PAULI MURRAY

Reading PAULI MURRAY: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BLACK ACTIVIST, FEMINIST, LAWYER, PRIEST AND POET (1987), I burst into tears of joy, upon learning that her determined, "soldier-like" effort to aid a visually impaired law school classmate, Billy Jones of East St. Louis, Illinois, who was excluded by all other study groups at Howard, due to such, culminated in her getting the highest grade on the final exam in "Bills and Notes," an especially demanding course! I was moved not merely because this incident involved my alma mater , Howard Law School; not merely because of her acts of kindness to Billy Jones; but, in addition to these, as she writes: "I had been so absorbed in the process of getting the material across to Billy that, without realizing it, I had applied the educational principle that the best way to master a subject is to try to teach it to someone else." (P. 219) There is a present reward for righteousness, as exemplified above! That fact brings me joy!

CINDERELLA'S EGYPTIAN ORIGIN

The Golden Race Returns Page Liked · 2 hrs · Cinderella, The Egyptian Tale Of Rhodopis "Rhodopis" is an ancient tale about a Greek courtesan who marries the king of Egypt. The story was first recorded by the Greek historian Strabo in the 1st century BC and is considered the earliest known variant of the "Cinderella" story. The origins of the fairy-tale figure may be traced back to the 6th-century BC hetaera Rhodopis. Rhodopis, a courtesan, was bathing. An eagle snatched one of her shoes from her maid, carried it to Memphis, and dropped it into the lap of the king (named Psammetichus in Aelian). The king searched for the owner of the shoe. He found Rhodopis in Naucratis and married her.

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Make today count. We may not see tomorrow.

DADDY'S TRIALS IN WORLD WAR II

Daddy's Trials in World War II Veteran's Day celebrations brings to mind my own dearly-beloved father, Elvis Mitchell Coleman, and the many trials he had to face and to overcome both before and after he met our late, much-lamented mother, Margie Dean Coleman. One very big trial for him was just serving in and surviving at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, in 1942, where area colored troops trained under loathsome confines and conditions of rigid segregation, a few years before my own birth in Canton, Mississippi in 1951. Daddy recalled his exclusively state-side wartime experiences rarely, bitterly, grudgingly, tersely, and usually with tears. A post on Camp Shelby yesterday on Facebook exposed its many terrors to me that black World War I recruits faced. So, by inference, I deduced that my father's World War II experiences could not have been too much better in Mississippi in 1942. Thousands of German and Italian POWS were sent to this camp, from North Africa where they had been captured, and being "white" they received better treatment there and elsewhere than my father and the other colored troops.http://mshistory.k12.ms.us/index.php?id=233 Daddy distinctly mentioned being segregated and confined to freight trains with colored US troops while white POWS from Germany and Italy rode in passenger trains. They enjoyed privileges denied to blacks.

RECALIBRATE

RECALIBRATE Recalibrate each day my friends. You are not now where you were yesterday, appearances aside, and tomorrow you will have moved on from where you are today. Adjust, refocus, reorient; move you must. While time may not move, our planet certainly does, and all of its occupants, whether mountains, land masses or seas . Continuous motions locked in stillness of time. In the quantum differentials of continuous motion and constant time ; in the stillness of space, yet locked in moving matter, man is. Recalibrate each day my friends.

ALL HAIL JONATHAN BUTLER AND MIZZOU

ALL HAIL TO JONATHAN BUTLER AND THE MIZZOU COMMUNITY !! I salute University of Missouri graduate student, Jonathan Butler, for literally putting his life, with an 8-day hunger strike, on the line to protest and to seek redress of too long-festering racial issues on the Columbia, Missouri, campus which President Tim Wolfe--who just resigned today--took too casually, even cavalierly--for anyone's good! Now that Tim Wolfe, the tangible focal point of protests, is gone, an uncomfortable, though no less compelling question remains for Jonathan Butler, all protesters, curators, and that campus itself! That question is: "What now?" Those who shouted "nigger" from passing pickup trucks; those who scrawled swastikas smeared in feces on dormitory restroom walls, were NOT Tim Wolfe, or his agents! He kept the stiff upper lip and tried to ride out this tidal wave of racism and the reaction too it! He erred. Now, that he is gone, "Now what?" I raise this question because based on my studies and experiences, in similar contexts, I have found that addressing substance to be much harder than removing symbolism. Wolfe was symbolic . Neither he, nor any agent of his, proximately caused any of the heinous acts instigating or exacerbating the protests. As to what caused those acts proximately and proximally, an inquiry must be made, quickly, completely, emphatically: finally! Perhaps a "Truth and Justice Commission," akin to that which was convened in South Africa, after apartheid's fall, can be convened on all four University of Missouri campuses to inquire and to redress issues peculiar to each location under the aegis of each existing Chancellor , while the search for a new President continues . Or not. Just a sop of a suggestion is offered here by me. I am a non-University of Missouri alumnus--Howard University is mine--but, a thirty-year, Missouri attorney (inactive), resident and taxpayer. Better ideas may be proffered and implemented to the glory of Missouri, protesters, athletes, and educational efficacy! Whatever betide, I reiterate: Congratulation to you all! And particularly to Jonathan Butler!

ANCIENT AND MODERN AFRICA'S IRREDUCIBLE AND IRREFUTABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO CIVILIZATION

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