"What to do with the blacks," has been a persistent American question and "problem" since the end of slavery and the Civil War in 1865.
That "problem" and question bedeviled that curious cabal of white men of the North and South, planters and merchants, who, in 1816, founded the American Colonization Society (ACS) , which lead to the founding of Liberia in 1847.
ACS' remedy was voluntary colonization of those troublesome "free blacks," away from American shores: to Africa, or to South or Central America, it being convinced that whites would never accept them, other than on terms of dependence and degradation; hence, colonization was in the blacks' best interests.
These, by-now "American," blacks, e.g., those born in America with no knowledge of Africa or of Africans, who were then-somehow "free," as early as 1817, responded full-throat from a convention of 3,000 men, called at Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia unanimously. They told the ACS "no thanks." They reasoned that their and their forebears' "blood, sweat, and tears" as well as their own, had so watered and had so enriched this land, to paraphrase Bishop Richard Allen, that the United States of America was now their homeland, and they were not leaving!
Clearly, a few well-known and lesser known blacks did emigrate to Liberia. But, these numbered just a few thousand, some of whom later returned. So colonization failed here.
Following the Civil War, the same question again arose, especially since the blacks now lacked readily marketable economic value to those planters, as before; and who were, moreover, clamoring for "rights" and "abandoned land" and seed to gain their own economic self-sufficiency.
When this all--too--brief period of Reconstruction--"Reclamation" may be a better term, ended in 1877 with a deceitful and underhanded, political rapprochement between the whites of the North and South, the former white political belligerents, blacks who have saved the nation from dissolution, were made the bedrock, the fulcrum, of the grotesquely unconstitutional deal that effectively re-enslaved blacks, in all but name.
The Republican North abandoned them. The Democratic South reclaimed them. As opposed to slavery, peonage and persecution was practiced, after black troops were disarmed and mustered out, and after Union troops were withdrawn.
Meanwhile their most daring and die-hard brothers were shipped out West, far away from the South, to fight, kill, and quell Native Americans and Mexicans' quarrels over land claims. These are now known as "Buffalo Soldiers," the heroic 9th and 10th Cavalry, who really "won the West!"
Back in the South, though, in the wake of unmitigated murder, brutality, theft, betrayal, beatings and fraud, the blacks, who were lynched by the thousands and shot down like dogs, by white terrorists in disguise and in law-man uniforms, began an "Exodus" movement to Kansas, in 1879, which they wrongly, forlornly thought offered a respite from racism and mayhem, based on its "Border-War" history.
The black Exodus has continued in intermittent waves before and after both World Wars to cities North and West. Still, the question yet persists: "What to do with the blacks?"
The present answer seems to be to deprive the black underclass of jobs, capital, and justice; to supply them with drugs and guns; to discredit their belief in spiritual deliverance by lewd and lurid entertainment options; to control their education by controlling funding, discipline, curriculum; to give law enforcement and the courts leeway to dispose of them as they please; to foment jealousy, discord, and distrust between them and black achievers, who have moved up, up, and away from these nettlesome traps; to program film and television to
say that: wrong is right; up is down; backward is forward; the truth is a lie; and spending on trash is saving.
Then, let the chips fall where they may....
Problem solved. Question answered.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
what to do with the blacks?
WHAT TO DO WITH THE BLACKS?
"What to do with the blacks," has been a persistent American question and "problem" since the end of slavery and the Civil War in 1865.
That "problem" and question bedeviled that curious cabal of white men of the North and South, planters and merchants, who, in 1816, founded the American Colonization Society (ACS) , which lead to the founding of Liberia in 1847.
ACS' remedy was voluntary colonization of those troublesome "free blacks," away from American shores: to Africa, or to South or Central America, it being convinced that whites would never accept them, other than on terms of dependence and degradation; hence, colonization was in the blacks' best interests.
These, by-now "American," blacks, e.g., those born in America with no knowledge of Africa or of Africans, who were then-somehow "free," as early as 1817, responded full-throat from a convention of 3,000 men, called at Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia unanimously. They told the ACS "no thanks." They reasoned that their and their forebears' "blood, sweat, and tears" as well as their own, had so watered and had so enriched this land, to paraphrase Bishop Richard Allen, that the United States of America was now their homeland, and they were not leaving!
Clearly, a few well-known and lesser known blacks did emigrate to Liberia. But, these numbered just a few thousand, some of whom later returned. So colonization failed here.
Following the Civil War, the same question again arose, especially since the blacks now lacked readily marketable economic value to those planters, as before; and who were, moreover, clamoring for "rights" and "abandoned land" and seed to gain their own economic self-sufficiency.
When this all--too--brief period of Reconstruction--"Reclamation" may be a better term, ended in 1877 with a deceitful and underhanded, political rapprochement between the whites of the North and South, the former white political belligerents, blacks who have saved the nation from dissolution, were made the bedrock, the fulcrum, of the grotesquely unconstitutional deal that effectively re-enslaved blacks, in all but name.
The Republican North abandoned them. The Democratic South reclaimed them. As opposed to slavery, peonage and persecution was practiced, after black troops were disarmed and mustered out, and after Union troops were withdrawn.
Meanwhile their most daring and die-hard brothers were shipped out West, far away from the South, to fight, kill, and quell Native Americans and Mexicans' quarrels over land claims. These are now known as "Buffalo Soldiers," the heroic 9th and 10th Cavalry, who really "won the West!"
Back in the South, though, in the wake of unmitigated murder, brutality, theft, betrayal, beatings and fraud, the blacks, who were lynched by the thousands and shot down like dogs, by white terrorists in disguise and in law-man uniforms, began an "Exodus" movement to Kansas, in 1879, which they wrongly, forlornly thought offered a respite from racism and mayhem, based on its "Border-War" history.
The black Exodus has continued in intermittent waves before and after both World Wars to cities North and West. Still, the question yet persists: "What to do with the blacks?"
The present answer seems to be to deprive the black underclass of jobs, capital, and justice; to supply them with drugs and guns; to discredit their belief in spiritual deliverance by lewd and lurid entertainment options; to control their education by controlling funding, discipline, curriculum; to give law enforcement and the courts leeway to dispose of them as they please; to foment jealousy, discord, and distrust between them and black achievers, who have moved up, up, and away from these nettlesome traps; to program film and television to
say that: wrong is right; up is down; backward is forward; the truth is a lie; and spending on trash is saving.
Then, let the chips fall where they may....
Problem solved. Question answered.
"What to do with the blacks," has been a persistent American question and "problem" since the end of slavery and the Civil War in 1865.
That "problem" and question bedeviled that curious cabal of white men of the North and South, planters and merchants, who, in 1816, founded the American Colonization Society (ACS) , which lead to the founding of Liberia in 1847.
ACS' remedy was voluntary colonization of those troublesome "free blacks," away from American shores: to Africa, or to South or Central America, it being convinced that whites would never accept them, other than on terms of dependence and degradation; hence, colonization was in the blacks' best interests.
These, by-now "American," blacks, e.g., those born in America with no knowledge of Africa or of Africans, who were then-somehow "free," as early as 1817, responded full-throat from a convention of 3,000 men, called at Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia unanimously. They told the ACS "no thanks." They reasoned that their and their forebears' "blood, sweat, and tears" as well as their own, had so watered and had so enriched this land, to paraphrase Bishop Richard Allen, that the United States of America was now their homeland, and they were not leaving!
Clearly, a few well-known and lesser known blacks did emigrate to Liberia. But, these numbered just a few thousand, some of whom later returned. So colonization failed here.
Following the Civil War, the same question again arose, especially since the blacks now lacked readily marketable economic value to those planters, as before; and who were, moreover, clamoring for "rights" and "abandoned land" and seed to gain their own economic self-sufficiency.
When this all--too--brief period of Reconstruction--"Reclamation" may be a better term, ended in 1877 with a deceitful and underhanded, political rapprochement between the whites of the North and South, the former white political belligerents, blacks who have saved the nation from dissolution, were made the bedrock, the fulcrum, of the grotesquely unconstitutional deal that effectively re-enslaved blacks, in all but name.
The Republican North abandoned them. The Democratic South reclaimed them. As opposed to slavery, peonage and persecution was practiced, after black troops were disarmed and mustered out, and after Union troops were withdrawn.
Meanwhile their most daring and die-hard brothers were shipped out West, far away from the South, to fight, kill, and quell Native Americans and Mexicans' quarrels over land claims. These are now known as "Buffalo Soldiers," the heroic 9th and 10th Cavalry, who really "won the West!"
Back in the South, though, in the wake of unmitigated murder, brutality, theft, betrayal, beatings and fraud, the blacks, who were lynched by the thousands and shot down like dogs, by white terrorists in disguise and in law-man uniforms, began an "Exodus" movement to Kansas, in 1879, which they wrongly, forlornly thought offered a respite from racism and mayhem, based on its "Border-War" history.
The black Exodus has continued in intermittent waves before and after both World Wars to cities North and West. Still, the question yet persists: "What to do with the blacks?"
The present answer seems to be to deprive the black underclass of jobs, capital, and justice; to supply them with drugs and guns; to discredit their belief in spiritual deliverance by lewd and lurid entertainment options; to control their education by controlling funding, discipline, curriculum; to give law enforcement and the courts leeway to dispose of them as they please; to foment jealousy, discord, and distrust between them and black achievers, who have moved up, up, and away from these nettlesome traps; to program film and television to
say that: wrong is right; up is down; backward is forward; the truth is a lie; and spending on trash is saving.
Then, let the chips fall where they may....
Problem solved. Question answered.
Monday, September 29, 2014
American colonial recognition of slavery dates
"1641...
"Massachusetts was the first colony to recognize slavery as a legal institution. Sanctions concerning slavery are found in section 91 of the "Body of Liberties," which reads:
'There shall never be any bond slaverie, vilinage or Captivitie amongst us, unless they be lawful Captives taken in just warrs, and such strangers as willingly sell themselves or are sold to us. And these shall have all the liberties of Christian usages which the law of God established in Isreall...This exempts none from servitude who shall be judged thereto by Authoritie.'
"These words authorized not only African slavery, but slavery of Native Americans and Europeans as well. Other colonies followed with statutory recognition of slavery: Connecticut, 1650; Virginia, 1661; Maryland, 1664; New York and New Jersey, 1664;South Carolina, 1682; Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, 1700; North Carolina, 1715; and Georgia, 1750."
p.10, BLACK SAGA:THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, A CHRONOLOGY, by Charles M. Christian (Civitas/Counterpoint, NY:1999)
"Massachusetts was the first colony to recognize slavery as a legal institution. Sanctions concerning slavery are found in section 91 of the "Body of Liberties," which reads:
'There shall never be any bond slaverie, vilinage or Captivitie amongst us, unless they be lawful Captives taken in just warrs, and such strangers as willingly sell themselves or are sold to us. And these shall have all the liberties of Christian usages which the law of God established in Isreall...This exempts none from servitude who shall be judged thereto by Authoritie.'
"These words authorized not only African slavery, but slavery of Native Americans and Europeans as well. Other colonies followed with statutory recognition of slavery: Connecticut, 1650; Virginia, 1661; Maryland, 1664; New York and New Jersey, 1664;South Carolina, 1682; Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, 1700; North Carolina, 1715; and Georgia, 1750."
p.10, BLACK SAGA:THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, A CHRONOLOGY, by Charles M. Christian (Civitas/Counterpoint, NY:1999)
TRELLIS AND VINE
CHILDHOOD LEGENDS AND MANHOOD REALITIES
Legend is a powerful teaching tool and cultural exemplar, whose trellis young minds may cling to and climb.
In my old neighborhoods, our legends were great athletes from our hood, and from well beyond, since athletic supremacy was our youthful ideal.
But, as we matured into manhood, after reality had degraded exalted sports ambitions, and humbled youthful legends, we had to move on!
So, it is in life.
"When I was a child, I spoke as I child, I thought as a child, I understood as I child; but, when I became a man, I set my childish things aside." 1 Cor. 13:11
Legend is a powerful teaching tool and cultural exemplar, whose trellis young minds may cling to and climb.
In my old neighborhoods, our legends were great athletes from our hood, and from well beyond, since athletic supremacy was our youthful ideal.
But, as we matured into manhood, after reality had degraded exalted sports ambitions, and humbled youthful legends, we had to move on!
So, it is in life.
"When I was a child, I spoke as I child, I thought as a child, I understood as I child; but, when I became a man, I set my childish things aside." 1 Cor. 13:11
Sunday, September 28, 2014
CONSCIOUSNESS AND INTELLIGENCE
1O. "Consciousness and Intelligence" Sunday, September 28, 2014,
There is a very substantial, natal difference between intelligence and consciousness; in that, intelligence is the CREATOR of consciousness, which is an evanescent, immeasurably minute quanta of intelligence.
Consciousness is aware of itself, of its context, and of its CREATOR, intelligence: intuitively, inferentially, cognitively, mathematically.
Intelligence is the ‘animating spirit’ from which consciousness derives, upon which it feeds, works, rests, reproduces; and to which it returns.
Consciousness is active and inquisitive. Intelligence is: vast, passive and inert. Consciousness, however great, is limited and quantifiable.
Intelligence is unlimited and unquantifiable. Consciousness, being active and inquisitive, can be expanded, by seeking ever-greater awareness of itself and of its context, which it wholly seeks forever.
Intelligence, by contrast, is, was, and ever shall be infinitely: ‘past,’ ‘present,’ ‘future:’ Seeking nothing, needing nothing, simply BEING.
MY SOUTHERN FAMILY TRADITION AND BOY JESUS
My Southern family Tradition and Boy Jesus
The boy Jesus, age 12, tarried among the teachers in the temple at Jerusalem for three days after the Passover, listening, astonishing, questioning and amazing them and his parents, who had later returned to find him there, after a day's journey. His parents had "assumed" he was among the other boys with family and friends, as they returned to Nazareth. But, instead, he was on and about his "Father's business" he explained, in expressing surprise at their anxiety as to his whereabouts.
Mama made me join church at age 12, in accordance with her Southern family tradition that my soul was her responsibility until then; thereafter, it was my own. She based her decision on Luke 2, when Jesus, then 12, listened to and questioned the doctors, teachers, and learned men in the Temple at Jerusalem following the Passover. Luke 2:41-52.
Age twelve is a transitional age from boyhood to manhood biologically and spiritually. That is the message of this Biblical account. Boys and girls straddle two worlds at this time. My mother recognized that this distinction was more than literal, so in keeping with her Southern family tradition she handed me off; in effect, passed me on in a "Rite of Passage," invested in scripture. She repeated this process with each of my 7 younger siblings.
Although Mama's tradition was Baptist, and our church was Christian Methodist Episcopal or CME, denominations did not matter with her or my father, who was raised in the Methodist tradition.
Important lessons to be found here are many. To name but a few: parents are like booster rockets, who fall away when the "child" attains maturity, inevitably. For a child to grow in spiritual and mental maturity, it must separate and distance itself; it must tarry and immerse itself among the learned: teachers and doctors, listening; questioning; learning and sharing his/her unique gifts with them, which will impress and amaze, as they are fresh and direct from God. In this way, the children will grow in wisdom, respect and renown with Man and with God in due time.
Luke 2:41-5221st Century King James Version (KJ21)
41 Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.
42 And when He was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the Feast.
43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and His mother knew not of it.
44 But they, supposing Him to have been in the company, went a day’s journey; and they sought Him among their kinsfolk and acquaintances.
45 And when they found Him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking Him.
46 And it came to pass that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions.
47 And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers.
48 And when they saw Him they were amazed, and His mother said unto Him, “Son, why hast Thou thus dealt with us? Behold, Thy father and I have sought Thee sorrowing.”
49 And He said unto them, “How is it that ye sought Me? Knew ye not that I must be about My Father’s business?”
50 And they understood not the saying which He spoke unto them.
51 And He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them. But His mother kept all these things in her heart.
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
The boy Jesus, age 12, tarried among the teachers in the temple at Jerusalem for three days after the Passover, listening, astonishing, questioning and amazing them and his parents, who had later returned to find him there, after a day's journey. His parents had "assumed" he was among the other boys with family and friends, as they returned to Nazareth. But, instead, he was on and about his "Father's business" he explained, in expressing surprise at their anxiety as to his whereabouts.
Mama made me join church at age 12, in accordance with her Southern family tradition that my soul was her responsibility until then; thereafter, it was my own. She based her decision on Luke 2, when Jesus, then 12, listened to and questioned the doctors, teachers, and learned men in the Temple at Jerusalem following the Passover. Luke 2:41-52.
Age twelve is a transitional age from boyhood to manhood biologically and spiritually. That is the message of this Biblical account. Boys and girls straddle two worlds at this time. My mother recognized that this distinction was more than literal, so in keeping with her Southern family tradition she handed me off; in effect, passed me on in a "Rite of Passage," invested in scripture. She repeated this process with each of my 7 younger siblings.
Although Mama's tradition was Baptist, and our church was Christian Methodist Episcopal or CME, denominations did not matter with her or my father, who was raised in the Methodist tradition.
Important lessons to be found here are many. To name but a few: parents are like booster rockets, who fall away when the "child" attains maturity, inevitably. For a child to grow in spiritual and mental maturity, it must separate and distance itself; it must tarry and immerse itself among the learned: teachers and doctors, listening; questioning; learning and sharing his/her unique gifts with them, which will impress and amaze, as they are fresh and direct from God. In this way, the children will grow in wisdom, respect and renown with Man and with God in due time.
Luke 2:41-5221st Century King James Version (KJ21)
41 Now His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover.
42 And when He was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the Feast.
43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and His mother knew not of it.
44 But they, supposing Him to have been in the company, went a day’s journey; and they sought Him among their kinsfolk and acquaintances.
45 And when they found Him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking Him.
46 And it came to pass that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions.
47 And all who heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers.
48 And when they saw Him they were amazed, and His mother said unto Him, “Son, why hast Thou thus dealt with us? Behold, Thy father and I have sought Thee sorrowing.”
49 And He said unto them, “How is it that ye sought Me? Knew ye not that I must be about My Father’s business?”
50 And they understood not the saying which He spoke unto them.
51 And He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them. But His mother kept all these things in her heart.
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
Saturday, September 27, 2014
I KNOW IT WAS THE BLOOD
I know it was the blood for me
Nassim Haramein
Liked · Yesterday · 
"The Red Blood Cells are flattened tori (plural for Torus), the most perfected shape for life creation. The iron they contain creates a magnetic field for the attraction of Oxygen that enriches depleted organs. Since they are born in the bone marrow, they have a deeper connection to stem cells and the renewal of damaged tissue
by acting as floating antennae or intelligent communication devices." - Jain 108 Mathemagics
http://resonance.is/
The Resonance Project ⊙ Biology101.org ⊙ Science ⊙ The Unknown; But Not Hidden ⊙ ScienceAlert ⊙ ScienceAlert 中文 ⊙ Thrive ⊙ Fractal Enlightenment ⊙ Physics is Awesome ⊙ Cosmometry ⊙ (post by Jamie Janover)
"The Red Blood Cells are flattened tori (plural for Torus), the most perfected shape for life creation. The iron they contain creates a magnetic field for the attraction of Oxygen that enriches depleted organs. Since they are born in the bone marrow, they have a deeper connection to stem cells and the renewal of damaged tissue
by acting as floating antennae or intelligent communication devices." - Jain 108 Mathemagics
http://resonance.is/
The Resonance Project ⊙ Biology101.org ⊙ Science ⊙ The Unknown; But Not Hidden ⊙ ScienceAlert ⊙ ScienceAlert 中文 ⊙ Thrive ⊙ Fractal Enlightenment ⊙ Physics is Awesome ⊙ Cosmometry ⊙ (post by Jamie Janover)
THE SUFFERING SERVANTS
The Suffering Servant
…4Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted. 5But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed. 6All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.… Isaiah 53:
BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA ARE THE "SUFFERING SERVANTS" SYMBOLIZED AS "HE" IN ISAIAH 53: 4-6. "WE" AND "OUR" SYMBOLIZES THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN WHITE MAN, THEN--REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS, RESPECTIVELY, WHO CRUSHED AND CHASTENED BLACKS, WITH THE 1877 "HAYES-TILDEN COMPROMISE," AND THEREAFTER, SO AS TO ABSOLVE THEIR OWN DOCTRINAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL "TRANSGRESSIONS." BY THE BLACKS' STRIPES--DEPRIVATIONS OF RIGHTS, POWER, PRIVILEGES--WHITES "HEALED."
…4Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted. 5But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed. 6All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.… Isaiah 53:
BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA ARE THE "SUFFERING SERVANTS" SYMBOLIZED AS "HE" IN ISAIAH 53: 4-6. "WE" AND "OUR" SYMBOLIZES THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN WHITE MAN, THEN--REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS, RESPECTIVELY, WHO CRUSHED AND CHASTENED BLACKS, WITH THE 1877 "HAYES-TILDEN COMPROMISE," AND THEREAFTER, SO AS TO ABSOLVE THEIR OWN DOCTRINAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL "TRANSGRESSIONS." BY THE BLACKS' STRIPES--DEPRIVATIONS OF RIGHTS, POWER, PRIVILEGES--WHITES "HEALED."
KNOWLEDGE IS THE SUREST WAY
KNOWLEDGE IS THE SUREST WAY! 
Too many of our people lament and bewail things that, they say, they were "not taught in school."
School gives you only the basics, the politically prescribed basics of and for learning. The rest is up to you to acquire constantly from your home, your neighborhood, your church, your clubs, your friends, and most importantly, on your own!
Learning is a lifetime undertaking. To watch television from 5-8 hours a day or more for decades, learning nothing but idiocy, and then to complain about what you did not learn or what, you claim, that you were not taught in school, meaning grade school or high school; or, even, in college or graduate and/or professional school, is a cop-out for your own willful and indolent ignorance.
You do not know, because you do not bother to know, nor care to know; preferring to do and to know other things, that have nothing to do with knowledge--an abominable plague to so many!
So, stop blaming school and look at yourself, "consider your ways," says the Bible, a great place to start your learning pilgrimage! In other words, "confess your faults one to another that you may be healed," says the Bible.
"Our people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, " says another Bible verse. Therefore, to quickly end black people's destruction, and your own, get knowledge. And don't stop, ever! Give it to your family members, their dependents and to your friends and associates, if you love them. There is simply no better nor surer path to freedom, justice, prosperity, respect, and power than knowledge!
Too many of our people lament and bewail things that, they say, they were "not taught in school."
School gives you only the basics, the politically prescribed basics of and for learning. The rest is up to you to acquire constantly from your home, your neighborhood, your church, your clubs, your friends, and most importantly, on your own!
Learning is a lifetime undertaking. To watch television from 5-8 hours a day or more for decades, learning nothing but idiocy, and then to complain about what you did not learn or what, you claim, that you were not taught in school, meaning grade school or high school; or, even, in college or graduate and/or professional school, is a cop-out for your own willful and indolent ignorance.
You do not know, because you do not bother to know, nor care to know; preferring to do and to know other things, that have nothing to do with knowledge--an abominable plague to so many!
So, stop blaming school and look at yourself, "consider your ways," says the Bible, a great place to start your learning pilgrimage! In other words, "confess your faults one to another that you may be healed," says the Bible.
"Our people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, " says another Bible verse. Therefore, to quickly end black people's destruction, and your own, get knowledge. And don't stop, ever! Give it to your family members, their dependents and to your friends and associates, if you love them. There is simply no better nor surer path to freedom, justice, prosperity, respect, and power than knowledge!
Friday, September 26, 2014
JAMES DERHAM. M.D.
"This intelligent descendant of Africa, originally a Slave in Philadelphia, was sold to a medical man, who employed him as an assistant in the preparation of drugs. During the American was, he was sold to a surgeon, and by him to Dr. Dove of New Orleans. He learned the English, French, and Spanish languages so as to speak them with ease.
"He was received a member of the English church; and in 1788, when about 21 years of age, he became one of the most distinguished physicians of New Orleans.'I conversed with him on medicine.' says Dr. Rush, 'and found him very learned. I thought I could give him information concerning the treatment of diseases; but I learned more from him than he could expect from me.'
"The Pennsylvania Society, established in favor of the people of Colour, thought it their duty, in 1789 to publish these facts; which are also related by Dickson. In the Domestic Medicine of Buchan, and in a work of Duplaint, we find an account of a cure for a rattlesnake bite. It is not clear whether Derham is the discoverer; but it is a well-known fact, that, for this important discovery, we are indebted to one of his Colour, who recived his freedom from the general assembly of Carolina, and also an annuity of 100 lbs."
p.231, A TRIBUTE TO THE NEGRO, BY Wilson Armistead (1848)
THE BIGGEST ECONOMIC CRIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY
THE BIGGEST ECONOMIC CRIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY
There are those who would sully the legacy of Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney General, by suggesting that his legacy is compromised, or destroyed, by his failure to prosecute the corporate perpetrators of the "biggest economic crime in American history": the mortgage meltdown of 2008-2009. That is incorrect and untrue. Tens of billions of dollars were recouped by AG Holder from the bankers who defrauded us, which matters more to me, than some crook going to jail, since I was paid!
During his administration, black farmers also received a $1.2 billion settlement for discriminatory lending practices, and mistreatment by Agriculture department employees.
What is more, however, "The biggest economic crime in American history" was not the mortgage meltdown. Instead, it was, and yet is, the unrequited toil from the enslavement of African people from 1789 to 1865; and the denial of their social, economic, and political rights, powers, and privileges, from 1866 to the present day! That is the "biggest economic crime in American history," which too few of blacks or their liberal friends readily recognize!
So, although I will readily concede the presence of my pro-Holder bias, as a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, that concession also lends credence to my assessment of AG Holder as the greatest such in American history, based not only on his record of sterling achievements, in light of the withering political opposition that he faced, but his visceral determination to assure that the nation adhered to its constitutional and legislative creed--no mean feat, as I was in a strategic place to know!
There are those who would sully the legacy of Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney General, by suggesting that his legacy is compromised, or destroyed, by his failure to prosecute the corporate perpetrators of the "biggest economic crime in American history": the mortgage meltdown of 2008-2009. That is incorrect and untrue. Tens of billions of dollars were recouped by AG Holder from the bankers who defrauded us, which matters more to me, than some crook going to jail, since I was paid!
During his administration, black farmers also received a $1.2 billion settlement for discriminatory lending practices, and mistreatment by Agriculture department employees.
What is more, however, "The biggest economic crime in American history" was not the mortgage meltdown. Instead, it was, and yet is, the unrequited toil from the enslavement of African people from 1789 to 1865; and the denial of their social, economic, and political rights, powers, and privileges, from 1866 to the present day! That is the "biggest economic crime in American history," which too few of blacks or their liberal friends readily recognize!
So, although I will readily concede the presence of my pro-Holder bias, as a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, that concession also lends credence to my assessment of AG Holder as the greatest such in American history, based not only on his record of sterling achievements, in light of the withering political opposition that he faced, but his visceral determination to assure that the nation adhered to its constitutional and legislative creed--no mean feat, as I was in a strategic place to know!
SPOON
Don't put up your spoon too soon. There may be more gifts to stir. Knives slice and dice. Forks prick and stick. But spoons truly stir. Don't put up your spoon too soon.
Thursday, September 25, 2014
OLD SCHOOL STYLING BACK IN THE DAY
Thursday, August 20, 2009
By Larry D. Coleman, Esq.
OLD SCHOOL “STYLING” BACK IN THE DAY
(St. Louis, Missouri adolescence recalled)
Back in the day, the brothers were clean.
That was part of the set, part of the scene.
The music was hot, the sisters were cold.
The lingo was hip, the spirit was bold.
The era was ‘60s, all about change.
Anything went, and nothing was strange.
Beep-beep, bang-bang, umgawah--Black Power.
Too cool to riot, we chilled in “The ‘Lou.”
While other cities burned, we jammed anew.
Doing the 2-step, the 3-step and the Bop.
The Deal, the Dog and the Slop.
Sure, Stokely came through on a blaze.
But there was also Jimi and his “Purple Haze.”
Malcolm had his moment, as did Dr. King.
But the crowds came out when James did his thing.
“Mama come here quick,
And bring your lickin’ stick! Owwww!”
Beep-beep, bang-bang, umgawah--Black Power.
After Steinberg skating and a White Castle treat
Came some Forest Park loving, real discreet.
There was the Rocking Mr. G and Bernie Hayes
There was the mighty Steve Byrd all ablaze.
“Black Radio” rocked all day and all night.
There were house parties galore, yet very few fights.
The pertinent question was the name of your school.
Your answer defined the depth of your “cool.”
Beep-beep, bang-bang, umgawah--Black Power.
Of course “cool” was relative in attribution.
But “jive” was categorical in its diminution.
One’s rhythm on the dance floor and even one’s walk
Could broadcast one’s status as quick as one’s talk.
Nuanced and complex was the social interplay
Among St. Louis’ black teenagers back in the day.
Looking back at the Arch some 40 years later
No adolescent experience could’ve been greater!
Beep-beep, bang-bang, umgawah--Black Power.
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Back in the day, the brothers were clean.
That was part of the set, part of the scene.
The music was hot, the sisters were cold.
The lingo was hip, the spirit was bold.
The era was ‘60s, all about change.
Anything went, and nothing was strange.
Beep-beep, bang-bang, umgawah--Black Power.
Too cool to riot, we chilled in “The ‘Lou.”
While other cities burned, we jammed anew.
Doing the 2-step, the 3-step and the Bop.
The Deal, the Dog and the Slop.
Sure, Stokely came through on a blaze.
But there was also Jimi and his “Purple Haze.”
Malcolm had his moment, as did Dr. King.
But the crowds came out when James did his thing.
“Mama come here quick,
And bring your lickin’ stick! Owwww!”
Beep-beep, bang-bang, umgawah--Black Power.
After Steinberg skating and a White Castle treat
Came some Forest Park loving, real discreet.
There was the Rocking Mr. G and Bernie Hayes
There was the mighty Steve Byrd all ablaze.
“Black Radio” rocked all day and all night.
There were house parties galore, yet very few fights.
The pertinent question was the name of your school.
Your answer defined the depth of your “cool.”
Beep-beep, bang-bang, umgawah--Black Power.
Of course “cool” was relative in attribution.
But “jive” was categorical in its diminution.
One’s rhythm on the dance floor and even one’s walk
Could broadcast one’s status as quick as one’s talk.
Nuanced and complex was the social interplay
Among St. Louis’ black teenagers back in the day.
Looking back at the Arch some 40 years later
No adolescent experience could’ve been greater!
Beep-beep, bang-bang, umgawah--Black Power.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014
WHITE NATIONALISM/BLACK INTERESTS
I am now reading the late Dr. Ronald W. Walters' final book, WHITE NATIONALISM/BLACK INTERESTS (2003), and it has me gasping for breath, in admiration of its acute profundity!
If you have read it, then please excuse my tardy recognition of the greatness of this scholar! (By the way, I am still in the introduction !)
For example, he writes:
"What the two perspectives, one Liberal and one Conservative, have in common is that both affirm the subordinate status of Blacks in relation to Whites as a basic value, a paradigm that, if challenged or changed, would activate both Liberals and Conservatives alike to seek to protect their status and reimpose subordination upon Blacks. This paradigm is so powerful that it has the capacity to energize Whites to invoke common interests and come together regardless of differences of political ideology or party....
"Social psychologist Johann Galtung suggested that culture was an important intervening variable in disrupting the structural dimensions of status, and that the improvement of economic and educational opportunities for Blacks promoted conflicts between Blacks and Whites. Thus, the alienation of manifested behavior may be expressed differently according to class, with lower-income alienated groups expressing more violent, socially aggressive behavior and higher-income groups utilizing institutional processes aggressively." P.6-7
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
I once hooked a big bass which pretended not to be on the line. From the tug on the line I sensed that something was there. But, it kept rising as I wound in my line. Finally, as it neared the surface I could see that it was a big, big-mouthed bass. Sensing triumph, I tugged hard. But as that ole bass breached, I could see from its ragged jaws that it had been caught and released many times before. Apparently, my hook was lightly tethered; because that big bass gave me a wink, flipped over backwards, slipped the hook, and submerged into the lake's blue depths. No one but me and that bass know that this happened, except now you. Ssssh. Don't tell!
Monday, September 22, 2014
CHOSEN PEOPLE AND PRIMORDIAL PEOPLE
To say that one is a member of God's chosen people is to state a doctrinal and dogmatic opinion, which cannot be proven. It also states that God is prejudiced, and has specific people preferences among God's creatures.
To state that one is a member of God's primordial people is to state an historical fact, which can be proven genetically, archaeologically, and which has been proven, already.
Sunday, September 21, 2014
EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING NEEDS LOVE
Everybody and Everything Needs Love: Being All of God
Love, like consciousness, and like God, defies definition. All three defy.
Each is a necessary attribute of life: God, consciousness, and love. All of these are felt, and simultaneously experienced, by all of their living, would-be definers, who are, it seems, continually frustrated by their own ineffectual efforts to describe or to define any of them by their own immersion, embodiment in same, and by their subtle, ever-changing forms.
As persons swimming underwater cannot open their mouths to speak, so the poetical, theological, prosaic, artistic, musical, geometrical, and philosophical aspiring and ascriptive describers and definers of love and consciousness must also remain mute, lest they too drown in their own confound!
Yet, everybody and everything that is alive have or has had them all, and still have them all; for, when either is withdrawn from them, love, God, or consciousness, all living has ceased.
Life is conscious of love, of God, and of consciousness, itself. Indeed, all three are self-conscious, conscious of each other, and need each other.
The first felt love is self-love which is expressed as a baby's cry for its mother's love, notice, and nurture.
Mothers reciprocate by responding to that baby's cry for love for the rest of its life. Fathers, too, who hear that cry for love, do inexorably, as they must, respond to its entreaties!
Love begets love; deep calls unto deep. God is love. God is also life. God is also consciousness of both.
Whether plant, which requires seed, soil, sun, rain, and air; or an animal which requires its equivalent share of care; or a fish, insect, or microbe, all living things have self-consciousness and require love, being all of God..
Love, like consciousness, and like God, defies definition. All three defy.
Each is a necessary attribute of life: God, consciousness, and love. All of these are felt, and simultaneously experienced, by all of their living, would-be definers, who are, it seems, continually frustrated by their own ineffectual efforts to describe or to define any of them by their own immersion, embodiment in same, and by their subtle, ever-changing forms.
As persons swimming underwater cannot open their mouths to speak, so the poetical, theological, prosaic, artistic, musical, geometrical, and philosophical aspiring and ascriptive describers and definers of love and consciousness must also remain mute, lest they too drown in their own confound!
Yet, everybody and everything that is alive have or has had them all, and still have them all; for, when either is withdrawn from them, love, God, or consciousness, all living has ceased.
Life is conscious of love, of God, and of consciousness, itself. Indeed, all three are self-conscious, conscious of each other, and need each other.
The first felt love is self-love which is expressed as a baby's cry for its mother's love, notice, and nurture.
Mothers reciprocate by responding to that baby's cry for love for the rest of its life. Fathers, too, who hear that cry for love, do inexorably, as they must, respond to its entreaties!
Love begets love; deep calls unto deep. God is love. God is also life. God is also consciousness of both.
Whether plant, which requires seed, soil, sun, rain, and air; or an animal which requires its equivalent share of care; or a fish, insect, or microbe, all living things have self-consciousness and require love, being all of God..
Saturday, September 20, 2014
TIM COLE AND MICHAEL BROWN
IF TEXAS CAN ERECT A MEMORIAL STATUE TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF TIM COLE, THE BLACK MAN WHOM DNA LATER PROVED WAS WRONGLY CONVICTED OF RAPE, WHO DIED IN JAIL AFTER 13 YEARS OF WRONGFUL IMPRISONMENT OF A HEART ATTACK, AND IF THAT STATE CAN ESTABLISH A PAYMENT OF $80,000 PER YEAR FOR OTHERS PROVEN TO HAVE BEEN WRONGFULLY INCARCERATED, THEN MISSOURI CAN DO AT LEAST AS MUCH FOR MICHAEL BROWN, WHO WAS NEVER CHARGED WITH ANY CRIME JUST GUNNED DOWN IN THE STREET 
LIKE A RABID DOG
CONSCIOUSNESS....THE NATURAL GENESIS
"We can explain certain evolutionary processes without being able to tell how or why consciousness unfolded, or even what is consciousness. This applies to pre-human consciousness, however, as well as that of Man."
P.249-250, THE NATURAL GENESIS by Gerald Massey (Black Classic Press, Baltimore MD: 1998)
BLACK PEOPLE KILLED IN AMERICA
It is very strange to me that the number of black people killed cumulatively and individually by police departments every year in America is not a defined statistical category maintained by either the Department of Justice or some other agency that is accessible to the public.
Such vital information should not have to be independently and privately compiled from responses to information requests to 25 police departments, that was recently issued by the National Bar Association, in the wake of the Ferguson, Missouri, disturbances following the murder of Michael Brown.
If such information were available, there would be no need for the National Bar Association's request. That it is not available is itself suspicious, if not sinister, and institutionally insidiously racist!
Given the national fetish with record keeping, number-crunching, and endless numerical streams covering all kinds of minutiae, why this one glaring omission would remain vacant can only bespeak political calculation!
Thursday, September 18, 2014
THAT 'OTHERNESS' IN US IS SUBLIMINAL GODLINESS IN US
THAT 'OTHERNESS' IN US IS SUBLIMINAL GODLINESS IN US
Since our conscious perception of something is slower than our innate and subliminal recognition of that same thing--be it sight, hearing, smell, taste or touch--this fact implies and proves that our intuition precedes our cognition and recognition as well, in humans, if not in other forms of life.
Thus, when we say that "something told me;" or "if I had listened to, obeyed, or followed, my first mind;." we are not just blithely blathering with no basis in fact or reality. We are sensing, feeling, reacting to, the pulse of the 'other' within us.
We, humans, are very "slow" at catching onto things which our minds, indeed our spirits and our souls, have already addressed, processed, and redressed, well in advance of our perceptions of those very things. This slowness is rather like a mother pre-tasting food before feeding it to baby, to assure that it is not too hot.
The key is to build up that intuitive musculature within us and to learn to hear, feel, see, taste, and smell all things, contemporaneously, with that spirit or soul within. And learning to trust and to have faith in that 'other' sense, which precedes and protects us, will also guard and strengthen us!
If this is sounding or feeling rather sermonic, it must necessarily be so, since we did not make ourselves; but were all made by the will of God. That same God imparted to us spirit, which when combined with flesh, adduces soul. Soul when reconnected to spirit reconnects to its source, its 'otherness', godliness.
Science has recently proven the presence and the priority of these unknown and unfelt sense perceptions that we know not of. In doing so, science has also converged with scripture, in this instance, to validate this premise of 'otherness' within us. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140916142811.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Science+News+--+ScienceDaily%29
Scripturally, Apostle Paul counsels us to exercise ourselves unto godliness. http://biblehub.com/1_timothy/4-8.htm. That suggests it is attainable now.
Being 'partakers of the divine nature' is another way of being one with that 'otherness,' with God. The 8 steps are set forth in 2 Peter 1: 4-10, to wit:
Faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly love, and charity.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+1%3A4-10&version=NRSV
That righteous 8-step exercise rewards all who enter into its loving labyrinth; it also, like fusion, generates more energy from us than it requires of us, forever!
Happily this truth is now affirmed by both science and scripture.
JOSIAH HENSON IS THE AUTHENTIC 'UNCLE TOM'
This escaped slave's 1849 autobiography was the template for UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. His brother was explorer Matthew Henson, of North Pole fame. Josiah was an AME Preacher.
Josiah Henson 
Josiah Henson was born into slavery on June 15, 1789 in Charles County, Maryland. As a young boy he witnessed slavery’s cruelties inflicted on his immediate family. Young Henson watched his father receive fifty lashes for standing up to a slave owner and then witnessed his father’s ear being severed as part of the punishment. Shortly afterwards he watched his father sold off to an Alabama slaveholder. Upon the death of his owner, Henson was separated from his mother and siblings in an estate sale. Although he was reunited with his mother, he never saw his siblings again.
Henson remained on his new owner’s farm in Montgomery County, Maryland, until he was an adult. As he aged he rose to become a trusted slave and supervised other enslaved people on the farm. However, he used his new position to make his escape from slavery. Following the Underground Railroad, Henson escaped from Maryland to the Province of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario), Canada with his wife and four children by way of the Niagara River in 1830.
Josiah Henson worked on farms near Fort Erie and Waterloo, in his first years in Canada to support his family. Then four years later in 1834 he moved with friends to Colchester and set up a black settlement on rented land. He was then able to purchase 200 acres in Dawn Township near Dresden in Kent County. The Dawn Settlement prospered, reaching a population of 500. It thrived on its exports of black walnut lumber to the United States and Britain. Henson eventually purchased another 200 acres next to the settlement, where he and his family lived.
Henson also became a Methodist preacher. He went on lecture tours and spoke as an abolitionist throughout Britain and Canada. He also worked as a conductor on the Underground Railroad between Tennessee and Ontario. In addition to his service on the Underground Railroad Henson served as a military officer in the British Army in Canada. While serving he led a black militia unit which supported the colonial government in the unsuccessful uprising by Canadian insurgents during the Rebellion of 1837.
In 1849 Henson published his autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself. Henson’s autobiography is widely believed to be the model for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 best selling novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Following the success of Stowe’s novel, Henson expanded his own life story in an 1858 work titled Truth Stranger than Fiction, Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life. Two decades later another version of his autobiography appeared.
Josiah Henson is honored by the country of Canada with the plaques that they have displayed around his cabin, the famous Uncle Tom’s Cabin, located near the Dawn settlement. This settlement is now a historic site. One plaque reads “Henson’s celebrity raised international awareness of Canada as a haven for refugees from slavery.” Henson is also the first black person to be featured on a Canadian stamp.
R-Evolution
Josiah Henson
Josiah Henson was born into slavery on June 15, 1789 in Charles County, Maryland. As a young boy he witnessed slavery’s cruelties inflicted on his immediate family. Young Henson watched his father receive fifty lashes for standing up to a slave owner and then witnessed his father’s ear being severed as part of the punishment. Shortly afterwards he watched his father sold off to an Alabama slaveholder. Upon the death of his owner, Henson was separated from his mother and siblings in an estate sale. Although he was reunited with his mother, he never saw his siblings again.
Henson remained on his new owner’s farm in Montgomery County, Maryland, until he was an adult. As he aged he rose to become a trusted slave and supervised other enslaved people on the farm. However, he used his new position to make his escape from slavery. Following the Underground Railroad, Henson escaped from Maryland to the Province of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario), Canada with his wife and four children by way of the Niagara River in 1830.
Josiah Henson worked on farms near Fort Erie and Waterloo, in his first years in Canada to support his family. Then four years later in 1834 he moved with friends to Colchester and set up a black settlement on rented land. He was then able to purchase 200 acres in Dawn Township near Dresden in Kent County. The Dawn Settlement prospered, reaching a population of 500. It thrived on its exports of black walnut lumber to the United States and Britain. Henson eventually purchased another 200 acres next to the settlement, where he and his family lived.
Henson also became a Methodist preacher. He went on lecture tours and spoke as an abolitionist throughout Britain and Canada. He also worked as a conductor on the Underground Railroad between Tennessee and Ontario. In addition to his service on the Underground Railroad Henson served as a military officer in the British Army in Canada. While serving he led a black militia unit which supported the colonial government in the unsuccessful uprising by Canadian insurgents during the Rebellion of 1837.
In 1849 Henson published his autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself. Henson’s autobiography is widely believed to be the model for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 best selling novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Following the success of Stowe’s novel, Henson expanded his own life story in an 1858 work titled Truth Stranger than Fiction, Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life. Two decades later another version of his autobiography appeared.
Josiah Henson is honored by the country of Canada with the plaques that they have displayed around his cabin, the famous Uncle Tom’s Cabin, located near the Dawn settlement. This settlement is now a historic site. One plaque reads “Henson’s celebrity raised international awareness of Canada as a haven for refugees from slavery.” Henson is also the first black person to be featured on a Canadian stamp.
Josiah Henson was born into slavery on June 15, 1789 in Charles County, Maryland. As a young boy he witnessed slavery’s cruelties inflicted on his immediate family. Young Henson watched his father receive fifty lashes for standing up to a slave owner and then witnessed his father’s ear being severed as part of the punishment. Shortly afterwards he watched his father sold off to an Alabama slaveholder. Upon the death of his owner, Henson was separated from his mother and siblings in an estate sale. Although he was reunited with his mother, he never saw his siblings again.
Henson remained on his new owner’s farm in Montgomery County, Maryland, until he was an adult. As he aged he rose to become a trusted slave and supervised other enslaved people on the farm. However, he used his new position to make his escape from slavery. Following the Underground Railroad, Henson escaped from Maryland to the Province of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario), Canada with his wife and four children by way of the Niagara River in 1830.
Josiah Henson worked on farms near Fort Erie and Waterloo, in his first years in Canada to support his family. Then four years later in 1834 he moved with friends to Colchester and set up a black settlement on rented land. He was then able to purchase 200 acres in Dawn Township near Dresden in Kent County. The Dawn Settlement prospered, reaching a population of 500. It thrived on its exports of black walnut lumber to the United States and Britain. Henson eventually purchased another 200 acres next to the settlement, where he and his family lived.
Henson also became a Methodist preacher. He went on lecture tours and spoke as an abolitionist throughout Britain and Canada. He also worked as a conductor on the Underground Railroad between Tennessee and Ontario. In addition to his service on the Underground Railroad Henson served as a military officer in the British Army in Canada. While serving he led a black militia unit which supported the colonial government in the unsuccessful uprising by Canadian insurgents during the Rebellion of 1837.
In 1849 Henson published his autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself. Henson’s autobiography is widely believed to be the model for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 best selling novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Following the success of Stowe’s novel, Henson expanded his own life story in an 1858 work titled Truth Stranger than Fiction, Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life. Two decades later another version of his autobiography appeared.
Josiah Henson is honored by the country of Canada with the plaques that they have displayed around his cabin, the famous Uncle Tom’s Cabin, located near the Dawn settlement. This settlement is now a historic site. One plaque reads “Henson’s celebrity raised international awareness of Canada as a haven for refugees from slavery.” Henson is also the first black person to be featured on a Canadian stamp.
R-Evolution
Josiah Henson
Josiah Henson was born into slavery on June 15, 1789 in Charles County, Maryland. As a young boy he witnessed slavery’s cruelties inflicted on his immediate family. Young Henson watched his father receive fifty lashes for standing up to a slave owner and then witnessed his father’s ear being severed as part of the punishment. Shortly afterwards he watched his father sold off to an Alabama slaveholder. Upon the death of his owner, Henson was separated from his mother and siblings in an estate sale. Although he was reunited with his mother, he never saw his siblings again.
Henson remained on his new owner’s farm in Montgomery County, Maryland, until he was an adult. As he aged he rose to become a trusted slave and supervised other enslaved people on the farm. However, he used his new position to make his escape from slavery. Following the Underground Railroad, Henson escaped from Maryland to the Province of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario), Canada with his wife and four children by way of the Niagara River in 1830.
Josiah Henson worked on farms near Fort Erie and Waterloo, in his first years in Canada to support his family. Then four years later in 1834 he moved with friends to Colchester and set up a black settlement on rented land. He was then able to purchase 200 acres in Dawn Township near Dresden in Kent County. The Dawn Settlement prospered, reaching a population of 500. It thrived on its exports of black walnut lumber to the United States and Britain. Henson eventually purchased another 200 acres next to the settlement, where he and his family lived.
Henson also became a Methodist preacher. He went on lecture tours and spoke as an abolitionist throughout Britain and Canada. He also worked as a conductor on the Underground Railroad between Tennessee and Ontario. In addition to his service on the Underground Railroad Henson served as a military officer in the British Army in Canada. While serving he led a black militia unit which supported the colonial government in the unsuccessful uprising by Canadian insurgents during the Rebellion of 1837.
In 1849 Henson published his autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself. Henson’s autobiography is widely believed to be the model for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 best selling novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Following the success of Stowe’s novel, Henson expanded his own life story in an 1858 work titled Truth Stranger than Fiction, Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life. Two decades later another version of his autobiography appeared.
Josiah Henson is honored by the country of Canada with the plaques that they have displayed around his cabin, the famous Uncle Tom’s Cabin, located near the Dawn settlement. This settlement is now a historic site. One plaque reads “Henson’s celebrity raised international awareness of Canada as a haven for refugees from slavery.” Henson is also the first black person to be featured on a Canadian stamp.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
STRENGTH TO LOVE....
"The agonizing moments through which I have passed during the last few years have also drawn me closer to God. More than ever before I am convinced of the reality of a personal God. True, I have always believed in the personality of God. But in the past the idea of a personal God was little more than a metaphysical category that I found theologically and philosophically satisfying. Now it is a living reality that has been validated in the experiences of everyday life. God has been profoundly real to me in recent years. In the midst of outer dangers, I felt an inner calm. In the midst of lonely days and dreary nights, I have heard an inner voice saying, 'Lo, I will be with you.' When the chains of fear and the manacles of frustration have all but stymied my efforts, I have felt the power of God transforming the fatigue of despair into the buoyancy of hope. I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving purpose and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship. Behind the harsh appearances of the world there is a benign power. To say that this God is personal is not to make him a finite object beside other finite objects or attribute to him the limitations of human personality; it is to take what is the finest and noblest in our consciousness and affirm its perfect existence in him. It is certainly true that human personality is limited, but personality as such involves no necessary limitations. It means simply self-consciousness and self-direction. So in the truest sense of the word, God is a living God. In him there is feeling and will responsive to the deepest yearnings of the human heart: This God both evokes and answers prayer."
P. 163, "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence," STRENGTH TO LOVE, by Martin Luther King, Jr.(Fortress Press, Minn.MN: 1963, 2010)
Strength to Love
A collection of sermons by the African-American civil rights leader explains his convictions in terms of the conditions and problems of contemporary society.
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JOHN P. PARKER, AUTHOR, ABOLITIONIST, INDUSTRIALIST, UNDERGROUND RAILROAD CONDUCTOR, FORMER SLAVE
"But in spite of the odds against them, there were a surprising number who did make good their escape. This must be said for the slaves who took to the woods, they were above the average slave in intelligence and courage, otherwise they would never have started. Once they started, no obstacle was too great for them to overcome.
"A man and his wife came to the Ohio River at night. Neither could swim a stroke. Still they were so determined, he placed his wife astride a log, while he placed his hand on the other and literally kicked his way across the deep and dangerous river. When at midnight the two wet and exhausted travelers came knocking on my door, I could not believe their story that they made their journey in the manner I have stated. However, there they were. Before morning I had fed them, dried them, and taken them over the hill to a place of safety.
"A man [who had] escaped to Canada came to me on his way back to get his wife. I tried to persuade him to get another wife, but he went on and shortly returned with her. But he was a rare man.
"One night I made an incursion into the enemy's country. When I came back to the river my companion failed to appear with my boat. So I secured a smaller one, loaded my crowd, and found I had one too many for my craft. The man left on shore was the husband of one of the women on the boat. We were pursued and had no time to argue the point.
"As I hesitated, one of the men in the boat walked ashore to make room for the husband. While this act was contrary to the eternal law of self-preservation, this ignorant slave sacrificed his freedom, without a moment's hesitation. Unfortunately, he was captured before we got across the river, a heroic victim of his own unselfishness. So I could go on and write instances of courage and sacrifice that these runaways showed in their determined effort to break away from slavery."
P.72-73, HIS PROMISED LAND, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN P PARKER (edited by Stuart Seely Sprague)(W.W. Norton&Co, NY: 1996)
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
ANGELIC AFFIRMATION
ANGELIC AFFIRMATION
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Meeting angels unawares is a wonderful experience. We’ve all met them, sans halos, at some time or another; often, when and where we’ve least expected them.
Of course, we have also encountered those whom appeared to us to be “angels of light,” but who were really “ravening wolves.”
Discerning the angels from the wolves is guess-work without angelic affirmation, proof.
Angels come to minister unto you. Wolves come but to lie to and to deceive you.
By their works, their deeds you shall know how to distinguish them; not by words or representations, however, flattering.
Deeds distinguish.
“Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show you my faith by my works,” James 2:18. Now that is angelic affirmation.
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Meeting angels unawares is a wonderful experience. We’ve all met them, sans halos, at some time or another; often, when and where we’ve least expected them.
Of course, we have also encountered those whom appeared to us to be “angels of light,” but who were really “ravening wolves.”
Discerning the angels from the wolves is guess-work without angelic affirmation, proof.
Angels come to minister unto you. Wolves come but to lie to and to deceive you.
By their works, their deeds you shall know how to distinguish them; not by words or representations, however, flattering.
Deeds distinguish.
“Show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show you my faith by my works,” James 2:18. Now that is angelic affirmation.
Monday, September 15, 2014
Every book is not read
Every book that I buy is not read, and every book that i read is not finished. So much to read, so little time! But, I persevere gamely with God's grace.
Sunday, September 14, 2014
GOD AND MAN
God is commensurate with man.
Dinosaurs did not know God, could not know "God." Nor did mastodons, saber-tooth tigers, or any other long begone earthen animal, before man.
Yet they existed for hundreds of millions of years on this planet, as their fossils and footprints do show.
Mankind is the latest accretion to this biosphere and this solar system. However long mankind has habituated the earth, no scientific estimate exceeds 5 million years, however hopeful it may be.
With mankind, the concept and notion of God began, as mankind searched for an insight and understanding of himself, and of herself, including all else that now appears, in this vast time and space.
So man fashioned God, and God fashioned man; as man fashioned fire, and as fire fashioned man.
All that we fashion inevitably fashions us, commensurately. Be it warfare or weaponry or religion or education or form or fashion. There is an inverse correlation between the maker and the made; a symbiosis.
Thus, mankind over the eons of its existence has distinguished itself from its animal predecessors by formulating and by formalizing the awe and wonder of the essence of life, along with its dread and detritus into a system of praise and worship, which in turn, has served to regulate relations between men and the living.
Thus, God is commensurate with man. Even the Bible says "Ye are Gods," in Psalms 82:6. So there!
Let the church say "Amen!"
Dinosaurs did not know God, could not know "God." Nor did mastodons, saber-tooth tigers, or any other long begone earthen animal, before man.
Yet they existed for hundreds of millions of years on this planet, as their fossils and footprints do show.
Mankind is the latest accretion to this biosphere and this solar system. However long mankind has habituated the earth, no scientific estimate exceeds 5 million years, however hopeful it may be.
With mankind, the concept and notion of God began, as mankind searched for an insight and understanding of himself, and of herself, including all else that now appears, in this vast time and space.
So man fashioned God, and God fashioned man; as man fashioned fire, and as fire fashioned man.
All that we fashion inevitably fashions us, commensurately. Be it warfare or weaponry or religion or education or form or fashion. There is an inverse correlation between the maker and the made; a symbiosis.
Thus, mankind over the eons of its existence has distinguished itself from its animal predecessors by formulating and by formalizing the awe and wonder of the essence of life, along with its dread and detritus into a system of praise and worship, which in turn, has served to regulate relations between men and the living.
Thus, God is commensurate with man. Even the Bible says "Ye are Gods," in Psalms 82:6. So there!
Let the church say "Amen!"
Saturday, September 13, 2014
WHITE NATIONALISM, BLACK INTERESTS
"A striking feature of the 2000 presidential election, among the many associated with that historic event, was that it completed the capture of the American political system by the radical Conservative wing of the Republican Party, a project begun when Ronal Reagan was elected to the White House in 1980. In this work, I argue that race has had much to do with the evolution of this politics and that, as a consequence, Blacks constituted the base target of a set of public policies by the Reagan regime. Thus I will discuss the development of the Conservative movement and its influence on public policy from the perspective of its focus on the Black community ....
"The case made in this work for the existence of 'White Nationalism' as a sociopolitical phenomenon is based on substantial evidence which suggests the proposition that if a race is dominant to the extent that it controls the government of the state--defined as the authoritative institutions of decision-making--it is able to utilize those institutions and the policy outcomes they produce as instruments through which it also structures its racial interests. In short, it may reward, punish and so structure outcomes as to protect and enhance its racial interests....
"I argue that the detection of national White-majority interests can be achieved by understanding the sources of White alienation that led to the development of an intellectual rationale of policy 'failure.' Together with the notion that government actions are detrimental to Whites in the social arena, this rationale was used as the pretext for attacks upon policies oriented toward Black group interests and on the federal government which supported them. Policies oriented toward Blacks, it was argued, must be devalued of their perceived advantages, and the federal government must be weakened. This could be accomplished through policies which redistribute power to states and localities and promote flexible regulation of programs, thus permitting resources to be utilized in the interests of White-majority communities.
"The consequence of this new set of policies is that Black advancement in society is defined as a threat to White national interests in the competitive context of the 'zero-sum' concept. This interpretation is reflected in the new definition of 'racial discrimination,' whereby courts have reversed policies designed to provide fairness to Blacks because they are seen as unfair to Whites. Indeed, this view has been constitutionalized, resulting in the decimation of large areas of civil rights and the devaluation of Black social mobility. Moreover, this logic promotes government actions which have the consequence of punishing Blacks by withdrawing resources and subordinating them by such practices as racial profiling and high rates of incarceration and execution."
P.1-3, "Introduction," WHITE NATIONALISM, BLACK INTERESTS by Ronald W. Walters (Wayne State U.Press, Detroit MI: 2003)
Friday, September 12, 2014
JAMES FORTEN, SAIL MAKER, ABOLITIONIST, PHILANTHROPIST, FREE MAN OF COLOR
"Because James Forten (1766-1842) became such a central figure in the history of black opposition to colonization--as we will see, he played an important role in converting and then financially supporting William Lloyd Garrison and thus in launching the radical biracial abolitionism of the 1830s and beyond--a bit more should be said about his background. Born free in Philadelphia, he attended the Quaker African School run by the pioneer abolitionist Anthony Benezet, but after his father died, he left school at age nine in order to work full-time. After the Revolution, when for a time, he was a prisoner of the British, Forten was apprenticed as a sailmaker and invented a device to handle sails. That breakthrough helped him succeed in a major way when he started his own sail making company and became one of the wealthiest blacks in the country. Forten married Charlotte Vandine, and they raised a large family devoted to abolitionism, philanthropy, temperance and women's rights."
P.172, THE PROBLEM OF SLAVERY IN THE AGE OF EMANCIPATION by David Brion Davis (2014)
THERE MUST BE A GOD SOMEWHERE
THERE MUST BE A GOD SOMEWHERE
The human race's personality and material development is posited between two alleged polarities, by certain scientists and psychologists. These are the genetic and the environmental extremes. Both alleged extremes are in total disregard of the spiritual. Yet, neither, the genetic, which precedes birth, nor the environmental, which succeeds birth, can explain or account for the infinitely grander spiritual realm which, both, subsumes and encompasses both the genetic and the environmental.
It is here, in the realm of the spiritual, in the realm of the soul, that the "scattered and peeled," Isaiah 18:2, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Abyssinians, Hamites, Cushites, Kaffirs, Libyans, and Zanj, especially those disparate Africans in the Americas, and beyond, have so distinguished themselves: inventively, musically, scientifically, technologically, scholastically, athletically, theologically, mathematically, politically, and sociologically, while surviving centuries of brutal and unrelenting onslaught, which should have killed them, as it killed others! Some such persons have even thrived in the midst of this perilously persecuting purgatory! Yes, though beat-down mentally, physically, politically, economically, intellectually from both sides, by Muslim and Christian, as well as from within their own ranks, these "African"-descended persons have survived, through cosmic love, faith, and divine rhythms.
Surely, there must be a God somewhere!
The human race's personality and material development is posited between two alleged polarities, by certain scientists and psychologists. These are the genetic and the environmental extremes. Both alleged extremes are in total disregard of the spiritual. Yet, neither, the genetic, which precedes birth, nor the environmental, which succeeds birth, can explain or account for the infinitely grander spiritual realm which, both, subsumes and encompasses both the genetic and the environmental.
It is here, in the realm of the spiritual, in the realm of the soul, that the "scattered and peeled," Isaiah 18:2, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Abyssinians, Hamites, Cushites, Kaffirs, Libyans, and Zanj, especially those disparate Africans in the Americas, and beyond, have so distinguished themselves: inventively, musically, scientifically, technologically, scholastically, athletically, theologically, mathematically, politically, and sociologically, while surviving centuries of brutal and unrelenting onslaught, which should have killed them, as it killed others! Some such persons have even thrived in the midst of this perilously persecuting purgatory! Yes, though beat-down mentally, physically, politically, economically, intellectually from both sides, by Muslim and Christian, as well as from within their own ranks, these "African"-descended persons have survived, through cosmic love, faith, and divine rhythms.
Surely, there must be a God somewhere!
Thursday, September 11, 2014
RECONCILIATION
RECONCILIATION
By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman
Thursday, September 11, 2014
My thoughts turn to ‘reconciliation’ as our nation ritually agonizes over the September 11, 2001, aerial bombing of the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon in New York City and Washington, D.C., in which thousands of American and foreign lives were lost, of all faiths, and of no faiths, when American-trained pilots, who also were Islamists led by Saudia-expatriate, Osama ben Ladin, dive-bombed hijacked American passenger planes into them. Osama was later killed pursuant to President Barack H. Obama’s orders, by Navy Seals, at his home, near Abottabad, Pakistan in 2011.
Ephesians 2:14-1621st Century King James Version (KJ21)
14 For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us,
15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that He might make in Himself one new man out of the two, so making peace,
16 and that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby.
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.
Mama once surprised me in asking what did “reconcile” mean. I told her it meant “at peace with another,” though not the same as the other, like fingers entwining, like males and females.
2 Corinthians 5:17-20, 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things have become new.
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation,
19 to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us the Word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were beseeching you by us: we pray you on Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.
“Reconciliation” is a very potent notion, deracinating artificial differences and distinctions, all the way down to the root of existence, to life itself, to mankind itself, to nature itself. Clearly, this cosmological idea, this quintessentially spiritual concept is much more powerful than its secular ‘knock-offs,’ such as political terms like: armistice, détente, freedom, integration, democracy, socialism, peace, and the like.
Colossians 1:19-2321st Century King James Version (KJ21)
19 For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell,
20 and having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself — by Him, I say, whether they be things on earth or things in heaven.
21 And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, even now hath He reconciled
22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in His sight,
23 if ye continue grounded and settled in the faith, and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel, which ye have heard and which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, am made a minister.
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.
Man’s personification of God by ascribing a gender to ‘Him’ and by attributing emotional verbs to ‘Him’ like ‘pleased” or ‘having made peace’ or ‘reconciled’ or ‘present’ are early human attempts to explain God through themselves, rather than to explain themselves through God, a confounded faith inversion.
Romans 5:10-1121st Century King James Version (KJ21)
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
11 And not only that, but we shall also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.
At the end of the day, the ultimate reconciliation is expressed in the life of Jesus Christ, whose death on the cross and ensuing resurrection, triumphed over Jewish traditionalism and over Roman nationalism, to teach the ‘least of these’ that ‘greater works than these’ can they do, too, who know him in their hearts.
Amen!
My thoughts turn to ‘reconciliation’ as our nation ritually agonizes over the September 11, 2001, aerial bombing of the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon in New York City and Washington, D.C., in which thousands of American and foreign lives were lost, of all faiths, and of no faiths, when American-trained pilots, who also were Islamists led by Saudia-expatriate, Osama ben Ladin, dive-bombed hijacked American passenger planes into them. Osama was later killed pursuant to President Barack H. Obama’s orders, by Navy Seals, at his home, near Abottabad, Pakistan in 2011.
Ephesians 2:14-1621st Century King James Version (KJ21)
14 For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us,
15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that He might make in Himself one new man out of the two, so making peace,
16 and that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby.
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.
Mama once surprised me in asking what did “reconcile” mean. I told her it meant “at peace with another,” though not the same as the other, like fingers entwining, like males and females.
2 Corinthians 5:17-20, 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things have become new.
18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation,
19 to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and hath committed unto us the Word of reconciliation.
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were beseeching you by us: we pray you on Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.
“Reconciliation” is a very potent notion, deracinating artificial differences and distinctions, all the way down to the root of existence, to life itself, to mankind itself, to nature itself. Clearly, this cosmological idea, this quintessentially spiritual concept is much more powerful than its secular ‘knock-offs,’ such as political terms like: armistice, détente, freedom, integration, democracy, socialism, peace, and the like.
Colossians 1:19-2321st Century King James Version (KJ21)
19 For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell,
20 and having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself — by Him, I say, whether they be things on earth or things in heaven.
21 And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, even now hath He reconciled
22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in His sight,
23 if ye continue grounded and settled in the faith, and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel, which ye have heard and which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, am made a minister.
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.
Man’s personification of God by ascribing a gender to ‘Him’ and by attributing emotional verbs to ‘Him’ like ‘pleased” or ‘having made peace’ or ‘reconciled’ or ‘present’ are early human attempts to explain God through themselves, rather than to explain themselves through God, a confounded faith inversion.
Romans 5:10-1121st Century King James Version (KJ21)
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
11 And not only that, but we shall also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc.
At the end of the day, the ultimate reconciliation is expressed in the life of Jesus Christ, whose death on the cross and ensuing resurrection, triumphed over Jewish traditionalism and over Roman nationalism, to teach the ‘least of these’ that ‘greater works than these’ can they do, too, who know him in their hearts.
Amen!
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
thoughts on thinking
THOUGHTS ON THINKING
Everyone thinks. Even babies think.
So, thought should alarm no one, especially what someone thinks of themselves. All think on themselves, have some estimate of themselves, be it estimable or not! It is there.
Yet, more disputes are generated by what we think that someone thinks of themselves, than is rational. We hardly know what we ourselves think of ourselves, at any given time. Even less so, then, can we possibly know the self-thoughts of another at any given time. Only God reads minds.
It is impossible to read others' minds, thoughts being the final figment of life, until death's dissipating doom.
One's conduct does not necessarily, nor accurately, reveal one's thoughts. It is written that even in mortal combat each side would rather flee, than fight, retreat than risk injury.
One passively submitting to some form of discipline would rather be disciplining the other, if the truth were known. Famously, some songwriter wrote these words: "Your body's here with me, but your mind is own the other side of town." That settles it!
In this age where there is the increasing loss of personal privacy, and of ever-diminishing personal prerogatives, it is profitable for all to leave another to their own thoughts and intuitions; while you, just as assiduously, cherish and guard your own such. Sharing your thoughts, if it profits or pleases you, and refraining to share them, when to do so is imprudent or unprofitable, is the greatest thought anyone can apply.
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
ACTING 'WHITE'
ACTING "WHITE"
"Acting white" was the excuse given for seriously beating a black girl in South Carolina by another black girl, recently. I posted the story on Facebook.
What it says about the assailant is that she is jealous, violent, seriously insecure personally and hateful.
I do not know what it says about the victim, but I suspect that she may have spoken standard English and made good grades, at a minimum. These are sufficient reasons to get beaten in this age of social imbecility, as other like instances have shown.
To safeguard your young, vulnerable, loved ones from similar attacks, I might suggest some measure of cultural inoculation, like having them learn black dances, learning black lingo, and studying black history and culture, including attending a black church! These all worked for me.
They may work for you.These may work for the hateful assailant too.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/07/high-school-girl-taunted-beaten-at-bus-stop-for-acting-too-much-like-a-white-person/
"Acting white" was the excuse given for seriously beating a black girl in South Carolina by another black girl, recently. I posted the story on Facebook.
What it says about the assailant is that she is jealous, violent, seriously insecure personally and hateful.
I do not know what it says about the victim, but I suspect that she may have spoken standard English and made good grades, at a minimum. These are sufficient reasons to get beaten in this age of social imbecility, as other like instances have shown.
To safeguard your young, vulnerable, loved ones from similar attacks, I might suggest some measure of cultural inoculation, like having them learn black dances, learning black lingo, and studying black history and culture, including attending a black church! These all worked for me.
They may work for you.These may work for the hateful assailant too.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/07/high-school-girl-taunted-beaten-at-bus-stop-for-acting-too-much-like-a-white-person/
FUNGIBLE FOOLISHNESS
FUNGIBLE FOGGINESS
No group of people have fungible skill sets. They are not interchangeable. Each person is uniquely different.
So, using such general linguistic or ideological imprecision can confound one's expectations, and frustrate one's desires, when an undesirable is appointed, although they meet the most basic group qualifications.
For example, I used to tout the desirability of having black judges, without more, until Justice Clarence Thomas' appointment taught me to be more refined and circumspect!
Similarly, many people say "the white man this or that" or "black people this or that," thereby exhibiting that same fungible fogginess of mind as me! It is imperative that each person be examined intrinsically not facially, to avoid such outcomes; on their merits.
No group of people have fungible skill sets. They are not interchangeable. Each person is uniquely different.
So, using such general linguistic or ideological imprecision can confound one's expectations, and frustrate one's desires, when an undesirable is appointed, although they meet the most basic group qualifications.
For example, I used to tout the desirability of having black judges, without more, until Justice Clarence Thomas' appointment taught me to be more refined and circumspect!
Similarly, many people say "the white man this or that" or "black people this or that," thereby exhibiting that same fungible fogginess of mind as me! It is imperative that each person be examined intrinsically not facially, to avoid such outcomes; on their merits.
Monday, September 8, 2014
nine conceptions
Nine conceptions
I think is awareness 1
I believe is conviction 2
I know is discernment 3
I am is consciousness 4
I do is dutiful 5
I love is obedience. 6
I reproduce is powerful 7
I rejoice is worship 8
I die is destiny 9
J A ROGERS
September 6, 1883 - Joel Augustus Rogers, historian, author and journalist, was born in Negril, Jamaica. Rogers was largely self-taught. He emigrated to the United States in 1906 and settled in Harlem, New York. He worked as a journalist for several African American publications, including the Pittsburgh Courier, the New York Amsterdam News, Crisis magazine, and the Negro World. He was the only Black United States war correspondent during World War II. Rogers was a prolific author who self-published most of his works. His first book, “From Superman to Man”, was published in 1917 and attacked the notion of African inferiority. Other works include “100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof” (1934), 3 volumes of “Sex and Race” published between 1941 and 1944, and 2 volumes of “World’s Great Men of Color” published between 1946 and 1947. Central themes of most of his works were that the color of skin did not determine intellectual genius and Africans had contributed more to the world than was previously acknowledged. As a result of extensive research in Europe, Rogers was multilingual, speaking German, Italian, French, and Spanish. Rogers died March 26, 1966.
Larry Delano Coleman One of our greatest historians, anthropologists, bibliophiles, philologists and global explorers in search of black history, ever, the most honorable and esteemed, Joel Augustus Rogers, from Negril, Jamaica, his birthplace and from the entire world! My transcendent hero!
Sunday, September 7, 2014
HUMAN PASSION
PASSION
"Eagerness" is a good word to describe the male in pursuit of the female. Charles Darwin uses it in THE DESCENT OF MAN, which was published in 1879. It is still true.
Reflecting back over my own life, that eagerness actually precedes sexual maturity, being rooted in biology. The phrase "boys will be boys," is ultimately rooted and grounded in human biology.
We like to pretend that we humans are in charge of every aspect of ourselves; that we are consciously capable of subduing these "passions" or tendencies. That they, these human passions, have to be banked or regulated by law, custom, religion, education, and war, attest to their virility and to their insidious power.
Cosmologists describe the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, electromagnetic force, and gravity, as the principle forces that permeate the known universe. This may well be true, but human passion is right there, also, unconquerable and insistent, albeit maligned, and scoffed, by its bearers and carriers.
Men term human passions as: sinful or evil; unlawful or reprobate; gross or wanton; They have many names and negative attributions. Yet, for all of that, human passions, are the precise converse, the ever present partner, of : goodness and righteousness; of the lawful and the acceptable; of the meek and the mild; and yes, of the male and the female.
What can separate either from the other? Can height or depth? Can hardship or distress; nakedness or peril; war or peace? Nothing can separate the male from the female.
Each is immanent in its opposite; each passion is always in the other
"Eagerness" is a good word to describe the male in pursuit of the female. Charles Darwin uses it in THE DESCENT OF MAN, which was published in 1879. It is still true.
Reflecting back over my own life, that eagerness actually precedes sexual maturity, being rooted in biology. The phrase "boys will be boys," is ultimately rooted and grounded in human biology.
We like to pretend that we humans are in charge of every aspect of ourselves; that we are consciously capable of subduing these "passions" or tendencies. That they, these human passions, have to be banked or regulated by law, custom, religion, education, and war, attest to their virility and to their insidious power.
Cosmologists describe the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, electromagnetic force, and gravity, as the principle forces that permeate the known universe. This may well be true, but human passion is right there, also, unconquerable and insistent, albeit maligned, and scoffed, by its bearers and carriers.
Men term human passions as: sinful or evil; unlawful or reprobate; gross or wanton; They have many names and negative attributions. Yet, for all of that, human passions, are the precise converse, the ever present partner, of : goodness and righteousness; of the lawful and the acceptable; of the meek and the mild; and yes, of the male and the female.
What can separate either from the other? Can height or depth? Can hardship or distress; nakedness or peril; war or peace? Nothing can separate the male from the female.
Each is immanent in its opposite; each passion is always in the other
Friday, September 5, 2014
Human knowledge must evolve infinitely...
Human knowledge and all human institutions must be comfortable with, and amenable to, better and more accurate information, to evolve always, infinitely.
SELF-HELP IS A PROVEN MAGNET
SELF-HELP IS A PROVEN MAGNET
I never cease to be amazed by media online outlets and by individuals, who complain about what white media does not depict about blacks or black history; or, who complain about what they were not taught in school about blacks and their history.
These are specious complaints and excuses for willful ignorance. No one owes a duty to inform you about yourself, particularly if to do so will come at the expense of themselves.
Not everyone is so stupid as to believe that the wolf will liberate the lamb, other than down its own gullet!
Self-help, and self-education is your "responsibility"--a bad word meaning "work"--among those who prefer indolent irresponsibility to: self-exertion, to self-help; who prefer to complain and cry "woe is me!" ; Or "how wretched I am;" or to just wait !
Self-responsibility or self-help is the proven magnet that attracts the aid and the empathy of others, not self-pity, not lack of vision or effort!
All known knowledge now exists online. Free public libraries are overflowing with books. There are simply no more excuses for wanton ignorance and for abject stupidity, if there ever was, considering that many slaves learned to read, write, cipher, and figure out how to be free from slavery, when to do so was illegal;while the rest of this nation was preoccupied with itself and not them, whom they considered to be mere chattel, dumb mutes, animals!
Get up! Get on up and help yourself !
Thursday, September 4, 2014
blacks in the scripture----very important
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlSAEuIIYVY#t=424
EXTREMELY IMPORTANT INFORMATION...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
BISHOP HENRY McNEIL TURNER
My favorite African Methodist Episcopal Bishop, after Founding Bishop Richard Allen, is Bishop Henry McNeil Turner, a scholar, organizer, and a true lover of black people!
"You may expel us, gentlemen, but I firmly believe that you will some day repent it. The black man cannot protect a country, if the country doesn't protect him; and if, tomorrow, a war should arise, I would not raise a musket to defend a country where my manhood is denied. The fashionable way in Georgia, when hard work is to be done, is for the white man to sit at his ease while the black man does the work; but, sir, I will say this much to the colored men of Georgia, as, if I should be killed in this campaign, I may have no opportunity of telling them at any other time: Never lift a finger nor raise a hand in defense of Georgia, until Georgia acknowledges that you are men and invests you with the rights pertaining to manhood." -- Henry McNeal Turner on 9/3/1868 on being one of 24 African American representatives expelled from the Georgia Legislature. Listen to excerpt of speech read by Danny Glover from Voices of a People's History of the United States and see a link to his full speech: http://bit.ly/14fH9X0
Zinn Education Project
"You may expel us, gentlemen, but I firmly believe that you will some day repent it. The black man cannot protect a country, if the country doesn't protect him; and if, tomorrow, a war should arise, I would not raise a musket to defend a country where my manhood is denied. The fashionable way in Georgia, when hard work is to be done, is for the white man to sit at his ease while the black man does the work; but, sir, I will say this much to the colored men of Georgia, as, if I should be killed in this campaign, I may have no opportunity of telling them at any other time: Never lift a finger nor raise a hand in defense of Georgia, until Georgia acknowledges that you are men and invests you with the rights pertaining to manhood." -- Henry McNeal Turner on 9/3/1868 on being one of 24 African American representatives expelled from the Georgia Legislature. Listen to excerpt of speech read by Danny Glover from Voices of a People's History of the United States and see a link to his full speech: http://bit.ly/14fH9X0
Monday, September 1, 2014
truth is freedom
John 8:32King James Version (KJV)
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
King James Version (KJV)
ZERO EVIDENCE OF HEBREW SLAVERY IN ANCIENT EGYPT
There was no--zero--evidence of Hebrew slavery, nor any other kind of slavery, in ancient Egypt: historical, archeological, anthropological, philological, cultural, nor biological. The story in the Bible is a metaphor.
http://www.haaretz.com/mobile/were-jews-ever-really-slaves-in-egypt-or-is-passover-a-myth-1.420844?v=A7693F23035E2643BD7AD82DA9653876
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WHITHER 'FREE LABOR' DAY?
WHITHER 'FREE LABOR' DAY?
Amid the barbecue, beach parties, and political proclamations on this LABOR DAY, September 1, 2014, it is meet and altogether fitting that we also pause to recognize and to acknowledge that enslaved "free labor" which predates the establishment of the United States of America, and that post-dates it as well.
Starting off as indentured servants, in Virginia, Maryland, and in Massachusetts, indentured servitude for a definite term of years, involving Indians, Africans and Europeans, evolved as a matter of law, custom, and commercial convenience, from 1619 to 1670, in the British colonies, into mandated lifetime servitude for Africans only; whence "free labor."
The famous James Somerset judicial decision in 1772 in Great Britain, which outlawed slavery on British soil, so threatened its slaveholding colonists, that America issued its acclaimed "Declaration of Independence," lest its slave-based, economic infrastructure should be destroyed, as well, thereby, in time .
So, on July 4, 1776, America unilaterally declared its national independence from Great Britain.
After winning its "War of Independence," in which Africans materially participated in aid of its revolutionary jargon, this new nation later, shamelessly and hypocritically, enshrined African chattel slavery in its new Constitution, which was ratified in 1789 and which was amended in 1791, to include the "Bill of Rights," that was reserved for white people only.
These facts, among others, are set forth with unabashed white pride by Chief Justice Roger Taney of the United States Supreme Court in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sanford decision of 1857, which ratified the prevailing notion that Africans had " no rights that the white man was bound to respect." This decision also produced the Civil War, wherein, the status of the black man, slave or free, as a matter of constitutional law would be ultimately determined.
A series of post-war, constitutional Amendments, 13-15, were added to the Constitution thereafter, to accord de facto legal status to the free blacks and to the slaves. These Amendments were further aided by a variety of statutes.
But, later judicial decisions gutting these "rights," and political compromises abandoning these "rights," resulted in malignant and benign neglect of their enforcement, at the state and federal levels, which further undermined these ephemeral "rights," which promised so much and which delivered so little.
As a consequence, many African Americans were left in a status of economic peonage, and political disenthrallment. This denizen status did not appear to end until the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and until 2008's epochal election of President Barack Obama.
So, whither the celebration for America's abundant African "free labor," which precedes trade unions and organized labor by centuries; which unions also engaged in the suppression of African American economic rights, by racist exclusionary employment practices, themselves?
Whither then "Free Labor Day ?"
Amid the barbecue, beach parties, and political proclamations on this LABOR DAY, September 1, 2014, it is meet and altogether fitting that we also pause to recognize and to acknowledge that enslaved "free labor" which predates the establishment of the United States of America, and that post-dates it as well.
Starting off as indentured servants, in Virginia, Maryland, and in Massachusetts, indentured servitude for a definite term of years, involving Indians, Africans and Europeans, evolved as a matter of law, custom, and commercial convenience, from 1619 to 1670, in the British colonies, into mandated lifetime servitude for Africans only; whence "free labor."
The famous James Somerset judicial decision in 1772 in Great Britain, which outlawed slavery on British soil, so threatened its slaveholding colonists, that America issued its acclaimed "Declaration of Independence," lest its slave-based, economic infrastructure should be destroyed, as well, thereby, in time .
So, on July 4, 1776, America unilaterally declared its national independence from Great Britain.
After winning its "War of Independence," in which Africans materially participated in aid of its revolutionary jargon, this new nation later, shamelessly and hypocritically, enshrined African chattel slavery in its new Constitution, which was ratified in 1789 and which was amended in 1791, to include the "Bill of Rights," that was reserved for white people only.
These facts, among others, are set forth with unabashed white pride by Chief Justice Roger Taney of the United States Supreme Court in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sanford decision of 1857, which ratified the prevailing notion that Africans had " no rights that the white man was bound to respect." This decision also produced the Civil War, wherein, the status of the black man, slave or free, as a matter of constitutional law would be ultimately determined.
A series of post-war, constitutional Amendments, 13-15, were added to the Constitution thereafter, to accord de facto legal status to the free blacks and to the slaves. These Amendments were further aided by a variety of statutes.
But, later judicial decisions gutting these "rights," and political compromises abandoning these "rights," resulted in malignant and benign neglect of their enforcement, at the state and federal levels, which further undermined these ephemeral "rights," which promised so much and which delivered so little.
As a consequence, many African Americans were left in a status of economic peonage, and political disenthrallment. This denizen status did not appear to end until the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and until 2008's epochal election of President Barack Obama.
So, whither the celebration for America's abundant African "free labor," which precedes trade unions and organized labor by centuries; which unions also engaged in the suppression of African American economic rights, by racist exclusionary employment practices, themselves?
Whither then "Free Labor Day ?"
PAY THE WORKERS
For the Scripture says, "You must not muzzle an ox to keep it from eating as it treads out the grain." And in another place, "Those who work deserve their pay!"For the Scripture says, "You must not muzzle an ox to keep it from eating as it treads out the grain." And in another place, "Those who work deserve their pay!" 1 Tim. 5:18