A time to serve (unfinished)

“If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done.” John13:14-15
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13: 34-35
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son; if you ask anything in my name, I will do it.” John 14: 12-14

My father, Rev.Wilson, has been encouraging me to read the book of John for many years. He would tell me that if I sought to truly understand Jesus and His purpose on this earth that John would provide that enlightenment. As any child would do, I resisted, but as I began to grow into my own adulthood the words of my father would linger in my subconscious until one day I sat down and read the book of John with my daily devotion. It was then that these specific verses spoke to my spirit in a very dynamic and humbling way.
I’ve always known that my life’s work was meant to serve the people, but I had no idea that my greatest teacher in service would be Jesus. It is through this journey of service that I come to you asking to share in this work of serving the people. Jesus’ work was feeding the poor, clothing the naked, healing the sick, engaging the downtrodden, and loving the forgotten ones.
Today many of our very own people are suffering greatly during this systemic recession. Unemployment amongst African-Americans in this country is at an alarming 16%. Students who are able to go off to college return with massive debt and no job prospects. Our community is suffering daily by lack of nutritious foods and quality health care. Our children still feel the pressures of under achievement.
The time is now, more than ever to take up the baton of revolutionary servitude as best demonstrated to us by the life of Jesus. It is one thing to know and confess Jesus to be Lord in our own lives, but it is another type of journey to take up His cross and do the greater works He has prepared us to do.

The P.E.A.C.E Campaign, Philadelphia Economic Advancement Collective is asking you and your congregation to join us in using our collective voice to shine a light on the injustices that continue to plague our urban communities. Dr. King so eloquently said that an “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” We must wash away the impurities of economic discrimination, police brutality, and environmental racism to create a society that reflects the beloved community we all seek to exist in.
The P.E.A.C.E Campaign is organizing daily teach-ins and community awareness events registering people to vote, collecting signatures for petitions demanding better conditions for our community, and providing literature and information on current statistics that plague our collective upliftment. We are asking to partner with your church by providing resources and volunteers to engage the community in one on one dialouge about the ...

I ask that you too join me in the streets of Philadelphia witnessing through revolutionary service by opening your church up for the community to ...

Thoughts of the American Negress

Everything happens for a reason; being open and responsive will make all the difference in the world when interpreting those reasons.

My mate once shared with me, persistence and patience precedes progress. Whether or not I truly understand the depth of this wisdom, it does resonate with my current state of existence.

I am a writer, have been a published writer since the age of 10 years old, but my patience and persistence has been inconsistent and so has my progress as a writer. I am now in 2011, focusing my thoughts, words, and actions to manifest that of a writer, and so here represents the rebirth of Love's Revolt, the blog.

On this blog I will share my thoughts, views, and opinions of what is happening in our world from an American Negress' perspective. I'm sure you're thinking, "we have that already, its BET"; and if you truly believe that then you should really read this blog, if nothing else for fodder to chew and digest.

We have yet been "paid in full" as a people the promissory note Dr. King eloquently spoke about in that famous hour long speech that gets butchered into 20 second sound bites. He says, "When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Well if you've not been awoken, Negro male, by the sound of the police siren, then Negro woman you've been jarred from your sleep by a 4am phone call asking to come down to the police district to know that we still do not benefit from the riches and gains of this American dream as a people.

Sure of course, a few token Negros have been sprinkled on top like pepper in this melting pot, but the majority of American Negros (like 85% of us) get left at the bottom of the pot to flavor the American culture.

There still exist a major deficit when it comes to the American Negro's experience compare to that of other naturalized citizens. Michelle Alexander writes a timely and much needed book called the New Jim Crow, explaining how the criminal justice system is and has always been designed to revoke the rights of these American citizens that happen to be blacker than blue. I just received the book from Amazon and will be reading it over the next few days so as to use it as she says, "...for...those who have been struggling to persuade their friends, neighbors, relatives, teachers, co-workers, or political representatives that...our criminal justice system operates...a lot like an era we supposedly left behind, but have lacked the fact and data to back up their claims."**

This blog will serve in that same fashion, providing insight, data, and perspective of the American Negro experience from within the American Negro's veil. Helping folk, who feel this eerie familiarity to just a few years ago when American Negros were lynched, driven from their homes and communities, and forced into political and economic exile and underworld, navigate the current bureaucracy of neocolonialism.


Check in once a week to get the scoop of global affairs from the Amercian Negress perspective.

Peace and love

You've Got To Be Kidding!!!!

Hey I get it, I love Jesus just like the next good Christian, but I really think Jesus would do more than take a Black man to church on Easter Sunday, he would be in these streets demanding jobs for all people!!!

I don't understand why these connections are not being made more adamantly.  The reason there is violence is because there are NO JOBS.  The reason there is poverty is because there are NO JOBS.  The reason we comprise 70% of the prison population is because there are NO JOBS!!!

What does going to church have to do with this?  Its a repeat of the 1995 attempt for atonement.  Yes we got issues, hell, who does not have issues.  But we also have little to no economic means for protecting and providing for our families and communities.  In 1995 like today we were experiencing a financial downturn.  We were in the middle of welfare reform, failing schools, omnibus crime bills, deregulation of industries, and international conflicts...no different than today.

But it is different today, because right now, its worst.  We are in the middle of one of the worst legislative governing bodies we have ever seen, the highest prison population in the world, massive cuts to the social safety net, increased long term unemployment, record breaking foreclosures, and a dismantling of public education never experienced before in the history of our country.

What will taking a Black man to church do to at minimum address these global atrocities.  Nothing in my opinion.  Absolutely nothing.

It is a farce, an embarrassment to the name of Jesus, that at the time of this great struggle for humanity we are encouraging Black males to go to church on Easter!!!  For What!!!???

Don't get me wrong I believe in the institutional relevance of the Black Church.  Its importance to the fabric of the black experience.  The liberation theology that once rang out strong and committed to freedom for all, but that's not what I've been observing for the last 20 years.

I'm overwhelmingly disappointed. There are no words for me right now, and so I will put my head down and stay low on the grind.  Diligent on the path towards organizing and writing, and strategically aligning with resources that are going to facilitate the shifts we are experiencing and will continue to experience until we move from the age of Europe to the age of Humanity.

Peace and love!