TORN – The Willie Lynch Letter – a play/movie written & directed by Jermaine Harris
In 1712 Willie Lynch was a West Indies slave owner who marketed a new brand of mental enslavement to U.S. slaveowners. He guaranteed a minimum of 300 years of mental enslavement. This 300 year guarantee expires next year. Black Family United.org has committed 2012 to
“Reclaim our Heritage”
An awareness campaign starting with TORN the play/movie. This works is a heartfelt comparison of 1712 and 2012 African American Culture. Scheduled to open:
February 29th through March 11, 2012
At the Los Angeles Theater Center
To receive first priority and 25% off ticket prices, please send an early request for tickets to jharris@blackfamilyunited.org.
See you at the show.
IDENTITY – A book by Jermaine Harris – Available now
The African American
IDENTITY
who we were | who we are | who we shall become
A book by Jermaine Harris
CLICK HERE TO REVIEW THE BOOK. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE THE BOOK
A GREAT GIFT FOR FAMILY LEARNING DISCUSSIONS ON THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE
FREE COLLEGE FOR ALL – MY PAYFORWARD PLAN
I think college should be free for everyone. Yale, Stanford, USC, Long Beach City College, El Comino Community College and UNLV. Let everyone in. Why not? Schools have different tuitions due to the different learning experience they provide. In order to attract the top professors, the University must have the means to pay the instructor more than other schools. Professors look at the facility and how much money and effort they spend to accommodate a rich educational experience. So Universities compete for the best minds to teach there. The professors also chose schools to tout an advanced student-body. The more difficult the admissions process, the academically better the student-body is. Speaking from experience, every professor wants to teach tomorrow’s leaders, not tomorrow’s average person. That distinction determines the quality of the professor’s life’s work. Just as a college coach wants his players to go to the pros. Tuition for poor and lower middle class students are being paid or subsidized by taxes through State schools or government grants. Upper middle class and wealthy people have to pay tuition directly for their children and also other families students through taxes.
So how about colleges not charging tuition upfront, but charge a “payforward”, which is a percentage of lifetime earnings (LTEP) collected through the IRS tax process; but the money is routed directly to individules alma mater. For example, if the two colleges were free, which would you prefer: Read more
Mistrusters, Veterans & the booming Hippy-Yuppy
My father was born in 1913. When he was attempting to establish himself, the entire economy collapsed. If any of you were close to elders that lived through that era, one thing you should agree with is that those people had a different opinion, and mistrust of the U.S. banking system. Throughout my life, as I began to take an active roll in my father’s finances, I discovered he did not have a bank account. All of his money was kept in a safe in the floor of his closet. He bought his house in 1948 and paid it off by 1970. Read more
this is what soulmates do
One quiet night after you turn out the lights and before you go to sleep, recite her a story beginning with chapter one, “When I first laid eyes on her”, take the story through to where you are right now. Fill in the intimate details of what captivated you, how nervous you were on the first date, and maybe even the very moment you fell in love with her.
Chapter two, “The small lows pale in comparison to the high heights of our good times” as you explain challenges may attempt to interfere but nothing can come between our love and life long commitment to be supportive in our victories and comforting in our defeats. We understood that when God gets busy, the devil gets anxious.
Chapter three, “As I lay here on my death bed” with the enormous love from our great-great grand children surrounding me in this year 2084 I tell them this story of the greatest love ever. I reminisce about how I always joked with her that I’d outlive her. She died a short while ago. But when she did I had a sky window placed above our bed so that she can look down upon me with protection while I rest. Sometimes in the middle of the night when the moonlight is just right I can see 
her perched on a cloud as if it were the hand of God, looking down from the heavens with arms stretched out for me. I comfort her with “Soon baby, soon we will be together again”. From our prior lives, to this life, and on to the next one, we will be together forever, this is what soulmates do. Read more
June 20th – Our anniversary
My Wedding Vows
Whosoever recognizes and honors the gifts of God, recognizes and honors God himself. Brandy I honor God as I honor you, my true gift. This world is abound with disingenuous and ungiving people. God has blessed me with you, a precious gift of genuine and giving divine sustenance.
I ask God how do I remain worthy of such a gift. Through prayer, I find the answer is to devote my being to maintaining and remaining steadfast to being your answer, being your encourager, being your strong and solid rock of love and support from this day forward.
What Social contract have you signed?
REPUBLISHED FOR MY NEW HOMIES AT L.B. JORDAN HIGH MALE ACADEMY, GIVING BACK THE LOVE
As children we live in the freedom of wonder. All we do is a first for us. Taste, feel cold and hot. We learn. Our parents are our Universe, we shall be so lucky that they show us a broad universe of books, colors, shapes, science and adventure. We soon leave that behind to experience life out from under their wing. We step with false boldness in that we seek to cling to new found friends for comfort.
The freshman contract- As we begin to live for our new hormones our parents voices quickly fade as we replace them with voices of peers who accept us and give us a new sense of belonging and understanding. We sign a freshman contract that may tell us that purple hair, tattoos and Young Jeezy are cool. Talking about the blind leading the blind. This is the process of finding one’s self. A lot is riding on what contract we sign. Read more
The disappearance of the nuclear family
Okay, let’s say that we are totally over the nuclear family. No longer do we value mommy and daddy loving and sharing under one roof with one thought of raising healthy balanced leaders of tomorrow. We are now content with the idea that shit happens. She acts so surprised when the pregnancy test is positive, or he cheated on her. But yet and still we move forward with the separation. She’ll go on dating while the kids are with their daddy’s mother, while he is on a date of his own during his weekend.
Parents have a responsibility of time and resources to their offspring. If you live together as a cohesive unit, there will be more time and resources going towards common goals. Apart, there are two households to support, two dating lifestyles to support. Both of which create a sacrifice on behalf of the children. Junior has to compete with Uncle Ray for mom’s attention. Little Jennifer has to go without if mom spent an extra $200 on lingerie for Ray’s satisfaction. Lord help us if Uncle Ray thinks Jennifer is pretty. Read more
Addicted to fixes
People today, to put it simply are screwed up. We have a million dating sites of people looking for the same thing- a connection. However, if we have all these people looking for the same thing, why do we have these sites? Our country is so fast paced and driven for the next stimulant; whether it is waiting for our phone to buzz with a new text or someone to comment on our facebook status. All this artificial crap has seeped into the home and is destroying families. Read more
Good daddy bad hubby
Jermaine Harris, I just listened to you on the radio. Divorce In The Black Family was a very interesting subject tonight. It hit home so much that I’m having a hard time calming down to rest. See, I’m a single divorced woman. My immediate family is filled with twice divorced women. I’ve often felt that I was cursed by this vicious cycle, being the baby girl born to a mother and four older sisters, all married and divorced, married and divorced. I think my only saving grace was that my mother and father were able to be friends and were able to amicably co-parent me throughout my adolescence.
I agreed with your comment on the radio show that girls need their fathers. My father took great care of me, but my mother was the stronghold. My mother was the aggressor of the two. She maintained the control in every aspect of our family. As the baby girl, born 10 years after my youngest sibling, I often felt like an only child with the exception of the occasional interaction of my nieces, nephews and cousins who were closely the same age as I. My perception of “men” was greatly influenced by my mother and sisters, in their post-divorce state of mind. Read more
