The Mind/ By Carden A. Michael

Surviving in the jungle is about faith,

Strength and courage.

Confronted daily by obstacles,

Elements and pestilence,

Your mind gets weary with the wicked; who castigate,

Humiliate, and intimedate.

Nonetheless,
Life is great,

Life is wonderful,

Life is an adventure;

Waiting for you to take full advantage

In the way you want to go.

Do not be dismayed with whatsoever comes your way;

Because your mind is a powerful master,

Capable to accept and to reject,

Utilize it the right way;

And you will get your just reward.

Utilize it the wrong way; and you will get destruction.

Be free to think; embark on your horizon.

Try it; it works.

You have an intellect; use it.

Do not be afraid; think big.

Break through barriers,

Cause life is great,

life is wonderful,

Live it harmoniously.

Live it to the fullest.

Your mind is the most valuable gift from your God,
Your mind is a terrible thing to waste.

SHIRLEY CHISHOLM Biography

Born: November 30, 1924

Brooklyn, New York

African American congresswoman and politician

In 1968 Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman to serve in the United States Congress. Chisholm is a model of independence and honesty and has championed several issues including civil rights, aid for the poor, and women's rights.

Early education and hardship

Shirley Chisholm was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Barbadian parents. When she was three years old, Shirley was sent to live with her grandmother on a farm in Barbados, a former British colony in the West Indies. She received much of her primary education in the Barbadian school system, which

stressed the traditional British teachings of reading, writing, and history. Chisholm credits much of her educational successes to this well-rounded early education.

Return to New York

When Chisholm was ten years old, she returned to New York during the height of the Great Depression (1929–39). The Great Depression was a time of severe economic hardship when many people in the United States were unemployed. Life was not easy for the Chisholms in New York, and Shirley's parents sacrificed much for their eight children.

Chisholm attended New York public schools and was able to compete well in the mainly white classrooms. She attended Girls' High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a section of Brooklyn. Chisholm won tuition scholarships to several distinguished colleges but was unable to afford the room and board. At the urging of her parents she decided to live at home and attend Brooklyn College.

While training to be a teacher, Chisholm became active in several campus and community groups. She developed an interest in politics and learned the arts of organizing and fund-raising. Soon, she developed a deep resentment toward the role of women in local politics, which, at the time, consisted mostly of staying in the background and playing a secondary role to their male equals. Through campus politics and her work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), an organization that was formed in 1909 to work for equal rights for African Americans, Chisholm found a way to voice her opinions about economic and social structures in a rapidly changing nation.

From the classroom to politics

After graduating with honors from Brooklyn College in 1946, Chisholm began work as a nursery school teacher and later as a director of schools for early childhood education. She became politically active with the Democratic Party and quickly developed a reputation as a person who challenged the traditional roles of women, African Americans, and the poor. In 1949, she married Conrad Chisholm, and the couple settled in Brooklyn.

During her successful career as a teacher, Chisholm became involved in several organizations including the League of Women Voters and the Seventeenth Assembly District Democratic Club.

An outspoken politician

After a successful career as a teacher, Chisholm decided to run for the New York State Assembly. Her ideals were perfect for the times. In the mid-1960s the civil rights movement was in full swing. Across the nation, activists were working for equal civil rights for all Americans, regardless of race. In 1964 Chisholm was elected to the assembly.

During the time that she served in the assembly Chisholm sponsored fifty bills, but only eight of them passed. One of the successful bills she supported provided assistance for poor students to go on to higher education. Another provided employment insurance coverage for personal and domestic employees. Still another bill reversed a law that caused female teachers in New York to lose their tenure (permanence of position) while they were out on maternity leave.

A new congresswoman

Chisholm served in the state assembly until 1968, when she decided to run for the U.S. Congress. Her opponent was the civil rights leader James Farmer (1920–). Chisholm won the election and began a long career in the U.S. House of Representatives, lasting from the Ninety-first through the Ninety-seventh Congress (1969–1982).

As a member of Congress, Chisholm attempted to focus her attention on the needs of her constituents (the voters she represented). She served on several House committees including Agriculture, Veterans' Affairs, Rules and Education, and Labor. During the Ninety-first Congress, when she was assigned to the Forestry Committee, she protested her appointment and said that she wanted to work on committees that dealt with issues that were affecting her district. Forestry issues had little or no importance to the people she represented in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Taking a stand

With the Vietnam War (1955–75) raging overseas, Chisholm protested the amount of money being spent for the defense budget while social programs suffered. The Vietnam War was a conflict in which South Vietnam, supported by the United States, was fighting against a takeover by the Communist government of North Vietnam. Chisholm argued that money should not be spent for war while many Americans were hungry, poorly educated, and without adequate housing.

Chisholm was also a strong supporter of women's rights. Early in her career as a congresswoman, she took a stand on the issue of abortion (a woman's right to prevent the birth of a child) and supported a woman's right to choose. She also spoke against traditional roles for women professionals (including secretaries, teachers, and librarians), arguing that women were capable of entering many other professions. Black women especially, she felt, had been pushed into stereotypical roles, or conventional professions, such as maids and nannies. Chisholm supported the idea that they needed to escape, not just by governmental aid, but also by self-effort. Her antiwar and women's liberation views made Chisholm a popular speaker on college campuses.

Presidential contender

In 1972 Chisholm ran for the highest office in the land—President of the United States of America. In addition to her interest in civil rights, she spoke out about the judicial system in the United States, police brutality, prison reform, gun control, drug abuse, and numerous other topics. Chisholm did not win the Democratic nomination, but she did win an impressive 10 percent of the votes within the party. As a result of her candidacy, Chisholm was voted one of the ten most admired women in the world.

After her unsuccessful presidential campaign, Chisholm continued to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives for another decade. As a member of the Black Caucus (a group of lawmakers who represent African Americans) she was able to watch black representation in the Congress grow and to welcome other black female congresswomen. In 1982, she announced her retirement from Congress.

Life after politics

From 1983 to 1987 Chisholm served as Purington Professor at Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where she taught politics and women's studies. In 1985 she was the visiting scholar at Spelman College, and in 1987 she retired from teaching altogether. Chisholm continued to be involved in politics by cofounding the National Political Congress of Black Women in 1984. She also worked for the presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson (1941–) in 1984 and 1988. In 1993 President Bill Clinton nominated Chisholm for the position of Ambassador to Jamaica. Because of declining health, she turned down the nomination.

Although Chisholm broke ground as the nation's first black congresswoman and the first black presidential candidate, she has said she would rather be remembered for continuing throughout her life to fight for rights for women and African Americans.

A Forgotten Genius/ Brilliant Mind/ Dr. Percy Julian

Percy Julian was born on April 11, 1899 in Birmingham, Alabama, one of six children. His father, a railroad mail clerk, and his mother, a school teacher stressed education to their children. This emphasis would ultimately prove successful as two sons went on to become physicians and three daughters would receive Masters degrees, but it was son Percy who would become the most successful of the children.

Percy attended elementary school in Birmingham and moved on to Montgomery, Alabama where he attended high school at the State Normal School for Negroes. Upon graduation in 1916, Julian applied to and was accepted into DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. At DePauw, he began as a probationary student, having to take higher level high school classes along with his freshman and sophomore course load. He proved himself well, going on to be named a member of the Sigma Xi honorary society as well as a Phi Beta Kappa member. Finally, upon graduation from DePauw in 1920, he was selected as the class valedictorian. Though at the top of his classed, he was discouraged from seeking admission into a graduate school because of potential racial sentiment on the part of future coworkers and employers. Instead, he took the advice of an advisor and took a position as a chemistry teacher at Fisk University, a Black college in Nashville, Tennessee.

After two years at Fisk, Julian was awarded the Austin Fellowship in Chemistry and moved to the distinguished Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Finally given an opportunity at graduate level work, Julian excelled. He achieved straight A's, finishing at the top of his class and receiving a Masters Degree in 1923. Even with this success, Julian was unable to obtain a position as a teaching assistant at any major universities because of the perception that White students would refuse to learn under a Black instructor. Thus, he moved on to a teaching position at West Virginia State College for Negroes, though he would not find happiness in this situation. He left West Virginia and served as an associate professor of chemistry at Howard University in Washington, D.C. for two years.

In 1929, Julian qualified for and received a Fellowship from the General Education Board and traveled to Vienna, Austria in pursuit of a Ph.D. degree. While in Vienna, Julian developed a fascination with the soybean and its interesting properties and capabilities. Focusing on organic chemistry, Julian received his Ph.D. in 1931 and returned to the United States and to for a while to Howard University as the head of the school's chemistry department. He soon left Howard and moved back to DePauw where he was appointed a teacher in organic chemistry. At DePauw, he worked with an associate of his from Vienna, Dr. Josef Pikl, on the synthesis of physostigmine, a drug which was used as a treatment for glaucoma. After much work and adversity, Julian was successful and became internationally hailed for his achievement. At this point the Dean of the University sought to appoint Julian to the position as Chair of the chemistry department but was talked out of it by others in the department, again because of concerns over reaction to his race.

In late 1935, Percy Julian decided to leave the world of academics and entered the corporate world by accepting a position with the Glidden Company as chief chemist and the Director of the Soya Product Division. This was a significant development as he was the first Black scientist hired for such a position and would pave the way for other Blacks in the future. The Glidden Company was a leading manufacturer of paint and varnish and was counting on Julian to develop compounds from soy-based products which could be used to make paints and other products. Julian did not disappoint, coming up with products such as aero-foam which worked as a flame retardant and was used by the United States Navy and saved the lives of countless sailors during World War II.

On December 24, 1935, Percy married Anna Johnson and the company settled into their comfortable life in Chicago. Percy continued his success as he next developed a way to inexpensively develop male and female hormones from soy beans. These hormones would help to prevent miscarriages in pregnant women and would be used to fight cancer and other ailments. He next set out to provide a synthetic version of cortisone, a product which greatly relieved the pain of suffered by sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis. The real cortisone was extremely expensive and only rich people could afford it. With Julians discovery of the soy-based substitute, millions of sufferers around the world found relief at a reasonable price. So significant was his work that in 1950 the City of Chicago named him Chicagoan of the Year. While the honor should have signaled Julian's acceptance by his white counterparts in his field and his community, but when he soon after purchased a home for his family in nearby Oak Park, the home was set afire by an arsonist on Thanksgiving day 1950. A year later, dynamite was thrown from a passing car and exploded outside the bedroom window of Percy's children. Despite the fact that many residents of the town relied upon his methods to relieve their pains of and provide for their safety, some still could not stand to have him as their neighbor simply because he was Black.

In 1954, Julian left the Glidden Company to establish Julian Laboratories which specialized in producing his synthetic cortisone. When he discovered that wild yams in Mexico were even more effective than Soya beans for some of his products, he opened the Laboratorios Julian de Mexico in Mexico City, Mexico which cultivated the yams and shipped them to Oak Park for refinement. In 1961 he sold the Oak Park plant to Smith, Kline and French, a giant pharmaceutical company and received a sum of 2.3 million dollars, a staggering amount for a Black man at that time.

After years of struggling for respect in his field and his community, Julian finally was recognized as a genius and a pioneer. He received countless award and honors including the prestigious Spingarn Medal from the NAACP and was asked to serve on numerous commissions and advisory boards.
Percy Julian died of liver cancer in 1975 and is known worldwide as a trailblazer, both in the world of chemistry and as an advocate for the plight of Black scientists.

Ghosts Dress In White/ By Carden A. Michael

Ghosts dressed in white,
In the dark of night;
Make us fright.

They searched for blacks;
In the late hours of the night.

They burned our houses, and
Eyes;
And hanged us up high.

Ghosts dressed in white;
In the late hours of the night,

Had us terrified.

A Debt Never Paid

Black Wall Street: The True Story

Black Wall Street: The True Story

If anyone truly believes that the last April attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was the most tragic bombing ever to take place on United States soil, as the media has been widely reporting, they're wrong -- plain and simple. That's because an even deadlier bomb occurred in that same state nearly 75 years ago. Many people in high places would like to forget that it ever happened.


Searching under the heading of "riots," "Oklahoma" and "Tulsa" in current editions of the World Book Encyclopedia, there is conspicuously no mention whatsoever of the Tulsa race riot of 1921, and this omission is by no means a surprise, or a rare case. The fact is, one would also be hard-pressed to find documentation of the incident, let alone and accurate accounting of it, in any other "scholarly" reference or American history book.


That's precisely the point that noted author, publisher and orator Ron Wallace, a Tulsa native, sought to make nearly five years ago when he began researching this riot, one of the worst incidents of violence ever visited upon people of African descent. Ultimately joined on the project by colleague Jay Wilson of Los Angeles, the duo found and compiled indisputable evidence of what they now describe as "a Black holocaust in America."


The date was June 1, 1921, when "Black Wall Street," the name fittingly given to one of the most affluent all-Black communities in America, was bombed from the air and burned to the ground by mobs of envious whites. In a period spanning fewer than 12 hours, a once thriving 36-Black business district in northern Tulsa lay smoldering--a model community destroyed, and a major African-American economic movement resoundingly defused.


The night's carnage left some 3,000 African Americans dead, and over 600 successful businesses lost. Among these were 21 churches, 21 restaurants, 30 grocery stores and two movie theaters, plus a hospital, a bank, a post office, libraries, schools, law offices, a half dozen private airplanes and even a bus system. As could have been expected the impetus behind it all was the infamous Ku Klux Klan, working in consort with ranking city officials, and many other sympathizers.


In their self-published book, Black Wallstreet: A Lost Dream, and its companion video documentary, Black Wallstreet: A Black Holocaust in America!, the authors have chronicled for the very first time in the words of area historians and elderly survivors what really happened there on that fateful summer day in 1921 and why it happened. Wallace similarly explained to me why this bloody event from the turn of the century seems to have had a recurring effect that is being felt in predominately Black neighborhoods even to this day.


The best description of Black Wallstreet, or Little Africa as it was also known, would be liken it to a mini-Beverly Hills. It was the golden door of the Black community during the early 1900s, and it proved that African Americans had successful infrastructure. That's what Black Wallstreet was all about.
The dollar circulated 36 to 100 times, sometimes taking a year for currency to leave the community. Now in 1995, a dollar leaves the Black community in 15-minutes. As far as resources, there were Ph.D.'s residing in Little Africa, Black attorneys and doctors. One doctor was Dr. Berry who owned the bus system. His average income was $500 a day, a hefty pocket change in 1910.
During that era, physicians owned medical schools. There were also pawn shops everywhere, brothels, jewelry stores, 21 churches, 21 restaurants and two movie theaters. It was a time when the entire state of Oklahoma had only two airports, yet six Blacks owned their own planes. It was a very fascinating community.


The area encompassed over 600 businesses and 36 square blocks with a population of 15,000 African Americans. And when the lower-economic Europeans looked over and saw what the Black community created, many of them were jealous. When the average student went to school on Black Wallstreet, he wore a suit and tie because of the morals and respect they were taught at a young age.


The mainstay of the community was to educate every child. Nepotism was the one word they believed in. And that's what we need to get back to in 1995. The main thoroughfare was Greenwood Avenue, and it was intersected by Archer and Pine Streets. From the first letters in each of those three names, you get G.A.P., and that's where the renowned R and B music group the Gap Band got its name. They're from Tulsa.


Black Wallstreet was a prime example of the typical Black community in America that did businesses, but it was in an unusual location. You see, at the time, Oklahoma was set aside to be a Black and Indian state. There were over 28 Black townships there. One third of the people who traveled in the terrifying "Trail of Tears" along side the Indians between 1830 to 1842 were Black people.
The citizens of this proposed Indian and Black state chose a Black governor, a treasurer from Kansas named McDade. But the Ku Klux Klan said that if he assumed office that they would kill him within 48 hours. A lot of Blacks owned farmland, and many of them had gone into the oil business. The community was so tight and wealthy because they traded dollars hand-to-hand, and because they were dependent upon one another as a result of the Jim Crow laws.
It was not unusual that if a resident's home accidentally burned down, it could be rebuilt within a few weeks by neighbors. This was the type of scenario that was going on day- to-day on Black Wallstreet. When Blacks intermarried into the Indian culture, some of them received their promised '40 acres and a mule' and with that came whatever oil was later found on the properties.


Just to show you how wealthy a lot of Black people were, there was a banker in the neighboring town who had a wife named California Taylor. Her father owned the largest cotton gin west of the Mississippi [River]. When California shopped, she would take a cruise to Paris every three months to have her clothes made.
There was also a man named Mason in nearby Wagner County who had the largest potato farm west of the Mississippi. When he harvested, he would fill 100 boxcars a day. Another brother not far away had the same thing with a spinach farm. The typical family then was five children or more, though the typical farm family would have 10 kids or more who made up the nucleus of the labor.

On Black Wallstreet, a lot of global business was conducted. The community flourished from the early 1900s until June 1, 1921. That's when the largest massacre of non-military Americans in the history of this country took place, and it was lead by the Ku Klux Klan. Imagine walking out of your front door and seeing 1,500 homes being burned. It must have been amazing.

Survivors we interviewed think that the whole thing was planned because during the time that all of this was going on, white families with their children stood around the borders of their community and watched the massacre, the looting and everything--much in the same manner they would watch a lynching.

In my lectures I ask people if they understand where the word "picnic" comes from. It was typical to have a picnic on a Friday evening in Oklahoma. The word was short for "pick a nigger" to lynch. They would lynch a Black male and cut off body parts as souvenirs. This went on every weekend in this country, and it was all across the county. That's where the term really came from.


-- - - MASS MURDER - GENOCIDE - WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER - TERRORISM AMERICAN STYLE.. - -

Above Photo: The body of a dead Black man is displayed out in the open on a flat bed truck for other Black men to view as they were being "Interned" at the convention center during the worst riot in US History.

This hidden part of history is fully exposed on this site. Learn how over 15,000 Black people were left homeless, then run out of town and thousands were killed or wounded by fellow white Americans on May 31st, and June 1st in 1921.

This Website is dedicated to the thousands of Black men, women and children who were victims of murderous mobs of white civilians local police and national guardsmen. Killed for no apparent reason except they had built a separate, prosperous, independent community, and dared to dream.....

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THE TULSA RACE RIOT OF 1921

The Story of Black Wall Street

Tulsa Riot Photo Gallery

The Tulsa Riot Final Report

From riot to reparations the entire truth about Black Wall Street and what happened on May 31st 1921 and the results of the second case in US History where reparations were considered for victims, survivors and descendants of the largest of all white race riots.

Rosewood was the first (and so far only) Black American community to seek and receive reparations for the destruction of property any murder of it's Black citizens in 1995.

Nine of the 21 known survivors were paid $150,000 each by the State of Florida after local whites destroyed the entire Black community on New Years day 1923 on a lie, after a young white girl falsely claimed to have been raped, by a fictitious black man. Scorched earth is all that remained of the township and its inhabitants.

THE OFFICIAL TULSA RACE RIOT REPORT

Persona/ By Carden A. Michael

I have a persona of a Lion.
Yet, gentle as a butterfly,
Harmless as a pony,
And kind as a dove,
Be my guest,
You wont regret.

Ms. Cora

Good Evening Mr. Irrepressible, Drastic Carden Alphonso Michael, I am loving on you....I love the way you express yourself. Your words flow like water. As I read your profile, I can't help but smile....my heart lights up and my mind lites up also. I love a delicious conversation, conversation that fascinates me, conversation that paints pictures in my mind... words so vivid that I see them in colors I'm actually in the middle of writing my first book or should I say books. I can't seem to write one at a time, my mind is so full I can't stay on one subject. I'm a singer by profession mainly gospel and inspirational. I think that's what drove me to start writing. I want to sing songs that haven't been written yet, there in my heart but the words have never been put to music. If I were closer to you, I believe I could sing you that song, that song that would comfort and motivate your soul. You mentioned the LION, my page has several Lions on it.

I'm feeling you......MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU AND YOUR GIFT MULTIPLY IN 2009. Thank you so very much for accepting my friendship invitation...I may not get a chance to write too often in the future, but I will never cease to pray for your success.

I look forward to many more books from you.Yours.....in love which CHRIST JESUS .....Ms. Cora

Desperation Howls/ By Carden A. Michael

Desperation howls from Death Valley,
for The Mighty to
Deliver their souls from burning coals.

They sigh in pang and vent their frustrated voices ;
While the wicked turn their faces.

They crammed and jammed into desolate places;
Yet, only heaven knows their Traces.

Desperation howls from Death Valley, for the Mighty to Deliver their souls from burning coals.

By Dr. Clive E. Niel. Pastor Beford Central Presbyterian

The probing mind of Carden Michael has given us some engaging poetry.

The title itself is haunting and mysterious, I feel both pride and pleasure writing this foreword. The pride is found in the memory of seeing this young man's determination to get his
message out. The pleasure is derived from admiration for the unrelenting and informed gift of that which resonates within the bowels of Carden Michael.

Doubtless, the author was first claimed by this poetry because it has the drumbeat and sweat of one who lived amongst the struggles. His continuing interest must have been sustained by the God who inspired him to shine through his poetry. Carden takes us through puzzling moods and cryptic insights having such vividness that they seemed to be an embodiment, a personal reserve that has finally been released. He
examines a wide range of topics borne out of different circumstances from religion to liberty, not negating our contemporary issues.

Readers will find particularly helpful the artful way Carden develops the lyric giving each one significance. He dares us to believe that there lies within a gift that God has given to every one of us. Many people do not realize this gift and it remains untapped. We are indebted to Carden for lifting up this unique style of poetry. This book is a necessary tool in the land of those who crave for changes.
Dr. Clive E. Neil, Pastor
Bedford Central
Presbyterian Church
Brooklyn, New York

By Dr. Roland G. Guy

With the advent of some young men and women of African decent, lost in a maze of Euro centric mis-education, appears a spirited shoeless wonder armed with a pen, and a sheet of paper. Carden A. Michael writings, in its various forms expresses in Universal language the missteps that have been taken by these young adults, and the new methods that must be employed to correct these "cosmetic illusion".

The mystical rising star of this young writer/poet is definitely heading beyond the horizon. His contribution is by no means phenomenal, if we understand genetic memory and the guiding hands of the ancestors that have channeled every maneuver of his pen. In his writing you feel the pain and sad emotions on one side of his work, and on the other side, the depth of his willingness to assist in correcting the atrocities that befell a powerful people.

He encourages the young in his inscription to wake up from their deep slumber and pursuit true knowledge at its highest level, and they are reminded that they are educable and they are the intelligentsia. The important work of this writer/poet Carden A. Michael has come from yesterdays past to deliver a compelling message for tomorrow.

Roland G. Guy

Vision From A Distance/ By Carden A. Michael

Beyond the horizon; I see vision from a Distance.
I look not into your crystal ball;
To tell me about my fortune or misfortune,
I heed not to your psychic to tell me what lies ahead of me.
Yet, I rather the wound of a side kick;
Than For your psychic, to mess with my psyche.

Beyond the horizon, I see a vision pure and Clean,
Vision like running stream.
I see vision which crystallize my life.
I see vision when the lightning;
Shineth from the west,
And lighteth up the east.
I see vision when the lightning
Flashes from the north,
Then onward to the south,
I see vision.

I look not to your witch doctor to show me
Some magical powers,
For I see vision, which persuaded me from
Walking the broad road.
I see vision, which kept me from becoming Perishable.

Beyond the horizon, I see vision from a distance.

Battering Down/ By Carden A. Michael

The battering down of tribulation is a continual process,
And it will attack you,
Even in the lowest state of your desperation.

You may want to escape from the wounds of its affliction, And enter into seclusion.
But you will be surrounded by loneliness and depression,

You may want to venture out into the jungle to find a peace of
mind;

But you will be trespassing upon the premises of Lions,
Tigers, Hyenas, Vipers and Cheetahs.
There is no hiding place down here.
Where are you trying to run?
Live among your foe,
Face your enemy,
There is no place to hide.

The battering down of poverty,
Only the poor knows what it means to feel destitute,
Without food and basic necessities.

The battering down of oppression;
It is only the oppressed who knows what it feels to be victimized,
And to be used as a stepping stone;
By the oppressor.

The battering down of stress;

Will cause you to lose you sanity.
Be strong! And stand firm, whenever you are tested, and tried by
obstacles;
As you trod this troubled road.

The battering down of malice is not healthy for the mind,
Yet, your intention is to commit an offense that is not worthy.
Free your mind from malice and hatred;
And let peace water the thoughts of your mind,
And let love shine into your heart.

The battering down of tribulation is a continual process,
And you have to live with it; and face it while you live.

The battering down of tribulation is a continual process;
And you cannot get away from it.

Words/ By Carden A. Michael

Words,
Getting familiarized with words, makes me wonder,
How can I deliver a speech eloquently?

Hearing sound bites of words,
Makes me listen attentively.
Hearing sound bites of words, makes me want
To rise hotter than 96 degrees.
Hearing sound bites of words,
Attracts me, to those who coherently make speeches
Articulately.

Hearing sound bites of words,
Makes me formulate words, intellig

Prophet And Messengers/ By Carden Michael

PROPHETS AND MESSENGERS


Prophets and Messengers.
When prophets and messengers trod this Earth, they walked not this Earth looking like Prince, Elvis Presley, and Michael Jackson.
But they walked this Earth with blood in their eyes, and fire in their mouths. They came not through illusion, but they were chosen to clean up confusion in a world misguided by delusion.

When prophets and messengers trod this earth, they came as Abraham, Walking through the wilderness, offering sacrifices and seeking the Master insight, and doing his business.
They came as Lot living in Sodom, before the messenger lit the fire and devoured Gomorrah.
Came as Moses on mouth Sinai with a rod in his hand, he whopped Pharaoh, and led Israel to the promise land.
Came as David, a shepherd boy, chosen to be king, fought the Philistines, Assyrians, Moabites and Ammonites,
Came as Elijah the mystical phenomena, wore a mantle, smashed graven images, and executed false prophets.
Came as Daniel, stood defiant, affirmed by his conviction, cast into the lions’ den,
Escaped Lions’ jaws, and stood triumphantly,
Came as John The Baptist, bore witness of the Christ, wore raiment of camel hair, and Leather girdle about his loins.

When prophets and messengers walked this earth, they came here doing the Master’s will, with blood in their eyes, and fire in their mouths. They came not through illusion or delusion, but through the cosmic force, to chant down Babylon and clean up corruption.

Wiseman The CD By: Carden Michael

1 Five Hundred Years
2 Put Down The Gun
3 A Voice Is Calling
4 A Time Will Come
5 Battering Down
6 Down In The Valley
7 Wise Man
8 Marcus
9 That Thing
10 Civilization
11 A True Isrealite Indeed
12 Empowering
13 Five Hundred Years
14 Living Martyrs
15 Marcus
16 Our Story
17 The Nomad
18 A City Of Liberty
19 Twist And Turn
20 Wise Man
21 Empowering (TV Track)
22 Living Martyrs (TV Track)
23 Twist And Turn (TV Track)
24 The Nomad (TV Track)
25 Wisemen (TV Track)

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Dry Bones: By Carden A. Michael

INTRODUCTION
By Carden Michael

Dry Bones, is a compilation of short stories, essays, and poetry taken from my portfolio. This collection of works has put me through different vibratory moods as illustrated in the poem "Solemn Song." It describes when loved ones mourn for the spirits that make their transition from this tedious life of bondage to the great beyond. This project also encompasses a social and political stance on past and present day situations. As a literary work, it is conjoined with spiritual and soulful heartbeat rhythms. This book has put me into time and space, traveling through the atmosphere, trying to find my place amongst the heavenly constellation. Dry Bones is definitely the most passionate, adventurous and intense project I have ever worked on.

The title also describes and depicts a people who were captured and sold on the action block for capital gain. This is a people who were duped, beaten, and bamboozled for over five hundred years. This is a people according to the prophecy of Ezekiel, were lost from time and knowledge. They were destroyed because of the lack of knowledge. They live physically, yet they are spiritually dead. Historically and prophetically these people are the black people who are scattered, and dispersed throughout the Americas and the West Indies. These black people "are the true Israelites indeed."

When I look at the condition of my people it grieves my heart to see the sad state that they live in. I can see there is a dire urgency for my people to be saved from self-destruction. I have never seen a race of people who are as perplexed and who hate themselves as my people do. All other tongues and nations, love, uphold, and respect their culture, but the black man has lost his culture, identity and Kingdom. Instead, he has switched his culture to vulgarity, and lives as a puppet and a traitor in another man’s kingdom. Yet, he continues to foster his own demise by causing havoc upon himself.

To date, Dry Bones is the third book I have written. The first book was entitled, Vision From A Distance, and the second is, God The Triumphant Revolutionary. Apart from my books, I have also released a twenty-five track CD of dub poetry entitled Wise Men.

The author, Carden Michael is just a simple brother living in this dispensation, observing and feeling the wrath of wicked Babylon. I and I is a native son of St Vincent and the Grenadines, and is a past student of the Chateaubelair Government School and the Petit Bordel Junior Secondary School. After leaving school as a qualified fool, I was bound to fantasy and obscure darkness, searching for reality. After my discharge from school, I then applied for a fellowship at a street college and was accepted. Thereafter, I obtained a degree in common sense. Then, I went on to the University of Life where I was successfully awarded two degrees, one in Wisdom and the other in Knowledge. My degrees are proudly hung from the depths of my heart.

My passion for life is grounded in wisdom, knowledge, truth, equality, and justice. I live in a world where oppression is prominent, and rampant with belligerent tyrants. I see injustice and his accomplice, inequality as the bogeymen of the day. As the thoughts of the oppressed are curtailed by the Luciferian clique, they are hesitant to speak when they see the blatancy of injustice. Yet, my mission is to awaken slumbering mentality, and to speak truth, and nothing but the truth, so that the oppressors would take heed and let my people go.
In these days of fiery serpents, trials, brutalization, tribulation, and biting scorpion; the devil roams and plunders. While he is out on parole I pray that you may have a safe journey, and I hope you may do the same for me. Jah loves you, and so do I. I am your true and faithful servant, the irrepressible, Drastic Carden Alphonso Michael

God, The Triumphant Revolutionary: Carden A. Michael

INTRODUCTION
By Carden Michael.

This is my second volume of poetry. The first is called "Vision
From A Distance." This book is a collection representing many
poems I have written over the years. It also contains short stories and a poetic essay on God The Triumphant Revolutionary. However, most of my poems are about Black Consciousness and they discuss the stinging effects of slavery, colonialism and capitalism.

Let me say that this Black Consciousness theme is not meant
to offend people from different nationalities -- for we the black
people of the Earth have suffered the worst amongst humankind.
The tenacious implications of the oppressor’s conspiracy is still in
place-- our cities and countries are under siege. Our so-called leaders
are an extension of the Europeans’ domination. While the rigid
forces perpetuate genocide and starvation, our natural resources
are being thieved by the Europeans, Arabs, Asians and East Indians.

From my observation, I see a people who need to cleanses
themselves from the prolonged degradation and stagnation of the
white man’s indoctrination. Therefore, I personally feel the urge to
counteract the devilish forces that have kept my people under tributary,
subjugation, and tribulation for over four hundred years. I
also feel that our leaders have a moral obligation to find a solution
to free the oppressed from the yoke and bondage of oppression. If
they fail to do so, the consequences of extinction would be immi -
nent. Yet, if we seek divine guidance and wisdom, we will surely
pass the test.

The message of Black empowerment needs to be taught in
our homes, in our places of worship and at schools. We should all
feel proud to know that we are black; we should all know the
potential of being black, for our God is Black.

About the title of this book -- I strongly felt the urge to
used the title God The Triumphant Revolutionary because it is
prophetic, and it’s a spiritual inspiration about the embodiment of
God in man. If you seek Him. He will reveal unto you what was hid -
den from the wise and prudent. Yet, some might repudiate me, and
may think that the title of this book is absurd and beyond the
bounds of piety and decorum. But those who understand mysticism
and spirituality, may also know that The Power that holds the
galaxy in space is greater than any atomic bomb. As David said in
the 20th Psalm ( v. 7): "Some trust in chariots, and some in horses:
but we will remember the name of the Lord." The reason why I
use this quotation from Psalms is that there are many people who
think that the United States of America is the power of the World.
But I want to tell them that they are wrong, for David the Psalmist
also declared in the 46th Psalm (v. 8-10): "Come, behold the works
of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the Earth. He
maketh war to cease unto the end of the Earth; he burneth the
chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted
among the heathen, I will be exalted in the Earth." And again in the
89th Psalm (v. 13-14): "Thou has a mighty arm, strong is thy hand.
Justice and judgment are the habitation of his throne, For thou will
save the afflicted people, but wilt bring down high Looks."

I must ask, could the United States ever stand up to the
Almighty even if it is combined with Russia, England, Japan, China,
Pakistan, India, France, Germany, Italy, North and South Korea,
along with the Arab World? He is the one and only Super Power
of the Universe, hence the warmongers of this planet must know
that He is lightning, thunder, earthquake, Tsunami, tornado, fire and
brimstone. Let Jah be praised.

Vision From A Distance: Carden A. Michael

Version From A Distance is a collection of folklore, short stories, and poetry. It deals with a high level of spiritual awareness, black consciousness, political corruption and social issues.

But above all, the primary objectives are to recognize God as the Supreme Creator of this Magnificent Universe. Once men fail to coincide with their Maker, the survival of their existence will be detrimental.

Therefore, I plea to men to flee from perversion, licentious acts, oppression, fascism, racism and bigotry, if not the evidence of that which I have seen will not depart from the plains of Babylon. Men do change, time and season likewise, but the righteous judgement of Almighty God would not. Matt 24:15, 17, tell you, when you see the abominable and destructive thing which the prophet Daniel foretold standing on holy ground (let the reader take note!) Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: I feel strongly on making this point, because there is a fraction of unscrupulous men in our society , who has never imparted justice to the poor, instead, they sit in high places and afflict the poor. I am here to let them know that their time is limited, and that their cities are under siege.

On highlighting the Black consciousness, I see the need for reconstruction in order to mobilize my people in the right direction. Also to re- educate oneself from mental slavery and to detoxify ones mind from neocolonialism, colonial superiority and Black inferiority. It is ironic to know that our people's minds are locked by an ideology, which suppressed their mental capacity to think and to function independently.

(1) And ideology which teaches that we are less than human being.

(2) Their philosophy which deprived us from our culture and forces us to accept theirs.

(3) Their misconception and propaganda which caused self hatred, low self esteem and psychological effect amongst our people.

However degrading or complicated situation may looked, I urge you to believe in yourself, and to know that you were perfected in the likeness and image of God. There is no need for you to feel belittle, or settle for little. May the love and peace of God be with those who seeks after righteousness.

Malcolm X Quotes

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence. I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.

Bad Boy John Brown/ Abolitionist

John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood (on the day of his execution, 1859)

John Brown quote America is a land where men govern, but women rule. John Brown quote

Mahatma Gandh

GHANDI
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. Mahatma Gandh

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Speake

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law.
Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men. Marcus Garvey

King Of Kings Speake

The KING OF KINGS SPEAKE ON EDUCATION Education has value as it is established in individuals of good character with respect for GOD. The salvation of our country, Ethiopia , as we repeatedly stated to you lies primarily in education. As Ethiopia is one. All Ethiopians are also one, and education is the only way to maintain this condition.
We believe that from truth alone is born liberty and that only an educated people can consider itself as really free and master of it’s fate. It is only with an educated people that representative and democratic organs can exercise their influence for national progress.
As the gospel tells us, a house built upon strong foundations can never be overthrown by storms. Similarly, when people are built up with minds well formed by education and knowledge. No trial of whatever kind can conquer them. “EDUCATION IS THE LAUREL OF THE WISE MAN /GO AND TEACH”

The Lion Of Judah

Bob Marley

BOB MARLEY
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Bob Marley
Man is a universe within himself.
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

Martin Luther King Jr.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Peter Tosh A Truth Teller; The Wicked Killed This Fella

PETER TOSH.
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

FRDRICK DOUGLAS

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. Frederick Douglas