Elegance & the Survival of a People

 last year Mrs. Obama is wearing a
Duro Olowu bouclé coat and Alaïa belt.

Mrs. Obama & husband were in Iowa the night before his re-election. She was wearing the essence of a First Lady in the tradition of  Colored Women in eras gone bye, and more aggressive Negro women during the turbulent years of social activism in the early 1900's and Black women in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The pride of all the endeavors of a people striving for excellence, and those Negro mothers and fathers who set high standards for their next generations in the years of white, aggressive insistence that Blacks, Negroes, and Niggers remain registered in the lower echelons of white estimation of the people responsible for the manifestation of white people's goals and dream of wealth, and economic power. Such ingratitude.

Such strange contradictions from so fearful a population that has laid claim to conquered peoples, and the sense of worth and identity people of color the world over had. What a legacy to be trapped in with its illusions and realities that sequestered an ill will, and illogic to sustain superiority over people of color, and land they don't respect, or see the sacred within. There is a lot of hope in saviors. Americans believe in saviors, and Christians worship them. Those fundamental belief relieves them of the responsibility to be engaged in the spiritual and intellectual work President Obama voiced from his essence to his public during his campaigns.

Perhaps it is the times speaking clearly, not a Kenyan-American President. The prophecies of the Mayan came to pass. We are in the formidable transition, and transformation indigenous prophecies envisioned and focused upon in ceremonies thousands of years ago. It is hard for Westerners, in general, and white Euro-Americans to see through the darkness of their expectations of retribution for the things done in the name of God, and the acquisition of things for more than 500 years. The Devil is always lurking in their stories and projections into a future that in the movies predicts the outcome of an advance technological society with precious few people of color.

It is something to note because science fiction is the science of the possible, and given the weaponry, and history of Euro-American's relentless pursuit of their goals there is a frightening and deadly possibility those projections might land in the future of the world!

© Gregory E. Woods,
Keeper of Stories
3.30.13

Mrs. Obama campaigning in Nevada wearing a black lacy
jewel toned Rachel Roy dress

Michelle Obama