MIND YOUR 'P's!'*-

MIND YOUR 'P's!'*-

(A variant - of Mom's "Mind your 'P's & 'Q's!" -

which could be used to inspire success in life: Check off those which apply to You!)

1. Perceptiveness -

2. Perspicacity -

3. Proactiveness -

4. Productiveness -

5. Purposefulness -

6. Perseverance -

7. Propriety -

8. Passion -

9. Panache -

10. Proper -

11. Practical -

12. Proficient -

13. Profound -

14. Persuasive -

15. Path-Finding -

16. Perdurable -

17. Proportionateness -

18. Patience -

19. Peppy -

20. Pace-Setting -

21. Path-Breaking -

22. Plugged-In -

23. Proponent -

24. Powerful -

25. Pragmatic -

26. Prepared -

27. Prompt -

28. Propitious -

29. Performance -

30. Pivotal -

31. Pioneering -

32. Positive -

33. Precise -

34. Professional -

35. Progressive -

36. Proud -

37. Partnered -

38. Paver -

39. Patron -

40. Philosophical -

41. Piquant -

42. Popular -

41. Prepossessing -

44. Protecive -

45. Punctilious -

46. Polished -

47. Poised -

48. Plucky -

49. Photogenic -

50. Philanthropic -

51. Personable -

52. Partying -

53. Providential -

54. Prudent -

55. Peace-Maker -

56. Prosperous -

57. Promising -

58. Presentable -

59. Playful -

60. Pet-Loving -

61. Precocious -

62. Prioritizing -

[If you're a politician, president(White House), puppet, pervert, poltroon, profiteer, prevaricator, primadonna, pimp, psychopath, pickpocket, pornographer, purblind, procurer, plunderer, popinjay, prude, psychotic, paranoid, pistol-packing, predatory, parasite, procrastinator, perfidious, pestilential party-pooper - this article is not for you!]

SCORING: 0 - 10 Go take a Dale Carnegie course!

11 - 29 You 'got promise'...

30 - 41 Your parents did a good job!

42 - 62 Will you marry me?

* We'll deal with the 'Q's another time...smiles

"...LOOK FOR ME IN THE WHIRLWIND..."

"...LOOK FOR ME IN THE WHIRLWIND..."

(A 17th August 2007 Personal Commemoration of Marcus Garvey Day)

Perhaps, in reflecting on Marcus Garvey's portentous 'Whirlwind' admonition, we can begin to understand the August 12 - 17th 2007 riotous concatenation of events, as Garvey's influence might've been swirling raucously amidst this week's flurry of events: (Notice that the following events directly affect mostly people of color everywhere, although this shouldn't be surprising, since three quarters of this entire world's population is comprised of - people of color:

- The passings of the veteran Historian Asa Hilliard and musician Max Roach and Caroline Goodman, mother of slain civil rights rider Goodman of the murdered trio - Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner;

-Category 5 Hurricane "Dean" with 140 to 150 mile per hour winds whipping through the Caribbean heading for my Grand Mother's island of Jamaica, and Cancun;

- 300+ Iraquis dead and many more injured in suicide bombings;

- Peru's 1500+ dead from the effects of an earthquake;

-3 more coal miners dead - looking for their 6 missing colleagues;

- Arraignment of Latino alleged killers of 3 young Newark, New Jersey Blackfolk, whom the white 'mainstream' media insist on calling "students," as though that categorization makes their murders more important than if they were not 'students;'

-NYC Police Commissioner Adolph Kelly shamefully bouncing out with a color-targetting, 'The Sky's Falling!' - 'The Muslims Are Coming!' publication screeching about supposed 'home grown' local "terorists" in our midst;

-Greasy Attorney General Alberto Gonzales pushing for unconscionable and drastic shortening of Death Row folks' appeals times (most of those on Death Row are 'of color');

-The outrageous bullShit arraignment racist/colorist D.A. Charles Hines of Brooklyn, N.Y. brought against Hueman Rights Warrior Attorney Michael Warren (he and his Attorney wife Evelyn, witnessing the 77th pct. Sgt. Talvey & gang of blue thugs kicking, stomping and beating a handcuffed, lying-on-the-ground young Black male - asked why they were beating the boy instead of just arresting him, were then savagely beaten themselves, arrested and charged with the usual 'resisting arrest' - blah, blah, blah) - But, happily, there was an inspiringly large crowd of us 'Warren Supporters' in the courtroom!;

...all of this week's 'Babylon-Falling' events culminating - on Marcus Garvey's Day - with the opening of Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network's 3-day series of Forums at the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building. I was just in time to attend the 'Media Forum,' hosted by NAN's Public Relations Officer, Rachel Noerdlinger (yes, she's 'of color'). The question she asked - whether there was racism in the nation's news rooms was - I think - the wrong question - we already know that there's rank racism/colorism in the newsrooms of the U.S.A. - the question should've been - "What can be done about the racism in this nation's newsrooms?

This week, I wrote a letter to Mychal Bell, one of "The Jena 6' (google that and get the GodAwful story for yourself) - to give him some cheer in his jail cell:

Mychal Bell, Inmate,

A-Dorm, LaSalle Correctional Center,

15976 Highway 165, Olla, LA 71465-4801

(you write the boy too, please)

COLORISM REIGNS -

BUT TAKE HEART-

MARCUS GARVEY IS 'IN THE WHIRLWIND!'

QUINN-QUALM:

QUINN-QUALM:

Social Misbehavior The U.S.A. Can't Afford

Carol Taylor R.N.

590 Flatbush Avenue

Ste.11A BK NY 11225-4935

15 August 2007

Hon. Federal Judge William H. Pauley III

U.S.A. District Court - Southern District

500 Pearl Street

New York City, N.Y.

Dear Judge Pauley:

With respect to the unfortunate and egregious example of untreated racist/colorist treatment with which New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has degraded New York City Councilman's Aide Viola Plummer, a Black activist from Brooklyn, may I tell you that as a concerned resident of Brooklyn, I am distinctly outraged.

In my estimation, and as a longtime activist myself, with over twenty years of community anti-racism/colorism research and training , Ms Quinn has overstepped her authority and, as I wrote to her, has revealed a deeply entrenched level of untreated colorism which has embarassed her and, in her capacity as Speaker, the entire New York City Council. I am not only embarassed as a local citizen by her obvious colorism, I am angry that she has gratuitously showered her opprobrium on to the hired and appointed Aide of the Hon.City Councilman Charles Barron.

I would like to see Ms Quinn referred to the administration of the www.racismtest.com (Racism/Colorism Quotient Test Program with Follow-Up psychological/psychiatric Counseling, whichever is indicated) for the healing she so obviously needs, as evidenced by her overstepping of her authority in the current contretemps with Ms Plummer.

Sincerely,

Carol Taylor R.N.

First Black U.S.A. Flight Attendant

HYPOCRISY

HYPOCRISY

590 Flatbush Avenue

Ste.11A BK NY 11225-4935

"Prejudice Is Learned - It Can Be Unlearned"

August 14, 2007

Christine C. Quinn

Speaker

The Council of The City of New York

City Hall

New York, N.Y. 10007

Dear Ms. Quinn,

Thank you for the August 6, 2007 scattergun form letter you sent to me. I very

much appreciate (in the older sense of that word) appreciate being so facilely

relegated by you to the 'just-one-of-the-noisy-crowd' category. However,

I can't allow you to slither out from under the rock of accountability so easily;

your letter had not one whit to do with responding to the two salient points

in my first letter to you dated July 16, 2007. In that letter, I specifically stated that

I was not responding directly to your (illegal) treatment of Ms Viola Plummer

(a judge'll deal with that), yet in your letter to me you refer to "...litigation pending

involving Ms. Viola Plummer!

I reiterate herein, my allusion to "...the vicious level of untreated racism/colorism within you which caused you not only to publicly expose yourself as deeply infected/fettered by this society's racist/colorist conditioning, but to, consequently, cause long term and divisive harm to the Council of which you are an administrative part." And I repeat the offer to help heal that disease with the www.racismtest.com with Follow-Up psychiatric/psychological Counseling until the direly-needed healing is effected - for you and your City Council members.

In Expectation of receiving a direct response to the above remedial offer,

I Remain,

(There is only one race---the hueman race; there is no "s" at the end of the word "race." In fact and in truth, the concept of "race" is bogus; recent DNA studies have proven that we are all descended from the same, beautiful, blue-black, first-on-the-earth hueman beings in Africa - therefore, we hueman beings are all African; some of us may be a little less or more 'rinsed out' thatn others --we've evolved into varying colors--but we're all interrelated--one family--the hueman family. So, there is no meaning to such divisive terms as, "interracial," "bi-racial," "transracial," "multiracial," "races," or "out of your race!" (In fact, using these scientifically inaccurate terms renders one complicit in the continuation and pervasiveness of untreated racismcolorism)

There is no positive future for 'racial profiling' which we call "color profiling")

Carol Taylor R.N.

President/Founder: The Institute for "Interracial" Harmony, Inc.

Inventor: The Racism/Colorism Quotient Test Program (Which every member of our society should be given to counteract the miseducation they've received from an institutionally racist/colorist system)

Author: The Little Black Book: Black Male Survival in America: Staying Alive & Well in an Institutionally RACIST society

First Black U.S.A. Flight Attendant

STUFF (THAT’S NOT ‘FIT TO PRINT!’)

The Hearts of Darkness

How White Writers Created the Racist Image of Africa

By Milton G. Allimadi

Published by:Black Star Books, Co.

ISBN #:0-9740039-0-5

85 pp

Reviewed by:Carol Taylor

This classic book had to be published – the truth had to be stated.

It has, con mucho gusto, by an African-born topnotch investigator, Ugandan veteran journalist Milton Allimadi, the incisive, clear thinking world affairs commentator, Publisher of New York City’s Black Star newspaper.

If words help to shape human behavior and deeds, and they do – then certainly, Allimadi’s well-chosen, descriptive quotes serve to reiterate the book’s important main focus on the racism (colorism) replete in white writers’ coverage. (Notice he doesn’t call them “journalists,” – many of whom contributed to the New York Times down through the years)

Quoting from his extensive ‘Sources’ list, he includes African Notebook by Albert Schweitzer, African Religions in Western Scholarship, by Ugandan Okot p ‘Bitek, Black Skins, White Masks, by Dr.Frantz Fanon, and Notes On The State of Virginia, by Thomas Jefferson, among others. These provide substantial grounding for Allimadi’s conclusion that, unlike news reports covering social unrest in Europe, (never, of course, “white-on-white crime”) similar unrest in Black Africa was always portrayed by white writers (and, unfortunately, by some low-self esteemed Black writers) as ‘tribal unrest’ and/or “Black-on-Black crime” – (an ultra-racist/colorist phrase).

One of the most harrowing aspects of Allimadi’s herculean and critical analysis of the misrepresentation of affairs in Africa is that those of us ‘Westerners’ who consider ourselves mightily literate and nicely well-read, have been arrogantly ignorant of how the white wool of color-biased reporting has been purposefully and continuously pulled over our eyes by writers who have been held up to us as “journalism’s finest.”

The Hearts of Darkness, thank veracity and goodness, has irretrievably snatched the wool off and illustrated, with vivid prose, that it’s really the truth - that’s ‘fit to print.’

Reviewer’s Warning: Be prepared for some strongly-abhorrent quotations from quoted white writers.

Majority-'Minority?' - (Insanity Reigns)

Majority-'Minority?'

(Insanity Reigns)

(This article appeared in the Daily Challenge newspaper - under 'Guest Editorial,' Wednesday, September 5, 2001 - but the import is so current, so 'on point,' I couldn't help re-'playing ' it!)

We are here in New York City - right? Where the Census shows tht the numbers of people of color are far greater than the numbers of whites - just like the numbers of people of color the world over are far greater than the world's numbers of whites.

So, how come in New York City, politicians, pundits, professionals including anchor people and journalists, keep calling us "minorities?" Can't they count? (Or pay attention to the Census figures?)

Insanity is defined as the inability (unwillingness?) to deal with reality. We can understand society's unwillingness to deal with change; we might even be able to understand plain laziness and inertia, but when the evidence that the majority of people in this city is in-your-face mucho melanin, what is the excuse for not admitting the truth of the numbers?

One of the starkest illustrations of either colorblindness or perhaps they're sending "us" a message, is the article (front page, Monday August 27, 2001) by Erica Goode, writer for The New York Times. Would you believe her article had the word "minority" fifteen times? My college professor (English composition) at Elmira College, Dr. Kharl, taught us that one, if possible, does not usually use the same word in an article more than once or twice! Is there a not-so-subtle message we people of color are supposed to get from such redundancy?

Another illustration of color dissonance occurs regularly on WABC Channel 7 newscasts. One evening, on the five o'clock news, I counted seven "minorities" in the newscast! Are 'these people' trying to send us subliminal messages? What about the woman who used the term "majority-minority" (mimicking the former NYPD Police Commissioner, Bratton, who also used that phrase) on WBAI Radio Pacifica last week? DUH! Insanity reigns!

We, the Majority folk in New York City (And the world -especially at this week's United Nations World Conference Against Racism) need to stand up and loudly proclaim, "We Are The Majority!"

And every time we hear or see those recalcitrant folk using that "M" word to describe us - we should send them the following admonition:

"You are invited to join the 21st Century!

STOP calling us People of Color - The world's Majority - 'minority!'

(Check out the population figures for New York City & the world!)"

___Carol Taylor

First Black U.S.A. Flight Attendant

Author: The Little Black Book: Black Male Survival in America: Staying Alive & Well in an Institutionally Racist Society Tel: (718) 856 1271

OUTRAGEOUS SLINGS & ARROWS OF UNTREATED RACISM/COLORISM:

The Illegal Martyring of BlackAfrikan Attorney Alton H. Maddox, Jr.

When one learns that, Mr. Maddox, Jr. - with more researched legal knowledge than all of his predators put together - is the only lawyer in American jurisprudence who has been given consecutive sentences for an alleged offense - suspended from the practice of law without a hearing since 1990 - disbarred without notice and without a hearing, valid questions must be asked and strong actions must be taken!

His Civil Rights appeal in the U.S.A. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit'll be heard "...no earlier than the week of 9/24/07."

Where are the other Black attorneys' actions in righteous concern for the due process and fair treatment of their Brother Black Attorney? Where are their public statements and publications in support of Mr. Maddox, Jr. - even in the consideration of their own self-interest : there but for the Grace of God THEY go!

You should be aware that other attorneys - white of course, have been indicted for various offenses, sentenced, fined and jailed and have emerged to subsequently re-enter their law practices - not Black Activist Attorney Maddox; even the disgraced attorney/Judge Sol Wachtler, punished - serving a sentence for criminal offense against a 14 year old daughter of his ex-paramour - out and practicing law! Not Black Attorney Activist Alton H. Maddox, Jr.!

What is the difference between these 'loosed' criminal attorneys and Attorney Alton H. Maddox? What could it be? With only a few exceptions (mostly Black mediaFolk) the 'mainstream' (read-'white') mediapeople have consistently refused to cover this extraordinary situation of one of America's foremost, talented, principled, capable, remarkable, much-admired-by-his-legal-counterparts Black Afrikan Warrior Attorney! WHY?

What is the reason for this exceptional, conspiratorial, persistent, predatory, condemnatory, targetting, racist/colorist, colorphobic treatment of a singularly outspoken, brave, talented Black man? And he is Black - as heard only in Barbados, West Indies one day - "dark" Black! Could that be the reason for such protracted and obvious enmity?

Could the fact that Attorney Alton H. Maddox, Jr. wears the gloriously deep color of Blackness - coupled with his oft-stated unwillingness to go down on bended knee to those who feel that because of their 'rinsed out' melanin skins, they deserve submissive behavior from darker folk? Is the untreated racism/colorism so epidemic within the so-called 'justice system' so embedded, so irrational and so entrenched in individuals that to even mention the possibility of such pathology is an untenable matter that white mediapeople who call themselves fearless and progressive absolutely fear to raise?

That this outrageous treatment of a Black professional person is of prime interest to thousands of citizens (and non-citizens) is not to be gainsaid. What is singularly remarkable is the 'white media silence' surrounding Mr. Maddox and his singularly repressive treatment by those sworn to uphold American laws.

And just exactly what is the operative issue here with the OVER SEVENTEEN YEAR 'LEGAL' EXILE OF ATTORNEY ALTON H. MADDOX, JR?!!! People of conscience, of good will, of belief in equitable treatment for hueman beings and TRUTHCENTRICITY want to know!

Too many folk within the boundaries of the United States of America believe that the Jim Crow labeling and subsequent lynch-treatment of "uppity negroes" is over. Evidently this 'ain't necessarily so!'

What Attorney Alton H. Maddox, Jr. has been and is still going through - just doesn't pass the 'smell Test!'

When 'they' do it to him - they're doing it to Blackyou and Blackme - don't fool yourself: white male supremacist colonialism reigns!