THE DICHOTOMY                  

 CONCERNING THE MIND                   

PART THREE

  

Existence is a representation of the principle things you need to know about in life; it is also the outcome of whatever theories you have put to the test, or misconceptions you believe should be the case.  The nature of the mind is to solve problems, and the nature of the Self is to experience those  said qualities within; so that an intelligent, more reasonable course could be pursued on the way to happiness.  As a scientist, existence is based upon the known—pursuing things to the point of  ascertaining the truth above belief; and living according to the bottom line of such discoveries.  As a believer, existence is a matter in faith and providence—good over evil, morals, values, social considerations and principles concerning us as a group: civilities for citizens, belief in the humanities, social behavior,  where we are going as people, etc.  

     This type of life (life based upon what one believes) becomes kind of tricky; because Karma (consequence of one’s actions) is quite balanced—and no less equilibrated, principled, or scientific than “E=MC2;  However, what one believes (morally) may vary from people to people, culture to culture, and along the lines of evolutionary development: Even the writings of such communities reflect such phenomena.  For example, “Sweet & Low”™—an artificial sweetener based upon scientific studies—was based upon studies which proved that the caloric intake of this substitute was much lower than sugar during the time tested; but the findings were not conclusive.  The business community (eager to sell a product), rushed to get the product on the market; much to the chagrin of the public.  Later on, as the rest of the research happened, the key ingredient found in Sweet & Low was found to produce cancer.  Bottom line: The sure thing gets moved aside for what people want; despite the knowing a sure thing. . . 

   Religion pitches morals and values in order to protect the group under the guidance of God; whose voice comes through another leader.  God is the father; which means he looks after the children and protects them by predicting outcomes on moral and social issues; hoping the congregation will take heed and do as instructed.  But the congregation are the “children,” doing things based on their own social development—very few religions teach that their congregations are one with the creator of all.  So the congregation takes the immature way out and ask for God’s forgiveness: Heck, they want God to buck Self’s principles to save them. . .  And before they die, some of them think to “throw up a quick prayer” and all will be “forgiven.”   

   So why want to know?  There must be a benefit in being aware of what is going to happen, or what you can do as a result of what you know.  In order for this to be true, you must emulate those things you know is know is true, real and right for the situation: It shouldn’t happen by trusting what people say, but by researching and finding out the truth on your own: That is the research part. 

   As a result, you will get what comes to the one who does what is appropriate, and will know what a person knows. . .  Who steps correct.  At some point you will educated by such concepts and travel the road “less traveled,” if you are willing to be reasonable: That is the development part, which will lead to Self-Realization or Knowledge of Self.  

    You have to be reasonable,  or at least willing to consider the possibility; for I have tried to pitch the most poignant arguments in logic and reason and lost to folks who see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear, building monuments, cultures, beliefs and psychological defects; based upon the delusion  and cognitive dissonance of what they want to believe as opposed to what really is.

   Once again, man is a social creature and culture is his customs, beliefs and values—in essence; it is what a people do.  Culture and cultural values changes from people to people.  It is bad enough that our people (Black people) live in another land, dominated by another people (White people) who have their own different set of cultural values which often does not agree with ours: It becomes extremely complicated in this case because we are subject to their perspectives, compounded by the fact that despite the culture, for the most part—what a people know, believe and understand (despite science, knowledge, and truth are included within that cultural packet) their behaviors rarely go along with committing themselves to living by the principles that are contained within.  It is high time that we, as Black people, need to study America and redefine what these cultural things mean for us as Black people; because a lot of times it means or implies something different for us.  And as such, we need to have enough integrity to redefine it for ourselves—and if need be; with different terms.

   We are not talking about ideals; we are talking about ways to live according to exclusively.  We are talking about redefining terms and excluding terms in our vocabulary; Because those terms in theAmerican language has inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, and/or attitudes as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change—that is detrimental and often repressive to us as a people.  We may find ourselves using  different terms for things used by Whites, to protect our esteem as well as our mental space—and other terms simply because after we examine them, we may find that  theirs does not seem true based upon a different set  or stage of consciousness represented by us as a people.  After all, our observations on Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, Hebrew Culture, Islamic Culture or Traditional African or Khamitic Culture in America is not an anthropological view, it is a Eastern view studied in a Western way; and from a Western perspective.  I say we must study things how we see things, culturally, scholarly and scientifically based upon our people’s point of view; based upon our people’s values and perspective.

   After we have used our critical thinking skills to determine what is true and what is not, we have to use our imagination to determine how things would be based upon such concepts:

Imagination is what Self uses to transverse between realms.  It is knowledge and wisdom based upon visualization—like looking in a looking glass and applying your skills to the new realm; based on new words and new terminology but ancient rudimentary concepts and ways to consider things:

   Those who are familiar with the Concept of Knowledge of Self and Eastern thoughts, know that the mind is universal, because within this school of thought; There is only one Self in the Subjective Realm, which is the Original Realm; and the sphere of Awareness, where consciousness resides.  In other words, in the Subjective Realm, there is “No-Thing,” because “nothing” has been made to exist: There is only the awareness that the Self subsists, and that the ability to exist is only a potentiality.

   The undifferentiated energy/matter aspect of Self, is a homogeneous substance that subsists in the Subjective Realm; where energy nor matter is undistinguishable and cannot be determined by speed, vector, gender, shape, color, time or any other means Objective beings use to determine the nature of things.

   Awareness is not a thing; It is conscious used to determine what things shall become; originating from Self Awareness; based upon Self’s myriad of abilities and or qualities.  

   In Arabic, those who speak of Allah, speak of Allah’s Ninety-nine Attributes; Which opens up into many other realms or worlds originating from the one Self.  In the language of Knowledge of Self, It is said that “Knowledge is the Foundation; which is synonymous with Omniscient awareness: Where one Self is aware of everything which resides within the “Sphere of Awareness”—where concepts are considered: Chief among them would be Kether (on the Tree of Life), which is the Self’s idea of itself.

   When Self considered experiencing its own myriad of said qualities; a sphere was made within the homogeneous substance, called by some as “Undifferentiated energy/matter” and others as “Primordial waters”—where the physical realm would begin to be made somewhat separate from the Subjective realm: This realm is called the “Objective Realm.”  

   When the Self considered the construction of the Objective realm and it’s principles there of; the mind was constructed to hold its’ integrity and govern all parts of the realm; similar to how the Infinite potential of Unlimited Consciousness controls the Subjective realm as an implicit force within the world: Thus making the mind universal, and accessible to all to ponder and learn about other things; as opposed to separate beings who have only their limited existence and power to be concerned about—With no sense of ecology or reasoning outside their ego. 

   Those who followed that journey of  reasoning has learned the abstract language of cosmology, the art of the concept behind words, the art of critical consideration; and the use of reasoning and imagination to become what should be: Those who have been led in the wrong direction, merely are so because they, at some point, became polarized instead of centered and/or neutral—and therefore could not find the truth or the awareness of what is appropriate or right knowledge. 

   END OF PART THREE  

Peace

C. Be'er la Hai-roi Myers 

  

   

 THE DICHOTOMY                  

 CONCERNING THE MIND                   
PART TWO

  It has been said that, “The Creator created creation so that, The One which peers through many faces, could experience its infinite myriad of qualities.”  It has also been said that, “Man, which is consciousness dwelling within a form(of energy/matter), became flesh.”  As well, the scriptures say, “We should be, In the world but not of it.”  

These statement implies a certain amount of Objectivity. They imply Impartially.  These things imply to be apart from the things we consider—including even our own personalities.  A personality is a collection of accepted ideas, gained through an assessment of a myriad of experiences, through which our ideals and values are formed; However, what is not properly understood is that those thoughts originated from the environment (The World/so to speak): The consideration of  these things through which we calculate our perception of reality.
    I say this because of the scripture; “From the dust ye came and to the dust ye shall return—but the spirit will go back to that which gave it.”  By using this Biblical  knowledge as a reference, the implication of such is, what we are aware of dwelt within an electromagnetic form (a spirit or energy complex) at first; which later becomes flesh (matter)—because—according to Christian concepts, it is the consciousness that gets judged during the day of judgment (In the beginning was the word, etc).  
Muslims also have a similar belief.

    Remaining separate from the things in which you are observing or perceiving, has always been the focal point of those pursuing meditation; For it is here that true justice and jurisprudence takes place—and without it—life is just opinions and prejudice prepositions.  

   One  might ask, why should I quote the Bible?  The answer is, Hebrew is one of the oldest languages and culture which ever interfaced with the West.  The Hebrew nation has come in contact with Europeans in several points in time.  The Hebrew scriptures represent their wisdom; something in which the ancient Greeks and Romans coveted, stole, in the attempt to transplant, enrich and enlighten their kind. Therefore, these Eastern teachings are somewhat infused into the Western, for us to use, but if I may quote from “The Godfather III”—Look at this stone.  It has been in the water for a very long time, but the water has not penetrated it.  Look. . . Perfectly dry.  The same thing has happened to men in Europe: For centuries they have been surrounded by Christianity, but Christ has not penetrated. Christ doesn’t live within them.   Christianity, Islam and Buddhism represents three of the biggest Eastern oriented religions which exist within the West but the West has not modify their point of view. . .  The point is, most of us know the scriptures; directly or indirectly—therefore it becomes easier to elaborate on Eastern concepts using these matrixes.  And even more for me, because the original Hebrews are Black [Semitic is part of the African/Asiatic group]. 

   To recap: In the West, people are indoctrinated into the belief that each person has their own mind, and this mind is different for each person incarnated; In the East, they are indoctrinated that there is only one mind and that each being taps into a universal source of conscious and that the person is defined by different rates of development into this singularity of  overall universal awareness of all there is.  I loved Morgan Freeman’s Lucy  Evolution Lecture in the movie, “Lucy” [2014]; It showed conscious within the microorganisms within the cell unfolding into organelle, then organs, and organisms—into animals, people—groups of animals and people, etc. . .  Exactly how I would illustrate the concept of all that is.  There’s only one creator of All; one consciousness that peers through all faces and creators etc, whose most proper name is described by many as Allah!  According to many Eastern concepts, the mind (which they consider universal), is identified more as an electro-magnetic energy/matter region called  the sphere of awareness (some say it is the sun);  a place in which all things are evaluated or judged by our various levels  of this unlimited and universal consciousness (based upon what each person is aware of). 

   When I was in high school, many of us was taught Applied Geometry.  In Applied Geometry, our teachers taught that a plane was a flat level of no thickness, extending indefinitely in all directions  throughout space; And a ray, which is a beam of light, extends into infinity from a single point of reference: Now this may or may not be true; but in order for you to perform Applied Geometry, you would have to agree with (or entertain the possibility of) certain suppositions and precepts; and as long as you go along with its basic concepts or fundamental terminology—then all the rest of the logistics will make sense.  

  This same thing happens when you go from culture to culture: There are certain customs and beliefs that are believed to be true in one culture, which may or may not be true in another culture.  This is because the concepts in which those practices take root,  are not present in other cultures; many times this is so, simply because it is not a point of emphasis of the people who make up that culture.  For example, for the ancient people of India, who read Sanskrit, meditation was a profound preoccupation; therefore the culture produced several meditation techniques.  This however, was not a point of emphasis or preoccupation of the Nordic, Scandinavian or Teutonic tribes that we call Vikings and therefore there is little growth and development concerning this amongst those tribes; as well as the Visigoths, Goths or Vandals (and many do not have respect for such things).  

   Which brings me to another point: Even though all cultures  may possess scientists, education, and various technologies—its the beliefs, ideas, and personality  of a particular people which often dominates over and clouds the perception of truth and the moral ideals in modern day societies (as opposed to ancient and traditional societies).

   Furthering the perspective on the Self, people, family, person and culture; I also had a conversation with a person who minored in psychology in college who said: “We’d like to say, there are those who deal in reality and those who don’t—but just what is reality or whether someone is sane or insane is a matter of debate.  We all have our reality; some based on facts and some based upon feelings, emotions, opinions, conjectures—or maybe a combination of the two; The point is, either way one’s perspective may seem just as real as the other.  When we say reality, what we are dealing with is the commonality of various realities; based upon things already confirmed to be true to the others by concrete evidence.  In other words, in a broad sense, doesn’t matter what it is based on, in the perspective of the believer (truth, feelings, emotions, delusions, illusions or lies)—one may be just as real as the other—in the eyes of the beholder: 

This is the major impetus behind why courts have to determine whether or not both parties are fit to stand trial or why wills start of with I—of sound body and mind:  The commonality of cultural standards of what might be considered sane.  

   We consider what is real or true within our sphere of awareness; based upon what we are aware of, and the evidence of things around us, documents before us; precepts set by our people before us (or the people before us).  What we are aware of can come from various sources; How true such these things are, depends on our diligence to seek the truth and our values we were reared with.  What we judge, is the events we witness—or are involved in, the things in which we hear, see or read:  How well we do at this is based upon the culture, how we are cultivated and the point of emphasis that truth plays with us as part of our personality and the standards we set for ourselves. 

   END OF PART TWO  

Peace

C. Be'er la Hai-roi Myers 

  

                                                   

 THE DICHOTOMY                  

 CONCERNING THE MIND                   

   I only ask for you to read, consider, and weigh what I say against the preponderance of information or research material that is available and then decide for yourself.  And any man or person who believes or guides himself on faith—needs to apply what they think, by putting their theories to the test; and let life show what is real and what is not.  But be honest with yourself; don’t go out to prove your hunches. . .    Once you have determine what is true and what is not—I urge you to base your life on what the world has made you aware of —that is, live accordingly to those discoveries so that you may receive the benefit of  having such knowledge.

   Truly, knowledge is the foundation of all things in existence; for existence is a representation of the principle things you need to know about in life.  If you were made in the image and likeness of the Creator (as most monotheistic religions say), and the Creator is omniscient or all knowing. . .  Then you, in some way at least—have an obligation to base your life exclusively upon that which is known.   

   I knew my Central Asian ancestors knew about rum and wine—because wine is mention in the bible in the legend of the Yoruba god, Orunmilla; while he was fashioning human beings—but I never heard our folks drinking fermented liquids from potatoes (vodka)in their county.  Beer is documented as drinks the Khammau drank during their empires but Brandy, Scotch—these are drinks of a European nature.

   When we were young, we watched Godzilla.  We watched Kung Fu Theatre.  Dragons, lizards are an integral part of  Asian folklore.  Dragons are also a part of British and Viking culture as well.  These mythological  creatures are intertwined with their customs and beliefs, but they mean something different from their Asian counterpart.  I watched the History Channel’s , “Vikings,” directed by David Milch—where the focus is on their customs, like their marriages, treatment of women, sexual behavior and character was revealed from the social level in a drama like faction.  It was exciting educational learning in a action-packed setting.  These things are very important because they tell you the chronological development of a people, ethnicity and world evolution.
   Most of the time, when we read history books we get another person’s perspective or a opinion (his-story) on what happened over a period of time; usually telling things from war to war and battle to battle—listing elections and politics—but not past-times, public opinion and trends.  Chronology and an anthropological research studies man and all his group settings from class to social studies concerning; from music and folklore, literature, art and sciences; hierarchy to power dynamics—as well as sex and family dynamics—within time and changes which happen within each over the passing of time (which is much more insightful and mentally appetizing).   

   As a scientist of life, we have the tendency to disrespect life based upon belief: But I caution all of you to desist in doing so simply because you know that  knowledge and truth are more substantial bases to place one’s bets on; 

For in the words of Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins: “What a fool believes—he sees; and no wise man has the power to reason away what seems to be.”

   I’ve lost many nights in insomnia trying to pitch the most poignant arguments in logic in reason, trying to convince an adamant believer what the truth is—and I’ve lost: 

Many people see what they want to see, and hear what they want to hear; and unless you are devoted to wanting to know what’s real and what’s fake—you may never get what I am striving to bless you with.  

   There are lots of folks enshrouded in superstition, religion, and BS, as we are devoted to the discovery of the known; They’ve built cultures, monuments, and various sexual practices for it: Just look at all the hedonist people, S&M folks, swingers and the like—not to mention the muscle and knuckleheads. . .  Belief  can be just as firm as knowing, in the minds of an idiot and slaves of mental death—and no one maybe able to convince he or she that what they believe in is not true.  I know that for sure; because I banged my head against that wall too many times.  Nowadays, I just let time take ‘em on! 

   God, the Creator, is a singularity—expressed in the universe as the multiplicity of beings and things within it—with that same creator as the crux of that universe; Man is a social creature and culture is his customs, beliefs, values: It is what a people do.   Now culture holds what a people know, believe, and understand; and even though science, knowledge and truth is included in that packet—culture and the customs and behaviors that go along with that rarely commit themselves to living by the truth contained within.  What is customary in one culture, oft-times never matches with the other: Different people have different ways of looking at things; despite such evidence of truth:  Culture is based upon the level of development of each people as a whole and each people develop differently.  Each have their own way of looking at life and each have their own way of evaluating it and incorporating that knowledge.     

   When it comes down to knowing, there is no room for belief—only science; but when it comes to culture and customs; beliefs and superstitions abound.  And these beliefs not only changes from culture to culture—some are diametrically opposed to one another.

   When Black people came to this country, even though we were the same ethnicity—we were stolen from several tribes and social status and brought here.  There have been many people who have sole into slavery, and (when you consider the Viking raids within the European parameters) many who have everything taken except their language—but only Black people have the distinction of having everything taken including their language.  By doing so, in few generations, Blacks in America were made culture-less.

   Our people found ourselves looking at American culture—like a kid in a candy shop: We are driven by the culture-less hunger-like desire which drives us.  A lot of this becomes difficult to remain objective.  How could we ever have an adequate evaluation of what goes on, when we have nothing to compare it to?  The vacuum created through the practice of slavery crippled our  cultural development, subjecting our folks  to grow up and look at life the way our captors do.  The only thing that kept us apart for being a total a carbon copy of Whites in this country for so many years is our sense of morality; but this today is changing. . .  

   What I hope you are appreciating here is not an argument of who’s people or whose culture is right or wrong in their outlook. . .  What I’m striving to establish here is that they are different outlooks.  It may not be totally different: After all, even though we don’t have Hebrew teachings in this country, we have the Bible, Catholicism and other forms of Christianity.  Even though we don’t have a true Buddhist society, we have movies, documentaries and entertainment depicting its wonders in jest as well as seriousness.  What I’m saying is that we are seeing these things in the way that Western man perceives them—and not in their original form or fashion—as the dominant school of thought.

   We are seeing things the way the Western man sees things; We are seeing things and other people tainted with Western perspectives.  We are seeing Eastern thought in a Western way.  We watched Bruce Lee on the Western screen, but we know little of Taoism or Chinese thought.  We know little of how the rest of the world looks at many things; because we are seeing it through Western eyes; based upon Western levels of development; Western fixations, polarizations and prejudices. . .  Two things cannot occupy the same space at the same time; all things must be reconciled; the Khamit [Kemet] name for God and its’  female aspect as well is Neteru—but ultimately all is one and all is Neter; from which we gain the word Neutral in the Greco-Roman world.  In the East, centering, balance and remaining neutral is of upmost importance: Reasoning, reconciliation and impartiality—is of upmost necessity: Becoming neither this or that, but reasonable—in order to know the truth about both sides; is something the West has yet to truly experience.

   Take the mind for example:  There is a concept among the ancients that the mind is universal.  This philosophy permeates all of Eastern and Central Asian thought:  Kabbalistic trains of thought (which includes the Yoruba, Ashanti, Akan, Bantu tribes, Khammau of Khamit, etc), as well as the rest of most indigenous tribes of Alkebulan [Africa] subscribes to this idea; yet the West sees the mind as something every individual possesses.  If the Creator is the creator of all things and possessive of the attributes; omniscience, omnipotence and omnipresence—then the Creator is all or one knowledge or awareness that permeates everything, all or one power through which all power is derived, and present throughout everything which created; by the words themselves.  So, if knowledge, consciousness, or awareness defines all things and through that definition the power is derive which is present throughout creation; then the area through which all is pondered [mind] must be wholly, a singularity and universal as well.  Care to defy that logic or reasoning?

   The Creator created out of itself; otherwise there would be other, giving birth to the notion of polytheism—not monotheism: Take your choice, but you do so on the basis of the level of your development; However, the choice is yours—and maybe that will change as you develop more. . .

   There are some who call the mind—a sphere of awareness—in which all things are considered or pondered; and that each person considers things based upon their person’s level of awareness or development versus the things they experience and the words they hear: Words represent concepts and concepts are principles which order the reality in which these words represent; making knowledge the foundation of all things in existence.

   We go through life experiencing things and considering concepts; both of which are on the outside pressing inward—and not the other way around.  This is one of the conundrums for Black folks in America: Being stripped of our culture and experiencing American culture from a culture-less perspective—most of us do not have an objective way in which to compare America to.  By denying us equal rights during slavery and after the Equal Rights Struggles of both 1863 and 1963, Blacks have been constantly played to the outside by American culture and by not having equal rights, American interests does not represent our best interests most of the time. . .

In the back of many White Americans, we are viewed as a social misfit; A Public Enemy—A Dark Horse.

 In the West, we are trained (according to the Biblical Scriptures), “As a man thinketh, so is he.”  What we are not taught is that thinking and thoughts are not the same: It cannot be.  You can’t use the object of contemplation (thoughts) and use the same word to describe the act or action of contemplation (think).  They are derivative words; which implies a kindredness which should not be; if  proper judgment should take place: True judgment requires a certain amount—if not total objectivity; like “Rising six miles above the earth’s surface” to get a “hawk’s eye view.”  I refer to the act as, “Giving the thought proper consideration.”

    END OF PART ONE  

Peace

C. Be'er la Hai-roi Myers 

  

  

 A Brief Synopsis on 

 American Hierarchy 

 Part Two 

I’m not saying this to give the impression that all White persons in America felt Blacks were beneath them in God’s eyes; I am saying to Whites that the acts of your mother country [England/Europe], the ideas and ideals of colonization, apartheid, etc.—are done by those who are in charge of governing the land that look like you—those of your folks who set such policies and you that your opposing sentiments were either not plentiful enough or strong enough to overturn such behavior: Because those who thought their leaders were right and those who did nothing to reject or protest were more powerful than those who did not feel the same as those who hate Blacks.  So even though you don't hate me—and I respect that—but you're not doing a damn thing to help change my condition.
     And in the end, that’s all that really matters. Because in the aftermath, it is the people that look exactly like you, who have the right to subject my people to the most horrendous treatment and impose their will on us as the will of your people and none of you produce the numbers, or take any action, or  muster up power to stop them or devise counter measures to prove to us that not all of your people are that way and we cannot continue to suffer in silence. The obvious die was casted, and will of the wicked became what America wounded up doing to the Native Americans and the Black people who were brought here as slaves: We tried to be understanding about it—give leniency to every exception and neutral parter; but when we try and overturn those things we all know is just not right—you give us the "passive advice" and tell us to "go slow" and this way we won't offend anybody. . .  Freak that!  I am not taking violence: I am talking resoluteness and tenacity to get the job done—and this is the type of relentlessness I am taking about advocating.  

   To think that there were enough people among White Americans amongst the settlers who actually cared enough about Black people enough to turn the tide of negative sentiment, or that the pleas of Blacks in America could persuade all American people to resist hundreds of years of social conditioning in the European way of White Supremacy or change the social view that Blacks are not that smart, have little power, and therefore are inferior was (and is)—in hindsight (judging from social conditions in America) a ludicrous proposal to ever believe in.

   As I said previously, Culture is what I people do; Ultimately, it is the evolution of a people’s outlook on the world; especially when large numbers follow the trend. 

There has been many cultures that have been enslaved throughout the millennia; and several which has been subjected to the most horrendous amounts of cruelty.  There have been those folks who have been stripped and robbed of almost everything. However, Blacks stand alone, in having been stripped of everything including their language and culture by America; which left us devoid of belonging to any country.  Most today who claim allegiance to the motherland, are only doing lip service to the homeland; because they lost their heart for such things a long time ago. 

   This maybe the reason why we attempt to appeal to certain faculties in others that simply aren’t there in others; because we don't have enough nationality to perceive how different we are as separate stocks of people.  You can no more expect to appeal to a colonist’s sense of sensitivity towards the ones whom he or she politically subjugates—than you could appeal to a people who deal in the slave trade to stop selling people; Or pirates to stop robbing, or vikings to stop rape, looting and plundering.  Those types are not evolved to that point and they are not interested in being so at this point: Those forces are not functioning in those persons: What we have previously discussed is their evolved outlook, and that will only change when they feel the need or when they hit rock bottom; not when the people who are suffering cry out and complain to them. . .

   As the Natives have said, “White man speaks with a forked tongue.”  The American colonies and their settlement parties has made 97 treaties with the Natives and they and their descendants have broken every one—through deception, politically correct posturing, lies of omission, straight out lies and changes that happen when the political seats change and the next man or woman does not honor a previous agreement.  

Over the years, we have appealed to their sense of fairness and have been duped each time.

   Separate but equal was thought about by the movers and shakers in American politics, fourteen years before the majority of Black people were even released from chattel slavery.  The message was made quite clear:  This meant there were large numbers of Whites, in position of power, who were not trying to let Black people out of slavery;  and much less as their equals—so they took steps to circumvent it.  It is as simple as that! We are still fighting for all of our civil rights in 2017. . . Do I have to spell it out for you?  There are Jewish ghettos and Black ghettos, so why is it that the Black ghettos which are economically impoverished, exploited and depressed? 

   It is this cloud of subjugation in America which stifles the mind, depresses the people and arrests the development of our ghetto inhabitants.  It causes large numbers of us to behave like little children who have away come from a broken home: Blaming ourselves for the outcome of our parent's divorce;  Accusing ourselves (and our ethnic and immature behavior) as the main reason for White people's discrimination towards Blacks—aka, Blaming the victim for being victimized! We are the oldest people on the planet, and in reality, it is they who betrayed our parents and enslaved us, the elder brother—like Jacob did Esau. . .

     Over the years, you had the Segregation Era, you had the Jim Crow laws, the Black Code laws, the Citizen’s Council, etc; Obviously, this type of evolution on the part of White folks is not user friendly for Black folks: It is definitely Separate but not equal or fair. . .

   During the Segregation era, when the government rigidly separated the Black and White race which lasted for one hundred and fifty years (1849-1950), surprisingly, Black people made leaps and bounds in commerce, industry, and in the cultural evolution of us as a people.  This time which morphed into the Reconstruction era (1865-1877), Blacks formed breakthroughs in structure of American education system, which not only benefitted our people, but formed the basis of things which are still being used in the education system of Americans today.  Blacks fought for civil rights to change our social conditions.  Our artists, writers, poets and musicians formed Harlem Renaissance which started forging our Black identity in America.  In the South, Blacks politically controlled the areas they lived in (many times with the church being their political bastion); in other words they not only stayed in their lane—they spruced up the way the lane looked.  We formed our own businesses in every profession in our community and created our own professional teams like the Negro League.  We became somewhat self-sufficient during this time.

   Entertainment wise, we were the best in Jazz, as our performers were the preferred entertainment in places like the Cotton Club in Harlem (a place where the performers were Black but the Black were never able to attend).  And even though President Lincoln kept to his side of the bargain during Segregation by declaring Emancipation for the slaves, he never supplied the newly freed slaves "seed money" to get established, or maintained troops in the South to protect Blacks from being bullied by those Whites who were sore for losing their human property after the Civil War. 

   But despite all the progress we made during those times (despite the adversity), it seems like we did all of this because we were forced to; Because there was no alternate—White society gave us no choice; they wouldn’t let us into their society; so we did what we had to do.  
I say this because, when Segregation ended and so-called Integration began, our people abandoned many—if not all of our previous cultural institutions to mingle within the White establishments we were now allowed to frequent.  It seemed as though we were intimidated by the Ku Klux Klan during slavery, Reconstruction and Segregation.  Blacks were afraid the destruction and havoc White people would unleash when things weren’t going their way.  Even today, older Black folks who lived through those times still won't taught about such times, for fear of reprisal.  Let us not forget, although there are judges and authorities of various ethnic groups today; it was probably more horrendous then, when the accused, the terrorists (Klu Klux Klan), and the judges were all of the same ethnicity.   All things considered, it may have looked like, during those times, Integration may have seemed like a viable offer; since we were intimidated by American society for so long. . .

   But in excepting that vague integration in White society offer, we let our businesses and social developments fall by the wayside while we reached for the Bird in the Bush:  Most Blacks don’t buy BMWs because of its fine engineering; they buy them because it symbolizes economic success in mainstream society.  The same goes for most interracial marriages and cultural imitation—we wanted what they “got,” and we often imitated it, in hopes we would be associated with it, which would make us feel good to be associated with a "winner" (like buying championship jerseys).

   Integration is a smoke and mirror act.  America legislators nor media never really defined what they meant by the word, they just removed some of the unfair practices used during Segregation that the society once called "constitutional" and "fair"—along with allowing Blacks to buy their items of commerce—and this allowed Blacks to let their imagination run wild with the possibilities of being accepted. . .  
Redlining, a former practice of refusing a loan or insurance to someone because they live in an area deemed to be of poor financial risk, was never fair to Blacks because they were forced to live in ethnically concentrated areas because of their opportunities; then judged by Whites in better economic statuses.  But after Segregation had been lifted; Blacks could live anywhere they could afford. 

   Often this was counter-acted by only advertising homes for sale or rent in local neighborhood papers and not the regular city paper columns; yet many of our people would jump through hoops to rub elbows with Whites because they felt the grass was green on the other side and once they achieved it, they would believe they’d made it (achieved racial equality simply because they had the home and their neighbors were being polite or politically correct but in charge).  Things were not as some opportunistic Blacks believed them to be; as those, particularly up North, who felt Blacks were “not entitled” to the same as White people were, only found creative ways to deny Blacks of those things, just the same.  But nonetheless, it did not help matters much that our own people who gained better means did little to help the less fortunate of their own race because of their opinions of their own kind. . .

   The cultural vacuum created by American slavery really crippled Black people until the Black Renaissance because, until we started to look outside this country to define what Black is or what Black culture are, we only had White people and colonial America as the model of culture—and it’s hard to be taught by the same people you’re trying not to be taken advantage of. . . Especially when they have a low opinion of you to begin with, based upon you being used for a tool and also slave. . .

  And even though Blacks don’t like to admit it, if you have not made a conscious effort to recapture your culture or scientifically/anthropologically studied other cultures to create your own essence conglomerate. . . If you are Black, and you live in America—most—if not all your ways are Western; Forged out of the colonial American/European model with many of the prejudices and social diseases that their people carry about the other 10/1lths of the world; endowed with your own particular stock of self-hatred attached.

   Integration, Colonization, Segregation and a multi-cultural society, which is really a multi-cultural society with a dominant cultural theme; Are terms which send confusing signals—especially Integration, Colonization: For as the Last Poets once said in the poem, Before the White man came: “For if we knew what they [the colonists] had in mind, they all would have died in the bay.”  And it’s particularly not too hopeful to believe America will ever give our people racial equality and equal civil rights, when you have discrimination against Blacks, in particular, written right into the United States Constitution that Slaves [Blacks] are 3/5ths of a man, to be considered as property along with livestock; Or in Plessy v. Fergusson—As Justice Henry Brown’s opinion puts it, “If one race be inferior to the other socially, the constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane.”  While the object of the Fourteenth Amendment was to create “absolute equality of the two races before the law,”such equality extended only so far as political and civil rights.  Furthermore, the Court held that the Thirteenth Amendment applied to the imposition of slavery itself.  I wonder what ethnic group or race did Justice Henry Brown came from?  Or whether or not he truly couldn’t see a dominant culture or race dominating in opinion, attitude, and bias, despite the cloak robe he wore. . .

Trade is the Only Proper Use of This Culture

   Before Integration, blacks work for themselves and produced the own products because legalized Segregation made it so; after Segregation, there has been increasing numbers of Blacks who seek White employment simply because of the higher pay, the disbelief in their own kind to run businesses as professionally as the White counterparts or that a ten thousand year culture like Nigeria cannot match a less than 300 year government for stability.  Everyone knows that there’s many societies in America, but their customs and cultures are subdued to the American Standard—and that’s the truth.  And most other people come to America, teach their children to run their own business and purchase primarily from their own kind: Most will only work for another group of people, when it can be more lucrative.  Trade is the only proper use of this culture.  As my brother Unikue says: "I want the loot; not the lifestyle."  
   Economic development, nationality and a sense of us as a people must come first:  It is only our people who send their children to school to work for another group of people and not ourselves: The new Breed are not conscious of taking care of their own people’s interest first.  This has got to change—the name of the game is to make money and take care of your family and your own people first.   We have to both by Back and employ Black.  We cannot simply rely on the goodwill of others for love of humanity.  Otherwise we will always be subject to some other people’s will, rules and dominance; never moving ahead as a people.

Peace

C. Be'er la Hai-roi Myers 

  

  

 A Brief Synopsis on 

 American Hierarchy 

 Part One 

   Anybody who knows anything about American chronology know that the indigenous people of this country were not White, but the ones who claim that, “This country is ours,” definitely are.  When one of them asks you, “Are you patriotic?”  They really mean, “Do you object on how we are running things. . .  Are you a hater?”

   The people who are native to this country—Native Americans—in both North and South America, are the people we call the “Brown man.”  These natives were in Alaska and all of the lands of North America Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and in the Caribbean, Mexico, Brasil, and the lands of South America as well.  

   Historically, the White man calls the natives “Red Man,” but he also calls the people of Nippon, Japanese—and the Hindi—Indians; but it usually not only is it a misnomer, but often used to conceal some secret concerning the groups they chose to rename.  

   Genealogically speaking, the Black and Brown people are kindred because in the Blackman’s body there are two genetic markers; meaning in the Blackman’s body there exist two genes or germs (relating to or of the nature of a germ cell or embryo):The black gene and the brown gene.  In Florida, there are the Seminole and the Timucua natives; both are darker-skinned Native Americans; which is not an aberration. . .  

   During the original subjugation, White colonists attempted to enslave the Brown man first—but were highly unsuccessful with the prospect of enslaving the Natives on their own native soil; so they settled with the enslavement of Blacks—since they did not come in this land.  It was also the Native American who assisted Black folks when they ran away from the slave master.  In South America, there are shrines set up amongst those who practice Macumba, for those divine forces that worked between the Black and Brown worlds who helped make our survival possible.  But culturally speaking (as a group of people), the Black and the Brown are two distinct groups now; with many, many various similarities (which we will get into at another time). . .

   When I travel to Niagara Falls, I was appalled and see Natives who run the casinos in the area, and living on the reservations be so light or “pale-skinned.”  I know this was not what was meant when they called the Brown man “Red.”  These were the European’s bastardized sons and daughters. . .  Which was a recreational sport for the colonizers.  I guess the reason why these bastardized people came out of the woodworks is because there’s repatriate money to be made, and one drop of Native blood entitles you to some of that cash, so. . .  I guess this is the same reason why they are so many of these types in professional organizations like “AIM”—American Indian Movement—to control the politics like colonizers do. . .

   I started this my story here because, although there are theories that natives came from somewhere else—they occupied this land we call America when Leif Eriksson, Christopher Columbus, or Americus Vespucci were said to have discovered this place.  My question is: How do you discover a place where there is already natives or people living here?  That is—unless you didn’t consider these people as human or the same type of being as you; with the same sensibilities; But let's look into this point further, as we go along. . .

   It is equally appalling to see a people (sub-divided into tribes) help the colonist survive America’s harsh winters—only to be later subjugated and  deprived of American citizenship.  Systematically—genetically and culturally—exterminated. . .  Wiped from the American history books.  But then, our chronology in this country isn’t much better.  As a matter of fact—in some ways—it’s quite worst.  After two civil rights struggles between 1863-1963, Black are still without equal rights to the Whites in this country—but believing ourselves citizens.

   This country proposes to be a multi-cultural society, but it is really a multi-cultural society with a dominant cultural theme:  And that theme is Western European cultural dominance.  It is engrained in the very fabric of European colonialism.  It was incorporated into the thinking of the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution, with its’ special section on describing its consideration in the treatment of Blacks.  It happened as a result of European Expansionism; who’s very philosophy during that time—was to all other non-white cultures as inferior to the caucasian colonial prototype.   This was their cultural perspective!  Like I said, When one of them asks you, “Are you patriotic?”  They really mean, “Do you object on how we are running things. . . Are you a hater? Do you know how we play our game?" 

   As a matter of fact, these are historical accounts of the English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese carving up and colonizing several parts of the world—like America, India, the Philippines, China, and Nippon [Japan]; with the blessings of the Catholic church: In exchange for transporting shiploads of gold from these countries—and I learned about these things from their own writings: Any one who’s read, James Clavell’s, “Shogun,” should be well familiar with these sort of politics: 

America was originally a hodgepodge of European countries vying for colonial dominance over the New World, which they eventually stole from the Native Americans through ethic and cultural genocide; North America later emerges from the European battles in the new world as a British colony: As lands given to Royal Masons of Britain, in exchange for debts and other favors owed to the Royal Masons by the king.  However, inevitably, It was the working class Masons who also came this American colonial venture, who complained about paying taxes to the mother country without getting proper representation in English government; proper protection from the soldiers against the natives which surrounded their colonies and continued insured rights (“representation”) as European citizens—platforms which eventually gave them the opportunity to seize the colony away from the Royal Masons and old King George.

   The founding fathers of the thirteen original colonies of America, were these men.  Thomas Jefferson studied Magna Carta, and various European governmental documents, in order to forge the United States Constitution; which is very much a Westernized document; based upon European culture and concepts.

   Expansionism is just a fancy way of saying that we lost most of all our natural resources in our mother land or father land (fertile soil, minerals, building materials such as iron, trees and other raw materials) and the money to buy it; so we just going to go to other countries and figure out a way to take what we want by any means necessary. 

   What we call a colony is a group of people who settle in a new place but keep ties to their homeland.  The people who founded the United States as a country, first came to America to live as a part of the British colony.   They kept their ties because, this was a business venture and Europe was where they developed their ways; it is how they established their culture; they were terrified of losing their connection.  And this was a way to maintain their position. . .  

   Man is a social creature.  His or her ways are derived from what they do collectively as a people; there is a commonality between each person.  Culture simply is what a people do; It is derived from their sojourn together over time, events and different people.  Culture is all the knowledge and values shared by that society of men and women:  Their attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization.  That doesn’t mean everyone thinks exactly the same, but they are sympathetic.  Wolves are not dogs and dogs are not foxes but they all are members of the canine family.  They are not feline; for example.  

   Culture is the ideas, customs, arts, social institutions, world achievement and political ideas of a people.  The people who are in charge of this colony bring these ideas with them and superimpose them upon the indigenous or native people; whether it is America, Africa, or Asia—just as you watch in Bond movies or Out of Africa or Humphrey Bogart in African Queen: Our culture becomes the backdrop to their culture and intrigues. . .

    To colonize a place by definition means to send a group of settlers to a a place and establish political control over it: like the Greeks colonized Sicily and southern Italy; which in essence means, to establish yourself and superimpose your country’s will upon another domain by gaining political control over the indigenous people of an area—usually through trade—under the guise of cultural exchange: But as you saw in Kenya and South Africa; their industrialization leaves those areas in massive disrepair when the West is totally driven out: To colonize literally means, to settle in, and take control of lands outside your own borders. Usually a large, powerful country colonizes a territory or area that’s much less powerful (by inserting its power through the political process).  

    They say that the Manhattan natives sold Manhattan, New York for twenty-eight dollars worth of trinkets.  The Native Americans helped the European settlers survive the harsh winters in America.  Through political disagreements over land and boundaries; wars ensued, eventually culminating in ethic and cultural genocide for the Native Americans.  Now the governing body and the settlers own America and call themselves Americans and the remaining Native Americans live on reservations and are allowed to have nothing to do with American politics.  There should be no question as to the European’s intent when they colonize America; whether north or south, Caribbean, or any of its islands. 

   Now imagine if you were a Native American—or partially a Native American (like some of us are); Imagine how this must feel.  But more importantly: Whether spoken or unspoken; Imagine how others who call themselves Americans think about you (the people who lost the war)!  Not very highly, I gather. . .  Now, imagine trying to apply for citizenship to this newly formed country. . .  

   Well, you wouldn’t have to imagine too far—because America had its period of total segregation against Blacks in this country, after The Emancipation Proclamation: It was called Segregation.   Segregation spans from 1849 to 1950 and includes the infamous Plessy vs. Ferguson “separate but equal” attitude towards our people. . . 

   From White historical accounts, they say that there was a group of Black and Whites who came to America as indentured servants from England who settled in Virginia.  As policy, Britain settled both America and Australia by using both jailed religious dissidents and indentured servants in order to populate their colonies; sort of like the politics of the work force in the prisons today.  

   Imagine how the governing body in these colonies thought of these indigenous people within both colonies. . .  Political and religious prisoners in Britain, got a chance to start anew in America (and face the anger of the Natives as a result of the colonization process)—while the indentured servants used years of servitude to the colony to pay for their trip to America to the landing parties or companies:  The Plymouth Company and The Raleigh Company were such companies.  And after serving their terms, the settlers of would receive forty acres, a mule, and a gun to protect it.  But socially, in either place, they never ranked high in either place.   

   During those times, from local accounts in Virginia, they say that there was an upheaval in a Virginia settlement, wherein in two to three Whites and one Black indentured servants were found guilty of starting the ruckus.  The issued sentence for the White servants was less severe; but the sentence for Black man was slavery for life.  Following that statute, and a series of similar events, in the early 1705, the Virginia General Assembly ( a colonial legislative bodies) wrote Black Christian enslavement into the policy for the colony; however non-Christian slavery started much earlier than that [1555]. 

   Now there is another colonial account, that our own people sold us into slavery.  However, if this was indeed the case; what is not said or maybe not known, is the politics of European slavery and so-called African slavery were very different and unbeknownst by our ancestors at the time.  On the continent, as far as tradition Alkebulan (African) rules were concerned, if your tribe transgressed against my tribe and we could not come to an ethical understanding—then the matter would be settled as A Judgment Trial by Battle.   That meant; If my tribe won against yours in such a battle, you and your warriors would be enslaved for life for such transgressions; your children however, were not.  I, as your owner, would have to provide lodging for you on my land, and your family could visit you; but you would have to remain on my land and my servant for life, as well as live under my jurisdiction.

   Now I hate to bust anyone’s bubble, but people aren’t just people: There are enough cultural and customary differences between the different people of the world (even between neighboring tribes) to state un-reservedly that you cannot say all people of distinctly different ethnic groups or different tribes of the same stock of people are basically the same—for the reasons I gave to explain what culture is.  That’s the same reason why travel advisers always warn travelers to study up on the people you are going to visit when you are traveling: Because what one people customarily find offensive, another people will not, and vice versa: And, if you could get people to be honest, both Black and White people will tell you, there are a lot of cultural differences between Black and White people in America; even though we copy their cultural script.

    I say this, because America’s 450 plus years of imposing slavery on our people, have left us somewhat culture-less [other than so-called “African-Retention”].  We find it very difficult to retrace our people’s customs and roots, so what we have is mainly derived from the American experience; so much so, it took the Black Renaissance laborers decades to define our character as Black people in real-time American terms.  That’s why Blues and Jazz are considered America’s only true musical art forms—because it is America’s cultural conditions upon the culture-less Blacks in this country, that created the art form as a means of expression.  

   But even with all this being said—even though we speak this British language and follow these Western ways—most of us find their logic and reasoning behind this way of life puzzling; because it didn’t originate from our people.  We just settle into familiarity because of social media; mainly through movies and television and cable/satellite shows. 

    When I watch Game of Thrones, House of Cards and shows of that sort,  I am amazed at the level of cruelty, torture and diabolicalness created by their creators: It stems from their cultural way of thinking.  I even find some of their judgment calls at the work place puzzling and insensitive.  That’s why I am certain our ancestors had no idea of what type of slavery they were selling us into—if they sold us into slavery at all. 

   All that set aside, when our people were finally released from chattel slavery in 1863-65, we still had to deal with the attitudes of us not only being slaves but viewed as vanquished people.  Even if we weren’t members of the losing side in A Judgment Trial by Battle, it was a customary judgment call imposed on us by the Founding Fathers of the Constitution, handed-down by the governing body of the Colonial legislation and social attitude of the settlers: Our people were just viewed as a means to and not real people to these folks—sort of a subhuman; Constitutionally, 3/5ths of a man, to be considered as livestock. 

   Establishing a colony is like playing Three Card Molly or Let’s Pull A Fast One on Joey: There is never any good intent for the mark, the acquaintance or the passer by.  They are there to be taken advantage of and are considered by the hustler as naive or stupid.  The muscle and the money man backs the hustler because they believe in the hustler’s ability to fool the mark.  Just as the leader of the colony is sent by the king because he believes in his ability to negotiate the settlement smoothly.  It is the  settlers who will feel the anger of the natives should he fail, and that’s why there’s a need for the military might from the mother country.  

   The intent of colonization is never good for the colonized: It wasn’t good for the Australians; It was not good for the owner of the Gaza area [Sadat or Kemit/Khamit] or the settlers in the Gaza strip [the displaced Palestinians or Lebanese].  The Lebanese were disenfranchised refugees, who were short changed by the Allied powers on behalf of the Jews of Germany to create the state of Israel; and it wasn’t good for us Central Asians who live in Alkebulan, nor the Native Americans: 

In this paradigm the motherland  take what they want, the settlers (servants) take the brunt, the military fights, but the motherland reaps most of the benefits.  Well, the Founding Fathers in America pulled a a fast one on England (so that went sour). . .  And our people were bought from the slave merchants to be used as a tool and also a slave to make one of the most powerful nations on the earth; paying peanuts for the process of building it.

   One of the most important vanguards in our fight for freedom, besides Harriet Tubman was Frederick Douglass.  Freeing himself from slavery first, Douglass never quit brokering for freedom for all Black Americans, until Douglass (with the help of the abolitionist movement) was able to persuade  Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation in exchange for getting Black freemen and slaves to enter the war on the side of the North during the Civil War.   

   But along with the efforts Frederick Douglass and Harriett Tubman, came an ill-fated belief by our people, that we could change the social attitudes of descendants of these settlers to not only include us into their society—but to treat us as equals within that society:  

Concepts that runs contrary to America’s practices for over 462 years!  This society has been an overtly segregated society from 1849-1950 [Segregation Era] despite a Civil Rights Movement by Blacks around Reconstruction right after the Civil War (1863) and another pitch for Civil Rights, right after the Segregation Era in 1964.  

 The 1896 Supreme Court sanctioned legal separation of the races by its ruling in H.A. Plessy v. J.H. Ferguson case, which held that Separate but Equal facilities in this country did not violate the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment.  Separate but Equal is a United States doctrine which states that racial segregation is constitutional, as long the facilities provided for Blacks and Whites are roughly equal.

  End of Part One 

Peace

C. Be'er la Hai-roi Myers