by Fred Nicholson | Aug 10, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
a Day 1 story.I been pulled over by copsmostly black and whiteN0. mostly white.cops are symptoms white vs. colors, symptomsblack shootings are symptomsthe Truth isColumbus was out to enrichhis personal fortune.Lincoln didn’t give a damnabout a bunch of...
by Fred Nicholson | Aug 10, 2020 | Fred Nicholson, Fredisms
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by Fred Nicholson | Aug 10, 2020 | Fred Nicholson, Fredisms
a Crumbling house is scary.What if you look aroundand all you see iscrumbling,period.Whatnow?f
by Fred Nicholson | Aug 10, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
“Today, you are now free.”Painting the street yellowain’t gonna do much’bout black crimeon black folk.That paint is gonna be goneand the street will just befull of more potholesand hot verbal air,and black folk will still live and die in...
by Fred Nicholson | Aug 10, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
Summer: 2022What’s your summergoing to be like?Oh, I’m going to stay in. I’m not so young anymore,can’t afford that COVID shot,and my Insurance won’t cover it.Well, at $800 a shot,and you need all three,not many of us can affordthat, with...
by Fred Nicholson | Aug 10, 2020 | Fred Nicholson, Love is the Answer, Stories
the Real story!Isn’t that what we all want?”I want the Real story”makes me laugh.Stories are afterthe fact of life.Repeat that?Stories are afterthe fact of life.You get that?Every thing thoughtis an after the factmade up story.Now to nowis a...
by Fred Nicholson | Aug 10, 2020 | Fred Nicholson, Love is the Answer, Stories
One way of seeing.Who cares?Who really cares?42% of deathsare our elderly folks,potential seeds of wisdom.Black and brown peoplesuffer most fromCovid-19.I am not old,black or brown,so who really cares?Less old, black and brownwill allow our economyto be great...
by Fred Nicholson | Jul 19, 2020 | Fred Nicholson
Stinkin’ thinkin’.“Run over to Charlie’sand ask him to give ussome hot dogs, right now.”What did you say?”I gotta repeat myself? This is the fourth of July. We supposed to have hot dogs.””You must have lost your freakin’ mind. The shock...
by Fred Nicholson | Jul 9, 2020 | Fred Nicholson
I wanna seeI wanna see luv uck shonYeah sureI made it upand here is the drift.Luv is a sad happy facemade up any way you want.Luv invites change and givesoptions to follow or not.Luv is a hurricane,the gale forcefeminine energy.Luv is presenceand presents.Luv is hot...
by Fred Nicholson | Jul 3, 2020 | Fred Nicholson, Fredisms
“Help! I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.”When I relive an affirmationmany thousands of times,will it become a seedthat fuels my life?Just a thought.f
by Fred Nicholson | Jul 3, 2020 | Fred Nicholson, Fredisms, Love is...
Eat cha heart out.If you are aroundto tell the tale,you know heartis not the centerof a living life.I have to ask,then what is?f
by Fred Nicholson | Jul 3, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
an Ordinary Day.To white folks,aboutan Ordinary Day.They sayGeorge diedon an ordinary day.I saywe all dieon an ordinary day.The difference isyou will die in an ordinary way.George Floydis/was a black manin the U.S. of A.f
by Fred Nicholson | Jul 3, 2020 | Fred Nicholson, Stories, War Games
a Happy Heart You know folks, I have left Vietnam but it has never left me. Imagine boys to men given guns to kill just because . . . I am 21 and want to feel what it feels liketo feel. * Four guns in our battery. Two 8 inches and Two 175’s. Our 175 mm gun is...
by Fred Nicholson | Jul 3, 2020 | Fred Nicholson, Kids and Grown Ups, Stories
Kids.We steal some cheap flashlights. I am under the tented cover at night,reading a thrilling, historical Russian novel. It is Sholokhov’s, ‘The Don Flows Home to the Sea’. The Reds and the Whites. His stories charge,flow are sad joy full...
by Fred Nicholson | Jul 3, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
LogicYou have owned a car for several years,and it has its pluses and minuses,but generally it runs for you.Along comes a person who then says,”I have a much better car for you,and am passing a law that willmake your car illegal to own”.Some of us will...
by Fred Nicholson | Jul 3, 2020 | Fred Nicholson, Fredisms
Our Chief Commander talks non-sense.His talks are all about them and us.I said our, but we are his them.His us only includes them,that want N. Americato be great again.f
by Fred Nicholson | Jul 3, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
Birds and Bells.The blue birds sing.I imagine the soundsThe door bells ring.I’m hearing are birdsand bells and other things,The blue birds sing.but my psychiatrist saysthe bells and birdsThe door bells ring.and constant ringingand singing in my headThe blue...
by Fred Nicholson | Jul 3, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories, War Games
View Post a Secretly Recorded conversation.Donald: Bill, we gotta’ get past this mandemic.Bill: Pandemic, sir.Donald: How we gonna’ do it?Bill: Sir, the fastest way is through herd immunity.Donald: Herd what?Bill: Immunity! When more than enough people get sick, the...
by Fred Nicholson | Jul 3, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
a Rant!A short while ago, I observed a discussion about Aunt Jemima, the woman on the syrup and pancake label. I found the different statements and positions about her, worth a few notes. Nature is not either/or, one or the other. Nature IS. Simple as that. IS.Action...
by Fred Nicholson | Jul 3, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
One Play,in 2 Acts.1.We teach your kidsour history of conquest.Many years laterthe planted seedsof shame and blamelive in your daily lives.Poverty is a state of mind delivered to all you colors.Subjugation and dominationhave ruled your defiant roosts,since we landed...
by Fred Nicholson | Jul 3, 2020 | Fred Nicholson
Where do birdsgo?No whereto go.Heretodaytomorrowyesterdaynow.f
by Fred Nicholson | Jul 3, 2020 | Fred Nicholson, Kids and Grown Ups, Stories
“You can’t catch me”, and much more.It’s winter,an early morningSaturdayin NYC.We are down stairsplaying Tagin the new snow,that fell last night.He shouts”You can’t catch me”and is running fastto the safe spot.Determinedto tag...
by Fred Nicholson | Jun 15, 2020 | Fred Nicholson, Kids and Grown Ups, Stories
Fill in the blanks.Mother, Austrian Polish Jewsent to Boston,all her family die in Auschwitz.Mother meets father, black and Native Indian, he says,living in Harlem.Mother and father have a child,me.Born in Sydenham Hospital,Bronx, New York.Father and mother...
by Fred Nicholson | Jun 12, 2020 | All Mixed Up, Fred Nicholson, Stories
I hear. I say.I hearTrump TrumpTrump TrumpTrump is thatTrump is thisTrump good”Trump bad.I sayTrump followsin the footstepsof his founding father.f 4Beth Davis, DeAnna Woolston and 2 others
