Reflections of a Negro Revolutionary

By Boss Jackson

The author purpose is to explore how we got from the credo of the Negro mentality “you got to be twice as good to get half as far, God Family, country as primary values, to black is beautiful and the resulting loss of the negro identity in the confusion of universal blackness.

• Language: English
• Publisher: GoldTouch Press, LLC
• Release date: Dec 9, 2019
• ISBN: 9781951461867

Boss Jackson

Boss Jackson is a graduate of fuller seminary MA Theology he is currently serving as pastor of the Bel-Vue Presbyterian Church USA in Los Angeles, California a position he has held for over 31years. He is an accomplished vocalist song writer and poet he has produced one play ‘from the cotton fields to the tabernacle’, one Album ‘Truth Will Rise’ with Dr Isaiah Jones Jr, and has published several award winning poems. he has one son, L.R, currently residing in New York, pursuing a career on Broadway as actor singer and director. Boss Jackson currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

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Reflections

of a

Negro Revolutionary

Boss Jackson

Copyright © 2019 by Boss Jackson.

Library of Congress Control Number:      2019919886

Paperback:    978-1-951461-85-0

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Contents

Reflections of a Negro Revolutionary

Everybody’s Crazy

The Myth of Revolution

Civil rights

One Nation Under God

Contradictions

Reformed, Always Reforming

Reflections of a Negro Revolutionary

Intro: a Poem by B.J

‘Mother land’

The soothing warmth of the African sun

the children bath in its richness while the days’ work is done.

And while the men labor, their work songs are sung

Mother Land

Land of the fathers of lost generations

Land of great empires and powerful nations

Land of cool breezes through which native birds fly

Land of green valley’s and tropical Skies

Mother Land

Blown to these shores are the seeds of destruction

blown for to gather the seeds of a nation

But from destruction Must come salvation

Torn Away From

The Mother Land

Transplanted as I am a seed to grow

What I have endured only God and I know

As the Tall Tree once stood

Now here I must stand

Torn away from

The mother land."

The old saying, A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, I have come to believe is a false statement. It assumes that the so-called rose is non-sentient and therefore unaware of what it is called by those who care for, nurture, or exploit it. This reality was undeniably impressed upon me through the years by the ranker over how to designate the descendants of Africans coming to this country, either voluntarily or in chains, before, during and after the slave trade. The fact is that most people in the world are designated by their country of origin or tribal affiliation. Second generation Africans, slave or free, were designated by color, status, or the amount of white blood that was believed to flow through their veins. We became colored, mulatto, Negro, Black, African Americans or Niggers, each name making a profound impact upon the psyches of those so designated.

I was born during the transition from Colored to Negro, often used interchangeably. The NAACP {National Association for the Advancement of Colored People}, for example, always left itself open to the question; ‘Which colors’? There are red and yellow, black-brown and white people as well.

Negro was a term often preferred by polite society. It seemed to have an air of respectability. After all, calling someone ‘Black’ in Spanish doesn’t seem as stark, or insulting, as