The Summer Of 1980 When Chucky Dale and David Became Heroes

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Shared By Michael Holman

The world has become so desensitized since I was 13. I recall the summer of 1980, this particular summer day was partly cloudy and somewhat breezy.   From two blocks away, Sound Town Music Record Store, blasted the lasts vinyl albums playing music hits dating from 1970-1980.  The music reverberated off the walls of the Catholic School as we snapped our finger, danced, talked, laughed and sang.  That summer three of our neighbors emerged as heroes; but listen how the story goes.  The front was grouped off by age, relations or friends, all of us Cindy, Co-Co, Wilda, Mary,  Kathy Rhodes, Me, Jo, and Sandra Owens’nhem from down the block and the Miller’s from across the alley were enjoying the tunes from Sound Town.. The music was so clear; one would think they were sitting right inside the record store.  Perhaps it was the breeze or maybe the music or possibly both which had us all out conversing and laughing and playing and joking. Whatever it was, we were outside enjoying ourselves.  Suddenly there was a full halt; the music became back ground sound as we heard a woman yelling, “STOP HIM! SOMEBODY STOP HIM!” 

At full sprint a young man comes running through the alley way between Mr. Brown’s house and the vacant lot next door to our house.  A young woman was directly behind him by 5 to 7 seconds and screaming, “STOP HIM! STOP HIM! HE TOOK MY PURSE!!!”   Lori Collins brothers Chucky and Dale and their live-in cousin David, leapt from the Collin’s front porch in full stride, passing the young woman, and capturing the young man on the church lawn, just before he reached the corner of Margaretta and Clarence, nearly a full block away.  From my understanding, the young woman was about to enter National’s Food Store, when the young man snatched her purse off her shoulders... I bet he never though, Sister Girl would become a track star wearing those 2 or 3 inch hills but Sister Girl could run, in addition I bet he never thought anyone would come to her aid; brother man received a rude awakening that day.  Truly our world has changed...  Thank U Michael, for the share, it amazes me the things which jog my memory.  

©2014 SistaSistaSister

*nhem is short for "and them"…

Lesson Drawn From The Allegory Of Dry Bones: Ezekiel 37

[A]s I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. And when I beheld, lo, sinews and flesh came up upon them, and skin covered them head to toe: but there was no breath in them. Prophesy unto the winds, prophesy, "Come, breath, of the four winds and breathe into these here slain, that they may live." I prophesied, and breath came into them; those once mere dry bones now lived, and stood up; upon their feet, an exceeding great army. (KJV)  

Anyone who touches the life of another has the ability to breathe new life into those whom they touch, thus allowing them to live a more awakened life and stand on their own two feet.  Once awakened surely we will become and exceeding great army of Conscious folks entreating our fellow citizens with unadulterated LOVE, Peace & Liberty.

© Sista SistaSister

After Midnight A Broadway Play And My Universal Request To Fulfill My Bucket List...

It is said, to receive something different, one must be willing to do something different.  One must step beyond ones comfort zone, knowing all is well. So here I go:  One of the things on my Bucket List is a Broadway Play, therefore, I am placing a request out into the Universe via my Heart felt thoughts and the World Wide Web; I am mindful of Divine Energy the Source of ALL Creation, which we call GOD.   I trust my request is provided and I am thankful in advance.  Oh what is my request? Thank U for asking.  My request is to attend “After Midnight” a well-spoken of Broadway Show running from May through August 30 2014 in New York City, New York. I further request to be accompanied by A Kind Gentlemanly, Gentle and Generous Mature Man, for a weekend of laughter, dancing, dinner, the theater and witty conversations.  It is my request we have the time of our lives enjoying the companionship of one another and the atmosphere of New York City, New York, in the summer time.  As well, while there, I am looking forward to sitting down to a Manhattan Lunch with my Best Girlfriend from High School, Ms Stephanie Wallace …   

Final request, nothing last minute please. 

Thank U Kim Daniel aka SistaSistaSister

The Cotton Club is going to be the hottest of hot spots this summer! Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight and Natalie Cole will join the roster of "Special Guest Star" vocalists in After Midnight . LaBelle is set to play performances from June 10 through 29, Knight from July 8 through August 3, and Cole August 5 through 31. The tuner, which recentlygarnered seven Tony nods, including Best Musical, is playing at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.

Mr. Perry, I ask what doors of opportunity are open under Tyler Perry’s INK-Well?

Hello Mr. Perry,

It is my hope this Note finds you well, and in good spirits. 

For sake of time, I will do my best to make this Note as short and concise as possible.  First thank U for sharing your talent with the world and giving us moments of laughter, moments of tears, and moment of sheer inspiration.  Most of all Mr. Perry, thank U for those moments when U used your talent to hold a mirror to our faces, forcing us to revisit the consequences of our deeds. 

There are very few theatrical shows capable of inciting self reflection and self examination; I will add, especially within our community.  You know that community, where bullets fly like eagle through the sky, missing sometimes but other times hitting innocent passerby's.  You know that community where the so called minorities are truly the majority and they (whoever they be) feed us lies, like politicians take bribes.  

You know that community where poverty and crime is described every evening on the five o’clock news, where Lethrelle did a drive by, Monesha stole a ten dollar bag of weave, and Georgedella just had her third child and she’s only seventeen. You know that community.    There are few if any shows which allow us to visit true issues with a comedic twist in our community. Cause we all know we gots’ta laugh to keep from crying.

Then again as our old friend once said “I am talking to the man in the mirror, I’m asking him to change his ways; and no message could be any clearer; U’ve gotta look at yourself, and make that change.”  Mr. Perry, for many in our community your shows and plays are the mirror; your dialog is the message and your body of work causes us to look at ourselves; I simply hope we will look long enough and hard enough to make that change. 

Now let’s get to the meat and potatoes of this note.  Mr. Perry, have U considered a Tyler Perry Writing Challenge?  I wrote U a year ago, on this same date, asking this same question to no avail. Then again, all I have is Local Television and Internet Television, U know (Hulu & Netflix). 

Nonetheless, as I was saying before digressing; there must be multitudes of writers out here wishing for, hoping for, and working for or toward publication, and acknowledgment. You know acknowledgment of their creative genius; but they lack the opportunity which usually meets preparation, but for some reason preparation took a vacation and did not leave a forwarding email address or a, “I am out of the office indefinitely” message. I know there must be thousands of young as well as older men and women itching at a chanced opportunity to work with U or to be evaluated by U.  So Mr. Perry, I ask what doors of opportunity are open under Tyler Perry’s INK-Well?    

Me personally I have only one published poem, but more than a few thousand Sista-quotes, Sista-poems, Sista-ponderings and Sista-social views, that lay here in unopened envelopes; some are certified return receipt mail, cause I take my “Poor Woman’s Copyrights” serious.  To be honest Mr. Perry I write very, very well and I would love the challenge of a writing contest, something which allows me to stretch and grow as a writer. 

In high school I had and English instructor who upon entering the class room wrote a single phrase or sentence, and we the students had the first ten minute of class to write a; one page, narrow ruler, back and front, hand written story or poem beginning with that one single phrase or sentence.  I loved it, because it challenged me and I am always at my best when challenged…  If you are anything like me, being a September 14^th Virgo like me, then you also offer your best work when challenged.

Mr. Tyler Perry I, Kim Daniel aka SistaSistaSister, am challenging you to put together a writing contest for the hundreds of thousands of fans and admirers who have followed you over the years and Mr. Perry make the contest so well known, that even us, none cable television people (me) who only view their computer screens, will know Tyler Perry is challenging all novice and prolific writers to an out of the box into the ink-well writing contest. 

I haven’t written a play since I was seventeen.  I won first place, three years straight.  My job after winning was production direction and starting in my own play.  Back then and even now I was/am a behind the scenes person, but vacation bible school was no joke.  “You better standup for the LORD and do that thing”, as Sistah So-N-So said, the day I said, I’ll be in the background. Why did I say that?  But that’s a tale for another day.

Anywho, Mr. Perry, if you would like to view my scribbling’s beyond this long/short note, you are welcome to follow my links below, and read me from beginning to end.  A friend told me my writings are like the KODAK MOMENT of words.  Well I don’t know about all of that, but I do know sometimes I shock myself.  So stop by, take a look, and let me know.  I have no problems with constructive criticism, and I have no problem being in boxed…

In the meantime

Namaste Mr. Perry

Best Regards Kim Daniel aka SistaSistaSister

http://sistasistasister.blogspot.com/

www.idreamnwords.com

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April 27, 2013 now

April 27, 2014

PS. I will write every year until I receive a yea or a nay.

Sista's Poem for Lisa Kristine's Photos That Bear Witness To Modern Slavery

 

Images so strong and sorrow so deep,

I am frozen in the limitation of my words,

A vocabulary so insufficient to capture the screams

Inside of me that bleed insufficiently through my fingers
Please let us end slavery, how much more inhumane
Can we be, this lost, this greedy, and so blind
We cannot see these are Hue-man's just as U and Me.
As I viewed the images on my screen,
Part of me said thank U it wasn't Me,
But don't U see, that thinking is
What is wrong with this entire thing
We view ourselves separately
I am not U and U are not Me, but if there be
But one CREATOR whom created U and Me,
Then that creative energy is the same in U as well as Me.
Now think this thing through
If the CREATOR/CREATIVE ENERGY
Dwells in U and In me too, then surely Creation/CREATOR
Dwells in the enslaved of this mini-documentary.
Click the link and see!

Lisa Kristine: Photos That Bear Witness To Modern Slavery

©2014 SistaSistaSister Poem...

Forty-Acres & A John Deer

Forty-Acres & A John Deer

U.N. Report Chastises U.S. for Status of Native Population:

Where is the U.N. Report Chastising the U.S for its Status of African Americans, starting from the wronging of John Punch 1640 to the convict leasing laws of 1865, onward to the Jim Crow Laws of 1876, inciting the riotous destruction of Black Wall Street and other towns and cities in the red hot summer of 1919, leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as well the Redlining and Zoning Laws of the late 1970's and let us not forget the present Privatization of Prisons and other subject matters brought to light by Michelle Alexander’s Book "The New Jim Crow".

Slavery has not ended, inquire of the 13th amendment of the U.S. constitution or better yet examine U.S. drug laws and sentencing. Surely the U.N. can see as I see and recognize there is reason to chastise the U.S. on behalf of all descendants of enslaved Africans in America. Surely our timelines cross, as our bloodlines mix.  Did the U.N. not see us?

How could the U.N. Chastises on behalf of one and not the other.  Seems like a respect of persons or better stated a disrespect of persons.  Do not get me wrong I possess the lineage of the indigenous of America (proven) as well as the heritage of enslaved Africans in America, thus I am grateful for the United Nations chastisement of the U.S. on behalf of my Native American Families, for this gesture is long overdue.

However, it baffles me that the U.N. did not examine the timeline and validate the wrong besieged upon Africans in America and all their offspring, be-they Native & Black, White & Black or African & African-American.  It seems no-one other than African Americans (Black-Folks) are sending out the battle cry of restitution for services rendered, for centuries of free labor.

Black People have been the bottom man on the totem-pole, the foundation, the strong back, nibble fingers, and enduring labor, of American capitalism. The U.N. report submitted by James Anaya, United Nations Official to the U.S. Government Washington D.C. September 20 2012

Excerpt 1: "The Special Rapporteur concludes that indigenous peoples in the United States – including American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian peoples – constitute vibrant communities that have contributed greatly to the life of the country; yet they face significant challenges that are related to widespread historical wrongs, including broken treaties and acts of oppression, and misguided government policies, that today manifest themselves in various indicators of disadvantage and impediments to the exercise of their individual and collective rights.”

Now doesn’t this read like a slogan for “POST TRAUMATIC COLONIZATION, LAND-GRABBING and TRAIL OF TEARS SYNDROME”?

Not to take away from my Indigenous Family yet on behalf of my African-American roots, the question is how do they dismiss the plight of Black African-Americans?  [Black African-Americans too] "constitute vibrant communities that have contributed greatly to the life of the country; yet they face significant challenges that are related to widespread historical wrongs, including broken treaties and acts of oppression, and misguided government policies, that today manifest themselves in various indicators of disadvantage and impediments to the exercise of their individual and collective rights."  How do they not apply these very words to the disenfranchised African American (Black) People?

Perhaps no within the U.N. acquainted themselves with the works of Dr. Joy DeGruy-Leary “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome”. We as Africans in America are again overlooked.  No chastisement on behalf of the formally enslaved African-American Population, thus no reparations, no 40 acres and a mule, no newly revamped government policies or money earmarked for our disadvantages or ongoing impediments limiting the exercise of  our individual and collective rights.  The same 400 year study by the United Nations, which brought about the chastisement upon the United States, should also reflect our 400 years.

We the descendants of Africans brought to the America’s for chatteled enslavement go without mention, as our U.S. President Barack Obama has now earmarked funds and enacted policies that will improve the status of my Native American Families, leaving my African-American Families a contending under-class, as we the working classed and many of the imprisoned continue shoring-up capitalistic America;

I'm just asking?

Sincerely,

Sista SistaSister

Kim R. Daniel

Are Our SmartTV's Watching Us?

Your TV Might Be Watching U

Question? How many of us use our televisions in the privacy of our bedrooms? Now what if while watching television, it is watching you; literally... Once upon a time we were analog, and we loosely coined the phrase; "I laid down to watch television, but the television was really watching me". Well Ladies and Gents the phase is absolutely literal now! So watch your SmartTV's; literally.