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Thank you for our inheritance. There's a saying about inheritance. "70% of wealthy families will lose their wealth by the second generation, and 90% will lose it by the third." " The saying highlights the challenges of maintaining wealth across generations. It emphasizes the importance of passing down wealth and knowledge faithfully to the next generation." Late boomers (Gen Jones), Gen X, and Millennials never learned how to keep the rights we gained from your generation. We squandered and lost our inheritance. Now we're here.

🙏🏽 Thank you so much. 💗 As I mentioned earlier about remembering the ancestors' way to honor our loved one's transition, questioning our place in the world when one departs is one of those rites. Cheyenne told me that if anyone in our family had to get cancer, she felt that she was the best one to handle it. When she was eight, she told me, "Do what you desire before your heart expires." And when I say she lived - she did. When Cheyenne transitioned, I wondered who would fill her space and who would show up and bring joy to others as she did. Not a day goes by that I don't wonder why Cheyenne? Or I wonder why my father didn't survive that bullet wound. Plenty of people survive getting shot. Why do some of us have longevity and not others? I think we forgot our power. This is why these systems use us, abuse us, and drain us. We have the power to choose when we arrive when we depart, and how we live in between. I trust our timing and our agreements with ourselves. Thank you for being here.

@ProfD &Pioneer1: I know you 2 are not serioudly asking me why my generation didn't break the bonds of white supremacy and form our own political party! Not seriously suggesting that we were too dumb to organize and rebel against the most powerful country in the world with the goal of abolishing white supremacy. I could remind you about the existence of the Black Wall Street settlement in Tulsa, Okalahoma, and what happened in 1921 to this paragon of black achievement when it simply dared to defend itself from resentful white racists. I think the most obvious answer to your absurd question about why my generation didn't form our own political party, is that we wanted to become a part of the mainstream , not independent of it. MLK convinced us that integration was the answer to racism; the gateway to equality. If Blacks could just be judged by "the content of their character rather than the color of their skin", he assured us we'd all be one big happy family sitting at the same table. And in spite of what you 2 continue to downplay, Blacks did weave themselves into the fabric of the Democratic party, gaining power and control at local levels in urban areas as well as representation in the State and national Congresses. Even rewarded with a black Supreme Court Justice in the person of Thurgood Marshall. This was also the era of acquiring voting rights and Equal Opportunity Employment. We were still "Negroes" during this period and through passive resistance, boycotts and demonstrations we did make progress with the rise of a viable black middleclass, paving the way all along for those who we passed the torch to. And what did the ensuing Black Power/Afro-centric, BLM Wokeness phases of the struggle get us? A black president who became fodder for the crabs in a barrel syndrome and a soundly-rejected woman of color presidential candidate. And what is the immediate state of the Black America union? Dazed znd confused. Don't ask me anything else about what Blacks need to do. to neutralize the white power structure. I'll be damned if I know, and I'm too busy hating what white Retrumpicans are doing to the entire country as they prime America for a take over by the MAGA Klan.

@Mel HopkinsI was stunned to learn about the loss of your daughter and find myself at a loss for words to express how sorry I am. just know that, as a parent, I empathize with what you must be experiencing and I sympathize with and admire how you are handling this tragedy. Why I am still here, doing nothing but taking up space, and a young vital woman with so much to offer the world is taken, is something I have trouble resigning myself to. and I'm weary from trying to sort it all out. And although certainly not to the extent that you are going through I, too, am having issues with the medical community after having recently had a cataract removed from my left eye. My complaint has to do with ageism, and feelings that I am being exploited because I have Medicare and medical insurance and am looked upon as a cash cow, being scheduled for unnecessary duplicating procedures, and pressured into having follow-ups, and additional surgery which at my age is a waste of time and money and more trouble than it's worth! Anyhow, - glad you checked in with us. Stay strong. 🫶

Thank you, Pioneer. Yes, she's my daughter, my baby girl. She loved it here. She told me before she passed away. She also lived life - she was courageous. She was on a mission, and by the turnout at her Celebration, she touched a lot of folks with her light and life. One of her high school classmates learned of her passing and came from Seattle to Cincinnati to say fare well. He told us that when he was friendless, Cheyenne became his first friend. Cheyenne wanted to be treated by traditional medicine - and she was. However, she had to push her initial health caregiver even to test her when she told them of her symptoms. Cheyenne didn't take "no" for an answer. It was after the treatment that she realized that the treatments were inadequate - more for money and destabilizing than curing. This is what she wanted everyone to know. What I learned during her experience, as@ProfD alluded to is that many pharmaceuticals could heal and possibly even cure, but those treatments are reserved for the wealthy. Two days before Cheyenne suffered seizures, the doctors prescribed a therapy that could reach her brain, but they had to wait for her insurance provider to approve it. They did the same day she transitioned. Oddly enough, they could have prescribed the medicine before her brain surgery. - My daughter and I are not separated. The part of her who is eternal is still with me. I don't remember the skills to engage with her as I did when she was here in the flesh. I do, however, remember how my ancestors processed the transitioning of our loved ones, and it is a lot different from how Western civilization deals with the death of the body. So, while I miss her physical incarnation, her soul is boundless. ❤️‍🔥 I made this post because I want us to think about our health care—especially as Black people, we must reach back to our ancestral ways to maintain our health. Despite my daughter's paternity—she got her mtDNA from me—mitochondrial DNA, which comes from the mother to its offspring. The mtDNA houses ATP, also known as the God cell, that gives us life and our cells' energy. The medical establishment knows this even though lay people don't. As Prof D said, cancer has been around for millennia, we must remember the ways of our ancestors to survive.

@Pioneer1 when people start throwing around the word populace then you’ll know the influence is complete 😉 I think it is great that Jim Crow laws have been repealed. “Segregation” where people were forced to drink from different fountains could not stay in public hotels use public pools were forced into crappy schools could not get meaningful employment. All those things were bad. however, in desperation to integrate we effectively destroyed many black communities as the professionals and working middle class abandoned “separate” black neighborhoods in favor of white ones. This has been bad too. There have been a bunch of books written on this subject. Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America by Eugene Robinsonis one that I read recently another that I just added to the site is, Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra.