“The great mistake that Africans made was allowing strangers into their house without knowing what their intentions were”  Dr John Henrik Clarke

“Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.” Dr. John Henrik Clarke

“We must constantly provoke the divison of the barefoot masses against the Oligarchy (et, those living better) and push the Oligarchs to tear each other apart. This is the only way for us to have a continuing predominane of the Negro country that gained its independence in combat, which is a bad example ofor the 28 million Blacks in America.” Statement of Franklin Delano Roosevelt on Haiti

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SHE FED THE HOMELESS

THAT WAS A THREAT TO THE ESTABLISHMENT

SHE CARED THAT WAS A THREAT TO THE ESTABLISHMENT

THAT WAS A THREAT TO THE ESTABLISHMENT

SHE COMFORTED THE BROKEN

THAT WAS A THREAT TO THE ESTABLISHMENT

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THE FIRST THING MANY READERS WILL SAY WHEN THEY SEE THE GRAPHIC IS:

… “NOT ALL WHITE LIBERALS” …

To which I say, “All of us. Me Included.”

“I marched in the George Floyd protests.”

When rightwing media redefined 93% violence-free protests as riots, did you stop marching?

Did you continue your activism on behalf of unarmed Black victims?

I ask because since George Floyd’s “death by law enforcement,” another 153 unarmed Black men and women have been killed by police.

No major changes to qualified immunity, civilian oversight, mandatory reporting, or independent investigations have occurred. No sustained outcry by white liberals.

In 2020 there was an election, and it was critical to the nation’s future. So while Republicans were hawking their “law and order” credentials to “Back the Blue,” you decided that we had to focus on more unifying issues.

This introduction is for those who have been wondering where all the Black people were for the “No Kings” protests.

They have decades of practice seeing shitstorms coming, and riding them out.

SECONDLY, MANY READERS WILL OBJECT TO MY THESIS:

WHITE LIBERALS’ HAVE JUST SEEN THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS REDUCED TO PRIVILEGES, AND THOSE PRIVILEGES ARE BEING REVOKED.

Black Americans have few illusions about their “rights” in an encounter with law enforcement. That’s why parents have “the talk” with their children — especially young Black boys.

I taught for 31 years at a leading Historically Black College/University, encountering thousands of young, gifted Black students. Thousands. Probably more than 15,000 if I did the numbers.

EVERY ONE OF THEM HAD A PERSONAL STORY ABOUT BEING SINGLED OUT BY LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR DIFFERENT TREATMENT.

Moreover, every single one understood that it was always as much luck as anything else which allowed them to walk away whole. Black people in America understand that when you meet the wrong cop — of whom there are also thousands — that no level of compliance, no level of innocence can protect you from a law enforcement officer who decides he or she feels threatened, and needs to kill you.

The odds are better than 99.5% that the cop will get away with doing so, not even suffering a bump in the road in his or her career.

BUT WHITE LIBERALS BELIEVE IN CIVIL RIGHTS LIKE CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS BELIEVE IN REPUBLICAN JESUS.

Unfortunately for them, President Trump and MAGA have been busily turning their civil rights into civil privileges that law enforcement can revoke any damn time it pleases.

That’s what the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are teaching them right now.

It doesn’t matter what happened. They are federal law enforcement officers with — as the Vice President of the United States reminds us — “Absolute Immunity.”

It didn’t have to be them, but it was always going to be somebody like them: white liberals who made the mistake of still thinking that they were protected from state overreach by their civil liberties and the Bill of Rights.

We have a Supreme Court that said anything the President does in the exercise of his “core powers” cannot be a crime.

We have a President who is not only a convicted felon, but a serial abuser of the pardon power like no other Chief Executive in American History.

We have a Department of Homeland Security that regularly runs white supremacist propaganda (which, to be fair, is done equally by the Departments of Labor and Defense) while claiming that nobody has the right to carry a weapon to a protest, and that anybody behind the wheel of a vehicle can be executed (even after the vehicle is past them) in cold blood at the officer’s sole discretion. Oh, and she kills puppies with a shovel.

We have ICE and CBP officers on the streets (and in privatized lock-up facilities) killing people without the slightest oversight or accountability.

What’s more — and this is why this is news — they’re killing affluent white liberals …

… while their MAGA legions cheer.

(Hint: conservatives have ALWAYS disdained white liberals when they did not hate them. Black people keep trying to tell you that.)

Black people know they have had targets printed on their backs and foreheads forever.

White liberals are just discovering that little red dot dancing around them, and they don’t like it.

But by and large they are only just now making the connection: you have been reduced to the status of Black Americans in the eyes of federal law enforcement.

So let’s think about what that means.

Below is a name by name, year by year list of the unarmed Black men and women who have been killed by law enforcement from 2000 – 2025. There are hundreds of names.

I did not cut and paste them in. I typed them in one at a time because I thought that each of them deserved that tiny piece of dignity.

Very few of the police officers who killed these people ever faced more than a cursory investigation by their own departments, at which the combination of qualified immunity and the words “I was in fear for me life” served to outweigh any other considerations.

In the tiniest of percentages some administrative justice or possible charges emerged. Yet even when officers have been found guilty of something, if you stick to the case long enough you find out that those convictions were often later reversed.

I’d like you to read this list, name by name, though I know that less than 2% of you will.

But I want to challenge you to think about how history would have been different if all of these names had belonged to middle-to-affluent class white liberals like Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Would we have stood for that? If we would not have, how do we explain the fact that we never really stood up for them?

Think of this as the same exercise as walking past the Vietnam Veterans Memorial tracing the names with your fingers.

There are a couple of footnote-type comments at the end.

============The unarmed dead, 2000 – 2025

2000: Eugene Pitchford, Malcolm Ferguson, Patrick Diamond, Keith Daughtry, Ronald Beasley. Earl Murray, Robert Brown, George Bibins, Errol Shaw, Prince Jones, Antony Lee, Roger Owensby, Jr., Melvin Guy, Richard Holz

2001: Vernard Davis, Clifford Lewis, Annette Green, Donald “DJ” Venable, Adrena Kitt, Timothy Thomas, Bilal Dashawn Colbert, Charmene Pickering, Andrea Nicole Reedy, Eddie Lee Macklin

2002: Kenneth Strother, Wille Murray, Jr., Trey Antuan Lively, Egbert David Dewgard, Genie McMeans Jr., Corey War, Eric Daniel Foster Jr., Bernard Rogers, Charles Dixon Sr., Michael Ellerbe

2003: Roy Jean Williams, Orlando Barlow, Justin Fields, Michael Pleasance, Marquis Hudspeth, Charquissa Johnson, Kendra James, Alberta Spruill, Ousman Zongo, John Eric Henderson, Cornelius Ware, Deondre Brunston, Ronnie Diamond, Mannix Franklin Sr., James Garth, Nathanial Jones, Allen Simpson

2004: Leslie Prater, Timothy Stansbury, William Lomax, James Jahar Perez, Christopher Hicks, D’Koy Dancy, Dennis Crawford

2005: Devin Brown, Jashon Bryant, Raymond Robber, Henry Glover, James Brisette, Ronald Madison, Erson Alexander Welchen

2006: Martin Anderson, Vincent Smith, Benjamin Uwumarogie, James Sms, Jesse Levelt Everett Jones, Deon Studiemeyer, Ellis Woodland, Lorenzo Matthews, Marcus Roach-Burris, Dominic Felder, Herman Barnes, Youwus Vilpre, Darren Faulkner, Sean Bell, Brandon Moore

2007: Phillip Miller, David Antjuan Ware, Robert Harper, Hakie Thurston, Brandon Washington, Jarriel Da’Shawn Allen, Anthony Smashum, DaAunta Farrow, Shawn Watson, Michael Knight, Frisco Blackwood, Khiel Coppin

2008: Tarika Wilson, Glen Boldware, Xavier Jones, Baron Pikes, Edward Lamont Hunt, Frederick Devon McAllister, Kenneth Marion, Maurice Leroy Cox, Henry Bryant, Tyrone Hawkins, Dewayne Chatt, Aaren Gwinn, Michael Byoune, Derrick Jordan, Aravious DeBose, Ruben Ortega, Mack Woodfox, Andre DeMon Thomas, Julian Alexander, Lawrence Allen, Dontaze Storey Jr.

2009: Oscar Grant, Domonick Washington, Joseph Forrest, Roy Glenn Jr., Shatona Robinson, Stephanie Montague, Robert Michell, Michael Patrick Jacobs Jr., Broderick Dixon, Yvette Williams, Avery Cody Jr., Woodrow Player III, Shem Waker, Parnell Smith, Harold Phillips, Michael Wayne McKnight Jr., Mark Barmore Jr., Darrick Collins, Kiwane Carrington, Leonard Baily Jr.

2010: Aaron Campbell, Darrell Swain, Dennis Gregory, Reginald Wallace, Warren Collins, Steven Washington, Willie Miller, Leroy Grissom, Keith Briscoe, Melvin Williams, Aiyana Jones, Tyrone Brown, Trevon Cole, Dexter Luckett, DeCarlos MooreDamon Lamont Falls, James Rivera Jr., Tony Bean, David Smith, Jamail Amron, Eugene Walker, Derrick Jones, George Billups, Eugene Ellison, Guy Jarreau Jr.

2011: Darius Pinex, Reginald Doucet, Kemp Yarborough, Corey Brown, Walter Bailey, Henry Lee Jones Jr., Flint Farmer, Derek Williams, Alonzo Ashley, Everette Howard, Jason Moore, Cletis Williams, Dwight Person, Stanley Gibson, Airson Walters, Willie Ray Banks

2012: Craig Ruise Jr., Ramarley Graham, Lamont Harmon, Manuel Loggins Jr., Troy Stewart, Wendell Allen, Marquez Smart, Dane Scott Jr., Sheree’s Francis, Rekia Boyd, Kendrec McDade, Davinian Williams, Rudy Eugene, Anton Barrett Sr., Shantel Davis, James Brown Jr., James Harper, Craver Salmon, Chrisopther Middleton, Bobby Moore, Mark Henderson, Mario Romero, Carleton Wallace, Anthony Anderson, Sherron Norman, Dakota Bright, Derrick Ambrose Jr., Timothy Russell, Malissa Williams, Darnesha Harris, Shelly Frey, Jamaal Moore, Kerwin Harris

2013: Cedrick Chatman, Jayvis Benjamin, Clinton Allen, Kimani Gray, Willie Lee Bingham Jr., Craig Demos, Jordan West-Morson, Leonard Thomas, Micah Key, Tyrone West, Daniel Simmons, Larry Jackson, Ryan Stokes, Jermaine McBean, Dontrell Stephens, Jonathan Ferrell, Alexander Jamar Marion, Brandon Devone Smith, Cameron Massey, Abdul Kamal, Tyler Woods

2014: Jordan Baker, Ernest Satterwhite, d’Andre Bernhardt, Yvette Smith, Deandra Lloyd Armstrong-Starks, Gregory Towns, Arthur Green Jr., Justin Griffin, Howard Bowe, George King Jr., Craig. McKinnis, Jerry Dwight Brown, Icarus Randolph, Charles Goodridge, Ronald Singleton, Dominque Lewis, Eric Garner, Briatay McDuffie, John Crawford III, Michael Brown, Ezell Ford, Cory Tanner, Darrien Hunt, Cameron Tillman, Oliver Gregoire, Lashano Gilbert, Michael Ricardo Minor, Tanisha Anderson, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Rumain Brisbon, Dennis Grimsby, Jerame Reid

2015: Artago Howard, Natasha McKenna, Calvin Reid, Charley Leundeu Keening, Tony Robinson, Naeshylus Vincent, Anthony Hill, Brandon Jones, Nicholas Thomas, Eric Harris, Donald “Dontay” Ivy, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Frank Shephard, Norman Cooper, William Chapman, David Felix, Brandon Glenn, D’Angelo Stallworth, Richard Gregory Davis, Kris Jackson, Spencer Lee McCain, Victo Larosa III, Jonathan Sanders, Darrius Stewart, Samuel DuBose, Christian Taylor, Felix Kuni, India Kager, Adrien Campbell, Keith McLeod, Patterson Brown Jr., Tanisha Anderson, Nathaniel Harris Pickett Jr., Miguel Espinal, Roy Lee Nelson Jr., Michael Noel, Kevin Matthews, Bettie Jones, Keith Childress

2016: Antoine Scott, Wendell Celestine, David Joseph, Calin Devonfe Roquemore, Che Taylor, Christopher Davis, Gregg Gunn, Peter Gaines, Kevin Hicks, Mary Trujillo, Demarcus Semer, Ashtlan Barnes, Jessice Williams, Vernell Bing Jr., Derives Caine Rogers, Delrawn Small, Dalvin Hollins, Paul O’Neil, Donnell Thompson Jr., Sylville Smith, Livonia Riggins, Terrence Sterling, Terence Crutcher, Tawon Boyd, Alfred Olango, Christopher Sowell

2017: Muhammad Muhaymin Jr., Sean Moore, JR Williams, Deandre Phillips, Wardel Davis, Chad Robertson, Quanice Hayes, Raynard Burton, Luke Stewart, Alteria Woods, Kenneth Johnson, Jordan Edwards, Landon Nobles, Tashli Farmer, Jimmie Sanders, Adam Trammell, David Jones, Aaron Bailey, Eurie Martin, Damon Grimes, Anthony Antonio Ford, Armando Frank, Lawrence Hawkins, Keita O’Neil, Dennis Plowden

2018: Corey Mobley, Crystalline Barnes, Ronnell Foster, Trey Pringle, Darion Baker, Christopher Eisinger, Terrell Magee, Stephon Clark, Danny Ray Thomas, J’Allen Jones, Saheed Vassell, Diante Yarver, Juan Markee Jones, James Bauduy, Jeffrey Melvin, Keeven Robinson, Marcus-David Peters, Earl McNeil, Maurice Granton Jr., Terrance Ivor Watts, Robert Lawrence White, Antwon Rose Jr., Anthony Marcel Green, Dujuan Armstrong, Joseph Pettaway, Rashuan Washington, Cynthia Ann Fields, O’Shae Terry, James. Leatherwood, Botham Jean, Marcus Smith, Anton Black, Chinedu Okobi, Charles Roundtree Jr., Marshall Miles, Albert Dorsey, Tony Bernard Smith Jr., Robert Loggins, Christopher De-Andre Mitchell, Gregory Edwards, David Baker

2019: James Lowery, George Robinson, D’Ettrick Griffin, Jimmy Atchison, Elanor. Northington, Mario Clark, Michael Elam Jr., Pierre Woods, Kevin Bruce Mason, Javier Ambler, Julius Graves, Isaiah Lewis, Ronald Greene, D’Juantez Anthony Mitchell, Terrence Bridges Jr., Miles Hall, Ryan Twyman, Tamar Crawford, Josef Richardson, Elijah. McClain, Byron Williams, Christopher Whitfield, Michael Lorenzo Dean, Cameron Lamb

2020: Kwame Jones, William Howard Green, Jaquan Oneill Light, Leonard Parker Jr, Carl Grant, Reginald Payne, Manuel Ellis, Barry Geodes, Donnie Sanders, Breonna Taylor, Daniel Prude, Sterling Lester Chest Jr., Fred. Brown, Michael Ramos, Denzel Marshal Taylor, Shaun Fuhr, Maurice Gordon, George Floyd, Michael L. Thomas, William Wade Burgess III, Julian Edward Roosevelt Lewis, Kurt Reinhold, Mickel Lewis, Jonathan Price, Anthony Jones, Dana Young, Marcellis Stennette, Frederick Cox, Angelo Crooms, Sincere Pierce, Casey Goodson, Johnny Lorenzo Bolton, Andre Hill

2021: Carl Dorsey, Akeem Terrell, Patrick Warren, Lymond Moses, Jenoah Donald, Diversion Kinard, James Lionel Johnson, Dominique Williams, Daunte Wright, Lindani Myani, Andrew Brown Jr., Le’Mello Parker, Latoya James, Renardo Green, Eric Cole, Jermaine Sonnier, Frederick Holder, Lineal Frazier, James Holland Sr., Damien Cameron, Tory Brown, Fanta Billy Cedric Lofton, Michael Craig, Kenneth Anderson, Jermaine Jones, Jim Rogers, Calvin Wilks, Eldred. Wells Sr., Quadry Sanders, Terrence Caffey, James Lowery

2022: Jason Walker, Donta Quarles Jr., Robert “Junior” Langley, Donnelli Rochester, Tracy Gaeta, Quantez Burks, Tyera Pryor, Patrick Lyoya, Herman Whitfield, Jalen Randle, Rogers Kyanuzi, Gregory Walker, Abe Banks, Jovontay Williams, Jayland Walker, Michael Charles Thompson, Brett Rosenau, Roderick Brooks, Jason Lipscomb, Raymond Chaluisant, Kyle Dail, Presley Eze, Nasanto Antonio Crenshaw, Donovan Lewis, Maalik Roquemore, Genesis Hicks, Ali Osman, Jaylen Lewis, Gershun Freeman, James Wilborn, Eric Allen, Marando Salmon, Ki’Azia Miller, Immanueal Clark-Johnson, Eric Holmes, Kenneth Knotts, Joshua Leon Wright, Keith Murieal

2023: Tyre Nichols, Darryl Williams, Alonzo Bagley, Timothy McCree Johnson, James Lanier, Dexter Wade, Ivo Otieno, Delaneo Martin, Jamarr Thompson, Calvin Cains III, Jargon Hudspecth, Jawan Dallas, Jarrell Garris, Ahmad Abdullah, Freddie Walker, Ricky Cobb II, Brandon Cole, Johnny Holtman, Tahmon Wilson, Jaquan Fletcher, Kyeiree Myers, T’Kiya Young (& unborn baby), Daryl Vance, Dhai Pothwi, Lueth Mo, Emmanuel Millard, Leonard Cure, Darcel Edwards, Vernard Toney Jr., LaVaughn Coleman, Brent Johnson-Davis, Demarcus Brodie, Tony Cox,

2024: Craig Cousin, Clifford Brooks, Roscoe Graham, Isaac Goodlow III, Terrell Miller, Kadarius Smith, Samuel Starling, Frank Tyson, Jabril Cheevers, Lawrence McClendon, Philemon Moore, Teleak Roberts, Dennis Boden, Kalyn Lewis, William Rankin, Robin Hill, Michael Brown, Sonya Massey, Cameron Ford, John McCloud, Robert Jones, Elroy Clarke, Robert Brooks

2025: Messiah Nantes, Wyleek Tinsley, William Bowen, Christian Black, Tasha Grant, Rashaud Johnson, Marco Dorsey, Marchello Woodard, Damon Lamarr Johnson, Charles Adair, Rajon Belt-Stubblefield, Shacoby Kennedy

FOOTNOTE: on common racist responses to looking at this list

ONE: A lot of the names seem “funny” to some people, who jump quickly to a comment about how those names suggest that the individuals bearing them are probably either immigrants or — at the very least — don’t partake of much “Americanness.”

TWO: Some folks will go through this list (probably with the aid of Wikipedia) and find that in their eyes some of the dead were less than reputable, were stopped in some criminal act, did not comply with every command, and/or resisted arrest.

In that context the old-line racist response was, “Black people wouldn’t be killed by police if they just didn’t do crimes or they complied with the officers’ orders.” Amazing how that line has now been appropriated for use against white liberals.

The answer, of course, is that the statistics bely their conclusions, and even if the dead were less than perfect in compliance, that’s not considered a reason under law for nonjudicial execution. “Resisting arrest” is not a charge that carries the death penalty.

But as virtually every Black person in America knows, there will come a time when no amount of compliance saves your life.

THREE: Some people will read this list and conclude that the police were doing exactly what they were supposed to be doing — being tough on crime — and that this substantiate their conviction that all ICE is doing is executing the laws, and feckless white liberals like Renee Good and Alex Pretti deserved what they got. If they’d only stayed home …

This is where FAFO culture came from.

I look at it differently.

One of the names on that list is a former student of mine. I do not recall him as a statistic. I recall him as a well-read, self-confident young man who made high grades but had a distinct personal issue with bending the knee. I see his name and hope that after he was hit he had time to curse his killer, and that he now rests in power.

If that offends you, so be it.

Two other names represent relatives of people I know, but never met personally.

All of us are connected, no matter how we attempt to deny it.

If the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are mobilizing you, think about having a conversation about the hundreds of others we’ve seen killed by law enforcement who never prompted a mass movement to bring them justice.

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FRANCES CRESS WELSING

JAMES BAKDWIN

JOHN HENRIK CLARKE

Down South, where they grew watermelons?

Down South, where every gathering was like a holiday all of the time

Down South, where the word HOSPITABLE was not said but shown and felt because no matter the ailment, when you left, you were happy, healthy, whole, found different perspectives, clarity and hope?

Down South, where everyone ate out of the pot and no one was judge because we understood that we were one.

Down South, where everyone was family and no one was left out to fend for themselves?

Down South, where they put PEOPLE above any and everything?

Down South, where they spent quality time with the elders and gain strength, wisdom, solutions, directives and assignments?

Down South, where the food was not only good but comforting, nutrient filled, spicy, seasoned and good to the soul.

Down South, where our values were celebrated our ways were understood, our verbal and nonverbal communication styles were understood and our value systems were central to who we were.

Down South, where the reputation of community, love, openness, dignity, morality, respect and inclusion was felt wherever they moved.

Down South, where Blacks were forced to provided domestic service for free to those who hated and despised us, clearly we can do the same in the same spirit of love, gratitude, sacrifice and thankfulness and return it with clarity, love,

Down South, where Black servants were needed, wanted, desired and coveted because well, they did an exceptional job.

Down South, where it was a joy to see those who look like you happy and fed and clean plates, full bellies and joyous conversations were your proof.

“You must recognize that consciousness is power; being aware, knowing something, and being able to do something is what consciousness is all about. This grants power. Remember, we act in terms of what we know, what we believe, what we expect, what we value, what skills we have. All of this is part of consciousness.” Dr. Amos Wilson

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AS AN EDUCATOR, I AM MORE OF A WARDEN.

I MONITOR

I CONTROL

I FOLLOW

I AM HELD ACCOUNTABLE

I HAVE CUSTODY

I AM ASSIGNED

I HAVE TO SIGN IN AND OUT

I HAVE TO DOCUMENT

I HAVE TO REFER

I HAVE TO WRITE UP

I HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING BUT EDUCATE

I CARE FOR

I ASSURE THE SAFETY OF

I HAVE TO INSPECT

I DOCUMENT

“Every child is born with extraordinary potential, it is our job to find it.” Marva Collins

BEFORE INTEGRATION, BLACK EDUCATORS ASSURED THAT ALL STUDENTS COULD ENVISION, REACH AND BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE 5 E OF READINESS SO THEY COULD LIVE, THRIVE AND SURVIVE:

EMPLOYMENT

EDUCATION

ENLISTMENT

ENROLLMENT

ENTREPRENURESHIP

EXPLORATION

“Black teachers have this collective experiences & historical memory to articulate to Black children and others what and why to help the navigate this society in ways that empower them not to accept the society that will be passed to them.” Rann Miller

BLACK educators have always been GRADE A. It is NOT normal that our children are this violent, disengaged, disrespectful and malicious.

What is the root? IT IS IN EDUCATION. Black teachers understand that we not only teach academics but civil, manners and we pick up where home should have. We equip our future to be civil, lawful and assets and it appears this is NOT what education is about today.

Attitude

Advancement

Assurance

Attendance

Appreciation

Attire

Achievement

Athleticism

Accountability

Ability

Accomplishments

BLACK EDUCATORS UNDERSTAND THAT:

When we exude pride

When we exude confidence

When we exude our reality

When we exude truth

When we exude high self esteem

When we exude dominance

When we exude Joy

When we exude clarity

When we exude ownership

When we exude competence

When we exude mental strength

When we exude know how

When we exude know when

When we exude know what

When we achieve

When we advance

When…….

Yet, it is For a check, I must see the opposite of those things.

To feed our family

To maintain employment

WE ARE EXPECTED TO DO THE UNTHINKABLE, IMMORAL, UNJUST, UNETHICAL AND THINGS THAT WE KNOW IS FAILING, HURTING AND DESTORYING OUR FUTURE AND IT SHOULD END.

WHAT IS GOING ON WITHIN OUR COMMUNITIES, THE THOUGHTLESS DECISIONS OUR CHILDREN ARE MAKING IS A DIRECT CORRELATION OF WHAT IS NOT GOING ON WITHIN OUR SCHOOLS AND THAT IS EDUCATION, CRITICAL THINKING AND ACCOUNTABILITY.

“There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from ‘audio-visual aids’ – flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.” Marva Collins

In Preschool we earned E’s for EXCELLENCE and when we got the teachers we needed we understood that those E’s were more of a foundation of our learning because Education was extracting what we had within.

Our BLACK educators maximized our strengths and turned our weaknesses and ignorance into intellectualism and we walked away understanding that we will and should be:

Encouraged

Earnest

Early

Elegant

Empowered

Eager

Employable

Empathetic

Eclectic

Exciting

Ecstatic

Elaborate

Enthusiastic

Enlightened

Extraordinary

Energized

Exuberant

Equipped

Edified

Eligible

Enamoured

Enterprising

Educated
Effectual

Enlivened

Entertaining

Exceptional

Eloquent

Eventful

Efficient

Entrepreneurial

Entrancing

Enjoyable

Expectant

Equitable

Essential

Eternal

Etheraeal

Enriching

“There are a series of processes that I call the “Dynamics of Domination.” In order for one group of people (in this case Europeans) to control an African population, it was necessary, first, to erase African memory. To erase or to suppress memory is a psychological operation which disables anyone as an individual who has memory. The memory of one’s group history. When a group loses its historical memory, its disable. Secondly, to suppress the practice of African culture. Third to teach white supremacy. Fourth to control the institutions of socialization, to prevent African people from educating their own children, and from sending their own messages through the media, etc. The control of wealth. And finally physical segregation. These are the historical activities that Europeans engaged in, in order to conquer the Continent, to enslave people, to practice segregation.” Dr. Asa Hilliard

“It must be remembered that the present push for ‘integrated education’ had its roots in the general belief that the education which most white children were getting was a quality education, *and* that if only Afro-American and other cultural groups could be present when this quality education was offered, they would be better off than under segregation.” Dr. Asa G. Hilliard III (1978)

“The fear was not that Africans could not learn, the fear then and later was that they would”  Dr. Asa G. Hilliard III

“People have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don’t?” Marva Collins

“What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.” Marva Collins

“You don’t learn to walk by following rules.  You learn by doing, and by falling over.” Marva Collins

“The first thing we are going to do here, children, is an awful lot of believing in ourselves.”  Marva Collins

“Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.” Marva Collins

“Don’t try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.” Marva Collins

I MUST SPEAK THE TRUTH

I MUST SPEAK HOW I FEEL

I MUST SPEAK AND NO LONGER HOLD MY PEACE

I MUST BE BRUTALLY HONEST IN MY REALITY

I MUST BE CORRECT IN MY POSITION

I MUST CALL A THING A THING

I MUST STOP THE CIRCULAR SICKNESS

I MUST NOT BE POLITCALLY CORRECT OR WHATEVER THAT IS

I MUST NOT ACT LIKE I AM NOT EMOTIONALLY, SPIRITUALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY AFFECTED AND BOTHERED BY THESE RACIST AND HATEFUL OLD AS WHITE MEN IN CONgress.

I MUST OWN OUR HISTORY, OWN MY HUE, OWN MY INNOCENCE AND OWN THE FACT THAT WHITE WOMEN AND MEN VOTE TO KEEP THIS CIRUCLAR

I MUST CALL OUT THESE UNJUST LAWS, RULES, CODES, MANDATES, POLICIES AND LEGISLATIONS THAT CRIMINALIZE OUR FUTURE SWIFTLY

I MUST CALL OUT THE SELECTIVE OUTRAGE AND OVERLOOK

I MUST CALL OUT THE BRUISED, BROKEN, AND BENT BLACK MOTHERS WHO CONTINUALLY BURY CHILREN LIKE IT IS A BADGE OF HONOR AND THIS COUNTRY GOES SILENT ON THEM AND US

I MUST CALL VALUE, MORALITY, DIGNITY AND HUMANITY TO ALL OF MY BLACK STUDENTS

I MUST CALL OUT THE ROGUE INJUSTICE SYSTEM THAT IS DOING WHAT THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ALLOWED TO DO BY LAW IN AMERICA

I MUST CALL OUT THE FACT THAT OUR FUTURE IS NUMB TO THIS CRAP

I MUST CALL OUT THE TRUTH THAT OUR CHILDREN EXPECT TO BE GUNNED DOWN AND GLORIFY IT

I MUST CALL OUT THAT THEY DON’T EVEN CARE IT COULD BE THEM, THEY EXPECT IT TO BE THEM

I MUST CALL OUT HOW THE GUNS IN OUR FUTURE HANDS SWIFTLY STRIPS US OF A CULTURE, PEOPLE AND FUTURE

I MUST CALL OUT THESE KNOWN, INTENTIONAL AND WILLFUL INJUSTICES

I MUST CALL OUT THE DEATH SENTENCE THAT IS ATTACHED TO OUR HUE

I MUST CALL OUT THE WE SHALL OVERCOME, THE MARCHES, THE PROTEST, THE BOYCOTTS THAT ARE ALL PERFORMATIVE AND NOT REAL

I MUST CALL OUT THESE POLITICIANS WHO GET THEIR PALMS GREASED AND SO THEY HAVE NO REAL DESIRE TO CREATE THE CHANGE AND TRANSFORMATION WE VOTE THEM IN OFFICE TO DELIVER

I MUST CALL OUT THESE CELEBRATIES WHO ARE OUR SPOKESPERSON BUT NOT LIVING AMONGST US AND OPPRESSION AND CHAINS LOOKS A LOT DIFFERENT FROM US AND OURS WHO ARE IN THE HODDS, GUTTER AND STREETS

I MUST CALL OUT THESE CLERGY OR THEOLOGIANS WHO KNOW THE SCRIPTURE, SO THEY SAY BUT HAS SHOWN ME WHEN THEY LOVE TO QUOTE, “THERE WILL ALWAYS BE THE POOR AMONG US” OF WHICH CONVEYS, I CAN DO SOMETHING BUT I CHOOSE NOT, I SEE THE HUNGER, BUT I PROFIT OFF OF NONPROFIT, I SEE THE HOMELESSNESS BUT BIG MONEY AND EXPLOITATION IS TO BE HAD, I UNDERSTAND THE LEADERS ARE TRUTH TELLERS BUT THAT DOES NOT PROFIT THE WHOLE WORLD…….

I MUST CALL OUT OUR LEADERS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, JUST AS THEY SAY; UNLESS THE WHITE MAN CHOOSES THE LEADER, THERE WOULD NEVER BE ANOTHER LEADER FOR THE PEOPLE SO THERE YOU GO…….

I MUST CALL OUT THE NEED FOR BLACK ON BLACK CRIME BECAUSE THEY POUR THE GUNS AND DRUGS INTO THE COMMUNITY TO EITHER BURY OUR FUTURE OR JAIL OUR FUTURE

I MUST CALL OUT THOSE WHO MAINTAIN THESE VICIOUS AND WICKED SYSTEMS

I MUST CALL OUT THOSE WHO BENEFIT, PROFIT AND GAIN WEALTH AND THEN CALL THOSE WHO ARE SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED AS PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPLAINING

I MUST CALL OUT THOSE WHO WANT US TO EXPLAIN OURSELVES WHEN THEY PROFIT, KNOW AND UNDERSTAND

GOD IS REVEALING

GOD IS EXPOSING

GOD IS SHEDDING LIGHT

GOD IS BEING LOUD

GOD IS BEING SEEN

GOD IS…………

GOS IS LEADING

GOD IS SHOWING

GOD IS IN THE SEASON

GOD IS IN THE MOMENT

GOD IS WRITING THIS CHAPTER

GOD IS…………

GOD IS A GOD THAT CANNOT, AND WILLNOT LIE

GOD IS AUTHENTIC

GOD IS COMPETENT

GOD IS STRONG

GOD IS IFNLUNTIAL

GOD IS…………

GOD IS PULLING COVERS

GOD IS OPENING CURTAINS

GOD IS SOUNDING THE ALARMS

GOD IS POINTING UWARD

GOD IS POINTING INWARD

GOD IS…………

GOD IS INTENTIONAL

GOD IS WILLFUL

GOD IS CLEAR

GOD IS ALL KNOWING

GOD IS MASTERFUL

GOD IS…………

GOD IS GENTLE

GOD IS KIND

GOD IS JOYOUS

GOD IS PEACE

GOD IS LOVE

GOD IS…………

GOD HOLDS THE WORLD

GOD STEERS THE PEOPLE

GOD STIRS THE POT

GOD WANT THE BEST

GOD BELIEVE IN HIS PEOPLE

GOD IS…………

GOD HAS NOT HIDDEN AGENDAS

GOD HAS NO ALTERIA MOTIVES

GOD REVEALS

GOD HEALS

GOD MENDS

GOD IS…………

MOMMA HAD A TESTIMONY IN THE END BECAUSE HER WISDOM, TALK WITH GOD, CONFIRMATION TO DADDY AND US WERE PROOF, SHE KNEW THAT GOD IS AND GOD WAS IN CONTROL AND HIS WILL AND ONLY HIS WILL WOULD BE DONE!

MOMMA WORDS WERE NOT JUST IN THE MOMENT BUT IT WAS A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING AND RECKONING FOR ME.

IT WAS GOD SPEAKING THROUGH HER, AS USUAL.

AS SHE WAS CROSSING OVER, GOD WAS WORKING WITHIN ME.

SHE BROUGHT THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER.

SHE LIVED, SHE LOVED, SHE CARED, SHE GAVE AND ABOVE ALL; SHE SERVED.

SHE LEAD US WITH CHRIST, THROUGH CHRIST AND WITH CHRIST AT THE HELM OF HER LIFE.

SHE CHANGED THIS WOMAN IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE.

IN MOMMA’S 92 YEARS, SHE TOUCHED LIVES ALL AROUND THE WORLD, HER LIVED EXPERIENCES, EXPOSURE AND EDUCATION WERE FREELY SHARED AND SHE DISTRIBUTED EQUALLY; HENCE WE CAN SHARE SOME OF THE SAME STORIES WITHOUT EVER KNOWING EACH OTHER AND THAT IS CONSISTENCY.

MOMMA SHIFTED ATMOSPHERES WHEN SHE ENTERED, MOMMA WAS KNOWN WHEN SHE ENTERED THE CHURCH, DOCTOR’S OFFICES AND STORES AND IN MOMMA BOND’S FASHION, SHE SHIFTED THE ROOM AS SHE ASCENDED.

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“It is incomprehensible to me, the fear that can affect men in political offices. It is shocking the way they submit to forces they know are wrong and fail to stand up for what they believe. Can their jobs be so important to them, their pres- tige, their power, their privileges so important that they will cooperate in the degradation of our society just to hang on to those jobs?” Shirley Chisholm,

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.” H. L. Mencken

“At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more …
Nov 30, 2020 — “At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.” Shirley Chisholm

“Never be deceived that the rich will permit you to vote away their wealth.” Lucy Parsons

“The idea that women are inferior to men is absurd. When a man is born of a woman, how can he be superior and she inferior.” Sadhguru

“Let the masses understand that these robbers hold this property… under the plea of the laws which they themselves [the robbers] have made.” Lucy Parson

“But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.” Barbara Jordan

“That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.” Noam Chomsky

“I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don’t think it will be based on the color of the skin.” Malcolm X

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” Steve Biko

“To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.” Dr. John Henrik Clarke

“Freedom cannot be achieved unless the women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression.” Nelson Mandela

“We’ve been conditioned to think that only politicians can solve our problems. But at some point, maybe we will wake up and recognize that it was the politicians who created our problems.” Dr. Ben Carson

“To understand American social, economic, and racial problems, one must analyze who profits from them rather than who suffers from those problems.” Dr. Amos Wilson

“Our Congress passes laws which subsidize corporation farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia. But when they turn their attention to the poor, they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on the funds for Head Start, Medicare, and mental health appropriations.” Coretta Scott King

“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.” James Baldwin

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love and support one another. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” Assata Shakur

“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been. Whatever you give a woman, she will makes greater.” William Golding

“The more monies we spend, the less children learn; because the more machines we have there, the more gadgets, the more gimmicks, the less children have to really think – the less they have to use their innate abilities, their curiosity, their brains.” Dr. Marva Collins

Modern man has brought this whole world to an awe-inspiring threshold of the future. He has reached new and astonishing peaks of scientific success. He has produced machines that think and instruments that peer into the unfathomable ranges of interstellar space. He has built gigantic bridges to span the seas and gargantuan buildings to kiss the skies. His airplanes and spaceships have dwarfed distance, placed time in chains, and carved highways through the stratosphere. This is a dazzling picture of modern man’s scientific and technological progress.

Yet, in spite of these spectacular strides in science and technology, and still unlimited ones to come, something basic is missing. There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Every man lives in two realms, the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. Our problem today is that we have allowed the internal to become lost in the external. We have allowed the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live. So much of modern life can be summarized in that arresting dictum of the poet Thoreau: “Improved means to an unimproved end.” This is the serious predicament, the deep and haunting problem confronting modern man. If we are to survive today, our moral and spiritual “lag” must be eliminated. Enlarged material powers spell enlarged peril if there is not proportionate growth of the soul. When the “without” of man’s nature subjugates the “within,” dark storm clouds begin to form in the world.