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The last Pollination!

Here reliving those last weeks with Momma Bond.

One day she had a crying spell, I mean CRYING and she said I did all they told me to do and I took all of they medicines and after that, she never cried or fought any more.

She began to be at peace and transferring wisdom and giving orders. She began to assure us of what she cultivated and fertilized over our lives. She was the agent being ready to ascend and nope, wasn’t ready but God didn’t care.

She embraced the reality of her inevitable life’s end.

She spoke on us being stabbed. She reassured us that Momma Gone Be Alright and God Got us and Momma Bond. She knew she wasn’t alone because someone was always with her. She offered her love, resilience, resources, experiences and humor.

Momma Bond was our Pollinator who planted, cultivated, uprooted her good seed upon purified soil.

Momma Bond REPRODUCED God’s word imparting, investing, utilizing, caring, imparting, sharing her wisdom and words of conviction with us.

She was our Midwife

She was our Doula

She was our OBGYN

She nurture us

She fed us

She supported us

She chastised us

She taught us

She disciplined us

She covered us

She owned us

“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, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.” H.L. Mencken

“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 politicians who created our problems.” Dr. Ben Carson

Those parents who paid $500,000.00 for their children to be admitted into college scored high on tests as well because they were handed UNEARNED access, opportunities, positions, titles, grades, stats, GPA, and a financial head start.

Last I checked, didn’t the students who were the most merited, technologically savvy geniuses,, highly scholastic, extremely innovative, innately inventive, athletically dominant, culturally aware, historically aware, moral, highly disciplined, respectful and considerate come from the rough parts of town where the resources were outdated, schools run down, and educators highly educated, experienced, exceptional, empowered and BLACK?

ALPHA SCHOOLS?

“The more machines we have, the less children have to really think, the less they have to use their innate abilities, their curiosity, their brains.” Marva Collins

“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

They defund, reject, exclude, flat out LIE and say what they don’t have or can’t do when it comes to us inner city dwellers.

Phylicia Rashad commented and asked, “We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?”

Coretta Scott King said, “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.”

STOP lying and playing in our face as we TAX PAYERS fund our own education malpractice, curriculum discrimination, these LEGISLATIVELY INFUSED lies, exploitations and benign neglect must end.

I end with the words of Walter E. Williams, “Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.”

“The quality of education given to the lower class must be of the poorest sort, so that the moat of ignorance isolating the inferior class from the superior class is and remains incomprehensible to the inferior class. With such an initial handicap, even bright lower class individuals have little if any hope of extricating themselves from their assigned lot in life. This form of slavery is essential to maintaining some measure of social order, peace, and tranquility for the ruling upper class.” Milton William Cooper

There were a plenty of days I stopped by Momma Bond house and she was sitting in her sacred space with her plastic bags all around her and she would be filling them up.

One day, I just decided to ask her what are you doing Momma Bond, she said I am filling up bags just in case the cheerin or kids come by, they won’t have to buy these items and when I say say she covered everything from headaches, coughs, etc.

Then she had an overabundance of tissue, paper towel, soap, etc. I. The basement.

She even offered me some and I never wanted to act like my husband didn’t put us first or take care of us, or that we were in need so I always turned it down, this one time she had HIM to go downstairs and get a bag full of cherishables.

Overtime I learned what family was like

Overtime I learned what being hospitable was like

Overtime I learned what the village was about

Overtime I learned to see my family clearly

Overtime I learned what exceedingly, ABUNDANTLY and above all we could ask or think was about

Overtime I learned what unconditional love was about

Overtime, I never dreamed that our time would be over

So just in case, I am elated she allowed me to pour into her just as much as she poured into me.

Plastic and Paper Bags are recyclables, JUST IN CASE.

“We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians. We must realize the need for adult education and for job retraining programs that will emphasize a changing society in which automation plays the key role. We intend to use the tools of education to help raise our people to an unprecedented level of excellence and self respect through their own efforts.”  Malcolm X

I an so sick of these KNOW IT ALL WHITE folks, this is why we are where we are. The college admission scandal are filled with these kinds of teachers.

“The schools we go to are reflections of the society that created them. Nobody is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.” Assata Shakur

Our inner city BLACK babies need BLACK educators and not BLACK teachers (No, they are not the same).

We shifted during the 2000’s. That’s when Teach for America began to invade and infiltrate our BLACK space, places and schools.

Rewarding medicicrity and punish excellence.

Undermines responsibility, conditions them for failure.
Rewards without Work

I have students to say that we Are not in the slavery day and our BEING GRADE A is no longer necessary. In my class being GRDE A is:

What is the root? IT IS IN EDUCATION. Black teachers understand that we not only teach academics but civil, hygiene, 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

Approachability

Always, no excuse policy

EQUITABLE

This is that SYMBOLIC forms of progress Malcolm X spoke about.

“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

If we want equity, equality DEAL with policy and not this failing unrealistic “bright idea” for our brilliant , highly gifted and talented inner city children.

This is EXACTLY why we have who we have in the white house and America is crumbling.

NEVER SAY NEVER

I have lost a lot of people in my life that’s close to me and NEVER had the desire to go to the cemetery after the burial.

Revisiting the graveside was strange and crazy to me and I made a vow to NEVER go and “talk” to a headstone or dirt.

NEVER SAY NEVER

I made the kids feel bad because I just didn’t see the point in going to see their dad, after all he wasn’t there but they taught me, it was what they needed to heal and go on without him. I had no idea the three went often, after all why share it with me, I was against it, right?

As long as you live, you will do two things, stay stagnant or grow.

Every season, level, chapter, stage or round provides opportunities for growth or we can choose to remain ignorant and stagnant.

Yesterday after church, I dropped Mar off at the Dome to meet up with Chelle. I was heading home but ended up at Sunset Memorial Cemetery.

NEVER SAY NEVER

I needed to visit MOMMA BOND. I had no idea where she was, just like it wasn’t planned 2 months ago, it wasn’t planned yesterday so my head was cloudy.

My life has two centers school and church.
I saw headstones of people from both all in the same area. I saw names from elementary school, middle school, high school and churches that I was affiliated.

People who crossed paths with me

People who touched my life

People who taught me

People who prayed over me

People who laughed with me

People I knew through other people
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They were all around MOMMA BOND.

Tamika Long and her family were there putting balloons down for her dad.

She showed me how to look up the graveside and walked with me to locate MOMMA BOND.

Soil was fresh, swelled and unbelievable to me……

Right now I am saying this is my last time going out there but one thing for sure, I KNOW for a fact that MOMMA BOND is around a disciplined, caring, giving, service rendering, eclectic and compassionate group of people that graced our 89Blocks and made our village, made our community, understood their tribe and protected our hood and we were ours.

Daddy had an On Time Word for me about FAITH.

Oversight

Foresight
Aspect
Insight
Translation
Hindsight

After leaving Daddy, he taught me all of those words above and today I am ready to return back into the classroom full of keen sightedness.

Yep, NEVER SAY NEVER!

Bill Gates said, “You need ZERO degrees to be a business owner,r but you do need a degree to work for a business owner.”

Bill Gates also said, “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”

Donald Trump said, “Laziness is a trait in BLACKS.”

I think about all of the things we African Americans built, started, created, made invented, innovated,, mastered, made elevated, great, illuminated and influenced, but WE ARE LAZY?

Honestly, we taught America that. you don’t need a degree to produce greatness or exceptionalism.

“African American right how hold the greatest academic achievements on the earth. For 360 years, it was against the law to teach BLACKS how to read and write.”. Dr. Claud Anderson

We don’t need to build SKILLS, we came here with them so SKILLS ARE IN OUR DNA.

We are the FIRST OBGYN’s, GRANNY MIDWIVES

We created the FIRST Ambulatory system,

We showed the best nurses, THE BLACK ANGELS

We were not only agricultural genius, but VLACK WKMEN have been feeding America since forever from breast, fields, kitchens and stores and insivisibly.

We were the BEST mechanics and they were the old men in the hood who couldn’t read or write.

The whole degree, license, certification crap was all a SET UP to oppress us, hurt us, harm us and get us psychologically defeated.

A BILLIONAIRE gets BACK in office and started firing all of the BLACK HIGHLY QUALIFIED, HIGHLY SKILLED, HIGHLY EDUCATED, HIGHLY EXPERIENCED AND HIGHLY PROFICIENT CANDIDATES.

I heard you wanted to get to the heart of  who you are because it matter ;

You wanted to understand the depth of what is the root of you and you are willing to, the lies; shatter.

You know that there is more than what meets the eye;

You know it must be done and no more thinking but it starts with a try.

To want to understand the depth of who you are, no matter the pain;

Once you begin to uproot and cultivate new relationships, my prayer is that your life would never be the same.

Life gives us life with its many heartaches, twists, turns and uncertainties;

We have to choose to do with it what it do and bring out the best in us, which is Grade A, the original AI, we have innate brilliance, creativity and dignity.

On this journey I wash you much joy, calm, clarity and peace;

Know that you have a tribe doing what you are doing and that is uprooting me.

Momma Bind’s life with people was a PARENTHESES. Momma Amplified we were as a people by who she because as our cherished and him need elder.

There was never a time you didn’t grow in her presence no matter if it was historically, physically, emotionally, morally,, psychologically or wisely and you did it EXPONENTIALLY and you did to swiftly.

Momma Bond kept the FORMULA for healthy and righteous living. She was intentional on how to enrich us inwardly.

No matter what new or CONSTANT issue or heavy PRODUCT you brought to Momma Bond, it was the carrying of the burden that proves that when shared it really is lighter.

Momma Bond had man of EXPRESSIONS of love, support, loyalty and left a legacy that we should carry on.

Momma Bond was the DIFFERENCE and she made the DIFFERENCE between:
Day and Night
Good and Bad
Morality & Immorality
Justice & Injustice
Godliness & Ungodliness
Success & Failure
Happiness & Sadness
Hopelessness & Hopeful

Momma Bond was our COEFFICIENT which meant, with us, she and us were most definitely enough.

Momma Bond ADDED such:
Wisdom
Joy
Light
Clarity
Strength
Tenacity
Faith
Boldness
Unmistaken truth that it was the needed POWER to remind us of our purpose.

Momma Bond was our POINT of clarity and contact on this ever winding journey on this road called life.

Momma Bond never towed the LINE.
Her position was hers
Her views were hers
Her feelings were hers
Her conclusions were hers
Her beliefs were hers
Her faith was hers

No matter what ANGLE you came to Momma Bond, she found an AREA where it was she and you and you could both teach and learn, heal, uproot, cultivate and mend and the VOLUME was never raised and she believed in always being hospitable and having enough TIME for others.

When thinking about worth and VALUE, Momma Bond was hands down an ABSOLUTIST. Yes, she was our QUEEN, she was HONORED, she was RESPECTED, she was one to check you, she was strong, she was noble, she was influential, she was straight up and she was disciplined, she was the lifter of our heads and hearts, she lightened our loads, she allowed us to lay our burdens down, she was divine, she was the center of our world
She was ours.

Momma Bond was average and exceptional

Momma Bond was average and phenomenal

Momma Bond was average and outstanding

Momma Bond was average and a Woman of Great Distinction

Momma Bond was average but willing and able

Momma Bond was average but Superior

Momma Bond was average but exceptional

Momma Bond was average but competent

Momma Bond was never MEAN and I found this out outside of the four walls of Morning Star Baptist Church. I had to be PARALLEL to her and I’m elated I was in my PRIME because I learned that DIVISION didn’t get us this far but unity, order, organization, the village and that was how we MULTIPLIED and became enriched.

No matter the NUMBER of one’s age, Momma Bond earned, got and commanded the attention, respect, honor and loyalty that developed into something cherished.

Momma Bond had a command about her but it wasn’t demanding, evil spirited, but loving, soft, blunt and non threatening manner and for her and this,bi am elated God allowed us to COUNT on her and she in turn never COUNTED us out.

Yep, this polynomial of a woman math is still mathing right.

He played football for East St. Louis St. High School all 4 years.

4 years of violent impact to his brain.

4 years of brutality on his brain.

4 years of having concussions (known or unknown) in his brain.

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1429968775162573&id=100044483917442

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1456493946077092&id=1463737158452401

We no longer NEED proof, we now  KNOW!

CTE

https://www.maxpreps.com/il/east-st-louis/east-st-louis-flyers/athletes/rayvion-smith/bio/?careerid=56ldo01gv2744

“Our presence in this country terrifies every white man walking,” Baldwin said to the crowd. “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

JALEN ROSE

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=4125349794370704&vanity=breakfastclubam

RACE NORMING LIE!

Women, Unapologetically Embrace Your:

Achievements, Advancement
Beauty Brilliance
Courage Confidence
Devotion Drive Energy Enlightenment
Fierceness Frames
Greatness Genius
Happiness Honesty
Intuition Intelligence
Joy Jubilee
Kindred Kindness
Love Legacy
Maternalism Mastery
Nurturing Nursing
Opportunity Openness
Purpose Position
Quietness Quakes
Readiness Remembrance
Steadfastness Sacredness
Teachings Tactfulness
Understanding Unbelief
Victory Vision
Wait Wisdom
Xtra special Extreme
Youthfulness Yearning
Zeal Zest

WE ARE LIFE GIVERS, WE BRING DEATH BACK TO LIFE.

ALL WE NEED TO DO IS COLLECTIVELY UNIFY.

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YOUR EXCELLENCE IS A PROBLEM……..AAAAAAAH

Considering that we are fro. A GRADE A lineage, is this why our top notch skilled and academic genius is downplayed because we have PROGRESSED and those are seen as OPPRESSIVE AND WE ARE NOT IN THE SLAVE DAY ANYMORE of which is translated as:
We are the original AI. There has never been anything microwaveable, mediocre, weak, incompetent, weak or artificial about us.
We have always been Authentically Intelligent
Academically Intelligent
Advanc
ANTI BLACK WORK ETHICS
ANTI BLACK SUPERIORITY
ANTI BLACK HIGH ACADEMICS
ANTI BLACK ACHIEVEMENTS (SCHOLASTICALLY)
ANTI BLACK PRIDE
ANTI BLACK BRILLIANCE
ANTI BLACK COMPETENCE
ANTI BLACK MENTAL STRENGTH
ANTI BLACK UNITY
ANTI BLACK MORALS
ANTI BLACK SELF DISCIPLINE
ANTI BLACK SELF RESPECT
ANTI BLACK CONSIDERATION
ANTI BLACK CONFIDENCE…….

“Teaching is to white women what policing is to white men.”Anonymous

WHEN IT COMES TO BLACK PEOPLE, THERE HAS NEVER EVER BEEN ANYTHING ARTIFICIAL ABOUT US.
WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN:
AUTHENTICALLY INTELLIGENT
AUTHENTICALLY INTUITIVE
AUTHENTICALLY INSPIRATIONAL
AUTHENTICALLY ILLUSTRIOUS
AUTHENTICALLY ILLUMINATIVE
AUTHENTICALLY IMAGINATIVE
AUTHENTICALLY IMMOVABLE
AUTHENTICALLY IMMUNED
AUTHENTICALLY IMPACTFUL
AUTHENTICALLY IMPECCABLE
AUTHENTICALLY IMPASSIONED
AUTHENTICALLY IMPERVIOUS
AUTHENTICALLY ICONIC
AUTHENTICAL IDEALISTIC

Immaculate
Impressive
Independent
Industrious
Inquisitive
Inspiring
Intellectual
Interesting
Intriguing
Intrepid
Inventive
Invigorating
Irresistible
Irreverent
Irreplaceable
Irresponsible
Irritable
Iridescent

Positive Adjectives that Start with I
Ideal
Imaginative
Immaculate
Impeccable
Important
Impressive
Incomparable
Incredible
Indefatigable
Independent
Indescribable
Indispensable
Individual
Indomitable
Ineffable
Inexhaustible
Ingenious
Innocent
Innovative
Inquisitive
Insatiable
Inspirational
Inspired
Inspiring
Integrous
Intelligent
Intense
Intrepid
Inventive
Invigorating
Adjectives that Start with I to Describe a Person Positively
Idealistic
Innovative
Independent
Inspiring
Intelligent
Imaginative
Inquisitive
Impressive
Impartial
Intuitive
Insightful
Industrious
Inexhaustible
Influential
Inimitable
Interesting
Invigorating
Irresistible

The Crash Out generation is in the wrong era doncha think?

Children today has unlimited and unrestrained access, exposure , opportunities, experiences that our ancestors only dreamed about, marched for and wanted.

Yet they are the most angriest, violent, malicious, evil, vile, disrespectful and vulgar our people have ever seen.

This is EXACTLY what is going on within our schools!!!!!

“The schools we go to are reflections of the society that created them. Nobody is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.” Assata Shakur

“When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.” Angela Davis

BADDIES is what they are CONsumed with in middle school and IT IS TIRING.

This is what NO rules in schools looks like.

This is what entitlement in schools looks like.

This is what no accountability looks like.

This is shat generations curse breaking looks like.

This is what gentle parenting looks like.

This is what lack of discipline looks like.

This is what lack of self control looks like.

This is what giving kids 50% without turning in no assignments or attending school looks like

This is what graduating kids unable to read, write it count looks like.

This is what disrespecting the teachers and authority looks like.

This is what not being afraid of anything looks like.

This is what FREE LABOR in the prison system looks like.

This is what overreach within our homes and stripping parents of their right to correct, redirect and discipline looks like.

This is what white supremacy looks like.
For over 400 plus years, we allowed WHITE MEN mediocrity to be exceptionalism

For over 400 plus years, we allowed WHITE MEN bad to be good

For over 400 plus years, we allowed WHITE MEN ignorance to be intellectualism

For over 400 plus years, we allowed WHITE MEN weakness to be stretch

For over 400 plus years, we allowed WHITE MEN divisiveness to be unity

For over 400 plus years, we allowed WHITE MEN confusion to be clarity

For over 400 plus years, we allowed WHITE MEN traditions to be truth

For over 400 plus years, we allowed WHITE MEN illiteracy to be literacy

For over 400 plus years, we allowed WHITE MEN

When BLACK PEOPLE built, progressed, invented, created, made, advanced and succeeded for us and ours, why bomb and set it ablaze?

I want to do the SAME thing to the Department of Education.

PRE the passage of Brown vs Board of Education BLACK EDUCATORS produced highly scholastic, accountable, responsible, highly skilled, confident, moral, disciplined, gifted , talented, well researched, self controlled, civilized, law abiding and athletically dominant men and women who were assets and not liabilities.

BLACK EDUCATORS were And believed in superior, exceptional, and excellent students.

BLACK EDUCATORS were GRADE A and didn’t allow
Attendance
Achievements
Attitudes
Attendance
Aspirational to be optional but it was demanded.

POST the passage of Brown vs Board of Education, COMPETENT, MEMlNTALLY STRONG, HIGHLY DEGREED, EXPERIENCED AND CLEAR HEADED BLACK WOMEN AND MEN lost their jobs to white women who were HANDED UNEARNED positions, degrees, titles and roles and we are now here……