Oprah is a Goddess

As I watch Oprah Winfrey give away some of her favorite things
to a special group of people, I though to myself-she is a goddess. Oprah has
millions of followers that she instructs how to behave, and they actually listen to her. I would dare to say that more people worship her than any other God these days. People pay lip service to other Gods, but Oprah’s flock hang on her every word. Oprah is recognized around the world by name. She tells her disciples how to dress, organize their homes, what texts to study, and what sacrifices to make. Oprah then does something that other Gods have a hard time
doing. She rewards her followers directly and clearly in timely manner. It sure sounds like Godly qualities to me.

Tribute to YHWH

Some of the metaphysicians belittle the God YHWH. They call him
a demiurge in an insulting tone. The meta’s blame YHWH for creating this earth and the misery that we suffer on it. I love the conscious community, especially our code breaking meta’s, but I have to push back on this point. YHWH has carried me far in life. He kept my mother from aborting me. He made me focus in school when my belly was empty, He brought me safely through the violent crack
era in Brooklyn New York. YHWH filled me with many ideas and methods of consciousness, even as I struggle to understand why people were tortured in their lives. Now as I go on to create my own paradigms and attempt to ascend to pure consciousness, I have to say that I am eternally grateful to YHWH for the help that He gave me over the years.

William Faulkner's Barn Burning

If you want to know who these white working class citizens against President Obama are, you should read William Faulkner’s Barn Burning. Faulkner takes the reader into a community that is often ignored with great literary skill. The white working class is a group that live a life that is as unstable as an urban black community. Barn Burning is a story about the desperation, bitterness, and destruction of the working poor. Of course the concept of working poor is oxymoronic. If a person works, they should not be poor. Faulkner does not leave the reader in a negative emotional state, Barn Burning has an endearing hero. What Tupac would call a rose sprouting up from the concrete. The best part about Barn Burning is that it is a short story, for those lazy readers. After watching Obama’s response to the mid-term elections, I would suggest that he read William Faulkner’s Barn Burning.

Where The Jobs Are

Almost every pundit or social critic says that the United States does not make anything anymore. Most of the factories in the U. S. are closed, with the few remaining ones on the verge of closing. Economist say that U. S. production needs to be exposed into more international markets. Are we still producing things or not? Yes we are. The problem with U. S. 21 century manufacturing is that it is being done in prisons.


Prisoners are building furniture, much of it ending up in our public schools. I guess students should sit up straight in their chairs to show appreciation the prisoner’s hard work. Prisoners also attach parts to other products such as clamps for bras. Prisoners are not only building and assembling, they are also clearing trees and brush. In New York, prison labor is stretching out into other aspects of the economy. Prisoners will soon clean up after storms. Why should public officials stop there? Soon prisoners can deliver mail, collect trash, and any number of public works that are now being done by working class citizens for pay. If you are looking for where the jobs are, just visit the jails and prisons.

End of Empire

The Empire of Egypt (Kemet) ran from Egypt down to Sudan. Now Egypt is broken and occupied by strangers. The Greek Empire was large and powerful. Now Greece is a small nation state that is bankrupt. The Roman Empire ruled multiple continents. Now Rome is a city in Italy. The sun never set on the British Empire. Now Britain has withdrawn from its colonies all around the world. The Empire of the United States is now at the end of its reign. The plantation plutocracy is barren.


We have to begin to think about what the United States will become. Will it break up into regional nations? Will each state become independent nations? Will the large ethnic groups get their own nations? It is important to know that these questions will be answered in the next 5 years. If we do not open up our minds and hearts to the reality of our new paradigm we could find ourselves lost and set adrift when the new geographical constructs come into being. Whether becoming a wanderer will benefit you is for you to decide. It is my job to warn you of what is coming.

The Matrix Trilogy

The Matrix Trilogy is a great cinematic series. It is the movie for our time. Neo (the hero) starts out the first movie trapped in an illusion of a society. He knows that something is wrong about this world and searches for answers via technology. Neo is finally awakened into the real world to find out that he was in an induced coma.


We are living in a society that is in a state of delusion. So many of us believes that our schools teach our children how to think, our elected official are running the country, our hospitals make us healthier, etc. None of those things are true. As a matter of fact I cannot think of one institution that does what it claims to do. Most of them are in opposition to their mission statements.

Don’t worry! The Matrix Trilogy is not a message movie that will bore you. There are plenty of action scenes. You will get explosions, martial arts fights, and Neo even learns to fly. All you have to do is watch the first Matrix, you’ll go back for more.

Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn

Whenever discussing Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, we have to deal with the issue of racism. Mark Twain was not a racist. He used the word nigger so much in order to put a mirror up to the white people of America at the time. Twain used Jim to show that only embracing the slave as a full human being can humanize the slave master.

Real Wealth

     We often hear of the amount of money that some in our society make and think about how great it must be to have that wealth. We have been taught that money equals wealth. This, like most things that this system teaches, is not true. It is control of resources and labor that equals wealth. If you are a millionaire you can buy diamonds or gold. If you control the diamond and gold mines along with refineries, then people have to buy gems from you, and that is real wealth. So many people complain about the elite gathering so much of the wealth. How can they be blamed for gaining control of land , water, and air when all we do is chase dollars and cents so that we can buy finished products.


     I know what you are thinking, if everything that I am saying is true, what can you do now? First you must realize that even if you are poor you have control of a resource, yourself. As human beings we all have abilities and talents. All we have to do is begin to use these talents to benefit us and our communities instead of selling it all to people that do not care whether we live or die.

The Power of the West

The question often arises. How does the western world dominate so much with so few people and resources? Many scholars get tied up in outlining factors like the Europeans advancing because of their ability to fight well and conquer everyone from their neighbors to the furthest strangers. I once heard a news story that revealed the power behind Europe and the U. S. The story was about countries in the East starting a movement to get all original artifacts back from western museums. The West sits atop the East because all of the wisdom of East is locked up in the West. All of the scrolls, writings, paintings, and philosophies are all locked up. This is why places like Africa and parts of Asia cannot unite in ways that are beneficial to them. Everyone needs instructions or codes of conduct to develop higher human understandings. If those instructions are hidden away, we are left with base instincts without progress. This is why people who were parts of great and productive dynasties are now struggling to get a bowl of rice and a clean glass of water.

African Centered Learning

When Afrocentric people complain about the education system in the western world, they will often say that it is not African centered. Outsiders have no idea what this means. What does African centered learning look like in real time and space? Beyond the obvious fact that African people should learn more about Africa, the current presentation is flawed. We now learn in fragments, but African people are wholistic by nature, so we absorb information in the whole more easily than we do in part.


Let us use wholism on the current economic depression. If we were learning in an African way we would study it in all of our classes. In English class we would study literature about the economically deprived. In Math class we would study economics and private vs. public industries. In Government class we would study the difference between plutocracy and democracy. In History class we would study what happened during the last depression. In Art class we would create work that reflects how we see our society in the midst of this depression. In Music class we would create music that reflects and sustains us during this depression. We would learn these things together until our understanding was complete.

Jack Kerouac's On the Road

Each generation has habits that annoy the generation that came before it. When I witness the attacks on young men wearing their pants low, I have to remind my peers about how our generation wore pants backward along with fat untied shoe laces. On the Road is a novel about a group of people in an ealier generation. Jack Kerouac takes us along on a journey with a bunch of slackers as they move from state to state, job to job, and partner to partner, leaving behind bastard children. If someone tries to make you feel guilty about your generation's ills by saying how it was in their day, tell them to read Kerouac's On the Road.

Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage

Stephen Crane wrote a book depicting war that still holds up, even though it was written over one hundred years ago. Crane shows how young boys can look at the soldier from home and see a hero to be imitated. He then puts his main character, a boy, in the center of the war by making him enlist. Crane's description of war is so clear and accurate. First of all, war kills people in groups. War leaves many more soldiers with loses. Loses of limbs, organs, and mental health. Everytime I hear a young person in the subway discuss enlisting into the military, I wonder if he has read Red Badge of Courage. 

Back To School

Children are returning to school in New York City. Parents are buying all kinds of equipment for their children. Teachers are buying for the student's whose parent do not care. Everyone is busy and billions of dollars are being spent. The question is, what is the pay off for all of the money and energy that is being spent? Public Schools in New York City are good at a few things. They keep young people relatively safe during the day. Schools keep teenagers relatively safe from each other by keeping them in a controlled environment during the day. Schools also feed children that are impoverished with free breakfast as well as lunch. Schools offer the basic language  skills to children between the ages of 6 and 8 years old. That is about all New York City public schools have to offer. If your child needs more than that, you will have to provide it yourself or find it elsewhere. This is one reason why we created the Mighty Pen Center. as far as the 2010 - 2011 school year is concerned, good luck, you will need it.

Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon is a great novel for 2010. Toni Morrison uses her novel to connect the past, present, and future with the flow of a large stream. in a time when people treat life like it just appears out of thin air, Song of Solomon reminds us that we all have ancestors as well as traditions that affect who and how we are. Morrison's Song of Solomon gives us clues to the solutions of our current problems like why some communities are so violent. For the answers, which seem to escape our leaders, look at the decades or centuries that precede us in the here and now. Morrison also shows us that we cannot escape our past, no matter how hard we try.

New World Order

Most people think that a new world order run by secret societies is ominous. I do not belong to any of these societies, I like to share, but I do not see anything wrong with our best and brightest controlling society outside of the reach of the silly opinions of the masses. It is obvious that the old world order is dead. The pain that most of us are suffering comes from the fact that we are trying to live our lives in psycho-social vacuums. If our most illuminated people are not going to lay down different foundations, then who? Do you really want the leading politicians to guide us? Or perhaps you would be comfortable with our leading clergy. These people would not know scholarship if it bit them on their buttocks. Of course we could all decide for ourselves how we are going to live. But the average person is only capable of doing what they are told at this point in our empire's history. I love enlightenment, so I want the brightest of each community leading us into the new world order of the 21st century.

Why Black People Suffer

African people in America suffer almost every social ill there is to suffer. Most of the analysis on our suffering deals with the consequences of our sickness, but never gets to the reasons why we suffer. I will give a few reasons why African-American people suffer. The first problem that we have is that as a group we have embraced a hatred for intellectualism. Most African-American people frown on thinking as an exercise for personal improvement. We have become the only ethnic group that does not support its intellectuals. If you ask the average African-American to name 5 intellectuals, they will struggle, or name some popular people that are smart. Every smart person is not an intellectual. Intellectuals think about situations as well as concepts completely in order to provide understandings of these things to their group. This brings me to the second reason why African-American people suffer. We do not measure each other on a proper scale. We asses each other’s value based on the amount of physical things that we amass. We do not factor in any intangible characteristics of a person. We do not even factor in the quality of what a person produces. The third problem of the African-American is that we do not view time properly. We reject any proposition that does not provide instant gratification. African people have been on earth for millenniums. African people have been traveling to this territory now called the United States for centuries. Yet the modern African-American cannot seem to think beyond the date of the next pay check.

50 States or 1 Country

From the very beginning of the formation of the United States the ruling class has fought over whether it would be a system with a strong federal government or a group of strong states. The U. S. has gone back and forth in its life time. The U. S. is now in a cycle of strong states. New York has reinstituted slavery through its prison industry. Texas has created its own version of history in its school system. Arizona has created its own policy to deal with immigration. Washington DC is too impotent to react. The leadership of the nation’s capital all talk tough, but they refuse to pass any legislation that benefits the masses of the citizens. We have to shift our thinking. The governors, mayors, and city councils are all more important than the president of the United States. For the foreseeable future our lives literally depend on our local officials and leaders.

Faith Can Wear Thin

We are living in some of the hardest times since chattel slavery. If you are a believer in the God Force, your faith may be wearing thin. I personally have wondered if God had turned away from me altogether. In the past that thought would be followed up by guilt. How could I be so short sighted and forgetful? The God Force keeps everything maintained despite human kinds destructive attitudes. But we really should not feel guilty for thin faith, especially since Abraham’s faith was paper thin several times. Abraham had enough faith to leave his family or clan to seek a place of greater spirituality. Abraham, bursting with faith in the beginning, sent his wife to strange men’s beds because he feared for his life and did not trust God to keep him safe. Abraham also abandoned his first born, which he loved, because his wife told him so. If Abraham’s faith can wear thin, why can’t ours?

Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is one of the most amazing pieces of cinema ever made. Each part of the trilogy takes time to watch, but they are not drawn out. These films will stretch your mind and plunge into the depth consciousness all while entertaining you completely. The fight scenes, mystical creatures, and the ever watching evil eye will allow you to escape into a world of fantasy. This world is called Middle Earth. Though Middle Earth sits outside of our reality, the residents of Middle Earth are struggling with the same issues that we are battling here in the real world. The issues are basic: How much industrialization is too much? Can the uncorrupted beings work together in order to defeat the corrupted beings? Can we overtake our inner evil enough to accomplish positive goals? The Lord of the Rings trilogies are perfect films because every type of person can enjoy them for many reasons.

It Is Time To Grow Up

The overwhelming majority of the citizens in the United States are suffering. We all know about the economy and the poor state of our institutions, but these are consequences of the problem, not the cause. The reason that we suffer so much in this country is because we are trapped in a state of childhood. We live too much of our lives based on concepts and ideas that the average six year old knows is not true. We still assess people based on physical characteristics and style of dress and wonder why so many incompetent people are working while brilliant people are unemployed. We follow what reports say and ignore what actual happens in our communities and wonder why our neighborhoods are falling apart. We still believe in our elected officials, most of which do not have a thoughtful bone in their bodies, and we wonder why our government has become harmful. It is time for the majority of us to face reality in its entirety. It is time for us to grow up.

Cain’s 2nd Act

In the first part of Cain’s life I relate more with Abel. Abel is the good one who does everything right and his life is cut short because of it. I have been that person at times in my life. Cain’s reason for killing his brother is that he is not adored the most, how childish. Then Cain does a couple of things that makes me admire him. First he begs to stay alive with all of the guilt and shame. So many people would kill themselves or give up and die inside. It takes courage to live after our critical mistakes. The second redeeming act of Cain is to build a city, a place where wanderers can find rest. Cities at their best are places where people with stained lives can create cleaner second acts. When I was away from New York City I was sick. I missed the street vendor trying to make an alternate legitimate living. Not having the Sikh, Muslim, and Jew on the same subway car with me left me feeling an emptiness that cannot be filled with any amount of silly frills. Thank God for Cain, Thank God for the city.

Plantation America

The United States is the only country that gives its citizens health care through employers. This fact is mentioned on political talk shows from time to time, but no one explains why this is the case. The U. S. was founded by owners for owners. These owners ran the U. S. then as a plantation, their descendants are running it as a plantation now.


The plantation consisted of two main actors. One was the master (boss) who owned everything on the plantation including other human beings called slaves. The slaves (workers) spent most of their time producing wealth for the bosses. The workers received as many amenities as was necessary to keep them healthy enough to work. When a boss thought that a worker might need more than the boss was willing to spend on them, that worker was sold to another boss. Everyone else other than the boss and worker revolve around the plantation, primarily the worker. There were overseers, clerks, doctors, lawyers, insurers, sailors, auctioneers, etc. All were invested in keeping the workers and bosses in their places.

In 2010 an overwhelming majority of the workers in U. S. are descendants of plantation workers. They labor long hours for the descendants of plantation bosses. Today’s worker earns just enough money to allow them to return to work. If a worker begins to accomplish what resembles upward mobility or a boss thinks that a worker may want a raise in pay, that worker is laid off or forced out of their position. An unemployed laborer has to travel begging other bosses to take them into their companies. In 2010 we have: police officers, clerks, lawyers, doctors, insurers, non-governmental agents, etc. All invested in keeping the workers and bosses in their places.

The United States was then, is now, the largest plantation on earth. Here we are all involved in the lottery of birth. If your immediate ancestors had, you have. If your immediate ancestors did not have, neither do you.



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Becoming Wise

It is easy to become wise. All we have to do is ask questions. The question will bring about answers. Answers are knowledge. Once we embrace, then use knowledge properly, we will become wise. There are many kinds of questions. One type of question is one that warns a person not to take a certain course of action. God does this to Cain at the beginning. “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? Another type of question is one that tests a person’s character. “Where is your brother Abel?” Another type of question is one that exposes a person’s struggle with their own conscious. These questions answer themselves. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” I hope that all who want to become wise will understand that it is the easiest task on earth and cost nothing. Just ask the questions, they will lead the way.

Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now is not a film to be taken lightly. It is not to be watched if you are looking for a vehicle to escape reality. Apocalypse Now will take you on a long journey through the last war that the people of the United States did not want against a people that wanted sovereignty. The film will also take you to the root of our humanity where we are always left with two fundamental choices, do good or do evil. If you have the courage, you will see one of the finest films ever made. You will see great acting by Martin Sheen, a teenage Laurence Fishburn, and an ensemble cast. By the end of Apocalypse Now you will understand why the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are a mess. You will understand why the poppy growers are flourishing. You will understand why our veterans are the way that they are. Invest the time to experience Apocalypse Now, if you dare!

Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka is known as one of the darker authors as far as material is concerned. However, the fact of the matter is that he is a brilliant portrayer of reality. The Metamorphosis is Kafka’s most well known work in the United States. This may be because the overwhelming majority of the citizens in the U. S. are middle class citizens that labor simply to sustain themselves or maintain their life styles. At least we are still middle classed on paper. Kafka uses Gregor Samsa to portray the life of a western style worker that is disintegrating. Kafka was trying to warn us all to be aware of what we work toward, less we become worse than the vermin of the earth. For even vermin have natural routines. As we spiral away from humanity we are not even recognizable to each other.

Italo Calvino’s Invisible City

We are living in a time of crisis. It is during these times that transformation can take place. American cities have been in need of a makeover for decades. Some political interest always gets in the way during normal times, but now when everyone is suffering, we can make our cities great again. Only one small thing gets in the way, those in power have no imagination. However we the people can easily fix that by reading Italo Calvino’s Invisible City and sparking our creative visions. Invisible City portrays all kinds of cities. Some of them are wildly fantastic, but others are well within our reach. We can have cities that are completely underground. We in New York City already know that the subway system is such a city. The only thing missing down there are residential units. How about cities in the sky? Alright maybe I am going too far. When I first read Invisible City I thought, why can’t we have large buildings five blocks long and five blocks wide including medical centers, retail establishments and an airport on the roof. Read Invisible City and stretch you urban self.

Economy and Education

Let us bring to light some solutions! We often complain about, well, everything. No one may complain more than New Yorkers. Here is one New Yorker that does love to point out the wrongs, but also loves to offer solutions to problems. The economy is rubble on the ground and needs to be picked up and rebuilt. One thing that the federal government should do is make food assistance available to all citizens no matter what their income. Food is a major bill in all households, taking it off of our hands would keep more cash in our pockets. The retailers that accept food assistant credits should receive tax credits per the units they accept. I hear that China is building a high speed rail system from every place in China to every place else in China. It sounds good to me. We need high speed rail as an alternative to the ridiculous airline industry. The United States needs a public works project that links us together at this point in our history when the empire is coming apart. Education is a problem that is so simple to solve. The federal government should create schools that are run and funded by them. The federal schools can compete with local public schools as well as private schools.

Yeshua on Growth

The story is that Yeshua went into the desert in order to move into the next stage of development (Matthew 4: 1-11). Growth comes with struggle, especially a growth toward enlightenment. Yeshua says that we should value the intangible over the tangible. What we perform with the energy that we get from the food we eat is more important than the food itself. The energy of the God Force is the best food. Yeshua says that as we grow we do not have to test the power of the God Force because enlightened people know God’s power so we flow with God and not against it. Finally Yeshua tells us to be loyal to the God Force alone because it is the only Force that can sustain an enlightened person. No government or worldly institution can give any value to an enlightened person, but enlightened people can give value to the institutions of a society. However, most worldly institutions almost always reject enlightened messages.

Robert Lindner's The Fifty Minute Hour

If you are afraid of the world of psychology, The Fifty Minute Hour will ease your fears. You will receive a backstage pass to psychoanalysis. The Fifty Minute hour presents real cases of patients that are struggling with major mental illnesses. You will be fascinated . The only treat more interesting than viewing the human brain at work is seeing the human brain that does not work to the benefit of its holder. The Fifty Minute Hour may give you a new respect for psychoanalysis if you do not have it already. Seeing these real cases right in front of you brings to mind a simple but important question. How come we visit doctors for the health of every other muscle in our bodies except for the most crucial one, the brain?

Timothy Conerson's Tales from Tim

“This books is special to me because I actually know the author. The book has 11 short stories of varied interest. In the first story, which can be read for free on amazon.com, called "Our nana" is about a matriarch of a community that draws a young woman into the sisterhood of the community. The book has stories that are as short as one page and as long as eleven pages. The thing that I love is that the stories are simple on the surface, but become richer as you dig deeper. If there is one thing that does tie the stories together it is that they are urban. From "Our Nana" to "The People's Republic" which shows a population creating a nation after America falls to China.”

Tavis Smiley’s The Covenant

We all need to know the statistics for numerous issues. The African-American, the ethnic group with the most negative statistics, needs to know statistics more than most. However, statistical books can be boring labyrinths of charts, graphs, and numbers. Tavis Smiley gives the reader a description of problems, provided by various writers and scholars. You will get to know why the problems in our society are the way that they are and why. The writing is amazingly accessible to the average reader. You need not be a scholar yourself in order to read The Covenant. Smiley does something else that many books of this type do not, he provides solutions. Yes, you get multiple instructions in terms of dealing with our complex issues. The solutions are easy to understand. It is obvious that we are on our own and the cavalry will not come for us in troubled times you must read The Covenant in order to find out what your plan of action should be.

Theodore Isaac Rubin’s The Angry Book

We are all angry about something. Anger can be liberating if we recognize the anger and channel it properly. The Angry Book has all that we will need in order to manage our anger. What type of anger we suffer from is in the book. The roots of our anger are in the book. Most importantly how to dissolve our anger before it cripples or destroys us is in the book. The Angry Book should be on every shelf because unresolved anger has the power to debilitate us. This book may save you a few trips to the doctor’s office, the emergency room, or the penal system. In this society, where almost nothing makes sense, we rarely seek mental health. Well, whether you cannot afford mental health or you are just embarrassed, The Angry Book can benefit you.

The New Great Depression

Let us shine a light on the economy! You will hear politicians say that the workers of the United States are suffering an economic recession. The news media simple mindedly reports what ever the government officials tell them to report. Let us all be clear about this fact, workers are suffering under a depression. This depression is as bad, if not worse, than the last Great Depression. Right now only 50% of the working public is engaged in full time employment. Since part time employment really does not allow one to buy much at all, half of the workers in the U. S. are unemployed. Many thousands of people are living in homes that are worth less than they paid for them. We do not know how many thousands of people are squatting in homes that have leans on them or have been foreclosed upon. We also have not faced the retail real estate market’s crash, coming soon. We have not come to grips with the fact that many of the jobs that have been lost over the last few years are never coming back. We know this because production is up and rehiring has not occurred. Put another way, employers are doing fine with workers that they have. So when you hear the phrase “the worst recession since the depression,” please understand that it means the new Great Depression.

August Wilson’s Fences

Many women showed up at the Cort theatre to see August Wilson’s Fences dressed in the more sensuous outfits from their closets. I suspect that the ladies were encouraged by their admiration for the leading man, Denzel Washington. Yes Denzel did a wonderful job as always but Viola Davis captured the hearts of the neutral observers and stole the hearts of those Washingtonettes. Davis played Rose, the mother, mom, and momma. She was the wife, sister-in-law, etc. Rose fills up the theatre with responsibility. Davis reminded us that the descendents of slaves in the U. S. had obligations for everyone. Viola Davis is an actress of mass artistry. She received the most applause as we stood as well as the loudest cheers – deservedly so. Do not miss this production of Fences.

King Kong

King Kong is a visual metaphor for the perceived rage of African people, which in those days resided in the male. The movie makers were trying to show that the African was as wild as the animals that they live with. King Kong warned the world that if you bring the African to the city, civilization, they will destroy everything violently. Not only that, the African male is obsessed with the white female. The movie explains that the brutal African male will overwhelm the weak white female. The Peter Jackson remake of King Kong added a little to the story. The people of the mysterious island where King Kong lives in Jackson’s version are not as dark and have blue eyes. This says that Europeans have been here. This King Kong is a little colonized and a lot more scarred. Jackson’s King Kong gives the African male a few more feelings, but in the end the African male is just as obsessed with the white female and just as violent as ever. King Kong is one of the greatest metaphors in cinematic history because it is clear and wildly entertaining.

George G. M. James’ Stolen Legacy

Who are you? Where are you from? These are simple questions to answer for most. The African that helped to build the United States often has difficulty answering the two fundamental questions of life. The way we work, worship, relate to each other, and even play began some place. These functions were also influenced and manipulated along the way. The problem is not so much the fact that who we are has changed, but that many of us have no idea of the origins of the behavior that would best suit our natures. This is why the African kidnapped to the United States is so confused. Stolen Legacy can put an end to the confusion. This book tells us how the African peoples of Kemet functioned in terms of education, which is the most important part of anyone’s life. Stolen Legacy should be read by any person interested in the ancient empire that casted its shadow over the most crucial continent of all time. Read Stolen Legacy at least once to clarify some blind spots in your intellectual rear view mirror.

George Orwell’s 1984

George Orwell’s 1984 is a novel set in a dystopian society. That is to say a society ruled by the few for the benefit of only themselves. The overwhelming majority of people in Orwell’s Oceania work for the ruling caste in every sense. The masses of the citizens in this dystopia also live their lives under the control of the rulers. Even the reproduction of human beings is done in a controlled environment in a scientific manner.


Orwell’s Oceania is made up of the inner party (rulers), outer party (workers), and the Prols (isolated poor). Winston, the main character, is a member of the outer party in Orwell’s dystopia. He works to maintain the society in which he lives while he despises it. Winston secretly wages a revolution in his mind until it can no longer be contained there. The problem is that in Oceania there is no place to rebel from or rebel to. Winston ends up falling into the hands of the state which attempts to fix him or cure him. Orwell leaves it up to the reader to decide whether the officials of Oceania have won and Winston has changed.

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart should be studied by everyone who works any place in the world in the 21st century. The novel should definitely be studied by every foreign agency of every established government. The reason why Things Fall Apart is so important today is that we are all competing and united like never before in this world. Almost all corners of the earth are known about and infiltrated. Achebe gives us a great novel that allows us to see the interaction of cultures. Things Fall Apart forces one to think about what should be adopted from another culture. Achebe warms that the all my culture – none of yours approach will destroy us all.”

A Gift for Obama

So far President Obama has not completed any agenda items and is almost half way through his first term. He has not done anything to stimulate the economy. Obama has not given us real health care. He has done nothing to improve the environment and has no immigration policy. Obama is extremely fortunate because the Tea Party Movement and the Militia Movement are against Obama for who he is and not what his policies are. When left with the option of voting for Obama or his opposition, many unsatisfied citizens will be forced to select Obama. President Obama’s enemies are his greatest gifts.


The Tea Party Movement claims that they are being taxed without representation. They often say that they want their country back. They do not want the country back from the way that the government is behaving because nothing has changed ideologically. They want the country back from Obama, a black man. Obama has forgotten that he is black, (according to the 1 drop rule) but those who believe in white male rule have not forgotten. Tea Party members call him a socialist and a fascist and a liberal. He cannot possibly be all of those things. Ron Paul recently had to correct the racist by informing them that Obama is not a socialist, he is a corporatist. Paul received few applause for this fact. Hate does not care about facts or truth.

The Militia Movement has always been here. They believe that the wealthy elite are working together to create a one world government. Militia members think that Obama is the enemy because he is charming everyone into volunteering to live under this one world government. Their solution is to train and stockpile weapons in order to wage war on the U. S. government. The Militia Movement also focuses on Obama’s personality.

President Obama is sitting pretty because he has been given the gift of a hateful opposition. Most voters know that if they choose hate, the empire will die a painful death. The worst part of it all is that Obama is not that good of a president thus far and his policies are unsound.

Toni Morrison's Beloved

Toni Morrison’s Beloved is one of the great American novels. Beloved looks beneath the surface of the plantation life. Morrison lets everyone see the horrors of life for African-American people as chattel slaves. She also exposes the horrors for African-American people living in reconstruction. Beloved could easily extend out to Jim Crow living or 21st century living of African-American people in the United States. Beyond the social statements that beloved makes, there is the quality of the literature. Morrison is a world class literary figure that takes the reader on an exhilarating ride through the characters and time in the Nobel Prize winning Beloved.”

NYC Crime Reports

Let us shine a light on crime! Recently in New York City crime has been on the rise. At least this is the claim. After years of drops in crime across the board, we seem to be headed in the wrong direction. The news is troubling. What is really happening? Well, crime is probably not much different than it has been for the last few years. The difference is that it is now being reported. In the old days, before gentrification, the members of such neighborhoods as Bedford Stuyvesant and Brownsville did not like dealing with the police, so they did not always report crimes. Police do not like to deal with this population, so even if crimes were reported, they were not taken seriously. The new population that has moved into these neighborhoods report crimes and expects the police to act. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a paper man, if it is on paper it is real to him, anything else does not exist. We have all gone along with this foolish notion. Now the realities are closing in around us. Add to that the economic depression put upon the working class and you receive a spike in crime rates. By the way, this is only the beginning of a rise in crime that will probably last for a number of years.



Personal Statement

When I see 3 black women who are pregnant I think that one of their children will end up in the criminal correction industry. When I see 5 black women who are pregnant I think that 2 of their children will never learn to read.

Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf

     We are living in a cycle of extremism. People have lost their faith in governments as well as institutions. This is nothing new. People have also lost their faith in any great intangible being(s). It is times like these that the masses turn to certain kinds of leaders. They embrace leaders who give them simple solutions to problems without explaining the details. These leaders never tell the truth when they list the facts of the cause for the despair of the masses. They divide the masses into a them and an us. After that these leaders turn the them against the us, the us against the them. Prosperity comes immediately. However, leaders like this always lose control and end up destroying the very people they swore to empower.
     We would do well to read Mein Kampf because it was written by such a leader at the beginning of his march to ruler ship. The United States does not have to follow in Germany’s footsteps. We can read Mein Kampf so that we will be able to recognize who not to follow. It took Germany fifty years to get over the damage left behind by Hitler. The U. S. is too fragile of an empire to withstand an Adolph Hitler at this point in time.

Tales From Tim by Timothy Conerson

“This books is special to me because I actually know the author. The book has 11 short stories of varied interest. In the first story, which can be read for free on amazon.com, called "Our nana" is about a matriarch of a community that draws a young woman into the sisterhood of the community. The book has stories that are as short as one page and as long as eleven pages. The thing that I love is that the stories are simple on the surface, but become richer as you dig deeper. If there is one thing that does tie the stories together, it is that they are urban. From "Our Nana" to "The People's Republic" which shows a population creating a nation after America falls to China.”

Man is Not Alone by Abraham J. Heschel

Man is Not Alone explores what may be the largest question of a believer's life, What is God like? Heschel says that there is a God and presents an idea of what God may be like. More importantly Heschel discusses what kind of attitude people must develop in order to have a relationship with God. Even an atheist will find this book beneficial because Heschel lays out a standard for how people should treat each other. He also makes it clear how we must view and treat ourselves. God is a force that is always here for humanity in this book. Heschel proposes that the task for us is to reach the highest level of humanity.

Facing Reality

The medical industry is going to change in major ways. Local governments will be making deep cuts in funding schools, programs, and agencies. New York State alone faces an $18 billion deficit. This means that we will all have to face reality.


With limited resources every person cannot have quality treatment. We will be forced to spend what resources we have on the most deserving among us. The brightest children will receive an education. The dim thinkers will receive some training or apprenticeships. People with terminal, irreversible illnesses will not receive the most care that hospitals can give. Large churches may have to combine. Small churches will disappear altogether.

Programs that we all take for granted will now vaporize. We will all be wise to create survival kits equipped with: batteries, candles, matches, small radios, canned goods, first aid kits, tents, etc. Emergency services will not show up. Learn all you can about home remedies because neighborhood clinics will be dead to us.

Reality is standing above us like a wave of a tsunami. We are on our own now. We have to regain that communal spirit if we are to survive this national down turn.

Uncle Tom was Misread!

Uncle Tom’s Cabin might make you a little nostalgic for the old United States. A place where the masters of commerce and the workers were right there together, each keeping an eye on the other, over the shoulders of middle management. A time when the ruling class was within grasping space of the oppressed. Stowe might make you wonder what happened to a people that could create communities in the slave quarters. Places where horror reigned absolute. How these devastated people were able to birth such a person as Uncle Tom. A character who refuses to harm another black person no matter how much the evil slaver tries to force him. This is a work of fiction, but these types did exist. To be called an Uncle Tom is negative in the black communities, but if we had Uncle Toms in the institutions of the U. S. today, black people would not suffer so. Reading Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin may make you long for another time. Of course books are supposed to make you feel.

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes is one of the great poets of the United States of America. Hughes is one of the few African-American poets included in anthologies used by major colleges and universities. He is famous for the bluesy rhyme scheme in many of his poems. Though the surface of these texts are innocent, some of the subtexts can be prophetic. Hughes’ “Dreams” is a prophetic warning to the power structure of the U. S. of what would happen if all were not allowed to share in the “American Dream.”


Hughes identifies the U. S. by referencing a bird. “For if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird.” The symbol of the United States is the eagle. He warns that if those in power continue to oppress its citizenry, it would remain broken and be unable to soar to the grand heights of the vision in the constitution.

In the second stanza Hughes tell the power structure of the punishment that would come if they retard the dreams of the masses like an old testament Prophet. “For when dream go / Life is a barren field. Hughes is telling rulers that an U. S. with restrictions on the “American Dream” will not produce anything. He alludes to the Bible’s Moses warnings to the Pharaohs.

Langston Hughes speaks with a smooth sound on the surface along with a heavy prophetic message just beneath. Hughes advises the great “America” to allow all of its people to share in the dream of life or else be stunted as far as protection goes. Or else become barren causing all to suffer.

The Hole in Healthcare

Let us shine a light on the new health care bill. It is difficult to praise or criticize the new health care bill because most of it does not go into affect until the year 2014. Some parts of the bill will not apply until 2018. A few pieces of the legislation begin in 2010. One is that children with pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied insurance by insurance companies. This is great. The companies can only deny insurance for lack of ability to pay. Oh! Oh! The insurance companies can charge customers more money. Insurance companies will have to raise premiums on everyone as not to be perceived as unfair. This means that everyone who could afford insurance before will no longer be able to afford it. So if you have a lot of money you will get. The best or worse part about this health care bill is that we do not know who to blame for it. Is it the president’s bill? Yes and no. Does it belong to Congress? Yes and no. One thing we can be sure of is that a lot of politicians will be unemployed November of 2010.


Personal Statement


We all have our demons to slay. Mine is not alcohol, drugs, or food. No, my demon is hate. Hate lurks like a rabid beast, pacing around my house, waiting for me to open a window or door. I win the battle each day by doing one of the loneliest acts, leading with love.

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District 9

Alien science fiction movies are good because the aliens can act as proxies for some group without offending too many people. District 9 is a great film. The aliens in District 9 can stand in for any citizen in the world that does not have direct connections to those in power.


District 9 is so well shot and acted that you may forget that you are watching a fictional piece of art. Especially if you paid any attention to the victims of Hurricane Katrina or the Haitian Earthquake. The movie gives us the mode of operations of the power structure any time there are refugees from some disaster. First the military confronts those in need. The sufferers are then isolated into camps. After all of that ordinary people are recruited to manage the refugee camps. The more ordinary the person, the more responsibilities they are given.

District 9 also brings to light, with subtlety, a crucial point. That is that corporations lead politicians, not the people who vote for them. No matter how unpopular the alien camps become to the human beings they remain in tact. The poor aliens are stuck in this strange place where life is the opposite of what the people living believe it is.

District 9 will entertain you with action and may teach you something with an intelligent screen play well presented. Watch this film. You never know when you will become a victim of disaster and find yourself in a relief camp.

Our Seeds

The Poet T. S.

Referred to us as
Flowers in the concrete.
Not Eliot, Pac.
And he was right too
When bricks fell from abandoned buildings,
We used them to draw Skelly and hop-scotch
Courts in the street.
When the stores dumped old crates in the lot,
We cut the bottoms, nailed them to trees,
And played basketball all night long.
We were true to our heritage,
Making something out of nothing.
We grew up and had children.
And what did we give them?
Electronic, virtual fun
On 42 inch television sets.
Shame on us for not giving our seeds
The stuff to become larger flowers
Than us.

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The Art of Compromise

We all like President Obama because he is smart, a broad thinker. He tries to bring people of opposing sides together. The compromiser is what so many people call Obama. The problem is that Obama does not compromise correctly. He is just a little off of center. Obama needs an artist of compromise in the White House.


Obama seems to believe that if you have opposing sides, that you must take ideas from both sides, bundle the ideas together, and solve the problem. This way sounds good on the surface. However, this approach may not always work. One side may not have as many good ideas as the other side, so you cannot always take equally from both sides. Sometimes one side may not have any good ideas. You should not embrace ideas just to make someone feel better.

When compromising, you have to hear all parties involved. Once everyone has presented their ideas or sides of the story, you should take the best ideas given. If each side gives 6 ideas, you take the best of the 12 ideas and implement them. One party may have 1 good idea while the other has 4 good ideas. It is completely fair to use those 5 good ideas in a way that makes sense. That is the art of compromise.

If we had skilled artists of compromise in high places, oh what a society this would be. We would have real health care, good schools, an energy plan, and a humane foreign policy.

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The World As It Is

Neither men nor women care

Satisfy me, no do me
Carnal acts are what they share

Children fear those who made them
Parents wear children like blocks
The future looks fairly grim

Wooden planks guard empty homes
Citizens wander here – there
Your tent city’s not alone

We start out like exposed nerves
No longer sure to awake
Nature’s fed up with our words

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The Back End of Life

It is all behind me now

Most of what we call a life
To slay the beasts is allowed

I fought battles from the womb
A drunk and cheat brought me through
I feel good about the tomb

Battle after battle waged
I won many of those fights
Now great powers are enraged

My back is straight, chin is strong
My weapons are few, but sharp
I have brought some friends along

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Don’t Stop

March on children of the north

Prisons no longer make us shake
We know what our lives are worth

March you children of the south
The heat favors the first beings
Our foes can’t stand to stay out

March you children of the east
You were here long before them
Their land leases have now ceased

March you children of the west
Mild weathered days are past tense
Shove blades into hallow breasts

SIBLINGS

Here we are,

On the way to the shelter,

My siblings and I.

Different fathers,

But that same mama.

We are on the train

With bags in hand.

Guarding our hand-me-downs.

Given to us by mama’s bosses.

You know, clothes to good

To turn into cleaning rags.

We quietly eye each other

With extreme caution.

We will only give enough

To receive at some later date.

Such is life with a family

That lives hand to mouth

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“Bills To Pay” Standard

The problems in the black community are overly discussed. All of the same issues are analyzed on panels and in books. My own understanding at the end of it all is that communities that do well have a great standard that anchors them. Black people did not have a standard, or so I thought. It became clear to me that black people have embraced a standard after all. It is called the “bills to pay” standard.


The “bills to pay” standard is simple. We are supposed to do whatever it takes to earn enough money necessary to pay our bills. Rent, car notes, clothing costs, etc. take top priority in our lives. Every other principle or activity is secondary to our bills.

This is liberating. I have always been one to fight for the larger principles like justice, freedom, equality of opportunity, and wisdom. With our new standard we do not have to protest when a police officer shoots an innocent person. That officer has bills to pay. We do not have to criticize prejudice employers. Those employers have bills to pay. We do not even have to be angry with Wall Street bankers who indulge in criminal activities. They too have their bills. With this new standard no action is off limits. We have finally arrived at the moment where it’s all good.

The new “bills to pay” standard is a savior. We have now been set free. We can sit back, throw our worries outside of ourselves, and watch as our humanity disappears.

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What Would King Think?

At a recent economic summit hosted by the Rainbow Push Coalition, a fatigued Jesse Jackson hobbled toward the door of a room where a panel discussion was about to take place. He stopped to look at finely dressed black men rubbing elbows. A slight look of disgust flashed across his face. It makes one wonder, what would Martin Luther King Jr. think about our country today?

What would King think about spending money to rent the 53rd Street Sheraton for the purpose of discussing how poor the majority of our citizens are?


What would King think about the fact that there are more social programs for former inmates of prisons than there are for children?

What would King think about President Obama’s concept of just wars?

What would King think about a memorial being built in his honor at the same time that the homeless are living in tent cities?

What would King think about New York City having a 28% illiteracy rate?

What would King think about a 40% unemployment rate among black men?


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The Real Haiti Plan

     It was impressive to see the world mobilize as an earthquake destroyed a fragile Port-au-Prince in Haiti. Citizens of the United States donated goods as well as money to the cause of rebuilding Haiti. Once the U. S. military and developers became involved the real plan for Haiti began to gain clarity. The U. S. wants to turn Haiti into a 21st century play place for their wealthy elite.

     The wealthy elite of the U. S. have been looking for a great resort island every since Castro took Cuba from them. They need a place where anything goes. Most of all these elite want a space where they are in complete control. With the world media more developed and open eyes everywhere via small recording devices, it is difficult for the U. S. to just take an island. The world community will no longer allow Washington DC to invade countries while claiming to be purveyors of freedom. However, if the U. S. were asked to come in and rescue some island close to us from collapse, then it is an invitation, not an invasion. Of course the U. S. would be happy to send thousands of troops to secure the streets. To take control of the airport.
     The first phase of the plan is complete. The U. S. has convinced the Haitian Prime Minister to declare martial law. We even loaned him our troops under our control. Now Haiti is occupied. The second phase of the plan is to coax the professional class out of Haiti to the U. S. with money and prestige. Obama has opened the door to a certain amount of Haitians to come to America to work. Who says a president cannot create jobs. The third phase of the plan is to kick out the socially conscious countries that are helping the Haitian people. The master stroke will be when U. S. developers come in to build resorts all across Haiti. Those poor Haitians that were unemployed before the earthquake will be locked into $3 a day jobs serving U. S. visitors. The U. S. will then turn to other struggling Caribbean countries and offer to duplicate the Haiti plan.
     Haiti will become the paradise island of the 21st century. The United States tourists will visit. The impoverished Haitians will serve. All will be happy. Obama will be known as a modern Andrew Jackson, an expansionist president.

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What Martin Meant to Me

     Martin Luther king Jr. is often quoted by intellectuals for a variety of reasons. With a figure like King all one writer can do is to explain how they are influenced by him. King means so much to me that I would need a whole book to explain it all, so I will discuss just a couple of the examples that King set for me. King teaches me to persevere and to make new paths.


     King decided to embrace the greater principles of God and humanity – Justice, Freedom, Peace, and Empathy. He walked with those principles all of his life. King continues to fight for those principles even from beyond the grave. When King died he was not liked because he was against the Vietnam War, while his inner circle wanted to live comfortable. King died like so many prophets of God-alone. Sure there were people around him physically, but he stood way out front in many ways. At times we who hold those same principles feel like giving up, we can look to King for support. These days, King is often the only encouragement that we have.

     One of the most important lessons that King teaches often goes overlooked. Sometimes we have to create a new path when we are pursuing a path with great principles. The powers that be will often close off paths for upright people. King was abandoned by the black church, so he created the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). When we find ourselves without an institution that will support our efforts, we should create our own.

     King carried his cross until the end of his days in this realm of existence. I hope that those of us who are courageous today will continue to be courageous until the end of our time.

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What is Your Record

     The person in charge of closing a public high school stood before the community to tell them that the school was closing, it is final, and that we were not there to discuss saving the school. The parents asked this woman where their children would go to school. The person said that the children would have a chance to apply to the new school due to open in place of the old one. The parents grew frustrated because they were confused about what the new demands on their children would be. From this point in time, until further notice, the children will be judged on their records.
     For the last decade or so public school children were able to go to any school they wanted as long as they were within a certain age range. The child could have a failing grade point average. The child could have a list of negative behavioral incidents. Some the children could barely read and write, yet the public schools had to take those children.
     The days of the public school with the open door are over. From now on a child will have to take a specialty examination or be interviewed by a panel before they are admitted into a school. if a child is not at the proper intellectual level, they may be out of luck. At that point the children are at the mercy of the system. Parents have to run around and beg schools to take their child in, even if that school is across the city.
     The old saying goes, you are what your record says you are. I have seen the abilities of many public school children up close. Good luck to all you parents, you will need it.

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Disappearing Prince

Obama, where have you gone?

You were hope personified

The service seems all but done

Did they whisper grand ideas

Or shout a wall between us

Like “sir think of your career”

You enclosed yourself with rogues

With no loyalty to land

Humane acts are not in vogue

Our prince of what could have been

We’ll miss the almost movement

A mission heard, never seen

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The Wake Up Game

As a child we played a game called Gil. If someone would say something that did not make sense, we would put our hand on the back of that person’s neck. Everyone in the vicinity would know who said something stupid. If only we had a game like that today for adults. Instead of touching the back of the neck, we should punch each other in the forehead for making stupid statements. We could call it the wake up game.


“What is my child supposed to do when you close his school?”
PUNCH IN THE FOREHEAD

“That hole has been there for months and the super won’t fix it, so I don’t know how long it will be there.”
PUNCH IN THE FOREHEAD

“Black people need to stick together and support each other. Ooh! There’s a sale at Macys.”
PUNCH IN THE FOREHEAD

“How could my child not know how to read when they got A’s and B’s in school.”
PUNCH IN THE FOREHEAD

“I’m voting for the business man because we need something different.”
PUNCH IN THE FOREHEAD

My boyfriend lies to me all the time, but I love him though.”
PUNCH IN THE FOREHEAD

The wake up game would be sensational. Of course I am not violent enough to ever hit anyone, so we will have to bear with the stupidity a while longer.

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Destroyed Before They Start

A child psychology course taught that electric sparks are flying across the area that eventually becomes the brain about six weeks into the pregnancy. That fact shot through me like a rod of lightning. This meant that the environment of a child is affecting it before the mother is even sure of what is happening. In America the lives of so many people are destroyed before they even begin.


The stresses on a pregnant woman in the states is amazing. The typical pregnant woman does not have a stable relationship with a partner, let alone a legal one. Poverty is at an all time high in real terms, which means that pregnant women may not be consuming the proper nutrients. Women do not have any rights in terms of job security while they are pregnant. Most women do not read aloud or play complex music such as jazz or classical while the child is in the womb, leaving the baby with little mental stimulation. So many women in the U. S. have two options, terminate the pregnancy or struggle through. Struggle often means the child will die at some other time before reaching adulthood.

The ray of sunshine in this essay is that the solution for many of these problems are simple. Women should draw support from whatever family, friends, and neighbors are willing to help. If the parents cannot read, they can always get books in audio format. As far as food goes we still have the Women Infant & Children program WIC.

The lives of our future everything are often destroyed before they have a starting chance. The U. S. has not been a kind place to children, but with a few minor changes we can shift the direction of our society.

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