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But first a bit of Mr. Mason's discography
Mr. Mason’s career as a professional singer started after he had won a hundred dollars on a local amateur hour called the Wilken’s Amateur Hour in 1957 (a chain of local jewelry stores) in his home town of Pittsburgh, PA. At the end of the year all the winning contestants competed for the grand prize of 500 dollars. Mr. Mason had won that too.I’m Jerry Mason an American Gypsy
A story of endurance and triumph
Reader, if you had four major chances in your youth to achieve your American dreams and you were denied your dreams, not because of your worth at your professional craft but denied, because of your ethnic origin. Would this have been acceptable to you in the greatest and freest country on our planet, our beautiful America? Reader, I was denied my hopes and my American dreams four times. I gave up in '60, '62, '65 and '69. I picked up the torch for truth, justice and liberty in 1996 after I found my video tapes and recordings. Never will I give up my American dream again. There's still hope in my heart for a better day, for my race of Roma's, my loved ones and for myself.
I still believe in our humanity.
Some of you I suppose might say, Jerry Mason, you're looking for tea and sympathy because you're singing career didn't pan out for you in the entertainment industry. Please let me assure you this is not the case if you listen to my recordings and view my five TV excerpts on Youtube.As a youngster, my fight was for my career, fame and fortune. As I grew older, it became a fight against serious and degrading poverty. When I became a man my fellow human beings forced me to make it a fight for God's true freedom for my race all over our world. Not any of us have the right to bring misery to any person on our planet or for that matter any race. God never sent us a hand written letter of authorization to do these acts of cruelty to each other. Were are our God given brains? We're all on the brink of global war. We all should lay down our firearms and go home, we have a bigger problems than to shoot at each other and to get shot at. For example, we have to put food on the table, cloth our loved ones, get a decent house to live in, cure the disease in our world and much more than this for God to accept us into his Kingdom.
These are our real problems.
Reader, if you
don't help my race of Roma's. If they don't help, if nobody helps, and
thus far they have not. What will become of my Roma race all over our
world. Will my Roma race remain the punching bag for all the other
nationalities of our world? And if this situation contiunes to stay this
way for us then I ask you where is the truth, where is the liberty, where is the
justice that everybody talks about and that they shed their blood for and die
for. Where is it? We've seen the movies, we've read the books, we've
heard the speeches. Aren't any of them true? And if reader, these
things apply for everyone on our planet and not for my Roma race,
I
ask you, isn't there something wrong with this? Isn't this hypocracy?
For
anyone to live without a glimmer of hope for a better tomorrow is a slow and
agonizing living
death.
Mr. Mason is now 65 years of age and residing in Southern California. He is currently seeking finacial backing for publishing a book, a producer for a broadway musical and a movie studio to do his auto biography. Any of these three would help him in his good fight for God's True Freedom for all people and not just for some people. Mr. Mason feels if all three were done simultaneously this would kick the doors of prejudice down and allow the Roma (Gypsy) race to be free, to join the mainstream of life here on our planet Earth and be able to contribute their God given talents to society, for we too are human beings, we too are Americans and like you we too are God's children.
Jerry Mason in his very first TV entertainment appearance on the
Wilkin's Amateur Hour in his hometown of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1957
If you wish you can email
Mr. Mason at: kelly.nicholas85@yahoo.com (626) 392 - 1663
My story of endurance and
triumphs
I'll explain. In my youth I had hoped to
record for major recording compaies, I did. It was for Kapp, Chess and
Swan recording labels. This was my first triumph.
I also hoped to sing
on national television, I did.
I appeared on the show titled, 'The
Big Beat' in New York City.
The host for that show was Mr. Allan Freed.
That was in 1959.
Then I appeared on 'The
Shindig Show' for abc Studios in Los Angeles. The producers for that
show were, Mr. Jack Good and Mr. Jimmy O'neill. This was in 1965.
During that same time, I also did an appearance on a show titled, 'Hollywood a Go Go'.
The host for that show was Mr. Sam Riddle. This show was also
in Los Angeles.
These TV appearances were my second triumph.
Jerry in 1962
If you wish to enlighten yourself more about my Roma race, please read on.
1965
To try for a better tomorrow and that maybe tomorrow
one
might become a winner in life.
Hopes and dreams are a Gift from God.
God
starts up our engines
And in this startup we as human beings accelerate
And fight to achieve our goals to succeed.
God gave us these two gifts of
hopes and dreams
Mr. Mason says of Mr. Bennett, "Tony
has a heart of gold, not only while he's singing to you but also behind the
stage curtain. (He tried to help me twice) Thanks Tony, hope to see you again
soon. "
Sincerely JM
Readers
I’d written to many moguls of our entertainment industry since I found my
recordings in 1996 and no response from them. Have these moguls of the
entertainment industry forgotten that their grandparents were immigrants and
came here to this country for a better life? Have they forgotten that
technically we are all foreigners to this land? That it really belonged to
the Indians who were here before our Pilgrims landed.
From God this was my endurance for my past and present rejections.
I
believe in all these rejections that it is now a fitting time for someone from
our entertainment industry to help me in my endeavor to bring my music to the
world's people, in that I too, will have a fair American chance.
THE FOUR
LADS
Frank Busseri, Jerry Mason, John D’Arc, Jimmy Arnold
--- 1969
---
Please
allow me to take this moment in time
To thank the four companies who are now
presenting my music to you
With
all my heart
I say thank you to the people at
Youtube
Google
Godaddy
CD Baby
Amazon
Yahoo
For
without their help
My effort to fight for God’s true freedom would not be
possible.
They believe in true freedom for all people
And not just for
some people
As we say in show biz,
You're a class
act!
Bravo to all of
you
Our good Lord Jehovah Jihra and
His wonderful Son Jesus Christ, our
Lord and Savior
Have chosen me to do a monumental task
And that is
to represent to you my Roma race
I pray for our Lord’s guidance
To give me
the right words to convey to you
And that God’s words through me
Will allow you to see the truth
Never
has there ever been
A flare of light as bright as this
Into the
deep darkness of night
For the cry of God’s true freedom
For all people
and not just for some people.
As an elderly
man I have heard the words
Freedom
Justice
Equality for all people
I’ve read it from authors in our
libraries
I've heard it on our radios
I’ve read it in newspapers, from
reporters
I’ve seen it on TV screens from our correspondence people
I’ve
seen it in motion pictures
I’ve heard it from our politicians.
I’ve heard
it from our presidents.
Our forefathers of
Paid in blood and death for these words;
To
be true for all people and not just for some people,
And yet these words have
not graced
The American born Roma
Is this freedom?
Is this justice?
Is this liberty?
Is this equality for all people?
Most of all is this
Godly?
Where are the Roma's civil humanitarian American
rights?
1969
Humanitarians of our world
Is it not truth when I say to you we have conservationists for our lands, air
and sea even for wildlife in countries many of us have never heard of?
In the
midst of this there’s no help for my Roma race
From anyone, I cannot
comprehend this.
Before us, it was the American Indians who were the
forgotten Americans
Then it was the Hispanic race.
Then it was our black
Americans.
Now, it is my Roma race who are the forgotten
Americans
We
too, need your help now just as they did.
I
would like to explain to you why you hardly ever hear of a real gypsy in a
higher educated professional field?
It’s
because in the schools all over
our world that we attend, the moment our
nationality is discovered
many are humiliated, tormented and beaten within an
inch of our lives.
In foreign countries you can add death to this.
The
school playgrounds of our world become a battle ground for us.
This is a
nightmare and catastrophic deterrence against us.
Sad of heart and
regrettably I must say it does work.
We
the gypsy parents take our children out of school
Away from harms
way.
As a parent, what would you do?
This inevitably makes
us losers at the starting gate of our lives, so we wind up doing menial jobs or
no jobs at all.
Is this justice for all?
The
denied education and lack of it forces my Roma race to live in misery,
ignorance and without hope for a better tomorrow. this demoralizes and
deterioates the human spirit.
Like a disease, it can spread to other
nationalities, (you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out the next
step).
When that happens, we won't have to wait for that meteoroid that's
heading our way and will be here in twenty-five years
or for a more serious
global warming, we will be annihilating each other on a global
scale.
Then What?
Some will say, Jerry, we can't believe in what
you say. We don't see and hear any of this that you speak of on the news.
I'll answer in this way. Try this test if you will for
yourself.
Tell your children or grandchildren to tell their
classmates they are of the gypsy origin. I can assure you it will not be
long before they are in harms way.
But
please, don't really try this for two reasons. I don't want your children
to get seriously hurt and I don't want you to be disappointed when you find
out what's really out there.
My Roma race is hated very harshly by the
authorities around our world. And here is the oxymorn to this, the
authorities have more of their nationalities in the prison system of our world
than my race of Romas. Maybe on the whole planet Earth there're three
hundred Romas incarcerated. Stack that number against the other
nationalities of our world.
In what I have said to you, is this not injustice, prejudice, hatred, suppression and oppression towards my Roma race?
As educated and knowledgeable people, What words
would you choose to describe it?
Jerry Mason and Robin
Williams
Some
Truths
In
World War Two documentaries scant coverage is given to the Roma nationality who
suffered the nightmarish realities of the holocaust. The
other nationalities are mentioned but hardly a word is uttered about my gypsy
race. Yet two million of us were exterminated by Nazi
Even in death we don’t get fair play.
General
Eisenhower and the Allied forces found the treasures that the Germans had stolen
from the countries they’d beaten in battle. Thirteen floors
down in salt mines they found 32 acres of gold bars
Priceless paintings,
suitcases full of personal valuables that once belonged to living people who are
now part of our history, as I have said.
In this horrific
extermination of precious life two million gypsies were also
annihilated. General Eisenhower said to our soldiers and to
the Allied Forces, “Keep your hands in your pockets
boys.”
We the good guys did not and neither did our
Allies.
How much did they steal? Millions, billions,
trillions?
And currently in the News?
Enron, Com, Tyco, Fema, Mutual,
Dell, Wallmart
How much have they stolen?
Putting
it all together, maybe this amount of money would match the number of stars in
our galaxy.
Can anyone out there name me one gypsy lady fortune
teller who’s ever stolen this amount of money? You can't can
you? Or for that matter name me one gypsy. Anybody.
1986
Greed
in our country is taking away the American dream. No more
dreams for a home because of high sales prices. Our colleges
are doing the same thing. Some
people who push a pencil instead of a gun rob legally, because they know
how. Our honest American people, will they wind up sleeping in
their cars or sleeping bags or cardboard boxes. I always
thought that anyone who extremely overcharges for his product or service is a
crook.
Have you ever heard of any gypsies on shooting
sprees in our American resturaunts or in our schools, or in our malls, or in our
churches? Have you ever heard of any gypsies to kidnap someone or to rape
someone, or to molest a child, or to abuse a child? May I also inject, we
have no gangs or arsonists who destroy people's property or for that matter
God's creation. And yet inspite of this truth that I have said
to you, there is a ferocity of hate that humanity has toward my Roma race that
staggers one's imagination.
With this
ferocity of hate that most humans have towards us, one would tend to believe
that my gypsy race is the only race in the world to occupy all the prisons in
our world, this of course, is untrue. The fact is, as I have
said before, my gypsy race is the least of all races among the world population
numbers to occupy the prisons.
Hard to believe right? And the
authorities all over our world know this to be true.
But I guess with a name
tag of “gypsy” it would be hard for anyone to believe otherwise.
Don’t take my word for this, call your local law enforcement as to
whether I’ve said truth to you or not they know the numbers for sure.
Let
them tell you how many Romas they’ve arrested today
Then ask them, how many
they arrested of the other nationalities.
We have an old American saying (in all probability we invented it) and it is this, 'There's good and bad in every race'
Reader I ask you now, do you believe this saying of ours also applies to my Roma race as well?
Humanitarians,
I am aware that there are Romas who commit
crimes. I do not condone it when a member
of my Roma race commits a crime but now here is the difference
When other
nationalities commit a crime and they pay their debt to society, it’s forgive
and forget
When my gypsy race commits a crime and they paid their debt to
society, we’re still branded gypsy
thieves forever.
Even our innocent ones,
Where does your justice
stand in this?
1965 Mr. Jack Good Producer of the Shindig TV show
A gentle soul, a freedom fighter, a true English
gentleman
the good
and wonderful things about us
We love to laugh
We love to
sing
We love to dance
We love to play musical instruments
Music is the
world to us
We’re also artists who love to paint.
We love to cook
We
love to embroider
We love to work with metal
We love to love
We have
zeal to live not
die.
With
these endowments from our Lord, I believe we too can contribute our God given
talents to society.
And most of all
we love God and his wonderful Son, Jesus Christ,
Who has come to earth
to save all of us.
Humanitarians,
I have pondered this thought many times since 1965 as to seeing all the wars
our
Have these people who’ve destroyed my
hopes and American dream for my loved ones, for my Roma race and for myself,
have they then and now allowed their loved ones to shed their blood and to die
for freedom when they themselves did not believe in God's true freedom for all
people?
And if some of them had done this, is this not hypocrisy, to themselves,
to their loved ones, to their country but most of all to
God?
When they pass from this world to our Father’s
kingdom in heaven, how will they answer
Him?
Will
it be like this?
“Father
I believed in true freedom for people but not for all the
people.
You know what I mean Father, just for the ones I
liked”
Will this be acceptable to a just God?
Is this
not sin in the sight of God?
To thine
own self be true.
Readers,
The famous group of guitarists
Known the world over as The Gipsy Kings
Are not real gypsies
Not one in the group speaks our language
As to why I would mention this to you
I wanted you to know that the door of
true freedom
Has not been opened to all of us yet anywhere on our
planet
Readers
would you walk up to a black American and call him the n-word? Would you
call a American Hispanic
a spic? Would you call
an American asian chink, slanted eyes or nip? Would you call
an American Italian
wap? Of course you wouldn't because you know this is wrong and offensive
to them. We the Roma race find the word Gypsy offensive to us as well.
My ethnic origin is Greek, Italian and part Russian. My nationality
is American.
If in any part of this message you feel I fabricated to
you or exaggerated to you, do this simple thing. Go to your
mirror and ask your mirror image if I fabricated to you or I exaggerated to you
in what I have said. You will get your answer.
It will be God’s spirit speaking to your heart. Then
you will know the truth. Will this mean that you will
suddenly have a change of heart toward my Roma race if you are truly against
us? Perhaps not. Only God can change man’s heart.
All I have done is to convey his message of truth to you.
If you still say Jerry Mason’s words are not truth then the holocaust was
not truth. Premiere Stalin killing 20 million of his own
people is not truth. And the 50 million people or more who
died in WW II is not truth or for that matter neither is the atomic bomb
truth.
Through the years of my life I have seen time and time again the compassionate
hearts of my fellow Americans and humanitarians around the world that have
always been there for those in times of hopelessness and great
crisis.
When our American forefathers liberated us to make us a great nation,
Americans have always felt a godly and moral obligation to help others
with food,
medical supplies
housing,
clothing
Billions of
dollars in aid and also firearms to defend themselves against their
oppressors
And Most of all our American soldiers who have
shed their blood and have given the greatest sacrifice of all, their
lives.
A people such as my fellow Americans
who do these heroic deeds are greater than themselves. When
the occasion arises, they arise to the occasion. I am proud
to be one of you, an American.
I ask you now my fellow
Americans and our humanitarians and Christian sisters and brothers around the
world to join me in my good fight for God’s true freedom for all people and not
just for some people.
We the Roma race have been
abandon and shunned away many times in history, please know this,
I’ve never asked my fellow Americans to shed their blood for
me or to die for me nor has anyone else in my Roma race, nor are we asking that
of you now. On behalf of my Roma race all I humbly ask is for
humanity to now allow us to contribute to society and to be a part of life's
main stream.
Allow
us also to sit at humanities table with
you.
I would like to try to bring parentless
Roma children from foreign countries here to our
To finalize my hopes and dreams I wish to
build a Roma Christian Church in each of our American cities and in foreign
countries as well.
Readers all around our world, my father and mother were
born Americans, I am a born American, I was born in Pittsburg Pennsylvania,
pumpkin pie country doesn’t this make
America my country too? I thought it did and still do.
To the music listeners of our world
I now humbly
wait for your response.
Our home sweet home
She is the
best
And our lord and Savior Jesus Christ said
He among you who is without
sin
Let him cast the first
stone.
Jerry Mason
An American
Qome
I’ve never said this in church but I say it to
all people around our world now,
Ladies and Gentlemen of our world
Today
is July 3, 2007
I watched a Christian program
by our pastor, Mr. John
Hagee and Mr. Bill McKay, film maker.
They spoke of Israeli soldiers stuck in
a mine field
The soldiers started to pray
Suddenly out of nowhere a great
wind blew
exposing the explosives and making them visible to the
soldiers
allowing them to walk out in
safety.
The Lord had answered their
prayer.
In
this listening God spoke to my heart and mind
And told me to tell you my
story.
I have bad discs in my back, L4 and L5
My back has laid me down
many times
One particular time my back went out again and
it laid me
down for two and a half months
I couldn't even walk twenty feet to the
bathroom
this time I knew it was more serious.
Days past and afterward an
earthquake came along
And I couldn't run out of the house to save myself.
I was stuck, I just sat there in the bed.
A thought came to me after the
earthquake
What if the house had caught on fire?
I would not have
been able to run out of the house to save myself.
Later on that night I was
thinking how could I try to commit suicide
I didn’t want to get stuck as a
handicapped person and to be a burden
To others for the rest of my life.
I
then fell asleep and Lo and behold, I saw Jesus, He was sitting on the chair
next to my bedside.
He was in prayer.
My eyes were closed and
yet I could still see Him!
I saw his dark red hair set upon his shoulders
And his beard.
He was wearing a white robe with a thin white rope around his
waist
He didn't look at me, He didn't talk to me,
He just sat there
praying to our Father in Heaven
The next day I struggled to get up. I made it
to the bathroom.
I too was stuck in the mine field and the Lord allowed me to
walk out
And I say this to you
We can’t save ourselves from the hidden
mine fields of darkness
Only Jesus can do that
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Jehovah Jirah
And praise His son Jesus Christ our
Savior
A special thanks to my new found friend
Mr. Art More for your time and
courtesy, you too sir are God’s soldier for true
freedom.
J.M.