THE BLACK MAN: HIS ANTECEDENTS, HIS GENIUS, AND HIS ACHJIEVEMENTS

"As I gazed upon the beautiful and classic obelisk of Luxor, removed from Thebes, where it had stood for four thousand years, and transplanted to the Place de la Concorde, at Paris, and contemplated its hieroglyphic inscription of the noble daring of Sesostris, the African general, who drew kings at his chariot wheels, and left monumental inscriptions from Ethiopia to India, I felt proud of my antecedents, proud of the glorious past, which no amount of hate and prejudice could wipe away from history's page, while I had to mourn over the fall and the degradation of my race. But I do not despair; for the Negro has that intellectual genius which God has planted in the mind of man, that distinguishes him from the rest of creation, and which only needs cultivation to make it bring forth fruit. No nation has ever been found, which, by its own unaided efforts, by some powerful inward impulse, has arisen from barbarism and degradation to civilization and respectability . There is nothing in race or blood, in color or features, that imparts susceptibility of improvement to one race over another. The mind left to itself from infancy, without culture, remains a blank. Knowledge is not innate . Development makes the man. As the Greeks, and Romans, and Jews, drew knowledge from the Egyptians three thousand years ago, and the Europeans received it from the Romans, so must the blacks of this land rise in the same way. As one man learns from another, so nation learns from nation. Civilization is handed from one people to another, its great fountain and source being God our Father. No one, in the days of Cicero and Tacitus, could have predicted that the barbarism and savage wildness of the Germans would give place to the learning, refinement , and culture which that people now exhibit . Already the blacks on this continent, though kept under the heel of the white man, is fast rising in the scale of intellectual development , and proving their equality with the brotherhood of man." P.476, "The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements," WILLIAM WELLS BROWN/CLOTEL & OTHER WRITINGS (Library of America: 2014)

MOTHER'S DAY: ISIS AND HORUS -- THE BIBLE AND ANCIENT KEMET

This Kemetic account being anterior to "Cain and Abel" of the Bible, and to that of "Moses" is undoubtedly the source of both and of each.http://www.thecairopost.com/news/142641/culture/mothers-day-an-ancient-egyptian-tradition

RALPH WALDO EMERSON VISITS HOWARD UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL IN 1872

"By the early 1870s Emerson's reputation was so great that it had a life of its own. Eventually his fame effectively concealed him, especially from his admirers. When he was asked on the spur of the moment to address the law students of Howard University in 1872, Emerson improvised a talk on what books to read. What he said hardly mattered. A journalist who was present noted that the students 'we're all very much instructed by looking at Emerson's face and seeing him think.' When the event was reported in the Boston papers, local bookstores quickly sold out of the titles Emerson had mentioned." P.524-525, EMERSON THE MIND ON FIRE by Robert R. Richardson, Jr. (1995)

A SINGLE CROSS AT CANFIELD: MICHAEL BROWN'S MEMORIAL

An old rugged cross stands guard, as a silent sentinel, at the Canfield Apartments on Canfield Street, very near the very spot that Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014. Brown's statue must grace that infamous spot where he was shot.

SEPARATING THE DROSS FROM THE GEMS

Many folks mix fact with fiction; myth with reality; falsehood with truth to better deceive and to exploit those who know no better and who suspect even less. This is our challenge: to separate the wheat from the tares; the dross from the gems.

CORY BOOKER FOR PRESIDENT

Dear Senator Cory Booker, please run for President in 2016! You have the ability to win, the political aptitude to perambulate the pits of Despond strewn about for the unwary, and the integrity to do the right thing. After all, President Obama did not finish his first term in the U.S. Senate before he ran for and won that high office!

WHITE FEARS, FETISHES, GONE AMOK

WHITE FEARS, FETISHES GONE AMOK America's cities, inner cities, and city dwellers, are being slowly starved of needed capital by federal government policies and politics. These exploit white prejudices, delusions, racism, and fears to throttle the development of urban dwellers, blacks primarily, who are often foisted as undeserving. That President Obama is perceived as a greater threat to these duped and distorted Americans than is Russian Premier Vladimir Putin, in a recent poll of thousands, is proof of this predominantly white paranoia, derangement and disaffection with cities and their besotted symbols, the blacks; the focus of so many myths, white fears, and fetishes gone amok!

PALM-BEARING PENITENTS

redefining reason

REDEFINING "REASON" If reason and rationality are as easily reconcilable, and as compatible, with science and religion, and as they are with sexism and racism, in the prevailing Western intellectual traditions and societies that currently dominate humanity, as they seem to have been historically, then, newer and truer definitions of reason and rationality are clearly warranted. How, in other words, did the divine gifts of reason and rationality become so suborned, and so cleverly transmogrified as to become the subordinates indeed the confederates of the demons of deceit, greed, evil and destruction ?

ETERNALLY EVOLVING IN ALL

ETERNALLY EVOLVING IN ALL God created all. Continuously God recreates, and destroys all. "Change" is our word for characterizing our human perception and explanation of this phenomenon; this ever unfolding cosmic synthesis; this infinitely divine dynamism of both, creation and destruction. Ever evolving absolutely in time, space, energy, matter is Life.

Ibrahima Sangedou Diallo of Guinea, one of the worlds's best mathematicians

http://ynaija.com/35-year-old-african-reportedly-solves-a-270-year-old-mathematics-problem-pictured/ "Goldblach's Conjecture" is no longer conjectural, it is now actual, having been solved and proven so by Mr. I. S. Diallo of Guinea in 2013. What is Goldblach's Conjecture? Read on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach's_conjecture

SPRING LAMB AND DAFFODILS

RIGHT-MINDEDNESS

"I have ventured to present this special train of thought, because you are colored young men; and as such, allied to a people whose special need for a long while will be strength. All history shows that when a new people come on the stage of action and commence the career of manhood, there is, and for no short time either, a very large demand made on them for union, for combination, for effective force, for demonstrated manhood, for manifest and indubitable strength... "Your work then in life, young gentlemen, is most serious, and most burdensome. You have got to organize a people who have been living nigh 200 years, under a system of the most destructive mental, moral, and physical disorganization the world has ever seen. You have got to train a people to solid sober and persistent thought; a people that have been accustomed for generations to every seductive, sensual inducement which might banish thought, and dissipate all the sober processes of the intellect.... "Everything in this work is new; and believe me, as severe as it is new . The past is forever gone; and it has no teachings either for the present or the future. Nowhere in our American history can you light upon any instructive antecedents. " P. 152, 154, "Right-Mindedness," (1886) CIVILIZATION AND BLACK PROGRESS: SELECTED WRITINGS OF ALEXANDER CRUMMELL edited by J R Oldfield (1995) (The above quote was excerpted, and shared, initially, primarily to point out that the woeful disdain for the past's application to the present and to the future is not new, even among highly educated blacks. American history, indeed world history, whether in the aggregate, or as limited to the indispensable and discrete contributions of Africans to either's economic, political, or cultural legacies, if learned and studied with the focused intensity warranted by its triumphant glory, would yield many instances of "instructive antecedents" to black men and women, contrary to this Episcopal priest's asserverations.)

INNERVATED INTEGUMENTS

INNERVATED INTEGUMENTS Sunday, March 22, 2015 By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman Waves and dots discerned by our astrophysicists emanate from unique loci of unknown provenance. Their loci or points of origin that send forth sound, heat, light, electromagnetism into space are all forms of “energy.” These cosmic waves and dots fan far out into the nether reaches of infinity at light speed, forever. They innervate us Earthlings, here on the outer edges of our Milky Way galaxy, billions of light years from their “homes”; then, they continue on as before. We perceive these wave-dot emanations on our scientific instruments as effusions from stars, galaxies, supernovae, or perhaps from some hypothetical “Big Bang!” Yet, whence these true sources baffles us . Perhaps, we project our own energy into space that innervates still others, billions of light years away. Energy, we know through physics, is infinite, whether wave or dot. It changes forms, yet never dies. Earthlings are integuments of that cosmic energy, like all else, however clothed, masked, or marked. All that is, was, or ever can be, then, is some form of infinite energy, some innervated integument. #30

NUBIAN PHARAOH

James 2:18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. - King James Bible "Authorized Version", Cambridge Edition

RACISM: A DEFINITION

RACISM: A DEFINITION Racism is a coercive, paradigmatic ideology that is imposed upon its victims, and secured among its votaries by military, mercantile, religious force as rationalized by racist executive, legislative, judicial and scholastic sanctions on popular culture. Its origin is economic; used among Arab Muslims and Western Europeans to expedite their exploitation of Africans' or Asians' lands, resources, minds, bodies and souls.

moss-covered stones

If rolling stones gather no moss, neither is blameworthy. Look, instead, to the stones' rollers: the cause of this unnatural condition, whereby stones must roll.

THE FOUR PROFITS

Until peace is more profitable than war, war will reign. Until justice is more profitable than injustice, injustice will reign. Until truth is more profitable than untruth, untruth will reign. Until equality is more profitable than inequality, inequality will reign. Until those who profit disproportionately from each are deposed, or metamorphosed, neither peace nor justice nor truth nor equality will prevail upon the earth.

GRAIN IN EGYPT!

…11"Now a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers could find no food. 12"But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our fathers there the first time. 13"On the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and Joseph's family was disclosed to Pharaoh.… ACTS 7:

no more "white-washing"

Accept neither and no longer the white-washing of our faith, our history, our character, or our potentialities, most-beloved brothers & sisters!

Intentional Violation of the 14th Amendment Motivated Ferguson Police

INTENTIONAL VIOLATION OF THE 14 TH AMENDMENT MOTIVATED FERGUSON, SAYS JUSTICE REPORT By Larry Delano Coleman, Esq. March 15, 2015 As I began reading the U. S. Department of Justice’s “Executive Summary” of its extremely damning and comprehensive report of March 4, 2015, on Ferguson, Missouri, I wondered how that police department’s undue focus on revenue generation could possibly explain Officer Darren Wilson’s killing of an unarmed 18-year old boy, Michael Brown, on August 9, 2014, in the middle of the street? With that troubling question in mind, I kept reading. Then on page 3, I found a partial answer. I quote: “Even relatively routine misconduct by Ferguson police officers can have significant consequences for the people whose rights are violated. For example, in the summer of 2012, a 32-year-old African-American man sat in his car cooling off after playing basketball in a Ferguson public park. An officer pulled up behind the man’s car, blocking him in, and demanded the man’s Social Security number and identification. Without any cause, the officer accused the man of being a pedophile, referring to the presence of children in the park, and ordered the man out of his car for a pat-down, although the officer had no reason to believe the man was armed. The officer also asked to search the man’s car. The man objected, citing his constitutional rights. In response, the officer arrested the man, reportedly at gunpoint, charging him with eight violations of Ferguson’s municipal code. One charge, Making a False Declaration, was for initially providing the short form of his first name (e.g., “Mike” instead of “Michael”), and an address which, although legitimate, was different from the one on his driver’s license. Another charge was for not wearing a seat belt, even though he was seated in a parked car. The officer also charged the man both with having an expired operator’s license, and with having no operator’s license in his possession. The man told us that, because of these charges, he lost his job as a contractor with the federal government that he had held for years.” Still reeling from the impact of this encounter—which no law school text ever featured—I drew ever closer to an explanation of my primal question, why is that young black man dead? Again, I quote: “Ferguson’s law enforcement practices overwhelmingly impact African Americans…..FPD appears to bring certain offenses almost exclusively against African Americans. For example, from 2011 to 2013, African Americans accounted for 95% of Manner of Walking in Roadway charges, and 94% of all Failure to Comply charges…. the evidence shows not only that African Americans are represented at disproportionately high rates overall, but also that the disparate impact of FPD’s enforcement practices on African Americans is 48% larger when citations are issued not on the basis of radar or laser, but by some other method, such as the officer’s own visual assessment. These disparities are also present in FPD’s use of force. Nearly 90% of documented force used by FPD officers was used against African Americans. In every canine bite incident for which racial information is available, the person bitten was African American.” P.4-5 Even more damning, the DOJ Report finds intentional violation of the 14 th Amendment motivated Ferguson, in part: “Our investigation indicates that this disproportionate burden on African Americans cannot be explained by any difference in the rate at which people of different races violate the law. Rather, our investigation has revealed that these disparities occur, at least in part, because of unlawful bias against and stereotypes about African Americans. We have found substantial evidence of racial bias among police and court staff in Ferguson. For example, we discovered emails circulated by police supervisors and court staff that stereotype racial minorities as criminals, including one email that joked about an abortion by an African-American woman being a means of crime control. City officials have frequently asserted that the harsh and disparate results of Ferguson’s law enforcement system do not indicate problems with police or court practices, but instead reflect a pervasive lack of “personal responsibility” among “certain segments” of the community. Our investigation has found that the practices about which area residents have complained are in fact unconstitutional and unduly harsh. But the City’s personal-responsibility refrain is telling: it reflects many of the same racial stereotypes found in the emails between police and court supervisors. This evidence of bias and stereotyping, together with evidence that Ferguson has long recognized but failed to correct the consistent racial disparities caused by its police and court practices, demonstrates that the discriminatory effects of Ferguson’s conduct are driven at least in part by discriminatory intent in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.” That explains Michael Brown’s death. Racial “bias and stereotyping, together with evidence that Ferguson has long recognized but failed to correct the consistent racial disparities caused by its police and court practices, demonstrates that the discriminatory effects of Ferguson’s conduct are driven at least in part by discriminatory intent in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.” In short, racism! Given, this discriminatory intent, one is left to wonder—at least I am—why no court action of any type civil or criminal was commenced by DOJ against Darren Wilson or the City of Ferguson or both? My surmise is that it has to do with the ridiculously high U.S. Supreme Court burdens and elements of proof, set by it, in racial discrimination cases. These we will explore in the next installment of this analysis. #30 Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman

ETHIOPIA AND THE BIBLE

"Old Testament influences and reflections probably reached Ethiopia even before the introduction of Christianity in the fourth century and before the translation of the Bible. Monophysite Christianity, once it had taken root, became not only the official religion of the Ethiopian empire but also the most profound expression of the national existence of the Ethiopians. In its peculiar indigenized form, impregnated with strong Hebraic and archaic Semitic elements as well as pagan residua, Abyssinian Christianity constitutes a storehouse of the cultural, political and social life of the people. In speaking of this distinctive conglomerate one has to bear in mind three major manifestations in Ethiopia --Judaism, paganism, and Islam--which are either genetic ingredients of Abyssinian Christianity or at least elements of a long historical symbiosis." P.15, "Introduction," ETHIOPIA AND THE BIBLE by Edward Ullendorff (Oxford U Press: 1967)

BLACK JEWS, BLACK JESUS? SWEET JESUS!

The nation would change religions in a heartbeat if it were ever proven that Jesus was black. So deeply stained, and ingrained is our bias that many blacks and whites would seek solace elsewhere!

CONFRONTING SHAME AND GLORY

CONFRONTING SHAME AND GLORY Confronting shame online and offline is an ongoing challenge for most, if not all, scorned and suborned people of African descent in the Americas. We have been brainwashed since birth, if not sooner, repeatedly, to believe that some part of us is inferior to whites or even to other blacks. It might be our color (too dark); our hair (too nappy); our features (too "African"); our diet (too country); our religion (too emotional); our values (too "homophobic"); our politics (too Democratic); our income (too poor); our wealth (comparatively none); our intelligence (too low); our civility ( too criminal ); our togetherness (lacking esprit d'corps); our spirits ( broken ); our appearance (too this or that), etc. Our defects are legion if we listen to folks online and offline, and allow them to influence us, spiritually and culturally, in our self-conceptions. Some of our cruelest critics may be the misguided souls in your own families, under your own roofs, your own churches, schools, lodges, fraternities, sororities, or your friends. Naturally, in a historically racist society, you are daily conditioned to expect degradation and vilification, however deceitfully purveyed, on television, and mass media, in politics, at the hands of police, prosecutors and judges; in housing, real estate, banking, education, business, and elsewhere in society. It is not just whites from whom these tacit attempts to shame emanate. It also comes from blacks who bully you, tease or ridicule you, ostracize you;or who criticize you for: being "too black" or "not black enough;" too accepting of whites or not accepting enough of whites; too this or not enough that; always falling short of their standards, of their expectations. Let me quickly close. You are made in the likeness and image of God. That you even exist from the plenitude of sperm, tens of millions, ejaculated by your father into your mother, is itself so rare as to be almost lottery-like, mathematically improbable, yea even impossible ! But here you are in defiance of cosmic expectations, by reason of cosmic assignations! With consciousness and emotions you are here; with power to negotiate this material realm, you are here. There is nothing, literally nothing that is beyond you and a few others who will work with you, and who will plan with you to acquire it or to become it! That is the secret of our existence! That fact all religions and all prophets all religious tomes tell us. We mouth them prayerfully, ritualistically. But we do not believe, much less accept know them, enough in our hearts to become them or to execute them, out of our woeful fear of failing, and out of our shame. Fear, shame, humiliation, envy, desire, and embarrassment are the weapons formed against us that do prosper, every day and every night, online and offline, in our homes and in the streets, on television, radio, film and in too many magazines, newspapers and books! Such is our cup, bitter though it be, until we accept our own nobility as being kindred to the other heavenly bodies of which we consist. They are stars. We are stars. They are galaxies. We are galaxies. They are, and we are, all creations of the Creator; emanations of the Almighty. Glory in yourself! Glory in your God!

succulent sunset

SPRING!

SPRING Spring ensues inevitably, rhythmically regardless of you, me, or any maybe. Buds appear on March's tree limbs. Sunrise inclines to the southeast. Birds whistle and warble and tweet. Tulip tendrils break through the earth. Warmth gratuitously and inexorably dispels and expels the cold gradually. Young hearts expand, hopefully, while old hearts beat-on happily, relieved. Isn't it marvelous, the Spring?

THE GREATEST

THE GREATEST! I have always detested the phrase, "the greatest generation," especially as it was applied to Tom Brokaw's hagiography of white World War II veterans in a book bearing that name. My daddy was also a World War II veteran. He was the greatest to me, and he was surely not white. To the contrary, his memories of his Negro Army days are bitter ones, like riding in Jim Crow cars, in Texas, while German and Italian prisoners of war rode in first class. Yet, he and all the Negro veterans on our block in Rock Hill, Missouri, in the 1960s, faithfully and patriotically, flew the "Stars and Stripes" every holiday without fail. His hero was his father, a black farmer in Mississippi who raised nine children on his owned-land, and who lived so frugally, that daddy would recall their fine hams being sold in town at market, but not eaten at home. Instead, they ate the "lights", Daddy said, whatever that was. To daddy, his father was of the greatest generation just to be able to survive, even to thrive, in pre-World War II Mississippi ! Doubtless, my grandfather felt the same way about those ancestors, direct descendants of slaves, who engendered and raised him and his siblings in the post-Civil War, Reconstruction era, now generally known as the "nadir" of our African American history. The point is this. The "greatest" are they that produced you, raised you, and brought you to adulthood intact!

DISCRETION IS WISDOM

DISCRETION IS WISDOM Keeping certain things to yourself is better than being overly transparent. What you may have been reading, writing, thinking, eating, or doing, can disturb some people unduly, as they project themselves into your context. Discretion is wisdom. Use it!

THE OTHER "CLIMATE CHANGE"

THE OTHER "CLIMATE CHANGE" "Climate change," that prevalent political cant, much debated by science, pertains to more than the barometric readings or temperatures. Climate change also affects human interactions, human aspirations and inspirations, whatever the weather may be, on any day or in any season. Adducing an environment that is conducive to love, learning, beauty, order, justice, and peace is "climate change;" the type that I seek daily! How about you? Are you a fellow climatologist ?

PHYSICS AND REALITY

"In spite of the fact that, today, we know positively that classical mechanics fails as a foundation dominating all of physics, it still occupies the center of all of our thinking in physics. The reason for this lies in the fact that, regardless of important progress reached since the time of Newton, we have not yet arrived at a new foundation of physics concerning which it may be certain that the manifold of all investigated phenomena, and of successful partial theoretical systems, could be deduced logically from it. " P.300-301, "Physics and Reality," IDEAS AND OPINIONS by Albert Einstein (1954,1982)

MATHEMATICS' ORIGIN IS AFRICAN

MATHEMATICS' ORIGIN IS AFRICAN (The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi the World's most astonishing number, by Mario Livio (Broadway Books @ Random House, NY:2002)) In his informative book, theoretical astrophysicist Mario Livio, yet evinces that same old, enigmatic, Western European PREJUDICE against the "black" African/ Egyptian origin of mathematics, while claiming it for "whites" another invention of theirs. Such is the bane of so many other Western Europeans, who deceitfully exalt Greece, as progenitor of these subjects, whether addressing same in writing or when speaking. In short, the mathematical and philosophical origins, and influences of Egypt are falsely and deliberately misattributed to Greece by latter day, "white" non-Greeks, as promotional propaganda! Levi writes: "There is no doubt that anyone in a western or mideastern civilization is a pupil of the ancient Greeks, when it comes to mathematics, science, philosophy, art and literature.... "However, even the accomplishments of the Greeks in many other fields pale in comparison with their awe-inspiring achievements in mathematics. In the span of only four hundred years, from Thales of Miletus (at ca. 600 B.C.) to "the Great Geometer" Appollonius of Perga (at ca. 200 B.C.), the Greeks completed all the essentials of a theory of geometry. "The Greek excellence in mathematics was largely a direct consequence of their passion for knowledge for its own sake, rather than merely for practical purposes... "The curriculum for the education of statesmen at the time of Plato included arithmetic, geometry, solid geometry, and music--all of which, the Pythagorean Archytas tells us, fell under the general definition of 'mathematics.'... "Into this intellectual milieu enter Plato (428/427 B.C.--347/348 B.C.), one of the most influential minds of ancient Greece and western civilization in general... "As Plato states in 'The Republic,' mathematics was an absolute must in the education of all state leaders and philosophers. accordingly, the inscription to the entrance to his school (the Academy) read: 'Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.' ... Plato's admiration for mathematics also shows when he speaks with some envy on the attitude towards mathematics in Egypt, where 'arithmetical games have been invented for the use of mere children, which they learn as pleasure and amusement.'" Pp. 62-64 Unless one reads Plato, himself, one would come away, after reading Mario Levi's book, with the mistaken impression that the Greeks had invented mathematics "for its own sake," and for no "practical purpose!" But, if that were so, why would Plato have reason to "envy the attitude toward mathematics in Egypt," whose children learn mathematical games the Egyptians have invented for their own children's "amusement and pleasure?" Such mathematical inventiveness serves a very practical purpose: math education! Plato writes in his essay, "The Nature and Purpose of Education," in THE LAWS (Penguin Classics: 1975): "I insist that a man who intends to be good at a particular occupation must practice it from childhood... We should try to use the children's games to channel their pleasures and desires toward the activities in which they will have to engage when they are adult. To sum up, we say the correct way to bring up and educate a child is to use his playtime to imbue his soul with the greatest possible liking for the occupation in which he will have to be absolutely perfect when he grows up." Pp. 29-30 In THE LAWS, "Mathematics," Plato also states: "So we should insist that gentlemen should study these subjects to at least the same level as very many children in Egypt, who acquire such knowledge at the same time they learn to read and write. First, lessons in calculation have been devised for tiny tots to learn while they are enjoying themselves at play ... As I indicated, they make use of elementary arithmetic as an integral part of their pupils' play, so that they get a useful introduction to the art of marshaling, leading, and deploying an army, or running a household; and in general they make them more alert and resourceful persons. Next, the teacher puts the children on to measuring lengths, surfaces, and solids--a study which rescues them from the deep-rooted ignorance, at once comic and shocking, that all men display in this field. Cleinias: What sort of ignorance do you mean, in particular? Athenian: My dear Cleinias, even I took a very long time to discover mankind's plight in this business; but when I did, I was amazed, and could scarcely believe that human beings could suffer from such swinish stupidity. I blushed not only for myself, but for all Greeks in general." P.267 By the phrase "swinish stupidity," Plato " blushed not only for [himself] but for all Greeks in general" when compared in mathematical knowledge to Egyptian children. This hardly endorses the Greeks as inventors of mathematics, over 2,000 years after the building of the pyramids and over 4,000 years after the Egyptian invention of the calendar! Plato speaks truth. Those who follow him hide or elide the truth for their own perplexing ultimately "white power" purposes. They rationalize math for math's sake, with no practical application, to attempt to discount Africa's eons of megaliths, and Greece's lack of same, comparably. They wickedly dissemble their "white supremacist" paradigm under the vestments of Plato, who refers to Greek ignorance as "swinish," well knowing that very few people in this era would bother to read Plato or the ancients in quest of the actual truth! Mario Livio do you hear me?

BE VERY SURE

BE VERY SURE Teasing out the truth presumes the presence of the truth in the subject being teased. It also assumes that the teasing technique is efficacious; and that the teaser can identify the truth, when it may be found therein. What applies to truth, also, perforce, applies to other genres and subjects. "Be very sure, be very sure, the anchor holds, and grasps the solid rock," go words to a familiar hymn.

ME AND PAM GRIER

I met Pam Grier at Paseo High School of the Arts' opening some years ago, at a reception of some kind. She was standing alone in the middle of the room. I wanted to say something but was so intimidated by her beauty and reputation, that I did not know what to say or do. Finally, I approached her. "Good day, Ms. Grier, It is so good to see you again." I said. "Oh?" she replied quizzically, "Have we met?" she asked, arching an eyebrow. "Many times in my dreams," I answered. "Oh!" she giggled. "Was that you?" "Most assuredly," I said. Then, we both laughed loud and heartily, which drew others to investigate the source. Thus goes a day in the life.

NO CLAIM OF RIGHT, NO JUSTICE

NO CLAIM OF RIGHT, NO JUSTICE Any claim of right must rest upon a rock-hard foundation to be credible. If not, any slippage will usurp its claim. Without a solid claim of right, rooted in a codex of reliable rubric of proven geometric propensity, then those laws of human governance are a function of myth: being merely raw power that rules by brute force, plain prejudice, naked whim, dissembled mendacity, as oppressors of people. Such a system is unjust by any moral standard, except the claim of might. By the gravity of its own hypocrisy, such as system must fall on its own. Such a system is the American legal system, which has feigned to be just, but whose august pretensions have been blasted away by the notorious murders of Trayvon Martin, Michel Brown, Eric Garner, as well as too many others to enumerate yearly. The Department of Justice Report on the City of Ferguson, Missouri, has forced mass resignations of leading city officials, and the end is not yet. Since there are other "Ferguson's" out there, where black citizens are amerced (fined) for the right to life, these departures, though warranted, are far from satisfying for their harm. That Trayvon Martin's killer, an armed, gated community "volunteer," would escape his condign punishment without a conviction, owing to Florida's snarky "stand your ground" laws and jury instructions, will stand as immutably in legal history as the verdict in Jesus' trial before Pontius Pilate, when the Jewish priests and Pharisees cried, "Give us Barabas!!" Instead of Christ. The murder of Michael Brown without an indictment (or an information filed) of his police-killer. The videotaped murder of Eric Garner while held by four police, with no indictment (or an information filed) of his New York cop-strangler or his accomplices; whose "prosecutor" is now running for Congress; where the telltale revealing grand jury records that New York State judge refuses to release, it appears, until after the pending election, stinks like a sodden subway.

FT. PILLOW, TENNESSEE

"The first word of trouble at Fort Pillow reached Memphis, some fifty miles to the south-southwest, around midday on Tuesday, April 12. The steamer 'Platte Valley,' already scheduled to make a run up the Mississippi River that would take it past the Union outpost, was allowed to proceed, but only with the gunboat, 'Silver Cloud,' as an escort. A pair of enterprising reporters for competing St. Louis dailies wrangled their way aboard the transport, which set out at 5:00 p.m., towing the smaller 'Silver Cloud' while boiler repairs were being completed on that vessel... "The 'Silver Cloud' boldly steamed toward Fort Pillow, which was on a bluff near a bend in the river; the boat's gunners, certain that Rebels now controlled the fort, opened fire as soon as they came within range, and for the next two hours tried to provoke a response from the garrison.... Finally a white flag appeared, and a launch set out from the 'Platte Valley' with the two reporters aboard. "The first thing they noticed was bodies scattered 'along the river and on the sides of the bluff.' The correspondent for the 'St. Louis Daily Union' counted fifty or sixty corpses and wondered how many more had floated off in the current. The party was met on shore by some Confederate officers, who readily agreed to let the men climb the bluff to the fort. Tramping up the steep slope, the writer for the 'St. Louis Missouri Democrat' observed that some guns had recently been hauled away from the small redoubt located at the top. He also noticed that the 'huts scattered around had been mostly burned up. In one of these were bodies of colored soldiers, partly burned, but whether or not by design, I cannot say.' The 'Daily Union' reporter asked his guides about the large number of dead black soldiers; he was told that though the officers regretted it, it was impossible for them to 'control the "rage" and "indignation" of their soldiers when they find their own slaves fighting against them.' "Pillow itself 'was a miserably constructed affair' declared the 'Daily Union' reporter... His companion quickly spotted a glaring weakness in Pillow's location :'About thirty yards from the fort is a deep ravine, running all along the front, and so steep at the bottom as to be hidden from the fort and not commanded by its guns.' "The reporters returned to the 'Platte Valley' badly shaken by all they had seen. To the utter disgust of the 'Missouri Democrat' writer, several Union officers traveling on the transport invited their Rebel counterparts to dinner. His colleague, meanwhile, could only think about the bodies and the destruction. 'I have witnessed many revolting results of war,' he wrote, ' but I can assure your readers that that the conduct of the rebels towards our little garrison, at Fort Pillow, beggars all description for fiendish brutality and savage treachery.'" P. 156-157, "You Are Fighting Against Your Master," LIKE MEN OF WAR: BLACK TROOPS INVTHE CIVIL WAR, 1862-1865 by Noah Andre Trudeau (1998)

"WHISPERS" THAT CURE

"DIETARY" WHISPERS THAT CURE Dietary deficiency is a terrible thing. Pictures of gaunt, skeletal-looking babies from Africa or Asia plead for money with which to feed and care for them. With horror, we avert our eyes, even as others rush to donate. We suffer from a similar deficiency ourselves, not of the body, for we are robust and buxom, even in many cases, obese; fat, sleek and sassy. Our deficiency is of the mind and of the spirit. While appearing to be well, we suffer a debilitating malaise of self-doubt, self-hatred or contempt. Our cure is not to be found in the grocery stores or pharmacies, but online, in book stores, and libraries. Therein lies that cure that evades us. In 1847, reading was outlawed in the State of Missouri as were black preachers, out of the slavemasters' fear of increasingly intelligent slaves. Such slaves were threats to their continued, profitable exploitation of that free, black labor that framed their economic, social, and political status quo. Becoming literate, learned, conscious, persons was, therefore, totally incompatible with valuable and marketable bondsmen remaining enslaved, I.e., one whose body, mind, and spirit were bound alike to whites. These slave owners feared the future emergence of such persons as Denmark Vesey of South Carolina, whose 1822 plot was conceived from and concealed within the scriptures and lessons of the Bible, and within Charleston, South Carolina's nascent African Methodist Episcopal Church. Other such feared persons included David Walker of Boston, a former slave, and Massachusetts transplant, whose 1829 classic, APPEAL TO THE COLORED CITIZENS OF THE WORLD AND ESPECIALLY OF THE UNITED STATES, shocked the entire nation with its historical, apocalyptic, and Biblical prophesies of divine redemption for the black man. In like manner, Nat Turner's bloody, 1831 insurrection was carried out by a Southhampton, Virginia, slave, who taught himself to read and to write both human symbols and nature's. He and his fellows killed 60 whites, in a never-to-be-forgotten rampage. Nat Turner's intelligence was marveled at. Like Vesey, Walker, and others before them, Prophet Nat Turner found strength and instruction in the Bible. Others before Turner included Prince Hall, a free man who founded the black Masonic Lodge in the 1770s-80s, after serving in the Continental Army, and receiving his Charter directly from the Grand Lodge in England for his mother African Lodge of Boston. "Others" before Nat Turner also includes Absalom Jones, and Richard Allen, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founders in 1787 of the Free African Society, for mutual aid, the forerunner of the black St Thomas Episcopal Church and of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in later years. Education was restorative, medicinal, secular, spiritual, ongoing and empowering in all of these men. Contemporaneous with these great men, was one Phyllis Wheatley, a native-born African female, who was educated as a child in America in her captivity, and is renown for her poetry and piety, in America and in England. There were thousands of others who acquired varying degrees of learning and Biblical insight making them unfit to be slaves! Some of the more famous names include: Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, William Still, James Forten, Paul Cuffee, J. W. C. Pennington, etc. The cure that evades black America is to be found in its history and in the Bible, not as prescribed to them by others; but, as ascribed to each of them personally by that quiet, soft, voice whispering from the Holy Spirit. "11So He said, "Go forth and stand on the mountain before the LORD." And behold, the LORD was passing by! And a great and strong wind was rending the mountains and breaking in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 12After the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of a gentle blowing.…" 1 Kings 19.

'WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO 'YORK?'

Yesterday, 3/7/2015, during his brilliant and powerful, 50-year commemoration speech from Selma, Alabama, President Barack Obama, omitted to mention "York" when he mentioned Lewis, Clark and Sacajewea. This often happens; so often, in fact, that I researched and wrote about York some years ago. In addition, I also helped to design a black history program entitled, "What Ever Happened to York?" Now, at last, you know! YORK and CLARK, companions Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Updated: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman York, a black man, was one of the earliest explorers of the Louisiana Purchase. He was a “servant” of William Clark, a leader of the Louis and Clark Expedition, which was commissioned by United States President Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, and to report back its findings in 1804. York, whom William Clark referred to as his “servent,” was born in Virginia on William Clark’s father’s plantation. They had been playmates since their infancy. They had done everything together as boys: play, wrestle, run, swim, hunt, fish, and look out for one another. Clark, however, was always the boss, because at that time most—but not all-- black people were the chattel slaves of some—but not all-- white people. That was the way life was back in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s in Virginia. York could also read and write and cipher—that is, he could count and figure: add, subtract, multiply, and divide. He had learned these skills along with William Clark, who had had a private tutor to teach him. Most slaves were not taught to read, write and to cipher, because their masters were afraid they might demand their freedom, or run away, once educated. But, York and Clark were practically inseparable, so they also learned together, despite the custom of those times. York, being the body servant of William Clark, grew up in Clark’s shadow. Where you saw Clark, you saw York. And, when you saw Clark, you saw York. They were so close, even their names rhyme, Clark & York. Now the Louisiana Purchase was a large tract of land covering 15 states, west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains, and south of Canada. It easily doubled the size of the 13 original British colonies, which then comprised the United States of America. The United States government purchased this land very cheaply from France in 1803, for roughly 3 cents per acre. France, whose leader was Napoleon Bonaparte, had been defeated on the island of Hispaniola, in the nation of “Haiti,” by the black military genius, and former slave, Toussaint L’Overture. Toussaint’s top commander, General Jean Jacques Dessalines, administered the coup de grace to French General LeClerc and 30,000 crack troops in an epochal uprising of that nation’s black slaves. It is the only successful slave revolt in world history. http://www.blackpast.org/?q=gah/haitian-revolution-1791-1804 The island of Hispaniola is the first land on which the Italian adventurer, Christopher Columbus walked, when he “discovered the so-called New World in 1492,” some 300 years earlier, claiming it for Spain, aboard three ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1033.html At the time of the Louisiana Purchase, however, “Hispaniola” was half-Spanish, “Santo Domingo” and half-French, “Saint Dominigue.” Both western European nations had enslaved and imported hundreds of thousands of African chattel slaves, to grow sugarcane and other crops. “Chattel” means personal property like cattle or horses or crops. In addition to its land on the island of Hispaniola, Saint Dominigue, France also laid claim to vast tracts of land on the North American continent, itself, including New Orleans, Louisiana, and all lands to the west of the Mississippi River and south of Canada. These lands came to be known as “The Louisiana Territory.” A French explorer named Rene LaSalle had claimed these lands for France in 1682 after canoeing down the Mississippi River from Fort Wayne, Indiana . He renamed the Mississippi basin in honor of Louis XIV, king of France. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9-Robert_Cavelier,_Sieur_de_La_Salle These were the vast lands which Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President, commissioned Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, his fellow Virginians, to explore, to map, survey and describe Saint- Dominique was by far and away the richest French possession in all North America. When Sainte Dominique was lost to the blacks, in a brutal and costly war, the chastened, embarrassed, and humiliated French decided to sell all of its “Louisiana Territory,” not just the City of New Orleans, which the Americans had sought for trade purposes. France determined to sell it all to the Americans at any price, thereby enabling Napoleon to finance and to wage other wars in Europe. The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of approximately 530 million acres (828,000 sq mi or 2,100,000 km²) of French territory in 1803, at the cost of about 3¢ per acre (7¢ per ha); totaling $15 million or 80 million French francs. Including interest, America finally paid $23,213,568 for the Louisiana territory. The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota south of Mississippi River, much of North Dakota, nearly all of South Dakota, northeastern New Mexico, northern Texas, the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide, and Louisiana on both sides of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans. (The Oklahoma Panhandle, and southwestern portions of Kansas and Louisiana were still claimed by Spain at the time of the Purchase.) In addition, the Purchase contained small portions of land that would eventually become part of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The land included in the purchase comprises around 23% of the territory of the modern United States. The purchase was an important moment in the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. At the time, it faced domestic opposition as being possibly unconstitutional. Although he already knew, being one of its authors, that the U. S. Constitution did not contain any provisions for acquiring territory, Jefferson decided to purchase the “Louisiana Territory” because he felt uneasy about France and Spain having the power to block American traders' access to the port of New Orleans. [http://www.glossary.com/encyclopedia.php?q=Louisiana Purchase President Jefferson was, at that time, President of the American Philosophical Society, a scientific association of leading men, one of whom was its co-founder, Benjamin Franklin. Jefferson sent Meriweather Lewis and William Clark (accompanied by York, naturally) to study under, and to learn from these savants, before they were sent forth on this expedition, concerning the scientific, linguistic, topological, and anthropological aspects of their impending exploration of the Louisiana Territory. Other explorers had preceded Lewis , Clark and York, in exploring parts of the Louisiana Territory, at least one of whom was also black. His name was Jean Baptiste Point DuSable. Not only was this black French-speaking trapper and wealthy trader renowned for founding the City of Chicago, Illinois, but he was also an early settler of, retired in, the City of St. Charles, Missouri, the first state capitol. http://www.dusableheritage.com/history.htm Ironically, during the American Revolution, in 1779, Jean BaptistePoint DuSable, the black trader, was arrested briefly by the British for having helped William Clark’s brother, American Gen. George Rogers Clark to win at the critical battle of Vincennes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Pointe_du_Sable So, as York, the servent, helped William Clark, Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, the trader and trapper, had helped his brother, George Rogers Clark. The exploratory party set out from Illinois, in May 1804, near the juncture of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, and traveled upstream on the Missouri River in keel boats and pirogues some 1500 miles. Along the way Lewis and Clark kept journals, collected samples, and made astronomical observations from which they drew lines of longitude and latitude and mapped the river and its environs. What ever happened to York, who had tasted the freedom of the wilderness is a very interesting historical question. My research discloses that after returning to St. Louis and discovering that his wife had been sold “down the river” from Kentucky into the Deep South to parts unknown, that he returned to Indian territory, up the Missouri, and finished out his days with 4 Indian wives. Below I set forth additional research on this interesting subject. “YORK”: BIG, BLACK, MEDICINE MAN Tuesday, October 13, 2009 By Larry Delano Coleman, Esq. Members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, according to an April 1, 1804, “Journals” entry, included York, a “negro slave of Captain Clark’.” York is included among the roster of persons on the Lewis and Clark expedition, who were not on the “official pay-roll” (p.12, footnote 1). Other non-payroll roster members included: “Two interpreters, George Drewyer (or Drouillard) and Toussaint Charbonneau; an Indian woman, Sacajawea (“Bird Woman”), Charbonneau’s wife. Passed a projecting rock on which was painted a figure and a Creek… opposite a verry bad Sand bar of several miles in extent, which we named Sand C, here my servent York Swam to the Sand bar to geather Greens for our dinner, and returned with sufficient quantity wild Creases [Cresses] or Tung [Tongue] grass… (p.40) (June 4, 1804) “I saw Pelicans to day on a sand bar, My Servent York nearly loseing an eye by a man throwing Sand into it…” (p. 53) (June 18, 2004) According to William Clark, in a journal entry dated October 9, 1804, States that the Indians were “much astonished at my black Servent, who did not lose the opportunity of displaying his powers Strength &c. &c. this nation never saw a black man before.” (p.185) “By way of amusement [York] to them that he had once been a wild animal, and caught and tamed by his master; and to convince them showed them feats of strength which added to his looks made him more terrible than we wished him to be.--Biddle (I, p. 101). In a rare pamphlet entitled Adventures of Zenas Leonard (Clearfield, Pa. 1839)--for information regarding which see Chittenden’s American Fur Trade, I, p. 397--is an account of a negro residing (1832-1834) in the Crow village at the junction of Bighorn and Stinking rivers, who apparently was Clark’s servant York. He told Leonard that he first went to that country with Lewis and Clark, with whom he returned to Missouri; and he afterward accompanied a trader up the Missouri, and had remained with the Indians ever since (about ten or twelve years). He had, when Leonard saw him, four Indian wives, and possessed much reputation and influence among the Crows, from whom he secured the return of some horses which they had stolen from Leonard’s party.---Walter B. Douglas (St. Louis). (p. 185, n.1) (April 1, 1804) “I Derected My all Servent York with me to kill a Buffalow near the boat from a number then scattered in the Plains. I saw at one view near the river at least 500 Buffalow, those animals have been in view day feeding in the plains…” (p. 143) (September 8, 1804) “Several of the Curious Chiefs whome wished to see the Boat which was very curious to them viewing it as great medison, (whatever is mysterious or unintelligible is called great medicine) as they also viewed my black Servent.” (p.209) 10/28/1804 Those people are much pleased with my black Servent. Their womin verry fond of caressing our men &c. (p.194) 10/15/1804) Those Indians were much astonished at my Servent, they never Saw a black man before, all flocked around him & examin him from top to toe, he Carried on the joke and made himself more turribal than we wished him to doe. (p. 186) October 11, 1804. “[W]e made up the presents and entertained several of the curious chiefs whome, wished to see the Boat which was verry curious to them viewing it as great medison, (whatever is mysterious or unintelligible is called great medicine) as they also Viewed my black Servent.” (p. 209) (October 28, 2004). “I found them much pleased at the Dancing of our men, I ordered my black Servent to Dance which amused the Croud Verry much, and Somewhat astonished them, that So large a man should be active…” (p. 243) (December 28, 1804). York was also an interpreter. He is listed among other interpreters as “a Black man by the name of York, servant to Captain Clark.” (p. 284) April 7, 1805; also (p.229) November 30, 1804. “the method of Lewis and Clark’s communications with the Indians: “A mulatto, who spoke bad French and worse English, served as interpreter to the Captains, so that a single word to be understood by the party required to pass from the Natives to the woman [Sacajawea, Indian wife of Charboneau, who could not speak English], from the woman to the husband, from the husband to the mulatto, from the mulatto to the captains.”--Ed. (“Mulatto” reference to York, or someone else?) (p.229, n.1) (November 30, 1804) “[T]his day being Cold Several men returned a little frost bit, one of the men with his feet badly frost bit my Servents feet also frosted & his P----s (penis?) a little…” (p. 235) (December 8, 1804) Interpreters, George Drewyer and Tauasant Charbono also a Black man by the name of York, servant to Capt. Clark, an Indian Woman wife to Charbono with a young vhild, and a Mandan man who had promised us to accompany us as far as the Snake Indians with a view to bring about a good understanding and friendly intercourse between that nation and his own… (p.284) (April 7, 2005) #30

ETHIOPIA AND THE BIBLE

"The 'loci classici' of the blending of the two traditions about 'Queen of the South' and 'Candace Queen of the Ethiopians' are in the 21st and the 33rd chapters of the 'Kebra Negast'. Here the great Sheba cycle is introduced by references to Matthew 12:42 and Luke 11:31; and we are then informed that 'the Queen of the South is the queen of Ethiopia.' At this point Bodlein MS. Bruce 93 adds: 'the patrimony and country of birth of this Queen of the South is Aksum [the ancient capital of Abyssinia] for she originates from there.' In chapter 33 the conflation goes so far as to assert: 'Gaza is the city which King Solomon had given to the Queen of Ethiopia; for in the Acts of the Apostles Luke the Evangelist wrote, saying: "He is the governor of the whole country of Gaza, a eunuch of Queen Candace...'.... "Details of the Queen of Sheba cycle legends will be discussed in Chapter III, below, but it ought to be mentioned here that various versions of the Old Testament narrative (1 Kings 10) are likely to have reached Ethiopia already in pre-Christian times. They were no doubt brought into the country by South Arabian immigrants and were subsequently adapted as to contribute in the most effective way to the ennoblement of the Ethiopian nation. With the introduction of Christianity into Ethiopia in the fourth century, a Christian layer was superimposed on the Hebraic-Semitic traditions prevalent at the time. It was thus natural, and even essential, that the national ancestress of the Abyssinian nation, the Queen of Sheba, should come to be associated with 'Candace Queen of the Ethiopians,' the only express mention of Ethiopia in the New Testament." P.10-11, "Introduction," ETHIOPIA AND THE BIBLE by Edward Ullendorff (Oxford U. Press: 1967)

THE UNLIKELY CORNERSTONE

THE UNLIKELY CORNERSTONE The stone that the builders rejected has become the head stone of the corner. It was marvelous in our sight. That stone is the American black man. He that was scattered from the shores of Africa, and peeled of his family, fortune, and cultural memory. He, then, became despite his cruel humiliation, suffering, scourging, slavery, and self-contempt, a "new creature" akin to, and through, the example and aegis of Christ Jesus. He was transformed by the fire of the Holy Ghost, and alloyed by his pain and agony in fellowship with those who flayed him and betrayed him, and themselves in reprobate ways. He worked the work that was sent to him while it was still day, knowing that the night would come, when no man could work. So he worked the fields and the forges and the forests in this, his new stolen land, as would befit a newly stolen man. He worked faithfully with fear and trembling, as and for his oppressive masters, as though before God, whose anointed son he was and is and shall ever be. He thereby lived, while others died. Most importantly, he multiplied, by reason of a new yoke and paradigm, that redeemed unrequited repression. Having lived and exemplified the Beatitudes, he put to shame those who merely preached, read, taught; yet, scornfully ignored their power! He loved his enemy. He blessed them that cursed him. He did good to them that despitefully used him. He prayed for them that persecuted him. Thus, he embodied the summation of the "Sermon on the Mount": "Be ye therefore perfect even as you Father in Heaven is perfect." Matthew 5:48. All of these superhuman acts of charity prompted the question : "What manner of man is this?" What matter of man is this black man whom the work men rejected, and yet who has emerged globally as the very cornerstone of American civilization? This man is the least of these, who is really the first of these on earth, who was reborn and renewed in the wilds of North America and its environs to prove the power of God's love for those that love him; that are made by him; regardless of race, creed, color!

BACKWARDS BLACK PREACHERS ON DISPLAY

A group of obscure black preachers have come out opposed to President Obama's refusal to capitulate to the Congressional appeal of war-hawk, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that favors bombing, over nuclear negotiations with Iran. Would they prefer war? Apparently! Israel already has hundreds of bombs and missiles, some nuclear and radar. Some non-historic evangelists favor "Israel" over their own black history. Such person lead, or rather, mislead congregations large and small across America. Such folks opposed Dr. M.L. King within an annual convention of the National Baptist Convention in Kansas City in 1961, when a preacher fell off the stage in an ignoble struggle for the microphone, for control of policy, who later died! I encountered such preachers as a student in Alabama in 1970, when, as part of the "Alabama 86," we Howard University students, as campaign workers, went to Sunday services urging support for Dr. John Cashin's run for Governor against George Wallace. Many black preachers were supporting Wallace to our surprise ! So, such opposition from preachers is not new . Such preachers also opposed Jesus Christ, in whose name they serve. I do not question such preachers' sincerity. Neither do I doubt their insufferable stupidity, to paraphrase a quote of Dr. King! We must move on despite such doleful detractors and malefactors! And we will. But to do so, we must try to overcome our willful ignorance and insufferable stupidity; such derives from unalloyed emotion with too little reason, study, and love of oneself.

PROVERBS 2--MORAL BENEFITS OF WISDOM

Proverbs 2 New International Version (NIV) Moral Benefits of Wisdom 2 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, 2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding— 3 indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, 4 and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, 5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. 7 He holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless, 8 for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones. 9 Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—every good path. 10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. 11 Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you. 12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse, 13 who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways, 14 who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil, 15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways. 16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words, 17 who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.[a] 18 Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead. 19 None who go to her return or attain the paths of life. 20 Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. 21 For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it; 22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it. Footnotes:

FREEDMEN'S SAVINGS BANK AND TRUST: A FALSE AND FRAUDULENT PARASTATAL

This false parastatal was raided by white Wall Street "advisers," bandits and insiders with speculative mortgage loans on non-existent land, unsecured loans and by whimsical pillaging schemes; and out right theft. All this was facilitated by Congress, which in 1870, amended the original charter, which had limited Freedman's bank investments to only government back securities. That devious amendment opened up the spigot to thieves and crooks. Meanwhile black officers and board members took the blame, and shame, for the failure, although they did not profit. All the branches' money was returned to Washington, D. C., not invested locally, where raised by law. Their white "financial friends" got the ex-slaves' hard-earned money. Congress never repaid these losses that it and various Presidents made possible, despite decades of attempts by black politicians into the early 1900s! It was rape by a presumptive government backed parastatal, that was nothing but a conduit for fraud and theft of black people's money, faith, thrift, and zeal for collaborative enterprise! http://www.thefreedictionary.com/parastatal http://www.ask.com/wiki/Freedman's_Savings_Bank?o=2800&qsrc=999&ad=doubleDown&an=apn&ap=ask.com African American History Please like and share March 3, 1865 - President Lincoln signed legislation to incorporate the Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company, commonly known as the Freedmen’s Bank. The bank was set up to received deposits only “by or on behalf of persons heretofore held in slavery in the United States, or their descendants.” At its peak, the bank operated 37 branches in 17 states and the District of Columbia making it one of the first multi-state banks in the nation and by 1870 nearly all the branches were run by African Americans. The bank was closed in June, 1874 due to massive fraud by upper management and the board of directors and the economic instability resulting from the Panic of 1873. “The Freedmen’s Saving Bank: A Chapter in the Economic History of the Negro Race” was published in 1927.

SIMULTANEITY OF PARTICLE AND WAVE

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/03/02/photo-snaps-light-as-particle-and-wave.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon Move over, "either or; if then" or other syllogistic formulations. The brave new world of quanta has come, where both alternatives, extremities are simultaneously present; being imminent in each moment, primed, and poised.

primal riddle

PRIMAL RIDDLE What natural substance has been scattered and peeled; flung, swept and blown away into alien climes; subjected to oppressive conditions under extreme, persistent pressure, repetitively; yet, somehow after suffering all of that, was not only resilient enough to survive, but was able also to reproduce itself anew, even better than before, even while enriching each non-natal clime where it was forced to into such debilitating epigenetic, cultural recombinations?

Divine neuron: no direct sensory input no direct muscular stimulation yet predictive

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150227112456.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Science+News+--+ScienceDaily%29 "Neurons in the brain's premotor cortex are active during the planning period that occurs a fraction of a second before a person or other primate initiates a movement. Those neurons do not directly receive sensory input, nor do they directly stimulate movement of the body. Instead, Svoboda says, their activity represents a cognitive phenomenon. "You can actually read out from the neurons what the animal will do in the future," he says. "In humans, you can record this activity with an EEG electrode and read out in coarse terms when and how a person will move, before he or she is aware of where they will move."