On an outdoor adventure in Houston,  with your family,  you might spot a black bear, gators or river otters. If you can get your family to turn off the TV long enough to  experience the great Texas outdoors? They’ll  discover some of the gorgeous scenes produced by Mother Nature in Houston Parks, Harris County Lakes and Texas State Parks where each day there is a new show  and there are never any dreadful reruns. 

Your family's first step should be to brush-up on their wilderness skills at a Texas Outdoor Family Workshop.

• How to set up and break down camp (including your tent)
• Fire starting
• Outdoor cooking

These are only a few of the things to do outdoors that are covered in the workshop.  It’s designed to introduce   families  to the  important  skills  needed to make them feel comfortable in any outdoor setting.

Parks In Houston

Houston Parks have some awesome recreational facilities, activities and programs  that children, tweens and teens will find interesting. Here’s a list of some of them.

Hike and Bike Trails
Golf Courses
Swimming Pools
Tennis Courts
Fitness Centers

Did I mention that at some parks in Houston,  you can participate in an urban gardening project, a volleyball league or  play basketball in their gym or on an outdoor court.

Some parks have  pavilions, picnic tables and spaces that you can reserve. If you need a sports field (softball, baseball, soccer, flag football, ) for practice,  league and/or  tournament play just contact the Parks Permits Office.
Field Reservations: (832) 395-7010 or (832) 395-7011

Houston Recreation Centers

The recreation centers at Houston parks offer summer enrichment sessions, a program geared toward athletes, (Athletes Seeking Knowledge) and lots of fall activities that will begin sign-up soon.

Here’s a list of some of the parks outdoor activities in Houston for children and adults.

Youth Sports & Recreation
Adult Sports & Recreation
Adaptive Sports & Recreation
Senior Sports & Recreation
Skate-parks
Tennis
Volunteer Opportunities
Healthy Kids Houston
H.P.A.R.D. Internships

An outdoor adventure in Houston can be a chance to learn something different. It doesn’t  require that you travel far away, be a naturalist or an outdoor expert either.

A short hike or a picnic in a local park, National forest or State park will give your family plenty of time to discover nature, explore other habitats and burn-up lots of calories.
more info about
Houston Parks and Recreation

There are some things that many people just dream about doing that they should do,  once in their lifetime. Things that are spectacular and exhilarating, like riding in a hot air balloon, vintage airplanes and race cars. It's really affordable for most people and readily available here in Houston.

If you have been itching for some raw adventure, let me tell you about some of the amazing places in Houston to make that itch go away.Hot Air Balloon Rides

A free spirited adventure in a hot air balloon is a perfect way to celebrate a special occasion or create a memorable moment in your life. You'll float  aimlessly amidst the clouds and marvel at the miniature size of everything below you.  Most hot air balloon companies offer tours and short rides in the wild blue yonder in their lighter-than-air craft.

Tours usually cover a specific area and last around an hour.  Balloon rides often times last up to an hour or more and many not travel as far as a tour. It will be an exciting and unforgettable occasion when you soar across the skies.

Vintage Airplane Rides

Race Car Rides

Earnhart Childress Racing and Mario Andretti Racing Experience and other race teams have put together the ultimate experience for NASCAR fans. You can get behind the wheel of a genuine race car.

  After getting some expert instructions, you can actually take one of the awesome, fast and powerful cars out on the track for a spin. These are not your daddy's race cars. Their supercharged engines that can reach speeds of more than 150 miles per hour.

 If you want to get more details about these fantasy rides or incredible boating and hiking adventures in Houston,  follow this link to the websites. 

• Race Car And Flight Adventures
  
• Adventure Tours in Houston
• Blue Lights on Bayou
• Boat Tours In Houston
• Tours of Buffalo Bayou
  
• Buffalo Bayou Walking Trails
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
• Discount on attractions in Houston
  
• Drive A Race Car In Houston
• Festivals in Houston
  
• Houston Air Terminal Museum
• Houston Hot Air Balloon Rides
• Houston Boat Tours
• Outdoor adventures In Houston
  

The recent cut backs at the zoo resulted in cutting some of the days when the zoo is free.  Here is the current list of holidays the Houston Zoo is open free to the public:

Columbus Day
Friday after Thanksgiving
New Years Day
MLK Day
President’s Day  
 
Specials Exhibits

The special exhibit that they have from time to time aren't free for holiday visitors. You better be prepared to spend a few bucks, if you want your kids want to see the exhibits or these favorites.

Educational programs
The train
Lecture series
Ticketed special events 

The holiday hours at the zoo are 9 a.m.- 6 p.m. get there early,  in case the place gets overcrowded and they have to shutoff admissions.
  
Houston Zoo Free For SNAPS  Recipients

If your family receives SNAPS via the Lone Star Card, you are able to visit the Houston Zoo anyday during the year for free.

Here’s what you need to have with you:

A current award letter from SNAPS( Texas food stamp program)
A photo ID (Texas Drivers License or Texas Department of Public Safety photo ID card)

Only 5 persons per visit (2 adults/3 children) and the Lone Star Card holder must accompany their party.

How To Apply For Free Admission With SNAPS Award

Present a valid  award letter along with a photo ID of the card holder at the ticket booth to receive zoo tickets.

You can't pick-up tickets in advance, only on the day of you visit the zoo visit. Free admission to the Houston Zoo is  limited  to viewing the regular zoo attractions and does not apply to any ticketed exhibits.  

However, there is no limit on the number of times you can bring your family to  the zoo using a SNAPS award letter.

Looking for more information on attractions in Houston, visit Midtownlive.

 

Free Events In Houston

There are more than 10 free things to do in Houston, these are just some of the favorite things to do.  It would take all summer long, just to tell you about the many splendid things that are enjoyable, entertaining and enriching for just you, with a family or a whole bunch of friends.

Today Jesus is crucified!  And in 36 hours (3 Jewish lunar "days"), he shall be raised Victorious!

THANK YOU JESUS!

Satan is busy on FaceBook!  There is another deceptive hustle out there that puffs up "Christians" into believing they are going to dominate, subjugate, wield power, etc.

Yes, there are scriptures that speak about the redeemed 'ruling" with Christ in the post-apocalyptic future, but this has to be put into context.  Jesus will rule, but we will SERVE.  Authentic "rulership" is about SERVANTHOOD.  It's not about power and lording it over people.

The disciples once thought this and argued over which one of them would have the most power and authority.  Jesus told them" he that is greatest among you shall be your servant." (Mt 23:11).

Earth, Wind & Fire has a great song with the line:   "everybody wants to ride in a limousine, but nobody wants to drive."

So, true.

I'm preparing an article on this subject, but there appears to be a heresy gaining momentum out there that deceives blacks into thinking they are of the lineage of Abraham.

It is raced-based crackpot theology to suggest that balcks are anything but members of the family of Ham (Genesis 9-10, "Table of Nations").  This is cultural nationalism at its best.  It is the latests spin on the white-man-is-the-devil routine.  Elijah Muhhammad would be very proud.

This is just another hustle.  Another excample of poverty pimps trying to make some quick cash off the black community.  Just another exploitive scheme.

However, there is a more sinister element to this heresy.  I've been an apologist of the Bible for years now and this particular "doctrine of devils" is well-thought out and not so easily dismissed.

James L. Marshall is promoting his book, Wealth-Unlocking the Secrets to Creating and Protecting Black Family Prosperity, on FaceBook.

When I queried Marshall about illegitimacy and genocide (abortion) crisis, he replied with "that's not my area of expertise" line.  Well, Economics 101 says that the household is the most basic ECONOMIC UNIT.

That means that the instability among black households (illegitimacy) is indeed a factor to wealth creation/protection/prosperity.  If low-income blacks continue to neglect to amass and bequeath wealth to their descendants, there is not hope of socio-economic upward mobility.

Since I am convinced that men of Mr. Marshall's stature are well aware of the significance of the household unit in wealth creation, protection and prosperity, one would have to speculate on the sincerity of his book. 

One would have to wonder if this isn't just another hustle.

 

       Black people in the United States are seeing through lenses that have been deliberately assigned to them by white mass manipulation experts. They are being conditioned to admire only whites and to hate themselves through a deliberately designed psychosocial program. It is a covert media driven program designed for ensuring the continuance of white dominance and control.  All African Americans have experienced the burden of this applied psychological conditioning, some more severely than others have. It is experienced every time an African American read a newspaper, watches the evening news, or listens to a radio reports receiving and accepting their racially biased propaganda deliberately implying white superiority and Black inferiority. To the detriment of many African Americans, it has been an extremely effective at conditioning them to accept the dominance of Whites and white institutions over their lives.

 

The American government has a secret element within it. This secret element equates to being a secret government concealed within an existing public government. While the face of the public government is one which professes equality for all of America’s citizens, however the unrelenting commitment of the secret government is to ensure the continuance of America’s white dominance and control–regardless of who is actually President. To meet this secret national interest and racist objective the secret government has been working for decades behind the scenes developing and implementing many classified programs defending its white statuesque against its minority population.

 

 History acknowledges that this secret government has been unrelentingly engaged in many unethical programs defending its position of white dominance   against its Black population. As seen after the abolishment of slavery wherein its methods of using racist, oppressive treatment of its Black population was reincarnated into Jim Crow inequalities maintained by regional authorities and condoned by the U.S. Government.   A Governmental condoning that facilitated a national environment of where in which African Americans were brutally mistreated, lynched and were made victims of many devious strategies and methods that prevented them from becoming registered voters.  And let us not forget the horrific Tuskegee experiments or of the CIA’s involvement in flooding the Black communities of Los Angeles with drugs and high powered weaponry. Because these blatant racist methods used in the past to ensure and defend its white dominance are now morally and socially unacceptable, this secret government developed a more covert and sophisticated method of meeting this objective. It now uses the national media’s proven mass manipulating capabilities to condition its Black population to not only accept white dominance over their lives, but to also prefer it.

The constant bombardment of deplorably negative imageries of themselves that of which African American are so constantly inundated with--through totally white controlled media outlets— is a deliberately designed mortifying psychosocial program. It is a psychosocial program that provides the secret government with a very sophisticated and covert method of controlling the perceptions of its Black population. Its treatment of African Americans is to intentionally subject them to seeing only the fraudulently worst in themselves while implying that they respect only whites.   It uses the national media to disseminate propaganda that racially devalues its Black population while intentionally perpetuating white superiority.

 

This is done through an immense campaign of false derogatory misinformation and false negative media reports and statistics that are created by the secret government and then leaked to its collaborators in the news media.  These false information about African Americans are then disseminated unrelentingly everywhere; it is deliberately perpetuated through news releases in magazine articles, radio, television, press releases, documentaries, and false census reports. However, the weapon is not in how the message is carried, but is instead within the messages that it carries and how these messages perpetuate and frame the myth of Whites’ racial, moral, and ethical superiority over its Black population.

This concept of manipulation works by affecting the unconscious mind through deception. Its weapon is the message that it carries and the way that it adversely affects the targeted recipient group in terms of their behavior. To the detriment of many African Americans this system of applied psychological conditioning has been an extremely effective. Its unrelenting daily assault on the Black psyche engenders feelings of self-doubt, self-loathing, and distrust among their group. It also develops profound feelings of internalized self contempt that pulverizes Black unity and halts Black upward mobility.  It totally detaches African Americans’ sense of racial unity and cohesion and also totally detaches them from their sense of power and reality while insinuating that they admire, respect, and trust only Whites.

Government agents who specialize in psychiatry, mass manipulation through propaganda, and social engineering analyze surveillance information gathered about its Black population. Decisions are then made on which fraudulent stories to produce to best negatively define and garner certain psychological feelings among the targeted group that benefits the secret governments agenda of maintaining the U.S. white dominance and control. Its overrepresentation of Black crimes and grossly exaggerated statistics of Black on Black violence within this psychosocial program are intentionally designed to create fear, hatred, and distrust thus molding the character of disunity and self-hatred among the Black community.  [Black’s own personal negative experiences and interactions with their fellow Blacks merely then confirm the program’s perpetuated message that it is they that are their own worst enemies]. 

 

   The ultimate goal of this governmental psychosocial treatment of African Americans is to destroy the Black unity and cohesion that was historically the cornerstone of civil rights gains and that was a crucial factor of the survival of African Americans through more than four hundred years of white racial oppression. Logic dictates that given that unity and cohesion among African Americans was responsible for the demise of White America’s past system of blatant, institutionalized racism, then destroying this unity would be an essential objective of this psychological manipulation program.                                                                              

To the detriment of many African Americans, this massive applied psychosocial program has been an extremely effective. It has successfully conditioned many African Americans to accept the dominance of Whites and white institutions over their lives by misleading them to believe that they are, themselves, their own worst enemies, therefore engendering an aberration of internalized self contempt that pulverizes Black unity and halts Black upward mobility. Furthermore, it is the most detrimentally proficient racist system ever deplored against African Americans because most remain totally oblivious of its existence. It is at the root of both the profound division and self hatred now afflicting so many Black Americans and is at the heart of internalized feelings of superiority that many whites possess.

THIS PROGRAM ALSO JUSTIFIES  BLACK MISTREATMENT

 The next stage of the government's operation against the black population is the attack stage. The secret government also uses the deplorable depictions of its Black population to justify their mistreatment or to make others insensitive to their plight. After several years of this negative psychosocial program about African Americans, the American public will have their opinions formed regarding its Black population. The American people will be convinced that the mistreatment of its Black population is not only justified, but is also absolutely necessary. The secret Government creates fear and hatred its Black population. Then it will use this fear and hatred the American people feel to deliberately foster a national consensual setting for the mistreatment and suppression of its Black population. This is what mass manipulation experts refer to as engineered consent. Hitler’s Propaganda experts implemented the same program against the Jews as a precursor to the gas chambers. This massive psychosocial program also creates a national climate that is insensitive to the plight of African Americans —thus fostering a consensual national setting of where in which Blacks are more easily mistreated and suppressed. This psychosocial program’s distorted deplorable depiction of African Americans changes the root problem of racism in America to be due to Black’s behavior rather than White’s proclivity for racism. This creates a shift of victimization—in favor of whites-- that engenders acrimonious beliefs about African Americans that makes the nation and the entire world insensitive to their plight, tranquilizes efforts on their behalf, lessens pressure for social change on their behalf and makes any serious criticism of White racism almost impossible today.  This produces false justifications for the legal system’s mistreatment of African Americans. Wherein they are disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and are more likely than other racial groups to be treated brutally, beaten, and fired upon by police officers while they are unarmed. These injustices now goes ignored because the perception has become that it’s all now justified.

When contempt of Blacks is made to appear to be justifiable, it is the most fiercest and effective type of racism because its witnesses, bystanders, and even world audiences will sit by idly allowing African Americans to be brutally mistreated disproportionately incarcerated under the belief that it is justified.] It also affects attitudes that when enacted through governmental policies, laws, and other legislation actions, serve to ensure that African Americans will not advance. Its effects are manifested in ideas, education, governmental policies, economic stratification, social segregation, housing markets, hiring and promotion practices, psychological issues, and minority access to a variety of social services and opportunity. This psychosocial program is the most sophisticated, proficient, and most detrimental system of racism ever to confront Black America. 

 

 This concept that the U.S government has reincarnated its method of suppressing its Black population by using a mass psychosocial program through the national media to influence and control its Black population is not at all ridiculous. The notion is patently very plausible and historically accurate. The records of history show that the reinventing of suppressive methods into forms more acceptable to the changing times is a common practice.  In examining the record of history, we often find that, among those mighty empires which were ruthless, greedy, and racist, those behaviors did not decay quickly even after the fall of the empire.  These patterns of racism were often reincarnated into forms more acceptable to the changing times. A quick review of history easily affirms that the secret government does have a tradition of resistant against the advancement of its Black population.  It also reminds us that the White race’s innate proclivity for racism, control, and dominance is much too deeply ingrained for them to just merely give up their practices of implementing methods of ensuring the continuance of their white statuesque.

Although most of America’s Black population will never suspect that government agents are doing this to them, however this mass manipulation program is being aggressively deplored against them. This mass manipulation technology is a very sophisticated method of control. Furthermore it is the same classified technology used against foreign adversaries. The technology was developed to protect national interest and is now secretly being used domestically to defend the white race’s position of power and dominance against its growing minority population.

 

The many problems now facing Black America will not be corrected by implementing outdated strategies of foot marches, speeches, or the commemoration of fallen Black martyrs. Nor will these problems be corrected by the preaching of scriptures from any of our religious texts, be they Christian or Muslim, but instead by recognizing these previously unexplored covert psychosocial program that have secretly emplaced by the secret government to

secretly ensure the continuance of white dominance and control in America. The secret government's agents operate above the law. In the eyes of federal, state, and local law enforcement, this technology doesn't exist. Groups targeted by the secret government agents are on their own.

 

To learn more visit www.divineblacktruth.org  and order your copy of the Black Matrix: the modern mental and social suppression of African Americans under National interest. © 2006, 2008

 

 

 

For years I have heard how the traditional nuclear household is a white ideal and therefore not a part of our authentic black heritage ("keeping it real").  Well, I think I finally have a solution to this conundrum.

I submit to you that the Egyptian (African) dynasties were nuclear households (father, mother, and children).  In fact, not only were the pharonic patriarchal dynasties nuclear households, all great and powerful civilizations were built on the solid foundation of the patriarchal household.

Therefore, we must conclude that the matriarchal model so prevalent in the black community is not only dysfunctional, it is not even authentically black.  This is the model that emerged out of the pathology of slavery and it is high time we abandon it.

He or she who has ears, let them hear.

I await you at the National Conference on Black Illegitimacy and Genocide (facebook group)

curtis.hervey@yahoo.com