“To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.” Alice Walker

Wiping tears away I laughed and thought about eight kids but no keys.

There were levels to Mary E. Bond.
The representation that Momma Bond served for me is mind blowing.

Momma Bond role is iconic in our lives because she didn’t have keys, she never drove but raised grandma great grands great great grands and village babies.
Momma Bond was transparent, vulnerable, unapologetic and intentional in how she moved and what she said.

Talking about the embodiment of women liberation, women empowerment, women leadership and women professionalism, that was all Momma Bond.

Momma Bond stood tall, proud, confident in what she produced, confidence in Daddy Bond leadership, her wisdom, wit and ways were worth sitting under her tree of knowledge.

A woman, dark skinned, bold, cornrows rocking, conscious Black woman not only take up space with assurance, on the stage of life, Mary E. Bond played the role until the end. Even transition was something she scripted, as she faded in and out she would call out names, or call us the wrong names and that was to say GET THEM HERE to her or FaceTime her quick.

Who can do this like Mary E. Bond who never had keys.

“Do not grieve when something good ends, be glad that it happened.” Jeffrey Fry

Momma Bond didn’t have keys to drive but she left us keys to live and still got around everywhere.so we have no excuse.today.

I sat with the Zoom call a minute.

Liz and I were just crying thinking about Momma but also proud that her legacy of community, care, compassion, and consideration among the family is strong and we are honored to be included.

I would sit with Momma and she would cry about not being able to do anything for Che’ or go to the hospital and visit Che’ because them people had diseases and coughs but not her Che’.

Momma would begin to feel bad about her legs and I would remind her how many legis she birthed and how they were running around outside her body and she would bust out laughing, I would say crazy things to get her focused on the bigger picture.

The bigger picture?

THAT WAS HER BIG PICTURE.

Momma tears were reflective of her making things good for the kids, preparing goodie bags to alleviate hardships, she healed, soothed and showed up with booty wipes…..(Our talk)

I have learned so much sitting under her tutelage and the seeds she planted are blossoming in new soil.

Che’ has the best support system, circle, village and tribe on this side of heaven.

Bond is a homonym, sound the same but have different meanings.

To see you all in different settings, climates , atmospheres but yet uphold the Bond value system, lineage, culture and legacy is proof you are true to the for letter powerful name.

BOND is also polysemouss which means you have many definitions but yet embody the same meaning as one.

Your CHEMISTRY

Your FRIENDSHIPS

Your FINANCES

Your GLUE

Your FELLOWSHIP

Your LAW

Your CONNECTION

Yep, BOND!

I would remind Momma that when we went to visit Che’, did what we could for Che’, it was just like she was doing it.

I learned, she needed to cry her tears of healing.

We pay for City Tax Whell Stickers
We pay for Licensure
We pay for Car Insurance
We pay for Titles
We pay for Registration
We pay for Renewal
We pay sale tax fees
We pay documentation fees
We pay DMV fees
We pay driving fees

This is exactly what Henry Ford spoke about when he said,” It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

You pay the fees and we never have to have the streets, smooth the streets, manicure the city, beautiful the community.

We pay the fees but they never have to address the pothose, crumbling streets, uneven pavements, big dippers, no fresh lines, no crosswalks for our children, no push buttons to cross safely like in affluent areas BUT WE PAY FOR IT ALL

So as long as WE continue to pay without our holding up our end of the responsibility and accountability,, why not keep charging and raising prices cause clearly you can see we are not being true to where your money is going, well it is going to the more affluent areas but not to the impoverished areas and you see this daily.

LaTaisha Johnson my heartache for you!

Latasha, this is your only child that you will have to bury, this reminds me of Mamie Till Mobley.

SwimRVA is all about the money.

They have shown you that they don’t have to be compassionate, considerate, transparent, caring or empathetic. They lawyer d up before they called you about the death of YOUR KING in their care that I know you paid a decent amount.

In this racist climate of America where Trump has released the racists……

You named your male son KING and took him into the enemy’s camp to learn a life saving skill where he could dominate their children?

C’mon now!

They said it was an ACCIDENT, now if his session was over at 2:15 but they pulled his body out at 2:30, someone was negligent, unprofessionally trained or disregarding and just didn’t give a damn. I say ALL OF THE ABOVE.

Look at the whole disregard they have given you and your family like you all aren’t anything.

O they were going to prove something to him that he was NO KING.

Drowning, BLACKS and these wicked people are synonyms.

These people are evil, vile, malicious and murderous.

Look up the Casual Killing Act and how White women killed our Black children.

I am confident they researched the mother, they found out all that you have done for KING, the sacrifices you made for KING, the joy you had for KING, the unconditional love you showered over KING and that enrwged them.

UBUNTU, EVEN AS MOMMA WAS LEAVING ME, SHE WAS PRACTICING COMMUNITY AND HOSPITALITY.

SHE OFFERED FOOD AND SHE WANTED HER GIRLS COMFORTABLE, EVEN AS SHE WAS LEAVING ME.

SHE ASKED ONE VISIT, WHERE MY BIG GIRL AND TAMAR WAS STANDING AT THE FOOT OF HER BED, WHEN SHE HEARD HER VOCE, SHE KNEW IT WAS HER AND THEN SHE ASKED WHERE WAS LIZ, SHE WAS STOPPING DOWN TO GET SOMETHING OUT OF HER BAG BUT TO MOMMA SHE WAS SITTING ON THE FLOOR, MOMMA TOLD HER SHE COULD SIT ON THE BED.

FOOD, IT IS NATURAL, SPIRITUAL, EMOTIONAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND NATURAL AND MOMMA NEVER CEASED TO NOURISH EVERY ASPECT OF THE HUMAN BODY.

SHARED FOOD IS ANCESTRAL

FOOD IS SACRED

FOOD INSECURITY
FOOD SHARED
FOOD SUSTAINED
FOOD PREPARED
FOOD SERVED
FOOD CALMS
FOOD STABILIZED
FOOD STRENGTHENED
FOOD EMPOWERED
FOOD IS COMMUNAL

LISTENING TO THIS, I AM REMINDED OF EVERY VISIT WHEN DADDY AND MOMMA BOND WERE EATING, FOOD WAS OFFERED AND YES I DECLINED.

I HAD NO IDEA OF THE DEPTH OF THE OFFER.

SHE KNEW THE STRUGGLE, I NEVER TALKED ABOUT.

SHE UNDERSTOOD THE HARDSHIP, I NEVER DISPLAYED.

SHE WAS WELL AWARE OF THE LOAD I WAS CARRYING.

TO LESSEN

TO SHARE

TO COMMUNE

TO STOP THE BLEEDING

MOMMA BOND OFFERED FOOD FOR THE BODY, BECAUSE SHE WAS EQUIPPED AND READY WITH HER FOOD FOR THE SOUL AND SPIRIT AND MIND.

The hardest week of my life!

Monday and Tuesday I got up every morning heading to work and ended up at the hospital with Momma.

I found myself frustrated, broken, hurt and angry. Why? I didn’t like how I had to put money over precious time spent with a woman I called my BFF, my PET (Proverbs 31, Elizabeth and Titus 2), my CONFIDANT, COMEDIENNE, simply and HONORABLY MOMMA BOND..

I sat at Momma’s bedside all week.

I had to make hard decisions of do I go to work or spend quality time, time I knew I couldn’t get back, time I knew was coming to a stop and time with my treasure who cultivated my inward talents won the battle.

When I saw her that Sunday when we pulled up to the house and Chelle said they took her, it was something different . We didn’t do our usual hop out, see daddy, IT WAS URGENT.

I knew that was it, my spirit told me and she held on a week.

I ended up going to my Secretary’s desk on the 20th of January and inquiring how many days I had left to take off and she said she would get back with me.

I told her I would need Thursday and Friday off because as I was talking to her, I was disoriented.

About an hour later, my Sis called my phone AND when I saw her picture, I JUST KNEW Momma had ascended and I couldn’t be strong any longer.

Yep, Momma prepared me.

Yep, Momma talked about her obituary .

Yep, Momma talked about her service.

Yep, Momma talked about her dress.

Yep, Momma prepared me and I STILL WASN’T prepared.

One visit, Momma Bond reached for my hand and faintly asked, “How You Doing or You alright?” I in my Marty fashion said “Yes ma’am” and then had to realize who I was talking to, this was MY GIRL and she felt my energy so I laid my head down on her bedside and said NO MA’AM I AM NOT.” She replied, “I know but Momma gone be alright.”

I said, “But you are supposed to be at home and not here.” My tears began to flow.

“Kasserian Ingera?”

“It takes a village to raise a child.”

“A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”
“When a child is born, an ancestor returns.”

“Unity is strength, division is weakness.”

“Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.”

“One hand does not nurse a child.”

“A child is what you put into him.”

“Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won’t eat you.”

“Many hands make light work.”

“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”

“Sometimes you have to be a lion to be the lamb you really are.”

“Where there are many, nothing goes wrong.”

“Two ants do not fail to pull one grasshopper.”

“A single bracelet does not jingle.”

“A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.”

“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

“What you help a child to learn is more important than what you help him to earn.”

“A child who asks questions is not stupid.”

“Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future.”

“A child is a mother’s walking stick.”

I have not been right since January, in ANY area.

One day, I woke up and heard Momma Bond just as clear as day, ALL THEM SEEDS I POURED INTO YOU, THEY ARE NOT TO GO TO WASTE AND WITHER.

Gettin my act together.

If I give up, throw in the towel, succumb I will make it all in vain, for naughty, meaningless and pointless.

as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood…
and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!!
—-Dr. Claud Anderson (author)
This is so so true!!!!!! Give this to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak!
It is NOT in our DNA to quit!” Rene Greene page

Dr. Mary Mcleod Bethune’s Last Will & Testament was the EXACT SAME LEGACY AND LAST WILL & TESTAMENT OF DR. MARY E BOND!!!!!

CONTROLLED LANGUAGE!

BLACK PEOPLE CAN SIT IN CAGES FOR YEARS WHILE INNOCENT JUST TO GET FREE LABOR BUT A GUILTY WHITE CAN GO FREE??

I am loving how the content creators are all collectively speaking on this Cyrus Carmack unjust killing.

LEAN IN BLACK WOMEN, WE ARE THE OLDEST AND LONGEST PHILANTHROPIC DEMOGRAPHIC IN THE USA. THERE WOULD LITERALLY BE NO USa WITHOUT US. THROUGH OUR WOMBS WE BIRTHED EXCEPTIONALISM, SUPERIORITY, DOMINANCE, BRILLIANCE, HIGHLY GIFTED, TALENTED AND SKILLED. OUR HANDS HAVE BEEN USED TO BRING DEATH BACK TO LIFE. WE ALL ARE HONORARY PHD HOLDERS INNATELY. (Look up Neil deGrasse Tyson)

BOYCOTT ALL OF THESE IMMIGRANT ESTABLISHMENTS THROUGHOUT THE USA!

THE REAL THREAT: BLACK UNITY “THE NEGRO UNITY MOVEMENT IS THE GREATEST THREAT TO THE INTERNAL SECURITY OF THE UNITED STATES.” J. EDGAR HOOVER NOW WHAT DO WE SECURE? EVERYONE’S COMFORT, HEALTH AND WEALTH BUT OURS!!!!

“Why should not Africa give to the world its Black Rockefeller, Rothschild and Henry Ford? Now is the opportunity. Now is the chance for every Negro to make every effort toward a commercial, industrial standard that will make us comparable with the successful business men of other races.” Marcus Garvey

Let us dare not forget Latasha Harlins, the 15 year old killed over a bottle of orange juice by a Korean convenient store owner Tupac honored her with his song Keep Ya Head Up!

“When we were on the plantation, yesterday they snatched babies from our arms and sold them into slavery, today they snatch them from our womb and throw them into the garbage.” Dr. Dolores Grier

“Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to the Negroes in the South I said, ‘That’s their business, not mine.’ Now I know how wrong I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of all of us.” Mamie Till-Mobley

“Let it be stated: Black women never demonstrated, demanded or even requested the right to an abortion. We’ve been asking for the right to decent housing, the right to education, in fact, the right to health care, and all we’ve been given free of charge is the right to kill our unborn child.” Dr. Dolores Grier

“But you see now baby, whether you have a ph.d., d.d. or no d, we’re in this bag together. And whether you are from Morehouse or Nohouse, we,re still in this bag together.” Fannie Lou Hamer

“We don’t need so many Negroes anymore, there’s no more cotton to pick.” Dr. Dolores Grier

“The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from its profits or so dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.”Mayer Amschel Rothschild

They pay off the families and they are to no longer discuss the case…….

Mahammad Ali said, “We are failing as a people because we are willing to do anything for money and nothing for our people.”

BOYCOTT AND GIRLCOTT EVERY KOREAN, CHINESE JAPANESE AND ASIAN ESTABLISHMENT THROUGHOUT AMERICA. THEY ARE ENRICHED BY THE BLACK DOLLAR

“So our people not only have to be re-educated to the importance of supporting Black business, but the Black man himself has to be made aware of the importance of going into business and once you and I go into business, we own and operate at least the businesses in our community. What we will be doing is developing a situation where we will actually be able to create employment for the people in the community and once you can create some employment in the community where you live it will eliminate the necessity of you and me having to act ignorantly and disgracefully, boycotting and picketing some place else trying to beg him for a job. Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you’re in bad shape.” Malcolm X

Just like within the USA, White men DESTROYED, BOMBED AND FLOODED our THRIVING ALL BLACK COMMUNITIES AND CREATED LAWS TO DIVIDE US, REJECT US, DEVALUE IS AND DIMINISH US.

There could NEVER be any erasure of: Black INVENTIONS, CREATION, ADVANCEMENTS, ACHIEVEMENTS, INGENUITY, INTELLECT AND CONTRIBUTIONS:

It is sustained by:

Black brilliance, Black magic, Black talents, Black foundation, Black trend setters, Black gifts, Black muscles, Black minds, Black ancestors, Black beauty, Black athleticism, Black existence, Black innovation, Black pillars, Black scholasticism, Black curiosity, Black keys, Black answers, Black solution, Black trailblazers, Black standards, Black dollars, Black trends, Black death, Black curiosity, Black illness, Black growth, Black cornerstone, Black brands, Black Black intellect, Black ingenuity, Black master teachers, Black ingenuity, Black greats, Black progress, Black expansion, Black beauty, Black high quality fashion, Black elders, Black ethics, Black activities, Black influences, Black artivists, Black integrity, Black pride, Black confidence, Black boldness, Black innovation, Black strength, Black legacies, Black history, Black present and Black future. Black wisdom, Black insight, Black demands, Black contributions, Black honor, Black elevation, Black art, Black struggle, Black achievements, Black leadership, Black culture, Black vision, Black goals, Black missions, Black values, Black character, Black integrity, Black self respect, Black dignity, Black icons, Black civility, Black rights, Black stories, Black vernacular, Black lingo, Black communication, Black archives, Black documentaries, Black reels, Black hopes, Black dreams, Black aspirations, Black encouragement, Black inspiration, Black strength, Black positivity, Black embodiment of Truth Marching On, Black.

BLACKS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN LETHAL TO WHITE INFERIORITY!

Panhellenic vs. PanAfrican

Panhellenic (or Pan-Hellenic) literally means “all-Greek”. It comes from the Greek roots pan- (“all”) and Hellenic (“Greek”).

The National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) was officially organized on May 10, 1930 at Howard University in Washington, D.C. It serves as the umbrella organization for the historically African American fraternities and sororities known collectively as the Divine Nine

Pan-Africanism is a worldwide movement and ideology designed to unify people of African descent, strengthen bonds of solidarity, and eliminate the legacy of colonialism and racial discrimination. It posits that the African continent and the global diaspora share a common history and a linked destiny.

+1 Modern Pan-Africanism emerged around the turn of the 20th century. Its institutional history officially began in 1900 when Henry Sylvester-Williams organized the First Pan-African Conference in London, followed by the First Pan-African Congress led by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1919

I SEE YOU NANA

You threw an ALL BLACK PARTY to show the young people who are being asked to give up their opportunity to gain wealth by standing up for the collective good.

You are also displaying not only the POWER of our unity but how swift the BACKLASH, HATE, VENOMOUS, EVIL SPIRITED AND ERRONEOUS NARRATIVES WILL FLOOD THE MEDIA when we come together, organize, strategize and be UNAPOLOGETICALLY BLACK AND US.

The giftedness, creativity, talent, skill, methodical and timing of how BLACK WOMEN black women is simply astonishing and amazing.

THANK YOU NAOMI OSAKA!

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WHITE SPORT, THERE IS HOWEVER A WHO GOT MONEY, TIME, ACCESS, RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITY SPORT.

When white people want anything to remain white, they add BIG BUCKS to replace those once visible printed signs. Yep, they replaced the WHITES ONLY signs with MILEAGE AND DOLLAR signs and make sure we are drowning in debt, denied access, opportunities and fundings, devalued, diminished and unable to.comoete, participate and ultimately dominate.

WALTER BYERS said:
“Today the NCAA Presidents Commission is preoccupied with tightening a few loose bolts in a worn machine, firmly committed to the neo-plantation belief that the ENORMOUS proceeds from college games belong to the overseers (administrators) and supervisors (coaches). The plantation workers performing in the area only receive those benefits authorized by the overseers.” Walter Byers, Former NCAA President (From His 1997-Memoir)

“Whites, furious over this revocation of their supremacy, began searching for a “GREAT WHITE HOPE” to put Johnson “back in his place.” Anonymous

“The search for the white hope not having been successful, prejudices were being piled up against me, and certain unfair persons, piqued because I was champion, decided if they could not get me one way they would another.” Jack Johnson

“That year, Jack Johnson was making headlines, fighting a series of white opponents who were all billed as the “GREAT WHITE HOPE.” And he beat them all.” Anonymous

“At that time, it was never acceptable that a BLACK player was the best. That just didn’t happen.” Bill Russell

“Our presence in this country terrifies every white man walking. They needed us for LABOR and for SPORT, now they can’t get rid of us. … We cannot be exiled, and we cannot be accommodated. Now, something’s got to give.” James Baldwin

“If I have a cup of coffee that is too strong for me because it is too black, I weaken it by pouring cream into it. I integrate it with cream. If I keep pouring enough cream in the coffee, pretty soon the entire flavor of the coffee is changed. If enough cream is poured in, eventually you don’t even know that I had coffee in this cup. This is what happened with the March on Washington. The whites didn’t integrate it, they infiltrated it.  Whites joined it, they engulfed it, they became so much a part of it, it lost its original flavor. It ceased to be a Black march, it ceased to be militant, it ceased to be angry, it ceased to be impatient. In fact, it ceased to be a march.”  Malcolm X

The greatest fear to national security in America is BLACK UNITY. Now, what is it that BLACK people secure? The wealth, health and comfort of everyone BUT us and ours.

They fear BLACK ON BLACK intellectualism

They fear BLACK ON BLACK UNITY

They fear BLACK ON BLACK love

They fear BLACK ON BLACK strength

They fear BLACK ON BLACK confidence

They fear BLACK ON BLACK resilience

They fear BLACK ON BLACK courage

They fear BLACK ON BLACK gratitude

They fear BLACK ON BLACK value system

They fear BLACK ON BLACK morals

They fear BLACK ON BLACK ethics

They fear BLACK ON BLACK history

They fear BLACK ON BLACK curriculums

They fear BLACK ON BLACK pride

They fear BLACK ON BLACK power

They fear BLACK ON BLACK support

They fear BLACK ON BLACK creativity

They fear BLACK ON BLACK elders guiding

disciplining, covering, protecting the young

This is why PROGRESS is everything ANTI US!

Dr. Amos Wilson said, “When you don’t know who you are then you are what somebody says you are.

I was told that our DNA is what makes us up.

Dr. Edward Robinson spoke on DNA series and I would like to share his words with you young BLACK children who are not only athletic, but artsy, highly academic, astute and Americans.

In your lineage is royalty
In your lineage is exceptionalism
In your lineage is superiority
In your lineage is dominance
In your lineage is hard work
In your lineage is good character
In your lineage is mental strength
In your lineage is creativity
In your lineage is genius
In your lineage is mastery
In your lineage is development
In your lineage is experience
In your lineage is competence
In your lineage is education
In your lineage is proficiency
In your lineage is ability
In your lineage is being highly skilled
In your lineage is potential
In your lineage is strategy
In your lineage is never mediocrity