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Mary L.Brady Ph.D.
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AKWAABA WELCOME
"Updated
From Slavery" is a website designed to invite review of first-hand observations by Booker
Taliaferro Washington, born of generation #62
(births C.E.1830-1859) in his
great auto-biography "Up From Slavery" published in
year 1901. This book and other writings by him remained the basic
bibles of the 123 predominantly African-American Colleges and Universities in
America long before and after mass integration and community development schemes
and failures by the
dominant society's institutions and foundations. Booker T. Washington stressed education, self-help labor and skills, and property ownership, .... rather than politics and charity (welfare-humanitarian aid) as the best paths to uplift a race of people who had suffered for several generations. His educational doctrine was and still is very much applicable to the futures of both descendents of ex-slaves and unknown kin in Africa and the Caribbean. What makes his life so important to new generations is that he documented what he had "seen and heard" which is what Jesus expects us all to do, and that requires a certain level of education achievement to do so. Booker T's self-help and self-reliance doctrine nurtured both Marcus Garvey (with millions of young men as followers) and Kwame N'Krumah (who founded a nation of caring souls) in the face of counter culture funded dynamics for advancement via legislation, courts and charities (hold-harmless welfare for useless mothers), .. while other groups grabbed for skills and property! His wisdom and foresight is now self-evident in retrospect to Ida B. Wells, Edward B. Dubois and other NAACP founders who opposed his approach to generating goodness! Yet all wanted to help "the least of us" rise up from the ugly past that many around them wanted to forget and ignore. Indeed, African-American attitudes and behaviors have never been monolithic even in the worst days of chattel slavery and best days of the Southern Christian Leadership Movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ... honest differences of opinion existed. While the sponsors may not agree with all Booker T. conclusions (such as White southern cultural goodwill), the purpose of our site is to help caring parents, preachers, teachers and others read his observations about how to best inspire, motivate and educate adolescents born in generation #67 (births C.E.1980-2009) to think about their own issues. His issues still matter to enlightened believers versus many pretenders among "the least of us" (who are up but not out of ten generations (births C.E.1619 - 1865) of chattel slavery induced attitudes and behaviors. We dare not forget that chattel slavery as we knew it was made possible by many previous generations of African degenerate values such as polygamy and enslavement of others for self glorification or sale as commodities, ... not unlike heathen mentalities of modern dealers in mind altering narcotics that have re-enslaved millions to live without faith or hope in their daily pursuit of being high in lieu of happiness and usefulness norms of society).
Ghetto generated deviates are not unlike the generations of bastard sons by slave castle whores (approximately C.E.1450 to C.E.1850), providing the ruthless village raiders that serviced the castles of damnation and despair that shipped millions here, there and everywhere in the Americas as slaves).
Dred Scott born in generation #61 (births C.E. 1800-1829) was a slave who sued for his freedom after taken to free territories by his master. He was not the first to learn that courts are not always just, and the rule of law is by men and women who benefit most from it. In 1857 the U.S. Supreme Court
denied Scott's petition for freedom and declared that African Americans could
not claim U.S. citizenship. The legacy of not categorizing and classifying
people of African heritage as Americans is deep set in a society that still
daily in mass-media propaganda refers to: blacks, minorities, protected classes,
disadvantaged youth and other metaphors not applied to themselves. And,
such men and women do not view themselves as racist but merely journalist doing
their job of describing aliens in America for ten generations.
Brady Enterprise Association, Inc.
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