The Black Mans Emergency Survival Kit

As steel sharpens steel, men sharpen men

I used to attend Muslim meetings at Your Black Muslim Bakery on San Pablo Avenue in Oakland, CA with Adisa Banjoko and Dr. Bey used to always say “As steel sharpens steel, men sharpen men and vice versa for women.” I agree.

As the world has been literally shocked with the violent death related news of several black men, I thought it prudent to come out and help tell our black men how to stay out of morgues, jails, and prisons.

Black Men Beware of beautiful prisons designed just for US.

Black Men Beware of beautiful prisons designed just for US.

First of all, when an encounter or beef starts to escalate, we men handle it differently than women. Black women can get in each others face and not let it escalate. We do NOT handle in your face tactics. If someone gets in your face and challenges you, walk away. Do not retaliate. Do not buck up. Do not start screaming and yelling. This helps you stay alive to live another day.

Learn to know when to buck up and when to walk. Most encounters happen because of our male ego and especially as black men. We typically don’t want anyone seeming superior to us so we will act a fool when someone decides to get loud or challenge our manhood. Again, know when to walk away. Not every situation requires you to prove you’re the man. Sometimes being the man is swallowing your pride and walking away. Learn to control your anger or it will completely DOMINATE YOU.

If it appears as though someone is ready to take out a knife and start a battle with you, even if you have a gun, walk away. You don’t need to kill them and take their life. You are setting in motion something that you know nothing about. Walk away even if you feel confident with your .44 Magnum locked and loaded. This does not make you a man and determine your power. You will be headed for a 25 years to life bid in the big house.

Know that violence is not always the answer to every black mans problem. Just because you may be having a hard time and some one crosses you, you do not need to resort to violence. Solve this by learning to come to peace with who you are as a man. Run into the church and get your spirit washed and cleansed. Get healed of anything that makes you feel inferior or like you can’t achieve your dreams.

Find another black man and talk to him about how you feel. Find him at bible study or find him at the church, mosque, masjid, temple, or somewhere in a spiritual or educational environment. He is out there waiting to help.

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Solo’s Playground Celebrity Blog (A Woman Is The Reason)

This guest blog post is by my dude Solo, at Atlanta Promoter and socialite who produces the hottest parties in Atlanta, GA. Solo can be reached via twitter at http://www.twitter.com/solo376. It’s amazing the way females and males act towards each other in the year 2010. Most women feel that their career is more important than [...]

This guest blog post is by my dude Solo, at Atlanta Promoter and socialite who produces the hottest parties in Atlanta, GA. Solo can be reached via twitter at http://www.twitter.com/solo376.
It’s amazing the way females and males act towards each other in the year 2010. Most women feel that their career is more important than anything else and most men feel like women are overlooking them for something less important. I was thinking today what if today’s woman couldn’t work. How would a woman fair in today’s society. Would she become the nurturer or mother that has been ordained to her biologically or would she find something else to go against the grain. Today’s woman even in all their glory have still fallen short of being what I believe a woman should stand for. Women today are more concern with self than anything else which baffles me because most women today were raised by woman that sacrificed a lot for them and I don’t see that same sacrifice in today’s woman.

I was having a conversation with a few women the other day and I was explaining to them that a woman natural right is support for a man and a man can only be great with a supportive woman in his corner. One young lady remarked and said, “ well, as long as I don’t have to give up anything, I am fine with that.” That statement in itself is a bad premise for the thought of a woman. When a man and woman are together they sacrifice things for the better of the family not the better of the individual. A man sacrifices his days to work extra long hours so that his woman and family can enjoy life to the best that he can provide. A woman sacrifices independency for dependency to take care of the household and raise the next generation. The downfall of society starts with a woman because a woman is the cradle of life. I think woman need to all sit back and take a deep breathe and understand that life is not about how much money can you accumulate but about how you can make a family better. Its my belief that woman is the only thing that can make a man better and if the men in the world are bad than it is the result of a woman in his life not showing him or loving him the way he needs to be loved. What do you think?

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BART Ridership To Increase November 2 2009

The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) trains will increase the amount of trains and the frequency of trains running to and from San Francisco, CA on Monday November 2, 2009 due to the closure of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. This will help the problem a little bit and ease some of the traffic problems [...]

The Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) trains will increase the amount of trains and the frequency of trains running to and from San Francisco, CA on Monday November 2, 2009 due to the closure of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. This will help the problem a little bit and ease some of the traffic problems that will snarl the Bay Area commute.

Without the trains, the commute would become a complete nightmare. BART is poised to help ease this tension.

Bay Area Commuters Hampered By Second Day Of Bay Bridge Closure

How To Break Out Of Jail

Believe it or not, physical jail starts with mental and emotional destruction of human life. Physical jail is simply an outward expression of an inner jail that lies dormant within a person’s mind. If you are in an emotional/mental jail, your mind will take every conceivable action to put you in a physical jail cell [...]

Believe it or not, physical jail starts with mental and emotional destruction of human life. Physical jail is simply an outward expression of an inner jail that lies dormant within a person’s mind. If you are in an emotional/mental jail, your mind will take every conceivable action to put you in a physical jail cell for a nice long bid.

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To break out of the physical jail or incarceration, we must first deal with the emotional and mental jail that shackles young black youth. Building better prisons is not a crime solving exercise. It deals with the effect but not the cause of emotional jail. Now, I’m not ignorant and I know that our society has real criminals that commit real crimes just because they have the devil within them.

Some people love to shoot, destroy, rape, and kill others. There is nothing that you will ever do to heal and stop a true criminal from being a true thug. I do believe that some people, and I have met many of them when I speak at prisons, love crime. They love hurting people. They have murdered people and will never repent. These people don’t need to break out of jail and they need to sit right where they are and not be allowed to hurt others with heinous crimes.

This is for those who are doing bids and are incarcerated over very poor decisions and very poor actions. You can change. You can do it.

Gerard Spinks is the CEO of Spinks Industries; a web content developer and online marketing agency based in Atlanta, GA USA. You can get started with a comprehensive marketing plan at http://www.spinksindustries.com.

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The Guide To Surviving An Economic Tsunami

A real Tsunami or massive flood like the one that hit New Orleans impacts low lying areas first and foremost with complete and total destruction. The same thing holds true for economic tsunamis. The economic kind first rears it’s head and impacts those who are economically and sometimes mentally in low-lying areas. [picapp src="d/e/b/8/Antonio_Margarito_v_6b17.jpg?adImageId=6636944&imageId=3697922" width="380" [...]

A real Tsunami or massive flood like the one that hit New Orleans impacts low lying areas first and foremost with complete and total destruction. The same thing holds true for economic tsunamis. The economic kind first rears it’s head and impacts those who are economically and sometimes mentally in low-lying areas.

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To survive this, we need to move from economic low levels to medium or higher levels up the economic ladder. We must be focused on getting out of low-lying mental areas that will always be destroyed first. To get out of flat areas, you must first be focused on getting out. This means that you cannot become comfortable with the low level. You must recognize that the low level will always get destroyed and it’s only a matter of time before you sit right in the eye of the storm unable to move out of the path of destruction.

The first step is awareness and a non-acceptance of the condition of being in a flat area. The second step is in knowing full well that an economic tsunami will hit. It is only a matter of time. Do not become complacent with this and feel that everything is ok and that you don’t need to get out there. Get out. You must make a plan to get out and move up the economic ladder and improve the life of you and your family.

Now, I know most people are going to say that this is much easier said than done. This is not true. You can get out and move up the ladder. You must be willing to do whatever it takes to do this though. You must be committed to changing yourself and your life. You must be hyper ready for change and you must be prepared to take action right now to move your life out of your present condition.

Gerard Spinks is the CEO of Spinks Industries; a web content developer and online marketing agency based in Atlanta, GA USA. You can get started with a comprehensive marketing plan at http://www.spinksindustries.com.

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How To Get Fit In An Unfit World

America is inundated with advertisements on food that will kill you. As a nation, we are the global world leader and authority on obesity, overweight earthlings, and plain old fat stores on the body. On top of this, we then have companies that get rich off of then selling instant cures to this weight problem. [...]

America is inundated with advertisements on food that will kill you. As a nation, we are the global world leader and authority on obesity, overweight earthlings, and plain old fat stores on the body. On top of this, we then have companies that get rich off of then selling instant cures to this weight problem.

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You have to first understand that your body is a very complex machine that God has made for us. It knows exactly what to do because our bodies are directly connected to our minds. The body knows when to store fat and it knows exactly how to get rid of fat when it is working. There is no magic pill that will make fat go away because the body doesn’t respond like this.

You can’t just raise your metabolism or your heart rate by taking something. I thoroughly recommend something simple to reduce weight. The first thing to do is immediately stop eating processed foods. Processed foods are the pre-cooked frozen meals at the grocery store that people have convinced us that we need because we simply don’t have time to cook anything.

You don’t even need super excellent nutrition to get the weight down. You don’t need to munch on salads everyday. You need to remove processed foods and start baking or grilling your food.

The next thing you need to do is walk every single day without fail. America has become so dependent on the automobile that we never, ever walk anywhere. People were thinner in the pre-industrial and pre-automobile age because we relied on bicycles and walking to go anywhere. I recommend walking every single day for at least 4 miles or 1.5 to 2 hours each day.

You will be amazed at how much weight you start to drop just by doing that alone. The combination of removing processed foods and walking 2-4 miles each day will make you start dropping weight in 30 days. Don’t make any excuses. Just walk. Get a good pair of running or walking shoes so that the walk is comfortable for you. If you don’t like walking or hiking, simply get on a bicycle and ride your bike each day.

The key to reducing any amount of weight anywhere on your body lies in doing the task every single day of your life so that it becomes a habit. Good habits are where breakthroughs and success live.

Gerard Spinks is the CEO of Spinks Industries; a web content developer and online marketing agency based in Atlanta, GA USA. You can get started with a comprehensive marketing plan at http://www.spinksindustries.com.

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The Mis-Education of Cash Money

The bible and my mother used to say “Money is the root of all evil.” To a certain degree, I believe this because greed and the pursuit of cash money has gotten so many young black brothas and sistahs thrown directly in jail. [picapp src="3/d/3/1/5_Million_Dollars_1a96.jpg?adImageId=6629060&imageId=4288061" width="380" height="242" /] Money itself, if used properly, is a [...]

The bible and my mother used to say “Money is the root of all evil.” To a certain degree, I believe this because greed and the pursuit of cash money has gotten so many young black brothas and sistahs thrown directly in jail.

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Money itself, if used properly, is a great thing. Money can change your life and make life much better and easier. Money attached to good people is great and a great goal to have. Pursuing cash money itself, can get you locked up. I speak to many people in jail in my prisoner outreach program that say that were locked up for pursuing some sort of cash money.

This allowed me to start seeing why my mother used to say that “money is the root of all evil.” I would like to change this and say that greed is the root of all evil. Money is good. Greed is bad and will kill you and all of your dreams. Black people want material items so bad that often times we will do anything to get a watch, a car, some shoes, and some clothes.

This wanting is what leads us on a path of un-righteousness. The images of this cash money done by rappers also leads us directly on this path thinking that because these rappers flaunt it that we now need it just as bad to show that we are powerful just like the rappers are perceived.

Pursuing cash money and walking around with a wad of $100 bills is bad. This is not a good thing. Investing your money is a good thing. Waving hundreds in the air is not what you want to pursue no matter how flashy it looks and feels. The more you wave hundreds in the air, the more people want to take you off the planet and put you in a casket or jail.

Gerard Spinks is the CEO of Spinks Industries; a web content developer and online marketing agency based in Atlanta, GA USA. You can get started with a comprehensive marketing plan at http://www.spinksindustries.com.

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The Get Out Of Jail Guide

The first thoughts that you have when you get out of jail are “damn, shit, fuck, gotdamnit, etc.” You start wondering where the hell everybody is and why no one came to see you and why mostly everyone stopped accepting your collect calls. You then go back into “damn, shit, fuck, gotdamnit” and start wondering [...]

The first thoughts that you have when you get out of jail are “damn, shit, fuck, gotdamnit, etc.” You start wondering where the hell everybody is and why no one came to see you and why mostly everyone stopped accepting your collect calls. You then go back into “damn, shit, fuck, gotdamnit” and start wondering what the hell are you going to do since you have this gotdamn felony on your back.

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First of all, here’s what not to do. Do not head straight back to the block that you used to fuck around on and got locked up on. Realize too, that your crew that you thought would be down for you are just not there. They’re not supposed to be there for you like that and even if they are, they will lead you right back to another bid fuckin’ around with them.

Yes, you were in jail for some time and this also put you in a mental jail where your mind does not think that you can change. You now have prison walls in your mind and although you got your dress outs and are out of the physical prison walls, you are still confined in a cell in your mind.

This must change. You must realize that you don’t have to go back to the streets in order to make money. Yes, you have a felony. Yes, that stops you from getting some jobs but we have a cleanup job to do with your mind and you need to believe that you can clean this shit up.

Your freedom lies in your ability to get an education. You must learn. You must not believe that you cannot get educated. It’s the lack of education most likely that got you a bid in the first place. You must stop believing in greed and cash money.

Gerard Spinks is the CEO of Spinks Industries; a web content developer and online marketing agency based in Atlanta, GA USA. You can get started with a comprehensive marketing plan at http://www.spinksindustries.com.

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How To Mount A Comeback

The key to mounting a comeback when you are down and out lies in not believing in failure. Failure is a natural component to life. Failure is normal. It is not the end. In baseball, you are considered a champion if you fail 7 times out of 10, yet succeed 3 times out of 10 [...]

The key to mounting a comeback when you are down and out lies in not believing in failure. Failure is a natural component to life. Failure is normal. It is not the end. In baseball, you are considered a champion if you fail 7 times out of 10, yet succeed 3 times out of 10 consistently.

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The key lies in what you believe about yourself. You must believe in success more than you believe in failing. You must acknowledge the failure but not dwell on the failure and take it for what it is; a deep learning experience. Failure is the opportunity to learn from that mistake and keep pushing forward.

You can comeback as long as you are alive and breathing. You cannot come back if you are dead. Dust yourself off and put your energy into succeeding only. It doesn’t matter where you’re at in your life. You can bounce back if you believe that you can bounce back. It doesn’t matter what your closest friends think. It doesn’t matter what your family thinks about you. It doesn’t matter what anyone thinks other than what’s in your mind about you.

If your third eye (minds eye) is blind, you will never be able to see yourself succeeding. You must do whatever it takes to clear this third eye and see yourself as victorious today regardless of circumstances. You must believe in you more than anyone else believes in you.

Gerard Spinks is the CEO of Spinks Industries; a web content developer and online marketing agency based in Atlanta, GA USA. You can get started with a comprehensive marketing plan at http://www.spinksindustries.com.

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Making Money On The Internet The Slow Way

This is what no one wants to hear but I’m going to blog it anyway. Making money on the Internet is about the slow, arduous process of building credibility with an audience who does not know you. How is credibility built? This means hard work, dedication, and a commitment to excellence for your product or [...]

This is what no one wants to hear but I’m going to blog it anyway. Making money on the Internet is about the slow, arduous process of building credibility with an audience who does not know you. How is credibility built? This means hard work, dedication, and a commitment to excellence for your product or service.

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This is also the slow route and the anti-get rich quick mentality that is in almost every email offering that you see. Making money online is really a result of building up a name that people trust by what you say and by your actions. Tweeting all day, either, does not do this.

Offering solid products, solid advice, and solid service to your potential customers to turn them into paying customers does this. Unfortunately, this takes time because the Internet is full of both good and bad spam and con artists. The only way to stand out from the crowd of mischievous Internet scammers is to post relevant, truthful, and timely information to build trust of your patrons.

There is no silver bullet and no magic wand over building your brand and making money online. Even as an affiliate marketer, this too takes time and you need patience to tweak offers and learn the best place to market and sell for a particular product that you are marketing.

Gerard Spinks is the CEO of Spinks Industries; a web content developer and online marketing agency based in Atlanta, GA USA. You can get started with a comprehensive marketing plan at http://www.spinksindustries.com.

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