Jesus Came To Teach

Teachers teach and do the world good, kings just rule and most are never understood. If you were to rule or govern a certain industry all inside this room would be in misery. No one would get along nor sing a song, cause everyone’s be singing for the king, am I wrong? - Krs One

When I watched the movie IP Man something stood out to me, and was crystalized in my mind while reading Dave Lowry’s book Moving Towards Stillness: Lessons In Daily Life From The Martial Ways Of Japan. During the movie, Ip Man is meeting with several sifus (teachers) of local martial arts schools to demonstrate his style of the art.

In a chapter of the book Lowry relates a story of a sensei that loses everything during World War II. Losing his business, his wife to pneumonia, a month later getting the news his son was killed in action. On top of that the master was living in a tin shanty out in the open with very few clothes, food given to him by his neighbors and students. Shortly there after a fire destroyed everything in the neighborhood right after the Japanese government surrendered to the U.S.

The master, and everyone around him, appeared to have nothing. Then, having nothing, the neighborhood turned to the master. He was a budo teacher. This meant the people ‘looked up to him.’ He was a teacher. The teacher was a well respected pillar of the community. He had nothing, but the neighborhood turned to him not because he was a big businessman, not because he had persevered through horrendous adversity, not because he was a master of the martial arts, but because he was a teacher.

Teachers in our society have been deminished to the value of their paychecks. Our current society places the worth of something based on its monetary equivalent. Since American society has continued to pay the teacher very little for the value they are to render via education to our children, teachers are no longer accepted as a great value to our society, the teacher is no longer respected as a pillar of the community.Teaching has never been a profession that one would become wealthy and this was a known to all who pursued the profession, but one thing was understood, even when I was a child, that the teacher was to be held in very high esteem.

Teachers once held themselves in very high esteem and understood their position in society and for society. Historically, teachers were “looked up to” and the title of teacher bestowed upon a person, whether a professional teacher in a school system, a martial arts instructor or a teacher of religion the title was a crown of the utmost importance in society. Even Jesus was adorned with the title teacher. Rabbi, as Jesus was commonly called is a word that comes from the Hebrew root word horah, meaning “he taught…”

Mary was the mother of Jesus and as such she was his first teacher. Maybe, just maybe, when our society places woman where she really should be, no longer looking at her as “just a vessel” and understanding her true roll and value of any strong and lasting society, will the teacher be elevated back to the the esteemed position of our society. Maybe, just maybe, when the title of teacher is elevated to it’s true heights our teachers will see themselves beyond that of just another “human resource” to be consumed by societal madness and see themselves as one of the pillars up holding the building of society

The Primary Enemy Of African Americans Is Not A Who, But A What.

There are several enemies of Black people in the U.S. and the world.  The most obvious is white supremacy and it's many tentacles that even reach into the world's Black population so deeply, that we will practice the art of white supremacy against ourselves. Classifying our own population into shades of skin colour and assigning value to one shade over another.  This is a pandemic throughout the world's Black population including the people of South Asia.  It's rooted in the psyche so deeply that the darker shades of hue of our people will chemically alter the colour of their skin to appear lighter, since we have assigned a higher value  in our social ranking to the lighter shades of our people.  Many in our population have successfully altered the colour of their skin to an unnatural light hue as in the most famous case of Michael Jackson and lately Sammy Sosa and Vybz Kartel. Also included would be the huge sales of lightning creams in Africa and South Asia (I have not seen any statistics for the Black people of the South Pacific.) However,  as deeply and sad as this is, especially being rooted in white supremacy, this is not our primary enemy.

  I was listening to a fantastic radio program on Center Stage entitled Save Your House Even After Foreclosure.  I'd previously seen the link to the program but never listened.  The program had originally been recorded on December 14th of last year, and I just decided to listen to it yesterday, and I believe everyone that has a mortgage or is working on getting one should listen to the program.  However, during the program the guest said that (I'm paraphrasing here) 'we are beyond fighting with guns' and he was talking about his work, but it occured to me the same was true for what and how we eat. And really why we eat what we do eat.  In that, there is an attack on going and the attack is not with a gun or a bomb. 

In the U.S., the health and wellness industry has lured us into a belief system of what is good and healthy for us to eat.  A belief system because the "proper" way to eat is dellivered to us via "public service" announcements, news, food shows and a chart often posted in work and school cafeterias.  Yet, few of us desire to research and begin to really know what is good/bad/healthy/unhealthy for us to eat.  Eating is what sustains us but when we eat and not consume nuturients from our food we are eating our way into to illness including mental illness and eventual death.   Behavioral scientist's have conducted several studies in the U.K. on it's male incarcerated population on how the lack of nutrients affects behavior. Here in the U.S. a high school saw lower truancy rates, higher grades and fewer arguments between students so much so that student confrontations became almost none existant.  Simply by adding in fresh fruits and veggies to their lunchs and eliminating burgers and fries.    When given supplements of vitamins and minerals, and by changing their diets into more fresh vegetables and fruits, the incidneces of violence dropped dramatically in the prisions.   Apparently, our enemy is not who we have believed them to be.

  The health and wellness industry is our primary enemy. Our primary enemy is on our forks.  They have attacked first through our food.  By not only polluting the soil, but also by depleting the soil of vital nutrients, by modifying genes and other forms of altering.  Through our minds via television commercials from working out to the food pyramid.  And most of all, the fast food aspect of eating, which not only includes burger and chicken joints, but processed foods of all types including steamer veggies, to dinner in a bag.  The assault is on our health first and formost and we should be waging an overthrow of the way we look at food and learning to discern whether what we are eating is beneficial in any way.  To learn what it is beneficial for us so that we can make proper choices.  This is the primary enemy of African Americans.  We are beyond fighting with guns.

EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT PATTERNS FROM ABUNDANCE CHILD

Abundance Child of Abundance Child Live goes in deeply concerning the next evolution.

Thoughts From an Evolutionary Perspective.

2012 portents to be a year of changes. Changes to our economy, and subsequently changes to our way of life. We shouldn’t be surprised at how the cost of living will rise because the U.S. dollar is becoming worth-less. It’s value is slowly plummeting. We see it now and most certainly feel it’s effects. Some are predicting the actual death of the U.S. dollar. Not that its going away, but it’s death, it’s worthlessness. For many, race, and racism dominate their thinking. The oppression of people of color dominates their thinking on several fronts. From the victim mentality level to the level of those that would subscribe to out right revolt against the whole system. I am supposing the whole system would range from whites economically oppressing people of color, to Africom increasing it’s influence in Africa, to the “dominant culture” not providing fresh fruits and vegetables for stores in the hood. This on the outset appears to be correct, noble, and seemingly in the right direction but, may be misguided in this era. In fact the real war is right in their faces yet they cannot see.

Ephesians tells us “

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” If this is accepted as a truth, then would we be correct in looking at something so obvious as what we can plainly see is imperialistic expansion, racism, sexism or obvious economic oppression? Should we not be looking for the most hidden, devious works by princes, governors and powerful people? We can see that what is obvious cannot be who is making war on us and what weapons they are using to war against us. If the verse in Ephesians is correct it would be foolish for us to take our fight to what is obvious. The weapon in the fight against us is not Africom. It is who and what Africom is sent to protect. This is what is in darkness, the who, the what. Our war is on the cellular level.   And the loss of control of our health and bodies is what is being prosecuted against us.  It’s a war for and on your mind.  The imbalance of hormones and lack of proper intake of minerals and vitamins is the assualt being wroth on us. How this assault   takes place is with what you put on your plate.

Subscribing to revolt against the system in the mind of the revolutionary is to fight the obvious, that which most of us plainly see. Fighting the scourges of racism and sexism, and economic prejudice are noble and should be addressed. But, should not be addressed as if racism and sexism were eradicated this would be the end of our problems. It would not. Our fight begins internally, in the heart, soul, mind, knowledge and wisdom. That which we fight right at this moment is an assault on our physical bodies by way of our mouths.

Evolutionary thoughts in a Revolutionary World

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Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army soldier and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is an adjunct professor at the College of William & Mary where he teaches courses on US national security. He also instructs a senior seminar in the Honors Department at the George Washington University entitled "National Security Decision Making."