Shadow Boxing: HumanRights vs CivilRights

Shadowboxing is an exercise used in the training for combat sports, especially, as its name implies, in boxing. It is used mainly to prepare the muscles before the person training engages in stronger physical activity. In shadowboxing, only one person is required to participate; the participant throws punches at no one in particular. 

So the question for our current "leaders" are we finish Shadow Boxing? Meaning, are we finish swinging at no one in particular with this "civil" rights nonsense? 

Cats have been contacting me saying they want the old HighLife back, well suit up.

We are talking Human Rights vs Civil Rights. You see the thing about me is that although I'm self generative, I'm also motivated by competition, chaos, and other alpha dynamics. And to keep it 100, the so called "Black Leaders" & so called "Black Elite" has not been that motivating lately. All that education, best schools, funds, fraternities, secret societies, and handshakes yet they cannot get contextual terminology and paperwork together. 

Now everyone in The Know are aware of their contractual agreement with dominate society to keep the 85% dumb deaf and blind, but goddamn man. Are y'all even trying? This shit is so blatantly disrespectful that it's enraging. Are these so called black leaders insinuating with their lack of lawful participation and discovery that Blacks Still don't read? Do they believe that we can not see them throwing the game? Do they believe that they are still "Black Leaders"? Niggas Please!!!

The question is do Europeans still believe that they have a grip on what's going on in Black America? Do Europeans believe enough to still be paying these cats consulting fees? 

This shit is disheartening both to the past and the future. These brothas are not motivational scholarly, fashionably, financially, spiritually... Seriously, what do y'all do? What has Al Sharpton done in the last 10 years besides spread around this propaganda about Civil Rights? Ie: Shadow Box.

Raise The Bar... There is no civil rights movement. Or should I say, there is no movement in civil rights. There is only Human Trafficing taking place in America. And some of these cats are holding up Traffic. 

Civil Rights are reserved for Citizens of the State. And as you can see from the multiple injustice or inactivity of the judicial system when in comes to Black rights. That Blacks do not have the legal status of Citizens within the confines of UNITED STATES Law. (As stated in Blacks Law Dic. vol 4). This fact alone would tell any persons with eyes that the issues needed to be persued, Internationally, is Human Rights. And not Civil Rights observed by the UNITED STATES. 

You can not go to the UN with Civil Rights BS cause it's not in their interest to handle civil rights. Human Rights on the other hand... But I digress.

One man in particular I would like to S/O for raising the Bar and keeping his eye on the prize of Economic Empowerment for Blacks is Dr. Claud Anderson.  Dr. Anderson has held some of the highest positions in federal and state government and politics. He was State Coordinator of Education for Florida under Governor Reubin Askew during the tumultuous period of the 1970′s. President Jimmy Carter appointed Anderson as the federal co-chairman for a Commission of governors in the southeast states, where as assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Commerce, he chaired a regional commission that funded and directed economic development projects for governors in those states. The seafood industry, which at that point was all wild catch, was a major sector focus. The projects he funded created jobs and businesses in the Southeastern states.

 Dr. Anderson has taught at all levels of education. He was also executive director of two economic development corporations for the city of Miami, Florida and a major planner and coordinator for the 1988 Democratic Convention in Atlanta. Dr. Anderson is president of PowerNomics Corporation of America, Inc., WaterLand Fisheries, Inc. and The Harvest Institute.

PowerNomics: The National Plan to Empower Black America was a book that had a five-year plan to make Black America a prosperous and empowered race that is self-sufficient and competitive as a group by the year 2005. In the book, Dr. Anderson obliterates the myths and illusions of Black progress and brings together data and information from many different sources to construct a framework for solutions to the dilemma of Black America. 

In the book PowerNomics, Dr. Anderson proposed new principles, strategies and concepts that showed Black people a new way to see, think, and behave in race matters and challenged African Americans to take action steps that, if embraced, would redesign core areas of Black life - Education, Economics, Politics and Religion - to better benefit the overall Black race in America.

PowerNomic Strategies:

DEMAND THAT BLACKS BECOME HIGHEST DOMESTIC PRIORITY

Considerable research indicates that increased immigration, especially of low skilled workers, is harmful most to native Blacks. Blacks should demand that government resources directed to help bring immigrants to the United States so that they can escape crime, poverty, gangs, poor education and unemployment, should first be directed to Blacks trying to survive the same conditions here in this country.

•  SUE PROSECUTORS

Make a detailed assessment of suspect cases. Prosecutors have qualified immunity from suit and great discretion, but when it appears that a prosecutor has manipulated a grand jury process, the prosecutor should be sued personally for conspiracy to violate civil rights. Blacks should also file federal lawsuits against prosecutors personally for giving police officers constructive immunity against prosecution in instances where Black men are killed.

•  RENEGOTIATE RELATIONSHIP WITH BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES AND CORPORATIONS

Blacks must inform all major political parties and major corporations that they intend to re-negotiate their relationship; that they will no longer tolerate being treated as if they do not exist and displaced by immigrants. Blacks must make it clear that they are no longer willing to support anyone who does not support them, and that neither Black dollars nor the Black vote should be taken for granted.

• POLITICS

Vote as a bloc: Blacks should follow PowerNomics principles and: “vote in a bloc based upon quid pro quo agreements between politicians, their parties and Black people.” (PowerNomics: The National Plan by Claud Anderson, page 204). Withhold votes from any political party or candidate that assumes Black support and does not promise and deliver promised benefits to them. Assess accountability on politicians for whom Black support was decisions but from whom Blacks did not receive equivalent benefits.

• CORPORATIONS

Rolling Boycotts: Institute rolling boycotts and buying sanctions in every major city. Unannounced boycotts ought to target different businesses which have the economic power to chastise the political systems and change the social construct of Black economic exclusion. Demonstrate that Blacks can bestow their considerable disposable dollars, or withhold them at will; demand jobs and business opportunities from those corporations.

 Support Existing Black-Owned Businesses: Alter personal buying habits to find and patronize Black-owned businesses that can fulfill your needs.

• ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE

Demand the government redirect a major portion of funds intended to provide benefits to illegal immigrants to help existing Black-owned business grow and to create new Black-owned businesses that create jobs.

• REJECT SYMBOLIC REMEDIES

Demand remedies that are measurable, whether from talking heads in the media, government entities or selected spokespeople. Do not permit empty rhetoric such as stay calm, let’s begin a conversation, open a dialogue, and most offensive of all, let’s begin to heal, to substitute for systemic changes.

• FERGUSON IS PART OF THE PATTERN OF WHAT HAPPENS TO BLACK MEN

Do not permit solutions to be broadened to minorities, immigrants, or other broad ambiguous groups.

The push to make Black America not only aware of the print above, but make the print a BluePrint to or the Code of Conduct for BlackAmerica covers more ground that the vast majority of these so call Black "Leaders". And to the game plan Dr. Anderson's angle on Indigenous Law and we have ourself some Ali type feet under our movement. 

This Brother is One of Many out here covering real ground and boxing real entities. I say that to say, it's time to cut the culture vultures and scavengers loose. It's to much high quality game and scholarship out here to let's these less than slick talks convince us and our children that piss is rain. So stay sharp and spitting out the bones. And be sure to cop PowerNomics another a Black Bar Must cop's....

And "Remember Alister, your arms aren’t long enough to box with God. Maybe one day you’ll realize that.” - Anna ~ The Cursed Man

 "G.O.D"

~HighLife

 

Encyclopedia of Black Studies

The Encyclopedia of Black Studies by Molefi Kete Asante is a must have book for followers and members of The Black Bar. As not only is it full of high quality information, it will often be a source referenced for topics to come in the future. So obtain a copy for yourself and household by all means. We are still building with scholarship, sharpening those critical thinking skills, & improving mental functions. Stack your arsenal with Whole Foods. Ie: Authentic and Quality Content.

Reasoning is not just about Logic. Reasoning has more to do with the quality of the content ran though the vehicle of choice. Improving Mental function is similar to improving your bodies physique. Cycles of Bulking followed by Cutting. 

The Encyclopedia of Black Studies is the First of many "Must Own" to come. Others may simply be good read referrals, but this one gets The Black Bar's seal of approval for scholarship. Here's a look inside said Work and Topic...

"Black Studies emerged as both an intellectual field and a critical ideology during the 1960s. It has remained close to its roots and also made a broad and deep impact on scholarship in general by creating a fundamental shift in the way scholars pursue research and view human societies: Black Studies has made possible an awareness of the great contributions that Africans and those of African descent have made to the discourse of knowledge. 

THE DIMENSIONS IN BLACK STUDIES

There are three dimensions in the evolution of Black Studies during the last few decades: (1) the organiza- tion of departments and programs, (2) the academic and administrative instruments dealing with the nature of the discipline, and (3) the preparation of scholars in graduate programs. Those who sought to create Black Studies were concerned with the obstacles that would be advanced to prevent the self-definition, self- determination, and intellectual liberation of those of African descent living in the Americas. This was a substantive issue because the history of American education had been against the extension of certain intellectual freedoms for Africans. Furthermore, before 1865 people of African descent living in the United States were not citizens and consequently were not African Americans but Africans. Since the 1990s, many people of African descent have used African to designate their cultural origin. This use of the term is not a reference to citizenship. The term African is being used here in a special sense to mean those who were enslaved and their descendants. Carter G. Woodson referred to this difficulty in his 1933 book The Mis-Education of the Negro. It was Woodson’s idea that where the black person had been afforded the right to education, the process was often meant to further isolate the person from his or her cultural and historical background. The idea was to make the black

person a white person in thought, attitude, and behavior, to leave the person nothing but a black shell. Therefore, the creators of Black Studies understood that one of their key demands had to be control over the process of education.

Within a university structure, all power resides in departments and faculty members, not in programs and adjuncts or research assistants. The first objective of the movement was to secure departments of Black Studies. This was a major task because there had not been any such departments at major or minor univer- sities. The best to emerge from decades of education, even in the black colleges and universities, were departments of history where individual historians— such as Chancellor Williams, Carter G. Woodson, William Leo Hansberry, John Henrik Clarke, John Jackson, Benjamin Quarles, and others—sought to demonstrate the role of Africans in world history. But some of them were often under severe pressure, criti- cized, ostracized, and hounded out of colleges seeking to express themselves as enclaves of whiteness in a sea of black students.

All of this history was available to the students of the sixties who understood that to avoid the mistakes of the black colleges they had to demand a Black Studies department where the courses would be taught from a black perspective. This was the operative term at the very beginning of the movement. It was trans- lated erroneously by some to mean that only blacks could teach in the departments, but the initial impetus was not racist or racial but ideological. Those who taught in the departments of Black Studies had to understand and appreciate the black perspective." ~Preface-Encyclopedia of Black Studies

About the Editors

"Molefi Kete Asante is considered one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars in Black Studies. He is the author of 55 books and more than 300 articles in 25 different journals.

Dr. Asante was the first director of UCLA’s Center for Afro-American Studies, from 1969 to 1973, where he was responsible for developing the research and cur- riculum programs. During the past 30 years, he has edited the Journal of Black Studies, making it one of the most prestigious journals in the field of Black Studies.

Dr. Asante has been recognized as one of the 10 most widely cited African Americans. He has taught at several universities, including UCLA, Purdue, Florida State, Howard, SUNY Buffalo, and Temple. At Temple University he created the first Ph.D. pro- gram in African American Studies. He has directed more than 100 doctoral dissertations. In 2001, Transition Magazine said, “Asante may be the most important professor in Black America.” Dr. Asante has received scores of awards and recognitions, including the distinguished Douglas Ehninger Award for Rhetorical Scholarship from the National Com- munication Association in 2002.

Ama Mazama is one of the leading theorists of the Afrocentric school. With a doctorate from La Sorbonne in Paris, Dr. Mazama is one of the most

important professors in Black Studies. She is the author of five books, including L’Imperatif Afrocentrique and The Afrocentric Paradigm. Her articles and essays have appeared in many scholarly journals nationally and internationally, and she has been cited by African American Studies professional organizations for scholarship and intellectual activism. As a prominent consultant for educational institutions, she has pio- neered in the area of making scholarship relevant to the African community.

Dr. Mazama has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Pennsylvania State University, and Temple University. She has trained outstanding graduate students and has been the most prolific teacher of undergraduates in African American Studies at Temple. A teacher of remarkable talent, Dr. Mazama has also been an academic leader in Black Studies. Her work has focused on language, linguistics, and theory. She has been particularly skillful in defending the Afrocentric paradigm as a legitimate framework for analyzing events and texts. Her work has been published in both French and English. Cited by the Cheikh Anta Diop Conference’s committee for outstanding research and academic excellence, Dr. Mazama has won both the Ankh Award and the Diop Award, becoming the only person ever to win both of these distinguished awards. "

THE ORIGINS OF BLACK STUDIES

"Nearly 40 years ago, African American students at San Francisco State College engaged in protests that led to the creation of the first bachelor’s degree–granting departments of Black Studies in the United States. Nathan Hare was made the first chair- person of the department. This was 1967. A year later, Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, leading to the most widespread demonstrations and urban disturbances in the history of the United States. However, with the death of King came a renewed commitment on the part of the American nation to bring about educational reform, and Black Studies was one of the beneficiaries of this new mood.

Since that time, scholars have undertaken the task of fleshing out Black Studies with theoretical works, research studies, methodological discourses, social responsibilities, and institution building. The success of these efforts, against the enduring intransigence of the academy toward Black Studies, has been phenomenal and sustaining. The fact that the Encyclopedia of Black Studies can now be written attests to the maturity of the field."

"Black Excellence is a Natural Resource" It's time we start digging for Gold Oil & Diamond in our family history. The entire world has been robing the graves of our ancestors and selling us dreams. Grab a shovel of your own and resurrect Greatness

"G.O.D"

~HighLife 

Eat Whole Foods: URM Skillet of the Week

URM Skillet of the Week: Sheephead Fillet (Baked: bed of lemon, Lemon pepper, Cayanne, Sea Salt, Crushed Black Pepper, Herbs. Topped: Navel Orange, Organic Honey) X Mango Salsa (Red Onion, Cilantro, Sweet Red BellPepper, Persian Lime, Chopped Ginger)

Next To: Sautéd Red Cabbage 

"Eat Whole Foods"

~HighLife  

 

Black Elite

"Bryant Gumbel is, but Bill Cosby isn't. Lena Horne is, but Whitney Houston isn't. Andrew Young is, but Jesse Jackson isn't. And neither is Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Clarence Thomas, or Quincy Jones. And even though both of them try extremely hard, neither Diana Ross nor Robin Givens will ever be."

Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class

The Origins of the "Black Upper Class": Jack and Jill, Cotillions, Camps, Private Schools, Colleges, Fraternities & Sororities, Boule, Families, Businesses are an imperative part of not only this scholarly deposition written by Lawrence Otis Graham, but also are the Life Blood of the "Black Upper Class." 

In it's time, and probably still today due to the majority of society choosing of televised and emotional media over literature and academia, Our Kind of People is one of the most controversial publications amongst various groups within the black diaspora in the United States. With practices like the "brown paper bag and ruler test" and the likes, but I digress. 

In this post we will be getting into The Game, the Jewels, the Truth(as scholarly possible), and the Mentality, Psychology, & ideologies of the self proclaimed "Black Elities." 

"Well-educated, light-complexioned, straight-haired" are the foundational and primitive characteristics that makeup the "Black Elite." Well-dressed, affluent, artistically versed, and privated schools like LeMoyne School(attended by " the riches black man in the south) will get you to second base in the 1960's. The right Church and Political party(Republican) will get you to third base. While generational consistency of producing affluent and qualifying members will drive you home by the standards of the "old guard."

To start, Our Kind of People, was written by Lawrence Otis Graham a Harvard Law alumnus. Inspired by Reginald Lewis(the wealthiest black man in America.1980's): Purchased the $55 million McCall Pattern Company in a leveraged buyout; 1987 purchase of Beatrice Foods, the $2.5 billion international packaged goods company. The largest leverage buyout in U.S. history at that time. Lewis contributed $3 million to Harvard Law School, $1 million to Howard University, $2 million to NAACP, and hundreds of thousands to many other institutions and charities. 

"I didn't grow up wealthy, but my daughters are growing up that way. And I don't want them to grow away from their black heritage. They don't interact with working-class or middle-class black kids, and I'm afraid they may get rejected by the white kids"

"I'm thinking there needs to be someplace where they can meet other well-to-do black kids and not feel caught in between two worlds and rejected by both."~ Reginald Otis Lewis

Lewis though extremely affluent, was unaware of the black elite circles that thrived under his nose. Lawrence quickly pulled his coat to 

elite black organizations and activities like: the old-guard families dating black to the 1860's, Jack and Jill, a national invitation-only social group for black kids from well to do families dating back sixty years. The Boule and The Links, considered to be the most prestigious private social groups for black men and women. 

Though the black elite often donate money to the NAACP,  the Urban League, and other groups that fought for segregation, they do not socialize with the members of these "middle/working class" organizations. Nor are they to fond of "low-class, Baptist, spiritual-sounding rock & roll playing church services and denominations. Such separation are rooted in the primitive "house niggers" and "field niggers" archetypes. As colonial slave owners and their families gradually instituted this caste system that one group was, indeed, superior to the other based merely physical characteristics. Lighter-skinned blacks being placed in the house and receiving social and educational privileges around the logic that they would be of better assistance in child rearing and social events. 

"Although it was illegal to educate slaves... It was far more likely that the house slave would learn to read, be introduced to upper-class white traditions, be permitted to play or interact with white family members  than would a field slave. In fact, slave-owning families found they could run their homes more efficiently when their house slaves were more knowledgeable and educated."~ Dr. Adele Logan Alexander

Even more privilege was given to the mulatto offspring of clandestine and forced sexual relations between female house slaves and white slave owners. Resulting in a clearer more defined classism amongst lighter-skinned blacks and darker-skinned as states like Pennsylvania establish laws to abolish slavery, with its 1780 Act for Gradual Abolition of Slavery. Such a fractured and ill-enforced act allowed for some blacks to remain enslaved until 1850 or until the Federal Census found no slaves living in that particular state. This transitional time grew the gap by way of "free blacks" versus "enslaved blacks" as free blacks had not only the educational head start but the social privilege of conducting business for self and land ownership. 

White government officials, religious leaders, and highly esteemed landowners justified the need for the enslavement of Africans because "they were not Christians- and so long as they did not embrace such religious tenets, they needed to be ruled by civilized whites who did", yet I digress. As many more white landowners and government officials came to agree with this decision as they realized how much the economies of their communities had benefited from the free labor. 

Blacks who rose to the top and came to make up the black aristocracy were typically those who were able to gain an education and professional skills. College educations was offered to blacks by way of religious groups like the American Missionary Associstion. As this abolitionist group in the 1860's grew in favor and funds, they established secondary schools and colleges in the south. Ie: Fisk University, Hampton Institute, Tougaloo College, ect.. The Methodist Episcopal Church in 1866 assisted in the formal education if blacks by establishing an organization called the Freedman's Aid Society.

Old-Guard Black Elite colleges of choice: Fisk University, Howard University, Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and later Spelman College over dozens of state sponsored schools populated by the lower-class. Other white north-eastern universities like Harvard, Amherst, Oberlin, Phillips Exeter are also fond of by the Black Elite of old. As Brown and Wellesley grew in prestige and favor in the 1950's. 

Political Representation.

Black men came to run for office, seats in the House of Representatives, and the Senate following the Reconstruction Act of 1867

1870, Mississippi's Hiram Revels became the first black elected to the U.S. Senate

1874 Senator Blanche K. Bruce, also from Mississippi

Robert Smalls and Joseph Rainey of South Carolina

Jefferson Long of Georgia

Benjamin Turner of Alabama

Josiah Wells of Florida

John Lynch of Mississippi all served in the U.S. Congress and shared not a financial boost, but a lasting prestige to certain family names. Along with a list of two dozen other between 1870-1890's. 

Example of prominent families that socialized, built businesses, intermarried, and built respected dynasties with one another include but not limited to: 

Terrell in Washington

Pinchback Washington

Grimke in Washington

Herndon in Atlanta

Rucker in Atlanta

Minton in Philadelphia

Purvis in Philadelphia 

Bishop in New York

White in New York 

Delany in New York

Wheeler in Chicago

Williams in Chicago

Dynasties and Businesses were founded in progressive cities close to black universities ie: Atlanta, Washington, Nashville, Charleston, Memphis, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia. 

Black Physicians rose out of Tuskegee, Alabama centered around the nations only black Veterans Administration hospital and Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. Tennessee grew the black physician family by way of Fisk University & Meharry Medical College. 

Medicine, Dentistry, and Law are the common career paths to success in the black elite. Other sources include individual entrepreneurship ie: black funeral homes, black banks, insurance companies, and newspapers

Wealthy and influential Atlanta families like the Herndons and Scotts who root their wealth at Atlanta Life Insurance and the Atlanta Daily World

Pt.1

"G.O.D"

~HighLife

Respect

A New Day is Upon Us. Warm Weather is just over the Horizon. All that is Great shall Rise to the Top with much Velocity and Gratitude. 

Much Love People... Much Love. Today we are gonna get into a Topic of a great necessity. Twice in domestic and civil relationship and warfare. We are talking about the Almighty RESPECT!!

"You Get What You Desereve... You Desereve What You Work For.."

The month of April in respect to the curriculum set in motion within The Black Bar, 

The fourth principal value of OBARIMA, directs us to: 

"RESPECT    Continuously re-spect/re-view every thought intention and action and harmonize each with the Divine Order What separates the Afurakani obarima (Man) from the Afurakani oba (child) is the decision-making process by which the Afurakani obarima regulates his thoughts, intentions and actions and the consistency with which he engages that process."

Respect is not something that is given in this Thing of Ours. Respect must be earned! TAKEN!! Respect is a booty due only to those willing to put in the literal blood, sweat, and tears of War. And come out of battle with great resilience. Respect is reserved for Alpha Males and Females who find prestige in themselves and the completion of their duties within the laws of the Universe, their Family, Gender, Organization, ect.. 

In that Re-Spect of harmonizing our action with Divine Order, it is the job of the Adult Alpha Male and  Female of today, to re-spect/re-view the history, theactrics, and scholarship of that in which he or she is looking to engage in. Or that which is looking to govern him or her unwillingly. Whether "that" be a social shift due to new or reconstructed laws passed by the Senate. Or a merger between two companies or families which sets to change the dynamic of how things are done, who gets the throne, who gets the short end of the stick. Despite the social narritive you put into the equation, it's is of wise counsel to think new of the term Respect. Thinking of it from this point forward, in all seriousness, as something equivalent to that of an Immune System set to protect the interest of your life goal. 

With that being said, We are gonna show some respect to Scholarship, The Black Family of America and their contributions to the construction and or destruction of The United States, and The Black Family of America and their contribution to the construction and or destruction of The Black Family, Black Business, and Black Organizations.. 

So stay tuned as we set the bar straight, by delivering some scholarly book reviews on black families, people, and organizations that shaped the black dynamic of the past. And some that are still holding much weight in how things are being constructed today. 

"Failure to Know history results in a Blind Future"

We are about to getting into our "Mining Saga" X Digging for Authenticity... Ya Digg?!

"G.O.D"

~HighLife

Ladies of TheBlackBar X TheBlackBar Book Club. 

hit the comment section if you're interested participating and with Book Titles you would like to throw in the hat for read and review.