Archive for the ‘perspective’ Category
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Keep It Moving
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
Only fools continue to doubt the worth of a high school diploma. Statistics speak for themselves. The 50 percent black student drop-out rate alone, with one third of them landing in jail, should bring the value up. It’s a fact that limited education equals limited income, a limited lifestyle, and limited opportunities. But don’t count on high school alone to make [...]
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You Can’t Handle the Truth!
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Is it possible to want something so much that a person will do the wrong thing to get it? Yes. Take the neighborhood schools bill that was pre-filed in the state senate this past week. Outrage over transportation already had the busing controversy in the hot seat, but it was the hundreds of bus riders [...]
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The Sound of Silence
Monday, January 4th, 2010
In hit movie Precious, a story of abuse, Monique plays Precious’ mother and delivers in a powerful scene that comes near the end. In this scene she confesses to a caseworker played by Mariah Carey that she didn’t want her boyfriend to abuse daughter Precious; yet by her own admission, it happened because he, in essence, ordered her to [...]
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60 Seconds of Fame
Friday, December 4th, 2009
Louie Jones of The Louie Jones Show on Blog Talk Radio once told me to look for the gray cars. Translation: Pay attention to the opportunities around you. Like gray cars, they blend into the atmosphere. Once aware of them, though, they are easily seen. In October I identified one when I stepped off the elevator of the visitors’ bureau in [...]
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Gratitude Attitude
Monday, November 30th, 2009
If you’re on Tyler Perry’s mailing list you know about the childhood memories he shared. Horrific accounts of the kind of verbal and sexual abuse that could have made him bitter, but made him thankful, instead, for all he has overcome, as well as the new life it has led him to. Evidence you can see in his life and his work. He’s [...]
