I was reading the book, The Teachings of Ptah-Hotep, which is considered the oldest book in the world. This book comes out of Egypt from Ptah-Hotep who is a Pharaoh trainer to put it simply. It’s amazing that the oldest known book to man spokes about righteous. Anyways the point I wanted to draw attention to is his first teaching/instruction to the Prince (the king’s son) was:

Don't be proud of your knowledge, Consult the ignorant and the wise; the limits of art are not reached, no artist's skills are perfect; good speech is more hidden than emeralds, yet may be found among maids at the grindstones.

If this is what was being taught to the soon to be highest person of the ancient Egyptian empire, which was roughly the size as modern day Egypt,...

Feb 1, today marks the start of Black History month. This is the month to hear about Black inventors, social figures, and Black first. While I had intentions of posting something else about Black History, and maybe I’ll get back on that subject, but the phrase, “Black first” quickly made me think of that Malcolm X speech Message to the Grassroots speech where he says,

“This modern house Negro loves his master. He wants to live near him. He'll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master, and then brag about ‘I'm the only Negro out here.’ ‘I'm the only one on my job.’ ‘I'm the only one in this school.’ You're nothing but a house Negro. And if someone comes to you right now and says, ‘Let's separate,’...

Matthew 7

"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

"Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to...

Constant critique and re-evaluation is always necessary in order to have a serious understanding of any revolution.

Part 1: A couple of days ago I was at Mukasa Dada's (aka Papa Ricks) house and he brought up a point in passing about how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr taught the SNCC workers about Africa. For those who don't know MLK was invited by Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah to Ghana during its Independence in 1957. I was checking out Dr. King's book The Trumpet of Conscience where he states,

"Let us say it boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and were compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man.

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