Once More, to the WELL??
I was Privileged, to meet Nina; following her performance at Vine Street, in Los Angeles in the mid-80's. I found her to be, in person, even more over-powering than she had been, earlier, when I heard (and purchased) my first of her Albums, decades before. She didn't take no crap off her audiences! She halted her performance, as I remember, to "tongue-lash" some White-Trash women, who wouldn't "shut-up", while she was performing. Nina was certainly NOT a typical "Accommodating Black" from the Deep South!
Fast-forward to yesterday in Charleston. That Event was tasteful, informative, and necessary, given the "TIMES" we are in, racially; when Whites strive, en-masse, to protect Cops who Murder young Blacks.
During the years I lived in Miami, I had to "ride-out" several HUGE hurricanes. We "barricaded". on the 14th floor of a High Rise in Biscayne Bay. As the storms came; larger in size, and, in rapid succession, I reflected on Pirate Jenny, and her Ship in Charleston Harbor. I also realized that those Hurricanes followed a defined path from the West Coast of Africa, leading toward the Bahamas, and Miami. Thispath traced the "graveyard" for Millions of Slaves who were "thrown overboard to lighten loads in storms! A perfect Metaphor for Charleston in 2015?
Will the United States, as it did following the Civil War, "lighten its load" by throwing today's Blacks "overboard"?? Will there be enough "Accommodating Blacks", aka,. Black Conservatives, to make that "possible"? Clarence, and his buddies on the SCOTUS, don't seem to be winning, lately, Are they attempting to bring back the Good 'Ol Days of Slavery? Unfortunately, it is true that, traditionally, those "Accommodators" were Black Preachers1 Black Preachers even spied on Civil Rights Workers for those operating the Mississippi "Sovereignty Commission"!
Stay Vigilant! God's "WELL" of Mercy and GRACE, may run Deep, but it could Run DRY?? "Americans", of all colors, throughout our "Half-Planet", need to re-visit History: from 1291 through 1691, and LEARN how we got to where our world "stands" today -- as China looms on the Horizon. BLACKS have been left confused about WHO they are! So have the Native Americans! Hit the Books! hint: (the Bible was re-written in Europe in 1611) -- the struggles between Christianity and Moslems, have a very long History, extending back to Charlemagne and Medieval Europe!
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