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The only question is:
'What does it teach?' "


(If you have any doubts, just
watch and listen to your kids!)


In    loving    memory    of    Lloyd    Morgan,    Jr.,    and    of    Jeff,    Dave,    John,    Kevin,    Rick,    and    all    the    other    victims    of    calloused    insensitivity,    selfish    indifference    and    deadly,    uncaring    neglect.

- The Editor
Urban Cartographer Online

"Give a thirsty man dirty water and he will drink it.

Put clean water out there and he will know the difference."

Mario Van Peebles, June 1, 2004
on New York's Morning Show,
with Professor Karen Hunter and Rabbi Shea Hecht
WWRL Radio (www.wwrl1600.com)

National Action Network Photograph

Rev. Al Sharpton Eulogizes 4-year-old Lloyd Morgan, Jr.
who was killed by a stray bullet.
(August 1, 2012) 

URGENT RECALLS NEEDED !

When there are unreasonable risks of injury or death from many types of consumer products, in the United States of America, the government alerts the public with recall notices including
Consumer Product Recall Information
&
Several agencies with vastly different jurisdictions have joined together to provide
Recalls and Product Safety News.

News reports often contain notices alerting the public of contaminated, defective, hazardous or otherwise unsafe meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, beverages, furniture, appliances, motor vehicles, clothing, children's items, tools and other products.

Government agencies, the producers or both warn people not to use the items and usually instruct them to either destroy them or to return them to their source of origin for replacemnt, repair or refund of purchase price.

Product safety recalls occur in various forms in many if not most nations around the planet.

When the founders of the United States took full responsibility, authority and power for the governance of their nation with the famous three words "We the People" a historic milestone was erected.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment 1 of the United States Constitution

The first ten Amendments of the United States Constitution (commonly known as the "Bill of Rights") place severe restrictions on the powers of government to interfere in the areas of conscience, expression and personal freedom.

This was in response to an understanding of World history about the abuses and atrocities that a despotic regime can impose on the people under its rule. Simply read the "Declaration of Independence" for a few reminders.

Modern history and recent events confirm and validate the wisdom and vision of the American founders. This is in spite of shortcomings that they shared with all other human beings (except for ONE) in the chronicle of this planet.

In the United States this places the responsibility for handling, and when necessary recalling and properly disposing of, products that adversely impact the mind and spirit firmly on the shoulders of "We the People" - and presents to us an awesome contemporary challenge.

We should NOT be hesitant
to Listen to the PRESIDENT!

Intelligent People Get the Facts.

. . .

"As Americans, we believe we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, rights that no man or government can take away. We insist on personal responsibility, and we celebrate individual initiative. We're not entitled to success. We have to earn it. We honor the strivers, the dreamers, the risk- takers, the entrepreneurs who have always been the driving force behind our free enterprise system, the greatest engine of growth and prosperity that the world's ever known."

. . .

"But we also believe in something called citizenship — citizenship, a word at the very heart of our founding, a word at the very essence of our democracy, the idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations."

. . .

" 'We, the people' — recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which asks only, what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense."

. . .

"As citizens, we understand that America is not about what can be done for us. It's about what can be done by us, together — through the hard and frustrating but necessary work of self-government. That's what we believe."

. . .

For complete Transcript:
President Obama's 2012 Convention Speech
( September 6, 2012 )
President Obama's 2012 Convention Speech

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment 9 of the United States Constitution

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Amendment 10 of the United States Constitution

According to sociologist W. I. Thomas,
"If people define situations as real,
they are real in their consequences."

A LOOK AT OUR TIMES

Copyright © 2004 by Stan Daniels, Editor,
Urban Cartographer Online
www.eightcitiesmap.com
- all rights reserved.

The Human Rights activists and freedom fighters
of the recent past (most of whom were young at the time),
took a stand to liberate their own communities.

They asked hard questions and demanded intelligent answers.

Today a plague of violence afflicts many communities
with perpetrators whose acts would make them excellent poster children
for the Ku Klux Klan and skinheads.

This has been shown conclusively by the response to our survey of readers of the transcript of the speech that Dr. Bill Cosby gave on May 17, 2004 in Washington, DC. 

TIMELY QUOTES

( " 'Freedom' is NOT Free! " )

"The Siamese twin of freedom
is responsibility.
They're inseparable!"
-- Theo Wilson

"Insanity [is] doing the same thing
over and over again
and expecting different results!"
-- Albert Einstein

"If you always DO
what you always DID,
you will always GET
what you always GOT!"
-- Jackie "Moms" Mabley

The time is long overdue for

Responsibility In Free Speech!

Just because we can
Does not necessarily mean that we should.
We DO have choices
and
Choices have consequences.

(Deuteronomy 30:19, 15-20) 

The "Good Book"
&
Media Responsibility?

Please read and consider

Exodus 20:16
&
Proverbs 12:17-23
&
Ephesians 4:29

As world events unfold before our very eyes, it would do us all well to consider the consequences of our words and actions and govern our lives accordingly.

The "people of the Book" who worship the God of Abraham in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic community should always remember our accountability and responsibilities to a "Higher Authority" - the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe.

Editor's Note:
Another "Wake-up Call"!

Copyright © 2007 by Stan Daniels,
Editor,
Urban Cartographer Online 

(Please read Psalm 4:4, Ephesians 4:26 - 27
and 2 Chronicles 7:14.)

The United States of America has now become the home of the "Grateful Dead" and far too many ungrateful living.

Arrogantly excluding hundreds of millions of fellow inhabitants of the hemisphere, in greedy pursuit of material gain with depraved indifference to human life, misguided persons hypocritically defile the name "America" around the planet.

We now see a land of sagging breeches, collapsing bridges and media manipulated people who are as clueless as a barefoot man is shoeless.

In a state of extreme spiritual depravity, many cannot (or will not) "connect the dots" and see the relationship between the "money trail" and the "bunny's tail."

Decades before the present media and entertainment fueled "ball of confusion," there were clear warnings of impending danger from many people.

Among them Malcolm X issued many clear wake up calls and Martin Luther King, Jr repeatedly challenged people to think. Both urged constructive action.

The renowned call-out from Malcolm X rings just as true today as when he first proclaimed it: "You've been hoodwinked. You've been had. You've been took. You've been led astray . . . You've been bamboozled!"

This was long before the "Ghetto Dogs" (howling, scowling, growling and prowling), and other walking and talking weapons of mass destruction and suicidal havoc were unleashed on many unsuspecting communities and families.

Ossie Davis, the world famous and respected actor and his wife and acting partner, Ruby Dee, helped to open doors and widen horizons for Black people on stage and screen.

They fought zealously for Human Rights from Washington to Hollywood.
Ossie Davis gave the Eulogy for Malcolm X.

When the couple was honored at the Kennedy Center in December, 2004, Ossie Davis stated: "We knew that every time we got a job and every time we were onstage, America was looking to make judgments about all black folks on the basis of how you looked, how you sounded, how you carried yourself. So any role you had was a role that was involved in the struggle for black identification. You couldn't escape it."

Artists and entertainers have had a major impact on societies throughout history.

Whether the influence was positive or negative depended on the message being proclaimed.

"Music is emotional transportation"
- John Turturro
filmmaker and actor
(on the Tavis Smiley Show
in December 2007).

"A lie can get halfway around the world
before the truth can even get its boots on."
- Mark Twain

"Some Thoughts to Think Upon"

Copyright © 2007 by Stan Daniels,
Editor,
Urban Cartographer Online 

(Please read 1 John 4:18 -21,
2 Timothy 1:7
and James 1:16 -27)

Civility, hospitality and respect for human life (and even for the lives of the God's creatures in nature) were once major hallmarks of the Black community.

Generosity and a voracious appetite for education were trademark characteristics that then could be as closely associated with most Black people as the "golden arches" now are with McDonald's restaurants.

Empowered by the spirituality and vision of people of faith, the movement for Human Rights that sprung from the African American community has spread around the globe.

Walls of madness, greed and bigotry that divide members of the human family from other children of God are being torn down.

The impact has spread from Birmingham and Montgomery to Bloemfontein and Johannesburg, Berlin, Moscow and Beijing.

In the tradition of the ancestors, strong values and decency have been clearly articulated by the modern Human Rights movement.

An outstanding example is the message proclaimed by Dr Martin Luther King, Jr at the first mass meeting (5 December 1955) during the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance
and conscientious stupidity."
- Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(in 1963.)


"If you call your brother a n - - - - - ,
that's how you're going to treat him"
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
Read More Here

Every person may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right.

No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.


From:
Article I, Section 6 of the New Jersey State Constitution.

The Power of Words!

The impact of words
(written, spoken and sung)
is enormous.

With that reality comes responsibility
for the consequences of what is uttered
and that should be a very sobering thought.

You can't "un-ring" the bell!

Will history ultimately record that
the human tongue is the deadliest weapon on the planet?

Those who consider themselves to be
"children of Abraham"
throughout the Judeo-Christian-Islamic community
should seriously consider the following references.

(It would not hurt for everyone else
to at least give it some contemplation.)

Proverbs 18:21

James 3:5 -10

I Peter 3:10 -12

--30--

The Editor

 

Admonitions
From Two
Founding Fathers!

"Yes, we did produce a near perfect Republic.

But will they keep it?

Or will they in their enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom?

Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction.

Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."


-- Thomas Jefferson

&

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.

It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."


-- John Adams

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"The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous."
- Frederick Douglass

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Recent Events Prove
STILL RELEVANT TODAY:
The July 4th Words of
Frederick Douglass

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America's
TAHRIR
Challenge & Opportunity!

What Is iCivics?

iCivics (formerly Our Courts) is a web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy.

iCivics is the vision of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is concerned that students are not getting the information and tools they need for civic participation, and that civics teachers need better materials and support.

Please Read More at:
http://www.icivics.org/



Welcome Teachers

Check out all our teacher content, arranged by curriculum units.

Please Read More at:
http://www.icivics.org/teachers

James Brown Speaks
About Today's Songs

"Rap and hip-hop, as much as funk and soul, are all ultimately reflective musical forms. They hold a mirror up to the times, and if that reflection is distorted, it's not the glass that's the problem-it's the perception of the person looking.

As for me, I've always been a stylistic preacher, someone who wants to extend a hand to all races, all colors, both in America and around the world. I'm always ready to lend a hand, give advice, and offer encouragement. After all, I am the Godfather of Soul!

As long as rap is so pervasive right now, maybe it's worth another look. I'll let you in on a little secret. I believe a lot of people in the industry will know what I'm talking about ----- that a lot of the more tasteless aspects of rap is really part of a . . . conspiracy to destroy the integrity of Black music in America. Let me explain what I mean.

I firmly believe that Black music should never be 'dirty.' And if you think about it, how could it be, unless someone . . . was allowing it? . . . I believe a lot of the most anarchic, 'dirty' songs that have made rap something it wasn't intended to be by Blacks were either something they were pressured by labels into recording, or actually products originated . . . to discredit all the artists who rap, and the audiences who buy it . . . so that White people could shake their heads and say, 'See? That's what Black people are really all about. That's how they talk about their girlfriends and worse, their mamas. Instead of building their women up, they portray them as whores and sluts! And that's what they allow their children to listen to.'

Rappers out there, I'm especially talking to you! Listen to your Godfather! I know some of you will think I'm crazy for even suggesting it, but please, maybe we shouldn't all be so quick to dismiss the words of a man who speaks from firsthand knowledge of the music business . . . Somebody's lying to you somewhere, and that someone isn't me . . . we need to get back to the roots of our music, our industry, and our souls. And the only way to do that is to return to the purity of our love for our music, and all the positive things that it represents for us."

From pages 217 - 219 of
ISBN 0-451-21393-9


"I FEEL GOOD
A Memoir of a Life of Soul"

FREEDOM IS NOT FREE!

Democracy is HARD Work!

THE POWER OF

POSITIVE YOUTH

Copyright © 1994
Intercity Sports Review

www.icasports.org

Reprinted with permission

Thanks to irresponsible and greedy elements of the information and entertainment media, many people have an inaccurate and distorted picture of many of today's young people. Outstanding academic, artistic, humanitarian and athletic achievements and contributions by our youths are often ignored or buried deep in print and electronic news reports somewhere between the obituaries, department store sales and classified ads. Meanwhile aberrant (and often abhorrent) sensational acts by a few confused and misguided products of a society that has been unable and/or unwilling to properly educate them grab the banner headlines.

Public policies in many localities, disconcerted by this mentality, annually flush billions of dollars into feeble attempts to treat the effects (rather than deal with the causes) of our predictable and preventable tragic social failures. Meanwhile, in many families, religious, educational and social institutions and communities, the positive people quietly stayed focused on building and preparing for a better future. This publication is a record that resulted from the efforts of a few of them. It is the tip of an iceberg from a glacier of concerned people who are building for a better tomorrow.

The power, potential and influence of positive young people should never be underestimated. (Just think back to the Human Rights movement in the United States during the 1960's.) The achievements outlined on this Web site, and many of those with which it is linked, are a testimony of that fact.

The ball is now in YOUR court.

"I, for one, believe that if you give people a thorough understanding
of what confronts them
and the basic causes that produce it,
they'll create their own program,
and when the people create a program,
you get action."
-Malcolm X

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetrate it."

"We must work on . . . attacking the causes and healing the effects."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Malcolm

 & 

Martin

Just because we can
Does not necessarily mean that we should.
We DO have choices
and
Choices have consequences.

Deuteronomy 30:19, (15-20) 


Say unto them: As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die . . . ?


Say to them: as I live - declares the Lord GOD - it is not MY desire that the wicked shall die, but that the wicked turn from his [evil] ways and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways, that you may not die . . . !

Ezekiel 33:11, (AV and JPS)

PEOPLE ARE PROMOTING PEACE
&
SOCIAL JUSTICE
IN MANY COMMUNITIES

including

New York City

Philadelphia, PA

Newark, NJ

&

around the country

&
around the world

URGENT RECALLS NEEDED !

Since the word recall also means to remember
it is appropriate for us to be:

Remembering Our Heritage

"Liberate the minds of men and ultimately
you will liberate the bodies of men."

- Marcus Garvey 

The Editor speaks
at an African American History Celebration
in Newark, New Jersey (USA).



Photographs by David Robinson
Assistant Pastor, 24-7 Community Church
(Grace Communion International), Newark, NJ

Related items:



AFRICAN HERITAGE MINISTRIES

KEYS TO PEACE  //  ILL NOISE  //  TERRORISM HAS MANY FACES  //  SONGS THAT MAKE SENSE  //  Righteous Indignation  //  Media Manipulation  //  Barbershop  //  CLOSING the EDUCATION GAP  //  Bill Cosby Speaks  //  SNCC & the Student Freedom Movement  //  ROUGH Side of the Mountaintop Speech

It's Time For
MORE GOD
and
LESS "RELIGION" !

Some of the worst atrocities
in human history have been committed
under the guise of "religion"
and
under the color of "law".

In the
Eulogy for
Coretta Scott King,
Elder Bernice King states:

"FIRST SERMON THAT JESUS PREACHED HE WASN'T INVITING PEOPLE TO CHURCH.

EVEN THOUGH WE DO THAT WELL, WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO COME TO OUR VARIOUS CHURCHES TO VISIT.

THAT WASN'T IT.

GOD WASN'T INTERESTED IN GETTING US INTO CHURCH.

BECAUSE CHURCH HAD CRIPPLED US.

AND CREATED TRADITIONS OF MEN, THAT ENTRAPPED US, AND KEPT US FROM EXHIBITING A TRUE SPIRIT OF GOD, WHICH IS UNCODITIONAL LOVE, WHICH CORETTA SCOTT KING EXHIBITED TIME AND TIME AGAIN.

AND MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

AS CHRIST SAID, REPENT!

FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND.

HE WAS SAYING YOU GOTTA CHANGE YOUR MIND NOW, BECAUSE ALL OF THE SYSTEMS THAT YOU HAVE CREATED, ALL OF THE TRADITIONS THAT YOU HAVE COME THRU, THEY ARE FAILING AND THEY ARE FADING AND THEY ARE DOING IT VERY FAST AND VERY QUICK AND THATS WHY YOU SEE RIGHT NOW THERE IS A DIMINISHING OF SOMETHINGS THAT YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED LATELY.

AND GOD IS ELEVATING HIS SPIRIT IN THE EARTH.

SO HE SAID, THE WAY YOU BEEN TRYING TO WORK IT OUT, IT AINT WORKIN NO MORE.

IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GET FREE.

IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO TAKE OFF THE SHACKLES BECAUSE WE HAVE MOVED INTO ANOTHER DIMENSION NOW."

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