the highroad
ive got to go
death in the family
i got to get to the delta
but I was really getting into the idea of a truthtelling week
maybe I will pick it back up when I get back
i tend to count the whole leo season as my birthtime
anyway
but let me speak on one truth that I am very reluctant to acknowledge
our moral weaknesses as a people
we talk a good game but too often
we do not conduct ourselves befitting the great
and wondrous people we could be
should and have to be
always striving to be greater than we are
I will get into this when I get back
be safe be well
arf
FRIDAY
acceptance
caught kerrys acceptance speech
and thought he handled himself well
looks like we got a race
on our hands
lets roll
ancestral healthcare
i read somewhere that the way
to start a good healthcare regimen
is to take note of whats been killing
off your ancestors and take steps
accordingly
if heart disease runs in the family
take care of yours
samesame diabetes, strokes, whatever
assume that whats been killing off
your ancestors will oneday come looking
for you and prepare the temple
to reject that tired scenario
THURSDAY
hello world
rickydoc is back in the saddle
and feeling frisky
tomorrow is my birthday
and im feeling my stars
theres a mean ol lion prowling the jungle tonight
so best you not stand there
best you run and hide
back when i was a young hoodoo in training
i had this discipline where once a month
i would speak absolute truth as i saw it
i soon abandoned that discipline
absolute truth is more trouble than its worth
but i do still pride myself on being willing to say
what other folks afraid to
or are unable to articulate
so i think this week im gon give you the best
truths i got to give
ima speak on things i believe but am afraid to say
before i get into that though
let me say that i watched jesse and rev al
at the democratic convention last night and they
brought tears to my eyes
im radical enough to sneer at both them
and electoral politics as leadership strategy
but last night they did what they on the planet to do
mack
and by god they did it well
the democrats tried to rein them in
de dems playing it real cautious this year (just like gore did in 2000)
but you cant keep jesse and al on the reservation
i particularly like the rev als reply to bushs urban league bs
about putting our votes into contention between the repubs and the democrats
as so many black neocons often so reasonably suggest
al said our votes have been paid for in the blood of
schwerner chaney and goodman, in the blood of
fannie lou and the martyrs of birmingham
al said our votes are sacred
and they are not for sale
i got to say that moved me
as a unrepentant child of the 60s i can only say
i wish blackfolk actually would treat their votes
as if they were in truth the sacred things they are
(sorry i missed obamas speech, would have been
nice to see where he is coming from)
okay, where was i, right, awkward truths
you know i cant really think of anything im scared to say
i tend to stay away from the reparations issue but im not
afraid to say i think reparations are a joke and a terrible
empowerment strategy
and i will be glad when blackfolk get over this one
and move on to something viable
a good empowerment strategy should shape us into the
people we would our generations be
all a reparations strategy does is train us to be good beggars
and i am hesitant to tell atr folk that i will not be bound by religious strictures
that i am no more bound by african belief systems than i am islam or christanity
i take what i can use, i reject what i cant
in fact this whole truth bit came about when
a fellow hoodoo thinker, landofkam, wrote in another forum
that all anybody has to do, saint fool or thug
is tell us thats the way they do it in africa and
we will bow to them
because we are so insecure about our own value as
african americans
well i am very comfortable being african american
and don’t need to go elsewhere for my spiritual validation
atr folk always telling me
the spirits demand this and the spirits demand that
well ima hoodooman and
i got a different relationship with the gods
and the ancestors
we got an understanding
but i aint been afraid to say that either
hesitant perhaps but not afraid
another hesitancy is acknowledging that i am of the racial uplift school
this embarrasses the graying radical in me
but i believe that this new phase of struggle requires a different headset
i do not believe we can continue to blame whitefolk
or the system for our condition
yes, we got a raw deal but surely by now we have factored this
into our strategic posture
crying about racism is like a sailor cursing the sea because its wet
i am a hoodooman and a spiritdoctor
and i believe the health of the tribal soul is the seat of all power
i believe that a strong people deal with any contingency
whatever it is
a strong people deal wth it, and they finesse it, hook or crook
a weak people fold
we have been a weak people, we generally fold
reparations is just more of the same
and i will not pander to it or its disciples
its long since been time that we acknowledge ourselves
our own worst enemies
and developed strategies that deal with that
otherwise our strategies are inappropriate and ineffective
and there is nothing worse than a visionary
generating strategies
inappropriate to the historical moment
i believe the struggle for empowerment
will define the 21st century
ah but ive said that before too
all i can come up with it seems
is stuff that im hesitant to say
but not really afraid
one of which is our conflict with islam
lot of blackfolk don’t want to face that
and its really problematic because so many
blacks are islamic now
the sudan a case in point
but the islamic conquest (and enslavement) of africa
is hundreds if not thousands of years old and
still playing out in places like darfur
which is where all those islamic blacks come from in the first place
they been conquered
in their souls they been conquered
islam must be made to understand that it is a guest in africa
and not a conqueror
personally i think radical islam is fascist in nature
and i man do not want to live in an islamic world
i man dont submit to nothing
and consider the west, for all its issues
a much better deal
but there are many blacks that do
want to be islamic
it is because of this strategic conundrum that ive tried
to establish what i call the third way between the west and islam
where blacks of both persuasions can find common ground
it is a question of primary allegiance
i believe racial identity issues are one of the premier
issues of our age, all over the globe
but again, ive said all this before
i really cant think of anything that im afraid to say
long as i context it properly
ima artist and a would be prophet
and i can say what i damn well please
thank god
it is expected of me that i speak
truth to the people
i was trained by john o killens
on issues where im just a little too far out ahead of the pack
i will just keep saying them until they begin to seed
it seems i will have to put some thought into this
maybe before my birthday week is out i will dredge
out some hidden truths
truths that scare even me
be well be safe
arf
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