Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, May 26, 2016
SURVEYORS GENIUSES TRANSPONDERS
Surveyors Geniuses Transponders
Benjamin Banneker was a surveyor. He was black. That fact is not so strange since the original surveyors who designed the pyramids of ancient Kemet and Nubia were black as well. Therefore surveyors were once black. Why now are they so few? I have not seen one, ever.
For this reason , I have included an image from Kemet of surveyors ; that you too might see, and having seen them, to know that they were.
Benjamin Banneker largely taught himself surveying, just as he taught himself mathematics, astronomy, and farmers' almanac publishing by utilizing others' borrowed books. Even so, he was not averse to aid or to insight from others who knew.
Benjamin Banneker was an African American descendant of slaves. His father, a member of the Dogon tribe, was himself formerly a slave.
Slaves are/were human beings too. This fact was obvious, even if they were dark-skinned, with kinky or coiled hair. This unique, crispy hair, that is now resented, or detested, by many of its black wearers, is like Samson's magical hair, exchanging "transponder" signals from and to God, they both send and receive.
This potent, if latent, capacity to communicate with God some seem to sense, even feel but do not know what it is, nor why it is, scientifically by reason of lack of understanding.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transponder
The phrase "Transponders from God" figuratively means that they were divinely consigned by God to inhabit the Americas, in ships, en mass, to abide such duties as God may deign to bestow upon them.
In fulfilling this "Destiny" they had no choice but to comply, nor does any natural law, in obeying divine commands, be it gravity or light.
African slaves were made strong human beings, just to survive the ordeals. Many perished. Despite having been subjected to many prolonged beatings, deprivations, and abuses; in Africa, in the awful Atlantic Ocean crossing-over zone; in the Americas, whose millions of descendants are living , including the tiny few who now read these words, despite having been denied the opportunity to learn to read or to write or to cipher, still prevailed!
Although slandered by utterances that were oral, written, artistic; although banned from independent economic, political attempts to improve their personal status by avaricious Western European or American captors, they managed through divine "transpondence" to overpower attempts to humiliate, to emaciate their wills and their faith!
These profit-loving merchants, politicians, landowners, banks, insurance and shipping magnates, scholars, sheriffs, lawyers, judges, prosecutors, educators, bishops, all were among those who denied their very humanity, from the early 18th century onward. Fortunately, they went to war, Civil War, over the American status of these Africans.
As much, current unbiased history, science, anthropology recounts, repeatedly, not only were these enslaved Africans humans, but such Africans were the very first humans. They were indeed, and in fact, progenitors of their captors!
But this new land, a new continent, had to be tamed and claimed by Africans' hard labor. So, racial lies, myths, constructs were created by these craven, "Caucasian" human beings who traded in African labor. This is no condemnation. They had to do what they had to do, too, being who they are, like the blacks. Natural law like rain in May required it of them, as planets orbit the sun.
But, not just labor, also knowledge, intelligence, experience from Africa and from Europe flowed into their new homeland across the Atlantic.
Benjamin Banneker, for example, made the first clock in America, a wooden one, that kept good time. He also surveyed the new Capitol of Washington, D.C., after L'Enfant, a Frenchman, could not continue.
Also in agricultural technology and soil techniques, Africans mightily contributed. Moreover, in music, in story-telling, in cooking, in sailing, in all kinds of labor, and in other areas, the "African gift to America" as noted by Joel Augustus Rogers, has been remarkable, awesome, incalculable. They continue today.
But the continued denial of blacks' Constitutional freedoms, and their continued subjugation was deemed paramount to those whose self-interest in profiteering, oppressing, was too great to let freedom ring!
So, in the 1950s, God sent forth two grand master transponders, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. whose dyad or ideological nemesis was Minister Malcolm X. Their eloquent sermons, prayers, and appeals; their brave and daring ideas, marches galvanized our Jim-Crowed, browbeaten people into a fighting force using God's words!
Such gallantry, such leadership was instrumental in defeating those recalcitrant, rationalizing, self-justifying, former enslavers or their progeny (literally or figuratively) who were dependent on their blacks' labor, spirits, intelligence to enrich themselves. Those days are done. As Jesus said "it is finished."
Apparent to all objective viewers, now, is that the Western European transporters', former enslavers' efforts to assuage their naked guilt, by infamously lying and fabricating fables about the intelligence, about the character of these remarkable Africans whom they thought that they had possessed and had totally dispossessed! They were wrong ! God used them all, unawares, to transport these black primal transponders to a new land, for such purposes as God assigns.
Human beings all have remarkable intelligence. It is accessible to all!
Such human intelligence is innate in their human makeup from birth, if not from before their birth. Such intelligence comes from our God.
God is the maker of heaven and earth, and of life and death, and of all that is, was, or that will ever be in existence. God made man "god-like" encased in life's intelligence.
All humans are therefore geniuses. Such "genius" is innate in mankind. I am a genius. You are a genius. We are ingenious. Therefore, we can do anything thing that we put our ingenious minds to, even if we are slaves, handicapped, whatever! If we are still alive, with a reasonable portion of health and strength, with a mind to work, watch out, world!
No human being who knows of their true, "ingenious" nature can be forever kept down. That person will always apply themselves to discover, then to exploit, that veiled pathway to liberty that they learn.
Such human genius must be fed, watered and protected from harm, in order for it to grow. Therefore human genius requires nurture like that given fruit, vegetables, cattle.
Although genius may work alone. It works best, "where two or more are gathered together in my name," as Jesus taught in Matthew 18: 19-20.

Thus ends the survey in May 2016.