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For Men Only
By Kaleb F.A. Tshamba Pussy, Pussy, Pussy, Pussy
A slang word for man's number one
desire.
It's like a medication that
pacifies.
It has magnetic and magical power.
It will stop you from tossing and
turning at night.
It will knock you out like a
tranquilizer.
Man got to have it in order to be
satisfied.
Pussy, Pussy, Pussy, pussy.
It gives us great pleasure,
delight, and joy.
It takes away our anger and calms
our nerves.
It relieves our worries, our wants
and eases our pains.
It brings peace to our spirit and
gives balance to our life.
It's a natural cure for headache,
tension, and stress.
Like a drug it releases our body
and our brain.
The scent, the warmth, the
fulfillment of it.
Pussy, Pussy, Pussy, Pussy.
Wars have been fought for it.
Kings have given up their thrones
to have it.
From ancient time to the present
day
Men continue to die and kill each
other over it.
Pussy, Pussy, Pussy, Pussy.
It is the source of man's very
existence.
It is in man's nature and of his
spirit.
It is hereditary and genetic.
It is man's cradle to life and his
guide to love.
It is the passageway through which
man enters the world.
It is the place where all men come
from
And it may well be the real reason
Why we just keep on coming back,
Coming back, coming back, coming
back,
Coming back, coming back for more
Pussy, Pussy, Pussy, Pussy.
It is man's nature to use his
God-given brain to feel,
To think, to act in ways that are
both natural and essential.
It is neither a sin nor unnatural
for man to continue to be
Captivated and fascinated with his birthplace.
Source:
Eyes of a Poet |
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I have witnessed police brutality by racist cops and their
unprovoked attacks on Afrikan-Amerikan men with my own eyes. I
myself was once a victim of a crude game of Russian roulette,
was threatened and called a nigger by two white police officers
who had picked me up from the Carroll Park Golf Course. I still
can remember those wooden telephone poles on Annapolis Road with
homemade mannequin models of Afrikan-Amerikan men hanging from a
rope tied around their necks, and at night in Westport's big
park there were cross burnings.
. . . Through my poetry I began expressing my activism and my
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I have been invited to perform at numerous protest
demonstrations outside the prisons, at City Hall, the State
House, at recreation centers and parks, at colleges and
universities, and a large number of churches and radio stations
throughout Baltimore City by reading my political poetry. . . .
Poetry can be used to educate as well as entertain the listener
or the reader. . . . To understand me is to understand my story.
These poems are part of my story and my evolution.—Kalb
Faouly Attimn Tshamba,
Preface to
Eyes of a Poet
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Facing
a possible arrest over the fatal shooting of
an unarmed former Marine after a night of
club-hopping, Baltimore Police Officer
Gahiji A. Tshamba continues to pop in to the
Eastern District station where he worked for
years. Here, the 15-year veteran is among
friends and colleagues, known not as a
killer enraged by slights over a woman but
as the quiet, studious-looking officer who,
as one colleague put it, would "do anything
to help you." . . .
Tshamba,
a reserved and smallish man who in
photographs looks more like an R&B singer
than a streetwise officer, grew up in the
Baltimore area and has three siblings,
including twin brothers, records indicate.
No one responded when reporters visited
their homes, scattered from North
Baltimore's Winston-Gardens to Bolton Hill.
They and others, including the father's
ex-wife, who lives in Woodlawn, did not
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Facing a possible arrest over the
fatal shooting of an unarmed former Marine after a night
of club-hopping, Baltimore Police Officer Gahiji A.
Tshamba continues to pop in to the Eastern District
station where he worked for years.
Here, the 15-year veteran is among
friends and colleagues, known not as a killer enraged by
slights over a woman but as the quiet, studious-looking
officer who, as one colleague put it, would "do anything
to help you." . . . .
Tshamba, a reserved
and smallish man who in photographs looks more like an
R&B singer than a streetwise officer, grew up in the
Baltimore area and has three siblings, including twin
brothers, records indicate. No one responded when
reporters visited their homes, scattered from North
Baltimore's Winston-Gardens to Bolton Hill. They and
others, including the father's ex-wife, who lives in
Woodlawn, did not respond to interview requests.
Public records for
family members point back to the same three-story brick
rowhouse on West North Avenue owned by Kaleb Tshamba,
identified in a court divorce file as the officer's
60-year-old father. Virtually every relative has listed
that address as a residence at one time or another over
the past decade. The home appears occupied, but nobody
has answered the door on repeated visits or responded to
notes requesting interviews.
Plants hang in the
windows and flowers bloom in a pot outside. A sign in
the window warns: "No loitering or sitting on the steps.
Will result in your arrest. By order of the Baltimore
Police Department."
The home's
answering machine asks callers to leave a message if
they want to schedule an event at the Arch Social Club,
located a few blocks to the east at West North and
Pennsylvania avenues. Founded in 1912, it is one of the
city's oldest African-American clubs and was once a
venue for famous jazz musicians.
Kaleb Tshamba keeps a poetry
journal on an Internet site called
ChickenBones, described as a
literary publication of African-American themes. The
elder Tshamba has written a—
lengthy personal history
describing growing up in southern Baltimore's Westport
public housing developments and being one of the first
black families there in 1956.
He writes about racism at the hands
of white police officers in the 1950s and 1960s, and of
working for a defunct glass company after graduating
from Edmondson High School.
In the late 1970s, the father
writes, he became a "full-fledged social conscious
political poet" who spoke at demonstrations outside
Baltimore prisons, City Hall, the State House, churches
and universities. His personal history does not contain
any references to family or to his son the police
officer.—Officer
in shooting led turbulent life, Trouble on and off the
force
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Tshamba's turbulent past /
Justified Ltr - Non-fatal Shooting of George McAleer (Tshamba)
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The transcendent power of music has long been recognized
as a vehicle for spiritual practice and a path to
spiritual fulfillment and enlightenment. Spiritual
music, a universally powerful form of prayer, has for
millennia provided human beings with a sense of the
greater spiritual universe. Chanting forms part of many
religious rituals, and diverse spiritual traditions
consider music as a means of opening the individual to
spiritual experience. I
n this episode of
Global Spirit, host Phil Cousineau explores the
transcendent qualities of spiritual and sacred music
with guests Rev. Alan Jones and Grammy-award-winning
singer and member of the Native American Onondaga tribe
Joanne Shenandoah. Experience the power of liturgical
musical performances in Latin from Grace Cathedral in
San Francisco (where the Rev. Jones serves as Dean) and
witness powerful, live studio performances by Joanne
Shenandoah and her daughter.
This episode also
includes a hauntingly moving, seven-minute sequence from
Peter Brook’s film, Meetings with Remarkable Men,
in which the young mystic Gurdjieff learns the power of
sacred sound as it resonates from the Afghan
mountaintops.—Music,
Sound and the Sacred
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Among the
many forms in which the human spirit has tried to express its innermost
yearnings and perceptions, music is perhaps the most universal. It
symbolizes the yearnings for harmony, with oneself and with others, with
nature and with the spiritual and sacred within us and around us. There
is something in music that transcends and unites. This is evident in the
sacred music of every community—music that expresses the universal
yearning that is shared by people all over the globe.—His
Holiness the Dalai Lama
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John Coltrane A
Love Supreme
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Hopes and Prospects
By Noam Chomsky
In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky
surveys the dangers and prospects of our
early twenty-first century. Exploring
challenges such as the growing gap
between North and South, American
exceptionalism (including under
President Barack Obama), the fiascos of
Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli
assault on Gaza, and the recent
financial bailouts, he also sees hope
for the future and a way to move
forward—in the democratic wave in Latin
America and in the global solidarity
movements that suggest "real progress
toward freedom and justice." Hopes and
Prospects is essential reading for
anyone who is concerned about the
primary challenges still facing the
human race. "This is a classic Chomsky
work: a bonfire of myths and lies,
sophistries and delusions. Noam Chomsky
is an enduring inspiration all over the
world—to millions, I suspect—for the
simple reason that he is a truth-teller
on an epic scale. I salute him." —John
Pilger
In dissecting the rhetoric and logic of
American empire and class domination, at
home and abroad, Chomsky continues a
longstanding and crucial work of
elucidation and activism . . .the
writing remains unswervingly rational
and principled throughout, and lends
bracing impetus to the real alternatives
before us.—Publisher's
Weekly
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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The White Masters
of the World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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