Obama Love Is Lasting Love.

What a Day for an opening! The Obama Presidential Center and Library officially opens to the public in Chicago's Jackson Park on June 19, 2026. What else is special about June 19, each year. Juneteenth falls annually on June 19. It commemorates the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that the last enslaved Black Americans were free. Praying all goes well and safe as America celebrates with him.

Also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, Juneteenth is now a recognized U.S. federal holiday, meaning government offices, banks, and mail delivery are closed. It is a day the Black Community is celebrating more than ever during the attacks of Blacks by President Trump. We love Barack Obama for being PROUD to HONOR the freedom of slaves by, opening his center on this meaningful date to Balck America.

The Obama's remain in the news often as Trump takes any wild opportunity to try to make Barack and Michelle small. Michelle Obama has been targeted with the false conspiracy theory that she is a man for years, but the slur has notably gained traction on a few major occasions.

June 14, 2026: Heavyweight fighter Josh Hokit sparked major controversy by using his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan to yell, "Michelle Obama is a man, am I right America?" This happened in the Octagon on the South Lawn of the White House during the "UFC Freedom 250" event. July 2014: The conspiracy was highly publicized when late comedian Joan Rivers was filmed on a New York City street claiming that Michelle Obama was transgender and Barack Obama was gay. Right-wing figures like Alex Jones also aggressively amplified this narrative around the same period. 

General Conspiracy History: The baseless claim first began circulating online around 2008 when her husband, Barack Obama, was running for president, relying heavily on altered photos and racist, sexist tropes aimed at masculinizing Black women.

AMERICA can see with each racial attack, the Obama's always maintained their dignity, grace, and style. Never meeting vileness with vileness. The attacks are so BASELESS, until America automatically takes the victim's side. Trump only succeeded making himself look PETTY, AFRAID, and WISH he could be Obama. We love Barack for this. Obama Derangement Syndrome.

When audiences booed Trump during campaign rallies, Obama would famously say, "Don't boo, VOTE?" When an audience member, many, at times, would shout, "We love you Obama," We knew what was coming next, a tilt of the head and smile, "I love you back," to errupting cheers he would have to calm down. We loved him for that.

The way he loved his wife and family is evident, and has been evident from day one. The first year of his presidency, Americans criticized him for having a date night with his wife stopping traffic. Trump's ridiculous display of causing chaos at the Knicks game angered New York and Americans around the country. People believed Trump caused the Knicks to lose that game. The crowd booed the president at that basketball game for good reason. It was PURE sabotage in the minds of the attendees. No one understood why he had to attend the crucial game. The Knicks have refused the White House invitation to have their win recognized by the president.

Trump has showed disdain for the sport of basketball. Donald Trump has frequently spoken negatively about Black athletes, largely in response to them protesting systemic injustice or making critical political statements. 

The National Football League (NFL): During a 2017 rally in Alabama, Trump referred to protesting NFL players who kneel during the national anthem as "sons of bitches". He urged NFL owners to suspend or fire players engaging in these demonstrations, which the players started to draw attention to police brutality and racial inequality. 

The National Basketball Association (NBA): Trump rescinded a White House invitation to NBA star Stephen Curry after Curry expressed hesitation about attending following his championship win. Trump also publicly attacked and insulted NBA figures like LeBron James. 

National Anthems & The Flag: Trump has firmly maintained that his criticisms of Black athletes who protest have "nothing to do with race". He and his administration have consistently framed these athletes' actions as a lack of respect for the country, the flag, and the military. 

Obama, on the other hand, installed a basketball court at the White house to enjoy his favorite sport and for exercise, which of course, was criticized. We love Obama for being an energetic, active, fit president. He had fun while doing it. It aided our president. Trump can not stay awake anymore in meetings and surely envies Barack Obama's fitness.

Back to Barack as a husband. The Obama's supported each other as a unit. He was the gentleman many women wished their husband were. His eyes twinkled when speaking about Michelle. Black love was demonstrated on a public scale. Many people suggest there is NO Black love in our communities with so many unwed mothers. It does exist. We love him for that. He was a prince charming and he belonged to Michelle without a doubt.

On-stage body language between Donald and Melania, is often described as restrained. They frequently maintain a businesslike formality rather than overtly affectionate displays, occasionally leading to highly scrutinized moments where public physical contact is minimal or awkwardly sidestepped. Reporters would ask what he got her for her birthday, and he would say, "I think a card."

Donald Trump's election to the presidency, was America's BACKLASH and ANGER a Black person had been elected president. It is the underlying root of HATE for MAGA. Social media such as X, is a sesspool of racism, racial slurs, memes of monkeys. I remember someone left a meme of a Black man in the cotton field and the guy wrote, "Go back to where you belong." Shocked, I left X. But it is a meeting place of hyping WHITE SUPERIORITY and inferiority of minorities, Black and Brown.

Barack knew he would be a TARGET and hated. He ran for PRESIDENT and won anyway. He knew the weight he and Michelle would face as the FIRST Black people in A WHITE HOUSE. He knew even the Black Community would not appreciate the depth of courage and sacrifice this would take. His daughters and wife publically smeared, degraded. The Black Community says he didn't do anything for Blacks while in office. Okay, but you felt safe he would NOT do you like a TRUMP would. That he would rise to the racism your neighbor had hidden inside for you, unleashed on him. This was a real MAN who made false manhood and masculinity a laughing stock.

Thank you Barack and Michelle. You two did a GREAT service for America. You took the false claim of America being a Christian nation, EXPOSING the LIE. America hated Blacks. A large section of America wants a do over of the Civil War. Obama drove White Supremist insane and then Trump gave them JOBS. Blinded by HATE, Trump to uses them, even with the THREAT of jail or loss of identity and respect.

The HOOD has been pulled off and it's pedal to the metal! The destruction of a REAL man must happen. A PLAN has been inacted. To many, Obama had stepped out of his place and they are throwing everything, including the kitchen sink, at the Obama's to destroy their legacy and memory. That seems like hate and fear. I love Obama because he doesn't wear the ATTACKS on his sleeve. He tilts his head and smiles, charming America.

The biggest satisfaction we have during this racist time, is Donald desparately wants what the Obama's, especially Barack, has in a public shameful way. He wants a NOBEL PEACE Prize and cries and begs for one. Donald Trump has openly coveted the Nobel Peace Prize. He frequently highlights his diplomatic involvement in high-profile international conflicts, believing his efforts should be recognized with the award. DOROTHY GUYTON, author (BA, MA) INTERVIEWER: Blessed Is the Peacemaker 

Motivations and Diplomatic Push Trump's desire for the award has been a notable element of his foreign policy. He has openly cited his work on the Abraham Accords and his efforts to broker peace agreements in the Middle East and globally as primary reasons he deserves the accolade. He often contrasts his active diplomatic push with former President Barack Obama, who received the prize early in his presidency.

Barack got his Nobel Peace Prize with ease to the cheers of the world. We love him for that. He is a MAN Trump and his supporters want to be. And shows Trump's JEALOUSY and ENVY he has framed with MAGA's help, using MAGA for REVENGE. It is revenge for Obama, being the, "total package"

Obama does not have to BUY support or CHEAT in anything.He doesn't have to stack the deck of cards in his favor using presidential powers and ignoring the law to win. Trump issues unlawful decrees to portray the image of being powerful. Trump hires people who call him brilliant and a savior, most intelligent being under the threat of his retribution if they don't. He DEMANDS loyalty while Barack is freely loved and supported til this day and Juneteenth, crowds will pour out to show love and support. DOROTHY GUYTON, author (BA, MA) INTERVIEWER: Why Are Republicans Cheaters In Politics?

Trump coerces, blackmails, threatens, purcheses, bullies, cancels, fires, demands, trolls, commissions HITS using ICE, MAGA, government, for adoration and FALSE compliments and WORSHIP. Why are Americans supporting him? There are more Barack Obama's out there. Superior in the same ways. That must be TERRIFYING to MAGA, Republicans, Concervatives, Evangelicals, Right. See how FIRMLY they hold to LIES glorifying Trump who they know is unfit, but they are THANKFULL RACISTS for having him as a mouth-piece.

Obama ALWAYS brings HOPE, the possibility of GREATNESS, not NEGATIVITY. In everything he did/do, he did/does the best he could/can under EXTRME CRIPPLING RACISM. Could you have withstood it? He may didn't make all of the policies the Black preople wanted, but the ENTIRE Obama family were/is a PROFILE IN CORAGE and not connected to the EPSTEIN FILES (I couldn't resist).

WE LOVE YOU BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA FOR SHOWING/PROVING BACK EXCELLENCE.

Black History and Hair

 

    When it comes to celebrating Black history, one part of that history, natural Black hair. gets overlooked. The hair of Black people has played a significant part in the evolution of Black people in America and the hairstyle DREADLOCKS has been center stage.

    Hair matters and there is no other choice of hair style that has elicited strong emotions more so than dreadlocks. The dreadlock hair style is filled with history, confusion of origin, myth, and strong political and ethnic ownership. People argue about who is allowed to wear dreadlocks and where dreadlocks can be worn. Dreadlocks have been designated as a no in the workplace, but that is changing. Authors have penned books about dreadlock history or how to care for them. My book, Don't Dread Dreads, The People Speak is different. Through personal interviews and photos from around the world from dreadlock wearers, I give the reader intimate access to the world of dreadlocks. The dreadlock world is a world where even the ‘name’ to call the hair style is contentious. Dreadlocks evoke strong emotions and endless debate. Even if you do not choose to wear your hair in an African-centric hairstyle such as dreadlocks, your choice of hairstyle still speaks volumes.

    Has the African American community embraced their natural hair as a thing of beauty, or will the natural kinks and wooliness of our hair continue to cause shame and self-loathing? Recently, there has been a reclaiming and pride of natural hair in the Black community. Due to the availability of Black hair care products and the revelation of hair straighteners being linked to cancer, the Black community has begun to love their natural hair. The once hated coiled hair is now being viewed as beautiful and holds a sense of pride for Black men and women. But that was not always the case.

    Madam C. J. Walker (December 23, 1867-May 25, 1919) an American businesswoman, hair care entrepreneur, tycoon, and philanthropist, marketed beauty and hair products for black women. She was the first female to become a millionaire. She was born Sarah Breedlove in Delta, Louisiana and was the first member of her family to be born free. Her parents had been slaves.

    When she began to lose her hair from extreme dandruff and scalp disease from washing her hair once a month, which was customary during that time period, she designed her own line of hair care products. By 1917, she had the largest business in the United States owned by a black person. "I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the wash tub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations...I have built my own factory on my own ground.'' An estimated 75% of American black women continue to perm or relax their hair. The award winning 

    Whoopi Goldberg often has members of her own community tell her that her dread locks are disgusting and that she should "take those nappy braids out." A generation earlier, actress Cicely Tyson was told by members of the black community that she may be a gifted actress, but her short natural hairstyle was detrimental to the image of black women.

     "As the twentieth century closes, I believe that Black women have come to better appreciate the array of beauty we portray, despite subtle, and not so subtle, pressure from the media, the workplace and the larger society to conform to their standards of attractiveness. Yet, I am sometimes troubled that too many of us still make snide and cruel comments about the politically, professionally, or socially acceptable way to wear our hair. We would be a lot stronger as a people if we used that energy to support each other economically, emotionally, and spiritually." Quote by A'lelia Perry Bundles, Great-great-granddaughter of madam C.J. Walker, black hair care industry pioneer. Information source: Article by Russell K., Wilson M., and Hall R. (1992) Hair: the Straight and Nappy of it all, "The Color Complex: the Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans" NY: Anchor, 81-93.

    There is a rich history regarding Black hair on several continents. For some, hair has always connected them to status and pride. For the African American during the slave era, their hair connected them to negativity and became a source of ridicule and shame. The slave was demeaned for their natural hair and encouraged to adopt the European standards of hairstyles, which meant straightened hair. For many Black women today, long straightened hair is still the ideal standard of beauty and that choice is fine. But, natural Black hair is also viewed as beautiful and women are no longer demeaned for choosing to wear their natural hair.

    The Black hair industry has grown to be a multi-million dollar industry. Black people care about their hair. No matter the hair style choice of Black people, they have left behind the indoctrination of being seen as ugly for their African features, which included their hair. Black history consists of embracing one's beauty in its various forms. Black hair is Black history.

Let the movie " THE HELP" help: Black hands that rock the cradle revelation.

     For Black History month I hope you watch the movie or read the book The Help. And for those against Critical Race Theory, this movie/book is why people are saying true history it about truth and not hate.

Okay people, I think the movie "The Help" is a must-see movie. A movie reviewer said it the best:

    By Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times Film Critic "The Help" is a delicious peppery stew of home-cooked, 1960s Southern-style racism that serves up a soulful dish of what ails us and what heals us. Laughter, which is ladled on thick as gravy, proves to be the secret ingredient — turning what should be a feel-bad movie about those troubled times into a heart-warming surprise." 

    The review is glowing but fails to say the ending to the movie was changed from the book because the ugliness would have depressed the moviegoer. Black people never get to change endings in their lives to feel good endings. That said, it still shines a light on the dynamic of those who have, and how they treat the have nots and how the status quo is guarded and protected.

    I am from Mississippi and to my surprise, the overwhelming majority of viewers happened to be Caucasian couples. Why was this surprising to me - because the story line was about the help, the hard-working lives of black women living through a severely prejudiced time, eking out an existence with rules that did not allow for any quality of life. The rules were instituted and guarded by whites protecting a coveted standard of living where life was easy; complicated only by how high they could rise in status and wealth.

    Let me just say beforehand that much of the debate about this movie is centered on a white character being the heroine of black characters and whether the target audience was the white audience leaving them with a feel-good feeling at the end of the movie. Being from the South, I walked into the theater wondering would the 'help' actually divulge their true thoughts about their employer? Was there a ring of truth anywhere in this dynamic of the Southern woman and her hired help? WOULD THE HELP SPILL THEIR GUTS????

    As the theater filled and the audience consisted of a speckling of 6 black people, the question pinged through my brain "How can a white audience watch this show without shame, guilt or some sliver of embarrassment and should there be any?" 

    The only answer I could come up with was that the white audience was there to see if they could recognize, in one of the white characters, how one of their own family members behave. They were excited to see if a KAREN would be captured on the big screen or their off the wall friend "Becky" type who they attended Ole Miss with was represented in the movie. The pretty girl "Becky" who successfully obtained a Mrs. Degree (husband) from college. 

    There was laughter from the audience at the housewives on the screen as they played bridge and attended the fund raiser for the starving African children as black maids stood serving them in crisp starched uniforms living in poverty. People were identifying people they knew and socialized with up there on the big screen. And yes, I knew and socialized to some degree with some of the same housewives acting out the horrors of the 1960's overladen with Christian lingo of ignorance.

    One thing that was amazing about the movie was the language used. There were phrases used in a movie (fictional) recreated from a book written about a time we have decided has long passed, that are still said on TBN, in local churches, and yes, Fox News. When I heard these same phrases i.e. "I am a Christian and I would hurt you by helping you financially" there was no way you could have kept me from thinking about the political struggle occurring between the classes of giving the poor too much and trying to take from the rich. I could hear John Hagee shouting Scripture from his televised pulpit saying, "If a man does not work; he does not eat." The movie clearly demonstrated how a man could work and still could not eat; it all depends upon who is calling the shots.

    But all of that aside, the biggest revelation or illumination I had was the burning question posed to all of the "Help" - "How do you feel raising white children while someone else takes care of your own children?"

    Michele Bauchmann has said, and others have echoed, the breakdown of the black family as the ill of society. People have come to believe the black family is so dysfunctional now and that it was in a better condition during slavery. But what I realized is that for generations it was a black slave or black help raising, nurturing, loving, and yes, during slavery- being a wet nurse and breastfeeding white children. There are generations of adult white children who have been cared for by black women!!! Did those generations of children turn out bad or did they turn out well? Was the true determinate for their success or failure their access to money/wealth or was it the loving hand of the black Mammy that made such a strong generation?

    My final question as I rode home from the movie was did anyone truly hear the words coming out of the mouths of the characters? Did anyone hear the pain of the black women and the shear obliviousness of choice in the words uttered by the white people on the big screen?

     Did anyone leave the movie saying never again and we are so close to a historical repeat of that time in history with the passage of policies and laws? Did anyone think how exhausting it is looking out for the rights of the minority at every turn? Did "The Help" help? I'm hopeful as the movie has raked in 118.6 million dollars!!! People are out seeing this movie not just once, but at least twice as I encourage you to.

    I am glad the movie was a top grossing movie for more than two weeks. I hope people were laughing at the well-placed humor of living and being as well as the soul crushing ugliness of the human heart. I was pleasantly surprised the movie was true in telling the secrets the races never tell each other. There was not one person who could not relate to at least one character on the big screen. This movie was a glaring exposure of the human condition of heart, spirit, and soul at its worst and its best. I hope we recognized more than our own black Aunt Cill and our black friend Netty depicted in the movie. I hope we could each see ourselves up there doing what was decent and what was right - the hard things that shake and shape this world for the better. I hope we let the movie "The Help" help.

DON'T FORGET: purchase my book "The Politics of Prayer" available on amazon.com and 

CLICK on the right side of page to follow and read my latest post.

The African Connection

    

During Black History month, Black people are encouraged to look at the contributions Black people have made to American History. We look at ourselves as Americans who made an impact on America and how many of those impacts go unheralded.

    One thing Black people in America do not do is have pride in their African heritage. Most do not even recognize their blackness as it relates to their ancestry in Africa. Slavery erased connections to our African and many feel they are only connected to their first ancestors to reach American shores. Ties to Africa were effectively severed. 

    As I have aged my hands have become darker with more lines and etchings of time. Not that I was ever a redbone, a cream coffee, or even a caramel color. I was just a lighter brown. But my color never seemed to be that of the Black people of Africa. They were black black.

    Does it bother me that my melanin seems to be going to the darker side of the spectrum with age? No. That is the least of my worries. I used to hear as a small child the blacker the berry the sweeter the juice. But all of the men ran after the 'high yellow' girls and the other black girls of the South tried to stay out of the sun so they would not become darker. So, I knew someone was lying with the darker the berry line. In America, the diluted Black person was seen as the prettier person.

Why am I bringing this all up you may wonder? Well, are you wondering? Good. My first goal met.

    I had the pleasure of meeting two well put together dark sisters one time. The first I shared a seat with on a shuttle and she somehow just began to tell me how offended she and her family were by the movie the "Help" because her grandmother and aunt were teachers in Mississippi during that time of the 1960's and her family were never maids. Black people not only distanced themselves from the darker Black people but also from those doing 'service' type work.

    Oh, I had met this type before. Ashamed. Angry. How dare you think my family ever cleaned for whites while that same lifestyle still exists for Mississippians in 2024. Black people hate movies that link them to slavery and even to their origin of being black black. They see no point in constantly visiting times in history when Black people were portrayed as less than. And dark Black people were viewed as less than.

 Me and another lady had been joking and talking for hours. We were friendlier strangers. Then I said, the one thing I've been waiting to do and will accomplish in 2012 is tracing my family line back to Africa using genetics. She looked at me and said "My family is 1, 2, 3, 4, generations removed from slavery. I will never trace my family back to Africa." She seemed snappish, upset, even ignorant in not wanting to know her families roots. My mother, nor grandmother, were slaves and I loved learning genealogy as I had explained and could not wait to know what tribe I belonged to or what area of Africa my maternal ancestors originated. 

                                                  
    Africans think Black Americans are not black enough and have sold out and Black Americans seem to not feel any connection accept denial of Africa. What is wrong? Do Black Americans have to embrace their African roots to be seen as proud Black Americans? Are we black enough while not knowing our roots in Africa?

    I wanted to label or title this blog Black Confusion or Black Hate because the lines have blurred. Every other ethnicity will go on and on telling you about their ancestral roots in Ireland, Italy, Russia, or Germany. Black Americans become offended when Africa is brought up saying they do not know anything about the country. Why does the Black community have no pride in belonging to Africa? 

    Are Black people still so broken until they have a battle with their darkness, lightness, origin, occupation, remembrance of lineage, or forgetfulness of their struggles for freedom? Do they just have a problem with their BLACKNESS? Does everything about their color and occupation remind them of pain?

    The answer is yes. Even in celebrating Black history, it is a reminder of the suffering of Black people. We can not rejoice in the successes of our people because they were accomplished through a struggle. For each win our people had, their was tremendous loss. We know surrounding our survival their was a large amount of death. Tracing our ancestry to Africa, unveils a trail of murder and death. The odds of us being alive to attempt to trace our bloodline, seen as equal to livestock, was based more on luck than a right to exist. In trying to reconnect to our origins in Africa is to acknowledge how we were ripped from it and the memory of the connection destroyed upon the threat of death for its remembrance.

    Our Black history is a tragic history. It is not a story filled with warm fuzzies. It is an exercise in not becoming angry and bitter. Many Black people feel they don't want to be reminded they belong to an ethnicity so hated by other races. The present struggle of acceptance is enough to navigate without reflecting on even worser times of the past. The darker the berry the more you are reminded of the pain of blackness. The lower the job, the reminder of enslavement nags at us. 

    Even though Black History tries to correct what America wrote off as something to dispise, it reminds the Black person of what was attempted to be destroyed through hate and even murder. Black History month should be a time of reflection in the Black community to ask ourselves have we healed enough to the point where we see ourselves as wonderful and beautiful. We try to do so by pointing to people who accomplished great things. But whether our people accomplished great things or not, shouldn't we see oursleves as great regardless?

    Will our people ever have pride in saying we originated in Africa from tribes with a long history on the earth? There are other ethnicities that had points in their history where there was hardship, not comparable to slavery, but periods that were challenging. Those ethnicities are not stuck in shame of their forefather's struggles. They embrace just being a part of that ethnicity. In denying our African roots, we are in essence beliitling the origin of all blackness. Our distance from Black people still echos there is something wrong with being Black. We see ourselves as a different Black. Black is Black is Black.

    

    The Black community is still having a problem relating to their Black identity. We don't want to be the Black of Africa. We don't want to be the Black of slavery. We don't want to be the Black of menial jobs. What Black do we want to be? 

    Has the definition been so harsh of the word 'black' until there is not a definition we can agree on what it means to be the RIGHT BLACK? Who is keeping score and what is the reward, because it is WE tearing each other down for not being a correct Black?

    I don't know. We say it is 'them' or 'they' who hate Black people. But I say 'we' are doing a pretty good job of it too.

    So, this is my black bone I have to pick with Black people. Do we love our blackness? Or do we love our own definition of what BLACK means to each of us?