October 25th, 2007
Not On Our Watch, blogging against Genocide
My man Yobachi is leading a blogging revolution against genocide. His compelling blog issues us a challenge to exhibit our protest by contacting our congressmen and the white house to voice our displeasure with the events in places around the world and most visible in Darfur. This is despiteful action that has cause a world wide protest. We have asked to stop investment in Darfur. Having the killing and destruction so pronounced you would think all leaders of the world community, would stand up and shot “not on our watch!”
I urge you to visit Black perspective for more insight to this important call to action. We can make a difference.
October 25th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Good call to arms Jim!
October 25th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Yobachi, we are gaining momentum and my hopes are high
October 26th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Jim,
Thank you for ‘introducing’ me to Yobachi and thanks also for being a man that cares.
It would be an honor to shake your hand one day.
All the best, man.
October 29th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Morgan, thanks for stopping by. Yobachi is a young man of great talent and awarness.It appears we have 2 camps of great thinkers on the internet, one black and one white. I hope to see issues that can establish common ground for both camps to work on. This could be one. I as well look forward to meeting you someday
October 30th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Great Post! Keep up the excellent word.
Love & Gratitude,
Tina
Think Simple. Be Decisive.
~ Productivity, Motivation & Happiness
October 30th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Thank you Tina, you have a great energy
October 30th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
JD,
There is no black or white in my world - simply those that do and those that don’t.
I pray every day that somehow, someway, we will, one day, all see eachother as simply people with no distinctions other than the thoughts they have and the timber of their hearts.
Over and out.
November 1st, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Morgan, thanks for the comment, we need more people like you in the world. your prayer is the same as Dr. King in his famous Dream speech. I wonder if he would feel progress has been made, or better put, if enough progress has been made.
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:01 am
Jim,
Have you ever wondered what could have been accomplished if Dr. King was still with us?
Regarding your question - I would think that Dr. King would probably shake his head and wonder why we’re still not living in caves.
I’ve read, some time ago, Taylor Branch’s trilogy and am going to revist them - if you’ve read these books, I’d like your take on them, it’s always good to have another perspective. I know this is a bit ‘off topic’.
Take care and keep up the good work.
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Morgan, I will take a look!! Thanks for stopping by.
November 3rd, 2007 at 6:55 am
Greetings all!
As a “White” member of a “Black” religion (I’m an Ifa-Orisha priest), I have always emphasized that “race” is a social concept, not a biological one. All people all over the world are so INCREDIBLY CLOSELY related, that the idea of race as a biological issue is nothing but ridiculous. Good grief: genetically seen, all human beings are 99 percent identical with the bonobo, and 50 percent identical with a banana (grin)! The genetic similarity between the various so-called “races” must be 99,99999… percent, with so many 9’s added behind the decimal that no screen is wide enough to show them all!
Keep up the good work!
Jaap Verduijn, The Netherlands.
November 4th, 2007 at 11:24 am
Jaap is absolutely spot on.
I wonder how many people know that the original “Eve” was from Africa.
Now, I’m not trying to upset the ‘Creationist’ crowd, but DNA has traced our origins to the Kung San tribe - which may have sprung up in Ethiopia, but they might have originated in Kenya or Tanzania as well.
Just imagine what a riot it would be to introduce these facts into the school systems of our nation. I would love to be the fly on the wall in say, MS, AL, GA, etc. when those racists learn that there forebearers were black.
Regarding race.
It was the Nazi’s who deemed being a Jew meant they were a seperate race and therefore they tried to side-step the religious implications of the genocide that transpired under their regime. And I won’t go into what’s happening elsewhere.
By the way, aren’t we all a part of the ‘human race?’
We certainly aren’t acting in a human - itarian way.
November 5th, 2007 at 11:23 am
jaap, we are all related through dna, and the orginal man was the blackman.The hate in the US via color is a thing of shame. Thanks you for your comment
November 5th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
Morgan, I had my dna traced back to the motherland! The linkage is amazing
November 5th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
How awesome! I recently watched a documentary on PBS or Discovery wherein they traced the DNA linkage to the Kung San Tribe and then followed the DNA trail from Africa to (and this is where I’m a little fuzzy) the Middle East, Siberia, India, Australia and ended up in the Southwestern part of the United States. I’ll see if I can find the DVD of this program and let you know the particulars.
Peace, brother.
November 5th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Greetings all!
Yes, we’re all on the same wavelength here. I too had my DNA traced (the Y-chromosome, not - yet - the mitochondria), by the Genographic Project. And of course, like everybody else, it enabled me to trace the voyage of my ancestors back to Africa! They took a roundabout way, from East-Africa via Arabia and Central Asia to Europe, but the African ancestry is still in my genes. Of course it is!
I think I can easily answer the question posed by MorganLighter: “I wonder how many people know that the original “Eve” was from Africa”. The answer is: “Well, just about EVERYBODY in any country that has access to TV, newspapers, libraries and internet”! The media spread the light fairly liberally.
Indeed, various sorts of research show that the present-day Koi-San people are genetically, and undoubtedly also physically, the closest to the ancestors of ALL humankind. They give us a fair indication of what our African “Adam and Eve” have looked like: relatively small, wiry, extremely resourceful people, and BLACK!
I never really understood what might be the “shame” about having ancestors that were Black. Or Red, or White, or Yellow, or whatever, for that matter.
As for the Jews in Europe… well, of the Jewish branch of my family only TWO people returned from the nazi death camps. There’s a lot of Kaddish to be said, here in Holland…
Be well!
Jaap Verduijn.
November 5th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Jaap, point taken.
What I meant to imply was that even though most people have heard, read or been told that Adam and Eve came from Africa and were black, I wonder how many people acutally belive this - rhetorical.
Thanks, also, for the correction on Kung San to Koi-San.
I also agree with your statement regarding where we came from. I, too, feel proud to come from ancestors who had the guts, the temerity and drive to ‘move on’ and populate this world.
FYI - my heritage? Welsh, German, American Indian, Black and that’s just fine with me.
November 7th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
I used National Geographic for my dna trace. They showed a facinating dvd of the human journey.For more information; http://www.blackinbusiness.org/2006/11/02/geneologypart-2/
March 31st, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Thanks for shedding some light on this subject. I have some friends who are serving as missionaries in Sudan, so I have been following this issue. Awareness is the only weapon we have.