Latimer Williams

By Latimer Williams

Well he did it, the young King Barrington Irving landed in Miami, FL. 3 months after he embarked on history to become the first and youngest black man to fly solo around the world. Barrington Irving landed with fanfare at Opa-Locka Airport in Miami, FL. with his family and supporters waiting for his arrival. He circled the airport twice almost liked he was taking 2 victory laps.

Barrington Irving made a short speech after he landed, telling of all the doubters that spoke to him when he wanted to accomplish this trip:

“They told me I was too young. They told me I didn’t have enough money. … They told me it’s going to take me forever. They told me I’d never come back home. Well, guess what?”

Irving said as he grinned at the crowd.

The cost of the trip was over $2 million and Barrington Irving flew over 20,000 miles and stopping in 24 cites worldwide. Barrington Irving built the plane himself with donated parts and money with a cost of $400,000.

This a great accomplishment and Barrington Irving had so many supports, with his family being his main support system they never doubted he would return safe and sound. I was on this story from the first time I read about it and I wrote 2 post about him as well when he first started his mission and when he was in the UAE. The is a story our young kids to know about, they need to know they are many options out there too them and with hard word and oppurtunity they can accomplish anything.

Let’s appluad Barrington Irving on this history making flight!

Its meme time again and I got tagged from Truth & Opinion for this meme. I’m alittle late on this so I apologize to Truth&Opinion but I finally got around to it. This meme was started over at Christ’s Coffee Break by Christy who has a great blog herself, go over and check her out.

When did you start blogging?

I started in April, I was always a reader of blogs but I felt I aways had somthing to say so here I am!

What’s your favorite childhood memory?

There are so many, but one that comes to mind is when My dad and I went to the green in downtown New Haven,CT(My Hometown) during Christmas season and there was a petting zoo. We just walked around feeding the animals and talking about all sorts of things. It wasn’t even planned my dad came home and and said let’s go out. I was just blessed to have a dad that just wasn’t there but plugged into my life.I truly do miss him.

What makes your Blog unique?

It’s from my perspective like I said in a previous post on about father’s day, my parents taught me to be a critical thinker, not a passive one. I walk with that perspective on everything I do and this blog is no different.

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By Latimer Williams

Graduation ceremonies are suppose to be a joyous occasion, full of the pride that parents have for their kids on their leap into adulthood. The anxious excitement of the graduates of what their future has in store for them. It is usually the beginning of a long and whinding road called adulthood. Phylicia Moore will never be able to see how proud her parents are of her and she will never be able to ponder what life has in store for her becaue it was cut short in Ghana on April 16th. She is not Natalie Holloway so there has be barely a blip on the news about her, but her story is still as sad.

Douglas Moore, Phylicia Moore’s father accepted her Diploma from Teaneck High School in New Jersey. The graduating class of 375 seniors somberly remembered Phylicia Moore and what a great person she was and how she carried herself. The FBI is investigating her death and the office is currently in talks with officials in Ghana investigating her death. At the time of her death it was ruled an accident but there were inconsistencies with the official Ghana autopsy report and one performed her in the United States.

Let’s continue to keep this story alive until they finally find out what happen to this girl.

By Latimer Williams

The law has always been unable to interpret where does the internet and blogging fit. Are they jounarlist or are they not under that protection and can be made accountable for the subjects that they write about. Congress

had a draft of a law that would shield bloggers with the same protection as journalist, it is called the Free Flow of Information Act. The law has been opposed by both parties as too broad a definition on who a journalism is and what information he can publish and also bloggers could protect their sources just as journalist sometimes are able to do. The question is who does this bill really protect?

The bill defines journalism as “gathering, preparing, collecting, photographing, recording, writing, editing, reporting or publishing of news or information that concerns local, national or international events or other matters of public interest for dissemination to the public.”

Now I have to admit this is a broad definition and this bill needs some editing before they actually bring this bill to congress for considration fo passing. The Bush Administration opposes this bill stating also that it is too broad and may protect those who are terrorist who are passing information to each other. I’m not quit sure I agree with Bush Administration because they can also operate and infiltrate under the guise of the Patriot Act.

The question is while this law is not passed what and how are bloggers protected? It doesn’t seem to be by alot and the blogger community should be careful with what they publish because it seems that there is this new underground witchhunt for getting bloggers to publish what the government or this administration wants them to publish. It just seems to me more and more this country is looking like a police state than a democracy.

What are your thoughts?

By Latimer Williams

I know it’s a day late but I just want to wish all the fathers out there a Happy Father’s Day! I know mothers get most of the glory and with good reason but fathers are the unsung heros when it comes to parents. Fathers are so underappreciated these days partly because of alot of irresponsible men and mainly because we are the quiet workers in the family. The family structure is so messed up now and the main reason is that there are alot of absent fathers in the world and the children are the main victims who pay the price.

I once heard someone say that when men get involved, communities change and that’s not taking anything away from women because they will always be the cornerstones who hold the family together, but there is just something to see when a man is the leader of his family and guiding his kids and being involved in their lives, it’s just different, it’s just better for the kids. I lost my father in 1995 when I was 23 years-old and I felt I had to learn so much more after he died about being a man but thank god he laid down the foundation for me so that I knew the questions to ask and the answers to accept and not to accept. My father always taught me to be a critical thinker instead of a passive thinker and that has helped me more in life than any class or teacher could have ever taught me.

I was like most boys who grew up with his father, he was some sort of superhuman, supergenuis who could do no wrong and all I ever wanted was to be like him. I look back and that was why I had such a problem with his death when I was younger is I was trying to be HIM instead of using the things he taught me to be ME. Once I understood that I was a happier person because I can never live up to his standards in my mind. In the end Dad was my Superman and it was losing battle trying to be like him, but thats just a boy looking up to his dad.

As I have my own kids now I see the same look in their eyes to me as I had to my dad. My 7 year-old always ask me, “How do you know all of this stuff Dad?” I tell him “I’m a dad!” and he just is amazed how I have the answers to his questions no matter if it is completely wrong! I just hope I can be half the father to my kids as my dad was to me and They will turn out just fine.

To all the dads out there, don’t give up on life’s challenges! It is a tough job being a parent and these darn kids don’t come with a manual, as much as I wish they did they don’t so teach them what you know is right and when they are adults and they chose not to follow it , that’s their choice not yours. These kids didn’t chose life but they are here all the same and we have to approach raising kids to just to be good kids, but we are also raising responsible adults.

HAPPY FATHER”S DAY!