To My People, My Black People

What it do God's Children,


-->My Black people always inventing their own names like Lakeisha and Labria; why not just Keisha or Bria? As if these latter names sound better. It’s less “ignorant” some people say to have the name Mary or John. Is it ignorance or is it creativity that brought Blacks to want their own names? It’s a basic human quality that shouldn’t be suppressed or belittled. The "n-word" stands for ignorant person so it's a shame that the "i-word" has lingered in its description of Blacks along with that "n-word".
There’s this idea that listening to and living with the hip hop music as a way of life or a religion is somehow devil worship and that the only way to praise God or the wonders of the world is to praise Jesus through Christianity. Don’t believe it. This idea that dancing to the rhythm of the music is somehow evil or wrong is just giving into the old White Puritan beliefs.

Music is what connects us all especially all our Black people together. I remember once seeing a future Black doctor at Duke University cruising in his car with the speaker’s blaring. He was “straight up gangster” and it was something that you could commonly see among blacks in an urban neighborhood.

It’s not ignorance that makes us rap and rhyme with the music. It’s the brilliance of Black teenagers and the creativity of Black children that established rap as an art form. All the words that are put into the urban dictionary are not a sign of ignorance, but a symbol of brilliance. We have created an entire dictionary of new words that have become very influential in mainstream America.

It’s the sign of brilliance that has been suppressed by our society. Just because you cannot get an A in physics doesn’t mean you are dumb; it means you are a different kind of smart. We are not dumb people, it is not ignorant to be in harmony with what feels natural and music is what keeps us in harmony with ourselves, with the world, with God, if you believe, and with our ancestors who fought for out right to live freely.

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Peace

Angels Book Series by D. C. Cowan 

Music is Living: Black People and the Music Stereotype

To All God's Children,

" 'Wouldn't you say Pooh?'
'Say what?' asked Pooh, opening his eyes.
'Music and Living.'
'The same thing," said Pooh"

From the Tao of Pooh

--> Schizophrenia is prevalent among African Americans and the textbooks say it’s because of some disorganized parenting styles and high stress lives. I think it’s also because people by nature, not just African Americans, want to enjoy life to the fullest. Like it states in Taoism, music, dancing, and singing is living and being in harmony with nature. Think of one culture that doesn’t have music or dance? The brilliant mind of some impoverished African Americans are being suppressed due to lack of environmental stimulation or resources to promote one’s natural talents and brilliance. In essence, I am saying that like the people of my family, this culture and lifestyle established by our White ancestors have literally driven African Americans crazy. And yes I claim Blacks and Whites in my ancestry because I am part African and Irish American.

It’s evaluated as somewhat condensing to Blacks that we are good dancers and musicians although it’s considered a positive stereotype, but it isn’t a bad thing. Music is life and people who are connected to music are living life to the fullest. They also have a problem with Black rappers because they feel they are undeserving of being in the upper class. Well, why does anyone deserve to be rich? It’s not about deserving it’s just something that happens to certain people. Most rich kids born into privilege are just going to keep right on trucking. They didn’t work for it. At least rappers have to say words in rhythm in order to get where they are – they do something it isn’t handed to them. If anyone should be yelled at for living off of handouts it’s the children of wealthy people.


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-->Unfortunately, I’ve noticed that for some, but can never say all, Blacks that being “smart” is being “uncool” and “White”. White man did not invent knowledge. To be intelligent does not mean being white or uncool. The Hip hop religion was born from rebellion against white men, but really it’s still a submission to their rules. Hooking any sort of negativity into music and dance is admitting that the Puritans were correct. Music and dance plus Satan worship is admitting that the Christian or Puritans are right and that there is a devil that opposes God. Music and dance can be positive. Holy hip hop is not the answer to breaking the negativity that stems from the hip hop religion or way of life. Let the children invent their own way of producing music. Why do we have to do it the “white man’s” way if you have a problem with it? Let the creativity of the children shine and allow a new way to find joy in life without self-degradation.

Peace be with you


Angels Book Series by D. C. Cowan 

What does it mean to be smart?

To All God's Children,


-->Poors, minorities and the underrepresented. Minorities, the underrepresented, and poors. I’m tried of these categories. There’s an obvious bias in careers based on race and gender. Certain races are more likely to be scientists, certain genders are more like to be nurses and school teachers and still a certain type of race and gender is more likely to be basketball players. I bet I can predict the races and genders that came to mind when you were reading the last sentenced. You probably thought white people (or white men in specific), women for the second, and black males for the final biased career.
I still say there’s nothing wrong with this. Okay, so many blacks end up in entertainment careers. So what? Why should we downplay a gift that we can give the world? Music, dance, and sport. If you ask me, after watching Lebron James dunk several baskets from the opposite side of the court I would say it takes some level of genius in order to do it.
Why is brilliance in science and math the only “real” smarts? I wish schools would reconsider making cuts to arts and music, and some even sports in an attempt to teach students math and science. Without proper exposure how is a student supposed to find their true calling?

As for the school systems and employers, it would be nice if employers respected HBCUs as much as state schools and other crappy traditional community colleges (not to say all community colleges are bad; there was one in my old neighborhood that had one of the top culinary schools in America). HBCUs are just as good and sometimes better then these other colleges they just aren’t getting the respect they deserve.
I wish people respected health related jobs more than they did. The “feminine” jobs in the health system have remained relatively stable while testosterone ran masulineconomic financial collapse of the seeming second Great Depression not only affects men but women.

The mainstream race think they are so smart and educated inventing all these things and ignore that their inventions cause just as much trouble as it helps. For example, hospitals have many great doctors, mostly White Americans. But what about the car accident victims that end up there frequently from the White people made vehicles that claim a substantial amount of lives?
What about the cancer stick or cigarettes that are produced by White people that send people to the hospitals for lung cancer? What about all this scientifically generated and carcinogenic enriched food that we eat that gives us cancer and sends us to the hospital? Our desire to scientifically develop a better world for White people by White people is the same as the masculine run economics taking the females down. Why for every “genius” invention of theirs is there a thousand other unfortunate things that result from it? What’s the point?
Who’s smarter - an Advanced or an Indigenous person? A person who tries to drastically improve his live, stresses himself out and ends up dying alone and broken in his old age from some shitty disease that didn’t exist thousands of years ago? Or a person who lives in tune with nature so the next generation will have a planet to live on? Again I beg of you to tell me who’s better off? Who is smarter?

Peace be with you

Angels Book Series by D. C. Cowan 

The Rebound Effect and Releasing Prejudiced Thinking

What's up God's Children,


-->The Fact: There was a Daily Show skit presented by the Black correspondent, Larry Wilmore that drew parallels between stereotypes of “Blackness” and John McCain as the presidential candidate. His disorganized campaign, prison record (i.e. Prisoner Of War or POW), anger at “The Man” (i.e. media), showing up late (i.e. CP or colored person time) or not at all for David Letterman, and how he’s more like the Black candidate than Obama was.
My Opinion: I think it shows an interesting look into the ignorance of stereotypes. The parallels drawn between a McCain's scattered campaign and the concept of being "black" in America is uncanny. Sketches like this that make fun of the stupidity of stereotypes and labels sort of serve to reduce the power they have on our minds. You got to understand that Americans will never be color blind, culturally speaking. Psychology studies have examined the rebound effect which is when suppressing prejudiced thinking can cause an effect where there is more prejudice released later. Releasing our thoughts on racial issues reduces prejudice much more than keeping it in. Why not embrace our differences and enjoy a good laugh about the foolishness that some narrow-minded Americans still believe. The show (i.e. Daily Show) makes fun of blacks, women, old white male bureaucrats, funny looking British guys and Jews all the same.

Peace

Angels Book Series by D. C. Cowan 

Culture Wars: The Quest for Knowledge Through Migration

To All God's Children,

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Why are there so many cultures and different beliefs? Is culture the spawn of disagreement? Say all of our ancestors started out in Africa. Why did some of them eventually migrate into new territory like Northern Africa, East Asia, The Middle East, Europe and eventually the Americas and other little islands? People with similar attitudes end up in regions near each other; that small minority is the one that escapes and moves somewhere new. For example, the Puritans left Europe to start a new world because they didn’t agree with the culture or the religion being pressured onto them so they abandoned it starting into a bright new world.
Although it may make some people upset, technically the Native Americas are not native to the Americas either. A lot of people have been angry for years that the Native American’s land was stolen from them by the English, but we forget that Native Americans are descendants of the Mongoloid peoples who crossed the land bridge across the Atlantic ocean and settled in the Americas. But why do you think they settled there in the first place? Because they weren’t satisfied with what Asia and Europe had to offer them and they wanted more.

I really think that’s why Europeans have revolutionized the world with their inventions and innovative concepts towards science and philosophy. They are the people who were the least satisfy with our origins stemming from Africa. They are the descendants of the people with the greatest cognitive disequilibrium who desired to keep migrating and learning more.
That doesn’t necessarily make them smarter, but it makes them more desperate to find truth and to find peace of mind. How many years were they wrong about the center of the universe until Copernicus came along; or the world is flat until Eratosthenes; or how many people since then it has taken to develop knowledge to where it is now. More than any other race of people, the Jews have given us some of the greatest thinkers and excavators of truth ever – period. Freud, Einstein, and Jesus are included.

However, we may have this “Great Person” theory of history, but it has taken the contributions of millions of driven and desperate people to come up with all that we know today and will know tomorrow. So in other words, the people you see today in America are the ones for whatever reason were the most desperate to find truth and freedom in the world, and the others that we still see in loin clothes in Africa or South America are descendants of the ones who were content with their limited but satisfying understanding of the world.

Who’s the smarter person? The one who wants to live in the warmth of the African or South American sun or the person who wants to fair against the cold and harsh Scandinavian countryside? That’s why they lost all their color trying to stay healthy in the brutal climate by absorbing as much sunlight as possible. Or I could be wrong. I wish there was a way to prove all this.

Peace be with you

Angels Book Series by D. C. Cowan