Saturday, June 20, 2009

Stuck on Rewind


“Re” is a hapless term in regards to political leaders relying on it to find a “good old time” in America’s constitutional and institutional past in order to build a forward-future.

America’s ethnic groups, especially African Americans, European Americans and Native Americans, have not had a good time together in America.

European Americans need to come to grips with the fact that when they refer to “Renewing” or “Reinventing” America, the African-American Family cannot recall those good times and cannot join these leaders in going into the future on the same page.

With no common memory that links America’s ethnic groups to a common and happy past, all there is left to do is to execute the imagination forces and go from there with a blueprint for the dawn of a common and happy future.

This is the Memphis opportunity to lead.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Fly Pattern


OK, here we go.

Let's get started with this poem from my new favorite book: "Poems of Consciousness, Sisterhood is the key" by Dr. Nkosi K.M. Ajanaku.





AN EAGLE NATION


America is an eagle nation
Raised by a chicken population;
It is not deaf, but it is dumb,
It can hear but can't listen.
It could fly, 'cause it has wings,
But the chicken institutions
Are running things;

Every birth of a child in the nation
Gives rise to hope that the nation
May fly, but none of that hope
Has escaped the rage,
Of the old chickens who are in charge
Of the baby eagle's cage.