REV. DR. JEREMIAH WRIGHT, BISON BROTHER BELOVED

This service was so inspired that one must view the video for oneself to get a proper understanding of what I mean. I matriculated at Howard University twice: 1969-1976. Therefore , I knew or recognized the persons and organizations mentioned intimately . But not even that compares to the "Take A Knee " sermon by Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, former Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, IL, from 1 Samuel 7. It explores 1. Reflecting 2. Remembering 3. Rejoicing adeptly, exegetically, Africentrically! By the way, two great choirs and Richard Smallwood, gospel legend , and Bison brother, makes an emphatic appearance by leading the congregation in "Total Praise." YOUTUBE.COM Rankin Chapel Sunday Speaker Series: Rev. Dr Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Pastor Emeritus Trinity United Church of Christ Chicago, IL Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uide_CAjKA&app=desktop

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Leaves from the same tree differ. Sand on the same beach differs. Stars in the night sky differ. So, too, children of the same parents differ. Differences dynamically drive life.

BE NATURAL AND BEHAVE NATURALLY

It is unnatural to salute injustice, barbarity, racism, larceny, falsehood, against oneself. That is also INSANE!

CONSUMMATION

THE CONSUMMATION OF ALL THINGS Ours is a material existence. I am. We are. You are--assert matter. But matter, without spirit, is lifeless and is inert . Matter is material, is being. Matter is perceptible, measurable on certain planes, on others not so. Materials define, confine, refine forms and/or dimensions of solids. Yet forms follow preexisting ideas; likewise does matter or materials . Uranium isotopes, for example, being radioactive are amenable to nuclear division on megaton, massive scales, as is plutonium , if their nuclei are split, when they are precisely bombarded with great force, speed, energy. In contrast, isotopes of other elements, other than these two fission is less. The differences in fission are material; are due to the underlying material. Moving away from nuclear physics, chemistry, to cultural anthropology, materials, hence human spiritual differences, attend living behavior. Elemental is original. Isotopes are transitional. Artificial devolved from original, as isotopic from elemental. Acculturation determines materials in mankind. Rigorous synchronized training, feeding, working, playing , planning, disciplining , rewarding to some discrete groups, in times, by chosen masters, perfect materials. This acculturation process may be their desired ends; consequential, incidental, or otherwise, meaning process may also produce effects, affects, not intended, unforeseen, in culture of humans, nonhumans. This is literally because even the most basic of materials consist of unknown, unknowable, attributes, components, deficits, excess being more than they may appear to be. What is true of an elements' covert materials, is true too in elementary compounds, plants, birds, animals, germs, insects, and in so-called "non-living" materials. This is most especially true to mankind, which is the "consummation of all" of these things, and more, materials-wise. "For Ye are gods and all of you are children of the most high God ; but you will fall like princes and die like men; Arise O God, judge the earth. For Thou shall inherit all nations." Psalms 82:6-8

WE WITNESSED THE SURRENDER AT APPOMATTOX

Black troops (USCT) at Appomattox , Virginia, witnessing the surrender of Confederates' General Robert E. Lee's "Army of Northern Virginia," on April 9, 1865. About 2,000 U.S.C.T. were there from various regiments.

TARES AMONG OUR WHEAT

TARES AMONG OUR WHEAT Blacks' indiscriminately modern tendency to support every black person or family who has engaged with white people or white power raises a question about discretion. The "Discretion" of which I speak, was that exercised in regard to the famous Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, of 1955-56, that was led by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; in which Rosa Parks was selected point person of black bus protest, instead of the earlier 15-year old, pregnant, unmarried, Claudette Colvin. Rosa Parks was married, secretary of the Montgomery NAACP, a well-known civil rights activist, member of the Brown Chapel AME Church. Colvin was none of the above and was therefore deemed to be less than sympathetic by black leaders. History has shown that those folks chose correctly and wisely. Such discretion must be exercised going forward in future encounters with the powers that be on every front! Since the 1950s, and especially since the 1968 King assassination, "discretion" among black people has demonstrably plummeted in several respects: political, social, economic, educational, tactical. We are not all alike. Some of us are meritorious, even nearly virtuous , others of us are significantly less so. The necessity of culling out the worthy from the worthless is acute! Every day, the newspapers and news media carry graphic accounts of blacks killings of blacks, in every city, town, village in the United States of America over frivolous matters, including drugs, territory, personality disputes, etc. It is as though we were at war internally, with each other, rather than against those who use our tax dollars to attack us, to abuse us, to deny fair share! Civil rights lawyers, leaders, preachers, teachers, scholars, activists, organizations, churches, politicians, schools are despairing in the face of our peer-versus-peer onslaughts. To my knowledge, not any viable solutions have as yet been found by anyone to redress or extinguish these catastrophic occurrences, or destructive allied consequences of poverty, mass incarceration, social alienation, wealth disparity, etc. I readily confess to all that I have no answer for alleviating the problems of African Americans , in 2018. I have left that ultimate solution to God. I have however commented. I have commented in the hope that my words, observations may goad others to higher consciousness. Thus, as matters now serve, it is sufficient for me that I have raised these questions and framed these issues for resolution. That is because I sense that the answer is somehow related to the exercise of personal discretion, with respect to evaluating and demonstrating our self-merit, self-worth and thereby to distinguish ourselves from those who look like us physically, but who are far from us, spiritually, actually! We are akin to tares sown among the wheat, while we slept, when an enemy crept in sowing confusion.

INDICTMENT OF AMERICAN LAW

INDICTMENT OF AMERICAN LAW: KNOW IDENTITY, DUTY, DESTINY Any law that is deemed to be one that is "official," is, inherently superficial , if it is founded upon morally meretricious philosophies of man, that are false, that mock law by hypocrisy; being artificially applied, evilly, to common life facts, whose foundations are not based upon divine natural laws of God, as reflected in the stars or in nature, but upon greed, lies, oppression. Such is the fake, ersatz foundation, moral bases of common law, in the United States of America, whose chief design was the exploitation of black men as maintained by its law, exclusively, for the enrichment of a class of certain ruling, "white" men, by recurrent, recombinant, bigotry in religion, commerce, education, law enforcement, taxation, cultural integrity, literature, entertainment. Ignoring fairness, while pretending to be fair; ignoring godliness while pretending to be godly; ignoring truth, justice, equity, patriotism, yet pretending to embrace them all, we live among 'skull and bones' devils. If they be devilish or devils, then, whom or what are we is a question of identity : personally, corporately. "As a man thinks in his heart is he." In identity is found duty, destiny , responsibility, history, capability. Lack of identity debases powers. A fish may attempt to climb a tree; a turtle may attempt to fly or tumble. Eagles may think, act like chickens. Sailors disoriented by storms may be upon fresh waters unknowingly! Begging waters of passing ships, who reply "cast down your buckets where you are," repeatedly; until at last, having no alternatives, they cast down where they are, and are delighted, relieved, to retrieve the fresh waters they all along were on! Such an analogy was spoken by Booker T. Washington in 1895, in his famous "Atlanta Exposition" address to a big racially-mixed audience in the Negro Exhibition that featured Negro inventiveness. It is eternally apt as universal law. Knowing one's location in space and time is identity transmuted. Time-space coordinates are divine. Without knowing one can be sold a bill of goods, sold as chattel slaves, away from hearth, home, ancestry. Fortunately, stem cells regenerate. African Americans are stem cells from Africa in the Americas. That we are here for a divine reason is not to be doubted, since all is such. Answering the why requires some knowledge of our identity, location, personally, corporately, naturally. "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free;" Jesus said. Thus, not knowing the truth will surely enslave you to those who claim to be truth's repository. Truth is dynamic, requiring renewal, because we live in motion at the speed of light spiritually, mentally; but less so physically, genetically. Encompassing all is God's divine law that saturates, permeates all; living in consonance with divine law is the duty, destiny, responsibility, identity, history, capability, of man. Amen.