ON THE NATURE OF HIM

WHEN THE RIGHT MAN COMES INTO YOUR LIFE…

A MATURE DISCUSSION

OF THE NATURE OF “HIM”

PROLOGUE: By Bigdaddy Blues

Difficult as it is to capture the emotional essence of what we believe to be true love in plain words I believe we must at least make an attempt to do so. The documentation and study of love is the most neglected science in twenty-first century culture… Love it might be argued, is practically completely ignored if not altogether mistaken for sex…

But every man who has been fortunate enough to experience the very best of both love and sex will agree they are related but otherwise remarkably different creatures in their own right…  

I do not seek to define either love or sex through poetry, that would be impossible. Love and sex are as uniquely branded as the two or more people who share in them… this means that the role of poetry is rather to document the experience. If any definition for love or sex exists it would be credible only as a purely explicative tool fashioning a virtual but esoteric model of life. A poem like a newspaper conveying a story about something someone did should pull the reader into the very soul of an event that is already past or future history.

When I write about love, and this poem is mostly about love with accessory sex… I aspire to tell the audience what I learned about love and of course sex… It is as much a training manual as it is a fanciful mirage intended to freeze my memory of something profoundly moving and inspiring… I write about love because it is always upon my mind and when it is not a dark and story reflection as in this case it can actually be quite gay… pardon the pun… most important it is the documentation of a real experience.

So what I am saying is that I enjoy the sensory dynamic of my man… spending quality time together close and intimate. Our response to one another is mutually enchanting but it is a magic based in real life practicality. In other words we are both sexually and spiritually compatible… After years of painful experimentation with appeasing the worlds opinion of our relationships we have both decided to ignore the extra-social dynamic and spend the energy previously squandered there on understanding and appreciating one another. Since we are both mature men the prospect of living out our lives together is far more poignant and the reality of both our mortality is a reality we cannot ignore… This makes our journey all the more serious and at the same time it is cause to make the ultimate concession to each other’s truths… If this is the man I think he is I look forward to growing old with him and dying with him as my last and ultimate earthly love…

HIM…

As long as my man's, ebon-skin and the many handsome parts of him,

touch me, or lay near,

i’ll be a lion basking in recumbent bliss,

adoring the aparitif-cocktailed-whispers of his vernal kiss…

Because I know the timbre of his heart,

is but the gentle stroke of a chamelion’s brush,

fond of painting a joyous landscape,

upon the strata of my soul…

composing a familiar roar twixt loves intermittent hush…

Our un-solicited program boasts a seasoned cast of volcanic affections,

erupting from the lusty ambitions we’ve molded,

into gentlemanly doses of sexual nonfiction,

each climactic episode defines a rustically masculine cinematic direction,

keen to dramatize erotic hallmarks subtly floated above evidentiary detection…

My man and I have disobeyed the worlds intrusions, so our anonymity may replace the pretense of illusion,

freed from life's circus I’ve decided to always make him smile,

Rejecting love’s burgeoning basket of promises but for his,

believing the years will martyr me for trying,

Should I live to find my peace with him… I shall rejoice in it whilst dying...

Written by BIGDADDY BLUES

THE BLUES TRADITION LIVES IN BLACK AMERICANS

Over the centuries that Black Americans have struggled to achieve equality dignity in a hostile nation the blues has continued to be a powerful vehicle for the dissemination of wisdom and consolation in the face of unimaginable adversity. It has used the lessons of love, life and spirituality to document the black man's journey here.

I often write in what I call, "Traditional Southern Black American Vernacular Dialect". which is a actually a euphemism for what some call "Slave-English". There is no shame in the art of communication. I find the many variations of TBAD to be fascinating and whenever I am fortunate enough to actually encounter someone who still speaks variations of the old-language it captures my imagination.

I have written a poem of love, a Blues Poem in Traditional Black American Vernacular Dialect" or TBAD. It is called "MAN I GOT'S THE HIDE-OUT BLUES". Please check it out at my Blog, Opening A Twentieth Century Kind Of Love:

http://twenty-firstcenturylove.blogspot.com/2017/10/man-i-got-hide-out-blues.html  

BIGDADDY BLUES

UNDERSTANDING FREEDOM...

In order to truly appreciate the struggle of our ancestors who endured enslavement in America we must mentally connect with the realness of their struggle, therein lay solutions to the current challenges facing Black Americans... 

Join me for a reflection on this phenomenon at my other Blog, "THE STORIES OF BLACK ME"

AT: http://thestoriesofblackmen.blogspot.com/2017/09/how-to-get-free.html 

SEE YOU THERE... 

BIGDADDY BLUES

VICTORIAN HIP-HOP BLUES...

Over the years my poetic and prosaic style had changed as has every prolific writer who strives to explore the phenomenon of literary expression.  I have finally found a comfortable fusion of the antique style I love with the freshness of twenty-first century literary expression and I call it Victorian Hip-Hop Blues. Please visit my blog, Opening A Twenty-First Century Kind of Love at this link...

http://twenty-firstcenturylove.blogspot.com/2017/06/soliloquy-of-after-valentine.html

 FROM: BIGDADDY BLUES

THE ROCKY ROAD OF AMERICAS EXPERIMENT WITH FREEDOM

OPPRESSION, RESISTANCE, LIBERATION AND RETALIATION:

An Simple Formula For Quantifying The Human Struggle For Freedom

 THE RUINS OF AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN/KUSHITE METROPOLIS 

In order to see culture you need only open your eyes. In order to comprehend culture one must stand back from it and taking one’s time… endeavor to identify and connect its myriad patterns.

AN EGYPTIAN PHARAOH VANQUISHING HIS ENEMIES 

Who needs a formula to assess whether they are free or in danger of losing their freedom? Certainly not most individuals. Where this formula of critical analysis becomes helpful is when freedom is assessed on a larger scale such as with the example of a cultural model. It is possible that peoples become blinded by the banalities of everyday life causing them to miss important trends in time to act to reverse them. In many ways, mainstream culture can be a social anesthetic and barbiturate.

A CARAVAN SOJOURNS AMIDST ANCIENT EGYPTIAN/KUSHITE RUINS

Culture is a continuous phenomenon. There remain elements of every distinctive culture of men in what we call modernity. Modernity as quantified against American standards is still heavy with vestiges of Victorian and far more ancient cultures thereby defining its diversity and complexity. We are in observance of the collision of multiple cultural patterns that have gained momentum over the past three centuries. The cultural convulsions playing themselves out globally today follow an ancient pattern of oppression, resistance, liberation and retaliation that gained momentum in our lifetime during the twentieth century. But these convulsions were the after-shock of far earlier events that can be traced back to Suleiman, Moorish Culture in the Mediterranean, to the European Enlightenment and reformation.  

A MOORISH KING RETURNS HOME

Look at any culture and you will find at some point its peoples freedoms were threatened and they became oppressed. In the next phase of this social drama the peoples resisted oppression, obtained liberation and thereafter were forced to defend their freedom by disgruntled factions of the failed oppressive forces seeking retaliation. It is an ancient social model. This model played itself out recently in American history during the Civil War, Reconstruction and Post-Reconstruction.  It is clearly playing itself out again in response to The Civil Rights Era of the mid twentieth century.

AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BATTLE SHOWING THE CASUALTIES OF WAR BETWEEN NUBIANS AND ARABS

Ayatollah Khomeni was a resonant marker for what has become a global movement against modernity in our time. But America cultivated a similar brand of fundamentalism disguised as religious zeal but focused on the repression of basic human rights justified by a religious doctrine that had become culturally obsolete. The cultural bias of Americans toward Christianity caused American culture to whitewash and its fundamentalist movement as morally and ethically positive while demonizing its twin, the Islamic movement. The two movements were identical in philosophical dogma, they both sought to wrest freedoms from women, ethnic and religious factions they did not like based on culturally obsolete interpretations of religion. Like the devilish culture of slavery that claimed legitimacy by divine right the undercurrents of American religious fundamentalism has always kept close ties to a racist socioeconomic and political structure that has historically enforced its dogma. The American brand was marketed then as the moral majority and now as the evangelical movement. Today it lustily hisses and grinds its teeth at us poised beneath an umbrella of other fascist and racist factions that look, talk, and walk like the Muslim fundamentalist movement it pretends to despise.  Both are equally evil! Having licked their wounds and sharpened their fangs for decades in the shadows they lunge out at an unsuspecting America caught doting on hard-won freedoms… The lesson to be learned is that before freedom fighters can rest they must cultivate protégés thereby ensuring freedom and democracy will not be erased…

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN/KUSHSITE WOMEN DANCERS AND MUSICIANS

I make no distinction between the Muslim Fundamental Extremists and the American Fundamental Extremists. The former has defaulted to terrorism through bombs the latter has defaulted to terrorism through policy. They are equally evil…

AN EGYPTIAN/KUSHITE COUPLE

The election of Donald Trump is a queer but timely reverberation of the cataclysmic culture that spawned the unholy rise of the moral majority during the Reagan years. American liberals closely fastened their coats against the winter then and ever since have enjoyed a veritable summer of democratic resplendence until this very year. A tide of ultra-conservatism and repression, of religious extremism and intolerance has been idling for 37 years in these United States but this tide is also a resurgence of a familiar tsunami of hate which provoked the civil rights movement 50 years ago. It is a graft from the same tree of cultural barbarity that precipitated the American Civil and Revolutionary wars. The formula has never changed.

AGRARIAN LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT/KUSH

Every human being learns differently, we learn through multiple intelligences. Some of us are kinesthetic learners, others visual learners, some of us learn through mathematics others music, we are all blessed to understand our universe through different lenses. I am a visual learner I see things in 3-dimension, volumetrically and often mathematically when the 3-dimensional concept is abstract such as this example. Here is a formula for social progress the way I see it:

SOCIAL PROGRESS = {((-1) OPPRESSION + (+1) RESISTANCE)} ÷ (LIBERATION (+1)) + RETALIATION (-1))

Where:

1.       SOCIAL PROGRESS = A positive evolution of culture that asserts and implements the egalitarian freedoms of all people.

2.       OPPRESION = A negative, aggressively forceful arrest or removal of the egalitarian freedoms of all people.

3.       RESISTANCE = The positive, peacefully assertive maintenance and procurement of the egalitarian freedoms of all people.

4.       LIBERATION = A positive, temporary state or period during which the egalitarian freedoms of all peoples is enjoyed.

5.       RETALIATION = A negative, temporary state or period during which the egalitarian freedoms of all peoples is being aggressively challenged or threatened.

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN/KUSHITE MINSTRELS

This equation is just a re-statement of pure and simple common sense.  Essentially it is a push/pull theory that asserts social progress requires continual maintenance or it will deteriorate or be dismantled by tyranny unless protected.  Its premise is a defensive theory asserting that forces of oppression will ultimately challenge and defeat human liberties if they are not actively maintained. A wise man does not require such elaborate mathematical equations, theorems and postulations, all he needs is to understand human nature and the causes of evil. A just man understands that evil is not what he does not like it is a force larger than himself which continually struggles to erode the triumphs of human social progress and harmony. Nor does he hate evil men driven by forces they do not understand to whom they have relinquished their power to do good.

EGYPTIAN/KUSHITE FARMERS

The cold fact is that we are at this perilous point in human history again because we have not been good stewards of freedom! Europeans who watched policemen become a deadly militia as the SS and Gestapo during the last two world wars have unarmed their police and set into place political safeguards against a one party fascist system. I understand that all of you already know this but what you do not know is how to turn the tide peacefully. The purpose of this article is to identify the snake in the garden. As a community, we must gather our resources in order to remove it. There will always be snakes in the garden my friend there is no garden of Eden for men. That does not mean that we must accept living in hell on earth either. We must work together to counteract the negative work of evil men who delight in poisoning the lives of other men!

KING AKHENATEN AND HIS WIFE NEFERTITI AT COURT

So where are we now? Can we isolate our location along the historical pattern of oppression and injustice in America? At what stage are we and is there any room to turn back before all is lost? Is all lost?

KING TUTANKHAMON AND HIS WIFE AKHESENAMUN AT COURT

Today democracy is at a perilous point where those who are free have lost control of the legal tools required to sustain their freedom. They are forced to react to threats aimed at removing their freedoms by those who now monopolize those legal tools and would not hesitate to sink to despotic oppression.  These men actually believe they are doing good and that is what makes them a danger to all humanity. Our one-party government has two years to wreak havoc on the freedoms of Americans until they can remove senators, congressman and governors in 2018. So in the interim protest and make your voices heard so that congressmen expecting re-election will understand how closely they will be held accountable for their actions between now and re-election.  Remember zealots do not operate the same as normal men. They will sacrifice everything in the name of an ideal, a theoretical construct! There is no balance, rationality or even humanity in their mind all they see is a burning icon of hate and anger! God protect us from such men!

A MEMPHIS DANCER ENTERTAINS AT COURT

But that is why I write! To help undo the evil of other men… Make no mistake! A one-party government and an economy dominated by the monolith of big-business is neither democratic nor free-market capitalism it is fascist! This is the model of government and commerce branded by Hitler and Lenin! I am afraid to even utter the possibility that this glorious nation would be so close to communism as to have only one political party in power without any checks and balances… what kind of democracy is that? It brings tears to my eyes that a nation founded upon the separation of church and state has reverted to feudal medievalism! Certainly, the august founders of this great nation Washington, Jefferson and Adams are convulsing in their tombs at the disgrace bought upon democracy by the rule of a one party controlled government with no checks and balances! I say it is simply Un-American!

ANCIENT MOURNERS AT A ROYAL FUNERAL

No wonder American streets are filled with protestors angry at the utter failure of democracy. The anger overflows into international streets there is a cry and that sound is growing and will be heard in the end. Better that we now make ourselves part of that voice even in the simplest way that we can but in some way. We may not lay idle watching the play of oppression, resistance, liberation and retaliation!

ANCIENT EGYPTIOAN/KUSHITE WARRIARS

FIN

Written by BIGDADDY BLUES

A MOORISH MAN IN CONTEMPLATION

ON THE GENTLEMANLY ART OF BEING PRESIDENTIAL

EMILY POST AUTHORITARIAN ON MODERN ETIQUETTE

PRESIDENTIAL HOME TRAINING: A BEHAVIORAL DEGENERATION FROM RESPECTABLE TO OUTLANDISH!

GOOD HOME TRAINING GOES A LONG WAY IN THIS WORLD. THE CONCEPT IS SIMPLE ENOUGH BUT WHEN THERE ARE MISSING PIECES OR JUST NOTHING AT ALL THINGS BEGIN TO GET ZANY.  ESPECIALLY IN THOSE CASES WHEN THE DEFICIENT PERSONALITY IS THRUST INTO WORLD-VIEW!  NOW I WONT CLAIM TO HAVE ANY FIRST-HAND KNOWLEDGE OF THIS OR ANY MANS UPBRINGING BUT I MUST INSIST  THAT A MAN’S BEHAVIOR SPEAKS FOR ITSELF!

I GUESS IT IS SAFE TO MAKE A BLIND ASSUMPTION THAT 100% OF AMERICANS EXPECT THEIR 45^TH PRESIDENT TO…. WELL… ACT PRESIDENTIAL! THEY EXOECT HIM TO BE A POLISHED, GENTLEMAN, TO BE POLITE AND EXERCISE THE KIND OF SOCIAL RESTRAINT EXPECTED OF AND NECESSARY FOR A DIGNITARY IN HIS POSITION.

I BELIEVE THE PROPER WORD IS DIGNIFIED, YES WE EXPECT A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO BE DIGNIFIED. IN SPITE OF THE PREDICTABLE REALITY-TV GRADE GOSSIP SURROUNDING THE LIFE OF OUR 45^TH PRESIDENT AND UNDOUBTEDLY BECAUSE OF IT THE PERSONAL LIFE OF TRUMP IS REALLY A HUGE SCRIPTED BORE. I MEAN, I SHOULDNT EVEN BOTHER WASTING A SINGLE PRECIOUS SECOND THINKING ABOUT HIM WERE HE NOT IN A POSITION TO CAUSE SUCH GREAT DESTRUCTION. BUT LIKE AN IMMATURE CHILD LEFT ALONE AT HOME WITH MATCHES HE MUST BE WATCHED AND MANAGED! SINCE DESCRETION AND TACT APPREAR TO NEVER HAVE BEEN CULTIVTED IN HIS CHILDHOOD OR ADULT LIFE AMERICA MUST NOW PARENT IT'S 45TH PRESIDENT AS A MEANS OF SURVIVAL!

FORWARD TO THE ILLUSTRATION OF A YOUNG BOY BEING APPROPRIATELY DISCIPLINED BY HIS FATHER WHICH I INCLUDED AS A MEANS OF ADDING BOTH A CONTEXT AND A DOSE OF LIGHT HUMOR TO AN OTHERWISE WORRISOME SUBJECT!  NOW WHEREAS I HAVE NEVER BEEN NOR SHALL I EVER BE AN ADVOCATE OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT I WILL CONFIDENTLY RECOMMEND THAT SOME GOOD OLD-FASHIONED PARENTING TECHNIQUES MIGHT HAVE (IN THIS CASE AT LEAST) MADE FOR A BETTER TYPE OF MAN! I DO NOT THINK IT IS OK FOR A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO FEEL AS IF HE MAY BE SELFISH AND RUDE WHEN HE IS ACTING AS THE VOICE OF ALL AMERICANS.

AS TRUMP HAS OFTEN REFERENCED RETURNING BACK TO OLD-TRUSTED AMERICAN VALUES HE HAS MANAGED TO FORGET THAT HE IS NOW THE MODEL FOR THIS BEHAVIOR? PERHAPS AMERICA NEEDS MORE CLARIFICATION TO DETERMINE WHETHER HE MEANT A RETURN TO GENTLEMANLY OR VULGARIAN STANDARDS. PERHAPS WE SHOULD PROVIDE HIM WITH A PRESIDENTIAL EDITION OF EMILY POST!

THERE IS A FINE-LINE BETWEEN GOOD PARENTING/DISCIPLINE AND ABUSIVENESS.  OBVIOUSLY ABUSIVENESS OR NEGLIGENCE ARE ALMOST EQUALLY UNDESIRABLE OUTCOMES. I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED IN LEARNING THROUGH POSITIVE EXAMPLE. BUT AT THIS LATE STAGE OF THE GAME A SPANKING WOULD PROBABLY NOT DO ANY GOOD. THE QUESTION BEGS TO BE ASKED, “ARE WE DEALING WITH A BEHAVIORAL DYSFUNCTION IN THE WHITE HOUSE?”. ARE PRESIDENTS REQUIRED TO PASS BEHAVIORAL EXAMINATIONS? THERE APPEARS TO BE SOMETHING VERY WRONG HERE THE ONLY QUESTION WILL BE IF IT IS TOO LATE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT… THE DEED HAS BEEN DONE!

SO WHATS THE SOLUTION AMERICA? A THERAPUTIC VIRTUAL OR A SOCIAL SPANKING? A THOROUGH BEHAVIORAL EXAMINATION AND THERAPY? GIFTING A PRESIDENTIAL EDITION OF EMILY POST? MAYBE A 21^ST CENTURY STYLED CRASH COURSE WITH A MY FAIR LADY THEME? OR PERHAPS A FEW SOULFUL SESSIONS WITH GIGI’S WELL-GROOMED GRANDMOTHER WOULD DO THE TRICK TO BRING SOME CLASS AND DECENCY INTO THIS PRESIDENTIAL ACT. ADMITTEDLY I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE SOLUTION MIGHT ULTIMATELY BE BUT I DO RECKON ONE IS NEEDED AND ON THE LIGHT SIDE… GOOD LUCK WITH THAT AMERICA!

FIN

WRITTEN BY: BIGDADDY BLUES

WHO'S AFRAID OF DONALD TRUMP?

“WHO’S AFRAID OF DONALD TRUMP? “

The National Ballroom Waltz of Inaugural Riot.

It is not the anti-heroic figure of Donald Trump that so many Americans fear. It is all too clear this man is a mere mortal replete and o’er-flowing with the unsavory elements of human nature. It is the poisonous cloud of hatred, arrogance and sheer barbarity his very presence belches into our consciousness that so many Americans dread and fear... The backwards thinking of this man and his henchmen within the republican party threaten to enshroud the gilded path of human progress in America!

Violent and impassioned demonstrations have ever been the hallmark of this man’s sad ascent to the presidency. One can only surmise that this dysfunctional pattern will persist throughout his term. Gone are the gilded traditions of presidency past, felled by a crude and savage storm of utter barbarity… We have entered a new era in which it becomes clear that the political structure of the past 200 years must be critically rethought in order to become a true democracy. We are no longer a nation ruled by a handful of English aristocrats transplanting medieval feudalism to the new world. When human freedoms are created they must never be reversed! We are a country known for creating freedom not for taking it away!

There is a question on the wind my friends asking if America can survive him and if it should in what state of decay it will be lain?

On the days leading up to the inauguration Trump denuded the historically esteemed image of the presidency leaving one to wonder and fear what infamous raiment his legacy shall leave it dressed-in if ever it should be arrayed by him. For it takes a true gentleman of discernment to clothe the institution of presidency. Building presidency from scratch is a bold and perhaps vainglorious ambition. The task requires the ability to strip it down to something everyone would agree to be a substantive foundation. A genetleman understands this brand of presidential streaking is no essay on transparency save through the accidental and unimagined effect that should betray the purpose of its own pretense… “The Emperor has no clothes because the Emperor is without a soul!”.

The role of the president has been fashioned for over 200 years and I do not see any reason that it should be changed. What has got out of control is congress and the senate both of which have isolated themselves so loftily within the penthouses of their ivory towers that they no longer understand or even see the common man. Having a congress, senate and president of the same party is tantamount to fascism, a one-party system is redolent of corruption and despotism. I should not want any one party to rule without any meaningful opposition, that is un-American. Did we not fight against an English king 200 years ago  to rid ourselves of a one-party government? The spirits of our beloved founding fathers who fought for balanced, equal representation in government are wailing in their graves!

As a gentleman, I have heretofore avoided the vulgarism of name-calling. However, as a critic I am free to opine with my honest observations of the human condition. Therefore, I shall opine on the image or rather the mirage which has come to personify what is now Americas 45^th president. The image of Donald Trump is a worrisome bore. I say so because we have all seen his malevolent, diabolical type before! To sensible people it is mere pastiche albeit an anachronistic pastiche reminiscent of Hitler, Stalin or Pétain, these are the ironic characteristics so many Americans fear! The other side is actually quite humorous. It is a cackling, gossiping hag, an over-the-top society dame, a childish, petty and insecure brat of a celebrity. Trump is the personification of that genre we know as “Reality-TV Buffoon and Vulgarian” so many Americans stream into their daily lives from the wilds of cyberspace. This is where the irony of reality television comes home to roost. No matter how you imagine him our 45^th presidential image is a negative and potentially dangerous one. The warning signs are all there…

Whilst taking cocktails in a smart D.C. lounge the caustic topic of Trump arose to which all agreed we should be self-medicating. That is when I announced I had invented a new cocktail to commemorate Trumps presidency appropriately named, “Impending Doom!” Its ingredients jokingly of course, consisted of some gastronomically objectionable compounds to add the element of humor.  I most certainly shan’t be raising a toast with that or any other libation nor tipping my hat to or celebrating the inauguration of what forebodes to be an era of utter buffoonery moral and ethical decline!

Despots of the past century such as Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Phillipe Petain Fidel Castro, Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin purposefully cultivated fear and dread within their subjects. These men came from nations that did not have the history of freedom and egalitarianism we have striven for in America. Mirroring the American economy of today they came from nations which had once been wealthy and great but which had fallen into profound economic decay. Like Trump they romanticized about re-invigorating a national splendour which had long ago been lost blaming the national disarray on peoples they disliked. Like these despots, Trump has sold unsuspecting Americans a bankrupt dream that this nation can revitalize itself as a manufacturing power with no credible strategy to wrest the manufacturing industry from Asian nations who now monopolize the industry and also hold Americas debt. He courts the affections of America’s long standing cold war enemy, Russia as if the great rivalry and hatred between our countries has magically evanished!

 Like the despotic, fascist regimes of the past century there is an evil undercurrent accompanying the prevailing smokescreen of economic progress as posed by the new regime of the White House. This agenda threatens the freedoms of millions of American people including immigrants, Black Americans and other peoples of color, women the LGBT community and many others. They feel that a republican president and government will literally turn history backwards. They fear a republican government led by Trump threatens to reverse the hard-won battles of the American Civil Rights Movement. Ask yourself what blatantly stripping Americans of their civil rights have to do with striving to become competitive in the world manufacturing market?

The 2017 inaugural riots are a glaring sign that the direction of leadership in America is moving contrary to the popular will of the people. Never in the history of the presidency has such unrest blemished the inaugural festivities. This is an historical precedent but one that will most likely be destined to occupy a nice of infamy remembered for centuries to come!

My advice to all who love America and who love freedom is to rise to a peaceful and unified challenge to this regime of greatest blunder. Take heart and work diligently, non-violently to defend your civil rights. It is not enough to be personally galvanized for change, reach out to at least one other person and bring them along with you to work toward peaceful change. When the next elections arrive is the time to have been diligently working to effect positive change. Remove despots from office peacefully by simply voting them out and neutralize this regime of evil!  We will all survive the 45^th presidency, it shall be a hard lesson for the righteous but remember this is America, the land we love and the one place on earth if ever there was one where we truly can make positive change for all human beings. If you are a proud American, this is not the time to abandon your country to despotism simply because things did not appear to go your way. If you do not you shall have wasted the lives of countless men and women who have sacrificed everything for the cause of a free America. Don’t dwell on the bad luck of the moment! Pick yourself up and change it!

FIN

Written by Bigdaddy Blues

THE LEGACY OF GREATNESS: 

How Will History Preserve the Presidency of Barack Obama?

44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BARACK OBAMA WITH HIS FAMILY IN THE WHITE HOUSE

If the years which follow 2017 should be memorialized as interesting years then it is our responsibility to fashion them into greatness and hand them over to the judgement of progeny. The philosophy and essential beauty which is so very much the creative, driving spirit of this or any time is most richly understood by who live it into existence. To live in the know is to live in the very moment.

The magical and rarefied moment of our existence is personified as the fabric of civilization. Our civilization is different from the one our fathers and grandfathers perceived. Perception of civilization requires us to press-together what appears to be unrelated elements into a massive generic blob of phenomenological clay but to this clay we must necessarily add the spiritual, ethical, moral and other more abstract dynamics which also shape perception. What matters most to perception of civilization is the recognizable form. Human civilization can be observed as a finite evolution of distinctive forms or shapes that crystallize into the icons which define every age.

Perhaps the biggest shape/form of the early twenty-first century is being molded at the conclusion of the second term of the first Black-American president of the United States of America. By this I mean that the impact of his legacy on the course of American history will greatly be defined in the years to come. On a holistic, cultural level Obama's journey has had the same relevance as that of Nelson Mandela since both men rose to power in countries which had historically oppressed black peoples. The historical marker they have set into the continuum of human history can easily be connected to the rise of Black American politicians during the Post-American Civil War reconstruction. The dynamic pattern they have created should lead to more frequent instances which will ultimately define a distinctive period in history when black men established themselves as statesmen. In a future time when a black president is no longer extraordinary the pioneering era in which we live will become a cultural icon defining our age.

A BLACK AMERICAN CONGRESSMAN DURING THE AMERICAN RECONSTRUCTION

Whether we live to reflect upon the ways in which the future shall opine on the legacy of Obama is far less relevant than the vigour with which we breathe life into these remaining minutes of our existence... for the moment it is we who breathe life into his legacy. Many Black Americans have adopted a mission to cultivate future generations of black presidents but obviously not for the sake of just having a president who is black. These Black Americans strive to prepare young black men and women to aspire to the presidency as a means of balancing the history of America forging a cultural shape as an offering for history to memorialize as cultural icon.

Obama is a man who served all people’s, he was everyman’s man. Obama favored the American people and his policies sought to help those Americans in greatest need. I am certain that he understands a good and a humble man so great that others would seek to erase him should not fear the future. As long as some men live who have wisdom Barack Obama’s deeds will be magnified and passed down the centuries.  The toughest lesson for those who seek to obscure the legacy of Obama will be learned as they realize that the human spirit cannot be legislated away!

FIN

Written by BIGDADDY BLUES