Comments on: I Don’t Care for the Masters http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/i-dont-care-for-the-masters/ Bangin’ and Scorin’ Every Trip Down the Floor Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:49:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Vincent http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/i-dont-care-for-the-masters/#comment-8870 Vincent Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:51:11 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/i-dont-care-for-the-masters/#comment-8870 I can not name one black player on the PGA tour. If you know of one please let me know. Tiger woods has made it perfectly clear that he is caublinasian. If that's what he wants to be acknowleded as then so be it. Congratulations to the caublinasian community, you must be proud. I can not name one black player on the PGA tour. If you know of one please let me know. Tiger woods has made it perfectly clear that he is caublinasian. If that’s what he wants to be acknowleded as then so be it. Congratulations to the caublinasian community, you must be proud.

]]> By: Miranda http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/i-dont-care-for-the-masters/#comment-8837 Miranda Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:07:29 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/i-dont-care-for-the-masters/#comment-8837 Sankofa, That got me to thinking about something else: From my first memory until I left home for college, every Sunday in that small Alabama church, we sang about riches in heaven....about old earthly worn out bodies, but no pain in heaven....about suffering, but that's okay..no suffering in heaven. Unless it was the contractor adding to the building, no white person has ever stepped foot in that little Alabama church, and yet the legacy of how slaves were kept in line is right there, suffocating the sanctuary...and there are hundreds...thousands of these churches with millions of us in them, unwittingly telling ourselves its okay to be downtrodden and beaten because its some sort of destiny to be, in fact its righteous if you suffer really bad. It took me more than 3 decades just to see that, and I'm sure my great-great-grandmother Catherine is looking down at me saying "took you long enough, finally the cycle can be broken"...so as to your last line..if our ancestors are awaiting our decision...lets hope they're really really patient. Some of this stuff is so ingrained you don't even know its there. T3, Thanks...but do you know how deflating it is to realize all this time I thought I was never a victim of wanting "the bluest eyes" just to figure out..."oh, snap...I do"? Sankofa,
That got me to thinking about something else: From my first memory until I left home for college, every Sunday in that small Alabama church, we sang about riches in heaven….about old earthly worn out bodies, but no pain in heaven….about suffering, but that’s okay..no suffering in heaven.
Unless it was the contractor adding to the building, no white person has ever stepped foot in that little Alabama church, and yet the legacy of how slaves were kept in line is right there, suffocating the sanctuary…and there are hundreds…thousands of these churches with millions of us in them, unwittingly telling ourselves its okay to be downtrodden and beaten because its some sort of destiny to be, in fact its righteous if you suffer really bad. It took me more than 3 decades just to see that, and I’m sure my great-great-grandmother Catherine is looking down at me saying “took you long enough, finally the cycle can be broken”…so as to your last line..if our ancestors are awaiting our decision…lets hope they’re really really patient. Some of this stuff is so ingrained you don’t even know its there.

T3,
Thanks…but do you know how deflating it is to realize all this time I thought I was never a victim of wanting “the bluest eyes” just to figure out…”oh, snap…I do”?

]]> By: Temple3 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/i-dont-care-for-the-masters/#comment-8832 Temple3 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:23:02 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/i-dont-care-for-the-masters/#comment-8832 Why do symbols hold the keys to the chains? http://greeneyezz-reflections.blogspot.com/2007/10/right-brain-vs-left-brain.html Right Brain function and FUTURE Planning is determined in large part by the SYMBOLS that you use or that use you. SYMBOLS are how we make meaning of all things that are not explicit - and 90% of our world is NOT explicit. Why do symbols hold the keys to the chains?
http://greeneyezz-reflections.blogspot.com/2007/10/right-brain-vs-left-brain.html

Right Brain function and FUTURE Planning is determined in large part by the SYMBOLS that you use or that use you. SYMBOLS are how we make meaning of all things that are not explicit - and 90% of our world is NOT explicit.

]]> By: Temple3 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/i-dont-care-for-the-masters/#comment-8830 Temple3 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:17:32 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/i-dont-care-for-the-masters/#comment-8830 Sankofa: Thanks. It's "easier" this way - isn't it? Miranda...you've said it all in as poetic a fashion as I've heard. Thank you for the vivid picture you've painted of past, present and future. Mizzo - it's good to be back. LP: My pleasure and best of luck. If I can do anything to help, you know where to find me. In fact, I may have some very nice tools for you. They're not free, but they pay for themselves (unlike the war in Iraq). Sankofa: Thanks. It’s “easier” this way - isn’t it?

Miranda…you’ve said it all in as poetic a fashion as I’ve heard. Thank you for the vivid picture you’ve painted of past, present and future.

Mizzo - it’s good to be back.

LP: My pleasure and best of luck. If I can do anything to help, you know where to find me. In fact, I may have some very nice tools for you. They’re not free, but they pay for themselves (unlike the war in Iraq).

]]> By: sankofa http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/i-dont-care-for-the-masters/#comment-8828 sankofa Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:07:42 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/i-dont-care-for-the-masters/#comment-8828 Aint a thing sis, as long as we, you, I love ourselvs, warts and all, then we can be in a better position to remove those warts. The scars will just serve as reminders of the journey it took to get there. If we divest our emotions for a moment and be "clinical" in our assessment, then it would be so much easier to prescribe a healing formula. Part of that healing is culture. This is not the time of Africa before the fall of Kimit, we don't have that MA'AT as before, yet we still retain the ancestor memories and (if Whte Supremacy can help it) some artifacts. I am of a strong belief, and I have mentioned it previous, that we are in a war and have to practice symbolic and actual warfare. by that I mean, symbolic-doing all that is necessary to survive not as groups of individuals, but as viable, functional and progressive collective, community and nation with in a "nation" (corporation). We must practice actual warfare by any means necessary, this includes protecting our children (our rich and only true legacy) and our institutions, wether psychological, spiritual, economical or physical. The ancestors await our decision. Aint a thing sis, as long as we, you, I love ourselvs, warts and all, then we can be in a better position to remove those warts. The scars will just serve as reminders of the journey it took to get there. If we divest our emotions for a moment and be “clinical” in our assessment, then it would be so much easier to prescribe a healing formula. Part of that healing is culture. This is not the time of Africa before the fall of Kimit, we don’t have that MA’AT as before, yet we still retain the ancestor memories and (if Whte Supremacy can help it) some artifacts.

I am of a strong belief, and I have mentioned it previous, that we are in a war and have to practice symbolic and actual warfare. by that I mean, symbolic-doing all that is necessary to survive not as groups of individuals, but as viable, functional and progressive collective, community and nation with in a “nation” (corporation). We must practice actual warfare by any means necessary, this includes protecting our children (our rich and only true legacy) and our institutions, wether psychological, spiritual, economical or physical.

The ancestors await our decision.

]]> By: Miranda http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/i-dont-care-for-the-masters/#comment-8827 Miranda Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:47:16 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/i-dont-care-for-the-masters/#comment-8827 Thanks for breaking that down for me Sankofa...I had to read what you wrote 3 times before I could clearly understand, but I do! lol......those symbols are subliminal and powerful at the same time. I grew up in Alabama, in a segregated small town around homes built 150 years ago, families still on the same land that their ancestors plowed and tilled, large (I mean as far as the eyes can see) cotton fields, restricted country clubs, everything Augusta is on a smaller scale. My parents did not in anyway teach me that the ole south had any redeeming qualities... but I am truly fascinated with the revelry and pageantry of those events and others like them. It is a wierd awe that I have seen in my female friends and relatives when it comes to these "symbols"..the big dresses, the hats, the mint juleps under the big oak as the cool breeze of the Mississippi engulfs the humid air.......see how easy it is for me to go there? Our history was stolen, so maybe as I get older my awe has turned into contempt because more and more i see it as yet something else symbolizing the fact that what we pass on to our children isn't nostalgic romantic tales of yesteryear...our children inherit a weight. Thanks for breaking that down for me Sankofa…I had to read what you wrote 3 times before I could clearly understand, but I do! lol……those symbols are subliminal and powerful at the same time. I grew up in Alabama, in a segregated small town around homes built 150 years ago, families still on the same land that their ancestors plowed and tilled, large (I mean as far as the eyes can see) cotton fields, restricted country clubs, everything Augusta is on a smaller scale. My parents did not in anyway teach me that the ole south had any redeeming qualities… but I am truly fascinated with the revelry and pageantry of those events and others like them. It is a wierd awe that I have seen in my female friends and relatives when it comes to these “symbols”..the big dresses, the hats, the mint juleps under the big oak as the cool breeze of the Mississippi engulfs the humid air…….see how easy it is for me to go there? Our history was stolen, so maybe as I get older my awe has turned into contempt because more and more i see it as yet something else symbolizing the fact that what we pass on to our children isn’t nostalgic romantic tales of yesteryear…our children inherit a weight.

]]> By: mizzo http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/i-dont-care-for-the-masters/#comment-8824 mizzo Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:04:22 +0000 http://thestartingfive.net/2008/04/10/i-dont-care-for-the-masters/#comment-8824 Damn it's nice to have you all back here. Thanks fam. Damn it’s nice to have you all back here.

Thanks fam.

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