Recognition

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Recognition:

I am A person who never really looked up to many people. I have respected many for different reasons, their achievement, perseverance, dedication and even loyalty etc.I can look into history and see many from Amenhotep, his daughter , also Queen Nyzinga, Elizabeth of England the first one Genghis Khan. During the struggles of my childhood the 60s there  were many who had ideas and some died for them. At the time I may not have agreed or really understood but I respected them all, Martin Luther King, Mark Clark, and Fred Hampton. Then there was one of the  two people I did look up to when I went to see my family in Plateau Alabama (Africa Town) my great uncle Fred Green Senior. What amazed me was he was a strong quiet black man who raised I believe about 9 or  10 children and all went to college and many to even higher learning one the first black supervisor of the Mobile Board of education. One now the Treasurer of the descendants of the Clotilda. I watched the respect he gave to his wife and children, my grand mother and great grandmother. More so I saw the respect his children gave him because they felt he deserved no less. Being a seven day Adventist he would spend time in his bible he talked to me once about it and wasn't surprised I had read it. To me the way he carried him self and did what he did to care for his family made me love him. The other person I looked up to was Elijah Muhammad, the Honourable Elijah Muhammad. Many got him wrong when they said he preached hate, what he preached and taught was love , love for one self and love for your people. A people who had just survived one of the worse slavery known to man, and then came Jim Crow and lynchings. They had been told they weren't human and had been used as breading stock and chattel. People can try to imagine there was no abuse and this was job core or out of their shame want to rewrite history. 

Up in Washington county jail in Custom where all the Black People lived in a area called the quarters and could only go to their stores. I saw how they could be unfettered by people caring. I realized this what The Honourable Elijah Muhammad had been teaching us and preparing us for where we could endure and persevere. When I was ten he had told me that it was the devil in me that made me sleep and not receive his messages. It was an older Jewish woman who helped me understand the master psychologist that he was. She was a member of the golden dawn and she taught me magick, psychology, history, music, art and other things, she explained classical condition, behavior reinforcement, and working to make it extinct. He first had to teach all we was told was wrong and meant to make us believe we were meant to be a slave so even free we sought the chains of drugs and vice feeling that was our Life. He told us they came from us and we came from kings. To quit begging to be accepted and allowed to share what they have built and build our own. Our own schools, stores , businesses, to love and respect self and our people to exalt and love pure woman. An older Jewish woman taught me this and showed me the Quran and that what he taught was Black Nationalism what we needed which I knew was true for I grew up on 12 th street in Detroit in 67 they had tanks and to show we were serious we rioted again the next year. When I saw women who I had known as dope fiend hookers, and dudes as dope fiend hustlers, clean, strong determined people with pride and a purpose I saw his love for them. He showed them his love and belief in them and taught them to love and believe in themselves. When I moved to Chicago and was at the park with some of The Black P. Stone Nation some came to the park and invited us to the Temple to hear the Honourable Elijah Muhammad and as I did I thought about what I was taught.