LEWIS CLARK YORK SACAJAWEA

York the "servent" of William Clark, was called "Big Medicine " by the Indians, because of his power, agility, knowledge, and hunting prowess. They gave him many wives as tribute , deeming this bison-type brother to be the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which the true leaders gladly acquiesced in ! Sacajawea, the only woman on the expedition, was the wife of a French trapper, who came along. Her presence and translation ability, also curried favor among the tribes, and decreased suspicions of any belligerent tendencies. A statue of Lewis, Clark, York, and Sacajawea overlooks the conjunction of the Kaw and Missouri Rivers stands in Kansas City, Missouri from a high bluff.

DR. KING CONSIDERED IN 2016

DR KING CONSIDERED IN 2016 Although Dr. Martin L. King, jr. was absolutely right in stating about the 1964 "war on poverty," that "the government was only willing to appropriate such a limited budget that it could not launch a good skirmish against poverty, much less a full-scale war;" it is nevertheless true that millions of us, myself included, were so able to divide these "two fish and five barley loaves" --Matthew 14: 17-20--as to be able to feed our families, to feed our extended extended families, to feed ourselves, with a remainder on which we continue to feed as now ! P.95, WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE CHAOS OR COMMUNITY by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967) Sadly , there were millions of other black people, in the North and South, who did not successfully do as we had done, as, in fact, many of their own other family members had done, with these few government crumbs, before the anti poverty tap was turned off, by the now-backlashing Republican Congress under Richard M. Nixon! There matters yet stand in 2016! That lack of money explains police brutality, mass incarceration, and so many other ills now besetting descendants of those who did not maximize opportunities in the brief 1960s' flow of jobs, loans, grants!

NICHOMACHEAN ETHICS, EXCERPT

"We had perhaps better consider the universal good and discuss more thoroughly what is meant by it, although such an inquiry is made an uphill one by the fact that the Forms have been introduced by friends of our own. Yet it would perhaps be thought to be better, indeed to be our duty , for the sake of maintaining the truth even to destroy what touches us closely, especially as we are philosophers or lovers of wisdom; for, while both are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends." P.939, "Nichomachean Ethics," THE BASIC WORKS OF ARISTOTLE (2001)

LEGAL DEBRIEFINGS REQUIRED

LEGAL DEBRIEFING REQUIRED Debriefing is required for all active police officers of any race, who have undergone any training since the federal "War on Drugs" was declared in the 1980s. Along with police must be added all federal and state legislators, judges and prosecutors, who will also need to be likewise debriefed, to rid them all of the deleterious effects of racism instilled implicitly, or explicitly by racist, domestic branding or brainwashing resulting in mass incarceration or fratricide! Half-measures will not do at all! The main purpose of the public debriefing is to remove the tacit suggestions of racist inferiority of POOR blacks that have tinctured or hampered the fair administration of law and justice to all American citizens, free of underlying biases!

TAKE QUIET AIM

TAKE QUIET AIM What you aim at is what you hit. What is not aimed at is missed. Aim is effort buttressed by practice . Practice makes errant aims perfect. Whatever you want requires aim. Be it personal, political, economic. Not indifference, not impatience: persistent, practiced, poised aim. Many shots may be required to hit. Don't quit. Other factors affect aim. When If aim is true, follow through! Take quiet aim and bag your game.

ATYPICAL WHITE FOLKS

ATYPICAL WHITE FOLKS One positive byproduct of the Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton campaign for the Presidency is to reveal to the world, and to us all, depths of the the vapid stupidity, and of the capacious cupidity of the typical white American voter . Thank God for atypical white folk!

ARISTOTLE! I APOLOGIZE!

ARISTOTLE! I APOLOGIZE ! I owe Aristotle an apology. Not that it means anything to this long deceased pupil of Plato, this famed tutor of Alexander the Great, founder of the famous Peripatetic School, iconic Greek thinker, writer, and scholar of Alexandria, Egypt, whom I had deemed a plagiarist ! That any man, be it Aristotle or whomever, could write a thousand books on different subjects in one lifetime, as he is reputed to have done, while presiding over the Great Library of Alexandria, I still find to be incomprehensible! But, my present day, philosophical hero, Theophile Obenga, the author of AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY : THE PHARAONIC PERIOD 2780-330 B.C. (2004) honors and respects him greatly with repeated citations; as also has Plotinus, another ancient philosophical hero of mine, whose citations to Aristotle in THE ENNEADS (1991), prompted me to order at least an abridged copy Aristotle last week. Perhaps, it was Galileo 's stellar ratification of Copernicus's overthrow of Aristotle's and of Ptolemy's geocentric view --with their now heliocentric view--that had incorrectly made Earth the center of the Universe, that reigned over 2,000 years well into the Christian Era, that had prejudiced me unduly against Aristotle as well. My prejudice is now gone! This debt I owe to Dr. Obenga, who wrote: "Aristotle (384-322 BC) himself referred to the authority of Egyptian astronomical science, specifically in his theory of comets and the conjunction of planets.... Comets, he said, were neither planets...nor conjunctions of planets. They were, instead, stars within the solar system of diffuse appearance, whose brilliance increased as they approached the sun ... In this scientific confrontation, Aristotle, to lend unshakable weight to his own ideas and observations, invoked the authority of the Egyptians, not that of the Babylonians." P.156-7 Aristotle! I apologize! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aristotle_Altemps_Inv8575.jpg