tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14929456483359569442024-03-06T00:02:42.157-08:00FOR THE BROTHAS: CULTURE AND INTELLECTUALISMI wanted to create an intellectual Salon for thoruoghly modern men of all races and backgrounds who, like the cultural luminaries at the turn of the 19th Century, genuinely enjoy the civilized art of conversation. Please join this virtual, cultural salon of ideas turning earthly clamour into cosmic symphony...Bigdaddy Blueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01948696493108592313noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1492945648335956944.post-59247492983925046552022-02-08T20:13:00.003-08:002022-02-08T20:52:31.742-08:00MARIAN ANDRESON'S SONG<div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfYU6vOdbljmHcclKskfK1qQIaQYAIZMqOJjatfRlJNJtkBywwa__jm3SNvE-fDi458Ulg1bEOMPmHcxjmrmitQno9ZgkowSH792FJ1fO9dQ607I7Q9-IljQiAFT51g3PTqHm4ah3_G9IJyKTxQ-mfDzLd5VXC3s2iwBpb2xI4Wb447axqAkl9k6gn=s800" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfYU6vOdbljmHcclKskfK1qQIaQYAIZMqOJjatfRlJNJtkBywwa__jm3SNvE-fDi458Ulg1bEOMPmHcxjmrmitQno9ZgkowSH792FJ1fO9dQ607I7Q9-IljQiAFT51g3PTqHm4ah3_G9IJyKTxQ-mfDzLd5VXC3s2iwBpb2xI4Wb447axqAkl9k6gn=w320-h400" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: medium;">MARIAN ANDERSON</span></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><br /></div><div>Sound has never heard itself with such sound,</div><div><br /></div><div>Sweet with a rolling sadness in muted ages found,</div><div><br /></div><div>Greater than glory it bows... in humble faith,</div><div><br /></div><div>Shaking tears from the meadows of happy years,</div><div><br /></div><div>Waking promise from the residue of unhappy tears…</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">By Bigdaddy Blues </span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuzPhNdcaRKI3vDL8Kvy6tGu8pxInoizZHWz9bUA6jhzsgBgH5p8M1VSJiuXQgGjxRYa9vWiEtkWPBTm-It40xy1qpC5xvTUxcAXatZoroqfgOm96n1XZa-QpNCfeEkKVLvGS4zV01oNEwjH7ane12-qWlEsozaBYcdqV5D-2UohaU9mjfXd76v9NV=s285" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="177" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuzPhNdcaRKI3vDL8Kvy6tGu8pxInoizZHWz9bUA6jhzsgBgH5p8M1VSJiuXQgGjxRYa9vWiEtkWPBTm-It40xy1qpC5xvTUxcAXatZoroqfgOm96n1XZa-QpNCfeEkKVLvGS4zV01oNEwjH7ane12-qWlEsozaBYcdqV5D-2UohaU9mjfXd76v9NV=w248-h400" width="248" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Bigdaddy Blueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01948696493108592313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1492945648335956944.post-19001300787544442362021-11-29T18:06:00.004-08:002022-02-02T16:39:17.357-08:00THE ART AND PHILOSOPHY OF BEING SINGLE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg40G9L2NHyhMcENs3wKWDVvN_iTX3pU0FsxgWrKJ1dJgmavzjQXYHMYL9GFKgtUSlRTR7NJG_F6T1jeOumnDEMqM6aFCwzW04Evad0gu6I5l6QBTKrAZKi_my6TtYrgZ1wfwGq7SKWHUI/s272/MAN+IN+BOWLER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="272" data-original-width="185" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg40G9L2NHyhMcENs3wKWDVvN_iTX3pU0FsxgWrKJ1dJgmavzjQXYHMYL9GFKgtUSlRTR7NJG_F6T1jeOumnDEMqM6aFCwzW04Evad0gu6I5l6QBTKrAZKi_my6TtYrgZ1wfwGq7SKWHUI/w273-h402/MAN+IN+BOWLER.jpg" width="273" /></a></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 107%;">THE ART
OF BEING SINGLE</span></b></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b>A 21ST CENTURY BACHELLOR</b> </p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">CHAPTER
ONE: THE AWAKENING OF WHAT WE ARE…</span></b></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am an artist whose primary medium for the past 40 or so
years has been perfecting the art of being and remaining handsomely single. I aspire
to be living proof that the phenomenon of social singularity or bachelorhood when
expressed as a distinctive lifestyle may be cultivated and elevated to a fine
art. To that end, I am an artist at being single.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">For me bachelorhood has been a happy state of existence
during those decisive periods in my life when I was not engaged in the brief
but concentrated pursuit of monogamous bliss. Monogamy seems to have been
forever dangled before me like the pastel-coloured stationary toys suspended
from a baby’s playpen. No sooner had I become bored by operant journey they
promised did I philosophically opt-out in order to pursue the more lustrous opportunity
to manufacture and explore my own notions of happiness. Comparatively, I find
that I have spent the majority of my adult life as a single man and at this age
I am surprised to discover a vast, growing and largely uncelebrated world of men
like me. Men who have fashioned their lives to explore the unselfish freedom of
singularity. Such men defy the assumption that singularity is merely a transitional
state along the road to monogamy. For men who have chosen the single life bachelorhood
is our r'aison d'etre.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Traditionally bachelors and the single lives they live are qualified
against the condition of being permanently hitched. The world measures single
men against our opposite condition as if the ultimate and only state of mature
human existence was marriage. Marriage is a paradigm rejected by men who envisage
a different form of social expression for their lives that does not tie them
down with traditional roles of manhood and family. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bachelors courageously opt-in to a more comfortable
and unfettered existence where they can delve deeply into the unfathomed
possibilities of manhood and humanity the way a priest excludes the secular world
to explore the spiritual. The simple fact of the matter is that every man is
not suited to marriage and all the better if those men identify themselves early
in the game. We are proud to be self-proclaimed bachelors. Our bragging rights
are the same as our married counterparts. Bachelors celebrate the anniversary of
their commitment to the single life the way married men celebrate their wedding
anniversaries. Should I endeavor to initiate a tradition it should be that of
the bachelors ring as a celebratory icon the antithetical counterpart of the
wedding ring. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I fully expect every
confirmed bachelor out there who does not celebrate the anniversary of their
singularity to begin on this very day. And if you do not already know the exact
date that you were born again unto singularity simply invent a date or choose one
because it is long overdue… beginning now you should and after reading this
article you must set aside a time each year to celebrate the anniversary of
your bachelorhood. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If I could re-live certain portions of my life I would
certainly not edit away every committed relationship I ever had instead to have
remained a single man In spirit and body. I count myself fortunate to have
realised my true nature at an age when I still had the lustiness to explore it.
I realise such a poetic editing of “amour rate” is an impossibility and am
thankful to be able to have learned from those honest explorations of humanity.
Any mistakes that may have been made have resulted in invaluable lessons
learned and bought me full-circle to the happily single man I am today. Being a
bachelor does not mean that one is critical of and disrespectful to marriage
and monogamy as the two are merely options in many ways as much equal as they
are opposites.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The best thing about being a single man in the twenty-first
century is that I can be me without any need for pretense or fear of repercussion.
Because of my stubbornness I can handle criticism. I am accepted both
internally and externally as a bachelor and am processed and targeted for
economic consumption in this modern cyclone of inexorable data like everyone
else. What matters is that I have the intellectual savvy to out-wit the umbrella
of lifestyle marketing combined with the intrinsic sensibility to understand
who I would and should like to become as a man. I am an invention not a
product. I use whatever is available at the time to manufacture a pathway to where
I want to go taking time to ensure that path is ethically paved, morally roofed
and walled wherever there is need of such stabilizing features. The built-in
vulnerability which appears to go along with even the best-built human
construct will keep me humble, focused and educated for the next challenge…<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgi3U_PZxStD0kbU9q8wQcHpsMeF0ng_1xpxpdXc4_JNgQ3wJqd47L9F3_9reeTyDuofxPdHuL_dl7ceixH1aGkklGNg1lOLk_t4YnrzSbl4UKWIygs7QubU43ZGG3aNeJSoSvCIhM4sVkU28NRIAaO1QO7h4DRKeKT80PculORcDdT4ezwCWzu_F-w=s274" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="184" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgi3U_PZxStD0kbU9q8wQcHpsMeF0ng_1xpxpdXc4_JNgQ3wJqd47L9F3_9reeTyDuofxPdHuL_dl7ceixH1aGkklGNg1lOLk_t4YnrzSbl4UKWIygs7QubU43ZGG3aNeJSoSvCIhM4sVkU28NRIAaO1QO7h4DRKeKT80PculORcDdT4ezwCWzu_F-w=w269-h400" width="269" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">CHAPTER TWO:
THE BACHELOR LIFE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the summer of 2003, I began to contemplate again what had
always been so compelling and I daresay so very alienating to me as a boy. It
stood before me strangely familiar, forbidding, urgent, and intriguing. As a
young child of 5 years, I expected and even dreamed of marrying a handsome,
professional gentleman. At 40 I had scarcely imagined the spectre of what a
“Male Spinster” might be but I began to cull references beginning from
childhood that allowed me to finally define it. I remembered having
eaves-dropped on my parents as a boy while they discussed a woman who was
unmarried and seemingly without any of the necessary charms, interest or prospects
to marry. My mother and father meant no malice by implying that she may have
been a spinster. It was a common conclusion for grown folk to make in the
reckoning of that time. Nonetheless, I stored the term in the backroom of my 1<sup>st</sup>
grade vocabulary where it remained until I developed the discernment to throw
it away. It was a word that I had never been able to compare with others that my
pre-pubescent ears overheard in conversations about mature, single men. There appeared
to be no adjective that came close to describing a single man in the manner the
term spinster rendered a woman although the same red flag unfurled and waved
upon its utterance. Of course, that flag has ever been emblazoned with an
unmarried warning sign. To that end I am living proof that children are detective
time-bombs absorbing everything they hear to be processed at some undetermined time
in the future. From my early listenings’ I deduced that men and women were
expected to marry by a certain age although it made no difference to me whether
anyone other than my parents was married or single. At that youthful time anyone
older than 20 seemed inestimably old. Though the idea of a male spinster was not
yet defined in my mind I continued cross-referencing those conversations about
gentlemen of that ilk until I had manufactured a rather cheeky caricature to
match the mood. It was to become the fateful archetype of an unfamiliar species
now known as the male-spinster a character so closely resembling modern man’s
dilemma with social and sexual evolution. That concept now indelibly coined as a
male spinster became the embodiment of all my fears as a young man secretly
struggling to escape being single, lonely, passionate and vulnerable. Unfortunately,
I had completely mis-understood him by desperately trying not to become him. A
true male spinster might have courageously embraced his singularity as an
expression of his freedom and even perhaps as a deliberate act of civil
disobedience. In fact, a true male spinster would never attach himself to that
label nor allow others to do so. The entire idea of a male spinster is ridiculous,
an absurdly vacuous attempt to simplify a phenomenon that deserved but had not
been given proper thought. With this realization I forever discarded the spurious
persona of the male spinster. He never was and could never truly exist beyond
the ghostly whisp of a rapidly disintegrating mirage composed of insecurity, fear
and ignorance. For me, that spectre had never so inextricably revealed itself
than when I entered a gay bar for the first time observing a lugubrious row forty-some
gentlemen having cocktails alone. Do not mistake my digression, I am not attempting
to claim bachelorhood and singularity as a gay thing. To the contrary they are
as much a part of the common human experience as life itself. My personal experiences
as a gay man have shaped the way I have come to understand them, it is from
that perspective that this story is being told and the realness from which it
has earned its relevance. Looking through the waters between then and now I realize
my failure to appreciate the phenomenon of male singularity was tied to the
greater inability of society to understand the nature of bachelorhood. It like
so many other blind-spots in the streaming of human progress challenges the
very wit of humanity to refine and perfect itself. That stream and the momentum
it will achieve once liberated from a male-defined parallax should presently
expect to gaze upon its inevitable deconstruction in the holistic mindfulness
of the present and future. Rest assured that that is indeed a good thing if not
only because it will lead us all to contemplate and legitimately build a more
intelligent understanding of that which has heretofore eluded us.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is no irony that our discussion of twenty-first century
bachelorhood should begin with single women. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In many ways greater attention has always been
paid to the situation of single women in modern, Edwardian and Victorian
culture for the simple reason that it openly challenged the status quo. The
genre of the “Single Woman” has had many names throughout history. In hip
mid-century modern lingo, it was, “Bachelorette”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The antique terms “Spinster” or “Old Maid were
used to reference unwed Victorian/Edwardian women. Men and surprisingly women
have always resented these powerful ladies who refused to marry as an act of
civil disobedience. For that reason alone the term spinster should be wiped
from our lips and replaced with something closer to heroine or pioneer. Prior to
the sexual revolution of the 1960’s singularity in women was considered to be
an oddity, a social anomaly and was either criticized or exploited by men and
by women who chose to see the world only through the prejudiced lenses of men. Single
women of today aren’t much different from their male counterparts save for
their sex. We can no longer condemn them to a shelf of obsolescence kept for spinsters
or display young, nubile bachelorettes on a chauvinist pedestal for beatific adoration.
One of the first steps toward honoring single women is to stop defining them by
male standards. That said it would clearly be problematic to define men by female
standards. So the flawed prism of spinster realness is in the end incapable of
illuminating either sex, it is a bankrupt concept altogether. Bringing this
discussion full circle requires us to admit that the lives of single men have eluded
our study whilst we were otherwise keenly focused on suppressing the
enfranchisement of single women. We have never stopped punishing single women
for being successful mothers and professionals in spite of the fact that they
were unmarried. Suffrage is incontrovertibly linked to bachelorhood both
symbolically and ideologically and I believe that in order understand either one
we need to dig deeper utilizing the proper tools. Those tools are necessary to
open the valve of understanding, to release the pressure built up by millennia
of bias. Those tools bring about inclusion and tolerance and that is also what
they are made of. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find that one of the
best tools is definition/clarification so the next two paragraphs will be spent
making critical clarifications. Clarification is the mightiest of tools. Since
we are now, (and no pun is intended), gathered together to discuss singularity
and bachelorhood let us begin to define them. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWfGJJQGEWlW7qioWWBDBIzcvl9a9Z56ZcufTT6845pZouJKWOFqvtSE-ShkIoi3qBfGgXcA6wZfOcGklZ0ttqNgfiF0zwj_ThEkI5F1kI95XjeeUYBxsaDAncykj8Rjs6jDpYcF-5cTwPgreT8MpT_Xj8aKpiNE_tDbWQUEXWjxB4FPXXHiCwwJEX=s815" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="815" data-original-width="564" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWfGJJQGEWlW7qioWWBDBIzcvl9a9Z56ZcufTT6845pZouJKWOFqvtSE-ShkIoi3qBfGgXcA6wZfOcGklZ0ttqNgfiF0zwj_ThEkI5F1kI95XjeeUYBxsaDAncykj8Rjs6jDpYcF-5cTwPgreT8MpT_Xj8aKpiNE_tDbWQUEXWjxB4FPXXHiCwwJEX=s320" width="221" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>SINGILARITY:</b> The term “Singularity” has been poetically
and strategically dispersed throughout the chapters of this article. Please do
allow me to personally explain what is meant when I use it. I use the words singularity
and bachelorhood interchangeably. Singularity is another one of those English
words that has many different implications depending on the context to which it
is being applied including the ability to have absolutely nothing in common
with any established definition. One good example is when it is the product of
pure artifice or invention as with slang or as poetic expression. The English
language never grew so prolifically as it did during the time once called the
Postmodern Era when House, Rap and Hip-Hop culture literally redefined it. With
respect to the term singularity the simplest of its meanings is the state or
condition of being single. After that its litany of its definitions begin to venture
into a dizzying reticulation of Greek philosophy, metaphysics and other
mathematical protuberances. So, in the interest of simplicity let’s say that singularity
is a term I have poetically borrowed from scientists to describe the state or condition
when humans do not aspire to be traditionally partnered or married. Singularity
may include people who live alone and are what we call loners’ but it more
typically describes those who simply do not marry. These unmarried “Singulars” may
live communally with friends, family, lovers, etc. or not. The term singularity
is not meant to imply a hermitic, antisocial lifestyle but I can see how it would
be an infinitesimally minute subset of the collective albeit at the very
extreme of the spectrum. My point is only that singularity is perfectly normal,
it is common to the human experience. It is neither gay nor straight. It is my
opinion that singularity is a lifestyle that lends itself to a healthy
exploration of the infinite permutations of mature, human relationships. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As an observer of the human condition, I only bother to write
about things that have been overlooked by others. One might say that I actually
take my own writing seriously so if I am writing about anything it is a serious
matter. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now it may be folly to ever take
oneself too seriously however, I do believe I do not cross that line. I have
always believed that good writing is also entertaining. That is to say that we
writers must be able to poke fun at ourselves and at our subject not to detract
from it but in order to humanize it. It was once said by a very wise friend
that “Human beings are nothing if not humorous and also because we are imperfect,
I am sure that after god created men he quickly realized he needed a sense of
humor in order to love and understand them”. In the past bachelorhood has been
treated as a social pandoras box. It’s actually not that serious… the funny
thing is how the hopes dreams and aspirations of single men are so similar to
those of married men. I suppose it all hearkens back to some primordial
instinct for self-preservation or something. In my adulthood I was finally able
to quantify the missing connections between the way I was socialized to marry
and the way I chose to remain single. In that moment of clarity I smiled
realizing the humorous similarity between singularity and marriage is that
while married men strive to protect and defend their marriage single men strive
to protect and defend their singularity. Amen!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>BACHELOR:</b> The term bachelor has many nuances but its
foundation is and has always been defined as an unmarried man who has elected
to remain single and who has cultivated a distinct lifestyle around his singularity.
Bachelors include all races and ethnicities all religions. Bachelors come in
all shapes and sizes so the one thing which unifies them is that they have
chosen a singular life. A bachelor can be a young or mature man but I believe
that the bachelor lifestyle is especially well suited for a gentleman of any
age. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Modernity has ushered in a new social order that that has pleasantly
updated the very nature of gentility. The result is that a man from any
socioeconomic echelon can become a gentleman. The art of gentlemanliness is not
a dying art, it is an evolving one. Bachelorhood can be a crown on the head of
a gentleman or any man who aspires to be gentlemen. I like to believe that it
is our gentility which fuels mankind’s evolution toward a more civilized
species. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Singularity and Bachelorhood can be as simple or complex as
you make them. Hopefully there is an underlying reason why a man decides to live
a single life beyond mere circumstance. If not, there is still plenty of room
for understanding in this great world of ours. What really matters is that a
man is happy with his choice and that his choice is accepted and supported by
others. It is important that single men do not allow themselves to be placed in
an ivory tower they should be comfortable at ground level with their lifestyle
and must assert themselves with dignity to establish their niche in modern
society. Bachelors have led quiet lives over the centuries so there is so much
that is unknown about them. It may be that a conservative existence is the secret
of their success but one wonders how long the quiet will last as their numbers continue
to grow.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Why is the number of single men growing? Does it represent the
breakdown of family values or does it mark their evolution? Are bachelors’ men
who simply failed at becoming husbands? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are
single men single because they are fundamentally unattractive or lack some
essential element required to establish and cultivate a monogamous relationship
or a family?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are bachelors’ sex-crazed maniacs
adopting a lifestyle that allows unbridled pursuit of their decadent sexual
appetites? The answer is of course no. Americans are legendarily adept at cooking
their fears and ignorance into a generalized pot and then calling out the stew
of their imagination as evil. Singularity should not be treated as the erosion of
family values it is merely one of its permutations. Dismantling our fear of
singularity builds positive change such as the reversal of centuries of institutionalized
racism against Black Americans. In my opinion there is a general fear
associated with an increase in the number of single men and women and with it
comes a distinct prejudice that extends into every spectrum of their lives. Prejudices
against single persons exists in our tax structure, financing of residential
and other investments, retail, hotel and eating/drinking establishment
accommodations. Single men and women have generally accepted these improprieties
as if it is okay for them to be penalized for being single. Contemporary
American culture is hard-wired in favor of monogamy and its ultimate consummation…
marriage. There are many factors contributing to the increase in single men and
now more than ever it raises the question of whether the economic and human contributions
of single American citizens are as important as those made by married citizens.
What is most important is that the growing number of single men understand
their responsibility to ensure their rights are supported in every aspect of
American public and private life and by its hallowed institutions. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Modern men are exploring the freedoms of the sexual
revolution that release them from the expectation to marry and parent children.
These men are opting to refocus energies once devoted to the traditional pursuit
and maintenance of spouses, children and family life in new directions but that
does not mean they are exempt from contributing to a healthy and functional reorganization
of family and community. America is challenged with the problem of creating
good incentives to shepherd this change. Singularity is a private choice it
must not be punished by prejudice as an attempt to discourage it. At the end of
the day its all about respecting freedom of choice from a respectable distance!
Modern Americans are slow to evolve that higher-order of maturity and gentility
allowing other civilized cultures to observe, understand and respect privacy
from a distance…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Modern men who elect a lifestyle of singularity are not
freaks or failures they are simply people who have thoughtfully chosen not to opt-in
to a traditional monogamous life. I do not believe that any judgement or
prejudice can effectively diminish the power of a man’s choice to pursue a life
of singularity when it has been purposefully made. That is to say that
singularity is not the consolation prize for secular happiness and success. For
those who pursue singularity happiness and success are its goal and objective. Men
may enter a life of singularity due to innumerable circumstances but even if singularity
is not a man’s first choice if it represents where he is and therefore it must
be respected. No matter how he enters singularity once a man understands where he
is and decides he would like to remain single most of the hard work has been
done. Since the movement toward regimented family values during the 1980’s
single people have lost whatever gains they may have made in the 60’s and 70’s.
Today single men have to work hard to update institutions that fail to cater to
their unique needs. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Strip away the playboy image of bachelor-hedonist, remove
the odd-couple image suggesting social anomaly and replace it with the updated
brand of a single man with purpose. Bachelorhood is the science and art of masculine
self-expression. It bears social weight including ethical responsibility to
community and humanity. Bachelors, singular by nature share common characteristics
with the world. Once America gets on-board with this unstoppable movement it
will glean true progress. The principles of singularity as it relates
specifically to unmarried men are no different from those of married men or men
with families. The new single man must own his responsibility to uphold and shepherd
those aspects of civilized life that unify and move us forward as human beings.
If bachelorhood can be idealized it would be personified by the modern gentleman
bachelor. American culture must evolve to embrace and support singularity.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for taking time to participate in the second of an
ongoing series of articles that I intend to share with you. Many of the topics
briefly touched-on will be fully explored in upcoming chapters. I hope you have
enjoyed our time and please do look out for the next chapter.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Written By:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>BIGDADDY BLUES<o:p></o:p></b></p><br /><p></p>Bigdaddy Blueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01948696493108592313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1492945648335956944.post-80232515926504629072020-11-11T22:22:00.001-08:002020-11-11T22:26:18.630-08:00DING! DONG! THE WITCH IS DEAD!<div>DING! DONG! THE WITCH IS DEAD!</div><div><br></div><div>A Renewd Optomism In The American Way Of Life...</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div><div>Let's compare Trump’s political defeat to the virtual demise of the wicked witch of the east or west! The parallel is clear in spite of the artificially clueless and deliberately murky manner of twenty-first century American culture. Notwithstanding, so many Americans and dreamers mark November 6, 2020 as the first time in four years they could stop living in fear of an omnipresent evil. To these good people a new optimism emerged when the Trump administration died due to causes of the <span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px;">popular and electoral vote… </span></div><div><br></div><div>When The Wizard of Oz premiered 81 years ago on August 25, 1939 its messages of safety and danger ran concurrently with the rise fascism. The Nazi party was rising in Germany. The evil regimes of Mussolini in Italy and Franco in Spain spearheaded the expansion of fascism in Europe. Millions of people would die in a second world war in order to set humankind back on a path to freedom. In comparative contrast Trumps presidency shows an incontrovertible likeness to the popular rise of Hitler and the deadly, fascist regimes of his time. Many believe that Trump has wittingly spirited into life the likes of an old American evil not seen since the heyday of the Klu Klux Klan… his campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again" is encrypted with divisive and hate-mongering allusions to racial superiority, systemic disenfranchisement and oppression.</div><div><br></div><div>As the news that Biden had been declared President-Elect broadcast over the innumerable streams of social media I heard a solid hour of urban revelry in the streets… fireworks, singing, shouting, horn-blowing, dancing, cheering and the like. I quickly summoned my friends to join me for a long awaited cocktail party and we Cheersed-In the historic occasion in my garden on the unseasonably warm night of November 6, 2020…</div><div><br></div><div>Reveling that night we borrowed a familiar tune from The Wizard Of Oz making it our theme. We felt safer in the moment but each of us understood that certain danger lay ahead and as we had done with our votes committed to face and challenge our fears head on. That an evil so profound could have grown to power right before our eyes was a bitter wake up call. That evil I'd put in check for the moment. In the ensuing months and years we understood that we would be called upon to rise up to defeat that challenge! But in the moment… it was ever so fulfilling to sing the words…</div><div> “DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD!”.</div><div><br></div><div>BY BIDADDY BLUES</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Bigdaddy Blueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01948696493108592313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1492945648335956944.post-58525833075485737392020-03-15T00:49:00.002-07:002020-03-15T06:31:16.496-07:00LIFE O'ER COCKTAILS: An Examination Of Resilience And Courage In The Face Of The Unknown...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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reveling o'er the handsome libations of the moment. Those sacred sips spirited
our conversant mood during that hallowed celebration dutifully spicing the
sensory effects of a well-earned buzz… but that heady euphoria had been
jealously competing with the sobering perspective of the weekdays ahead. Clearly
the former won! That we brunched at all became so sinfully tinctured with the lustiness
of blind-determination I easily permitted myself to succumb to the rapture of
irrevocably dalliant optimism. I could not help but call it a scandalous flirt
and encouraged it to more decadent heights... I applauded our willingness to challenge
the depressingly hermetic range of options yawning before us. For they all
appeared fundamentally sensible but ultimately lost the comparative test
between what men call practical and what artists call sublime! I recall its
magic personified as a day about town ever-refreshed by a handsomely plentiful spill
of well-crafted and chilled cocktails! O' and that was certainly the first
thing upon which we agreed. The second was that we enjoyed being free to be out
amidst other human beings whether or not they were as equally cocktailed as us.
The preferred combination of drink and circus gave us all inspiration to do the
good thing. And we did. As a matter of fact my friends let us all pause and raise
a glass to “drinking with the masses" as opposed to self-medicating at home
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fair share of quiet and contemplative time… but a city-boy like me needs to get
his regular dose of public frolic and romp in! To me it’s all circus! To me the
world is a disco and I just want to get in an occasional Latin hustle! Like
John Travolta stepping his way through the opening scene of Saturday Night
Fever I proclaim my passion to go forth living, loving and dreaming without fear
of what unforeseen fate may lay ahead!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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I’ve managed merely to allude to the very thing which actually inspired this
discussion. Those of you who’ve concluded the subject to be cocktails should take
penance. Hopefully my metaphoric suppression of its identity has been
unsuccessful at concealing that this entire article is a commentary on the
social effects of COVID-19 and not the effects of alcohol. I could but will not
qualify the mention of a mere virus as ineffable as if this were a gothic
melodrama. As a thoroughly modern man I acknowledge the necessity that I invoke
the harsh banality of life as a naked truth. Although I now struggle to compare
what the naked truth might be as compared to a fully-clothed version. Naked immediately
sounds more appealing… The truth is that this pandemic could shake humanity to
its knees… it has no sense of who we are. COVID-19 is a thing without any intelligence
it does not know what it is… it cannot love or hate it is a dispassionate,
inanimate, diminutive mass. It can be likened to a corrupted computer program
acting out its instructions with dumb but lethal precision. As is our custom
humans need to ascribe some tangible personality to abstract things that move
us emotionally. So, it is a smart therapeutic exercise to humanize our fears,
dressing them up for combat in armor that shows weaknesses giving them the appearance
of vulnerability. It is only after we define our fears that we can attack them
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to create a platform… a vantage point… a parallax from and through which to critique
an otherwise invisible phenomenon. In my estimate COVID-19 is the very antithesis
of life as perceived from the circus of a discotheque, (home-base and vantage
point),… as viewed through the lens of a discophile, (the parallax). I am that
discophile visualizing the entire enterprise from a happy place… the
discotheque. Poised from the vantage of the dance floor I expect there is
virtually nothing I cannot accomplish whilst sheathed in the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>spangled armour of a disco ball… Y'all. To do
so successfully I’ll need to set a more detailed atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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has a lavishly detailed landscape recreating the mood for mortal combat. Oddly
enough there are no trendy cocktails that sufficiently capture COVID-19 ‘s ominous
energy. No hot pulsing beats or piercing lyrics fierce enough to weave the
equivalent of a virtual ligature around the neck of human society. No
party-favors recalcitrant or stealthy enough to imitate its sudden and
captivating explosion within the context of global culture. Perhaps the
discotheque was not such a good setting or perhaps I was correct by noting
COVID-19 is an almost alien phenomenon so far beyond the reckoning of what has
been the human experience. It is a phenomenon that demands a new realness! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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reflection of humanities reaction to it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is become a tacky pret a porter video clip bewildering
the runway with the likes of hospital masks and latex gloves… hardly the handsome
hallmarks of an impeccably-dressed gentleman. But should there exist more
fashionable ways to experience COVID-19 on the disco floor I fear I should
still cancel the date! There are no redeeming qualities in COVID-19. But the
question we must ask is should we fear this diminutive villain at all or brush
it off as nothing more than a sadly-dressed charlatan?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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We not only struggle to imagine life with this potentially virulent spectre but
even more difficult is our capacity to envisage life after it. This is largely
because the virus remains ever so distant and threatening to so many people. The
climate it has brewed is so similar to the advent of AIDS. Ultimately, we
wonder who will be marked by this silent horror as it begins to move-in unseen
among us? Has it whisped by us innumerable times before after a random breath,
sneeze or cough? How many such times shall we elude its poison mist! How long
will its sojourn be and shall we ultimately survive it? Pandemics humble
humanity because they defy our personal sense of strength and confidence. Our education,
popularity, sexual prowess, piety or compassion are factors which have no power
against a virus! This phenomenon will take Americans to places they have not
been in the twenty-first century. That is why rather than stocking-up on canned
food, water and toilet paper I’ve opted for whiskey and cigars! I recall
hearing someone say, “There’s alcohol in alcohol!", and I smiled thinking
they were certainly correct bless them because there is plenty of alcohol in
liqour… but better to be tasted than used as a hand-wash. Actually I plan to stock
up on liqour and cigars they are first on my list! Next upon my list of
quarantine necessities is amazing sex!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">t occurred to me that…
should quarantines be imposed upon the cities of this country I should like to
be sequestered with someone with whom I could enjoy cosmic sex! Interstellar-quality
sex would certainly help pass the time like nothing else interspersed with
great whiskey and excellent cigars! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">f I ever feared that
COVID-19 may have affected the way humans feel about sex I was right but who’d have
known that it would send the human libido into overdrive? More sex is a
manageable if not self-prescribed penance. I’ve not had so many sext-vitations
in years! So that is the one redeeming quality of COVID-19… it may go down in
history as having scared us humans into having better and more frequent sex! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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while we manage the mental and physical dynamics of COVID-19 the simple but
essential comforts such as good food, conversation, libations, smoke and sex will
sustain us. That is essentially why rather than living a life of fear I choose
a lustier life o'er cocktails…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bigdaddy Blueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01948696493108592313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1492945648335956944.post-55512257189327204952019-12-23T12:15:00.004-08:002019-12-23T12:15:54.375-08:00WHEN A GENTLEMAN OPINES ON COFFEE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A Taste For
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Whilst enjoying the morning and my coffee the serenity of my
garden and the heady smoke of my cigar whirling about me moved me to contemplate
the gentlemanly virtues of coffee. And having to ask myself what exactly that
might mean how I might quantify and embody each manly ground became its own
self-prophesized answer. So I ran with it enjoying how handsomely <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the flora, the coffee and the cigar welcomed
me into the new day… it was kismet. I listened as is my habit while the morning
waxed… the industrial bustle which quickly began to overrun the outside-world was
still buffered by my quiet little street and of course by my little garden. The
only clamour was that of the many animals and insects awakening all around me. By
these I mean the bees, the birds, the crickets and grasshoppers, the spiders, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mantises and the ants… all of them getting it
in early as is their custom... In my garden little else goes on save the
incessant weeding, raking and pruning, planting and such including the
pollinating, feeding, playing and mating of the thousands of critters populating
every corner. The garden finite as it is… remains quite a realm of its own. The
insects, animals and I have learned to quietly share its small boundaries. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They tolerate me in our little garden unaware
perhaps of how I have slowly designed and built its handsomely-vegetated world just
for them. It is a home to all of us… and a refuge too... My coffee and cigar
are but incidental ornaments in the landscape… transient modifiers of my own
garden-self… seasoning the lens through which I experience it at different
times of the night and day... Likewise, my garden and its inhabitants creatures
and plants alike who remain there in my absence must surely wonder at my comings
and goings and I wonder if they remark of my prudent pufferations! The term
“pufferation” is the most gentlemanly coinage of a locally famous cigar aficionado
by the name of Van Landingham. It immediately struck me as the personification
of the entire experience of inhaling, exhaling and the olfactory enjoyment of a
fine cigars bouquet and smoke-aroma.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You might say I created a garden for critters, coffee and
cigars but it was not originally conceived that way. That is how things turned
out. I built the garden as a meditative space. It was intended to force the eye
to look inward excluding the outside. So I moved forward evolving it as an
ornamental garden intended to evoke the soul as a contemplative place,
somewhere to escape the rat-race of the world… someplace to relax. Fewer twenty-first
century men have or seek such places and many who do underutilize them. So I’ve
kept my garden as an active landscape year round… no less full of color and
life in winter than in summer. It is intended to be a place for contemplative resolve.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I only drink coffee and smoke my cigar or tobacco pipe when
I have time to relax. These pastimes define a special place in my day and
psyche. Over the course of time my garden included places where I could enjoy
coffee and cigars. Both have an earthy bitterness… (my coffee and my cigar ),
and a manliness that makes my DNA whistle and humm because it is an extension
of what you might call “man-cave realness”. That is to say when a gentleman
such as me takes his coffee the experience speaks from the depths of his manhood.
So I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>opine on coffee this morning hoping
to convey something of solid relevance to the men who read my writings. It is
not such a tall glass to fill and I intend to flood the entire vessel. The whole
point is to celebrate manhood by exploring its many rivers. By mapping them
right down to the smallest water molecule and pebble. I welcome you to travel
with me along this small rivulet so feel free to light up your cigar, pour a
coffee, a draught of whiskey… a spirit of choice and let us gentlemen proceed…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thankfully there are still men who quietly understand and enjoy
being men and who continue to cultivate the gentlemanly arts. It is healthy to
define ones manhood as “other than" womanhood. All the more reason why men
need time to just do man-stuff, to think and say man-things, to inflect their
entire psychical experience and explicate it in the vernacular of manliness. Gentlemen
of these times will be challenged to rethink the culture of masculinity on
every level and that may be a very good thing indeed because I am certain it is
long overdue topic to be rethought. I like to periodically<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cut away the fluff and get down to the
nitty-gritty. Manhood can be obscured by a plethora of decorative themes. A gentleman
understands where manhood truly begins and ends. He does not parade mahood as a
symbolic statement… but exudes it as a comfortably intrinsic energy… what we
see (or imagine that we see) is flux. For those men who like myself truly enjoy
the art of being a man nothing about manhood can be too deep or taboo to
explore. This means that nothing is too sacred to be revised or discarded. After
all being proper gentlemen is what we do so it must be correct! Interestingly the
evolving culture of cigars and even coffee have radically redefined
long-established mores and folkways associated with manliness. Twenty-first
century men who cultivate the gentlemanly arts must contemplate them however
arbitrary or trite they may appear. There will always be some cultural backlash
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from men poised to resist natural change.
But let us ask if it is ethical to perpetuate a genuinely obsolete version of gender-specific
culture. And let us consider the wisdom and prudence of resistance in todays obsessively
paranoid and myopic world? There are those happy and care-free times when men
may socialize alone and with the blessings of our womenfolk. O' the hythe of the
gentleman’s coffee and cigar lounge which may never be his alone! Indeed, I
believe there is judicial tolerance for the man cave. We gentlemen have a
unique and civilised set of folkways with which to smoke our tobacco pipes, take
coffee, smoke cigars, converse, etc., and there is certainly room enough in
this wide world to celebrate those traditions amidst those of our kind... that
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Coffee is an ancient libation the root traditions of which
have spread from Ethiopia to every corner of the planet. However, in the late
twentieth-century many American men have orphaned coffee taken black or with
plain cream adopting a heavily marketed litter of artificially sweetened
and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>modified designer coffees. It could
be argued that the gentrification of coffee was in fact a feminization of
whatever manly virtues it may have been believed to possess but that argument
is not for me to undertake. I should be remiss to ignore it. I just like
strong, bitter coffee and that is what I intend to discuss. Gone are the days of
the clear, watery stuff found lurking in an institutional pyrex beaker… or the
thick, black acidic brew of the espresso machine. America has re-invented those
primeval draughts I lovingly called coffee and I think with no semblance to its
former self save in name. But what exactly did and does this mean within the
context of late twentieth-century and early twenty-first century American
culture and more specifically how might it have impacted the gentlemanly arts? Coffee
has become nothing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>less than an entire
social movement and it seems that I had reached that conclusion some 30 years ago.
Looking back now and forward again I find clear confirmation. I can say with
complete confidence that I prefer coffee as it was; simple, clean, rustically
manly and uncomplicated.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Having planted that seed I digress now because I must…
because every great storyteller does so in order to give his story something of
a soul… <o:p></o:p></div>
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Three decades ago I was just beginning to seriously explore traditional
southern Black American cuisine. It was a bittersweet revelation. Ironically while
soul food evolved as a direct product of oppression its reprise has always been
its undeniably good taste. Soul Food fueled the hearts of folk who learned to cook
with what little they were given combined with what the earth freely afforded, what
others did not want, or did not want to know about… That was the culinary
science I sought to master. I learned that real soul food<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was not vegan, not gluten free and not
militantly vegetarian, anti-pork and anti-beef. It was none of those things. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soul food was about survival! It taught the
lesson that something intended or expected to be distasteful, (actually and
ideologically), could be made good… I discovered a culinary tradition that many
modern Black Americans increasingly frowned upon rather than preserve as a sacred
rite of passage. The point being that as with soul food in order to truly understand
the nature of coffee I had to divest of its politicizations and prettifications
going directly to its source. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Coffee will probably never be the same as it was because it
is no longer just about the redeeming qualities of a burnt and boiled bean. Americans
did not know in the late 1990’s that they were watching the last essence of
twentieth-century culture evanesce… it was the end of an era of rustic coffee and
perhaps of soul food too… <o:p></o:p></div>
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I watched the transmogrification of coffee from a bitter but
practical, morning or late-night concoction to a frothy, sugary libation
scarcely resembling the thing it had been. It was the victim of the infamous postmodern
genre, “The Makeover”!. Had I known I should have emerged therewith as the
self-proclaimed high priest and savior of the venerable brew. My followers
would cultivate the arts of coffeeism elevating it to a gentlemanly art form adapted
to cure the manic pace of modernity. Coffee served at the altar of my virtually-conceived
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>chapel of earthly culinary delights would
be dark, heavy, bitter, pleasantly nutty and marvelously acidic. Votaries of
the coffee bean coffeeists practicing coffeeism would either consume it in its
raw visceral form perhaps with chicory or cleverly cut with a rich, decadent dose
of heavy dairy cream. My followers and I should have then saved the rustic
manliness of coffee from an unseemly decoration. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For to sweeten the masculine earthiness of a
strong, aromatic brew (other than with half a cube of sugar) is in my opinion….
sheer culinary villainy! I say this without malice, with an understanding
towards change but a fealty to simplicity.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Antique Cigar Humidor Circa 1840</td></tr>
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I have always imagined coffee as a distinctly manly drink. Its
dark-woodsy colour, its intensely aggressive flavour, and its density do not at
all suggest anything but a truly masculine libation nearly tantamount to a
beefy-dark beer save for the alcohol. I acknowledge that my attachment of masculine
characteristics to a mere drink is unscientific, fanciful, completely arbitrary…
an artistic interpretation licensed thereby… its intent being to explore its
aesthetic attributes from a masculine persuasion…<o:p></o:p></div>
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So this article might as easily be entitled, “Serving Coffee
In The Man-Cave". As a matter of fact this will be its subtitle. We gentlemen
do have our own etiquette now and to redefine where lines have blurred it let
it serve as a creative threshold not as a bible…<o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coffee Grinder Circa 1700's</td></tr>
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For that reason I have always aspired to perfect a coffee
that is markedly over-burnt having been reduced from multiple<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>brewing’s for a patently robust flavour and
aroma. Yes… this manly etiquette for making coffee preempts the mere
consumption of coffee- flavored water or o’er-sweetened confections all of
which effectively neutralize the manly taste I crave…<o:p></o:p><br />
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Burning the bean adds a distinct <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>smokiness as when food is grilled over an open
fire or like a good full-bodied cigar. One must not be afraid to scorch the bean
a second, third or sixth time as it brews for this amplifies its bitterness. In
many cultures there are foods and drink beloved for their inherent bitterness
and coffee happens to be one of them. If one’s point at taking coffee is to be
awakened then why not shock ones consciousness into sublime wakefulness through
sippings of an ancient and bitter brew.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Multiple brewing’s of a strong, regional cache of exquisite
coffee beans enriches the flavor, by thickening its texture and amplifying its intensity.
For that reason I re-brew my coffee at least 6 times using an antique
percolator thereby releasing every drop of the essential oils and minerals
locked into the crushed beans. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Concentrating the essential oils of the coffee bean releases
its emboldened olfaction. I cannot describe the heady sensation I get whilst
inhaling that heavy, cloud of flavour that fills any room in which a proper pot
of coffee is being brewed.<o:p></o:p><br />
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I raise my bitter cup of coffee to you gentlemen encouraging
a revival of the ancient ways. Next time take your coffee black or with fresh,
heavy dairy cream… relish each manly <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>draught and be redeemed!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Written by Bigdaddy Blues </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Bigdaddy Blueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01948696493108592313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1492945648335956944.post-70045909280362215432018-06-23T04:39:00.001-07:002018-06-23T04:39:17.329-07:00THE BETTER LESSON OF SOCIAL MEDIA IS A HUMAN JOURNEY TO REALITY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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blessed with one of the most remarkable critics. I was in my first year of
architectural studio and he was a seasoned, gifted architect and communicator
who transformed the tedium of my freshman curriculum into a pleasurable and by
virtue of this reminiscence, fondly-memorable experience. His secret was that
he used vignettes of his marital trysts and trials as a metaphorical structure
for comparative analysis softening the learning process with humor everyone
could relate to. I wonder now how the banalities of married life and sex could
have been compatible with building design and answering myself realize that life
like architecture is all about solving problems. Whether his stories were real
mattered less than their effectiveness as a teaching-tool… the moral being that
people pay more attention to sex than anything else. Hence, we live in a
culture that uses sex to convey most of its messages and as sexual entities we
are none the worse for wear… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I am
certain that were my old professor alive today he would not have the freedom to
teach the way he did then. The intrusions and unjustified implications of a
world driven by social media would crush the colorful personality of such a
magnificent man… sign of the times I guess…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I was a late-comer
to dating and ironically to the world of social media. Like my contemporaries I
learned about the human dimension of socialization the old-fashioned way, by meeting
face to face. In many ways my delayed romance with virtual reality equipped me
with the ability to filter and thereby manage its innately intrusive and
cryptic nature. For what it is worth I prefer the old way and like many others
have discovered that both virtual and real socialization have similar dynamics.
Social media has the ability to expand the ocean of possibilities and for
captains of sound vessels this is wonderful news. I do not have to say that a
word of caution is in order as in every situation for there are decidedly
treacherous waters within the deeps and shallows of social media. It is my
purpose to navigate the good waters and I believe that is the better part of
social media… Like it or not men will set sail and enter this watery realm of strange
and unexpected virtuality. Let us pray they will land on hospitable shores with
their objectivity intact… and if prayer alone will not suffice let us employ
elixirs and libations to celebrate all mankind redivivus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Oftentimes
a mans privacy is his virginity. Most men prefer keeping their private life
private. Whether an instrument of control or a sanctimonious mirage it nonetheless
speaks to an aspiration for virtuosity… Men are more secretive about their
emotions more hesitant to explore anything intimate beyond pure and noncommittal
pleasure. That being said I shall revise my statement to declare that social
media has more metaphorical verisimilitude to a virtual acquaintance rather
than a date and it most definitely does not approach the status of a virtual romance
whatever that might be. I feel as-if a footnote should follow to explicate the suggestion
poised by the last breath of the last sentence. To repeat the phase, “a virtual
romance whatever that might be". My opinion of virtual dating definitely
leans toward a cool subjectivity, biased in aura and decidedly suspicious. Of
course, a virtual romance is precisely what it is... and there is no moral weight
tipping it toward either the sacred or profane… nor any particularly neutral force
balancing it in the middle. Wisely I have always imagined that I have maintained
a safe-distance from the hypnotic virtuality of social media attributing my philosophical
hermitage to the singular fact that fundamentally I am a realist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Realists
like me do not appreciate too much speculative uncertainty. We like to know and
examine what we are dealing with the goal being to better understand our
prospects for compatibility with our understanding of expected outcomes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I might
risk defining virtuality as a quality nearer to fantasy but only because virtuality
possesses some of the magic of the unseen. Electricity was the great magic of
the 19<sup>th</sup> and 20<sup>th</sup> century but today it is little more
than a mis-understood service. How many that use it know how it works? I
believe that the spirit upon which the internet phenomenon of the twentieth
century owes itself was the brainchild of Tesla who first envisaged a virtual community
(both local and cosmological) of energetic interconnectivity but in very in
practical, tangible terms. Input, output, synthesis and all the glorious array
of happily intermingling and attractive electrons, protons and neutrons sing
his praises as an awakening force on the advent of human freedom. Cheers to
Tesla who certainly would have marveled at social media for its fluid electro-magnificence!
But we must also ask ourselves if he would have lugubriously sighed… well chaps
there is only one fix for that so Bottums-UP!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">It would
be a short argument to debate the difference between virtual and real
especially when it comes down to sex. Sex again? I guess it is unavoidable
after all when discussing social media, so I shall chalk it up as a necessary
and integral force of attraction mirroring life. How else should I hold my
readers captive save with thinly-veiled, carefully placed allusions to sex? I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>wonder that mundane documents such as legal papers,
technical manuals and physics texts are not liberally inundated with nude, lude
and lascivious pin-ups of all sexes and sexual persuasions to keep those heavy eyelids
lifted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Virtual
sex can only really exist in the mind. It is a raw, conceptual bundle of
possibility whilst real sex is both mental and physical. It is the bridge that
separates physicality from imagination that cultivates the virtual landscape of
social media preventing it from ever becoming real even though it may be
experienced in real-time… the fantasy-value of social media lay in this
technological anomaly. Social media in real time is truly the last human
barrier to the time-space problem that caused Einstein to envisage his theory
of relativity. Only when time and space can bend so that they can connect over
vastitudes of existence will the fantasy of social media become reality. Now
that is certainly a lid-lifter of a thought.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">For the
sake of intellectualism I will digress upon an Einsteinian towpath delving into
the mystique of quantum physics whilst maintaining a firm grip on my glass of
whiskey… (another version of the quintessential lid-lifter). In my minds-eye I
have this opportunity to bedazzle my readers with a metaphysical presentation
that is both sexy and heavy… if you would refresh your libation I feel as if
this journey might be significantly more entertaining. So, lets immerse
ourselves into the wet-world of quasi-reality contemplating a hypothetical phenomenon
originally based only in the dry...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Two lovers
who have been separated for seven month's kiss one another while video-chatting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this I mean that they begin to actually
kiss the screens of their laptops so great is their longing for tactile
gratification. The lovers live on different continents in real time but not in same-pace.
If space, the physical element separating them could bend itself upon itself
bringing them to the same place, in the same time by fusing their coordinates in
time through time and space so they would be in the same physical place then they
could taste each others lips and feel the heat, texture and pressure of each
others embrace. The virtual-displacement of their experience of their
existence, their location would be superseded bringing them together in a
real-time event. It would be like throwing a crushed-paper ball from
Washington, D.C. to Lagos, Nigeria in nanoseconds… Such a phenomena when it
becomes possible will revolutionize the way people live and communicate on
every level. For now it is just an intellectual vignette intended to titillate
the imagination… much the same as sex… For the intellectual imaginative
creativity is the virtual surrogate of sex.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Which is ultimately
more gratifying, real or virtual sex? To answer that switch tracks to the
mundane. Which is most gratifying real or virtual chocolate cake?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Is it
necessary to delve into the myriad of pattern-similarities between phenomena
originating in a virtual context expanding into the real by virtue of a
fundamental human tendency to graduate from fantasizing virtual chocolate cake
and setting out to experience a real slice?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">While this
theory would seem to explain the implosion of human civilisation in the
twentieth century it merely matches identical scenarios sampled from every
century, every era of human existence… it is one of those seemingly brilliant things
which once uttered becomes vanquished by, (get a load of this image), a glamorous
and husky-voiced socialite poised to slay the banter of o'er-cocktailed dilettantes.
She, the femme fatale-virtual speaks in a richly calculated lilt as if talking
through a mouthful of foire-gras whilst holding her billowing gold cigarette
holder in the air saying in a heavy French accent,” Surely you don’t believe
that nonsense dolling!” rolling her bejeweled head and neck back like a swan as
she motions to the barman to fill her champagne glass held expectantly in the
other hand…. as if it should have been refilled hours ago though she just
swallowed the last drop…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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drink with her and toast to her brilliant and beguiling vituality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">At its
best social media is a helpful tool possessing the innate ability to empower
people on a global scale. At its worst social media mimics the most corrosive
and puerile characteristics of its inventors… mankind… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">In layman’s
terms this means that social media can be a good date or a bad date… and from a
realist's perspective the comparison pivots between a fond or unfortunate
acquaintance...it’s only redeeming quality is also a haunting one rendering the
phenomenon known as social media a mysteriously intangible phenomenon poised to
follow and contradict human nature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is but really isn’t there, can you touch it or see it? It can appear or
disappear in an instant, it is a totally blank canvas allowing us and everyone
we think we know to become a masquerade. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">This is
precisely why I choose to remain grounded in the real world. The extent to
which virtuality is pure fantasy is relative to context. At every turn each
virtual party is forced to verify themselves against uncertain faiths. Now if
you add faith and religiosity to our comparative analysis of social media and to
the concept of a virtual landscape, acquaintance, date, lover, husband, wife,
savior, etc. we find the possible suggestion of a virtual marriage. But a
marriage to what? I suggest that social media forces a shotgun marriage to the
unknown the un-verifiable. For many men this would trigger our desire for
privacy and anonymity it would repel and attract us. The nonentity of social
media would allow us to flirt, court, entice and consummate even to marry
without any real ties, investments or consequences. The fantasy of social media
appears to be a complete virtual package like a bag of chips but containing
only air. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Another
analogy might compare the virtual nature of social media to a popular video program
where people, families and communities may be virtually manufactured only to be
discarded at the end of the game. It is a uniquely modern mindset. The
creativity and fragility of such a world view must demand that we carefully map
our progress into the future of human social evolution… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Prior to
the virtual age the nuclear age aroused mankind’s awareness of his proximity to
disaster based on his misunderstanding of the nature of a divine cosmological creation.
It is the idea that matters most. Evil is an unstoppable idea. The arrogance of
men who play at virtual creation and decimation is way over my pay-grade… one
hopes that with time mankind’s awareness of the power of the virtual will arm
him with ability to replace ego with compassion. True to form, he will
certainly rely on sex in order to sell the new brand of virtual
humanitarianism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Sex, marriage,
consumerism and their antithesis anti-culture and anarchy all haunt the virtual
landscape of social media and they are the cumulative mind-fucks of a world
that is no longer grounded in reality. Social media is not evil, it is actually
a marvelous invention. The iceberg of human culture we have built over the past
100,000 years far surpasses the novelty of mankind’s newest toy, social media.
As such social media should be a mirror of healthy human culture inspiring men
to aspire to new heights. Though I openly laugh at such optimism I also rejoice
at its prospect. Life afer 56 years has taught me to shoot for the moon in
order to reach the stars!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">If social
media were a citadel everyone would have a key or only some would have keys
that worked. Who would have the working keys and how they would get them is
purely a matter of consequence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">The first
key to the proper use of social media is understanding and demonstrating respect
for privacy and the second is demonstrating respect for human life and dignity.
At the end of the day the better lesson of social media is that no matter how a
man defines what is real or fantasy he can find a place where men can escape
the harsh and banal circumstances of life to explore positive and fulfilling
experiences from which they may bring back with them greater hopefulness for
and confidence in tomorrow. This confidence is optimized by their ability to
connect with other people in places meant to celebrate beauty of the human
experience…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bigdaddy Blueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01948696493108592313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1492945648335956944.post-60773004293580917982018-02-14T13:11:00.002-08:002018-02-14T15:14:41.988-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Gentlemen, Bigdaddy Blues wishes you the warmest of times on this day set aside for love... I always remember this verse I wrote many Valentines Days ago and on those times when I was blessed to be in love I recited them to see if they fit.<br />
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<b>"My heart and soul are whisked away,</b></div>
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<b>By my lover his love on Valentines Day..."</b></div>
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This year I have written a collection of special Valentines Day poems. This is a special Valentines Day for me because I am in love again... I hope that you will take time to read through the poems and I hope they will move you to think more on love...<br />
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The collection is called "A GENTLEMANLY VALENTINE" please view it at:<br />
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<a href="http://twenty-firstcenturylove.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-gentlemanly-valentine-poems-from-2018.html">http://twenty-firstcenturylove.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-gentlemanly-valentine-poems-from-2018.html</a><br />
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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…<o:p></o:p></div>
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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… <o:p></o:p></div>
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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
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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.<o:p></o:p></div>
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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…<o:p></o:p></div>
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touch me, or lay near,<o:p></o:p></div>
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i’ll be a lion basking in recumbent bliss,<o:p></o:p></div>
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adoring the aparitif-cocktailed-whispers of his vernal kiss…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Because I know the timbre of his heart,<o:p></o:p></div>
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fond of painting a joyous landscape,<o:p></o:p></div>
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upon the strata of my soul…<o:p></o:p></div>
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composing a familiar roar twixt loves intermittent hush…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Our un-solicited program boasts a seasoned cast of volcanic
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erupting from the lusty ambitions we’ve molded,<o:p></o:p></div>
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into gentlemanly doses of sexual nonfiction,<o:p></o:p></div>
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each climactic episode defines a rustically masculine cinematic
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keen to dramatize erotic hallmarks subtly floated above evidentiary
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My man and I have disobeyed the worlds intrusions, so our anonymity
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freed from life's circus I’ve decided to always make him
smile,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rejecting love’s burgeoning basket of promises but for his,<o:p></o:p></div>
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believing the years will martyr me for trying,<o:p></o:p></div>
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Should I live to find my peace with him… I shall rejoice in
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Bigdaddy Blueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01948696493108592313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1492945648335956944.post-42318267618521412332017-10-14T13:32:00.001-07:002017-10-14T13:36:10.701-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://twenty-firstcenturylove.blogspot.com/2017/10/man-i-got-hide-out-blues.html">http://twenty-firstcenturylove.blogspot.com/2017/10/man-i-got-hide-out-blues.html </a></b> </span></div>
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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... </div>
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Join me for a reflection on this phenomenon at my other Blog, "THE STORIES OF BLACK ME"<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">AT: <a href="http://thestoriesofblackmen.blogspot.com/2017/09/how-to-get-free.html">http://thestoriesofblackmen.blogspot.com/2017/09/how-to-get-free.html </a></span></b></div>
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VICTORIAN HIP-HOP BLUES...<br />
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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...<br />
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<a href="http://twenty-firstcenturylove.blogspot.com/2017/06/soliloquy-of-after-valentine.html">http://twenty-firstcenturylove.blogspot.com/2017/06/soliloquy-of-after-valentine.html </a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 120%;">An Simple Formula For
Quantifying The Human Struggle For Freedom<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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In order to see culture you need only open your eyes. In
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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.<o:p></o:p><br />
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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. <o:p></o:p><br />
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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.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BATTLE SHOWING THE CASUALTIES OF WAR BETWEEN NUBIANS AND ARABS</td></tr>
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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…<o:p></o:p><br />
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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…<o:p></o:p><br />
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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. <o:p></o:p></div>
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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:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;">SOCIAL PROGRESS = {((-1)
OPPRESSION + (+1) RESISTANCE)} ÷ (LIBERATION (+1)) + RETALIATION (-1))<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;">SOCIAL PROGRESS</span></b> = A
positive evolution of culture that asserts and implements the egalitarian
freedoms of all people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;">OPPRESION</span></b> = A negative,
aggressively forceful arrest or removal of the egalitarian freedoms of all people.
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</span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;">RESISTANCE</span></b> = The positive,
peacefully assertive maintenance and procurement of the egalitarian freedoms of
all people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;">LIBERATION</span></b> = A positive, temporary
state or period during which the egalitarian freedoms of all peoples is enjoyed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 120%;">RETALIATION</span></b> = A negative,
temporary state or period during which the egalitarian freedoms of all peoples
is being aggressively challenged or threatened.<o:p></o:p><br />
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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. <o:p></o:p></div>
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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!<o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">KING AKHENATEN AND HIS WIFE NEFERTITI AT COURT</td></tr>
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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?<o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">KING TUTANKHAMON AND HIS WIFE AKHESENAMUN AT COURT</td></tr>
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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!<o:p></o:p><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A MEMPHIS DANCER ENTERTAINS AT COURT</td></tr>
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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!<o:p></o:p><br />
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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! <o:p></o:p><br />
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<b>Written by BIGDADDY BLUES<o:p></o:p></b><br />
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Bigdaddy Blueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01948696493108592313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1492945648335956944.post-53090764228164124112017-01-22T14:48:00.000-08:002017-01-22T14:48:27.658-08:00ON THE GENTLEMANLY ART OF BEING PRESIDENTIAL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">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! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I GUESS IT IS SAFE TO MAKE A BLIND ASSUMPTION THAT 100% OF
AMERICANS EXPECT THEIR 45<sup>TH</sup> PRESIDENT TO…. WELL… ACT PRESIDENTIAL! THEY
EXOECT HIM TO BE A POLISHED, GENTLEMAN, TO BE POLITE AND EXERCISE THE KIND OF
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<span style="font-size: large;">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<sup>TH</sup> 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! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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
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<span style="font-size: large;">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<sup>ST</sup> 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!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>I</b></span><span style="font-size: large;">t 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
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<span style="font-size: large;">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!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is a question on the wind my friends asking if America
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<span style="font-size: large;">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!”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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<sup>th</sup>
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<sup>th</sup> presidential image is a negative and
potentially dangerous one. The warning signs are all there…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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
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<span style="font-size: large;">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
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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
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<span style="font-size: large;">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
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<span style="font-size: large;">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<sup>th</sup> 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!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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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
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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. <o:p></o:p></div>
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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. <o:p></o:p></div>
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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
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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!</div>
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Bigdaddy Blueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01948696493108592313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1492945648335956944.post-3635798877168313792016-11-17T18:27:00.001-08:002016-11-17T18:27:28.552-08:00A GENTLEMAN’S MUSINGS ON THE HISTORY AND IMPORTANCE OF THE WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN CULTURE<p dir="ltr">ON A TIME… A GENTLEMAN’S MUSINGS ON THE STATE OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS <br>
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What has happened to the women’s rights movement in America and why would it matter to a gentleman as compared to so many issues of the day? A man can only devote so much time to the gentlemanly arts, his toilette, his cigars, his automobile and his favorite sport. A worldly man should be equally intrigued by the world around him and he would understand that on occasion he must contemplate phenomenon other than the classic manly ones to which he is used. Enter the world of women and specifically their socio-political aspirations. After all men do share this world with women and one must agree in the past that relationship had been far from equitable to which is owed the reason for a woman’s rights movement… <br>
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Women’s suffrage is an ancient phenomenon but our age has been fortunate to have resolved millinea of struggle in only a few decades. <br>
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The 1850’s saw a miraculous surge of power not only for abolition but for women’s suffrage… Both causes found themselves married in the mid nineteenth century through a common need for exposure and patronage. The wealthy benefactors of abolition were almost always sympathetic to suffrage and so the two causes traveled the civilised world together converting indifference and massaging the faithful. At the end of the day it was all for a magnificently important humanitarian cause. <br>
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During those enchanted times mid-century luminaries such as Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Coffin Mott and Harriet Tubman travelled in the same circles galvanized by lecture tours that travel the U.S., England, New Zealand, France and the rest of Europe. Lincoln and Douglass were similarly self-made and I do not doubt that the prospect of The Declaration of Independence was not often debated between the two gentlemen indirectly as it is almost certain that Lincoln would have read Douglass and Douglass would have read Lincoln. <br>
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During the heyday of the nineteenth-century American civil rights movement and specifically within its ranks the strict rules of Victorian society were often completely abandoned. It was a time of cultural experimentation and evolution and it’s leaders were literally re-writing the book. I do not intend to steal the importance of the movements by interjecting a bit of human nature but boys will be boys… <br>
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There was a well-managed scandal involving the Honorable and then married Frederick Douglass and his young, beautiful and unwed British secretary who traveled with him o’er land and sea. The liberal and unchapheroned minglings and lodgings, traveling and such between men and women to whom they were not wed and of women roaming the globe without a care for hearth and home certainly rustled the petticoats of Victorian society on both sides of the Atlantic. <br>
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Remembering the hayday of the women’s rights movement in the 1970’s causes me to cleary visualize the National Organization of Women’s national headquarters at 13th and Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. in Washington, D.C. it’s huge white and black banner hung wrapped around the buildings upper façade at least into the 1990’s. It was a landmark, an incontrovertible sign that women having been disenfranchised for millenia were now on the scene as a force to be reckoned with! What on earth happened to such powerful and determined momentum? <br>
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In stark contrast to those gilded times the cause of women’s rights appears to have expired. I cannot help but ask myself this question, “Did every woman step up to the plate to change the face of history by electing the first woman president”? <br>
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At age 54 I’ve come to realize certain things really don’t matter at all and consequently they are not remembered. What matters is the image of a thing or its symbol… that is the hallmark which defines history and the figures wwho populate it more than any other varable… That being said I must confess that I had hoped to see the first woman president not necessarily because the woman who ran was any more extraordinary than any other woman… It is time… it is long overdue… let us establish the image of a woman leader because it is a symbol of a far larger purpose… The details can easily be worked out along the way. Now as it happens Hilary Clinton is an extraordinary woman but that does not appear to have moved the American people to change history… <br>
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America has seen 200 years worth of the same brand of President with a refreshing digression to elect the first Black American president. Now that we have finally broken away from the trend let us not stop what is certainly a fateful, inevitable evolution. It is time for a woman president, it is far overdue! <br>
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Who might the first woman president be and who might she have been had history been more creative? Might she have been Oprah Winfrey, Madeline Allbright, Erin Brockovitch, Shirley Chisolm or Angela Davis? Could she have been Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Emily Dickenson or Phyllis Wheatley? The all would have made amazing presidents but their talent to wield the reigns of the presidency was never realized. As a man of both intelligence and conscience it grieves me that my country continues to squander such obvious leadership potential. As a man I am able to say that I believe women to be my equal in every respect, that I am profoundly disappointed given the brilliant history of women’s suffrage that America was unable to rise to the occasion of greatness to elect a strong and highly capable woman to the office of President of these United States. <br>
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In the aftermath so many theories have been offered to explain the meaning of America’s political choice. I say to hell with divining a logical meaning from such a dis-unified and desperate outcome. Rather I would focus on the singular question, <br>
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And attempt to piece together a sense of direction based on quantifiable data. Could it be that after only a few decades in the workplace some women have jumped on the bandwagon forgetting that others might continue to visualize them in the traditional role of domestic homemaker deeming them unfit for certain roles? <br>
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I discussed this topic with a female friend who is also a prominent member of The League of Women Voters and she suggested that the agenda of feminism may have been too extreme for many women and as a result the movement may have failed to attract modern women who still embrace traditional female values. She believes such women could have failed to appreciate the symbolic importance of a female president as well as it’s ability to leverage ratification of critical policies relating to women’s rights that have been ignored in the past. <br>
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On a time if such an opportunity were to present itself women galvanized under common advocacy leadership would not have hesitated to contribute in the only way they could by voting for a candidate that represented their interests, their struggle and their undocumented power to serve a nation that has historically denied them the ultimate seat of the presidency. In my heart I preserve hope that during my life I will call a woman president…. It can still happen on a time… <br>
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REDISCOVERING TWO SKILLED ARCHITECT- CARPENTERS ENSLAVED ON AN 18TH CENTURY VIRGINIA PLANTATION BY GEORGE MASON 260 YEARS AGO.</div>
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When I walked into the ornately carved rooms of Gunston Hall Plantation I saw there what stood out as the distinctly fluid style of West African craftsmanship. Anyone who has studied African art would be able to recognize these familiar hallmarks wherever they appear. That day I identified a patently West African mannerism in the execution of the architectural embellishments. It was an indelible sign left over 260 years ago by slaves interpreting mid-eighteenth century rococo motifs. Their enslaved creativity spoke across the ages. The story it told revealed the manufacture of a grandly conceived edifice with richly carven appointments. The owner of these brilliant men was non other than George Mason who refused to sign of the Constitution. Mason personally hired an inexperienced man to supervise the construction of Gunston Hall by his slaves who were far more experienced and skilled architects and carpenters by comparison. Gunston Hall was intended to impress the landed gentry of Colonial Fairfax County Virginia by upscaling the existing residences. It would establish Mason as a man of refinement and impeccable taste, signifying that he had socially arrived at the top of the social food chain of landed gentry such as it existed in the bucolic hinterlands of Virginia in the mid-eighteenth century. At that time no credit would ever have been lavished on a slave as having been an architect or a creative force behind the buildings he constructed from foundation to finial. Mason imported a carpenter from England to make it seem as if the edifice had been the total concept of a man his slave owning peers could respect, it would not have been considered chic for such a pretentious undertaking to have been the product of a slave. In America, especially during the colonial period when the cities we now know were dense forests slave labor was the invisible force behind the transformation of wilderness into civilization, slaves felled the forests to clear acreage for farming the large plantations and opened streets for the towns that grew up around plantation life; no one understood this better than men who owned slaves like George Mason.</div>
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The visual connection between the technical imprint of Africa and the thematic adaptation of European design was unmistakable. The struggle to realise a unique architectural footprint in the new world defining the hybrid iconography of its sociopolitical soul would evolve into the Federal Style so eloquently charactarized by the architectural stylists Jefferson and Latrobe. The development of this new architectonic vocabulary was pioneered by plantations such as Gunston Hall that rejected the opulence of European taste if not more by necessity than artifice establishing a simplified standard for the American home.</div>
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These early and middle colonial period buildings were conceived in a world that was was technically incapable of replicating the scale of contemporary European architecture because there were no resources available to devote to their painstaking execution. The new colonies were busied with the basic tasks of building the first footholds of development and in response the architecture of that period was functional. The urban and agricultural infrastructure was built upon the backs of slaves simply because it was the least desirable work and slavery rendered it virtually cost-free! European colonials supervised the clearing of forests, the draining of swamps, the building of roads and the construction of the simple structures of the times all accomplished by slave labor. In the thousands of history books written on North America not one has ever honestly told revealed this true story of how America was built.</div>
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In struggling colonial America, on the frontiers of European settlement during the eighteenth-century there was little time to lavish on capricious beauty. In the major east coast port towns we find architecture that is truly style conscious and sophisticated. Interestingly, the farther one is removed from cosmopolitan cities such as Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston and New Orleans the more clearly one recognizes the softening of architectural sensibility to a more improvised, homemade brand informed by the natural design instincts of slaves. One might say the architecture begins to become more fascinating there. Slaves ultimately interpreted culturally unfamiliar classical motifs for the ordinary buildings used by colonial peoples. The deeper we delve into the prolific construction boom that took place between the early 1600’s when the first slaves began to be imported to North America in significant numbers and the mid nineteenth-century preceding the American Civil War the more magnanimous a picture we get regarding just how much of this nation was actually built by slaves, the concept alone is simply mind-boggling.</div>
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I already knew that wealthy colonial plantation owners considered skilled African slaves especially architects and construction experts to be highly valuable personnel in rural environments where such professionals were absolutely otherwise unavailable. If you plan to visit this or any other plantation I recommend that you study period wood carvings, pottery and metal castings from mid-eighteenth century West Africa. Equipped with this practical knowledge it should be easy to connect the cultural dots… one, two, three, four….. a masterpiece!</div>
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We cannot continue to learn the story of the construction of Gunston Hall or any other structure built in America from the colonial period through the antebellum period without taking a candid look at the world that created it for they are intimately married. The people who ultimately realized the building of these edifices were typically slaves, they were the labor force of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. A contemporary example might be the importation of laborers for the construction boom of the early twenty-first century but comparatively the importation of African slaves represented a much larger scale with billions of workers being enslaved over a duration of several centuries. When slavers stole entire families from their homes in Africa for sale in the slave markets of the Americas and the Caribbean they kept an eye out for highly skilled craftsmen, mathematicians, physicians, engineers, artisans, statesmen and other professionals already possessing skills that would fetch a high price in the marketplace. Had these captives actually been completely unskilled they would hardly have been considered worth the effort. The myth that these men and women were ignorant, unskilled savages equal in stature to farm animals was manufactured by European and American slavers as propaganda to justify the brutal rape, murder and dehumanization of billions of people over the course of over three violent centuries. The conceptual buy-in of those who participated in and accepted slavery including its premise of racial supremacy cannot be ignored today. We must reevaluate the character of those who saw fit to participate in the slave trade and not pretend they did not fully understand its implications. The men and women who owned slaves like George Mason, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson knew it was morally wrong but chose to justify it based on economics. We cannot idolize and celebrate such men and women any longer as icons of freedom and egalitarianism any more than Germans can place an olive Branch on the brow of Hitler. The practise of racial supremacy today is based on a technically bankrupt mythology originally manufactured then to bamboozle the poorer masses who, unaffected by the negative consequences of its inequities and too destitute to participate in its vast economic profits accepted the trend they were powerless to change. In truth European peasants who had been enslaved in feudal serfdom for over a thousand years were all to eager to trade-off their enslavement if only conceptually because it appeared to give them the hope and appearance of socioeconomic advancement. The moral and humanitarian obligation that the slave trade rejected and villainously turned it’s back on over 300 hundred years ago has never ceased to be a current social issue. </div>
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But something that had not occurred in all human history precipitated a universal abhorrence of slavery presaging it’s historical end in spite of its economic attraction. By the summer of July 4th 1776 most of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence realized the awful mistake they had made by not clearly outlining a legally structured end to slavery. Although it is rumored that George Mason was sympathetic with the abolition of slavery but a slave owner himself, he made no effort to free his own slaves in life or even upon his death. It can be concluded that nay sense of abolition possessed by him was purely romantical since it was never evinced by a single action of his. It should therefore be assumed that he since he never left any tangible measurement of abolitionism he was in fact not the shining American figure we should hold in esteem, he was part of the problem.</div>
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Ironically, the only real good served, the only merit history can lay upon the brow of George Mason is that during his life he and his ancestors left us well documented evidence of the extraordinary skills many slaves possessed but we’re never credited for. We’re it not for their dutiful journal keeping which had every other intention but to preserve the legacy of their servants we might know nothing of the people who really made a plantation such as Gunston Hall successful.</div>
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On another front we must differentiate between whether we are alright considering a slave owner a hero, or a proper role model for the American way of life. Following to the social movement occurring in our culture whereby the lives and actions of public and popular figures are being held under a powerful ethical and moral microscope we must now not fail to revisit history for the purpose of separating good men from bad ones. If we can arrest and convict a man for dogfighting surely we can remove undue honors from men who contributed to the brutal murder enslavement of billions of innocent men women and children in the culturally malevolent slave trade.</div>
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In the past and present it has sufficed to mention that a slave owner treated his slaves well to assuage the inevitable onslaught of ethical and moral criticism. Those times have changed!</div>
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Today as then we realize the vast wealth of knowledge owned by slaves that was usurped literally for free. We also know these slaves were not given any credit for their contributions, no acknowledgement has ever been made to affirm their ingenuity without which the America we know today could have come to be… Nearly every historian that has published data on American history has been unpardonably ignorant or deliberately negligent of the contribution black peoples have made especially during the colonial era. These charlatans have failed us and cheated us of the richness and complexity of the American experience.</div>
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I was at first overtaken by the absence of Black American visitors at this historic site naked Gunston Hall; I alone had come to pay homage to the ingenuity of my ancestors on that day. Though the legacy of slavery is painful revisiting sites where it played out is a healing soulful pilgrimage. </div>
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I wanted to see if the tour guide had done his homework, if he knew that the planks which bore our weight were cut, dressed, polished and joined by black slaves so I asked him if he knew who the carpenters were. By his gesture I knew he didn’t. I surmised that he understood where I was going with my query. He responded that George Mason hired and imported Italian craftsmen a fabrication even he realised was embarrassingly unbelievable. For one thing the distinctly English brand of chinoiserie, and Gothic revival motifs were definitely not in vogue in aristocratic Italian homes of the time . A skilled and stylistically eloquent Italian craftsman of the 1750’s would have favored neoclassical motifs along the lines of Andrea Palladio. By 1750 French and Italian architecture was seriously neoclassical evoking eloquent interpretations of Roman, Etruscan, Greek and Egyptian temples. In mid-eighteenth century colonial America the landed aristocracy of the Potomac river valley and Chesapeake region were, for the most part, out of the loop with regard to mainstream architectural trends in Europe. Thomas Jefferson was a rare exception and it is quite clear that his fashionable instinct attracted him to the neoclassical styles trending in France and Italy when he built Montpellier in 1764. It might be a stretch to include Mount Vernon built by George Washington in 1758 as an early example of neoclassical expressionism adding a second to the list. Without a doubt Gunston Hall was intended to evoke the spirit of a small English country house that would have been in vogue in the early 1700’s. It was conceived as a romantic but visually effusive English cottage evoking the feel of Gothic abbeys and parishes of the English countryside.</div>
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I set out thereafter to prove that the intricate woodwork had been hand-crafted by African slaves. So I began to thoroughly research the matter proving or disproving my theory. As you have read my research proved my instinct in full.</div>
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In 1755 George Mason indentured a young Englishman named William Buckland importing him across the sea from England to America to oversee the construction and embellishment of his Potomac river plantation known as Gunston Hall. The original contract still exists but the concept of indenturement has changed over the past 261 years. There were two very different types of indenturement in the American colonies. The classic indentureship ivolved criminals and other incarcerated Persons including the poor being sold into temporary slavery as a way to repay their debts. However based on the paperwork it is clear that Buckland was a free man at the time he was hired so the term indenture in this instance would have had the same meaning in 1755 as the modern word, contractor. William Buckland was a contractor but it is also clear he was considered to be an indentured servant bound to a term of 4 years. At the time the carpentry and joining arts were a broadly defined trade and certainly could have included the particular design and construction skills expected of an architect.</div>
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According to contemporary diaries and inventories of Masons son two slaves were already owned by Mason working as skilled carpenters. These black men were named Tom and Liberty. Tom and Liberty lived on a section of the plantation known as “Log Town” an encampment of log cabins and other structures in what was called the Occoquan Quarter of the plantation grounds. Log Town had a black overseer named Nace and the entire Occoquan Quarter had relative autonomy it was populated by other skilled slave craftsmen such as blacksmiths and tanners and their families. This should not serve to suggest that slavery was anywhere close to an idyllic existence at Gunston Hall the reality is that it was brutal and dehumanizing consistent with slavery as a whole.</div>
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Masons son confidently praised the professional skills possessed by Liberty and Tom indicating that they were certainly more skilled and experienced at carpentry, and building construction than their indentured supervisor when he arrived on American soil. It can be safely assumed they were the architects and contractors for all the extant structures about the plantation. This leaves us to wonder why, given their superior skills, was a young contractor hired to supervise men with many times his skills and experience.</div>
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George Mason was a social climber. His residence at Gunston Hall was intended as a showplace to secure and affirm his status in colonial Virginia society. He avoided incurring the expense of hiring and importing an established, popular English architect, (I am certain it would have been an impossible task), and to be honest the bucolic farmers and plantation owners at the time would not have recognized the difference. It was a political keeping up of appearances at best implying that Mason had achieved a social status enabling him to “import” an English architect. To that end he was undoubtedly the “Hyacinth” of his sleepy agrarian community and a reminder that pretension is as old as time itself.</div>
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To add more realness to this diorama let’s examine the practical dynamics. Liberty and Tom were experienced contractor/builders and architects who certainly could have supervised and built Gunston Hall from the ground up by themselves. We do not know much about their education but the certainly had the ability to work from architectural plans and one must surmise they already possessed the skill to draw them. Based on written documents itvis quite clear that Liberty and Tom not only built the many domestic and agricultural structures on the plantation but that their skills were so high and demand so compelling in the region that they were given virtual autonomy in their own section of the plantation to oversee the daily maintenance of the entire plantation in addition to being contracted out to other plantations and work sites for maintenance and groundout architectural services. They were a complete design-build team. During the eighteenth century it was quite common for plantation owners to purchase architectural plans and treatises published in Europe and have their skilled slaves transform them into buildings. Because the design coordination was often supervised by a white carpenter or architect such as Buckland the slaves who certainly became adept at copying and manufacturing architectural details were never given due credit for their work. As we begin to delve deeper into the socioeconomic and political structures of slavery these deliberate exceptions of black men from the history of our country will be uncovered.</div>
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I uncovered the actual 1775 contract of indenturement for William Buckland and this rare document told me virtually everything I needed to know. The question was who actually executed the physical carpentry work at Gunston Hall and specifically the delicate wood carving of the crown mouldings and finestral details such as the fiery chinoiserie valences. The endorsement made by Jorge Mason at the completion of the work stated that Buckland and I quote that he,</div>
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Translated into 21st century English this means that he acted in the capacity of a supervisor but given the social realities of the time it is doubtful that Buckland actually, physically carved any of the fine interior and exterior embellishments because he already had a team of skilled carpenters at his disposal. It is more probable that he drew or provided exemplary plans from which the slaves worked and that he provided printed generic architectural patterns allowing them to extrapolate the execution. Even during his four-year indenture Buckland could not and would not have single handedly manufactured all of the marvelously intricate woodwork we marvel at today. It was carved by slaves… so who gets the credit for actually building Gunston Hall?</div>
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It’s is customary to attribute the building of a notable house to its owner because they were it’s financier, hence we say Gunston Hall was built by George Mason although he never contributed to its physical realization. Similarly, Buckland who went on to become a prominent architect in colonial Virginia was, like Thomas Jefferson a creative manager but one who left the messy, hard-core details of construction to the skilled expertise of slaves. This disparity in the transparency of the creative process has served to prevent skilled, enslaved artists from getting credit for their genius. This is one of the primary reasons why American history must be revised to reflect the contributions of black peoples.</div>
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Whilst reassigning due credit we must also revisit the “Hero-Srtucture” of this nation to reevaluate who should inherit the esteem of history moving forward from a platform of truth and fairness. When this has been judiciously managed black slaves will be resurrected from the abyss of ignorance and focused racism to assume their due status as builders of this nation…</div>
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Bigdaddy Blueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01948696493108592313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1492945648335956944.post-53269598394755441012016-07-17T19:19:00.001-07:002016-09-18T04:08:10.693-07:00WHY I WRITE ABOUT SLAVERY/ WHY I WRITE ABOUT RACISM: The Importance Of Preserving The History Of Slavery In America<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The subject of the enslavement of black men, women and children in America should not insult or disturb you unless you are either ashamed of the realities of its legacy or defensive of your position of support for what is universally considered a crime against humanity. In America, regardless of your race you cannot escape having a position on slavery!</div>
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The bottom line is that you either despise or are in agreement with America's past justification of slavery and the vicious institution of racism that it continues to represent today!</div>
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The residual fallout of slavery affects every aspect of modern life in America. Every major corporation that has ever proliferated here owes it’s success to the economic boom made possible by the federally condoned slave trade.<br />
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The American government enforced legalized slavery for the first 85 years of all 240 years or 35% of its existence. But the racist policies and structure behind slavery continued to be enforced by our government until 1969 or for 80% of the existence of this nation. The concomitant practise of racially motivated disenfranchisement and violence originally invented to enforce slavery has never stopped! </div>
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Racism is more American than apple pie! Remember that hose legendary pies were cooked by slaves who were forced to pick them under the most barbaric conditions imaginable and all absolutely free! Think about them the next time you taste an apple pie…</div>
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The corporate structure of America was made possible by unfettered profits made possible by free slave labor. Just imagine if you could create a company without having to pay employees or provide Healthcare or any other employee benefits?</div>
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How else besides slavery can you explain how a struggling young nation of poor farmers pulled 13 raggedy colonies into a nation after nearly losing a war with England and in only 60 years managed to become a world power player in the industrial revolution?</div>
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The piece, the missing piece, the unspoken piece, the downplayed piece, the guilty piece and the piece that has never been rectified politically, socially or economically is of course, “SLAVERY!”.</div>
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Some Black Americans are shamed by their history others are ignorant of it. The fact that the legacy of slavery has unique consequences for people’s of color necessitates our understanding of its dynamics as a tool to reverse and curtail it’s continued effects upon us. This horrific game had played out too long and I am absolutely appalled that so many Black Americans continue to fail to understand its significance or take action to put it in check. I will continue to write about slavery until they are awakened!<br />
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I will continue to write about slavery because the struggle, disappointment and pain of my ancestors still burns and aches hot within my soul. I still cry for them. I still hurt for them. Through my writing I embrace and metaphorically become them... I become a voice telling the terrible and beautiful truths they died unable to speak! I am their voice! Because of their struggle and not in spite of it this country belongs to their descendants but we must be awakened from the trance of slavery that still cripples us in order to claim it! You have only to listen to the voices of your ancestors… Their voices are locked in the untold history of this nation. Study, research, explore this rich untold story and you too will be awakened!</div>
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In a long-failed and hideously transparent attempt to save domestic and global face America has made an unholy covenant with its guilt and it’s fiercely burning hatred to ignore and cultivate the cancer of racism. America refuses to purge itself from the one obstacle preventing it from becoming the land of freedom and opportunity it pretends to be. Racism is treated as a social taboo because of its diabolical spirit and much like another taboo, sexuality a closer look at what Americans are doing ultimately exposes them in blatant contradiction to ideals they do not have any intention of living up to. The disparity in racial equality is something that should serve as platform to bring this nation together as an instrument of survival in the twenty-first century realm of economic viability but it is clear that old habits are difficult to change. When we bring up the topic of racism whether in mixed company or as a unified group it is often perceived as an angry, aggressive, radical or dissenting topic. This is because people mistakenly perceive the cure with the same fear and apprehension as they do the cancer.
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After so long there really should be no question about what is right and what is wrong about racism in fact it should be the meaningful and soulful platform that brings all races together, right? Black and white Americans are so intimately bound by the legacy of racism that it is such a disappointment they have not yet found a way to overcome it and begin to cultivate a real, working brotherhood.
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Racism has a dark and violent past that has never been easy to digest. This is why it has been avoided and swept under the rug. But there has always been a group of Americans who have never abandoned the aggressive perpetuation of racism. These people perceive progressive social progress as a negative phenomenon. They exist in an anachronistic world of primitive barbarism and social malcontentedness. The inspiration for the evil they breed is a disgusting heap of failed attempts to smother the human spirit with lies. Racists worship evil it is their raison d’etre! That is why racism must be exposed, confronted, and eradicated! But those who take on the crusade to defeat racism must be careful they do not themselves become corrupted by the bile of racist thought! Their goal should be to neutralize racism today ensuring it’s cancer cannot infect future generations.
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Many black people understand there will always be Americans who will hate them just because of their race but that has never prevented them from striving to heal racial scars among all races.
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In the crusade against racism Black Americans have assumed the role of the healer because they have been compelled to understand intimately the pain of its whip!
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Of course the nature of social diversity is that not everyone will agree. Americans want to pretend everything is alright. The cost of this charade has been that millions of men, women and children are forced to accept poverty, ignorance and violence simply because of their race. For the most part Americans have been conditioned to accept racial disparities and they endure them without challenge as a consequence of dysfunctional survival behaviors that were crafted and evolved during slavery. Under the shackles of slavery and in the present black people have survived by ignoring racial violence lest it turn it’s fury toward them. Whether they condoned racism or not many nonblack Americans have survived by going along with the program. But to the rest of the world the spectre of racism in America is a glaring disparity. Given Americas claim to be a soldier of egalitarianism it’s racist soul stands out as a comedic lie but for its vicious assaults on the human dignity of the very peoples who built the nation. Because America has lied about who built the nation it has felt the need to justify it through racial degradation.
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The human characteristic of aggression be it racial, physical, verbal, economic or otherwise is typified by its unwillingness to retreat. We find that putrefying characteristic in modern America. Fear redoubled by guilt are the mechanisms that convince the aggressor that they must maintain a foothold least they become the oppressed. But racism in America is not only motivated by the fear of “cummupins” it is a lethal, pathological cancer passed down to each generation keeping the ugly nightmare alive. Racism in America is lustfully cultivated and worshiped as a religion.
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So I write not only about but against racism because it is my birthright as the great, great grandson of slaves to continue their struggle for freedom. I am bound to this mission by virtue of my race but it is a soulful duty transcending race. I serve as a guardian of truth and light. I live a meditative life taking care that my mission does not become corrupted by the evil against which I fight. Ii accept my imperfection but pray for divine guidance.
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Those who profess to fight against racism must not themselves become racists. They must always remember that human beings no matter how deeply corrupted by the cancer of racism are still humans and must therefore be loved as brothers. But like children who require redirection their misguided actions must be checked and corrected. I write about racism as a humble servant of humanity and my position is neither black or white is is the position of truth.
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I write what I see removing filters designed to distract men from taking positive action by giving them an excuse to ignore the urgency of humanitarian intervention. I write about racism because I live to see humanity happy and free!
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Bigdaddy Blueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01948696493108592313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1492945648335956944.post-35503956972846089812016-07-14T05:47:00.001-07:002016-08-09T17:03:05.450-07:00IT'S TIME TO DEMILITARIZE THE POLICE IN AMERICA<p dir="ltr">DEMILITARIZATION OF US POLICE:<br>
Reinventing Police As A Community-Based Organization for Peace. Is This The Future For Police In America?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Police violence in America began when the first African slaves were bought to North America in the 1600's and has continued to this day in 2016 nearly 400 years of continous cold-blooded murders. Black men have been the the target of focused police violence through an unholy relationship between them and white supremacist organizations to the extent that there is hardly any distinction between the two any longer when viewed from the perspective of its victims, their families and community. Because this evil truth has been supported on every level of government for several centuries modern American culture is also mired in profound denial and continues to ignore the obvious as if it will cure itself. The police force in America has become a haven for sociopaths and social misfits who find a convenient outlet for racism and other pathologies in the ranks of our nation's most intimately woven echelon of law enforcement. If this is not overwhelming, bloody evidence that the police cannot handle firearms responsibly what is? In our liberal culture it is customary to remove power from those who abuse it! Removing the right to carry firearms and to use deadly force is centuries overdue for the police in America. It is past time to remove all vestiges of police association with the Klan and other racist organizations by literally reinventing them as a 100% peaceful entity. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Policemen are not intended to be militia they are not an extention of the federal armed forces. Militarization of the police on the state and local levels is tantamount to treason and sedition implying that states have the right to generate armies and militia that might have the ability to resist or challenge federal laws and the federal troops intended to enforce them. We are looking at the potential ingreduents for a focused rebellion against U.S. law precipitated by dissident states who have already entertained traitorous ideas of secession. It is time for the Supreme Court to eliminate militarized police and revise their status by replacing the term "Police" with the more humanitarian term, "Community Infrastructure Moderators". Their role would change to enforcers of peace in the diverse communities they serve. The police in America must be completely demilitarized and reorganized as a peaceful community-based structure. </p>
<p dir="ltr">After WWI Europeans recovering from the SS, the Gestapo and other fascist uber-militarized police removed weapons from their policemen. Now Americans are at point where their lives and freedoms are being threatened by an armed and hostile aggression upon the civilian population from over-militarized police. The obsolete laws enabling these perversely aberrant officers to violate human rights must be overwritten in a clear legal manner from the Supreme Court that effectively nullifies antiquated laws and loopholes null and void without any vesting or grandfathering. In this way the tedious task of seeking out centuries old legal needles in a haystack will be remedied in one fell stroke of justice!</p>
<p dir="ltr">So here is an example of how our new Community Infrastructure Moderators would work. When issues involving violence occur responding, demilitarized police now called Cummunity Infrastructure Moderators will contact the appropriate branches of the military such as the National Guard to intervene. This is a totally logical and timely way to usher the old and culturally caustic police into obsolescence while creating a culturally relevant and vivacious network of grass-roots support that will be equipped to assist troubled communities heal and grow by acting as a facilitator of peaceful coexistence rather than a brutal enforcer of minutiae, arbitrary and culturally irrelevant laws that have never worked to empower the community. This means a completely new direction for police enforcement where curfew laws intended to allow children to study and experience family life while keeping the neighborhood streets clear of vice could yield remarkable results generation after generation. Having Cummunity Infrastructure Moderators or CIM on every corner would also help to reduce recidivism in communities where this phenomenon has been keeping sociocultural and economic progress behind.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Men and women who have joined the police as a way to manifest their lust for violence and murder need to check into a local insane asylum or join somebodies army for overseas combat. Becoming a pathologically sadistic police officer who gets their jollies off by preying on poor, disadvantaged and racially/ethnically different American citizens will be a thing of the past one way or another. Better to make this critical refinement in a peaceful way than to find ourselves there after a terrible legal debacle between taxpaying Americans and flabouyantly decadent and unethical police organizations attempting to cling to the socially immoral and pathologically barbaric traditions of an evil practice whose time has come to an end. And it will surely end!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Let's purge our police force of sociopaths and racists by eliminating the one thing that attracts them to policing... that is the ability to bear firearms and to use them to inflict unjustified, violent, aggressive and racialky motivated lethal force! Let's do it now! Let put an end to this sick madness today!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Written by: BIGDADDY BLUES</p>
Bigdaddy Blueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01948696493108592313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1492945648335956944.post-49140886796442581882016-07-08T17:11:00.001-07:002016-07-08T17:11:33.178-07:00THE ROLE AND CONSEQUENCE OF RACISM AND VIOLENCE IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AMERICAN CULTURE <p dir="ltr">THE ROLE AND CONSEQUENCE OF RACISM & VIOLENCE IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AMERICAN  CULTURE </p>
<p dir="ltr">It was during the G.W. Bush administration that America began to lose its strength and tenacity having once stood as a nation of fearless pioneers for freedom and reason.  For the first time in over 200 years Americans allowed apprehension of the unknown to cripple and render them helpless. As sure as a monument stands at Plymouth rock Massachusetts the nation took its fateful leap from a veritable mountain of confidence and dove hook, line and sinker into the abyss which has become the fear/terror bandwagon of our times. America’s cocky, short-lived confidence was actually a hard-earned prize gleaned from our involvement in both world wars including a few earlier victories from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. In hindsight many of these earlier debacles were no more than vicious manifestations of a misguided sense of manifest destiny driven by a faulty philosophy of racial superiority. They left massive genocides and human scarring that has not healed to this day.</p>
<p dir="ltr">America has evolved somewhat from a nation that embraced the barbarism of slavery but has continued the dark practise of racism rooted in a culture of sociopathic violence and fear. Racism and racially motivated violence in America has always been about the fear that black men, given the ability to compete fairly would pose a formidable threat to the bankrupt concept of racial supremacy. This was evinced in the 1936 Summer Olympics when Jesse Owens demolished the absurd Nazi tower of racial superiority.</p>
<p dir="ltr">WWII allowed Americans to objectively witness the horrific mirror image of its own antebellum shame. We were justifiably proud of the brave rescue of our Jewish brothers and sisters in Europe and God bless them for surviving their struggle. Our humanitarianism paid the high cost exacted by a violent, unavoidable war but the cause of freedom is always justified whatever the means. Like the American Civil War the defeat of the Third Reich ended a terrible season of racially motivated violence that entombed all of Europe. It was a resident evil that had to end. The negative side of our confidence came from our involvement in unwise policies beginning during WWI revising the borders and leadership of ancient nations in the middle east and in eastern Europe. America profited from its political tampering while inheriting eternal enemies through its economic association with the Allies. Germany lay crippled by the implosion of the Nazi menace, Japan still reeled from Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the other Axis powers who fell with Hitler all temporarily removed from global economic competition after the fall of the Axis machine. This gave America a false and brief sense of economic strength and confidence. America was suddenly  “In like Flint” but rested overlong upon its laurels. It grew lazy, greedy and failed to anticipate the insatiable hunger for economic revitalization which inspired those nations who did not come out of WWI or WWII on top. These nations admired, resented and envied Americas prosperity. America became a loud and voluminous red white and blue target for revenge.</p>
<p dir="ltr">America was then a truly great nation still young and curiously innocent. But it’s blind naivete would ultimately set about the task of composing its own eulogy. Throughout its short history those peoples who migrated to  America after Columbus’ folly had survived through a lethal combination of luck and wit barbarity and pure brutality. Between the early colonial era and Pearl Harbor America had demonstrated a promise envied by the world. But that is only if the story is told from a Eurocentric view. The story if told from aboriginal Americans, enslaved Africans, imported Asian and Latino laborers would frame a different perspective of the evolution of freedom in the Americas. It was and in many cases remains a freedom jealously protected by the privileged few. I will still say optimistically that America has been and could once again become a great nation with a brilliant promise. Regardless of the parallax and seemingly in spite of it more than 500 years after Columbus managed the most ridiculous navigation error in all human history things have radically changed. Many Americans seem to have become transformed into a pitiable scream of scary, introverted, sociopathic time-bombs hoarding weapons and swaddling them in a bloody, impotent rebel flag, living vicariously through the violent and foreboding transmissions of the internet as if waiting for some inevitable slash of violence to sever them from the mirage of a safe and civilized America that ironically has not existed for decades. What better climate for the sale of products marketed to give the shivering American consumer a sense of security as inflated as its failing domestic economy.<br>
Americans have got too soft, they have given up on truth, they no longer comprehend the extreme impossibility with which this nation was built and rebuilt many times over. In the face of difficult times Americans appear to have chosen to pack up, step back, disconnect and grab a big, virtual stick in the event the realness they fear happens to knock on the front door. There are many Americans who can see through the smokescreens concealing truth and they are not outnumbered only temporarily frozen with fear of the unknown…<br>
Ronald Regan scorched the skies of late nineteenth century American futurism and optimism by introducing a magnificently impossible apocalypse-engine for which he plagiarized the name “Star Wars” from a 1970’s cinematic icon. The concept of the Star Wars anti-warhead missile he presaged was as primitive as a Johnny Sokko re-run but was a keenly graphic way of saying, “DON’T MESS WITH AMERICA OR ELSE YOU WILL BE VAPORIZED!”. From that moment there was no turning back… or was there? </p>
<p dir="ltr">In the interim the growing enemies of America opted to pull from a far less dramatic and “Hollywood-esque” cache of reprisals. They chose an in-your-face, up-close and personal, mom and pops, cottage-industry brand of terrorism over Star Wars. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Exploiting the already overstuffed bandwagon of commercialized violence and fear in our country foreign terrorists have managed mesmerize the American peoples beneath a pall of dread stealing recruits from our ranks to add to the despair… Their sarcastic but caustic answer to the buffonery of the Star Wars project is epitomized by the same guerrilla-war-tactics used in Asia during the 1960’s and 1970’s when America struggled in the bloody and horrifically violent Korean and Vietnam wars. </p>
<p dir="ltr">In a desperate and clearly necessary response to both foreign and domestic threats Homeland Security has actually done an impressive job of keeping America safe but one wonders how long their uncanny luck will last. In addition to foreign terrorist threats America is literally being eaten from the inside-out by the startling rise of internal violence. It is fair to say that the twenty-first century has finally bought a crippling multi-front war of violence and fear to America. This is a different kind of war than the idyllically ludicrous one envisaged by Nancy Reagan and Mr. T. The autosarcophagy that emperils twenty-first century America is largely the result of its refusal to rectify it’s patent history of racism and socioeconomic bias. A country such as America can no longer afford to fake egalitarianism and the global community is clearly no longer willing to pretend it doesn’t see the grossly profound contradictions between dogma, policy and reality. So America has finally used up all of its exemption cards and can no longer assume the role as an international policeman for human rights without reconstructing it’s own troubled nest.  The process is actually playing itself out right now but the question is can we survive it?</p>
<p dir="ltr">One thing is certain, neither ADT or or our local firearms retailer is going to be of much assistance under the pathological and unpredictable weight of a large-scale terrorist attack. Kitschy security systems that blink, beep, beam and chirp in and out of our everyday lives are useful only to remind us of domestic crimes that seem to be increasing at a rate exponentially greater than foreign terrorist attacks. </p>
<p dir="ltr">We have to examine the clear relationship between a failing economy and the rise of American on American violence in America. In microcosm the phenomenon of black on black crime mirrors this national trend. Similarly the Black American community chooses to ignore this caustic and intensifying sydrome pitted against a dual front comprised of itself and the historic situation of American racism and related violence. Unemployment and underemployment, ignorance and disenfranchisement are the chief hallmarks of cultural failure resulting from racism and racially motivated violence in our world. The current problem with violence in the states may also stem from America’s weak post WWII economy diminishing the domestic job market and forcing many Americans to survive by practising  occupational banditry, Piracy, drug pushing  and a miscellaneous assortment of contraband occupations. All of these career paths require violence in order to thrive. Many Americans believe that our banking and credit systems and Wall Street are actually at the root. Some feel that corporate big business preys upon the delicate security of simple working folk and also provokes the weakness of our deteriorating economy forcing people to victimize others in order to survive. The ensuing panic is a stressor that  drives the twenty-first century American way of life. Are Americans being programmed to live in constant fear and acceptance of dynamics they are not educated to understand? They are not meant to comprehend the structure of violence or defend themselves from it through policy because they are being programmed to consume products promising to magically insulate them from it. At the same time they are programmed to accept the inherent fallibility of these products by buying into the concept of product upgrades. Are Americans being taught to buy commodities they already know are faulty? This is hardly the economic theory that launched the mid-nineteenth century industrial revolution! Keeping Americans in ignorance, fear and selling them junk is big Wall Street business in the twenty-first century and it works! But foreigners won’t touch our domestic products abroad that is except for the the one thing we make better than anyone else… weapons…</p>
<p dir="ltr">This brings us full-circle with the chain linking economics with violence and bigotry. America is still legendary for its military capabilities. But arms technology design, development and sales does not trickle down to even the average American. The one thing we do best could still represent massive overseas outsourcing taking jobs away from these purple mountains.<br>
Homeland Security was created in 2002 immediately after the tragedy of 9-11. Then as now the threat to American security was real as all outdoors. but a great deal of overzealous hype has nurtured a billion dollar security industry in our troubled society and economy.  </p>
<p dir="ltr">Homeland Security is just fine in my book. To be more effective they need the strong, fearless American people of old. How do we get back that spirit? Americans need products that protect them from what has become a socioeconomic culture of fear, high-seas and terrestrial  piracy! America has to get its MOJO back!<br>
Today violence is a big player in the supply/demand curve. The result is that Americans are being manipulated through the cultivation of violence to enrich Wall Street.<br>
If Americans are sitting ducks in a boiling pond we have honestly got to ask ourselves why? There is too much violence generated by Americans against other Americans. Racism, hate crimes, drug related homicides and social disconnectedness are boiling the melting pot over without any external heat.</p>
<p dir="ltr">But is it real? Is it another conspiracy theory? Is the graphic violence which has come to typify twenty-first century American culture real or has media magnified it out of proportion making it appear more voluminous than it really is?</p>
<p dir="ltr">A rise in American violence means more prisons. Privatization of penitentiaries means Wall Street profit. Since there aren’t enough jobs anyway people who commit crimes of survival get prosecuted instantly removing them from the competitive employee-field. Prisons and the banks that finance them make money off prisoners without making them work to create a product because prisoners are the product! We can look at prisoners the way Wall Street does as “Sham-Commodities”.<br>
Americans are being farmed like cattle to be either consumers or  sham-commodities. Most consumers work so they can afford to purchase products, services and commodities. Sham-commodities can include persons or other items that generate money by doing absolutely nothing save creating a demand for other services and products. They are raw materials society has chosen not to process into a useful product because they are sern to be more valuable in an unrefined state. When these people are detained in prison they become exponentially less marketable outside of prison. When released they become sociocultural misfits literally programmed to generate crime in order to survive. There is no intention to develop them to be competitive. The crimes they commit when released is free marketing for institutionalized fear. States and federal policies have been manipulated for centuries to ensure certain populations will not become economically viable competition. These racist policies continue to be tweaked so that the farmed and harvesters population of human sham-commodities increases. Incarcerated and imprisoned people relieve the crowded job market allowing employed taxpayers to fund the costly penitentiary system and to consume products of fear and mass hysteria, racism, etc. A bloodthirsty trend historically germaine to capitalism has been allowed to fester and ferment in America poisoning the spirit of freedom and of fair and competitive capitalism. Cheating the system of free-market competition in order to achieve economic leverage is not sustainable because it’s power is not based on actual outcomes. For example, Black Americans have been deliberately disenfranchised in America for centuries but as they gain in economic power myths fabricated to justify their oppressors violence are being exposed as false. Racists are discovering real competition from people’s they falsely marketed as inferior. The success of their victims so challenges their unjustified swagger they now fear the discontinuance of policies that historically afforded them an unfair advantage. In the not so distant past black men were lynched when they demonstrated leadership capabilities and economic savvy eliminating the possibility they might inspire a soulful awakening to challenge the stereotype! Today they are eliminated from the competition before they can ever show promise. The penitentiary system has been customized to cultivate young, black felons transforming them into sham-commodities and wasting them away until the become nothing more than embittered old men… Likewise, the black community has allowed it’s black men to fall into this trap instead of cultivating generations of young black attorneys, judges, industrialists and politicians to inundate and purge the corruption from a system of institutionalized racism.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The role of violence in America has been to physically eliminate racial competition in every arena of this culture save the lowest echelons of servitude. By the twenty-first century this policy has crippled the potential productivity of America to the point that it has fallen behind other countries. The recent shift in population has caused the historical ruling class to fear their unjustly obtained power base will be eroded, challenged and wrested from them as the ethnic groups they imported as menials begin to build solid socioeconomic power foundations here. The cancer of racism will not allow them to see rationally. Fear of retaliation by those they have brutally oppressed inspires them to manufacture a declining civilization where imaginary and real competitors are stealthily rendered impotent. They fail to acknowledge that corporate America was historically built upon the backs of slaves which is why slavery has never been effectively incorporated in the educational curriculum at every level in America. Many Black Americans have grown bored of spurious racially biased education because it supports institutionalized racism by failing to include the cintributions of the men, women and children whose labor and inventiveness truly built the economic foundation of America. Unfortunately, as long as these lies are allowed to exist unchallenged the hate, racism and violence that has always so profoundly crippled  these United States will continue to boil while the nation sinks deeper and deeper into the irreversible abyss of cultural, economic answer ethical decline… In order to rescue America from itself we must understand the role and consequences of racism and violence in twenty-first century American culture…</p>
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WRITTEN BY: BIGDADDY BLUES <br></p>
Bigdaddy Blueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01948696493108592313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1492945648335956944.post-61176637329746143702016-05-08T11:56:00.001-07:002016-05-08T11:56:50.429-07:00THE LAYMAN’S GUIDE TO PERFECTION<p dir="ltr">THE LAYMAN’S GUIDE TO PERFECTION <br>
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Each time I revisit the theme of perfection I am humbled and awed by the simple beauty of my humanity. Knowing and accepting that neither I nor any other man will ever be perfect is the critical milestone beyond which we become truly free to appreciate who and what we are. One might conclude that resolving our human limitations is the only way we can equip ourselves to deftly manage them. Denial on the other hand is a lugubrious portal to pointless, unnecessary frustration and disappointment. I not believe mankind is intended to punish itself simply because men were created imperfect. I think life is not about perfection or imperfection at all, it is about how we can make the best out of what God has given us. Regardless of the brevity of our mortal self-consciousness it is the only reference point we have so all the more important that we learn to love and value ourselves as organisms defined by the physical limitations of what we know of creation. This is no argument for or against the existence of what some men believe to be a “perfect”God it is an affirmation of what men are… we are imperfect… we are not gods, we are neither equal or similar to God, he is who he is and we are whom we are… <br>
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I am certain that God has his own struggles to quell, perfection is certain to be kept busy beside imperfection. One might conclude it to be impossible for perfection and imperfection to coexist, that it is a relative scale rather than an absolute value. It may not be the simple balancing act we envisage especially when managed on the scale of all existence… I think God is not what we think he is as certainly as I know he is continually amazed at how his creative masterpieces which include men have evolved in ways he had never imagined. God is both artist and critic, men are artifices and votaries... <br>
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The first man who said humans should aspire to be perfect and godlike singlehandedly engineered the most tenacious pathology to follow man along his brief evolution. Poetic yes but fundamentally flawed this classic folly falls within the realm of impossible things such as the fountain of youth and the elixir of life. It contradicts and belies a healthy, reasonable comprehension and expectation of man’s capabilities. The idea that man could be perfect is so intoxicating that we might momentarily detach ourselves from reason to fantasize it. But we are not and will never be perfect nor shall we be gods. Perfection is an elusive and deviously beguiling concept ironically manufactured by man as a state he can aspire to but never attain. Who in their right senses would do something like that? The answer is that it was a tragically bad idea that seemed “perfect” at the time. The challenge is how to undo it’s “bad magic”. No greater recipe for catastrophic disillusionment and depression can possibly exist it is a toxic setup for failure! Perfection is a poetic, intangible quality man has attempted to define without possessing any ability to possess or comprehend it. Perfection easily falls into the wastebasket beside similarly incredulous concepts that perpetrate a fixed, conveniently divine, stratification of existence set within a primitive cache of options that range from good to bad; from bad to ugly without any logical, empirical substantiation. It is clear that nobody has ever taken time to carefully think it out! Perfection is the microwave-caviar of the human experience! The philosopher in me questions whether perfection is not only mankind’s opposite but also his nemesis. Perfection, truly seamless, magnificent and unblemished perfection would be the absolute antithesis of mankind the reverse of the tragic, mortal and volatile environment that encompasses and inundates him. Man hovers between the nadir of genetic barbarity and some ethereal point that is ever drawing close, (but nobody knows how close), to perfection so yes, he falls just short of perfect but that does mean he is not amazing. Humanity is a brilliant artifice of nature a handsome organism brilliant but easily misguided. But in man’s eyes being created imperfect by a perfect god is a powerful engine for his boundless ego. He lusts for that which he feels has been deliberately denied him. His flaw is not being able to admit when he is wrong and then follow up with a reasonable solution to achieve a reasonable level of happiness. Men are now so ego invested in clinging to the fantasy of perfection they are blinded to the obvious reality that they are not and will never be perfect. Mankind’s bombardiering of reason has been and will continue to be the source of his corporeal and spiritual unhappiness. <br>
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If we look at perfection as an equation with man at one side and God on the other we can instantly resolve the inequality. The equation cannot possibly balance. So we must more clearly define or redefine perfection. The dilemma is that we do not know what perfection is because we have never actually experienced it. If we believe God to be the standard of measurement this problem is easily solved or should be. God would be the ideal at one end of the pendulum swing and man would be at the other extreme of the radius. But does the pendulum come to rest? In the frictionless void of space it would not oscillate the same as on an Astral body bound to celestial gravity, it would rotate 360 degrees infinitely. Do we really need to pontificate between theoretical astrophysical models in order to comprehend what appears to have always been crystal clear? Perhaps we need to such complex grandiosities to unravel ourselves from millennia of “imperfect” brainwashing. So let us play with the model of perfection defining it in one instance as an irreversible difference between divinity and mortality. Then let us redefine perfection as it relates to each “thing” under the umbrella of creation. We might coin this as “relative-perfection” but using this model we quickly run into an insurmountable dilemma when we take into consideration that nothing operates perfectly in the universe we know except, (we think), god. So the farther we digress from the paradigm of divine perfection, in the direction of its inherently unbalanced opposite, “mortal-imperfection” the greater becomes the margin of error. This makes us wonder if the traditionally rarefied model of perfection can or should be applied to men at all. I tell you now it may not! Perfection was never breathed into man at creation so it has never been lost and therefore we cannot lament the loss of something we never possessed. We lament what we fear to be gods oversight, deliberate design or punishment. How and why would a perfect god punish what he created as imperfect for being imperfect? That is the equation that does not balance. Our anger expressed as guilt for an unjustified loss of perfection can neither restore nor heal those conditions. No mythical, romanticized pining for a lost Eden can substitute the hard truth that we are what we are. Even if Eden had once existed our reality would still leave us being just what we are, mortals who will be born, live and die imperfect in an imperfect world. <br>
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At the earliest point of reference the concept of antithetical reality cancels our ability to understand phenomenon which could be structured according to rules nonexistent in our own parallax of reality. Theories on alternate, opposite, divergent, realities are all grandly mythical by default. Until they can be incontrovertibly proved we must question their validity. This does not mean that divinity and supernality are not possible it only means that from our imperfect vantage they would be invisible, undetectable, unfathomable… Can the “perfect” dust that settles at the feet of a perfect being also settle upon us or would the immortal and incorruptible quality of its essence cancel us out as matter does antimatter? Does Einstein’s glimpse of relativity suggest that perfection is a point beyond light speed where “tachyonic-perfection” devoid of mass and timeliness would allow diametrically opposed particles to fuse into one reality? While this theory sounds like a compelling opportunity to escape the condition of our mortal imperfection it leaves one to wonder what existence would be like without all the imperfect “stuff” that defines our world. What is thought without “stuff” albeit imperfect stuff for men to contemplate? At the end of the day being happy with the ”stuff” all around us is the closest we may ever competently approach an understanding of anything of the dust which comprises our world. Mankind must thoughtfully extricate himself from the mythic mire of fantasy he has swallowed for most of the existence he remembers evolving away from habit with a refocused sense of practical realness. It a’int gonna be nearly as fancy as the implausible cosmological “stuff” we must ultimately recycle and discard but it could enable us to appreciate the simple, fundamental nature of everything we perceive as part of our world, a place we already know to be patently imperfect! <br>
In the modern world men are no longer mistaken for gods. Our satirical culture roasts popular deities of the moment with a psychologically dethroning critique reducing them to pitiable, imperfect monsters reminding them that socioeconomic privilege is a borrowed blessing. The gilt crowns artificially exalting them above other men have been refashioned to suit their likeness from the plundered booty of previously deposed nobles into corporate icons tattooed onto their very souls and operantly-brainwashed into the pliant minds of farmed consumers who are the common classes. Yesterday and in the moment we breathe these symbolic standards are still bereft of realness, they are decorative misconceptions designed only to market a structure intended to enforce an artificial hierarchy of power. The power they wield is extracted from our minds. But only until such time as we change our minds or turn our minds off from the incessant channels of command and stimulus-response! Today as every day we are all mortals, brothers of the same blood swatches of the same cloth. We are all of us mortals doomed to die and amidst us ever more stars fall from the illumed, nimbused skies of popular culture as nature recycles itself again and again. Death the equalizer of all men proclaims our fateful imperfection. <br>
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Privilege and it’s sense of entitlement have been duly tempered by the glorious and inglorious revolutions of the past two hundred years bringing us all that much closer at least in theory. Wresting the mindfuck of divine right from the politically privileged got mankind the first real pay raise it had had in 100,000 years. The void created after divine-mortality had been ousted was a sobering episode still playing itself out. In the absence of false human gods was opened a wary but driven sense of precipitousness in the spirit of those regimes which had been bullied into existence by wresting away the freedoms of modern men. It is hardly a perfect world my friend when billions are still born into the same abject poverty wherein they die. Not that enriched enslavement would be a more palatable option. Within the global vastitude of our consciousness we see the eternal struggle between mankind’s ambitions and his capabilities. <br>
How do we measure the difference between mankind’s ambitions and his capabilities? This appears to be the dilemma defined and driven by mankind’s inexorable thirst for perfection. In ancient times we personified this passion through the manufacture of God’s. In modern times our lust for divine supernality causes us to personify our last for perfection through celebrity but has this not always been so? <br>
Whether men are enamored of their unbridled lusts for the trappings of the gods or whether they seek a more abstract and conceptually vacant approach via divine antithetical reality all these theories are the same in their intent to serve as a layman’s guide to perfection. <br>
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Written By: BIGDADDY BLUES <br>
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Bigdaddy Blueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01948696493108592313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1492945648335956944.post-12039010775544368992016-03-27T07:21:00.001-07:002016-03-27T07:37:26.454-07:00DRAWING THE PARALLEL BETWEEN THE CHRISTIAN EASTER TRADITION AND THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK MEN IN AMERICA<p dir="ltr">THE TRUE SIGNIFICANCE OF EASTER</p>
<p dir="ltr">Whether you  believe that Jesus died on a Wednesday or Thursday and was reborn 3 days later on Saturday or on Easter Sunday is irrelevant to the overall power of the message this phenomenon is intended to convey. An obsession with historical accuracy will yield no fruit here as there simply were no convenient birth or death certificates then and no contemporary documents exist today from contemporary historians who might have captured the event. 2000 years ago media was quite different from the virtual documentation to which we are used. As we all know the matter of Jesus Christ’s existence and resurrection is one which must rely solely on humble faith.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Having the ability to come back fully revived from formidable adversity seems to be the theme of Christ’s resurrection. This of course was powerful medicine to Christians 2,000 years ago. Like Black Americans, early Christians were violently persecuted by the government beneath which they had become subjected to. So the murder and unexpected resurrection of their chosen leader would have the impact  of a beloved civil rights leader Such as Martin Luther King surviving his assassination. According to legend Jesus did overcome death as a physical man. The civil rights leader Martin Luther King did not  duplicate this uber-heroic feat. O how times have changed. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The early Christians were horribly oppressed, tortured, murdered and raped by the ancient Romans who considered these abuses an entertaining sport similar to the way black men have been lynched as a national American sport.  To these sociopathic oppressors then and now the spirt of human murder was a final and politically charged practise.  The outcome had always been predictable but Jesus’s extraordinary resurrection struck a fatal blow to the Roman Empire precipitating its total conversion to Christendom as the Holy Roman Empire in Constantinople. The irony and power of this single event literally changed the course of human history and cannot therefore be ignored in spite of the lack of empirical evidence to support it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Whether or not Jesus Christ truly existed and rose from the dead the story of his assassination originally intended to subdue the Christians prophetically backfired on Rome. Instead of silencing a troublesome civil rights leader Rome decreed its own death by murdering that charismatic figure. For he was not destined to be buried and forgotten, instead Jesus’ brief, troubled but brilliant life has been preserved in history for over 2,000 years. Not bad for the son of Mary and Joseph a simple craftsman eeking out a living in the difficult economy of ancient Israel. Even a nonbeliever might call that ironic turn of fate a miracle.<br>
Can you imagine those ancient and oppressed peoples, those prototypical Christians holding up their bruised fists to the arrogance of Rome? History had finally given them this one powerful taste of revenge for the slaughter and abuse of their kind? The blow intended to enslave them had instead freed them! What is more, by virtue of the universality of the grace afforded to all mankind through this ultimate act of sacrifice all humans were protected beneath an umbrella of sublime absolution. Aside from being a remarkable marketing model the Eucharist is a critical symbol of human social evolution. It can and will be argued by some nonbelievers and believers alike that ensuing versions of  Christianity following the resurrection perverted Jesus’s intent to suit their personal greed but that still cannot take away the power of this singular event. I like to say in this case, “It is what it is y’all”. Whether it be truth or myth the power of Christ’s resurrection has set a benchmark for the ultimate application of civil disobedience. To be assassinated by your oppressor and rise from the dead to defy them is a feat no bigot can outdo!</p>
<p dir="ltr">That is why Easter is so important,  why it is essential for Black Americans to understand the example and lesson it teaches. Black Americans are still an oppressed people and Christ’s resurrection is a powerful metaphor for their resilience in the face of bigotry and racism, it symbolizes hope and personifies a promise that the evil which oppresses them today will be the very soil that will transform racism from its crude, irrational state into the very bricks of the foundation and tower of the temple of freedom.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Written By  BIGDADDY BLUES</p>
Bigdaddy Blueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01948696493108592313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1492945648335956944.post-66300286100513120842016-02-01T17:15:00.001-08:002016-02-01T17:15:24.908-08:00THE SKILL OF SELF-COUNSELLING: A GENTLEMAN'S BEST TOOL<p dir="ltr">EXCUSE ME, I'M IN A CONFERENCE CALL WITH MYSELF! I'LL CONTACT YOU WHEN I'M DONE.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Before his day ends a gentleman should set aside time to have a meeting with himself to review the many twists and turns of the day. The purpose of this meeting is of course to go over the fine details regarding how you handled the day's situations complementing yourself and also counselling yourself when you've not handled something as effectively as you would have liked. You'll ask yourself questions like, "how could I have made myself more clear" ordinary did a great job communicating my point but how can I brainstorm effective strategies to be applied to other situations I my encounter"? The possibilities of this kind of self-management are limitless and powerful.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In addition to helping you honey communications skills self-counselling can empower you to identify and set about acomplishing critical life goals. One of the most important features of self-counselling is that it helps bring mentally healing closure to the many issues we do not have time to manage during our hectic day.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Self-counselling does require a great deal of honesty so It can build a person's quality of self-awareness. Look at it this way, you spend an inordinate amount of time managing other people's baggage so why not set aside 15 minutes or more to handle your own. You more than owe it to yourself and what's more, it's 100% free! You might forget sometimes but setting your self-evaluation as a daily goal is essential to your mental health. So just pick a time that's best for you. Otherwise could even be early the following morning or at midday next day. </p>
<p dir="ltr">BIG DADDY BLUES</p>
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<p dir="ltr">THE BLACK AMERICAN MAN'S ELUSIVE AND INEXORABLE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE IN A COUNTRY BUILT UPON THE POWER OF HIS SOUL!</p><p dir="ltr">Not so very long ago Black American men were commonly brutally abducted, dismembered and murdered by people whom we would classify as sociopaths by today's standards. In most cases local police and goverment officials were perpetrators in these barbaric,criminal lynchings and used their influence and positions to ensure that justice would never be served for victims and their families. For this and many other reasons black men have always distrusted police and clearly with due cause; nothing has changed. During the O.J. Simpson trial, for example, one of the investigating officers Mark Furman was exposed for deliberately falsifying charges against black and latino men in innumerable cases but that evidence was blatantly suppressed and ignored by prosecuting officials who could easily have dropped the charges due to an irreconcilable corruption of the O.J. case. Instead they forged ahead as if Simpson was guilty by virtue of being a black male and to save face against the reprehensible Furman leak. In any rational, unbiased mind the Furman incident would have proved that the evidence had been illegally manipulated to tell a crime story which never occurred. Nothing has changed. Unfortunately not so long ago remains a haunting collage of todays and yesterdays, so near in fact that we do not have to huddle around our elders in order to hear accounts of lynchings. Modern day lynchings of black men still occur with startling frequency, nothing has changed. In the past, because black people were locked out of the power chain police in collusion with judges and other local government officials could manipulate reality by ignoring, falesifying or simply deleting the evidence. Black peoples already knew that justice would be denied them when they went to court, if there ever was a nominal investigation. Their expectations were never good especially if they challenged the police investigation or if one of the coconspiritors was connected to the police but they purservered often in fear of their own lives witnessing some of the most heartless and deliberate evil all supported by the local law enforcement. Generations of Black American men who survived those evil times before desegregation are still haunted by the resurgence of those racist practices of old. For over 3 centuries black men have been victimized by whatever rabble passed as policemen, judges and other law enforcement officials who ranged from bucolic vigilantes to corrupt local and federal officers alike. In America the black man has always been a fixed target at the end of a police weapon or gun! Nothing has changed...<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">Zoom-in to the case of Freddie Gray in the 300+ year old city of Baltimore Maryland. Here is a bizzarre case where black officers and government officials appear to be facilitating the very brand of historically institutionalized racism one would expect them to protect citizens against. Something has gone lamentably wrong here. To be sure, something has been going critically wrong here for quite a long time which is why citizens are in an uproar threatening to dismantle the city if justice is not properly served. The difference between Ferguson and Baltimore is that it is an old city that has used up its excuses with the black community. These folk care more about the sanctity of human life than whether a popular retail chain decides to leech the money out of its community in exchange for a handful of low-paying jobs. Not only do they understand the economic bottom line that these businesses exploit but they also understand that some other business will replace them picking up where the other left off. They also know that these retail establishments which are not owned by anyone in their community exist in large part as the residual of centuries of free slave labor enabling an economic advantage from which they have been and will continue to be perpetually denied. Nobody in that troubled community is ignorant of the fundimental facts and their anger follows the blatant disrespect that has been broadcast nationally and presented as truth when everyone knows it is otherwise! Yes, many of these people may be poor but they are not dumb and they still have something strong within them that makes them challenge bold-faced evil! Baltimore is a city where black entreprenours throve as early as the1700's and all during the 1800's into the mid-twentieth century. It is a city with a Black American mayor and unlike Ferguson many of the cities judges, and critical government officials, (including the poliece force), possessing the ability to reform policy are black. So let us ask how such a simple case has gone so radically awry? The answer of course is corruption and lies, by selling the community short and getting caught with their trousers down.</p>
<p dir="ltr">To begin with the trail was incorrectly focused on the assertion that Gray's fatal injury occurred in the police van when it was quite obvious he had been injured prior to being placed into the vehicle. Video footage depicted a physically crippled man being hoisted into the van clearly not in possession of his ability to control his lower body functions. He was already paralized. Prosecutors and media alike have stubbornly and one might add, criminally continued to ignore this very clear detail. Many believe that the story was altered because the arresting officers were not black. We have a plethora of data on the infamous "Rough Ride" including an eyewittness account by another man who was locked in the van at the time. That eyewittness published a startling story that contradicted police accounts. Only when unexpected footage of the rough ride surfaced were the police and media forced to admit to that awful episode. But it played into the initial police deception that Gray was injured in the van and so they rode it like a pony straight into the jaws of an unverifiable lie and the citizens and jurors on the first trial did not buy the lie! The police accounts, (all of which support the fact that professional policies were never followed), have been absorbed as if they were gospel in spite of the fact that a conflicting eyewittness account indicates Gray was not in control of his bodily functions while in the van as a result of having been parylized by police prior to the pivotol event. So once again Black American men are stultified whilst this lame but viscious old ruse plays itself out again gaining momentum as truth even though the obvious factor of common sense says otherwise! The moral of this sad story is that the law should be less focused on what it can prove or get away with and more focused on what actually occurred... the law has degenerated to a system that serves its most lucrative customers who happen to be criminals keeping law enforcement personnel in business. It has lost all sight of justice and is rudely startled and annoyed when people demand it!</p>
<p dir="ltr">It was no surprise that the first trial was declared a mistrial and rightfully so because that officer, though frightfully negligent did not kill Gray. His mistake was allowing the arresting officers to put Gray into the van rather than calling an ambulance to take the parylized civilian to a hospital where he might have survived. Had he shown the integrity to make that call things would have been quite different. Due to the grevious injuries inflicted upon Gray by the police prior to placing his crippled body into the van it was in their best interest to attempt to conceal their indiscretion by makeing it appear as if he was parylized by a rough ride in the van rather than at the criminal hands of officers sworn to protect public safety. Fortunately Baltimoreans did not buy this deception. The ploy was intended to psychologically transfer responsibility for Gray's condition to an inanimate vehicle rather than implicating the true perpetrators who happened to be sworn officers of the law. </p>
<p dir="ltr">In the old days before and during Jim Crow the circus that passed as law enforcement amounted to nothing short of absurd, humiliating lies and excuses intended to hurt black people and make them feel powerless. These intimidation tactics were acompanied by miraculously outrageous dissapearances of wittnesses and evidence including the manipulation and fabrication of evidence, etc., etc., etc. Black men didn't have a fighting chance at justice because the deck was already insurnountably stacked against them by centuries of rancid policy and undocumented illegal practices all aimed at disenfranchising them from their rights as citizens, humans and as men. Today Black American men are again pushing back against centuries of an old, established system of oppression. Like every other gain for our civil rights this one will be an all out battle but one we will ultimately win. To be sure the days of unchecked police violence against black men are coming to an end, these are the last bitter days of this ungodly practise. Body cameras are only the beginning of the new culture of police accountability, eventually officers will be relieved of all weapons which they do not need in order to maintain peace. Weapons are not for use against civilians and it is high time that we strike down the practise of managing citizens with deadly force for it is un-American. Like the other rights we have wrested from the fist of our oppressors through peaceful and rational means the end of police violence and the legalized lynching of black men will be another milestone in our quest for egalitarian harmony in a land built upon the free slave labor of our ancestors. Freedom alone can never repay the ensanguined debt owed to Black Americans! But Black American men have always been gentlemen about the entire bloody affair agreeing to let bygones be bygones so long as we are just left alone!</p>
<p dir="ltr">There is a profound differnce between racially motivated violence such as police violence against black men and the phenomenon of black on black crime but the two are also intimately related... both are the direct result of racism directed against black men! This racism comes from a single source external to the black man but focused on him through every aspect within his world through media, art, literature/language, history, music, science, mathematics, sexuality, religion, politics, law, and economics among others. In theory one might surmise that if you stop the single source of racism you inadvertantly stop its entire range of manifestations but as life would have it the problem and the equation defining it are just not that simple. So let us closely reexamine the problem. Oversimplification of this problem does not allow critical wounds caused by racism to be identified so healing efforts can be effectively administered . Hypercomplexity confuses the clear causes of racism to be isolated preventing a cure from being effectively administered. The cure to the cancer of racism must be a versatile medicene not so specialized that it fails to adapt to every condition and not too dilluted to effect a strong, decisice healing. We all know that the buy-in requires a critical and fundimental partnership between the primary races that have been historically at odds as well all of the broad spectrum of people's who have blessed this country with their presence over its long, difficult social evolution. The journey of racial conflict as well as brotherhood has grown between black and white men for centuries. Now is the time to finally come to a peaceful table because that is the way that civilised people solve problems. The black community must certainly organize and effectively leverage itself against racism as a crtical defense while we iron out our issues with inequality in America. As i said before, true freedom requires the buy-in of white,black, aboriginal, asian, Latino and other ethnic groups. We must ultimately become united not as seperate races of people competing for one country but as one diversity of people sharing one common interest. Yes, the black community must uplift itself in the end but to uplift itself only to find the same historical racial obsticles pitted against it would be a sad compromise to working diligently to also heal those racial wounds embedded into the evolution of the land in which both our ancestors are buried. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Because the black man is the underdog he must be the provocatour of justice and initiate the movement to racial healing. He must be the one predominantly situated in the trenches of justice and freedom. He must live an exemplary life of truth by example continually agitating his oppressors to see his vision of truth. All this while working diligently to occupy political offices and build his economic foundation so that when his pleas for justice are made they cannot be ignored... Whatever you do black men no matterhow small it is a good thing. Heal your differences with your brothers black, white and of all colors and move forward as a community, give up your anger and bitterness, let bygones be bygones... refoucus your energy on positive healing and brotherhood, kindness and compassion. With this freed-up space you can then begin the practical process of building yourself economically and intellectually expanding your success as charitable work in your community. Be the solution!</p><p dir="ltr">Not every policeman is bad. If there were no good policemen things would certainly be much worse but in a political climate where police relations are at their lowest, where the history of police violence against black men has redoubled it is clear that a substantial proportion of them, including other judicial officials are not acting in the best interest of justice. So we must make them act in our behalf! Due to the slow process of routing these aberrant personnel from our courts, police force, city councils and branches of government that manage child support and other services more black men will become victims of their trechery. Let's face it, it's a huge problem. Too many people are doing the wrong thing and it has to end immediately. I sympathize with those officers who are good and I hope they will chose to expose the evildoers among their colleagues. For black men there really is no other choice save to assume that every officer he encounter will be his potential oppressor! It may take a century or more before the evil done to black men can truly be erased from their cumulative psyche. Black men are tired of being murdered and abused, by officers of the law and they want to be left alone! Whether we kill ourselves is quite a different matter because that is our own private issue to be worked out amongst ourselves. Black on black crime is a hideous reality but when axaccerbated by the unnecessary, unholy overlay of police violence it creates a dead-end street of despair. We need the police to become community advocates to help black people rout out drugs, and crime so they can rebuild sustainable neighborhoods. We need our government agencies to help us reform welfare, prisons and child support among other issues. When the police prove they are not just another gun in the face of a black man they might begin to earn the trust and support they need to help clean up so many troubled communities...</p><p dir="ltr">The bottom line is this, U.S. police officers are hardly ostriches with their heads buried in a hole, they well know the current state of racism and police violence directed againt black men. They are embedded into the black community as deeply as anyone can be who does not live in it. The robustness of their resistance against reform indicates they are invested in their evil practices and have fortified themselves against positive and inevitable change. Adopting this position they fully understand they will never gain credibility with the black community and while standing behind a gun they do not feel as if they need it. It is a stalemate! Smart officers should already know that radical change is immanent. They anticipate a future when they are not permitted to carry firearms as defenders of peace and it is at that time that we will see a different brand of police, a humbler, more personable defender of humanity. Of course it will not be as simple as taking away their guns; minds must be changed. So the battle playing out on the streets of America between cops and black men is a much more complex war emanating from the higher echelons of our judicial and enforcement structure and it can only be changed by reforming policy and by fumigating at the highest ranks to remove the vermin from office. That is where our black think-tank will be needed to launch effective programs aimed at removing the wardens of these racist policies. In many ways the police are only pawns hired to do the dirty work which cannot absolve them from being willing agents. The main villains who have orchestrated this reprehensible movement are hidden from public disgust, it is now time to expose them! I know the line... black people are just trying to survive, they just want to be left alone... and as much as I agree I also say we have some hard work ahead of us after which, (having been successful), we can and will be left alone to pursue our rightful destinies...</p>
<p dir="ltr">The blood of our ancestors flows through this land so the spirit of this country is bound to our bodies and our souls. Our connection to this land is a beautiful and complex gift. In order to understand this gift black men must awaken from the malaise of their oppression redirecting this country toward a righteous path. Black men must correct the flawed but noble concept of freedom proposed by the founders of this nation. We must finish the and refine the great egalitarian experiment of America. Others have dropped the ball. Not just because our lives depend on it but because it is the necessary to move human history forward it is now our turn to take the initiative picking the ball up and carrying it forward in the final heat to freedom...</p>
<p dir="ltr">WRITTEN BY BIGDADDY BLUES</p>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">THE FIRST NIAGARA MOVEMENT IN 1905 IN NAGARA FALLS CANADA<br />
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It is a rare phenomenon for 1,000,000 Black American men to converge in one place with their focus stolen away from the banalities of the day and redirected toward the critical issues of Civil Rights. We are not the world of 50 years ago when strong communities stood ready to follow-up on the speeches and promises of the day. Those gilded leaders of a century and a half ago have nearly all passed away unfortunately without having a robust peoples to pass the torch of freedom to. That torch has long since gone cold and in many ways black peoples have themselves been responsible for the quenching of its fire. That is why a momentary focus is not enough. These are times of crisis for the black community time is far too valuable for a flash in the pan, we need quantifiable results. Commitments must be made, and with them a robust infrastructure to transform those commitments into tangible outcomes. With 1,000,000 men standing by i'd say that infrastructure was a resource just waiting to be set into action.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">THE 2ND NIAGARA MOVEMENT AT STORER COLLEGE 1906</td></tr>
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Black Americans have failed to understand how to transform their muscle, mind and spirit into a cumulative, culturally relevant organism that could pick up the torch of freedom igniting it anew. Such an organism would never sleep, it would see and hear and feel everything around it and be poised for a powerful, effective and peaceful response to every challenge. And there have been millions of challenges to the peaceful freedom of black people in America. That Black Americans have survived slavery, mental, physical, social and economic oppression, the poisoning of their communities with drugs, violence and immorality shows that they are tough victims to kill but what morbid truth does it reveal about their persistent assailant? <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">KKK PROTESTING THE 100TH YEAR ANNAVERSARY OF W.E.B. DUBOIS' HISTORIC NIAGRA MOVEMENT OF 1906 AT HISTORIC HBCU STORER COLLEGE HARPER'S FERRY WVA.</td></tr>
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The racial hatred that has troubled Black Americans for over 300 years is quite real. It has never taken a moments breath, it has bided it's time, planned, contrived and premeditated, the deliberate planting of destructive seeds. The game is more like a twisted hunting spree where the prey is an entire community of people who reel in mortal terror as each cultural bomb eventually fractures the foundation of its long-troubled communities to a point of no return. The black community is at the threshold of no-return, It has been pushed to the brink of cultural destruction so much of which has been inflicted by its own hands, Even so there is still a very simple and clear path of escape that a seed of one million men if properly cultivated could grow into a strong, invincible tree bearing fruit as it grew renewing, redoubling and protecting the strength of the black community in America through the organized development of a cohesive social, economic and cultural network. Not a new idea at all, it has been suggested many times before but no one man has ever had either the vision or ability to pull it off!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">THE WOMEN OF THE NIAGARA MOVEMENT 1905-1906</td></tr>
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When 1,000,000 Black American men come together their numbers and resources must be creatively exploited. Each man should be asked to sign to a contract requiring him to make regular financial contributions and donations of his personal time and energy to re-build his community. Each man should be asked to sign a contract requiring him to create, support and recruit other black men in a network of community based businesses that have the ability to build and exert their economic and political influence to effect progressive change in government policy and elect government officials who will act in the interest of the community they serve. <br />
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Numbers are power. Numbers alone mean nothing one has to understand how to use those numbers in order to get results even if resources are small on an individual basis, properly tweaked the cumulative effect can be monumental. For example, while it is clear that getting a million men to regularly donate money to a national cause a practical solution to keep these men viable when they are unable to be financial would be require a man who is not able to meet his financial responsibility to substitute by donating time, skills or some other valuable resource. A growing organization always has work to be done but not always the financial resources to do it which makes volunteerism an equally valuable resource to money when properly applied to the model. Such an engine can be used to assist distressed minority businesses and to establish banking and global media networks which will give the black community clean alternatives to mainstream media. It will create corporations businesses that will be ready to employ is community and to receive each new crop of collegiate graduates. Imagine a corporate bank of professionals and businesses that could call in to have minor services it could not afford performed pro-bono or at significantly reduced rates by being contributors to the network which would act like a sort of a business, homeowners and personal insurance institution. The mission of such an organization would not be to prove to the world that given an opportunity Black Americans have the ability to affect the national economy as producers in the highest echelons of corporate management, let the world think what it wants as long as there is a viable working solution to the problems of the black community in America and that solution is given birth and fully managed by the black community. Such an organization would focus the vast potential of one million black men in one place. <br />
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What you do not do with 1,000,000 Black American men who have gathered in one place to move human history forward is to bore them with self-righteous, vainglorious speeches that everyone has heard 1,000,000 times from 1,000,000 sources, give them a flyer, sell them a t-shirt, a bottle of water, a copy of your brand of street-corner propaganda and then let them dissipate back into the dark interstices of an increasingly racist America without getting a long-term commitment from them and fictionalizing it on paper as a legally binding contract of community service and business development! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE 1905-1906 NIAGARA MOVEMENT</td></tr>
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Next time, if there is a next time the black community should take time to select and organize responsible, culturally versatile, community leaders with proven, clean civil rights histories to join forces as economic and political thinkers under a single roof and tasked to coordinate an iron-clad community network. This network will create jobs the first second of its inception and continue to grow itself exponentially as it's reputation and portfolio grows. That network must be one that is focused on the immediate issues of Black Americans but is also poised to assist human all human beings in need incorporating the talents of all the marvelous peoples of this earth. It must also work to regenerate or replace dysfunctional think-tanks and institutions that continue to squander valuable resources. This idea is not revolutionary, it is not even novel.Oddly enough it is something that I know each and every one of you reading this article has thought of at some time in your life. Only one factor could prevent this simple dream from happening and that is apathy. Why bother to come to a million man march if you are gong to be apathetic? When 1,000,000 black men stand in the footprints of men and women of all races who came 50 years ago and changed the course of human history they had better be ready to move mountains! <br />
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The 20th year anniversary of the Million Man March was hauntingly similar in scope to the Niagara Movement of 1905-1906 spearheaded by W.E.B Dubois almost as if it's scope had been lifted off the pages of Dubois's speech the link to which I have included at the end of this article. History is nothing if not repetitive. Moving forward it is essential that Black Americans give due credit their historical mentors and take necessary pains to evolve the movements authored by their ancestors to suit the current times. History has not always been kind to Black Americans but they must nevertheless dutifully preserve and teach their historical legacy with accuracy and pride. These historical lessons will prepare the black community to move forward emotionally and that dynamic is such a critical requirement for healthy socioeconomic and political progress.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">HARPER'S FERRY WAS THE SITE OF ABOLITIONIST JOHN BROWN'S ANTISLAVERY PLOT, IT WAS ALSO THE HOME OF THE HBCU STORER COLLEGE AND THE HOME OF THE SECOND NIAGARA MOVEMENT SPEARHEADED BY W.E.B DUBOIS. </td></tr>
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A man who was not consumed with egotism including disdain and hatred for other races, sexes and sexual orientations would have come before 1,000,000 black men with a well-outlined economically feasible plan of immediate action and not just his ego. It is irresponsible to pull so many people from all across this land without a clear and well thought out plan of action with it's engine already running and ready to take on passengers! Once in Washington we needed those 1,000,000 men to make the ultimate, long term commitment by affirming their brotherhood on paper as quantifiable scheduled financial donations including time and service contracts. We already know the economic potential represented by 1,000,000 black men so by Jove lets stop posturing and lets get some good old-fashioned community building together now!<br />
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1. THE NIAGARA MOVEMENT SPEECH: </div>
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Link: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/niagara-movement-speech/ </div>
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2. CENTENNIAL ANNAVERSARY OF THE 1906 2ND NIAGARA MOVEMENT<br />
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Link: http://travelministry.blogspot.com/2006/09/niagara-movement-harpers-ferry-wv.html </div>
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