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 8: Are Ye ‘Dull’ of Hearing?
Once we believed that through hearing we could change many things in our lives. We could elevate the positive character traits and aspire to virtuous ends. We could acknowledge the faults and failures that so easily beset us and begin to no longer pursue those things that stifle us. Legend even has it that spiritually, when we ‘clear’ our hearing problem we begin to help our flesh to become more healthy.
Anyway, being ‘dull’ can manifest consequences in our bodies in a variety of ways. When we hear advice; we can often muffle the sounds, metaphorically, so that we didn’t really hear the advice vividly. Then advice starts to sound like a burden if it becomes too much of a chore to hear it. What we hear in a timely fashion often brings those positive results because we act on good advice immediately.
Hearing seeps down into the bones and muscles. Short circuiting, delaying or suffering from interference in the delivery of timely messages opens up many chances for our actions to produce dreadful failures. When we hear warnings about danger being present, our bodies react to what our minds tell us from the information we hear. ‘Hearing’ sinks or decays are evidence that we have become ‘dull’ of hearing.
Is the sender to blame? Have we turned down or tuned out the messenger? Is interpretation necessary or should levels of importance be assigned to the messages so they can have more weighty importance for us to act on them? Lastly. Does the receiver have the responsibility to send clear messages? Or. Is it possible that you have ‘tuned’ your ‘dial’ to the wrong ‘frequency’ along the transmission wave? Maybe even it could be this possibility; that you are tuning in to the wrong ‘message’ source and need to swap out your ‘transmitter’?
All of that being said means this. I didn’t see anything that impressed me with the law enforcement response to a lone shooter at the White House Correspondents Dinner in Washington D.C. I saw so-called law enforcement officers willy nilly pointing their guns at people, anybody, in all directions. I saw a tacked-out officer in every piece of gear possible pointing his long gun into the crowd.
I saw plain clothed officers pointing their hand guns at people. Who was the target? Just anybody that was there? What I saw was a ‘cluster fuck’! That term we used all the time in the United States Army when a crisis was occurring and nobody took charge to say ‘we’re moving all officials to our secondary exits and evacuating the building’. None of that occurred. So give me a fucking break describing that ‘man with a gun’ incident as flawless and professional!
I had a discussion about the ‘location’ as well. Classic ‘dull of hearing’ choice to gather at a location that has multiple entries and exits and no designated escape route predetermined! That’s what happens when people who don’t know what they’re doing ‘go along to get along’!
And let me say this. Every Presidential situation that I ever read in America’s history didn’t read as the President deciding if he was going to be whisked out of the area. Donald J. Trump is a buffoonish man who has neutered all authority assigned to protect him! That is the stupidest man, Donald J. Trump, I’ve ever seen in the White House. Are you seriously telling me that those Secret Service agents defer to him in a crisis situation!
Who is in charge of protecting the President? The President or the Secret Service? Who the fuck is in charge here!
‘Dull of hearing’ indeed.


