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, September 7, 2017
STOP LYING AND START LEARNING!
STOP LYING AND START LEARNING!
Before the Federal Writers' Project recordings that from the 1930's, there were also already thousands, literally, of written autobiographical slave narratives to inform, inspire, instruct us, in the how-to's an wherefore's of freedom. Far too many of these books, these 19th century masterpieces, are still unread by their indolent descendants who prefer making excuses to engaging in gainful activity; who prefer to claim that the white man is "hiding" the truth from them. "Hiding it in the public library? "Hiding " it online? Liars! Bold-face, lazy, lagging, liars! They, themselves, are the truth, descend from truth, embody truth! They need to stop lying, making cowardly excuses, and read, study, learn!