Talking to the Wind
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Curtis Anthony Hervey
My 18,000 word thesis earned me a Masters of Biblical Studies degree (a wholistic plan to empower low-income black America). I'm here to network for publication and to seek out like-minded African Americans (curtis.hervey@yahoo.com). As a Distinguished Graduate of OCS, I seek to apply battle-tested military principles to solving black pathology by issuing a national warning order. I'm an iconoclast, my doctrine is Washingtonian (as in Booker T.) and my role is that of Socratic Gadfly. By Curtis Anthony Hervey
Published on 02/21/2010
Are there any like-minded brothas and sistas out there or am I just talking to the wind?
Talking to the Wind
For the record, I am not here at www.aframnews.com to do no other thing than to connect with like-minded African American Christians who, like me, are sick and tired of the staus quo and are ready to get their hands dirty.
But it feels like I've been talking to the wind. This partially explains my hiatus.
I need to know I am not wasting my time and energy here. Am I the only sane black man? Does anybody else besides myself think that a 70% illegitimacy rate is shocking?
I've already gone through all the normal phases: I was able to sense something was horrible wrong, I become aware of the crisis and acknowledge that there was a problem.
I evolved past my self-centeredness and began to care about things much larger than myself, i moved beyond my own comfort zone. I conlcuded that blacks, as a people group, had low self-esteem and reasoned that this explained our collective (statistical) bad behavior and poor performance.
Consequently, I conlcuded that "knowledge of self" would de-program our nation that has been brainwashed with a steady diet of eurocentric and anglocentric propaganda since birth. And I naturally became an apologist for the black cause and advocated re-education.
But, I eventually realized that, no matter how many debates I "won" against white racists,sellouts and Uncle Toms, etc., the FACTS remained unchanged, the statistics were never improved. I was winning the battles while my people group was losing the war.
So, now I am a seeker of truth, no matter how unpopular or ugly it may be. The source of our pathology goes far beyond the white man, our anglocentric reality or afrocentric "re-education."
I know now that making excuses for blacks does us more harm than good and a true patriot corrects those he claims to love (Proverbs 3:12).
And if I seem harsh and angry, I assure you it is because I love black people (I love ALL people as well). I wouldn't get upset if I didn't care, now would I? In fact, my rage is in direct proportion to my love for blacks because I know what we are capable of and it breaks my heart to see us not reaching our potential and begging for scraps from the mainstream's Table of Plenty year-in and year-out.
A noble, good, and decent people group should not suffer for as long as we have. This is the mesage I get from Black History Month. And I aim to see that change by any LEGAL and peaceful means necessary.
Is anyone out there? or am I all alone?
let me know: curtis.hervey@yahoo.com
But it feels like I've been talking to the wind. This partially explains my hiatus.
I need to know I am not wasting my time and energy here. Am I the only sane black man? Does anybody else besides myself think that a 70% illegitimacy rate is shocking?
I've already gone through all the normal phases: I was able to sense something was horrible wrong, I become aware of the crisis and acknowledge that there was a problem.
I evolved past my self-centeredness and began to care about things much larger than myself, i moved beyond my own comfort zone. I conlcuded that blacks, as a people group, had low self-esteem and reasoned that this explained our collective (statistical) bad behavior and poor performance.
Consequently, I conlcuded that "knowledge of self" would de-program our nation that has been brainwashed with a steady diet of eurocentric and anglocentric propaganda since birth. And I naturally became an apologist for the black cause and advocated re-education.
But, I eventually realized that, no matter how many debates I "won" against white racists,sellouts and Uncle Toms, etc., the FACTS remained unchanged, the statistics were never improved. I was winning the battles while my people group was losing the war.
So, now I am a seeker of truth, no matter how unpopular or ugly it may be. The source of our pathology goes far beyond the white man, our anglocentric reality or afrocentric "re-education."
I know now that making excuses for blacks does us more harm than good and a true patriot corrects those he claims to love (Proverbs 3:12).
And if I seem harsh and angry, I assure you it is because I love black people (I love ALL people as well). I wouldn't get upset if I didn't care, now would I? In fact, my rage is in direct proportion to my love for blacks because I know what we are capable of and it breaks my heart to see us not reaching our potential and begging for scraps from the mainstream's Table of Plenty year-in and year-out.
A noble, good, and decent people group should not suffer for as long as we have. This is the mesage I get from Black History Month. And I aim to see that change by any LEGAL and peaceful means necessary.
Is anyone out there? or am I all alone?
let me know: curtis.hervey@yahoo.com