In My Opinion (IMO by KNH)...Beethoven Didn't Look Like THAT!

A conscious mind is an educated mind is an elevated mind is a constantly Wide aWoke and aware mind. This evening, I watched Classical Rewind on PBS for a few minutes this evening with my son as the station featured a bio on Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th Symphony in C Minor. The odd thing is that the modern portrayals of Beethoven are 100% historically inaccurate. Contemporary artists painted Beethoven very clearly as a dark-skinned man with curly hair. Even Newsweek Magazine quoted this fact a few decades back. As a matter of fact, his mother was a Moor. Moors were the Black North Africans who ruled Italy and parts of Europe for 800 years. Furthermore, Beethoven was spoken of by his neighbors as a "Black Spaniard". 

So why do 100% of European-authored history and music books show him as a man with Caucasian features? The answer should be obvious. To the victor go the spoils including the ability to re-write history to favor their culture. Since Europeans overran Africa, the America's etc., from the 1500's onward by force, they felt they "earned" the right to write history books with stories favorable to their group. What greater accomplishment than to claim the world's greatest musician as your own? For the historical context of my statements read the piece by Open Salon.

Eye on Fashion Comes to Tampa Florida May 3, 2014!

Tampa Bay's art and fashion scene is buzzing over the highly-anticipated Saturday, May 3, 2014 EYE on Fashion...Wardrobe Stylists Competition, a creation of New York City & Tampa, Florida executive Fashion Producer, Lacey B. Smith. This cutting edge competition will feature four of the finest wardrobe fashion stylists from across the United States who qualified to compete in the event.

- Faheemah Safa - New York
- Melizza Williams - Tampa, Florida
- Ify by Bobi - Virginia
- Tristan Richards - Tampa, Florida

According to Smith, "Eye on Fashion, will bring a direct focus on the contributions Fashion (Wardrobe) Stylists make to the industry. This will shine the spotlight on their brands thus allowing them to become more visible within our fashion community.

Fashion Stylists play a major role in the industry, whether styling celebrities or just styling and advising their normal clientele. It is with this in mind that we present "EYE on Fashion" The Stylist Competition Showcase. This will feature stylists presenting five distinct looks each, while pulling from boutiques, designers or any credible fashion source of their choice.

This competition will also provide the opportunity for Stylists to enhance and develop their portfolios. The first place winner will receive the $550.00 cash prize and the winner’s plaque plus a full spread layout of their styling work in Revized Magazine."

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Eye on Fashion ~ Saturday, May 3, 2014
The Vault, 611 N. Franklin Street
Tampa, FL 33602 (Downtown)

Advance tickets are currently available for a limited time by visting www.thefashionmovement.com or logging on www.eventbrite.com/e/eye-on-fashionan-evening-of-high-fashion-style-tickets-10353645031 . You definitely don't want to miss the must-attend fashion event of the Spring season that everyone else will be talking about!

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In My Opinion (IMO by KNH)...The Lost Art of Originality

It seems like everywhere we turn the masses are trying to emulate a few. Marky Mark Wahlberg and prison dudes sagged, so then wanna be thugs & suburban teen boys started sagging, not knowing why or what it meant. Dennis Rodman got paid to wear Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars, so then the shoe that poor kids wore in the 80's/90's became the must have for establishing street cred. Michael Jordan made a $200 pair of Jordans that probably an Asian toddler got paid $10 to produce, but hey as long as it had a cool box right? Snoop Dogg said "Fo shizzle ma nizzle" (which he took from Double Dutch Bus), so then everyone started saying some variation of that, whether they knew what shizzle meant or not. Then suburban moms were trampling each other for Tickle Me Elmos. Later a Tony Cornheiser on ESPN made up "efforting", and soon many journalists were saying "efforting" instead of "trying to". Eventually, everything was "Cray cray", and now everyone who has not SWAG but only YOLO wears t-shirts claiming they have and do.

 Legendary R&B artist Aaliyah (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001)

If you want to repeat random catchphrases or buy faddish stuff because someone else does, then fine... Whatever makes you comfortable or serves a legitimate purpose may work for you, just understand why you are doing it. Oh, and in conclusion, what I meant to say above was: Don't be sexting selfies of you and your baby bump while efforting to reach a party where dudes are waiting to moss wit cha. YOLO but it's styll an epic fail, and ratchet thots get merked for much less. Lol. SMH. And peep my hashtags son! #BeYou #KnowWhy #Original #NotMadJustCommenting #SocialObservations #StillAPositivePost