OBAMA

Another state for the records.....

ONLY A WOMAN OF COLOR

ONLY A WOMAN OF COLOR

Can work full time while finishing school, raising respectful and intelligent children, be active in the PTA and a make it all seem effortless


ONLY A WOMAN OF COLOR

Can make a $100 out of 15 Cents

ONLY A WOMAN OF COLOR

Can go from the boardroom to the 'hood and "keep it real" in both places.




ONLY A WOMAN OF COLOR

Can slap the taste out of your mouth.


ONLY A WOMAN OF COLOR

Can live below poverty level and yet set fashion trends.

ONLY A WOMAN OF COLOR

Can fight two struggles everyday and make it look easy.



ONLY A WOMAN OF COLOR

Can be 75 years old and look 45!

ONLY A WOMAN OF COLOR
Can make other women want to pay plastic surgeons top $$$ for physical features she was already born with.



ONLY A WOMAN OF COLOR
Can be the mother of civilization.

Tell someone they're beautiful today

YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL!!!

O B A M A

SOME ONE SENT THIS TO ME AND I THINK ITS BEAUTIFUL! I'm not going to change her message below the photo for I agree with her. LET'S BLOW THIS ELECTION OUT OF THE WATER LET'S MAKE HISTORY BY BEING A PART OF IT. IF NOT NOW WHEN?


I realize that some folks are supporting Hillary Clinton and if you are you need to read this.

The attached photo inspired me to turn off my tv and sit down and write this to you. To me this photo is a picture of a strong black man who, in the face of a setback, is cherishing a moment with the support of a strong black woman who is 100% behind him. Together they are making history. This is the America I want to live in. This is what our families should be like and can be like.

If this photo moved you the way it moved me, forward it to every black person you know.

Many black folks in America talk hesitantly about voting for Barack Obama in the primaries and caucuses. That is certainly understandable. But here are a few things to consider:

Sports among other things, is a microcosm of the mentality of society. Recently, the NFL has mandated teams to interview at least one qualified minority candidate for each opening. Every NFL owner signed off on it. "Qualified" head coaches are plucked from the ranks of offensive and defensive coordinators. Look around, no one is promoting black offensive or defensive coordinators...in pros or college. In effect it nullifies the opportunity altogether.

When Kareem dominated the game, the college basketball leaders outlawed dunking. Yes, it's true.
As Tiger Woods blazed the trail, the golf governors sought to "Tiger-proof" courses.
Obama's big bre ak came during his Democratic National Convention speech. Rest assured, he will be the last black person to get that kind of national stage if it follows the same pattern as sports. Not my child, not my grandchild, not yours either.

Many of us, me included, say America isn't ready to vote him in yet. I wonder, is he the best guy for the job or am I interested in him only because he's black? His opponent being a woman is suddenly enough, so is being black any less dignifying? Maybe, maybe not.

However, 20-30 years from now, we'll have to tell our grandkids why we v oted the way we did. How will we justify it then when sports have taught us that the field will be changed almost immediately as soon as black person rises to the pinnacle? So if not now, it's not a question of when. The answer may be NEVER.

Twenty or thirty years from now some of us will answer to Emmitt Till, Medgar Evers, Martin, Malcolm and GOD himself in heaven as to why we passed up this opportunity. GOD will remind us that HE gave us the story of Joshua and Caleb and the lack of self-determination and self-worth that lead to 40 years of wilderness when the promised land was a hill away.
GOD may ask us: Didn't your great grandfathers die for this chance? Didn't your grandparents pray for this chance? Didn't you hope and dream of this chance? I heard your prayers, sorrows, and cries. Didn't I give you the chance? Why after 400 years of bondage, would you reason with yourself to pass it up? Did you not understand it was less about you and more about ME?

"EXERCISE" AND HISTORY

YOU KNOW HOW GOD SENDS PEOPLE INTO YOUR LIFE AT THE RIGHT TIME. WELL, THIS YOUNG MAN HAS BEEN MY EXERCISE COACH. OR SHOULD I SAY THE ONE WHO HAS BEEN BUGGING ME ABOUT THAT E---- STUFF. MICKEY HAS BEING KEEPING UP WITH ME & MY EXERCISES.
IF YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ME KNOW THAT I HATE, DETEST, DESPISE THE WORD EXERCISE. I'VE NEVER LIKE ANYTHING ABOUT IT. WHEN I WAS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL I WAS THE PHAT GIRL SO I ONLY PLAYED DODGE BALL. I ONLY PLAYED THAT SO I COULD LIGHT UP THOSE LITTLE SKINNY CHICKS WHO MADE FUN OF ME. AND I WAS REAL GOOD AT IT. THEN IN HIGH SCHOOL I LOST THE WEIGHT AND FROM THAT POINT ON ....
NOW THAT I'VE MATURED SOMEWHAT AND CAME INTO MY FULLNESS, I'M SUPPOSE TO EXERCISE. AWWWWWWWWWW DAMN

I'M TRYING BUT I JUST DON'T FEEL IT.
THERE HAVE BEEN PEOPLE THAT DIE FROM DOING THIS STUFF...ATHLETES THAT WERE IN GREAT SHAPE , GREAT BODS ....


Florence Griffith Joyner celebrates her Olympic victory. Flo-Jo dies at 38.
Florence Griffith Joyner, triple gold medalist at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, has died at the age of 38. The American sprinter apparently suffered a heart seizure at her home in Mission Viejo, California.

Griffith Joyner, known by her fans as Flo-Jo, captivated the world with her phenomenal speed and flamboyant style but her rapid improvement and her tremendous physique .Famous fingernails. Known for her self-designed running uniforms and six-inch painted fingernails, she also won a 1984 Olympic silver medal in the heptathlon and 1992 bronze medal in the long jump.
She was the wife of 1984 Olympic triple-jump gold medalist Al Joyner and the sister-in-law of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, the six-time Olympic medalist and world heptathlon record-holder.
Griffith Joyner set women's 100 and 200-metre world records in 1988.

Florence Griffith Joyner in action
Griffith Joyner first captured the headlines with an amazing series of runs in the US Olympic trials in 1988 and became the first woman to run the 100m in 10.49 seconds.

At Seoul she won the 100m in a wind-assisted 10.54, then set two world records at the 200m, running the semi-final in 21.56 and the final in 21.34.
White acknowledges the crowd when the Packers retired his number in 1999 -- then he unretired and played for Carolina in 2000.

Reggie White, a fearsome defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers who was one of the great players in NFL history, has died. White turned 43 on Dec. 19. White had a respiratory ailment for several years that affected his sleep.
A two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year and ordained minister who was known as the "Minister of Defense," White played a total of 15 years with Philadelphia (1985-92), Green Bay (1993-98) and Carolina (2000). He retired after the 2000 season as the NFL's all-time leader in sacks with 198. The mark has since been passed by Bruce Smith.
A member of the NFL's 75th anniversary team, White was elected to the Pro Bowl a record 13 straight times 1986-98. He was the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year in 1987 and 1998.
"He was just a wonderful player, first of all, as a player," said Seattle coach Mike Holmgren, who coached White at Green Bay. "Then as a person, he was just the best. He was one of the leaders, along with Brett Favre, of our football team in Green Bay. I'm a better person for having been around Reggie White."
White earned Favre's respect on and off the field.
"He may have been best player I've ever seen and certainly was the best I've ever played with or against," the Green Bay quarterback said Sunday. "Off the field, he did so much for so many people. He really reached a lot of people. ... He was a great friend on and off the field. We'll all miss him."
After an All-American senior season at Tennessee, White began his pro career with the Memphis Showboats of the USFL in 1984. He joined the Philadelphia Eagles, who held his NFL rights, after the USFL folded in 1985. For eight years, he was as an integral piece in Philadelphia's "Gang Green Defense."
White played a key role in free agency -- he was one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit that led to the current system.
White signed as a free agent with Green Bay in 1993 for $17 million over four years. The Packers made consecutive Super Bowl appearances, including a win over New England in 1997, when White set a Super Bowl record with three sacks.
Fame player and possibly the best defensive lineman ever to play the game."

SO WHY IT'S SO GREAT TO BE IN SHAPE AGAIN....

HISTORY: Irene Morgan

A young Irene Morgan

Eleven years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, a young woman named Irene Morgan rejected that same demand on an interstate bus headed to Maryland from Gloucester, Virginia. Recovering from a miscarriage and already sitting far in the back, she defied the driver's order to surrender her seat to a white couple. Like Parks, Morgan was arrested and jailed. But her action caught the attention of lawyers from the NAACP, led by Thurgood Marshall, and in two years her case reached the Supreme Court.
Though the lawyers fervently believed that Jim Crow - the curious pseudonym for racial segregation - was unjust, they recognized the practice was still the law of the land, upheld by the 1896 Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Instead of seeking a judgment on humanitarian grounds or the equal protection provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment, they made the seemingly arcane argument that segregation in interstate travel violated the Constitution's Interstate Commerce Clause.

On June 3, 1946, that strategy paid off. In Irene Morgan v. Virginia, the court ruled that segregation in interstate travel was indeed unconstitutional as "an undue burden on commerce." But though that the decision was now law, the southern states refused to enforce it, and Jim Crow continued as the way of life in the South. Yet there were those determined to do something about it.
In the spring of 1946, Irene Morgan, a black woman, boarded a bus in Virginia to go to Baltimore, Maryland. She was ordered to sit in the back of the bus, as Virginia state law required. She objected, saying that since the bus was an interstate bus, the Virginia law did not apply. Morgan was arrested and fined ten dollars. Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP took on the case. They argued that since an 1877 Supreme Court decision ruled that it was illegal for a state to forbid segregation, then it was likewise illegal for a state to require it. The United States Supreme Court agreed:

"As no state law can reach beyond its own border nor bar transportation of passengers across its boundaries, diverse seating requirements for the races in interstate journeys result. As there is no federal act dealing with the separation of races in interstate transportation, we must decide the validity of this Virginia statute on the challenge that it interferes with commerce, as a matter of balance between the exercise of the local police power and the need for national uniformity in the regulations for interstate travel. It seems clear to us that seating arrangements for the different races in interstate motor travel require a single, uniform rule to promote and protect national travel. Consequently, we hold the Virginia statute in controversy invalid."

The court did not rule that segregated transportation within the state was unconstitutional. The ruling, while another defeat for segregation in law, did not have an immediate impact. Buses still segregated its passengers until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s put an end to the practice once and for all.