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WE WANT THE FUNK!! There are times when life gets going good and I get caught up in it and dont stop to write, film or document anything. That wouldn’t be such a “bad” thing except that I am supposed to be “jefferyTV” and I’m at events not writing about them. Especially P-funk events where I just loose my mind! It’s a very fine line between business and pleasure when dealing with the funk! ( a non-profit org). I say all that as pennance for all the funky events and happenings I wish I would have written about. One of which is the George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic show at Yoshi’s in San Francisco. Talk about a party!


Also I also was on the radio! KTYM AM 1460 in Inglewood, Ca.  Discussing atheism and religion in the black community with Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson. It was cool and I was eventually very comfortable being on the air.

  

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Black Skeptics Group to gather in Los Angeles

The Black Skeptics Group which was founded by Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson, will hold a monthly gatherinng at Simply Wholesome in Los Angeles on December 19, 2010 at 11:30 am. Open dialogue and discussion of future events is planned.

http://blackskeptics.blogspot.com/ for more information.

In association with www.blackhumanism.org

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WEFUNKWEST To Deliver Lige Curry Titles To Yoshi’s San Francisco

WEFUNKWEST MFG&DIST will deliver to artist Lige Curry cd and dvd titles from his discography. The items will be available at the merchandise table for George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic’s shows at Yoshi’s in San Francisco on November 19,20.  The titles include Curry’s Introspective cd and the Starr Cullars Live at B.B. Kings Hollywood II dvd.

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George Clinton & P-Funk Do San Francisco

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Yoshi’s Oakland March 2013

Having seen that P-funk thang over 100 times in different parts of this country (experiencing P-funk in Europe is one of my few remaining desires in life), I have learned to appreciate the differences each region brings. D.C. had groups of black males partying together in tight rhythmic bunches (here in California brothas  maintain personal space). I’ve watched the percentage of people who were actually on beat triple in the predominant young white Los Angeles audiences. I searched and found a “groove” I was looking for back where I came from.  Ohio is Bootsy, which is a key piece with Funkadelic that created Parliament, which is my musical highest. Ohio funks the best..

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Yoshi’s Oakland March 2013

And San Francisco has its own very special thing. First off the city itself continously stimulates the senses with colors, sounds, smells, foods, views, visuals, eclectic political statements, etc, etc. The people there are intellectually  and physically warm and there’s a “commune – we sharin’ and all in this together” thing going on. Think Greatful Dead and when this meets that P-funk it’s a party like no other. Funk in psychadelic boas, wigs and big boots. And dont think those are just “costumes” folks throw on. There is a discipline and intregity to it. And I would be sir nosin’  if I didn’t at least cleverly hint at the best freely shared and abundant prop 19 stuff in the world.

What this city may lack in public displays of syncopated rhythms they more than make up for with hospitality that feels more like friendship. Its like everybody knows everybody and there is no such thing as a “stranger.” The vibe is literally groovy. The Spirituality is groovy. And it seems even the “bums” are intellectual. Weather changes hourly. The Bay is beautiful. The Bridge makes you proud to be human. Alcatraz, Fishermans Wharf, etc. And how could I forget the open sexuality?

November 19, 20
Yoshi’s
San Francisco, CA

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Something “Niggas” Can Do That No One Else On The Planet Can

A few years ago in which became my 2nd most viewed YouTube video (The Word Is Nigger), I made the comment that there are things that “niggas” can do that no one else on the planet can.  This is one of the most beautiful examples of this I may have ever seen.

I went on to clarify what I feel is the difference between “Niggas,” “Niggers,” “Blacks” and “Afircan Americans.” I believe that “Nigga” is Black American only, where a “nigger” can be any race or nationality. 

This video clearly shows a combination of rhythm, ability and a creativity that no on but black americans have. There is a groove or vibration that ONLY “niggas” can truly express.

And this groove
may be the most imitated thing
in entertainment history.

 

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/video/video.php?v=1664492411895

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQRRnAhmB58

 

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PFUNK1 Launches Live Internet TV Show on Livestream

http://www.livestream.com/pfunk1/

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Americans’ views of God shape attitudes on key issues: USA Today

By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY 
full article at USA Today

Asked about the Baylor findings, Philip Yancey, author of What Good Is God?, says he moved from the Authoritative God of his youth — “a scowling, super-policeman in the sky, waiting to smash someone having a good time” — to a “God like a doctor who has my best interest at heart, even if sometimes I don’t like his diagnosis or prescriptions.”

•The Critical God. The poor, the suffering and the exploited in this world often believe in a Critical God who keeps an eye on this world but delivers justice in the next, Bader says.

Bader says this view of God — held by 21% of Americans — was reflected in a sermon at a working-class neighborhood church the researchers visited in Rifle, Colo., in 2008. Pastor Del Whittington’s theme at Open Door Church was ” ‘Wait until heaven, and accounts will be settled.’ ”

Bader says Whittington described how ” ‘our cars that are breaking down here will be chariots in heaven. Our empty bank accounts will be storehouses with the Lord.’ ”

•The Distant God. Though about 5% of Americans are atheists or agnostics, Baylor found that nearly one in four (24%) see a Distant God that booted up the universe, then left humanity alone.

This doesn’t mean that such people have no religion. It’s the dominant view of Jews and other followers of world religions and philosophies such as Buddhism or Hinduism, the Baylor research finds.

Rabbi Jamie Korngold of Boulder, Colo., took Baylor’s God quiz and clicked with the Distant God view “that gives me more personal responsibility. There’s no one that can fix things if I mess them up. God’s not telling me what I should do,” says Korngold. Her upcoming book, God Envy: A Rabbi’s Confession, is subtitled, A Book for People Who Don’t Believe God Can Intervene in Their Lives and Why Judaism Is Still Important.

Others who cite a Distant God identify more with the spiritual and speak of the unknowable God behind the creation of rainbows, mountains or elegant mathematical theorems, the Baylor writers found.

This distant view is nothing new. Benjamin Franklin once wrote that he could not imagine that a “Supremely Perfect” God cares a whit for “such an inconsiderable Nothing as Man.”

The Baylor researchers’ four views of God reveal a richness that denominational labels often don’t capture. They found that Catholics and mainline Protestants are about evenly divided among all four views, leaning slightly toward a Benevolent God. More than half of white evangelicals identify with an Authoritative God; that view is shared by more than seven in 10 black evangelicals, they said.

full article at USA Today

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Survey: Atheists Are Most Knowledgeable About Religion

 http://www.pewforum.org/Other-Beliefs-and-Practices/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/us/28religion.html

http://blog.beliefnet.com/omeoflittlefaith/2010/09/atheists-know-more-about-the-bible-than-christians.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39397251/ns/us_news-life/

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tomchivers/100047527/atheists-and-agnostics-more-knowledgeable-about-religion-than-the-religious/

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/28/dont-know-much-about-religion-youre-not-alone-study-finds/

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