Brettakins Blog

From the age of 0-22 I was just living having a lot of questions about a lot of things but never gave the time to do my own research. From that point on, I started to look for answers to all the questions I have a need to be answered. I began to study myself. I began to learn who I was and this blog is an expression of that process and the things to come Knowledge of Self is the path of true happiness [email protected] Brettakins is: Skyline, Pan Africanist, Timberland, hip hop head, family orientated, Information sponge, political, Techy, Gamer, spiritual Tulsa, Oklahoma...... The Thinker

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Raja Kumari - Rani Cypher feat. Dee MC, SIRI and Meba Ofilia

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Body transformation in 18 months

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Green, who lost her parents young, was raised by her aunt and uncle. While still at school, her aunt died from cancer, and three months later her uncle was diagnosed with cancer, too. Green went on to earn her degree in physics at Alabama A&M University, being crowned Homecoming Queen while she was at it, before going on full scholarship to University of Alabama in Birmingham to earn her Masters and Ph.D. There Green would become the first to work out how to deliver nanoparticles into cancer cells exclusively, so that a laser could be used to remove them, and then successfully carry out her treatment on living animals. 

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her studies thus far are only on head and neck cancers, but her theory is this treatment platform would work on all types of cancers. But needs $$$$ to keep doing research.

It seems the issue is how to target the cancer cells and in her head and neck cancer tests, she had success in mice by utilizing fda approved immunotherepy antibodies to deliver nano particles to mark the tumor. Then she could proceed to blast the shit out of cancer with fuckin lasers.

she was ready or prepared when opportunity arose

I’m so proud of her. I wish more young black women would go into science.

#BLACKGIRLMAGIC 

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Yes!!!!! If she really does cure cancer, watch her name & face disappear behind some white man.

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Don’t let it happen! She deserves all the credit.

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I could cry. PLEASE keep her safe. She’s the SECOND (that I know of) Black person who knows how to cure cancer. KEEP HER SAFE

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PLEASE GO TO HER WEBSITE AND DONATE TO HELP HER CONTINUE HER RESEARCH: https://weareoralee.org/

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From 40in waist jeans to 34, still a work in progress

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Beautiful

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Black people killed by police in 2015

Bernard Moore 62 Lavall Hall 25 Jonathan Ryan Paul 42 Jamie Croom 31 Terry Garnett Jr. 37 Monique Jenee Deckard 43 Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. 19 Tyrone Ryerson Lawrence 45 Naeschylus Vinzant 37 Andrew Anthony Williams 48 Dewayne Deshawn Ward Jr. 29 Ledarius Williams 23 Yvette Henderson 38 Edward Donnell Bright, Sr. 56 Thomas Allen Jr. 34 Charley Leundeu Keunang, “Africa” 43 Fednel Rhinvil 25 Shaquille C. Barrow 20 Kendre Omari Alston 16 Brandon Jones 18 Darrell “Hubbard” Gatewood 47 Cornelius J. Parker 28 Ian Sherrod 40 Jermonte Fletcher 33 Darin Hutchins 26 Glenn C. Lewis 37 Calvon A. Reid 39 Tiano Meton 25 Demaris Turner 29 Isaac Holmes 19 A’Donte Washington 16 Terry Price 41 Stanley Lamar Grant 38 Askari Roberts 35 Dewayne Carr 42 Terrance Moxley 29 Theodore Johnson 64 Cedrick Lamont Bishop 30 Anthony Hill 27 Terence D. Walke 21 Janisha Fonville 20 Phillip Watkins 23 Anthony Bess 49 Desmond Luster, Sr. 45 James Howard Allen 74 Natasha McKenna 37 Herbert Hill 26 Markell Atkins 36 Kavonda Earl Payton 39 Rodney Walker 23 Donte Sowell 27 Mario A. Jordan 34 Artago Damon Howard 36 Andre Larone Murphy Sr. 42 Marcus Ryan Golden 24 Brian Pickett 26 Hashim Hanif Ibn Abdul-Rasheed 41 Ronald Sneed 31 Leslie Sapp III 47 Matthew Ajibade 22

Black people killed by police in 2014 Kevin Davis, 44 Eric Tyrone Forbes, 28 Jerame C. Reid, 36 David Andre Scott, 28 Quentin Smith, 23 Terrence Gilbert, 25 Carlton Wayne Smith, 20 Gregory Marcus Gray, 33 Antonio Martin, 18 Tyrone Davis, 43 Xavier McDonald, 16 Brandon Tate-Brown, 26 Dennis Grisgby, 35 Michael D. Sulton, 23 Thurrell Jowers, 22 Travis Faison, 24 Calvin Peters, 49 Christopher Bernard Doss, 41 Jerry Nowlin, 39 William Mark Jones, 50 Rumain Brisbon, 34 Lincoln Price, 24 Eric Ricks, 30 Leonardo Marquette Little, 33 Tamir E. Rice, 12 Akai Gurley, 28 Myron De’Shawn May, 39 Keara Crowder, 29 Tanisha N. Anderson, 37 Darnell Dayron Stafford, 31 David Yearby, 27 Aura Rosser, 40 Carlos Davenport, 51 Cinque DJahspora, 20 Rauphael Thomas, 29 Christopher M. Anderson, 27 Charles Emmett Logan, 68 John T. Wilson, III, 22 Christopher Mason McCray, 17 Kaldrick Donald, 24 Zale Thompson, 32 Terrell Lucas, 22 Ronnie D. McNary, 44 Adam Ardett Madison, 28 Balantine Mbegbu, 65 Elisha Glass, 20 Qusean Whitten, 18 Vonderrit Myers Jr., 18 O’Shaine Evans, 26 Latandra Ellington, 36 Aljarreau Cross, 29 Iretha Lilly, 37 Lashano J. Gilbert, 31 Miguel Benton, 19 Eugene Williams, 38 Tracy A. Wade, 39 Javonta Darden, 20 Marlon S. Woodstock, 38 Oliver Jarrod Gregoire, 26 Nolan Anderson, 50 Cameron Tillman, 14 John Jolly Jr., 28 Charles Smith, 29 Michael Willis Jr., 42 Briant Paula, 26 Kashad Ashford, 23 Carrey Brown, 26 Ceasar Adams, 36 Ricky Deangelo Hinkle, 47 Elijah Jackson, 33 Darrien Nathaniel Hunt, 22 Shawn Brown, 20 Alphonse Edward Perkins, 50 Naim Owens, 22 Kendrick Brown, 35 Eugene N. Turner III, 28 Ronald Singleton, 45 Jeremy Lewis, 33 Vernicia Woodward, 26 Cortez Washington, 32 Steven Lashone Douglas, 29 Desean Pittman, 20 Roshad McIntosh, 18 Anthony Lamar Brown, 39 Arvel Douglas Williams, 30 Darius Cole-Garrit, 21 Kajieme Powell, 25 David Ellis, 29 Luther Lathron Walker, 38 Andre Maurice Jones, 37 Frederick R. Miller, 38 Michelle Cusseaux, 50 Dante Parker, 36 Corey Levert Tanner, 24 Ezell Ford, 25 Robert Baltimore, 34 Dustin Keith Glover, 27 Eddie Davis, 67 Michael Brown, Jr., 18 Michael Laray Dozer, 26 John Crawford III, 22 Daniel Row, 37 Jacorey Calhoun, 23 Anthony Callaway, 27 Patrick Small, 27 Harrison Carter, 29 Vamond Arqui Elmore, 37 Donovan Bayton, 54 Charles Leon Johnson, II, 29 Briatay McDuffie, 19 Jonathan L. Williams, 25 Eric Garner, 43 Dominique Charon Lewis, 23 Michael Reams, 47 Lawrence Campbell, 27 Kenny Clinton Walker, 23 Tyshawn Hancock, 37 Charles Goodridge, 53 Cedric Stanley, 35 Ennis Labaux, 37 Warren Robinson, 16 Christopher Jones, 30 Icarus Randolph, 26 Jacqueline Nichols, 64 Jerry Dwight Brown, 41 Nyocomus Garnett, 35 Rodney Hodge, 33 Paul Ray Kemp Jr., 40 Dennis Hicks, 29 Samuel Johnson, 45 Lavon King, 20 Antoine Dominique Hunter, 24 Samuel Shields, 49 Juan May, 45 Denzell Curnell, 19 Ismael Sadiq, 30 Devaron Ricardo Wilburn, 21 John Schneider, 24 Jason Harrison, 38 Frank Rhodes, 61 Roylee Vell Dixon, 48 Broderick Johnson, 21 David Latham, 35 Lonnie Flemming, 31 Steven Thompson, 26 Thomas Dewitt Johnson, 28 Frank McQueen, 34 Sandy Jamel McCall, 33 Quintico Goolsby, 36 Dominique Franklin, Jr., 23 George V. King, 19 James Renee White Jr., 21 Devante Kyshon Hinds, 21 Pearlie Golden, 93 Jerome Dexter Christmas, 44 Armand Martin, 50 Dontre H. Hamilton, 31 Joe Huff, 86 Emmanuel Wooten Matthew Walker, 55 Daniel Christoph Yealu, 29 Adrian Williams, 29 Gregory Towns, 24 Jameel Kareem Ofurum Harrison, 34 Zikarious Jaquan Flint, 20 Raason Shaw, 20 DeAndre Lloyd Starks, 27 Douglas Cooper, 18 Winfield Carlton Fisher III, 32 Deosaran Maharaj, 51 Daniel Martin, 47 Emerson Clayton Jr., 21 Rebecca Lynn Oliver, 24 Treon “Tree” Johnson, 27 Gabriella Monique Nevarez, 22 Marquise Jones, 23 Kenneth Christopher Lucas, 38 Keith Atkinson, 31 Yvette Smith, 45 D’Andre Berghardt Jr., 20 Stephon Averyhart, 27 Anthony Bartley, 21 Earnest Satterwhite, Sr., 68 Anneson Joseph, 28 Alton Reaves, 31 McKenzie Cochran, 25 Cornelius Turner, 19 Eldrin Loren Smart, 31 Henry Jackson, 19 Jordan Baker, 26 Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr., 30 Paul Smith, 58 Jeffrey Ragland, 50 Kendall Alexander, 34

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Please Stop saying these names are Ghetto

LAKEISHA: a swahili name meaning “favorite one” LATEEFAH: a north african name meaning “gentle and pleasant” LATONIA: a latin name. latonia was the mother of diana in roman mythology LATISHA: means “happiness” TAKIYA: a north african name meaning “righteous” ESHE. African Swahili name meaning “immortal” KALISHA. Probably from the Galla word kalisha “sorcerer, wizard, witch doctor, magician” LEENA (لينا). Another spelling of Arabic Lina (q.v.), meaning “softness.” In use in Africa. MAKENA. African Kikuyu name meaning “the happy one.” NIA. African Swahili name meaning “intention, life purpose, mind.” MONIFA. African Yoruba name, meaning “I am luck,” from mo “I,” and ifa “profit, luck.” NUBIA. Unisex. African. From the name of the country Nubia, meaning “land of gold,” from the Coptic word for gold. AYANA : Ethiopian female name meaning “beautiful flower.” SHANIKA. Unisex. African Bantu name, probably meaning “young one from the wilderness.” SALINA. African. A name in use in Kenya. It may mean “merciful.” TAMEKA. Another spelling of the African Congo name Tamika (q.v.), meaning “a twin,” TAMELA. African Zulu name meaning “she who basks in the sun,” AMARA. f. African. From the Swahili word amara, meaning “urgent business.” Hindu. name meaning “immortal.” African. Ethiopian. Amharic amari, meaning “agreeable, pleasing.” CHICHI f Western African, Igbo Diminutive of Igbo names beginning with the element Chi meaning “God”. IMANI f & m Eastern African, Swahili, African American Means “faith” in Swahili, ultimately of Arabic origin. AZIZA f means “Respected. Darling.” Muslim,African, Egyptian, Arabic, Somali name meaning “gorgeous. DALIA/DALILA f means “Gentle.” African, Arabic, American, Egyptian, Spanish, African, Hebrew BIBI : An East African female name meaning “daughter of a king.” Also a Kiswahili word meaning “lady” or “grandmother.” ADA : Ibo of Nigeria name for firstborn females. ZENA : Ethiopian name meaning “news” or “fame.” JAMILAH f means “Beautiful.” Arabic, Muslim, African KALIFA f means “Chaste; holy.” African RASHIDI/RASHIDA f means “Wise.” Egyptian African Swahili name meaning “righteous.” TAJ means “Crown.” Indian,Sanskrit, African FATUMA : Popular Swahili and Somali versions of the name Muslim name, FATIMA, meaning “weaned.” NANA : Ghanaian name meaning “mother of the Earth.” AJA : High Priestess of Mecca. ADINA : Amharic of Ethiopia word sometimes used as a female name, meaning “she has saved.” BALINDA : A Rutooro of Uganda name meaning “patience, endurance, fortitude.” (Balinda is also used as a male name in Uganda.) FANTA : Guinea and Cote D'Ivoire name meaning “beautiful day.” KAYA : Ghanaian name meaning “stay and don’t go back.” LAYLA , LAILA , LEYLA , LEILA : Swahili and Muslim name meaning “born at night.” SHANI : Swahili name meaning “marvelous.” ANAYA : Ibo of Eastern Nigeria name meaning “look up to God.” TANISHA , TANI : Hausa of W. Africa name meaning “born on Monday.” ZAKIYA : Swahili name meaning “smart, intelligent.” TITI : Nigerian name meaning “flower.” SAFIA , SAFIYA , SAFIYEH , SAFIYYAH : Swahili and Arabic name meaning “pure and wise” or “lion’s share.” LULU : Swahili and Muslim name meaning “pearl” or “precious.” KADIJA , KHADIJA : Swahili name meaning “born prematurely.” AMINA : Somali and Muslim female name meaning “trustful, honest” and referring to Muhammed’s mother. This name is popular with the Hausa of West Africa.

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Trayvon. Paula. DOMA. Prop 8. Affirmative Action. Voting Rights. There's too damn much going on this week...

….And it’s only Wednesday. 

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Would you overlook infidelity in your marriage, if you knew that if you didn’t it could change history for the worse?

Doing research as I normally do, I ran across the FBI obscene file that J Edgar Hoover created. In it he had dirt on many people in high ranking positioned people in the government. Being a southerner he thought civil rights/desegregation would lead to disorder. He then collected dirt on Martin Luther King Jr. He had several audio tapes of him having affairs. The FBI then presented these tapes to Coretta Scott King thinking it would break up their marriage and with that try to discredit his organization. After Coretta heard these she was devastated, but she talked it out with Martin Luther King and decided to stay married

The question is how many people if in the same situation would have left and changed history for the worse?

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Tradition vs Change

Since people are creatures of habit, How can one embrace change without sacrificing tradition? Or is sacrificing tradition apart of embracing change?

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WOW this is needed. How can someone hate on this?

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What it means to be a man

Seems like whenever I hear the word man being defined its usually coming from a woman. I cannot tell a woman how to be a woman. I simply do not know. I have my own ideas about it but there is no way I could fully understand. Plus I know that being a woman is not just one thing it is a large spectrum of things.

First of all I am a man by the way of birth period. The thing is there is not only one way to be a man. There is no one way to be any type of person. I understand when you use the term man you're meaning it as a upstanding citizen if you will. You cannot re define a word depending on your own personal preference or situation. Even when a woman is not the most wholesome individual the term woman still applies,  For example when a woman is considered to be a bad mother the title of woman is not stripped from her. The term commonly used to refer to a person of this stature is "poor excuse for a mother." See how the word mother is still included. Even when derogatory comments are used to refer to a woman they still invoke feminism. When it comes to a man the opposition first strike is to take away the title of being a man. 

I know what a man is. I been living the life of one every since I was born who are you to tell me I'm not one. I was raised by one, been apart of a family that was full of them, and been surrounded by them my entire life. Please do not tell me what roles I should play and things I should be doing just because I'm a man. When a man says those things to a woman he is labeled as being sexist. For some reason women don't think they can be sexist towards a man. For the man in me will do whatever I want and however I see fit. 

The argument against this that I normally hear is you're to weak to stand up a fit the role I suppose to play so that is why I lash out against it. So does everything society say you agree with? As time and cultures change so does society, so you're telling me the definition of what a man is depends on the time, place and culture that question is presented in? If you let society tell you how to live your life then what kind of life is that?

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At TEDWomen, Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don't "act like a man." Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men to disrespect, mistreat and abuse women and each other. His solution: Break free of the "man box."

Agree or disagree?

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Some people just don't have any decency