Get Healthy or Try Dying

                                                  Get Healthy or Try Dying

            The first step to getting a healthy dis-eased free body is education. You have to educate yourself on the human body; the most intricate machine there is. You don’t have to go to medical school to understand how your body works.

Start by getting a book on the human body. There are several good titles to choose from. “The Complete Human Body, the definitive visual guide,” by Dr. Alice Roberts is one I have used. Each day, read about a part of your body. It could be something as small as how your finger nails grow or even how your spleen works.

Next, get an herbal book.  “Healing Herbs,” by Diane Stein, “Little Herb Encyclopedia,” by Jack Ritchason N.D. and “African Holistic Health,” by Dr. Llaila O. Afrika are three titles to consider.

Cleansing your body of all the toxins that has accumulated over the years is an important step in getting healthy. There are several ways to do this. You can get on a complicated herbal regiment or, you can just change your diet to fresh fruits and vegetables for at least 30 days or, you can do an all liquid diet where you juice all of your fruits and vegetables. The documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead is a good film to get you acclimated with juicing.

The key is for your body to be more alkaline than acidic.

Alkaline foods have a high content of magnesium, sodium, calcium, and potassium. Most fresh fruits and vegetables are alkaline. Without large amounts of alkaline mineral elements in the diet the body becomes dis-eased. (Afrika, 2004, pg.201)

The three components to being healthy are mind, body and spirit. If your body is dis-eased, your mind is dis-eased, if your mind is dis-eased you spirit is not at ease.

Until next time…

Peace.Love.and.Light

Kyoka…

* Afrika. L, (2004) African Holistic Health

What About Our Kids

Let’s take our children back to the good ole days…
When families ate and prayed together.
When children did not have a choice in what was cooked for dinner.
When children had to be in the house before the streetlight came on.
When children did not engage in adult conversations.
When the first thing you did when you got home from school was take off your school clothes and do your homework. 
When children ate a hot breakfast at home each morning.
When children were actually scared of their parents.
When needs came before wants.
When children went to church every Sunday.
When parents knew their child’s every move.

Now let’s compare the old days to today…
Now everyone eats when he or she wants, and where he or she wants.
Now children tell their parents what they like and dislike.
Now when the streetlight comes on the children go out.
Now children join in adult conversations.
Now children are up at 10:00 p.m. doing homework, still wearing their school clothes.
Now children have to make it to school before breakfast is over in order to eat.
Now parents are trying to be their children’s friends instead of their parents.
Now the new Jordan’s are bought before the light bill is paid.
Now children only go to church on Easter to show off their new clothes.
Now when you ask a parent where their children are their response is simply “outside somewhere.”

Parents are giving children too much freedom. A child does not know what is good or bad for him/her, that is your call. We are giving children the responsibility of parents.
We are now living in a society where teenage pregnancy is common, fatherless households are normal, drug addicted mothers are no surprise. Children today are practically raising themselves and it’s not fair to them, these children are missing out on the most important years of their lives due to poor parenting skills.
When I was coming up you never heard about child abuse cases better yet a parent killing their own child, now that too is common in our society. 
Our children emulate rap videos and have dreams to become rappers, what happened to becoming doctors and lawyers? How did we get this way? What happened? Where did we go wrong? Of course we all have questions that we may never know the answer to? But this is my question to all “What are we going to do about it.”

The New Breed

This is an article that was printed in the November 12, 1964 edition of JET Magazine entitled: “Black Man As U.S. President Prediction For Future Decade,” By John H. Britton
Though Irving Wallace, in his book The Man, dreamed a wild dream (his critics call it a nightmare) that placed a Negro President in the White House, the wide-awake author appears deadly serious when he predicts a Negro American’s succession to the presidency within three decades.
“I hesitate to say flatly that a Negro will be in the White House as President. But I will say that the possibility of a Negro Vice President is definitely not far-fetched. The world climate may be such that political expediency will demand a Negro in the White House. And even within the next ten years, I believe a Negro Secretary of the State is possible; and you know that’s up in the line of presidential succession.”
The whole fantastic ideas is contained in Wallace’s run-away best-seller, The Man, the story of Douglas Dilman, as a Negro President of the United States, struggling to think and act like a President, like a man, and move away from the ghetto-thinking that America and Americans have forced upon him because of his race.
Because of his admitted sparse knowledge about the Negro, Wallace balked at predicting the Negro who may finally emerge as President. He does speculate, however, that the man will more likely come from without the area of current Negro political leadership, “unless, of course, a new breed becomes dominant.” Said Wallace, still speculating to JET: “I don’t know many Negro politicians or civil rights leaders. I do think, though, that men like Franklin Williams (UNESCO Ambassador) or Whitney Young (Urban League director) would easily fit the job. Of course, there will always be political expediencies to dictate any selection. But men like these, I believe, are qualified for President.”
It was Williams, then a Peace Corps executive, who encouraged Wallace’s book idea because, Wallace quoted him as saying, Williams believes strongly that world political climate will soon demand a negro at the highest executive level of the nation…

Is Senator Barack Obama this so-called “New Breed?” And if he is, where do this leave us as black people? What do we expect to happen if Barack is the next President of the United States? We have gotten so wrapped up in skin color and making history that we don’t even see the problem at hand, which is Us! Barack can’t stop a person from killing their whole family, or from killing someone else’s family, He also can’t stop, a shoot-out at a club that leave several people seriously injured. Neither can he make sure that children are at home at night, instead of at a club (where they are responsible for killing another child), nor can he assure you that there will be no more deaths of children due to playing with guns. He can’t guarantee a decrease in the teen drop-out rate, teen pregnancy or the numbers of black men going to prison. And all of these things are happening in our neighborhood. If Barack is elected as the next President of the United States, that is a huge leap for American History and for African American History. But are we making history as a people?