Teen shot after throwing rocks | ajc.com

Teen shot after throwing rocks | ajc.com

Neglecting words

Yesterday's message was about SURRENDERING FAITH, so often ppl ask u to keep the FAITH or remain FAITHFUL, but without any recognition of what must transpire in order for your blessings to become complete, it is describes as "Substance of things hoped, the evidence of things not seen"

Basically if u have no vision, don't blame your decision on FAITH! Bcuz most often u will do use the word FAITH but not practice it, then when things go bad, u blame HIM, ask for UNDERSTANDING, that way u can VISUALIZE your blessings & create a foundation for it to stand on

Hard To Find

as i gaze at the city from my artistic view, 

i see families walking, playing, and laughing but where are you?

probably consumed in nothing but want to be taken seriously

what we tell our young people when they have no direction just go be all you can be

but is this reality, is this wrong or right?

i have never accomplished anything in life without a fight

its just something about being the underdog that turns my on switch up

i used to get a kick out of making a quick buck

now i see that all those things i did and even the money i made amounted to nothing

on a quest now for my island queen or spanish seniorita but in the wrong places im loving

i dont want to come off as judmental

but we as a culture need to get back to the basics since reading is fundamental

take what you read and how you listen as a way to improve your character

i know your inner child may be hard to find

This Little Light (Let it Shine, All Of The Lights)

This little LIGHT let it shine, for it is the reason that we pay attention,
this is dedicated to those who put their business on FACEBOOK & Twitter,
maybe you should rent a camera crew so you can at least get paid more than attention,

Let your LIGHT shine, because LIGHT is the only thing that defeat darkness,
Our objective is to get our shine on, not to fall off,
Good intentions are fine, even though NO GOOD DEED goes unpunished even in darkness,

What happens in the dark always comes into the LIGHT,
so if you thought for one moment that you was getting away with your mess, you wrong,
Someone always watching, trust and believe through life you always have to answer to the LIGHT.

Its like the PJs, roaches scatter when u turn the LIGHTS on,
Life is like a new show, if the spotLIGHT is on you, then you need to perform,
but if u not pleasing others, guess what they don't wanna put you on..

NightLIGHTS, bright LIGHTS, shining in the city, flipping tricks, I have to admit it was a lovely life,
But I grew up, I knew that wasn't what HE planned for me,
So now I'm getting my grown man on & building a new life...

Nice LIGHTS, her smile, nice headLIGHTS, her breast, nice reflection, I was talking about her Complexion,
I used to love LIGHTskin females then I grew up, thanks to Keisha & Tiffany I decided to love those with a tan,
Then I moved to East Atlanta and now I am a sucker for accents, culture, & females with my COMPLEXION,

In the midst are dark intentions of the world and in these streets,
I'm determined to let my lil' positive LIGHT shine,
Loving my past because its made me make the right decisions away from the streets.

To the single mothers that think nobody care, LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE,
to the struggling brother who think that he need that fast money, but has the talent to do whatever LET YOUR LIGHT...
Let your Light illuminate the room, All Eyez on You, that's what PAC was talking about, LET it SHINE,

All the wrong in the world, communities, schools, churches, we are closing our eyes & looking the other way,
Criticize me for my thoughts, my words, my life, call me a hypocrite if u want, its my LIGHT,
The thing is, you don't have the power to turn MINE off, lol, I defeated DEATH 3 times, still here, by the way,

In a bad relationship you can't see the troubles or faults until you see the LIGHT,
Been blinded by BS and sold dreams & broken promises,
Now, you at the bar, or in the hood talking about you need a drink or a LIGHT.....

Congrats to all who are in the midst of darkness but letting their LIGHT shine, making those POWER MOVES!  #salute

Dad accused of tattooing his toddler is sentenced | ajc.com

So have we as a society and a people have come to a point in life where stupidity is now an understatement in judgment. I will admit, I met some people in middle school that had a tattoo. And if this is you, by all means who am I to judge you or your parents nor the person who decided you were at 12 or 13 mature enough to have a tattoo. According to the Constitution we as a people have the right to express ourselves freely whether it may be through using your body as a canvas for artistic views and memories or by piercing your flesh. Either way, something has to strike us as strange or morally wrong when you have a story about a parent tattooing his child. At three years old, how bored are you as a parent that you want to give your child a tattoo, or how drunk or high could you be? Then again, how ignorant can you be to brand your child for life because you decide it was a good idea to do this. Click below for a more detailed report of the story. Feel free to post any comments. Dad accused of tattooing his toddler is sentenced ajc.com

NETWORK

They Say So Much

In the midst of March Madness, I can't help but to look out and see the issues in our world.  Earthquakes are natural disasters but what about the famine in the families, the corruption in our government, calamity in our school systems, inflation in gas, the ability to rule the world financially by just killing off your own people.  These issues should not be ignored, the inability to have substance on the radio but the full access of your own people to promote sex and drugs to our youth.  This is not what you want to hear right now but I'm going to say.  The parents who have so much to complain about but never attend a PTSA meeting.  The brother who loves to borrow money but when he has it to spend he never wants to donate.  Talking about the fathers who say they got children but they ate three hot meals today and have new Polo on, but their babies are struggling at home with their bitter mother.  Why?  Well maybe its because of that young girl who was raised by a single mother and never knew what love really was because her real father was absent in her life and the only man that she respected was a janitor at the high school who really wanted to only have sex  with her.  Maybe its that female who is looking for love in all the wrong places and tends to be mad at everybody except the person she sees in the mirror every morning. 
Perhaps I am wrong because I have an opinion and feel it should be valued as well.  Or maybe disturbed the mentality of Southern republicans who crucify our president yet we got some many complaints right while the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi promised a long war.  Your freedom is argued every day, because you don't feel like going to work, yet I got family and friends out here risking their life so that you can debate on what outfit you going to work to the club. 
People in Haiti still haven't recovered from the Earthquake, yet their country has an opportunity to chose a new leader and hopefully reclaim some type of recovery.  After reports of over 230,000 people killed and over $9 billion in damage, how many years do you think it will take for them to recover.  See, our country has suffered economic loses but more due to misappropiation of funds, poor leaders, and the disassembling of some big spending drug cartels.  Did I just say that?  Yes, think about it, if some of the Drug leaders were still free think about how many retail stores would still be open. 
I wonder how many pre-teens, teenagers, and their parents know who is the wealthiest man/person in the world.  Do you?  I asked a class the other day "How many future doctors do I have in the room?"  I had one girl and one boy, then the boy decided that he was just stretching.  The little girl wanted to be a pediatrician.  This was a room of 30 seventh graders.  I know they are young now, but I honestly feel the exposure to real substance and believeable characters rather than a dope boi, pusherman, rapping, robbing image is so fictional in this storybook lifestyle of the poor leading the blind that I am about to start pushing harder towards leadership groups and pushing harder on these young men 25 and older that I refer to as OG's because technically and sadly we are.  So many young men are losing their life at a young age including prison sentences that we are the survival kits to the new generation. 
Schools are suffering because of lack of funds, almost having to place every old school under probation because of lack of funds and poor test results.  Thoughts of doign away with the trades/elective style classes because leaders feel that it is a waste of money and time.  As if the students don't need a break.  Majority of the adults have low attention span so how you expect the chidren not to act up or out when they are forced to stay in a classroom all day.  We are paying superintendents in Georgia roughly about $250,000 on average this includes salary, bonuses, car and phone stipends.  A quarter of a million dollars to one person.  I'm pausing because I know some that are reading this don't know.  Yet we are in the hole as a state in budget, oh, but we do have enough money to build new schools each year.  Schools may I add that have to be maintained yet are million dollar facilities.  Who said you don't need Algebra we you become an adult?  What's x + y(z) = ?  Don't worry I'll wait, for those who pay taxes every year and have children check your W2 and YTD start putting 2 and 2 together.  Better ask more questions start being more involved.  Your parents didn't raise you to be just like them, you were designed to be better.

Normally, people go on blogs and facebook and begin to flex and flaunt about what they got or wish they had. I'm the type to talk about real life.  I had a lil' boi come to me the other day and say he was from Thomasville, well my family is from Thomasville too sir, but you're young enough to be my child so what you remember about Thomasville might not be the real.

I wanna say I love my full Family, Earleys (Thomasville), Minters (Mechancsville & spreaded out throughout the U.S.), Rowe (Fairburn & the Southside/Westside), Sneeze (Custer Ave & the Westside). 

Understand I'm a YOUNG HEART & OLD SOUL.