7 Generations

"Sometimes I sit back and think about what other generations would be thinking about our current state of affairs."

I ponder that a lot.

Interacting with young people as frequently as I do my sense from them is a mixture of hope, insecurity about what was and was not invested in them, and the casual way parents often relinquished control of their children's spirits to hostile forces in schools concerns me deeply. At present, I already feel and see the error of the teaching methods white Americans call themselves modeling for other citizens. It is like watching a demonstration of what does not work pretending it does. The effect already is devastating: young people seeking and taking their own counsel disengaged from the system of Eldership, and proudly unaware of their need for initiations and a practice of analytical thought has exchanged places with the power of being a global citizen for myopic areas of concern. It is sad, no; it is disheartening the way these children, more often than not, employ hope for work towards resolving complex problems like racism in society because they do not have the historical basis for making decisions or understanding the many of the 'whys' of American life.

Since education administrators firmly believe in under developing children how that shows up will show up in the future of this country with millions of alumni from public schools without the ability or the skilled practice in the art of merging because school systems removed music and art education. Because education of white, Black, Red and Yellow children is designed with an underlining support of the worldview of white Americans in benevolent roles in their dark, bloody histories millions of white adults in the future will be like Donald Trump incapable of resolving complex relational problems weighing the country down.

Because Black Americans cling to the source of their tragedies and are terrified of profoundly altering their relationship with the master/slave history between them and white folks Black Americans will continue in the non-progress of being defensive and seeking equality with white folks instead of becoming powerful forces unto themselves, and powerful from within their being. American women will continue to believe in the fallacies of the American myths. It will trip them up when and if conservatism takes a deeper hold on business and religion and they discover their social gains slipping away by way of the beautifully weaved logic divorced from the passion of morality. This is what First Nations people and Black Americans learned from studying white people when we were and are pursuing our agendas in court. The Euro-American practice of removing ethics, morality and righteousness from the equation of any number of issues has been key to getting wrong and/or questionable goals accomplished. This practice strips everything down to logic and law which easily can become the basis of immoral acts with its own consequences.

Because the country clings to the psychology of white supremacy and the feeling of being right because God sanctioned our right to be here and take from others with logical justification the fears of white people will continue to hold the country in bondage and illusions of what freedom is. How that will affect our future on one hand is predictable because it is merely a repeat performance. On the other hand, it is unpredictable because life is unpredictable outcomes of mathematical equations from disciplines, countries and peoples from all walks of Life who have been hurt, influenced and changed because of the strength of our military, our economic powers and creativity around acquisition, self-deception and belief in the collective American myths that are our creation stories.

Sometimes I sit back and think about what other generations would be thinking about our current state of affairs and think when they do, and they will, it will be long moments of looking in mirrors seeing repetition of past events, the historic mentality that shaped the country and they will see our fears because those fears and situations will be theirs.


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
Jan. 14, 2017

4 Black folks in Harlem, 1970's, fly as shit!

1950's white America.

1940. Harlem. Beechnut gum girl.

1930's a Negro boy tied to a pick axe in a forced labor camp in Texas.