A Most Majestic Fly Whisk

  literally impossible to improve upon this I didn't see the Goodman Games DCC RPG MLK DAY official tshirt until after MLK Day, but it's still before the Dallas MLK parade so I'm still on time in Texas, which is all that matters.  Aside: Dallas is the largest city in America run by a Republican mayor, a Black man who switched parties while in office. It's now ok to call Eric Johnson a c**ned-out race traitor; we couldn't say it when he was waging war on poor folks and destroying historic Black Dallas at the behest of his real estate / megachurch / Fortune 500 teat-suckling masters, but we can say it now bc he's doing all that under the other team's banner.  Anyways, this tshirt brought me to tears. I finally felt SEEN by the old/new schooldream renavolution's cognoscenti. This is what we've (a spiritual 'we', my own ancestors were herding camels in the Hawd during Reconstruction) been fighting for. When I stopped sobbing, though, I realized ...

inclusion in a wojackpost might be the worst thing to happen to Du Bois since the feds stole his passport. i will do it four more times. "Matthew, Day has dawned. Of course a little Virginia farm cannot bound your world. Our feet are set in the path of moving millions... The Great Central Committee of Yellow, Brown, and Black is finally to meet. You are a member. The High Command is to be chosen. Ten years of preparation are set. Ten more years  of final planning, and then five years of intensive struggle. In 1952, the Dark World goes free - whether in Peace and fostering Friendship with all men, or in Blood and Storm - it is for Them - the Pale Masters of today - to say... Our chart is laid. Our teeth are set, our star is risen in the East. The 'one far-off divine event' has come to pass, and now, oh, Matthew, Matthew, as soon as both in soul and body you stand free, hurry to us and take counsel with us and see Salvation...The Day has dawned, Matthew - the Great Plan is o...

  an  ọpọ́n Ifá/divination tray brought to Europe from the Allada Kingdom in the 1650s, possibly the oldest African wood sculpture in a Western collection. Ọsa Otura says, “What is Truth?”  I say, “What is Truth?” Ọrunmila says, “Truth is the character of Olodumare.  Truth is the word that cannot fall. Ifá is Truth.  Truth is the word that cannot spoil.  Might surpassing all. Blessing everlasting.”    — from the O dù Ọsa-Otura Let be, my soul, fold your rebellious pinions, There is no way out of the web of things, It is a snare that never will be broken, And if you struggle you will break your wings. Be still a while, content to brood on beauty; Caught in the trap of space that has no end, See how the stars, august in their submission, Take their Great Captor for their changeless friend. — In the Web , Sara Teasdale the Birdking of the Prismatic Wasteland has issued a challenge ! many worthies have already offered up their responses - artisans ...