BOOK of the Month: Christianity, Islam, and the Negro Race: By Edward Wilmot Blyden

"Is Knowledge Bias?"

Is knowledge bias?
Is the premonition or admiration of a thinker, a wisdom researcher, limited to the diagnosis, the statistics, the law and regulations?
I feel like the mind can’t be wasted, so it seems
Yet the practicality of intellectuality and sanity seems so intertwined that it takes time to get theories and philosophies through the mind
Yet, is knowledge bias?
Is freedom free?
Can man think whatever he wishes or must he abide by some rule, some norm, and some value system created by a valued individual
But isn’t value relative?
Is knowledge relative?
Can one sit and say what one thinks without angering the Gods or now man himself in the camouflage of the law?
Isn’t law biased?
Then who am I?

Am I who he/she claimed I was when I was born?
Am I who I wish myself to be?
Or am I doomed by the ever-ending call of the name given to me?
Or am I doomed by the ever-ending date given to my birth?
But isn’t time relative?
Was I born the same time in East, West, North and South?
Really?

Is the world Infinite?
Then what are we fighting for?

Is one first forever?Then what are you running for?

Is one last forever?
Then what are you waiting for?

The inconspicuous dreams and thoughts
The insane words ascribed in letters and sentences
Yet Grammar isn’t it relative
Must I write what you write to be right?
Or can I be left-handed and at the same time be right?
Really?

What then is the answer if the question has been asked?
What then is the question if the answer is unknown?
Music is the meaning of the soul
The soul is defined through the tunes and melodies, the harmonic rhythmic bellows of mellows and sorrow tones

Is knowledge bias?
Can I know what you know and at the same unknown to what you don’t know?
If I don’t know what you know am I illiterate?
Then what about what you don’t know that I know?
What makes you?

Is knowledge bias?
Who is stupid or who is smart?
Can he who is marked stupid, born smart at the same time
Or is intelligence earned?
Then what intelligence meets with the requirements of literacy?
Isn’t knowledge bias?
Then who is intelligent for knowing what?

Are all what you just read unnecessary?
Why?

Are your thoughts relative?

Are mine?

Who’s smarter?

"A Quote by Edward Wilmot Blyden(1890)"

"There is a talent entrusted to you. It is your duty to call into action the highest forms of your being. Do not invert the true order of your lives by loving yourselves and the world instead of the Lord and your neighbor. It does not matter what your calling may be - whether it be what men call menial or what the world calls honorable - whether it be to speak in the halls of Congress or to sweep out those halls - whether it be to wait upon others or to be waited on-- it is the manner of using your faculties that will determine the result- that will determine your true influence in this world and your status in the world to come.
If you desire a better country in this world let your motto be "Onward and Upward. "
Not enjoyment and not sorrow,In our destined end of way; But to act that each tomorrow Find us further than today. "
Every one should do his part to advance humanity. Each should exert himself to be a helper in progress. Whatever your condition, you do occupy some room in the world; what are you doing to make return for the room you occupy? There are so many of our people who fail to realize their responsibility, who fail to hear the inspiring call of the past and the prophetic call of the future."

What is Hip Hop?

Hip-Hop?
Why Hip-Hop?
What is Hip-Hop?
The words themselves coincide directly with the meaning. It’s a music type that keeps you moving hop and keeps your style hip. Hip Hop derived from a black cultural revolution to it currently being a revolution from a variety of cultures, black, white, Chinese, Indian, and more. Hip Hop, lyrics, rhymes, poems, these words with eloquence, put together in a style formation to express the oppressed, underdogs, and issues.
Why Hip-Hop?
Lyrically, informative, intelligent, sincere. Hip-Hop takes your mind into the streets of Black Folks, a culture yet unbroken, yet spoken with a clear intention to heal and educate the mind. The Hip-Hop of musical insecurity. Why Hip-Hop? Why not? What other music keeps your mind intoned into a constant phase of awareness? Take the lyrics of artists, like Tupac, Notorious B.I.G., L.L. Cool J, and Queen Latifah. When you really want to know exactly what Hip-Hop is, read as well as listen, focus as well as understand. The essence of Hip Hop lies with the heart of the individual, the motivation it brings with its message puts you into an intense sense of gratification for the object of the conflict or the issue.
What is Hip-Hop?Africa is Hip-Hop, America is Hip-Hop, Japan is Hip-Hop, Antarctica is Hip-Hop, I am Hip-Hop, you are Hip-Hop. Hip-Hop is just not a word, or form, it’s a style of the soul, a type of the spirit, disguised in words, voices, and beats. In a context of words, Hip-Hop is Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela. Hip-Hop is a loud gesture of hysteria, a religion for the better half of the worst streets in mankind’s world. He who objects to Hip-Hop, objects to music, objects to reality, and perception. Hip-Hop is not just an art, or a performance expression of conflict. Hip-Hop is a dialect, it speaks its own language, it wears its own fashion, and it forms its own philosophy. Hip-Hop is the synonym of silence, a noisy interaction with drum beats, guitar strings, and even violins. Hip-Hop is a resolution, it continues to evolve into a nation, a country, not formatted by land and water, but by the voice and the mind of Hip-Hop.

A "Quote" by Socrates

"Because the eye disconnected from the body does not see it is not the eye itself that sees but the soul." Socrates

Some of my own "Qoutes" I thought I'd share

“Every time a wise man speaks I listen
Every time a wise man listens I speak”

“Every little step brings you closer to 'IT'”

“What I lack in Matter I make up in Mind”

“Money, money, money, money is paper, a medium, it can be torn simply with both of the index fingers combined together to form friction. Money is a paper form, it only resembles an art, a photographic memory of a national hero, or hero’s hero, money comes and money goes.
What I’m concerned about is not the amount or the capability of obtaining money, I’m more focused on the life, the surreal essence of a breath, the incomprehensible feeling of disappointment, or happiness, the uncontrollable wave of awe that controls the mind, the feeling of a father with his new born child, or the sulk of a toddler, neglected by the world.Money comes and money goes, money even stays, but life…”

"The greatest speakers were most likely unheard of at the time they spoke the loudest"

"The essence of a soul is like the teardrops of a toddler"

"If you walk a little faster, you may get there a little quicker, but if you take your time and walk step by step, eventually you will get there"

"A wise man once said, "maybe", a fool man quickly said "yes"

Why?

Man himself has a moral responsibility to indulge into the permanent commitment of improving humanity outside of himself. In modern society, we constantly sway into a conscious direction, hoping to partake in the gifts and luxury available to all, each one person after the easiest, safest, and most comfortable route, which in that person’s hope or wish would end up into a magnificent or at least acceptable existence within society. We fail to see that the unconscious reality, the inner imagination and force, also referred to as the spirit or soul, which drives the physical attributes of the body, exists not for the enjoyment of one man to himself or his family around him, but if used as a tool toward the reality of humanity, results into the most genuine existence of man. This act of utilizing the inner spirit and soul, accompanied with the physical components of one’s body is the most authentic career of an individual.
When one understands the reason for his existence, his purpose, or his uniqueness, it is his obligation to contribute his entire ability into the progression of the voyage of humanity.
What is happiness? What is content? Are we ever satisfied?
The world did not start yesterday; neither did it start two thousand years ago, both facts from historical evidence and mere natural awareness. Nor is it likely that the world will end tomorrow, because then today really wouldn’t matter. But does it?
Humanity is involved into a voyage of questions, from the time of birth to the time of death, with two certain questions already fixed into one’s existence, the question of “Life” and the question of “Death”. The two endpoints of a spatial opportunity in each individual’s lifetime to contribute to the journey for quest of the ultimate answer.
The ultimate answer we will never know until we get there. Just as man comes into the universe with no understanding, no knowledge and memory of the world, but only to be guided and trained by an experienced man already before him, who claims to know the best way to survive, so has history been repetitive in a quest for answers. Still two thousand years after Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the beholders of extraordinary senses, philosophers of the world are still born today, still thousands of years after Empires and capitals of the world, wars are still fought over countries and continents. Yet still, after educational systems, economical establishments, and technological replacements of man himself, whole continents of Africa, Middle East, Asia, are still damaged and visibly ruined by poverty, disease, and malnutrition.
Its been thousand and thousands of years with numerous inputs, thoughts, ideas, and strategies, all forwarded on attaining the ultimate goal of a world without question, but yet not much advancement have been made in the journey of quest, because the main requirements, the utilization of the correct resources instilled within man himself, are not used towards the betterment of human existence, but for the imaginary satisfaction of man, an idol of happiness, an untrue ideology of life.
Until man realizes the importance of his spirit in the question of what is Life? and What is Death?, we may always question why, live a lie, yet only to die, still without your answer to why?

"The Modern Black Race: From my point of view"

In my time spent in two different worlds with an opportunistic view of the black race, I have had the honor of observing, associating, and relating with a vast variety of black individuals. I have observed different traits, characteristics, personalities, social status, and also similar attributes which link blacks together in one community. I have lived within Africa and also within the African Diaspora.
In my time spent in Africa and America, I have lived with Africans and African Americans, and the similarities that can be derived from these two cultures of the same people, separated by water land and air, are beyond recognition.
I have come to the conclusion that within Africa and its Diaspora, there is a distinct link which is still preserved, a culture yet broken, and traditions still indented in the blood of the black race.
Even in modern times, generations after the split of the greatest continent in the world, the Black race still in view, renders the most splendid and unique community, bonded by centuries of tradition, language, behavior, and most of all the soul.
There is one thing, despite the difference in cultures and living circumstance between the blacks of Africa, and the blacks of America that is best put in the simplest term by the great W.E.B. DuBois, “The soul of Black Folks”.
In other writings, I will attempt to revisit the lost links between black folks. I will state the similarities, the differences, the uniqueness, and the sacred traits of the Soul of the Black Race.

"Self"

A true Warrior is a replica of a King, filled with royal characteristics, a true Warrior need not be the son of a King, or the son of a Queen, or a kin of royal descendants, or born into riches, or heir to a throne, or wearer of a crown, or born into dominance.
A true Warrior is defined by many things; there are no limits to a true Warrior.
A true Warrior is master of many things, an expert of many works, a sage in essence.
A true Warrior masters the arts, the sciences, the businesses, the language, the personalities, the art of war, the diplomacy, the communication, the six senses, the mind, the soul, the spirit, the flesh, the bones.
A true Warrior is not born but created, never killed, never intimidated, never abused, never manipulated, never swayed, never estimated
A true Warrior is unpredictable, underestimated, unprecedented, unmovable, and understanding
A true Warrior gains and never loses, A true Warrior learns and never teaches
A true Warrior understands and never judges, A true Warrior makes peace and never war
A true Warrior is the foundation of himself, his family, and his Spirit
A true Warrior is always at peace with himself

Something Interesting

"How can we understand tomorrow if we have not even taken the time to understand today?"

Part of my Philosophy (A Violent World)

We live in a world, violent in its premises, violent against its inhabitants, violent against itself. We live in a world where life as it exists, has been created, destroyed, manipulated, praised, instructed, seduced, and instigated. Man himself is to blame for his atrocities against himself. There is no one action in this universe which is to be faulted on any influence of an outer extreme where man has no recollection about. Man states that there are laws to be followed, passed, and broken, yet how can man follow the notion of man when man is capable of the action expressed by another. This is hypocrisy endured by the hidden disguise of politics, law, government, and rule. The inequality established by programs and organization inflicts the very synonym of a disorganized state. What is the difference between a state with laws and a state without laws? The objectable and the subordinate actions of a law abiding state is instilled into an individual the right to be free without cause. That is to say that the concept of policy, law, or governance, may be the mere indiscriminate proposal to be led into a state without laws.
Man himself is a genius created from the wondering nation. He wanders afar into a desert, equipped with a mind of infinite space. The ability to circumstances and experience. The storage of memory and the perception of art. Man’s qualities form an erroneous being in which his thinking becomes irrelevant to his memory. Only the circumstance, which is at hand, may be the synchronized gesture to an organized method, this puts man in a state in which the formation of policies which hold true to the misconception of the truth, is set forward to disguise man’s true potential. This action bewilders the organized and henceforth establishes the organizer. The unequal approach to this situation forms a lawful state.
The unlawful state is then expressed with a ferocious character. It is spited, despite its affection for reality. The unlawful state then becomes the subordinate of the recognized law. The misconception of the truth is then re-arranged into a body of texts, and formation, organized into a realm of the organized and the organizer, man over man, inequality arises, setting the roadmap for expressions and wars. We live in a violent world!

(if you carefully analyze this concept of my philosophy, you will be able to apply this view with some of the conflicts that have occurred in our history, whether it may be the case of the colonization of Africa, or the ongoing crisis in the Middle-East. With a thorough understanding of this concept of my philosophy, you may be able to understand the viewpoints of both parties in each conflict. Good Luck!)

“You know, life takes its own course, it forms an inimitable imagination, it creates its own reality, and it has proven time and time again, that it is always unpredictable. We as a people, we continue through life, living, but at the same time constantly in search of the purpose of our lives. We depend on the past to teach us about the present, and from that unique education, we invest in our present, hoping to create a future, reflective of our past, but strictly innovative in its art. Life is an art, a piece of van goh, like the Mona Lisa or even the Sixteenth Chapel by Michael Angelo. Even hundreds of years later, people from diverse cultures, takes the pilgrimage to Italy, just to take a couple of hours studying at the amazing sixteenth Chapel, to study the art, in the hope to find one secret, a path, the direction, formulating the rest of their lives, as their eyes wonder at life’s wonders.
My art is built in my History, the history of the blacks, the African American, the African, the Krio, the Mende, the Mali, Ethiopia’s famous Queen, Martin Luther King Jr., or even W.E.B. Dubois, that is my art, my foundation and base, upon which my destiny lies. Those are my Mona Lisa’s, and my Da Vinci’s, I have found myself making a pilgrimage to discover the truth, not by traveling thousands of miles to Italy or England, or even Japan, my pilgrimage is about thirty steps to the chair and the desktop computer in my mother’s room, here I sit and stare for hours, studying the art, retrieving the information, cultivating my reality, my purpose.
I continue to find more truth, lies, pain, in the end I know I may find life, I still study lives, of people born years before my kind even existed, and I continue to find an escape, the tunnel leading to satisfaction, to success
Today is another day in my voyage to reality, truth, and life.”

Something interesting

“Instead of focusing on the why’s and the how’s of my actions, I direct my attention on what I can do now that I know why, and were I should go now that I know how.”