America by GOD's Design

January 15, 2011  ~  Martin Luther King Jr. has now been dead longer than he lived. But what an extraordinary life it was.


At 33, he was pressing the case of civil rights with President John Kennedy. At 34, he galvanized the nation with his "I Have a Dream" speech. At 35, he won the Nobel Peace Prize. At 39, he was assassinated, but he left a legacy of hope and inspiration that continues today.

This Web site, first created by The Seattle Times in 1996, contains the story of a remarkable man, images of a tumultuous time, and perspectives of politicians, academics, students and the many, ordinary citizens whose lives he touched. We invite you to explore it.  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/special/mlk/

My Granddaughter and President OBAMA

CHOOSING WORDS THAT HEAL.... NOT WOUND!

Planning to Join

an online art groups... to speak against the hate rhetoric and negative tones in American.   Reminding me of the volatile 60's - 70's  etc in my own "Black & Proud" time inmy life

Anticipating MLK Day 2011

"If we are to go forward, we must first go back..."


M.L. King, Jr.

A Mixed Culture Confederate Woman....

YEP... this is who I am.   For the first time... I looked at the Confederate Flag... and glimpsed into the life of my Great-Grandfather John Anderson....

Actually, I was browsing a friendly quilter website... she shared a quilt project for her brotherly.. a loving gesture and she quickly added an apology in case the flag symbol OFFENDED anyone!!!  And for the first time in my.. life I was not offended.... I actually identified with my past family history...

NOTE:::  a few days ago, I mailed off a request for the PENSION info in AR database for James Anderson....  good news hoepfully...

Letting the Pictures express my thoughts

Three or Two or TEA Political Parties.... !!!

Like I'm thinkin.... 
I'm living history.... and luvin it ! ! ! 

Change.... forwards or backwards ???

I am living in America.....   historical times.....

REMEMBERING... this IS where it all started.....!

My scary face.... is a bit like the Scary mid term election.... hmmmmm

A Great Time of the Year!

I am still a black woman in America ..

I remember Fiddler.....
 A child of the 60' thru 80's era.   The lens thru which I see Black history is tinted - indelibly. 


Take the controversey over Juan Williams, NPR, Fox News, MUSLIM Viewspoint, which sounded like how white folk see black dudes and think they are robbers and thieves and rapists.....

I've pondered the thing for days now.   The high and might white news commentators are spinning it.   What us - most often unheard of views are not being touted. 

Something is wrong with the CNN/Fox view of Juan Williams....

and Williams is ultimately wrong.  A bigger goal for Wms should have been to expose sometimes biased/racist attitudes felt by all... rather Fox is pawning him to right-wing conservatism... for which we just cannot vote for!   

EYE COLLECT

This racist diatribe sounds like it comes from a tired lady, a lady on harmones to assist her in getting stable, and a lady who really does not care. She is obviously getting older, less patient, and less sensitive to the world we live in. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@  RACIAL EPITHET is nigger.......   with feelings of endearment -- blacks use the COLLOQUIAL TERM nigga.....  stated and signed off by Bkirk

Washington Post on Schlessinger

My columns misplaced... via a cut and print.... the statement below was from a viewer comment,,, for which I agree..Bkirk

string of n-words.... Some things You should keep to yourself!

I am stunned by this. The venom and emotionalism displayed by Dr. Laure is surprising. The under tone of resentment. The revelation of her views of racial discourse in American politics and life. Her insensitivity to Jade's (her caller's) predicament. The apology here should be to Jade. I don't think a general apology was needed, but as a counselor, WOW, she really missed the boat. She obviously has strong opinions regarding current racial discourse in America. And, if she feels, as she seemed to imply, that her views are middle of the road or neutral, there's is word I would like to offer to her. That word would be DENIAL! She managed to rant and rave about the NAACP and Black Activists, when all the poor caller wanted was help with her personal situation. Dr. Schlesinger was obviously unsympathetic and even implied that she brought it on herself by having an interracial marriage. The doctor goes on to mention all of her black associates as some sort of proof of her lack of racial bias. Any rational person listening to this would have to question her on this. Her raw emotion was palpable and far from neutral. And, hypothetically speaking, if I were black and, G_d forbid there was a racial conflict, where right-minded people, black and white, had to take action to stem the tide of hatred and violence, I would be terrified to have her in my foxhole.ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY News..... Shirley Sherrod

They messed with the wrong generational black woman of 61 years! Another Rosa Parks speaks up.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday called former federal official Shirley Sherrod to express "regret" over her ouster in the midst of a racially tinged firestorm that ensnared the White House, Agriculture Department, NAACP and a blogger.

Her Georgia Dad was Hosie Miller!

There was a “To Kill a Mockingbird” aspect to this story, where you had—and in that—of course, that great story by Harper Lee, an historic woman blaming a black man for a crime that didn‘t even exist. There was no crime in that case. In this case, you have a right-wing blogger who decided to smear a public official, and that got on Fox—the Fox Web site. No surprise there.

And that chain reaction led to the Department of Agriculture, up the chain of command to Tom Vilsack, who now admits that he told this woman to resign. Based on that fact alone, what does that tell you about American life, where a right-wing blogger with no editorial control, no editorial judgment or ethics, is able to smear somebody, have a major television network put that on their Web site within minutes, throw it out there without any editorial judgment or ethics at all, perhaps even a motive, a negative motive, smear this black woman, and then have an administration led by an African-American, somewhere down the chain of command, apparently now at the cabinet level, sack her because of what was decided by a right-wing blogger? What do you make of that state of affairs?

WADE HENDERSON, LEADERSHIP CONF. ON CIVIL & HUMAN RIGHTS : Chris, I have to say, first, your historic analogy between this incident and “To Kill a Mockingbird” is directly on point. Again, I think Harper Lee exposed a deep fissure in American society, the willingness to assume the worst of a black defendant, or in this instance, an African-American employee who was accused of racial bigotry, when in truth, the story that she told was precisely the opposite.

It was a story of personal redemption. It was a story of racial reconciliation. It was a story that should make us all proud to be Americans, having overcome a deep problem in American life regarding race and having moved beyond that in a way that reflects the kind of democracy we hope to achieve in the 21st century.

I think it‘s especially tragic that in this instance, a right-wing blogger in the case of Andrew Breitbart, choosing to establish a moral equivalency, if you will, between the NAACP because of its criticism of the Tea Party movement and trying to establish that the NAACP should be hoisted on its own petard because it was willing to tolerate racism within its own ranks.

Yep... we still be colored folk in america

WASHINGTON — The Tea Party political movement saw a major split over the weekend, with the National Tea Party Federation expelling a member group after its spokesman wrote an online post satirizing a fictional letter from what he called "Colored People" to President Abraham Lincoln.