THE SLAVES FREED THE SLAVES

https://www.thenation.com/article/who-freed-the-slaves/ The slaves freed the slaves, by running away, by buying freedom for themselves and friends and relatives; and most famously by fighting for the Union in the Civil War, as 200,000 slave troops and sailors who also saved the nation from dissolution!

PROPHET NAT TURNER'S BIBLE

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/nat-turners-bible-inspiration-enslaved-rebel-rise-up-180960416/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&no-ist As was Nat Turner's Bible to him, so too were: Gabriel Prosser's Bible, Denmark Vesey's Bible, David Walker 's Bible, Richard Allen's Bible, Prince Hall's Bible, Toussaint L'Overture's Bible, Absalom Jone's Bible, Frederick Douglass ' Bible, Harriet Tubman 's Bible, Henry Highland Garnett 's Bible, Sojourner Truth's Bible, Marcus Garvey's Bible, Martin Luther King 's Bible; mine to me; yours you.

TERTULLION, "FATHER OF AFRICAN LATIN CHRISTIANITY"

Reading Tertullian's THE APOLOGY, I can barely distinguish the current Christian Church from the Roman heathens and persecutors that this "Father of African Latin Christianity" of 2nd century Carthage, Africa , condemned so fervently, eloquently! For example, he writes in Chapter XXXVI: "We never do good with respect of persons; for in our own interests we conduct ourselves as those who take no payment either of praise or premium from man, but from God, who both requires and remunerates an impartial benevolence. We are the same to emperors as to our ordinary neighbors . For we are equally forbidden to wish ill, to speak ill, to think ill of all men. The thing we must not do to an emperor , we must not do to anyone else: what we would not do to anybody , a fortiori, perhaps we should not do to him whom God has been pleased so highly to exalt." P. 60 (2013) http://www.tertullian.org/articles/reeve_apology.htm

IDIOMS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS

IDIOMS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS "Eyes are bigger than the belly" means putting on a plate more than one can eat. It was one of several idioms I heard as a child. Its meaning is akin to "ends exceeding the means." Idioms teach practical wisdom and counsel conservative restraint. "Use your head for more than a hat rack," was another idiom, witticism, practical wisdom bit, that was told me often by Mama. That means think! Use the brains that God has given you to move! These thoughts come to mind as I continue to embrace the power of practical wisdom of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Nelson Baker, a man who was born a slave in Northampton Virginia , yet went on to acquire a Ph. D. In philosophy at Yale, 1903. With roots in the South, where he was taught letters by his mother, and farming by his father, to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads, he exhibited that dual depth and dimension in his roots that corroborated the infamous, if conservative, self-help principles so widely propagated by the great Booker T. Washington of Virginia, and of Tuskegee Alabama, who, despite his later acclaim, was also a slave at birth, like Rev. Dr. Baker. Baker once wrote in a magazine: “When the Negro really feels as proud of being black as the white man does of being white he will no longer feel humiliated by being seated by himself.” Baker stated that focus ought to be on destroying the “Jim Crow Negro” instead of the “Jim Crow Car.” Baker, ironically, went on to pastor a Congregational Church in Pittsfield , Massachusetts for over 40 years. Pittsfield is in western Massachusetts in the Berkshire Mountain region, near Great Barrington, the home of W. E. B. DuBois. As he was with Washington, DuBois was also a caustic critic of Rev. Dr. Baker, although here the full venom of DuBois' spleen was not written in book form, i. e. "Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others," in THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK (1903), rather it was in letter form and magazine. But, he criticized both. Being born in Mississippi and raised in Missouri, my natural allegiance lies with the idiomatic, practical philosophy and wisdom of Dr. Booker T. Washington, and Rev.Dr. Thomas Nelson Baker, Sr. My great respect for Dr. W.E.B. DuBois' 96 years of life's work and scholarship has rather been tempered and mitigated by later information that I learned about his philosophical opponents in the battle over the hearts and minds of black folks, and their pathway to freedom and prosperity . For now, DuBois' forces are far ahead, but the race for freedom is not yet won. And as another famed idiom proves, turtles are slow, but sure.

BOOKER T, WASHINGTON IN MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA

My Hero is Booker T. Washington! BOOKER T. WASHINGTON VISIT IN MUSKOGEE. by Wally Waits Booker T. Washington's arrival in Muskogee caused a commotion. His arrival attracted a crowd estimated to number between five and six thousand when he arrived on November 20th, 1905. Naturally, most in the crowd were African Americans. The heavy foot of Jim Crow still separated the Black race from everyone else. Consequently, many in Indian Territory wanted to hear how they could finally, fully be free. The Civil War ended forty years earlier in Virginia. It was not lost on the crowd that Dr. Washington was born a slave in Virginia. It was also common knowledge that he had dined with the President of the United States. Everyone who came to Muskogee, it seems, wanted to learn how he overcame his humble beginnings. Booker Taliaferro Washington lived under slavery for nine years. After the war ended, his mother moved the family to the new state of West Virginia. There he began studying in school for the first time. It was under these circumstances that he learned to read and write at a later age than students do today. At age sixteen, Booker left home to enter the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute back in Virginia. A couple of years later, he attended a seminary in Washington, DC. In 1881, he became the first principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama. When the Katy train pulled into the Muskogee station, Washington had been teaching for less than fifteen years. C. E. Jones extended an invitation to visit Indian Territory to survey the progress of African-American life. Onlookers crowded the streets and the station that Monday morning. Some were atop boxcars that sat idle on adjacent tracks. A few who wished to get a glimpse of the "Moses of the Negro race" hung from telephone poles nearby. When Washington walked out of his special boxcar, the pressure to surge closer brought a call for calmness, order and silence so that everyone could hear Dr. Washington. The welcoming committee consisted of A. G. W. Sango, W. H. Twine, J. H. Lilly and Louis T. Brown. Sango feted the visitors and city representatives at his home. Dr. Washington and his party of four spent the night at the home of Dr. R. H. Watterford because all of the Watterford children studied at Tuskegee. The original plan was for Dr. Washington to speak in the Raymond Auditorium. However, the news of his visit to Muskogee attracted thousands more than the available seating allowed. The city then agreed to arrangements to block traffic on Okmulgee Avenue. The committee erected a platform at the intersection of Second Street for Dr. Washington. Here are a couple of points he made that Monday evening. "Here in the south both races labor under a disadvantage, because the bad that there is among whites and blacks is, almost without exception, flashed all over the country, while the worthy acts of both races are seldom know beyond the borders of the community or state." "For the present, and, in my opinion, for centuries to come, we are to live here side by side, and, since this is true, the wise and safe policy for each one to pursue is for each race to live in peace and harmony, each striving to promote the welfare of the other." "We must continually train our children, setting the example ourselves, that there is no disgrace in any kind of labor but that there is a disgrace in all idleness. We as a race have got to learn the dignity and duty of labor." "Fertile farm after fertile farm has been pointed out to me on my trip through this country, with but a little two-room house, no stable, and the harness and tools exposed to the weather. That's not living; it is existing. Stop existing and go to living." "A farmer should make more than a living. He should build a four or five room house, get books, carpets on the floor, pictures on the wall, then he will commence to enjoy life." Muskogee has a reminder to of Dr. Washington's 1905 visit. On Highway 69, the Booker T. Washington Memorial Cemetery is named in his honor. Labels: A. G. W. Sango, Booker T. Washington, C. E. Jones, Dr. R. H. Watterford, J. H. Lilly, Louis T. Brown, W. H. Twine posted by Wally Waits at 2:56 PM Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States repost from December 2, 2015 · Muskogee

NATURAL AMERICAN SYNTHESIS

NATURAL AMERICAN SYNTHESIS As a baby outgrows its womb, its crib, and too soon its natal home, so too do captive people similarly. Such is part of the world's transit. Each stage inexorably succeeds the next. Nothing, no condition, lasts forever . A change will surely come with the dawn, dusk, night. This said, I have overwhelming hope for those "huddled masses" of my people, long suffering folks of African American descent. We have been rubbed upon, as profoundly by our former European captors, as we have rubbed upon them. Quid pro quo. Thereby, as a consequence of these powerful pressures, great temperatures, and the continually abrasive frictions, there has been born, produced, new synthesis of our spirits and of our body politic; naturally growing, slowly, quietly, unobtrusively among us, strongly.

HILLARY AND TRUMP-- HEALTH ISSUES

MORE CONCERNING TO ME IS THE STATE OF DONALD TRUMP'S MENTAL HEALTH, THAN HILLARY CLINTON'S PHYSICAL HEALTH!