Link:http://forcv.com/index.php?idnoticia=21

Ight! Let's throw some positive news because this violence thing is getting too stressful and depressing for my taste. Did you know that Pebbles from the radio station JAM 94.5 in Boston and Billy Costa , Kiss 108 FM
News and Entertainment Director Morning Show and host of TV Dinner at New england Cable News (NECN) are Capeverdeans?
There you go!!!

Shoot your buzz about other Cape Verdeans celebrities or any other positive news you have 'cause right now we need to hear positive things about our community in Boston and the rest of New England.

Your turn...

Michael Beach (born October 30, 1963) is a Cape Verdean/ American actor. He attended the prestigious Noble and Greenough school in Massachusetts on scholarship from ABC (A Better Chance). He was introduced to acting when he was sidelined by a lacrosse injury during high school by a classmate. After high school he went on to graduate from New York City's Juilliard School, and performed in many off-Broadway and regional theater plays before starring in Los Angeles theater productions of Ascension Day and Much Ado About Nothing, and eventually breaking into film and television. (http://www.knover.com/Profile/michael_beach/Biography)

Do Nhô Puxim and Mocho ta kumé Banana fit into the category of celebrities?

The two above, YES! Actually I found out that they're Cape Verdeans because I heard them talking about their Cape Verdean heritage on their radio and TV shows. I guess Pebbles is from New Bedford. But I don;t know where Billy Costa is from though he looks like he's a result of a mix Cape Verdean-Portuguese/ Italian mix. Who knows.

The key thing is to find a way to get them connected with their people that is in desperate need of any help it can get right now and encourage them to give back to the community, doesn't matter in which ways they decide to do it.

I myself would love to see Pebbles coming and talking to Cape Verdean young girls from Roxbury and Dorchester and going into schools with large amount of CV students and talk to them about how to do it right, since her show on JAM 94.5 is so popular in Boston especially in the hood.

here we go again, man when are we going to leaave these people at their places? My brothers and sisters, if these people dont want to connect with their people why drag them. if they dont want to identify themselves as Capeverdeans why are even talking about them. this is what makes me upset with some of C,Vs.

brothers are dying everyday in our streets over nonsence and someone thinks is to stressful to talk about. it show where we at as people and how much we care about whats going on in our community. its okay to come up here and talk about people who dont want us to know they Cape Verdean and promote them. But when it comes to something that affects our people our community our culture, our values and our history no one wants to hear or talk about because its too stressful. but how are going to solve this issues if we dont talk about it. personally i dont think we talk about violence in our community enough. we need more people to talk about and we need more ideas, opinions, insights, and etc. we need everybody to talk about violence and we need every single one of us to be aware of it. so dont come out here with these thing called "C.V Celebrities" Do these people help us in any ways? Do they connect to our daily reality?

Communication is the key to sucess, if we want o make our community safer we all have to give our effort and opinion. if these people care about us and what's going on wth our brothers and sisters they would say something about in their respective jobs. i know people watch tv and lestin to radio. HEY LETS work with who and what we have, we're a open community, we enbrace all our brothers and sisters, but if you dont want to indentify yourself as one of us than we dont want you in our team.

i dont know if you read about this dude named Francisco Burges, there was an article about him here in FORCV.COM when he was approached by one of us he completed ingnore us and didnt want to be part of us or anything we proposed to him. He basically slat us on the face, i dont think we want to do the same with these too. When are going to learn to be our own hole models and do things our way? dont drag someone if he does not want to be dragged?

Why dont we try to connect our community with the young generation instead of these people who dont even want us to say if they're Cape Verdean.

Cabral once said "its the organization duty to bring lights to those who still live in ignorance" my brothers we dont need these people if they dont need us and we dont care about their fame because after all thats all they looking for. Cbral died fighting no running, and he made sure everybody knew who he was, if these people care and want to be part of our community they would contact the community. My brothers these people dont want to be part of this beatiful cuture and community. it hurts but it is what it is, its time to move on with what we have, and what we have is love, dedication, and friendship

"ALUTA CONTINUA" CONTRA VIOLENCIA

Mateus "Muhammadal" Cabral product

CV Socrates, how do you know they are not interested? Why don't you give them a chance to express themselves first before judging them?

Look, this is not only about talking about the positive side of our people but also it about good networking. For example, you know how Cape Verdeans have a chronic curse with the media in Boston especially with the Boston Globe and The Herald in exaggerating the shootings that happen among few of troubled young boys and making it looks like the entire community is violent and is about to go to the bottom of the ocean? Here's is a good chance for us to start reversing the curse with the help of Billy and Pebbles. They are in good positions io give us access and voice on the main stream media and maybe, if they are interested, talk about the good things that happen among their own people since they have some control and voice on the media: they sat in front of microphones daily in the two most popular entertaining radio stations in Boston.

Just think about how many Cape Verdean and other urban young girls and teens Pebbles could inspire or influence positively if she just direct them a 10 seconds message every morning and afternoon on her radio show. Think about how many young boys Billy Costa could motivate if he talks directly to them daily for couple seconds during his time on the air and ask them to choose a special song they want to see played and dedicate it to their friends or family members.

You gotta be a little more flexible and start thinking outside the box, duuuuuude. You cannot be 200% serious all the time. Chill bro.

Peace out!

The violence topic has been discussed and argued for over ten years now Socrates. Nothing has been accomplished and nothing will be. There are a lot of young CV's out there trying to do whats right. They attend school, play sports, are active in the community, and are active in the church. They need our help with school and networking. Let someone be a bum if they want to be. We are spending too much time trying to help and save those that do not want help or want to be saved. These people know the difference between right and wrong.

Well, I personally understand CVSocrates' concerns over CVs who downplay their CV heritage or may not want to let it be known publicly. Why? Because of what some mis-informed reporter from the globe or herald says? Or because of what the black american elites think? You know, they still think modern CVs are the same as the old time ones.
Either way, if a CV who "makes it" and refuses to "represent", there's something wrong with him or her.
So regarding those two media personalities who may or may not be CVs, we first have to find out what the truth really is, are they really CVs, yes, no? Whatever the answer happens to be, we won't know it until we contact them. If they are in fact CVs, they'll let us know either by emphasing it or downplaying it. Trust me, they'll let us know it one way or another. I know this from personal experience. See, I was the one who called Francisco Borges and suggested he chair a CV investors forum, his reply was, and I quote, "no thanks I'll pass on that". Now, even though I was disappointed, I wasn't really surprised; I had suspected he was afraid of the black american elite. In other words, in his mind, since he works for the NAACP, he figures that if he enthusiastically comes out "representing" CVs, the AA elites would question or revoke his "black inner-circle pass".
The worst thing would be for us to find out that these two media types that you just posted are CVs and that they downplay it. But we won't know until we call them.
So who's going to make the call?

Borges really did that? He could have said no in a more reasonable way. His loss.

CV2K

Since you're so interest in these two individuals, why dont you make the phone calls like Kakau suggested. i think everyone out here wants to know what they really think about themselves and our community. We all want to know..... lol

THINKER

it does not matter how long we been fighting violence in our community, more important is that we continue to fight until we win. just a reminder ROME was not built in 10 years. it takes time but with time and dedication we will win. Martin Luther King, did not give up, Amilcar Cabral did not give up, Nelson Mandela did not give up, so why should we give up? We will fight until the end... Don't give up my brother, keep the faith alive, one day we will be victorious...

yo Kakau, i spoke to Ivandro the other day, and he said he was gonna get in touch with you. But anyways keep up the good work and you know u got my support.

"A LUTA CONTINUA" CONTRA VIOLENCIA

The administrator made a very good point. He only forgot to mention other strong black leaders such as the Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice and the former Secretary of State, Retired Four Star General, and Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Colin Powell. These are the two black people that have actually gotten the closest to sitting in the corner office of the White House.

One more thing to Blame: Lets not blame the Globe and the Herald. Those two papers can only report what makes good news. Good News for Media is Bad News for people. The Media will disappear if the Bad News Disappears.

In that case we shloud produce more stories like the ones from Mr. Soares so we can bring good drama to media. We need to stop giving them reasons to make money with our bad headlines.

My holla goes to Ze Bardot:

"Uprising sta li ku nhos, nhos ta pasa sabi..."



Keep it up, Bardôt

Bardot needs to retire. He needs to cut those dreads. He's getting too old to be at the club with all the kids.

That's right, I think Bordot needs to chill out alittle bit. He's been in the 'festa' scene for more than twenty years. how long ago did the song 'paranoia ki sta na moda' come out?

No hates, fellas!