ONE VOICE / ONE SOUND
A SAGA CONTINUED ...
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The Founders' Ledger
BECAUSE WE'RE ASKED, TIME AND TIME AGAIN ...
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As I sat trying to figure out how I would begin writing this Ledger, the memory came to mind of an African-American, Wisconsin Magazine Publisher whom I was referred to some time ago (and became intrigued by when I got the impression that she was in the business of promoting U.N.I.T.Y. among our people through her magazine - or so I thought). Upon contacting this woman and assuring her that I was willing to do whatever it took to get our fight for the lives of our children covered in her magazine in particular (Lord knows my statement was so close to the “truth” that I could “taste” it), I was told by her to send a copy of my Biography, Book, and Current Photo - and that she would cover me in her next issue - which meant that we would have been in print on January 2006 - plain and simple. I followed her request to the letter, and waited ... And waited. And waited some more ... Christmas came and went, along with the New Year Holiday Celebration. The January issue of her Magazine came to my Associates' Office who referred me to her (even though she had never subscribed to the Magazine), February’s issue arrived, and the March issued followed. Still, no coverage. When I finally decided that it “mattered”, I called and caught this Magazine Publisher in her “office” one afternoon. Here's what followed: After approximately Thirty Nine (39) minutes of listening over the phone while she and her one employee rummaged through her basement office “room” looking for the Priority / Confirmation Delivery Envelope that I had sent the material in via the United States Postal Service, she picked up her phone receiver, cleared her throat and then declared that she did not like the photo that I had sent her (which is the one that you see at the beginning of this Website). I flipped my handset around from my ear to my eyes and looked at it, trying to ascertain that the words that I heard “did” come out of the receiver, all in “total” disbelief - for the “problem” that she had conjured up with covering us her magazine could have been solved with a simple phone call to me. When I stated such, she then added the line, “… and you don’t live anywhere near me ... ” (Like I needed to, for her to bring Awareness of this Epidemic or our Fight for our Children to the state of Wisconsin!) At that point, I demanded that she return the materials to me in the same order which I sent them to her (which she did at lighting speed, just to quell the situation). From that day on, we left her “magazines” in the waste can in the Mailroom whenever they came, as opposed to bringing them into our office; After all, we didn’t need her "Aura". (She clearly had money to burn, because she continued sending this unsolicited / un-paid for magazine to our office for the entire year.) I get a lot of this type of thing from the local Newspaper / Magazine publishers right here in One female, African American publisher in Baltimore, Maryland stated to me on her way to Church one Sunday morning via my cell phone, that she had “not” received the materials that she had requested to review from me; yet, she called me on my cell phone number (which was the "only" number that I had placed in those materials that she requested) , to tell me that she had not received it. Another Publisher whose “family” owned the publication she now operates, simply “never” returned my phone call after she got the materials. When I contacted her and asked her why she had not done so after almost six months, she neither had nor gave a suitable explanation. I have done all that I possibly can to dispel the "Statement" that those who are connected with the "Media" at any level are in fact in an elite “Club” amongst themselves, who will take you as close to the point of “no return” as humanly possible referencing placing a Notification about this work in their media , and then “kick you to the curb” without an after thought - particularly when it comes to them covering something created by an African-American which is designed to help our people. I have nothing left to do “but” believe - with it being no fault of my own, that they all seem to cover only what they want to cover, which is seemingly when they can “benefit” from their "coverage" somehow, when covering their friends in "higher places" per se, their family members who will get them "paid" or have gotten then a "hook-up" of some sort (like those that will ignore our request for exposure in their paper, but will cover their buddies' affairs or their Churches' activities continuously without cost, no doubt thinking that this will definitely serve (or so they think) to get them a little closer to Gods’ “Good side" ... or something like that. Trust that while I am content to let the media have their own, I am still blown away by my African - American “Sisters and Brothers” who are not only concerning themselves with how much I am “Getting’ Paid", if I am "Makin’ Paper, Ballin’, Rollin' Shot Callin' or Bling-Blingin'" behind this effort to save the lives of our Children, but that they will actually fake interest in my work long enough to try to score a "Free Copy" of the Autobiography that is for sale here on the website (which takes the proceeds from the book away from the Children, since these proceeds go directly to them), or try and get us to donate our non-solicited, heart-felt funds to " their" business without us ever receiving as much as "Written Support" from them on our Guestbook or in the form of a letter, which is all that we ever ask for. And as much as I would like to, I can't leave out those so-called "Players" who like to "come-out-of-a-bag" on me, when I refuse them Partnership with this project. " Ah, Yes" - we end up going there with some African-American Brother on the average of once a month, and a Sister on the average of once a year, when they run across us during on Online Search or on "Online Networks", figuring that with a Partnership with us, their organization would become something "believable" or another. They possess the attitude of "Since we seem to be doing to well, that we are probably drawing in a lot of donations (what with such a nice site and all) and therefore wouldn't think anything of: A.) Adding their name as a Partner B.) Helping them get some non-compliant organization of theirs set up for Financial Gain, or C.) Taking care of a debt or two for them simply because they "Compliment" our site. Trust that an entire Catalog of "Supposed" Motivational Speakers, Magazine Owners, Internet Radio Hosts and Illegal Immigrant men and women claiming to be "Pastors" and Owners of their own (Home Basement) Churches about as long as a roll of Packaging Tape, has been retained over the years in our records that have come at us with that stuff. (One even had the audacity to make a "Video" and place it on his webpage, attesting to the fury he felt when we rejected a Partnership with him and his wife. We figure that someone cornered him, and assured him that his behavior was not befitting his "Bishop Costume" eventually.) You can believe that all the preparation in the world would not have readied me for this one, people: Just three days from the 2007 New Year, I got what had to be "the" most off-the-wall request ever from an African-American female: The Founder and Director of the Aria Club of Greater Washington D.C. - who, claimed that while looking at the emails belonging to "someone else", saw that they had received an email with the link to our Website, summoned up what "she" considered to be "common sense", then contacted me through my associate and requested that no notifications about this Website be sent to her "Friends". She claimed that she saw the email and became "Concerned" - choosing to be concerned about the information about our work being " sent" to her "Friends", as opposed to being concerned that it would "not" get to them. I reckon that the “Brotherly Love” that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King preached about so reverently only comes into play when someone sees a chance to benefit financially through our work (which truly is a waste of time trying, if you are planning to hang out around us). Silence can be “Golden” all day long - but as a "People", we truly need to come CORRECT about this, because no way on earth in any shape, style fashion or form is the deaths of our Children due to Child Abuse a thing that will go away as time goes on, nor is it a trend, nor a joking matter. You all know where I have come from with this message, and where it could go. At any rate, this section of our website is for the purpose of giving our Vistors and Supporters an idea of the type of stuff that we have gone through since going "Live", and continue to go through on a daily basis, during the course of our work. Most of it is just plain "Hair Raising" - the kind of stuff that you just don't expect from "Grown Folk" - Especially "grown folk" with reasons to keep a "low profile" based on the daily activities in their lives, and who could have done without having their actions shared with the public: particularly after they came to know what it is we are doing. Understand that these are accounts of incidents involving people that we would have "never" physically or otherwise encountered at any point in our lives, had "they" not made it their personal mission to get up front, close and personal with us, and bring with them the sort of foolishness and mayhem that would fit in right with what we advocate against somehow. (Frankly, we figure that they are still resting as well with their decision to do so, as we are with our decision to put a spotlight their actions, right here on our website). Feel free to hit us and share your thoughts with us. After all, its always good to hear from someone who would not have considered more "Positive" actions be just a little "too-much-like-Right" in order to execute them. Contact: CJBrooks@thetalkingdrum.com _______________ A Moment on FACEBOOK - On January 2, 2009 I posted our fight for the lives of our African-American Children on the network FACEBOOK, due to the multiple African-American users of that Network and the myriad of suggestions that we received to do so. (Please note before you start reading this that I do not live, nor have I ever resided anywhere near Pasadena California, and would have never known about such an establishment such as Prontus.Org or Prontus Laboratories, if it's Director of Program Operations had not found my profile there on FACEBOOK September 4, 2009 at 8:50 at night.) During the Labor Day Weekend, I received an email notification in my Yahoo Account, notifying me that I had received what is known as a "Friendship Request" from a William Fleming. Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring you William Fleming - Director of Operations at Prontus Laboratories in Pasadena, Califiornia: A White Man. Fleming aggressively begged to be added as my friend on FACEBOOK. He was rejected immediately by me, and he responded with this: You have to ask yourself that since he hates NIGGERS so much, why would he be trying so desperately to befriend an African-American on the web at night? And why a woman at that ... and one so far across the "miles"? In all, we figure that it was Flemings' plan to find and attempt to lure some silly, low self esteemed, unsuspecting Black Woman off of the confines of the internet, out of the Safety of her home or office, and possibly into some secluded place where he could have his way with her. Maybe then, if he felt that she would become a threat to his lifestyle and reveal his actions somehow, that he’d simply put an end to her life and slip back into the abyss of California, New Jersey or where ever he slithered in from, and no one would know the difference or would ever suspect him ... for the simple reason that he is a White Man, and she would be a Black Woman: something "lower" than him in "his" mind - based on his attitude and statements from some of his known associates - and therefore no one would ever make the connection. For sure, no one would ever tie him to the situation, right? Wrong. In short, the Bastard tested the "right" one. There isn't a human being within a One Hundred Million Mile Radius of Prontus Laboratories or Prontus,Org. for all that matters, who isn't hearing about William Fleming, and reading the material that we have on him. While he lists his Facebook residency as Los Angeles California, the address that we have for his place of business is: Prontus Laboratories - 2019 Santa Rosa Avenue - Pasadena, California 91104 / http://www.prontus.org/: Phone: (626) 272-9649 Email: WilliamFleming@gmx.com, williamflemingnj@yahoo.com, and williamfleming@prontus.org. Our Visitors and Supporters from Facebook and other network members, the Better Business Bureaus, the American Civil Liberties Union, The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, Law Enforcement /Hate Crimes Division (Internet and Non-Internet) and every Anti-Racism Organization active and in business is in the process of logging the Predatory / Racist action of this man, via the same "internet" that he used to contact me. In short, William Fleming learned a VERY valuable lesson: That being an INTERNET PREDATOR is not the answer - and being an Internet Predator that targets African Americans is NEVER the answer. Being a White Man in America - Free. Being A Racist / Predator - Stupid. Making sure that My People, their Friends, Partners, Affilates, Associates, Constituents, Clients, Prospects or others who share "our" attitude do not do business with a White Man who "HATES NIGGERS ANYWAY" ... Priceless. _______________ March 10, 2005 - Wellington J. Wilder, Jr. (Former Assistant Principal at Dunbar Senior High School (1301 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. in Washington, D.C. and former Vice Principal at McKinley High School (2nd and T Streets, N.E. ) arrived at our very first Book signing / Luncheon "un-invited" and "un-expected" on May 10 2005, and almost killed himself knocking everything over in his path towards the end of our affair, just to get to the Podium during the closing remarks, to make the announcement to over 200 plus Media Members, Resident and Guest Attendees at the First Baptist Senior Center that he was there to purchase books for Dunbar Senior High Schools' Library, with a check given to him by then Principal of Dunbar Senior High School - Harriet Karqbo. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Wellington J. Wilder, Jr: Wellington in fact remained at the First Baptist Senior Center long enough to STEAL the ONLY copy of the Autobiography on display and leave the Senior Center with it, while being Audio and Video taped throughout his entire stay in the building. It took a call to him at his workplace, and the assurance of a Lawsuit to get him to return the book to us, accompanied with a "Time Deadline" to have it back in our hands, after he was given the chance to pay for the book within three days - but lied about sending yet "another" check for it. When his personal check didn't arrive and he failed to meet the 12:00 P.M. delivery deadline that he was given to bring the book from Dunbar to our home office, his actions were broadcast throughout the ENTIRE Educational System within the Washington, Maryland and Virginia Area, using our Online Electronic Communication System. Here is the APOLOGY for his actions that we received from his Employers: Wellington Wilder, Jr. - Former Member of Metropolitan Baptist Church (formerly located at 1225 R Street, N.W., in Washington, D.C.) - who is present with the Choir that performs "The Messiah" every Christmas at Shiloh Baptist Church (1507 9th St N.W. - Washington, D.C.,) has earned himself a lifetime spot here on our website as our very first PREDATOR. _______________ May 10, 2005 - On the same day of our Book signing / Luncheon, we had our coat tail pulled by an attendee of the Luncheon, stating that she worked for AARP, and that they had a Book Club in her building located at 1301 Upshur Street Northwest in Washington D.C., where she invited me to speak in two weeks at 10:00 a.m., following the one we had just completed. The woman - an African-American, extremely vague about the arrangements, waited until four nights before the scheduled date, and called with a barrage of questions designed to be answered at "any" Speaking Engagement. When I realized after her third question about my "present" life that she was going to use the call for her personal gain, I told her that I would continue answering any questions that she had when I saw her in a couple days, at the Book Club. However, the day before we were to meet with this woman and her group, she deliberately took her phone off the hook so that I could not get through to reach her to confirm the appointment with her. I took it upon myself to call the Management at the building using the address she had given me at the Luncheon called “Moore Towers”, and gave them a description of the woman - only to find out that she had not only given me a false name, but that there was no Book Club in the building and that AARP “never” hosted anything there. We were assured that the woman had severe Mental Problems, and were thankful that I sought verification before “appearing" (Something that is "always" done where we come in). _______________ January of 2004 - After somewhat of an extensive search for a Publisher for the Autobiography for sale here on our website, I contacted Janet Kay & Associates – a publisher located in However, on February 16 2004, we received an email from Brian Elkins c/o the San Angelo Police Department, stating that Janet Kay Titus and her husband George Titus - posing as a Literary Agent and Publisher team, had been under investigation, since January 30, 2004. A Warrant had been served on the home business of Janet Kay and George Titsworth. As it turned out, these two were taking fees for contacts with publishers. The investigation shows that although the fees were being taken, personal contact or contact only with publishers did not happen. Clients were led to believe that they had a chance of being published. Soon after the search warrant was served I was advised that the business was abandoned. At that time, there was nothing and nobody left in what used to be the office for Janet Kay and Associates, except for the Manuscripts that had been submitted and left behind. The phones and mail were going unanswered. Our manuscript that we submitted to this business was seized and placed in evidence, where it remained until the conclusion of the investigation and prosecution of all involved. Janet and George were eventually arrested and charged with “Theft by Deception.” As it turned out, these two were running three companies under the names of “Helping Hands Literary Service, Janet Kay & Associates and JanGeo Ink. My Manuscript was returned in its entirety, along with the $10.00 in postage that Janet Kay requested that I send to her, and the amount of $350.00 in cash for my troubles. _______________ June 30, 2004 – The Manuscript for the Autobiography on our website, "I ... And When (A Disposable Child)" was submitted to Authorhouse D/B/A/ Author Solutions, etc., located in Bloomington, Indiana after it was returned from the San Antonio Police Station, via Express Mail. On the day it reached their submissions office, we received two (2) calls from one of their representatives after 9:30 p.m., and 10:19 P.M., wanting to discuss my book. When we made the request to this representative that she telephone us only during business hours (9:00 - 5:00 P.M.) as opposed to all hours of the night as she was doing, the woman came out of a bag on us, stating that she would not have it dictated to her when to contact anyone about their Manuscript Submission, and returned the Manuscript to us, as per her "threat" to do so, left on our answering service later that same night. After contacting the Corporate Office of Authorhouse Books to inform them of this incident (of which they claimed to have had absolutely no knowledge), and play the recording of the Representative's call for their President and CEO - Bryan Smith, he paid to have our manuscript “immediately” returned to them via Federal Express Service, after I assured him that we would tell this story on our website: But it wasn’t long after that their "clear hint” to keep our Manuscript in our hands and move on became obvious. We regretted ignoring our instincts shorly after we decided to stay with Authorhouse. Here’s why: For the entire year that Authorhouse had the responsibility of Printing and selling our Book on their website, they never sent us a check that was according to the Contract Agreement, half of all sales.” The first check we received was for far less than the amount of books sold, as was the second and third Check. A When we contacted Authorhouse President and CEO Bryan Smith to “demand” the additional funds from the past Royalty Checks, we were told by him that their “system” was not set up to pay us what we were due when we were due payment, and that he also could not tell us “when” the system would kick out another check to cover the missing Royalties from our checks. All of their Royalty checks to us had been short. We had followed both Institutions' book purchases online, and personally monitored those purchases made by non-instititions, even to the point of instructing them to use one of our attorneys' email address in order to receive their electronic receipt for purchase sent by Authorhouse Books. When we asked Bryan to see their Records and Contact Information for all the companies that had purchased the Autobiography, he stated that they did not disclose such information to their Clients due to “Privacy” (Never mind that the Author of the book was making this request). Realizing that we were onto them, he then volunteered "orally" to “cancel” our contract, stating that this was the "only" way that they could pay us what we were due - which made no sense to us, but we agreed because we didn't need the "bull" to continue. That agreement to cancel was followed with us receiving a FINAL check - another one "under" $100.00. Again, the Royalties due us never surfaced. We recorded the phone call and the conversation, in the midst of Legal Witnesses. As it turns out, the canceling of our Contract would not be the end of our dealings with Authorhouse, as we would have preferred it to be: Because approximately two (2) years later, it was discovered while searching the Internet, that “Amazon” had our book for sale on their website, with the first initial of the Author changed to the name of "Charles" from "C". When we contacted Amazons' Corporate Office to alert them that they were doing so “without” authorization from the Author, they informed us that they had gotten their permission from Authorhouse Books. We gave them the entire story. The book and any information about it was removed from the Amazon website within seconds, and we were issued an “extreme” apology from Amazon, which we accepted. When we contacted Bryan Smith of Authorhouse Books to inform him of our discovery, he cut us a check in a substantial amount that would have covered the sales, and settle the lawsuit that we filed against Authorhouse in D.C. Superior Court. We would never submit anything, nor suggest to anyone that they submit anything to this compay for publishing. _______________ May, 2006 - Carlos and Karla Wiley ( The Wiley’s were traced using the system connected to our Website straight to their door where they were arrested, and no doubt paid the $150,000 that they were determined to extort out of us, just to stay out of jail - if not more than that. Internet extortion is illegal - and we will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law. _______________ August, 2006 - (Slander / Deformation of Character by a A day after the article was in print, the newspaper was hit with a multi-million dollar lawsuit filed on our behalf, which they settled with us almost immediately - but not before their Attorneys called us into their office under the ruse of settling the case, but attempted to talk us out of continuing the lawsuit by telling us that their Clients would much rather "Litigate" the lawsuit forever than to settle it. In the end a "Settlement Check" was brought to our door by the very Editor that allowed that "Ridiculous, Callous" piece to go to print, accompanied by the repeated statements that she was "not" a racist regardless of how this looked, just hours before we were to face each other in Court. The writer of the article and the one authorizing its placement in the paper are no longer employed with that paper, which is known in the Community to attack African Americans doing anything positive in the Community, who are not Gender Specific. _______________ September, 2008 - We received a call from a Michael Tutem - representative of W.P.G.C. Radio Station in We immediately dismissed Riggin, Tutem and their idea and escorted them both out of the building. Under no circumstances would we allow anyone to benefit from our fight for the lives of our African-American children under any circumstances. _______________ In the Process of Things - During my stay at the “once” Prestigious Rittenhouse Apartments in Washington, D.C., a total of three (3) of our flyers referencing our Fight for the Lives of our African-American Children - which merely invited all "readers" to the website, were submitted to the Property Manager, with the request that they be placed in the Mailroom for the Tenants and visitors to the facility to read in a glass-enclosed, locking Bulletin Board that was used for Announcements, etc. to the Tenants of the building. A day after the first one submitted was posted, I was told by the Property Manager that the Tenant’s Association fought to have the flyer removed from that board belonging to Management, which clearly contained announcements of Books for sale, Unit Estate Sales and more - and that the board was used only for events that were “ONGOING” - like our fight against the Epidemic of Child Abuse was not. The second flyer - submitted a year later, never made it to the Board, due to the Secretary (who was fired within a year for her poor work ethics), who convinced the Property Manager that the Flyer was too “Morbid” for posting, due to the fact that a photo of a Murdered Child was on it – A child whose parents solicited the help of the public in finding the Murderer of their child. The third and final flyer made it on the board during our last year there as Tenants, but remained for only three weeks. We received a call shortly before the Flyer was removed from the Board from the Property Manager, stating that they had decided to use the Bulletin Board “only” for Announcements from “Staff” to the Tenants (something that was supposed to have been the case all along). Strangely enough however, when we continued to check that same board every day after being told this and over the course of our final "year" there, notes and pieces of paper “remained” posted that announced a male tenant holding a book signing in the building, one selling knick-knacks, a Flyer announcing "Movie Week" at the Local Police Station, and a plea to help find a missing cat: all submitted by the "so-called" Tenant’s Association (a group of what we refer to as "High-Yellow" Blacks, who felt that their longevity in the building was the same as "Owning" the building) at the time we submitted our “first” flyer four years earlier asking that the Tenants visit our website, remained on the Board the entire time. It was made clear that the "Shade of our Blackness" determined the extent of our "Outreach" in the once prestigious Rittenhouse ... Sadly enough. _______________ September 3, 2005 - We received an email from a Mertine Moore, stating that she would love to have us on “her” Radio show. Mind you, we had never heard of her, and did not recall sending an email containing the link to our site to her, but we were elated at the possibility of radio exposure. In her email, she asked that we send her two (2) Review copies of the Autobiography that we have for sale here on our website to an address that we believed to be her Office at XM Satellite Radio (since she mentioned it several times in her email), but it turned out after "further" research, to be that of a facility called "TDG"- another place else we had never heard of. We were under the impression that us being on the show would be happening within a very few days or a week at the most - but were blown away when Mertine Moore did not only ignore our email responses sent back to her asking her “when” this was going to take place, and not returning our calls, but she started sending us schedules of “other” people’s shows and affairs whom we did not know instead. She "totally" ignored our attempts to contact her. After two months and a half had passed with no response from Moore, we called XM Satellite Radio looking for her, only to be told by a male Representative that Mertine Moore “did not” have a Radio Show there at that facility, but that she was merely a co-host on a show called “Reynolds’ Rap”, and that the show broadcasted through XM Satellite Radio. We sent the man copies of Mertine Moore’s emails, and proof of delivery of our books (Confirmation Delivery) to her by the United Postal Service, and demanded payment in full for the two books. Moore's Money Order was left in our in-building mailbox by a Resident (Sheba Gooding) who resided in the building (The Rittenhouse) on the date shown on this Money Order. We never understood the purpose of this action, and no one - Moore nor any of her associates, ever bothered to explain ... even after they were informed initially that the proceeds from this book to help our African-American Children. _______________ June, 2006 - At approximately 6:40 P.M., we received a message from the Previous Distributor of our Autobiography for sale here on our website, that a Staff Member from the "Bama Hour" at W.P.F.W. Radio Station in Washington, D.C. had requested a "Free Preview Copy" of "I ... And When" (A Disposable Child), under the pretext that he /she was planning to have me interviewed as a Guest Speaker on the show via telephone, within the following few days. (Preview copies were authorized in exchange for Paid For Copies of the Book in cases where the Media was making the request. If the engagement never took place, the book was to be paid for in full.) We never heard a word from that facility, and contact with them was futile, even after we explained the work that we do, and requested payment for the book, which was no longer a "Review Copy". (Copies of the details of recent communication between us and them - Audio and Email, regarding this are available upon request.) _______________ BEGINNING THE YEAR 2010 February 7, 2010 - I received a call from February 23, 2010 - On this date at approximately 8:30 P.M., I received a email message on the Guestbook from an African-American woman who presented herself as an Associate Minister from Hamtramck / Redford, Michigan back in the middle of 2008, when she called me on a Friday afternoon claiming strong interest in my Autobiography here online, and having me as a Guest on her internet radio show. She begged me to call in and be interviewed by her on the air – something I declined to do, since as her would-be "Guest", I didn’t see where it would be feasible for “me” to pay for an Long-Distance interview by a complete stranger. At the end of our very short conversation, she decided to purchase the Autobiography after learning (or so I thought she had learned), that the proceeds of the book are donated to our area Children's Hospitals. Her personal check covering the amount of the book was received a few days later, and her copy of the book was sent to her address on the check in Michigan using "Confirmation Delivery" via the U.S. Postal Service. That was the "last" that we had ever conversed one-on-one with this woman until this day - two years "after" my receipt from the Postal Service confirmed that the book had been delivered to her. Not more than what had to be a day after the books’ delivery was confirmed via the U.S. Postal Services' Website, The Minister, Celeste Tolliver-Kelley, began calling and sending me emails every morning and afternoon, attempting to get me to donate funds to her "Ministry". I began letting these communications go directly to my computer, where they were continuously recorded and dated, until my telephone number changed. On the 23rd of February however, her message through our Guestbook insisted that I remove her “Appraisal” of the Book from the Previews and our Former website from the Comments section of our website, simply because her "Solicitations" had been ignored for two years. What would have been an even "greater" trick for her if you had asked us, would have been for her to remove the weekly verbal "shout-outs" that she gave to us at the "end" of her "Blog Talk Internet Radio Podcasts" for over a year long after she had purchased and read the book, "praising" us, and telling her listeners about our organization, and her recommending that they visit our website (Fortunately, we were able to record and retain several of these "Podcasts" of hers, along with her emails telling us where to go on the internet to hear them ... since we had no idea that she was doing this). I get a lot of stuff like this from women like Celeste Kelley, who think that because my organization is "established" and apparently have been for a while, and because I am the Founder and in fact a Child Abuse Survivor who "probably" possesses (in her eyes) the extremely "low" level of "Self-Esteem" that a Con Artist can work with, so much that people like her think that they can just label me with some “Endearing Term” that would serve to mentally "Glue" me to them somehow, thus making me a candidate for their scams. In Kelleys' case, I became her "S.I.S.T.AH." Tolliver-Kelley went as far as letting me know in her written "rage" on our Guestbook (due to my no-response to her calls and pleas for money), that she not "only" wanted her words removed, but that she never read our book, and after a "pregnant" pause, claimed that she never received it; something ("if" it were true and delivery of the book to her was "unable" to be proven) her non-receipt could have been remedied back in the year 2008. She also stated that her "Commendations" written on our Guestbook back in 2008 that were now present on this website, were "Libel"; This coming from someone who is supposed to be working on her Law Degree. Confirmingly enough, a Guestbook signing from a woman who stated that she was a part of Tolliver-Kelleys' Ministry back then, informed me that the "Ministry" (I will continue to call it for lack of a better name), actually "fell apart" due to a lack of funds - funds that Tolliver-Kelley "believed" that she could get from "this" organization, shortly before a stop was put to her phone calls and emails to us; Funds that Tolliver-Kelley "believed" would total over Two Million Dollars ($2,000.000.00) before she "turned us loose", in fact. We received that posting from that woman, who identified herself as an Ex-Member of that Ministry only two (2) days before we received the message from Kelley herself. Its nice of C. Tolliver-Kelley to be visiting our website - a site that she (like any other ticked-off "Predator" who got a wrench thrown into their plans) had the audacity to call "Fraudulent". It is mind-blowing that a "Minister" supposedly, would refer to a website designed for a Fight for the lives of our Abused African-American Children as such. Hopefully, she will learn to invest as much time in caring about the lives of our Children as she does exacting her brand of "Revenge" on organizations or other entities that she could not take for a "ride". Immediately, we reported this woman to the state of Michigans' Authorities, and other Agencies (on and off the Internet) who do not tolerate this type of behavior from anyone presenting themselves as "Clergy". And just when we thought that we would NEVER hear from this woman again after hearing from the Michigan Authorities who told us that she swore up and down that she was no longer in contact with us, she turns around and sends us an email on this date, soliciting us to buy tickets to and attend yet "another" of her events - a "Bowl Blast" due to take place April 9, 2010. Pray, People! _______________ March 8, 2010 - On this date, I received a note from one of our Supporters in The book purchase was followed almost immediately by me receiving an "unsubstantiated / unsolicited" box of "Twizzlers" Candy that included every flavor known to man, along with the continuous "statements" of how low her "income" is. I had suggested to her several times that maybe she should wait and purchase the book when she was really able, but she insisted on sending us payment anyway. She was sent a "Thank-You" Card for the candy ... but "nothing" but advice for her financial problems. We are figuring that this is "why" we are now getting a complaint. _______________ Abuse on a Different Level (AN ACTION TAKEN OUT OF FEAR) June 11, 2009 - When we first went “live” on the Internet on September 2004, we received a lot of entries on our Guestbook, with women wanting to equate Spousal Abuse with Child Abuse, and women wanting to talk about the abuse that they suffered from their men endlessly without justfication seemingly. With that in mind – while not deviating in the least from our work for our African-American Children here in the least, I have to share with you all the “very first” incident of an attempt at abuse of me by a man who didn’t even know my name – but had fear instilled in him by someone who simply told the brother in so many words, that “he needed to fear me … Simply because I could "write" ... and could "write a "letter”. Here's the Story: James Morrison arrived at his place of employment at a D.C. Department of Recreation Pool Facility as Temporary Pool Manager on a 60-some degree day in June of 2009, just nano-seconds after the time that the facility should have been opened. He offered no apology to any of the Patrons, nor acknowledged anyone but me after five minutes of opening the doors. (I had just returned to the facility after numerous weeks of absence from workouts there, due travel and to other business.) Unfortunately for James, the element of "fear" had been instilled in him by someone before I returned to the facility the next day for my regular workout. I am safely guessing that it had to be a "Superior", since no one else would find it necessary to relay such information to him. Poor Jamwas was warned that because I tend to write letters to the D.C. Director of Recreation or have in the past, that he should "fear" me. What James was “never” told was that any letters that had been written to the D.C. Department of Recreations’ Corporate Office referencing any employee at that particular site bearing my signature, was nothing more than “Commendations” for each one of the employees - a "good thing", except for the fact that after some thought, I realized that I never wrote one in favor of the one possibly, who felt it necessary to warn him about my possibility of getting him fired with "a letter". When James decided to pour out his heart and soul to me about his "fear" that morning after taking a seat on the deck of the pool two inches from my face (as I fastened a Voice Activated Recorder / Waterproof MP3 Player to a loop on my swimsuit) while expressing his fear of how I could make him lose his job and all if I wrote a negative letter about him, and how he needed his job, etc., (while he talked extra loud to be heard above the pool water splashing), the device around my neck, which I wear around my neck religiously, picked up his every word with the "most" Being somewhat sympathetic after listening to him, I took fifteen minutes out of starting my workout in the pool to explain to this brother why he should not walk around that facility or "any" facility fearing me or anyone else, based on the mere "words" of someone. After all he only knew “of” me, and I didn't know him at all. (I would have continued to explain, had I not been distracted by a pool Patron who was acting extremely erratic in the pool, and needed a few words of “confirmation” from me, as to what would happen if she did not get some control over her actions, which were designed (so she thought) to get the conversation and attention that she had wanted from me for some time. Understand this right here: The woman had clearly been entertaining some seriously "unsavory" thoughts that pertained to only her and me - but to her dismay, they would "not" include me. She was ignored to the "inth" degree from action one, and right there was where "her" problem with me began. The sister had me as "twisted" as a pretzel then based on my "looks", as she apparently did during the latter part of the following year, when she began her strange "mating" behavior whenever she saw me at the facility, or any other woman there who resembledd me. At that moment, she decided that jumping around and nearly striking me in the lane where I had been standing while conversing with James Morrison and preparing to swim, would get her a few accomplishments. James Morrison - instead of seizing the opportunity to make himself "look" good (if this were at all possible) by correcting this patron, saw instead what he thought would be a "great" opportunity to act on his personal feelings and get “rid” of me simply out of “fear”; So, this supposedly educated, In-Charge, Mango head-shaped brother used that situation to what he felt would be its "max" by writing a letter for this apparently “mentally challenged” woman, talking her into signing it, and sending it to the Interim Director of Recreation, reporting a conjured up "physical" attack on her by me right there in the pool that supposedly had happened right in front of James Morrison "after" I left the pool that morning: An attack that NO EVIDENCE on any of the High-Tech Cameras that had been pointing directly into the pool could corroborate - evidence mind you which was searched for at the "same" time that evidence of "another" action was searched for by the D.C. Police, due to a report made by the parents of a child against this man two days later: An action that I got a tip-call about later on the morning of the accusation ... An action that let me know that "Karma" had picked up its pace. Within the hour after I left the pool the morning that James Morrison and my demented "Aqua Stalker" conjured up their lie on me without me knowing that they had done so, I turned the device that I had been wearing that contained James' declaration of his fear of me over to my Attorneys for safe keeping, something that I do as a habit ... and something that if you think about it, would serve to justify his fear of me even if it was a couple of days early. This was truly "One of those Things that make you go Hmmmmmm". The then Interim Director of the D.C. Department of Recreation - Ximena Hartsock, had her secretary set up a meeting with us and seven (7) members of her Critical Response Team in the living room of our home: A meeting that her Secretary informed us would "only" consist of Ximena Hartsock and herself mind you, but turned into a total of eight people by the time she arrived at our the front door, two weeks later after “the accusation" against James Morrison. While actually "giving" us the details of the accusation against him made by the other party, she informed us that she had no reason to “Ban” me from the pool site per James' efforts, and that the "incident" that he was accused of by the other party scared the Patrons something terrible (which was understandable - what with the D.C. Police arriving and all and searching the cameras), and that she just wanted the entire incident cleared up - which brought up her question for me: "Who was the individual that called to notify me of "the incident"? I let her know that I was not going to give her information referencing anyone who contacts me "ever", to give me a heads-up for my benefit - especially when the one that "should" have called me never did. I wished Ximena nothing but good luck in all of her endeavors, and assured her that the "only" way to get anything straight at that facility clearly was to get this man out - particularly due to the high level of drama that he has caused within only two days. My advice to her was to no avail of course, because she allowed James Morrison to remain at the facility at least three (3) weeks longer after "the accusation. I ended that meeting between her, her cohorts and ourselves, which was nothing more than a "facade" of them addressing us as to how they could make the facility better-turn- fishing-expedition for her own benefit. James Morrison needed to believe that for as good as a “writer” that he fears me to be, even if it were to pertain only to me merely writing a letter”about" him to his Superiors, that I will not disappoint him in writing "something" about him, starting with his "mental" attack against me. This story will serve as the beginning of my next book, which is already in progress. On the same note, he should remember that things have a way of getting around the Metropolitan Area, what with people knowing people and all. He should also keep in mind too that accusations made against "males" never go away: Not when those actions call for the presence of the Authorities. Not while there are people who listen (And we all know that there are people listening, and reading!) I have never understood any level of fear being instilled in someone by someone else - “blood connection” or not, by anyone who is supposed to be their friend, etc. I will also never understand "what" would make a supposedly Proud, Standing, Black Man like James Morrison suddenly decide to "slither like a snake" out of the fear of a mere letter: A non-existant letter that he only "thought" might be written against him by a woman who could simply "write". That Mental Abuse / Fear alone had enough power to make him raise up against a Strong, Educated, Intelligent, Eloquent, Articulate, Proud, Talented Black Woman that he didn't even know, but maybe should have gotten to, for his own sake. _______________ GINA MAHOGANY / TIFFIANY ASHLEY March 29, 2010 - Here's a posting with a twist: On this date, I joined a Network called “Natural and Happy” on NING belonging to Network Creator Gina Mahogany. Her initial response to me joining her network and sending her a standard "request" to visit my website and leave a message of support on the Guestbook was extremely positive, as shown on Page #7 of our “Here’s what you said” page. Almost simultaneously from the Creator of another Network on NING named Tiffiany Ashley c/o “Help Moms Stop the Murders”, I received a message suggesting that I join "her" Network. I did so, after posting "her" comments about our website under Gina Mahoganys' on the same page of our website. I then proceeded to contact "all" the members on those two Networks and invite them to view our site as well. However, after a morning of having “only” responses coming from these two Network Creators (along with an afternoon spent combining their "back-to-back, frenzied" messages on my Guestbook into something comprehensible and error-free for presentation to our Visitors), I removed our "Membership" from BOTH Ginas' and Tiffiany's Network, only for these two to "come out of a bag" on me apparently due to their “losing” me as a Member on their Network, and realizing that I had sent invites to the members of their Networks to visit my website. (The same invitations that I had sent to them, mind you.) They not only called themselves “suspending” me from their Networks (two (2) hours after I had deleted my content from their Networks (without their knowldege), and sent me an email notification that they had, but they went as far as submitting a false complaint about me supposedly "harassing" them to the Creators of "FACEBOOK" (since they were on that one as well) in an attempt to get the Creators of that Network to suspend my account. I was simply "informed" by FACEBOOK via an email that this action by these two had taken place (since unknown to them, I had already “blocked” the access of these two women from my FACEBOOK page earlier in the morning, and there was really nothing else to be done). These two turned out to be Co-Administrators for "both" those NING Networks I had joined and left on the same day. (What with one of them supposedly mourning the loss of a son, one would think that some level of “couth” would have played a part in their actions somewhere, especially with One Voice / One Sound carrying on a fight for the lives of our African-American children during the Child Abuse Epidemic, and her fighting against Children simply being murdered … but I stood corrected.) In closing, I took it upon myself to lay out the definition of the word "Network" below for the benefit of these two "Queens", and for anyone else who might need to know what is expected to happen when they create "Networks" anywhere on the World Wide Web. The members are "expected" to hit each other's pages - otherwise, there would be no sense in creating a “Network”, right? _______________ Network / Networking [net-wurk] 
I am a proud African-American Woman who does not befriend males on any Internet Network- much less White Males; but that's not what William Fleming cared to "read". Heaven only knows what he "saw" in my face, or what he may have "thought", with me being a Child Abuse Survivor / Advocate. His actions answers every question as to why no one should "ever" befriend anyone - "particularly" a White Man arbitrarily on a Social Network.
Fleming - who was a Boy Scout and a Cub Scout, and resided on Johnson Place in South River, New Jersey back in the day according to the people who "know" him - felt at one point that we were a bit “hasty” in our reaction to his Verbal Assault, and that this situation could be handled in a “Professional Manner”– something that White Men tend to use as reasoning, when mistakes that they make start spinning out of control too fast for them to attempt to "handle", per se. He sent us an email stating such, which we have retained along with his other emails. We don't get people like William Fleming knocking at our door often, and we will make an example out of him to anyone else feeling like they need to "Test my Cool", so to speak.
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