PIANKHY

Pharaoh Piye (also known as Pianky), Kashta's successor , continued to exercise power over Egyptian affairs. His troops occupied much of Upper Egypt. A stele in Gebel Barkal suggests that the Egyptians Piye to intervene in Egypt probably to counter the power of Tefnakhte, a local dynast in Lower Egypt. Piye is not portrayed as a conqueror of Egypt but as a protector of its ancient religion. After his victory, he spared Tefnakhte and gradually withdrew Kushite power from Egypt . "Piye was an important builder . He refurbished and enlarged the old Egyptian temple of Amen at Gebel Barkal. Considered the single most important religious building in Kush, he extended it towards the Nile. He raised a substantial hypostyle hall entered through an enormous pylon. The building was 500 feet long and about 135 feet wide...He built a palace next to this temple. Since neither Kasta nor Piye 's invasions of Egypt resulted in destruction nor looting, Dr. Welsby feels that this 'suggests they were motivated more by piety than territorial ambition.' Professor Hansberry, the pioneering African American historian, was also of this opinion: ◦ "'[I]n almost every instance where we are able to get a glimpse of the Ethiopian [ie Kushite ] sovereigns, great warriors though they were, we find them free of those rapacious and piratic habits that have so often sullied the otherwise brilliant careers of so many monarchs of other nations....[I]n [Piye's] triumphant march through Egypt, we are told that before he would attack a city he would first offer it the most favorable terms of peace to avoid fighting , for it was his desire that harm should come to no one, that 'not even a babe might have cause to cry'...[When] he left Egypt to return to Ethiopia 'he did not leave behind a land filled with the slain and ruins of towns which he had burned ,' nor were there 'fields blackened with the ashes of the crops which he had set on fire.' The spirit of tolerance and forbearance was also evident on the part of... Shabaka; the same statesmanlike qualities are expressed in the Ethiopian king Taharka...Here were representatives of Homer's 'blameless' and Hesiod's 'high -souled Ethiopians.'" P. 204-205, "The Later History of the Nile Valley," WHEN WE RULED (2006) by Robin Walker

WORLD WAR I'S RIFF-RAFF

WORLD WAR I'S RIFF-RAFF I recall discussing some years ago a late Missouri politician's angst at not having been seated in the VIP section and recognized, for having procured $5 million for the World War I Memorial's restoration in KC. A few years later, I attended a lecture at the WWI Museum that featured a prominent African American author, historian, female, who was all-too-forgiving of the international disgrace, shame, and humiliations that were heaped on African American soldiers by white American brass in France and Italy! Having read of the futile attempts by the members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association to attain land that was surrendered in Africa by Germany for a Homeland for blacks wishing to repatriate, at the Versailles peace talks, WWI had seemed to me to be more about the retention of white supremacy than the propagation of any liberty! Naturally, no political person who was more interested in VIP seating than truth would care to know truth nor of any historical stuff, unless some money was there for them. Similarly, no hired lecturer would care to insult their host, whose promised payment was needed, with facts . Therefore, promulgation of truth about World War I is left to riff-raff like me, and like others, who have time, temerity to read, seek, confer, to teach the truth about it for free! Not only is this fact true about WWI, it is true of all else within the African American experience, bar none . Better get it for yourself, if you want to know it! Or forget it!

WORK TO PERFECT

Poetry arts, crafts, music,and technical precision are byproducts of divine grace to human consciousness. Our human duty is to work to perfect these gifts to glory God!

INFAMOUS DATES IN BLACK HISTORY

INFAMOUS DATES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY Many dates matter in black history. Here are a few of them: From the 1776 "edited" Declaration of Independence, that deleted African and Indian slavery as reasons from separation from Great Britain,and King George III; To the 1787 Constitutional Convention's promulgation of Article I, section 2's 3/5's "all other's" coded denominational status of African slaves, who, as non-"citizens", could not vote; but were counted for House of Representative purposes, in slave- states; To the Northwest Ordinance of 1787's retreat from "no-slavery" allowance to acceding to artful dodging by legal legerdemain disguising servitude as "bonds" and "terms of indenture," yet able to acquire statehood; for proslavery dodgers like Indiana,and proslavery politicians like Henry "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" Harrison who was elected United States President; To 1857's "Dred Scott v. Sanford" United States' Supreme Court decision, which judicially codified, federally annotated, prevailing custom, law and practice, of the chattel, non-citizen, status of all African descendants, whether slave or free, neither with any rights under law, that any white person, man, woman, or child was bound to respect, even if they had lived in the "free" states and territories of the "Northwest," as Dred and Harriet Scott had, who sued freedom while living in Missouri; To 1876 and the Hayes-Tilden Compromise that ended an 8-year "Reconstruction" in the South with withdrawing of federal troops from South Carolina, Louisiana, with the resurgence of white terrorism in court and outside of court by vengeful whites; To 1896 and Plessy v. Ferguson which established apartheid, Jim Crow, so-called "separate but equal" as federal law, to exclude African, Asian, Mexican descendants from those who were legally "white" pursuant to "one-drop rule" jurisprudence.

CHEATING

"CHEATING" IS WHAT IT IS "Cheating" at the 2018 polls is but the continuation of a tradition of divestment that is of great duration by "white" Americans contra black Americans. It predates , precipitated, the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil War. We call cheating racism , fascism, crime, plagiarism, lying, fraud and other names. But when you get down to it, it is just plain old grade school "cheating." Some folks cheat masterfully. Other folks are cheated invariably. Some pretend to be Holy or ethical, but are not . Others do not pretend but are, as history attests . "Cheated" is accurate; and historically documented for over 2500 years . The "cheating" goes back to our African "Stolen Legacy" of mathematics, science, philosophy, and myriad others by "Greeks," "Jews," Muslims, Persians, Turks, and Western Europeans: Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, Dutch, etc. Cheating includes our stolen religion, Christianity. It includes our thefts : persons, land properties, minerals and resources to the Americas and to Western Asia. Cheating includes our loss of identity and dignity due to disparity, cruelty , miseducation, murder and brutality. So, yes, the election practices of Kemp of Georgia, or of Greitens and Hawley of Missouri simply conform to the same ancient customs and practices of their Western Asian and Western European ancestors against we gullible, credulous , ever-trusting African people, who believe what we hear more than what we experience!

SNOWFALL

FALL'S FIRST SNOWFALL Snow falls more softly than leaves. Snowing more quietly than breeze. Snow flakes' feel is imperceptible. But snow is cumulative, collegial, aggregating into big banks. Snow flakes float descend flutter to earth collaboratively. Each flake flaunts its own heavenly intricacies; no two being exactly alike; yet so similar in design and in effect that we shiver. It is snowing now in KC poetically.

OLMECS WERE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS

"Evidence exists to show that roughly contemporaneous with the time of Ramses III [1230 BC], if not much earlier, the Egyptians, or else some other group of Negroes, engaged in maritime activities across the Atlantic. Documents from the times of Ramses III mention voyages to 'the ends of the earth' and also voyages to the mountain in the far west of the world. Mr. Rafique Jairazbhoy, an Indian scholar of considerable erudition, identified this region as Ancient Mexico and the African voyagers as Egyptians. He pointed out a huge number of cultural continuities between the Nile Valley and those in Olmec Mexico. "There are colossal stone carvings of human heads produced by the Olmecs, the formative Native American civilization. Sixteen such heads have been found. Two were recovered from Tres Zapotes, four from La Venta, six from San Lorenzo and four from other sites All weighed between 10 and 40 tons. All of them have African features,, and one has a braided hairstyle . The earliest has been dated at about 1160 BC and some to 580 BC. Jose M. Melgar, a Mexican, found one of the carvings in 1862. In 1869 he wrote a bulletin on it for the 'Mexican Society of Geography and Statistics:' '[W]hat astonished me [says Melgar] was the Ethiopic type represented . I reflected that there had undoubtedly been Negroes in this country, and that this had been in the first epoch of the world.' In 1963 the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, held an exhibition of Olmec artifacts between 18 June and 25 August. Alfonso Medellin Zinlil wrote the introductory essay for the exhibition catalogue, 'The Olmec Tradition.' In this essay, we are assured that: "'The colossal heads and 'Monuments F' of Tres Zapotes, principally, have vigorous and precise Negroid physical characteristics, such as prominent cheek bones, thick lips and platyrrhine noses. For a long time there was concern as to what the hair was is, or was, since, in the case of the colossal heads, they are invariably covered by a cap or helmet. This doubt has gone on indefinitely , but finally some light has been thrown on the problem with the discovery of two heads, .75 meters tall, which are identified as 'Numbers 1 and 2 of Laguna de Los Cerros, on which, with the characteristic cheek bones and platyrrhine nose, there is a hair arrangement or head of curly hair.'" P.198-199, "The Later History of the Nile Valley, WHEN WE RULED THE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF BLACK CIVILIZATION (2006) by Robin Walker