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CNN Anchor Don Lemon to Detail Childhood Sexual Abuse in Poignant Memoir

Last year, CNN news anchor Don Lemon made headlines when he revealed to the world that he, like countless men and women, endured childhood sexual abuse.

Now, the 44-year-old multiple Emmy-winning journalist has penned a poignant memoir, aptly titled 'Transparent,' which candidly details the painful abuse he endured in childhood.

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Scheduled for release in June via Farrah Gray Publishing, 'Transparent' explores the long-lasting trauma abused children experience -- from feeling "different" from other children to self-isolation to the impact that abuse has on relationships. Lemon speaks to all this as well as the colorism and racism that he has experienced.

Through compelling narrative, Lemon digs deep to expose his painful past and explains how those early experiences shaped the man he is today -- one of the most prominent African American men in television news.

"To me, Don Lemon has written one of the most courageously and shockingly honest memoirs ever," Dr. Farrah Gray, the book's publisher, told BlackVoices.com today. "His heartfelt candor makes this book like no other. 'Transparent' is a searingly candid memoir that celebrates the virtues of hard work, perseverance and determination. Readers will view daily life in a new light that enables them to overcome any obstacle with no fear."

Lemon's memoir also brings the reader behind the scenes of such tragedies as the September 11 attacks in 2001 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005, as well as the monumental election of President Barack Obama. Readers get more than a glimpse into Lemon's personal experiences with Barack and Michelle Obama prior to the presidential campaign and his conversations with the Jackson family following the death of Michael Jackson.

Born in Baton Rouge, La., Lemon, who has a degree in broadcast journalism from Brooklyn College, has accumulated numerous awards, including Emmys and the Edward R. Murrow Award for his work on the Washington, D.C., snipers case. In 2006, Lemon joined CNN and in that same year was named as one of the most influential blacks in America by Ebony magazine.

Aiming to be an inspirational endeavor, 'Transparent' speaks to the fact that there is light at the end of the tunnel no matter what one endures.

 

Sarah Palin & Bush Jr. Book Sign Flops! The Thrill Is Gone!

Sarah Plain Book Falls Flat in New Orleans.(They are playing the death march for Palin's New Orleans book visit!)

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Bush, Jindal and Palin are further proof that Americans are celebrating corruption, stupidity and mediocre media driving talking heads but anyone who buys any of these appalling political books, written by the PR Dept's of oil companies or multi national bankers, simply shows how low level Americans really are and have become.

What happened when the Queen of Mediocrity and the Flavor Flav of outdoor reality shows, went into Nawlins for the signing of her book?  The same thing that happened with Bush jr., the publishers are buying their own product trying to get it onto the NY Times Best Seller List.

There was no long line; in fact there were only 20 people who waited before she arrived, in the New Orleans Suburb of Metairie, La. at a Barnes and Nobles.  She was originally set to hold the signing in Kenner, La. but after the passage, which some saw as racist, got leaked out and picked up by The Huffington Post, she was moved to a white area and the white people still didn’t go and buy her book!

From what someone working the event told me, is that they found two illegal aliens from Westwego, La. and stuck them in line and it must be true because NOLA.COM, the online publication arm of the New Orleans’s Times Picayune, had the two Hispanics all over their story, trying to give the impression that she has board appeal which cuts across all ethnic lines.  It was quite laughable being that no legit paper can make up quotes, so they squeezed these two illegal immigrants for a narrative and all they got was “I liked that she was friendly and had a personal touch.”  It was quite pathetic.  Of course people from Covington, La. poured in, pushing the total amount to around 100 people and of course Covington, La. are the people that long for the days of Ku Klux Klansmen, Congressman David Duke.

Meanwhile, the other Kingof Mediocrity, Bush Jr. was down in Orange County, Ca. at Pastor Warren, the sociopaths, Saddleback Church and some fans, all appearing to be 75 and Bill O’Reilly watchers, went on and on about how they missed Bush as Bush explained how during Katrina and Sept 11 WTC Attacks, his strategy is to sit around and wait for his mind to clear!  Yes!

What a time I had following these two today.

I think Piyush Jindal Book has sold like five copies!

 

The Camino-A Catholic Journey into Self by Ted Duplessis

Actress,Dancer,writer,-U.S. born,Irish-Scottish Spiritualist, Shirley Maclaine-has a book called "The Camino."  The Camino is a trail that Catholic pilgrims take from France into Spain by foot and back packing.  The objective of this pilgrimage is to gain insight into one's inner world and the world outside.  The Camino is thought to have a spiritual significance for anyone who walks its path.

The ley lines carry energies of the Universe, God and creation. Even though one walks forward on this path-it is like retracing ones steps in each lifetime. The Camino lines begin in France, crosses the Pyrenees and makes its way from east to west across northern Spain until it reaches an exquisite and very famous cathedral called Santiago de Compostela, where the remains of Saint James are buried.

The Camino is a whopping 500 mile walk.  The idea is to completely drop from the current world and surrender to God. Most churches of today-have lost the power to harness God-energy into the temples.  It is all about preaching current events, politics and finances with, if your luck, a word or two to make you feel more whole as a soul.

I have always followed Shirley Maclain writings since the age of 12. I used to sit along the Mississippi river bank and go through her entire collection. As  a young creole boy of lower Louisiana she has help shape me into someone with a strong sense of justice, inquiring mind and an ability to cut through bullshit with anyone and any group.  These are my tools of the trade as I March through life.  These are my strengths. I do not suffer consequences because I have a spiritual ability to see exactly who or what is standing before me.  I can see motives, mind sets and outcomes based on God and not only on words that come out of silly human mouths.  I feel sorry for the citizen who has total faith in failed world governments, countries, religions and politicians.  These things change and never stay the same.  Religions, church policies, governments-all come and go but the soul remains.  I feel sorry for Creoles who have lost their heritage and identity because there isn't a place for them on the U.S. racial-census data. I feel sorry that media can come into someone's home and tell people that they do not exists and never did accomplish anything as a people-when you have entire cities built by the people-which some claim didn't exist.  If you raise your family to suck on the nipple of the world and America-then you will have a starving child. Creole parents need to raise their children with their true identities-and stop worrying about what whites or African-Americans think about one who has multi-ancestry.  This is the new world-and Creoles have seen governments, colonizers, countries come and go-and we are still here.  The current government, states and system-will one day be a thing of the past also.  Don't sell you soul and knowledge for man-made illusions. Don't be like an African slave and think that education is a bad and "uppity" thing to pursue. Misery loves company and right now there are some miserable people in this country-looking to feed off of our collective energy.

I read her book quite some time ago and have been planning to make the pilgrimage into France and start the journey.  Hurricane Katrina appears to have everyone about 2 years behind on their lives -so it will be a couple of more years before I can up and leave for the amount of time it will take to complete the trail.

Hurricane Katrina, American policy regarding certain people, the barbaric prison justice system, pollution, the destruction of Creole colonies in Louisiana, the incompetence of current U.S. politicians along with the Catholic church feeling it more important to lecture about gay marriage and abortion on Sunday's instead of God's role into an increasing unstable, and shaky world for the little people-is enough of reason to hop, skip and jump my butt to France. The Catholic church can lobby and petition the U.S. government for illegal immigrants out of Mexico-but they are silent and sometimes offensive when it comes to Creole folks-who established the Catholic church in Louisiana and parts of the Caribbean. New Orleans is a majority black city, most blacks fell into being Protestants due to slavery-but New Orleans has always had a Catholic center.  This was no accident. Many Creoles gave their built New Orleans from the ground up-in pour reflection and Catholics are still prominent in the middle of a hostile, anti-Catholic, Protestant South.

I have been blessed with French-Creole insight and every insight that I have been getting isn't good or positive.  The more that one is willing to allow one situation to reveal itself-the more every situation starts to reveal itself. If there is one thing that I do know and recognize-it is that the current image of the United States aren't the realities of what really goes down in this country.

I advise any Catholic-who is thinking of taking this journey-to read Shirley's book-"The Camino." Pocket Books-2000.

Food Guy Dweeb-Alan Richman-says Creole Louisiana cuisine aint real!by Ted Duplessis & Joseph Kravitz

Alan Richman wrote in GQ recently basically claiming Creoles don't exists and
criticizing the state of food and culture in New Orleans. First, his book sucks!! I wouldn't take his food to a Cuban dog fight and serve it!

Alan Richman(the food guy) of GQ should stick to what GQ writers do best and that is articles on how to dye your male pubic hair or wax out your butt hole!  Typical white reporters parroting typical white racist propaganda about Creoles and even African-American racism against Creoles and Cajuns. If Creole do not exist, then how in the hell is Alan eating gumbo? By saying that Creoles do not exist is to mimic and parrot the racist and Jim Crow mentality which took hold of Louisiana after the Civil War in an attempt to destroy Louisiana's native French-Creole culture and people.  This was a theme put out by very racist, Anglo white Protestants who wanted to keep blacks as subhumans in status and wipe upward, educated Creoles from the landscape all together. They figured that Creoles were too high in social status so the best thing to do was too deny their very existence.  This is why the U.S. government and state of Louisiana started destroying Creole records in the late 1800's to about 1905!  This is the mentality that this "food guy" is spreading around his hood but Creoles are still here and loving it! No matter what racist do or say-we are here and our ancestors were the epitome of Louisiana Kings and Queens.

If Creoles and Creole food doesn't exist then I guess Mr. Richman and GQ magazine think that Irish people came up with gumbo or maybe that the English first combined Creole tomatoes, Caribbean rice and Native American-Creole spices to come up with jambalaya!  I guess it is more easy for food journalist like, Richman, to digest if they just lie and say that Louisiana Creole Praline Pacon Candy was thought up by 3 German brothers during the Hitler era! Who knows what lies these people decide to tell in their junk-a-zines. Pure journalistic crack for dummies is what GQ magazine puts out to its dumb gay readers!  How gay does a man have to be to ever get a subscription to GQ magazine?  Very!  What in the hell does this dweeb know about Creoles and Creole cuisine?  Nothing, but that doesn't stop them from writing about it-typical!

Oh I get it-because Alan Richman has never met a Creole or eaten meat in a roux-none of it exist! Since Alan Richman has never had a Creole(French/African/Native American Louisiana mix) grandfather who shrimped the bayous and Gulf waters to bring home seafood for an Etouffee dish prepared under a Creole moon in a low lying Louisiana Parish-it just cant possibly exist. Bingo! Now I understand your arrogant, mindset over at GQ magazine of male gayness!

I suggest GQ get writers who at least have some researching skills. If this idiot would have done just 20 minutes of research on Louisiana history-he would see that in the 1700's and to the mid 1800's it was ALL CREOLE HISTORY.  He can check out any NSU database to learn where current Creoles reside today. He could check New Orleans census records to find that Creoles are listed as home owners and business owners in New Orleans.

I call his article and the junk he is putting forward typical David Duke KKK racist propaganda that some in the state of Louisiana have been using for decades to displace Creoles and rob us of our culture.  I also guess that Louisiana Red beans and Rice was invented by the Russians!  Any culture as long as it is white culture will make GQ magazine happy. Cant give cultural significance to some people of French/African/Native American ancestry.  I guess that would be just too unAmerican!  I guess the Creole men who have fished the Gulfs and Bays of Lower Plaquemines Parish for hundreds of years were all an illusion and Louisiana Gulf shrimp was really harvested by those Swedish tribes in the wetlands of Louisiana! My, My ,My-just look at how white-washed we can make history if we all put our minds to it and suspend all logic and intelligence.  This is how the state of Louisiana has done this for so long! Just get ignorant! O.K., now I understand Alan Richman the Louisiana government better!

So, Alan Richman-since Louisiana doesn't have unique cuisine-why don't you go to midtown Manhattan, Boston, Ma. or Ft.Lee, New Jersey and find some really good "boudin." Do you even know what boudin is dweeb? I didn't think so. You will not even find authentic jambalaya in South Central Los Angeles or Compton-it ins't white American or Black American food-it is Louisiana Creole!

Sid Hersh, who heads up the advertising dept. at GQ from Los Angeles could have written a more accurate article than this a-hole, who looks like a cheap knock off of Mr.Belvadeer without the class and charm.

In conclusion, Mr.GQ should stick to writing about how to get a good blowjob from your poker buddies! Leave Louisiana and Creoles alone and Alan Richman can go suck a dick!

Douglas Brinkley & The Cajun Navy "The Selective Historian" by Creole Folk's N. Duplessis

The Overflow of Bull

Deluge-an overflowing of land by water.

Douglas Brinkley's book was published in April. It is titled "The Great Deluge" (oooohhhhhhhhh) Sounds mighty fancy!!!!!!!! I do declare!!!!

He is all over Fox News pushing his agenda and covering for his buddy boy-George Bush. All he can say about George Bush is that he made some "MIS-STEPS"!!! Can you believe it? He says that George Bush didn't realize that New Orleans citizens were floating on tree branches in 15 feet of water!! He says that President Bush was not advised (and since Bush supposedly doesn't watch television because he is praying on WMD's) that Bush didn't know about the 5 strength Hurricane in the Gulf (where the oil companies that line his pocket are also located -by the way) Bush didn't know that he needed to take the call from Governor Kathleen Blacno when she said "Give me everything you got!"-these weren't words that Bush claimed he could understand so he went and ate supper but he can talk to Mexico's President, Vincente Fox, in messed up Spanish just fine! How can Douglas Brinkley stand on television-week after week -being that he is a resident of New Orleans and a historian at Tulane University and tell these laughable, ridiculous lies and still manage to walk down a New Orleans street without getting spat on?  This man is flat out offensive garbage!

Below is what he says about the brave men of the Cajun Navy-who were the REAL first responders before the government got to New Orleans because the President was in California giving an air guitar concert and flew on his plush, private jet, over the Gulf Coast back to Washington and then sat around for about a week more.  All this time-Brinkley-from Tulane University -the "His-Story-an" is saying that Bush didn't know that New Orleans was in need of the Federal government! Below is what he said to a reporter about the Cajun Navy: (That he observed from his "High Ground" view going "ooh-ahh" this is going to be great reading material"

"Among the unsung heroes, Brinkley said, are those anonymous boat operators -- dubbed the Cajun navy -- who navigated their private fishing boats and other vessels through flooded New Orleans to lend a hand after the hurricane hit.

The sight of it all made him rethink his view of some laborers.

"I saw guys chain-smoking cigarettes ... with tattoos out there saving dozens of lives," he said in a recent address to the annual meeting of the Council for a Better Louisiana."

Brinkley also said President Bush made key missteps in overseeing the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, including what he sees as a lack of leadership now to rebuild New Orleans.

Capitol News Bureau
Published: Dec 14, 2005

This is what drives people through the roof-when you have supposedly "Historians"(in his own mind) at a supposedly prestigious (in it's own mind) University like "Tulane "-pushing this junk around the literary world and trying to rewrite history.  So, since we are stereotyping Cajuns, Mr.Douglas "W.A.S.P." Brinkley-by saying that they were only anonymous laborers who chained smoked! You would smoke also- Coon Ass! if you had to pull dead bodies out of Mississippi salt water!

Well it took me all but 12 hours to find 2 of the men from the Cajun Navy and guess what Mr.Historian at Tulane-they have names!!!! They have families!!! They did what George Bush didn't have the inclination, motivation or BALLS to do-they provided hope and managed to save a few lives! I dint see you on Fox News or any other media outlet doing anything other than defending Bush's indefensible actions during Hurricane Katrina and promoting your book which is designed to promote George Bush-since he only took "Mis-Steps" according to you.  I don't know what New Orleans you were living in or what type of history you people write at Tulane University-but to not even take the time to go into a nearby Parish and ask ANYONE working at the local grocery store, Who were the Cajuns who rescued people in New Orleans on boats?" or Who were the Cajuns, who rescued the people at St.Ritas?"(this is how we do it in Louisiana-it's not that hard to get a name and give some credit)-your just typical menteur (Menture is French for Liar-BTW)who wants to sell a book and promote an agenda.  That appears to be going around this city.  Supposedly leaders and people with "higher" standings and some even on tax payers dimes, should have a little more integrity, but all it seems is that you guys want to do is go on Dr.Phil's show and all over cable television-selling your bull, your books, your boo-hoo poor me stories(stop telling people that your a "survivor" to give the impression that your W.A.S.P. butt was trapped in an attic for a week with water to your neck while you held a baby over your head) and whatever else to get exposure. When not one of you New Orleans historians, Mayors or Police Chiefs that are on national television every other day spinning your tales-not one of you were actually in the Convention Center, Superdome or on any boats helping out the Cajun Navy! There are things that a historian from Tulane could be doing instead of pushing your White-housed approved version of events. You could be guest teaching or speaking at the numerous schools, in the area, who have a lack of teachers......oh....wait a minute.... but that's not going to get you on Fox New's Bill O'Reilly.

 

If you want to find out who saved this city and thousands of lives-all you have to do is write a few chapters-1) Kathleen Blanco, 2)General Honore, 3)Cajun Navy.  Everyone else was following orders and doing what they were supposed to be doing-that is unless they were busy making "Mis-Steps."

In closing -"Mr. Tulane Historian" who can have a position at Tulane but cant give one..NOT ONE! interview where you name ONE man from the Cajun Navy? but your a historian?...Bein Sur!  Oh yeah....next time you get tempted to fix your lips to say the Cajun Navy were unnamed, anonymous, chain smokers-you take a step back and say Nick Alfonso and Jack Roux. There Mr.Tulane Historian-I did half your work for you! Now you write that in your "His-story" book!

Every single member of the Cajun Navy who risked their lives should be invited to the White House and appreciation should be expressed by the President and Mr. Doug W.A.S.P. Brinkley who has something against a guy needing a "smoke" while he's pulling DEAD babies out of water-should apologize to these brave men and memorize all of their names so next time your on television promoting that bunk book-you at least have that going for you!

(We at Creole Folks call upon Mr. Tulane Historian, Douglas Brinkley to donate atleast 15% of his book's profits, "The Great Deluge" to the families of the Cajun Navy)