CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

"One of the biggest pretensions set up in favor of the enslavement of the African race is its inferiority. If the Britons, Caledonians, Hibernians, and others of the Celtic as well as the Teuton and pure Caucasian races had never been enslaved ; if Caractacus, the king and proudest prince the British ever had up to that period, had not been led in chains and sold by order of Julius Caesar , with many other British slaves, in the public market of Rome; if the British nobles long ago , had not written of their own peasantry, that they were incapable of elevation ; if they had not recorded and passed enactments against the Scotch and the Irish, that they were innately inferior, and totally insusceptible of instruction and civilization, calling them 'heathen dogs, only fit for slaves of the lowest order;' if a general system of serfdom, known as the Feudal System, had not existed generally among the white races of Europe for ages, through all Europe , before a black slave was ever known among the whites; if the whites had not been held in slavery many centuries longer than were the blacks; and finally, if Russia had not, just within the last three years (1864), emancipated her forty-two millions of slaves--ten times more than the African slaves in the United States, allowing four millions to the South,--then there would be some semblance of honesty and sincerity in the continued plea of justice for ages of wrong and crime against an unoffending, helpless people. "Through all times white slavery has existed among the nations of Europe, and as civilization advanced, and lower classes became more elevated , the difficulty became more apparent in perpetuating the system. What to do and how to remedy the evil was the question of importance... Legislative and royal decrees could not reach it; the march of man, and the light of intellect, kept in advance of legal injunctions. "In 624--twelve hundred and forty-three years ago and twelve and thirty-nine before the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln --the Saracens or Arabs gained access to Africa, controlling the commerce for seven hundred fifty-eight years , being the only foreigners accessible to, and holding friendly intercourse, the people. "In the year 1487, Bartholomew Diaz of Portugal discovered the Cape of Good Hope, calling it 'Cabo del Tormentoso,' --the 'Cape of Storms'. On reporting to his sovereign , the discovery with all of its prospects, the king cried out "No! ... let us call it 'Cabo del Speremza'!--the Cape of Good Hope. [And it was a good hope to Portugal, because it must be remembered that access to Africa, by communication with the western coast, was then to Europeans unknown; the only intercourse being from the north through the Barbary States, and through the interior by caravans, all of which purported to reach the eastern part of the continent by this way.] "The year 1482 was an eventful period for the African race, and I here record, for the first time probably in which it has been presented to the world, (except the authority herein quoted) , the startling facts that the enslavement of the African race was the result of a determination on the part of at least four, and probably more, of the strongest, and most polished nations of the time, to make the African nations supplant , by substituting it for European slavery . These nations were Spain, England , France and Portugal.... "During the memorable events that thrilled with emotion the communities of every country in 1862, in the midst of our national struggle, the Rev. Felix, Archbishop of Orleans, France, in a pastoral sent forth to exhort the people of France, and the French Catholics of the United States, to support the position taken by President Lincoln's , to support his malediction against the cause of the South , said, 'It is the teaching of experience that the slavery of the day, the slavery of the blacks, has an origin and consequence equally detestable. Its origin was the TREATY, the ignoble and cruel bargain, condemned by Pius II. in 1482, by Paul III. in 1557, by Urban VIII. in 1539, by Benedict XIV. in 1741, by Gregory XVI. in 1839. ' His revelation should startle Christendom... "With the entire white world against her, is it not clear why Africa, in the last twelve centuries, has not kept pace with the civilization of the age?... "The present Berbers of Egypt are none other than mixed bloods of the ancient Egyptians who once inhabited it--who were pure blacks--and Saracens who had conquered the country by conquest [641 AD], and without any prestige, except that inherited from the Ishmaelitish or Arab side of their ancestry--avarice and treachery." P. 229-233, "The International Policy of the World towards the African Race, Appendix " LIFE AND PUBLIC WORKS OF MARTIN R. DELANY (1883) by Frank A. Rollin

TROUBLE

Trouble I've seen

ATHENS

"For it was at that time very dangerous to go by land on the road to Athens, no part of it being free from robbers and murderers. That age produced a sort of men, in force of hand, in swiftness of foot, and strength of body excelling the ordinary rate and wholly incapable of fatigue; making use, however, of these gifts of nature to no good or profitable purpose for mankind , but rejoicing and priding themselves in insolence, and taking the benefit of their superior strength in the exercise of inhumanity cruelty, and in seizing, forcing, and church committing all manner of outrages upon everything that fell into their hands; all respect for others, all justice , they thought, all equity and humanity, though naturally lauded by common people, either out of want of courage to commit injuries or fear to receive them, yet no way concerned those who were strong enough to win for themselves. Some of these, Hercules destroyed and cut off in his passage through these countries; but some escaping his notice while he was passing by, fled and hid themselves, or else were spared by his contempt of their abject submission: and after that Hercules fell into misfortune, having slain Iphitus, retired to Lydia, and for a long time there slave to Omphale, a punishment which he had imposed on himself for the murder: then, indeed, Lydia enjoyed high peace and security, but in Greece and the countries about it the like villainies again revived and broke out, there being none to repress or chastise them." P.5-6, "Theseus," PLUTARCH 'S LIVES (Modern Library , New York)

AFRICA GANG-RAPED

Africa has been gang-raped by Western Asia, Western Europe, for over 2,500 years; robbed, pillaged, denuded; yet she defiantly survives these ravages like the eternal baobab tree, that she is, awaiting return of our rainy season, to regain her strength.

RACIAL PRETENSIONS

"One of the biggest pretensions set up in favor of the enslavement of the African race is its inferiority. If the Britons, Caledonians, Hibernians, and others of the Celtic as well as the Teuton and pure Caucasian races had never been enslaved ; if Caractacus, the king and proudest prince the British ever had up to that period, had not been led in chains and sold by order of Julius Caesar , with many other British slaves, in the public market of Rome; if the British nobles long ago , had not written of their own peasantry, that they were incapable of elevation ; if they had not recorded and passed enactments against the Scotch and the Irish, that they were innately inferior, and totally insusceptible of instruction and civilization, calling them 'heathen dogs, only fit for slaves of the lowest order;' if a general system of serfdom, known as the Feudal System, had not existed generally among the white races of Europe for ages, through all Europe , before a black slave was ever known among the whites; if the whites had not been held in slavery many centuries longer than were the blacks; and finally, if Russia had not, just within the last three years (1864), emancipated her forty-two millions of slaves--ten times more than the African slaves in the United States, allowing four millions to the South,--then there would be some semblance of honesty and sincerity in the continued plea of justice for ages of wrong and crime against an unoffending, helpless people." P. 229-230, "The International Policy of the World towards the African Race, Appendix " LIFE AND PUBLIC WORKS OF MARTIN R. DELANY (1883) by Frank A. Rollin

PROPER NAMES

PROPER NAMES ARE BEST The social term "black nationalism" is inaccurate and pejorative as it refers, relates to me, Martin Delany, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, others. First , the term "black" puts that American, sociological, political, construction first , before people's divine manifestation. African based mankind, the first "human" now known to exist from whom all of the earth's humans have descended. Second, the term "nationalism" implies nation or land mass, which blacks in America lack, being mixed into the general populace coast to coast and far beyond the coasts! So the term black nationalism is rejected not merely because it is facially flawed , offensive; but is also intrinsically flawed, offensive. First, foremost, with mankind of African descent, was God, dating back to the earliest times. They studied the stars in relationships to earth, all life on earth, gathering a deep understanding of themselves thereby. God first was the creed of Africa: the pyramids, temples, arts, sciences, mathematics, religion, philosophy, family, law, national life. God was first not race nor nation! So too is and was God first with all African leaders, philosophers, lay, priests, teachers, who knew, who understood the nature of Africans. The persons listed above, beside myself, in addition to myself, are merely examples of the primordial African credal phenomena , philosophy described herein; by no means at all are they , are we, even nearly exhaustive! Millions exist! I list myself first, unapologetically , because the mete by which, and by whom, all else is measured, dead or alive, weighed, surveyed, is me. Being a child of God, my spirit is of the same spirit. As my breath is the same breath, as Jesus Christ said. So, then, if not "black nationalists," what else should they or we be called, be known? proper names! My name is Larry Delano Coleman.

LOVE

Love seeks love to complete love. Love needs love to reproduce love. Love desires love to affirm Its divine love.

SAH ORION

"It is generally known that the inclination of the earth's axis of rotation to the plane if its orbit (ecliptic) at an angle of 23.5 degrees combines with the nonspherical of the earth and the gravitational force of the sun, moon, and planets to produce a phenomenon known as the precession of the equinoxes. The effect of the sun and moon is to change the direction to which the earth's axis of rotation points relative to the fixed stars. The effects are known as lunisolar precession and planetary precession respectively. It is evident that both factors will change the position and identity of the stars visible from a given point on the earth and that we must take them both into account when determining how the sky looked to the ancients. "In this scheme of moving stars, pole stars are a rather rare occurrence. In fact , after Polaris ceases to mark the pole in a few hundred years, there will not be another good one until alpha Draconis returns around AD 2300. It happens, however, that the last visit of alpha Draconis to the neighborhood of the pole occurred from about 3000 to 2500 BC. This means that the Egyptians of the pyramid age were more aware than might otherwise have been the case of the apparent daily journey of the stars from a fixed point in the sky. It thus seems highly probable that they would have chosen to build a shaft that would allow the soul of the dead king to ascend directly to the central point. "Non-circumpolar stars were also of considerable importance to the Egyptians. They measured time at night by means of decans-stars which rose or culminated (reached their highest elevation above the southern horizon) at one hour intervals during the night. Many of these decans were parts of constellation pictures (though different from ours which are derived from the Babylonian one) and were identified with various gods. Very few of these have been identified with particular stars with any degree of certainty. There are, however , four of the standard decans and five variants thereof which are part of the constellation 'Sah'--'The god who crosses the sky '--whose identification with Orion 'must be taken as likely in the highest degree.' He is depicted as a man standing looking back over his shoulder holding a scepter in one hand and an 'nh' (ankh) sign in the other. One of the five variants is probably the belt of 'Sah'. Three of the decans intended for use in the epagomenal [5 days at end of ancient Egypt's 360 calendar day year] days also appear to have been part of this constellation. We may note as evidence for the identification the ceiling of the tomb of Senmut, in which the column dedicated to 'Sah' includes three large stars arranged vertically and bearing a striking resemblance to the three stars we call Orion's Belt (delta, eta and zeta Orionis) which they probably represent." P. 238-239, "Appendix 1. Astronomical Investigation Concerning the So-Called Air-Shafts of Cheop's Pyramid by Virginia Trimble," THE ORION MYSTERY by Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert (1994)

TRIALS

Try eating gold, try breathing silver or try drinking diamonds, emeralds, rubies, and wearing pearls. You savvy?

BREAD-WATERS

YOUR BREAD-WATERS, ECCL.11:1 Looking hard at, locking down hard upon, the scriptural literalism, the nominal fact of "casting thy bread upon the waters," of Ecclesiastes 11:1, we can see many things easily. "Ecclesiastes 11:1 King James Version (KJV) 11 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days." Normally, throwing bread upon the waters results in soggy bread, fish bait, crab and shrimp bait. Unless the bread is tethered to a device to retrieve one's bread, and its catch with it, we deem our bread to be wasted, normally, naturally. But, when we view bread as allegory, as aphorism, as proverb, another view of Eccl. 11:1's mystery may emerge. Then we see that the material force may induce, conduce cosmic force. Bread is material. "Bread of life." Bread is made by man, processed. Life is bestowed upon mankind by means unknown to us. Man is as great of a mystery as is any faith. It is because of mankind's mystery, there are many faiths in mankind. "You reap what you sow" is another view of this supernatural mystery, of Eccl. 11:1; a 'quid pro quo' at the apex of faith in God's divine grace. The cosmic power of God to heal it, remedy what ails in seasons untold. What do you see, allegorically, when vetting, refracting Eccl 11:1 through your life's experiences?

LIFE AND DEATH

SINCE A FORM OF LIFE PRECEDES "BIRTH", A FORM OF LIFE MAY SUCCEED "DEATH".

GEOMETRY-PHILOSOPHY

The ratio of geometry is the rationale of philosophy. Thus proof of geometry proves philosophy, its cognate.

BRER RABBIT

"Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox's" true emotive power is laced the fable's veiled allegorical references to ancient African "refuge", eons before slavery, or to "maroon" communities where/when we ruled freely; autochthonous African origins! Allegorically, metaphorically, the Aesopian "aphorism talks in tongues," speaks subliminally to discreet hearers; directly to those of us with open ears to hear divine truth and with hearts and minds to act upon its communication. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/7/2/545589/-

DEFEAT EVIL

TO DEFEAT EVIL UNDERSTAND IT Evil dispenses disproportionately goods, services, justice. Good, if it is to overcome disproportionation in these dispensations, must have as good of an understanding of evil as evil had previously acquired of good. Nothing less than by getting an understanding of evil can good suffice, to redress disproportion. With a total understanding of evil the way is made plain for how evil can be defeated and disproportion redressed ratably among people. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: you shall know the truth, the truth shall make you free.

INTUITIONS

DEFYING DIVINE INTUITIONS BY LAW The Knowledge of good and bad, knowledge of right and wrong, is intuitive, is built-in, innate in man. Vicariously, naturally, all "human beings " sympathize, empathize, easily experience sensory identity, intuitively, with persons outside of themselves, who may have been mistreated, evilly; who may have wrongfully experienced social, legal, economic deprivations in life. Stated differently, we should experience such identifications, being "human beings"--unless we are mentally modified to switch off our intuitions : socially empathic or racially sympathetic thinking for some people, like Pavlov's dog did. But mandatory jury instructions in American courts forbid identifying with persons; normally, preferring, demanding that jurors obey the law! The law is wicked in too many instances, having been devised by wicked men to withhold power and privileges from those deemed by them to be innately inferior by lies. "I would or I would not want that experience to happen to me" is what, is how, unmodified human nature normally responds. Intuition from God is what the unmodulated living soul receives, automatically, as a divine gift. It identifies with any sensory soul it encounters which has or which is suffering wrongful situations beyond its own persona. All the more inexcusable, then, is the blasé white American impunity conferred casuistically by American governments upon white assailants of virtuous African Americans who had been perfunctorily denied legal rights for which they were taxed, and that are written into state and federal constitutions and statutes! In light of the those divine intuitions mentioned above, one must marvel at the level of miscreant mendacity applied to perfect the perfidious paralysis of whites when it comes to blacks. It may be unnatural but it is! what is even worse, it is the law!

CORN PONE OPINIONS

"WHERE DOES HE GET HIS CORN PONE?" Going far enough back into history one can see the divide between DuBois-Washington/Garvey, replicated in Houston-Marshall; King-Wilkins/Young; King-Carmichael/Malcolm X. African American philosopher-kings were Richard Allen, Prince Hall, Paul Cuffee, John Mercer Langston, Charles Hamilton Houston, Esq., Booker T. Washington, Marcus M. Garvey, as were Frederick Douglass, Dr. Martin R. Delany beside them. By "philosopher-kings" is meant they contrived to subsist by the work of their own hands, heads, hearts, souls, feet, mouths; in addition to formulating a movement or means forward for us.. The question of a leader's source of subsistence, "where does he get his corn pone from"--evoking Mark Twain's short story is the critical distinction between political leaders or true leaders.

BAHAMIANS

Madison Washington was an escaped Virginia slave, who returned from Canada in the 1830's to rescue his wife. She had been sold away, and he never found her. But, while in Virginia, he was reenslaved after capture. As he was aboard the "Creole" slaveship, bound for New Orleans slave markets, Washington and other male slaves took over the ship. These freedom fighters killed the captain and several others, but retained the first mate, alive, who was directed to steer directly for the Bahamas where slavery was recently abolished . The ship arrived safely. 118 slaves got off in the Bahamas. But 4 female slaves remained aboard with their sailor-lovers, and the ship sailed on to New Orleans, where it was reclaimed by its owners after a British-American diplomatic resolution. Madison Washington was never heard from again. Madison Washington's relatives may be among these Bahamian/Haitian outliers who have now been rescued from Hurricane Dorian's ravages. Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown have both written of this pre-Amistad, little known, hero! https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/helicopter-pilot-discovers-villagers-stranded-debris-bahamas-n1054536?cid=eml_nbn_20190915&fbclid=IwAR3Kz_J7FWhI2Sc0YJbsgP8Yt0Yi9H1AEifsCLFhzTDWhdiJizSe1XxovZc

FOREVER MINE

The O'Jays - Forever Mine - YouTube The O'Jays - Forever Mine - YouTube "FOREVER MINE " The African American experience has usually been viewed as averse to the interests of African peoples , because of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the near-extermination of many indigenous peoples already here. For those African people, our amazingly adaptable forbears who were directly affected by slavery's terrorism, displacement, or death, there can be little doubt about its perversion, subversion, aversion . But there was also a "conversion" factor to consider. For from many tribes of Africans with thousands of tongues, there are now fifty million African Americans with one tongue, English, the global lingual Franca . These same Africans, now African Americans, since 1865, have nobly contributed to the founding and sustentation of the United States of America, a global super powered empire, unlike any other people! But for Africans, there would be, there could not have been, United States of America. We cleared the land. We were its free, 265 years of labor, enslaved African-powered- engine that built the homes, roads, railroads . We planted, tended, harvested , threshed, winnowed, baled, loaded the crops of tobacco, corn, wheat , rice, indigo, cotton. We are implied in Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution as "3/5s," after having been totally edited out of the "Declaration of Independence." That was progress! We are the primordial bloodstream of America. Not just in it; we are it! Africans look at us with pride and wonder, as they should; for we are they and they are we sanguinely. As does Europe view us sanguinely going back to its prehistory into its earlier Greek, Macedonian, Roman, Constantinople mythology, rituals, religious adaptations of the African. The upshot is that nature updates itself, naturally, divinely , continuously, mysteriously . By virtue of which we African Americans are the "new creatures" advertised, foretold in the Bible. I say these things with all due respect to, for all the other creeds, our global kindred, genealogical, archaeological, epistemological fruit, who are not mentioned here. We love you all, too, with the same love of our lord and savior Jesus Christ's "Sermon on the Mount." As our culturally iconic "O'Jays" have now sung you are "forever mine!"

PHILOSOPHY SKETCH

"Philosophy in its incipient state and regarded as the research of causes, is as old as man's inquisitive soul, and may be seen glimmering in the mythologies and cosmogonies of the most ancient nations. It began in wonder, for Aristotle says: 'From wonder, men both now and at the first, began to philosophize.'... "All human knowledge, which is but a clear conception of what is true, is made up of facts and truth,--intuitive truths, and such as are reached or inferred, by reasoning from facts and other truths. "Facts are, what has been, what is, and that which is to be. Truth is that which perfectly accords with facts. "A clear conception of the relation of facts and truths is knowledge. "When knowledge is systematized we call it 'science', and when science is employed in practice, we call it 'art', so that a principle of science becomes a 'rule' of art . "When a knowledge of natural phenomena is acquired by tracing the first principles of nature , through their various combinations, to the forms and qualities recognized by the senses, we call it natural, or physical philosophy; and, when by a similar process we acquire knowledge of phenomena of the mind, we call it mental or metaphysical philosophy. "Thus, the simple terms, mind and matter , comprehend the entire field of physical and metaphysical philosophy; and the problem of the philosopher is to show their connection and set forth the laws under which they carry on their combined functions, and present the phenomenal universe to the consciousness of the human soul through the medium of the senses." P. 3-4, SKETCH OF PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS, by Rufus Lewis Milford Hope Perry (1918)

ESSENCES

ESSENCES-ORIGINS-ISSUES-CONCEPTS Tied to issues of origins are issues of essences. What are we ? Who are we? From whence are we, now? The verb "tied" answers, connects each issue similarly, essentially, integrally. Origins are all essences. Forms change. Essences remain. What-Who-Whence address "our" essences. Essences helpfully leave evidence. Essences' evidences are dusty chemical electrical biological deposits in space time ritual stories arts crafts techniques laws family. Essences are realized, visualized. Hypothesized by conception, by inner vision. By insight intuited by mental , spiritual , sensory, nerves that are physical and comparable to all about our shared essences. All about us are coded essences, as are all within us coded with the vital clues to our original essences. The interjection "now" is illusory. There is never a "now." Yet there is ever a "now:" due to our essences. An issue is greater than its answer. So too do essences dwarf concept.

MEDITATIONS ON MISSOURI

MEDITATIONS ON MISSOURI Missouri is a southern state with a midwestern patina. For the Missouri Compromise of 1820 brought Missouri and Maine into Statehood in 1821. This led to a shaky Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854: this brought on the Border Wars, 1854-1859, bisected by the Dred Scott decision, 1857. This brought on John Brown, Harper's Ferry, 1859; Senator James Lane and the First Kansas Colored, 1862; Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War - Freedom War, 1861-1865: Reconstruction. Lincoln University: Homer G. Phillips, Esq., of Howard University: Lloyd Gaines: Lucile Bluford: and Missouri legislature's rural ropes about its cities throats, impinging, strangling them all.

LIFE IS NOT STATIC

Life is not static. There is life and death. Stars are not static . They rise, set , precess, disappear. Thus religion, philosophy, science, man, are not static: living, dying, rising, setting, precessing, disappearing. "[U]nified Egypt that was awarded to Horus was far older than the accession to power of Menes. It was an account structured to explain the altered sky, and explain the consequent problems that the alterations posed. It was an explanation and a solution which very early led the way to establishing a unity bond between the many groups of Predynastic Egyptians. "Political unification was credited to Menes, no matter that others preceding him may have ruled over North and South for short times. Menes not only established himself as a ruler without peers, he imparted to the tip of Egypt what Henri Frankfort describes as a 'form harmonizing so perfectly with Egyptian mentality as to appear both inevitable and perennial .' "A dual monarchy united under the rule of one was a form that came from the mists of distant antiquity. It was a form that had been created for gods in the heavens, and how inevitable that an imitation of the cosmic order should prevail for men on earth . "However, in one sense, the cosmic order was subject to change, and the religion itself reflected this. It could not and did not remain static. With the development of a religion from a strong stellar base, to one with the emphasis on the solar god, the ancient Egyptians created a belief system painted with much broader strokes and infinitely more majestic concepts ." P. 94, THE DEATH OF THE GODS IN ANCIENT EGYPT (1992) by Jane B. Sellers  Amen.

MISCONCEIVED ILL-CONCEIVED ATTACKS

MISCONCEIVED ATTACKS Those who bombed the twin towers in New York , New York, on September 11, 2001, seriously misconceived the true nature of American society, as essentially corporate infrastructure based. The true essence of our American society is in the unusual idea of personal freedom, justice, equality, for "all." This was written about in the "Declaration of Independence," in "Common Sense" and in the "Crisis," all written by revolutionary founding father, Thomas Paine, of England who also wrote the French "Declaration of Rights" triggering the French and Haiti Revolutions. Who "all" is or who all was weighed heavily, however, on early 'white' Americans, who were prospering tremendously on the free labor of millions of Africans. This spiritual, this philosophical aspiration implied in the word "all", is what caused "white" Americans, to become the exclusive persona of the "all" defined by law, custom, commerce. "White" is more of a philosophical persona than a biological reference to people in American nomenclature. It's colonially contrived for political expediency, profits, convenience. The extension of the concept of "all" to slavery is what caused Americans to fight the British in 1776-1783, after the 1772 "Somerset Case" and in 1812-1814. The "all" definition later caused the white Americans to fight among themselves, until decisively aided by the Africans in the Civil War, 1861-1865, a/k/a the "Freedom War", a fight which continued through Civil Rights Wars, 1930's -1970, when blacks became "all." So getting back to bombing twin towers in New York, the terrorists missed the target, just as did the British when they burned down the Executive Mansion in the War of 1812, as did the Japanese in Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941, "a day that will live in infamy." The point by now may be apparent . America, the United States of America, is an idea. It will take a superior idea to defeat its nascent idealism, one that now is lacking in Islam, as evidenced by battles between Shia and Sunni , Iran and Saudi Arabia; and elsewhere including the late Osama bin-Ladin, alleged financier of the misconceived twin towers attack.

OBAMA'S LGBTQ LEGACY

President Barack Obama's historical "first" legacy, apart from his symbolic ethnicity, may be found in the future to have been more "LBGTQ" than "black" anything. From Barack Obama's televised interview with alleged lesbian, Robin Roberts, forward, Obama's open support for the queer community "came out" into the open. Never was he "the President of black America, but all America," he said. Even so LGBTQ received more praise, legitimacy from him than from any President, and far more praise and support than he gave to the blacks, words, symbolism aside, especially as shown in Charleston's funerals' 'Amazing Grace' moments among AME bishops!

DECODING TRUMP

DECODING "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" AS FRAUDULENT "Make America Great Again" was a remarkable example of confusion, in that it blended myth, hypocrisy, blustering, manifest destiny, lies, all together into a "white supremacy" candidate for president following a first, ethnically "black, President." "Confusion" --because its meaning was not explicitly explained; people are left to infer privately its import. "Myth" --because it negatively implies that American power had been diminished from previously. "Hypocrisy"--because "making" suggests building, conforming, correcting, what? No indication . "Blustering"--is bragging about oneself: privileges, entitlements, vis-a-vis allies , trade partners, and even "enemies" real or imagined. "Manifest Destiny"--resuscitates the 19th century sea to shining sea territorial ambitions already gained. "Lies"--represents vilification and nullification of non-"white" minority aspiring citizenship populations. "White supremacy "--the historical, philosophical, theological , social , political, economic, pseudo-scientific, lies, calumnies against African Americans to rationalize fascism, and continued denial of equal legal opportunities, per law. The scurrilous motto also negates the scripture: Mark 10:18-- "Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone." If none is "good" but "God alone" , then the Republican political slogan is apostasy, heresy, and blasphemy as well! If none is good but God alone, not even Jesus Christ, then none is great, "except God alone!" Thus, decoded as fraudulent is the framework for the ideological theft for the American election of 2016.

BANNEKER JEFFERSON CONGRUENCES

BANNEKER-JEFFERSON CONGRUITIES Having read in Diodorus Siculous' LIBRARY OF HISTORY of the way, method, and the purpose of ancient Egyptian "astrology", (astronomy in our lexicon ), I have been able to infer , to intuit, to conjecture a resonant link between that "sacred subject" and the later labors of ancient Egyptians' sages-scientists-priests' observations with those of the self-taught, iconic African, Benjamin Banneker, surveyor, astronomer, mathematician, farmer, almanac writer, Thomas Jefferson critic, of the 18-19th century, of Baltimore , Maryland, Washington, D.C., area . "Astrology" enabled the ancients to view phenomena in time and space that the ordinary man not only was unable to view, but was unable to conceive of their being viewable by ourselves , by man, at all. Yet by reason of stellar observation and accurate recordation, calculations, ancient sages-priests-scientists were not only able to see into the future for news about tides, weather , crops, but more mundane matters, like men's future. So too could, and did , I have surmised, Benjamin Banneker. Diodorus Siculous has written: "81. In the education of their sons the priests teach them two kinds of writing , that which is called 'sacred' and that which is used in more general instruction. Geometry and arithmetic are given special attention . For the river by changing the face of the country each year in manifold ways, gives rise to many and varied disputes between neighbors over their boundary lines , and these disputes cannot be easily tested out with any exactness unless a geometer works out the truth scientifically by the application of his life experience. And arithmetic is serviceable with reference to the business affairs connected with making a living and also in applying the principles of geometry, and likewise is of no small assistance to students of astrology as well. For the positions and arrangement of the stars as well as their motions have always been the subject of careful observation among the Egyptians, if anywhere in the world; they have preserved to this day the records concerning each of these stars over an incredible number of years, this subject of study being zealously preserved among them from ancient times, and they have also observed with the utmost avidity the motions and orbits and stopping of the planets, as well as the influences of each one on the generation of all living things--the good or the evil effects, namely, of which they are the cause. And while they are often successful in predicting to men the events which are going to befall them in the course of their lives, not infrequently they foretell destructions of the crops or, on the other hand, abundant yields, and pestilences that are to attack men or beasts, and as a result of their long observation they have acquired prior knowledge of earthquakes and floods, of the rising of the comets, and of all things which the ordinary man looks upon as beyond all finding out. And according to them the Chaldeans of Babylon, being colonists from Egypt, enjoy the fame which they have for their astrology because they learned that science from the priests of Egypt ." P. 277-281, "Book I," LIBRARY OF HISTORY by Diodorus Siculus (1933) Banneker's almanacs which were widely read , followed, respected, in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware , Pennsylvania, for their six years' of publication, had received their stamp of approval from Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson had received the 'ephemeris' of Banneker from Banneker in a letter of 1791, which Banneker wrote to him criticizing the racism found in Jefferson's book, NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA, Query XIV. Benjamin Banneker, who had participated in the survey of the new-capital city of Washington, D.C. and finished the work that others were unable to finish, further refuted Jefferson's contentions of the inherent nature of Africans' mental inferiority by the proof exhibited in his own work, a product of African genius, itself. Jefferson, in turn, sent Banneker's calculations to France to the head of the French Academy for review. That man wrote back that the math set forth in Banneker's work was accurate . Jefferson advised Banneker of the corroboration in writing. Banneker used this letter to convince hesitant publishers of the veracity of the work who then published "Benjamin Banneker's Almanac" 1792-1797, for general use of farmers and others needing accurate facts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Banneker#Correspondence_with_Thomas_Jefferson Our family visited the Benjamin Banneker Museum and Farm in July 2016 outside of Washington, D.C. His cabin had been restored, as it it was imagined to be. Many important papers of his were destroyed in the fire, which fire may have been set by persons unknown on October 9, 1806, when Banneker died. I don't know if Banneker foresaw his own death nor the future freedom for African Americans. Neither do I know if the ancient sages-priests-scientists of Egypt saw the coming demise and enslavement of their descendants and therefore erected megaliths as proof of our past glory and renown. I don't know many things. Therefore, I study without ceasing as God gives me life, health, will, strength . Amen.

SELF-HELP MAGNET

SELF-HELP IS A PROVEN MAGNET I never cease to be amazed by media online outlets and by individuals, who complain about what white media does not depict about blacks or black history; or, who complain about what they were not taught in school about blacks and their history. These are specious complaints and excuses for willful ignorance. No one owes a duty to inform you about yourself, particularly if to do so will come at the expense of themselves. Not everyone is so stupid as to believe that the wolf will liberate the lamb, other than down its own gullet! Self-help, and self-education is your "responsibility"--a bad word meaning "work"--among those who prefer indolent irresponsibility to: self-exertion, to self-help; who prefer to complain and cry "woe is me!" ; Or "how wretched I am;" or to just wait ! Self-responsibility or self-help is the proven magnet that attracts the aid and the empathy of others, not self-pity, not lack of vision or effort! All known knowledge now exists online. Free public libraries are overflowing with books. There are simply no more excuses for wanton ignorance and for abject stupidity, if there ever was, considering that many slaves learned to read, write, cipher, and figure out how to be free from slavery, when to do so was illegal;while the rest of this nation was preoccupied with itself and not them, whom they considered to be mere chattel, dumb mutes, animals! Get up! Get on up and help yourself !

AGE OF ENWHITENMENT

Worshiping lies is spiritual blight that plagued Western European philosophy and its colonies' since woeful "Age of Enlightenment's", worship of "whiteness" came into custom, education, fashion, trade, commerce, law, scholarship.

QUEEN OF SHEBA AND SON

Certain single mothers in black America had began referring to themselves as fathers and mothers on Father's Day. I had been put off by this practice. I deemed it untrue and, in fact, rather pernicious, ill-considered, even dangerous. Imagine my surprise, then, when I read that the Queen of Sheba had said precisely that to her son by Solomon in the Kebra Nagast (The Glory of Kings), the Ethiopian holy book. The passage reads : "And the child grew and she called his name Bayna-Lehkem, which means 'son of the wise man.' When the child reached the age of twelve years he went to the Queen his mother and said unto her: 'O Queen, make known to me who is my father.' And the Queen spoke to him angrily, wishing to frighten him so that he might not desire to go to his father saying: 'Why dost thou ask me about thy father? I am thy father and thy mother; seek not to know any more.' And the boy went from her presence, and sat down. A second time and a third time he asked her, and he implored her to tell him. One day however she told him, saying : 'His country is far away, and the road is very difficult; wouldst thou not rather be here? ' The youth Bayna-Lehkem was handsome; his whole body and his members , and the bearing of his shoulders resembled those of King Solomon, his father; and his eyes, his legs, and his whole posture resembled those of Solomon the King. "When he was twenty-two he was skilled in the art of war and horsemanship , in the hunting and trapping of wild beasts, and in every thing that young men desire to learn. And he said unto the Queen: 'I will go and look upon the face of my father, and I will come back here by the will of God, the Lord of Israel.'" P.34, "The Queen Brings Forth Her Son, Bayna-Lehkem, " KEBRA NAGAST(1995), translated and edited by Miguel F. Brooks

GEOMETRY-PHILOSOPHY

Geometry is graphically codified philosophy.

AFRICAN ROOTS AMERICAN LABOR

African Roots of American Labor It is worthy of remembrance that Christopher Columbus' "discovery" of Hispaniola in 1492 for Spain was made in quest of the East Indies. His landing in the West Indies, not in the East Indies, not only results in the ultra decimation of Arawak Indians, who, then, inhabited Hispaniola (Island of Haiti and Dominican Republic), but set off a demand for slave labor to mine for gold and silver in the "New World." The slave labor issue was settled early on when Spain's monarchs, Isabell and Ferdinand approved the colonial importation of the far more stable and robust Africans to do the heavy labor that destroyed the Arawaks and other "Indians." This royal decree had been elicited by a priest , Bartholomew Las Casas on humanitarian grounds in 1503, a mere 8 years after Columbus' find. Spain became fabulously wealthy by the ruthless conquest of Maya, Inca, other Indian civilizations in the 1500s. Her wealth excited the envy of others, Portugal and England. The Roman Catholic Church's Pope in 1493 had drawn a line of demarcation around the globe, adjusted by treaty in 1494, giving lands to the east to Portugal and the west to Spain, the two principal international, conquering, trading , Catholic proselytizing, seafaring active nations of Western Europe. Portugal got Brazil, east of the line, Spain got all else west of the line. But a line is just a line, even if it was drawn by a Catholic Pope, whose papal sovereignty was now lacking unanimity by some Western European nations, given Martin Luther's 1517 iconic "95 Theses" at Wittenberg. Moreover American colonies were entrepôts of the privileged, royal and rich merchants and adventurers with licenses and investment from them. Therefore slave laborers were needed to work, mine, exploit, hold the land from equally avaricious fellow Western European explorers, traders, colonies, conquerors, proselytizers, who were solicitous of the New World 's wealth also. England's Queen Elizabeth, notably, authorized her privateers to pirate, to prey upon Spanish treasure ships and Portuguese treasure ships to divert their riches to her own nation. After a historic battle of 1588, when smaller elusive English vessels out-shot, out-maneuvered Spain's ponderous Armada, a new master of the sea and trade was born. English pirate licenses known as "letters marque and reprisals" were incorporated into the current constitution of England's most wildly successful colony, United States of America, in Article I, Section 8. It was at her Jamestown, Virginia, colony that was saved from starvation by Angolan slaves recaptured from Portuguese slavers by English pirates in 1619. Those Angolan slaves of 1619 laid the foundation for millions more of Africa's finest , hardiest specimens of manhood and womanhood , who were also in Article I of the United States Constitution at Section 2. We proudly symbolize the root of American labor, free, slave, labor, unrequited, unappreciated in 2019.

THOUSANDS OF YEARS

THOUSANDS OF YEARS For thousand of years before the Bible, Torah, Koran, Buddha, or any other, the ancient "Ethiopian" and "Egyptian" priest-sages had already conceived of God; worshiped God; mythologized God; ritualized God; anthropomorphized God; known God's immanence in nature, in man, in life; in astronomy; in themselves. They had invented reading, writing, paper, geometry, computing; they had built megalithic temples, obelisks, pyramids with exact mathematical precisions as attestations to God. Until the black man of the earth, the genetic descendants of the Ethiopian and Egyptian ancestors , knows God's origins, expressions, as being his own ancestors' and by extension, in himself, he cannot but help to be lost and turned out from the respect of the world due to his ignorance of himself relative to God. For from God the foundation of all flows: the structure of, spirit of, content of, hope, future of, all.

STARS

Our tales were written in the stars, in the earth, yours and mine, before we were born; indeed before earth was born. Praise God!

COMMUNICATIONS

COMMUNICATIONS Sunday, September 01, 2019 By Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman Communicating is more than speaking. It is more than writing or signaling. Babies communicate by smiling, laughing, crying, gesturing, eye contact. Fetuses communicate by kicking or by plaguing their mothers in myriad other ways. Animals communicate. Plants communicate. Microbial life communicates. Quantum physicists say that atoms, light years apart, precisely communicate. Doubtless, stars, planets, meteors, asteroids, comets also communicate. What then is the nature of these communications that are expressed, ideated, exchanged, by and between so many persons, places, and things, so effectually? Are these too mere “random chance” that elephants communicate sub-sonically for miles? Are whales “naturally selected” which communicate oceans apart? If it is true that “a little bird told me;” then, who or what, told the little bird? What language do we think in? or dream in ? Pray to God in when we moan? How is it our thoughts, our ideas, well-up? And from whence do they arise? Thoughts, too, are communications; they are inmost communications from God. #30

BLACK HOOLIGANISM

IN RE BLACK HOOLIGANISM Yesterday in two different contexts the scourge of African American , internecine gang warfare plaguing black people in 2019, was brought to the direct forefront of my mind. The first was a passionate 2007 video by Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam on Facebook, wherein he rhetorically ripped them apart before an appreciative, large, predominantly Muslim, audience. The second was an article in USA TODAY about the 400 years' of African Americans' arrival in America at Jamestown, Virginia, upon slaveships pirated by English privateers from Portuguese slavers on the high seas. These slaves were born free in what is now Angola. Angola was part of the Congo, historically; formerly a vast region of high civilization that was beaten down in stages over the years by Portuguese treaties, treachery, transgressions, that in due course allowed cannibalistic, uncivilized African tribes to subdue Angola, as agents for Portugal and to enslave thousands of Angolans . These captive Angolans, who were surely headed to Brazil, Portugal's American possession, by Papal treaty with Spain, were, in turn, recaptured by English pirates. From these twice-captured Angolan slaves came those of Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. There, 20 or so of them were traded in exchange for food in August, according to a letter of John Rolfe, Pocahontas' widow. Ironically these Angolan slaves' agricultural knowledge, skills, and adeptness saved Jamestown, itself, from additional winter starvation, woefully experienced since its 1607 founding, and laid the economic foundations for the United States in the cultivation of tobacco and corn. But back to the proliferation of black gangs devastating black communities, urban and rural, in 2019, from and after 1968, the year of Dr. King's apotheosis. From then, these spiritually abased persons' fratricidal conduct has defied easy solutions; else Dr. King's own efforts in Chicago in 1966-1967, would have been successful. King had moved his entire family to the housing projects, only to flee back to Atlanta, as his own children became "sullen." A solution may be to cut off the supply of oxygen ( new recruits) from the ranks of fellow ghetto dwellers of these gangs, by infusing food for the body, light for the mind and hope for the spirit into young boys and girls, regularly, to lure them away, righteously, spiritually from incarceration doom, or the cemetery ( taking innocent lives with them ) by instilling love, truth, camaraderie, corrective history, skills, jobs, in them, they, in each other, parents, siblings cousins, other relatives to fight back, naturally, in some security. Meanwhile others may pursue their own hopeful efforts on political or economic levels. "Each one teach one." Is a '60s mantra, maxim that can work person to person, family to family, church to church . That's all I know to do beside teach, pray, applaud any progress, be it ever so humble to defeat the savage black hoodlums, gangs, criminals, killers.