PICK & SHOVEL:
A BLACK MAN’S POLITICAL LOVE AFFAIR
Written by: Victor E. Moseley
Email: vemoseley@landcause.com
Blue Sky: vemoseley17.bsky.social
As I sit comfortably, I wonder what thoughts would arise in my mind in this particular moment of serenity on my couch? Would the ‘crease’ of information cast a shadow over which thought would rule in that moment? Is that the most important ‘concern’ that must be addressed, or that thought that would make humanity lose ‘decency’ and ‘order’ rule the debate?
It is long known that Black people make calculations based on spiritual clarity for all given situations. Now the keys to this discernment was taught to all of us long ago in the ‘fold’. The ‘fold’ is the place, the energy, where the two choices lie. The barrier between the ‘fold’ is the darkness that separates called the ‘crease’. As Black people, we don’t necessarily chose the option that is free of ‘shadow’. Black people choose wisely between the two choices available because making no choice is worse.
So, we use a ‘pick’ to break the surface to know what’s underneath, or we use a ‘shovel’ to remove the debris and clutter that hides the ‘purpose’ beneath.
Issue 12: ‘And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear’.
This tough guy syndrome in America is limited to a specific group of people mainly centered around the Republican Christian Nationalist doctrine. Only a wannabe tough guy boasts of the weapons he has in his house, or the gun he carries on his hip for ‘protection’. Sadly this mentally has seeped into the water in the Black community. The teenager, Karmelo Anthony, is both a victim of bad parenting and a victim of American injustice. The prosecutors couldn’t help themselves when they eliminated all Black people from the jury pool. That justifies the outrage around Mr. Anthony’s conviction.
Let me say what we know and teach in the Black community. I know I taught this shit in my household. The Devil loves to party with you. Party time the Devil says. Well, the Devil will ‘party’ and you will do the ‘time’ in jail. The ‘sword’ to a weak mind leads straight to destruction. Believe it or not. That shit, ‘swords’ or call it ‘weapons’, will prove another scripture true. ‘Live by the sword you will die by the sword’.
Karmelo Anthony would’ve been convicted without the all too ‘can’t’ help themselves White people and prosecutors’ quick implicit bias to convict him. Mr. Anthony, with some Black people on the jury, probably would’ve been shown some mercy with a lighter sentence being his only act of criminality. I speak as a Black man with a son to be in prison for well over a decade myself, but I cannot excuse my son’s behavior because he got stern lectures on foolish behavior and the harshness of White justice in America being truly unforgiving.
Now to the foolish buffoon Donald J. Trump. There is no deal with Iran. If you still believe the hype from Donald J. Trump then you’re as stupid as he certainly believes all Americans are.
Americans. You ridiculed Barack Obama for diplomatically securing a nuclear agreement with Iran that didn’t cost the lives of over 150 of Iran’s little girls. Then you turn around and celebrate the killing of innocent human beings in Iran by agreeing with the bag of goods Benjamin Netanyahu sold Donald J. Trump’s to get us into his centuries of fighting. Didn’t I address this same shit in my last post?
Why the fuck would you want to get into the long forgotten ‘reason’ why Iran and Israel are even fighting? Why does Iran and Israel hate each other? Who gives a fuck? I sure don’t. I’m sure the rest of the world could care less about a beef between Iran and Israel for the very reason it has spilled over into our houses now. Let me ask you. If your neighbors across the street are shooting at each other which has nothing to do with you. Would you like one of them or both of them to solicit you to join their ignoramus ass quarrel? No? That’s what I thought.
This shit is so easy to take a pass on that one President, and one President only, sided with Benjamin Netanyahu. What fucking moron can’t figure out that that would be a bad idea? I was watching some NBA clips on YouTube about NBA players remembering how Akeem ‘the Dream’ Olajuwan would slap players in anger. One NBA player asked another player if he could help him fight him. The player asked, ‘fight who?’. Olajuwan. You know what that player said? ‘Oh, you’re on your own with Akeem’. This Iran war will go down as the stupidest ‘gamble’ in American history. We have had a lot of stupid wars, but this Iran war will be the stupidest!
Why would America involve itself in a dispute between Iran and Israel that has been dragging on for thousands of years with no victor in sight? Probably will never have a victor. Why?! This is the moment when even a person that doesn’t believe in God would say, ‘If God is not settling the fight between those two, why would America think it can do a job God has clearly said he wouldn’t’. I’m not God, but I can guess what he might say. Something like, ‘I’m not wasting any more of my time with those two dumbasses’?
Oh Lord help me.
‘I save not with the sword or the spear’. Huh? Sounds to a lay person like me that God is expecting more out of humankind. Man? A bloated buffoonish old White draft dodging man in Donald J. Trump along with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu are two of the most despised men in the world right now. Claim all the Jew hatred you want.
Israel. How about for once blame your current leader in Benjamin Netanyahu and all the Israelis for putting him in office. Americans surely place the blame for the world being on fire at the feet of Donald J. Trump and the Republicans.
What’d you say? Buy some hotdogs Americans because the fires’ a wasting. Funny. That is extremely funny!
‘Pick’ knowledge for those you love about the dangers of acting without thinking in situations that hold life and death in the balance.
Before you turn your children out into a world where many different temptations exist, teach them the one that almost always changes a life forever. Violence is that human fallacy that is always lurking to snare you unawares with devastating consequences.
Please, let’s teach our children better.


