First to Fly, a true African-American adventure
“A legacy of money cannot replace a legacy of dignity”
If there were advanced races in the galaxy…even by the standards of Western writers, at some point…they would destroy themselves, if technological advancement far outstrips their own development and spiritual cultivation.
The primacy of spirituality over technology is the key to understanding how Africa achieved what it did.
Knowledge resides in the womb of a rejected people and of a (their) way of life.
Thus, Africa reminds us: “Man, know yourself!”
The first successful flight in history is told with a mix of fiction and true history, science and fantasy in an adventure full of life. “On the Wings of the Wind: The Untold Story of History’s First Flight” by Richard Kigel is brilliantly rendered in pencil and paper. A masterful tale of a collaboration of spirited wit and perseverance: a triumph of the true human spirit embodied by the actions of an African American slave and ancestor of the fourth African American female astronaut. Josiah Brantley is the great-great-great-great-grandfather of Dr. Sharon Brantley, a NASA scientist and astronaut.
Josiah Brantley, a slave, flew to freedom from Virginia to Pennsylvania during the 18th century. We have been told many things about the past, most of which have turned out to be untrue…just old lies coming out over and over again. Do you remember the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville? Forget this…! The controlling factions of American and European society want us to believe that everything they tell us is true: Black Africans did nothing in this world to accept making more Black Africans. When the truth has been revealed, how man-woman and civilization are deeply and ultimately rooted in and from Africa.
“Ethiopian Bones Calls Man’s Oldest Ancestor.”
Egyptian physician, artist, and aeromodeller Dr. Khalil Messiha rediscovered a model glider or glider dating to the 4th or 3rd century BCE. Aircraft having a distinctive reverse dihedral wing (dihedral, also called: dihedral angle the figure formed by two intersecting planes; the American name for corner; Compare anhedral the upward tilt of an aircraft wing relative to the lateral axis ) – The Saqqara Bird is a bird-shaped artifact made of sycamore wood, discovered during the 1898 excavation of the tomb of Pa-di-Imen at Saqqara, Egypt. It has been dated to approximately 200 BC. C. and is now in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo. The Saqqara bird has a wingspan of 180 mm (7.1 in) and weighs 39.12 g (1,380 oz).
Dr. Messiha, who has done a study of bird figures, came across a glider model in 1969 when he was looking at a box of bird models in one of the Cairo Museum’s warehouses. Although the people and civilization descended from Africa, the blacks were not the only conquered, subdued and repressed in the world, the Jews were also put to the test, as were many tribal nations on various continents, the conquered seemed to incorporate, instigate, manipulate and practice the path of the conqueror.
Ruth’s Story: “Your Name Is Renée” by Stacy Cretzmeyer tells of a town that was subjected to the living conditions, livelihoods, and horrific experiences of a group of ignored human beings. The Nazis were not the only group of anti-Semites. Anti-Semitism (also spelled antisemitism or antisemitism) is a prejudice or hostility towards Jews, often rooted in hatred of their ethnicity, culture, and/or religion. In its extreme form, it “attributes to the Jews an exceptional position among all other civilizations, defames them as an inferior group, and denies that they are part of the nation(s)” in which they reside. A person who practices anti-Semitism is called an “anti-Semite”. The Jewish people, like American black slaves, were put to the knife: survive and persevere.
America and the world have always been rescued, saved, and resurrected by people of color. One of the many world wars was saved/rescued by African-Americans in a historic rendition of “Miracle at St. Anna” by Mr. James McBride. Another of his works is a tribute to his mother (and family)-“The color of water”. The inspiring tale of a vibrant and incredibly moving story of a struggling woman from the South through the Red Hook Housing Projects of Brooklyn New York. The daughter of a rabbi and the matriarch of the McBride family, Ruth McBride Jordan told her son, “Educate yourself or you’ll be a nobody!”
The true meaning of love, family, pride, and resilience is woven into these stories of American history and experience, once again offering a portrait of the unwavering, undeniable, insistence and determination of a people and the love of a mother for her. children – the children of GOD!
Manipulative, greedy, domineering, demonizing and fearful groups of people would keep us all in the dark forever if they could, hating, killing and destroying each other, while clandestinely, convincingly and continually plotting to control lives and futures. of others. you and me… and the lives of our children. They would encourage the suppression of the truth by insisting on their truth(s)…it’s in the paper so it must be true! It has been said, “as a child I did childish things… I thought and acted like a child – when I became an adult I left childish things… I thought and acted like an adult.
“It’s not the things you know…it’s the things you know that just aren’t so.”
If you have even a shred of doubt about your true heritage and the heritage of humanity: black, white, Latino, etc. – find out for yourself! Henry “Box” Brown, with the help of Brother William Still and others, made the decision to take the journey to freedom by mailing himself to Philadelphia. We have all heard of Sister Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. I have had the privilege of revisiting and retelling many of these old stories as a docent at one of the stops in Germantown-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Johnson House at Germantown Avenue and Washington Lane, one of the many stops on the Underground Railroad.
“Black Firsts”: Two Thousand Years of Extraordinary Achievement, by Dr. Jessie Carney Smith, chronicles the efforts of Black First, as the first black astronaut, Mae C. Jamison, along with many other black pioneers in all fields.
“The Black Book” by Middleton Harris compiles a journey through black America…”Between my top and bottom, my right and my left, I hold what I have seen and what I have thought. I am everything I have hated: work without harvest, death without honor, life without land or law”.
“I was there when the angel expelled the ancestor. I was there when the waters consumed the mountains.”
“We don’t know that things can be done, that dreams can be fulfilled, that great achievements can be made, until someone takes the first step and shows the way.”
Take a look at the origin of humanity and the mother of civilization – ancestors, four million years of humanity and the civilizations of the world – the Hebrew civilization… and then tell me who was the first to fly.
Until next time…