KEEPING FAMILIES TOGETHER WORKING THROUGH ESSA ORGANIZATION.

I KNOW IT'S BEEN A WHILE BUT I HAVE BEEN TAKING TIME OUT TO ORGANIZE A VERY HONORABLE CAUSE! PLEASE TAKE SOME TIME OUT TO READ ALL ABOUT IT!  

The Problem

It would take a day to walk in some of these mother's shoes I know, and surely I promise "they" will give those shoes back. "They" say the economy is in crisis, I see these celebrities getting divorces, winning lawsuits, and coming out with millions of dollars. "They" are constantly cutting checks to foster parents who don't even have to work a full time jobs or a job at all to secure a stable home like regular single parents (Tax Paying Americans) do who have to work 2 or 3 jobs to take care of their family.There are more children of color in the foster care system than in the general population. >That sound like modern day underground selling slaves to me starting with the kids. "They" also say African Americans are incarcerated more often than whites. >That's because they are to busy releasing their own kind off of death row, while we are secretly still being lynched and brainwashed against each other. Here's a unforgettable fact for you I found to be interesting: Maltreatment Rates- There are no statistically differences in overall maltreatment rates between African-American and Caucasian according to 3 national incidence studies. After controlling for such factors as income level, unemployment and location (urban or rural) African- American communities actually have lower rates of child maltreatment than Caucasian communities. Additionally, both public or private hospitals have been found to over report abuse and neglect upon African Americans while they under report maltreatment among Caucasian.

Plan of Action

Bring awareness to the Nancy Schaefer Movement. She was assassinated her and her husband for standing up for the parents who are genuinely trying and struggling to survive and keep their families together in these days and times. Often times these things are swept under the carpet. The system fails to comply with what we want and need as stable parents and neglects to see that their cycle will and can be broken with the right voices! These children and families don't deserve the torment they are willing to take people through for the sake of keeping their business going. Whether it be the demanding fact that they want to administer your child/children with these pharmaceutical medications because of "ADHD" diagnoses and other factors but what they don't tell you is how it causes side effects and the statistics of the children who've grown into depending on the medication or getting addicted to drugs. I'd check the elements of these medications because this medication can cause numerous nerve problems. It's wrong and not humane for the system to not give a caring mother or father a choice to not administer the medication, it is even worse than having someone tie you down and shoot you up with dope. Get voices together, find other solutions, and wave the right to have responsible parents who haven't had any conflicts emotionally to receive the financial assistance they are just giving away to foster parents, medical doctors, and hospitals just because they want to make some money. THIS IS ALSO KNOWN AS ( E.S.S.A.) WE ARE JOINING TOGETHER TO ADVOCATE ON BEHALF OF THOSE OF YOU, WHO'VE HAD TO FIGHT THE SYSTEM FOR THE SAKE OF GETTING YOUR CHILDREN BACK IN YOUR HOME, OR IN A STABLE HOME DUE TO HOMELESSNESS, NOT MAKING ENOUGH INCOME WITH 1 SINGLE JOB NOT A CAREER, AND OR STILL SUFFERING THE PAST ABUSE FROM YOUR EX-MATE BY LITERALLY “PAYING FOR IT” BE AWARE THAT THE CYCLE OF THIS SYSTEM HAS BEEN SET UP AND DESIGNED TO KEEP US DOWN, HOLD US DOWN, MISINFORM US, CATER TO THEM, ONLY TO SET US UP FOR THE SAME FAILURE AND CONTINUE THE ONGOING PROCESS BY SETTLING TO ADHERE TO THE SYSTEM’S CYCLE. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE MOTIVATE AND EDUCATE “OURSELVES” FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE. OF COURSE, THEY AREN'T WILLING TO GIVE US “EDUCATED” INFORMATION OR PROPERLY EQUIP US TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT LEVEL….AS THEY “NEED” US TO KEEP THEIR BUSINESS GOING!

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Atlanta International 6thYear Of Fashionable Trendy Treats!!!

As July 24, 2012 rolled in quickly our team of passionate models, event coordinators, and directors were preparing for an amazing fashion show filled with a week of iconic fashion trends. From July 24th-29th our schedule offered style and class while delivering the experience to network with international designers, models, stylists, media, and sponsors. Our line up from the elegant Hotel Indigo to 200 Peachtree in effort to show our support for national charity organizations featured nearly 30 couture designers to display their latest looks. Since I myself am a shoe fiend, I was very impressed by one particular designer who's shoes were distinctively, not the average glass slipper...  You can certainly go check out some of this designers shoes online if you are looking for something to call your own! Ladies you know how we do "we want something no one else has" Imitation by Jerell is a perfect way to tell people "You ain't seen these before"!!! www.imitationbyjerell.com

The Pretty Academy school of  Fashion served the purpose to allow industry experts to show us how to make our fashion dreams into reality with a series of workshops with fashion, model boot camp, and extreme style make-overs by Motives for La La and the Beauty Shop. After training with Professional Model trainer Mike Jones in boot camp, I must say that I saw the models enjoy and express their improvement on the runway and behind the cameras. For the most part, some of our models unfortunately could not join us for our after party engagements but I hope that next year we can surely make them a part of the exciting night life here in Atlanta, GA. Our models came from all directions over the US and also from other countries their time and dedication to Atlanta International Fashion Week was most appreciated. If it wasn't for our fabulous designers such as Celebrity Designers Jason Christopher Peters, Sacred Heart Collections, Simply Beautiful Designs, Black Russian Label, Hyper Haute, J Rok Coture, and Nelson Arrington this show couldn't have gone on, but of course this list goes on and many others. AIFW was most amiable for all of the fashion trends featured. The kid models of L.A.H.A. for kids made the runway their own playground with extreme swag! I have to personally list two of my favorite designers were La'Moo Designs and Navoj Studios because when it was time to bring it they brought extraordinary in my book!

Most Importantly Thanks To Sponsors like Fashion In The City, Future Visions, Aveda Institutes South, Digital Fashion Group, and many, many, more.... My experience and opportunity to network with the best of the best in the fashion industry was an inspiration. A learning experience I will take with me as I grow more passionate about a leading industry that is ever evolving when it comes to the latest trends.

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Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder...

Before I go into this article I want you to ask yourself a deep question, who is the beholder of MY beauty? Prior to my stroke of enlightenment I was into making my image match to those of what I was conditioned into thinking "this is the look that makes me acceptable to society". I've had the learning experience of modeling for 15+ years and my appearance was always important, constantly wearing weaves and at one point I tried skin bleaching for experimental purposes. When I looked at the magazines and video models or even television showed the reflection of what they wanted me to think I should look like as a natural black woman. Which always appeared to be the total opposite of my content as an African/ Native American woman, and for the most part to being on the cover of a magazine required me to look the part of what they find acceptable the sleek straight hair, curly, or permed high yellow red bone with nice boobs and voluptuous curves. Even the petite models had a certain look that they had to maintain to grace the covers. In the course of time I had to reflect on not only all the money I was putting into looking like someone else but also WHO am I really trying to be? and I hated my hair for no reason because it was strong, thick, and kinky.  I thought about how many natural black women I really see on magazines and certainly did my research, nothing shocked me about how something I was never really used to seeing was never there to encourage me to embrace what the good LORD had given me "Good Strong Hair". I realize I wanted to burn it chemically straight, hide it under a wig, intertwine it with someone else s hair to make the fit. All the while I'm losing MYSELF and my money in in something I was already blessed with "originality". So I asked myself why in the hell would I want to copy someone Else's image to make myself  worthy of acceptance. I am who I am because God made me that way.

And the last time I checked none of those people were MY makers. I freed myself by saying they can love me naturally because this is what makes me ME or they can create the lies and deceit that goes through time making others think this is the only way to be IN. Embracing my hair, skin, and body has been  a burden lifted off of me, as a matter fact I take pride in who I AM more so now today because I don't have to prove to anyone I'm IN. God didn't neglect the fact to show me that I am beautiful just the way I was created giving me the strength to discipline and love myself  regardless of what I see on a magazine or television. I think it's disappointing to not see as many beautiful authentic black women gracing the media, it sure would help the younger generation appreciate genuine real people instead of trying to copy paste the same scene that's had us lost for so long. If you don't like me for what I was made to be, talk to my Creator and I'm sure the quote can be found in the King James version bible "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them". I see a lot of black women allowing someone else to "Behold"<<  (Word Origin & History) form)) their beauty changing and conforming them into the image others see fit for them. If that's in your nature to do so, by all means continue to do what's best for YOU, in the process of it all I just ask that you hold on to what's really you as much on the inside being (that is if you know exactly who you are) as well on the outside. I would say this picture made me think really hard about do I really want to look like a white woman? I'm just saying, not judging she may want to but I don't and I damn sure don't want my daughter to take on the same trait. She should be a proud black woman confident in her skin and hair for what it was meant to be naturally!!!! CAN'T PULL THE WOOL OVER MY EYES ANY LONGER....making me to be something I was never meant to be was never in ALMIGHTY GOD'S PLAN but I do have something much greater and that's a PURPOSE!   They're glamorous, but natural isn't.....  PLEASE!!!