Well found this on the starkreports.com… I’m at a lost for words here…This has been one hell of a Black History Month…. I wonder what is going to happen during International Women’s Month… a congressional bill that states women need to fulfill household duties..

Charles E. Phillips - Black Ops

Its my sentiment that the media in America doesn’t do a good job in showing the varying faces of Black people in America. They would have you believe there were only two types of Blacks that exist in this country. Those that have obtained the ultimate American Dream and those that have a more difficult time obtaining the American Dream. While the idea of obtaining this American dream can be seen as mundane I am using the idea of the American Dream to symbolize wanting more for yourself then what you are given. Wanting more for yourself can come as a steady growth in your finances, obtaining education or just investing time with your family. But I feel many in our inner cities have a mentality that excludes them from obtaining the American Dream. It was rapper Biggie Smalls that described the epitome of this mentality in his song Things Done Changed“ Either your slingin’ crack, rock or you got a wicked jump shot.”

Its more then 10 years later after he delivered this rhyme and things haven’t changed much. For some reason some Black folks in this country still suffer from the prison that Willie Lynch introduced during the time of slavery that has kept Blacks from reaching their full potential. We can thank Willie Lynch for establishing a mental prison that plagues many Black in America. Lynch’s letter to slave owners describs how to break down the slave, it depicts the effects of this process as “self refueling and self generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands”. Mr. Lynch definitely had the time line correct because some Black people still use every organ in their body except the one that counts in between their ears. It probably doesn’t help that our public school system under performs against most developed countries. Some of our children are plagued with the inability to read so they will never know of the great deeds and feats people in their blood line have accomplished in this country. Its so easy for me to see the bigger picture but I digress. The purpose of this section is to shed light on those people I refer to as The Black-Ops. This will be a monthly column I will update with todays Black Ops Hopefully this will help us to understand the images of Blacks beaten each other to death or not marrying certain infamous Armenians aren’t the only faces of Blacks in America. I would like to start this column off with introducing you to Mr. Charles E Phillips Jr. the President of Oracle.

For those of you not familiar with the software giant. Oracle Corporation in Redwood City Ca, is responsible for many of todays industry leader’s customer management systems and Hr management systems as well. Chances are if you enter your time at work on a computer, or have purchased anything online at your favorite shopping website you have interacted with an Oracle product. Signing on with Oracle in 2004 Charles E. Phillips is the current President of the company. I wonder how many times in a board meeting a fellow Caucasian executive has accused Mr. Phillips of lying. Charles E Phillips born in Arkansas in 1960 graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a B.S. Degree in computer science. He later moved onto the U.S. Marine Corps to become a Captain. He would eventually leave the US Marine Corps to pursue an MBA from Hampton University finally ending his academic pursuits with a JD from New York Law School. Maybe he wasn’t sure where he was going to end up but after completing his law degree he took and passed the bar in “Chocolate City”, Washington DC and Georgia. In 1994 he would join the financial sector as a software industry analyst for Morgan Stanley(a stock firm brokerage). He must have been very successful because as one of their technical czars he was given his own toll-free number 1800MRCHUCK, “Chuck” being his nickname.

The financial sector had so much praise to give Mr. Phillips that they recommended him to Oracle in 2003, to help restore credibility to the technological firm. In 2003, Phillips would move to the West Coast to join Oracles top executives. He currently sits on multiple boards including media giant Viacom Corporation, New York Law School and Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been featured in magazines such as Black Enterprise and Forbes as one of the most influential executives in the nation. In February of this year he was appointed as a member to the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board to provide President Obama and his administration with advice and counsel in fixing America’s economic downturn. He has cemented his position as a Black Op and his drive and tenacity can only serve as an example for us to the feats possible when you use the organ between your ears.

Ok so it’s a month after Kanye’s VMA episode and it’s still creeping up in the news. Granted, now it’s more like pictures of Kanye crying and Taylor Swift looking like America’s little angel, but it’s still there. Lately I have been giving this some thought…was what Kanye did really that bad?

Mr. West single-handedly ushered Swift to a whole new level of fame. Without his little speech, she would be another teen star who most of the world had never heard of.

Secondly, why are we so quick to jump on Kanye’s back? Wasn’t he saying what we were all really thinking? Yes, how he did it was quite rude, but the way it was told to me, you would have thought Kanye ripped the mic out of this girl’s hands and kicked her in the face. When I finally watched the incident on MTV I found myself asking…was that it?

Thirdly, everyone seemed to profit from ‘Ye’s outburst. It definitely raised the profile of the VMA’s. It also got Ms. Taylor talk show appearances she couldn’t have landed before. And-my favorite-it set up the whole big-bad-black-man-terrorizing-white-America scene, which, paired with labeling of our “Black President”, leaves me surprised that Marshall Law hasn’t been declared yet.

Frankly, in this day and age, if you are an entertainer and you can’t take a little heat from a 5’8 rapper who wears skinny jeans and teddy bear backpacks, you need to find another profession. I’m tired of hearing about how Kanye was so horrible, mainly because I can name several Hollywood events that are much worse, like Norbit, which was an insult to all our senses. So America can we stop making this about how ‘Ye is such a bad dude and more about what it should be… how MTV picks who “the best” video award goes to anyway?

By Angela Hughes

November 4, 2008 was one of the most monumental days within black political history along with the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Barack Obama is the epitome of hope and an outstanding example of African American intellectual prowess. However, President Obama’s journey to becoming the 44th President of the United States was not only a difficult one, but there were more obstacles thrown in his path to deter him from continuing his run than things to assist him in winning. What’s mind-boggling is that his experience during the 2008 election season was not surprising. In a country where racism is a common element within the history of Asian, Latino and African American citizens alike, it was not surprising. In a country where financial success and wealth stands firmly on the exploitation, inhumane labor and mistreatment of our people, it was not surprising. In a country where African Americans are at the bottom of the cultural totem pole, his treatment couldn’t help but be expected. Time and time again, people of color have had to overcome adversity and toil to reach a point of success in politics or academia.

As of late, various news sources have conducted polls and surveys regarding President Obama’s approval rating of his first 200 days in office. The results have indicated that his supporters are unsatisfied and his efforts are reminiscent of his predecessor, George Bush. To that, I can’t help but ask, “Who are they polling and surveying?” These constant attempts to discredit President Obama’s judgment boils down to one thing and one thing only: he’s an intelligent, black man. The biggest threat to this European influenced society is a person of color altering the image of leadership. President Obama’s cultural identity has caused critics, self-proclaimed pundits and political commentators alike to question his judgment. The ghastly combination of racism and the capitalism used to uphold it are the sole reasons his judgment is questioned. As the president has resurrected and brought forth the issue of race relations in this country, many racially charged incidents have received national news coverage. With the recent Professor Gates and Officer James Crowley incident, President Obama used common sense (something our former president failed to exercise), and had the men simply talk it out. Objectively looking at the situation, there was a problem between two individuals who both represented two larger groups of people, law enforcement and the black community. The leader of both individuals brought the two together, talked about it and they reached common ground. While that was the most rational and effective means of resolving the problem, the same critics, pundits and political analysts focused on the beer drinking aspect of the meeting more than anything. Another important example of this extreme distrust of black leadership is happening right now with President Obama’s plan for healthcare reform. Yesterday, in a town hall style forum, conservative, right-wing suburbia expressed tremendous opposition to his plan. While it is easy to say that these activists do not trust President Obama because he is black, we need to delve deeper -to the root of this grave distrust.

America’s wealth was built on the backs of African slaves, indigenous exploitation and immigrant labor. These very people could not receive an education simply because their acquisition of knowledge would disrupt the power structure. So there was (and still is) a conscious effort to keep them ignorant and uneducated. As the U.S. Constitution was designed to benefit the “explorers” that settled here completely excluding the aforementioned. Decades later, immigration continues to increase and cultural diversity has flourished. While educational and political opportunities have been extended to people of color, the fear of loosing control of the power structure has grown in white America*. Conservative, right-wing suburbia has used their political affiliations to cover-up their “deep-seeded hatred” (courtesy of Glen Beck) for African Americans, with President Obama as a menace to the society they tried so cunningly to maintain. On one hand, the number of African American politicians, doctors, entertainers, lawyers, and business owners are steadily increasing, and on the other hand “Republicans” continue to boil with anger (read: fear) of our country becoming socialized (read: people of color in power).

Ultimately, President Obama is getting graded every 100 days not because he’s black, but because conservative, right-wing, suburban America is afraid of loosing the sovereignty they once had. A good friend of mine mentioned that former president George Bush received praise for starting a war that has resulted in the murder of millions of people, but President Obama gets called a Nazi and socialist for wanting to save millions of people. As an African American community, it is imperative not only to our future, but to the future of all people of color, that we continue to support our president and shun the opinions of those who oppose his well-intended decisions. People of all ethnic backgrounds, ages, and political affiliations have created an organized effort to gracefully change America into the very thing that President Obama’s critics loathe. Election night was his successful crossing into the treacherous political territory of presidency. But no grade, report card, poll or survey can taint the reputation he continues to build for himself in his quest to better America for all its people.

The Facts

HIV/AIDS and young blacks

• In 2005, the rate of AIDS diagnoses in black adults and adolescents was 10 times the rate for whites and nearly
  three times the rate for Hispanics.
• In 2004, African Americans were disproportionately affected by HIV infection, accounting for 55 percent of all
  HIV infections reported among people ages 13–24.
• Of the estimated 18,849 people under the age of 25 whose diagnosis of HIV/AIDS was made during 2001–2004
  in the 33 states with HIV reporting, 11,554 (61 percent) were black.
• In 2007, nearly 20 percent of people infected with HIV residing in the District of Columbia were between the age 13-29 at the time of their diagnosis.
• In Georgia, the rate of adult/adolescent HIV/AIDS cases was 81.2 per 100,000 for African-Americans in 2005 and 8.7 per 100,000 for whites.
• Of the 68 U.S. children (younger than 13 years of age) who had a new AIDS diagnosis in 2005, 46 were black.
• Of the estimated 141 infants perinatally infected with HIV in 2005, 91 or 65 percent were black.

HIV/AIDS and black women

• One in 30 black women will be diagnosed with HIV at some point in their lifetime.
• The rate of AIDS diagnoses for black women was nearly 23 times the rate for white women in 2005.
• AIDS was the leading cause of death in 2006 for black women 25 to 34.
• Of the 126,964 women living with HIV/AIDS in 2005, 64 percent were black, 19 percent were white, 15 percent were Hispanic, one percent were Asian or Pacific Islander, and less than one percent were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
• Of 40,608 AIDS diagnoses in the 50 states and the District of Columbia for 2005, 10,774 (26 percent) were women.

HIV/AIDS and black men

• One in 16 black men will be diagnosed with HIV at some point in their lifetime.
• The rate of AIDS diagnoses for black men was eight times the rate for white men in 2005.
• AIDS was the second leading cause of death in 2006 for black men ages 35 to 44.
• Of the Washington, D.C., residents living with HIV/AIDS in 2008, 76.3 percent were black and 71.7 percent were male.
• The rate of adult/adolescent AIDS cases for African-American males (118.7 per 100,000) was eight times that of white males (14 per 100,000) in Georgia in 2005.

The cost of HIV/AIDS

• The total lifetime cost of illness for Americans newly diagnosed with HIV in 2002 is approximately $36.4 billion.
• While whites incur more direct medical costs than blacks for HIV treatment, blacks suffer greater financial damage from loss of productivity.
• In 2007, over half of the 900,000 Americans living with HIV died from the virus.
• HIV/AIDS is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.
• The U.S. Agency for International Development for funding HIV/AIDS in the region is expected to increase its funds to $30 billion by 2010.

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