I Have a Question

Call me weird. Call me crazy. Call me Jeff. I’ve surveyed a couple of my friends with this question and from the responses, I am the lone wolf. I decided to appeal to a larger mass to see if the responses would support or nullify their responses.

George Fraser's Power Networking Conference

This year I’ve had the pleasure to serve as a host –by way of United Brothers of America—of the Power Networking Conference 2010. Seven years ago George Fraser, networking Guru, started this conference with hopes to give African Americans the environment to create alliances that would strengthen their businesses and sustain their communities. He has definitely succeeded. The set up is very similar to the Ted.com conferences. One of the presentations that really compelled me to do my part was one given by Dr. Chike Akua. Essentially he reiterated the teachings of MisEducation of a Negro and innovated ways to teach black kids their history with a curriculum. Further into his presentation he stressed the need for blacks to support each other; with that, check out this site:

http://www.blackbusinessnetwork.com/

Kalos Proverb

A hurtful experience can teach you a lot; however, the lessons can hurt the next person even more.

Daddy Stroke

I think this might pop in the parties. Tell me what you think...

Kalos Descartes?

Earlier in the year my homie Brooke Bowman put me on Rene Descartes. She threw Discourse on the Method at me and I fell in love. As I’ve done more reading on Descartes I’ve realized just how parallel his anomalies are to my epiphanies. In case you didn’t know, Rene Descartes felt that everyone should use their own heads more. He encouraged individuals to use their own reasoning in pursuit of the unabated truth rather than taking the mental framework society or their cultural capital has provided them. He wanted more people to strip themselves of their past beliefs in order to reason towards a new value system and deeper truths. If reincarnation is true, I must be the product of Rene Descartes.

Blogger Spotlight

Hopeless Romantic. Hopeful Writer. The boy's got something dope going on here! Check him out at http://astoldbyking.blogspot.com/.

Pessoptimism

Today as I checked out Zeitgeist of the Sabotuer Academia, a dope blog, I came across this term on his sidebar. I inquired and sought to think it through on my own; I couldn't. Then I calledon my trusty Dictionary.com to help me out; It couldn't. So I Googled it of course and Urban Dictionary had a rather elaborate explanation of this term. Pessoptimism is the philosophy that  most persevering realist exemplify. My grandaddy told me " I gotta keep on keeping on." Meaning that shit is indubitably going to happen but I must ovecome them. For Booker T. Washington corroborated saying "success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." Let it marinate....

Pessoptimism- A philosophy that encourages forward-thinking optimism with an educated acceptance of a basic level of pessimism.