advocate for HR40—the bill that would have provided for money to ``study’’ the issue of REPARATIONS for Black Americans... The thought was that once we had the opportunity to study the issue properly, the American people and plenty of American legislators would see that some form of compensation for the over 200 years of chattel slavery that Blacks suffered under was in order and only fair. After all, some historians think that over 100 million Blacks were killed during the Middle Passage; over 2000 people--men, women and even children—were tortured, raped, shot castrated and or hung; discrimination still exists today; there was the reprehensible treatment of runaway slaves and the equally reprehensible history of the Jim Crow South; and the fact that Black men are still to this day steered towards prison and jail instead of school, college and other places for higher education. Not to mention an unemployment rate that is through the roof in some big cities. Someone needs to pay for the incredible double standards and the continuing discrimination that Black people suffer under in the housing and job market and in every other life passageway. If President Obama thinks he is going to get re-elected without handling this I know many REPARATIONS activists who have another thought in mind. I actually talked to a few Congressional Representatives and help them see the importance of HR40. A few signed on to the bill, others hedged and waited for more grass-roots support to bubble up from the community down under. Congressman John Conyers of Detroit, Michigan is the sponsor of HR40.





11-21-09

Questions about REPARATIONS for Sister Charlotte Harris of N’COBRA!! (The National Coalition of Blacks for REPARATIONS in America) Interviewed on 11-22-09


How long have you been actively working on the Reparations issue? What is your position with N’COBRA and what do you do professionally?

Maybe eight years.
I am Membership Chair of the Philadelphia Chapter of N’COBRA and An At large Board Member nationally of N’COBRA...

I am a Psycho Therapist by trade.

What exactly are reparations?

Reparations is a form of repair for what the U.S. government, businesses and the U.S. citizenry has done to us, the damage caused from their behavior from the 1400’s to now.

Why do you feel that Black people don’t know what they are and don’t feel they are ever going to get them?

``They don’t know for the same reasons everyone doesn’t know. They don’t know (because) they cannot make the connections. They haven’t had it taught to them the connections to the centuries long rape of Africa the theft of its resources, the theft of its land and the theft of its people which created the African Diaspora and present day vestiges of poverty, lack of health care , (and lack of) land ownership, justice and education. They don’t understand that the wealth this country (North America) has is connected to the 500 years of unfair, unjust malevolent behavior of European business, government and citizenry against Africans.’’

What does this disbelief or mental disconnect among people of African Descent do to the REPARATIONS movement itself?

``Besides frustrating me and making me sad it also reinforces the need for me to do more work towards educating my people towards the goal of REPARATIONS.’’

How can you and N’CORBA generate more mass support within the Black community?

``One way is to do a series of lectures and to speak at various organizations. Speak at various African organizations and to partner with various organizations & to join with various international Black organizations to work towards REPARATIONS. ‘’

What do you mean by partner?

``To join forces with World Wide African organizations that are striving towards Reparations.’’



Is support for reparations outside of the Black community important? Why or Why not?

``It is important because it will make less people to fight (against) to get reparations.’’

(1)
Will this support among Blacks alienate the White community and make them more hostile during these economically troubled times? (2) Will they (Whites) be jealous and take it out on Obama and other Black people if they see even an inkling of Black people getting any financial rewards for past and or even present injustices?

(1) ``No, the ones (Whites) who are already alienated and hostile are already alienated and hostile. We already have support among Whites they are not alienated and hostile. Most Caucasians already are against it because they deem us inhuman and not worthy of Reparations. They would have to admit that they had committed crimes against us and most Caucasians are not willing to admit that. They are still today benefiting from those crimes by the way society is structured today. They are less likely to be stopped by police, they are less likely to be killed by police, (they are) less likely to go to jail. They benefit by putting Black people in jail. The prison industrial complex benefits by putting Black people in jail. America has an army and employs mercenaries to kill Brown people all over the world. Businesses are designed to exploit people of color in America and around the world. ’’

(2) ``In order for Africans to be paid what is due us for our condition to be repaired, White people will be uncomfortable because the hierarchy that says GOD is a White man (and that) the President (is) a White men, will be changed. Black people are at the bottom. The pyramid hierarchy (of power) will change. In order to have justice the pyramid must change and end.’’






Where do we go from here? What are the plans of N’COBRA and how can the masses within the Black community help?


``The plans are to educate everyone and continue fighting for REPARATIONS. The masses of Black people can help by joining N’COBRA which is a mere $35 a year. (Or $20 a year if you don’t have a local chapter. )’’

Circumstances concerning medication Tracy Charles Gibson

December 18^th, 2018 Tuesday

From: Mr. Tracy Charles Gibson

670 North 41^st

Apartment B

Philadelphia, PA 19104 – 5202

1. {215  } 823  9985

A Patient of Ms Michelle’s a { 215 } 233  --  5792

At The Consortium Mental Health Center at 56^th & Chestnut

To: Director Mr. Emmett Highbaugh

     Hope & Pray you are in Good Spirits & health. I am in a situation where one of my medicines – stelizine or Trifluthorozine  -- is being discontinued. I am running out of this medication. My Pharmacy  -- Overbrook Plaza Pharmacy  -- cannot re-fill this prescription & neither can CVS. I apparently need to be reevaluated by Ms Gwen Morrison to get a new prescription. My prescriptions were being written by Doctor Leo Zachariah of Mercy Hospital while I was seeing Mr. Edward Melvin. Mr. Melvin never told me I should be getting medicines from Ms. Gwen Morrison. Ms Gwen Morrison cannot see me until February 26^th long after I will need a few new prescriptions.  I am not getting any help what so ever from your staff People to resolve this circumstance. My State Representative has been called, but the { His Staff } tole me to go through the social worker who is NOT in The Consortium Office today. The Social Worker & You are said – I am tole – to be in tomorrow  --  December 19^th, 2018 Wednesday. I do important work for Peace & Justice in Philadelphia that requires constructive & steady thinking. I do not want to be hospitalized for a simple prescription not being filled. My hope is that the consortium can remain & advance as a Valued mental-health provider in Philadelphia. Complaining about my service provider is not going to look good when funding cycles turn around & come due. I can help you find private sources for funding, but not if I’m in the hospital needing a simple prescription & re-evaluation.

 

Gratefully True,

 

Tracy Charles Gibson  

Dear Friends: Please call the Director of the Consortium at { 215 } 596  --  8100

& ask that they find a Way to get my medicine prescribed properly. This is a matter of political harassment through a program similar to Co-In-Tell-Pro of the 1970's. More to come soon.

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.