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Tue 23 Jun, 2026 08:17 pm
It moves in a moment when stillness moves. Long has been its coming acceptance. "Hey, you see the sign," 'white only'. Girl, you must get up and give this seat to this white man." The pendulum has reached its peak. It has moved to stillness. "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." The bend of justice came forth in a "No, I will not be move." A moment when stillness moves.
The exact years cannot be recalled. I do know it was the beginning years of the 1950’s. World War Two was not that far removed from direct conscious awareness. The Korean War bubble had not yet burst. Every Americans dream was supposed to be hinged upon prosperous. Two automobiles in every garage and a chicken in every pot. The black man living in my town was living in one of the mecca’s of capitalism. My Town, Akron, Ohio was the Rubber and Trucking Capital of the world at that time. I did not feel, or know of it then, but Jim Crow was the underlining haunting of the races. Because I was reared in the North, to young was I to know the boundaries which limited the black man's freedom of movement in Akron, Ohio, was the same as in the opened racist South. Black police could not arrest a white man, and they treated their black brothers and sister worse than the bigot white police.
The movement of change has always been a moving pendulum. The law of inevitability will not be denied. In the Western Hemisphere, change began when Spanish - [Considered a race of color] - explorer Christopher Columbus discovered the Caribbean islands off southeastern North American , and ravaged the land and raped the women and tortured the people.
The slave ship 'Meermin' set sail from Madagascar for South Africa in 1766, but the ship would never make it to Cape Town, the slaves mutinied and managed to overpower the Dutch crew, ordering the ship be sailed back to Madagascar and freedom. " A moment when stillness moves."
Sojourner Truth is well known as the individual to lead slaves to their freedom by way of the "The Underground Railroad." But it was William Still "a humble Philadelphia clerk who risked his life shepherding runaway slaves to freedom in the tumultuous years leading up to America’s Civil War. William Still was the director of a complex network of abolitionists, sympathizers and safe houses that stretched from Philadelphia to what is now Southern Ontario" who began this journey of Black history. "A moment when stillness moves. "
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Change does not come about because people want it. Change comes about because there is "a time for everything under the sun. Change demand the death of the old. The old is as strong as Ancient of days. The Black Race in America initiated the coming end of racism when it put white men against white men. Racism towards the Black Race is not here. But it is coming because " A moment when stillness moves" will not be put off.
No one knows the first Negro to die on American soil for freedom. The shift of the times and The Cry of Freedom came within the consciousness of slaves when undertaken in 1800 by Gabriel Prossen, and carried on by Denmark Vesey in 1822, and followed by Nate turner in 1831. But their cry of Let Freedom Ring, as ours today began long before recorded history. Long before The Taney Era: 1837-1864 of the U.S. Supreme Court. Or Prigg v Pennsylvania; Dred Scott v Sandford; Plessy v Ferguson; U.S. v The Amistad Africans, and Brown v Board of Education of Topeka.
"On December 1st, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city's racial segregation laws. The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Rosa Park's historic act of civil disobedience."
The change can only be complete when the cause of one become the cause of all. When the slogans of cause is the slogan for effect. When the button of commitment becomes the commitment of change, not for individual self-survival, but a harmonious subject and object unit of one cause, slogan, and button of commitment for the betterment of America is no longer spoken of to be a Dream.
The Nullification movement by the die-hard bigots in both houses of The Congress of the United States cannot succeed in nullifying the legitimate election of the 1st Black President of the United States. Obama is the beginning. Obama is the snowball which has begun the roll down the snow covered mountain side. It is growing. It is more than an idea expanding. It is the Spirit of Burning. The bigots has felt its penetrating burn, as those who tried to stop the boycotts, the marching, the legislation and school integration which changed the America of old, to the new where "little black boys and black girls join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers."
The children are the snowballs rolling. They are the ones on the front line. Behind them are their mothers. Then there are the wives who no longer will be tools for pleasure with no voice and no choice but to obey. The mothers, black and white will make their stand for their children to be free, and to free themselves from male domination which has for to long divided and conquered their Spirit of Wisdom, Counsel, and Righteousness.
Mothers, wives, daughters black and white stand up for America. This means you must stand up to the bigotry against you and your family. Make the men in your life become patriots to the creed:
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Don't you realize mother, wife, daughter you are the power of America. You are the ones who shape the minds of the children. You are commanded by the Spirit of justice to train your children in the way they should go, and when they are old, they shall not depart from it.
To all my black Brothers and Sisters, it is time to stand up for your own dignity. Nothing or no one can hold you up or hold you back but you. You see the reality of the world you are facing today is as followed: No part of the world is isolated today. Electronics and technology has condensed it to a global community. Yet the mentality of Cain stills prevails in all places because of ideologies which cause men to believe in selfish power, greed, and lust for the children, and their neighbors wives, sons, and daughters. The cry of Let Freedom Ring has become more harsh and louder in the death of one child or man killing his fellow man without just cause.
Freedom does not begin in the collective whole of a nations mentality or consciousness. It begins in the individual. It begins by individuals letting go of outdated ideologies, and theologies and the belief that there is a God out there instead of in individual conscious. Freedom begins when one sees his brother or sister fall along the way, and they say not as the Pharisees: "what will happen to me if I stop and help this person?" but as the man of conscience says, "what will happen to this person if I don't stop and help?"
It is time to stand up for Those seeking to touch the invisible reality of themselves, dire need becomes a necessity. Necessity because those bold enough to mount the lynching tree, and crucify the Son of Man, will be granted the honor of standing before the door of their throne room, and privileged to open it unto "the way, the truth and the life" of their inner Spirit. The glory which will consume one, in that instant, will make one understand why the dire need for necessity of "dying for my sake" to be the only path which will allow one to go beyond the mind and transcend into the thought of God. Only by mounting the lynching tree and crucifying the Son of Man will the Spirit within ascend "The Son of God" into the everlasting arms of He who SPEAK THE WORD "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased," and stop the human intellectual search to find a god which is not there.
Never give power to anything a person believes is their source of strength - jufa
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