HOPE and VICTORY

One thing is clear, Blacks seem to be predisposed and driven  to share their most unfiltered sacred stuff with the world.  Much money has been made from this propensity, and Zuckerburg is not the first to harvest this gold mine.  Most of our (Black people) stuff through the centuries have been stolen and either monetized; or, falsified claims of fake ownership are now filed and codified at the Library of Congress.   Yes, the complete lineage of Black History has been either revised or hidden.  If every now and then we get to witness any drop of this astonishing history, that has been sold to the highest bidder, we continuously and erroneously think that our cultural inventory was simply limited  to the commoditization of our bodies in the slave trade.   As we argue about cultural appropriation in modern society, guess what -  cultural appropriation is centuries old.  The next time someone returns from Africa wanting to sell you a rare plant that heals, you should be cognizant of

Jerel Shaw As I listened to the choir sang " No Cross, No Pain ", in my mind I envisioned how we must all be able to bare pain at different (or at some points) - everyone can testify to this reality as it's a integral part of the human experience on earth.   Yet, the context that they were singing about was how Christians must be able to suffer though persecution on earth, that too is a part of pain index except the reward may be different. Opining that there are two major types of pain on earth - the necessary and the unnecessary need not be rocket science.  As was aforementioned pain is a natural (necessary) phenomenon of the human life experience on earth - anytime one feels the slightest effect from being hurt it qualifies as pain.   In the physical, it may be losing a love one and 'coping with the pain.  It may also be about being rejected for a job that you really want - that cause a lot of pain.   Yet the aforementioned are common occurrences, we