FLIM-FLAM

FLIM-FLAM FOLDEROL Deceit, craftiness, lies, disguise, trickery, comedy, disinformation, deviousness , impersonation and the like are gifts of nature to vulnerable living things. Animals plants insects birds microbes and mankind employ this secret flim-flam folderol closet of deft things whenever they have discern the need to conceal , evade, flee, surprise , ambush, or to outwit: enemies, prey, sponsors, paramours , parents, spouses, friends , siblings, opponents etc. Deceit and lies are useful to save life and to take life; to enrich and to maintain the status quo. Flim-flam is as virtuous as forthrightness when it succeeds. Harriet Tubman made frequent use of flim-flam to escape the clutches of slavery and pursuing slave masters’ dogs to help many hundreds more to do so! General Tubman coyly, craftily , cleverly, ingeniously, spiritually divested the masters of flim-flam folderol at their own game with no shame,by stealing away their most valuable property : African slaves ! Everybody everything everywhere makes strategic use of flim-flam folderol —be they weak or strong—-to overcome, to conquer odds. Reintroducing my African American people to an as-ancient implement in their closet of capabilities is but fair, considering that all others are engaging in film-flam to suppress us mentally, physically, spiritually. Meet game with a more deft game! Flim-flam folderol defies the folly of getting caught or killed by being discoverable! —the “redcoats” are coming—Use the flim-flam. Creep creep creep into your closet and emerge as Superman/woman! Emerge as their worst nightmare ! Booker T. Washington was a wizard of flim-flam, using it to educate the lowly left-behind, betrayed freemen of the Reconstruction-era South into the modern industrial world of work and self-reliance, by being as sharp, as perceptive, creative, bold as the were the racists of Alabama New York, Washington, D.C., which worked to re-enslave, to curtail the advances of former slaves by law, by resorting to, by rewarding, by encouraging European emigration. Flim-flam is not always fraud! It is , can be as frequently an art of war!