The Fate of Death…

We are all going to die-well at least physically our bodies will deteriorate to a substance similar to dirt. Even if you believe in the process of reincarnation, your body will be destroyed again-in whatever form that you return. Death is still seen as a taboo in the American culture.  We hide it behind plastic surgery, Botox injection, live longer and live stronger ads, but it does not change anything…Your heart will one day stop beating, your limbs will one day crumble, your throat will refuse to swallow.

“They can take a lot from you, but they cannot take your education. You are our future…We are looking for you to go farther than we have gone…” #StreetPreach ©NEEMA

I AM INSUBORDINATE TO PASSIVITY…
By: Osage Dior

Extreme change works for me! In order for me to really transform a habit, a small jump will only have me going back to the diving board. African Americans are the most at risk to obesity. Data collected in 2007 from The Center for the Elimination of Disproportionationality and Disparity, stated that 75.3% of African American adults were overweight or obese. Another study done in 2008 researched the cause of life lost before the age of 65.  African Americans had the highest death rate when it came to diabetes, heart disease, cerobrovascular disease (stroke), and malignant neoplasms (Cancer). All these maladies can be prevented or eased if we as a people can watch what we eat, right? Or is it deeper than that- is America killing us?

Island Colors and Infancy Dreams…
By: Osage Dior

Born to Pamela Jean Lewis and Clarence Benjamin Shields in San Franciso, Brandy would grow to lead an extraordinary life were her creation of art would keep her centered amongst the struggles of the world. Her parents met in Kansas City, Missouri and went to the University of Berkeley California; both were active in the Black Panthers Movement and National Black United Front. Also, they equally became educators. The black conscious child was raised to have a great sense of oneself. During a time were racial oppression and poverty were high in the States, her mother and father decided they couldn’t risk raising a child in America. Selling all they had, leaving everyone they knew behind-they moved to St. Thomas in the Caribbean.

By: Osage Dior

I am addicted to midnight photo clicks…
I don’t  now where they will go…
Don’t know how to work the video phone…
But when I do…
Boy, will I be in trouble.

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