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Howdy, followers. Today, I’m going to show you these old pictures of African Americans in the American Old West, also featuring photos of famous and legendary Black figures that I considered them as legends of the American western history.

I’m going to be honest with you all as I’m going to give prosperous facts; African American were and still are cowboys and cowgirls. We already had these skills of saddling, cattle ranching, farming, agriculture, and riding horses, back in the ancient times in Northern/Western Africa before Christ, Islam, and colonization. It was an golden age back than.

Bill Pickett (1871-1932), rodeo performer.

Nat Love, aka Deadwood Dick (1854-1921), cowboy and saddler.

Jesse Stahl (1879-1935), cowboy and rodeo star.

John Ware (1845?-1905), rancher, saddler, and cowboy.  

James Pierson Beckwourth (1805-1866), mountain man, fur trader, scout, and explorer. 

Isom Dart (Ned Huddleston) (1849-1900), cowboy, criminal, and outlaw.  

Bass Reeves (1838-1910), lawman and deputy U.S. marshal

George Fletcher (1890-1973), rodeo star and cowboy. 

George Glenn  (1850–1931), cowboy.   

Dangerfield Newby (1815-1859), freedom fighter and rebellion.    

Mary Fields (1832-1914), mail courier. 

Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), freedom fighter, slave rebellion, scout, spy, nurse, and guerrilla soldier. 

John Horse (1812–1882), slave rebellion and freedom fighter. 

Now, here are old pictures of black people in the old American west. 

This is John Ware and his wife and kids. 

That’s Bass Reeves. 

Bill Pickett’s family members. 

This is Harriet Tubman in her previous age. 

 Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), abolitionist and human right activist. 

Notice the changes around the nose, lips and chin.

He looks exactly like I though Q would look like.

The Wizard of Q…

Nana Akua Goes to School (2020)

“It is Grandparents Day at Zura’s elementary school, and the students are excited to introduce their grandparents and share what makes them special. Aleja’s grandfather is a fisherman. Bisou’s grandmother is a dentist. But Zura’s Nana, who is her favorite person in the world, looks a little different from other grandmas.

Nana Akua was raised in Ghana, and, following an old West African tradition, has tribal markings on her face. Worried that her classmates will be scared of Nana–or worse, make fun of her–Zura is hesitant to bring her to school. Nana Akua knows what to do, though. 

With a quilt of traditional African symbols and a bit of face paint, Nana Akua is able to explain what makes her special, and to make all of Zura’s classmates feel special, too.”

by Tricia Elam Walker and April Harrison  

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Tricia Elam Walker is the author of the novel Breathing Room, among other publications. She is an award-winning fiction and nonfiction writer, cultural and fashion commentator, and blogger who has written for National Public Radio, the Washington Post, Essence magazine, HuffPost, and more. She practiced law for sixteen years prior to teaching writing in Washington, DC, and Boston. Tricia is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Howard University and is working on several projects, including children’s books, plays, and a second novel.

April Harrison, a renowned folk artist, is the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award-winning illustrator of Patricia C. McKissack’s final picture book, What Is Given from the Heart, which received four starred reviews and which the New York Times Book Review called an “exquisite story of generosity.” Her work appears in the public collections of Vanderbilt University, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, the Atlanta Housing Authority, and the Erskine University Museum and in many private collections. 

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HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!!!!!

   I Wanted To Celebrate All Men Of Color. Albinism, Vitiligo, Redheads, Freckles, Light, Caramel, Brown & Dark-skinned. This Post Means More To Me Then Just Celebrating Eye Candy though, It Represents My History On & Off Tumblr. I Created This Blog Almost Seven Years To The Day. I Was Inspired By Romeisburning ( @gaspack ) , @sexxxcells & Dickbreath ( @lucifuck ) So Obviously My Standards Were Set High But, I Have A Habit Of Being Really Consistent Or Not At All But I Always Come Back, I’ve Had This On My To-Do List Since Last May.. This Post Represents The Guys I’ve Posted Before Anyone Else, Guys Who Have Made This Blog Successful, Ones I Posted Before They Were Celebrities, Ex’s, Current Situation-ships, Guys I’ve Made Popular, My Other Blog @darkskinboy With Nastylikepunana ( @surra-de-bunda ) Etc. & Now I Want to Take My Platforms To The Next Level & Make Them Bigger Than Just Tumblr. This Post Signifies The Past, Present &, The Future Of What’s To Come, 

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH !!!

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Obeah (sometimes spelled Obi, Obea, or Obia), is a term used in the West Indies to refer to folk magic, sorcery, and religious practices developed among West African slaves, specifically of Igbo origin

Obeah is practiced in Suriname, Cuba, Jamaica,Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, Belize, The Bahamas, and other Caribbean nations In some Caribbean nations, Obeah refers to folk religions of the African diaspora. 

In some cases, aspects of these folk religions have survived through syncretism with Christian symbolism and practice introduced by European colonials and slave owners. Casual observation may conclude that Christian symbolism is incorporated into Obeah worship, but in fact may represent clandestine worship and religious protest.

During slavery, Obeah was directed against the European slave masters. However, with the rise of Christianity, Obeah is considered a taboo, and the term has pejorative associations. The theory of origin that is most accepted and is supported by the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute databas  traces obeah to the dibia or obia(Igbo: doctoring) traditions of the Igbo people. Specialists in Obia (also spelled Obea) were known as Ndi Obia (Igbo: Obia people) and practised the same activities as the obeah men and women of the Caribbean like predicting the future and manufacturing charms.the Igbo there were oracles known as ọbiạ which were said to be able to talk. Parts of the Caribbean where Obeah was most active imported a large number of its slaves from the Igbo dominated Bight of Biafra

The term ‘obeah’ is first found in documents from the early 18th century, as in its connection to Nanny of the Maroons, but discussion of it becomes more frequent when it was made illegal in Jamaica after Tacky’s War, in which an obeahman provided advice to the rebels.

In 1787 a letter to an English newspaper referred to “Obiu-women” interpreting the wishes of the dead at the funeral of a murdered slave in Jamaica: a footnote explained the term as meaning “Wise-women”.

A continuing source of white anxiety related to Obeah was the belief that practitioners were skilled in using poisons, as mentioned in Matthew Lewis’s Journal of a West India Proprietor. An anti-Obeah law passed in Barbados in 1818 specifically forbade the possession of “any poison, or any noxious or destructive substance”. A doctor who examined the medicine chest of an Obeah man arrested in Jamaica in 1866 identified white arsenic as one of the powders in it, but could not identify the others. The unnamed correspondent reporting this affirmed “The Jamaica herbal is an extensive one, and comprises some highly poisonous juices, of which the Obeah men have a perfect knowledge.”[18]

During the mid 19th century the appearance of a comet in the sky became the focal point of an outbreak of religious fanatical millennialism among the Myal men of Jamaica. Spiritualism was at that time sweeping the English-speaking nations as well, and it readily appealed to those in the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, as spirit contact, especially with the dead, is an essential part of many African religions.

During the conflict between Myal and Obeah, the Myal men positioned themselves as the “good” opponents to “evil” Obeah.[19] They claimed that Obeah men stole people’s shadows, and they set themselves up as the helpers of those who wished to have their shadows restored. Myal men contacted spirits in order to expose the evil works they ascribed to the Obeah men, and led public parades which resulted in crowd-hysteria that engendered violent antagonism against Obeah men. The public “discovery”[according to whom?] of buried Obeah charms, presumed to be of evil intent, led on more than one occasion to violence against the rival Obeah men.

Laws were passed that limited both Obeah and Myal traditions[20] but due to the outrages perpetrated by the mobs of Myalists, the British government of Jamaica sent many Myal men to prison[when?], and this, along with the failure of their millennialist prophecies

Ralph Waldo Emerson – “Compensations”The more pure and spiritually developed a person is (especially if they are actively working towards real spiritual advancement) the more attention they will attract from the negatives to pull them down (see Mara).

 In other words, the potential of any aspirant generates their level of negative opposition, plus their level of positive assistance, as set by Karmic Law. This is the natural way of things, and is part of the reason why real long-term spiritual development is so difficult. And this is also why those that achieve any significant level of spiritual / psychic development usually live fairly difficult lives, or have a painful past. Robert Bruce – “White Light Shields”

The First Law of Thermodynamics, a cornerstone of classical physics, states energy always presents itself as being “fixed.” That is, energy can be exchanged between the system of interest and its surroundings, however, the total energy of the system PLUS the surroundings remains constant. Nevertheless, in spite of the “rules” observed throughout history in classical physics, in quantum physics, energy can and does appear and disappear out of nowhere spontaneously. Anna Jones – “Apportation Revisited”

“There is a powerful connecting force between events. We may not understand it scientifically, but spiritually we know it is so.” Yasutani Hakuun Roshi – “A Biographical Note”

“Power is one of the first barriers you must pass in becoming a Man of Knowledge (Shaman). Power is intoxicating. Magic and Siddhicreate a drunkenness that is very tricky to sidestep. What you wish for comes true, like Aladdin and the Genie.” Jeffrey Ellis – “DreamingAwake”

“All the details about how to dig up plants — not using a metal tool, using branches from tree-friends of the plant, and even apologizing to the plant-spirit every time for taking them and assuring them that someday the diviner’s own body will serve as food for them “so, all in all, the plants and ourselves are even” — are all things my uncle taught me.“ the Wanderling – ”The Informant and Carlos Castaneda“

So here’s the thing about rhino hunting: it’s perfectly legal IF you have the permits. It’s just expensive. You have to get the permit to hunt and the permit to import back to your home country. Rhinos selected for hunting are old, post-reproductive bulls. They’re not really genetically valuable anymore, and having the ability to sell hunting rights encourages African landowners to keep rhinos on their land. Trophy hunts aren’t figured into the poaching numbers… at all.  When they say that poaching has gone up or down, they are not including trophy hunting because those numbers are totalled separately. Trophy hunters have to buy permits, and this is not a financial problem for them. While it’s not completely unheard of (there’s one guy in particular, a South African big game rancher/hunter named Dawie Groenenwald, who did bring in twelve Americans to trophy hunt on his land- read more about that here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/10/dark-world-of-the-rhino-horn-trade/), that’s not where the real money is. I’m certainly not saying that all trophy hunting is legitimate or even if any of it’s a good idea. What I’m saying is that it’s irrelevant to the poaching numbers.

The people killing these rhinos aren’t taking them as trophies.

They’re selling the horns in Vietnam.

Other Asian countries too, mostly China and anywhere that’s had significant sinicization, but Vietnam’s burgeoning economy and the meteoric rise of an emergent upper-middle business class has meant that it’s where all that rhino horn is going. It’s a status symbol, a way to curry favor with business higher ups (Source: http://www.poachingfacts.com/faces-of-the-poachers/buyers-of-rhino-horn/). This isn’t even a secret. The people who traffic rhino horn say openly where it goes (Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/10/dark-world-of-the-rhino-horn-trade/). They talk about how it gets there, and who does the killing. It’s an enormous industry and immensely valuable. TRAFFIC has been working on this for over a decade now, figuring out who’s killing the rhinos and where the horns are going. Nine years ago, the first big report from TRAFFIC came out on the trade from the African rhino-having countries to Asia. Here’s the link to that: http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/trafficrhinoreportsummary.pdf

Nat Geo did the numbers again in 2015, in that article I linked above. Things haven’t changed much since then.

The reason poaching went down during covid isn’t that the actual hunters weren’t allowed to travel. (Besides, do you really think that if it was rich white dudes doing the majority of the poaching, it would have slowed down or stopped? Money, dear boy, can get you pretty much anything you want. A chartered flight to Kenya, a private home to stay in… a rhino permit or two…) Rather, the middleman dried up. It’s only profitable to kill a rhino if you can move the parts, and if your middleman isn’t traveling between the rhino countries and the Asian market, well…

And you can probably guess who the middlemen are. Often they’re students. Frequently they’re workers. And until recently, they were mostly Vietnamese or Chinese nationals. Now, TRAFFIC notes that many rhino horn syndicates are using white South Africans due to heightened suspicion. (Source: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/environment/125451/profiling-ups-risk-for-asian-rhino-horn-mules.html)

And normally, there actually is a lot of traffic between China and Vietnam and the rhino countries. I don’t know if people here are quite aware of the relationship between China and several African countries- particularly Kenya, but there’s been a lot of Asian investment into Africa. In Kenya, you see a lot of Chinese workers coming in, working on development projects, and then going back to China. Something like 20% of African infrastructure projects are funded by China; one out of every three is built by Chinese firms. (source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-07-19/china-s-belt-and-road-leaves-kenya-with-a-railroad-to-nowhere). Most of the part-time labor is local (source: http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/801581468195561492/pdf/WPS7614.pdf), but not all of it- and the full time labor, while mostly local, is roughly 22% Chinese citizens. There were well over 150,000 Chinese workers in Africa before the pandemic (source: http://www.sais-cari.org/data-chinese-workers-in-africa). You also saw a lot of Vietnamese workers… before the pandemic. Both China and Vietnam called their citizens home pretty quickly. Vietnam in particular. By July 2020, arrangements for most Vietnamese workers in Africa had come through after a good deal of public outcry, and they were back in Vietnam (source: https://saigoneer.com/vietnam-news/19011-stuck-in-guinea-equatorial,-vietnamese-workers-forced-to-work-despite-rampant-covid-19-cases).

No middlemen, no profit. No profit, no poaching. It’s not a triumphant story of white trophy hunters butting out of a place they don’t belong; it’s a much more complicated story of economic oppression of native Kenyans, South Africans, and citizens of other rhino countries and exported Vietnamese and Chinese workers.

Poaching isn’t what it used to be. It’s gotten a lot more complex, and reducing it to something that hasn’t been true since the 1950s-1970s means that we ignore the real problems and direct our energy into something that isn’t happening. It’s like… how when a corporation tells you to take personal responsibility for climate change. This isn’t a single person sneering and shooting a rhino. This is an entire industry that CITES and other NGOs are trying hard to grapple with. The nature of the beast has fundamentally changed.  I get that it’s really easy to blame Europe and America for the shit that’s been done to subsaharan Africa’s natural resources. It’s right, too, but… the story of people attempting to extract resources from the continent isn’t over. Ignoring that the market for rhino horn isn’t the trophy industry just makes it easier for that particular black market to go unchecked.

Additional sources and information:

https://www.savetherhino.org/what-we-do/reducing-illegal-trade/

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/rich-men-rhino-horns/529455/

https://www.savetherhino.org/thorny-issues/trophy-hunting-and-sustainable-use-rhinos/

http://www.poachingfacts.com/poaching-statistics/rhino-poaching-statistics/

Jump will be 29 this year , wow.

Still an iconic song, who you know at 13 makin bops like this ? Right.

Rest In Peace, Chris Kelly (Mac Daddy)❤️