In Search of the William Lynch Person

This Willie Lynch business keeps coming up in various conversations, and notably, in the fine movie produced by Oprah Winfrey, starring Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker, The Great Debaters. When I first heard it shared by Min. Farakahn at the Million Man March in 1995, it immediately struck me as curious. A convienent way to explain the psychology of dis-unity among modern day Black folk. Too convenient! Later when I read what was supposed to be a copy of it distributed by a neighbor, I became suspicious.

Without going into all the details for my own suspician -- the fact that it came from the same Nation that gave us the big head scientist theory, the unlikely use of vanacular in the copy I received, and the sudden reference to it in the 1990s, after all the prior years of scholarship that had not unearthed it -- I refer you to the link below for a more depth analysis.

Our people are so want for a solution to our perpetual exploitation -- and we are so damn religious -- that we are perpetually ripe for embracing convenient explanations and obscure legends, with only slight possibilities. Remember how the Ku Klux Klan owned Churches Fried Chicken -- with nefarious aims for the general health of Black people in their business plan? [That was a hot one in the late 1980s.] Although, it never stopped us from buying that chicken.

My point is that there is enough hard evidence to prove the systematic exploitation of Black people in this country, and in other places. We do not have to champion baseless myths that further miseducate our children. Or stories that establish additional excuses for us not to overcome our own mistrust of one another. We need to make progressive change in our lives based on a proud and triumphant history. I quote Bob Marley, "Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, no one but ourselves can free our minds."


http://blackeducator.blogspot.com/2005/11/death-of-willie-lynch-speech.html

Marriage

Then Almitra spoke again and said, And what of Marriage, master? And he answered, saying:

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, shall you be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of the lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each others keeping.
For only the Hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not to near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.



By Kahlil Gibran from
The Prophet

Holy Muslim Wisdom

Bismillah:

Koran – PT. 4
Surah 9, An-Nisaa (The Women)
Verse 36.

Serve Allah, and join not any partners with Him; and do good – to parents, kinsfolk, orphans, those in need, neighbors who are of kin, neighbors who are strangers, the companion by your side, the way-farer (ye meet), and what your right hand possess; for Allah loveth not the arrogant, the vainglorious.

Koran – PT. 11
Surah 10, Jonah
Verse 108.

Say “O ye men! Now Truth hath reached you from your Lord! Those, who receive guidance, do so for the good of their own souls; those who stray, do so to their own loss; and I am not (set) over you to arrange your affairs.”

Koran – PT. 18
Surah 23, The Believers (Al – Muminum)
Verse 1 – 5.

Successful indeed are the Believers – Those who humble themselves in the in their prayers; who avoid vain talk; who are active in giving zakat; who guard their modesty.

Koran – PT. 28
Surah LVII, The Women Who Pleads

Verse 10.
Secret counsels are only (inspired) by Satan, in order that he may cause grief to the Believers; but he cannot harm in the least, except as Allah permits; and on Allah let the Believers put their trust.

And My Favorite…

Koran – PT. 13
Surah 14. Abraham (Ibrahim)

Verse 4.
We sent not a messenger except (to teach) in the language of his (own) people, in order to make (things) clear to them. So Allah leads those whom he pleases and guides whom he pleases and He is Exalted in power, Full of Wisdom.

Asalamu Alaikum!

What Is An Education?

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

- Robert Frost

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Education, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men – the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

- Horace Mann

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory. It’s knowing where to go to find what you need to know, and it’s knowing how to use the information you get.

- William Feather