The Test Of Time

In life the truest test is that of time.

Time being those moments that elapse 

measured by segments of 

years

months

days

hours

minutes &

seconds.

And though in essence

the purest of existence

is that which is eternal, 

there is a witness

who is able to testify of times

withstood within 

the darkest of days;

It is there that the heartless rage

to tear a page from the Book of Life

where the Light looks to save

the seeds of tomorrow;

The stolen seeds who were

borrowed without permission

then forced into perdition 

to grow the bitter roots of 

enslavement's harvest.

Yet there is a darkness

that does blaze brighter

than any sun in creation

A darkness that has eclipsed

attempts to remove its presence

from the archives of formation;

A darkness established upon

the foundations of time

whose contributions to civilization

have enlightened every human's mind; 

A darkness that has withstood the test of time;

A darkness captured in the skin of men

who have found ways to transcend space &

enter the sublime then soar as if with wings 

on wind beyond the hateful grin of the demons

who envied their melanin;

A darkness whose elements are enshrined

in the memories of our ancestors

whose tales are the shelter of our legacy;

A darkness that time has tested

in the furnace of affliction 

to refine our purpose 

so that we will inevitably 

fulfill our great destiny.

And it is our elders who are the witness
to the times that have tested our people &

for that they are to be especially honored
for withstanding the test of time.

Between Emancipation and Liberation:

What Lincoln Understood About Legal Terms that Most African-Americans Don't

by Michael Davar Long

When Abraham Lincoln, a well educated and trained lawyer, signed the Emancipation Proclamation, he was well aware of the Roman/Latin root of the word emancipation (mancipium) and intimately understood the political nature of the document, as he once plainly stated during a debate in Charleston, Illinois before a crowd of 15,000 that

"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races; I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people[1]."

What Lincoln knew and understood about "emancipation" was that the Roman legal context of the matter was not equivalent to the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness to which Anglo-Saxons and other individuals of European descent, who at the time were considered Citizens of America, were privy. As the Roman law would have it, which serve as the foundation of the United States system of civil laws establishment, there is a qualitative difference in the political and social status of an individual or group of individuals who have been emancipated as compared to those who have acquired liberty. This reality is best described on a website from the University of Chicago, which states:

"In ancient Roman law, physical property became classified into two categories: "Res Mancipi" - things that required a mancipation; and "Res Nec Mancipi" - things that did not require a mancipation.

'Mancipium' or mancipation was a formal public ceremony required for recognition of conveyance in 'title' of legal ownership to a thing (mancipatio - taking in hand). The ceremony included striking a scale with a copper ingot as a token of sale. Without this ancient ritual, no exchange had the sanction or protection of the law.

Another manner of acquiring legal title was cessio in iure (cession in court), by vindicatio. An individual claiming title against a possessor would physically claim the thing (or a part of it produced in court). If the possessor failed also to claim the thing by exceptio, the praetor would restore it to the individual claiming title.

This distinction between categories of things ceased in the Roman Law at the time of Justinian, but was carried forward in the development of English law.

Res Mancipi generally encompassed those properties most valuable to agriculture - land, houses, slaves and four-footed beasts of burden. Under Roman law, the list of Res Mancipi was irrevocably closed. In English law, the distinction was carried forward with the identity of Res Mancipi as 'immovables' governed by the laws of 'realty' and Res Nec Mancipi as 'movables,' chattel or goods, governed by the laws of 'personalty.'

Res Nec Mancipi did not require the ceremony of mancipium for conveyance, only simple delivery or traditio. Res Nec Mancipi were considered on a 'lower footing of dignity' allowing for freer circulation of common objects of use and enjoyment. The list of Res Nec Mancipi could be expanded to accommodate new valued items. Transfer of ownership of Res Nec Mancipi was evidenced by physical 'delivery.'

Roman law also formally recognized the distinction between the incorporeal web of social relationships inherent in the concept of ownership, as well as the thing or object being 'owned.' 'Tradition' applicable to Res Mancipi recognized two elements in conveyance of ownership: (1) the consent or intent to transfer ownership title to the thing; and (2) the physical delivery of the thing into the new owner's possession. Mancipation was the ceremony by which the incorporeal legal title was symbolically passed. Title to things not requiring mancipation was presumed to have passed with corporeal delivery[2]."

So when considering whether or not you have your freedom as a so-called African-American, in context to Lincoln's personal view of Blacks, you have to also take into account the nature of the reality of the meaning of the fourteenth amendment which states,

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws[3]."

The key to understand this newly created class of citizens, to which the Declaration of Independence nor the Bill of Rights applies, is that as naturalized citizens granted emancipation, the Negro was still SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE UNITED STATES, though no longer subject the respective state laws nor plantation owners that once held them as their property. It can be said that African-Americans, as well as all citizens of the United States, are both subjects to the jurisdiction of the United States and property of the banks who are the possessors of the warehouse receipts of the citizens in the form of their birth certificate[4].

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This reality accounts for the vestiges of slavery that continued to exist with the advent of the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that swept the nation shortly after the era of Reconstruction. It was then that African-Americans were incarcerated and sent to prison, where the thirteenth amendment of the constitution states,

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction[5]."

And today, with the mass incarceration rates of African-Americans, who disproportionately make up the Prison Industrial Complex and recent reports state that in their lifetime, 1 out of 3 Blacks males will go to prison[6], it isn't hard to see that there is still a peculiar institution intent on capitalizing on the enslavement and exploitation of the so-called African-American.

And recently, as I watched a pre-release special screening of Steve McQueen's film 12 Years A Slave, I couldn't help but notice the precarious state and semblance of freedom that Solomon Northup so preciously held on to and desired throughout the opus, as today in America, Blacks find themselves owning less property than when they did upon being initially emancipated. It is also a bitter reality to notice the wealth gap between Black and White households, which is increasing at a substantial rate. However, with the purchasing power of Blacks in America at an exorbitant $1.1 trillion dollar level, it is surprising that Blacks haven't invested in the securing of their future with educational institutions as well as possibly considering correctional services which would behoove our community to contribute to the rehabilitation of 'Miseduated Negroes.'

Yet in the final analysis of this most subtle reality that lies at the very cusp of consciousness amongst intellectual circles in the Black community, I wonder why there are so few voices who are speaking and making our people aware of this matter. Herein lies the key to our ultimate hopes of being self-determinant and acquiring the precious state of liberty that is our human right. This focus and aim is what El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, better known as Malcolm X, was striving to get Blacks to understand throughout his post Mecca years as he so eloquently stated in his seminal speech The Ballot or the Bullet:

"We need to expand the civil-rights struggle to a higher level-to the level of human rights. Whenever you are in a civil-rights struggle, whether you know it or not, you are confining yourself to the jurisdiction of Uncle Sam. No one from the outside world can speak out in your behalf as long as your struggle is a civil-rights struggle. Civil rights comes within the domestic affairs of this country. All of our African brothers and our Asian brothers and our Latin-American brothers cannot open their mouths and interfere in the domestic affairs of the United States. And as long as it's civil rights, this comes under the jurisdiction of Uncle Sam. But the United Nations has what's known as the charter of human rights; it has a committee that deals in human rights. You may wonder why all of the atrocities that have been committed in Africa and in Hungary and in Asia, and in Latin America are brought before the UN, and the Negro problem is never brought before the UN. This is part of the conspiracy. This old, tricky blue eyed liberal who is supposed to be your and my friend, supposed to be in our corner, supposed to be subsidizing our struggle, and supposed to be acting in the capacity of an adviser, never tells you anything about human rights. They keep you wrapped up in civil rights. And you spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor."

The time has come for us, as so called African-Americans, to find the tree of life where our human rights are secure in our being and we no longer find ourselves subject to the rulership of man, but the rulership of our heavenly King and Father. Then, and only then, will we find our true place in both history and our destiny, and the world will also know and experience the order of creation that was intended to be from the beginning.

Selah.

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[1] http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n5p-4_Morgan.html

[2] http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Mancipium.html

[3] http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv

[4] http://www.viewzone.com/collateralx.html

[5] http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiii

[6] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/04/racial-disparities-criminal-justice_n_4045144.html 

Another Fine Day In America

(inspired by Jason Ryberg aka Baron the Terrible)

a black death
beyond demonic

has spread chronic
on city corners

plagued with
bubonic oppression &

hegemonic historical
consciousness

which has created
urban jungles
of Dr. Moreau 

a white flight
in fear of
miscegenation

has stimulated
the social inflation
of hate with
reverberations

creating retaliations
of murder and rape

until conflagrations
ingnite over race

and everything civil
gets thrown
head first
out the window

a young woman

lying in her own life
looses her head
because a man
sprayed hot lead
in the back
of her skull
just because her skin
was the wrong color.

a father
desperate for liquor
slipped his daughter
a roofie and proceeded
to sell her innocence
to a 12 year old classmate
who passed his first
anatomy exam
filling her
with his genes
on the inside
of her newly torn
virginal linings

a young mother
in love with darkness
abandons her toddlers
on a hot summer night
in a car where she has
likely swallowed their
unborn siblings
to attend a concert
where Weezy
has moved on up
to capture the hearts
of the irresponsible
and she eventually
lost her children
to the same system
that also took
her freedom

a boy
tired of running
from real
monsters
at school
mysteriously
found himself
forever asleep
wrapped up
in a mat
and then
emptied
of all his
organs
only to be
stuffed
with news papers
that reported him
a victim
of homicide.

a mother
under
protective
services
because
she witnessed
a murder
was found
by wolves
who devoured
her flesh
so that her
voice would
never be heard
what's even
more absurd
is that the same
blood thirsty
wolves
cut short her
3 year old
daughter's time
but left her
1 year old son
some kind of
traumatized
to wander
amongst
the carnage
until the authorities
who were
supposed to have
her in hiding
arrived at the scene
to find her
and her daughter
silent and her son
screaming

A miscarriage of justice
in the case of
a non conviction
for a cold
blooded murderer
in a state
which has historically
stood its ground
in regards to
hot race relations
served to remind
a group of
dark people
that the life
of animals
has more
sanctity
than former
pieces of
chattel property.

a man
whose conscience
was abducted
was charged
with harboring
three distressed
damsels for
a decade
was sentenced to
a millennium
imprisonment
to rot in
his lust
like the demons
whose semen
he spewed
into the wombs
that he repeatedly
entered

countless priests
preying on children
and confessing their
perversions
to them in secret
have been granted
remission
of their sins
by their
unholy father
and given
keys to
the kingdom of
pedophilia
where they
continue
to inseminate
spiritually torn
souls with the
Legion of Christ

a spree of mass shootings
which has cast
blame on fire arms
has all but overlooked
the drug sorcery
at work
altering minds and
manipulating
deeds to bring
about the complete
disarmament of
the Citizens whose
rights are being
stripped one
amendment
at a time

a nation of people
filled with bread &
distracted by circuses
are too blind
to see
society
imploding
before their
very eyes
as if it
was hidden
in plain sight
like the
symbols
of their
civil masters
craftily at work
to bring forth
a new order
for the world

a banking institution
established on
looting
pensions &
robbing
the world
of every penny
for the global
enslavement
of the people
under a
federal system
that reserves
spaces in camps
for those
who resist
where labor
is the
concentration
of which
the desgins
reek of capitalist
refuse with all of
its toilet
paper currency &
scientifically
orchestrated
economic
crashes
that burn
to bring about
Nazi fascism
from Weimar
Republic
ashes.

a corporation
posing as a
government
intent on
bullying
weaker sovereign
nations
in the name of the
plan for a new
American century
cleanses foreign lands
with toxic chemicals
and hell fire
falling from
the sky
in order
to extract
blood fresh
from the earth's
arteries
like vampires
for power
and poppies
like pushers
which are
injected
into their
junkies veins
for pacification.

Welcome
to the divided states
of America
the home
of the war
on terror 

where ponzi schemes
reign supreme &

dreams are fiat
currency based

on insolvent
legal tender
this is hands down
the greatest country

in the world
when it comes
to delusion

where the media
spreads confusion 

with smoke and
mirror episodes

of predictive
programming that
shows just how
desensitized and misled
her citizens are
as they believe

that tomorrow
will be
just another
fine day in
America

'O'graphy

take
your
top
off

write
now

in
other
words
strip

because 

with this
trip that
we're about
to embark
 on from
now until
we part
dawn i'm 

guaranteed

to keep

you wet
and i'm
not making
any threats
because
this miss
is a
promise.

and i'm
just being
honest
pocahontas
because
what i'm
talking
about is

fluids
cleverly
squirting

movements
pleasurably
hurting

students
immeasurably
learning
the art
of chemistry.

see
i want
you to
feel me
so that our
symmetry
combined
leaves
our spines
intertwined
like vines
on trees

and
i can see
the chills
on your
design
from the
breath i
blow on
your hind
like a cool
breeze
at 69
degrees
when our
motion
begins
and ends
like
poetry

oo oui
mami
its time
to stain
these white
sheets
with our
sweet
secretions.

and there'll
be no
deletions
just the
outpouring
of emotional
reason for
this season
of reproduction

okay
you wanna
know something

i think
about you
all the time
especially
when i
master
my mind
and bait
thoughts
of us
into
a new
fucking
reality

and
this
transcends
every
modality
of sensuality
because
i just
love you
in my
grip
after i
slip you
out of
your
covering

holding
you bare
in my
hands
causes
my heart
to start
fluttering

and when
i'm with
you there's
nothing more
intense
other than
discovering
what lies
beneath
our surface
together
where
hidden
treasures
dwell.

with you
i have found
my purpose
mademoiselle

like a
letter
in an
envelope
our souls
i strive
to seal
because
 of how you
revealed
yourself
to me
is as if
i've found
the holy
grail as
the ography
that we make
has me
completely
empowered
under your
spell

and with
every
episode
that we
create
i'm sure
that you
can tell
how much
i adore you

my
dear
pen

Poet's Manifesto

Because your words

are the reflection 

of your fruit 

and the world 

needs to hear 

your seeds.

Be poet.

Because the cruel 

harvest of politicians 

has failed to yield life

due to their corrupted

fields that should

have nurtured the

roots of truth

to produce righteous

youth for which

the world hungers

but instead is starving

from eating all the

genetically modified

oppression offered

by outlaws in office

who conspire to off us.

Be.

Because to not be

is to violate your 

calling and Jonah's

example should 

well suffice.

Be poet. 

Because preachers

are no longer concerned

about repentance or redemption

but pimping and living

luxuriously off the sheep

not to mention digging

deep in the wombs

of women and rectums 

of children who offer

their forsaken souls 

as living sacrifices 

at pastor's pagan 

altar for Satan.

Be.

Not still

but educate.

Be.

Not still

but agitate.

Be.

Not still

but organize.

Be.

Be poet.

Compose nuclear verses

to destroy Babel's twin towers

of injustice and hate.

Be poet.
Write with love &

indignation then spill the 

blood of the pen on 

word torn sheets

that have collected

metaphorical bodies

which fall fresh on

open mics.

Be poet.
Drop poetic

bombs in buildings

where it's occupants

repudiate human rights.

Be poet.
Swing your tongue

to decapitate serpents.

Be poet.
Unload your artistic

arsenal on any insurgent

who has the audacity

to portray activists

as terrorists.

Be poet.
Punctuate the way 

to freedom.

Be poet.
Indent paragraphs

to expand 

the marginalization

of social engineers.

Be poet.
CAPITALIZE ALL LETTERS

TO BRING EMPHASIS

TO THE EXPLOITATION

OF THE INTERNATIONAL

MONEY FRAUDS ROBBING

THE PEOPLE OF THEIR SUBSTANCE.

Be poet.
Grammatically 

restructure the

dysfunctional system

of government.

Be poet.
Edit the ignorance
of the people
into enlightment.

Be poet.
Cast righteous spells
to correct society's behavior

with your verses.

Be poet.
Promote your propaganda
to win the ears hearts
and minds of the people.

Be poet.
Swear allegiance

to heaven's Kingdom &

humanity alone &

then encourage the

masses to be.

Be.

Be poet.

Be bold.

Be courage.

Be real.

Be truth.

Be.

Be poet.

Be firm.

Be life.

Be light.

Be you.

Be.

Be poet.

Be now.

Be then.

Be change.

Be free.

Be. 

Be poet.

Be poet.

Be poet.

Be poet.

Be.

Into The Sublime

from the beginning of time

every generation has produced a poet 

whose words give birth to change.

for there are chapters of life 

whose verses are in need of rediscovery 

like archaeological artifacts buried deep 

beneath the catacombs of libraries

where treasure maps that lead to awakening are unearthed &

then placed on display 

in order to gain a glimpse 

of the ways that past civilizations

culturally contributed

to the catalyzation of consciousness.

granted some societies from the continents

were subject to greater spiritual sapience

it is the human story

that should serve as the source of inspiration

for each and every souls attempt

to ascend into the sublime.

and it is poetry 

that has lent prose and rhyme

to form the ladder for us to climb

into the upper heights

as there were once ancient prophets

who would enter a particular temple

to speak what was right

where open mics were often unwelcomed

like the truth is today 

in our age on stages

yet it is the purpose of the poet

who must nevertheless find their voice &

with courage address all social ills

as well as as the hopes of these present days

offering words that both cut and heal

while praying that their seeds 

fall on fertile soil so that the field

may yield fruit upwards to 100 fold.

a tale is told of a master Poet

who prophetically spoke in parables &

it is said of Him that his riddles were so simple

that often they were misunderstood

on account of his profound ability

to bring heaven's mysteries down to earth

in such a way that even a child 

was able to perceive the essence

of the reality which he described.

yet it is a pity that for His words

He was crucified by those whose tongues

were covered in lies

as they despised the very light

which gave them life.

and even now the righteous continue to fight

with these same serpent offspring of the night

who have taken every step to eclipse the Son &

prevent eyes from beholding creation with pure insight.

this is why poetry must be the tool 

that the poet must use to enlight

this world of shadows

wielding pens when in battle

piercing minds with the sharpest of thoughts

smiting ignorance and deception

with each strategic stroke of the wrist &

movement of the lips

until all that causes discord meets death

so that 

at last

the only reality that victoriously exists

results from the word made flesh &

the spirit of righteousness

that rises from the abyss;

this dear readers

is no myth

but a secret kept from eyes

for millennia in the vaulted archives

of those who have held power &

religiously control populations 

in an effort to resurrect Babel's tower

where tongues were confused &

peoples were scattered

for their rebellious plots 

against the Kingdom of the Word

whose eternal nature is the nucleus 

of all matter and things ordinary and divine

so that what becomes of creation

will be the intended universal order of the Creator

when humankind finally steps
into the sublime.

Prized Livestock

Only an unnatural
 cold thirst is quenched

with a calloused
conceit of power &

then corrupted into
a cruel control

that has caste
the children of the sun

into confederate chains
of chattel captivity.

Only an inhumane
institution could
legalize exploitation &
dehumanize the image
of the Creator
into that 

of a insane beast of burden
manufactured to build
fortunes for brutish
but civilized barbarians.

Only a cold-blooded
savage animal
could so easily
spill life from flesh &
beat trees into
the backs of souls
with whips that cracked
countless wills
into fragments &
involuntary submission.

Only a devil in disguise
would dare to drown
heaven's denizens with
disdain and degrade
them into a downtrodden
object condition defined
by destitution diabolically
delivered by demons of despotic
desire who demanded
so much for oh so little.

The Negro is America's most prized livestock,
the very commodity that created Wall Street's
first bull market which caused the United States
to arrive at its present super sized spot. And
though most American's today despise this thought,
no one can deny the profits amassed from all the
souls sold and the lives bought to exchange manual
labor for inhumanity. The justification? The Vatican's
sanction of enslavement under Pope Nicholas V's
authorization of Dum Diversas. There are some
rivers crossed that have my ancestors footprints
embedded in their floors seeking to return to their
culture which was shredded as Moors by whores
for material wealth and temporal power. And now
the children of the Antebellum South are building on the remains
of their forefathers aims at this very hour, as the only matter
that has changed is the transferal of property ownership
because now the banks have the reigns that plantation
masters once held along with the private prisons whose
board of trustees profit from every Black body
that is housed in one of their cells. The text books
failed to inform you of this most innocuous fact,
that the 13th and 14th amendments merely gave
second class citizenship and privileges to Blacks,
and not the sovereign status of the Constitution's
framers or the land owners whose jurisdiction
was supreme to the system that was known to hang us
from trees like strange fruit. But today we're drafted from auction
blocks to change routes when audibles are called
or bang hoops for a trey or deuce with a round ball
not to mention the words sang by groups or solo performers
for company's who sell soul to the masses from the lives they've signed
it's all modern day enslavement but to the adapted designs
of the system, unfortunately, many of the enslaved descendants
are deaf, dumb and blind. Never mind the millions that
these new superstars have amassed, the dependency
to the system and complexion of their skin still
keeps them socially in the untouchable caste. Disconnected
to the mission and out of touch with the past, allowed to
slip through the cracks to experience a taste of American pizazz,
lost living the dream with inflated egos from starring in events
that cause people to scream in support of their physical prowess,
without focus since the martyrdom of King and X it seems like
it's been all struggle and no progress, still subjects to the laws
of Congress who oppress the citizens of the United States
with fictitious Amendments and silent Black Codes
that straps holds on the Negro, so that in America
no matter how far he may go his emancipation
will always be quiritarian & never bonitary.