Remember when Richard Pryor predicted that many black people will lose their cars and be forced to ride bicycles and scooters ... "and anyTHING else that will move!" Well, we now see how true that is.

I live in Oakland, California where economic racism is forcing blacks WAAYYY out to places like Antioch and Concord so that whites can again reclaim and gentrify the inner city. It's sad to see how little (or no) imagination is left in the black community. Reading too much "Vibe" and watching rap videos I guess....

So, I conclude that it really is later than you think. While brothers (and sisters) are running around trying to be black-white men and loving everything but themselves, I see:

1.) The people (Mexicans) who are currently picking cotton, will become middle class
2. ) Those "true to Thug Life" will be forced into work prisons and they (or their children) will actually be picking cotton AGAIN!

California (and many other states) the black dollar has been written off. New Rome (America) is most likely now the world's third largest economy. Many feared the day this would happen because they worried that many other mult-nationals would pull their money out. (That's what all that ... "put your social security into the stock market" was about...)

Plus, the recent Sub Prime Mortgage debacle gives rise to the old rumors about a possible Global Recession. (We already know that there will be a Global Water Shortage sometimes before 2014.) So ... what do black folk do? Work together to purchase farmland and relearn how to work, live and love each other again? No ...

We still have people running around demanding Reparations. Everybody is bringing a covered dish to New Rome's sinking table and the political choice the Michael Vick's in our community can come up with is to demand a free ride?

Will the children of the people who walked out of African and peopled the world ... once again be reduced to picking cotton??

I'm living in Oakland, California. The Bay Area is one of the MOST diverse places on earth. Racism doesn't dance in sheets here, but economic racism is HUGE ... and getting bigger.

We who preached the glories of the Third World back in the 60s won. The Third World is now here … and they don’t like us. (LOL) Many DO ... but more don't and who can blame them? They are teaching us some powerful lessons, and we really need pick up our game.

1. Quote: "A business should remake itself when it is at the peak of its success. Failure to do so means that it's competition will adjust come up with new ideas before it can adjust."

2. Quote: "The only constant is change." Change is the only thing we KNOW will happen ... we can no longer afford denial ... a doomed ostrich sticking it’s head in the sand--hiding from the upcoming storm. YOU BETTER START RUNNING !!!

3. China and India will VERY soon become the world's biggest economic powers. Multinationals are just waiting to pull their money out. There’s a Global Recession coming. WHO gets hurt most in “recessions”?? Rich Republicans LOVE recessions. Turning into a black republican ain’t going to hep you. (Notice all the folks who’s homes are now in Foreclosure? )

4. It's far too late to be angrily mumbling that "Mexicans need to go back where they came from." The Jinni is out of the bottle. They are eating our lunch and soon, many more white folks lunch too. They are showing us where our game is weak. A brother needs an 18th Century skill and a 21st Century skill to survive.

5. "My enemy - my friend" say the Buddhist. God told gave us two main instructions ... Love God and love your neighbor ... even when he doesn’t love you back. Once poor Asians and Mexicans are now driving the cars we used to drive, living in the houses our homeless asses used to live in, and working in the jobs we used to complain about and would die to have back. How'd they do it? Yeah ... they had a "little help" ... but basically they built a better mouse trap. Provided a better service, and pooled their money. They lived together when they needed to. Supported each other economically, physically, emotionally, intellectually and CULTURALLY. Time for us to do the same.. and if you're living and suffering in that "inner city" ... maybe it's time to move.

DO NOT FALL FOR HATING "Dem Foreigners". Step up ~ not down. Governments love to pit people against each other. Only the rich win that way. Henry J. Kaiser put it this way: "A problem is an opportunity in work clothes." And brothers and sistas ... we gots lots of "opportunities" rolling all ova us.

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Truck School is over and I have my Class A CDL. I've been driving for about a month ... from Stockton, CA out to a couple of military bases in the Mojave Desert. Make my drops, then speed down to L.A. Reload. Then head down that Grapevine in a truck without a tack, no working fuel guage, NO JAKE BRAKE (engine brake), and my speedometer keeps going out. Bamming the dashboard and the van behind me is fully loaded. THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER COMPANY THAN THIS TO WORK FOR!!!!

But ain't nothing new easy. Starting all over means I have to pay my dues. New guy gets the shitty jobs. And I never, ever knew how dangerous and dirty this job could be. The next time you think of "beating that truck" or jumping in front of one, just remember, IT IS REAL HARD TO STOP THAT MONSTER ... and its breaks may not all be working. Plus, a new driver just might be at the wheel. There are more accidents happening out there than you hear about.

Life is so amazing. I never thought I'd actually want to become a truck driver ... and want it badly. But it's day two and I'm pumped! So far it's been a lot of memory work and today we got on the simulator for a while. (Amazing how difficult just changing gears is right now.)

But it's a means to an end ... and the end being my ability to buy a small farm in the country somewhere ... to purchase a shiny new tractor ... and with it, plant sustainable crops and build other projects I have in mind.

God is good. God has been in this all along. Somehow, there is an unseen design playing out ... but for now ... I'm practicing prayer ... growing in being in line with God's Will ... meaning greeting the world as an emissary for Christ. If God wants us to create a heaven here in earth "s it is in heaven..." then presenting to the world with STRONG joy, strong love, and forgiveness is essential.

By myself these qualities are elusive at best. But working with a congregation something difficult for a lifelong loner), and practicing prayer ... Bible study ... and calling on the Holy Spirit ...beseeching God's Grace (it can't be earned ... but given in God's time) ... then ... it's so much easier. With any measure of the Holy Spirit in me -- knowing that this is a spiritual battle ... fighting not against flesh but against principalities ... then I can go anywhere.