CAN WE BE AT WAR?

CAN WE BE AT WAR AND NOT KNOW? Wars can be: declared, undeclared, hot, cold, tribal, racial, covert, guerrilla, conventional, naval, cultural, religious, scholastic, scientific, intellectual, etc . But the USA's "War on Drugs" which displaced the "War on Poverty," in the United States of America, began to banish drug lifestyle choices in the 1960s, it claimed; but it now continues in the 2010's to banish black lives. The killing of unarmed black people by police is a national white-power legal epidemic that is a war on some blacks. Those stricken are usually inner-city, but not necessarily; low-income but not invariably; caught in compromised situations, usually unsparingly. So the poverty war morphed into a drug war having all aspects of the other wars, except understanding of the presence of war on its black vulnerable victims. For if they knew there was an actual war on them, that was legal, taxpayer supported, part of a "white" political consensus, to decimate their lives, it stands to reason that they would at least attempt to resist the assaults that slay them, dismay them, disarray them, would they not? Why don't they know? Why don't they recognize? Why don't they see, act to defend themselves ? Why do they not do what all self-loving living things do to preserve their lives?

"BLACKNESS" IS NOT RIGHTEOUSNESS, PER SE

To me "blackness" was synonymous with righteousness from my long study of ancient African philosophy, history and African civilizations. These giants were extolled by Greeks like Diodorus Siculus, Homer, Plato, Aristotle; and are apotheosized in marble, granite, geometry, writing, religion, mystery. Therefore , given recent events in the 20th and 21st century, involving black people, who have become leaders and criminals without values, knowledge or understanding, I now reject the notion of "blackness" as righteousness . "Whiteness" never was righteous to me because I know their "white" history, much of which is and was stolen and plagiarized from the blacks, most of whom, sadly, are ignorant of their own history, anthropology, legacy!! And the ongoing evils inflicted on us! Righteousness is divine conduct; that is personal, official, secular, religious, conduct in accordance with truth, justice, order, balance, love, nature. Righteousness is God-like, perfect, accurate, rigorous, generous, scrupulous as credo, as code, as conduct.

LIFE'S OPTIONS ARE FRUIT TREES Life's options branch out like a tree. As above so below, as all limbs end. Put another way, the expression of one thing is also the exclusion of another thing. "Expressio unias est exclusio alterius," if stated in Latin. In 1973, the year that I graduated from Howard undergrad, I had an opportunity to work for a book publisher in New York, and to work for a prominent men's magazine in Chicago. But, I turned down both, and remained in Washington, D.C. Later that summer, still in D.C., while I was summer-interning at the then-new National Cable Television Association , I had an opportunity to enter Harvard Law School on an inside connection . But, I did not follow up on it, since I did not want Harvard Law School to have any claim upon me. So I enrolled in the Howard Law School, staying in D.C. In Kansas City, Missouri, in 2000s, I was offered an inside opportunity to become a state court judge, but I bypassed that unsolicited offer, preferring to remain in the private practice of law, rather than to sit on a bench, any bench, in judgment . I am where I am, not only because of what I have done, but for what I have chosen not to do, or pursue. The same is probably true for you. We all have occupational, personal, options before us: to do or not; to have or not; to be or not, in life. If we are still here to talk about it, all has unquestionably gone very well. Thus, the branches that we chose were correct for us. Let us applaud ourselves for all moving forward on our faith; for reaping fruits thereof! No need to lament what might have been if "woulda, coulda, shoulda!"

ZORA!

ZORA! ZORA! ZORA! Nearing the end of Zora Neale Hurston's epic autobiography , DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD, (1942, 1995), after I had already snorted, then annotated "Gone girl!" parted the pages of her, "Appendix," I had imaged that I was done! What else could she have to say, after that? Plenty! Too much to share too rich to bear! Okay ! I will share a tiny taste of "My People! My People!" from the "Appendix" but it is also online. But first, her closing paragraph of the autobiography swept me away: "I have no race prejudice of any kind. My kinfolks, and my 'skinfolks' are dearly loved. My own circumstances of everyday life is there. But I see their virtues and vices everywhere I look. So I give you all my right hand of fellowship and love, and hope the same for you. In my eyesight, you lose nothing by not looking just like me. I will remember you all for my good thoughts, and I ask you kindly to do the same for me. Not only just me. You who play the zigzag lightning of power over the world, with the grumbling thunder in your wake, think kindly of those who walk in the dust. And you who walk in humble places, think kindly too, of others. There has been no proof in the world so far that you would be less arrogant if you held the lever of power in your hands. Let us all be kissing friends. Consider that with tolerance and patience, we godly demons may breed a noble world in a few hundred generations or so. Maybe all of us who do not have the good fortune to meet or meet again, in this world, will meet at a barbecue ." Of course, early Greek authors, Diodorus Siculus and Homer both differ markedly with Zora's Neale Hurston's claim about "no proof in the world that you would be less arrogant if you held the lever of power in your hands." These icons write that the Ethiopians of old were such people as these, who were renown men of justice, truth, and godliness. Each has said so in their works: Diodorus Siculus in "The Library of History," and Homer in "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." Now, a tiny taste of "My People! My People!" from Zora's "Appendix": "Like all mortals, I have been shaped by the chisel in the hand of Chance--bulged out here by a sense of victory, shrunken there by a press of failure and the knowledge of unworthiness . But it has been given to me to strive with life, and to conquer the fear of death. I have been correlated to the world so that I know the indifference of the sun to human emotions. I know that destruction and construction are but two faces of Dame Nature, and that it is nothing to her if I choose to make personal tragedy out of her unbreakable laws. "So I ask of her a few things. May I never do good consciously, nor evil unconsciously. Let my evil be known to me in advance of my acts, and my good when Nature wills. May I be granted a just mind and a timely death . "While I am still far below the allotted span of time , and notwithstanding , I feel that I have lived. I have the joy and pain of strong friendships. I have served and been served. I have made enemies of which I am not ashamed. I have been faithless , and then I have been faithful and steadfast until the blood ran down into my shoes. I have loved unselfishly with the ardor of a strong heart, and I have hated with all the power of my soul. What waits for me in the future? I do not know. I cannot even imagine , and I am glad for that. But already , I have touched the four corners of the horizon , for from hard searching it seems to me that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life." P. 231-232, 264-265.

GOOD FRIDAY GREETINGS

GOOD FRIDAY GREETINGS! Good Friday greetings! On this sacred day celebrants of the life, of the work, of the promises, of Jesus Christ sublimate Jesus' crucifixion as his liberation from the world! On this day bad becomes good. Death becomes eternal life. Today, defeat becomes victory, because his Spirit has gained  ascendency over matter. So I greet you in the name of our risen Savior, whose ransomed life is proof that in the "end" we do win!

BUM-RUSH INJUSTICES, PLEASE!

BUM-RUSH INJUSTICES, PLEASE! There is little value in our merely protesting against racial injustice using logic and sentiment, as it did not arise by just logic or sentiment . Injustice arose by means of various forms of power, and it is maintained and sustained by various forms of power. Power's varieties must be used to convert injustice to justice. It must be done by everyone that has been or may be affected by it. The reward-retribution dichotomy is a power matrix whose varieties might be profitably employed by us to combat and to rectify injustices, since a reward-retribution power-matrix was used to institute them originally, perennially, historically . Racism is a form of citizen-based injustice. Its exercise is rewarded; its non-exercise, reviled, punished. A counter-reward retribution matrix must be used by other citizens with the same zeal used by the unjust. No one can afford to wait for some other one to deliver them from the pangs/ pains of systemic injustice. Each must "work out its own salvation, with fear and trembling." The Bible declares that there is no need, reason for you to wait for any local, state, federal, government to help you, or me, to end all injustice! Neither can any nor all: civil rights organizations, politicians, banks, preachers, teachers, lawyers, schools, police, churches, militia, charities, nor anybody, alone, end injustice . Each inherited injustice whole! Each one is a beneficiary of its maliciousness, its invidiousness! Everyone, every day, affected by injustice , whether child or elder, of any hue, of any class, must resist all injustice wherever it is found, by any means available and expedient! Bum-rush our nation's execrable and too-long-lingering injustices, somehow, somewhere, everybody, please! pretty please, every day!

GRATITUDE FOR MERCY

In my life, in ways great and small, I have been shown many mercies. I thank God for each mercy received and given, known and unknown !

UNIVERSAL TRACES

Traces of all that exists in the universe, in the cosmos, are to be found in human beings, who are the "measure of all things" said the African-educated philosopher, and mathematician, Pythagoras. These ideas were reinforced in my reading of 3rd Century African philosopher, Plotinus , who wrote: "If man were all of one piece--I mean, if he were nothing more than a made thing, acting and acting upon according to a fixed nature --he could be no more subject to reproach and punishment than the mere animals. But as the scheme holds, man is singled out for condemnation when he does evil, and this with justice. For he is no mere thing made to rigid plan; his nature contains a Principle apart and free. "This does not , however, stand outside of Providence or of the reason of the All; the Over-World cannot be cut off from the World of Sense. The higher shines down upon the lower, and this illumination is Providence in its higher aspect. The Reason-Principle has two phases, one which creates the things of process and another which links them with the higher beings: these higher beings constitute the over-providence on which depends the lower providence which is the secondary Reason-Principle inseparably united with its primal: the two--the Major and Minor Providence --acting together produce the universal woof, the one all-comprehensive Providence. "Men possess, then, a distinctive Principle: but not all men turn to account all that is in their Nature; there are men that live by one Principle and men that live by another or, rather, by several others , the least noble. For all these Principles are ever present even when not acting upon the man--though we cannot think of them as lying idle; everything performs its function." P.159-150, "Providence: Second Tractate," THE ENNEADS by Plotinus (1991) 

REMEMBERING SLAVERY

OF TRADERS AND TRAITORS True traders traffic, quid pro quo, for and in goods, produce, gems and ores. False traders steal then sell their own flesh near-kin, for arms, baubles, gin, beads, cloth. Soon they too are sold as chattel to true traders. No true trader ever sells bits of himself. This is a traitor--no trader--fraud & fool! IN SOME SENSE THE BANAL BLIGHT ON AFRICA MAY BE RECOMPENSE FOR SELLING AWAY ITS SUBSTANCE TO SLAVERS FROM WESTERN ASIA AND WESTERN EUROPE.

GOD AIN'T THRU WITH ME

GOD AIN'T THRU WITH ME, YET! I confronted a dilemma in the 9th grade that I am still working with. My dilemma was what are you going to be when you grow up? At first, I wrote writer. Then, upon further reflection , I erased writer and wrote lawyer in its place. This dilemma yet pursues me at age 67. But, my stroke in 2010 terminated my law practice of 23 years. It also left me disabled physically, but yet mentally and spiritually replete. To assure that I had at least a minor publication credit, in the event of my premature death, in 2011, I self-published THE COLORED GREEN TREE, on Amazon.Com. But while it satisfied my urge to do something , it did not satisfy my scholastic nor aesthetic standards of excellence; nor my complete spiritual panoply! I feel blessed to have more work to do. I thank our Almighty God for the sacred opportunity to do this much, as much as I have, considering it all! Anyway, stay tuned! "God ain't thru with me yet," as the gospel goes! 

GOP DUAL-LEMMA

LEFTOVERS

LEFTOVERS Leftovers, if recycled properly, can be very good . Be they food, wives, husbands, pets, clothes , houses, cars , books, jewelry, appliances ; in short, if anything is recycled properly, it can come out as good, if not better than its original use, abuse, misuse.

STONE CATCHERS

STONE CATCHERS Those persons who can see inside, who can look beyond, exteriors into covert interiors, are truly, a blessed people. These are sainted people. Not only see more, but hear more, feel more, smell more, taste more; all sainted people intuit more, risk more, do more, take on more, than just plain folks, even if most of these people are no more than "just plain folks" themselves from outer appearance. These thoughts are inspired by my final readings in the stirring book, JUST MERCY: A STORY OF JUSTICE AND REDEMPTION by Bryan Stevenson, Esq. (2015), near its epilogue. Outside on the stony, worn steps of the crowded, noisy courthouse in New Orleans , Louisiana, after another stressful, rewarding, day in which his EJI (Equal Justice Institute) had earlier won, U. S. Supreme Court-backed, releases of hundreds of men who had been long imprisoned; these two in New Orleans to life in prison without parole in non-homicide cases, for over 50 years. He met an old woman sitting on the stony steps, a "stone catcher;" i.e., one who catches stones thrown at others, dutifully. She and Bryan sat together, talked, while rubbing their hands. Simply put, stone catchers' hands hurt at times too; are rough, need others' massage, sometimes . Bryan Stevenson is a stone catcher. So are all who catch my meaning.

WHAT IS THERE?

What is there and what is not there, in one's experiential make-up, are co-determinants in one's dynamic future .

DNA TEST AND PERSONAL HISTORY

DNA TEST AND PERSONAL HISTORY As a young teen, I worked with my father doing odd jobs. Once we painted the guttering of the St. Louis Missouri home of an elderly black man, whom daddy said was very learned. He was a school teacher or professor of some kind. I do not remember his name. At the conclusion of our work, daddy introduced me to that man, as his son. That man engaged in small talk with us. During our brief talk, the man said that daddy looked more like an Indian, but that I looked more like a Bantu. I do remember feeling somewhat ashamed by the facial distinction. But, since I was my first father's son, and my mother was called "black girl," lovingly by her father, who called himself an "Ethiopian, not a nigger," Perhaps, I rationalized, I had "took after" my mother more. DNA tests however of my son show no trace of Indian!

PSYCHOLOGY IS A FRAUD!

PSYCHOLOGY IS A FRAUD! A disproportionate number of black college graduates have received their BA-degrees in "Psychology." Regrettably, nowadays professional psychologists are now saying that psychology as a science is fake, is untrue, is lacking in rigor, is fallacy! When I had to take a semester of psychology in high school, I was at first enthralled to learn that the dark gene was dominant and the light gene was recessive in that course. Next, we were introduced to so-called "I.Q." Tests. In these tests black people were intrinsically inferior and retarded! I knew that alleged fact had to be a gross lie! In due course in high school, our group of insurgent black students , who were also remarkably well-read, were invited to meet with a man with a Ph.D. in Psychology and some school officials , who had invited him to meet, as their expert. But, we turned that man every which way, but loose. He ended up defending our black insurgency, turning on the people who had paid him! Our arguments convinced him! I knew this. Psychology as science was very suspect, even during the 1960s! What I knew did not matter. Psychology continued to take root in all social fields, insidiously: law, religion, education, sociology. In its wake, thousands of students of all races "bit its apple," bought into its frauds. As a college student, at Howard, I was continually amazed by the number of people who had deemed themselves to be smart, but, were majoring in psychology, rather than more utilitarian fields! Fortunately , all labor is ultimately useful, redeemable! So psychology majors are not lost, no more than mankind is lost, by the imposition of other older falsehoods, frauds that were foisted upon humanity for purpose of hegemonic enrichment. The reader is invited to google the the number of articles online about psychology that underscore, that affirm, what I have written about it! I inadvertently entered Sigmund Fraud, in typing Sigmund Freud! How Freudian indeed was my slip! https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/02/theodore-dalrymple/psychology-fraud/  https://www.livescience.com/62072-psychology-preregistration.html?utm_source=notification#undefined.gbpl

Post-1968 REFLECTIONS

PPOST-1968 QUOTA REFLECTIONS Until numerical racial quotas were abandoned by alleged civil rights leaders following the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1968, in Memphis , TN , at the black-owned Lorraine Motel, definite, tangible, mathematically determinable, objective quota- goals could have easily served as most secure guides for achieving numerical racial quotas in the historical dispensation of reward and punishment in justice and in financial resources. Such guides could have given black people and white people objective standards with which to measure, to modify, and to monitor, degrees of racial progression and racial regression in American society until the present. Instead, this all-important, major remedial matter was left to the discretion of white rulers. Their kin, affiliates and enemies, proceeded to judicially disassemble not only all quotas as legal guides in court cases, to rectify past discrimination but by media recriminations, they then calumniated quotas' integrity! Then their opportunistic heirs of leaders and rulers began to avail themselves of the vacuum, of the vacuity, left in the intellectual blackhole of lethargic black leadership. Thus, thereby, other "minorities," who were now sharing the new "black" designation, regardless of actual population numbers, like : white women, immigrants, Jews, foreigners, disabled people, even business corporations, rushed in to disproportionately claim the legal decisional largesse that was due to, that had been earned by the earlier pre-1968 blacks' leaders , in court, in jail, in street protests, that their remaining, post-1968, leaders had blithely abandoned to others' whims, after Dr. King's murder . Quotas move everything around us. Quotas maintain all things relative to us from taxes, to prices, wages, politics , guided missiles, bullets. Quotas like 3/5s are constitutional !

proof

Proof reinforces, ratifies, prior understanding; or demonstrates misunderstanding .

PINE LEAF

"In connection with my Indian experience, I conceive it to be my duty to devote a few lines to one of the bravest women that ever lived, namely, Pine Leaf--in Indian, Bar-chee-am-pe. For an Indian, she possessed great intellectual powers. She was endowed with extraordinary muscular strength , with the activity of the cat and the speed of the antelope . Her features were pleasing and her form was symmetrical. She had lost a brother on the attack on our village before mentioned --a great brave, and her twin brother. He was a fine specimen of the race of red men, and bade fair to rise to distinction ; but he was struck down in his strength , and Pine Leaf was left to avenge his death . She was at that time twelve years of age, and she solemnly vowed that she would never marry until she had killed a hundred of the enemy with her own hand. Whenever a war party started, Pine Leaf was the first to volunteer to accompany them . Her presence among them caused much amusement to the old veterans; but if she lacked physical strength , she always rode the fleetest horses, and none of the warriors could outstrip her. All admired her for her ambition , and as she advanced in years , many braves grew anxious for the speedy accomplishment of her vow. She had chosen my party to serve in, and when I engaged in the fiercest struggles , no one was more promptly at my side than the young heroine. She seemed incapable of fear; and when she arrived at womanhood , could fire a gun without flinching , and use the Indian weapons with as great dexterity as the most accomplished warrior. "I began to feel more than a common attachment toward her. Her intelligence charmed me, and her modesty and becoming demeanor singled her out from her sex. One day, while riding leisurely along, I asked her to marry me, provided we both returned safe. She flashed her dark eyes upon mine, "'You have too many already ," she said . "Do you suppose I would break my vow to the Great Spirit? He sees and knows all things; he would be angry with me, and would not suffer me to live to avenge my brother's death.' "I told her that my medicine said that I must marry her, and then I could never be vanquished or killed in battle. She laughed and said I will marry you. "When we return? "No; but when the pine leaves turn yellow." P.201-205, THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JAMES P. BECKWOURTH (1856, 1981) as told to Thomas D. Bonner

WE ARE SPIRIT

WE ARE SPIRIT, DIVINE EMANATIONS Realizing your life is not your own, but always in the power of grace, relieves you of stressful distemper . No longer need you fear death, any more than you fear life . You are a drone of God, clothed in flesh, as I. The peculiarly human perception of oneself as being divine and human is a personalization, a construction. Any earthly personification of self, any individualization of ourselves as living ever separately, severally as human beings, who are distinct from nature and from God, is an illusion, is a delusion, is confusion. Though we all are here, we did not choose to be here; we only came to realize one day that we were "here" -wherever it is 'here' is-after being here, discovering limbs, lives, here. Becoming acclimated to our being here, most of us humans would rather prefer to remain here in our adopted home on planet earth. But we do know that the mirrors who made us, who introduced us, to this physical, material, plane of being, chiral-like, have left us also. I am me as you are you seemingly. This consciousness is but another construction, since Spirit is Spirit. We are Spirit: divine emanations, who are here to do the will of God.

SELF-CONFESSION

A LAWYER'S SELF-CONFESSION Some of us lawyers are far more practical than philosophical. I recall being in the U. S. Virgin Islands in the 1990s, looking out of the window at the waves in the vast, lovely Caribbean Sea, when a fellow lawyer who was attending the same NBA "Solo Practice" seminar as me, with whom I had been conversing on recondite legal matters, smiled at me, as he said: "Larry, you are a brilliant lawyer, you are truly brilliant ! But, Larry, how are you going to get paid?" Ding! I stopped. Reflected, then burst out laughing! I had not the "faintest idea", I admitted to him, except to continue to do, the best that I knew to do, leaving it to God. 

AUNT OLLIE'S POND

Aunt Ollie's pond featured a profusion of pretty flowers reeds, birds, bees, wasps, and yellow jackets. But what I most recall as a small child were the big colored dragonflies, lords of the location, whose sheen yet captures my stare. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly

EAT, DRINK, BE MERRY

EAT DRINK AND BE MERRY Friday, March 23, 2018 By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman I WOULD RATHER EAT DRINK AND BE MERRY THAN NOT. https://www.gotquestions.org/eat-drink-and-be-merry.html OYHERS MAY DO, WILL DO, MUST DO, AS THEY PLEASE. https://joycefiler.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/eat-drink-be-merry-celebrations-in-ancient-egypt-part-two/ SOME HAVE ATTRIBUTED THIS SAYING TO THE GREEKS, OTHERS TO THE BIBLE; STILL, OTHERS TRACE ITS ORIGINS TO IMHOTEP, ARCHITECT, PHYSICIAN, PRIEST, PHILOSOPHER, MAGICIAN OF THE THIRD DYNASTY UNDER PHARAOH DJOSER OVER 2900 B.C. IT IS ELDEST OF ALL AND SOURCE OF THE OTHERS. http://www.nbufront.org/…/…/HistoricalPersonalities/hp2.html Knowledge of truthful origins promotes later understanding. SO “EAT DRINK AND BE MERRY FOR TOMORROW WE DIE. “ THAT IS THE TRUTH!

TRUTH IS THE LIGHT

Truth is the light. Dracula could not stand sunlight, neither could the Wolf-man! By the light we shall regain our freedom, the very light we lacked when we lost it! Truth is the light of the world of God. Be the light, share the light, seek the light , always! Amen.

JAMES MONTGOMERY, HERO

Col. James Montgomery of Kansas was my kind of teacher, preacher, soldier and Civil War commander. He and Harriet Tubman were formidable when fighting together in South Carolina on armed river boats where they were freeing 800 slaves and burning down plantations! He was outstanding covering Union Gen. Seymour hasty retreat from defeat brought about by his disobedience to orders and ambush at the battle of Olustee, Florida in February 1864. Col. James Montgomery's black 35th USCT also helped the 54th Massachusetts to haul a disabled troop train of white wounded soldiers back to Jacksonville 40 miles, after counter-marching 10 miles. These strong men used ropes to pull the train all except for about 10 miles, alone, when horses and mules helped them pull!http://battleofolustee.org/montgomery.html

CHALDEANS AND HEBREW BOYS

"Greek painting of three Chaldeans with captive Hebrews 11th century Greek painter - Bristol Psalter Psalms 137:1-4 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?"

FIGHTING BACK AND FORWARD

Our battle is spiritual and intellectual since such are our resources; lacking money, arms, munitions etc., we must fight back and fight forward with what we now have: truth, knowledge and righteousness in Jesus' name, as triumphantly did our divine forbears, against whom were arrayed far greater odds than these!

CALLING FOR THE INVERSION OF REVERSION

CALLING FOR THE REVERSION OF INVERSION Everything grows from the ground up. Nothing grows from the top down. An inversion, a subversion, of values makes the top the bottom, the bottom the top; makes form the master of substance; places evil deceitfulness over truth and equity. The reversion of inversion replaces upside down values on earth.

BISON BROTHERS' POLITICAL COLLOQUY

Quotation from Roosevelt Sharpe: "As a Christian I am not a follower of Malcolm X however Malcolm was right on point with a couple of things. He saw what was happening in the 60’s. The following is his actual quote: “Negroes (i.e., the race problem, the integration and civil rights issues) are nothing but tools, used by one group of whites called Liberals against another group of whites called Conservatives, either to get into power or to remain in power. Among whites here in America, the political teams are no longer divided into Democrats and Republicans. The whites who are now struggling for control of the American political throne are divided into “liberal” and “conservative” camps. The white liberals from both parties cross party lines to work together toward the same goal, and white conservatives from both parties do likewise. The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative. The liberal is more hypocritical than the conservative. Both want power, but the white liberal is the one who has perfected the art of posing as the Negro’s friend and benefactor; and by winning the friendship, allegiance, and support of the Negro, the white liberal is able to use the Negro as a pawn or tool in this political “football game” that is constantly raging between the white liberals and white conservatives. Politically the American Negro is nothing but a football and the white liberals control this mentally dead ball through tricks of tokenism: false promises of integration and civil rights. In this profitable game of deceiving and exploiting the political politician of the American Negro, those white liberals have the willing cooperation of the Negro civil rights leaders. These “leaders” sell out our people for just a few crumbs of token recognition and token gains. These “leaders” are satisfied with token victories and token progress because they themselves are nothing but token leaders” This is all so true today. My point is that understanding this truth as spoken by Malcolm X, it best serves our interest to understand this truth and play the political parties against one another as other groups have done. ... but not us..... Instead we black folks Sold our Souls to the Democratic Party in the 1960’s for 30 pieces of silver and never looked back. We gave them leadership of our cities, our schools which both have declined. We gave them our souls with our backing of their agendas of Socialism, homosexual rights, transgender acceptability, partial birth abortions, bestiality in the military, illegal immigration protection, legal gateway drugs, and Gay Marriage of which all are against our innate morality. The democrats accepted this gift from us, accepted our votes, our devotion and accepted our dollars. They then stole our history and our future and never looked back at us or our issues again. ...." My Response to Roosevelt Sharpe : This quotation from Malcolm X is on point, as are the grievous liberalism deviances, also catalogued, which burden us today. Thus, with this I agree! I do not agree that Trump is our answer. Separately, I have urged that we be a "Noncommitted Party," appendages to neither one, but available to both , either or neither, depending on the issue, national, regional , local, in accordance with our wants, as predefined by our wise men and wise women, wise boys and wise girls! Bless you Howard Bison brother for speaking truth to the forefront !

OLUSTEE FLORIDA AND COLORED TROOPS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Olustee Black troops in the Massachusetts 54th and the 35th USCT, covered the retreat of defeated Union soldiers at the Battle of Olustee Florida, February 1864, averting total catastrophe, as Commdr. Gen Gilmore's orders had been violated by Gen, Seymour, who had been instructed not to go into the interior. More spectacularly, the 54th Massachusetts countermarched 10 miles to rope-pull a broken Union train carrying wounded white Union troops to safety about 40 miles away, in Jacksonville, aided by horses for about 10 miles, from Ft. Finnegan which surely made these over-taxed veterans glad!

3 GENERATIONS OF COLEMANS

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TIYE!

"On a very lucky day three years ago today this angel was born. She is super sharp, super cute, super fun and I love her so much! Happy birthday, Tiye.☘️" Kemet Dumas Coleman

MUSIC IS COSMIC

MUSIC IS COSMIC Music is cosmic communication. It's sonic, subsonic, tactile, atomic. We hear it. We feel it. We share its structure, its spirit, its divine love, energy; its anointing power and its rhythmically harmonic, melodious, mystery that convokes or invokes. Music fructifies . Music vivifies. Music mates, dates, invigorates. It represents. It reproduces. Forever. Music is cosmic communication. it's sonic, subsonic, tactile, atomic.

REMEMBERING JUDGE COBURN

https://www.robbrobb.com/NewsPressDetail.aspx?Id=21 TRIBUTE TO THE LATE MISSOURI STATE JUDGE MICHAEL COBURN One of my favorite Jackson County, Missouri, state court judges was the late Hon. Michael Coburn, who fell through a ceiling during a "view" and died from his injuries. His death was emblematic of the type of judge that he was. A view is discretionary with the Court, rarely used, due to its risks and limited evidentiary value. But this building condemnation case was so hotly contested. One side said it was hazardous; the other side denied it! The judge's death disposed of the question summarily, dispositively. Just wanted to send a shout-out to the memory of this wonderful man, and judge who was also a wealthy, white, Republican. He had enabled me to employ an "Islamic Court" as the arbiter between two sects of disputants over rights to land that was being held in a charitable trust. Each side appointed an Islamic judge from different schools of Islamic jurisprudence to a panel, who jointly selected a third judge to hear evidence under Islamic law. At the end of our hearing their written findings of fact under Islamic law were submitted to Judge Michael Coburn, who applied Missouri law and rendered a legal judgment. In the end, both sides were happy! One never knows, does one?

IN PRAISE OF OLD THINGS

IN PRAISE OF OLD THINGS Old cheese, old wine, old trees, old books, old civilizations, old recipes, old friends, old music, old stories, old pets, old treasure, old religions, old home places, old forests, old cars, old planes, trains , ships, -- practically everything, be it alive or dead , that is old--except for old people, who have seen it all, lived through it all, experienced it all, worked in it all, bought and sold it all, used it all, know about it all, are not only not revered in our modern American culture; but we are cast aside , as rubbish, useless detritus. We blessed elders should celebrate our maturity, rather than succumbing to the absurdity of Madison Avenue 's "stay young , think young, eat young, dress young, live as though one were forever young," unnatural mass-media advertising manipulation scandals!