CANAAN U.S.P.

                             "Out of Egypt have I called my son"

USA........Most people when they hear or see the word Canaan they are reminded of the Biblical Hebrew account of the land promised by God to Abraham. Eventually, God delivers - the land flowing with milk and honey - to the descendants of Abraham, the Israelites.  

Canaan was a region in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC. Typically, Western biblical scholarship has included ancient Canaan as part of a so called Middle East.

However, the ancient authors of the Bible had no such racial bias against Africa and ancient Canaan was generally understood in antiquity to be an extension of the continent of Africa.

(There was no Suez Canal artificially separating Africa from those lands to the East).

So, when the parents of Yeshua(Jesus) The Christ were in fear for the life of their son, it was only natural for them to take the well-traveled route of escape to Egypt in Africa.

To this day the biblical history has become increasingly problematic as the archaeological, linguistic, and textual evidence supports and interprets the idea that the early Israelites were in fact themselves Canaanites. The Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah represented a subset of Canaanite culture.

During the Atlantic slave trade, many Christians began teaching that black Africans were descendants of Canaan Land and used the Curse of Ham to justify enslaving black Africans.

Up until 1978, The Mormon Church continued to deny access to their priesthood to Africans, because of the so-called curse.

Presently, according to the Mormon Church, the curse is no longer valid, the curse against people of color has been lifted. 

Well, the curse may have been lifted in theory but not in practice.

Today, over 1,500 hundred, mostly black and Hispanic men, are on a 23-hour a day lock-down at Canaan United States Penitentiary, in Canaan Township, Wayne County, near Waymart, Pennsylvania.

How ironic that Canaan....instead of becoming heaven has become hell......on earth for people of color.

All visiting and phone communication at the high security prison has been suspended until further notice. Sources confirm that all the inmates are currently confined in a 13x7 feet - two man cells. The prison was designed to occupy 1,088 prisoners but the count is well above that limit and growing. The state of Pennsylvania has a total of three high security federal prisons while some states, such as Missouri, don't have any federal prisons. Yet, in Missouri, they have over 20 state prisons. Apparently, - the show me state - wants to keep full control over operations of their prisons and prisoners.

The high rate of incarceration in this country, combined with the reports of cruel and unusual punishment taking place inside modern prisons may not mean anything to most people. There are those that feel that if you are in prison.....you did something wrong to get there. You deserve it.

Not necessarily so.

According, to a report published by the National Registry of Exoneration, a record number of people were exonerated in 2015 for crimes they didn't commit. Countless numbers of men and women, separated and removed from their loved ones, many, for nothing other than being the right color at the wrong time. Those cleared last year, had an average of 14.5 years spent in prison on false charges. Some on death row. Some were younger than 18 when they were convicted. Others had intellectual disabilities.

For a person that has never been incarcerated it's difficult to wrap your mind around the madness that occurs in prison but try, if you will, to envision this:

Can you imagine all the rape, murder, drugs, gambling, extortion, perversion, religion, gangs, politics, corruption, and abuse that we witness first hand, or are shown happening in this country through media outlets, all unfolding on your block and in your neighborhood..........with no police protection present?

Can you imagine, living, all day and all night, in a space not much bigger than a bathroom, with an individual that cant stand the sight of you, and you cant stand the sight of them either?

Try to imagine laying down with your head being 12 inches from a shared toilet in a prison built in the early 1900's? Or vision having a child while incarcerated and the stress associated with that?

How about adding some extreme heat, or bitter cold?

How about an infestation of roaches, rats, bed bugs, lice, crabs, unknown viruses, mold, unrecognizable food items, and top it all off with overt displays of racism by the prison staff and life has just gotten really, really serious for you.

In fact, it has become so serious, you have daily thoughts of homicide or suicide.

America has a serious problem.......systemic racism is at the root.

The current US Attorney General is positioned to deploy federal troops into the inner-cities to stem the violence while prisons are already busting at the seams. The present nucleus of oppressed people in this country are being pushed into a corner.

Poor people have no options but to fight back.

No amount of money, prestige, culture, or friendships will be able to protect the masses when the pendulum begins to swing.

If you don't have an active, personal, relationship with the Most High God right now.......I suggest you get one..........soon.

In the 1930's, POTUS Franklin D. Roosevelt introduce to this country a domestic agenda called the "New Deal."  In 1964, POTUS Lyndon B. Johnson promised us a "Great Society."  POTUS Donald Trump has promised to "Make America Great Again."

All of them have made claims to eliminate poverty and racial injustice, address education, provide medical care, and terminate oppression and depression.

It appears that the more things change.....the more they stay the same. And the worse is yet to come.

Marvel not; ye must be born again.

                                                                     TG4RG

                                "HARVEST FOR THE WORLD".......The Isley Brothers

"IT'S OUR FIRST DAY ON THE NEW JOB!"

                                                                           

For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

ST. LOUIS MO..... Newlyweds, Christopher Watkins and Tonya Gonzalez-Suarez, never knew what hit them.

 In the twinkling of an eye their souls departed their physical bodies and they were swept away to stand before The Righteous Judge and give an account of everything they had done in their physical bodies.....while they had the time.

The couple was killed when a boiler exploded at the Loy-Lange Box Co., went airborne and came crashing down through the roof of Faultless Healthcare Linen Co. - some 500 feet away -. The couple was filling out paperwork to start The New Job.

We are all going to leave here. There is no parking down here. We didn't come here to stay. Dying is inevitable . Obviously, we all know this.

 Since death is assured, the conversation has to be, not if we die, but how we die, and also how we choose to live.

Seeing that no one knows the exact time or day when our spirit will be sucked away from us, thoughtful individuals may be pondering the question, is it better to live a life following vain thoughts and participating in vain deeds or is it far better to follow righteous dictates of the heart?

Should we be living a life treating everybody exactly like we want to be treated or should we care less about others, and their feelings?

Realizing that at any minute, any second, BREATH, can be snatched away from us, just because the God that created us feels like snatching our breath away, should make us all more caring for one another.

You would think that because we don't get to decide our day of death, that should be, reason enough for us to chose righteousness over unrighteousness, peace over war, love over hate, humbleness over vanity, and truth over lies, everyday, in all our daily affairs.

 It would appear that once we realize and recognize who is in complete control of this whole world and everybody in it we would gain a new prospective, a new outlook, concerning life and living.

It would seem that after we grow into the knowledge and understanding that God is a spirit that operates in truth - through people - we would make some major adjustments in our behavior, conduct, and character.

 Certainly, once we reach that enlightened stage of development in our thinking.... our actions will change.

 Spiritual growth demands that we step out of religious practices and start to walk into our righteous mind..... we return to a God mind.

Everything that God has created or made obeys God, except humans. 

Humans are the only living creature on the planet that deviates from the ordained ordinances of it's Creator.

Religion, instead of being  a tool to be used to guide us back to God, instead of being used to guide us to a point of conversion where we evolve into the God we are professing, has made us slaves to the practice of religion, and not replica's of the God we claim to know. 

In historical Hebrew writings ascribed to the Apostle Paul, he makes it abundantly clear that once we reach that pinnacle and pedestal of evolution our spiritual selves desire to abandon this life, because we have reached the peak where our only desire is to become reconnected, totally, with the Creator.

We become human and divine and we stay in our physical form only for the benefit of others.  We live our lives only to help God's people which are lost - find the way - and to edify those that have made a righteous decision to live born again lives with a renewed mind and consciousness.

According to people that knew Christopher Watkins, 46, and Tonya Gonzales-Suarez, 43, they were inseparable. A triumphant duo always striving to do a little good, whenever and wherever, they could.

They had both gone through years of drama and disappointments in there lives but the start of the new year gave them new found hope. They were best friends, who fell in love, got married, and dedicated their lives to be like Christ. They didn't talk too much about the problems that they had which led them to the church program, instead they focused on how far they had come in recent months.

The church member who told them about the New Job opportunity was filling out his paperwork also when the "bomb-like boiler" came crashing through the roof. He was in critical condition......he lived one more day....then he died.

Tonya was so proud that she and her husband hand landed the New Jobs. She even posted a picture on Facebook moments before they went inside the facility with the words, "It's Our First Day On The New Job!" 

Wow.....not really. 

They had been making earthly preparations for a heavenly occupation for a long, long, time.

Ironically, early on the Friday morning following their transition,  the US military fired 59 Tomahawk missiles at the Shayrat air field in response to a suspected chemical attack that week that had been widely blamed on the Damascus regime.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that the POTUS is taking a "get tuff attitude" with Syria and he really doesn't care what Russia's military think about it.

Sounds like war is on the horizon.

Taking into account all the perpetual evil and darkness engulfing this present world who wouldn't desire to be swept away to a better place to be with God? No matter where that place is perceived to be in your own mind; tell me who wouldn't want to go?

I want to go.

Don't get me wrong, I ain't in no hurry to go....I just want to go. Whenever and wherever God calls, I just want to be ready when he calls my name.

And you know what? I am ready.

How do I know? Because I live like I'm ready.                                                

And the good thing is that if I continue to make preparations, day by day, minute by minute, and moment by moment, to stay ready.......... I can go.

I'm living so I can be ready for "My First Day On The New Job."

Further more, I have enough knowledge about our Creator to know that as long as I stay embedded in truth and righteousness I can go instantaneously.

I can go just like Christopher and Tanya; or like Martin Luther King, or Malcolm X, or Medger Evers, or the Rev. Andrew Lee Smith. I can even die like Christ.

Marvel not: ye must be born again.

                                                                    TG4RG

                                         

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MISSIO DEI (sending of God)

 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

Missio Dei is a Latin Christian theological term that can be translated as the "mission of God," or the "sending of God." 

According to theologian, David J. Bosch, "mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God."  Our mission has not life of its own: only in the hands of the sending God can it truly be called mission. 

Mission is thereby seen as a movement from God to the world; the church is viewed as an instrument for that mission. There is church because there is mission, not vice versa. 

Therefore, the mission of the church is up-lifting fallen humanity through service to the least of those in the community. 

While, at the same time, edifying those members that have made a conscience decision to repent, atone, and  make a turn-about in their daily living and accept righteousness as God's mission and purpose for their life to restore themselves and help heal all of Gods creation.

Further, the goal of the gospel is not to preach Jesus(Yeshua) to the lost but to be an example of the revolutionary message and mission of Christ in action. 

How?

 Through a demonstration of love, justice, righteousness, spirit and truth exemplified and manifested in human form - in our own societies and neighborhoods - and in the cultures in which we find ourselves. 

Throughout all of history God has called certain people to do certain things.

All major religions, Hebrews, Muslims, and Christians acknowledge the story of Noah and the Ark -  somewhere - in their doctrine. According to holy writings it took between 74 and 120 years for Noah to secure the ark in the fashion that God required.

 Assuredly, Noah got tired, but, Noah never gave up, he attended to his mission daily. 

He was constantly building, while living an upright life, and delivering Gods message to the masses that it was, surly, going to rain........believe it or not.

However, Noah, really, didn't have an option. Building the ark was not a choice..... but a calling.

This writer of this blog doesn't have an option either.  Writing is not a choice... but a calling.

God is saying......."Build it.....they will come."

 But don't build a church.......build a service to express your passion. The passion will turn into an occupation......the occupation will produce joy and will eventually produce substance to maintain you and your family.

That's how God works. 

It ain't about you. It ain't about me.

 Its about using the gifts and skills God has given us to glorify God and all of Creation.

The passion for writing has turned into a blog, the blog has turned into a voice for a much needed change in our lives and communities, the voice has turned into an on-line, non-profit, charitable organization.

Our hope is that if you like one, or more, of our many blogs please show your appreciation by clicking the donate button on our web page. A portion of your donation will help facilitate the daily operations of a 501C3, tax-exempt, charitable organization. If you don't feel our style, point-of-view, or out-look, tell us that too, by leaving a comment on the web page.

Please understand that we are not here to build walls but, rather, to build brides to a deeper understanding of our reason for being alive.

Either way, the mission will continue because the missionary initiative comes from God alone.....writing is not a choice......it's a calling.

Founded in 1995, the ORP mission has had its successes; the hungry have been fed, shelter has been provided, lives and attitudes have been adjusted and corrected. Still, the struggle continues. How ironic, that 25 years since the incorporation of the Outkast Revolutionary Party(ORP), its voice and services are need more, today, than ever before.

Previous collaborations with organizations like the Missouri Department of Corrections, the St. Louis Juvenile Detention Center, and the St. Louis Public Schools, must be re-kindled because our neighborhoods and communities have taken on the appearance of "war zones".

 Certainly, a new more aggressive approach, is needed to curb the madness, not only in St. Louis, but in all the inner-cities in America, before the current federal government enacts their authority which could mean, among other things....martial law.

Please.....help us to help others.

The madness of the times in which we live has dictated that we must change in order to survive.

Marvel not; ye must be born again.

                                                                      TG4RG

                                           Young, Gifted, and Black............Aretha Franklin

A HERO COMES ALONG

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? IT IS EVEN A VAPOR, THAT APPEARTH FOR A LITTLE TIME, AND THEN VANISHETH AWAY

ST. LOUIS, MO........According to the latest data from the National Center for Health Statistics, 48 million surgical inpatient procedures were performed in the United States in 2009.

So what is that saying to me?

It's saying that these human bodies are falling apart and there is really nothing you can do about it. Nothing you can do to keep yourself alive. Rich people die, athletes die, vegans die, sinners die, saints die, and even children die. 

Death can possibly - in your imagination - be postponed, but inevitability.......we're all gonna die.

What is so shocking is that America has produced some of the the greatest minds the world has ever seen, yet, we lead the world in sicknesses, disease, and violence. Surly, there are many people who will agree that the primary reason for a nation as advanced as ours to be staggered with chronic illness and disease can be directly attributed to a capitalist and greedy society.

 However, some of the drama that is placed in and on our bodies is self-inflicted. 

                                                                               

We spend fortunes trying to improve on the perfect body that we were born with. We go to great lenghts to prove to God that we know whats better for our bodies than He does.

 We tattoo every inch of skin that we can find. We glue, press, burn, sew, and dye hair. We pierce and poke holes in and on our bodies in places never meant to have a hole. We spray, wipe, smear, pat, rub and inject chemicals and objects in every orifice we have and then wonder why we have problems in the womb and anus.

We digest every new "vogue" pill that comes on the market. We have to be the first to drink a gallon of the newest drink at the club. Our blunt has to be the fattest, our dope the purest, and our sex with the least protection.

Our burger has to be the biggest, our steak the rarest, and our pork-chop plate the fullest. Yet, we kaint understand how we contracted lung, breast, rectal, and prostate cancer and or heart disease.

 People we are a "hot mess."

Surly, a prudent person has to believe that there is a sadistic criminal link between hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. But the things we do to ourselves......we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Total heath care spending in America was approximately $2.7 trillion dollars in 2011. A little over 31 percent of that amount, or $814 billion, was spent on hospital services.  

The US spends almost $1,000 per person per year on pharmaceuticals. 

That's around 40 percent more than the next highest spender, Canada, and more than twice a much as countries like France and Germany spend. Overall, Americans use more medicines than every other developed country in the world, yet, we are dying at an alarming rate. 

                                                               

       

Life is killing us....one way or another.... due to the greed of others or due to our own vanity. 

Here is another example of our impending death.

The POTUS  is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a few days. Prime Minister Netanyahu has openly stated that he and the POTUS , "see eye to eye." 

However, news sources have indicated that the Prime Minister is going to take a really"get tough attitude" with the POTUS and let him know that there will be no more talk about a two state occupied territory in the Palestine region and that Israel is moving forward in their quest for total occupation of the Holy land.

                                                                          

Like him or not the POTUS is not the guy you want to "get tuff with" or bully. Not him. Please not him.

 No one is really sure just what the POTUS is capable of saying or doing.

 I can only imagine Prime Minister Netanyahu gettin loud and berating and scolding the POTUS in regards to his superiority and holiness and pointing out the POTUS lack of virtue, morals, and righteousness. 

Why the POTUS may get into one of his rants and say something like, "Oh yeah, well everybody knows that you Israeli guys ain't the original guys from over there anyway."  "You know, you know, you know, your guys took that land from the original African Hebrew guys a long time ago."

"Yeah, yeah, and that Jesus guy, his real name was Yeshua or something like that...something with a Y...at least that's what His mother and brothers called Him."  "So you see Mr. Net..... or whatever your name is.....you have plenty of dirty laundry too...so don't get so high and mighty with me." "I'll make you get out of there."

Sure this may sound crazy, but if anyone could or would have the nerve to speak truth to the power in Israel........in his own bi-polar way....it would be the current POTUS.

A truthful statement like this would not only light the fire for WWIII in the Middle East, but it would also be the start of the American Civil War II, here in this country.

Wow.     Sometimes it seems like its all just TOO MUCH. There seems to be assaults and attacks being aimed to destroy the masses of Gods people in every area and in ever aspect and direction in our lives. To some I am sure it appears that there is no hope......no possible way of navigating through the uncertainty and  apparent - uselessness - of life.

Well, I'm here to tell you that there is hope. For those of us that happen to know....without a doubt.....that God is real....there is always hope. The Most High God has proven to some of us, by His Holy Spirit, that no matter what is going on......we have an inner peace that transcends all understanding, and the satisfaction of knowing that if I stay in the fold.....in the flow of God....I kaint lose. We know that there is a hero.....and the hero lives in me.

Marvel not; ye must be born again.

                                                                  TG4RG

                                                               Mariah Carey                      

SUICIDE by cop

                                                                           

                And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea;

ST. LOUIS MO.........In what appeared to be an army of St. Louis County Police Officers converged on the property of North county residents, Isaac and Detria Outkast. Isaac Outkast is the fiery, out-spoken, executive director of the Outkast Revolutionary Party(ORP), an on-line, charity and human services organization.

Cell phone videos taken at the scene indicate that Outkast was not armed, but was immediately over-taken by the St Louis County Police, using an arsenal of weapons, after a brief exchange of words with the officers.

Outkast was pronounced dead at the scene.

 The St. Louis County Police Department stated that they were responding to a call that they received from The Veterans Suicide Hot-Line concerning an domestic situation at the residence that may involve a possible murder/suicide event in progress.

Any long time advocates for freedom, justice, and righteousness in the St. Louis community, as well as many individuals in the writer/ artist genre may have knowledge about Oukast and his on-line charity that he funded through his unique style of blending consciousness, spirituality, and humor into his writings at his blogspot located at....                                                     - 1outkast4u.blogspot.com - 

The latest project for his non-profit business was attempting to sustain donations on Facebook, Everydayhero, and on his web page, for the development of a Critical Thinking Literacy Lab & Community Center. He envisioned a place of solace and refuge for today's mis-guided, mis-educated, and mis-understood youth in North St. Louis where he was raised.

Those in favor of his revolutionary ideas and methods to combat the war on the inner-city communities believe that he was murdered because of his vision and voice.

 Outkast was known for injecting powerful, enlightening messages, and truths into his blogs, and had been a revolutionary voice in the St. Louis community since 1995. Some activist claim that it was a simple execution orchestrated and directed, primarily, because of the renewed vigor within the federal government office of Cointelpro. 

However, there is flip-side to this story. 

Sources, who claim to have been close to the artist, argue that it was not murder but rather that it was suicide......suicide by cop. 

Suicide by cop is a suicide method in which a suicidal individual deliberately behaves in a threatening manner, with intent to provoke a lethal response from a law enforcement officer. People that submit to this form of death or people who are already contemplating suicide and who decide that provoking law enforcement into killing them is the best way to act on their desires. 

This entire concept hinges on the person's state of mind, and their desire to end their own life, which can be difficult to determine post mortem.

Still,  the group supporting this theory of Outkast death claim that because of the recent, overall, change in his health, employment, and financial conditions and situations that he - in fact - wanted to die.

 Those, who claim to be in the know, say that if you combine those obvious stress factors with the added frustration and pain associated with not having his vision and passion for the community - the community he loved - come to fruition that it was obvious that his load just become too heavy a cross for him to bare.

 So he made a conscience decision to end it all.          

 Only God knows.

The story you just read, for the most part, is true. Let the hearts of the readers decide which part is fiction and which is fact. 

No matter what, this part is true. 

That had it not been for the professionalism, character, and training demonstrated by the officers of the St. Louis County Police Department, and the protective spirit of God that always takes care of His own, the out come of the aforementioned circumstances and events that played out during the interaction between the St. Louis County Police Department and Mr. Outkast could have easily, escalated and progressed into an ending exactly like the one depicted in this blog. 

Right now many people would have been left wondering what really happened?

Did the police make a mistake and go to the wrong address? Was it really an assassination ordained by the current government administration? Had the power brokers deduced that the voice stemming forth from the director of the Outkast Revolutionary Party(ORP) was just too big a threat to their control considering the current division and un-rest in this country? Or had Isaac, really, just gotten tired and gave in to the fear and the uncertainty of living life in America today? 

The POTUS just said on prime time television that, "The whole world is angry....everybody is angry."

Not  really. 

Everybody is not angry, mad, confused, up-set, frustrated, disillusioned, saddened, frightened, doubtful, fearful, ashamed, hateful, nor harboring malice or ill-will, toward anyone on the planet. 

Why?

Because some of us are totally and thoroughly convinced about who is in complete, absolute, and full control of this world and everything and everybody it in.

The Most High God is my shepherd......of whom shall I fear?

Marvel not; ye must be born again.

                                                                    TG4RG

                                                                         

                                                                          

ALTERNATIVE FACTS

      "Daughters of Jerusalem weep not for me, but weep for yourself and for  your children"

WASHINGTON D.C.......Alternative facts is a phrase used by the Counselor to President Donald Trump -- Ms Kellyanne Conway -- during a interview on the news show Meet The Press. She coined the phrase while trying to defend the White House Press Secretary -- Sean Spicer's -- comments about the attendance at President Trumps inauguration.

According to news sources that were there, The Press Secretary told a flat out lie regarding the attendance amounts, however, the Presidents Counselor, Mrs Conway, described the lie or falsehood, as merly "alternative facts."  

Apprently, Mrs Conway derived the term, alternative facts, from a novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. The novel describs a time when a fictious country is under the rule of a governmernt called The Inner Party, aka, Big Brother.

According to the novel, The Inner Party ruled by omnipresent government surveilance and public manipulation. The Inner Party totally persecuted individualism and independent thinking. The novel further illustrated that The Inner Party was under the total control of privileged elitist and a cult personality leader...........{does any of this sound familiar?} 

The auhtor wrote that The Inner Party "seeks power entirely for its own sake. It is not interested in the good of others; it is interested solely in power." The Inner Party went so far as to invent its own language called Newspeak. In George Orewll's Nineteen Eighty-Four novel, the fictional language Newspeak attempted to eliminate personal thought by restricting the expressiveness of the English language......{I did say that this book was fiction, didnt I?} 

Here is a partial listing of some of the other words used by The Inner Party using the Newspeak language:

1. bellyfeel - means a blind, enthusiastic acceptance of anything we damn-well say......(as in get a bellyfeel of our bull*hit because that's the way it is...like it or not).

2.  blackwhite - means the ability to believe that black is white.....( as in no matter what your lying eyes tell you...black is white and there is no such thing as white privileged).

3.  crimethink - means having thoughts that are unorthodox, or are outside the official government platform.....(as in we are building the wall to keep the criminals out and everybody better think this way too).

4.  duckspeak - means to literally quack like a duck or to speak without thinking.....( as in grab them by the p*ssy......could you say that in 1949?)

5.  goodsex - means the normal intercourse between man and wife, for the sole purpose of begetting children and without physical pleasure; all else is sexcrime..... (as in all the LBGT community are criminals...according to Big Brother).

Who would have thought that a fictious book from 1949 could be so relevant today?

So now, amazingly, we have a new "catch phrase."

The new 2017 phrase or substitute for the word lie, or falsehood, or understatement, or fabrication, or ambiguity, or euphemism, or fib, or just plain ole bull*hit is now -- "alternative facts." 

My fellow americans, in the coming days, months and years, ahead please, feel free to incorporate our new phrase into your everyday vocabulary, where-ever and when-ever, what you are hearing is not what you want to hear.

For example; if someone says,  "America is great again", you could respond by saying, "Yeah, it's exacatly like it has been for the last 400 years." Opps, my bad, this is a bad example because in this statement....... the lie came first.

Marvel not; you must be born again.

                                                     TG4RG

                           

                        Take It From Me Someday We'll All Be Free

CALL TYRONE

I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

 Erykah Badu, hostess of the 2016 Soul Train Music Awards, produced a song in the 90's titled, " Call Tyrone."

 According to the words of this soulful ballad, the songstress could no longer tolerate the ways and habits of her lover and was declaring to the  world that it was over between the two. Complete and total separation --with haste -- was the only solution to this love affair gone bad. Without   a doubt, they had reached the point of no return. It was now time to call it quits. Therefore, call your friend Tyrone and tell him to come help you pack your syit. You have got to go.  So please, hurry and call Tyrone.....but you kaint use my phone.

Been there...done that.

Unfortunately, far more times then I like to remember I have had to"cease and desist"   from maintaining a relationship that had proven it was not beneficially to my well being....mentally, physically, or spiritually.

When I was 16, I realized how fruitless it would be for me maintain a relationship with a public school system that was gearing me and preparing me to think a certain way. A proposed educational system that was encouraging me to pass standard tests and fit into a society well enough to secure a job in America. Yet, it was a system that was not preparing me to be a critical thinker or to follow my passions, nor instructing me how to develop my God given gifts and talents.  Call Tyrone.

At the age of 20, after three years of loyal, honorable service during the Viet Nam era, I understood that it would be an act of insanity to continue to be engulfed in a relationship with the US Army in general and the US military as a whole.

Military service was demanding that I pledge allegiance to a flag and a system of government regardless of my state of consciousness, my state of morality, my state of spiritually, or my objection.   Call Tyrone.

By the age of 30, I was sentenced to ten years in federal prison.

Why?

Not because I wasn't raised right...but because no matter how hard I tried, no matter how I applied myself, no matter what path I took the ugly face of racism always showed its head and it's power to define my out come.          If I could one day, against all odds, some how became the POTUS.... I would still remain, to a larger majority of the population to be a slave and a knigga.
                                                     

After, what seemed like a lifetime, of  bowing and shucking and jiving, while working --- and marching, and protesting and voting, and praying ---still  working,  and organizing, doing-the-right-thing, and attending

schools... more working and raising a family --- and planning and saving and building bridges I eventually gave in to the influence that was being shown to me in Amerikkka.

 The smart way, the Amerikkkan way, viewed by some to be the only way to truly achieve freedom, wealth, success, and status in America.........was to become a smooth criminal and then pass that mentality and legacy down to your family.
                                                             

Climbing to a certain level in the racketeering and narcotics trafficking under-world leads you into a certain life-style that only a few achieve. For  a person of color, the life-style makes you a threat, a radical, a non-conformist, and a person of interest to the US government because now you have what they don't want you to

have.....influence, money, and the power to define what happens in your neighborhoods and communities.

You have got to go.

All federal indictment's will read.....The United States Of America vs. John Doe.

 Immediately you have committed a crime so horrendous that the entire country is now against you. Your citizenship in and your relationship with The United States of America is over...... Call Tyrone.

Praise God because He has never allowed me to look back or regret His Holy Spirit inspired decisions to separate myself from adverse situations, places, people, are things.

Nor, have I ever regretted the decisions made by other people, places, or things to separate themselves from me.

In many instance's I have found out that separation and not integration has been the best thing that could have happened to me.
                                                 
I could never thank God enough for continuing to lead me down the path that is less traveled. I could never thank God enough for molding me into a person that hears a different drummer drumming.

 I am not a clone.

God specializes.

He is the potter.... I am the clay.

Thank God that He has allowed me to live long enough to realize and understand that when God gets ready....you've got to move.

Donald Trump is the president-elect.........Call Tyrone.

Stephen Bannon, chairman of Brietbart News, a white supremacists newspaper is President Trumps chief strategist.

Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, is the new Attorney General. Sessions is quoted to have said, among other demonstrations of gross racial insensitivity that, " it's just wrong to try to force civil rights down the throats of white people."

Enough is enough....Its blasphemy to continue to live in a society that continues to keep pissing on my head and trying  to convince me that its raining.... or its just a storm.... or this too will pass.

Things will be alright.....one day.  

I have lived a life time already and have yet to see the day when one day actually becomes a day.

What day is  justice, freedom and equality day in amerikkka? When is the day that righteousness is rendered to people of color?

God is talking --loudly --to us......... but we have yet to listen...Guess what? I bet we are ready to listen now.....or we soon will be.

 God, for what-ever reason, seems to be partial to separating things into three's. For instance: The Father - The Son - The Holy Spirit.

Lord - Have - Mercy.

 In Heaven - In Earth - In Hell.

 Kingdom -Of - God.....just to name a few.

Well,  what if, hypothetically speaking, we considered this?

I, for one, don't want any part of Trump World.

 Further, I have no desire to abide in Clinton Country.

                                                           
Obama Land, from my perspective and estimation, is the best place to be as long as I am still in the earth.

Call Tyrone.

The only discussion to be made is how to divide the country into thirds. And that's really not a issue. However God slices the pie will be fine with me.

Once the division is decided....let the people make their choice which of the three territories and forms of government is best for them and their family.

However, all choices are final. You cannot change your mind after a month or year or what-ever after you realize that you made the wrong decision.
                                                  

Critical thought endorsed and motivated by the Spirit of God should be the only process consider for making your choice. Choices shouldn't be made because of religious affiliations, political connections, educational back- ground, bank statements, labor unions, heritage, ethnicity, skin-tones, complexions, colors or hues.

A spiritual revolution is about righteousness........nothing else.

 Obedience to God and righteousness should be the barometer for your
choice.

Change of heart, mind and soul is not an option...its a mandate.

Marvel not....Ye must be born again to even see the kingdom of God in earth.

                                             TG4RG