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.
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!!!!!
Sometimes as I sit communing in my study I feel that death is not far off. I am aware that it will overtake me before the greatest of my dreams – full equality for the Negro in our time – is realized. Yet, I face that reality without fear or regrets. I am resigned to death as all humans must be at the proper time. Death neither alarms nor frightens one who has had a long career of fruitful toil. The knowledge that my work has been helpful to many fills me with joy and great satisfaction.
Since my retirement from an active role in educational work and from the affairs of the National Council of Negro Women, I have been living quietly and working at my desk at my home here in Florida. The years have directed a change of pace for me. I am now 78 years old and my activities are no longer so strenuous as they once were. I feel that I must conserve my strength to finish the work at hand.
Already I have begun working on my autobiography which will record my life-journey in detail, together with the innumerable side trips which have carried me abroad, into every corner of our country, into homes both lowly and luxurious, and even into the White House to confer with Presidents. I have also deeded my home and its contents to the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation, organized in March, 1953, for research, interracial activity and the sponsorship of wider educational opportunities.
Sometimes I ask myself if I have any other legacy to leave. Truly, my worldly possessions are few. Yet, my experiences have been rich. From them, I have distilled principles and policies in which I believe firmly, for they represent the meaning of my life’s work. They are the products of much sweat and sorrow.
Perhaps in them there is something of value. So, as my life draws to a close, I will pass them on to Negroes everywhere in the hope that an old woman’s philosophy may give them inspiration. Here, then is my legacy.
I LEAVE YOU LOVE. Love builds. It is positive and helpful. It is more beneficial than hate. Injuries quickly forgotten quickly pass away. Personally and racially, our enemies must be forgiven. Our aim must be to create a world of fellowship and justice where no man’s skin, color or religion, is held against him. “Love thy neighbor” is a precept which could transform the world if it were universally practiced. It connotes brotherhood and, to me, brotherhood of man is the noblest concept in all human relations. Loving your neighbor means being interracial, interreligious and international.
I LEAVE YOU HOPE. The Negro’s growth will be great in the years to come. Yesterday, our ancestors endured the degradation of slavery, yet they retained their dignity. Today, we direct our economic and political strength toward winning a more abundant and secure life. Tomorrow, a new Negro, unhindered by race taboos and shackles, will benefit from more than 330 years of ceaseless striving and struggle. Theirs will be a better world. This I believe with all my heart.
I LEAVE YOU THE CHALLENGE OF DEVELOPING CONFIDENCE IN ONE ANOTHER. As long as Negroes are hemmed into racial blocks by prejudice and pressure, it will be necessary for them to band together for economic betterment. Negro banks, insurance companies and other businesses are examples of successful, racial economic enterprises. These institutions were made possible by vision and mutual aid. Confidence was vital in getting them started and keeping them going. Negroes have got to demonstrate still more confidence in each other in business. This kind of confidence will aid the economic rise of the race by bringing together the pennies and dollars of our people and ploughing them into useful channels. Economic separatism cannot be tolerated in this enlightened age, and it is not practicable. We must spread out as far and as fast as we can, but we must also help each other as we go.
I LEAVE YOU A THIRST FOR EDUCATION. Knowledge is the prime need of the hour. More and more, Negroes are taking full advantage of hard-won opportunities for learning, and the educational level of the Negro population is at its highest point in history. We are making greater use of the privileges inherent in living in a democracy. If we continue in this trend, we will be able to rear increasing numbers of strong, purposeful men and women, equipped with vision, mental clarity, health and education.
I LEAVE YOU RESPECT FOR THE USES OF POWER. We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force. During my lifetime I have seen the power of the Negro grow enormously. It has always been my first concern that this power should be placed on the side of human justice.
Now that the barriers are crumbling everywhere, the Negro in America must be ever vigilant lest his forces be marshalled behind wrong causes and undemocratic movements. He must not lend his support to any group that seeks to subvert democracy. That is why we must select leaders who are wise, courageous, and of great moral stature and ability. We have great leaders among us today: Ralph Bunche, Channing Tobias, Mordecai Johnson, Walter White, and Mary Church Terrell. [The latter now deceased]. We have had other great men and women in the past: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. We must produce more qualified people like them, who will work not for themselves, but for others.
I LEAVE YOU FAITH. Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. Faith in God is the greatest power, but great, too, is faith in oneself. In 50 years the faith of the American Negro in himself has grown immensely and is still increasing. The measure of our progress as a race is in precise relation to the depth of the faith in our people held by our leaders. Frederick Douglass, genius though he was, was spurred by a deep conviction that his people would heed his counsel and follow him to freedom. Our greatest Negro figures have been imbued with faith. Our forefathers struggled for liberty in conditions far more onerous than those we now face, but they never lost the faith. Their perseverance paid rich dividends. We must never forget their sufferings and their sacrifices, for they were the foundations of the progress of our people.
I LEAVE YOU RACIAL DIGNITY. I want Negroes to maintain their human dignity at all costs. We, as Negroes, must recognize that we are the custodians as well as the heirs of a great civilization. We have given something to the world as a race and for this we are proud and fully conscious of our place in the total picture of mankind’s development. We must learn also to share and mix with all men. We must make and effort to be less race conscious and more conscious of individual and human values. I have never been sensitive about my complexion. My color has never destroyed my self-respect nor has it ever caused me to conduct myself in such a manner as to merit the disrespect of any person. I have not let my color handicap me. Despite many crushing burdens and handicaps, I have risen from the cotton fields of South Carolina to found a college, administer it during its years of growth, become a public servant in the government of our country and a leader of women. I would not exchange my color for all the wealth in the world, for had I been born white I might not have been able to do all that I have done or yet hope to do.
I LEAVE YOU A DESIRE TO LIVE HARMONIOUSLY WITH YOUR FELLOW MEN. The problem of color is worldwide. It is found in Africa and Asia, Europe and South America. I appeal to American Negroes — North, South, East and West — to recognize their common problems and unite to solve them.
I pray that we will learn to live harmoniously with the white race. So often, our difficulties have made us hypersensitive and truculent. I want to see my people conduct themselves naturally in all relationships — fully conscious of their manly responsibilities and deeply aware of their heritage. I want them to learn to understand whites and influence them for good, for it is advisable and sensible for us to do so. We are a minority of 15 million living side by side with a white majority. We must learn to deal with these people positively and on an individual basis.
I LEAVE YOU FINALLY A RESPONSIBILITY TO OUR YOUNG PEOPLE. The world around us really belongs to youth for youth will take over its future management. Our children must never lose their zeal for building a better world. They must not be discouraged from aspiring toward greatness, for they are to be the leaders of tomorrow. Nor must they forget that the masses of our people are still underprivileged, ill-housed, impoverished and victimized by discrimination. We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
Faith, courage, brotherhood, dignity, ambition, responsibility — these are needed today as never before. We must cultivate them and use them as tools for our task of completing the establishment of equality for the Negro. We must sharpen these tools in the struggle that faces us and find new ways of using them. The Freedom Gates are half-ajar. We must pry them fully open.
If I have a legacy to leave my people, it is my philosophy of living and serving. As I face tomorrow, I am content, for I think I have spent my life well. I pray now that my philosophy may be helpful to those who share my vision of a world of Peace, Progress, Brotherhood, and Love.
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 (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
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
“Consequently you will see the enemy’s children, the enemy’s personality being held up as normal, as representing the norm. Our behavior, to the degree that it differs from that of our enemy, is seen as deviant and thus abnormal. To that degree we confuse equality with sameness, where we think that in order to be equal or greater than our enemy we have to be the same as our enemy; to the degree we think differentness automatically represents inferiority and therefore we become alarmed at anything that says we are somehow different from our enemy.” Dr. Amos Wilson
This has never been about Respectability Politics but WHO WE ARE AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN!!!!
“BLACK UNITY IS KEY: Get organized and you will compel the world to respect you.” Dr. Marcus Garvey
“If Black people don’t unite and begin to support themselves, their communities and their families, they might as well begin to go out of business as a people.” Dr. John Henrik Clarke
“When I is replaced with WE even Illness becomes WEllness.”Malcolm X
Is it Respectability Politics or Black Dignity?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black ethics?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black morality?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black superiority?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black dominance?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black excellence?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black exceptionalism?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black self discipline?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black compassion?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black self respect?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black code of honor?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black strength?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black articulation?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black participation?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black competitiveness?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black pride?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black identity?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black culture?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black heritage?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black resilience?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black love?
Is it Respectability Politics or Blacks embracing each other, rejecting societal biases?
Is it Respectability Politics or Blacks focusing on unity?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black melabrations?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black community?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black ancestral honor?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black roots?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black reliance?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black empowerment?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black achievements?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black advancements?
Is it Respectability Politics or Black knowledge of self?
My students tell me that we are not in the slave day so they don’t have to be intellectual, speak articulately because that is outdated.
The white teachers encourage that foolish mindset. I demand headings, they are allowed to put “nicknames” and different colors on their papers and it drives me crazy.
THIS IS NOT US! PROgress is ANTI BLACK values, morals, ethics, and ways.
DR. AMOS WILSON SAID IT BEST……..
“Without critical thinking, there is no ‘self respect’. Without self-respect there is no courage. Without ‘self respect’ there is no self-defense. Without ‘self respect’ there is no justice. Without ‘self respect’ there is no peace. Without self-respect there is no progress.”
“Oppressive violence is both pro-active and re-active, directed and mis-directed. Black men kill each other because they have not yet chosen to challenge and neutralize on every front the widespread power of the white men to rule over their lives”
“The most insane people on the earth today are used as models for sanity. The sanity of the racists European itself is not questioned. The insanity of European normality is not questioned. The possibility that what we call normal is itself insane is not questioned; that organization of this society, the nature of its human relations, the structure of its economic systems, the values that motivated it, are the results of the madness of a people.”
“Education, oppression creating an immature mind, social institutions and their relationship to Black people, how education can make you dumb, the education necessary for Black students, the role of the Black teacher, the reason for the high dropout rate, how the ultimate consumer is created, the necessity of thinking skills and listen skills in the curriculum.”
The Black person is essentially taught what to think in this system because it is the mentality of the servant. The servant is told what to do. The master is taught how to think. Much of your education will be learning and memorizing what other people have developed, and regurgitating it on exams. Learning enough just to carry out the orders of others but not to challenge the power of others. We see this in almost any textbook you can open in this system of education.
“Are these freedoms? When one researches our story they will find the FBI and the United States government destroying black organizations that wanted better housing, education, jobs, better streets, no police brutality, government representation, to do for self, or any other empowering act. But somehow they ( whites) can promote our destruction, encourage our lower self to dominate, and make billions off of our demise without being infiltrated or even called out by the government.”
The major functions of EDUCATION IS TO SECURE THE SURVIVAL OF A PEOPLE, to maintain their very biological existence and enhance their quality of life—NOT A MERE PREPARATION FOR JOBS! African people MUST take responsibility for our education and MUST define education in terms of our interest or be trapped in PERPETUAL SERVITUDE!”
” …the freedom is given after the brainwashing has occured, so that you will choose the wrong thing of your own free will.”
“We talk about the white man as having power.
I want you to recognize that power
ultimately has to do with the relationship
between people. And that the white man’s so-
called power is to a great extent based upon
the nature of the relationship he has with the
black man. We empower him by the nature of
our own behavior and attitudes as a people. He
cannot be what he is unless we are what we
are. To a good extent, the European is our
creation. If we look at our behavior, we will see
that to a good extent it is that behavior; our
values, our consciousness, the kinds of
personalities we’ve established in ourselves,
our tastes, our desires and needs that
maintains the European in this position.
We talk about the civil rights movement. And
the apartheid system of the South.
When blacks decided just to get out of the
buses and walk, the system changed. When
they just stopped sitting in the back. Just
changing that relationship changed the nature
of power in that system.
When they kept their monies in their pockets,
when they sat on those stools and blocked the
other people from them, and changed the
nature of the interaction between themselves
and Europeans, the nature of the system
changed. So, therefore, we have tremendous
power; it depends upon how we align ourselves
as a people and how we decide to relate to
other people in the world, because they cannot
have what they have unless we are who we are. That is why we don’t have to spend a great
deal of time always appealing to them, and
analyzing them, because we can better appeal
to our own sense of self and our own
consciousness.
We waste a lot of time trying to transform
them, when by transforming ourselves, they
will be transformed automatically. The power is
in our hands. We are not destined to be the
servants of white folks. That is not the destiny
of black folk.”
We’re unconscious of the power that’s in our hands. We’re like the Israelites who, threw their gold rings and gold of various types into the melting vat to make a golden God and kneel down to worship it and perceived it as having power over them. African people, with the natural resources of the world at their feet, with minds and bodies second-to-none, have given their power and wealth over to another people. And, have made that people powerful and now are on their knees in front of those people: begging for salvation, begging for jobs, begging for food and begging for their very lives. THE WEALTH & POWER OF A PEOPLE IS NOT IN THEIR LAND BUT, IN THEIR MIND! Japan, which has no natural resources to speak of, is one of the most economically powerful nations, and Europe is in a similar position. If you have an appropriate consciousness, you can con another. You can use words to rob people of their mind, land and wealth and say, “this is a holy book,” and have them give up their land. You can manipulate people and have them spend billions of dollars, the way African Americans [& Africans] do–who would rob, sell drugs, kill and destroy communities & nations, to give their wealth to white folks. THE WHITE MAN IS A GOD THAT WE HAVE MADE – THE WHITE MAN IS A GOD THAT WE MUST DESTROY!
“The Black community has run the longest, most successful boycott in history—the boycott against their own Black businesses.”
“Why does the Black man say “Freedom is doing what I want to do.” Why is it that everything “he wants to do” enriches the European?”
“If our study of Black history is merely an exercise in feeling good about ourselves, then we will die feeling good. We must look at the lessons that history teaches us. We must understand the tremendous value of the study of history for the re-gaining of power. If our education is not about gaining real power, we are being miseducated and mislead and we will die “miseducated and mislead.”
“To manipulate history is to manipulate consciousness; to manipulate consciousness is to manipulate possibilities; and to manipulate possibilities is to manipulate power.”
“When you are filled with self-hate your mind is reversed. Meaning you will love the things that destroy you, and you will hate the things that advance your growth.”
“The more we share our stories, the more connected we become as a community.”
”We could not be Africans and slaves at the same time; we could not hold on to our African identity, our African selves, knowledge of our African culture, and be enslaved…the subordinates of another people. It is only when that knowledge is removed, erased, degraded, stolen, taken and distorted that we lose our identity. It is then that our identity is placed upon us by another people and by external forces. Therefore a lack of self-knowledge is a lack of self-awareness is also an insensitivity to the self. But an insensitivity in the self is also an insensitivity to reality and to the outside. Without the sensitivity of the outside world and the self, we are left to blindly stumble from one point to another.”
“If you want to understand any problem in America, you need to focus on who profits from that problem, not who suffers from that problem.”
Only when you look at yourself as a NATION…can you change things…”
“The love we have for each other is the greatest threat to those who rule over us. If those who rule over us want to stay in power, then they must destroy our ability to love each other in a healthy sort of way.”
“We’re Taught That LOVE Is Something That Occurs Spontaneously: THIS IS NOT TRUE! The Ability To Love And How To Love Is Taught. We Must Come To Understand What Is Real Love And What Is Use And Abuse. African People, We Have To REDEFINE What Is LOVE.”
“We have been duped into self-hatred by the European. He made us hate our heritage, hate our skin, hate our hair, hate our noses and our lips. He’s made us hate Afrika itself and the whole heritage. He’s made us hate being black as individuals. So consequently we’re going to love somebody who doesn’t remind us of who we are and what we are.”
“A love that flows out of hatred is a love that is ultimately selfish and self-centered. It’s a love that ultimately does not give another person humanity and does not recognize them as an individual. This kind of love is a love where you love yourself but you can only love yourself at the expense of destroying the ones you love, only in reducing them in some form or another. Love that comes out of hate is a love where you’re gonna love somebody who maintains you in your self-destructiveness…Now the people you fall in love with will often be the people that help you maintain your self-destructive nature. You love them because why? They help you destroy yourself.”
“WHILE YOU DEAL WITH YOUR SENSE OF UGLINESS, INADEQUACY & INFERIORITY, YOU ENRICH EUROPEANS & OTHERS! You think that a people whose very lives depends upon a sense of ugliness, inadequacy and inferiority that many of us try to compensate for by consuming clothes, jewelry, cosmetics and a lot of junk, would ever rescue you from that state of mind when their very economies depends on it? You must recognize the functionality of African maladjustments and whether you’re educated or not that maladjustments will stay in there because it serves the interest of Europeans [and others]. Therefore, your study of psychology, sociology and history shouldn’t be a matter of just studying group behavior but a process of UNDERSTANDING YOURSELF! We must look at how the experiences of Africans-BOTH NEGATIVE & POSITIVE-have created the current mentality of Africans and how others [Europeans, Arabs, Asians] try to create our history and experiences as to create our minds for servitude.”
“How did we get this Religion we talked about earlier? I talk about Star Trek, and we talk about what the time warp that Star Trek depicts quite frequently, of how people move from one state of consciousness and one world and are suddenly flipped into a new world. They go through a warp and all of a sudden, everything that they use to use to guide themselves, no longer counts, the language that they use to speak can no longer be
understood in the new world. The values that use to guide their behavior are no longer workable, in fact it gets them into trouble. The gods, the culture, the nature of the social relations, and all of the things they used prior to meeting the warp, no longer suffice. Now they must learn new values and new behaviors, and new orientations in order to adapt themselves to the new universe they live in. We’re in that kind of position today. think about the African world, the African lived in prior to being broth across the oceans (and those captive already in the Americas), think about the gods we praised, think about the organization of our society, think about the languages that we spoke, the food that weate, the dress that we wore, the music, the song, the dance, and all of those things that defined us as African people, and think how horrendous it must’ve been for us to be thrown into this world (within a snap), where there’s a whole new language, a whole new social hierarchy, a whole new set of authorities, people pushing you around who you don’t understand, people who are putting strange tools in your hand, people who are trying to get you to relate to them, and to relate to each other and in a very different kind of way from what you’re use to relating to.
Think about the stress and the confusion, and
think about the abuse, think about the horror of that situation our parents and great grandparents were put in. And there was somebody that said then, “if you pray to this god, if you talk this way, if you dress this way, if you relate this way, you’ll get a greater sense of security, your anxiety will be reduced, you will feel good, and you will be able to withstand, the pain of your existence, and the god then that I am going to hand you, is one that I have created for you, and a theology that comes with it, is one that I have created so that you will continue to serve me, as you continue to serve it.”
“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
Whites don’t join black organizations just to become a part of it, they join black organizations to take control of of it.” Anonymous
Discuss how these WHITE people created HONORARY degrees, licenses, diplomas, certifications, permits, that gave them UNearned access, platforms, titles, careers, opportunities, exposure and roles they PURCHASED and legislation plant them in our BLACK places, spaces and schools.
I am a firm believer this is EXACTLY why our Black schools districts won’t fire these incompetent, failed, racist KARENS AND KENS killing our BLACK BRILLIANT future.
Listening to this remind me of those ILLITERATE GRANNY MIDWIVES who were the original surgeons, healers and standard setters for the medical professionals In America.
They were:
HANDS THAT HEALED
HIGHLY SKILLED OBGYN’s
THEY PRACTICED HOLISTIC OR NATURAL MEDICINAL HEALING
THEY WERE HIGHLY RESPECTED, PROTECTED AND HONORED WITHIN THE COMMUNITY
THEY WERE PHYSICIANS
“Black autonomy is ancestral.” Anonymous
LEAN IN DO NO HARM
They got rid of DEI
They said DEI was for the unqualified
They said DEI was about color
They said DEI was not about merit
They said DEI took jobs from whites
They said DEI is unfair
They said DEI, DEI, DEI, DEI and now they are suing because BLACK PEOPLE are turning the tables the built, created, started, own, dominate and understand the ancestral unity of themselves?
“One God. One Aim. One Destiny.” Dr. Marcus Garvey
“Divided we are weak. United Africa could become one of the world’s greatest forces for good of the world.” Dr. Kwame Nkrumah
“The day will come when history will speak. But it will not be the history which will be taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations…Africa will write its own history and in both north and south it will be a history of glory and dignity.” Patrice Lumumba
“We cannot assume that people by virtue of the fact that they are black are going to associate themselves with progressive political struggles. We need to divest ourselves the kinds of strategies that assume that black unity black political unity is possible.” Dr. Angela Davis
“These divisions, which the colonial powers have always exploited the better to dominate us, have played an important role — and are still playing that role — in the suicide of Africa.” Patrice Lumumba
“The ultimate wealth of man, is not in his land, but in his mind and his consciousness.” Dr. Amos Wilson
“African unity and solidarity are no longer dreams. They must be expressed in decisions.” Patrice Lumumba
“The Black Panther Party was the greatest threat to the internal security of the country, I sat with that and began to understand BLACK PEOPLE SINGLE HANDEDLY SECURE THE COMFORT AND WEALTH OF EVERYONE BUT US.” Marshata Caradine
“No organization that is financed by white support can ever be independent enough to fight the power structure… The only way we can be independent of it is to be independent of all support from the white community.” Malcolm X
“Nothing that ever came out of the European mind was ever meant to do anything but facilitate European domination of the world.” Dr John Henrik Clarke
“You cannot survive giving your money to another group of people.” Dr. Amos Wilson
“How dare anyone tell us that Africa cannot be redeemed when we have 400,000,000 men and women with warm blood coursing through their veins.” Dr. Marcus Garvey
“Black love is Black wealth.” Nikki Giovanni
“There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.” Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois
“Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.” Dr. Marcus Garvey
I know that ALL LIVES MATTER, but until BLACK LIVES MATTER, I need to be specific.” Cathy Daniels “Mama Cat”
“Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.” Walter E. Williams
“BLACKS right now hold the greatest academic achievements on the earth. For 360 years it was against the law to teach BLACKS to read or write.” Dr. Claud Anderson
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)
You weren’t acting, you were loving, compassionate, empathetic, genuine, honest and forthcoming.
They didn’t care about background check, or you “violating” stupid policies or laws on spending YOUR personal money on athletes.
THEY WERE BIG PISSED YOU DISPELLED THE MYTH OF TOP ATHLETES FROM THE HOOD!
These people make all of this money off of POOR BLACK ATHLETES and just like the NCAA, STATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATIONS, AAU and CLUBS all benefit, profit and gain wealth off of BLACK ATHLETES.
THEY WENT TO STATE!
“Whites, furious over this revocation of their supremacy, began searching for a “Great White Hope” to put Johnson “back in his place.”
“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.”
“At that time, it was never acceptable that a Black player was the best.” Bill Russell
“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
BLACK COACHES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ELITE, DOMINANT, EXCEPTIONAL, SUPERIOR, MOTIVATING, INSPIRATIONAL, SUPPORTIVE, SELFLESS, CARING, MASTERS OF THEIR CRAFT, HIGHLY SKILLED, GIFTED, TALENTED, DRIVEN, DISCIPLINED, MORAL, RESPECTFUL, INCLUSIVE AND KEPT THEIR STANDARDS AND EXPECTATIONS HIGH AND STRESSED A ACADEMICS OVER ATHLETICS.
DR. BRIDGEWATER IS NO DIFFERENT!
FROM GOOGLE SEARCH:
2024: Class 3A State Title (defeated Raines 41-0)
Former NFL quarterback and Miami Northwestern alumnus Teddy Bridgewater was the head coach of the Miami Northwestern High School football team for the 2024 season.Bridgewater took over his alma mater in February 2024 and led the Bulls to a spectacular 12-2 overall record and the FHSAA Class 3A State Championship.
The 2024 Season: Bridgewater turned the program around, culminating in a dominant 41-0 victory over Raines in the state title game.Legacy & Impact: His coaching tenure made national headlines when he used his own personal funds to cover team meals, Uber rides, and recovery services. This situation directly led to the passing of the “Teddy Bridgewater Act” in Florida, which legally allows high school coaches to spend up to \(\$15,000\) of their personal funds to support their student-athletes’ welfare.
Do add the 9 areas of human activity (Economics, Education, Entertainment, Health, Labor, Law, Politics, Religion, Sex, War). Each is needed for BLACK ignorance, illiteracy, poverty, hardship, division, discrimination to thrive for white inferiority.
Do add education malpractice, education theft, curriculum discrimination and the school to prison pipeline
Do add MANdated REporting, you are expected to REport the very hardships, lack, not enough, poverty and oppression that America intentionally, willfully, knowingly and purposefully weld.
Do add the preexisting conditions calculable wealth of big pharma
Do add the defunding and dismantling of our resources, clubs, activities, access and opportunities within our communities
Do add the underfunding of Black business
Do add homes with toxicity within them and slumlords allowed to deny, dismiss, devalued and disrespect their tenants
Do add the prison industry built to prey upon and falsely imprison our Black people.
Do add the money system to keep us and our children in perpetual debt.
Do add the fake credit system as we are the lowest paid earners
Do add the student loan debt to lock us into the underclass
Do add every career or job where Black people are centered, we must participate in our own demise. We must assist in our hurt, harm, destruction, cause our premature demise or greatly exploit us in order for us to progress, elevate, advance, be successful or live the America nightmare.
Do add payday loans to assure us of our inability to save money
Do add financial literacy that’s denied us throughout our education journey
Do add the generational legislation of exclusion, denial, rejection, forbidden, and lock out, down and up
Do add America the crime scene where Black people are concerned
