Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Building our own Wakanda

I know you probably saw Black Panther.  I haven't seen it yet because I'm allergic to movie theaters, but I  will say this.  We gave Disney over two hundred million dollars.  That's enough to build our own Wakanda right here if we put our money in the right places.  This means we have to get rid of Black misleadership. You know the ones,  the Black faces in high places that still has to answer to a White boss.  The ones just sitting in the chair not doing anything for the people they are supposed to serve.  The ones with the empty promises.  The ones who sell you hope without an actual game plan,etc. 

We can do everything mentioned in my Black Clergy,  We Need to Talk  blog if we play our cards right.  We already have enough Black faces in high places.  That has proven ineffective.  We need to start fresh without a White overseer. Otherwise we'll get more of the same.

Aside from that, I heard there was a petition out that demands that Disney use twenty five percent to give back to the Black Community.  To that I say GET The FUCK OUTTA HERE WITH THAT MESS.  Here's why:  First of all,  Disney ain't trying to hear that.  You gave your money to them and now you want to dictate how they spend it?! Really folks? It sounds like someone saw the money and noticed the mess up so they created a petition to fix it.  But the bright side of this is that nobody can say that Black folks don't have any money anymore.  We now have no excuse not to support our own.

Second of all,  Disney was a known racist  when he was alive.  You think that since they finally hired some Black people, they have to break the community off a little something?  Naw,  they already did by hiring Black actors for the movie. That being said, If we build it,  it will come and we can change our narrative and our lives in America. We are the only people who don't support our own startup businesses and media outlets.  We have to get this right this time.  We have no other choice.

Friday, February 10, 2017

Mental Illness

I've been gone a long time. I haven't forgotten my readers. Ive been dealing with some mental issues lately, and dealing with them is very difficult and can be a lonely road for some people.

Sometimes a person has to step back and leave the external and focus on the internal. In a world where external is everything, its really easy to forget about the internal at times. When I say internal, I mean what's inside you. Whats going on can be really hard to understand. And I am struggling with that. Medication, therapist and all. Its difficult. Im holding on very tightly. At times everything gets away from me and I cant retrieve it. This caused anxiety and depression on top of other things Im dealing with. Plus others may not be receptive to whats going on with you either. I have to remind myself there are people out there who understand. Sometimes I feel so alienated that I fear that no one does.

If you know somebody who has been battling mental illness, let them know that I understand. Show them this entry. Don't tell them to pray about it. Please. Don't tell them that. Try talking to them about whats going on. It might be really hard, but please don't give up on them.

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

The Best Sermon Ever

I keep seeing people say things along the lines of "If Black people would come together like they do to go to church, then things will be better." and that "Church folks are the hardest to persuade."  Well, this gave me an idea, and a possible solution to disunity between Black people in general:

What if the Black clergy members spoke about group economics and put it in their teachings? I think its possible for us to do and teach it. If all Black churches had the same model, and followed the same idea, then there would be more money to go around. I noticed we have a tendency to focus on the talking points of making these things happen, but if we start seeing more and more physical examples of what can be done, then we can create more by using the funds being donated to the church. 

They could talk about how bad of an idea it might be to kick children out of the house at an early age, upcycling furniture to someone within the family, helping a family member save money so they could get a head start on life, strengthening the family unit, and much more. Put it in context with The Word, and who knows what can happen. The church can be our most powerful weapon against White Supremacy if we work it right. The church can show the quickest turn around in economic growth that we need in order to thrive, and best of all, we wouldn't have to change much of our behavior. The one thing that needs to change is how the donations are spent. If we follow the model mentioned in the "Black Clergy" blog, then we would be set. 


Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Not So Random Thought, #1: The Black Elderly: How to Care For Them

In my last blog regarding the Black clergy, I mentioned building our community. I decided to do some brainstorming, and was able to come up with a taste of what we can create.


It is ideal to keep our elderly at home and take care until they die. But thanks to our busy lives, it may not be likely for a lot of us to do it. As a result, we keep them in nursing homes. Unfortunately, nursing homes can be dreary and be seen as a place to die.  

As we build up our own communities, we should definitely keep the elderly in mind. My suggestion is building nursing homes that look like small towns. Include shopping, movie theatres, grocery stores, restaurants, etc. Have it ran by personnel who are trained to deal with issues like dementia and alzheimer's. This can make it easier for you to visit your loved one, and it'll still allow them to keep their freedom. The grandkids won't be bored and tired of visiting. It'll be like a night on the town for the whole family, and they can get the care they need at the same time. If the home is made affordable for the family, then it can be a really good option. This is where the church comes in again. If the nursing homes could work with Medicaid/Medicare to provide medications, then it would lessen the financial burden on those who have paid for the home in the first place. And if your elderly member receives SNAP, then the grocery store could take full advantage of that. As a result, you get cheap accommodations, and independence for your loved one.

This is just a start. There are more ideas to come.

Monday, August 15, 2016

Black Clergy. We Need to Talk

Okay. Here goes. But first, let me issue a disclaimer. Please excuse the title of this blog. I am not telling you to get the eff outta here. And I won't tell you that. But I have some genuine concerns that I feel that need to be addressed.

I am disenchanted with what has been going on in our communities. I feel like in order to serve the Lord, one must take their followers into consideration. Now I am not a follower, but many people who are close to me are, and I feel like I really need to talk to all of you about something that I would like your assistance with.

I'm coming to you not as a "non believer" or sorts. 

I am not here to talk bad about you, and I am not here to talk some Athiest mess to you.

But I need a huge favor. I need real answers to the question I'm about to ask.

Where do your funds go?

I'm asking because our communities need that money in order to thrive. 

I would like to see them distributed back into the communities you serve.

I would like to see fully serviced Black hospitals with Black board of directors, and employees. I would like to see them completely under Black leadership, free from the White gaze because none of them have our best interests in mind. There are a lot of poor Black people who serve you. In a lot of instances, there are senior citizens who chose between buying food, paying bills, and getting the medication they need vs giving to the churches, and I feel that if we had hospitals that catered to those on Medicaid, and fixed income, it would help benefit all of your patrons. There are many people in your congregations with different professions. It would be very helpful if they were able to volunteer some of their time to work in these hospitals, so your patrons could get the care they need within the congregations, as well as those who do not worship who also live in the communities you serve. 

In fact, people may not need to volunteer to do this. They could get paid through the church if you build it up enough. 

I would like to see Black psychologists, counselors,etc use their time to help people get the counseling they need and or the necessary medications for them to continue living the best life they could. This way, more of your patrons could stand more of a chance at living a fulfilling, healthy life than before.

I would like to see you take the money you get from your patrons, and I would like to see it invested in purchasing homes in the communities you serve. 

I would like to see you purchasing properties and fixing up dilapidated homes so they could be rented or owned by people in the community. I would like to see you using your network of worshippers to get contracts to help fix these homes and make them liveable. It would also help for people to be able to come to the church for help with starting businesses with the rent money from retail properties purchased by the church.

I would like to see you employ the community and offer jobs and job experience to the youth by offering these services.  

I understand that not all Black churches have the money to do this. But I do understand that mega churches have the funds to make it happen. If people see the results you are putting in your community, then you can reach people better. They feel like they stand a chance out here. If they feel like they stand a chance out here, then you will attract more people. People will believe in what you speak. They will see what God can do for not just them, but for their communities. People are downtrodden right now. They always have been, and always will be if they don't see actual change in their surroundings. If you keep a people feeling down, and fill them with "hope" then what else do they have? They still have nothing because that hope hasn't manifested into something tangible. 

I'd also like to see cameras surrounding your buildings. This way, if someone does try to burn down your place of worship, then you will have footage. Our churches should not be burning down when we have the technology to keep that from happening.

I feel like if you build it, they will come. Many people don't see the build. So they don't go. They feel dejected, and rejected because if they don't go, they get treated as "lesser than". This creates a division within the people in the community, and contributes to weakening the church.

I would also like to see funding for Black owned and operated schools, where the state doesn't have control of the curriculum.  There are so many dilapidated school buildings in the neighborhoods you serve that it isn't funny. As a result,  many kids are being bussed far away from the homes where their parents pay taxes to, which causes you to lose funds in the long run as well. This prevents parents from being able to pay tithing, which also weakens the potential power of the church. 

If we get it started, we could be fully self sufficient with the help of Jesus.

All of these things can happen if you invest in your community. You don't have to do it en masse, but it starts with one house, one building, one property, one person. I know you have that power. If you can get poor people to scrape together their last dimes to give to the church in order to pay the members of the congregation, then you have enough to fundraise for just one house. Put a member of the congregation in that house and charge affordable rent. That rent goes toward an account just for properties. This could be done repeatedly for anything your community needs. Just create different accounts for different things, like "schools", "hospitals" etc. Pretty soon, you'll be able to help start businesses. Those businesses will be able to employ many people in the community. 

At that point, we may be able to start up our own private utility services, and we may even able to rebuild infrastructure (Flint Michigan and Detroit).

I am not asking for your prayers. I'm asking for some transparency. I'm asking as a concerned person who can see what is possible. You don't have to lose members. But if this happens, you can gain quite a few. Because right now, it looks like praying alone isn't helping. It looks like its hurting us spiritually, mentally,physically and economically. 

If you read this, then I thank you. If you respond, then I would be very grateful for it. Comments on this piece are nice, but I'm at a point where I need to see things happen. And right now... it doesn't look like it is happening. I believe all Black churches could make it happen. We just need to see the physical proof with our eyes, and not our hearts and minds.

Thank you for your time.

Monday, June 20, 2016

Orlando Shooting and Isis

Look at this thing closely:

The media is going to try to align Black people with the shooter, claiming we were Isis supporters because the shooter said he didn't have a problem with Black people and that we've suffered enough. 


I saw this coming back when the media called the black protestors "terrorists" in ‪#‎ferguson‬. Isis aint real. Have you ever wondered how poor countries get the funds for all of those weapons? Guess what. America gives them to them and provides training to the people. Thats where all of our old military weaponry goes. A lot of politicians (Clintons) have money invested in it. All this war shit is fake. It's nothing but revenue retrieving, plain and simple. They have to manufacture the war and televise their narrative of it so they can keep the power. That's all they're doing.

Saturday, June 4, 2016

Charles Wade of Operation Help or Hush Outs Himself

Yep. You heard that right. His account had not been hacked. Here's the print. Please read from bottom to top. 

Since the print on the actual screenshot can not be enlarged, here is the raw paste data:
He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I will tell everything
3:18 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Im not a fucking pimp
3:17 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Guys will talk to me and then I show my crazy, right @andremichael? @damonrhodes I loved y'all
3:07 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I haven't had a job since 2010
3:07 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I put on a good front
3:06 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I work hard but I fuck up
3:06 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Told my mom fuck you
3:05 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
My parents are good people and I've been lashing out on them
3:05 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I been depressed for years
3:05 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Everything people say I am I am
3:04 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
No excuses tho. I did fuck shit
3:04 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Im sorry everyone. I'm blown through so much of my moms money
3:03 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
With my laptop. Niggas didn't appreciate how hard I went
3:03 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I stole from my mom and pawned it
3:02 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
No I'm a lying ass hoe
3:00 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Fire trucks are here
3:00 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I didnt start that way. I was going hard in ferguson and then I did the FUCKBOY
2:59 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I gave a lot but been on my self shit
2:59 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
So you can't get shit
2:58 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
My SSN is 216-17-3754 my credit fucked up
2:58 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
You knew I was mental Leigh https://t.co/pwKIw3YZwH
2:57 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
It's Charles Curtis Wade 314-755-4549 https://t.co/YycgLsrqBY
2:57 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I knew she was hoeing. I didn't make her https://t.co/AfRdLZtfct
2:56 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I help a lot of people but I hurt a lot of people
2:56 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
So I gave people apartments
2:56 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I live in my head. I stole. I been homeless and on drugs since 2008
2:55 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I'm sorry @therealfreako_
2:55 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I'm sorry @jairich
2:54 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Im not disciplined so I cheat
2:54 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I should've been dead of asthma in 2014
2:53 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I worked hard and played hard
2:53 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I wasn't trying to molest people assholes
2:52 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I give so much to be liked
2:51 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I won't see my brother graduate
2:51 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I won't see my sisters wedding
2:51 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I mean I did work but the trolls knew. They been trying to kill me cuz it's fucked yo
2:50 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Real niggas sensed I was on the bullshit
2:50 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Unblock me and read the shit
2:50 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Im@not hacked
2:49 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I can't do it anymore
2:49 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I perform and hurt a lot of people
2:49 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I was on drugs then
2:48 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I didnt finish nyu. I been a senior for real since 2003
2:48 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
NYU just let me in off my mouth for real
2:47 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I was class president and failing high school
2:47 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Im not good completing things
2:47 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I been her https://t.co/G8qNZ5E6Xq
2:46 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I'm gone off the Molly right now
2:45 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Not hacked. I'm a lying ass actor
2:45 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
But I knew she was a hoe but I thought she was 20
2:44 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I didn't do that shit to that girl tho
2:44 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I was selfish and wrong
2:43 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Nah this the end. I'm a liar. I'm a sociopath and I gotta stop fucking my family over. I'm sorry to everyone especially my family
2:43 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
*shits
2:42 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Im@sorry. We did some good but I was high and drunk and off the shots
2:42 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
And my hair fuckedup
2:41 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Ill do the time. I'm a FUCKBOY and a fraud
2:40 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I'm @joanneprada. Real shit. I lie to everyone. and have been for forever
2:40 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
I been a liar and a fuck boy. @chrisalexander was right: I'm mental. I left @solangeknowles cuz I wanted to kill myself.
2:39 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Sorry @matthewwrites. Kris Collins. Sorry Shikeith (but I paid you tho! U lying!) Sorry @damonrhodws.
2:35 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
My family didn't know.
2:32 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
Tasha didn't know.
2:32 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
My mom knew a month ago I was gonna die
2:23 PM - 4 Jun 2016
            

ophelporhush
@ophelporhush
With full transparency before our required report date of 8/31 @ophelporhush, we will release financials for 2016 on Mon., 6/13/2016.
 Retweeted by He/Him/His
9:33 AM - 4 Jun 2016
            

ophelporhush
@ophelporhush
With full transparency before our required report date of 8/31 @ophelporhush, we will release financials for 2016 on Mon., 6/6/2016.
 Retweeted by He/Him/His
9:24 AM - 4 Jun 2016
            
6/4
2016


He/Him/His
@akacharleswade
My lawyer is going to kill me for tweeting but whatever: thank you if you've sent a message, said a prayer, thought a positive thought...
7:54 PM - 2 Jun 2016




You see that red text? He better hold up his end of this bargain. And so does Black Lives Matter and anybody or org with their hand in Ferguson before its too late.