The Storm Is Over Now

R. Kelly The Storm Is Over Now (c) (C) 2000 Zomba Recording LLC

Look beyond the Glory

Success is like breaking through wood with your bare hands...
If you look at the wood you may break your hand...
If you focus far beyond the target you will break through every time...

Go The Distance!

At the barricades

Don’t wish things were easier, use your challenges to grow stronger!

Self-interest

Self-interest hides in many ways, hides under every stone and every act -- hides in prayer, in worship, in having a successful profession, great knowledge, a special reputation, like the speaker. When there is a guru who says, `I know all about it. I will tell you all about it' - is there not self-interest there? This seed of self-interest has been with us for a million years. Our brain is conditioned to self-interest. If one is aware of that, just aware of it, not saying, `I am not self-interested' or `How can one live without self-interest?' but just be aware, then how far can one go, how far can one investigate into oneself to find out for ourselves, each one of us, how in action, in daily activity, in our behaviour, how deeply one can live without a sense of self-interest?

So, if we will, we will examine all that. Self-interest divides, self-interest is the greatest corruption (the word corruption means to break things apart) and where there is self-interest there is fragmentation - your interest as opposed to my interest, my desire opposed to your desire, my urgency to climb the ladder of success opposed to yours. Just observe this; you can't do anything about it -- you understand? - but just observe it, stay with it and see what is taking place.

-- Krishnamurti, Last Talks At Saanen, 1985, pp. 84-85.

A HAUSA TALE - If you do not know, let us consider other things.

Life and Death

There were two old men who journeyed together.
The name of one was Life, and the other was called Death.
They came to a place where a spring flowed, and the man who owned the spring greeted them. They asked him for permission to drink.
He said: "Yes, drink. But let the elder drink first, because that is the custom."

Life said, "I, indeed, am the elder."

Death said, "No, I am the elder."

Life answered: "How can that be? Life came first. Without living things to die, Death does not exist."

Death said: "On the contrary, before Life was born everything was Death. Living things come out of Death, go on a while and then return to Death."

Life replied: "Surely that is not the way it is. Before Life there was no Death, merely that which is not seen.
The Creator made this world out of the unseen substances. When the first person died, that was the beginning of Death. Therefore you. Death, are the younger."

Death argued: "Death is merely what we do not know. When the Creator created, he molded everything out of what we do not know. Therefore Death is like a father to Life."

They disputed this way, standing beside the spring.

And at last they asked the owner of the water to judge the dispute.

He said: "How can one speak of Death without Life, from which it proceeds? And how can one speak of Life without Death, to which all living things go?

Both of you have spoken eloquently.
Your words are true.
Neither can exist without the other.
Neither of you is senior.
Neither of you is junior.
Life and Death are merely two faces [masks] of the Creator.
Therefore you are of equal age
Here is a gourd of water.
Drink from it together."
They received the gourd of water. They drank. And after that they continued their journey.

What say you of these two travellers?
They go from one place to another in each other's company.
Can one be the elder and the other the younger?

If you do not know, let us consider other things.

Dangers of the Super Religious State

John Henrik Clarke speak on Farrakhan

Send in the Clowns

 According to Malcolm, Martin Luther King was a Clown, wonder what he would have made of Barrack?

"It was the grass roots out there in the street. It scared the white man to death, scared the white power structure in Washington, D.C., to death; I was there. When they found out that this black steamroller was going to come down on the capital, they called in Wilkins, they called in Randolph, they called in these national Negro leaders that you respect and told them, "Call it off." Kennedy said, .Look, you all are letting this thing go too far." And Old Tom said, "Boss, I can't stop it, because I didn't start ~ I'm telling you what they said. They said, "I'm not even in it, much less at the head of it." They said, "These Negroes are doing things on their own. They're running ahead of us." And that old shrewd fox, he said, "If you all aren't in it, I'll put you in it. I'll put you at the head of it. I'll endorse it. I'll welcome it. I'll help it. I'll join it."

A matter of hours went by. They had a meeting at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City. The Carlyle Hotel is owned by the Kennedy family; that's the hotel Kennedy spent the night at, two nights ago; it belongs to his family. philanthropic society headed by a white man named Stephen Currier called all the top civil-rights leaders together at the Carlyle Hotel. And he told them, "By you fighting each other, you are destroying the civil-rights movement. And since you're fighting over money from the liberals, let us set up what is known as the Council for United Civil Rights Leadership. Let's form this council and all the civil-rights organizations will belong to it, and we'll use it for fund-raising purposes." Let me show you how tricky the white man is. As soon as they got formed, they elected Whitney Young as its chairman, and who do you think became the co-chairman? Stephen Currier, the white man, a millionaire. Powell was talking bout it down at Cobo Hall today. This is what he was talking about. Powell knows it happened. Randolph knows happened. Wilkins knows it happened. King knows it happened. Every one of that Big Six they know happened.

Once they formed it, with the white man over it, he promised them and gave them $800,000 to split up among the Big Six; and told them that after the march was over they'd give them $700,000 more. A million and a half dollars split up between leaders that you have been following, going to jail for, crying crocodile tears for. And they're nothing but Frank James and Jesse James and the what-do-you-call-'em brothers.

As soon as they got the setup organized, the white man made available to them top public-relations experts, opened the news media across the country at their disposal, which then began to project these Big Six as the leaders of the march. Originally they weren't even in the march. You were talking this march talk on

Hastings Street

, you were talking march talk on

Lenox Avenue

, and on

Fillmore Street

, and on

Central Avenue

, and

32nd Street

and

63rd Street

. That's where the march talk was being talked. But the white man put the Big Six at the head of it; made them the march. They became the march. They took it over. And the first move they made after they took it over, they invited Walter Reuther, a white man; they invited a priest, a rabbi, and an old white preacher, yes, an old white preacher. The same white element that put Kennedy into power labor, the Catholics, the Jews, and liberal Protestants; the same clique that put Kennedy in power, joined the march on Washington

It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep. This is what they did with the march on Washington. They joined it. They didn't integrate it, they infiltrated it. They joined it, became a part of it, took it over. And as they took it over, it lost its militancy. It ceased to be angry, it ceased to be hot, it ceased to be uncompromising. Why, it even ceased to be a march. It became a picnic, a circus. Nothing but a circus, with clowns and all. You had one right here in Detroit saw it on television with clowns leading it, white clowns and black clowns. I know you don't like what I'm saying, but I'm going to tell you anyway. Because I can prove what I'm saying. If you think I'm telling you wrong, you bring me Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph and James Farmer and those other three, and see if they'll deny it over a microphone.


No, it was a sell-out. It was a takeover. When James Baldwin came in from Paris, they wouldn't let him talk, because they couldn't make him go by the script. Burt Lancaster read the speech that Baldwin was supposed to make; they wouldn't let Baldwin get up there, because they know Baldwin is liable to say anything. They controlled it so tight, they told those Negroes what time to hit town, how to come, where to stop, what signs to carry, what song to sing, what speech they could make, and what they couldn't make; and then told them to get out of town by sundown. And every one of those Toms was out of town by sundown. Now I know you don't like my saying this. But I can back it up. It was a circus, a performance that beat anything Hollywood could ever do, Performance of the year. Reuther and those other three should get an Academy Award for the best actors because they acted like they really loved Negroes and a whole lot of Negroes. And the six Negro leaders should get an award too, for the best supporting cast."  Malcolm X 

Yes We Can

Richard Bandler told me "study and seek for the original form... there is very little new in the world of human thinking"