``Even if I don’t have much money, I still have a great deal
of wit, intelligence, good values, LOVe, family, creativity, a good LOVing
heart, open-mindedness, Writing Skills [I am a wordsmith] , good humor, GOD, and Gratitude I Am forever thankful to GOD our Creator & All Ancient Black
Ancestors including Jesus Christ &; All Living Black Ancestors &; Our
Black youth who will carry on the torch for this positive movement that will eventually wake us up to our own Black power as Black People.’’
Earth Father --
Brother Tracy Gibson…..
The Concept of Earth
Father & Why It Is Important to the World’s Future
By Brother Tracy Gibson
The concept of Earth Father has come to mind to ponder. A Black Youth told me I was thinking I was a
God by calling myself an Earth Father. That is certainly not true. Certainly,
recently, I have thought of myself as a God, but at the same time, not wanting
to take the place of the one and only true GOD, I have backed off from this
concept in hopes of discovering for myself something else that works better in
concept. I think Earth Father will do just fine.
An Earth Father is someone who sees Himself as a leader of
men and women. A LOVer of mankind and woman kind. A Man who sees Himself as the
father of all of human creation, but not wanting to take the place of GOD, but,
in fact, just help GOD along the Way by working towards peace, LOVe, decency,
justice, Joy, Prayer, Hope & wealth spent properly for all of
humanity. I think, in my case, being of
African and Caribbean decent, I Am a special Earth father to African and Black
People throughout the world. But my duties extend to other races as well.
The fact that I Am a homosexual has nothing to do with my
viability as an Earth Father. Learning from such groups as Adodi Philadelphia,
a support group for Black Gay men, I discovered the many faceted aspects of
what a truly caring, open and giving Black man are, regardless of sexual
orientation. It really has to do with the deep LOVe, I have for myself and for
this precious, precious earth we live on and our duty to serve as masters of it
and stewards for it as we hand it down to younger generations of Africans and
others who truly care about People, places and things and the environment. Not just wanting to exploit these entities,
and master them for wealth building, but actually utilize stewardship as a
great honor and return great portions of wealth back to the People. For now, I
don’t see why I should need more than $75,000.00 a year r more to live off
of. This would have to be done in a Way
that was complimentary to the positive existence of this precious earth, not
leading it further towards destruction just so I can make money.
Some wealthy People who live well, but give millions of
dollars away—I think they are secret Earth Fathers and Earth Mothers. They just
don’t think of this concept. They also
go by a more traditional way of thinking about wealth, philanthropy, wealth
building, inheritance, charity and stocks and bonds & so forth. I tend to think we MUST share, not that it is
just an desirable option. Keeping wealth within one family like so many wealthy
families do is out of the question for an Earth Father or an Earth Mother. I see Mr. and Mrs. William Gates as
struggling with this concept. They give
away a lot of money, but their home estate is worth a ravishing $67 million
dollars. I am sure there are servants,
extra cars planes, and so forth. Having
some of the trappings of wealth is ok, but I really think too much is too
much. So much of the United States
population [I call our Nation he United States of Native America] so much of
our population looks at people like Oprah and want to be like them and envy
them. They know very little about How wealth works, how
to attain it, how to master it and how to maintain it. I learned at my father’s
knee that a key to all this is property ownership and living below one’s
means. However, [personally, I’ve not
been able to buy property recently and live as a struggling man economically. I pray everyday this will change. I work hard
at it. But my inability to give back created a very bad spirit for me so I
forced the issue with myself and created a program to hire one Black youth who
is now my student. He earns $342.00
every two weeks. Unfortunately this leaves me with very little to spend on
myself and my personal needs.
What I can’t get close family members to know and understand
is this giving back to me is like breathing for others. I felt a level of joy and hope and wonder at
being successful with the program – devised as p[art of The New School for
Black Progressive Thought & Black Achievement—I felt so good about the
program at first that I cannot explain to you this feeling. It made things come round for me. Turned me
into a New Man. Made me whole. Made me feel decent and great about myself. But as we fell on hard times, I realized I
couldn’t successfully run the program without financial intervention and
financial help from somewhere. I AM
still an Earth Father, but I have to be a realist also. Unless the Program is financed in some way,
it will have to be discontinued for now.
This I feel, is a shame and makes me sad. Maybe I am just fantasizing here, but I know
unless many, many more Black People take a personal look at helping out Black
youth, maybe just one or two, our youth are, many of them doomed to create
another generation of People in the turnstile of prison, the military and
joblessness.
This is Why I have asked for financial help with the
Program. But this is Why I want to
express my concept fully as Earth Father.
Why are we longing for a vacation house on the French, Riviera,
expensive art work, mansions, and many sexual partners when such a lifestyle is
basically destructive, deceitful, greed-producing, wasteful, unnecessary and
while your friends will be envious, they will also be out after your wife,
husband and your pocket book. Such a
wealthy unrealistic lifestyle is one that may create envy, but since when has
creating envy in others ever been a good thing? Creating envy in others flies
in the face of good spiritual posture with the major known religions such as
Christianity. It also is basically an un-Godly lifestyle unless you are prone
and destined to give away, after seeking the People who have their credential
and hearts in the correct place, give away a large chunk of the wealth you
helped create. Basically it is the workers who have really created the wealth
in the first place. Often it is the
inventor or the innovator who just harnesses an idea and uses it to make the
money and manages the company well enough to harness wealth. This really doesn’t, in my opinion, make you
any better than any worker down on the front line of employment or in your
factory. In fact it may make you less
humane as you consider and ponder the decisions that impact greatly on People’s
lives, without their input and / or knowledge.
An Earth Father or Earth Mother makes decisions that help
create peace; create and maintain a safe and clean environment; take good care
of worker’s needs; creates decent, cool, relaxed, clean & safe working
conditions; & take care to obey every and all regulations without using
money, power & influence to pay off this foreign official or that state or
federal regulating agent. This is the duty of an Earth Father or an Earth
Mother.
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