Born to be a DJ

I was in Bald Knob, AR earlier this year attending the funeral of a family member.   During my time there I met an uncle of Bobby “Q”  and as usual, after the service,  friends and family members (mainly the men) sat around and reminisced about others who had passed on.  Bobby’s name came up many times in the conversation.   I think this because he was so well respected it would be hard not to think of, or talk about him.

Bobby’s uncle shared with us how he remembered Bobby as a little boy.   He said when Bobby was about four years old he loved to sit around and listen to old Blues records over and over again on an old phonograph that only played 78 records.  Bobby loved to flip over the record, or lift up the needle arm just to watch the record on the turntable start and stop.  His favorite song that he loved to hear and play has the lyric “Moe and Joe had a candy store, telling fortune behind the door”--- Run Joe.

Bobby’s passion and love for radio broadcasting, his talent and ability behind the mike was best understood and discovered in the training of the young DJs who had never experience radio broadcasting.

Black History: Looking Back--Looking Forward

February is our time to celebrate our people and focus on our history.  We should always thank and honor Dr. Carter G. Woodson for setting a specific time in the year to reflect on all the great contributions African Americans made and continue to make in this free and great nation in which we now live.

Looking back, we traveled through trials and tribulations and yet in spite of every obstacle placed in our path, none of them stopped our moving forward to achieve each and every goal that we set for ourselves. I like you am very proud of our parents and the bloodlines of our ancestors, male and female, for their determination to insure that future generations of young Black men and women would have a path to follow, shoes to wear, and a sense of pride and dignity about themselves as a people.

We now realize that one month out of each year cannot possibly be enough time to recognize African American achievements; so much has been lost or forgotten down through the years of passing time. It is our job, this generation, to teach whenever and wherever possible to our children this wonderful and exciting history of a great and noble people starting with the African American family. By the Grace and love of God we have come, this far. 

Thank-you Jesus.