Jehan Muhammad's Blog

I would like to give a sincere formal apology. Last year I used a term that was inappropriate and that may be offensive to certain people. During the first Jehan Talks I used the term "mildly retarded" to describe someone. I would like to apologize for using that phrase. It is easy sometimes to say things and not think about what you said and how it may offend someone until after you've said it. I am aware that all of us are not the same and that there are children and adults that struggle on a daily basis with physical, mental, emotional, intellectual, social, cognitive and developmental disabilities. I apologize if that term offended anyone. That was a poor choice of words on my behalf. A lot of words can be offensive to certain groups of people. We have to be careful not to say these words, the N word (which I feel that I do have the privy to use because I am black), the F word, and the R word. I realize that I have used the R word before in one of my poems, "Som...

Some Jehovah's Witnesses left this on my door last week.   "Who really controls the world?" Do you think it is......   God?  humankind?   someone else?     "The Evil One controls the whole world." ~ 1 John 5:19 The Evil One controls radio, television and the whole entire media.  The Evil One puts aspartame and other poison in our food, including baby's food.  The Evil One is poisoning your child with vaccines and turning them into zombies.  The Evil One has been killing innocent unarmed civilians in our country for centuries. The Evil One wants you to believe something is wrong with the size and shape of your nose and the color of your skin.   The Evil One replaced facts in history with lies. The Evil One lies, steals, cheats, robs, rapes, kills and copies to glorify themselves and "in the name of God", therefor can NEVER be trusted.  The Evil One takes credit...

Social media is fake. Television is fake. The news is fake. Radio is fake. The whole entire music industry is fake.  Hollywood is very, very, very FAKE. Religion is fake. HIV/AIDS is fake. The weather is fake. Money is an illusion. Politics are fake.  The food we eat is fake. The only thing real is your intentions, thoughts, ideas, dreams and feelings.  Finding another human being that knows and understands this is the most beautiful thing in the world. Don't invest too much time and energy in what's fake. 

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You taught me ART. You taught me CHESS. You taught me PATIENCE. Thanks for being a man. Thanks for encouraging me and telling me I was beautiful. Thanks for being a FARTHER. You were 54 years old when I was born. You didn't let that stop you from being a father. You and my mom never married. You didn't let that stop you from being a father. Dear men, PLEASE don't EVER, EVER, EVER let the relationship between you and a female stop you from being in your child's life. Your daughter needs you just as much as your son needs you. A girl that grows up without a father figure will always look to a man for validation and approval. She will always feel like she's helpless, incompetent, inadequate and can't do anything without a man. She will always need a man to tell her that she is smart, that she is pretty, and that she is talented. She will always need a man to think for her, show her the way and make her feel worthy. Every decision that she ev...

Today is my dad's birthday. My dad is the reason I am who I am today. I get my style, creativity, my love of hats, music, art, jazz and culture all from this man. Him and my grandmother taught me pretty much everything I know about everything. Most girls look up to their mothers, I looked up to my father and wanted to be just like him. He taught me how to play chess when I was 13 and also how to paint a canvas from a projected image. This man was, has and always will be my #1 inspiration. I am literally the younger female version of him. I get my big head, my big nose, my knocked knees, my smart mouth, my gap, my chinky eyes and my pointed ears from him. He is honestly the only artist that I have ever copied or mimicked. Everyone in my family have always told me that I was JUST like him. His last words to me were ...... "You can do anything if you put your mind to it." May you rest in peace. You're still alive through me. ~ Jehan's dad ~   artist/photogra...

The most important thing to remember about every person you cross paths with and every person in your life whether briefly or long term is that you were destined to be who you were and what you were before you ever knew of their existence. ~Jehan