tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:09:36 +0000a black man's quest to understand a world that continually feels the need to remind him, he is indeed a black manhttp://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/t4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)Blogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-1783148550038250219Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:14:00 +00002009-08-13T15:17:49.217-04:00relationshipsdating tipslove"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - ralph waldo emersonI'm surrounded by women, young, old, single, divorced, happy, bitter. They all have something in common. None of them have a significant romantic relationship in their lives, nor do they seem to have the slightest inkling of how to achieve and maintain one. http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2009/08/brothaly-advice-for-sistas_13.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-1583469689683293996Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:03:00 +00002009-08-12T11:32:36.479-04:00a lil down home beef in alligatorby hardCore(performed at the S\W Speak Easy)Only two kinds of people ever come out of Bolivar County Mississippi; young looking old people, and old looking young people. Now if you happened to be young looking and old, then praise the good man up above cause you lucked out on some damn good genes. But if you turned out old looking and young, chances are you werehttp://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2009/08/lil-down-home-beef-in-alligator.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-1316062720654680505Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:34:00 +00002009-08-03T15:37:30.639-04:00"get your popcorn ready" - t.o.After a long long long hiatus, T4TD is relaunching this week.So spread the word. It's about to be on up in here. One.http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2009/08/re-launch.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-2340174934561085823Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:58:00 +00002009-08-04T10:26:09.404-04:00beautiful young womenby dr. cleopatra abdou (inspired by corey d. seaton)january 5th, 2009Beautiful young women, let me tell you what happens. Here’s what happens:you see these images of love,you dream of love,you imagine love,you hope for love,you will it to be love,you do all kinds of not-so-smart things for love,make all kinds of downright bad choices for love.And these never put love where ithttp://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2009/01/beautiful-young-women.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-1352026891009811291Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:49:00 +00002008-11-05T13:12:10.415-05:00dear diary, this morning when i woke up, things seemed different. the sun was still the sun, the clouds were still the clouds, and the wind was still the wind. my nose was still my nose, my eyes were still my eyes, and this black skin was still this black skin. the same people who speak to me, spoke to me. the same people who never do, didn't. the same way i couldn't care less either way, http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/11/dear-diary.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-680553716130413076Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:21:00 +00002008-10-21T09:23:58.608-04:00"the dinner hour is the summer of the day, full of sunshine" - herman melvilleThere's been so much serious stuff going on in the world lately, I thought this might be a nice time for a feel good piece. A couple years back I wrote a post called Whus Fa Dinnuh? It was a piece that attempted to explain how, as a kid, you could correlate what was going on in the family, socially and economically http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/10/whus-fa-dinnuh-pt-2.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-4818296035297369761Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:16:00 +00002008-08-10T18:44:04.510-04:001942 - 20081957 - 2008http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/08/moment-of-silence.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-8659602750700663419Mon, 19 May 2008 14:20:00 +00002008-05-19T16:42:12.497-04:00the last poetsmalcolm x3rd Eye Open Poetry CollectiveThe Last Poets (left to right: abiodun oyewole, don babatunde eaton, umar bin hassan)Today, on what would have been Malcolm X's 83rd birthday, we celebrate his legacy and two groups founded on his birth date. Today marks the 40th anniversary of the legendary Last Poets, and the sixth anniversary of the 3rd Eye Open Poetry Collective. Malcolm has been gone for years now, yet his influence http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/05/may-19th.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-7566670184983971467Sun, 11 May 2008 13:38:00 +00002008-08-09T12:26:34.619-04:00mother's day"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie." - teneva jordanA couple of weeks ago, I woke up from a very intense nightmare sweating and screaming. I must of eaten too late, something I rarely do. Anyway, in that moment when I woke up startled, I sounded like a five year old kid screaming out one of the http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/05/happy-mothers-day.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-8075020292633169566Fri, 09 May 2008 18:22:00 +00002009-08-04T10:52:51.292-04:00michelle obamafirst familyblack presidentsen. barack obama"I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future." - ralph abernathyWith all the talk about the possibility of the first black president, I'm reminded and equally excited about the prospect of the First Family being black. The black community has never had that high profile black family we could point to as the model of success. Sure, we've had an endless list of http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/05/first-family_09.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-1788105169039588651Thu, 08 May 2008 10:03:00 +00002008-05-08T09:26:55.241-04:00moment of silencemilleonmilton donelsonR.I.P. Milton "Milleon" Donelson (local Detroit open mic poet, friend)Some people in life were sent to make us stop for a second and take notice. They demand us to see the world differently, to look beyond, and within. They challenge us. They fill rooms with an energy that warms us in places long cold. They remind us, we don't need microphones to amplify our presence. Every day they teach http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/05/moment-of-silence.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-4372809438141445530Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:39:00 +00002008-05-02T08:51:13.075-04:00obama denounces rev. wrightrev. jeremiah wrightsen. barack obama“I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.” - Malcolm X One of my closest boys, my brotha, prides himself on keeping it real. Real for him is saying whatever, whenever, in whatever loud ghetto ass way he chooses to say it. His ability to disrupt the room with wild http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/04/am-i-my-brothas-keeper.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-5215445367319092133Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:17:00 +00002008-04-28T07:15:58.069-04:00"a riot is the language of the unheard" - MLKSO WHY DIDN'T NYC RIOT?http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/04/question-4-day.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-7579471113171749480Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:22:00 +00002008-04-26T19:23:31.512-04:00NYPDofficers acquittedsean bellblack male mortality(the late Sean Bell, pictured with family, was unarmed when shot 50 times by three NYPD cops, yet those three officers were acquitted of the shooting)"O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they do!" - william shakespeareThey've always done it. They did it at Jackson State. They did it to Deandre Brunston. They did it to Amidou Diallo. They did it to people http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/04/for-whom-bell-tolls.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-7278284543733182456Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:57:00 +00002008-04-14T13:57:34.185-04:00http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/04/baracky_14.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-719213527490978304Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:28:00 +00002008-04-11T13:47:45.022-04:00looked aroundand saw very few innovatorsa few malcolm wannabes, panther imitators a bunch of "i marched with king" type preacher playersstruggle leachers, ole outdated teaching sayersmy generation offered up a hip hop mayori saw very little change, just a lot of gatorsdead strippers and a shiny red Navigatora sex scandal via two-way Sky pagermy people staring at the dark night sky scared http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/04/freestyle-friday-cold-one.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-943608734330914377Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:49:00 +00002008-04-10T14:08:05.462-04:00rev. jeremiah wrightblack suspicionracismAmerica"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.” - rev. jeremiah wrightTo understand black http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/04/understanding-black-suspicion.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-1544568326327483499Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:45:00 +00002008-04-04T10:56:13.276-04:00detroitmusichip hopjay electronica(Jay-Electronica, considered by many to be,"the next great emcee")Once upon a time in Detroit, where the manhole steam oozes from below the ground like there's something volcanic below, there was music. And during the summer nights of 2002, it seemed to fill the downtown streets as if it were coming from everywhere. From every car, bar, dance club, strip club, and stage, there was music. But http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/04/once-upon-time-in-detroit.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-3759854035934370244Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:49:00 +00002008-04-08T16:11:06.665-04:00dead American soldiersIraqwarthe matrix"soft peter""The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work... when you go to church... when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth." - morpheus I was talking to my old man recently about his Army years.http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/03/soft-peter.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-1633965272717458885Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:20:00 +00002008-04-04T09:25:25.722-04:00datingsingle lifelove“At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.” - Joseph CampbellDating is a dirty dirty game. I'm not saying you'll need to develop super powers to make it, but make no mistake, it's rough out there and survival is key. And survival means having a survival code. Below are my http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/03/dating-survival-game.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-3187244143993984750Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:30:00 +00002008-04-07T14:52:01.981-04:00detroittext scandalpoliticskwame kilpatrick"Busted is what you see!" - Kwame KilpatrickBlack men, black men, black men. Damn, we can't win. It's bad enough the local news starts with the whole scary black man image every night, something along the lines of; armed black male suspect at large. But lately even the NATIONAL news is leading with a "black man gone wrong" story. And no, I'm not talking about Pacman "make it rain" Jones or http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/03/enough-kwame.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-6473457400095829179Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:38:00 +00002008-03-09T23:09:43.899-04:00(the Columns and Jesse Hall @ The University of Missouri-Columbia)"one day it'll all make sense" - commonIn college, I was somebody...I barely remember now. This nonchalant, too cool for school guy. His overall outlook on life is fuzzy to me, but I definitely used to be him. He wore bright white tennis shoes, kept a gold herringbone chain gripped loosely around his neck, and made sure he had the http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/03/tiger-years.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-5665591453070895115Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:15:00 +00002008-01-21T10:43:01.225-05:00"Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. And at such a moment, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth, one clings to what one knew, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/01/mlk-martyr.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-6520701480908199094Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:07:00 +00002008-04-03T19:16:04.524-04:00"Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race. And my impression, as I travel around the country, is that that's the kind of country that most people want, as well, and that we all have prejudice, we all have certain suspicions or stereotypes about people who are different from us, whether it's religious or racial or ethnic, but what I think I found in the American people, I think http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2008/01/barack-and-hillary-lesson-in-music.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20589911.post-4045311380619967187Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:09:00 +00002007-12-27T21:09:27.578-05:00I love youtube.com! It's where you can find your favorite cinematic moments, hip hop videos, the latest dance craze, or some random weird video. Well, I've probably watched thousands of youtube.com videos this year, so I thought I'd post my ten favorite. Feel free to post some of your favorite stuff in the comments. Peace.10) Crank Dat JumpropeThere were tons of crank dat dances this year, http://www.3rdeyeopen.org/thought/2007/12/youtube-videos-of-year.htmlt4tdinfo@gmail.com (hardCore)5