Speech at the Department of Justice - November 2014

Today I regrettably stand in front of the Justice Department to ask from this America the rights and liberties on which it was founded upon. Today I regrettably stand here in front of the Justice Department, to ask from this America what Dr. King, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, and many more African Americans have asked. What we ask is that America treats the black man and woman as a United States citizen with all the rights that our Declaration of Independence profoundly reads, “That all men are created equal.” With that said we demand that the Justice Department stand with the millions of citizens across America who says: • No to police profiling people in our neighborhoods • No to military equipment in our communities • No to allowing Over-seer Darren Wilson and other police around the country to get away with murdering our young men. We demand that you stand with us and say Yes: • Yes to a nation-wide system to investigate police killings of black & brown people across America • Yes to investigating law enforcement and principalities of Ferguson and its engrained systematic racism within the municipalities of the town. America and the Department of Justice, know that the Ferguson District Attorney did not even try to get an indictment of Over-seer Wilson. He in fact, put the defenses witnesses on the stand to refute the witnesses of the state. Nowhere in the country do we have the District Attorney making the case for a defendant. We demand you to get off of the sidelines an get involved. Well many want us to go away. Many want the burning of businesses to cease. Many want the looting to stop. Many want the protest to stop. Well I come by to tell this government and the Department of Justice that you have the power to make us go away. You have the power to stop the protest. You have the power to stop the outrage. All that you have to do is stand with the people. Stand on the side of right. But if you choose to continue to stand on the sidelines and do nothing, we will continue to fight. We will continue to erupt like a fiery volcano. We will continue to be in your face. You must understand that truth crushed to the earth will rise again. God will not be marked! You may have knocked us down but we will keep getting up. For we know that our power is greater than yours and soon Justice will roll down like a stream. Soon justice will shine like the sun. Soon just will be won. No Justice No Peace!

The Preacher's DNA

The preacher has been created to be set up for failure and somehow is still able to give hope, resilience and an undying commitment to the unchanging hands of God. The preacher has to stand at the side of the death bed on Saturday and preach life to the dead on Sunday. The preacher has to accept broken promises from friends on Friday and preach about covenants of deliverance and love on Sunday. The preacher is broken in fragments of hurt, scars and bruises but yet stands every Sunday to preach about the healing and wholeness that every man, woman and child can receive. The preacher looks in the mirror and sees inadequacies of his past, his failures and his shortcomings but yet looks into the eyes of those who depend on his voice and life to be the carrier of God's vision leading to victory with the Master. The preacher sometimes wants to quit but then remembers that they aren't good at anything else and there are no other options in his life. He appears to be a failure to those of world, and truthfully, he sometimes see what they see. He has more losses than he has wins, but yet he can't quit. He couldn't live if he couldn't preach. Preaching is his therapy. Preaching rejuvenates him. Preaching is his life. Preaching is his passion. He can not retire. He can not stop preaching. He realizes that at his death; God lives. He realizes that when he is weak; God is strong. He realizes that when he is down; God stands up in him. IT'S A FIRE SHUT UP IN HIS BONES!!! This fire keeps him sane. This fire keeps him passionate. This fire makes him go when he doesn't want to go. It makes him stand when everyone else is sitting. No matter how long the days, how dark the nights, this fire forces the preacher to preach. It's a calling to fulfill and a God to glorify.

The Role of the Police

Where we get it wrong is the police was never created to protect and serve. There job is to maintain control and order of the people. That protect and serve is a ploy for support. They are overseers of the plantation. To make sure the slaves are in order and to make the rich richer. Did you know the swot team was created in response to the black panther party? The truth of this that black men, churches and organizations have to stand up and create community review boards and show no fear. And by all means keep your camera phones ready. When we see police having our youngins on the curb stop and video. We have to make them fear for their jobs. The only way to change one of these crackers is too threaten their income.

Officers/Overseers

Most police depts in America are hiring troops who have come home from war. Do you think theres a correlating relationship or its simply racism? If you look at the videos without sound you will find that the treatment of blacks in America by these officers looks the same way they were handling their wartime "so-called enemies." Every uniform should have a video camera built in the collar or the chest of the shirt. This will lower the amount of overseers beating and killing the slaves. I mean it will lower the amount of officers excessive force on African Americans. America is playing with fire. They are about to wake a sleeping giant. Remember, the so called major black cities of the 70's and 80's became that way after the King Riots.

A Kingdom Man and His Life

Psalm 128 I. Fearing God ---respect ---reverence II. The Right Alignment ---personal life ---family life ---church life ---community life ---God, Jesus, Man, Woman, Children ---individual, family, community, city, state, nation, world

The 3 J's of why Black America is still not free.

The 3 J's of why Black America still is not free are: 1. Jobs All across America the African American community is the last hired and the first fired. Racism is no longer carried out with lynchings and dog bites but now through economics. Gentrification has almost been completed in every major city that once was strong African American cities. Through an intentional plan black leaders and organizations have been co-opted, corrupted or been made a casualty of war and our cities have been turned over to the wealthy who main goal is build their profit share and wealth. 2. Jails Our Father's have been disconnected to family, community and respect. Drugs have been a major tool to attempt to destroy the power of the African American community. Men and women are now walking around with a modern day branding of the slave master called a federal record. With this record voting is a problem, finding a career and job is almost impossible. Housing becomes an issue. Credit to make major purchases are unthought of. And in most cases lifestyle adjustments are the essential need versus a cage for an animal. 3. Juvenile Education The education in black communities are failing our young people. We don't get the same quality and through gentrification schools have been turned over to a community that doesn't have the black child's needs as the most important issue in the school system. Our children are uninterested in the euro centric style of learning that has been an attempt to change and control the dormant kings and queens that are birthed in our community. And when they are not assimilating in the manner of the model the young people are labeled ADHD and emotionally dysfunctional. Until these issue are addressed by the power structure in America we can never be free....

Keep reaching for a higher level.

"A man's reach must exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?" We can't afford to be comfortable with the now ness of life. We must continue to press in an attempt to live better and so better. It is frustrating because we will never be perfect in this life but we can always strive for perfection.