When one considers that one of the first foreign treaties that the new United States of America government signed was with a black nation, a Mediterranean Sea-power, by its then, ministers plenipotentiary and future Presidents, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, based in Paris and London, respectively, one double-takes. That document was entered into with another sovereign state in 1787, Morocco, the Moors of the so-called Barbary States on the "shores of Tripoli." We had to pay to them $60,000 per year, not to engage in the "white slave trade" of white Americans and the release of those then captive. When grasped, one understands the depths of utter ignorance, and darkness that our race has fallen from its former heights, former knowledge of itself and light to be oblivious of this.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/barbary-wars
When "Othello" and "Titus Andronicus," two plays that were written in the 1600s, by William Shakespeare that center around noble Moors, who walked in the highest realms of European society, Othello in Florence with Lady Desdemona, and Aaron the Moor, in Gaul with Anne, Queen of the Goths, one can only marvel at our race's current historical stupor regarding these things.
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/janechaos/OthelloTitus.html
Indeed, such intellectual lapses as above on our laden people's parts, and their consequential cultural occlusions occasioned thereby in our black communities, do much to explain our collective cultural aversions to the acquisition of the truth, our frightened disdain for learning, even fear of knowledge, itself, reflexive pretentiousness to the contrary notwithstanding.
Traumatized into believing we are nobody from nobody, we conform.
To us then befalls and befits the teachings of Hosea 4:6--
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being a priest for me;
Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children."
Thursday, March 31, 2016
RACIAL SELF-STUPOR
SELF-STUPOR
When one considers that one of the first foreign treaties that the new United States of America government signed was with a black nation, a Mediterranean Sea-power, by its then, ministers plenipotentiary and future Presidents, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, based in Paris and London, respectively, one double-takes. That document was entered into with another sovereign state in 1787, Morocco, the Moors of the so-called Barbary States on the "shores of Tripoli." We had to pay to them $60,000 per year, not to engage in the "white slave trade" of white Americans and the release of those then captive. When grasped, one understands the depths of utter ignorance, and darkness that our race has fallen from its former heights, former knowledge of itself and light to be oblivious of this.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/barbary-wars
When "Othello" and "Titus Andronicus," two plays that were written in the 1600s, by William Shakespeare that center around noble Moors, who walked in the highest realms of European society, Othello in Florence with Lady Desdemona, and Aaron the Moor, in Gaul with Anne, Queen of the Goths, one can only marvel at our race's current historical stupor regarding these things.
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/janechaos/OthelloTitus.html
Indeed, such intellectual lapses as above on our laden people's parts, and their consequential cultural occlusions occasioned thereby in our black communities, do much to explain our collective cultural aversions to the acquisition of the truth, our frightened disdain for learning, even fear of knowledge, itself, reflexive pretentiousness to the contrary notwithstanding.
Traumatized into believing we are nobody from nobody, we conform.
To us then befalls and befits the teachings of Hosea 4:6--
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being a priest for me;
Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children."
When one considers that one of the first foreign treaties that the new United States of America government signed was with a black nation, a Mediterranean Sea-power, by its then, ministers plenipotentiary and future Presidents, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, based in Paris and London, respectively, one double-takes. That document was entered into with another sovereign state in 1787, Morocco, the Moors of the so-called Barbary States on the "shores of Tripoli." We had to pay to them $60,000 per year, not to engage in the "white slave trade" of white Americans and the release of those then captive. When grasped, one understands the depths of utter ignorance, and darkness that our race has fallen from its former heights, former knowledge of itself and light to be oblivious of this.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/barbary-wars
When "Othello" and "Titus Andronicus," two plays that were written in the 1600s, by William Shakespeare that center around noble Moors, who walked in the highest realms of European society, Othello in Florence with Lady Desdemona, and Aaron the Moor, in Gaul with Anne, Queen of the Goths, one can only marvel at our race's current historical stupor regarding these things.
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/janechaos/OthelloTitus.html
Indeed, such intellectual lapses as above on our laden people's parts, and their consequential cultural occlusions occasioned thereby in our black communities, do much to explain our collective cultural aversions to the acquisition of the truth, our frightened disdain for learning, even fear of knowledge, itself, reflexive pretentiousness to the contrary notwithstanding.
Traumatized into believing we are nobody from nobody, we conform.
To us then befalls and befits the teachings of Hosea 4:6--
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being a priest for me;
Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children."