just 67 pounds

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There is a 67,000 Pound Gorilla in the Room…

Radio Host Reggie Bryant formerly of WURD and WHAT - once said, and I am paraphrasing here, He said that it is the things you think are true that really aren’t true that are the problem.

You can’t see HIM, but when Common told our country about being sexually abused, one was released.  { Please note how Common spoke of forgiveness and listening to people and being humble. }

 

You can’t see HIM, but when they said we can’t have a BLACK woman on the Supreme Court and made it impossible to have a congressional meeting saying we can’t limit the terms of Supreme Court Justices to 10 years, a BIG FAT OLE 76,000 pound Gorilla got out of HIS cage and started screaming.

WHEN people can’t get food and have good supermarkets in their neighborhoods their shouts of pain and anger are letting seven such 76,000 pound gorilla’s lose in rich people’s neighborhoods, -  regardless of the color of the property owners and the color of the business leaders in that neighborhood - but the gorillas disappear without breaking any windows or killing anyone, but they have made their point!. …

When you have a therapist – GOD BLESS HER  -  who gives you a rather glum look after you spill out your emotional guts and you think maybe nothing will change – improvement is much better than change – IMPROVEMENTS ARE AND WILL HAPPEN AS I WRITE THIS -  you might have to hold tight and PRAY that your own personal gorilla doesn’t get lose. THINK POSITIVE, TAKE POSITIVE ACTIONS, TAKE NON-VIOLENT ACTION.

 

GOD Almighty, Tracy Gibson

 

 

 

 

        

About the Library System In Philadelphia

On FRIDAY

       Afternoon as I went to sign in at the Free Library’s Main Branch, the Business Office There were BLACK youth coming in. They were treated as other, as if they had a social disease. They were not, I felt, made to feel at home, comfortable and asked how the representative could help them. They were told rather bluntly that ``this was not a place to relax and LOUNGE. This is a place of business.’’ They were not asked if They had any interests in business or skills in business as I am sure European descent youth would be told. I thought such treatment of our cherished and beautiful BLACK youth was PREPOSTEROUS and outrageous in This Year of Our Lord 2019. I have my computer reservation receipt and it was exactly 2:45 PM on August 9^th, 2019 Friday. I am tired of making a fuss about this and that, but I am Praying and hoping that our entire Nation’s Protest Community realizes this is an outrage and takes positive action to have Library Policy overhauled by a progressive committee that includes many BLACK youth themselves. I use the Library in Philadelphia on an almost daily basis and even though the bathrooms are cleaner they still smell and there is often little soap; There is no place to eat lunch even though I have suggested two separate qualified BLACK caterers; and the elevators are so slow you lose out on computer time waiting for them. I want to add humbly, that I am almost taken aback by the kindnesses of some of the Free Library’s staff, regardless of race or color, or gender sometimes. Many employees and even administrators I have come into contact with are outrageously kind, considerate and nice to work with as I go about my business of doing research, writing, and other business activities I attend to at the Library! I am also impressed at how the bathrooms have been overhauled and are much cleaner, as I have said before. 

However,  also: Why are BLACK youth having to argue over the same items and issues we did 40 years ago? Democrat or Republican the Block out has continued to stand  - It Falls Today permanently – My hope is a permanent improvement in attitude and policy is Instituted right Today

1] Put together a financial collection page to support my work.

2] Send a letter to my credit company.

3] Watch Trailers below:

1) ``Get on the BUS’’

2) ``BLACK Panther’’

3) ``The Sand Piper’’

4) Original ``Shaft’’

5) ``The Landlord’’

4] Watch what comes up when I put in ``It is time to financially support Mr. Tracy Gibson.’’

5] Write Keith an e-mail about His warning about how difficult it can be to make headway financially for a Black Gay radical. If I did not get such a warning from you or another significant family member I would know I was not making the headway I am making.

A BIG THANK YOU from Mr. Smarty Pants – Tracy Gibson.

       I PRAY every day, every minute, for our planet’s safety and our children’s safety.I Pray for the safety of every human on our planet, no matter what color, race or other divisive factors there are.

Let’s all work on improving things and policy at the Free Library! From Tracy Gibson, your GOD who realizes He is no more GOD than you or anyone else, it is a matter of Spiritual development for me. Each of us has a path to follow that can be made to be much better through listening, teaching and reading or watching affirming and positive educational videos. Please have a great day and enjoy your vacation and Holiday!

An Open Letter to Liam Neeson

My Dear Actor // FRIEND  Liam Neeson:

From, Tracy Gibson.

Word is that I have stepped over some barrier with you and that you are rather angry with me, for some reason.  I am not sure of the details. I hope you feel free to contact me to let me know how I can make things correct and better with you. I humbly submit that I want and need your forgiveness for whatever misstep I have committed against you or a LOVed one of yours.  I am reading a book by COMMON ``Let LOVE Have the LAST WORD: A Memoir,’’ about LOVe and a book by HIS HOLINESS the 14<sup>th</sup> Dalia  Lama and Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town Desmond TUTU  called ``The Book of JOY,’’  and I have begun to understand what we did in former lives and what we may have done to offend others while not knowing we have thusly offended someone or some institution, I have begun to understand that we may well not fully understand the damage we have done. Yet and still, such damage is very real and actual to others sometimes.  What I’m getting at is the fact that I want to reach out to you and your family and understand how I can heal this pain and or problem you have that I may have caused in a way I don’t understand. This letter is not as kind and generous as I wanted it to be, but I feel it is important to offer you my understanding, kindness, friendship, guidance, and appreciation as I am able to now.  You can reach me in Eastern Time Zone at  - 1 – 215 – 823 – 9985. OR you may want to contact me at my e-mail address at KOKAYIJESUS333@GMail.COM  //  OR You can simply write me at my humble home office at 670 North 41^st Street; Apartment – Office B; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 – 5202. My name is Tracy Gibson, GOD Almighty.   May GOD Bless you and all of us a thousand times, and may peace and understand walk with you in kindness and friendship.

 

I say I am GOD, but I am no more GOD than you are or anyone else.  We all have different journeys  in reaching GOD, and understand HER or HIM differently, if we believe in GOD at all. I thank you.

 

TRACY

all too often

All too often, as my sister AZIZA proclaimed wisely to me, we as Black agitators often forget about the varied and important issues of the BLACK Middle Class. Remembering them and their issues will be easier from now on as GOD in Heaven - a Black woman - sits with me for dinner on May 4th, 2019 Saturday at the New Delilah  in West Philadelphia 40th and Chestnut Street location Indian buffet food, spicy chicken, vegetarian delights, salads, shrimps in a curry sauce with coconut milk and East India thinks properly about Rouldopph Guliana and Mahatma Ghandi: Forever. We can't and must not let the dollar { bill } rule us. Still, there is a financial imbalance I want to talk about today April 19th, 2019 Friday { 3535.57 }. Would it not make sense for a large centralized multi-faceted, un-corruptible, private foundation with public aspects to it and rotating leadership - including grass-roots people from all walks of life, all racial groups, all ethnic groups, all religions, all intimate persuasions, and both sexes { and it must include children } that such be formulated so that every human need deemed worthy and reasonable be fulfilled in a reasonable and timely fashion. Let's take the lack of access to the live arts, movies, films, concert venues and other entertainment venues for example. Middle income people MUST, from this fund have their incomes tripled. From $30,000. a year to $90,000. a year; from $90,000. a year to $270,000. a year. If people make over $270,000. a year they will not qualify for funds. If people own part of the means of production and have over $300 Million Dollars in their personal wealth holdings of more just sitting there, or $300 Million Dollars or more in corporate holdings as profits not being utilized to hire people or do capital improvements, donation to this super fund are voluntarily requested!  People on any Turtle Island { United States } disability or welfare will be able to get eight { 8 } times as much in benefits, from this Super Fund if they so choose to accept such benefit increases. This money will be considered a reparations payment for each and every person with any kind of citizenship in the United States { Turtle Island } no matter who they are including people behind bars or incarcerated or in mental institutions. Certain guidelines and legal stipulations must be taken into account in all instances to ensure the adherence to the letter of the LAW and excellent standards of ethics.  This is leveling the playing field and increasing the nation's access to wealth and the roads to wealth. More importantly, it will allow businesses of every stripe to benefit from the new income, hire more people, raise wages and benefit packages and help stabilize all communities economically. Raising taxes on the rich and wealthy, a plank taken by some Democratic Presidential candidates such as Elizabeth Warren, are retrograde, dysfunctional, and unworkable. Such tax corporate and personal tax increases are handed to the poor as higher prices for consumer goods, and are not helping lend an atmosphere of cooperation, cohesive friendship between businesses and the people, and such personal and corporate tax increases generate resentments and hatreds along party lines that are both arbitrary and useless. Such corporate tax burdens and personal tax burdens also are not helping the wheels of government and society turn successfully, adequately, properly and in a timely manner at all.  Voluntary participation in the well-orchestrated, well-run, responsibly-run Super Fund will smooth things out for us all and help curb wars and animosities along racial and ethnic lines internationally as other regions of the world take a good look at such a PEOPLE-FIRST PEOPLE FRIENDLY, CORPORATE FRIENDLY program.   Regional conflicts, fighting over clean water, fighting over food -- all these issues can be curbed and taken to a PEOPLE-FIRST World Court ( I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE  Workers World Party ) to resolve conflicts long before wars are necessary.  The mastering of running this whole process is crucial and must take on increased levels of efficiency, responsibility , balance and importance as the grand scale and international interests creates new freedoms, helps to block greed, and end-run worthless, meaningless  wars around the globe. Part of this process will help middle income people and formerly poor people gain access to the arts. have you ever experienced being left out when people like comic Kevin Hart, singer Dionne Warwick, or Singer, arranger Stevie Wonder come to Philadelphia and you can't even think about going because you simply don't have access to the money to go? Have you ever wanted to see Billy Joel, Taylor Swift or The Rolling Stones but just never had the money to go to the concert? Have you ever wanted to see a cable only, Netflix or first-run film like ``The Castaways,'' with Halie Mills or special event show or program and had to choose shoes or food instead? Have you ever walked by or seen advertised great restaurants like Ruth Chriss, Relish, The Pub, Miss Tootsies; The Commons; Red Lobster; Little Saigon Restaurant; Lue's Caribbean Cafe'; Quality Taste; El Cuscatleca; SA Café and Lounge; Uncle Bobby's; Kings and Queens Restaurant; Fanta African International and many others expensive restaurants or NOT SO expensive restaurants. Have you ever wanted to go to such places for dinner or lunch and just didn't have any money to go? This new government financial formation will help us all get what we want without so much pain, hemming and howling and even fighting when we should be negotiating and enjoying life. Have you ever wanted to go to something like a Broadway Show like ``Purley Victorious,'' ``The Producers,'' ``West Side Story,'' ``Dream Girls,'' or ``Ain't Misbehavin,'' that visit Philadelphia, or go to an Opera like ``Madame Butterfly,'' ``Porgy and Bess,'' La Travaita,'' ``The Barber of Seville,'' ``Adia,'' but just didn't have the funds to do so? Wouldn't you like to purchase some expensive stereo equipment or flat-screen televisions or expensive camera equipment from Macy's or Sears, but the prices, even on discount, were just too up there? GOD did not intend for us to go to the supermarket and not have the additional $300. we need to buy all the quality, healthy foods we want for our families. GOD wants you, you, you to have the asparagus, already sliced and packed watermelon, plumb organic honey dew melon, organic kiwi fruits, juicy seedless organic grapes, organic bananas, sliced and packed organic pineapple, fresh organic strawberries, fresh organic blackberries, fresh organic doubly inspected cantaloupe, A bag of lobster tails, plenty of fresh-cleaned fish like perch, rainbow trout, flounder, tilapia, halibut, and crape. No putting items back, you can afford them right now because this is true, real, now, active, alive, actual and accepted because we live in a Robust, Beautiful, Blessed, Wonderful, great place called TUrtle Island { No longer the United States of North America. Your budget is not endless, but it is greatly enhanced as you make your Way { 2000 Seasons,  By Ayi Kwei Armah } home from the Super Market Giant preferably in your new Chevy built in Turtle Island unionized, well paid auto workers and crafted by well-paid union engineers of all races. Remember, if you want to stay poor like one friend of mine who I don't and never will understand, you can. If you don't want to burst forth out of the hum drum existence of Middle America you can stay hum drum and not consider your self a citizen of Turtle Island where Native Americans are considered surviving heroes and are not forced to live on barren reservations and where, for now, all I'm asking you to do is read this article over once every three months and voluntarily give a sum of money equal to your federal taxes to the Native American Rights Fund, or less, if you don't have the money right now. THIS IS TOTALLY VOLUNTARY AND I DO'NT HAVE THE PERMISSION OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND TO ASK THIS OF YOU! Tracy Gibson**

Nice Places for the Homeless ( People living temporarily without shelter) to LIVE

Safe and Clean Places for Homeless People ( Those Living Temporarily Living Without Shelter )..

** The Logan Hotel at 18^th and the Parkway near the Free Library ( Main Branch )

*** 3675 Market Street at the Quarum Apartment Building.

Please call me to increase the number of such places so we can all live with decency, cleanliness and honor. 1 - 215 - 823 - 9985 Tracy Gibson

``Let the People Gather'' ! From GOD and Tracy Gibson

``The world is made up of a multitude of ideas, people, places and thoughts. Who am I as your GOD to force my ideas and thoughts on you. That ole book from 2000 years ago is nice to read, but we be needing something new. READ my book ``Let the Children Gather,’’ and you’ll see what  I mean.  The churches make a lot of money, but are they really expressing what GOD wants them to express, or further towing people along with restricted ideas that no longer work? Just askin! The book is available at www.lulu.com for $10.00 Please call me , Tracy Gibson, the author if you are having difficulty or need advice or just to talk. Number:  1 – 215 – 823 – 9985. ‘’

( 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. ) 

Black Gay Activist Visits Center City to Demonstrate Against Food Insecurity!

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 Gay man of 62, 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.

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. ( 38^th 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 55^th 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 broches, 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  ( plese 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 24<sup>th</sup>, 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. )