"NO COUNT"

“NO COUNT!” “No count” was a synonym for ‘worthless’ used by elders in Mississippi & in Missouri. They would say that “such & such was no count”, meaning they did not amount to much. I was pleased to read today the artful way that no count was used by Robert T. Browne. He was an early 20th century philosopher, African American, whose book, THE MYSTERY OF SPACE (1919), I received today. Its “preface” states: “Mathematics is the biometer of intellectual evolution. Hence, the determination of the ‘status quo’ of the intellect at any time can be accomplished most satisfactorily by applying to it the rigorous measure of mathematical method. The intellect has but one true divining rod and that is mathematics. By day and by night it points the way unerringly , so long as it leads through materiality; but, falteringly, blindly, fatally, when that way veers into the territory of vitality and spirituality.... “In chapter IX attention is invited to some of the extremities of mathematical laws wherein it is shown that, because mathematical goods are strictly of intellectual texture and fabric, vain is the hope of reaching any reliable certainty with respect to many vital questions , even regarding space itself, by means of the mathematical method. The intellect , and, therefore, mathematics encounter the most formidable stricture when effort is made to maneuver in the field of vitality and realism. In addition, it is shown that, when pushed to the utmost logical limits, metageometry proves not only futile, but emphasizes the need for a sharp turning of the path of search from the intellectual or material to the spiritual or intuitional. Indeed, it becomes painfully certain that the Golden Fleece of profounder knowledge will be discovered never by expedition whose bark has its sails set for the winds of mathematical seas. But contrarily , a new bark , moored at the furthermost shore of the sea of intellectuality with sails set for the winds which come from the realm of intuitional perception must be seized. Whereupon, by the straightest line, we shall, at the last, land upon the shore of realism, truth of all inclusive.... “And while we disclaim any intention acceptance of them as final, authoritative declarations, we shall be satisfied if the readers of this volume be incited to solve for themselves the problems which these queries naturally suggest . Happy indeed shall be the outcome if there be any who, following the path sketched herein, shall find the solution to the MYSTERY OF SPACE and apply its meanings to the enhancement of the values of the intuitive life.” P. ix-xii. Being no count is making no good account of one’s time, mind, energy, mathematically spiritually intuitively !

INTELLECTUAL TRANSCENDENCE

William Damani KeeneLarry, MANY THANKS! I've wondered if Douglass and Fermin had met. Fermin was a Brother of deep insight. I used his quote to start a discussion thread in 2012 that at this point has 84,506 views. QUOTE "If we could prove, on the basis of recent advances in our knowledge of history, that the Egyptian people were not a White race, as so many have constantly maintained through rigid adherence to systems of thought and retrospective pride ever since Egyptology [determined]the overwhelming importance of this ancient nation, what further argument could be mustered to salvage the doctrine of the inequality of the races? The answer is, none. "The anthropologists and scientists who support such a theory realize its inanity to such an extent that they have resorted to all sorts of conceptual subtleties, construed all kinds of specious arguments into convincing reasons, accepted all types of scholarly ravings as serious probabilities, all in order to make people believe that the ancient Egyptians were White. "Caucasian presumption could not suffer the idea that, in the first flowering of progress, a race Europeans consider radically inferior could produce a nation to which Europe owes everything, for Egypt is responsible for the original intellectual and moral achievements which constitute the foundations of modern civilization. Fortunately, light is being shed today on all the basic issues, particularly in the field of Egyptology. Scientists from all the great nations have conducted research in the field with enthusiasm and with a sense of emulation even rivalry, to the greater glory of science. It is becoming impossible, then, to resist the evidence of facts and to remain captive of obsolete theories." -- Antenor Firmin, The Equality of the Human Races, p. 227-228 (2002) https://onnidan1.com/forum/index.php... Larry Delano Coleman I defer to your sagacity, dear brother, in quoting Antonin Firmin. His groundings with Douglass, although brief, underscore the value of temporal transcendence. It is unfortunate that Firmin could not make it to the pinnacle of Haitian politics. At least, he left his book, which some of us have read. Perhaps, we can make more of Haiti's President Hyppolite's appointment of Douglass as Haiti's representative to the Columbian World Exposition in Chicago in 1893; two year's before the Cotton Exposition in Atlanta in 1895, where Booker T. Washington arose, continuing aspects of Firmin, Douglass, Hyppolite.

INFALLIBLE ARMS

ARM YOURSELVES WITH KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, UNDERSTANDING, AND TRUTH.

AMERICAN MAVENS

AMERICA’S HIDDEN ‘MAVENS’ The actual killings of unarmed compliant black men by police are deliberately provocatively murders that any sane human population regardless of race, color, creed, education, age is bound to abhor as wicked evil. These senseless fellow citizen killings defy law , logic, ethics, morality & any kind of sense! Who derives profits from such executions? Surely someone, somewhere hidden behind the police terrorists, profits from the vacations, bonuses, perks, promotions that are awarded to police who kill black men & black people! Lawmakers are they who heap rewards on the assassins! Whoever they are, they enable, fund lawmakers. These residual, antebellum, spooky, Uber-wealthy, 2020, ghostly, ‘skulls & bones’-type of venal, vicious perpetrators of secret cabals—whomever these occult secret mavens may be—must be a focus of a fierce feral search by fired-up, avenging citizens, to honor credal righteousness, for just balancing, black redemption! These hidden mavens are the inviting “soft targets” like the unarmed compliant blacks , who are being murdered by their lethally programmed-to-kill-blacks, malicious police, too often shielded by judges! These bipartisan, politically defended, federally judicially sanctioned, publicly-media armed, taxpayer-supported, programmed, police are the visible tools of the invisible “maven” powers, true rulers of American hypocrisy, called globally a ‘democracy!’ These occult mavens merit a very deep cleansing , a similar, intensively deep-cleansing, to that used against invisible Covid19. It would be best for all, if the inside folks, those who know them best, among police, lawmakers, evil cabals would identify, then, would extirpate by root and branch, eliminate racist, cretinous, miscreants who dishonor their integrity, who dishonor justice, and who dishonor innocent blacks’ lives; who disgrace their own lives by breaches of plighted oaths to protect & serve all our people.

PYOGENIC PRESIDENCY

Ours is a pyogenic presidency under Donald John Trump in 2020. It is one in which underlying infections are being vetted, visibly, globally, epidemiologically, politically, economically, culturally. Suppurations are necessary.

TRUMP REOPENS CHURCHES

TRUMP REOPENS CHURCHES President Donald J.Trump’s Covid19 “reopening of the faith houses” may not only be illegal and unenforceable. But it is probably unconstitutional for violating separation of church and state , and not being among the powers delegated by the people to any government. But legalities apart, Trump’s temptation is much like that of Satan to Jesus, after his having fasted 40 days in the wilderness. Most relevant to May 2020, Memorial Day weekend, is the Satanic temptation of Jesus Christ to jump from the pinnacle of the temple as proof of the power of God to rescue him before he even dashed his foot against a rock. Jesus stayed put ; saying “Thou shall not tempt the Lord thy God.” Of course, President Trump’s challenge is more than personal, political, legal, philosophical, constitutional. It is broadly eschatological. It is a very bold move! “Eschatology” is a part of theology that is concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind. For it raises the question whether religion is among the rights retained by the people, or whether it too was delegated to the state and federal governments under, in the 9 & 10 constitutional amendments? I say that the manner of exercise of one’s religion, even whether opts to exercise any type religion, is obviously a non-delegable power that is divinely personal to all, being non-delegable as a matter of human law. Below I quote the story from the Bible: Bible Matthew, chapter 4 « previous chapter | next chapter » The Temptation of Jesus. 1 * a Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. 2 b He fasted for forty days and forty nights,* and afterwards he was hungry. 3 The tempter approached and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become loaves of bread.” 4 * He said in reply, “It is written:c ‘One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.’” 5 * Then the devil took him to the holy city, and made him stand on the parapet of the temple, 6 and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command his angels concerning you’ and ‘with their hands they will support you, lest you dash your foot against a stone.’”d 7 Jesus answered him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord, your God, to the test.’”e 8 Then the devil took him up to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence, 9 and he said to him, “All these I shall give to you, if you will prostrate yourself and worship me.”* 10 At this, Jesus said to him, “Get away, Satan! It is written: ‘The Lord, your God, shall you worship and him alone shall you serve.’”f 11 Then the devil left him and, behold, angels came and ministered to him.”

LOST WAX

“Breaking the mold” is not merely a lost-wax sculptural technique from West Africa, nor is it merely a mathematical computing technique from ancient East Africa, for breaking the molds encasing our minds, is as essential as art and math.

COVID19 IN ANTHROPOCENE

No sooner had the new "Anthropocene geological era" been popularly proclaimed, did Covid19 subtlely appear to remind vain "man" that all age's epitaphs, geological and others, are authored by God who orders all beings' scale, dimensions.

JUST SPELL MY NAME RIGHT

JUST SPELL MY NAME RIGHT! In print journalism class in the early 1970s at the, then-new, Howard University School of Communications, we learned that with regard to politicians and their political campaigns, this basic newspaper truism : “Please spell my name right! it does not matter what you say. I still get free publicity.” President Donald Trump rose to Presidential power in 2016 by repeatedly saying so many outrageously absurd things that “objectively” savvy, wary newspapers, radio, television, internet carried hourly, often as their lead story every day. One story was that he was going to build a wall along the border with Mexico; and that Mexico was going to pay for it! What a huge whopping lie! But it led the news for days on in, into and after inauguration. People are busy and so dizzy in the whirling milieu of social adherence to norms of work, social life, consumption, few have time or desire to reflect. They just scan, sniff a familiar fragment of fragrant political information & take a big bite! That is all that it takes. Like Pavlov’s behaviorally modified dog, their stimulus responsiveness-reward-getting training kicks in. They salivate! A point here is that news media are contributing to the reelection of Donald Trump by apparent or feigned ignorance of the basic rule of political coverage that is cited above. They deny it, but do it. The most recent example of Trump-trampling is the claim that he is taking a tablet a day of hydroxychloquine (his highly touted “cure”)to ward off coronavirus Covid19. He has been doing it for a week, he claims. News! Well to quote Reagan,”there you go again!”

LIFE AND LIVING

LIFE AND LIVING Life is given but living is work. Responsibilities attend gifts. Especially is the above true of your life first . You must take care of yourself ; then your beloved ones; then the rest. These facts are true of others. Another truth is that helping others helps yourself also. For the life we live is codependent is multifactorial; requires care from others than ourselves to negotiate everything for self. So like Jacob’s ladder there is ascent and descent with life’s mechanism, factotum, needs. I need you. You need me. We need other people to sustain ourselves in these given lives. Mutualities are necessities in dealing with life’s variations.

SON

Son, you can come humbly or come hubristically. But however you come, come manfully; come meaningfully. Do not come sniffing & licking! But come home hard! Come strong! Come correct. Come determined!

PUDDIN' PIE'S MAMA

PUDDIN’ PIE’S MAMA Fabled Missouri raconteur, Mark Twain, has written a lesser known novel, PUDDN’ HEAD WILSON, that is every bit as good as his other books, though it is not as well read . In my 1960s teens, in Rockhill, Missouri, the radio, record player and our sweet music were all of the teenage rage! Singing groups consisting of males and females sprouted, flourished, faded like spring’s colorful flowers in a verdant field in Rockhill @ the Webster Groves School District. One of our greatest crooners, ever, was a brother by the name of PUDDIN’ PIE. I never did know that singer’s real name. I guess that Puddin’ Pie was the name that his mother bestowed on him as a child. For he was a righteous man. Puddin’ Pie was, locally, a well renowned singer in our 1960’s black neighborhoods . He was virtually, if not literally, a true doppelgänger of Smokey ‘Bill’ Robinson in voice, looks, style, personality. Puddin’ Pie was older than me, but I respected, revered, his suavity. He never made it big. Nor did any of the members of his group, whose names I do not recall, except one: Wank Woods, who lived down our street, Eldridge, in Rockhill, St. Louis County, Missouri. None went big time . Frankly, I only heard Puddin’ Pie’s group sing once, up at Douglass School in the gym during some kind of concert when I was about 13 or 14 years old. It was enough. It was almost too much for me, their harmony, rhythm, grace, steps! The brothers were bad! A few years later me and my late, incomparable, friend and brother, Theodore Roosevelt Bush, jr, a/k/a, Ted Bush, who lived just down the street on Eldridge, would, with me, attempt to reprise Puddin’ Pie and Wank’s example at the Steger Junior High School talent show in 1966. We sang “What’s Your Name” by Don and Juan, to great fanfare and acclaim. But we did not win a prize. Yet “What’s Your Name” is the only song reprised at our class’ 50 year’s reunions. Puddin’ Pie , Ted, me and others also came together in the summer of 1969 around a lighted candle stick in sort of a communal expiation ritual of a spiritual genre. Me and Ted had just graduated from high school. Yet we “never could say goodbye” to our convivial camaraderie fostered in our creative struggle to establish dignity and respect for our black fellows via our club called “Students for Black Awareness and Action” at Webster Groves High School. So, in the after-glow of our graduating, we began to commune around a burning candle with friends, like Clarence Moore, Carlos Thompson, Victor Falwell, Charles Thomas, Delores Simmons and more, for one night a week, after work, in a circle. Hereby we “grounded” with brothers and sisters. Well, into this mix, one night, swooped Puddin’ Pie to our complete surprise and utter delight! “What is Puddin’ Pie doing here?” I asked myself. We soon found out! Ted, who was then the more spiritually affianced communer among us was declaiming on certain matters of religious ritual, as the candle flickered. Puddin’ Pie said something inaudible. Ted , who knew Puddin’ Pie from his previous visits to see Ted’s older sister, addressed Puddin’ Pie familiarly directly. “Who you gonna call Puddin’ Pie, when your stuff gets real deep ? When it’s too deep for you to handle by yourself? “ Ted inquired pointedly. Ted pressed on passionately! Ted repeated “Who are you going to call on Puddin Pie?” The candle’s flame flared up. Puddin’ Pie squared up to Ted, paused perfectly, briefly said: “I’m gonna call on my Mama!” Needless to say, Puddin’ Pie’s on-time repost to Ted’s direct personal challenge to testify, very dramatically broke up the communal meeting that evening. All Mama’s indeed ranked with God in our group. Little-knowns, indeed, unknowns when recalled,by someone, after death, become better known. For life is but an episode, not the end of human drama. Memory is divine conservancy.

KNOW YOURSELF AND BE YOURSELF

KNOW AND BE YOURSELF Watching as viral devastation is being wrought globally by the novel coronavirus, Covid19 , I earnestly labor for analogies: In Nature. Astronomy. History . Philosophy. Mathematics. Physics. Agriculture. Hunting. Fishing. I labor for analogies to explain not only Covid19, but the viral process by which my people became marooned forever from Africa, groomed as slaves, entombed, to be known as African Americans. I draw blanks, consistently, in seeking analogies for 2020’s Covid19 epiphany & seeking analogies for the great falling away, great falling down from the renown ancient greatness of Africans themselves . Their fall, our fall—for, in truth, they are we and we are they—took four thousands of years to reach nadir. It began in very ancient times, as allegorized in the Bible’s Old Testament . We are on the stinging end of a brutal bullwhip’s crack . Our bloody whipping began over four thousands of years, if we count back from the Fourth Dynasty downward to 2020. The Fourth Kemetic Dynasty that built the Great Pyramid at Giza that still stupefy, still bedazzle modern men of all nations, was built by Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops in Greek) in the Fourth Kemet Dynasty. It was planned and executed by highly educated astronomical mathematical wizards, geniuses, scribes, priests, skilled quarry men, ferry men, Stone finishers, laborers , artists , commissary workers , cooks, butchers, physicians , architects, over a 20-year public works process during annual inundations of the Nile. Fourth Dynasty was the apical mathematical, philosophical, technical, theological , magical, literary apex of ancient world civilizations . So imply Plato, Homer,Diodorus Siculus, Herodotus, Aristotle, all of whom lived hundreds of years after the last dynasty . Unfortunately “Africans” did not have much to say about their now allegorical “fall”, about our penultimate fall, exceptions notwithstanding, except as being occasionally quoted commentators to the catastrophes, involving the demise of African civilization. This may be because the term “African” was alien, to natal indigenes. It was imposed by Rome on a northern province along the Mediterranean Sea, now denominating the rest. As I meditate on these things in 2020 during the Covid19 ionization of Earth, I can but marvel that we remain intact. For millions have perished as victims of the earlier ionizing: invasions, transgressions, colonizations, expropriations, befalling our tribal forbears in processes of homogenization which they were unwittingly complicit in , due to the loss of acuity! loss of ingenuity; loss of sapient adaptability back to the Fourth Kemet Dynasty, which ended 2500 (BC) years before the birth of Jesus, The Christ, posthumously sainted, an African philosopher-priest. Jesus Christ’s ethnic identity was “hidden” from the rest of us by certain Renaissance artists who were paid to paint him like themselves, as white. None can blame them . Each artist needs pay; dogs wag its own tail. “African” artists had and have a duty to depict their Savior as themselves as well! But, far more malevolently, less forgivably, Kemet, itself, was painted white! Kemet—the black land—was renamed “Egypt” by Greeks. Kemet’s celebrated sciences were all plagiarized. Kemet’s savants were whitened; its holy obelisks removed to Rome, to Washington, to Paris, London, Berlin. Kemet’s art, relics and sacred papyri were hoarded away in European and Asian museums. “Egyptologists” even today, as done since the early 1800’s under Napoleon, continue to dig into tombs, temples, move monuments in the name of science; dam the Nile, staunching her helical sediments-flooding periods, that birthed time, that birthed earth-breadbasket Nile Delta. Doggedly pillaging, claiming, finds exhumed in Kemet and Lower Nubia as parts of the mythical “Great White Race” written in high school history, literature books, featured in fake movies. They wrest away our divine legacy, stolen from us, treacherously. Fortunately our images are left in stone, in indelible inks; pigments attest to our jurisdiction over Kemet. Of course, we are now literally marooned, from Africa, like Joseph in Genesis. We are the slave-descended Africans, most of whose memories have been wiped clean of any knowledge of the truth, about themselves, kin or collaterals: ancient, medieval, present. Much like computer hard drives, our conscious minds have been wiped clean of all prior data for reprogramming. Many African Americans do not even want to know their antecedent African history, nor of antecedent theological truths, claimed by later Jews, Christians, Muslims, Masons, Gnostics, Neoplatonists , etc. So traumatized have we been, indeed, so alienated, isolated, ashamed of ourselves are we, that too many of us live timid, disordered lives. We pretend not to be frightful, blighted, disassociated in life. Yet all of the while disjointedly our daily lives are atomized, assailed, deracinated, by ream after ream of baleful, detrimental, programming. Our “trained” minds subsist on television, videos, movies. Fortunately, soul music, whose beats and lyrics do speak subliminally to our contrite, weary spirits spiritually, secularly, albeit separately. Yes some don’t want to know. True knowledge burdens “like a heavy load.” In truth, one need not be of necessity an African history scholar. But one must know something; one must know enough to defend one’s integrity and to equip one’s dependents with awareness. For truthfully “many roads lead to Rome.” Thus it would be sufficient, surely far better, however, if one were natural, not unnatural in the lifestyles, ideas, actions, thoughts, feelings, relationships to God, to oneself, family, community. Being natural is how God made us for such a strange time as this, when the earth is being reordered all at once naturally. Nature is hardwired in human sensibilities. Be you!

WATER BABIES

“We were all water babies, my three brothers and I . Our father, who was a swimming champ (he won the fifteen mile race off the Isle of Wight three years in succession)?and loved swimming more than anything else, introduced each of us to the water when we were scarcely a week old. Swimming is instinctive at this age , so, for better or worse, we never ‘learned’ to swim. “I was reminded of that in the Caroline Islands, in Micronesia, where I even saw toddlers diving fearlessly into the lagoons and swimming, typically, with a sort of dog paddle. Everyone there swims, one is ‘unable’ swim, and the islanders’ swimming skills are superb . Magellan and other navigators reaching Micronesia in the sixteenth century were astounded at such skills and, seeing the islanders swim and dive, bounding from wave to wave, could not help comparing them to dolphins. The children, in particular, were so at home in the water that they appeared, in the words of one explorer, ‘more fish than human beings.’ It was from Pacific Islanders that, early in the twentieth century , we Westerners learned the crawl, the beautiful, powerful ocean stroke that they had perfected—so much better, so much more fitted to the human form than the frog like breaststroke chiefly used until that time.) “For myself, I have no memory of being taught to swim and; I learned my strokes, I think , by swimming with my father—though the slow, measured, mile-eating stroke he had (he was a powerful man who weighed nearly eighteen stone )was not entirely suited to a little boy. But I could see how my old man, huge and cumbersome on land, became transformed—graceful like a porpoise —in the water; and I, self-conscious , nervous , and also rather clumsy, found the same delicious transformation in myself, found a new being, a new mode of living, in the water. I have a vivid memory of a summer holiday at the seaside in England the month after my fifth birthday, when I ran into my parents’ room and tugged at the great whale like bulk of my father . ‘Come on Dad!’ I said. ‘Let’s come for a swim!’ He turned over slowly and opened one eye. ‘What do you mean, waking an old man of forty-three like this at six in the morning?’ Now that my father is dead, and I am almost twice the age that he was then, this memory of so long ago tugs at me, makes me equally want to laugh and cry.” P.3-4, “Water Babies,” EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE (2019) by Oliver Sacks

OLD BEGET NEW

The new grows out of the old. Be the new a person, nation, tree, or testament. No part of old is jettisoned; for old is integrally inseminated in new

FALSE DEBATES

Debating if health care is a right or a privilege, a false debate, is like asking “is life a right or a privilege,” another false debate. Why a false debate? Because only the well are debating . Life is a divine gift, neither right nor privilege. As with life, so, too, are life’s incidents, life’s divine gifts, such as health, speech, debate. Many people who claim that life is a “right” loudly deny that health care is also a “right”. Many who claim that “life is not a right,” still claim that health care is a right not privilege. There are false debates going both ways, each implicitly denying both are divine gifts.

MATHEMATICS AND "GOD"

If mathematics, most exacting of disciplines, affords multiple pathways to the same answer, how dare any less rigorous discipline claim to be the only way to find the universal Creator?

COVID19 AMID MONOTHEISM

Before Pharaoh Akhenaton instituted monotheism in the 18th Dynasty, the Kemetic people were beholden to many gods. Osiris Isis and Horus among them. These 3 earlier gods (Ausar Auset Horus) have come down to us as the Trinity. (Father Son Holy Ghost ). Before the 18th Dynasty and far back into prehistoric Ethiopia (Abyssinia/Nubia ), Africans equated nature with divinity. This included stars, sky, moon, animals, plants, birds, beetles, earth. They were known as, neters nefers for powers immortal that permeate space time by virtue of divine values. The earliest gods were hermaphroditic, Neith, being man and woman at once. Over time Kemet and Nubia knew many gods, Maat, Thoth, under different names. Today both Islam and Christianity are the main “religions”—an unknown word in ancient Kemet and Nubia—where obeisance to natural powers and forces was constant in every life: working , relaxation, everything. No one day was set aside as in our time. Today’s religions are revealed by men. The original obeisances were based on nature as observed and experienced by men . Akhenaten based monotheism on the Sun. The earlier priests of Amon (Amen) used constellations. Today, absent the aspects of devotion , we scientifically study the stars, the sun and everything else. But we are befuddled by coronavirus Covid19 , now, today, May 13, 2020, perhaps, because our philosophy and theology disdain nature and the infinite powers and forces saturating our own divine experiences. Now we perceive ourselves to be “human” not gods, as before, despite references in the Bible to our divine status as “heirs with Christ “. So as to the implications of this ostensibly mathematical post implying incipient multiplicity, it replicates nature and science and diversity of thought, fluidity of forms , and all else, modernly, anciently, as it was originally , unassailably. The post is certainly not intended to deprecate Jesus Christ, my literal savior and beloved divine brother in the faith, in “the way” of the ecology and evolution of the 21st century .

WHAT LOVE HAS JOINED

WHAT LOVE HAS JOINED The whole world must decide seemingly between health and wealth in the midst of the Covid19 crisis. But the choice that each country must make for itself and for its citizens’ well-being is a deceptive one. For without health there can be very little wealth. Without wealth there can be very little health. Mankind needs both. Life of all kinds needs both. Health and wealth are needs! Wealth ultimately is life: air, water, food, warmth, clothing, shelter, love, family, peace of mind, knowledge and wisdom. Health is the bodily capacity to painlessly enjoy the wealth. “It would be easier to take wet from water,” sung Smokey Bill Robinsons and the Miracles in “What Love Has Joined Together.” The song explains our vivid 2020 Covid19 dilemma, that is: part political, part economic, part philosophical, part biological-medical, part social, part epidemiological, part anthropological, part epistemological, part religious. Indeed it is part everything! God is also everything, including Covid19. We must, in short, do both simultaneously; take health and wealth not separated, but as one. For they are joined together like life and death, male and female, God and love. For God’s divine love made us by the exercise of divine will and everything else! Amen.

HUMILITY

HUMILITY Being temporal & ephemeral , I must think, speak, act, create, temporally & ephemerally too. Far be it from me to ever even dare begin to attempt to think, attempt to speak, attempt to act, attempt to create myself, absolutely, as though God. Humility is a cosmic necessity much more than a mere man made discretionary virtue. Of course, humility mandates that I speak only for myself, only about myself. All others are at liberty to do what best becomes them, befits them. 

FAITH AND WORKS

FAITH AND WORKS While distinctiveness of diction, accuracy of information, correctness of computations, continue to be “white values”, not “black values”, by large numbers of black students, we have a bigger problem than just skewed values. The problem is that philosophical and conceptual perceptions of themselves being less than “whites”, to whom they and their families have, exclusively conceded complete capacity for greatness, righteousness, truth, leadership, by embracing ignorance as value. For distinctive of speech , accurate facts, mathematical rigor, are characteristics of upper nobility, of rulers, of leaders; not of ignoble peasantry, for whom garbled speech, speculations, mathematics estimates will do. For it is by and through prolonged practice , diligent desire, zealous personal dedication are the innate skills, inert factors, that enable human access to proper speech, exact facts, math truths to be found by the grace of God. They are gifts of God, gifts of nature, which all mankind may, can, have acquired, by efforts. Therefore, those who lack these skills, by not working to acquire these skills, deny God who made them and the divine nature within them. For some of the greatest orators and writers ever are of African American descent. So too some of the greatest mathematicians, former slaves among them. Human stature changes, being variable as weather. Divine status never changes being invariant as the sun, the moon, stars—who nevertheless wane, precess, wax. During Covid19’s impress teach yourselves and your offspring, while you must educate them yourself, away from preprogrammed doctrine, that they are divine and therefore are capable of anything that they work hard to acquire, whatever it may be. Faith in God and dedicated hard work define human destiny.

WHITE MEN DEPUTIZED

“White” men were deputized by law as slave catchers and militia men to capture slaves who fled and to put down many slave revolts. That is the 2nd Amendment decoded. Fugitive Slave Laws of 1793, 1850; and the Omnibus Crime Bill of 1968 and later laws reinforced this white supremacy base. Supreme Court decisions of 1872 authorizing bounty hunters’ illegal entries and lethal force contributed as well. In short, the laws of the United States join with its culture regimes to repress blacks.

"MACKING" CORONAVIRUS COVID19

“MACKING” CORONAVIRUS I truly wish that the scientific conflict playing out daily and publicly about the coronaviruses’ newest viral mutant version Covid19; and a medicine to cure it would soon resolve itself, truthfully. Not merely is current medical information especially fluid , but the real scientific truth is itself proving far more elusive. Conspiracy theories whelm social media messaging with daily series of videos claiming one thing , declaiming another thing, explaining nothing, but whose caustic cacophonous clatter, is extraneous matter . In back of this are sicknesses, thousands of deaths, global pandemonium, humongous profits, political hegemonies, vast global scientific prestige. In back of this could be a global marketing money mack that is bigger than the selling of Santa Claus’ myth as fact. Blizzards of claims blind us. Politicians, drug magnates, cartels , virologists, Bill Gates, Dr. Tony Fauci, President Donald Trump’s re-election strategy, biochemists, NIH, physicians, media types etc., have all added to the bubbling pandemic cauldron. “Double double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.” But wait! “Could a naturally growing herb, Artemisia, that grows on every continent except Antarctica; that has been used as medicine for centuries—that is named in the Bible—be a cure for Covid19? and a cure for the prevailing fallacious facade of technical superiority of so-called “Western Medicine?” African countries think so ! Some are rushing flights to Madagascar to get a supply of “Covid Organic” for their own countries . Madagascar’s president has drank it and a number of people have been cured of Coronavirus Covid19!

LIFE OF A SEED

THE LIFE OF A SEED We come. We go. Seeds come. Seeds go. Seeds’ death is life. Mankind’s death renews life . For in life’s divine domain we all grow, together with seeds, from seeds , as seeds, whose destinies all fruit fortuitously. Seeds’ husks tell laymen little. Neither do seeds’ kernels. For each seed’s destination is preset before it is ever born a seed. Environments open up seeds or preserve or destroy them. Our philosophical, biological appreciation of seeds yields an appreciation of our births . Like seeds’ mankind’s specie is fungible but preset singly. All are one yet all are unique . Sowers must know their seeds. Shapes colors textures tell a sower the type of seed but not the seeds’ destiny. That is preset like ours . Where it lands, how it is laved, how long it bathes, in sunlight all contribute. But soil, water, light sowing are not the whole story. Life gravitates to life. Insects, animals, birds, plants, winds, heat eat seeds before growth. Seed may not get enough air being too tightly packed into too small space. So below the soil tops, seeds’ roots’ search for nutrition is foiled handicapped . Above soil tops, young leaves tussle, struggle for air, for room to breathe, to flex, and to grow up vigorously with a fair share of life-giving light. Exposure to light is not necessarily the true receipt of light. There are clouds , dusts, haze, pollution blocking sunlight. Mankind is subject to similar vagaries to that of seeds. We come. We go. We leave our residue or we do not . The ‘former’, the farmer, the molder, maker, the Creator all decide the destiny of mankind, and of us seeds, generally, and particularly. Amen.

THOMAS L. JENNINGS

Thomas L. Jennings , a free black man in antebellum New York City, not only invented “dry cleaning,” in 1827, not only founded historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, (Adam Clayton Powells’ pastorate), Thomas Jennings, additionally, founded the Legal Rights Association (our first legal rights association ( that filed law suits for equal black public accommodations (50 years before the NAACP was founded ) with two other prominent free black men—Dr. James McCune Smith, the first African American college-trained doctor, and Rev James W. C. Pennington ) —Thomas Jennings was a wise, black, wealthy, freedom fighter, like James Forten and Robert Purvis of Philadelphia.

MARIJUANA

Marijuana is natural. it is medicinal, spiritual, African origin; musical; affords inner visions; thus, threatens white power. It is pictured in the pyramids and crowns the goddess, Sachet, (Seshat) who symbolizes wisdom , learning . Now you see why it was outlawed in the 1930’s after the Harlem Renaissance frightened white power folk ; since jazz music and jazz dancing were all the rage .