Back Again!
April 21, 2009
Well! Well! Well! It has certainly been a very long time since I have submitted on the site. I am sure you all may have be wondering where the hell I been. Well just simple and plain, I NEEDED A DAMN BREAK! Lol. Yeah your boy CB aka Lou Alcindor got kind of burned out as far as writing is concerened. But alot has been going on since my last submission. I have been reinvented and I feel like a new man. I am happy to say that the year of 2009 thus far has been very good to me. I see alot of good things coming my way. It all started with the New Year. Normally during this time I am somewhere partying drunk out of my mind but this year me and my good buddy TCJ Fresh went to church. Yeah you got it right, we brought in the New Year with God and some good people. **Shot out to First Church of God in Inglewood Cali.** I am happy to say that I have been blessed with a new job since the start of the year, which has also kept me away from writing. You may be wondering what happened to my basketball ambitions? Nothing at all, it is still my passion and I hope that opportunities will open up for me this coming summer. We will see! But until then I am going to keep my day job because it is what pays the bill during these economic times. You will be proud to know that I partcipated in the lent season with my church. I decided to give up tv, music(all non gospel),partying, drinking, junk food,sex(not suppose to have it outside of marriage anyway according to the word) and fried chicken. I started on March 1st and it ended April 12th. And needless to say this period was full of trials and tribulations. There were times were I wanted to just break down and leave the fast. See I decided to do a fast at a crucial point in basketball season. The NBA games around this time of the year begin to heat up as team start playing for good positioning in the playoffs. And of course college basketball has its March Madness in route to the Final Four and National Championship. For the first time I could remember in my entire life I missed watching this sporting event on television. Only thing I know is the North Carolina Tarheels won the title. I have no clue the journey they went through to get the title. And I will not even tell you how oblivious I am to what is going on in the NBA but as long as my Lakers are winning I am straight.
During this period since I was not watching tv at all I spent alot of time reading and in prayer. Of course I read my bible but I also have been reading this amazing book many of you are probally are familiar with called The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. This is an amazing life changing book. This book has and is still is revealing alot to me about myself. Its obvious where the book wants to take the reader just based off the title alone. I now better understand the meaning of my life and have gotten some answers on my purpose. I am going to focus more on living like Christ and being good to others. That does not mean I am going to be holier than thou, I am flesh I will make mistakes. But my goal is to make some type of improvement every step of the way. The dopest part of my spiritual journey was the last week. I decided the last seven days of my fast would be spent praying for others and not at all for myself. So I took the liberty of writing down every single person I was close to, friends with, and family members. I went down my list and just said special prayers for each individual.
I know that God used me in this fast because it made my prayers more powerful and I know he will bless others through my prayer. Now that this fast is over I can 
honestly say my prayer life is much improved and my faith has been made strong. I have also been led with an idea for a tattoo, yall tell me what you think. I plan to get on my back a huge scene of Jesus on the cross. I really want the artist to capture the emotion of him on the cross and the whole mood. I have a certain way I think Jesus looks and I am hoping the artist also captures my description of a Jesus with a head of wool, lean with a defined body, and shabby beard. I also want the nails in his hand and feet two be very graphic including the blood, as well as the thorn crown placed on his head. Also in the scene will be the two men who were crucified along with Jesus. So if you can picture in your head what I am describing then let me know what you think. And also if you could add your ideas to it as well that would be great. If there are any artist following the site, feel free to send in your ideas and sketches.
I obviously have missed writing for The Concrete Journal, rest assure we are back in full force. We will be a forced to be reckoned with from now until forever. Stay tuned because we have alot of good things lined up for the near future. Be sure to follow me on twitter.com/loualcindor and myspace.com/mrchadbell. Peace and blessings!
Obama or Jesus?
September 1, 2008
I already know ima catch a lot of flack for this one. I dont mind though. Me and CB aka LouAlcindor were talking the other day about how during Obama acceptance speech people were so emotional, even to the point of tears. I mean dont get me wrong, it was a historical event, PLANNED on a historical day. I dont want to take anything away from the luster of the moment BUT, is he JESUS dammit? ( i know that was wrong huh? Jesus, then a cuss word? smh…)
Seriously, i pose this question, for an answer (leave comments!). I mean for those of us who believe in Jesus, who proclaim that name to be our savior, wouldn’t HE be the one who deserves that emotion, i mean, HE is the only capable of the change so many of us expect Obama to make.
Understand me, i support Obama, to an extent, but yesterday in church the pastor made a great point. For all that we expect Obama to do, for all that we praise Obama for, isn’t Jesus that much more worthy of that? 
Hasn’t he already done just that, in each of our lives personally? I promise you, some of you act as if Obama is the 2nd coming of the messiah. And i say that SO VERY SERIOUSLY yet with a slight laugh…. more like a slight grin.
I’ve heard folks tell me they cried while watching the speech, while is fine, i like the fact that people are being proactive, waiting for Obama to change the word. lol ok so im lying. Obama wont change the word. With the assasination attempts and all, IF one were to succeed he is no Jesus, wont be none of that coming back from the dead stuff going on, remember Kennedy? Lincoln? Tupac? Those who garnered so much respect from us, even close to godly status as far as influence, but once you feel that hot lead its over. Pac was the closest to that having survived the 1st attack. What can they do for you after they’re dead and gone? Nothing…
What can they do alive? Inspire? YES! Inspire change in each of us? YES! Change all by themselves? NO! So i ask, while we sit and cry at his speeches, what are WE doing to see change? I dont see nothing but tears, i see no working hands, cept a few of us bloggers, but our good words are overshadowed because we sit around bickering about bullshit, which i have fallen into recently, my apologies to those on both sides, i apologize for my involvement, and my ignorance.
I do feel that no one can make much of a difference from the white house. PERIOD! Besides the fact that i feel that this world is deeper than votes and legislation, that money rules the world, the president can only move so far, remember checks and balances from government class in high school? Martin Luther King didn’t opt for the white house, he took it to the streets. Malcolm X, the same. Change begins and ends in ALL OF US, up to and including Obama. Aint goin happen in the white house i promise you that….
I vote Jesus for president, and Obama for VP.
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