Kwame Ture

Kwame Ture gave us a lot insight about the lives of black human beings and all human beings. One of his greatest contributions to humanity was his criticism of the imperfections of mainstream society. I first heard of him when looking at the Eyes on the Prize documentary years ago. That was back in the early 1990s when I was a kid. Kwame Ture inspired human beings from across backgrounds and demographics. His words inspire even the younger generation, because the truths that Kwame Ture expressed live on irrespective of the generational changes of history. Deliberate, human strength and direct action are some of the many legacies of Kwame Ture. He was a controversial man, because he criticized capitalism. He believed that American society was rotten, because of greed, materialism, and the capitalist economic system. The truth is that there is no perfect economic system. A laissez faire, cut throat version of capitalism is indeed harsh, cruel, and totally evil. Also, a totally restricted, extreme version of Communism doesn't work as well. There should be human interests advanced above just free markets in the world indeed. He was a pan Africanist since he agreed with the philosophies of the brother and African statesman Kwame Nkrumah. Kwame Nkrumah was the first President of the independent African state of Ghana in 1957. Sekou Toure was the President of Guinea from 1958 to 1984. Kwame Ture wanted African communalism not necessarily orthodox communism. Kwame Ture believed that

more collaboration between Africans in America and Africans in the rest of the world will cause a crucial key in defeating imperialism and colonialism. He wanted African Americans (or Africans in America) to free themselves from internal colonialism (or mental slavery) as a means to go out and improve themselves. He was one of the first men to articulate the concept of Black Power in a complex fashion. He wanted black people to advance their common roots and culture to liberate themselves. Like Dr. King and Malcolm X, he believed that Black is Beautiful. This truism is one psychological means for black human beings to affirm their black self-esteem and social growth in a white supremacist world. At the end of the day, we ought to defeat white supremacy by any means necessary. I think also one of the greatest contributions of Kwame Ture was that he

allowed us to be identified with his Africanness. Kwame Ture said that we must have an undying love for our people and he was right. He was never ashamed of being a black African. Therefore, even though, I was born in America, I am still a Black African by heritage. My Black African blood takes precedence here and I will forever be an African.
Now, before going forward, the public has the right to know the early part of his life. He was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad in the time of June 29, 1941. Kwame moved into Harlem, New York City in 1952. He was 11 years old. He rejoined his parents. His parents immigrated to America when he was 2. They left him temporarily with his grandmother and his 2 aunts. He had 3 sisters. When he was boy, he attended Tranquility School in Trinidad until his parents were able to send for him. Kwame Tures mother was Mabel R. Carmichael. She was a stewardess for a steamship line and his father Adolphus was a carpenter (and he worked as a taxi driver as well). His mother and father left Harlem to live in Morris Park in the East Bronx. That neighborhood was multiethnic. Back then, it was an aging neighborhood consisting of mostly Jewish and Italian immigrants including their descendants. Kwame Ture was in the Bronx School of Science in NYC because of his academic performance. He graduated from high school in 1960. Soon, Kwame Ture enrolled at Howard University. Of course, Howard is a famous historically black university in Washington, D.C. He had professors like Sterling Brown, Nathan Hare, and Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison is a famous African American novelist that won the Nobel Prize for her excellent literary work. Once, Kwame and Tom Kahn (another student and civil rights activist) worked to fund a five day run of the Three Penny Opera (by Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill). Kwame graduated from Howard with a degree in philosophy in 1964. He was known for his political activism in Howard. He joined the NAG or the Nonviolent Action Group. This was the Howard campus affiliate of SNCC or the Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee. Kahn introduced Kwame Ture to other SNCC activists. Kwame Ture was involved more in the Civil Rights Movement, because of the sit-ins going on in the South. He worked in the Freedom Rides of CORE or the Congress of Racial Equality. This was during the first year of him being in Howard University. He was arrested all of the time and was in jail for a while. In 1961, Kwame Ture served 49 days in jail with other activists. He served this time in the Parchman Farm inside of Sunflower County, Mississippi. The Freedom Rides involved activists of numerous backgrounds traveling in the South as a means to fight against the horrendous policies of Jim Crow. Many of them were assaulted, jailed, and murdered. Kwame Ture went with 8 other riders on June 4, 1961 made the trip by train from New Orleans to Jackson, Mississippi. Kwame Ture said that before they took the train in New Orleans, the racist white protesters were shouting at them, throwing cans at them, lit cigarettes at them, and spitting on them. This was before he came into the Parchman Farm jail. Kwame Ture was more in line with Dr. Kings philosophy back then. He sang songs in the jails and told jokes as a means to keep the groups morale up. Kwame Ture was crucial in increasing the number of registered black voters in Lowndes County, Alabama in 1965. The 1965 Voting Rights Act forced Alabama to end their disfranchisement of black voters via the old Alabama state constitution. Like I have always said, HUMAN RIGHTS IS SUPERIOR TO STATES RIGHTS. WE WISH FOR THE DEFEAT OF IMPERIALISM AND THE AMERICAN EMPIRE IN GENERAL. Ironically, Kwame Ture once believed in nonviolence and then changed, because he felt that the pace of progress was slow (and that there was no recourse to the numerous acts of violence including humiliation by the hands of racist white police officers including others). In 1965, he organized Black residents and voters in the Lowndes County Freedom Organization. This party used the black panther as its mascot over the white dominated local Democratic party (whose logo was a rooster). Kwame Ture and other formed their own party, because they were adamantly

dissatisfied with the response of two either of the major political parties response to his registration efforts. Even though black residents and voters outnumbered whites in Lowndes, their candidate last the county wide election of 1965. By May of 1966, Kwame Ture was the chairman of SNCC from John Lewis. John Lewis would later become a famous U.S. Congressman. James Meredith was shot soon in June of 1966 during his solitary March Against Fear march. He was wounded by a shotgun while she was 20 miles into Mississippi. James Meredith was marching from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi.

"We are Africans, we are all the same people, there is no difference between us. I was born in Trinidad - in the Caribbean - there is no difference between me and you. The only difference is when the slave ship got to Trinidad, they kicked me off in Trinidad, and brought you here. That's the only difference. We are the same people." -Kwame Ture
Later Kwame Ture joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Floyd McKissick, Cleveland Sellers, and others to continue Merediths march. Dr. King, Kwame Ture, and Floyd McKissick held a rare public appearance o talk about the shotgun attack on James Meredith near Hernando, Mississippi (in June 7, 1966). Dr. King was the President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Floyd McKissick was the national director of the Congress of Racial Equality. They wanted to make a statement that they would not be intimidated by racist terrorists. They marched in Mississippi. They were assaulted by police and Kwame Ture was arrested. After his research, Kwame Ture gave his first, famous Black Power speech. The speech wanted Black Power and socio-economic independence (in the since of wanting black Americans to carve their own destiny themselves). SNCC, Kwame Ture, and others were influenced by Malcolm X. Malcolm X wanted self-determination, he questioned capitalism, and he wanted black Americans to identify with the great culture of Africa. These views were apart of Kwame Tures thinking until the day that he died. In his 1968 book, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation,

Kwame Ture explained the meaning of black power: ''It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.''

The image to the left shows Malcolm X and the Sister Shirley Graham DuBois, Director of Ghana National Television, at her villa in Accra, Ghana during Malcolm's visit in May 1964. DuBois had thrown a reception in his honor. The image to the rights shows Malcolm X talking with the Brother Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, who was an African revolutionary. He was born in Zanzibar. Kwame Ture eloquently described who Malcolm X was in May 22-25, 1990 in the following speech (in Cuba): The second philosophical stream, that of nationalism, Malcolm X transformed and took it directly to Pan-Africanism. Here Malcolms organization was the Organization of African American Unity. In this organization only Africans could be members. Many people make great confusion here about Malcolms last eleven months, trying to make it appear as if he changed, and he did this and he did that. Malcolm X was always moving to higher levels of qualitative transformation; and his break with the Nation of Islam only meant a qualitative leap in this aspect. Thus the two philosophical streams were still to be found in Malcolms life. He died a religious Muslim and he died a member of the Organization of African American Unity, an organization that was patterned after the Organization of African Unity, leading directly to Pan-Africanism We must talk about Dr. King in relationship to Malcolm. Our paper after all is the effect of Malcolm X on SNCC. Dr. King and Malcolm X are two major figures that had an effect upon the members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. We must point out that the bourgeois press has also been busy maligning and distorting Dr. King, and here too, proper attacks must be made against the bourgeois press, and clear analysis and the truth must be presented. The capitalist press would have us believe that the greatest contribution that Dr. Dr. King made to the masses of Africans in America was to bring them nonviolence. This was not true. Dr. Kings greatest contribution was he taught our people how to confront the enemy without fear. It is this that would make us understand the dialectical

relationship between Dr. King and Malcolm. Thanks to Dr. Kings teaching and example, it was easy for them to face the enemy with arms. Thus, Malcolm X just logically extended Dr. Kings work. Where Dr. King taught us not to be afraid to confront the enemy without arms, Malcolm X said, since you can confront them without arms, you can also confront them with arms. This struggle between Malcolm X and Dr. King must be properly understood. They are not in diametrical opposition at all. Dr. King used nonviolence as a principle. Here, he made an error. Malcolm X was correct. Nonviolence was a tactic. Malcolm X said over and over again, nonviolence can only be a principle in a nonviolent world. But, as long as there are violent people in the world, one has a responsibility to defend ones self. Thus nonviolence, for Malcolm X was nothing but a tactic. Of course, Malcolm X we know was a Revolutionary, anti-capitalist. As a matter of fact, we can say that Malcolm X was in perfect harmony with the Africans in America, in that he was, even in his unconscious state, anti-capitalist Of course we do not mean to linger on the point that Dr. King was a reformist. Dr. King himself was qualitatively transforming himself. He was assassinated by the FBI in America because he was moving towards a revolutionary path. Dr. King, after having tried reform and seeing its utter failure, was ready to go towards revolution. We can point this out by showing that his last campaign, the Poor Peoples March, was directed directly against the Federal government, whom prior to that time, he had considered to be an ally of the struggle. We just wanted to try and clear up some of these things because we said, obviously, we get confused by the interpretations given to us by bourgeoisie historians Malcolm X of course pushed the point forward of self-determination rather than that of accommodation to the capitalist system. Here again, as you would see everywhere in the United States of America among the Africans, this talk of selfdetermination, not the talk of accommodation into a capitalist system. The need for constant revolutionary education must be properly understood here.
The concept of Black Power existed for centuries and thousands of years, but Kwame Ture modernized the concept during the 1966 Mississippi March against Fear. Kwame Ture, Willie Ricks (a SNCC organizer) and much of the crowd in Greenwood, Mississippi screamed out Black Power. This was a time when the SNCC was more radicalized, because the youth dominated the SNCC. The youth typically can be more revolutionary than the older members of the civil rights movement back then and today. Kwame True wanted integrity and dignity for his people, so he believed in independent political parties as a way to get black liberation. He worked with Charles V. Hamilton worked together to write a book on Black Power entitled, "Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America" from 1967. To Hamilton and Kwame Ture, Black Power was about the following: "It is a call for black people in this country to unite," they wrote, "to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations." He wanted black liberation by establishing independent Black political institutions, so they can benefit black human beings in the world. Kwame Ture believed that white people should come into their communities to deal with white racism. He wanted black Africans to consolidate among their own, so that they bargain from a position of strength. Kwame Ture said that nonviolence was a tactic for freedom, but it was not the only tactic in fighting injustice. He made a difference between individual and institutional racism by his own words in the following: It is

important to this discussion of racism to make a distinction between the two types: individual racism and institutional racism. The first type consists of overt acts by individuals, with usually the immediate result of the death of victims, or the traumatic and violent destruction of property

He believed in self-defense also as a means to gain justice and true equality in a brutal, imperfect world. Kwame Ture traveled into the United Kingdom in 1967 as a means to participate in the "Dialectics of Liberation International Conference," which ran from July 15th - 30th of that year. He said controversial words. His words to the establishment was so controversial that he was from entering any countries belonging to the British Commonwealth (over thirty, including Trinidad, the country of his birth). Others who participated included: R.D.Laing, Gregory Bateson, Jules Henry, Erving Goffman, Paul Sweezy, Ernest Mandel, Paul Goodman, Lucien Goldmann, John Gerassi, Herbert Marcuse, David Cooper, Allen Ginsberg, Julian Beck, Francis Huxley, Thich Nhat Hahn, Leon Redler, Gayo Petrovic, Ross Speck, Joseph Berke, Igor Hajek, Simon Vinkenoog, Roy Battersby, and others.

The job of a revolutionary is, of course, to overthrow unjust systems and replace them with just systems because a revolutionary understands this can only be done by the masses of the people. So, the task of the revolutionary is to organize the masses of the people, given the conditions of the Africans around the world who are disorganized, consequently all my efforts are going to organizing people. -Kwame Ture

He was brave man. He was a man who said in public that America has no conscience for injustice and he opposed the Vietnam War. He had his passport revoked and he faced indictment for sedition. The government pressured him to leave the USA in the late 1960's.

For the sake of the Creator and my ancestors, I will get over not a single solitary thing.
Kwame Ture is heavily featured in the documentary called "Black Power Mixtape." I saw the whole video before. It was an excellent documentary that listed unseen footage from black human rights leaders from Dr. King to Angela Davis. It offered the years of the intermediate period of the civil rights movement. It was from 1967 to the 1970's. This was after the old successes of the civil rights movement, but before the modern era of 21st century Black society. Kwame Ture talked about liberation of colonized human beings from the oppressor. He talked about himself as being an African American and disagreeing vehemently with the Vietnam War. He spoke of these words in Stockholm, Sweden, which was where a lot of anti-war Americans came into. Also, Sweden is a place where there were a lot of progressive political policies existed at. This appealed to numerous social activists and revolutionaries.

Kwame Ture respected Dr. King immensely. When Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated, it is said, that he shed tears. He just believed that nonviolence was one tactic out of many wherefore oppressed human beings can have true liberty and social tranquility. Kwame wanted self defense as a means where black human beings can maintain their cultural humanity. Dr. King on the other hand believed that nonviolent resistance was the only satisfactory method in engineering profound social change in the Earth. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. articulately outlined his position. I respect his position as a man. The Vietnam War was immoral, because it or the Vietnamese people harbored no direct threat to American soil (it was a civil war, which was limited. The civil war can easily ended via a peaceful, political process) and it was based on the deception of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Wars are readily enacted based upon lies and deception. The Vietnam War caused millions of Vietnamese people and over 50,000 American soldiers to be killed. Many of American GIs have suffered mental hurt and even substance abuse as a product of that immoral, illegal, and unjust war in Vietnam. There can be a peaceful, negotiated settlement that can end the conflict in the Vietnam peninsula. It could of happened in 1968, but Nixon's cronies prevented it via agitation. That was a disgrace indeed. If Humphrey was President, the war could of ended a lot sooner than it did. The documentary talked about negative impacts of drug addiction & crime in the black community. Drug addiction is a complicated subject matter. The reason is that some individuals are on drug addiction, because of hurt, pain, and negative socioeconomic factors. Some human beings suffer through humiliation and such a great amount of suffering, that they feel that using drugs recreationally is the only way to compensate for their issues. I disagree with that, because drug treatment (including compassion, and rebuilding communities) not drug addiction can alleviate that form of pain. In 1967, he left SNCC. He traveled around the world to lecture about his views. He visited Guinea, North Vietnam, China, and Cuba. Kwame Ture was the Honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party. He went into those countries to advance Black Power, the defeat of imperialism, and other revolutionary changes in society.

After he left the Black Panthers, he heroically fought for the liberation of black African human beings of the world. Why did he leave the Panthers? The reason was because of ideological differences. Kwame Ture felt that the Panthers should not allow explicit white radical collaboration (in feeling that white people can do the best by working amongst themselves first to advance freedom while black human beings should control their own interests and power base independently. He wanted independence not Jim Crow segregation. IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, IT IS ALL ABOUT INDEPENDENCE, BLACK

LIBERATION, AND BLACK POWER. ADVANCING OUR OWN BLACK INTERESTS IS JUST PLAIN OLD COMMON SENSE. THE HANDWRITING IS ON THE WALL. He
wanted PAN-AFRICANISM BY THIS TIME. He felt that he should move on beyond the Black Panthers without bitterness or animosity toward them at all. Still, the Black Panthers ought to be given due

credit and due respect for their actions in the fight for human liberation. So, I want to make that perfectly clear). He wanted black human beings to lead and control black African
organizations since the interests of Africans ought to be maintained. Kwame Ture met with Nyguyen Ai Quoc or Ho Chi Minh, who was the leader of North Vietnam. Kwame Ture told him that he was disillusioned with the directon of the struggle in the States. Ai Quoc told him that he should go to Africa since it is his home. Kwame Ture later met with Guinean President Sekou Ture, who wanted Kwame to do the same. In 1968, Kwame Ture moved to Guinea and began to live and study under Sekou Ture, Kwame Nkrumah. Kwame Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana. The CIA funded a coup against him in 1966. Kwame Ture stayed in Guinea from 1968 to his death in 1998. He dedicated his life in forming a large Pan-Africanist movement. Sekou Ture and Nkrumah passed away in 1984 and 1972 respectively. Kwame Ture built up the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party of the A-APRP. Nkrumah talked about this party as the means to allow Africa to be unified and have socialism in Africa. Regardless if you agree with socialism or not (which is your right), the question of liberation should be whether the people will

have power or a select group of the oligarchy. Kwame Ture disagreed with Zionism strongly, but he never hated Jewish human beings. The A-APRP was an extension of the Organization of African Unity or the OAU. Kwame Tures political works grew in Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, South Africa, and all throughout the Motherland. There were other chapters of the A-APRP in Gambia, the UK, the States, the Virgin Islands, Brazil, Senegal, Ghana, etc. Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Ture predicted that when Africa is free, unified, and socialist, all of Africans will be empowered to make a proper contribution to all of human civilization. Kwame Ture was a revolutionary figure. His usage of Black Power was not just about attacking tokenism, liberal establishment patronage, and unconditional nonviolence. It was a critique of the established order and mainstream capitalism as well. For you have to look at both race and class as a means to see the bigger picture on how the world works economically and politically. Kwame Ture inspired many black human beings in the Jim Crow South and the ghettos of the North. Kwame Ture did not want Black Power to be some black wing of the Democratic Party, because he rejected the Democratic Party after its treatment of African Americans in the South. This doesn't mean that he was a Republican either because we all know what the reactionary Republicans are all about. Enough said. That is why many sincere black leaders rejected the Republicans rightfully, but allied with mainstream bourgeois Democratic Party politics (as a means to get some concessions). Ultimately, a concession benefits the enemy since the enemy administers it. In our time, we still have imperialism and militarization of society domestically. When you become older while living in the Earth, you see that real change never comes within a system that is immoral and corrupt. Change can only come by ending that wicked system and creating a better system which can benefit all of the people. At the end of the day, it is all about the people. It is important to realize that since the Maafa began, black brothers and black sisters used arms to fight for their freedom. There is nothing wrong or sinful to use arms to fight for freedom as long as innocent human beings are never harmed with arms at all. Kwame Ture was a man. We should use his legacy as inspiration to carry forward with our lives. The threats are still here against our people. The battle is not over yet, but we should continue to fight and struggle for freedom completely.

We know that before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. died, he became more revolutionary. 1968 was the year of radical changes. Dr. King changed. He began to more expose and oppose the Vietnam War. He made the great, famous Riverside Church speech in disagreement with the
Vietnam War strongly in April of 1967. He said that the United States government was the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today. Dr. King compared American actions in Vietnam to Nazi practices in WWII. He wanted young men eligible for the draft to declare themselves conscientious objectors as a means to not fight in the Vietnam War. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believed that the civil rights and peace movement want work together as a means to make the world a brotherhood (in ending racism, materialism, and militarism). Life magazine called the Riverside speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi." It charged King with "introducing matters that have nothing to do with the legitimate battle for equal rights here in America." Time Magazine called him the Man of Year in 1957 and in 1967; they criticized Dr. Martin Luther King for speaking out on things other than civil rights. Even some in the liberal Democratic Party betrayed him. Even the more moderate National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) agreed: "To attempt to merge the civil rights movement with the peace movement," they said, "will serve the cause neither of civil rights nor of peace. Back in 1968, much of the country hated Dr. King and even some token leaders of his own people opposed his views on Vietnam War. The liberal establishment started to distance from him, because of his anti-war views. After, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said his 1967 speech, LBJ was angry. He is said to mention the following: "... What is that god_----- n____ preacher trying to do to me?" So, racism is not just limited among Republicans. It is found in the Democrats too. Now, Dr. Martin Luther King want social democratic actions even beyond what the mainstream Democrats wanted to have. Dr. King wanted to grow the standard of living of the USA with a guaranteed annual income. That is why Dr. King accurately knew that economic inequality grew the system of racism. So, you need to redistribute wealth and have justice as a means to solve our problems. Now, our current issue is not just the obscene, cruel, bigoted, and abhorrent reactionary agenda of some Republicans. It is the token, reformist agenda of some Democrats as well. Back in 1967, Democratic Louis Martin (who was an African American) wanted to

exploit the concept of Black Power to spread Democratic influence in a constitutional, orderly manner. Martin wanted this as a means to suppress revolutionary civil rights leaders (who he called civil rights kooks). This man said that he wanted the give the Democratic Johnson administration with a "link to the Negro community and...effectively bypass the Rap Browns and Stokely Carmichaels [both radical leaders] and even the Martin Luther Kings (none of whom have been elected to anything)." His strategy worked, especially when Nixon rose up. When the GOP racists used code words of crime, welfare fraud, reverse discrimination, etc. the Democrats grew in power around minorities. While the Republicans used overt bigotry, the Democrats used covert slick nefarious actions (of neoliberalism, corporate power growing, etc.) as a means to neutralize true revolution. The DLC member Bill Clinton is the example of the modern Democrat. We know about Bubba. The Democratic Leadership Caucus wanted to distance themselves from revolutionary politics and focus on getting more ties to Corporate America. Bill Clinton appealed to Southern reactionaries as a means to get elected in 1992. He denounced the rap artist Sistash Souljah at an event sponsored by Jesse Jackson, because the Sister wanted black Americans to not be ashamed of their heritage in a strong way. He or William presided over the execution of a mentally disabled Black man named Ricky Ray Rector. He staged a photo op at a Georgia penitentiary work gangs of hundreds of Black men. He loved the War on Drugs and he worked with the Republican Congress to end welfare as we know (this is something that even Ronald Reagan could never have gotten away with. That action by Bubba made numerous mothers destitute among numerous circumstances). Imperialism spread in the globe and many Democrats (just like the Republicans) love to have it so.

On the other hand, we should follow a different direction. We should continue to oppose war and imperialism. We should go out and disagree with police brutality and austerity. We should fight for single payer universal health care and equality including for all of human life period without exceptions. An independent approach is necessary for our liberation.

Black Power and justice go hand in hand. Folks have said this before, but some justice (not total justice) is being shown now in some ways. The same folks who were responsible for the Maafa, Christobol Colon's atrocities, and other evils against our people are now experiencing poetic justice. Whatever you put out into the Universe, you get back. The imperialists' Empires has fallen since the end of World War Two. They have invaded illegally territories of the first humans on Earth including the other lands of human beings of color. Now, many of the descendants of the first humans on Earth are migrating into the lands of the imperialists. The population growth of the imperialists is decreasing in record low demographic levels. That is why the oppressor now is trying to use eugenics, war, radical population control, the War on Drugs, etc. against black human beings (and others) as a means to execute control over the world. So, as a human being with a lot of melanin (being a black human being), I do not have hatred in my heart. I subscribe to principle of equality and love for my neighbor. Yet, my love also means that I want justice sent out to my oppressor. I believe in doing my job. My job is to advance Black Love, black families, black Power, and real equality in the world. Equality mandates that we try our best to end the system of white supremacy once and for all. The enemy knows the truth. We know the truth. We know our great history and our great cultural resiliency (since it takes a strong people to overcome the Maafa and be a shining light of the glory of God in the circumference of the world. It is God's Holy Spirit and his grace that will make a way where it seems to be not a way). I will always praise the Lord. They or the enemy knows what we know about their nature and their instruments of havoc in the world. It is just that we have a responsibility too. We have the responsibility to expose them and bring up real solutions in helping out our own people. As Dr. Martin Luther King said in January of 1968:

[That] was something almost like putting a man in prison and keeping him there for many years and suddenly discovering that he's not guilty of the act for which he was convicted and then going up to the man saying, now you are free. And you don't give him any bus fare to get

to town. You don't give him any clothes to put on his back. You don't give him any money to get on his feet in life again. The whole code of jurisprudence would rise up against this and yet, this is what America did to the black man

We have remorse for our actions and they don't. We reject imperialism and economic exploitation and they don't. Therefore, the enemy is diametrically opposed to our perspectives. We believe that health care is a human right and the enemy believes that it is solely a privilege. We greatly appreciate women and respect manhood (as males and females ought to be treated with dignity and with respect) and you know they abhor those concepts. We believe in morality and honesty and the enemy has been immoral & dishonest in their history (that is purely documented). We do not follow bigotry and we believe that real love is real love (including BLACK LOVE). Of course, the enemy has been bigoted for centuries and millennia. Now, we should perform acts of righteousness and respect for Nature since that is rooted in morality (and true spirituality. True spirituality is about respect for the neighbor, building up the soul including the spirit, respecting Nature, and advocating Justice for all humankind). The enemy will try all sorts of means in attempting to have privilege (via propaganda, discrimination, imperialism, false beauty standards, slander, etc.), but Black strength and Black Power will prevail in the end. We are the first which is why some them want to mate with us (not for love, but because of genetic exploitation. If they loved us, they would advocate the ending of white supremacy once and for all, which they will never do since that would end their privileged state forever). That is why I am wise enough to know about my heritage and to advance love for black women and respect for black men doing the right thing. We should continue to use natural health as a means to improve our bodies. Black is Beautiful and I love being Black as God has blessed me with being. I have the right to advance the cultural, political, and economic interest of my own black people. In the end, the enemy will lose and those in the right will inherit the land. We should learn the valuable lessons from Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Fannie Lou Hamer, Nat Turner, Aiyana Jones, Dr. King, Kwame Ture, Malcolm X, and other brothers including sisters who fought for black liberation. In that sense, we can institute a better future for our descendants.

I didnt have much, but I was always happy to share what I did have. It seemed like every African that

came to New York City would show up at my apartment door at dinnertime, and I couldnt turn them away. I wasnt much older than any of them, but they started calling me Mama Africa and the name stuck -Miriam Makeba.
Kwame Ture was married to Miriam Makeba. She was a famous singer from South Africa. Miriam Makeba in her right was a strong human rights activist. She lived from March 4, 1932 to November 9, 2008. They divorced in Guinea after separating in 1973. He was married against to Marlyatou Barry. She is a Guinean doctor. They divorced sometime after having a son named Bokar in 1982. By 1998, Marlyatou Barry and Bokar were living in Arlington County, Virginia near Washington, D.C. According to the AllAfrican Peoples Revolutionary Party, Kwame Ture had 2 sons, and three sisters. Back in the 1950s and the 1960s, she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music around the world in a higher level. Miriam Makeba appeared as a guest in the anti-apartheid documented called Come Back, Africa (it was produced and directed by the American independent filmmaker Lionel Rgosin). Her famous song called, Pata Pata. It was first recorded in 1957 and it was released in the United States in 1967. He recorded songs and tortured with famous artists like Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and her former husband Hugh Masekela. Makeba campaigned against the evil system of apartheid in South Africa. The

South African government responded by revoking her passport in 1960 and her citizenship and right of return in 1963. As the apartheid system crumbled she returned home for the first time in 1990. She passed away via a heart attack. This came after she performed in a concert in Italy. She wanted to support the writer Robert Saviona (because Robert was against the Camorra or a mafia like organization local to the region of Campania). Miriam Makeba is not only a great musician. She is a

great role model for women in the world. She represents the strength, intellect, grace, and insight found in Black Women. Black Women are always Queens without question.

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was
my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.
-Stokely Carmichael

Usawa
Gloria Richardson is a famous Sister that contributed a lot to the struggle. She was one of the unsung heroes of the civil rights movement. Gloria Richardson was the Chairman of the Cambridge NonViolent Action Committee. She was born on May 6, 1922 in Baltimore, Maryland to John and Mable Hayes. Her ancestry is from St. Augustine, Florida. Her father was a pharmacist and her mother was a piano teacher and homemaker. She moved into Cambridge, Maryland later on. Her grandfather was Herbert Maynadier St. Clair. He was one of Cambridge's most powerful and wealthiest citizens. He owned and ran a butcher shop, grocery store, and funeral parlor. He was in the Cambridge City Council. He helped African American public schools and jobs for black residents in the town's canning factories. Gloria Richardson was very intelligent as a youth. Her family taught her how to analyze social, economic, and political issues of the time. She learned about Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass. She understood that African Americans must continue to fight white supremacy. She graduated from high school at 16 in 1938. She enrolled in Howard University. She received a B.A. in sociology in 1942. Some of the greatest academics and intellectuals in America taught Richardson. They included historian Rayford Logan, literary scholar Sterling Brown, and eminent sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. Gloria Richardson came to know more about her African ancestry and use her analytical skills as a means to fight bigotry and discrimination. She was involved in the civil rights Movement with help from her eldest daughter named Donna. Donna was a high school student in the early 1960's. She or Donna worked with civil rights organizations like Baltimore's Civic Interest Group (CIG) led by Clarence Logan and the Student nonviolent Coordinating Committee. SNCC targeted Cambridge for a desegregation campaign of public accommodations. Soon, Gloria Richardson and parents of local children formed the CNAC or the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee. SNAC wanted desegregation of public accommodations at first.

Later, the activists want social justice like a living wage, adequate housing, and health care. CNAC used demonstrations and counter demonstrations. They used self-defense against racist terrorists for real. The CNAC influenced the development of the Black Power movement. Their actions made the government (with negotiations done by then Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to have the Treaty of Cambridge. It or the Treaty ended de facto segregation, made a biracial Human Relations Commission, and caused a public housing project. The catch was that all of these things could end by a vote if enough signers to a petition against it came about. Richardson did not like this since human rights can never be up for a vote. Gloria Richardson met with Malcolm X. They collaborated on creating a civil rights organization called ACT (with help from Chicago school boycott leader Lawrence Landry and others). Richardson met Malcolm X a number of weeks after the referendum vote when she traveled to Detroit to participate in a Southern Christian Leadership Conference workshop. They became friends. She listened to Malcolm X's "Message to the Grassroots" speech in Detroit. ACT was to focus on not moderating the black liberation movement. Gloria Richardson said the following words about Malcolm X: Across the country, Minister Malcolm has the same type of following, Muslim and non-Muslim, as we in Cambridge haveThroughout the nation, colored citizens are at the boiling point. Self-defense may actually be a deterrent to further violence hithertoThe Federal Government has moved into conflict situations only when matters approach the level of insurrection. Self Defense may force Washington to intervene sooner. She agreed with Malcolm Xs point that there has never been a revolution without bloodshed. Malcolm X never trusted establishment liberals either not just

establishment conservatives. Henceforth, Malcolm X was never a conservative. By 1965, he changed. He believed in gender equality. He wanted revolutionary action in society. He agreed with certain aspects of socialism and he was interviewed by socialist party members. Yet, he wasn't a total socialist. Instead, he was a pan-Africanist, revolutionary Black Nationalist. He worked in favor of labor rights. He criticized capitalism by 1965 as an exploitative economic philosophy. Malcolm X said the following, You cant have capitalism without racism... You cant operate a capitalistic system unless you are vulturistic; you have to have someone elses blood to suck to be a capitalist... So, he indeed criticized the liberals found in the establishment as foxes. No political philosophy is 100 percent perfect. Folks like Goldwater to him were wolves. He was an independent political man (who wanted black self-determination and black assertiveness). Malcolm X said that we should register as Independents in terms of voting. In the final analysis, they or the establishment may use a left face or a right face, but they hate it when we organize our own independent power base (and control it by ourselves). If we rule our own stuff, then that they see that as a threat, which is why they try to infiltrate the movements of selfdetermination among black human beings.
Gloria Richardson worked with Malcolm X in his Organization for Afro-American Unity (OAAU) until his assassination on February 21, 1965. Then, she worked in New York City in anti-poverty programs, women's organizations, and labor groups. She is an active labor union delegate today. She works in the City's Department for the Again. The establishment doesn't want to know the great contributions of Gloria Richardson.

*Also, we ought to remember our male and female heroes that paved the way for us. We should remember Amilar Cabral, Steve Banut Biko, Ida B. Wells, Mangaliso Sobukwe, Harriet Tubman, John Huggins, Shields Green, Fannie Lou Hamer, Sandra Pratt, Bob Ferebee (who led a slave insurrection in Virginia, where I live at now), Zumbi dos Palmares, Ella Baker, etc. The late Brother Kwame Ture would want us to focus not on individual worship (though, the individual has a lot of legitimate values in the world), but a communal infrastructure and collective power as a way to assist African peoples throughout the world. This doesnt mean that we bow down to the Democratic Party. Brothers
Malcolm X and Kwame Ture exposed the Democratic Party (even Bill Clinton loved the War on Drugs, eliminated Glass Steagall, and executed mass incarceration of brothers and sisters in the United States

of America under the guise of getting tough on crime. Clinton is a corporate funded man. Bill Gates loves GMO dangerous foods & hoarding seeds in the Arctic when folks are starving to death now, yet MSNBC is respecting these 2 folks. FOX News is wrong on many issues as well, so it is not just one network) for what they are. Bill Clinton tried to destroy welfare as we know it and advanced the US/NATO serial bombing of Serbia. They or these mainstream political leaders are one part of the establishment trying to issue token reforms. Still, they or the Democratic elite have loved wiretapping activists, advancing imperialism, loving austerity, and agreeing with drone attacks overseas. That is their agenda just like the Republican agenda.

I wish Wall Street would stop making excuses for wanting more bailouts and I wish that corporate raiders will stop making excuses for their ruinous policies in American society. Kwame Ture was a strong opponent of the Democratic Party and you can look at his videos and his literature to see that. The GOP has done atrocious actions before as well from advancing Stand Your Ground laws, their voter suppression efforts, and to their criminal expression or execution of the Iraq War. The modern economic crisis, which has been a great tendency of capitalism, has been precipitated on the Republican watch of George W. Bush. The legacy of Barry Goldwater, Nixons southern strategy, and Reagans reactionary agenda caused the Republican Party to be the most reactionary party of the 2 mainstream party system. That is why we should advocate social justice and seek the liberation of all of the peoples of the world. So, there is nothing wrong with fighting for workers rights, rights for women, civil rights, and human rights among all of the inhabitants of the globe. We need real jobs here irrespective of Republican obstructionism.
Revolutionary solutions are needed for our world without us genuflecting toward the Republicans or the Democrats. We dont need to be allied with a bunch of slick, evil globalists, but real folks

for real. So, Kwame Ture was a great Black Brother. He fought for freedom. To his enemies, he was controversial. To us, he was a black man that sincerely wanted freedom for our people. He will never be forgotten in his life. I will never ally with the devils (as in racists and evil elitists. Who do you think I was going to mention? LOL. We know who their father is and it surely is not God. That is why the truth is in living color without being pale of substance. Blackness is the architect of human life and relates to Creation) since I will never betray my blood for 40 pieces of silver at all. Folks are waking up more and I am glad to live in this generation. I will keep my views and my actions sharp like a 2 edged sword. So, as Brothers and Sisters, we should continue the work of our elders and our ancestors.

A Discussion with a Sister on the Motherland

I knew I would do something like this. One Great, Lovely Sister from the Internet named Courtney making words about Africa (and about the Nigerian woman Mosunmola Mo Abudu) inspired me. This conversation is about our people and our great, cultural heritage. She or Courtney is very intelligent and Sweet and it is great to inspire folks to learn about our Motherland, Mama Africa. This discussion is filled with great, harmonious vibes and much positive energy. So, here is the conversation. Enjoy:
My words: She is making moves as a lot of human beings in Nigeria are. This Sister should be encouraged and given her due respect for her talents, her hardworking actions, and her real merit indeed. Courtney: I keep hearing about Nigeria and the sense of business there. Respect to this LADY. Her name is Mosunmola Mo Abudu she said "We watch Hollywood as if all of America is Hollywood, she said. In that same vein we need to start selling the good bits of Africa. Great concept. My Words: Yes, I heard about it too. Nigeria is a great place. Nigeria has growing businesses and other huge resources. They call their version of Hollywood as Nollywood. She is right that far too long, Africa has been shown by the enemy in a monolithic, stereotypical image. Yet, we know that Africa has advanced industries, great cities, great people, beautiful fauna, and beautiful flora. Africa has its issues, but every nation on Earth has issues. Africa should be encouraged by us to grow and flourish. We are of black African descent and we are one. So, we will always have an undying love for Mama Africa as our place of origin as Brothers and Sisters (created in the image of one Creator and being descendants of the first humans on Earth). Thanks for your words Sister. You and others here including in other places always inspire me in my life. Mungu Ibariki Afrika Courtney: I know right? One thing that makes me smile, among so many things that do when I think about my father is, Before he died, He got a chance to visit Africa. He was different when he came back, 3 weeks later. Just in thought a lot. I want to go for sure and visit. I think there should be more African and African American connections between us.

Like a legit sponsoring of one another to learn and reach out to each other. I know that some of this does exist. You are right. Everywhere has its issues but at the same time, Africa is Beautiful!!!!! The resources that are there, the people, culture. Why you think, everyone else is there, stripping its natural resources? They know about the richness of Africa. Always been rich, from the beginning of time. If you were going to learn an African Language, which would it be? Thank you for your words as well. I love it when conversation is easy and respectful. Although I can handle the disrespectful, I choose not too. Its insignificant. As I said, you are an old soul. I got about 5 years on you. :) My Words: If I were to learn an African language, it would a language from the West African region since most of us (who are African Americans) are descended from West Africans by our lineage. Swahili is too common for us since we heard Swahili all of the time, yet Swahili is cool. Swahili is a great language to comprehend as well. Indeed, the imperialists and the rest of the enemy hate the truth (of our great legacy and beauty) and want to strip as much resources as possible from the Motherland. I want to go to Africa as well before I meet with the ancestors too. More African and African American unity is a must as you have mentioned. Africa is the richest continent on Earth. Africa is beautiful as you have said too. Also, with you, you have such a positive energy. I guess with me I have an easy going personality from my mother and father sides of the family. Yet, I do talk with a deeper, masculine voice especially if I want to make a point. We can be respectful and I feel like in this generation, more brothers and sisters are waking up. That is why the enemy is angry since when we know who we are and our history, then we can be further inspired to build up a better future (one brother here is right we should support our black business and we need to be patience, yet strong with our people who are suffering. Not everything in the globe is peaches and cream, but we have the right to use activism and hope to make a better way). Our struggle is a long struggle for liberation. Our liberation may not come in our lifetime unfortunately. God willing, our grandchildren and great grandchildren may see it. Also, Sister you are not that old. You are wise beyond your years too. You are very nice and Sweet. :) Courtney: OK. Just looked at a list of West African Languages. A whole bunch. lol So its about narrowing it down to countries who are progressing...:) Thank you as do you. Your spirit shines through when folks allow there positive energy to take hold. Too many folks who believe that they are in control of whatever, want to TRY to take that energy. These games are realized, early on, if you look deeper. Waste of too much energy. Let those who believe in that sort of thing, be who they are. It's insignificant. I'm loving that more of us are waking up and seeing that, we are here one time in the physical, and that we should try and surround our hearts and minds with more beautiful imagery, more beautiful convo between us, real convo as well, More beautiful interactions between us socially. You are right, the struggle is a long one and Im afraid we will not see it in our lifetime but we can do our part to create more beautiful outcomes for ourselves because that gets passed on, and we see that in pockets here and around the world, in different places. So, it's a slow train but the train is moving. It would indeed be beautiful if our grandchildren and great grandchildren can

actually witness with their own eyes, a different reality with us as a people. A collective reality. :) __________________________________ Other Discussions with the Sister Courtney: Me: Right. Good Morning Sister Courtney. :) Courtney: Good Morning Truthseeker2436577. :) I think I need a cup of coffee. Lol Me: LOL. You can get a cup of coffee if you need it Courtney. Courtney: Oh, I need it. :) Me: Do the thing then. Handle that business. LOL. :) Have a blessed Day, Sweetie. Courtney: Oh , I'm going to handle it. Its brewing right now as we speak .I 'm not a big coffee drinker but today, it's going down. lol. You have a bless day too Truth, enjoy it. :) _________________________________________ Courtney: And , we all thank you and BroSHABAZZ804 along with the rest of black men who believe in decency and respect. On a side note , was watching Anderson Cooper interviewing Antoinette Tuff and the 9-11 operator that stayed on the phone with her. TWo beautiful sisters, doing what they were born to do. :) Me: Thanks Sister Courtney. Decency and respect are characteristics of real human beings. I saw a portion of them hug and talk about their emotional stories on CNN. Antionette Tuff and the 9/11 operator are indeed modern day heroes. They are very Beautiful Sisters indeed, just like you inside and out. :) These two Sisters prevented a massacre and they should be given all of the respect in the world. The great humanitarianism exhibited by these two women is always a blessing. Also, it is important to respect the many beautiful cultures of the world. Your life story is a testament of the great value of the diverse cultures of humanity. Things happen for a reason. Real Brothers and Real Sisters remind us about the value of all human life (and our responsibility to follow the truth and improve society succinctly including strongly). _______________________________________________________________

This discussion is about culture, life, and television with Sister Courtney. Me: LOL.
You are Something Special Sista. I wish for him to see the errors of his ways and wake up. Good Afternoon Sister Courtney. How are you doing today? :) Courtney: Hello Truth.:) lol. Good evening to you. I'm good,finished a good workout and im about to pick up a turkey sandwich and settle in with some castle. :) And you? Me: I am doing great Sista Courtney :) You certainly love Castle and there is nothing wrong with that. I will work out tomorrow. I am glad that you had a great workout. :) Exercise is great for the mind, body, and soul. Exercise makes my skin clearer, my mind more sharp, and I am in a more joyful mood too afterwards. Cardio is great, but I love the weight machines. I finished eating some green and some beef. Also, I finished work today and I am ready to learn more information. :) I am listening to some of Kwame Ture's words and Kwame Ture was a great black revolutionary. P.S. Enjoy your Turkey Sandwich Beloved & Sweetie. :) Courtney: Im happy to hear that you are. I didn't make it to the park so it was Kenya Moore workout dvd today. Which is no joke when you do all the segments together, instead of just one 20 minute segment. That does not do anything. YOu know us BLACK GODDESSES have to stay in shape, making the racist trolls and even some of our own males ,who have hatred for their own women, look incredibly stupid. :) So greens and beef sounds like a great protein meal.. Working out does make the mind so much sharper as you stated. Exertion feels great afterwards because you know you are feeding,pushing and putting your body through what it needs.I do feel better after a good sweat. :) Yes I do really like that show. The new season started last monday and its a two parter. So tonight is part two at 10pm but on tnt, I get to watch the reruns. I think Sleepy Hollow comes on tonight . What you watching? Me: It is great to workout indeed. You are certainly a phenomenal woman. :) I heard of Kenya Moore's workout DVD before. The new in thing in exercising is the plyometrics mixed with cardio type exercises now. Those exercises as similar to your DVD is an excellent way to burn fat and to increase muscular endurance. Sista, the haters and the trolls only wish they could have your accomplishments, your swag, and your humor. There is nothing like you Black Goddesses doing your thing. The haters will always look foolish when Brothers and Sisters stand on real principles and fight for real solutions constructively. So, there is nothing like you. We are all unique and special in the eyes of the Creator and expressing our talents sends joy in the Heavens. So, Sista it is what it is. :) You Black Goddesses are Blessings and we all know this Sista on the real. :). Like always, I love you. A good sweat means that you are in the right track.

Sleepy Hollow is on FOX. Castle is a very interesting show too. Right now, I just finished looking at the end of Poetic Justice. Now, I am looking at VH1 Soul and looking at Martin. At night, I usually look at movies at Encore channels (or political shows). I am a serial channel turner. :) Courtney: Uh oohhhhh. you are the remote guy! lol . :) anyway, ms Moore defies all naysayers. Her fitness is amazing and to be her age.? Inspirational.3 years ago, I bought insanity and that was the hardest thing ever. I'm gonna do another round of that . Just decided that I wanted to see how to change my body to the fittest I can get it before I hit the big 40 in a couple of years, plus one. :) As for the haters, they are gonna hate,until it's too late.I do what I do for me, my life but it certainly makes me giggle when I see them trying to hate. lol Yes, we are all unique and special in our own individual ways. All of us as BLACK Goddesses . It's great that we are all different. Same goes for you BLACK Gods. Those hating can't measure up nor do they understand, so thank you. :)My family Keeps me in stitches. I truly don't know anyone more wittier than my brother. He is hilarious for real..He will have people crying laughing and he is not even trying to be funny. lmaooo.Oh and roasting? forget about it. smh. He likes p 90 x... Poetic Justice is a great movie. I love the scene were he left her on the side of the road.lol All in all, just a really touching movie and performance between those two. Martin is too funny. I like Elroy Preston. Don't you know no good. bawhahahaa and Yt BOB. Dragon fly Jones.

Me: There is nothing wrong with Kenya Moore doing her thing and advancing exercise. Our people doing that is excellent. Many folks are inspirational too including the Sister Ernestine Shepherd. That Sister is almost 80 and she looks like she is in her 50's. Kenya Moore overcame a lot and she is going great things with her exercise DVD. We all wish her the best in that endeavor. I will not be 40 until 2023, but when I am 30, it is on. I will focus continually on unique exercising when I hit the big 3-0. When you hit 40, it only means you gain more insight and exercising helps in so many ways Lovely Queen. :). The haters may hate with their haterade, but we are lovers of our people and lovers of truth. Your family is always wonderful. Also, your brother reminds me of my youngest brother (or the pretty boy as we call him). He is very humorous and tells jokes all of the time. Poetic Justice was a great film about our struggles and love. Your favorite scene was when she was left in the road. THAT IS SO COLD BLOODED TO THE NTH POWER. LOL. :) Well, many males the remote seriously. LOL. Yet, a real man will always make a woman happy by acknowledging their own TV tastes as well. 30's are great as you say. I will be 30 soon and your words certainly show the truth on the beauty of the 30's. That Poetic Justice scene represents the reality that sometimes LOVE can be a rocky road (folks can be frustrated. Both Tupac and Janet are really funny when they are angry in the film), but at the end of the day, true LOVE can prevail amidst obstacles. The movie touched on so many subjects. We could all relate. I was born and raised in the ghetto and many of those scenes resonate with my life and my personal experiences.

Martin is funny. His whole demeanor is similar to so many of us (especially those who live in the DMV). That is how many of us talk, laugh, and act. I like Otis, Jerome, etc. Also, since we know your first name, do you want to know my first name? Courtney: Yes you do.lol smh...That remote is serious when it comes to men. lol. Yes, I remember when she was crowned and we all damn neared cried. She killed it in the looks department that year because not one of those girls on the stage, looked anything like her but she was straight natural.when she thanked her grandmother, I knew she payed homage to her grandmother,I just knew she had it in the bag. :) That Dvd works, they just hate on her because she is a BLACK Goddess. 40 in 2023? Why does that seem like its eons away? lol Anyway, your 30s are wonderful. Just keep taking care of yourself because the 30s is where it counts. It will lay out the rest of your life. So your youngest brother is funny too? He can probably tell a funny story ,like no ones business.My brother and his wife are visiting for thanksgiving. They are driving with their two dogs, obie wan and luke and I can't wait to start laughing. lol Even his dogs are funny. Go figure. Poetic justice scene when he put her out was funny because he had nothing else to say.He was so frustrated and she gladly said, that she would walk. lmaooo Yup ,thats how you do it. continued-- as far as martin, nothing was funnier on tv than martin ,and to think that seinfeld was getting all the emmy's and martin not one. smh. People were even stealing some of his ideas for their shows ...everyone on that show was special and they made it work. I even liked cole and his dumb girlfriend. lol.It does not matter where one grows up at all. All that matters is how they turn out.As far as your name, I thought Truthseeker was your name. lol. What is your first name? Me: LOL. Martin was a special show and you could laugh outright. I laugh with my Southern, country accent when I look at Martin. Each character outlined an unique part of the African American experience. We all know folks like Martin, Cole, Tommy, and Gina in real life (whether they are friends, workers, family members, etc.). Not even other comedians could make a show like Martin. I assume many thought my name was TruthSeeker too. LOL. My first name is Timothy. Courtney: Hello Timothy. Never would of thought Timothy which is a nice name. :)You are not lying when you say that we all know somebody like those characters on Martin.People like that, do not know how special they really are ,bringing humor to peoples lives.They make it so easy to want to be around them, even when people get to arguing because those can be funny too. Sometimes ,going out is not necessary. Just hanging around your crazy friends at the spot can be good enough. :) Me: Right, humor is a great social medicine. It can cheer folks up and keep the creative thinking of humanity fresh. Also, I forgot to mention Pam from Martin too. A lot of Brothers had a crush on Pam like moi. :) During the last season of Martin, Pam and Gina were very fit and very attractive. Yet, comedy can unite us as a people since we are multifaceted. We can be doctors, lawyers, business leaders, comedians, athletes, scientists, and other

experts like it is meant to be. Also, during times of the day, we can let it flow and just be real to bring laughter in the world. Sometimes our friends and relatives would be funnier than any sitcom. So, like always, this conversation has been great. Courtney is very nice name too. :) I respect you and I love you. I am further convinced that in the end, everything will be fine. I a'int going to tell you my nickname though. LOL. That is top secret, it is in the vault, and it is locked away in the Ocean forever, ever, and forever. Goodnight Sweet Courtney. :) TTYL Courtney: I agree. Pam was crazy as hell along with Gina. lmao. Remember when pam got married to the latin guy, to keep him in the country, and she was eating chips ,talking to everybody in there seats, walking down the aisle? All she was worried about was her money.Or the episode with biggie, when pam and gina was trying to out sing one another.? lmaoooooo

Anyway, we are unstoppable as a people and we just have to get others to see that. We are everything.. Some of our friends, need to be on a sitcom for real. lol I respect you and thank you so much for the conversation. Now I have to figure out ,what that nickname of yours is. lol Thank you for the compliment. Goodnight and TTYL Timothy. :) Me: P.S.
Sister Courtney, I just remember that you said that I have kind eyes. :) Thank you. I was not born in Africa. My parents were not born in Africa either. I am a black African American though. I have Caribbean heritage on my mother's side of the family. I just love to study the tongues of our people from the Motherland of Africa Sista. :) Have a Blessed Day like always.

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Courtney: Congratulations Serena. 5 titles away from Steffi Graf ,who actually was one of my favorite tennis players growing up. Serena is truly unstoppable. :) Me: Aww. Your avatar is something special Sister Courtney. So, are you a Daddy's girl? I do not even have to ask. :) Courtney: Thank you. Absolutely was his shadow, up until the day he passed. We went fishing a month before. Just me and him .They were an amazing team and mom knew how to interact with men. But, only a MAN can see a WOMAN. It's that diamond in the rough thing so those silly males who don't get it, is not a bother. What's for you will be and their is no time specification on that. Patience is best. My mom got a KING by walking to the beat of her own drum and dad LOVED it. lol

If I have a daughter, nothing will make me happier than to see her father shadow her and vice versa. It really is such a special bond. Father and daughter and I was lucky to have the greatest example of one. Because of him , is the reason why I respect Black MEN and men in general..But, only a man can make me listen and, only a man brings out the best in me as a woman. They have my attention. :) Me: You are right. We both had strong fathers. RIP to your father dear Sister. My father is still around. Yet, we are blessed with strong family members and friends that cared for us, treated us with love, and educated us on the many facets of human life or human existence. These are things that we can cherish in our minds and our hearts. When a man and a woman unite for a just cause, it is very strong force. When a man loves a woman for real, then all of the hosts of Heaven will bless that relationship. The unification of a man and a woman has the power to change the world, which has historically happened throughout human history. In general, human love is more powerful than evil or deception. Your gift is your sensitivity mixed with your strength as a means to inspire folks and contribute to the world positive, constructive actions. Regardless of the haters and racists here, we will continue to defend our people and fight for human justice. So, God Bless your family. As a Brother, I have great respect for you. All of the Real Brothers and all of the Real Sisters enjoy your words and your great vibe. Nothing will change with me on my core convictions. Even into the decades into the future, I will keep my core convictions indeed. I will always respect women who gave me my life. I will always respect real men who are doing what is right and fighting for legitimate righteousness in the world as well. So, Bless you and continue on the real path. Sister Courtney, all of us who are real root for us and we all respect you. You are a very Real Black Woman indeed. :) Courtney: Thank you. I'm happy that your father and mother are still here. Continued blessings in that regard..:) Yes we both do. He was always teaching, showing, playing,involved,always wanted us around, keeping a close eye :) He was a mans man but well balanced and knew how to temper his manhood only letting loose when he felt he had to protect .. :)He was truly amazing so when I hear these numbskulls on here, talk down about black men as if they are not men, it does not register to me. I truly have no idea what they are talking about and nor do they. when I tell you that my parents were a TEAM, I mean that. They truly liked each other and was concerned about each others well being, along with us. They were each others rock for real and I witnessed how they interacted with one another. So , I understand that many people in the world, are skeptical of black men and women, and men and women in general , truly getting along and loving each other. One major reason why I have extreme patience with dealing with the right kind of man or NO MAN AT ALL until I come across one with some commonsense. :)Consulting, communicating,working, hanging out with each other, truly getting to know each other is

where it's at. I am a balance of both of them and respect what they have given me.So I know what I DONT have to TOLERATE from ANYONE and what is WORTH fighting for and what is a waste of time PERIOD. I think, when more people start to realize that they don't have to be on anyone else's time schedule, no matter what everyone else is doing around them, but be on your own time schedule, things don't become so complicated because the only person that knows what's truly right for one is you. As you stated, the unification of a man and woman, does have the power to change to world. And not just society but, it has to power to change those around you, your communities etc. It speaks to the direct lie that those on here and in the world would like us all to believe. That being , men and women have to constantly be at war with one another and thats not true. Respect the fact that we are the same but different and come to some kind of medium, to build successful, strong, foundations, when it comes to building legitimate friendships and families. But the one constant should always be, NEVER walk away from the family. That requires being honest and humble about what peoples true intentions are with one another. Basically, NO GAMES. So it's important to pay attention to what people say coupled with how they truly live. Thank you Truth, I respect you and many others on here. Sorry a bit long, he's on my mind with his birthday coming up at the end of the week so thank you for listening. :) Me: Right Sister. Those words that you have mentioned here are some of the realest words that I have read in my life. You are indeed a genius and insightful. Thank you Sister Courtney.

By Timothy

I embrace my past and my heritage. All respect is given unto the Creator and the ancestors. Also, I will live in the present and live in the future too. I am grown and I will act grown.

Ubenemini emnandi Impilo

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