BRING ME A SWORD......................................


                 "For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace"


ST. LOUIS, MO.....I'm sure that many  - some - of us are at least, slightly familiar, with the account in the Hebrew Bible about two young women who lived in the same house and who both had an infant son came to King Solomon for a judgment. 

One of the women claimed that the other, after accidentally smothering her own son while sleeping, had exchanged the two children to make it appear that the living child was hers.

 The other woman denied this and so both women claimed to be the mother of the living son and said that the dead boy belong to the other. After some deliberation, King Solomon called for a sword to be brought before him.

 He declared that there was only one fair solution: the live son must be split in two, each woman receiving half of the child. Upon hearing this terrible verdict, the boy's true mother cried out, "Oh lord, give the baby to her, just don't kill him!"

The liar, in her bitter jealousy, exclaimed, "it shall be neither mine nor hers - divide it!"

The king declared the first mother as the true mother, as a true, loving mother would rather surrender her baby to another than hurt him, and he gave her the baby.

King Solomon became known far and wide throughout all of Israel and was considered an example of profound wisdom for tricking the women into revealing their true feelings.

In Jennings Missouri, The City Council is currently holding impeachment hearings for its first African-American female mayor - Yolanda Fountain Henderson.

Special prosecutor, Paul Martin, highlighted 19 allegations of misconduct during his opening statement. In short, Martin is accusing Mayor Henderson of absolute monarchy. Absolute monarchy is a monarchical form of government in which the monarch has absolute power among his or her people.

 In theory, the absolute monarch exercises total authority over the land.

 Considering the past, several, decades of political and judicial wickedness in the City of Jennings -  whatever Mayor Henderson is accused of - is pale in comparison to the chaos, antic's and corruption of the past administrations in Jennings.

 Apparently, absolute monarchy is the 'status quo' only as long as the special prosecutor and his sidekicks on the city council get to designate "who" the absolute monarch will be.

Possibly, if Mayor Henderson had not been black, and or female, there would not have been such an obvious display of the double standard practiced in city, state and federal political arenas across the country.

Evidently, the majority of the citizens in Jennings had had enough of the good-ole-boy-plantation politics practiced in their community. The power of their votes proved their dissatisfaction with things remaining the way they had always been -  because the citizens of Jennings elected Mayor Henderson to office.........she didn't steal the seat.

 For a brief moment there was hope of a new and better day for their neighborhoods, communities and the City of Jennings as a whole. Regrettably, it will be a burning slap-in-the-face to everyone that exercised their right and participated in the democratic process, if the mayor is removed from office after only 9 months of service.
                                                                          
Nation wide members of the religious community have voiced their dissent and declared that the stance that Mayor Henderson is taking as her 'divine right'.

Divine right is a political and religious doctrine of royal and political legitimacy.

It asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving the right to rule directly from the will of God. This doctrine implies that any attempt to depose the monarch or to restrict his/her powers run contrary to the will of God and may constitute a sacrilegious act.

Unfortunately these days, there is not much love to be found in the City of Jennings. Jennings, by comparison, has become the child being sacrificed and possibly put to death like the infant in the King Solomon story.                                              

The city is spending precious resources and wasting considerable time while the residents are being denied needed programs and services due to the in-fighting between the governing body. From coast to coast and border to border Gods people are dying in the streets while people of conscience - some professing religious faith - are playing political ping-pong. 

The time for theatrics and tap-dancing around the truth is over. Aggressive political leadership - that is unafraid to form a solid united front determined to meet the immediate needs of the people they swore to serve is what is need at this hour.

 At this critical time in the history of America when cities like Jennings, Ferguson, Newark, Flint and countless others are trying to crawl out from beneath decades of systematic racism and oppression those of us who claim to have the best interest of the people at heart are still bickering over "who" will lead.
                                                                              
 Certainly, by now, black politicians especially, and all politicians in general who beg us for our vote, and then treat us like pickaninnies after the election have to realize that there has to be a new  vision and focus for our communities. A vision defined by addressing social issues such as poverty, gang violence, drug use ,the mis-education of our children, the prison industrial complex and economic racism, to name a few. A vision that is grounded in love for the people - and not consumed by who is occupying the big chair.

How sad for Black America to be on the verge of  yet another Presidential election and we are still plagued with the thought that when we cast our vote for the President of the United States of America - we will be casting a vote for the "lesser of two evils".

And we think we have arrived.................................................................God help us.

 Fred Hampton was a visionary leader of the Black Panther Party in Chicago that was murdered in his sleep by an assortment of city, state, and federal political and law enforcement agencies. Hampton proclaimed that "Politics is just war without bloodshed while War is just politics with bloodshed."


 Unity is the only solution or we all perish.                                                     


Humble is the way.



Marvel not, ye must be born again!!!!!

                                                                           TG4RG










"What the world needs now, is love sweet love, its the only thing that there's just to little of............Dionne Warwick...1970



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