To start with to Fly, a True African-American Adventure

“A legacy of funds can’t exchange a heritage of dignity”

If there have been highly developed races in the galaxy…even by the standards of western writers, they would, at some place…damage themselves – if the technological improvement considerably outweighed their individual spiritual development and cultivation.

The primary of spirituality over technological know-how is the vital to comprehending how Africa completed what it did.

The knowledge resides in the womb of a turned down people and a (their) way of daily life.

As a result, Africa reminds us – “Gentleman Know Thyself!”

History’s very first prosperous flight is informed with a mix of fiction and factual heritage, science, and fantasy in a remarkably spirited adventure. Richard Kigel’s “On The Wings Of The Wind – The untold tale of history’s first flight” is brilliantly set to pen and paper. A masterful account of a collaboration of spirited ingenuity and perseverance – a triumph of the correct human spirit as portrayed by the steps of an American African Slave and ancestor to the fourth African American Lady Astronaut. Josiah Brantley is the Excellent-Fantastic- Good-Granddaddy of Dr. Sharon Brantley, a N.A.S.A. Scientist and Astronaut.

Josiah Brantley, a slave, flew to flexibility from Virginia to Pennsylvania all through the 18th century. We’ve been explained to numerous matters about the previous – most of which have confirmed to be bogus…just simple ole lies occur to light above and in excess of yet again. Keep in mind the Wright Brothers – Wilbur and Orville? Forget about it…! The managing factions of American and European culture would have us believe that everything they convey to us is true – Black Africans did not do a damn issue in this environment take make more Black Africans. When the real truth has been introduced forth how person-lady and civilization is rooted deeply and ultimately in and from Africa.

“Ethiopian Bones termed the oldest ancestor of person.”

The Egyptian Doctor, artist and aero modeler, Dr. Khalil Messiha rediscovered a design glider or sailplane courting from the fourth or 3rd century B.C. The glider, which is designed of sycamore wood, appears to be remarkably futuristic and bares a close resemblance to the American Hercules Transport Aircraft which has a distinct reverse dihedron wing (dihedron, Also termed: dihedral angle the determine fashioned by two intersecting planes the US name for corner Review anhedral the upward inclination of an plane wing in relation to the lateral axis) – The Saqqara Chicken is a chicken-shaped artifact made of sycamore wooden, identified in the course of the 1898 excavation of the Pa-di-Imen tomb in Saqqara, Egypt. It has been dated to approximately 200 BCE, and is now housed in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo. The Saqqara Chook has a wingspan of 180 mm (7.1 in) and weighs 39.12 g (1.380 oz).

Dr. Messiha who has made a review of chicken figures, came throughout a (the) glider product in 1969 when he was seeking through a box of chook models in a person of the Cairo Museum’s shop home(s). Albeit, individuals and civilization descended from Africa, Black individuals were not the only conquered, subjected, and suppressed individuals of the environment – Jews have been set to the examination as nicely – as had been lots of Tribal Nations on several continents – the conquered appeared to incorporate, instigate, manipulate, and observe the way of the conqueror.

Ruth’s tale – “Your Name is Renée” by Stacy Cretzmeyer, tells of a persons who ended up subjected to horrific dwelling situations, livelihoods, and ordeals of a disregarded group of human beings. The Nazis weren’t the only team of anti-semetics. Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is prejudice versus or hostility to Jews, typically rooted in hatred of their ethnic history, culture, and/or faith. In its intense sort, it “characteristics to the Jews an outstanding situation among all other civilizations, defames them as an inferior team and denies their currently being portion of the nation(s)” in which they reside. A man or woman who methods antisemitism is termed an “antisemite.” The Jewish individuals, like the American Black Slave(s), had been set to the knife – endure and persevere.

The united states and the environment has always been rescued, salvaged, and resuscitated by people of colour. A single of the quite a few earth wars was saved/rescued by African People in a historic rendition by Mr. James McBride’s “Wonder at St. Anna.” A different of his is effective is a tribute to his mom (and spouse and children) – “The Color of Water.” The inspiring account of a vivid and unbelievably shifting tale of a feisty girl of the South via Brooklyn New York’s Crimson Hook Housing Assignments. The daughter of a Rabbi and the McBride household matriarch, Ruth McBride Jordan explained to her son, “Teach you or you can be a nobody!”

The accurate that means of appreciate, family, satisfaction, and stamina is interwoven in these tales of heritage and an American practical experience – which after once more offers a portrayal of the unshakable, simple, insistences, and perseverance of a men and women and a mothers’ adore for her little ones – the small children of GOD!

Manipulative, greedy, domineering, demonizing, and fearful groups of men and women would preserve us all in the dim without end if they could – hating, killing, and destroying 1 yet another – although they clandestinely, convincingly, and continually plan to regulate the lives and long term of you and me…and the life of our children. They would motivate the suppression of reality by insisting on their fact(s)…it is in the paper, so it will have to be legitimate! It is really been explained, “as a youngster I did childish matters…I assumed and acted as a boy or girl – when I became an grownup I put away childish points…I thought and acted as an grownup.

“It really is not the items you know…it’s the factors you know that just ain’t so!”

If you have a shred of question about your genuine heritage and the heritage of mankind – Black, White, Latino, etcetera. – discover out for on your own! Henry “Box” Brown, with the enable of Brother William Nevertheless and some others, designed up his head to just take the journey to independence by mailing himself to Philadelphia. We have all listened to of Sister Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad – I have had the privilege of revisiting and retelling of a lot of of these previous tales as a docent at a person of the stops in Germantown-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Johnson Household at Germantown Avenue and Washington Lane – one particular of numerous stops on the Underground Railroad.

“Black Firsts” – two thousand yrs of extraordinary achievement, by Dr. Jessie Carney Smith chronicles Black First endeavors this sort of as the initial Black Woman Astronaut, Mae C. Jamison, along with numerous other Black Pioneers in all fields.

“The Black Guide” by Middleton Harris compiles a journey of Black The united states…”among my top rated and my base, my ideal and my left, I keep what I have found, and what I have assumed. I am every thing I have hated: labor with out harvest death devoid of honor lifestyle without having land or legislation.”

“I was there when the angel drove out the ancestor. I was there when the waters consumed the mountains.”

“We don’t know that factors can be completed, that desires can be fulfilled, that good accomplishments can be understood, right until someone takes that very first step and demonstrates the way.”

Choose a appear at the origin of mankind and the mother of civilization – ancestors, four million many years of humanity and entire world civilizations – the Hebrew civilization…and then tell me who was the 1st to fly.

Til up coming time…