10 this morning: I was in my truck to go to my life coach/therapist appointment and I noticed these ducks “on top” of the lake–really it’s a very large pond but they insist on calling it a “lake”. I say they were “on top” of it because the water is frozen.
Shanyia Davis, an audio/video to her tribute . . . November 30, 2009
Had a meeting with John1 today we talked for hours about the “newest addition” that we’ve branched into as a result of working on the Red Book and Cotton project. This project, like writing a book, is leading us. Showing us where to go…
About a week or two ago John1 became burdened with what he was seeing reported in the news over the last few weeks and just couldn’t shake it: the horrors being committed by parents against their own children. Shanyia Davis being one–the five year old whose mother sold her as a sex slave. She was raped, murdered, and her body thrown on the side of the road. He was so troubled that he made a video for her and is working on more.
As he formulated and created the video he also created our “newset addition”. Our new “theme” if you will: “BLAMe Your Parents”. (You say BLAMe-blam) Shanyia is dead because of her mother. There’s a 15 year old who is dead because his father shot him in the head…
So how does this “go along” with the Red Book and Cotton?
- The book takes place during American Slavery and is the true story about the life of an African American slave named Nimrod, who’s John1′s* great, great grandfather.
- Parents are committing out and and out horrors against their children: selling them as sex slaves and treating them like slaves by shooting them in the head…
- We believe the problems the youth are having today their, addictions and bad habits– alcoholism, drug addictions, overeating, pornography–are a form of slavery. Rather than enslavement it’s a mental thing, an In-Slave-Mental** issue–a term John1 coined. This “slavery” their experiencing comes from their parents addictions/slavery which is a residue of American slavery from the 1700′s. Red Book and Cotton offers a solution to the problems, which is True Freedom.
Starting on Thanksgiving we uploaded the video for Shanyia Davis to YouTube and since, two more have been added. The other two videos are from the 40 that I’ve been telling you John1′s been working on–the “book videos”–for the book.
I’ve embedded Shanyia’s Video here. It’s called “Shanyia’s Cry”. It’s a brand new concept, one that again was totally John1′s idea and creation. I haven’t been able to snatch a shred of creative credit here. 
The man is amazingly creative.
Be sure you follow the directions at the beginning. I’ll post one of the other two videos tomorrow, but if you don’t want to wait, and I wouldn’t blame you 
click here.
Night, Love ya,
Theresa Jane
-who went to see Blind Side again and needed every tissue she brought just in case. This is such a great movie! Go see it!
–*John1 is: John Solomon Sandridge. My business partner and author of Red Book and Cotton. If you’re a new friend to my blog you need to know this. I also have a son named John, who also works with us and it just became too confusing to always have to note who was who
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