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.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
VALUES
SELF-TRANSCENDENT VALUES
Lacking an historical understanding of, much less, a contemporary appreciation for, "the least of these among us," too many of us fall for the allure, bells, whistles, tinsel, of legal, commercial, exploitation that was designed to divest us of the very resources , values, discipline needed to enable us to escape the detested category of impoverished.
Fleeing from it we yet encounter it.
These false fronts that we wear in the effort not to bear the bane of impoverishment is but cellophane, translucent, hiding nothing from no one, but ourselves. We have been baited. We have been hooked. We have been took, had. Admit. Remit. Commit. Submit to true values for yourself and your family members.
That Is the truthful way out of an African American backwardness, self destruction, now besetting us .