WHITE victim

Marilyn Monroe clip. 

"... Something is askew. She is the first First Lady in my lifetime followed by silence. I have lived in Washington DC many years, grew up on the global stage (my father was a diplomat) and circulated in many circles on my own, and must say: Mrs. Trump is the only First Lady here, and even in dictatorships, whose presence or mention of her name, women fall into contemplative silence. Something is wrong within. It is in her eyes..." 

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 

10/31/18 

First Lady Melania Trump making an appearance in October of 2017!

That Smell is not a Scent.

Ivanka Trump as fine and elegant as she is made the mistake of stepping out of her field of expertise into an arena she and her father are ill-equipped and not trained for participation. There are games within the Game of Life we are born for, and train for in this complex game that overlaps with others and needs the relationships with others to sustain itself. It centers powers to have relationships, but fear based relationships in politics produces dictators in leadership roles, and subservient government officers. It is in the eyes these dynamics show, but denial, as illustrated in the European story of the Emperor's New Clothes, smells like fear, and white Americans are afraid of Donald Trump because they smell like him... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 9/9/18  

When Dr. King spoke: Power of a People's Pain.

When Dr. King spoke: "If you can't fly, then run, if you can't run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward" I heard the enforcement of the laws of purpose, and felt at the time what it meant to Colored folks. Being young, and being old and a Negro in those times held a stress level that strangled dreams. It killed by fear and emboldened by necessity a killer instinct in others, and made the leaders arise from within the caste system created by the fears white lives, who developed themselves into monsters or tolerant moderates, afraid to do what was right in the sight of God!

Dr. King, I recall, was despised by so many ministers, but I saw fear of changing the white people around them alive in the purposes the church served in Colored neighborhoods. No one killed like white folks! I remember how television delivered these messages from Martin Luther King Jr. the way word spread through the forests into the towns and cities where 'Members' lived. I remember old people talking about the way storytellers told the old stories to the children around fires in the dark of night! The fires became radio, radio became television and television became the internet, where the family circles disappeared into the mist of separate rain drops.

Now, today broken circles pretend to bring people together. Pieces of a dream are no more effective than broken bowls. The old ways of fighting the demons are the methods to bring the worst of killers to their comeuppance, to trail, to the courts of law, but not the law created by the killers and framed by the beneficiaries of their brutal murders and acquisitions by force and terror.

It is less and it is more our Ancients speaking the old truths our interactions with those from Europe stripped from our knowing of the deep that gave Dr. King his voice... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/18/18 

This is Sad.

Ivanka Trump steps out this day in June 2017 for work in Washington DC where she keeps a low profile in the city. She has engineered little, if any respect among the citizenry. In this town that is a major indictment!... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5/24/18 

Burkini fashion, Islam, Men, and Christianity.

Hijab style of a Turkish woman.

Iranian futball player !!!!

Burkina Fashion


Aheda Zanetti created the burkini for her niece, who wanted to play netball. Her young niece wore the hajib for modesty, as other Muslim girls and women did but that was not enough of a covering to be a respectable, and modest Muslim woman. The point of women's dress was to somehow lessen the attraction to the form of a woman's body. In its depth of understanding it is important to understand that this is a reverse way of men disciplining their spirits; but that subject we will set aside for further analysis, as well as the contradictions of Christian and Islamic values and the predator nature of Western man, and the Arab man.

The child's mother had to debate and reason with the family to get the girl's permission to play the game. This was in early 2004 in Australia, where Aheda searched for a reasonable outfit for a woman to wear to the beach, or to play sports in public, and not finding anything developed to wear by the fashion industry from this concept she created the burkini.

IN Aheda's story, she sent out questionnaires to the community to properly discern the attitudes about the outfit and following old tradition and instinctive inclinations listened to the family's thoughts and feelings on this new intervention between wanting to play and appear in public in the Western world modestly. She says, "It is about integration and acceptance and being equal and about not being judged." She knows the holy Qu'ran does not ask women to cover their face and that the Burqa is not in the holy text. But, being Muslim anywhere in the West is now dangerous because white citizens are terrified of things and consequences other people can be insensitive to, or resentful of because those paradigms believe not in the natural order, but the world as they perceive it.

After 9/11, many things changed in the Western world from the perspective of Americans, not about safety, but out of fear of historical consequences. France began making Muslim women remove their burkinis on their beaches. The police became more military and the military became more aggressive charged by an urge to go after an ill-defined enemy and blurred understanding of world histories to inform thought and behavior. Airline service became wooded, and climate in the air and airports became depressive and subdued as passengers, mule like, shuffled through long lines submitting to humiliating searches and enduring profiling; fearful of their usage of language.

The United States waged war in the Middle East saying they are fighting for freedom in America with a fractured economy, and torn apart in its soul they stomped around the globe threatening smaller governments to side with their agenda. Meanwhile, Muslims around the world were reevaluating their positions in their relations to American and European extremes. Prior to this event (9/11) the Arab world was careful about Western influence over their cultures. There was a lot of smug resentment from Americans of this trait, but it revealed how important Americans thought their thoughts and sensibilities were to them, and felt their ways should not be scrutinized by people in the Arab world.

It is important to understand these views of the world, and the way Americans thought of themselves prior to the successful attack against the U.S. in 2001, and know how our influence actually feels to people we dismiss, as beneath us. This is a quiet way of saying our arrogance is our diplomacy. Our estimation of Muslim women being modest in public repulsed Americans first prior to the 20th century, and terrified them in the 21st century! What we have are governing concepts at odds within Christians. If we are going to link Islam with sacred dress for women, we must analyze Western Christianity reacting to a historical past with the Arab world.


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
April 13, 2017

Casual elegance implied by the smile, the style

Part II
modesty

Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman said she gives no heed to critics of her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit photo shoot -- it's something she expected.

"I knew people were going to say that I wasn't a good role model and all of this stuff," Raisman, who posed topless in the magazine, told Motto. "I did the issue because I love my body. I can express myself in any way that I want. But that doesn't give anyone the right to judge me. I think being a role model is about being a kind person."

"It really made me realize women do not have to be modest in order to be respected," Raisman added.

So deeply does the water pour into the pool. This young woman recites into the pool from what her predecessors stirred. It is not from a place of understanding the depths of contradictions steeped in fearful transactions white women's looks pay tribute to; it is from a sense of freedom based on hopeful assumptions of how things should be if men were impeccable of mind, spirit and emotions.

For the most part men are not trained to be impeccable.

Against this backdrop the young Olympian states a claim saying: "It really made me realize women do not have to be modest in order to be respected." The boast is naïve and it is ignorant, but applauded by young and older women living in a bubble crying because of, and straining against the tyranny of men, who prey upon their bodies and their souls. 

"Do you understand this?" I cry from within to countless women I have seen and interacted with over my decades. Many do. Many don't. What is promoted on television, as freedom of expression, is an irrationalness hard to focus upon knowing the history of religion, belief and white European and Arabian men in their histories! The next logical question is not apparent to an ignorant assumption about freedom. 

Freedom. "What is freedom in the context of this subject?" 

What it is not, is divorced from the spiritual responsibility of men to be engaged at young ages by their Wise Men, the Elders from a strong tradition of initiation. Freed men engage the resources of spiritual powers Western ideology rejects. Most are trapped in a culture unable to free itself from its pride in being divorced from archaic ideas and practices that believe in God, and understand the Sacred. What we are afraid of is the truth of who we are supposed to be inwardly. 

Being Sacred is far removed from how we govern ourselves in this country. For that we pay heavy prices, and women and innocence are the first victims of what is profoundly ugly and evil within men divorced from the sacred processes into true masculinity. 

This is where I stop, and should not have come face to face with in this medium for the simple, and complex reason a father does not feed meat to an arm baby nursing on his mother's breasts. 


This takes us back to the young woman's words, "It really made me realize women do not have to be modest in order to be respected." 

What she is pointing out is unobvious. Men should be required to have the type of impeccability her statement requires to be supported in general society in sexy, or modest styles of dress. 


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 
April 13, 2017

Aly Raisman's Sports Illustrated 2017 magazine pose.

Part III
declaration

When a man wants to undress a woman it is she who makes resistance difficult. Responsibility for decorum is the man's. It doesn't matter what she does. It is what we know to do and who we are in relation to the truth... - Gregory E, Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/13/17  

Puzzle.

4 Concerns of Race Whites Fear.

Broken by LAW

Murderous woman.

"The deepest fear a woman can conjure within a man is her being absorbed into killing..."

~ Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Feb. 12, 2017.

Death certainly stalks women scared inside of marriages and relationships with men violent in their nature who feel dominance is based upon the subjection of his woman to his will. In the aftermath of her breaking point his death is his design. The law doesn't see it that way because laws meant to protect men's proclivity towards violence against women needs to be protected by law so that by chance if a law maker finds himself in such a predicament facing jail time for beating his woman he has an escape route. Biblical laws, the laws within the Torah, and the Qur'an protect men's inability to have restraint. It is this simple. My studies have shown me nothing to contradict this finding.

When Death stalks it finds a way to reverse roles. The beatings a woman receives from a man is a beating from men. In her defense is her endurance, and the breaking point when she can take no more and kills the man. It happens in a variety of ways. For several reasons there are women who get away with murder. As much as it is wrong it is right.

Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

Feb. 13, 2017

Dictatorial patriotism, and Fear of whites in the flag!

Seeing young Black athletes, on their knees during the patriotic tributes to the myths of the U.S., makes me feel strong pride buffered by the flaw of Black thinking and fortitude: the collective fear of white people. I can't loose myself into the role of a spectator where most live, and not feel the pattern embedded in the consciousness of money (paper) over principal struggling. These young athletes are not made with the strength of struggle their ancestors had at their age, nor were they steered to be protectors, or taught the fine art of being impeccable aligned with the essentials that support the indifference of a warrior that connects him to the essentials a man needs to be one of knowledge, of power!

No, these young men are the product of hard work in the American way of indifference to the inconsistencies of their existence, as citizens of a global power. They are over forty years after the NFL made sure civil disobedience was forbidden in their contracts. Being subjugated to conformity wasn't enough. These young men broke through the barrier that stipulation created because they are Black men in a position to realize they are product in their industry, and the pride of their people, and niggers in the society they make their living. It is a lot of pressure being in that friction and according to the laws of physics holding themselves in compliance with the fine print of a signed contract.

What does that mean to men in these positions at the top of their 'game'?

If they have the spiritual integrity of a comedian, like Dave Chappell, they are using a tool of Black intelligentsia hard to grasp by common thought processes embraced by those in the muddle of the mundane. Well, a large percentage of professional Black athletes come from the ghetto, and some who don't believe in ghetto creeds. It matters. The stories governing lives and action are the forces that come to play when issues of this magnitude are the redirection of evil towards men because of a belief in racial superiority that refuses to subjugate itself to the scrutiny of truths that hold decency and fairness in place.

If a thing is worth dying for, an ideal is worth shaping in the chambers of one's heart. If the lives of one's grandchildren are worth the taking of a stand along the length of ancestral lines isn't the re-examination of one's belief a man's duty to his ancestors and his spiritual responsibility to his people and their generations to follow? - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories Oct. 29, 2017 

Old woman in her regalia.

free of Freedom!

the Creature hides her beauty within. Revealed she may be as beautiful as 'She', as much a voice as a whisper is a sound needing expression. We wonder where women may go in this world, but not believing in magical powers... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 12/5/17 

"Women have to project, not themselves, but a creature to be feared to be safe from rape and other abuses, and respected enough to be given what is due their stature as women in their workplaces, and women as mothers. It is not that this stature is respected or feared; it isn't. It is the ability of men to keep women ignorant of their wombs that keeps this world working against its best interests; so women become creatures to alter this perception, and create a perception to sustain the illusion, in the name of survival. Trying to create real change in the world-at-large is almost impossible without the womb's power, but they work hard at it..." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/5/17  

Cover up of the sacred reveals something is hidden. 

TO Ponder.

tattooed and beautiful woman

Assassin's who are women are reputably more lethal because of what they deny, suppress, and kill within themselves... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 4.19.16

dark portrait of a woman's body art by Paparatzi Keith

We fear the concepts we don't understand. Not knowing they can change us isn't the fear, it is wondering how they will change us. - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5/3/17

African woman's gentleness is the style she wears.

Elegant is this backless V-neck wrap slim stretch dress. It is cloth, but cloth submits to transformation the way a woman submits to the forces within herself to be a woman. . . - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 5.11.17

Far from Truth.

Slave auction sign in the state of Kentucky

Ticks me off how weak kneed Americans are being so shallow in the belief that removing statues telling the stories of the country's past is note worthy, is social progress! It is cowardice at its worst! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/31/17 

Butt, of all things.

Kevin Spacey is one of my favorite actors. It was the television series, Wise Guys, I first saw the man in action. It was a serious performance as a sick, wicked head of a criminal enterprise he played. I watched it many times over the decades since, and tried to see everything he has been a part of as an actor. There is something seamless in his link between the inner worlds his characterizations come from and the tenuous hold he seems to have on hard life as a physical state of being. Being himself he easily fit into the identity of a semblance of a man; probably a gay man we thought. He wasn't a personal part of my life and therefore no threat, or potential threat to my children or young relatives; so it didn't matter.

But, his homosexuality has come to the forefront after being accused by a now grown actor, Anthony Rapp, of trying to hump him when he was a 14 year old boy. Spacey, 26 at the time, escaped the ass whipping he deserved and the boy left the impression from his telling that something happened changing him. It lingered so long in the boy's life into adulthood.

Spacey's admission was troubling, yes, but his way of pointing to the connection between sexual predation over children and adult gay life will not be drawn by public figures, into conversation. Who will protect the children in the striving, the 'fight' for 'Gay rights'? So far, not in the cards. . . - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/31/17 

You could lose your mind ...

Hats

Jessica Rabbit's dark side.

There is darkness in sex. Death follows it. It was created thus by the very nature of choice. It is too far a stretch for the average person to consider. Going against the grain of the outcome of lust is the notion that the relief from the tension of longing justifies knowing not the shadows of sexual energies because the purity of the act cannot possible harbor animosity! It is safe this understanding. Who would want to consider sex otherwise? A warrior would. A sorceress would know it, and use it and the victims come to realize it during attacks and in the aftermath cannot escape the memories.

I met a woman whose face and body I have long forgotten. But, her presence and the words she said remain within me as a tutorial I share, and have shared times before now. She had long observed how and how often I read on the job. I got my work done. I was no slack. I was a student in the practice of learning and considering. Because this job kept me in the public many paid attention to me studying what caught their eye about me and sometimes someone would drop serious knowledge upon me. This time the woman with the story came to me powerfully moving the air before her with a strong motion from within her being. I remember it clearly.

She asked me if I knew of an article about a man recently released from St. Elizabeth's hospital, then a hospital in Washington DC for the mentally jacked up, mostly. Today, Homeland Security sits on that property. "I did not." I said. She placed the article on my desk to read. It was the story of a man who'd been sentenced to St. Elizabeth for killing a man and claiming the devil made him do it. It had been twenty five years for him. I did what I often do. I waited for her to speak. I like the wait for a story. This one I wasn't prepared for.

She said, "I put him there."

There was a long silence between us. She let it sit heavily between us looking carefully into my soul, it seemed, and I into hers intently. She had been in a relationship with him, a deep one. Married. I don't remember but he was in her bed long enough to engineer strong emotions within her. There was something he did so odious to her that she weaved the darkest sorcery upon him through sex. With the wind and other elements she told me a bit about how she did it. In court and in the preparation of his defense he convinced all that he was insane in a time that was horrified of such assertions as his that the devil spoke to him telling to kill someone. The voice was real, she said. It was hers.

Now, sedated by revenge and relieved of the work she'd done she felt it urgent, or important to tell me these things. I suspect she saw more within me than I, and simply passed the knowledge with the story to my understanding. I have learned other things along these lines, but it isn't a subject for the average person. It is not for the weak to eat the meat when they only drink the milk at the table.


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
Jan. 22, 2017

red headed Vixen defying the odds against her. (2015)

women's FEAR of POWER!

"Western women have a long history of denying who they are, and underplaying and not developing their spiritual selves! It is a long painful story this state of being on guard against themselves!" - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [9/7/17]  

the Moon and Western women.

Hiding from themselves.

Dixie flag and the redneck family.

There are a lot of things dismissed, misunderstood and ignored about white people, that we Colored folk are tired of. "Let them work out their mess killing each other!" is an unspoken sentiment. The problems of race, in this country, begin and end with them. "Let what needs to happen, happen!" I say. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [8/15/17] 

cartoon - race reaction 

This cartoon got a white man fired. Denying their dark truth isn't American reality doesn't help at all. 

SHE Wrote her life.

Cicely Tyson speaking at City of Praise Family Ministries in August 2017, at 93 years old!

I wish it was a clear picture. The details of her face contribute to the depth of her living, and signals what is possible... Didn't realize she was old. I've long had deep feelings about her that started in the 1970's being in awe of her voice, character, the way she looked and faced white folks and their institutions. Then a crush developed.

When I found out she'd been married to Miles Davis, I realized I would always be out of her depth. Some people, like Cicely Tyson, remain ahead of the fearful, and those outside of the deeper acceptance of the deep truths within their souls, will not ever fully grasp the years of her life, or the roles she played as an old woman. It is a compelling concept portraying old Black women. The answer to why such an endeavor pushes the majority of Americans into what is culturally feared the most tells its own stories: old age, clarity, power and death! 

That is a responsibility to have to take care of! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories [Aug. 12, 2017] 

Cicely Tyson speaking at City of Praise Family Ministries, August 2017. photo by Janice Payne.