We The Best!

My goal is to be the best. No one will tell me otherwise.

So Why Am I Back In School?

So why am I back in school? Well its for two reasons; One, being that I know so much already that I might as well obtain the necessary degrees so that the world will understand that I am educated and two, education is something that is an ongoing process both in and out of the classroom, so if someone or something is willing to invest in my education, I would be wise to take advantage of the opportunity. I can never know too much and research techniques and knowledge always changes and evolves.

This Is What I Live By.............

"Our worst fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God; your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone, and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

What I Think Of Our Government?

I think the American system government is an excellent system of government that provides opportunities for its citizens to exercise its freedoms and choose between multitudes of opportunities to have a quality life within society. It is a continual work in progress that requires active participation from all of its citizens, not just a privileged few and must be tweaked to protect the rights of all of its citizens, not just a chosen few that either are educated or affluent.

The reason being is that if you look at the framework three areas of our government--the Congress, the Presidency and the Federal Judicial System, you find that within our system of capitalism, the educated and the affluent are poised to take advantage of these opportunities while the poor, uneducated, and disenfranchised get left behind and aren’t aware of what is going on within our government. Power and money are variables that corrupt our political system and disrupt the system of checks and balances that prevent one area of government from having too much power. One example of power corrupting our government is the lack of congressional term limits on our congressmen. Congressmen make careers out of their office, taking advantage of the numerous financial and other perks without remembering the original intent of our Founding Fathers which was to represent the constituents that elected them. The institution of congressional term limits that allow a congressman to be an effective voice for his constituents while reducing the corruption would be an effective first step towards achieving this measure. The Presidency has these limits, but the process to elect this individual has denigrated to the point where it can be manipulated and bought by special interests that have a certain agenda to push which isn’t necessarily conducive to the larger population as a whole. It will be interesting to watch a campaign like Barack Obama’s continue to gain momentum based on the interest of the people themselves who have invested significantly in his campaign based on his message, character, and leadership abilities. The judicial system has been a fair one overall with the exceptions being characterized as guilty until proven innocent as opposed to innocent until proven guilty. The system has proven itself to be racially and politically biased (esp. on a federal level), especially in terms of acquiring quality legal representation and jury selection which is supposed to represent a jury of one’s peers, but hasn’t always proved itself to be the case. And in the case of those are jailed unjustly, there isn’t a system of reparations that compensates for the time that they lost in incarceration.

But change doesn’t happen overnight and a lot of progress has been made in the 231 years since the Declaration of Independence was born in 1776. However to preserve the sanctity of our Union, we must continue to evolve and realize that our Union isn’t perfect and that it takes the participation to make it as close as possible.

Who Is Malcolm Kareen Freeney (Part II)

So we can pick up with the Malcolm Freeney story so to speak with the end of Chicago and the beginning of Madison, Wisconsin. So I stayed with my Aunt Julia for a year and then my mom and dad adopted me. Madison is where I first got exposed to racism because none of the kids in elementary school liked me at all. They called me names like Milky Way and a few other racial epithets. I used to pick fights as a kid and have my sister come beat up the kids because she could fight. Now my sister isn’t my biological sister, but she is my sister all of the same. People say racism is about people being scared of something that they either are afraid of or don’t understand. And the resulting action becomes about controlling that ‘something.’

Well control would be a central theme throughout my entire life to date. Especially when kids found out how smart I was through class activities such as completing your times tables in math class when I would go faster than anyone else. When I was adopted, even my mother didn’t know what to do with me. I was an emotionally wild, scarred child with multiple traumas that got to the point where if I could get used to the pain, then I can numb myself from it. So the more my mother spanked me for something, the more I got used to it. And to this day, I don’t cry over much. I don’t cry at funerals, rarely cry in pain unless the pain is extreme, and really just keep an even keel about most things. So my mother tried to put me into therapy, but when you don’t want someone to reach you, then you try to outsmart them. This is exactly what I did when I went to these sessions that I actually don’t even remember. If anyone has ever seen the movie “Good Will Hunting” with Matt Damon and Robin Williams, then you would understand when I say that you keep trying out therapists until you find one that can actually reach the subject in question. In that sense I was abandoned by my parents which hurts to this day because they can’t make themselves vulnerable enough to admit it.

However, on the flip side they saved my life because without them, I would be either dead or in jail. They are my mom and dad and I do love them dearly. Sometimes I just can’t be around them for extended periods of time. I just wish that we could admit that in our relationship mistakes were made, and then let’s just move on from there. But vulnerable is something that they don’t function well within our parent-child relationship. It would require ceding control which seems to be a problem for them. It’s one thing to set and establish boundaries; it’s another to impose those to the point where the relationship becomes dysfunctional being about control instead of raising a child to be a functional adult. But I’ve gotten off on a tangent, which I can tend to do from time to time as I am a long winded person both in speech and in writing; an important tangent which will be revisited later in these journal entries. But we need to complete the saga of Madison, Wisconsin, explain how I moved to the DC area in the 5th grade, and extol the virtues of Mom and Dad, and how we got to this point today. We will get to all of that I promise as we journey through the adventure of writing these journal entries. Oh well. The saga continues...

How to Save the Music Industry?

The music industry is the midst of an evolution. Technology has initiated a paradigm shift where sales are not the barometer in which an artist’s impact on the marketplace can be judged. There is a perception amongst the population that the music business is falling apart. When in actuality, the music business is not falling apart, but the sale of compact discs in retail outlets is on verge of extinction. The world is still consuming a voluminous amount of music on a daily basis; in fact more since a significant amount of it is available for free. Music continues to be the soundtrack to the lives of the human race whether its hip-hop, gospel, r&b, rock, jazz, dance, or alternative. So the question becomes how does the music business complete its evolution?

Good Question!

The answer lies in synergy: Combine the current social workflow of the Internet with the current business model of television (and Google).

What is measurable is the number of visits that an artist obtains on their website, MySpace, YouTube, or any other social networking website. A properly developed marketing strategy executed with precision can maximize these visits to create sponsorship and advertising opportunities for strategic partnerships. These strategic partnerships start on the local level with radio, the local clothing and shoe stores, or other specialty stores, and work their way up through the regional and national levels. This process ensures consistent revenue streams that can stabilize the operations of both the artist and the record company. But this process has a critical dependency…Content development and ownership!

What must be understood is that in order to build effective music careers, one must foster the relationship between the artist and their respective fanbase. Hit records are good for MP3 and ringtone sales and those things are important, especially the content that is delivered to the cellular phone. But long-term revenues come from the development of a catalog that can sell for generations. This only comes through artist development and the nurturing of an artist and their relationship with their fanbase. The connection has to be made or else very little holds.

Now a preface is rarely included as part of a business plan, but we felt that it was important to detail the challenges that the music business currently faces and how Gameofficial.com is positioned to answer those challenges. Simply put, “What separates Gameofficial.com from every other record label, production company, and entertainment company in the world?”

Gameofficial.com understands how to develop technology and hit records!

Why is that important? This is important because most entertainment companies only have an understanding of music and have little idea about the technology that drives the music. Conversely, most technology companies can develop, leverage, and implement technology, but do not understand what it takes to develop an artist, make a hit record, and introduce the product to the marketplace! So this positions Gameofficial.com uniquely in the marketplace to fulfill a need to introduce quality music that leverages the music for the benefit of all involved. Technology is continuously evolving, so this window is limited, so the time to act is now. So with that being said…

Welcome to Gameofficial.com and

Welcome To The Future!

Who is Malcolm Kareen Freeney?

Who is Malcolm Kareen Freeney and what does he stand for?

Well we should start with the obvious stuff such as I am a Black male, age 33 born July 9, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois. I am a fabulous, intelligent, giving, sometimes stubborn, intense, literal, loyal, witty (sometimes sarcastic), passionate Black man. My bad traits are some selfishness, classic avoidance, and at times I have a bad temper but we will talk about those in greater detail later. My biological mother died when I was 4 years old and I have never known my biological father. My biological mother’s name was Eva Mae Freeney. After a brief stint with my Aunt Julia, I was adopted by my aunt and uncle and moved to Madison, Wisconsin. The relationship is that my biological mom and my uncle who adopted me are brother and sister. I hope that isn’t too confusing. How do I describe my first 5 years of my life? In retrospect when I think about it, painful to a degree. My biological mother isolated me from the world, so I didn’t develop the way normal kids would. If my mind wasn’t already at an advanced level, I think I would have been truly lost in the world of life. This is because I wasn’t afforded the opportunity to interact with kids my age, go to preschool or any of those accelerated pre-kindergarten programs. Athletically, I didn’t develop at all. At age 5, I couldn’t run at all and organized sports, forget about it! I spent so much time by myself and within my own mind that even today, I feel most comfortable by myself or with people that I truly feel comfortable around. The only time I came out was when I went to the Jewel supermarket where I would watch the heroin users shoot up. I got into so much mischief as a child that when my biological mother died, I was in the hospital as well for taking pills that I shouldn’t have taken such as Ex-Lax. To this day, I don’t do drugs or drink and for the most part, live relatively cautious. I knew that my biological mom loved me, but sometimes people just have a strange way of showing it. My stint with Aunt Julia was interesting in that people say that I was abused. She had three kids who are my cousins: Billie, Jeff, and Dwayne (we call him Butch) I don’t necessarily remember that even though there was one incident that stands out where my cousin Billie pushed me down a flight of stairs leaving a mark that would remain on my chest for years. But it wasn’t completely unprovoked because my intelligence and sarcasm and piss a person off to the nth degree. One time my aunt was late picking me from elementary school so I started to walk home by myself. They found me eventually, but I think I worried a few people in the process because at 5 years old, I’m not supposed to know the way home by myself. So I think that some of the abuse was warranted though it may have been excessive. My cousin Jeff is still like a brother to me even though our relationship right now is a bit estranged for some reason.