“Be Careful What you Wish For”

President Elect, Donald Trump

“Be  Careful  What  you  Wish  For”

(Oh S**t, I’m the President!)

By Glenn Peppers                                 11-11-2016

“Oh S**t I’m the President!” To me that was the look that Donald Trump had on his face as he came walking out to the podium, along with his family the night of his win over Hillary Clinton for the Presidency of the United States, as he walked toward the podium, he looked (to me) as if he were a man going to the gallows, more than claiming a victory, for the presidency! he looked undone!

Why does he have that look on his face?

Donald Trump if not anything else by nature is an open book of emotions out of pure reflex, which mostly often shows up on his face to his joy or displeasure. And the look on his face that night, and from the pictures and live feed that I saw, especially when he sat down with Barack Obama in the Oval Office was one of, “Oh Shit, what the hell have I done?” 

This was the first time that I ever picked up a vibe that this guy swag was so far out of whack that he just looked as if he was feeling totally out of place, like a three year old at his mother’s book meeting with all girls and no toys to play with! He clearly locked up, and acted totally out of his element! Which is completely uncharacteristic for an ego maniac like Donald Trump! Sitting there with solemn looks on their faces, they both looked as if they had had a fight in the lunch room at school, and were now sitting in detention after school!

Donald Trump sitting with Barack Obama in the Oval Office

That old saying is true folks. “Be careful what it is you wish for! Because you just might get it!” Sometimes, you can talk yourself into a fight or a battle that is bigger than yourself! Mouthing off at the bully on the corner is fine. But one day, you’re gonna have to walk by that corner, with that bully standing there, waiting on you! And you’re going to have to do battle!

Personally, I feel that Donald Trump has bitten off a bit more than he can chew! Sure he’ll play the role, and be the mouth that spouted off one too many times, and be every bit as controversial as he’s ever been. But more than this, he’ll never be ready for what it really takes to be the president of the United States! And I’m sure he’ll get the White Card Pass of excuses whenever he screws things up badly! Now that’s just my thinking! 

Hell, he might prove me wrong! But as I see things, the job involves way too many responsibilities, ethical demands and a graciousness that he seems to lack! Being president is a 24 hour a day job! Now I’ve never been president of anything, but I can tell you from what I’ve seen and heard from president’s past and present. The one thing the job requires is diligence and a keen listening ear! One other component of being president involves poise and dignity! Not to mention a noticeable care an concern for the american people and this country! 

I don’t think that Trump is ready for Secret Service people being around him all the time! He appears to be a private man who slinks away from people when he feels that he is being besieged upon or hounded. I think that he is use to his own security people, and telling them what to do, and will quickly become annoyed at being followed all the time by people who are not fully in his control! This billionaire rich guy named has his confirmed comfort zones already established, and breaching them might end up being a problem for him! 

Trump has already shown that he has a clear destain for the White House Press (as well as most any media based operation). This was clear because immediately after his meeting with President Obama, Donald Trump hurried off to his TRUMP Jet and was outta Washington in a heartbeat! And all without the media catching wind of his wheels up and out toward New York! Ditching secret service or the white house press might not be a good idea as president! There are things that he just better get use to as president! 

See, being a president also means that there are secrets and unseen protocols that have to be answered and attended to... And there’s that operative word again.... “Secretly!” There are diplomatic moves, and modes of communication with all world leaders that are almost traditional in nature that I don’t think Donald Trump is ready for! Will he be ready consistently, every morning for the CIA and Homeland Security daily briefings at the crack of dawn, instead of sitting up in bed Tweeting insults to Rosie O’Donnell, etc! As president, that will have to stop! 

Its like he's saying in his mind, "Umm, Ah, I'm not sure!"

I question his ability to compromise and possibly work on a bipartisan level on issues and laws, and bills offered up! How will he handle disaster relief during hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, or heaven forbid some kind of attack on our soil, or any other catastrophic event befalling our planet? Playing and acting as President won’t help the millions who will need a clear thinking, knowledgable leader for the people! I get the feeling that the Presidency to Donald Trump is just another possession! Something to Own or WIN because of a dare; or maybe because Barack Obama mades jokes about Donald Trump at a press conference dinner four years ago! 

I remember watching that broadcast, seeing Trump sitting out there in the audience looking angry and prune faced as if he could bust as Barack Obama made some pretty funny jokes and humor at the Donald’s expense! This I feel was the spark that lit the flame for his umbrage, and his raw passion to engage, and win the White House; and to become President of the United States! To me his run for the presidency was all drudged out of Donald Trump’s, “I’ll Show that N***R!” Moment! And whatever Donald wants, Donald get’s, Right? 

Well, now that he’s shown america’s first black president that he could in fact take his job from him, and shave the world a new real fancy goatee, He now looks as if he wants to say. “Ok, I proved my point. Now let me go back to Trump Tower, put on my Trump house shoes, and my Trump robe and snuggle with my Trump Binky and Tweet mean evil cyber messages to people!”

We all know the excited look Trump has on his face when he’s winning and is truly satisfied! The look he had on his face Tuesday night, late Wednesday morning at 2:48am was not one of celebration! It was the look of “Oh Snap! They bought it! They really bought it!” 

Over the last year or so, it kept looking to me as if this man were trying intentionally to sabotage his campaign! I mean seriously, he’d say and do some of the most outlandishly mean and cruel things, and yet people just kept supporting him! And the crowds became wilder and even more unruly! Jim Jones couldn’t have had any better Cult Followers! 

It was almost as if Trump was trying to piss people off, so that he wouldn’t have to advance to a one on one race for the presidency with Bernie or Hillary, yet he couldn’t stop this steamrolling, runaway train wreck once it got barreling down the tracks at break neck speed! 

So now this 70 year old man will have to turn his business over to his kids, and actually work for a living! And his work will be quite involving indeed! Yet and I’m sure that Donald Trump will acclimate into the job just fine, soon enough!... To a point!  We all know that he will have epic battles with somebody in Washington, sooner or later. That’s a given! Who will it be? Who knows! 

But you can bet your bottom dollar that this man will not hold his tongue (nor his actions) for long! And that what worries me a bit, because Trump’s sense of revenge for what he would consider acts of betrayal against him could be detrimental to all of us! Lets say that he thinks or even suspects that somehow his idol, Mr. Putin has thrown him under a bus one day! Will we all be in danger of a World War event as a result? I’m praying not!

Still, not even thinking that far ahead! Let’s just talk about the next couple of months! Being president is taxing on the mind, as well as the body! Look at every president who has been in office over these many years! If they didn’t dye their hair, a great majority of them went completely gray within the first four years in office! Look at how gray Barack Obama has become in these almost eight years! 

Obama Graying quickly in 7 and a half years

The many secrets kept (many for our own safety), and secrets that if we all knew would ruin us, as well as our peace of mind! Can Donald Trump handle such things without having a true poker face? There are things going on in this world, and on other worlds that you and I don’t have a clue about. How will Donald Trump react to things that would give the bulk of us nightmares for life? I shutter to think! I just imagine all that Orangey wispy hair turning a bright silverish gray in a matter of a few years, if he doesn’t dye his hair!

Ok Mr. Trump, you proved your point! You’re the President Elect. Now the question is this. Constructively, what are you gonna do with it? If you’re talking about deporting millions, and all those other horrible things you boasted about in all your rallies, than you are not what America needs! So if not anything else. Wipe that, “Oh Shit, I won, what am I gonna do now!” Look off your face and listen to those around you who know how things get done in Washington. And please, do not drag with you that clown car of inexperienced people who’ve befriended and kissed your ass along the way to Washington with you! Nepotism and Favoritism should not be part of the plan! 

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again!...... “Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it!”

Glenn Peppers                                                       October 11, 2016               1:04pm

A White Bruce Lee?

A White Bruce Lee?...

(I’m not buying Hollywood’s latest flavor of White Washed Kool-Aid)

By Glenn Peppers   

So its come to this! A White Bruce Lee! What next? A struggling black boxer named, Jack Johnson, played by Nicholas Cage?... In my eyes, all this means to me is that Hollywood is White Washing this man's (Bruce Lee’s) Legacy, just like Hollywood has been doing to minorities since the advent of film, and virtually all forms of media! It's insulting, and it's clearly racist! 

For Asian culture, this has to be the equivalent to that idiot, Al Jolson and his bended knee, “Mammy” singing Black Face, mocking of blacks, and calling it art! When in fact, its demeaning and has absolutely nothing to do with art so much as it does, Control! This production of a movie with a white man, dressed in Yellow Face is Hollywood pushing people’s buttons again. White Washing another's culture, infusing negative or incorrect idioms and stereotypes that hollywood and others behind the cameras want the world to believe about that certain person or persons, or races and cultures! 

Steven Mckee as pictured clearly having no resemblance to Bruce Lee

This kind of portrayal (by actor, Steven Mckee) is the proverbial Foot on ‘whomever's culture, and heritage'  Neck! It's the "We want your Art, your culture, your skills, your looks (and in broader terms outside of Hollywood’s shallow scope,) "We want your land, but we don't want you!" 

To not respect the boundaries of a person's cultural heritage is just as bad as trampling their homestead; the very land in which they live, and intruding into their everyday lives, portraying minorities in a light that shows us as they want the world to see us. Not how we actually are! White america has always been more comfortable with the whole idea of “Non-Threatening” minorities in the entertainment realm, as well as in real life! Through cinema, they can bend our imagery to their liking! With the Native american, and the African american and the Mexican american, etc. We become reduced down to white actors in grease paint going, “We Smoke’em Peace Pipe!” In film, radio and television and on stage, people of color became these non-threatening, A-Sexual unappealing characters that only showed up for comedy relief, and nothing more because that was all the work that they could find!

Steven Mckee

In telling the story of a complex man like Bruce Lee, I believe that no one outside of Asian culture could truly relate, expound and project the pain and dejection that Bruce Lee felt going through those troubled and downed time he had in Seattle during the early 1960’s; battling back problems, as well as battling his own kind within the Chinese community, in order to gain permission to try and teach westerners the martial arts at his Dojo! Bruce’s fight with Wong Jack Man, and with the leaders involved with the Tong who strongly disapproved of Bruce Lee's sharing of Chinese Martial Arts with outsiders cannot be truthfully, and fairly be portrayed by a white man in Yellow Face! 

I repeat! This is Hollywood (Once again) using cinema to alter, water down, and change history to fit their own shallow view of people they believe are beneath them! I assure you, those proclaiming art in Black Face, or Yellow Face wouldn't think it so if a black actor were to grease up in White Face and play George Washington or Ben Franklin in a big budget Hollywood film! There'd be so much heated indignation over that, they’d have to shut the studio as well as the production down! Case in point, white folks in Hollywood and elsewhere couldn't even handle the History Channel portraying the great moorish general, Hannibal as the black man that he actually was! And he was a Moor! 

From Andy Rooney’s Chopsocky bucktoothed stereotyped Mr. Yunioshi's character in the early 1960‘s movie, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.” To countless white actors portraying native americans, and Mexican bandits, and scores of asian men playing Asian's like "Ming the Merciless," in Buck Rogers films. Or The Mandarin. Or Charlie Chan. Kathrine Hepburn playing Jade in the movie, "Dragon Seed." You name it!  These images were insensitively paraded to the world as if this was some kind of art form. When in fact all it showed was a Superior-minded, condescending attitude! In some cases it was as if they were saying,  “Let me lower myself to play character." And at the same time, they play someone great in history, and White Wash that person, making them white, instead of a person of color! This in turn would eventually give the world a spin on that character that is unrealistic to culture and possibly region! A negative, or badly cast portrayal of someone of color in history could and quite possibly lessens that person’s achievements, accomplishments, and/or personal life by not telling the whole truth! That first truth being "Who they Really Are!" What some call art is again nothing but the White Washing of someone else’s culture within the media! All around the world, such a thing is looked upon as being highly ingenuous and deprecative!   

In the history of Hollywood portrayals of other people's color or race in film, its all fine and dandy when it's white folks mocking Blacks, Mexican americans and native Americans, or Asians in films. But when and if a black “Male” actor were to be cast as any one of the once served Catholic Pope's in history, within a film. The fervor of anger and hate would be out of control, and you know it! Look what happened when they cast a black child, Danyo OKeniyi

in the role of Rue in the movie "The Hunger Games!" White audiences lost their minds and tweeted some of the most awful things in answer to this casting!

There is such a thing as authenticity! Movies like “The God’s of Egypt” showed not one true sense of authenticity! In fact, it was a self admitted intentional White Washing of cast and characters by director, Ridley Scott! There is such a thing as integrity! Couple this with respect for the person the studio wants them to portray. Respecting that person's cultural strain, and their art. Respecting their fans also!

White Washing cultural legacies by using modern media like, film documentary reenactments, and other dramatizations is the new tool used as an excuse, and as a means to change and infuse a created alternative histories for people of color, anywhere in the world! In turn, propagating an image and a history that may not even exist! A history that over time becomes a carefully crafted Lie that is Believed! Just like Voltaire once said about history. “History is the lie commonly agreed upon!”  This in fact could end up being true my dear friends, that is, “If we let it!”

Glenn Peppers          October 5, 2016

"I need you to Give up your Secrets!"

Click here to see Video

"Black People, Give up your Secrets!"

“Black People, I Need You to Give up Your Secrets!”

(So She said)                                           

By Glenn Peppers                             1-5-2016

                                              

Well great shades of Madame C.J. Walker! You know what! Ain't that a blip! "I need you to give up your secrets!" That ignorant woman said! Well if the woman in that clip had done her homework, she'd have known that if anyone one of us wanted to share what it was, or what it is we do to maintain our hair and skin in recent past years. Black folk did not control not even a fraction of our own retail manufacturing and, marketing processes! 

Nothing as far as widely distributing hair and skincare products for the african american population in america, until very recently!

For many years, all that was available for black folks' hair and skin was Vasoline based products that mainly white folks used. We got the run off products like Royal Crown, and Queen Bergamot, Hair Rep, Palmers, and later around 1971, Afro Sheen products and other afrocentric haircare products featuring Coconut Oil instead of petroleum. 

We used all the white marketed shampoos and hand and body lotions like Jergens, and Vaseline Intensive Care that were formulated for your hair and body types for decades, drying out our skin with those subtle chemicals, alcohols and dyes. Some men and women used Ultra Wave perm kits to straighten their hair, damaging our hair roots and burning our hair and scalp in the process!

We used Ponds and Oil of Olay Because like that lady in the video, these products were all that was available to us! Toxic Petroleum haircare and skin products! 

Sure we had Coco butter back in the day, but not in bulk like it has been sold in recent years by African business people, marketing it along with imported pure African Shea Butter, Argon Oil, and the south american Yucca plant extract. Afrocentric hair shops or beauty supply shops outside of selling Jeri Curl hair goods back in the 80's didn't have access to those butters in bulk like they do now.

Back 25 years or, we didn't have a large amount of African American beauty supply stores in urban areas until maybe the early 1980s. A great lot of us were kept in the dark marketing wise concerning black haircare products, using only what was available on department store shelves, and what we saw on TV commercials, just like you!

Back in the 1950's, '60's and 70's, Revlon was never going to invest in black haircare and skin care products. So when Shea Butter and Mango Butters and Argan Oil's, and Yucca, Coconut Oil and Grape Seed Oil and other natural African hair and body cremes and puddings and botanicals came about. A much better quality of grooming became more readily available to us. 

Black folks in america began to get more in touch with our roots, and started to cling to our natural hair textures, and skin solutions. Better hair and skin products became more widely obtainable to us. Made for us, by us! Putting us back in touch with chemicals our hair and bodies could thrive on! 

As a result. We were free! Free from using chemically produced alcohol and petroleum based products like Prell, White Rain, Aqua Net, and any and all greasy kid stuff like pomades that white men used back in the day like, Murrays and Brill Cream!

And how dare this woman demand anything from black folks as far as how we take care of our hair and skin! These various retail and/or home versions of body butters and puddings are formulations that are designed for african skin and hair. Don't blame us for white industries who didn't buy into the natural butters and botanicals until recently. And once they did, they still found a way to infuse all those damned chemicals into their version of our hair and skincare products.

Thus why so many of us buy our own butters and herbal mixes and formulate our own natural mix of beauty and body products at home, using our own butters, and herbs, and flower extracts, etc! The personalization of our hair and skin products is as personal as our true history! 

This woman has some nerve to demand our secrets unto our good grooming, and personal hair and skin care, just because she says she has a biracial child! Don't blame us for your not knowing the benefits of Shea Butter! Blame Johnson and Johnson for pushing all that petroleum based rot on us, and you!

Besides, like white folks back then ever really cared what blacks used on our hair and skin, outside of those Jim Crow negative images; your relatives thought were funny, and yet demeaning concerning our physical make up! 

You didn't really care about how and what we used to groom ourselves! I once saw (and I hope this was just a parody) an ad for a brand of steel wool named Nigger Boy, and a stove polish from the early 1900's called, "Nigger Head!" 

The cardboard package to Nigger Boy Steel Wool Soap pads had a caricature drawing of a lil' black child (Just-a-Grinning) on the cover of the box with this thick mound of black nappy hair sticking up and out! This was all your ancestors were concerned about as far as products featuring black folks! So don't blame people of color for your not knowing about all the rich natural butters and emollients of the world, and throughout Africa. Grooming items that would heal the skin, and sooth it at the same time!

You need to blame all those hair and skincare product companies that you supported all these years who sold you those products! I find your not knowing about these products, perfect proof concerning who really were the inhabitants of Northern Africa. I think if the europeans would have really been the true inhabitants of northern africa, you or your ancestors would have known something about at least cocoa butter as a means to sooth and beautify dry skin, and Shea Butter to heal and make one timeless.

I say, do what we had to do! Do the homework! We had to! We had to suffer through using your hair care products because we came along in this country not in control of very many hair care companies! We had not the power to ship or import these emollients over to america, and then market them? 

We could barely buy a ticket for a boat trip overseas, let alone become shipping magnets for beauty products abroad! Revlon and Miss Clairol and a small line of Madame C.J. Walker style haircare products was all we had access too most times! 

I remember Posner's, and Palmers, and plenty of coconut oil based products in the 1970's; and that was the best that we had access to sometimes. I say Read! Go to an african American beauty supply store and learn something, and stay out of Wal-Mart! "Give up your secrets!" She said! As if ya'll haven't stolen enough from us already!

Glenn Peppers

Black people Give up your Secrets

Pull your pants up, I can't hear you!

Click Here to hear Fake Rapper

“Pull your pants up! I can’t hear you!”

(Not a Stitch of Talent, and Auto-Tuned Up)

By Glenn Peppers                               12-22-2015

Before you read this article, I invite you to click on the picture above with the Fake Rapper! Although its humorous, within its silliness come a reality!... 

Not that you've seen the video, I'd like to say, fresh out of the starting gate! I’m going to be forthright and honest! Personally, I feel that this is one of the main reasons why our black youth today are drastically becoming lost and hopelessly ignorant! In view of these and many other real-life examples of children following stupidity. Don’t ask why our kids have an interest in guns and drugs and sex, so feverishly! I think the reasons are clear!

A Child with fake gun can be mistaken by the police for a real gun

Although this video clip is a pun, or a joke, I feel it reveals in a spirit of fun some of these idiotic rap video senerio’s that I've seen on most video channels late night, on cable these past few years. This is pretty much what and how people with No Real Talent whatsoever sound like, yet get over and are pushed into the public eye as stars, and are someone for our children to admire and look up to! This clip, although satire, is a reflection of pretty much what has happened to black music, and black culture, as far as our youth is concerned! 

The record industry has strategically and intentionally sabotaged R&B music with this rot, hitting the urban airwaves, and they have taken the rich soul cream off the top of urban soul! Stealing the butter off the R&B buttered popcorn, and draining funk-fueled classic soul music, right outta of black culture! They’re doing this by denying creative black recording artist like, Tyrese and many, many others, fair radio, and media exposure! 

They’re doing this by refusing to promote music of substance, and true expression from most anyone in the black community! Speaking from the peanut gallery section of critical music listeners, and musicians, and singers. To all these record companies who push negative rap and hip hop music on our children. I say hands off! “All black people are not poverty stricken thugs, dope dealers, and Hip Hop infused booty chasers!” 

Hijacked R&B

From the look and sound of things, the record industry has pretty much hijacked Soul and R&B music for young white artist, like Robin Thick, who has basically built his career ripping off Prince's falsetto, and other black artist vocal stylings, such as D’Angelo (whose real name is, Michael Eugene Archer). Robin Thick as most recently been sued in court for ripping off Marvin Gaye's iconic Motown original material, with the help of Hip Hop producer and recording artist, Pharrell). Then there are the Mehgan Trainor’s Hip Hop “All about that Bass” miami heavy bass rip offs. And of course, the ever copying, Justin Timberlake. Who basically in a nutshell has ripped off Michael Jackson as best he can, without growing a Jeri Curl! 

Then there's the Iggy Azalea Hip Hop types. The Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' Rap guys! And the actually, very talented, singing sensation, Tori Kelly! Whose kinda like a bubbly white, pop/country version of Beyonce with a guitar! Great Pepsi commercial though! I like!

Tori Kelly

Beyonce

The record industry now days apparently goes out and intentionally finds substandard black recording acts and features them, in all their gangster glory. And to be honest about it. Most of them now days sound awful! With or without Auto-Tune! 

The record companies will spend millions promoting these lame artist, who as a result, spew pure shit for sound out into the world!  And like the dutiful consumers that they are, our kids eat it up like fruit loops on a chicken wing! 

I've seen some pretty awful, under-produced gangster style videos of black male artist on some of these video channels who can barely carry a tune in a bucket, when they sing. While others couldn't rap if you let them Lip-sync! 

They lay down these elementary, and imperfect tracks, loaded with tons of special vocal effects, in order to hide the fact that they really, cannot sing a lick! The vocal tracks will have Auto-Tune so thick that they sound like Cylon Robots in a Battle Star Galactica TV movie reunion! 

Big label record companies are taking they're brightest and best white artist and promoting them to the public, while taking black rap, hip hop and R&B wannabe stars with no real talent from the streets in our communities, and catapulting them into the limelight. 

This is done mainly to capitalize, and at the same time, belittle and make fools of our culture, and our music, featuring people who poorly represent us as a whole, and make a mockery of our strong musical heritage, and soulful creative skills. 

These are the ones who are most times (yet not all the time), who are sagging, or wearing their pants down around their butts. Cussing on live TV, and drinking and smoking weed at award shows. You name it! 

And then in the same voice, will call you a sellout if you don't support the BS that they offer, or stick up for the rude way that they act in public, or among themselves. All a great many fake out rappers are doing is masquerading as iconic R&B stars! Most are One Hit Wonders, and gone within a year or two! 

Some of them left broke, bankrupt, and owing money to the record company, as they've spent all of their contract signing bonus money on junk. Money largely spent on the typical Hip Hop crowning achievement and glory. A bling'ed out Bentley. Along with one of those cheap, prefabricated mansions (right out of MTV's Cribs) in Atlanta. Don't forget the string of bling-bling jewelry, and the 500 dollar bottles of champagne, spent on the homies, and all those sexy video vixens!

So yes, when I saw this clip. At first I thought it was funny. Then all at once, it made me sad, because as a man who basically knows his way around a recording studio, and plays more than 5 instruments, and can sing pretty well. I know the difference! And so do millions of other people! 

This mess that they are releasing out into the black community is not representational of true R&B or Soul Music... At all! When you can really sing, and the radio stations won't play your music, that's called control! Anybody who knows music knows that, Jill Scott is Music! Tyrese is music! Esperanza Spalding is pure jazz; but I've yet to hear her music played, even periodically on local jazz radio. Barely on satellite, digital or analog! The likes of a powerful soul singer like Miss Leela James goes largely ignored by the industry! Why is this?... You tell me! 

Even the television singing contest shows like Idol, and The Voice always seem to find a way to eventually eliminate most all of the african american singers off it’s shows here of late. 

The caliber of african american singers they pick from some urban areas (not so much find, but pick) are good, but believe me, I hear singers just as good, and even better most nights at any local club, and even some diehard karaoke spots here in Detroit!

Detroit is the hub! It is Motown! The children and grandchildren of Motown (in spirit) are here! And a good many of us (as the slang goes) can SANG!!!! And many of them can even Rap, for real! Poetically and enthusiastically! 

I'm talking people who are so good, they should be making records and performing on stage, but are denied access to national record deals, because of age, work inconveniences or family responsibilities. Or maybe it is because some of us just do not fit the bill as far as the music industry's 22 year old age limit/Perfect size 2, Sexy body requirements. 

Video Vixens

Most real women out here are not, Lip Botox candidates, and do not have butt implant-injections like Video Vixen Queens! Or if you’re a guy, you may not have that pant-sagging, gangster look the industry continues to push on our young black boys, for whatever reason! 

Either way, in the end, its all about airplay! Be it audio or video! Whomsoever controls the airwaves, and television coverage, controls what people will see, hear and eventually listen to! In other words, True, heart and soul R&B music coming out of the black community is being purposely phased out in america! 

So much so that the industry is even willing to place no-talented, common criminals up close and in our children's psyche and ears; pumping profane lyrics over the airwaves, and cable outlets that’s telling our children that it is cool to do things that are illegal, and immoral! 

Some of these individuals that you see, hear and read about, are the same ones who refer to black women as Bitches and Hoes. These are your children’s heroes and mentors! The rap artist who preach gun toting, drug dealing, as well as drug use; and chugging alcohol are now your children’s heroes!

So don’t ever wonder why your young boys want to get their hands on a gun! Or why they play with toy guns, and then on a fluke, get gunned down by rogue police officers, just waiting for a reason to blow you or your children away! 

Do not wonder why young black children will go rummaging through your closets, to find your gun somewhere in the house, and play with it. Then mistakenly kill him or herself while lost in fascination over this death instrument he’d heard told of in a rap record!

A gun without a gun lock on it is like metal to a magnet, for a child! Try listening to what they are listening to. When you do, you will know in part why they want an AK-47! Children (just like we did) will always emulate what they see, hear, and admire!

So as a result. Gone, are the sweet songs that cherishes the love of a woman. Gone are the creative instrumentalist in soul and progressive R&B Jazz! Gone are the future Peabo Bryson's, and gone are the Luther's, and Penergrasses’ and Gerald La-vert’s! 100 years down the road, will Motown eventually be remembered as a company that a white auto worker started, with the help of a black man named, Berry Gordy? Will the Hijack ever get that deep? 

150 years from now, When the promo pictures and the videos of classic black recording artist start to disappear, and the images are stolen away, or become cloudy and fade from age and time! Will people in the future ever get a chance to know who laid the foundations to soul and R&B music for the world to see and hear? 

Will this be the future of R&B music?

Or will soul and R&B in its truest form, simply just die off! Existing only in some ancient sampling program within a broken down computer workstation keyboard, in some inner city digital recording studio. Being performed by Pat Boone type white artist, claiming the original rights to music and songs not earned. Minus the soul and depth, and impact that dynamic soul and R&B had in its creative heyday!

Broken down piano keyboard and computer workstation containing soul archive musical history 

Decades of music, and soul, and creativity, condensed down to being sampled and pirated by fake rappers and singers, and first year, Specs Howard broadcasting school graduates, playing recording engineer; tinkering on his Teac digital recording gear? Just like the hidden and destroyed histories of Egypt, and northern Africa. Will the soul of true R&B music one day fade into oblivion or obscurity?

How long will decent young recording engineers waste their time recording the likes of someone like the guy seen in the video clip? Someone who clearly has no real talent to offer the world, yet a national recording company will actually sign and back someone like him, just to make a mockery of R&B music, as represented by individuals in a modern, gentrified world. A world where all that we as a people have is being stolen and claimed as belonging to anyone but us! 

R&B is dying in the arms of our young, who could care less about musical integrity in sound! The art of true R&B music has been benched and replaced by people who know absolutely nothing about Soul. Our music is being reproduced, repackaged, and portrayed and promoted by those who have no clue what its like to sing a song with soul! They’ll never know what it is truly like to play a musical instrument with skill, and emotion, from the heart, unto soul! 

All most young people want today is to be... famous! And they don’t care what it takes to be famous! They see the videos, and see the various Hip Hop stars sporting bling; and because of what they see and hear, they think that they can be rappers too, no matter how awful they sound. 

Good or bad! They just wanna be famous!... They just want to be, Rappers! And you know. That’s fine!... I say, sure!... Go ahead! Be a rapper! But why not be a Good Rapper! 

Glenn Peppers   

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