Leading The Leaders

 

Listen to Leading The Leaders.m4a by Rayel on #SoundCloud

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Still Seeking A Sign?

 

Listen to Seeking A Sign?.m4a by Rayel on #SoundCloud

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Turning You Into A Computer

 

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Recommended Book: Ida B. The Queen by Michelle Duster

Ok, NOW I'm really enjoying the Biography of the Great, Journalist and Anti-lynching Activist, Ida B. Wells, written by my fellow Whitney Young Alum, and Great Grandaughter of Wells, Michelle Duster.

 EVERYONE should read this book!   And, since the U.S. Citizenship Exam strategically excludes ALL of our history, I advocate the history chronicled, In THIS book, be INCLUDED and REQUIRED for passing. --There is an AMAZING TIME LINE included in this book, by the way, that could STAND ALONE as a condensed history lesson, if you never read anything else! 

 Of course, no exam whatsoever is being required THESE days, but if there were only three books that I think should be REQUIRED reading for EVERYONE, to more fully tell the American Story, I would chose: "The Peculiar Institution", by Kenneth Stampp, which lays out the institution of American Slavery... 

THIS book, "Ida B. Wells", by her Great Grandaughter, Michelle Duster, which drawn, in part, from the actual journals of Ida B. Wells, brings to life the grueling reality of the "quasi" slave systems, and "domestic terrorism" during "Reconstruction".... 

 And Coretta Scott King's Autobiography, "Coretta: My Life My Love, My Legacy".  If you want the REAL DEAL inside info on just HOW MUCH sacrifice was made and how much terrorism was endured to secure these "inalienable rights" during that decade long REVOLUTION, we politely call, "The Civil Rights Movement"... THIS is your book. 

 THREE BOOKS that most succinctly elucidate each of the three eras of our existence after arriving on these shores.

I would also recommend a good book on The Middle Passage.  And Zora Neale Hurston, an Anthropologist by training, wrote a very interesting and only recently published book, "Barracoon", that shed light on the slave trade from the African shores. "Barracoon" drew from interviews with a surviving slave.

But, for now, I'm going to get back to this audio book of Ida B. Wells. It's also narrated by Michelle, by the way!

Hey Michelle! Thank you so much for stepping up so fiercely to preserve your Great Grandmother's legacy for ALL of us!

Peace & Power

❤✊

A Super STARR 🤗

 

I just HAD TO share this baby!

She's all grown up now (at 20).  But this was when she was still a LITTLE Twinkling Starr capturing hearts and hopes. 😇🌠

This shoulda been the "Official Video" for the song! 

https://youtu.be/QBxpjtcBAG8

Throwback POWER

 

A Facebook Friend posted this throwback pic of him and his Grandmother on their way to church back in the day.  Today, he's a successful Black man, in no small measure, due to this kind of love

I felt so much love and longing from this pic that i had to save it... reflect on it... speak on it.

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 It was Grandma's like this who kept us, as a community, from going totally off the rails.

This pic represents almost everyone on this thread, who came up, got an education, and went forward into the world with confidence,  and HOPE.

Grandma's strength.

Grandma's love.

Grandma's prayers.

Hairweaves destroyed ALL that. (Funny/not Funny)

R Kelly Found Guilty. Aren't WE too?

Following the news this week of  Singer, R. Kelly being found guilty of racketeering, sex trafficking, forced labor and sexual exploitation of a child, Black folks were, as usual all over the internet with their memes and jokes.

Of course, I had to speak on it.

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There are no winners here. 

 We make a joke out of EVERYTHING, but deal with NONE of our community issues.

When I was on the radio in LA, talking about not buying his music, to  hold him accountable, after his "pee tape" came out, ... you all rolled  your eyes and kept bumping to his beats.  NONE of you cared about that girl.  NONE of you!

You stood by him because you liked the beats... same with all these rappers leading a holocaust in our neighborhoods.

Now... what?... 20 years after the FIRST... PUBLIC PEDOPHILIA event that you all ignored,  NOW you want to crack jokes?  Perhaps if we had held them accountable YEARS AGO, we wouldn't now have so much devastation to joke about.

But even deeper, let's look inside the machinery of Big Business.  WHEREVER there is big money made, those on the inside, at best, look the other way.

I remember hearing that Kelly owed one of his handlers money and essentially said "f you".  THAT'S when his underaged proclivity first got leaked out.

That would mean that "his people" and ALL of "the people" of Big money makers know what's going on long before somebody gets pissed off and leaks the news.

So, in this case, the insiders looked the other way, for years, because they were making money... and when it got out, WE looked the other way because we liked the groove.

Then, once THE SYSTEM shuts it down, all we can do is JOKE about it instead of truly looking at the toll it's taken.  The carnage.  

This is why things only get worse and worse for us.

We are Soooo far away from our GOD SELVES that we don't even see the sanctity of our CHILDREN anymore!

If all you can do is JOKE right now, you Don't need to be looking OUTside at ANYTHING.  We really need to be looking at OurSELVES.

Smh...

FAITH & SCIENCE ARE BEST BUDS

I had to say this to someone who thinks we have to choose Faith OR Science. NOT SO.

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SCIENCE DOES NOT CLASH WITH FAITH! God IS the "Intelligent designer"! Science CONFIRMS the existence of GOD! There is nothing RANDOM in the entire universe! There is harmony and synergy among EVERY SINGLE THING IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH BECAUSE GOD CREATED IT SO! 

"Intelligent" doctors and scientists say the more they learn, the less they can understand how ANY doctor or scientist can deny the existence of God! In fact, as one renowned Astrophysisist put it, "The likelihood that life was created randomly is about the same as the likelihood that a hurricane could blow through a junkyard and create a Boeing 707."

 THERE IS NO CONTRADICTION! CHRISTIANITY ISN'T FOR STUPID PEOPLE ACTING ON BLIND FAITH! THE EVIDENCE IS WITHIN EVERY, SINGLE CELL OF YOUR BODY AND ALL AROUND YOU! I wish you'd stop saying that Science and FAith are polar opposites. Its not true!

Science CONFIRMS the Bible!

 Example! God created woman from the "womb" of man BECAUSE men DO have all the genetic material to produce life alone.

Science is just DISCOVERING what God already established!

Its not God's INTENTION for man to make a life alone, but he can and he did at the beginning.

Every single thing in the Bible, no matter how extraordinary or "supernatural" has been CONFIRMED by Science. By Forensic Anthropologists, Geneticists, Astronomers, Doctors, Historians, and all manner of "Scientists"! 

Its just that many are trying to use their discoveries to take the Glory AWAY from God and take the PLACE of God. But the FACTS are that SCIENCE has already weighed in and CONFIRMED THE SOVEREIGNTY, THE BRILLIANCE, THE VERACITY, AND OMNIPOTENCE OF GOD AND HIS WORD!

Years back, The Discovery Channel did an AWESOME three part scientific and historical investigation called, "Jesus: The Complete Story". (Hard to find now. Here's a copy. https://www.ebay.com/itm/164628708375)

 There is ALSO an amazing video by Lou Giglio called, "How Great Is Our God". https://youtu.be/X1rPalyUshw

 I recommend watching both of these, at least. Christianity can defend itself! It doesnt need to cower from "Science" and it is not just for the feebleminded. It can prove itself to the unlearned AND the highly learned. Please stop saying there is a clash! 

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My 9-11 Prophecy. Pt. 1 -- The Lord Showed me ALL this in advance!

My 9-11 Prophecy. Pt 2 (The Lord Showed me ALL this in advance)