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.
Monday, March 23, 2020
DEATH OF THE GODS
“Barleycorn, of course, eventually became a unit of linear measurement, rather than time, as any dictionary reveals. One barleycorn was equal to 1/3 of an inch. But it seems abundantly clear that it started out as a measure of time....
“It will be recalled that Osiris was a god of the harvest and was said to have taught early man when and how to cultivate the grain from which the early Egyptians made their beer.
“Early man built his worldview upon time; his universe was derived from the apparent revolutions of the stars, and as de Santillana wrote:
“‘...for those forebears did not only build up time into a structure , ‘cyclic time’: along with it came their creative idea of Number as the secret of things . When they said ‘things are numbers’, they swept in an immense arc over the whole field of ideas, astronomical and mathematical, from which real science was going to be born.’
“To reiterate, it is hard to believe that the division of the celestial circle into 360 parts was not done very early . Since the Egyptians divided up the circle of the heavens into parts of 10, leading to 36 parts and 36 decans, and also devised a civil calendar with 360 days (with 5 added), it must have originally been hoped that the circle and the calendar would have the same measurement.”
P. 212-214, “The Discovery of Barleycorn, The Framework of Time,” THE DEATH OF THE GODS IN ANCIENT EGYPT (1992) by Jane B. Sellers.
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
SCARY!
THIS IS WORST THAN SCARY
This is worst than a scary movie. This global lockdown.
I have never been a fan of scary movies, horror movies; nor the “Twilight Zone.”
With the very real Coronavirus Covid-19 pall overspreading the earth from a viral virus outbreak, from a script that no one knows, in a script none can read ; for a purpose that none can discern, this is a divine wake up call; a dreaded “fireball in the night” of our confusion. Were there any doubt, before, certainly there can be no doubt now that forces beyond our ken are very much acting in the goriest horror movie ever. Why? Because our earthly extinction as a civilization is raised up as a vision, viral specter, before our eyes, as we watch! Scared to death ! Buying toilet paper by the boatload . Social distancing! Shutting down gatherings over 15 people! Hunkering at home; hoping, praying, as we search the scriptures for the meaning.
Sunday, March 15, 2020
TRUMP RESPECT: ART OF WAR
As though winning the United States presidency, without ever having held an elective office anywhere, was not spectacular enough, in addition to having survived a number of federal & state investigations, prosecutions, civil suits, and impeachment “trial” in the Senate; with the imprisonments of staff, associates and subordinates and besting a Coronavirus test, Donald Trump must be respected, at least. THE ART OF WAR counsels against mocking an enemy, much less underestimating adept adversaries.
Saturday, March 14, 2020
COVID-19 AND "RACE"
Coronavirus (Covid-19) needs to be compared to prior global pandemics for us to gain a better, contextual appreciation of its potency, urgency, lethality, virility in our history. "Race," like coronavirus, is as pernicious as any ever to befall mankind. Race is real, but race is not genetic, though race is also a global pandemic, like Covid-19. Rather than being intrinsically biological, "race" is a vexatiously evil, sociopolitical, pseudo-scientific, quasi-forensic mythology, as is superbly explained by this article.
“As a professor of biological anthropology, I teach and advise college undergraduates. While my students are aware of inequalities in the life experiences of different socially delineated racial groups, most of them also think that biological “races” are real things. Indeed, more than half of Americans still believe that their racial identity is “determined by information contained in their DNA.”
For the longest time, Europeans thought that the sun revolved around the Earth. Their culturally attuned eyes saw this as obvious and unquestionably true. Just as astronomers now know that’s not true, nearly all population geneticists know that dividing people into races neither explains nor describes human genetic variation.
Yet this idea of race-as-genetics will not die. For decades, it has been exposed to the sunlight of facts, but, like a vampire, it continues to suck blood—not only surviving but causing harm in how it can twist science to support racist ideologies. With apologies for the grisly metaphor, it is time to put a wooden stake through the heart of race-as-genetics. Doing so will make for better science and a fairer society.”
https://www.sapiens.org/body/is-race-real/?fbclid=IwAR3yIdaIubtZ8gM9WyzoKsuyN4Heyy39ZMsEcZ8yK-hiHq46fuHErVVah0s
ROBERT BROWN ELLIOTT
Robert Brown Elliott, Esq., who was born in Liverpool , England migrated to America in 1867, after the Civil War, after attending law school in England. Robert Elliott Brown was one of our greatest politicians ever .
He wrote the great Civil Rights Act of 1875 that the United States Supreme Court overturned in 1883’s regressive “Civil Rights Cases” decision that legally legitimated racial segregation in public transportation, accommodations, theaters, long before Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Robert Brown Elliott, Esq., was also a sponsor of the Klu Klux Klan Act of 1871. It is now known as 42 U.S. C. 1983, the strongest piece of civil rights legislation ever enacted; since it enabled the eradication of the Klu Klux Klan in South Carolina, attorney Elliott’s home state from 1870’s to 1915, when it resurfaced during Woodrow Wilson’s terms.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_B._Elliott?fbclid=IwAR1GGICzcsiIGHGU_hpqHX-oFZY3rSmwK4TXr_lhJ1sYRJ5X1_u6s3r3k5k
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Cases
SATURDAY MORNING
Grandpa’s Saturday morning
Rising this Saturday morning with a reasonable portion of health and strength; smells of breakfast permeating; sounds of two grand babies laughing playing watching television in the front of the house; feeling warm secure happiness amid a frightening national, and an international novel Covid-19 immunological pandemic ; yet, through it all I am still here alive, awake aware : seeing at bedside my piles of books stacked majestically with tales of others’ challenges; beside esoteric of 69-year old men like: an old lamp, assorts of medicine, candy, tissues, glasses, water bottle, papers, ink pen; breathing gushes of gratitude & praises to God the Father , to Jesus the Son, and to Mother, the Holy Ghost, for letting me, abetting me, for begetting me divine blessings to continue to participate peacefully, joyfully, lovingly, contentedly in our domestic panoply of irreplaceable family pleasures. Amen.
Friday, March 13, 2020
"EUCLID'S ELEMENTS"
EUCLID’S ELEMENTS
Deriving proof in mathematics is the function of geometry. It is very ancient; predating our Arabic-Hindu numerals; far predating Roman numerals.
One would hardly think such were possible, given our natal dependence,culturally,on the ubiquity of social numerosity.
“Euclid’s Elements”, is a learned book that is still in circulation. It consists of thirteen chapters. It is a mathematical marvel, is a philosophical marvel, is a cultural marvel.
“Euclid’s Elements’” direct, unassuming, elegance of redundant stylized: graphics presentations, logic, simplicity, rigorous proofs, rhetorical beauty, brevity, lifts its sublime value far beyond the mere realm of books into multi-variegated mystique.
It is small wonder that geometry manifests itself prominently in music, the learned disciplines, Sphinxes, temples, pyramids, in stone megaliths, navigation, irrigation, surveying, engineering , quarrying, crafts, agriculture, architecture, law, given the richness of African astronomy/geometry.
Nor is there any wonder that the science of Egyptology exists, persists, insists upon finding solutions to the amazing mysteries of the sacred Nile River’s annual deposits of civilizations, science, writings, readings, medicine, culture, calendars, religions, time, along its divine banks and cataracts.
The true sources of the Nile are precisely the same as the divine sources of African civilizations, so-called, that she nourishes.
Nothing but Almighty God is capable of so arraying the heavens above, earth below.
It is no small wonder that over a thousand centuries that the predecessor Ethiopians, invading Asiatics, Hittites, Sea People’s; Thales, Pythagorus, Homer, Solon, Plato , Aristotle, Archimedes, Greeks, Assyrians, Persians, Romans, Arabs, Turks, Vandals, British, French, Germans, too many others to name, had journeyed to Egypt (Kemet), as merchants, mendicants, scholars, soldiers, sailors, priests, settlers, colonies, and today as tourists, enchanted persons.
“Euclid’s Element” was not just one man, but is a guild-cognomen for a stringent cult of sage-astronomers/priests, dating back tens of thousands of years as stated by Manetho, the last hieroglyphics reading priests alive, who recorded a king’s list for the interpolator-Pharaoh named Ptolemy; who followed the “Great Greek”, usurper, Alexander of Macedonia. Manetho’s list was disputed by Ptolemy VII, because his fabulous chronology of ancient Egyptians’ kings was so amazingly long; dating back thirty thousand years to sacred demigods.
The Greeks renamed the Egyptians gods with their own names. So “Osiris” became Zeus, and later Jupiter under the Romans. And so it was and is with the rest of what we call Greek Civilization, “Euclid” as well.
None need believe me. Please investigate, please prove what is true for yourself.
I myself came to the study of “Euclid’s Elements” after seeing many repeated references to it in the works of Sir Isaac Newton, Benedict Spinoza, Albert Einstein, that I had read in part. This had to be a bad brother! A super bad man, I surmised. Here was “Stolen Legacy” type of African brothers written of by Dr. George G. M. James, of Arkansas A & M college in the1950s. But after beginning my reading of it—I am only in Chapter 7, so far—I now know that this sacred work is a geometric merely in form and format. This work is an ancient generational gift from the forbears telling mankind how to live in harmony with nature, God, and each other, in truth.
If you do no more than to buy, to read, to study, “Euclid’s Elements”, itself, you will have done a very big favor to yourself, to your family’s posterity, toward correcting modern civilization’s unaligned axial orbit.
Thursday, March 12, 2020
ANCIENT AFRICAN GREETINGS
1793 YELLOW FEVER AND FREE AFRICAN SOCIETY
The most invaluable contribution of the “Free African Society” of Richard Allen, Absalom Jones and others, that is briefly mentioned here, in Wikipedia is often omitted from most American histories, as being too kind to the blacks and too cruel to the whites. And as being too revelatory of the deceit and credulity of the whites and the blacks, representatively, in our history.
Yellow Fever was the worst viral plague, killing 5,000 of Philadelphia’s 50,000 whites, in American history.
The purposeful historical omission of the blacks’ contributions is due to the betrayal of “equal rights” that were then promised to American blacks, by the national leaders, if they would risk their own lives, health, fortunes, to help to save the nation’s white founders, many of whom had fled the national capital with their families and slaves in tow. They asked the blacks, if they would also to help save Philadelphia’s remaining white leaders from the pernicious plague.
The whites had presumed that the blacks were immune from Yellow Fever, because many of them were immune to malaria caused by mosquitoes; their inoculations in Africa, before being enslaved, by their own tribal doctors is what had made those who were inoculated, made them resistant, it was later learned. That Africans were descendants of medical sages came as an additional shock to “superior” whites.
The Free African Society was the forerunner of the African Methodist Episcopal Church that was incorporated in 1816, after lengthy litigation against the Methodist church. It was also the first home of the African Episcopal Church founded by Absalom Jones. .The blacks of Philadelphia were selfless and righteous , who greatly benefited Americans, even as hundreds died doing so. But whites reneged again on that promise to African Americans in 1793 till today.
The Coronavirus viral plague of 2020 brought our earlier African American historical episodes to mind, to be mindful of, as we progress through this issue.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1793_Philadelphia_yellow_fever_epidemic?fbclid=IwAR0wf47ZuIDN84VQeEbqJLDsTK68iYXVFhEu259vGme2oXDIzz6E-PlITfo
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
CORONAVIRUS AND AFRICANS
Coronavirus and Africans
African Americans are often quite prominently noted, pictured, featured, in the United States of America’s media, when crime, disease, poverty, misery are indices. The practice is so notorious it’s almost a predictable fact.
“White is right. Brown stick around. Yellow is mellow. Black get back”. This silly color scheme, a school yard meme is America .
Therefore with the Coronavirus virus’ few reported cases of blacks being infected, the natural tendency, given Americans’ racist history, sociology, mythology about blacks, is to assume that there are none; or if some very few . Why else the silence?
As though in confirmation of this “white” traditional paradigm, American billionaire, Bill Gates, whose philanthropy is reported to be of some value to Africa, in certain respects, has publicly commented that when Coronavirus reaches Black Africa, that the Subcontinent’s sad health care vulnerabilities would be on full display!
Fortunately very few cases have thus far been reported in Black Africa, and fewer still are reported to be among indigenous Africans, compared to foreigners, tourists, tradesmen, visitors from Europe or Asia.
This is not to state that the virus will not yet appear. After all, Africans have known viruses like the world had never seen!
The earlier “Caucasian virus” affecting, destabilizing, enervating Africa was that woeful centuries-old slave trade of tens of millions of Africa’s best people to Western Asia, Western Europe, and to the “New World” of the Americas and the Caribbean Sea, by Muslims and Christians. Aspects of this earlier “Caucasian virus” endure.
So, maybe God is granting us Africans a respite. Then again, maybe not. Either way, we will see and know soon enough.
In the meantime, I expect a profusion of alleged scientific articles to be published attempting to explain away the yet small numbers of affected Africans abroad or at home, who may not have been hindered by Coronavirus, as having nothing to do with “race.” Such persons may claim no ‘race’ exists, as earlier integrationists did; for we are all the same they claim. We are indeed substantially similar in seminal respects, but there are still dissimilarities.
Maybe Coronavirus has found that niche!
https://www.reuters.com/ar…/china-health-gates-idUSL2N2AS1AV
Sunday, March 8, 2020
NONE
None know it all. Sense it all. None have it all, nor can do it all.None has reproduced itself, none can bury itself . None is panoramic. We complement , we complete each other . So give thanks! AMEN.
Saturday, March 7, 2020
BEGINNING OF SORROWS
“BEGINNING OF SORROWS”
Studying historical truth long enough may reveal to you that our current existence is in a crass fraudulent world, whose 2000+ years’-old values have been inverted, been distorted, subverted, & turned upside-down, by occult conspiracies .
Such is the case because in our past centuries, past age’s religions taught philosophical perspectives “began”, not at ‘the beginning’ in the truth, in facts, in correct history; but in plagiarism, myth, hyperbole.
For the very first philosophers, now claimed to have been in our era were not the Africans: Egyptian or Ethiopian, but it is Socrates, supposedly; him being but an “apostrophe,” a literary device who was used, created and wielded by Plato, who contrived Socrates to be a dialectical foil to contrast with Plato or other raconteurs in Plato’s iconic “dialogues.”
Philosophy had existed countless ages before both Plato and Socrates, his effigy; so it is demonstrated in the papyri of Egypt. So it was written by Plato in his book ‘Timaeus’. Therein he writes that to the Egyptian priests, the “Greeks were like children “ in their limited understanding of nature, God, cosmos, mankind . Plato who also studied for decades in the nations of Africa, called the Nile River, “Father Nile.”
Beginning with the Greeks, for that is where our current distorted conception of civilization—Egyptology notwithstanding—begins; where our incorrect concept of God begins; where “Philosophy” begins, where mathematics, literature, astronomy, medicine, agriculture, navigation, music, architecture, begins—let the liars tell it—it is truly the “beginning of sorrows.” for the black man of Africa in history. Matt.24:8.
It is all untrue. It is plagiarized sophistry.
These thoughts were borne in mind by me privately until I continued reading today in THE AGE OF REASON by Thomas Paine.
Paine, the long defiled American founding father, English man, was the true author of the “Declaration of Independence,” not Thomas Jefferson as fraudulently claimed in history. Thomas Paine is author of the “Declaration of the Rights of Man,” whose revolutionary philosophy launched the French and a Haitian Revolutions, and by extension, the ‘Freedom War’ in America , more commonly known as the ‘Civil War.’
Paine writes:
“One thing, however, is much less equivocal, which is, that out of the matters contained in those books, together with the assistance of some old stories, the Church has set up a system of religion very contradictory to the character of the person whose name it bears . It has set up a religion of pomp and revenue, in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty.
“The invention of purgatory , and of the releasing of souls therefrom by prayers bought of the church with money; the selling of pardons, dispensations , and indulgences, are revenue laws, without bearing the name or carrying the appearance. But the case nevertheless is, that those things derive their origin from the paroxysm of the crucifixion and the theory deduced therefrom, which was that one person could stand in the place of another, and could perform meritorious service for him. The probability, therefore, is that the whole theory or doctrine of what is called the redemption (which is said to have been accomplished by the act of one person in the room of another) was originally fabricated on purpose to bring forward and build all those secondary and pecuniary redemptions upon; and that the passages in the books, upon which the idea or theory of redemption is built , have been manufactured and fabricated for that purpose . Why are we to give this Church credit when she tells us that those books are genuine in every part, any more than we give her credit for everything else she has told us, or for the miracles she says she has performed? That she could fabricate writings is certain, because she could write; and the composition of the writings in question is of the kind that might do it; and that she ‘did’ fabricate them is not more inconsistent with probability than that she could tell us, as she has done, that she could and did work miracles .
“Since, then, no external evidence can, at this long distance of time, be produced to prove whether the church fabricated the doctrines called redemption or not (for such evidence , whether for or against, would be subject to the same suspicion of being fabricated), the case can only be referred to the internal evidence which the thing carries within itself; and this affords a very strong presumption of its being a fabrication. For the internal evidence is that the theory or doctrine of redemption has for its base an idea of pecuniary Justice, not moral Justice.
“If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take the debt upon himself, and pay it for me; but if I have committed a crime every circumstance has changed; moral Justice cannot take the innocent for the guilty, even if the innocent would offer itself. To suppose Justice to do this , is to destroy the principle of its existence, which is the thing itself; it is then no longer Justice, it is indiscriminate revenge.
“This single reflection will show, that the doctrine of redemption is founded on a mere pecuniary idea corresponding to that of a debt which another person might pay ; and this pecuniary idea corresponds again with the system of second redemption, obtained by the means of money given to the Church for pardons, the probability is that the same persons fabricated both the one and the other of those theories; and that in truth, there is no such thing as redemption—that it is fabulous , and that man stands in the same relative position to his Maker as he ever did stand, since man existed, and that it is his greatest consolation to think so.
“Let him believe this, and he will live more consistently and morally than by any other system; it is by his being taught to contemplate himself as an outlaw, as an outcast, as a beggar, as a mumper, as one thrown, as it were , on a dung hill at an immense distance from his Creator, and who must make his approaches by creeping and cringing to intermediate beings, that he conceives either a contemptuous disregard for everything under the name of religion , or becomes indifferent, or turns whatever he calls devout. In the latter case, he consumes his life in grief, or the affectation of it; his prayers are reproaches; his humility is ingratitude ; he calls himself a worm, and the fertile earth a dunghill; all the blessings of life by the thankless name of vanities; he despises the choicest gift of God to man, the GIFT OF REASON; and having endeavored to force upon himself the belief of a system against which reason revolts, he ungratefully calls it ‘human reason’, as if man could give reason to himself.
“Yet with all this strange appearance of humility and contempt for human reason, he ventures into the boldest presumptions; he finds fault with everything; his selfishness is never satisfied; his ingratitude is never at an end. He takes on himself to direct the Almighty what to do , even in the government of the universe; he prays dictatorially; when it is sunshine , he prays for rain, and when it rains, he prays for sunshine ; he follows the same idea in everything he prays for; for what is the amount of all his prayers but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? It is as if he were to say: ‘Thou knowest not so well as I .’”
P. 22-24, AGE OF REASON by Thomas Paine (2014)
Thus, in summation is an explanation for the hypocrisy of America; for thus is explained the breach between creed and deed in our national existence. It dates all way back to Fourth Century B.C., Greece through the Fifth Century A.D., Roman Emperor Constantine’s successful ambit to preserve Romans’ historical power and legacy through the intermediary of Jesus Christ, as imposed, edited, and financed.
Friday, March 6, 2020
WHAT IS TRUE ?
WHAT IS TRUE ABOUT YOU?
Start out wrong, one must end up wrong: gardening, drafting, teaching, child rearing; just as well say wrong in anything.
A lying start, a false start is a first scratch. Such early errors do equal bad ends, penalties .
Lies, myths, misinformation, miseducation, all sedulously require culture’s continuous maintenance. The truth can stand on its own even if it is crusted, overlain by centuries of debris, dirt, disinformation.
Fortunately people have potential to be turned around from all wrong beginnings, based on lies, myths, disinformation. But, it takes a clean environment conducive to the spirit of truth and a person willing to hear and abide by the truth. It takes both.
This spirit is called revival, renewal, and it is personal, philosophical, sociological in its sweep, gathering and scattering as it goes, flows, grows . A new earth rises by reason of a revived spirit of truth therein, thereon, thereof. Therefore, begin to learn what is true about you, then about all that you can. This effort will be blessed by the divine primordial spirit of creation whose sacred polyphony you will have accessed.
Amen.
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
YOU
YOU ARE YOU ALWAYS. YOU LEARN, ADAPT, GROW, MARRY. WORK , REPRODUCE, AGE, DIE. YET YOU ARE FOREVER YOU IN SPIRITUAL ESSENCE.
NECESSARY AND ACCESSORY
How can any people be “integrally Islamic,”
[or integrally Christian], yet “still seem to be Negro”?
P. 471, “East African Antiquities “ WHEN WE RULED “ by Robin Walker (2006)
The assertion above was refashioned as a question , by me, purposefully, to see what may be more intrinsic philosophy: culture or religion. “Negro” seems to bind both Islam and Christianity, historically, doctrinally; yet neither religion is governed by Negroes .
Identifying what is a Negro, culturally, racially, is as problematic as defining what is Islam or Christianity, culturally, racially, given diversity.
Perhaps defining the word “integrally” may ease our plight, our predicament. “Integral” is defined as “necessary to make a whole complete; essential or fundamental.”
A person may be whole or complete under either religion, or any religion and in any race. So neither religion is “necessary” nor race but are accessory in the lives of man and woman.
Amen.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
SPIRIT OF CRIME BEGETS CRIME
A SPIRIT OF CRIME BEGETS CRIME BY LAW OF GRAVITY
When the 1950’s and 1960’s civil rights movements came to protest in certain cities in the South, some have said that the crime rates among blacks there fell to near zero.
I was encouraged to hear this fact—if indeed it was a fact, not a canard , a lie , false hope.
For, if it were true, then, it may open the possibility of a new remedy for criminal vestiges in those cities as well as in certain others. That ‘remedy’ would be a revival of the spirit of the civil rights movement.
I say “revival of the spirit” because “where there is no [spirit or ] vision the people perish, but he that keeps the law, happy is he. Prov 29:18.
Proverbs 29:18 King James Version (KJV)
18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Philosopher King, and others, recognized that a system of oblivious criminality had historically hung over the United States of America, dating as far back to its founding in 1789; its device was the use of racially exclusive Constitutional provisions that deftly deified certain“white” people by default, as it vilified the blacks by deceit.
This criminality compounded itself by the legal extension of slavery until 1808, and a (largely uncollected) $10 per head import tax on imported Africans until then; by a full faith and credit clause to promote the return of fugitive African slaves from non-slaveholding states; a commerce clause to promote slavery and its commercial propagation. There were some others like the infamous 3/5’s clause to determine Congressional representatives of states.
For the spirit of enslavement which had pervaded Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the Constitution was hammered out by a series of political compromises, after the “Articles of Confederation” had failed to collect enough revenue or to centralize power in the hands of a very wealthy few.
The ratified Constitution’s principles were at odds with its acclaimed, purportedly historical, revolutionary predecessor , the “Declaration of Independence” of 1776 that was written by Thomas Paine, but was edited by an editing committee of 5 people, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson among 5 editors to tone it down.
Water and waste matter roll downhill and downtown by the law of gravity into the lives of the people in their families, courts, churches, schools, police departments, homes, stores, libraries, armed forces, clubs, arts, crafts businesses , science, trade , taxation, industry, philosophy, commerce, professions, and literature.
Countering the national betrayal spirit of the constitutional oppression of blacks by “whites” by law, was the counterterrorism spirit of liberty and justice for all that was being mainly propagated in the civil rights movement, using America’s own doctrine, avowed philosophy preachments, against
It. These words cut to them to the very quick! And the “white sepulchral” walls of hypocrisy came tumbling down for a time, very briefly, before the sad saga of the assassination of philosophers with King in 1968, Malcolm X in 1965, Medgar Evers in 1963, John F Kennedy in 1963, began.
The nation’s political forces of racist criminality retrenched forcefully with the 1968 election Richard Milhouse Nixon’s crooked “Southern strategy,” wherewithal blacks were again made to be the pivotal pinions in the wobbly philosophical wheel of American law, culture, history, politics, commerce , education, “family values.”
“Made” includes crime, criminal conduct, of blacks against blacks, which became a political buzzword for racial degradation, due to the the miscreant acts of the few, who were consigned to dreary ghettos in where unemployment, welfare subsistence were disproportionately the rule of thumb, as was self-intellectual estrangement too.
“Gravity” affects the human spirit, as its force does matter, seemingly, apparently, to judge by gravity’s visitation of crime on African American people, who bemoan its persistence even though violent crime is in decline now say epidemiological statistics.
In short, spirit begets spirit for good or for evil. The key to eliminating “black” crime is to eliminate overweening “white” crime.