NO LICENSE TO LOVE

NO LICENSE NEEDED TO LOVE One need not be a teacher to teach, nor be a preacher to preach . One need not be a farmer to farmer, nor a writer to write. One need not be be a singer to sing, nor a cook to cook, a hunter to hunt, nor a fisherman to fish. One can be all of these and many more like these, less qualifications, licenses, or regulations. So true too for love.

RICHES AND WISDOM

RICHES AND WISDOM Both wisdom and riches are wrought and sought by men. Wisdom is universal and eternal . Riches are temporal and global. Wisdom bequeaths iconic status. Riches deliver opulent iconic lives. Ultimately the question of which one is better translates into which is preferable to whom when where why and how. Each may be at war with the opposition needlessly. For King Solomon had both riches and wisdom as did ancient Egyptians' pharaohs, whose works dazzle us. Can each be the other? Can riches be wisdom and wisdom be riches? 

NO REQUIEMS

NO REQUIEM FOR WINNERS! After our having "lost" several high profile political races in Mississippi, Georgia, Florida and Maryland , a certain sadness suffuses in black Americans on November 28, 2018. Sadness has its place. But we must move on. Hope endures. Politics is but one realm of endeavor after all. Our greatest leaders were not the noted politicians that ran for office whether they won or lost. Politics is the system devised by profiteers of our oppression to maintain the flow. Our greatest heroes were not and are not the politicians, but parents and grandparents, friends, family. These are the ones to whom honor and tribute are past due; the ones to whom we must look to in these times for strength, guidance, hope and vision. What did they do with less than we now have and how? They are who brought us through; who brought us all here to carry on. They too met with disappointment and sadness in politics, in the work place, in education, in the courts, stores, hospitals, the military , the arts, in business, entertainment; in short, in every realm of endeavor . This outcome is to be expected by stigmatized minorities in a system designed to make sure that we all remain as stigmatized minorities on state, federal, local, levels to keep themselves ahead, not behind us. But through it all, through them all, our ancestors unmistakably "made it," were winners, had succeeded, indeed have superseded, against all odds, against overwhelmingly unfair racial obstacles that were designed to destroy or thwart them all . We live as proof of the victory! Within each of one of us exists the same innate power and present capabilities as were exhibited by our forefathers and foremothers. So we have no leisure to mourn for that which was impossible any way! Black people winning the top spots in states of the South (or North) are certainly inspirational if delusional. Let those of us who are in politics do politics. Let the rest of us vote, support them, but not be deceived by legerdemain by the game nor by the game's wardens . Let the rest of us not be diverted, nor deterred by the deceitful glares of politics. Let us do, rather, what we can do for ourselves, for families, friends. Such our forbears had done before in such times like this. We are their profit! We are their fortunes. Let us look to and secure our own profits and our fortunes in our heirs by securing, adjuring, them to push on till victory is won, whenever it comes!

CHURCH AND SCHOOL

This beautiful, bucolic depiction of a rural church and school evokes those in Mississippi that were constructed and attended by Daddy's family in the 1920's-40's. My grandparents are buried on its grounds.Church and school, in that order, afford the best way to remedy family, community, state, national, global, estrangements and disparities. Their combination and synergy complete us humans.

BROWN YET RESONATES AND COLORS AMERICA

I watched this outstanding video very far into last night, November 25, 2018. Author and historian, Gena Rae McNeil, Willie Epperson (Prince Edward County, Virginia), Julian Bond are remarkable, But, Jack Greenberg, Federal Judges Carter and Pollack are all notable. Special cudos to Duquesne U. Law School's Professor Gormley who splendidly pulled it all together! https://www.c-span.org/video/?181207-1/brown-v-board-education-50th-anniversary

EMANCIPATION: BLACK LAWYERS

One may well wonder whether, given the current exorbitant costs of contemporary undergraduate college educations, a reversion in education may be forthcoming, or may be underway, in which, certain students may be able to forego college altogether; and enter the graduate school of choice directly. These 2018 thoughts were inspired by multiple news reports of young students foregoing high school for college courses. If high school, why not college too? I, for one, am sure that I could have gone from high school directly into law school. Additional impetus for this surmise arises from a reading in the chapter, "Black Students in the Law Schools," in EMANCIPATION THE MAKING OF THE BLACK LAWYER 1844-1944, by J. Clay Smith, Jr.(1993). Therein my much beloved Howard Law School property professor writes: "At Howard, the students were often informed and reminded of Professor Ridley's admonition that 'the study and most of the practice of law is purely intellectual [and] that law is a jealous mistress.' Unlike schools such as Harvard and Yale, Howard 's law school was still admitting some students with a high school education when Professor [Charles Hamilton] Houston joined the faculty in 1924. Yet the law school had progressed with distinction in spite of the absence of rigid admission requirements, and so had its graduates. "To gain accreditation, the challenge for Howard University was not to remake the law school. After all, Howard lawyers had broken legal ground in a number of states. They had also gained substantial respect in both the black and white worlds with their legal training. Yet, because of racism, the law school remained outside the legal academy represented by the accrediting agencies of the Association of American Law Schools and the American Bar Association. The challenge facing Howard was to transform the law school into a form acceptable to the accreditation agency that would guarantee its survival. The challenge fell to Professor Charles Hamilton Houston." P.48.

DON'T ABUSE JESUS CHRIST

DON'T USE JESUS CHRIST TO RATIONALIZE ANY IMPERIALISM Jesus said go not into the city of the Samaritans, but preach the gospel to those of house of Israel. He also said if a house that you hail doesn't receive you with gladness, "does not welcome you," then "shake the dust of the house off your feet" and move on. https://biblehub.com/matthew/10-14.htm These two Bible references show that Jesus was not an imperialist! Some "missionaries," historically, ("Dr. Livingston, I presume"), who have operated in foreign lands, seem to have been clandestine imperialists, spies, or information gatherers, primarily. They opened the floodgates and doors for their sponsors' imperial aims of quietly exploring, mapping, trading, violating, destroying, invading, conquering, oh, and "converting" these infidels to the way, to the true, only Holy, religion, of Jesus. Both Christians and Muslims have adopted a similar covert missionary strategy toward indigenous people, as history has also shown clearly! Jesus told his disciples not to go among the Gentiles nor into the city of the Samaritans in Matt.10:5-6. https://www.google.com/…/%3fsearch=Matthew%2b10:5-6&version… So clearly there were significant limits on where his own disciples were not authorized to preach the gospel of Jesus nor to prophesy. Yet, here we are over two thousand years later seeing those very limits on geography and on theology not being respected by today's version of "Gentiles and Samaritans," who are now the "Christians" so-called. Meanwhile the disciples, Hebrews in Jesus times, are far less likely to be now Christian, but remain Jews! My point is that Jesus should not be used as a rationale for invasion. Even if the invader is a missionary who at midnight enters Sentinelese land on the island, North Sentinel, Jesus should not be used to justify this intrusion upon the seclusion of these remote Paleolithic peoples. Lastly, even if the intruder is but one man named John Allen Chau from Oral Roberts University, by way of Vancouver , Washington, who was killed there for intruding, Jesus Christ should not be used as pretext for memorializing Chau there. He premeditated on this act; fully embracing his possible death. Amen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island

HUMAN SYMBOLS

Larry Delano Coleman 1 hr · HUMANS AS SYMBOLS MaKing symbols of individuals , whether for good or ill, may not only overgeneralize, but may also indeed stigmatize or apotheosize, the groups to which they belong. Such inductive 'logic' is dangerous; it is also illogical, untruthful politics.

PHILIPPIANS 4:8

Philippians 4:8 8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy--meditate on these things.

MESMERIZING

mes·mer·ize /ˈmezməˌrīz/Submit verb hold the attention of (someone) to the exclusion of all else or so as to transfix them. "she was mesmerized by the blue eyes that stared so intently into her own" ARCHAIC hypnotize (someone). synonyms: enthrall, hold spellbound, entrance, dazzle, bedazzle, bewitch, charm, captivate, enchant, fascinate, transfix, grip, hypnotize "the dancers mesmerized us" AMERICANS ARE MESMERIZED BY MYTHOLOGY, MOVIES, TELEVISION, ADVERTISING, MONEY, AND NOW BY TRUMP.

ABOVE AND BELOW

ALL THE ABOVE AND BELOW The same gravity is on us all; so too are the same air, sun, moon, stars, dirt, water, pressure, atmosphere. Reflecting on these things brings us to a mighty realization; that we are all kin and that we are all in the warp and woof of divine destiny. Just to be here. Just to know of, just to share in, the manifold gifts making our being possible; sustainable, replicable within the infinite realms of time and space, matter and energy, with some semblance of a conception of our self-consciousness: imbued with divine capabilities and with divine capacities to do whatever we would want to do, here, working all as one! Thank you Lord! Thank you, Master! Thank you, Heavenly Father! Thank you! Natural and Supernatural-Earthly-Heavenly: Mothers and Fathers. We are all of the above. We are all of the below! Amen! 

COUPLING DECOUPLING

"Coupling and Decoupling is Life" Dynamic forces flow through all forms of life from conception to clot through demise back to force : Zygote embryo fetus baby child teen adult elder, dynamic forms. We customarily conceive of force being separate from form. In life, force and form ally, conflate as one; at death they decouple and return. https://blogs.plos.org/dnascience/2013/10/03/when-does-a-human-life-begins-17-timepoints/?fbclid=IwAR1D6CbK0fhrK0S0Il4DuMWxlSF5xW7IzVQvKy1xEgh8Se_bvgImO0nxRj0

THANKSGIVING

APPRECIATING “THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE” Tuesday, November 20, 2018 By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman Approaching Thanksgiving 2018, my mind turns to President Abraham Lincoln, who established “Thanksgiving and Praise Day,” as an annual national November Holiday on October 3, 1863, after Gettysburg, Pennsylvania’s bloody July 1863 battle and September 1862’s Antietam, Maryland’s emboldening battle stalemate. Antietam was the launching pad for (and political cover for) the preliminary Emancipation of September 22, 1862, which Lincoln issued, declaring that it’s words would become operative on January 1, 1863, freeing southern slaves, if no surrender by that date. Matthew 12:26 King James Version (KJV) “26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?” King James Version (KJV) Abraham Lincoln had in his 1858 Senate campaign against Stephen F. Douglas prophetically decried prevailing, ineffective, “house divided” policies being pursued. After the President’s assassination in 1865, his successors—Vice President Andrew Johnson and Union Major General Ulysses Grant, in the throes of “Reconstruction,” recalled, remembered, that Lincoln had quoted the Bible: “And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then shall his kingdom stand?” Thus, President Lincoln’s successors also applied Lincoln’s subsequent “let them up easy” post-war policy in “Reconstruction”, as Lincoln had earlier instructed, toward rehabilitating the Confederate States of America, the “South.” That clear expression of sympathy meant “saving” the nation at the expense of the black man and black woman, whose bravery, patriotism, diligence, creativity, had substantially “saved” it from dissolution! For despite his ineluctable reputation as the liberator of the slaves, Lincoln was most expediently leader of a nation in civil war, not abolitionist. Indeed, if anything, he is closest to being a white supremacist! From Lincoln's Speech, Sept. 18, 1858. "While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people. While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet as the question was asked me I thought I would occupy perhaps five minutes in saying something in regard to it. I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the black and white races -- that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making VOTERS or jurors of negroes, NOR OF QUALIFYING THEM HOLD OFFICE, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any of her man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race." In the very first speech of their joint debate, -- made at Ottawa, Aug. 21, 1858, -- Mr. LINCOLN, after quoting some previous remarks, thus spoke of this very subject: "Now, gentlemen, I don't want to read at any greater length, but this is the true complexion of all I have ever said in regard to the institution of Slavery and the black race. This is the whole of it; and anything that argues me into his idea of perfect social and political equality with the negro, is but a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse-chestnut to be a chestnut horse. I will say here, while upon this subject, that I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of Slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so. I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the fooling of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge DOUGLAS, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary." In truth, very few white abolitionists favored equal rights and suffrage for black men. William Lloyd Garrison did not favor it; nor did Harriet Beecher Stowe, surprisingly. The few white “radicals” who did favor equal rights and black suffrage, included John Brown, Wendell Phillips and Gerrit Smith . President Abraham Lincoln, as a practical politician, was against both, equal rights and suffrage. Even his famous executive order, 1863’s “Emancipation Proclamation” was actuated by an admitted “military necessity.” Translation: Either I free the slaves in the Confederate States of America, with careful exclusions like New Orleans, Louisiana, and “border states” of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. Or, lose the war! Stark and simple, yet brilliant! For the engine of the South was slaves’ labor, whom it ruthlessly exploited and vigorously repressed. But the slaves were neither stupid, nor inactive. They seized and maximized every opportunity to free themselves from slavery, whether by lecturing, by press, by books, by espionage, by running away, and especially by force of 200,000 sable arms in United States Colored Troops and United States Navy. In addition, hundreds of “Contraband” camps contained millions of fleeing, self-sufficient slave communities, who escaped to safety, from plantations, whenever, foraging, marauding Union troops came nearby. The former also slaves performed important services for the North as they had the South. Fortunately, our “house” yet stands. As fortunately, black people continue to rise high up in it, despite the timorous duplicity of “friends,” and the pathetic efforts of “enemies.” HAPPY THANKSGIVING! #30

ALREADY MIRACULOUS

ALREADY MIRACULOUS ! It may be that human personality has survived its strongest test yet in the African American experience. Not merely on the macro level with destruction of families, languages, legacies, cultures, commerce; but, on the micro level as well, they are afflicted, inflicted, with daily cuts, or mental bruises that assault and assail due to color, race or creed. Despite it all, through it all, African Americans have 'overcome' though many may not have perceived it as yet, to be so, due to distortions and clamor. Be that as it may, speaking comparatively, no other nation now existing on the earth has achieved nirvana, beloved community, nor any hallowed state of humanity yet! That the ideal state has not yet been reached, in the United States of America is mollified by that fact. Thereby, comparatively America's own imperfections and deficits, are subsumed by other nations' who may have lacked racism or African slavery as dynamos in their history. All nations have issues, as do all continents and creeds. That we African Americans, a minority in a repressive majority, have endured and prevailed is a miracle already!

DELANY AND CAILLOUX, BLACK UNION OFFICERS

Union Major Martin R. Delany of renown in multiple regards also reminds me of heroic 1st Louisiana Captain Andre Cailloux, also a free black man, like Delany, who fell at Port Hudson, Louisiana, in May, 1863, while leading a Union charge against that Confederate, Mississippi River fortification. Major Martin R. Delany boasted "that there lives none blacker than himself" in Frank A. Rollin's LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF MARTIN R. DELANY (1868). Captain Cailloux, a cigar maker, made a like claim, as the informative historical article attests. https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/the-rock-of-new-orleans/?fbclid=IwAR3H4rrts66fNGK4_wXw4Lv-8QO7gC2GKVMG2yOCI3HHwMAp_PhGPuTJCp4

PRECISE SCIENTIFIC INQUIRIES NEEDED

PETRI DISH PRECISION INQUIRIES The United States of America 's 50 unique states represent 50 singular opportunities for interested groups or persons to experiment, to investigate--using "petri-dish" scientifically precise methods--the viability of certain aspects of American democracy, trade, commerce , arts, crafts , health, education , religion, law, as applied to still-deprived African Americans. African Americans would be the focus, not the subjects, nor objects, of these demonstrative undertakings. Previously, a series of marketing researchers, political parties, government agencies, universities, companies, had cursorily investigated how best to dominate, to exploit, to sell items to our long captive, long-befuddled, but blessed, people. What they looked for, fissures, deficiencies, they invariably found, given the nation's slave-history. Rather than what lies above, what lies below the sociological surface of the majority of African American people, may best reveal the most ameliorative means to cure, to rehabilitate, to resurrect the toughest cases of socially despondent African American "remnants", now-called criminal ,"at risk" other names. Tougher stains require stronger astringents beyond popular name, common brands. Hence, I call for socially scientific inquiries, investigations by those whose aims are redemption! 

HOMER G. PHILLIPS AND LLOYD GAINES

https://blackpast.org/aah/phillips-homer-g-1880-1931 This prominent black man, a Howard University, Bison brother, Homer G. Phillips, Esq., was murdered in broad open daylight on a street,in June 1931, in St. Louis. No one was ever prosecuted although two men (race not specified) were quickly arrested and released for lack of evidence by prosecutors. He had successfully steered a $1 million dollar bond issue that he had promoted toward the construction of a black hospital, as originally promised, rather than for a white one, as certain others had wanted. His yet unsolved murder reminds me of the "disappearance" of Lloyd Gaines in 1939, after his U.S. Supreme Court-ordered admission to segregated, University of Missouri School of Law.

UNIVERSAL CHRIST

Night and day are not limited to Christians, nor sun and rain; neither is Jesus Christ.

REV. DR. CAIN HOPE FELDER

OVER 20 YEARS AGO, I HAD VISITED AN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF BIBLE SCHOLARS HELD HERE IN KC. AS I WAS LEAVING, WALKING UP THE SIDEWALK, I ESPIED A GROUP OF BROTHERS WALKING TOWARD ME, STUDYING ME AS INTENTLY, AS I HAD BEEN THEM. ONLY LATER DID I REALIZE THAT THE GROUP I PASSED HAD INCLUDED THE GREAT DR. CAIN HOPE FELDER, EDITOR OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN BIBLE, PUBLISHED BY DR. JAMES W. PEEBLES! I HAD THAT VERY INIMITABLE BIBLE IN MY BRIEF CASE AT THAT VERY TIME, AMONG SEVERAL OTHERS. THE SPIRIT HAD URGED ME TO SPEAK OUT! BUT I REPRESSED THE URGE TO MY DETRIMENT AND SHAME. I HAVE IMPROVED THAT DEFECT, NOW, BY GOD'S GRACE AND MERCY.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain_Hope_Felder

REALPOLITICK

AMERICAN REALPOLITIK Not only has American realpolitik historically extracted the worst of Roman slavery, the worst of Greek democracy, the worst of Egypt's ancient civilization's values to make American politics and culture: but it has invented, perfected, its own brand of racism that is encoded in its religion, trade, and constitution to assure suppression of Africans, even to the point of deputizing individual non-"slave holders" as accomplices, expediters, at the pain of legal monetary sanctions.

ALMOST A NONPROFIT

I ALMOST BECAME A NONPROFIT During the latter period of my law practice , I was sorely tempted to convert it into a not-for-profit, public interest-type of law firm, given the character of my cases. I had been largely a lawyer of last resort, anyway ; which means that those with the money sought those with money, before seeking me, in the ordinary course of things, but there were exceptions! Praise God! It also means that the costs of my small plaintiffs' law practice had so steadily increased over my 23 years' of private solo practice that, literally, the earth had moved from beneath me. When one throws in the changes in the law, costs of litigation, and in the insurance companies' underwriting and settling dispositions, what had once been lucrative, then profitable then became unprofitably unwieldy drudgery, not exciting nor uplifting. But, before I could carry it out--my nonprofit law firm transformation--I stroked out, became permanently disabled, and was rescued by God from the practice of law, and into the realm of public comment and reflections, which, truth be known, I much prefer to the law practice !

"CURSE OF HEAVEN"

"Slavery was the original sin in which the nation was conceived. Gouverneur Morris and Rufus King knew it, and said so. John Dickinson and William Livingston knew it; they freed their slaves. The delegates who belonged to abolition societies--Franklin, Hamilton , Livingston --certainly knew it. Oliver Ellsworth , who steadfastly stood by his Southern allies, reminded the delegates that if the matter were viewed 'in a moral light,' then every slave should be freed; he knew it. Roger Sherman called the slave trade iniquitous; he knew it. Each of these ambivalent Virginians --Mason and Madison and Randolph and the General himself--all knew it. The men from South Carolina surely knew it. Charles Pinckney said he would vote against the slave trade within his own state; John Rutledge would not discuss the morality of slavery, an argument he knew he could only lose .... "When southern guns fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, a grandson of John Adams wrote in his diary, 'We the children of the third and fourth generation are doomed to pay the penalties of the compromises made by the first.'" P. 204, 206, "The Curse of Heaven ," THE SUMMER OF 1787 by David O. Stewart (2007)

PIANKHY

Pharaoh Piye (also known as Pianky), Kashta's successor , continued to exercise power over Egyptian affairs. His troops occupied much of Upper Egypt. A stele in Gebel Barkal suggests that the Egyptians Piye to intervene in Egypt probably to counter the power of Tefnakhte, a local dynast in Lower Egypt. Piye is not portrayed as a conqueror of Egypt but as a protector of its ancient religion. After his victory, he spared Tefnakhte and gradually withdrew Kushite power from Egypt . "Piye was an important builder . He refurbished and enlarged the old Egyptian temple of Amen at Gebel Barkal. Considered the single most important religious building in Kush, he extended it towards the Nile. He raised a substantial hypostyle hall entered through an enormous pylon. The building was 500 feet long and about 135 feet wide...He built a palace next to this temple. Since neither Kasta nor Piye 's invasions of Egypt resulted in destruction nor looting, Dr. Welsby feels that this 'suggests they were motivated more by piety than territorial ambition.' Professor Hansberry, the pioneering African American historian, was also of this opinion: ◦ "'[I]n almost every instance where we are able to get a glimpse of the Ethiopian [ie Kushite ] sovereigns, great warriors though they were, we find them free of those rapacious and piratic habits that have so often sullied the otherwise brilliant careers of so many monarchs of other nations....[I]n [Piye's] triumphant march through Egypt, we are told that before he would attack a city he would first offer it the most favorable terms of peace to avoid fighting , for it was his desire that harm should come to no one, that 'not even a babe might have cause to cry'...[When] he left Egypt to return to Ethiopia 'he did not leave behind a land filled with the slain and ruins of towns which he had burned ,' nor were there 'fields blackened with the ashes of the crops which he had set on fire.' The spirit of tolerance and forbearance was also evident on the part of... Shabaka; the same statesmanlike qualities are expressed in the Ethiopian king Taharka...Here were representatives of Homer's 'blameless' and Hesiod's 'high -souled Ethiopians.'" P. 204-205, "The Later History of the Nile Valley," WHEN WE RULED (2006) by Robin Walker

WORLD WAR I'S RIFF-RAFF

WORLD WAR I'S RIFF-RAFF I recall discussing some years ago a late Missouri politician's angst at not having been seated in the VIP section and recognized, for having procured $5 million for the World War I Memorial's restoration in KC. A few years later, I attended a lecture at the WWI Museum that featured a prominent African American author, historian, female, who was all-too-forgiving of the international disgrace, shame, and humiliations that were heaped on African American soldiers by white American brass in France and Italy! Having read of the futile attempts by the members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association to attain land that was surrendered in Africa by Germany for a Homeland for blacks wishing to repatriate, at the Versailles peace talks, WWI had seemed to me to be more about the retention of white supremacy than the propagation of any liberty! Naturally, no political person who was more interested in VIP seating than truth would care to know truth nor of any historical stuff, unless some money was there for them. Similarly, no hired lecturer would care to insult their host, whose promised payment was needed, with facts . Therefore, promulgation of truth about World War I is left to riff-raff like me, and like others, who have time, temerity to read, seek, confer, to teach the truth about it for free! Not only is this fact true about WWI, it is true of all else within the African American experience, bar none . Better get it for yourself, if you want to know it! Or forget it!

WORK TO PERFECT

Poetry arts, crafts, music,and technical precision are byproducts of divine grace to human consciousness. Our human duty is to work to perfect these gifts to glory God!

INFAMOUS DATES IN BLACK HISTORY

INFAMOUS DATES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY Many dates matter in black history. Here are a few of them: From the 1776 "edited" Declaration of Independence, that deleted African and Indian slavery as reasons from separation from Great Britain,and King George III; To the 1787 Constitutional Convention's promulgation of Article I, section 2's 3/5's "all other's" coded denominational status of African slaves, who, as non-"citizens", could not vote; but were counted for House of Representative purposes, in slave- states; To the Northwest Ordinance of 1787's retreat from "no-slavery" allowance to acceding to artful dodging by legal legerdemain disguising servitude as "bonds" and "terms of indenture," yet able to acquire statehood; for proslavery dodgers like Indiana,and proslavery politicians like Henry "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" Harrison who was elected United States President; To 1857's "Dred Scott v. Sanford" United States' Supreme Court decision, which judicially codified, federally annotated, prevailing custom, law and practice, of the chattel, non-citizen, status of all African descendants, whether slave or free, neither with any rights under law, that any white person, man, woman, or child was bound to respect, even if they had lived in the "free" states and territories of the "Northwest," as Dred and Harriet Scott had, who sued freedom while living in Missouri; To 1876 and the Hayes-Tilden Compromise that ended an 8-year "Reconstruction" in the South with withdrawing of federal troops from South Carolina, Louisiana, with the resurgence of white terrorism in court and outside of court by vengeful whites; To 1896 and Plessy v. Ferguson which established apartheid, Jim Crow, so-called "separate but equal" as federal law, to exclude African, Asian, Mexican descendants from those who were legally "white" pursuant to "one-drop rule" jurisprudence.

CHEATING

"CHEATING" IS WHAT IT IS "Cheating" at the 2018 polls is but the continuation of a tradition of divestment that is of great duration by "white" Americans contra black Americans. It predates , precipitated, the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil War. We call cheating racism , fascism, crime, plagiarism, lying, fraud and other names. But when you get down to it, it is just plain old grade school "cheating." Some folks cheat masterfully. Other folks are cheated invariably. Some pretend to be Holy or ethical, but are not . Others do not pretend but are, as history attests . "Cheated" is accurate; and historically documented for over 2500 years . The "cheating" goes back to our African "Stolen Legacy" of mathematics, science, philosophy, and myriad others by "Greeks," "Jews," Muslims, Persians, Turks, and Western Europeans: Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, Dutch, etc. Cheating includes our stolen religion, Christianity. It includes our thefts : persons, land properties, minerals and resources to the Americas and to Western Asia. Cheating includes our loss of identity and dignity due to disparity, cruelty , miseducation, murder and brutality. So, yes, the election practices of Kemp of Georgia, or of Greitens and Hawley of Missouri simply conform to the same ancient customs and practices of their Western Asian and Western European ancestors against we gullible, credulous , ever-trusting African people, who believe what we hear more than what we experience!

SNOWFALL

FALL'S FIRST SNOWFALL Snow falls more softly than leaves. Snowing more quietly than breeze. Snow flakes' feel is imperceptible. But snow is cumulative, collegial, aggregating into big banks. Snow flakes float descend flutter to earth collaboratively. Each flake flaunts its own heavenly intricacies; no two being exactly alike; yet so similar in design and in effect that we shiver. It is snowing now in KC poetically.

OLMECS WERE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS

"Evidence exists to show that roughly contemporaneous with the time of Ramses III [1230 BC], if not much earlier, the Egyptians, or else some other group of Negroes, engaged in maritime activities across the Atlantic. Documents from the times of Ramses III mention voyages to 'the ends of the earth' and also voyages to the mountain in the far west of the world. Mr. Rafique Jairazbhoy, an Indian scholar of considerable erudition, identified this region as Ancient Mexico and the African voyagers as Egyptians. He pointed out a huge number of cultural continuities between the Nile Valley and those in Olmec Mexico. "There are colossal stone carvings of human heads produced by the Olmecs, the formative Native American civilization. Sixteen such heads have been found. Two were recovered from Tres Zapotes, four from La Venta, six from San Lorenzo and four from other sites All weighed between 10 and 40 tons. All of them have African features,, and one has a braided hairstyle . The earliest has been dated at about 1160 BC and some to 580 BC. Jose M. Melgar, a Mexican, found one of the carvings in 1862. In 1869 he wrote a bulletin on it for the 'Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics:' '[W]hat astonished me [says Melgar] was the Ethiopic type represented . I reflected that there had undoubtedly been Negroes in this country, and that this had been in the first epoch of the world.' In 1963 the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, held an exhibition of Olmec artifacts between 18 June and 25 August. Alfonso Medellin Zinlil wrote the introductory essay for the exhibition catalogue, 'The Olmec Tradition.' In this essay, we are assured that: "'The colossal heads and 'Monuments F' of Tres Zapotes, principally, have vigorous and precise Negroid physical characteristics, such as prominent cheek bones, thick lips and platyrrhine noses. For a long time there was concern as to what the hair was is, or was, since, in the case of the colossal heads, they are invariably covered by a cap or helmet. This doubt has gone on indefinitely , but finally some light has been thrown on the problem with the discovery of two heads, .75 meters tall, which are identified as 'Numbers 1 and 2 of Laguna de Los Cerros, on which, with the characteristic cheek bones and platyrrhine nose, there is a hair arrangement or head of curly hair.'" P.198-199, "The Later History of the Nile Valley, WHEN WE RULED THE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF BLACK CIVILIZATION (2006) by Robin Walker