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It took a long time, but I have found what are supposedly traditional Black American slave songs. At least, that is what the folk singers on the album has labeled it: American Negro Slave Songs by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue and Songs of the American... moreIt took a long time, but I have found what are supposedly traditional Black American slave songs. At least, that is what the folk singers on the album has labeled it: American Negro Slave Songs by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue and Songs of the American Negro Slaves by Alex Foster and Michael LaRue. If you have a library card, you can download five songs per week from Freegal from the album, American Negro Slave Songs. Just an idea to those of you, who are musicians, dancers, and artists... Has it ever occurred to you to get your drum circle, dance troupe, and fellow artists together, research, preserve, and reproduce Black American slave songs, dances, instruments, clothing, crafts, and historic foodways to create a market by and for Black Americans, who are hungry for our own history? Any book, DVD, or CD you make about Black American historic culture in slavery will not sell to the masses like pop music, but it can be reviewed and marketed just for libraries where people preserve knowledge and need access to that information for posterity. I have listened to only one album, American Negro Slave Songs, on Freegal, but the singers sound inauthentic as though the ways they were singing or speaking were forced and unnatural. If they turn out to be white or mulatto, none of us can get mad, because at least they made an effort to preserve the slave music of our ancestors in American slavery while so many of us try to cover ourselves with African clothes, African music, African dance, and African languages and turn our backs on our Black American slave heritage as if it is something to be ashamed of. If you are an artist of some kind, please consider preserving Black American slave culture so a white person does not have to do it for us. #blackamericanhistorymonth, #blacks, #music, #history, #folk, #folkmusic, #blackamerica, #blackamerican, #blackamericans, #culture, #folkways, #market, #economics. less
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If you have a public library card and your library contracts streaming media from Kanopy, I recommend you watch three videos about Sepp Holzer's Permaculture. Sepp Holzer is Austrian and speaks German, if I recall correctly, and he uses biodiversity to... moreIf you have a public library card and your library contracts streaming media from Kanopy, I recommend you watch three videos about Sepp Holzer's Permaculture. Sepp Holzer is Austrian and speaks German, if I recall correctly, and he uses biodiversity to his advantage in organic farming. He also digs ponds for aquaculture as well. According to the three documentaries, if we farm in harmony with nature, we will enrich the soil and work less to grow an abundance of crops for self-sufficiency and for sale. He uses composting and raised beds in his farming practices. He does not depend on giant farming equipment, so he leaves less of a carbon footprint in terms of greenhouse gases and fossil fuels. He scatters a mix of seeds together to keep the plants and soil healthy. There isn't a row or a field of lettuce here and a row or field of cabbages there. The crop is mixed. Different things will grow next to each other. According to the documentary, cultivating a single crop makes the soil less fertile, requiring the expense of fertilizers and pesticides, but if you grow several crops together, there will be no need for fertilizers and pesticides, because no one species of plant or pest will dominate or threaten the crop. I think he said one-third of the crops goes to humans, one-third to farmed animals, and one-third to wild animals who eat at the edge of the property. I don't recall exactly, but the point is not all of the crop was meant to go to a grocery store or the dinner table. Some was left to wild or domesticated animals. I think he even said he grows crops around the perimeter of the property, so wild animals will eat the things they like and not eat the crops that humans like. The reason why I am sharing this is to motivate Black Americans to build a nationwide organization exclusively for Black Americans, because we can pool our money together and take control of our own food supply. Other races control our food supply; therefore, they control our minds and behaviors as a group. If we want to liberate ourselves from economic and psychological enslavement, we must organize on a national scale to produce things like food, clean water, clothing, housing, and transportation, because the Black Democrats you empower with your votes every electron will not do these things for you. I believe there are six million Black Americans between 18 and 64, living below the poverty line. Yet, those with a job and supposedly living above the poverty line can also live pay check to pay check. They are like a pay check away from being homeless or hungry even with a job. Voting for Black Democrats will not break that cycle of poverty. So, why vote for Blacks, who give you slavery and genocide in return for your votes? Why sit back and complain about the way things are when the Black house slaves many of you may be voting for won't help you, but hurt you? We have to break with tradition and do something new. If any of you don't like other races controlling us, please consider my ideas on making a national group of one million to six million Black Americans to pool our money together and to produce and control our basic necessities of life. If you don't like my ideas, please present your own. We need to debate and push on each other until we meet in the middle. I have created polls in HTN to inspire debate over these things. Please ask yourselves if the way things are now, are actually working to our benefit as Black Americans. Or, ask yourselves whether if what you or others are doing right now as an individuals or as grassroots organizations, making a dent in our social, economic, and political status in the USA. Is what you or others in grassroots organizations succeeding in your goals for Black Americans? Or, is what you or grassroots organizations are currently doing, only beneficial for yourselves as self-appointed leaders and your exclusive, network of friends, community partners, and family members? At the end of the day, middle-classed and poor Blacks end up spending a majority if not 100 percent of our welfare and pay checks go into the hands of racist whites, immigrants, and black house slaves, who control our food supply and can retaliate at any time. If we protest as group in the streets or as an individual in the courts, they will raise store prices on us, raise the rents to evict us, or employ their massive networks to blacklist us from employment, the courts, legal representation, health care, and social services. If your grassroots organizations have not eradicated the threat of retaliation from our oppressors and have not created a nationwide self-sufficient Black American economy, then maybe, your grassroots organization needs to try something new. Maybe we need to think and do something big. Please watch the Sepp Holzer's Permaculture documentaries if you can get Kanopy from your local library. We were put to work on Native American soil as farmers against our will. We have the potential to create healthy organic food just like Sepp Holzer, but we can't do it by ourselves. We need millions of Black Americans involved and not one of us have all the answers, so let's use the diversity of specialized knowledge within our own population of Black Americans, who want to liberate ourselves from postmodern racial slavery. Tiny Black American grassroots organizations need to come together into one big, nationwide organization. We have very little money as individuals, but we have millions of potential laborers to put to work on a farm or some other project and those same millions can consume whatever they produce, creating self-sufficiency for those, who want to be free of racial slavery and genocide. #food, #farm, #farming, #permaculture, #freedom, #liberation, #socialcontrol, #foodsupply, #blacks, #blackamericans, #economics, #enslavedconsumers. less
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