A guilty man walks free instead of to prison after being acquitted of manslaughter charges downgraded to aggravated assault, which carry a 20 year sentence the same as manslaughter. The jury recommends 10 years probation for Kurtiss Colvin who has been serving time in Travis County jail since July 2007 for a state jail felony charge of theft from a person. After causing bodily harm to his victim, Kurtiss Colvin took his victim’s wallet and used the money inside. Now, he sits in the courthouse trying to convince the public eye he is remorseful and shouldn’t serve anymore time for a crime according to him, he didn’t commit. Despite the fact that his intended victim, David Morales, is lying in a 6ft grave, decomposing, and now a memory of senseless crime; a Travis county jury handed down a verdict for Kurttis Colvin, 22 & Samuel Byrd, 16, who received eight years probation, that spits on the face of humanity and those aiding in the defense of the helpless and outnumbered. Kurtiss Colvin and Samuel Byrd still able to breathe see their loved ones and live their life with aspirations while David Morales’s family resides near the crime scene where their brother was brutally murdered.
On Junteenth 2007, a scene of racism, poverty, disorganized police protection, resulted to the injustices served to David Morales’s life here on earth. It’s a sad day. Murders and instigators of a heinous crime on another man are being characterized as co defendants protecting themselves. It’s amazing how the truth is distorted to justify the motives of those involved. More than two dozen people witnessed the crime, yet no one stepped in to aid David Morales. A hero could have emerged but instead cowards stood in awe.
May God have mercy on our souls. Let this incident serve as precedent that a man’s hands can be used as a deadly weapon, the combination of alcohol, egoism, and slander of ethnicity result in tragedy. Regardless of race, there are good and bad people. It’s unfortunate that LULAC and other self proclaimed Hispanic/Latin American/Mexican organizations are not at the defense and uproar of injustices surrounding the investigation and punishment of this incident in Austin, Texas, Travis County.
Travis Co. District Attorney’s office did NOT do their job in persuading a jury to set an example of this incident and I wonder should another “riot” break out, will APD have an entry/exit strategy, one that does not interfere with relatives or bystanders willing and able to assist victims to be able to do so, instead of standing on the sidelines watching in horror as a man dies in front of them?
In history, there are martyrs that serve as an example for future generations, many at the expense of their own life. David Morales served as a martyr on June 19, 2007 in East Austin. You will always be remembered, David Morales.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
UndiscoveredAustin.com
Saturday October 18,2008 WhoUFeelin was in attendance for the kick-off party hosted by UndiscoveredAustin.com at 601 Brushy Lane, East 6th living it up with open bar (Gentleman Jack/Sky Vodka), family (Amos), and DJ Markus and Neiliyo. 
The rooftop was small but the most live place on both sides of 6th street. www.UndiscoveredAustin.com has teamed up with Phillips GoGear and other sponsors to market test undiscovered local bands/DJs. It was a great party because besides the party favorites WhoUFeelin discovered the great interior designed lofts and sounds of DJ Markus 
www.myspace.com/markuswithak and Neiliyo www.myspace.com/neiliyomusic
Shout out to UndiscoveredAustin, the event staff, Phillips GoGear, and all those crunk fly girls on the rooftop.
www.myspace.com/markuswithak and Neiliyo www.myspace.com/neiliyomusic
Shout out to UndiscoveredAustin, the event staff, Phillips GoGear, and all those crunk fly girls on the rooftop.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
For A Good Cause
Everyone needs some living color for their winter festivities!
Help support the educational programs of the Austin Chamber Music Center by purchasing a poinsettia to liven up your holiday season.
BUY NOW: $10 Poinsettia
Plants are approximately 6.5'' tall with luscious florist quality foliage with 6-8 blooms in pots with decorative covering.Please order by November 15.
Help support the educational programs of the Austin Chamber Music Center by purchasing a poinsettia to liven up your holiday season.
BUY NOW: $10 Poinsettia
Plants are approximately 6.5'' tall with luscious florist quality foliage with 6-8 blooms in pots with decorative covering.Please order by November 15.
Plants can be picked-up at Ascension Lutheran Church, 6420 Hart Lane, on Saturday, December 6 from 1pm - 4pm.For more information please call Jeni at(512) 454-7562.THANKS & HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Radio Rose
This piece has been borrowed from www.worshipworthy.com. Shout out to Highsnobette.com for the 411 on Radio Rose, who designed Issue#8 of MissBehave. Ladies, this entry is for all you fashionista go getters that don't sit around waiting for the phone to ring or worried that your home girl can't meet up.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Z-Trip with Me
Courtesy of LimitedHype.com & Nalden.net ( http://www.nalden.net/#/newsitem/705/ ) , WhoUFeelin got the 411 on Z-Trip's contribution to the Obama's political campaign. Download for yourself. Its a 54 minute CD, around the 30th minute you'll start dancing, neck jerkin and bouncing around with free love and some soul.
It's all about networking, expanding horizons and implementing improvements.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Social Matters
R.I. P.- Lazaro Perez-Ramos.
**Disclaimer (WhoUFeelin does not advocate crime or criminal activity but it does advocate international diplomacy, reform in the welfare system and rehabilitation of convicted criminals that have done their time in the penal system.)**
Everyone makes mistakes just some get caught and some mistakes can cost you your freedom. I located the following passage from the Miami Herald while doing some research online. I found it very heart breaking to know and wanted to share it with the rest of WhoUFeelin readers.
Immigration is a serious issue like a dead horse bleeding on the street, its not going away, talking about it will not get it out of the way, but maybe helping assist those that truly want citizenship to the U.S. will help the influx of illegal immigration become better suited for self advancement and then maybe everyone can sit at the table for a piece of that American apple pie.
http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y01/jan01/15e3.htm,
By Claire Osborn . Cox News Service. Published Sunday, January 14, 2001, in the Miami Herald
AUSTIN -- Lazaro Perez-Ramos was held in jail without charges, then after winning approval for his release, he had to stay an extra year because there was no place for him to go.
When Cuban refugee Lázaro Pérez-Ramos finally walked out of the Bastrop County Jail, he lived on the streets of Austin. When he died of lung cancer Nov. 13, his lawyer arranged to bury him in a pauper's grave. He was 59.
"He was suffering, and he was lonely,'' lawyer D'Ann Johnson said.
Johnson and her partner were the only ones at Pérez-Ramos' funeral. His friends could not come because they, too, were being held without charges in the Bastrop jail.
They are Cuban refugees who, along with Pérez-Ramos, were part of the 1980 exodus from the Cuban port of Mariel that brought 125,000 Cubans to the United States.
Many of those who, like Pérez-Ramos, broke the law in the United States ended up in a legal never-never land with almost no way out.
The Bastrop County Jail holds seven detained Cubans.
They have been convicted in the United States and have served their sentences, but they remain in indefinite detention. The United States does not want them but will not release them. Their native land does not want them back.
Like all aliens convicted of felonies, they have received deportation orders. They cannot be deported, however, because Cuba and the United States have no full diplomatic relations.
"With a criminal sentence, even if you don't have good-time credit, you have a flat sentence, so you know the absolute day you will get out. But with this, there is no light at the end of the tunnel,'' Johnson said.
"There's nothing to keep those guys from going into a black hole.''
Citing privacy rules, the Immigration and Naturalization Service declined to disclose the names or criminal records of the Cuban detainees in the Bastrop jail or other Texas facilities.
"These guys are on immigration detention, and the U.S. government tries to keep people away from them so nobody knows,'' Johnson said.
More than 120 Cubans are being held in indefinite detention in Texas, immigration officials said. Throughout the nation, about 1,700 remain in indefinite detention, said Denton Lankford, an immigration service spokesman.
The Mariel Cubans have been a problem for the United States since they arrived. Incarcerated Cubans rioted at several prisons in the 1980s. When hundreds of refugees held at Fort Chafee, Ark., rioted in June 1980, Gov. Bill Clinton sent the National Guard. He was criticized for waiting too long and lost a reelection bid.
More recently, Cuban detainees held guards hostage at a Louisiana prison for six days in December 1999.
In a way, Pérez-Ramos was one of the few lucky ones. He was released from indefinite detention -- but only because he was ill, Lankford said. He had high blood pressure, diabetes and heart problems before he was diagnosed with lung cancer.
Johnson met him when she began working with the Cuban Detention Project. The effort, begun three years ago by the Political Asylum Project of Austin and the Austin chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, provides representation to aliens in indefinite detention. So far, Johnson said, the Cuban Detention Project has gotten eight Mariel Cubans released from the Bastrop jail by proving that they weren't dangerous to society. Pérez-Ramos was one.
WhoUFeelin is now a reader of the Miami Herald online,
http://www.miamiherald.com/ and advocate soon to be volunteer with American Gateways, http://www.americangateways.org/formally known as PAPA, http://www.main.org/papa/
**Disclaimer (WhoUFeelin does not advocate crime or criminal activity but it does advocate international diplomacy, reform in the welfare system and rehabilitation of convicted criminals that have done their time in the penal system.)**
Everyone makes mistakes just some get caught and some mistakes can cost you your freedom. I located the following passage from the Miami Herald while doing some research online. I found it very heart breaking to know and wanted to share it with the rest of WhoUFeelin readers.
Immigration is a serious issue like a dead horse bleeding on the street, its not going away, talking about it will not get it out of the way, but maybe helping assist those that truly want citizenship to the U.S. will help the influx of illegal immigration become better suited for self advancement and then maybe everyone can sit at the table for a piece of that American apple pie.
http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y01/jan01/15e3.htm,
By Claire Osborn . Cox News Service. Published Sunday, January 14, 2001, in the Miami Herald
AUSTIN -- Lazaro Perez-Ramos was held in jail without charges, then after winning approval for his release, he had to stay an extra year because there was no place for him to go.
When Cuban refugee Lázaro Pérez-Ramos finally walked out of the Bastrop County Jail, he lived on the streets of Austin. When he died of lung cancer Nov. 13, his lawyer arranged to bury him in a pauper's grave. He was 59.
"He was suffering, and he was lonely,'' lawyer D'Ann Johnson said.
Johnson and her partner were the only ones at Pérez-Ramos' funeral. His friends could not come because they, too, were being held without charges in the Bastrop jail.
They are Cuban refugees who, along with Pérez-Ramos, were part of the 1980 exodus from the Cuban port of Mariel that brought 125,000 Cubans to the United States.
Many of those who, like Pérez-Ramos, broke the law in the United States ended up in a legal never-never land with almost no way out.
The Bastrop County Jail holds seven detained Cubans.
They have been convicted in the United States and have served their sentences, but they remain in indefinite detention. The United States does not want them but will not release them. Their native land does not want them back.
Like all aliens convicted of felonies, they have received deportation orders. They cannot be deported, however, because Cuba and the United States have no full diplomatic relations.
"With a criminal sentence, even if you don't have good-time credit, you have a flat sentence, so you know the absolute day you will get out. But with this, there is no light at the end of the tunnel,'' Johnson said.
"There's nothing to keep those guys from going into a black hole.''
Citing privacy rules, the Immigration and Naturalization Service declined to disclose the names or criminal records of the Cuban detainees in the Bastrop jail or other Texas facilities.
"These guys are on immigration detention, and the U.S. government tries to keep people away from them so nobody knows,'' Johnson said.
More than 120 Cubans are being held in indefinite detention in Texas, immigration officials said. Throughout the nation, about 1,700 remain in indefinite detention, said Denton Lankford, an immigration service spokesman.
The Mariel Cubans have been a problem for the United States since they arrived. Incarcerated Cubans rioted at several prisons in the 1980s. When hundreds of refugees held at Fort Chafee, Ark., rioted in June 1980, Gov. Bill Clinton sent the National Guard. He was criticized for waiting too long and lost a reelection bid.
More recently, Cuban detainees held guards hostage at a Louisiana prison for six days in December 1999.
In a way, Pérez-Ramos was one of the few lucky ones. He was released from indefinite detention -- but only because he was ill, Lankford said. He had high blood pressure, diabetes and heart problems before he was diagnosed with lung cancer.
Johnson met him when she began working with the Cuban Detention Project. The effort, begun three years ago by the Political Asylum Project of Austin and the Austin chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, provides representation to aliens in indefinite detention. So far, Johnson said, the Cuban Detention Project has gotten eight Mariel Cubans released from the Bastrop jail by proving that they weren't dangerous to society. Pérez-Ramos was one.
WhoUFeelin is now a reader of the Miami Herald online,
http://www.miamiherald.com/ and advocate soon to be volunteer with American Gateways, http://www.americangateways.org/formally known as PAPA, http://www.main.org/papa/
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Hanging with the Hommie, DJ Notion
The great thing about Austin, TX is if you want to go downtown on a weekday like Tuesday and catch your local favorite DJ spinning, you can. WhoUFeelin caught up with DJ Notion while he was spinning at Six Lounge in the Tap Room. It was very low key and while there was a total of maybe 25 people in the room, its a very intimate atmosphere there in the Tap Room. I recommend it for anyone wanting to book a private party. Notion span some real hip hop with Tribe Called Quest and had a real heart to heart on his views of the local hip hop scene, booking tours outside of Austin, Tx and being a DJ with aspirations to own a night club someday. WhoUFeelin has been knowing DJ Notion since 07 from his weekly Hip Hop showcases at Karma on Thursdays; now WhoUFeelin is glad to share, help promote, and support DJ Notion's endeavours as a friend and fan. It use to be WhoUFeelin couldn't find beats or instrumentals when looking to network with artist because either the price was ridiculous are the connections were off but now da Bosnian and DJ Notion got a supply for those asking. At $5 a cd, there's no reason to wonder just go out and check it for yourself. (Review coming soon)
This Thursday, October 09, 2008 go see DJ Notion at Karma Lounge- door entry $5 or RSVP for free entry, www.myspace.com/musinNmind
Who is DJ Notion? He is a dj, graphic artist & promoter to name a few of his skills. www.myspace.com/djnotion He is also the co-founder of the Austin based, musicNmind, which is responsible for the organization of countless independent concerts & tours across Texas featuring the best of national & regional artists. Over the past 5 years he has had the opportunity to do design work & share the stage with many of Hip Hop's greatest. In fact, he will be spinning for Devin The Dude at Emos on October 17,2008. (Same day Max Payne hits theaters, http://www.maxpaynethemovie.com/)
This Thursday, October 09, 2008 go see DJ Notion at Karma Lounge- door entry $5 or RSVP for free entry, www.myspace.com/musinNmind
Who is DJ Notion? He is a dj, graphic artist & promoter to name a few of his skills. www.myspace.com/djnotion He is also the co-founder of the Austin based, musicNmind, which is responsible for the organization of countless independent concerts & tours across Texas featuring the best of national & regional artists. Over the past 5 years he has had the opportunity to do design work & share the stage with many of Hip Hop's greatest. In fact, he will be spinning for Devin The Dude at Emos on October 17,2008. (Same day Max Payne hits theaters, http://www.maxpaynethemovie.com/)
Monday, October 6, 2008
Vh1 Hip Hop Honorees
Man, and to think I almost wasn't going to do a piece and put my two sense in. I just had to do this recap after seeing Tracy Morgan do a parody of political candidates running for office and showcasing his comedic talents while hosting the 2008 Vh1 Hip Hop Honorees, Cypress Hill, Slick Rick, Too Short, and Naughty By Nature. All honorees are artists that I can remember lip singing to when I first got turned on to rap and hip hop. Cypress Hill killed it on stage, to Kill a Man. To all DJs out there, I dare you to mix up some Cypress Hill and Eminem. That would be a hell of a tour ticket, Cypress Hill and Eminem. The lovely Estelle brought an awe presence to the stage, reminding me of Lauren Hill and Mary J Blige. I am really looking forward to hearing a duet with Estelle and Mary J Blige. Bun B was definitely repin Texas and UGK. Too Short on the same concert ticket as Bun B would be insane! I was disappointed that Bushwick Bill wasn't on stage with Scarface. Why didn't the other part of the Ghetto Boys get to make an appearance on stage?
Julez Santana did a perfect recollection of Naughty by Nature's, Everything's gonna be Alright. Jim Jones actually did a great job, too. How many of you true Naughty by Nature fans remember the joint with Queen Lathifa, "Wickedest Man Alive"? Cee Lo did a phenominal job hitting those high notes. Everyone in the crowd threw up there hands up to Hip Hop Hooray, you know some people in the room were feeling O.O.P., how can I explain it:) you see...its just not that simple.
Shout out to the camera men that kept capturing the lovely lady behind B Real & Slick Rick, the dancers were looking fly and the party people were in the crowd.
Trivia: which Hip Hop Honoree went to school with Cameron Diaz? Bet, you can answer this one? I'll give you a hint: He was honored in 2005. Holla.
Julez Santana did a perfect recollection of Naughty by Nature's, Everything's gonna be Alright. Jim Jones actually did a great job, too. How many of you true Naughty by Nature fans remember the joint with Queen Lathifa, "Wickedest Man Alive"? Cee Lo did a phenominal job hitting those high notes. Everyone in the crowd threw up there hands up to Hip Hop Hooray, you know some people in the room were feeling O.O.P., how can I explain it:) you see...its just not that simple.
Shout out to the camera men that kept capturing the lovely lady behind B Real & Slick Rick, the dancers were looking fly and the party people were in the crowd.
Trivia: which Hip Hop Honoree went to school with Cameron Diaz? Bet, you can answer this one? I'll give you a hint: He was honored in 2005. Holla.
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