Review of Before The Mayflower by Lerone Bennet Jr.

It is an incredible reality that we still have to tell dark people that they were on this continent for centuries before Europeans showed up. It is also strange that dark people do not know that we were producing greatness on the physical and conceptual level without any outside help. We do have to remind dark people of their contributions to North America and Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennet Jr. tells us of these contributions. This book reveals what other books I have in my library reveal, that dark people always had great members in modern societies. Even when the United States had legal slavery and considered the dark people 3/5 of a person, we still achieved greatness. It was not manufactured illusions that look great, but actual greatness. Before the Mayflower gives names and dates of some of the best thinkers, builders, scientist, etc. If you do not think that dark people ever did anything or can do anything you need to read Before the Mayflower.

Review Of Soylent Green By Richard Fleischer

The film Soylent Green by Richard Fleischer deals with issues that every modern western society has to deal with, feeding and housing people. Traditional indigenous people only have to deal with this because they live under western rule. The concept of ownership destroys the relationship between us to the planet. We should be able to walk up to a space and put a tent, hut, or dwelling on that land, but we cannot because someone will come along and say that it belongs to them, they own it. We should be able to eat what grows out of the ground, but someone claims that they own the ground and what come out of it. These owners can destroy the lands if they want because they own it. In Soylent Green the planet is so polluted that hardly anything can grow. Soylent is rationed out to people once a week. People are sleeping on stair cases and out in the middle of the street while the wealthy still live in plush homes with multiple rooms. The movie also shows that in this environment slavery rises up as an option to suffering. Soyle Green is a classic that is always useful and if things keep on their current economic tracks may be a prophetic film.

Art By Freddie Warren

Freddie Warren is one of the best artists in Queens New York that you probably do not know. He draws portraits that stare back at you so well that you may start a conversation with them. A woman hired Warren to draw a portrait of Barack Obama. The portrait became so popular at her house that she hired Warren to draw Michelle Obama. The two portraits hang across from one another. Warren drew a portrait of a man and his wife in England. It became so popular in their community that now Warren is drawing two portraits of the family. All Warren needs to create a top notch portrait is a good photo. He also draws many other types of objects. My favorite Warren drawing is the family made up of dark energy. I have it hanging in my bedroom and use it as a background in many of my videos. If you would like to get in touch with Freddie Warren call 347-446-0575.  

Review of Making of the Whiteman by Paul Lawrence Guthrie

When you hear the title Making of The Whiteman by Paul Lawrence Guthrie you may think that it is a prejudiced work against white people, but the book put more responsibility on the colored peoples on this planet. Dark peoples out number light peoples 11 to 1. Such a small number of people could not rule over such a large number of people unless the larger group allowed it. We allow small numbers of people to dominate us all the time. In the United States the 99% should not blame the 1% for the ills of the nation when we could simply take the power away from them. Dark people cannot blame the white group for the condition of our communities. No one forces us to charge each other high rents, send our children to bad schools, eat heavily processed foods, etc., Making of The Whiteman shows what happens when communities implode. It also shows what happens when you do not deal with enemies within properly. Punishment without development or rehabilitation is a disastrous policy. Making of The Whiteman taught me about all of the peoples on this planet. The more we know about each other the better equipped we are to deal with one another.

JOHN COLTRANE SPEAKS TO ME

John Coltrane speaks to me. We talk about the state of music among the melanin enriched. Today there seems to be too many sound effects and not enough natural sound. You do not know what genre you are listening to these days. Gospel spills over into rhythm and blues, rhythm and blues spills over into hip-hop. Coltrane does not mind that so much because lines should be blurred. The problem is that not much of the music motivates or touches us deeply. Maybe we need to go back to slave songs. Coltrane explained improvisation within parameters, stretching parameters and improvising again. We talk about vibrations, how important it is for artists to reach the universal vibration to offer the audience a chance to experience something beyond the structures of the five senses. John Coltrane loves to speak to the multitudes and I love to listen to him.

Get Blowed (A Poem)

Get Blowed

All you want

To do

Is get blowed

You needed fog

To protect you

From the bondage

You can see clearly now

The bondage is gone

There are no more obstacles

In your way

They put you out

Of the school system

They put you out

Of the job market

Not even your mothers

Care about you

Anymore

You are free now

DRIFTED INTO VEGETARIANISM

I have eaten almost every part of every animal. Now I do not eat flesh of any kind. Here is how I got from there to here. One day my wife came home and said that she was going to do a 30 day raw food diet. I joined her to keep shopping and food preparation easy. We could not eat meat of any kind. Everything was raw. We ate nuts as protein substitutes. I thought that it would be hard on my body, but the transition was smooth. I had the most difficulty with not eating sugar or salt. This meant that I had no salad dressing to put on the salad that we ate every night. I made home made dressing, but craved a French or Thousand Island dressing. As we approached the end of the 30 days we discussed what we would do afterward. I said that I did not want to go back to eating flesh. I do not eat eggs or fish. I do eat sugar again and I am thinking about adding eggs back to my diet. I am less sluggish now. I can expand my consciousness easier. I also found that I do not need as much food at all. I am called Timothy and I am a vegetarian. More importantly I am not a jerk about my new diet.