Too Much Black 1.1

From Too Much Black
By No Black Pete (2011)

It is what they tell us. It is what they want us to believe. That we can have financial independence that will lead to a better life as we are accepted for who we are and where we are at.

Believing the lie made us outsiders, and forever bumping our heads against the glass walls keeping us out. Like unwanted stepchildren we are kept at bay with empty words and holed pockets.

Benjamin Bannaka

A Man of Many Firsts

In 1753, Benjamin Banneker engineered the first striking clock made entirely of wooden parts. This invention marked the advent of his rise to fame as people would travel from far and near to witness his remarkable invention. Made entirely of hand carved wood parts and pinions, the clock struck on the hour for over 50 years.

Banneker was the first to track the 17 year locust cycle, a valuable revelation to farmers enabling them to prepare for attacks by locusts on their crops. He was among the first scientific farmers to employ crop rotation and water irrigation techniques. He enjoyed eviable results as a tobacco farmer, and harvested his own food crop.

Banneker was among the first Americans, and the first African-American, to publish almanacs, a valuable tool in an agricultural economy. His almanacs were publicly sold from 1792 to 1799, and did quite well.

Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker
Scientist, Astronomer(1731–1806)

“The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.”
—Benjamin Banneker

Benjamin Banneker was a largely self-educated mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs and writer.

Synopsis

Benjamin Banneker was born on November 9, 1731, in – what was later named – Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland. A free-born black man who owned a farm near Baltimore, Banneker was largely self-educated in astronomy and mathematics. He was later called upon to assist in the surveying of territory for the construction of the nation’s capital Washington D.C. He also became an active writer of almanacs and exchanged letters with Thomas Jefferson, politely challenging him to do what he could to ensure racial equality. Banneker died on October 9, 1806.

Background and Early Years

Carried Beyone Se

Genesis 15:13,14, 16 The Akan Queen Nanny (marooned in Jamaica) Carried Beyone/Sea/se

I AM THAT I AM
Queen Nanny of the Maroons the Akan Journey out of Ethiopia into Egypt into the Nile Valley, to Timbuktu Mali, Ghana into Deuteronomy 28

THE OYOKO HAWK CLAN marooned IN JAMAICA. WHO ARE THE AKAN? Gen 36:27

JUDAH IN CAPTIVITY………..STILL

SANKOFA Ghanaian author, scholar, professor and Akan chief; Nana Darkwah analysed Egyptian and African history, culture, archaeology, religion and linguistics, as well as Jewish history, biblical history and DNA evidence. They broke down more than 15 books from the Old Testament Bible to show that these books’ names were originally African, more specifically Akan names.

40 Acres And Reparations – 2

40 Acres and a Mule: The Reparations for Slavery Debate
Griffin Coop, Nori Henk, Cory Phillips, Theological Analysis Project STH TT 810, 2001

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SECTION II: Alexander Pires, David Horowitz, and Karl Rahner

Guilt is one of the greatest issues at play in the debate over reparations for slavery and is a strong force on both sides of the argument. Those in favor of reparations proclaim that the United States, and essentially the descendents of slave owners, should feel guilty for the years of kidnapping, bondage, and oppression they forced upon the slaves. To make amends for these acts, the proponents of reparations believe reparations of some monetary sort should be paid to African-Americans today. Those who oppose reparations recognize the guilt in the same way that their opponents do but believe, among other things, that reparations is an attempt to absolve the guilt. Reparations might do more harm than good in terms of helping African-Americans and improving race relations, because it would likely put an end to building the bridges burned by slavery.

40 Acres And Reparations

40 Acres and a Mule: The Reparations for Slavery Debate
Griffin Coop, Nori Henk, Cory Phillips, Theological Analysis Project STH TT 810, 2001
[Annotations NBP]

INTRODUCTION: Historical Background and Description

Slavery as a legal institution lasted for about 250 years up until the Emancipation Proclamation of 1865 and for another 100 years, African Americans were subjected to Jim Crow laws of which they were not seen as legally equal until 1965. Initially, reparations were to be paid by giving freed slaves 40 acres of land and a mule, but the bill was vetoed by President Andrew Johnson in 1869 after having passed in Congress.  However, the issue was far from being put to rest.

One hundred years later in 1969, the Black Manifesto was published, demanding monetary compensation equaling $3 billion dollars from predominantly white places of worship (Catholic, Protestant and [other] Jews) depending on the predetermined amount that the National Black Economic Development Conference calculated. This request stemmed out of the Civil Rights

Straight Up Hair

Love my hair

I can have straight hair, but I love my hair as it is.
My hair becomes me, as I take good care of it.

I know to nurture my hair like any other body part.
Without attaching my self-worth to it.
I feed my hair Natural oils, so it can take care of itself.

Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah: Africa’s “Man of the Millenium”
By Guyana Under Siege

Kwame Nkrumah became an international symbol of freedom, as the leader of the first black African country to shake off the chains of colonial rule.

As midnight struck on March 5, 1957 and the Gold Coast became Ghana, Nkrumah declared:

‘We are going to see that we create our own African personality and identity. We again rededicate ourselves in the struggle to emancipate other countries in Africa; for our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent.’

Accessing the Mind of the Assassin

From Ninja Mind Control
By Ashida Kim, 1985 (e-version 2000)

Introduction

 “There are no extraordinary men, only ordinary men in extraordinary situations.”

Those who have purchased this volume with the idea of employing mind control to further their own selfish motives will be sadly disappointed. Indeed, such manipulations would be considered by some to be “black magic,” and thus “evil.” Such attempts will almost certainly bring about the self-inflicted downfall of the perpetrator.

The Real McCoy

Inventor Elijah McCoy: “The Real McCoy”

Elijah J. McCoy—an African-American inventor after whom the saying “the Real McCoy” gained popularity—was born May 2, 1843, in Colchester, Canada. He was one of 12 children of a family of runaway slaves who had used the Underground Railroad to escape from Kentucky. When he was 15, McCoy’s parents sent him to study mechanical engineering in Edinburgh, Scotland, training that was impossible for Blacks to get in the United States.

After finishing his schooling in Scotland, McCoy returned to the United States with the hope of obtaining an engineering job. He was forced to accept a job as a locomotive fireman with the Michigan Central Railroad, a position that required he shovel coal into the engine and apply oil to the moving parts of the machine. McCoy found the work unchallenging and sought other more productive forms of occupation. It had long been considered a problem that railroad engines were unable to lubricate themselves.

King Henri Christophe and Haiti

King Henri I

On June 10th, 1767, Henri Christophe was born. He was an enslaved West African and became an early Black king in the Western Hemisphere (Haiti).

Christophe was born on the island of Grenada, a British colony. His parents were Africans who were enslaved and taken to Grenada with thousands of other West Africans to work in the sugar industry. These West Africans in the sugar industry were known for their fierce and determined nature to resist the white institution of slavery. The revolutionary nature of Henri Christophe has its roots deeply embedded in his African ancestry. Christophe’s obstinate nature led his father to ‘sell his services’ to a French ship’s captain as a cabin boy, before had reached the age of ten.

The ship’s captain sold Henri to a French sugar planter in the French province on the island of Saint Dominique called Haiti, which was a Carob Indian name meaning “the land of the mountains.” The brutality of the French planters led to much discontent among the enslaved Africans in Haiti.