First Article Published

well i am published. I am writing a sport column for a black sport network. these are mixed feelings times. guess i should be happy, but the environment is not right. I should be drinking beer and surfing all day. just kidding. we have decided to move AGAIN. we need a positive environment. well i shall return later now that I found my password for this site.

BSA STILL SUCKS!

Ok now I have been pretty upset about this so-called organization. I have been racking my brain trying to figure out what it is they exactly do? So, I gave them a true test of validity. I invited the BSA FOUNDER & Members to go with me to the City of Santa Monica City Council Meeting. The meeting was held less than a mile from the site they claim as the MECCA of Black Surfing, Inkwell Beach. For those of you like SMC's City Council, Inkwell Beach was a 200ft roped off stretch of SM Beach at the end of Pico & Bay St. The council had other important items on the agenda such as dog parks, smoking outside in the open free air, etc....I waited a total of 6 and 1/2 hours to speak. Now is my time...I swallowed looked around NO BSA! and words that I have no memory of spilled from my lips. All I can remember is .."In consideration of Black History Month and with the decline of morals and values in this country, not to mention to two recent deaths of Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott-King I would like to ask the council to place a plaque at the site of Inkwell Beach", heads looked around, the tired members of the panel woke up from their naps in attention....WHAT IS SHE TALKING ABOUT was the look du jour(wink). It's televised Rokki keep talking.... I explained to the members what it meant to me and who Nicolas Gabaldon was...in amazement and after the buzzer rang... I said thank you and walked away....A council member asked "Ms. Harper, Where EXCATLY is Inkwell Beach"? Stunned at the fact that the city council had no knowledge of... I simply said "At the end of Pico and Bay St. there is a millienum plaque honoring a tree and storm gutter is all that remains of black history. I am not asking for a lot of money just a plaque.Thank you" As I walked away the MAYOR of Santa Monica said, "Please call the city manager's office tomorrow." NOW WHO IS ABOUT IT AND WHO AIN"T? The BSA stands for Bull Sh***ing A**es! If you are going to talk about it, BE ABOUT IT!

Now I feel like I have done my part, let's see what they do from here on....

Black Surfing Association

Ok so I have been working on my company image. I been trying to gather support from different associations. I figure if there is other black surfers out there besides me maybe I will have a descent business. I hooked up with some website that had the Black Surfing Association. I go get all my friends and we race down to Bay St. in Santa Monica. As we hit the sand my eyes grew bigger as before was the most beautiful site I had ever seen. There were blacks in the water surfing and frollicking everywhere. I ran home afterwards and sent an email to the only available addressee, I wanted to be a part of something great!

Now this is what I got. I called to schedule an appointment to talk with the founder. His secretary was not quite as lovely as Tony. I only imagined that she thought me someone less than herself. At the advice of my partner I went to meet him anyway. I met with the BSA founder Tony Corley, had a nice talk with him. He was a nice looking older gentleman with great presence. I instantly liked him. We spoke about what the BSA was about and so forth, he asked where I thought the association could go. I advised him everything was cool.

"Black Unity" I was so excited I could hardly wait for the next step.

I get into a complete mess. I withdrew my bid to help any further. Some shear shadiness was coming to the head. OH YES IT DID! Months passed and I laid low. I remember the first gentleman saying he had a group so I signed up for the group. No sooner than I lay the first post on January 1st introducing myself, here comes the BSA founder countering every move I tried to make, This is SUPPOSED to be an association for black surfer to network and get to know one another. I post for different positions I had open within my company and then it hits...he asks if I need him on a project against my better judgement I call him and offer him a role over the phone...The next thing I knew I was being attacked on my religious beliefs..a tiki god? come the frick on now...a tiki god? and christianity ok where the hell do those two meet I am not sure, but what I do know is there are ancient Hawaiian tiki gods that protect surfers...READING is so elementary. Had he known anything of the Hawaiian legends or for that matter how to not be judgemental on something he volunteered for he wouldn't have looked so stupid to his fellow association members. My religious beliefs have nothing to do with who or where I surf.

I wasn't going to take that sh*t lying down so I simply stated that if he had any disagreement with the character he should have said something to me while he was supposed to be recording his voice and sending it to me. It's a shame blacks can't seem to get their sh*t together and when they see someone trying to do their thing other blacks feel so inclined to frick it up.

I stay strong because people like that area dime a dozen. As fo rthe Black Surfing Association I have since left that organization and i swear I will tell the world of the falsehoods and misnomers that it represents.

Nissan did a mural on the founder but what did he find...30 years and hardly a member....go figure.

As for me, I will keep fighting to get the real black surfers noticed and the fake ones blown out of the water!

We are now in busniess!

I heard thru the grapevine that someone had been using my name. So yesterday I went down to make sure my name is protected. After a 2 hour wait, I found out that I was indeed covered. I was pretty excited. My business partner however was ready to cuss out the entire world.

At any rate we are now up and running.

Welcome to Inkwell Surf!