Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, September 26, 2019
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.