BLAK OURSTORY MONTH - Part II

But if we’ve learned only one thing from the Obama Era, it should be how to discern sentiment from concreteness, emotion from passion, and symbolism from substance.........Yvette Carnell of Your Black World.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twOK5sXccmY

                              Callie House a BLAK OURSTORY SHERO


Welcome BLAK to another edition of BOM here at ya fave BLAK site, b2a. WE gonna celebrate this here OUR WAY & before WE do, unfortunately, WE gotta speak on the fact that Bobbi Kristina, child of Bobby & Whitney is still laying inna coma after almost drowning. As she hasn't died, info is skethchy but check this out after her Mom died almost 3 years ago at http://black2afrika.blogspot.com/2012/02/we-gotta-talk-about-devil-in-music_15.html. As well, 1 of ya faves as in a dude named suge knight is now sitting in jail for killing a dude & critically injuring his PAL even though he says that he didn't intend to do it though he was FLEEING & BACKED UP TWICE on 'em! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icUVTR2HK20. I absolutely LOVE & SUPPORT MARSHAWN LYNCH & WE know he knows just bcuz of his last name; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRbszGmvusU. Let's get into Callie House now....................


Nothing in Callie Houses life was NORMAL & even this pic indicates exactly that! (1st photobomb ever?) Perhaps the guy behind her was joking but this wasa really SIRIUS SISTA! This SISTA was the very 1st ex-slave in recorded HERstory to start the movement to get other ex-slaves to be COMPENSATED (REPARATIONS) during the reconstruction period when speaking out against anything white supremacist was still very DANGEROUS! In fact, in the year 1898, Ms House was elected assistant secretary of the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty & Pension Association of the United States of America (MRB&PA).*


Ya see, to make ends meet, Ms House did laundry for those Kkkind white folk who cared about US so much that they just had to GIVE US work! Soon after OUR SISTA became asst. sec, she had over 300,000 members sign up for the above mentioned movement all the while competing with more famous luminaries as in w.e DUBIOUS & hooKKKer t washington. Could ya imagine being a BW in that type of racial climate yo?


The Pensions Bureau of the federal government reported that the pension movement "is setting the Negroes wild...and making anarchists of them," and that were it to continue, the government "will have some very serious questions to settle in connection with the control of the race."**


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUz_4AtOHOo


There was so much more to Ms House who did all of these things & more but the purpose of this series is not to give Y'ALL an autobio but to whet the appetite so that from this point, you can do ya own independent RESEARCH. I keep telling y'all that 2015 is OUR YEAR & if ya still just working a job & doing nothing toward the UPLIFTMENT of US, then ya doing NOTHING! In comparison to yesteryear, WE AIN'T going thru NOTHING & so what's yo excuse? To SACRIFICE as she & Paul Robeson did is a small price to pay for the PEEPO but so few are CALLED! To know more of the legacy of OUR dearly departed SISTA, go here to see what it is & SUPPORT; http://www.amazon.com/My-Face-Black-True-Reparations/dp/0307277054



Til WE are LIBERATED, WE at b2a will continue to bang the DRUMS of LIBERATION & telling the REAL to those who have EYES that SEE & EARS that HEAR! Please help US in these endeavors, SUPPORT US & raise the YOUNG 1's CORRECTLY while teaching the harsh & brutal TRUTH! This has been another missive from the pages of ya favorite BLAK site, b2a & from that HOLLA BLAK Dude. I LOVE BLAK PEEPO & so...........................https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NceKuXts95U. Til then it's WAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




* http://womenshistorysources.blogspot.com/2010/11/callie-house-and-struggle-for-ex-slave.html

** http://socialistworker.org/2007-1/628/628_13_Reparations.shtml