You Think What?

“There’s a choice we’re making.
We’re saving our own lives…”-Lionel Richie

Nearly twenty-five years after the initial recording of the song created by the late Michael Jackson with lyrics by Lionel Richie, a new generation of Hollywood celebrities, singers, actors, models and people just known for being known, gathered to record a remake of the song that raised in 1985 more than $30 million for the charity USA For Africa.

This new crop of celebrities met on February 1, 2010, almost 25 years after the first gathering headed by music producer Quincy Jones, to record the cover to raise money for the survivors of the recent devastating earthquake in Haiti.

We’ve decided to revisit the original recording from 1985: (more…)

Philadelphia native Guion S. Bluford joined NASA in 1979 and in 1983 he became the first American black man to travel in space.

The first person of black African descent to travel in space was the Cuban cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, who is also the first Hispanic in space.
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As a public service YouThinkWhat begins its celebration of Black History Month by bringing to you the speech heard around the world in August 1963 in Washington, D.C..

We want you to know and remember Martin Luther King, Jr was substantive, not just a dreamer. He was a strategist and a man of action who used the same principles as India’s Gandhi, to lead the greatest movement for equality and freedom the world has ever seen. There is a difference between non-resistance and non-violent resistance to evil acts.

The late Dr. King, a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace, inspired a national movement and a worldwide following. (more…)

We are appalled by the reactions we’ve seen to President Barack Obama’s major addresses. The absence of proper decorum is astounding. The lack of etiquette in these situations has us awe struck. (more…)

This is how our leadership looks to the rest of the world. All you red, white and blue Yankee-Doodle Dandies make a reality check.

This piece which uses some outstanding trick photography, is by Joezjny a comic filmmaker on the Dutch Comedy Central…remember it’s only a joke.

When Simon Cowell, the infamous, mostly astute about assessing talent, judge on the teevee reality show American Idol said during an audition when he heard General Larry Platt’s original tune “Pants On The Ground” …”I’ve a horrible feeling this tune could be a hit”, we agreed. We did not have a horrible feeling because to us the lyrics make sense and the tune is catchy. We ;like it.

Rather than dismiss Larry Platt as just some old guy who received a benevolent 15 minutes of stardom, we found him interesting enough to conduct some research.

We found he is an American treasure. He is a part of living American History. (more…)

Apple has unveiled its latest product in the “iP__”line of electronic tools.

There has been much buzz about the new iPad, which looks to us like a big-A phone for old people.

We found this video produced about three years ago by MadTV around the time the first murmurs of an iPad product were heard. We concur with the opinion expressed by the off the wall writers at MadTV.

Watch an enjoy… (more…)

When we were college students we studied radio television communications.

We found this piece called “How To Report The News” by British journalist and writer of satire Charlie Brooker to be comical as well as  informative.

Fellow bloggers–especially those who produce online videos, please take note…

The latest well known  spokesman for the Republican party, and there are several of varying degrees of sanity and intelligence who say they are members who speak on behalf of the GOP; Congresswoman Michele Bachmann of Minnesota’s 6th District appeared on a radio program in Philadelphia with the venerated senator from Pennsylvania Arlen Specter. The two were featured in a debate about Obama-care the proposed health care reform legislation. (more…)

In light of the many articles written about the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the numerous videos we’ve seen depicting the level of incompetence exhibited by the agency charged with keeping consumers safe on the ground in airports and in the air in planes, someone thinks our future may look like this when we travel by air…..

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