WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE BLACK BLOGSHPHERE???

2006 was the year I became aware of the Blacks Blogsphere.  I began my blog right here in the late summer/early fall of 2006.  I had come to realize that we, black/African American people, were not getting our story told via the mainstream media. Like most I believed I had something of value to say to our people and to act as a voice of our people.  I soon learned I was not alone in this feeling and I soon virtually bumped into the Field Negro.  Soon thereafter I found the Free Slave, Bronze Trinity and Asabagna all online with the same idea to enlighten our people and give them a voice, where we were practically voiceless.  Jet was no longer doing it for us, neither was Ebony.  We need something more.

In late 2006, the idea of banning together and putting forth information from a black perspective sprang forth and we all tossed around ideas.  Soon Asabagna, Bronze Trinity, The Free Slave, Aulelia, Kizzie, Francis L. Holland and a few others brought forward the AfroSpear.  We loved it.  We believed we would be a force to recon with and soon we would find out just how powerful this conglomeration of bloggers would be.  In March 2007 Howard Witt, writing for the Chicago Tribune broke the story of the Jena 6.  The AfroSpear got wind of the story and we all posted information about the Jena, Louisiana case.  Soon,  after we made the story go viral (we didn’t use that term back then) radio personalities Al Sharpton and Michael Baisden began to air it on their national radio programs.  It was due to the constant outcry of the AfroSpear that drove these two to speak.  There would be others, the Shaquanda Cotton case and the most heinous of all was the brutal sexual assault and rape of a woman by youngsters in the Dunbar Village apartments.  Weekly many of us black bloggers posted open letters appealing for justice for the victims. 

We were on fire.  We had influenced each one of these cases on one level or another and we could see we in fact wielded a powerful sword.  Then comes senator Barack Obama announcing his candidacy for president of the United States.  This opened up a plethora of opinions.  There were many for the senator and many, well, not so much against just not on his jock like they were.  Many of refused to drink of the cup of the poisonous swill being leached out by the then senator from Illinois.  The dye was cast and many of us were excoriated by other black bloggers for refusing the cup of the George Town, Guyana verbal cool aid the good senator from Chicago offered.   After the senator won the prize of presidency, this seemed to lull the black blogsphere to sleep.  The fire seemed to be dying out.  Slowly, what was once a haven for new ideas and opinions the black blogsphere began to be a sphere of remixed excrement from the main stream media.  Their boy was in office and that was that.

To Be Continued...

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

Do You Believe in this political system?

Carey of the Carry Me Home blog posted a sentimental take on how Black people should be "careful" with our history as a guest writer on the Afrospear.  Referring in the end to those that criticize president Obama's tenure in office.  After a few comments, Carey finally lowered the typical derailing type boom of a response at the Freeslave and at the desenters of his opinion.  "To those that believe they are “free men or free slaves”, I question what solutions they have for the problems in America, and why do they live here? I mean, if they do not believe in the political system in this country, where would they live that has a better system?" 

Well sir, I will deal with only one of you questions that are most often asked by the conservative types, "... I mean, if they do not believe in the political system in this country..."  My first thought was "is that all you got", but I said to myself I would go ahead and play along.  Straight to the point, absolutely I believe in this political system...at it's core that is.  The giant corporatized stinking monster that it has become, no.  This political system as it is today is not what was intended by those that wrote the constitution ( I cannot for the life of me bring myself to say founding fathers.)

The system as it was set up was not to be overrun with lobbyist at every turn of the corner offering and giving "gifts" for votes to go their way.  Nor, was it designed that congress persons would accept expensive "gifts" in return for voting the way of the corporate lobbyists.  Nope, it was not.  The system was set up to be a representative government much like the indigenous American way of council, based on the Iroquois Confederacy's Great Law of Peace.  Sechems, would go to council as a full fledge representative of the people, and ruled solely by the will of the people.  In fact the custom of senators and congress person dropping their names today and becoming the Senator from Georgia or Congressman from California is directly related to the original council of indigenous Americans, truly representing the people.   The system as it is today is not a representation of the people, nor is it a representation of the will of the people.  This system has taken the people to be fools, yet the people allow themselves to be fools by often saying things such as "I don't want war but they (the government officials) know more than us".  I say hogwash! They rarely if ever bring the truth to the people, they bring propaganda for the dumbed down minds that we as a population have become.