Art at the Great Plains Black History Museum

 Th Great Plains Black History Museum is on 24th just south of Lake.  Her are some artistic views I saw there.

The new museum architect drawing

My Rant Prompted by the Movie "Sound of Freedom"

I don't know if this movie has all the technical merit of an academy award winner.  In fact because of politics I can assure everyone it will not receive any nominations.  However I left the theater angry.  Little children are being exploited for the sexual pleasure and enrichment of others.  It seems many just turned a bind eye; or even oppose people talking about this problem.  Disney owned the rights to this movie and sat on it until the rights were purchased by Angel Studios.

The lead character quotes a scripture during the movie from Matthew 18:  6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

My anger comes from this: Our government, who should be doing all they can to protect children does just the opposite.  The government  has lost about 100,000 children entering our country illegally.  Our southern border is wide open which allows cartels to use the border for their human trafficking, including minor sex slaves.  Why did Joe Biden refuse to finish the southern border fence or secure the southern border?

Our government is also insistent on promoting the transgender ideology--to the point of insisting that men be allowed in women's restrooms and doctors be allowed to harm children with puberty suppressing drugs and sex change surgeries, also known as "genital mutilation."

I do not know what the agenda of our executive branch is; but if you are for children then you have to be against this administration.  If you are for women's sports, you have to be against this administration.  If you are for women you have to be against this administration.  It is time to go back to common sense with regards to some of these things.  And I am not a homophobe because I do not want men in women's sports, locker rooms or restrooms.  Why do men insist on being in the women's restroom? 

Men who participate in women's sports are not heroes.  Any medals or awards they have won in doing so should be forfeit. They have access to other sports venues.  

Poetry I Like: Follow the Drinking Gourd: Underground Railroad Song

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Story: The lyrics were instructions on how to get to safety. They were taught by a man known as Peg Leg Joe. The young slaves would use to song to know when it is safe to run, and where it is safe to go.

Lyrics:

When the Sun comes back

And the first quail calls

Follow the Drinking Gourd,

For the old man is a

-waiting for to carry you to freedom

If you follow the Drinking Gourd

 

The riverbank makes a very good road.

The dead trees will show you the way.

Left foot, peg foot, travelling on,

Follow the Drinking Gourd.

The river ends between two hills

Follow the Drinking Gourd.

There’s another river on the other side

Follow the Drinking Gourd.

 

When the great big river meets the little river

Follow the Drinking Gourd.For the old man is a

-waiting for to carry to freedom

If you follow the Drinking Gourd

If you aren't allowed to teach or read, how do you teach about the north star.  The answer is in song.  This song tells a slave the route to follow, and what signs to look for on the way.

Slavery and Civil RIghts; Frederick Douglas and Maya Angelou

I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.”

“Out of the huts of history's shame
Dr Maya Angelou

 Where Slavery is there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is there Slavery cannot be.
        Chas. Sumner—

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.”
― Frederick Douglass

“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
― Frederick Douglass

“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”
― Frederick Douglass

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Frederick Douglass