In the Spirit of the Gracious and CompassionateCreator of the Heavens and the Earth Thirty-four years ago, I discovered great opportunities in word processing, and I wanted to share those opportunities with my African American Muslim Brothers. So, every week, for a couple of years, I had an announcement read in the mosque immediately afterContinue reading “Homophobia Causes Poverty – At Least Once or Twice”
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On Strategy
In the Spirit of the Gracious and CompassionateCreator of the Heavens and the Earth I was a student of strategy before I knew what strategy was. Growing up in Harlem meant knowing not to walk down certain streets. Most streets, actually. The avenues were okay — Amsterdam (where I lived), Broadway, Convent Avenue, and St.Continue reading “On Strategy”
Which Way Is Up?
In the Spirit of the Gracious and CompassionateCreator of the Heavens and the Earth Not a Simple Question In the Physical World For tens of thousands of years, people were absolutely convinced that the world is flat. It was not a question. To everyone, it was simply the way things are. In the statement, “InContinue reading “Which Way Is Up?”
Anglo-Saxon Britain and African America
The word “England” means “the land of the Angles”. The Angles and the Saxons were two Germanic tribes that conquered the Britons fifteen centuries ago, taking both their land and their name. The original Britons were a people related to the ancestors of today’s Scots and Irish. The Anglo-Saxon conquerors drove them into what isContinue reading “Anglo-Saxon Britain and African America”
groups of five
In the Spirit of the Gracious and CompassionateCreator of the Heavens and the Earth planor surely fail this is a plan form a group of fivemeet regularly andtalk face-to-face conversation is mostly listeningand hearing and respondingto what others have said study is necessaryto learn about the historyof the world study is necessaryto learn about theContinue reading “groups of five”
futility
the America you believe inthe America you want to be a part ofnever existed your desire for white people to like youyour desire for white people to not be racistis misplaced you are not a raceyou are a people to dignify yourselves as a peopleyou must study and you mustlook each other in the faceContinue reading “futility”
the blind leading the blind leading the blind
the blindleading the blindleading the blind dead contractchosen people no morepromised land no morecast outfor rejecting one prophettoo many ***** five centuriesattempting to have lifein a dead contract thenone last merciful chancea prophet warning them and the promised messiah but yet stillproud and resentfulrejectingthis last merciful chancethe unchosen peoplecast out once againfromthe unpromised land *****Continue reading “the blind leading the blind leading the blind”
feast
transported worsethan cattlethen offloaded force-marchednakedthrough the hot humid Amazonover the frigid Andesto be worked to deathin the mines of Peru or worked onlyhalf-to-deathon the Southern plantations(and sodomizedtongues and otherbody-parts cut offand babies unborncut out the wombset cetera et cetera et cetera) producinggreat wealth which enabledgreat technological progressand world domination(which could not have been doneotherwise) aContinue reading “feast”
The Bible, the Qur’an, and the Invention of Paper
Ts’ai Lun and Your World Ts’ai Lun is the seventh most influential person in history (according to Michael H. Hart, The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History). You’ve probably never heard of him. He invented paper. He was Chinese. If the inventor of paper had been European – a “white” manContinue reading “The Bible, the Qur’an, and the Invention of Paper”
waiting to breathe
i had this thought if all the white people diedand their bodieswere burnt to ashes and all those asheswere loaded onfast-moving space-ships and those space-ships keptgoing andgoing andgoing until they were beyondthe sun’s gravity and there was no chance whatsoever that those ashes wouldevercome back to earth i would notice myselfbreathing again and start theContinue reading “waiting to breathe”