Peep this out!!
This just in; good food for thought:
In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman that she should
bring her own grocery bag because plastic bags weren't good for the
environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the
green thing back in my day."
The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. The former generation did
not care enough to save our environment."
He was right, that generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, they returned their milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles
to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and
sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So
they really were recycled.
But they didn't have the green thing back in that customer's day.
In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn't have an escalator
in every store and office building. They walked to the grocery store and
didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time they had to go two
blocks.
But she was right. They didn't have the green thing in her day.
Back then, they washed the baby's diapers because they didn't have the
throw-away kind. They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling
machine burning up 220 volts - wind and solar power really did dry the clothes.
Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always
brand-new clothing.
But that old lady is right; they didn't have the green thing back in her
day.
Back then, they had one TV, or radio, in the house - not a TV in every
room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief, not a screen
the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, they blended and stirred
by hand because they didn't have electric machines to do everything for you.
When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used a wadded
up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, they didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the
lawn. They used a push mower that ran on human power. They exercised by
working so they didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that
operate on electricity.
But she's right; they didn't have the green thing back then.
They drank from a fountain when they were thirsty instead of using a cup
or a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water. They refilled
their writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and they replaced the
razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just
because the blade got dull.
But they didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to
school or rode the school bus instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour
taxi service. They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank
of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And they didn't need a
computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in
space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful the old folks
were just because they didn't have the green thing back then?
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Did you do your taxes???
Here is something to think about......especially while gassing your car!!!
Exxon Mobil, the wealthiest corporation in history, made over $45 billion in profits in just one year but paid zero U.S. taxes. General Electric, which made over $14 billion in profit in 2010, has actually gotten the U.S. Treasury to pay the company more than a $3 billion tax refund! And there are many other highly profitable corporations, including Bank of America, received billions in tax refunds from U.S. taxpayers.
Meantime funding for healthcare, schools and other vital programs is being slashed. And workers aren’t getting tax breaks.
What’s wrong with this picture?
Tell me what you think.....cause I think that stuff is crazy!!!!!
Exxon Mobil, the wealthiest corporation in history, made over $45 billion in profits in just one year but paid zero U.S. taxes. General Electric, which made over $14 billion in profit in 2010, has actually gotten the U.S. Treasury to pay the company more than a $3 billion tax refund! And there are many other highly profitable corporations, including Bank of America, received billions in tax refunds from U.S. taxpayers.
Meantime funding for healthcare, schools and other vital programs is being slashed. And workers aren’t getting tax breaks.
What’s wrong with this picture?
Tell me what you think.....cause I think that stuff is crazy!!!!!
Monday, April 11, 2011
Every 26 seconds !!!!!
peep this my people let's make some changes!!!
One dropout every 26 seconds is ticking time bomb for blacks
A whopping 40 percent of African-American students don't graduate from high school. These dismal statistics are creating an underclass of African-Americans who have become unemployable, while also affecting the very fibers of the black family structure.
Opinion
One dropout every 26 seconds is ticking time bomb for blacks
By Lawrence C. Ross
04/06/2011
Between the trials and tribulations of the controversial No Child Left Behind law, the growing issue of bullying in schools, and the feeling that parents, teachers and administrators are all searching for a magic solution to the problem that is the American educational system, here comes more bad news.
Recently, President Barack Obama's education secretary Arne Duncan stated that every 26 seconds, a student drops out of high school. But things are even worse for black students; a whopping 40 percent of African-American students don't graduate from high school. These dismal statistics are creating an underclass of African-Americans who have become unemployable, while also affecting the very fibers of the black family structure.
Marc Williams, a high school music theory teacher at Cesar Chavez Charter School in Washington DC, also works with the school's retention program. He sees a number of different causes for black students not finishing high school.
"Our (African-American) students are dropping out of school for a number of reasons. Aside from the cookie-cutter answers that most folks give that speak to the lack of support from within the household, the fact that many of our students don't have a 'set' of parents, and the obvious idea that many urban schools lack the fiscal resources that other schools have, there are some other things to consider here," Williams said.
"We, as educators, are failing our students," he added. "Independent and charter schools (in particular), in order to meet budgets, are spending less money for newer, inexperienced teachers that come fresh off the stage of graduation and into a situation that is a culture shock for them... It's a set up for failure."
When you dig deeper, you find that black boys in particular are in a crisis mode. According to the Massachusetts-based Schott Foundation on Public Education, more than half -- 53 percent -- of black male students drop out of high school without a diploma, compared to 22 percent of white males.
And the problem even extends to elementary school, in one of the best charter school programs in the country. A new study by researchers at Western Michigan reports that 40 percent of 6th to 8th grade black boys in the Knowledge Is Power Program charter schools (KIPP) drop out before completing the program.
It is already tough for high school graduates to compete economically with college graduates, with college graduates earning around $297,893 dollars more than a high school graduate during a lifetime. But without a high school diploma or a General Educational Development (GED), a student basically condemns themselves to underclass status. Individuals without a GED or high school diploma loses about $7,000 dollars per year in comparison to someone with a GED.
And in a modern military, where the ability to understand high tech systems is a premium, dropping out of high school and getting into the military is proving to be an obstacle. Even those with high school degrees are finding it difficult. Thirty nine percent of black applicants with a high school degree are rejected by the military. And those who do make it in are coming into the military with lower scores than white applicants, therefore putting them at a disadvantage when it comes to future advancement.
The real societal cost of a high drop out rate at the high school level is that it attacks the structure of the black family. Black high school drop outs feed a growing black underclass of economically disadvantaged families, making it more difficult to break the cycle of poverty. The state of New York is finding that having a GED helps prevent homelessness, and has created Back to School program in order to get individuals to complete their GED.
But the effects are also found in the college ranks. With black boys struggling to finish high school and go to college, some college systems are finding that when they exclude for college athletes, black male students are a scare commodity. In South Carolina, for example, only 3 percent of the student body at the University of South Carolina, Clemson and the College of Charleston, are black male students. This means that there's a infinitesimal pool of eligible college educated black women looking for a relationships with men with similar educational backgrounds.
The high school drop out epidemic among African-Americans is not a ticking time bomb, it's a tsunami that's swamping the future of black America. State Farm Insurance is working with America's Promise, the educational organization founded by former Secretary of State General Colin Powell, to fight high school drop outs through a new program called 26 seconds. But unless there are major changes to the current educational trends, look for the nation's prisons to continue to be repositories for the black students left behind, as they grow more desperate to survive without educational skills.
One dropout every 26 seconds is ticking time bomb for blacks
A whopping 40 percent of African-American students don't graduate from high school. These dismal statistics are creating an underclass of African-Americans who have become unemployable, while also affecting the very fibers of the black family structure.
Opinion
One dropout every 26 seconds is ticking time bomb for blacks
By Lawrence C. Ross
04/06/2011
Between the trials and tribulations of the controversial No Child Left Behind law, the growing issue of bullying in schools, and the feeling that parents, teachers and administrators are all searching for a magic solution to the problem that is the American educational system, here comes more bad news.
Recently, President Barack Obama's education secretary Arne Duncan stated that every 26 seconds, a student drops out of high school. But things are even worse for black students; a whopping 40 percent of African-American students don't graduate from high school. These dismal statistics are creating an underclass of African-Americans who have become unemployable, while also affecting the very fibers of the black family structure.
Marc Williams, a high school music theory teacher at Cesar Chavez Charter School in Washington DC, also works with the school's retention program. He sees a number of different causes for black students not finishing high school.
"Our (African-American) students are dropping out of school for a number of reasons. Aside from the cookie-cutter answers that most folks give that speak to the lack of support from within the household, the fact that many of our students don't have a 'set' of parents, and the obvious idea that many urban schools lack the fiscal resources that other schools have, there are some other things to consider here," Williams said.
"We, as educators, are failing our students," he added. "Independent and charter schools (in particular), in order to meet budgets, are spending less money for newer, inexperienced teachers that come fresh off the stage of graduation and into a situation that is a culture shock for them... It's a set up for failure."
When you dig deeper, you find that black boys in particular are in a crisis mode. According to the Massachusetts-based Schott Foundation on Public Education, more than half -- 53 percent -- of black male students drop out of high school without a diploma, compared to 22 percent of white males.
And the problem even extends to elementary school, in one of the best charter school programs in the country. A new study by researchers at Western Michigan reports that 40 percent of 6th to 8th grade black boys in the Knowledge Is Power Program charter schools (KIPP) drop out before completing the program.
It is already tough for high school graduates to compete economically with college graduates, with college graduates earning around $297,893 dollars more than a high school graduate during a lifetime. But without a high school diploma or a General Educational Development (GED), a student basically condemns themselves to underclass status. Individuals without a GED or high school diploma loses about $7,000 dollars per year in comparison to someone with a GED.
And in a modern military, where the ability to understand high tech systems is a premium, dropping out of high school and getting into the military is proving to be an obstacle. Even those with high school degrees are finding it difficult. Thirty nine percent of black applicants with a high school degree are rejected by the military. And those who do make it in are coming into the military with lower scores than white applicants, therefore putting them at a disadvantage when it comes to future advancement.
The real societal cost of a high drop out rate at the high school level is that it attacks the structure of the black family. Black high school drop outs feed a growing black underclass of economically disadvantaged families, making it more difficult to break the cycle of poverty. The state of New York is finding that having a GED helps prevent homelessness, and has created Back to School program in order to get individuals to complete their GED.
But the effects are also found in the college ranks. With black boys struggling to finish high school and go to college, some college systems are finding that when they exclude for college athletes, black male students are a scare commodity. In South Carolina, for example, only 3 percent of the student body at the University of South Carolina, Clemson and the College of Charleston, are black male students. This means that there's a infinitesimal pool of eligible college educated black women looking for a relationships with men with similar educational backgrounds.
The high school drop out epidemic among African-Americans is not a ticking time bomb, it's a tsunami that's swamping the future of black America. State Farm Insurance is working with America's Promise, the educational organization founded by former Secretary of State General Colin Powell, to fight high school drop outs through a new program called 26 seconds. But unless there are major changes to the current educational trends, look for the nation's prisons to continue to be repositories for the black students left behind, as they grow more desperate to survive without educational skills.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
How did I forget
New ill Vibe Collective Album
Yo yall gotta go check this out some real good music on this piece. I have nuff love for the Philly sound some of my closest fam are out there and some even pop up on this release. The bar is being raised from the commercial crap we get force fed daily on radios nationwide!!! Big ups to Afro Punk for the link.
ill Vibe Collective : All Together Now
ill Vibe Collective : All Together Now
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