I Get It!

Former First Lady Barbara Bush was interviewed and expressed how she could not comprehend how women could have voted for Donald Trump!

I get it. One has to take a deep look into the spirit and the thinking of white Americans to understand something as incomprehensible as this! It is baffling, but we Colored folks have seen these things over and over again. In the last centuries we have watched in horror as white families gathered to watch brutal tortures and hangings of Black men. Upper class White women during slavery had to accept a double standard in their marriages. They had to live with a husband who fathered slave children. It stirred dark emotions. In retaliation, white women became known for their cruelty torturing their slaves.

Something turned within European women in their relationship with their men from Europe forward. They need to unearth these gross contradictions. They live in denial, gain strength in cruel men, and satisfy something incomprehensible voting against their best interest in God's name! In truth, I don't understand it. I know it. Unlike Mrs. Bush I won't act like I am ignorant of this history or oblivious of the need to heal their souls! - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4/11/18

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

Vote Negro, Vote Trump!

Tina Campbell Voted For Trump Because Of His Views On Christianity

This woman, Tina Campbell's vote for Trump and men like him is based on an error of thought in belief, not about Jesus alone, but about the need in the relationship with whites to be sensed as a good person; meaning a good Negro. It is a paradigm important to the Black Church. It kept people alive, and kept children safe as long as white's with their propensity to kill could be assuaged not to! I might sound fickle, but over the decades it was important to understand why Black congregations engaged in a thinking, as above described...

Until Colored folks examine and unlearn their soul's belief structure we will continue the American tradition of voting against one's best interest because of race, and in the case of Black folks: fear. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10/2/17 

 

There was a vision. . .

Legacy and question of bondage. Loué Hgues' Art. (2016)

This reminds me: "There are reasons not to vote, but no good reason is not enough reason not to vote in this country. We are smug in our luxury, and convenience, mostly unmindful of a world without that 'option'. Unknowingly, this has led many toward an aloofness now fashionable as chic, when in fact it is arrogant a presumption to have as a political stance. " - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories Nov. 9, 2016

bondage of the African woman by Joey Rosado

Negroes & lies

Harriet Tubman about slaves said...

Tempting...

This was the lowest black votes since 2000!!

I'm am just so tired of the African American community, always complaining, ranting and raving, and continues to stand still. You allowed your feelings about missing the Obamas, Bernie over Hillary, voting for third party candidates, writing in candidates, and furthermore just not voting, to drop the ball this election season. Never ever say that your vote does not count when you saw how important even the smallest towns and counties vote counted last night. African Americans want to talk about this and that life matters, but refused to beat the odds of democrats winning back-to-back.

Learn to stop allowing Media-bias behavior and fear to continuously "ENSLAVE YOU"! I've been awake, I'd hope that you'd one day wake up too! -  Corey Hymes Jr.‎ Nov. 9, 2016 

NEGRO MEN OF PURPOSE

NAACP

Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker 

"Honoring religious leaders--Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker was a chief strategist and one of the key architects of the 1960-64 civil rights campaigns. He was a part of “Project C”, the mass march in Birmingham, Alabama that served as a blueprint for civil rights campaigns and drew international attention. His activism led to him being arrested over 17 times.

He is noted for his part in a televised debate with Malcolm X about civil rights. Rev. Walker served as a branch president of the NAACP, Executive Director of SCLC and as State Director of the Congress of Racial Equality."

#BHM2014

 Bernard Lee 

"Bernard Lee was a courageous student activist, a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). While attending Alabama State University (ASU), he led a sit-in at the Alabama state capitol cafeteria. He was expelled from ASU for the event after the governor threatened the university president, saying he would withhold funding from the HBCU if Lee was not expelled. 

So, he transferred to Morris Brown College to work with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Dr. King, where he contributed to the Poor People’s Campaign and was at Dr. King’s side after his assassination. Lee later worked for the U.S. Government under President Carter and for Washington D.C. under Mayor Barry." 

RIGHTS AMERICAN STYLE

"The deeper causes and reasons against the advancement of women are individual ones from the organizations that have formulated the opinions, thoughts, and beliefs, and actions against the substance of women in politics, life, religion and business. It is a dirty job unmasking the core value system within a Judeo-Christian culture, and fearful, it is, to do that kind of spiritual work, but without doing it activists wind up facing people who've memorized scripts, and accepted modes of behavior like actors. They've essentially learned to lie to each other with a modicum of skill..." 

© Gregory E. Woods

Keeper of Stories

October 25, 2012 

CONSCIENCE VOTING

THE VOTE

“Please don't try to convince me that my ancestors died for my right to vote for a candidate who will surely serve corporate interests, bomb my cousins across the sea in order to steal their resources, refuse to acknowledge and correct the injustices and disparities in this country and get rich while doing it. It's a slap in the face. No, my ancestors died for my continued commitment to autonomy, self-determination and sovereignty. Vote if you must...and DO FOR SELF.” – Oshun Shango

CITIZENSHIP: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Montgomery, Ala on April 29, 1966 encouraging voting amongst Negroes

"... Freedom is a varied thing in the United States... The right to vote, and the ability and right to read at 16 years of age meant more to me than obtaining a drivers license or owning a car. As soon as I was of age I proudly placed my voting card and library card in my wallet. I felt that emotion deep in my soul...."  ©Gregory E. Woods