APOSTROPHE OF BLACK LIFE IN AMERICA IN DECEMBER 2016

APOSTROPHE OF BLACK LIFE IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN DECEMBER 2016 Indentured servitude Chattel slavery Fugitives or manumitted Contrabands of war Soldiers/Sailors Freedmen Phantom Citizenship Second class citizenship Taking first-class citizenship Except for that very brief period of time after the Civil War, and that period of time which has been variously experienced since the Civil Rights Movement 100 years later, the bulk of black people in the United States of America have all lived under a kind of apostrophe; besides a civil rights asterisk, that was always present; that somehow, in someway, subordinated our folks respecting the exercise of that same first-class, unadulterated, American citizenship of "whites." "Apostrophe," as used above, is a "figure of speech," that involves the literary, imaginary usage of the word. Therein and yet thereby, we African Americans, in virtue of this resilient American apostrophe, have been treated as, viewed as bestial, fictional characters, targets, political foils, enemies. or stereotypical abstractions. We have been counted as fractions, i.e., "3/5's persons" for representation purposes only in the Constitution, being more than zero but less than whole under law from the founding of the nation, until war, blood, and ameliorating civil rights Amendments erased the "de jure" designation, yet later replaced it by "de facto" emasculation. We are still mass-incarcerated; economically deprived; treated as social pariahs who have been parenthetical to that principally "white" narrative of American life, yet the redolent basis of that life. Yet, still inexorably we become real. http://literarydevices.net/apostrophe/ 

CONTEXT CONTENT

Context makes content.

AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY

"The aspiration is toward equity (in Egyptian 'Maat'), and that means driving out iniquity (isft ). Maat enjoins bodily and spiritual purity, scrupulous respect for social norms, the practice of charity and generosity. Another command of Maat is that the poor should be protected ." P.222-223, AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY THE PHARAONIC PERIOD 2750-330 BC by Theophile Obenga (2004)

HAROLD LEE WHITFIELD

REMEMBERING HAROLD LEE WHITFIELD A death of a friend is not easy to assimilate. Memories and moments of bygone mutuality recur. Some good. Some not so good. Most in between. Each blends into a warm mash of wistful, distasteful finality. This is written to remember my friend, the wonderful Harold Lee Whitfield, Esq., of Kirkwood, Missouri, of whose death I have learned just today, December 10, 2016. He died in October 2016. I learned of his death from the "Journal of the Missouri Bar," that I received in today's mail. Harold was a long-time member of the AME Church. He served on its Judicial Council, its Economic Development Fund. He was also a great Sunday School teacher at Olive Chapel AME Church, Kirkwood, Missouri, that I often attended whenever I returned home to St. Louis to visit. He was also a member of the Mound City Bar Association, the black bar association of St. Louis. He practiced law for 48 years!! Frankly, I am astounded that I had heard nothing of his death until today, Zilche! Surely, a more fitting epitaph than this curious silence would merit such a man as he, who was one of the first black lawyers to hail from St. Louis County, Missouri, if he was not first! He was also most helpful to me, professionally and personally. I grieve his passing greatly. I also note the sad shameful lessons it leaves about communication bottlenecks and deficiencies that require swift remediation among black lawyers in Missouri and in the AME church also.

1 PETER 1:6-8

A Living Hope …6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer various trials, 7so that the authenticity of your faith — more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire — may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,…

OTHER MATHEMATICS

DIVISION IS TO MULTIPLICATION AS SUBTRACTION IS TO ADDITION. UPON THEIR CUBED, PARALLAXED COSMOLOGICAL INFRASTRUCTURE RESTS ALL SUPERSTRUCTURES AND SUBCULTURES OF HUMAN SOCIETY. YET, THERE REMAIN OTHER MATHEMATICS IN DIM MISTS OF INFINITELY VASTER DOMAINS.

PROOF CRYSTALLIZES SPECULATIONS

PROOF CRYSTALLIZES SPECULATIONS Crystallization converts inner urge into outer surge. How, until now, was a greater mystery. Linear crystallizes the planar, as natural crystallizes the artificial. An emerging era of biosynthesis has many natural living organisms producing as byproducts, artificial polymers from microorganisms that were formerly produced by long dead, fossil-fueled petrochemicals. These synthesized polyesters are biodegradable and biocompatible, unlike all petrochemical products. PHA's plastics and elastomers (rubber) can substitute present petrochemical components for the benefit of man, benefit of the environment, naturally. "PHAs" are scientifically known as "polyhydroxyalkonoates." Proof crystallizes all speculations. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161209111857.htm