O-GOP Movement

Houston - Consider this: most eligible Blacks don't register; most who register don't vote; most who do vote, vote Democrat. What if those who are eligible, decided to register and vote in Republican primaries just to see if we can moderate or fire a shot across the bow of O-GOP (Our Grandparents Original Party)?

To my "Yellow Dog" Democrat friends: this is not a threat to your allegiance to the Democratic party. I know the Dems have done much for our people during the last half of the 20th century. However, they have also crippled our spirit of self determination with a Santa Claus like welfare state that is unsustainable and not in our best long term interest. There are issues we rarely discuss in our community like: master-slave relationship with party bosses, mental health, child molestation, abortion, separation, reparations, repatriation, and agriculture among other matters. Unless we are willing to put everything on the table for the liberation and salvation of our people; we who claim to be leaders will be nothing more than cowards. If what we have been doing over the last 40 years has been working so well, then why are Black people in such bad shape despite having our brother Obama in the White house?

You think you have a permanent friend in the Democratic party? Watch these Blue Dog Democrats vote like Republicans in the next Congress. Unless Black people take their destiny in their own hands and put everyone on notice that we have no permanent political friends and no permanent political enemies, just permanent interest - we will continue to be ignored by the Republicans and taken for granted by the Democrats. Politics IS NOT the panacea by which our people will be saved. But if we are going to play the political game, we might as well play to win. Mission Impossible? What are we afraid of? We don't have anything to lose but our chains.

I Am Not Going Away Quietly!

Houston - For those who are hiding in a cave or in a closet, I say: "Come out of hiding and start fighting back!" I am sick of these hand wringing Democrats and so-called Progressives whining about how the Tea Party and Republicans have taken over the government. So what!

Does anybody see that the Republicans have conned the Tea Party? Can anyone guess what will happen when the Tea Partiers find out what the rest of us knew about the Republican ruling elite? If they think Democrats are elitist, wait until they wake up and see who they have gotten in bed with.

In Texas, many are worried about the Texas legislature being two-thirds Republican, needing no Democratic votes to pass anything. "We can't stop them" is what I'm hearing. Well, they may go quietly into the night but as for me, I refuse to go to the lynching tree, gas chamber or reservation without putting up a hell of a struggle.

Man up Black folks! Man up Progressives! Grow a spine and stand up!

Disorganized Love and Organized Hate

Houston - In 1993, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said to me as we sat in a car at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas: "Brother, disorganized love can be overcome by organized hate." I never forgot his words and wise counsel.

Last night, November 2, 2010, those who openly advocated "taking back their nation" and conversely putting us back in our place, completed one step in that process. The victory of the Tea Party is reminiscent of 1877, when post emancipation Reconstruction ended and Jim Crow began.

The message from Tuesday's election is clear. Those who see the ascendancy of people of color as a threat have struck back like the sequel to Star Wars. Yes, the Empire has indeed struck back. The members of the Tea Party are NOT the majority; we are. How then were they able to win? The victory of the Tea Party is actually the result of our apathy and disorganization.

In the end, they stayed on message and organized themselves accordingly. The same economic conditions that existed in the post Civil war America exist today. The same social and political climate hovers over this country. We must not go hide in a closet and cry our eyes out. We must challenge these hardhearted demagogues on their turf.

It is time to organize a winning strategy. That requires a message that resonates with our people and an organizational effort to bring what we envision into existence. No matter how much we love, if we are disorganized we can be overcome by those who hate us. Let's get moving brothers and sisters. Time out for siting around waiting on a mystery God to bring us food, clothing and shelter. President Obama has his hands full. We must organize for our own self interest. If we don't nobody else will. Be prepared for the Return of the Jedi!

TEA LOSES IN COURT OF APPEALS AGAIN

TEA Commissioner Robert Scott

COURT OF APPEALS
THIRD DISTRICT OF TEXAS
P.O. BOX 12547, AUSTIN, TEXAS 78711-2547
www.3rdcoa.courts.state.tx.us
(5 12) 463-1733

J. WOODFIN JONES, CHIEF JUSTICE
JAN P. PA'TTERSON, JUSTICE
DAVID PURYEAR, JUSTICE
BOB PEMBERTON, JUSTICE
ALAN WALDROP, JUSTICE
DIANE HENSON, JUSTICE

April 13,2010


RE: Court of Appeals Number: 03-06-00003-CV
Trial Court Case Number: GN503667
Style: Robert Scott, Commissioner of Education v. Alphonso Crutch Life Support Center

Dear Counsel:

On the date noted above, appellant's motion for leave to file post-submission letter brief was granted by this Court, and appellant's post-submission brief was filed. In addition, appellant's (Robert Scott, Commissioner of Education) motion for rehearing was denied.

Very truly yours,
JEFFREY D. KYLE, CLERK

Note: This means the lower court's and Court of Appeals ruling favoring Alphonso Crutch stands. TEA can either abide by this ruling or appeal to the Texas Supreme Court. Either way, TEA keeps stalling to try to run out the clock on the school by with holding funds. There will be a hearing in Austin, Texas on April 22, 2010 in the Court of Appeals on another District Court ruling against TEA in favor of Alphonso Crutch. Join us there if you can. Or better yet, call TEA Commissioner Robert Scott at (512) 463-9734. Urge him to stop wasting taxpayer's money and denying poor children with no other school to attend an education. Demand that he dismiss TEA attorney Jim Thompson from the Alphonso Crutch case and negotiate a fair settlement with the school.