The Beja People of Sudan, Eritrea and Egypt are an ancient people, who are linguistically, the closest kin to the ancient Egyptians. It is said that there is as much as a 70% correspondence between the Beja language and Ancient Egyptian! In Ancient Egypt the Beja were known as the people of Ta-Seti - “People of the Land of the Bow” - and were renowned in Ancient Egypt for their skill with this weapon… The Bejas attach a high importance to their hair. Their prominent crown of fuzzy hair (called tiffa in their language) has characterized the Beja for centuries.
“The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I’m doin’ now, man for more years than I know. They played it like that in the shanties and in their jukee joints, and nobody paid it no mind ’til I goosed it up. I got it from them. Down in Tupelo, Mississippi, I used to hear old Arthur Crudup bang his box the way I do now, and I said if I ever got to the place where I could feel like old Arthur felt, I’d be a music man like nobody ever saw.” - Elvis Presley June 1956
Nanny Grigg was a house negro at the Simmons plantation in Barbados. She was a literate woman and very knowledgeable about the Haitian revolution. She would read reports of the Haitian revolution that had occurred and talk about it to the other slaves. She would soon plan a rebellion to take place on Easter April 1816. She said the negroes were to be free on Easter Monday, and the only way to get it, was to fight for it, otherwise they would not get it; and the way they were to do it was the way they did it in St. Domingue (which is Haiti today).On several estates and plantations senior enslaved men and women helped plan and organize the rebellion. Slave rebellions tended to be less threatening in Barbados than on other Caribbean islands. Barbados had a well-armed police force and there was nowhere to hide. Unlike Jamaica, which still had forests, most of the land in Barbados had been cultivated to produce as much sugar as possible. On April 12, 1816, the final preparations were made for the rebellion. At this meeting, it was decided that Washington Franklyn was intended to become the Governor of the island. On the morning of Sunday April 14, 1816 the rebellion would be lead by a house negro named Bussa. Some house negroes considered themselves above the field negroes and some even exposed plans of slave rebellions to their ‘masters’ in order to gain favour. Bussa despite his ‘privileged’ position, helped to plan for months in advance. The white plantation owners were totally caught off guard. The enslaved Blacks fought valiantly against the troops of the First West India regiment and it was reported the rebellion spread from plantation to plantation until about half of the island was caught up in the insurrection. 20,000 slaves from over 70 plantations rebelled. It took four days for the authorities to regain control. Bussa was killed in battle but his troops continued the fight until they were finally defeated by superior firepower. In June 1816, a White Barbadian described in a letter the feeling among the slave population after the rebellion: “The disposition of the enslaved persons in general is very bad. They are sullen (Bad-tempered) and sulky (refusing to be cooperative or cheerful) and seem to cherish feelings of deep revenge. We hold the West Indies by a very precarious tenure – that of military strength only. I would not give a year’s purchase for any island we now have.” Slavery was abolished in Barbados in 1834. The Bussa Emancipation Statue stands in Haggatt Hall, in the parish of St. Michael. Bussa was named as 1 of the 10 National Heroes of Barbados.
IN CASE Y’ALL FORGOT…OR DONT KNOW ABOUT IT…On May 14, 2010, a teen named Jerean Blake was killed near the intersection of Mack and Beniteau on Detroit’s east side. The police identified Chauncey Owens as a suspect in the shooting and obtained a warrant to search 4054 Lillibridge St, where he was believed to be hiding. On Sunday, May 16, 2010 at 12:40 a.m. police fired a flash grenade through the front window of the bottom floor, where 7 year old Aiyana Jones slept. As the police knocked down the front door, Murderer Joseph Weekley fired a shot and struck Aiyana in the head or neck area. To cover it up Murderer Joseph Weekley reported to his sergeant that a woman inside had grabbed for his gun. Little did he know he was being filmed by A&E reality show “The First 48”. The video shows an officer throwing the grenade and then shooting into the home from the porch killing 7 year old Aiyana Jones in her sleep. This was not an accident. This was not a mistake. Murderer Joseph Weekley was charged with involuntary manslaughter and negligent discharge of a firearm. Involuntary manslaughter in Michigan carries a maximum sentence of 15 years. He hasn’t served any jail time and is free on bond. His trial was scheduled for April of 2012? REST IN PEACE TO AIYANA JONES .
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If you ever visit Melanasia and Australia one cannot help but be amazed by the striking blond hair of some of its inhabitants, since these Pacific islands are populated by some of the darkest skinned people in the world. The Aboriginal people of Australia and the South Pacific islands, such as the Solomon Islands,Vanuatu, and Fiji at birth are born with blond hair. In maturity the hair usually turns a darker brown color, but sometimes remains blond. Now, a study of people from the Solomon Islands shows that they evolved the striking blonde trait independently of people in Europe. These Aborigines are the oldest continuous population outside of Africa. The modern Aborigines are the direct descendants of the first explorers to leave Africa and arrive in the South Pacific 50,000 to 70,000 years ago. Scientist believe this genetic mutation appeared in Europe only about 11,000 years ago during the last ice age. THE ORIGINAL BLONDS…….
Cinco de Mayo is a celebration of Mexico’s unexpected victory over France in the 1862 Battle of Puebla. The French, in their attempt to take control of Mexico under the command of Napoleon III,also intended to re-enslave those Blacks in Mexico who had attained their freedom by escaping the South. Mexico had abolished slavery 33 years prior to this battle, and the Mexicans refused to have that practice reinstituted in their country. Many of the Blacks who became involved in the Cinco de Mayo power struggle were products of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 put into effect by the United States. This act ruled that slave masters from the southern United States could go into the northern part of the country to locate their runaway slaves. If an owner could find them, the law read, he could apprehend them and take back to his plantation. For slaves in the deep South, the northern trek to Canada was virtually impossible and unrealistic. Instead, Blacks from the Delta, Bayou, and Gulf Shores found that liberation could come by fleeing further south to Mexico. So on May 5th 1862 the Mexican army with the help of former enslaved Africans defeated the French invasion. This victory was a big blow to the slaveholders of the United States. Please remember that in 1570 the black population in Mexico is about 3 times that of the Spanish. In 1646, it is about 2.5 times as large, and in 1742, blacks still outnumber the Spanish. It is not until 1810 that Spaniards are more numerous in Mexico. So you can assume that a number of the soldiers and freedom fighters were of African descent.SO MY BLACK PEOPLES YOU CAN CELEBRATE AS WELL.
Before the pit bull, before the rottweiler, before the doberman or the german shepherd, the most feared breed of dog in America during the 1800s was the “NIGGER HOUND”…… The common foxhound was trained to trail Blacks during slavery and for the purpose of keeping Blacks intimidated. These dogs were reported to be bloodhounds and when put on the trail of Blacks escaping the plantation it would run down the fugitive and tear them to shreds. After a while Black slaves began to find out these dogs were actually harmless and that these reports were false so the “bloodhound” lost his terror. So America purchased a highly aggressive fearless war dog from Cuba that was bred to guard and hunt big game called the Cuban Bloodhound. In America they would be renamed “nigger hounds”. These slave-catching dogs were infamous in the South for tracking down its victims and savagely mauling them. After slavery was abolished following the Civil War, the need to have these big attack dogs disappeared. There are some theories that these dogs disappeared into the bulldog and “pit bull” types we see today.If you read some of the former slave interviews they mention them for example…..http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/enslavement/text8/runawayswpa.pdf
In 1929 during the depression Black musicians moved to Europe to escape Americas racism. Blacks faced massive discrimination in jobs, housing and education. In the southern states a series of laws were passed known as ‘Jim Crow’, which denied blacks the right to vote and to equal treatment. Duke Ellington, to avoid the brutal aspects of racism hired his own train with beds and dining room when touring, so that his band would be spared the indignity of being refused a bed in a hotel or a meal in a restaurant. His contracts always stipulated that he would not play before segregated all white audiences. Ellington’s music itself fueled black pride. He referred to Jazz as “African-American classical music,” and strove to convey the Black experience in America. While Louis Armstrong was singing about ‘darkies’, ‘piccaninnies’ and ‘coal black mammies’, Ellington was playing Black Beauty, Deep South Suite and Black and Tan Fantasy. Ellington’s dream was to create a musical with an entirely black cast. In 1941 he achieved it with the show Jump for Joy. His pride in the finished product was obvious when he said, ‘I’ve taken the Uncle Tom out of the theatre.’ Ellington also went on to produce Black, Brown and Beige in 1943, a musical based on the history of Blacks in America. Ellington used to argue that ‘social protest in the theatre should be made without saying it, and that calls for real craftsmanship’. The fact was, with the exception of Billie Holiday, no other leading jazz artist in the 1930s made such open political statements in their music. But unlike Paul Robeson and many others in the artistic world, Ellington always kept his political activities in the background. Music was his life. Duke Ellington was a brilliant musical innovator. His success opened up venues to other Black musicians and he played a large part in getting Jazz recognized as the great music that it is. He wrote over 1,000 compositions and led his band from 1923 until his death in 1974. HAPPY BORNDAY TO DUKE ELLINGTON.
WHY DO SOME… BLACK WOMEN WANT TO LOOK LIKE A BARBIE DOLL?
Paddyrollers began in 1704 in South Carolina. The Paddyrollers job was to ride around slave plantations stopping all slaves they encountered and making them prove that they were engaged in lawful activities. Paddyrollers required Blacks to produce a pass, which stated their owner’s name as well as where and when they were allowed to be away from the plantation and for how long…SOUND FAMILIAR. Paddyrollers would break up large gatherings and assemblies of Blacks, enter without warrant the plantation grounds to search the slave quarters and inspect slave homes… DAMN THIS SOUNDS SO FAMILIAR… looking for stolen goods, missing slaves who had turned runaway and weapons that could be used in an revolt. They also looked for evidence of books, papers, and pens because remember learning to read and write was forbidden for Black folks on the plantation. I WASN’T BORN A SLAVE BUT I’VE BEEN FORCED TO PRODUCE MY PASS…I MEAN ID AND ASKED WHERE I’M GOING, SEARCHED FOR WEAPONS AND TOLD WE HAVE TO MOVE OFF THE BLOCK SEVERAL TIMES. DAMN FUNNY HOW TIMES NEVER CHANGE.
Her name was Sarah Rector. She was a young black girl born in Indian Territory on March 3, 1902. As a result of the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887, nearly 600 Black children, or Creek Freedmen minors as they were called, inherited 160 acres of land, unlike their African-American counterparts who were ONLY granted citizenship after slavery but never got what was promised to them - “40 acres and a mule.” Sarah Rector was given a rough, hilly allotment, considered worthless until large pools of oil were discovered on her land. Her mother had died years earlier from tuberculosis and her father died in prison, leaving her orphaned. In 1913 her land produced so much oil that she had already yielded $300,000; her fortune was increasing at a rate of $10,000 per month. Her wealth caused immediate alarm and all efforts were made to put Sarah under “guardianship” of whites. It wouldn’t be long before white businessmen would take control of her estate.Much attention was given to Sarah in the press. There was an effort to have her declared white, so that because of her millions she could ride in a first class car on the train. Sarah’s life continued as she began to get offers of marriage from around the world, and efforts were made to move her to Tuskegee. As the headlines about her continued worldwide many continued to strive to have access to her wealth. Because of the attention of the black press, Sarah’s life eventually took a better turn, when individuals stepped in from the Black community to intervene, and obtain a new home and better lifetstyle for her. Not much is written about her adolescence, but it is known that she did attend Tuskegee Institute, and after she completed her studies there, she moved to Kansas City. She and her husband were known to have many real estate holdings in the area. They were known to entertain the many entertainers of the day from Duke Ellington to Count Basie. Little is known about the latter days of her life, but there are persons who are working on a biography of her life.
I AM TRAYVON MARTIN. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THAT COULD OF BEEN MY SON…MY BROTHER…MY NEPHEW…MY COUSIN……..