Malice of the Clipse

I was surfing the internet and found this I think everyone should look at this. It's important that we remember rappers can inspire us too.

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Can you hear me now?

        Over the past weeks I have been taking in a lot of good information about life. From things about fatherhood to how hip hop has affected it’s listeners in general. “Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”(Buddha) Over this time this quote has directly related to what I’ve learned.

           
        As young men and women many of the things we heard growing up have affected us. These things are the cause for many of the problems that elders see within our generation. If you think about your life growing up and what type of music you listened to you will in some way get a sense of your current personality. You can also look at the things you heard growing up and relate them to what you currently believe in.

          
        Dr. Gregory Carr a professor at Howard University said “I feel bad for the young individual who’s going through their right of passage and has to hear … you can hear me fo you see me I got king kong in the trunk…king kong ki ki king ka king kong.” Little do we know it these songs directly influence what we will grow to deem as acceptable as adults. Older individuals had respect because they were taught this through music, books, and also in the household. Our current society however teaches us to rebel and although change is necessary it must be done in the most sensible of ways. The things that young men and women are taking in currently create a void in old values being passed to younger generation. The perfect example of this is “Make it Rain” by Travis Porter being sang at every chance. Although this song may be catchy the fact that women glorify these songs show how far we have come.

           
      My advice to my fellow young men and women is that we intake much more good than bad. I am not telling you to not listen to the current music; however, you must learn to respect your level of intellect by not feeding it garbage. Read empowering books, listen to the music that the artist today have copied. Many of the messages from old music have been “dumbed” down by new artist in an attempt to sell records. Your personal advancement in what you listen to will take you far in life. Although you will not see the immediate effects of these changes they will change your views while also broadening your knowledge. Remember that knowing everything about everything is the key to knowledge. How can you learn anything new if you listen to same things? Become an individual…

Why not 5?

   It has been a long time since I’ve sat down and written something for this blog. As I brained stormed of messages to spread one very important reoccurring theme began to replay over and over again in my head. Let me paint you a picture, imagine that you’re in a major that could get you anywhere from $30,000 to $65,000 dollars as a bottom level worker out of school. Your grades are above a 3.0 but there is something missing in your life. Extracurricular activity and I’m not talking about partying. I mean organizations, community service and activities that will keep you whole.

                This picture I painted for you is one that affects many individuals both on college campuses and can alter entire lives. Many people have a hunger to be “the man” but forget the idea that school is your main focus. Many people say “time management” but have not fully learned how to master time or use it efficiently.

                This in turn leads to a lot of 5th year seniors who wish they would have done something different on campus besides being active only in extracurricular. Many students do not mature as rapidly as others and in turn cannot be blamed solely for their misfortune. Others will argue that you are a grown man/woman so any decision you made is strictly your own and you must live with it.

                I wrote this with the intent to motivate you to put school first. Even if you have the money to go to school for 10 years I’m sure your parents would rather spend it on something more constructive.  The philosopher Albert Camus once said “Life is the sum of all your decisions.” When you decide to do anything in life make sure you weigh out who you are affecting and what you are affecting. Remember to put yourself first also, college is the time for YOU to worry about YOUR future. Be successful both on campus and after campus. 

J-Cole Mixtape

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Quote of the Day

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment"-Jim Rohn

Quote of the Day

“First we make our habits, then our habits make us.” - Charles C. Noble

Young Guru's Take on Enslavement in Hip Hop

Watch this video and think about how the same contracts in Hip-Hop can relate to real life.

Meth Lab?

Who: Two Georgetown Students and an outside guest

What: Found with what was supposed to be a Meth Lab in their dorm room. The Lab turned out to be a DMT lab (DMT stands for Dimethyltryptamine). This drug is a hallucinogenic.

When: The suspects were arrested Sat. October 23rd.

Where: Georgetown's Harbin Hall

Why: The students were apprehended mainly because a foul smell was reported within the dorm.

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Influential Person of the Week

        Malcolm X was a great leader, speaker, and member of the Nation of Islam. As a person Malcolm X strive for success in everything he did. Many people know him only as a civil rights activist and have yet to truly learn about who Malcolm X is. I suggest you read "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" as told to Alex Haley. This will let you know exactly who Malcolm X is and what he has done for the world. Many of the people whom you look up to have emulated his ability to be forceful but still calm and intellectual.

Poem of the Week

Waiting to Be Saved

Today I woke up, I'm happy to be blessed

because last night I had a deeper dream than Martin

but now I've become enraged on a mission, Malcolm X

but before someone shoots me I wondered what's next

I see slaves running around in nikes now

and Gucci bags suddenly change life around

You see my generation is lost, with no urgency

They say don't fret "I'm no worried B"

As we watch from the sidelines like coaches

Willie Lynch laughs in his grave also

No more GUTS!, Since when have my people lost their torsos

Lynching yourself and no one has to force you

I remember when we as a people

were resourceful and free thinking

Guess Obama will have to save the slaves again right?

The New Age Abraham Lincoln

by Geoffrey Allison

Quote of the Day

“The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.”- Martin Luther King Jr.

Quote of the Day

“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” - Unknown

WERE BACK

  

                 

       Hey, this is the A.O.M. staff just letting you know that updates will definitely be coming soon. We've been getting alot of questions about why we haven't been updating the site. We are students first, so we've been working and doing interviews for summer internships but  we plan to revamp this site completely in the near future with a new name and more writers than ever. Be on the lookout for that, but for the meantime we will remain dedicated to bringing our followers insight. So that being said...

WERE BACK 

P.S. Everyone could use a little laughter in there life...

Find A Mentor

     During a conversation with my fellow writer Von Cunningham we discussed the importance of a mentor. I know it's been a long time since Von or myself  has updated but we ourselves are attempting to grow as we teach.This should be exactly what you look for in a mentor. Someone who exemplifies hard-work and effort  although they have reached a certain status they realize that working hard is still important.

      There is a lot about life that no one will ever know but in your pursuit to learn everything you can while alive finding a mentor is one of the most important things. Nothing you are trying to do has no been contemplated or attempted. Your job in trying to accomplish your goals should be to find someone who has done what you have done or is somewhere you want to be.

        A mentor can open doors while also reaching you your faults. The overall goal of a mentor is to help you whether it be for personal gratification or as an investment. You will be able to feel out the difference based on your relationship with your mentor. 

       For men who grew up with no male role models a mentor is especially important in their growth. I found this out myself during my freshman year at Howard University. Although I was raised by my father until I was 14 (R.I.P. Dad) and my grandfather. I only learned their mental opinions towards life and not towards professionalism.
         Having multiple mentors is also a good idea because they can offer varying opinions on life situations as well as school decisions and work. To gain a mentor all you simply have to do is ask. It isn't as difficult as it may seem to get someone older than you to help you. Often times they want to more than you think.

        I do not condone following someones shadow but I also do not condone disrespect to a person who spent there time helping to mold you as a man. Know that one day your time will come to shine but it is not now. "We have arrived but we have not yet made it"-Michael Stewart Jr.

Willie Lynch Theory

http://richbroke2.ning.com/forum/topics/the-willie-lynch-theory

PLEASE READ Pay little attention to the generation of original breaking, but CONCENTRATE ON FUTURE GENERATION. Therefore, if you break theFEMALE mother, she will BREAK the offspring in its early years of development; and when the offspring is old enough to work, she will deliver it up to you, for her normal female protective tendencies will have been lost in the original breaking process. For example, take the case of the wild stud horse, a female horse and an already infant horse and compare the breaking process with two captured nigger males in their natural state, a pregnant nigger woman with her infant offspring. Take the stud horse, break him for limited containment. Completely break the female horse until she becomes very gentle, whereas you or anybody can ride her in her comfort. Breed the mare and the stud until you have the desired offspring. Then, you can turn the stud to freedom until you need him again. Train the female horse whereby she will eat out of your hand, and she will in turn train the infant horse to eat out of your hand, also. When it comes to breaking the uncivilized nigger, use the same process, but vary the degree and step up the pressure, so as to do a complete reversal of the mind. Take the meanest and most restless nigger, strip him of his clothes in front of the remaining male niggers, the female, and the nigger infant, tar and feather him, tie each leg to a different horse faced in opposite directions, set him afire and beat both horses to pull him apart in front of the remaining niggers. The next step is to take a bullwhip and beat the remaining nigger males to the point of death, in front of the female and the infant. Don’t kill him, but PUT THE FEAR OF GOD IN HIM, for he can be useful for future breeding.

THE BREAKING PROCESS OF THE AFRICAN WOMAN

Take the female and run a series of tests on her to see if she will submit to your desires willingly. Test her in every way, because she is the most important factor for good economics. If she shows any sign of resistance in submitting completely to your will, do not hesitate to use the bullwhip on her to extract that last bit of [b----] out of her. Take care not to kill her, for in doing so, you spoil good economics. When in complete submission, she will train her offsprings in the early years to submit to labor when they become of age. Understanding is the best thing. Therefore, we shall go deeper into this area of the subject matter concerning what we have produced here in this breaking process of the female nigger. We have reversed the relationship; in her natural uncivilized state, she would have a strong dependency on the uncivilized nigger male, and she would have a limited protective tendency toward her independent male offspring and would raise male offsprings to be dependent like her. Nature had provided for this type of balance. We reversed nature by burning and pulling a civilized nigger apart and bullwhipping the other to the point of death, all in her presence. By her being left alone, unprotected, with the MALE IMAGE DESTROYED, the ordeal caused her to move from her psychologically dependent state to a frozen, independent state. In this frozen, psychological state of independence, she will raise her MALE and female offspring in reversed roles. For FEAR of the young male’s life, she will psychologically train him to be MENTALLY WEAK and DEPENDENT, butPHYSICALLY STRONG. Because she has become psychologically independent, she will train her FEMALE offsprings to be psychologically independent. What have you got? You’ve got the nigger WOMAN OUT FRONT AND THE nigger MAN BEHIND AND SCARED. This is a perfect situation of sound sleep and economics. Before the breaking process, we had to be alertly on guard at all times. Now, we can sleep soundly, for out of frozen fear his woman stands guard for us. He cannot get past her early slave-molding process. He is a good tool, now ready to be tied to the horse at a tender age. By the time a nigger boy reaches the age of sixteen, he is soundly broken in and ready for a long life of sound and efficient work and the reproduction of a unit of good labor force. Continually through the breaking of uncivilized savage niggers, by throwing the nigger female savage into a frozen psychological state of independence, by killing the protective male image, and by creating a submissive dependent mind of the nigger male slave, we have created an orbiting cycle that turns on its own axis forever, unless a phenomenon occurs and re-shifts the position of the male and female slaves. We show what we mean by example. Take the case of the two economic slave units and examine them close.

This was posted as food for thought... Read and comment with your opinions 

Images of The Gulf Coast Disaster

The worst oil disaster in U.S. History, many argue that America is finally paying for their oil addiction, We shouldn't have to pay with the lives of animals and even people. maybe the destruction of the Gulf of Mexico will finally "Awaken" America from its oil dependency

                                                                                                                   -Von C.

Goals and Having a Plan

The first thing ANY grown man needs is an objective. There has to be something you are working towards in all aspects of your life. Your finances, your physique, your dating choices for a potential team OR a wife if that is where you are in life. If you cannot honestly answer the question; "Where do I wanna be 3-5-10 years from now?" You need to get a plan together ASAP. This starts the groundwork for making you into a REAL MAN.

Alpha Males know what they want to do and they do it...or at least attempt it regardless of who or what is going on. Beta Males know what they want to do but allow things to interfere that change the course of their plans or kills them all-together. Taking over your hood, having 10,000 girls on your Facebook or having all the girls checking for you in the club IS NOT A PLAN. That is the stuff that keeps young guys from focusing on real goals. If you are doing things in your life for anyone else other than yourself you are losing...period.

Don't be afraid of criticism. This is your fuel. When people critique your ideas or your work you should use this to re-tool your game plan and make your plans better.

Get with people who are doing well or at least trying to do big things. This is discussed below in detail in the TEAM topic but this is important. "Your NETWORTH is equivalent to your NETWORK"

Have multiple plans for hustles/income streams. Any good hustler knows you cannot be a "one trick pony". Being One-Dimensional is killing the IT dudes in my field because they got certified to do ONE THING and technology is ever-changing so now they are looking for work. You also find this with older cats in most fields that have been in a position for 20+ years trying to retire with a small amount....that is not smart. If you are not moving and shaking you are stagnant and will be passed up and passed over...every time. Be multi-dimensional. Learn how to do other things to make money....legally of course. This economy is not friendly to the one-dimensional....as CNN has shown you.

Mind of A Child

As men we face these same problems within society. Young children raised are not taught that color barriers do not affect a persons capabilities. I'm posting this video only to raise awareness to social problems that still exist within society.

7 Steps to Success

1. Realize that you can do better then what you are doing now.
You should always be making moves, striving to do better then yesterday. NEVER stop changing, or diversifying yourself. always be striving for excellence

2. Remove yourself from the problem/person.
People stay in situations, or relationships because they feel that they can do any better then what they are doing now, but that is very far from the truth. in order to be better, you must remove yourself from the person, place, or thing that is hindering your success

3. Associate with LIKE MINDED people.
Too often we have friends, or associates who aren't on the same page as we are. That creates friction in our lives, we must learn to walk with like minded people, For the Christians on the board the bible even says so...

"How can two walk together except they agree!!!"

4. Always strive to be better.
Never settle for where you are at right now, you must have a mindset of i can do better then where i am now or you will end up in step 5

5. Don't fall into the comfort zone.
The comfort zone is our greatest enemy, because with comfort comes defeat. the quickest way to fail is to be comfortable in your current situation. So what if you are doing well, and? when people are comfortable the FEAR CHANGE, when you fear change you get complacent. always be un-comfortable!

6. Cut off dead branches.
How can a tree grow if its not pruned!!! the people, things in your life must go if they dont fall under step 3. In order to reach your full potential, dead branches have to go. Or you too may become a dead branch.

7. Its lonely at the top, but jam packed at the bottom.
People know this all too well, on your journey you will find that not everyone will walk with you to the top. Some will, others will walk but then quit, others will try to block your path. But to achieve true success you must internalize this very true statement. 

                                                                                                                   -Von C.

Me Time

           

     I chose the title for this blog after pondering life. You see people always talk about how life goes so quickly and to cherish it. One thing they forget to tell you is to you’re your time off as me time.

            One day on the shuttle at Howard University my friend said something to me that in a way affected my life principles. He said “You know Geoff theirs one thing people forget about life… They always talk about their goals but never remember to have fun.” You see life is a serious thing but at the same time you will never live it again.

            The very thing you are doing now will never be the same a second from now. My friend also compared life to a shuttle ride. We get on the shuttle worried about where were going but we never stop to look out the windows. You see those who stopped to think will always benefit.

            The most influential men to ever live in this world have learned this. Although they were focused on change they remembered to be alert and pay attention to the things around them. So in ending this post I want you to remember that being goal oriented is fine but without fun you will tire yourself out. Find your balance or look out the window every once in a while it’s your choice.

-Geoffrey Allison