The Kinsman Commemorates the Union Army's April 9, 1865 Civil War Triumph With A Men's Call-In Contest and Giveaway of Melek Heru's Book

In Honor of our April 9, 1865, Victory over the Slave States of the Southern Confederacy in the American Civil War.

 

Greetings, Men:

Tune-In to The Kinsman this Wednesday, April 8, 2015 @ 6pm EST on Talktainment Radio‬ for 'Intelligent Conversation With A Touch of Inspiration.'  April 8th is our first ever Warrior Wednesday. The first Man to call-in after I announce the contest, after the half-hour commercial break, wins a copy of my groundbreaking book Go Down, Moses! A Hebrew Mystery: Volume 1. Call-In & Weigh-In or Call-In & Win @ 1.877.932.9766.   Tap the book cover icon above to access the e-store link where you can read the book description, and see what folks are saying about it.

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"WHEN GOD TALKS WITH US FROM HEAVEN": The Kinsman Kick-Off of Black History Month February 4, 2015, On Talktainmentradio.com

And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with thee from heaven.

Exodus 20:22

 

Greetings Beloved:

This is Melek Heru (Bringin' It True!), Host of The Kinsman on Talktainmentradio.com. Join me online this Wednesday, February 4, 2015 @ 6pm EST for some 'Intelligent Conversation With A Touch of Inspiration.'  God Willing, I will kick-off Black History Month with a special on a coming celestial event that pertains to our prophetic heritage. Get your family and friends together, listen to the show, and discuss it afterwards around a good meal. Tune-in online this Wednesday; and, share your thoughts...Call-In & Weigh-In @ 1.877.932.9766.

Tune-in on your cellphone or tablet; download the free Talktainment Radio app at this link: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=talktainmentradio.com.  

Here's an overview of this episode...

Episode #35 Topic

"When God Talks With Us From Heaven":
Prophecy, History, and Christ's Perfect Law of Liberty

Astronomers  have identified an asteroid that will near-miss, or strike, the Planet Earth on Friday, February 1, 2019, the first day of Black History Month in the 400th year since our founding ancestors came to British America in 1619.  What meaneth this? Before we answer this question, let's take a few moments to ponder Black History Month and the significance of February 1st.

"If a race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated." - Carter G. Woodson

"God Is With Us in our Quest of Freedom--yesterday, today, and tomorrow." - Melek Heru

Carter Godwin Woodson was an African-American historian, author, journalist, and founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.  Woodson was one of the first scholars to study African-American History.  Over the course of his career, he accumulated thousands of books and artifacts.  As the founder of the Journal of Negro History in 1916, Woodson came to be known as The Father of Black History. Noting that African-American contributions "were overlooked, ignored, and suppressed by the writers of textbooks and the teachers who use them," 

Woodson announced the new celebration of Negro History Week in 1926.  

He chose the second week of February for this celebration to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln (February 12) and Frederick Douglass (February 14), which the Survivors of American Chattel Slavery had celebrated since the 19th century.  According to my Great-Grandfather, Professor John Roland McCormick, Esq., of Washington DC, who knew Frederick Douglass personally, "Abraham Lincoln was a Negro."  Both men would be classified today as "bi-racial."  In 1933, Dr. Carter G. Woodson published The Mis-Education of The Negro.  The thesis of Woodson's book is that African-American students are not being educated but they are being indoctrinated in order to make them functionally inferior to, and perpetually dependent on, white people in such a way that many African-Americans naturally seek out inferior positions in American Society.

"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary" (Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro).

A perennial bestseller, this book has influenced African-American intellectuals since its publication in 1933.  Carter G. Woodson's work had a deep impact on the emerging Black Studies Movement of the 1960s.  In 1969, the expansion of Negro History Week to Black History Month was proposed by the organization Black United Students at Kent State University. The first celebration of Black History Month took place at Kent State one year later in February of 1970.  Since then it has spread across America; and, it has been adopted in various communities throughout the African Diaspora.

Black History Month has traditionally focused on Black Pride to counter centuries of Institutionalized Systematic Bearing of False Witness against people of African descent in general, and against Survivors of American Chattel Slavery in particular, emphasizing the accomplishments of African People--ancient and modern.  This year, for Black History Month, The Kinsman will augment the tradition of pride with the Truth of Prophecy. 

White American media, churches, and schools, promoted the falsehood that the American Negro descended from African cannibal savages.



(Left) In 1900, Charles Carroll, a white American Christian clergyman, wrote a popular book titled, 'The Negro A Beast or In The Image of God,' in order to "prove" that the Negro was really a soul-less beast that was unworthy to associate with white people.

(Right)From Carroll's book: "CHRIST--THE SON OF GOD. Man was created in the image of God. Is the negro in the image of God's son-Christ?"

Many white American Christian leaders fanned the flames of racial hatred and gave religious sanction to the oppression of African-Americans by white Americans.  They believed, and taught, that Jesus Christ (who is a white man) authorized their unjust treatment of People of African Descent in America.  These are the ancestors, and forerunners, of today's white American Right-Wing Christian Conservatives. 

Woodson concluded that race prejudice "is merely the logical conclusion of tradition, the inevitable outcome of thorough instruction to the effect that the Negro has never contributed anything to the progress of mankind."   White American "instruction" was merely propaganda that was so unrealistic that it required the suppression of the truth about the Black People who they were persecuting. White Americans feared the truth about Black People's past accomplishments, current abilities, and potential for future progress and development (if left unhindered).  There is a wicked core population of white Americans who have this same fear today. Their sense of identity is rooted in their denial of the Humanity of Black Americans.  Their confidence is rooted in the assurance that they, as white people, will be perpetually privileged at the expense of Black Americans...because they are white people.  They simply don't see what they don't want to see even if they are looking right at it.  They don't know what they don't want to know even when they know it. According to the late William Roger "Bill" Moss (1935-2005), an ordained Christian Minister, Columbus City School Board Member, Central Ohio Entrepreneur, and Community Activist, the leaders of the white people know who our ancestors are because "They've got it in their archives" (Interview with author 5/19/1989). 

(Above) Don Alvaro, The Mani-Kango, King of the Christian Kingdom of Kongo, in west central Africa, seated on his royal throne in 1642, giving audience to a contingent of Dutch emissaries who are kneeling before him.  This is a 17th century engraving.

(Left) Nzinga Mbande (1583-1663) was a 17th century monarch of the Ndongo and Matamba kingdoms. She waged a war against Portuguese and Dutch slave traders in west central Africa for forty-one years.

(Right) The City of Loango in the Kingdom of Kongo--17th century west central Africa. The Kingdom of Kongo had been a Christianized country, with a well-educated population, for over one-hundred years.

The founding group of our betrayed Ancestors came to British America, from west central Africa, in the Jamestown Colony, Virginia Landing of 1619. An English pirate ship, flying a Dutch flag, sailed up the James River and traded "twenty and odd negars" for food.  To this day, a considerable number of white Americans, and others, believe that African-Americans are descended from ignorant, ape-like, "savages" who lived in trees and who made no contribution to World Civilization. Because truth crushed to Earth shall rise again, White America's commitment to false reality will eventually be its undoing.

 

The many volumes of information on Black Civilizations and accomplishments notwithstanding, the reality of the African identity of Jesus Christ should suffice to settle the question of Black People's contribution to World Civilization. That being said, sound Biblical Theology identifies our racist enemies as antichrist. 

It is now time to turn the spotlight on the prophetic nature of our heritage.  So what is the significance of the date February 1st?

On Wednesday, February 1 1893, a young American Black Man, named Henry Smith, was tortured, with no mercy, for 50 minutes, castrated, and mutilated before a mob of 10,000 white racists in Paris, Texas. Then, he was burned alive at the stake.   He had been arbitrarily accused of killing the little daughter of a white police officer who had brutalized him.

On Monday, February 1, 1960, four young American Black Men, Freshmen students from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth's department store at 132 South Elm Street in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their names were Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, Jr. (later known as Jibril Khazan), and David Richmond. They had bought some items at the desegregated counter at the store with no problems.  But, when they sat down at the segregated lunch counter in the same store, they were refused service.  Following store policy, the manager refused to serve the young Black Men at the "whites only" lunch counter; and he asked them to leave. The young Men stayed at the counter until the store closed   The next day more than twenty college students from local campuses joined the sit-in.  By the fourth day more than three-hundred African-American students were participating in the sit-in.  The sit-in movement spread to other stores in other cities throughout the American South. Thus, the four courageous Young Men, who later came to be known as the Greensboro four and the A & T Four, sparked the Black Student Movement that put the spirit and strength of Black American Youth behind the American Civil Rights Movement. The best of today's Black Student Activists are the heirs of the legacy of the February 1, 1960 student sit-in. Theirs is a prophetic legacy.

And he said unto Abraham, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years. 

Genesis 15:13

Astronomers  have identified an asteroid that will near-miss, or strike, the Planet Earth on Friday, February 1, 2019, the 126th anniversary of the Satanic Travesty of Henry Smith's lynching and on the 59th anniversary of the Woolworth's Sit-In that launched the Black Student Movement of the 1960s.  This asteroid is catalogued by NASA as Asteroid 2002 NT7; however, its prophetic name is The Stone of Zebulun. 

Friday, February 1, 2019 is also the United States' 77th National Freedom Day, which will commemorate the 154th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's February 1, 1865 signing of the joint resolution of the House and the Senate that proposed an Amendment to the Constitution to outlaw Chattel Slavery in The United States.  The Thirteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution was ratified by the required number of States, and passed, on Wednesday, December 6, 1865. It was proclaimed by Secretary of State William H. Seward on Monday, December 18, 1865.  The Thirteenth Amendment outlawed Chattel Slavery in The United States of America.  Our Ancestors understood their Emancipation, after 246 years in captivity, to be an Act of God.

This coming celestial event on February 1, 2019 is a Sign of Good Tidings that GOD IS WITH US in our Quest of Freedom...

...and it is a Warning for us to put Christ's Threefold Perfect Law of Liberty into effect, as a cultural standard...

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind...Love your neighbor as yourself...and, Do to others as you would have them do to you."

If enough survivors of American Chattel Slavery obey The Perfect Law of Liberty, we will come to see: 

  1) fewer deaths and longer lives, because our culture will be more conducive to peace and love; this means less conflict, less violence, and less stress-induced illness;

  2) economic growth, because the friendly, peaceful, environment of our neighborhoods will attract businesses, shoppers, investors, and jobs

  3) in due time, we will prevail. 

It behooves us to obey, and to put The Perfect Law of Liberty into effect, as a cultural standard, for the sake of our own survival...

...and, for the sake of the people from other communities, around the Globe, who are influenced by our culture. 

 As God's Chosen People, we are responsible to the Powers of Heaven for the way we use our gift of cultural influence, which we have by His Grace.      

A group of Korean youth perform a cover of 'Girl, I Care About You'--a love song that was written by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, who is an American Black Man, and that was originally performed by Milestone, an African-American R & B group.

Christ gave us The Perfect Law of Liberty, as a foundational cultural standard, that we may be the best Human Beings that we can possibly be under any given circumstance, have the best Human Experience that we can possibly have, and be a Light Unto The World.

And also that nation whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

Genesis 15:14

The coming celestial event of February 1, 2019 is also God's warning to our oppressors, exploiters, and those who hate us.  The Lord of Heaven and Earth--The God of History--is the God of Truth, Justice, and Righteousness.   The relentless oppression, suppression, exclusion, and exploitation, of People of African Descent by whites and others is simply bad religion, bad science, bad politics, bad economics, bad social engineering, and bad culture.  Why? Because perpetual Injustice is cosmically insupportable.  God's Plan is to Reveal to the World the Reality of His Sovereignty through our Holy Quest of Freedom.  This very same Asteroid 2002 NT7, The Stone of Zebulun, returns forty-one years later, on Sunday, February 1, 2060, with a much higher probability of impact with the Planet Earth.

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Make sure you tune-in The Kinsman early, on Wednesday, February 4, 2015, so you can hear the broadcast from its opening at 6pm EST.

Peace & Blessings,

MH

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'Owthu Hadar, Heru Bar-Chanan, Ha Melek (Melek Heru) is the Prince and Priest of The Holy Zawadi Nation: 'A Loving, Caring, Sharing, People, Striving To Be A Light Unto The World.'

Melek Heru  was born in Anchorage, Alaska, in August of 1964, christened Horace Columbus Neal II, and raised in Columbus, Ohio.  He is a paternal descendant of the Prophet Nat Turner (1800-1831) and his wife Cherry. He is also the Great-Grandson of Professor John Roland McCormick, Esq. (1878-1959) of Washington, D. C. and his wife Bettie Cash McCormick. He is the eldest son the late Horace C. Neal (1931-2009), a career Military Man and Entrepreneur, and Bettye "Mama" Neal, a Professional Storyteller.

Melek Heru is the author of Go Down, Moses! A Hebrew Mystery: Volume 1; and, he is the host of The Kinsman, an hour-long, weekly broadcast that airs on Wednesdays at 6pm EST on Talktainmentradio.com. 

America's Anti-Bullying Craze, Racist Bully Cops, and A Respectful Warning About Today's White Protesters

There is something profoundly absurd about the American media being saturated with an anti-bullying campaign, and zero-tolerance anti-bullying policies being pushed in America's school systems, while America's police continue their time-honored tradition of selectively bullying Black Americans with impunity--all too often, bullying Black Americans to death.

Left: Eric Garner, an unarmed American Black Man, a husband, and father of six, is choked to death by White police officer Daniel Pantaleo on Thursday, July 17, 2014, in Staten Island, New York. 

 

Yet, as absurd as it may seem, this anti-bullying craze may have actually inspired, and empowered, some heretofore timid, and indifferent, White People to finally take a stand for something and put their voices, and bodies, with the voices, and bodies, of the Black Americans who are taking a stand for Freedom, Liberty and Justice. For this, we are grateful with certain reservations.

The Trayvon Martin case catalyzed a creative, multiracial, national protest response that morphed into a temporary Pop Culture phenomenon. The White voices, and bodies, that we saw in the Trayvon Martin protests seemed to evaporate once the movement lost its luster as a Pop Culture sensation. Many White Americans, and others, thought that the Trayvon Martin shooting was an offensive aberration and not the reflection of a historical, systemic, and structural, norm that continues to plague Black America.

This is no mere speculation on my part; I actually observed this misperception of American race relations in the (educated) young White Americans with whom I worked on President Obama's 2012 Re-Election Campaign.

These young, White, Progressive Post-Racialists were genuinely shocked by the racial hatred, and vulgar bigotry, that was openly expressed by many White Conservative Republicans during Barack Obama's 2012 campaign.

Most of these young, idealistic Whites had never seen, heard, or read, anything like the racial hatred that was leveled at President Obama during his 2012 Re-Election Campaign.

This frightened, and disturbed, the economically privileged Obama campaign workers very deeply because they had so thoroughly denied the existence of racism in America, and had been so sheltered from the racial ugliness of other types of White People, that they were utterly surprised to see racial hatred for President Obama openly expressed in public forums.  So much for their Post-Racial American fantasy.

As educated, and intelligent, as these young graduate, and professional, student campaign volunteers were, not one of them seemed to perceive the systemic, and structural, nature of racism in America.  There is no excuse for this because not only were they scholars who should have been keeping themselves abreast of the discourse that emerged during the Obama Presidency they also had access to Barack Obama's book The Audacity of Hope, which should have given them some insight into the structural nature of racial oppression, because therein Barack Obama clearly communicates that racially, and ethnically, selective structural oppression is a problem in America.  He emphasizes the role that American political leaders can play in effecting systemic, and structural,  change to address unjust racial disparities.  Then-Senator Obama writes:

"[We] should consider spending a lot more of our political capital convincing America to make
investments needed to ensure that all children perform at grade level and graduate from high school--a goal that, if met, would do more than affirmative action to help those black and Latino children who need it the most" (The Audacity of Hope, p.246).

  As scholars, and presumed agents of "Change," these young Obama For America campaigners should have considered Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow.  Michelle Alexander, a longtime Civil Rights advocate and litigator, and Law Professor at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, dismisses out-of-hand the myth of a Post-Racial America with a scathing, well-documented, expose of the devastating impact of Mass Incarceration on Black America. 

The consensus among these alarmed campaign workers was that they sincerely believed that Barack Obama's Presidency meant that "Racism in America was over."  Yet, at no time, to my knowledge, has Barack Obama ever suggested any such thing.  President Obama knows that a Post-Racial America does not, and cannot, exist because there are simply too few White People who have the courage, honesty, and sense of goodwill towards Black Americans, to even TALK about racial injustice in America ...let alone do anything to correct the problem.

Michelle Alexander quotes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

"White America must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society.  The comfortable, the entrenched, the privileged cannot continue to tremble at the prospect of change in the status quo" (The New Jim Crow, p. 246).

The average White American has his proverbial head up his behind on the issue of race.  Whites who deny that racial injustice exists in America do so to avoid the reality that they themselves are probably racist and that not only do they benefit from racism but they are utterly dependent on the benefits, and advantages, that they derive from the system that collectively privileges the vast majority of White Americans at the expense of Black Americans. The implications of White racial entitlement for the cherished twin myths of White innocence, and American Meritocracy, are devastating.  For Conservative Whites, the reality that they are the recipients of unjust racial entitlements is simply too shameful to admit precisely  because their self-righteous attack on Black America's alleged budget-busting racial entitlements is the (official) cornerstone of their ideological hatred of Black Americans.  So, instead of admitting that they have an institutionalized false advantage over Black Americans, they just bitterly accuse Black Americans of blaming innocent White People for Black America's own "failure" as a Race.   On the other hand, Liberal Whites  usually just take the path of least resistance until the next racial controversy occurs; then they take time out from business-as-usual to beat their breasts with White guilt and point the self-righteous finger at the Conservatives. The following statement by anti-racist author, and lecturer, Tim Wise, a leader in Critical Race Theory, exemplifies the problem of White American denial of racial injustice:

"After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to either push for change (which they would perceive as against their interests) or live consciously as hypocrites who speak of freedom and opportunity but perpetuate a system of inequality."


Tim Wise gives a clear analysis of White American Racism, White privilege, and White denial, in his books and lectures.  His book Between Barack and A Hard Place  is a timely addition to any thinking person's library.

   

Now, in the wake of the protests that have erupted in response to the highly-publicized shooting death of unarmed Black American teenager Michael Brown by White policeman Darren Wilson, in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014, we have arisen a fresh batch of Caucasian sympathizers who have been recently indoctrinated, by a national Anti-Bullying media campaign, to have pity for others who have been bullied.

Of course, when you think about it, who in America is more bullied than Black Americans? That answer was always a no-brainer.

"STOP BULLYING BLACK AMERICANS!"

After over fifty years of racial denial, White People are again joining Black American protest movements, some with 1960s Civil Rights newsreel fantasies in their heads.  What they must now realize is that their participation in protests with Black Americans does not entitle them to a touchy-feely, Kumbaya-singing, relationship with us.  We have done that already; and it left us with some fond memories, and some touching images, but very little structural change.

                      AUGUST 2014

Black Americans are not just protesting police brutality, and the militarization of America's police; we are taking a principle stand against systemic, and structural, racial oppression. We are fighting for Dignity, Security, and Opportunity, for the sake of Freedom, Liberty, and Justice.

Our national protest response to the shooting of Michael Brown is more than another sensational Pop Culture protest experience.  It is a signal event in History. It is a spiritual, political, and historical, breakthrough that is finally laying bare to the World, in real-time, the horrifying potential of the racist police state reality in which most Black Americans live, whether they realize it or not. The Liberty of all Americans is bound up in the Liberty of Black America.  For Generations, White Americans have tended to ignore, or mock, or complain about, our calls for systemic, and structural, change.  Many have scoffed at our cries for protection from police abuse of power. Now, White People must face the reality of the militarization of America's police.  Black Americans have always lived in a police state reality.   Traditionally, White Americans have been just fine with America being a police state, as long as they were on the winning side of the police state. 

It is unfortunate that the multitudes of White People still need controversies like that which is unfolding in Ferguson, Missouri, to remind them that the Liberty of all Americans is bound up in the Liberty of Black Americans.  Whites should not need for Blacks to take to the streets before they take a stand against racial injustice. If enough White People normally stood up for Truth, Justice, and Righteousness, in their own spheres of influence, Black Americans would have little, or no, reason to protest.

The disappointing experience of history has shown us that when we succumb to the sentimental seduction of singing Kumbaya with Caucasian activists, and when we prioritize emotionally bonding with our White allies over holding Whites critically accountable for confronting the structural oppression of Black America, it causes our movement for Dignity, Security, and Opportunity, to lose both the power, and the platform, to address the deeper systemic issues that continue to plague us. Consider the following:

 

 
When the  smoke cleared, and the marching, and singing stopped, we were left with some very inspiring  images of "Blaaack aaannd White Tooo-geh-eh-thurrr"; but, these inspiring images, and those touchy-feely inter-racial experiences, did not translate into structural change.  They, therefore, did not produce Justice. 

These images, as inspiring as they may be, are too often used as propaganda to invalidate, in the public imagination, the critical, committed, voices that continue to call for structural change after the marching, and singing, has stopped and things have settled into the new-and-improved version of "business-as-usual." 

A deeply troubling, and humbling, aspect of "business-as-usual" is the extreme disparity of wealth among Black Americans. Consider this graphic (right). We must address this sensitive issue creatively, and constructively, if we are to effect real, and lasting, change.  Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that if we,  Black Americans, as a power group, marshalled our economic resources, we would be about the eighth richest nation in the world.   I will address this topic in a future blog; in the meantime, ponder this question: "What are the top five problems that we would be able to solve on our own if Black America redistributed its own wealth?"

Black Americans are not just taking a stand against police brutality, and against the structural brutality of America's institutions.  We are fighting for Dignity, Security, and Opportunity; as, such, we are now critiquing our own institutions, and re-evaluating our strategies, all over America. White Activists must critique the structural oppression of White institutions without expecting a hug, and a pat on the back, from Black Americans.  Racially selective institutionalized brutality is a historical problem that affects every area of Black American life. Police brutality guns us down and beats us down; structural, and institutionalized, racism holds us down and keeps us down. 

White People who come around looking for a touchy-feely inter-racial experience, or talking about "Revolution," are highly suspect. It would behoove us to keep the former at arms length and to avoid the latter altogether.  Yes, we are grateful for the White People who, in good faith, join us when we rise up in protest for Justice; but, the truest sign that a White Person is associating with us in good faith is his or her long-term commitment to solving the problem of systemic, and structural, racial injustice. 

The events in Ferguson, Missouri, have forced America to engage in a critical public conversation about racial injustice and police brutality.  Social Media is providing a forum in which more and more White Americans, for better and for worse, feel brave enough to voice what they dared not speak openly before. Despite the encouraging, and sympathetic, talk, and social media postings, we must remember that dramatic influxes of sympathetic White People talking about race, and joining in marches, has yet to produce structural change; as a result, Black Americans still live in the shadow of racial injustice.  And solving the problem of racial injustice is the point.  When you encounter Caucasian allies who have no interest in critically confronting America's systemic, and structural, racial injustice, and who are not committed to using their power, privilege, and resources, to effectively address, and permanently solve, the problem of institutionalized brutality, beware; for they are not true allies.  They are false allies; and, it is foolish to emotionally bond with a false ally. So, be civil; and, be cordial. Be grateful; but, be clear.  And, know that we have the best ally of them all on our side; for GOD IS WITH US.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Galatians 5:1

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'Owthu Hadar, Heru Bar-Chanan, Ha Melek (Melek Heru) is the Prince and Priest of The Holy Zawadi Nation: 'A Loving, Caring, Sharing, People, Striving To Be A Light Unto The World.'

Melek Heru  was born in Anchorage, Alaska, in August of 1964, christened Horace Columbus Neal II, and raised in Columbus, Ohio.  He is a paternal descendant of the Prophet Nat Turner (1800-1831) and his wife Cherry. He is also the Great-Grandson of Professor John Roland McCormick, Esq. (1878-1959) of Washington, D. C. and his wife Bettie Cash McCormick. He is the eldest son the late Horace C. Neal (1931-2009), a career Military Man and Entrepreneur, and Bettye "Mama" Neal, a Professional Storyteller.

Melek Heru is the author of Go Down, Moses! A Hebrew Mystery: Volume 1; and, he is the host of The Kinsman, an hour-long, weekly broadcast that airs on Wednesdays at 6pm EST on Talktainmentradio.com.