First to fly, a true African American adventure
“A legacy of money cannot replace an inheritance 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 exceeded their own spiritual development and cultivation.
The paramount 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 in a way of life.
Thus, Africa reminds us: “Man know yourself!”
The first successful flight in history is told with a mixture of fiction and factual history, science and fantasy in a highly animated adventure. Richard Kigel’s “On the Wings of the Wind – The Untold Story of History’s First Flight” is brilliantly written in pencil and paper. A masterful account of a collaboration of energetic ingenuity and perseverance: a triumph of the true human spirit as portrayed by the actions of an African American slave and ancestor of the fourth African American female astronaut. Josiah Brantley is the great-great-grandfather of NASA scientist and astronaut Dr. Sharon Brantley.
Josiah Brantley, a slave, flew free from Virginia to Pennsylvania during the 18th century. We have been told many things about the past, most of which have been proven false … just old lies come to light again and again. Remember the Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville? Forget it …! 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 agree to make more black Africans. When the truth has been revealed, how man-woman and civilization are deeply rooted and ultimately in and from Africa.
“Ethiopian Bones called the oldest ancestor of man”.
The Egyptian physician, artist and model airplane, Dr. Khalil Messiha, rediscovered a model of glider or glider dating from the 4th or 3rd century BC. C. Aircraft having a distinctive inverse dihedral wing (dihedral, also called: dihedral angle the figure formed by two intersecting planes; the American name for corner; anhedral compare 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 in Saqqara, Egypt. It has been dated to approximately 200 BC. C. and now it is in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities of Cairo. The Saqqara bird has a wingspan of 180 mm (7.1 inches) 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 through a box of bird models in one of the warehouses of the Cairo Museum. Although people and civilization descended from Africa, blacks were not the only conquered, subdued, and repressed in the world; 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 way of the conqueror.
Ruth’s story, “Your Name is Renée” by Stacy Cretzmeyer, tells of a people who were subjected to the horrible living conditions, livelihoods and experiences of an ignored group of human beings. The Nazis weren’t the only group of anti-Semetics. Anti-Semitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-Semitism) is prejudice or hostility towards Jews, often rooted in hatred of their ethnicity, culture, and / or religion. In its extreme form, it “attributes to Jews an exceptional position among all other civilizations, defames them as an inferior group, and denies that they are part of the nations” in which they reside. A person who practices anti-Semitism is called an “anti-Semite.” The Jewish people, like the American black slave (s), were put to the knife: survive and persevere.
America and the world have always been rescued, rescued, and resurrected by people of color. One of the many world wars was saved / rescued by African Americans in a historical version of “Miracle at St. Anna” by Mr. James McBride. Another of his works is a tribute to his mother (and family) – “El color del agua”. The inspiring account of a vibrant and incredibly moving story of a struggling southern woman through the Red Hook housing projects of Brooklyn, New York. Ruth McBride Jordan, daughter of a rabbi and matriarch of the McBride family, told her son: “Educate yourself or you will be nobody!”
The true meaning of love, family, pride and endurance is woven into these stories of history and an American experience, which once again provides 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 your lives and future. and I … and the lives of our children. They would encourage the suppression of the truth by insisting on their truth (s) … it’s in the newspaper, 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 put aside childish things … I thought and acted like an adult.”
“It’s not the things you know… it’s the things you know aren’t like that!”
If you have an iota 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, decided to set out on the journey to freedom by mailing 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 teacher 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 Black First’s efforts as the first black female astronaut, Mae C. Jamison, along with many other black pioneers in all fields.
Middleton Harris “Black Book” compiles a journey of black America … “Between my top and my butt, 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 drove out 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 world civilizations, the Hebrew civilization … and then tell me who was the first to fly.
Until next time …