Clean Correspondence; 121.6.29;69;4o6

Love And Peace, Friends.

I provide this correspondence on behalf of a network of beings who are dedicated towards comprehensive human upliftment, as well as the upliftment of all beings.  This correspondence is provided to you because we are interested in cooperating with you increasingly intentionally, directly, and dynamically.

Concerns.

We provide this correspondence after careful observation and deliberation regarding your group’s progression.  And your benevolent activism is commendable.  Yet, when observing many similarly situated groups, there are 2 general concerns that we maintain: 

1.)  regarding conservative groups:  we observe that these groups tend to be exceedingly self-interested and consequently divisive towards other groups that are perceived as different or incompatible; 

2.)  regarding liberal groups:  we observe that these groups tend to be obliviously judgmental and simultaneously complacent within the status quo that is being criticised.

These observations previously prevent us from cooperating further within the respective endeavours of these groups.  And with this being communicated, we look forward to further enhancement within these groups and increased involvement and efficacy with the respective benevolent work of these groups.

Identity, Organisation.

To provide some context, it is beneficial to provide some additional explanation regarding the nature of our network.  We are a global network of transcendent beings;  and, when you are ready for it, we are actually a Universal network of transcendent beings.

The purpose of our network is to provide compassion for all beings;  this can be translated into terms such as the “alleviation of Dukkha,” and, “Tikkun Olam.”

The nature of the organisation of our network is increasingly difficult to describe.  1 reason for this is that the nature of our organisation varies in name and form, intensity, and additional factors.  Very frequently, the nature of our organisation is extremely subtle and purposefully difficult to evidence.  1 of the historic examples that is utilised to describe our network is the Underground Railroad within the United States.  If you understand the concept of telepathy, then you understand 1 of the methodologies through which we communicate.  It is appropriate to include that the nature of our organisation is also alinear:  it exists beyond the concepts of time and space, which may be difficult for many to understand;  but there it is.

We act in accordance with ancient principles of righteousness.  And there are varying degrees of discipline within our behaviour, from being to being.  We make amends when we commit a wrong.  We provide forgiveness when we observe a wrong.  And we facilitate reconciliation and Atonement.

Tactics.

There are certain tactics that we employ to facilitate our purpose within the Universe:

Prayer, Samadhi.  We practise prayer and Samadhi.

Sacred Listening.  We go to tremendous lengths to listen to others and empathise with the experience of others.

Compassion, Healing.  We provide compassion and healing to those who have the need.  This is our primary purpose.  We provide this compassion and healing directly, as we are able, and institutionally and systemically.  This latter consideration of institutions and systems is a significant premise for what may be perceived as the dissonance within our actions, as we work to transform comparatively selfish/egotistical institutions and systems into increasingly compassionate and transcendent institutions and systems.

Fasting, Abstinence From Harm.  We abstain from actions whose consequences we perceive as readily causing avoidable harm to others.  This includes fasting to enhance our concentration and understanding, amidst additional benefits.

Education.  We study.  We teach.  This is fundamental.

Mindful Consumption (Cycle).  We are mindful of the cycles that are involved in sustaining our lives, and we strive to enhance our harmony within these cycles.

Proactive Consumption (Organised).  We are mindful of the natural sources from which we are provided products and services;  and we proactively organise our collection methodologies to patronise suppliers who are increasingly harmonious within the natural cycles that surround the provision of these products and services.

Divestment (Organised).  We withdraw our support and resources from beings who conduct woeful harm to other beings and/or the natural cycles that surround beings.

Local Community Building.  We are dedicated towards building cooperation and prosperity within the specific villages that surround our residences.

Global Community Building.  We are dedicated towards building cooperation and prosperity within the comprehensive village of Earth and the Universe.

Local Community Security.  We stand as defenders for the immediate wellness of beings within our local villages.

Global Community Security.  We stand as defenders for the immediate wellness of beings within our comprehensive village of Earth and the Universe.

Diplomacy;  Advocacy, Solicitation.  We engage within diplomacy with the respective authorities of conventional and unconventional institutions and systems, amidst the process of transformation of these institutions and systems into increasing contributors of compassion and wellness for all beings.

Hacking.  We intercede within the technological operations of conventional and unconventional institutions and systems to facilitate the process of transformation towards increasing compassion and wellness for all beings.

Sabotage.  We conduct disabling, demolition, and additional transfiguration of the technology and infrastructure of conventional and unconventional institutions and systems for the purpose of transforming these institutions and systems into increasing providers of compassion and wellness for all beings.

We engage within all these, and additional, endeavours with strict protocols to abstain from causing direct harm to any being.

And whilst some may criticise the latter tactics that are described herein, these “challenging” actions are also committed by the many different conventional and unconventional authorities of humanity to maintain order.

Agenda, Priorities.

Amidst the contemporary circumstances of humanity, we are engaged within specific temporal agendae.

ACE Plan.

The ACE Plan is a global initiative to effectuate certain systemic change throughout humanity by the centennial commemoration of the United Nations.  Within the ACE Plan, there are specific categories of consideration:

5 Points Of Concentration.  These are the 5 priority items within the ACE Plan:

1.  All beings are provided with sufficient water.

2.  All energy is provided through renewable sources and methodologies.

3.  All consumed products are proficiently recycled into nature.

4.  All urban and suburban areas maintain a proficient amount of organic agriculture.

5.  All debt is alleviated.

All this is with respect and appreciation for Native people and traditions.

5 Additional Considerations.  There are additional, intrinsic factors that are included within the ACE Plan.

          1.  Sufficient attention and energy is provided to family and friends.

          2.  All beings have access to sufficient food, clothing, and housing.

          3.  All beings are provided with sufficient health care.

          4.  All beings are provided with sufficient educational and labour opportunities.

          5.  All beings have access to sufficient communication and transportation provisions.

          And the information of all this economic activity is shared with the collective of beings.

5 Steps Towards Peace.  There are intentional measures taken to establish Peaceful coexistence amongst all beings.

1.  Local and international service corps are established to defend all beings and build communities.

          2.  All nuclear weapons are alleviated.

          3.  All military weapons are alleviated.

          4.  All personal weapons and police weapons are alleviated.

          5.  All locks are alleviated.

These measures are conducted in a gradual manner, according to the respective prerogative of each being.

5 Academic Disciplines.  The ACE Plan provides a new educational paradigm that focuses on 5 academic disciplines:

          1.  Civilisations

          2.  Mathematics

          3.  Language

          4.  Nature

          5.  Technology

There are additional and advanced academic disciplines, as well as additional concepts that facilitate this education paradigm.

5 Immediate Ideas.  The concluding 5 points of the ACE Plan vary, according to region, to account for the respective needs and interests within different areas.  The proceeding 5 points are applicable to the general area of Ohio.

1.  Metropolitan areas establish connected infrastructures of cooperative transportation, evolving from personal vehicular transportation to metro rail, pedestrian, and additional forms of transportation.

2.  Neigbourhoods form communities with autonomous utility infrastructures and independent political cooperation.

3.  Economic cooperatives are established upon the honour system, rather than conventional money.

4.  Global media cooperatives provide pluralistic depictions of cultures and traditions that inform and inspire.

5.  A university is established upon the premise of global citizenship;  and all debt is alleviated.

Compassion Cash.

We are establishing an alternative currency that is predicated upon compassion.  The working tangible value of this currency is 1 kilogram of an international composite of grains, although our alternative currency abstains from guaranteeing such exchange.  The intangible value of this currency is the dedication of the holders of the currency to the principles and experience of Agape and Ahimsa.  The holders of the currency invest and exchange the currency with additional family members and friends who similarly share these principles and experience.  As the currency is increasingly circulated, the value becomes increasingly tangible and people become increasingly amenable towards providing tangible products and services in exchange for the currency.

Coinciding with the establishment and circulation of Compassion Cash is the interest to enhance our economic systems and institutions of cultivation, production, distribution, consumption, and recycling.  This includes identifying and supporting beings who facilitate 1 or additional portions of this process with proficient harmony with the natural cycles that surround this process, as well as the wellness of all beings.

Recent Correspondence.

Recently, we provide a correspondence regarding community cooperation and development specifically within Northeast Ohio.  This provides additional insight regarding the local and comprehensive cooperation within which we are involved.

Local Civil Service Corps.  We advocate the establishment of local civil service corps to patrol local neighbourhoods as an alternative to conventional, weaponised police forces.

Renewable Energy.  We advocate development plans where the respective electricity and energy needs of local municipalities are independently provided exclusively through renewable methodologies.

Pluralism Education.  We advocate for the implementation of comprehensive curriculum guidelines, from kindergarten through the 12^th grade level, that prepares students to become global citizens.

Transportation.  We advocate for strategies and development of metro rail systems that connect the comprehensive metropolitan area of Northeast Ohio.

Agriculture.  We advocate for support of local agriculture and efficient and harmonious patronisation of produce providers based outside of the Northeast Ohio area.

Global Communication/Information Network (Affinity City Project).  We advocate for the establishment of a grassroots network of journalists and community activists/leaders who provide periodic updates to the network regarding the emergency and urgent needs of communities as well as the general progression of, and lessons learned by, these communities.

Global Citizen Recognition, Credentials.  We advocate for the United Nations and additional international entities to recognise the political status of global/Universal citizenship, and to provide credentials to such beings for travel and additional purposes.

Glocal Agenda Building;  Institutions, Systems.  We advocate for the grassroots formulation of a global agenda that addresses the comprehensive interests and priorities of activists and leadership within the comprehensive fields of human endeavour.

Colonial Reservations.  We advocate for the return of the vast amount of land territory within the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific back the respective Native people and tribes of these areas, with the establishment of modest colonial reservations within the already established extended metropolitan areas within the Western Hemisphere and the Pacific.

Indigenous Prerogative.  We advocate for the prerogative of communities within the Eastern Hemisphere to maintain certain homogeneity and to concentrate pluralistic interests towards the Western Hemisphere.

City States;  Federations.  We advocate the establishment of local municipalities and metropolitan areas as independent political sovereignties, with increased self-determination and citizen-based governance;  with international federations facilitating cooperation between these city states.

Education, Infrastructure Industries.  We advocate for education and infrastructure development to be the predominant providers of employment for humanity, with a single-income family being able to live comfortably with proficient socioeconomic mobility for the next generation.

Global Citizen Education.  We advocate the establishment of a conventional paradigm of education that prepares students to become global citizens;  with all education, to the highest levels, being provided to students without cost.

This provides a glimpse of what we are doing and what we are working to do.  We invite your questions, your criticism, and your cooperation. 

Love And Peace,

WเเϕअAنא天

A Lesson From Our Calendars; 121.6.29;4o6

A modest knowledge of humanity’s calendars provides that the oldest calendars of humanity’s “predominant” religions are Lunar-Solar;  those being the Hebrew calendar and the Hindu Vikram Samvat calendar.  This means that both of these calendars are based upon observance of the monthly cycle of the Moon.  And it may be considered that, amidst the monthly cycle of the Moon and the annual cycle of the Earth orbiting the Sun, ancient astrologers 1^st notice the repeated pattern of the Moon amidst the Earth before noticing the repeated pattern of the Earth amidst the Sun.  This is merely logical.

Yet, both of these ancient calendars are both Lunar-Solar:  the calendars are adjusted so that the months and days on the calendars correspond generally with the annual cycle of the Earth orbiting the Sun.  On both calendars, an entire leap month is added to make a general “Solar” adjustment, whilst maintaining the integrity of the “Lunar”-based months.  So, 1 conclusion to draw from this adjustment (which is interestingly common to both Judaism and Hinduism) is that the astrologers eventually notice the annual Solar patterns, but rather than completing abandoning and changing the structure of the Lunar month, the collective of Lunar Months is adjusted within the Solar cycle. 

Within this adaptation, there is the metaphysical/Theological consideration that amidst the respective progression of both of these religious traditions, respective new discoveries within each of these religious traditions is acknowledged and contextualised within the preceding understanding and teachings. 

Eventually, within Hinduism, Buddhism emerges;  and a Buddhist calendar.  Whilst the Buddhist calendar also maintains certain contemporary adaptability, the traditional Buddhist calendar is also Lunar-Solar and simply maintains a different set of observances and Holy Days during the course of the annual cycle.  Within Judaism, Christianity emerges;  and within Christianity, a new calendar.  The Christian calendar (specifically, the Christian Gregorian calendar) is strictly a Solar calendar:  it is based upon the annual cycle of the Earth orbiting the Sun, and the structure of months is based upon this annual cycle.

So this leads to the further questions:  what implications do these respective adaptations and progressions of Buddhism and Christianity have with respect to the established, respective traditions of Judaism and Hinduism?  What are the further implications regarding the respective teachings within each of all of these traditions? 

And when we consider that, after the emergence of Buddhism and Christianity, there emerges the tradition and calendar of Islam:  a strictly Lunar calendar, based exclusively on the monthly cycle of the Moon, without adjustments to correspond with the annual cycle of the orbiting Earth around the Sun.  So what implications does this revisitation to the presumable original structures of Judaism and Hinduism have?  What of the teachings? 

And what lessons does all this provide as we continue along the aggregate progression of humanity and continue along the experience of mutual learning and reconciliation of our respective histories and teachings and calendars? 

Love And Peace.

Sharing Dap; Love And Peace 121.6.29;69;4o6

What’s Gud, Family and Friends.

The recent song and ideology of the SAE fraternity at OU (my sister’s alma mater) reveals the deep-seeded racism that continues to exist within the experiment of America. And this shows exactly why there are Black Greek-letter fraternities and sororities for university students and alumni.

However, I posit to you the consideration: how much liberation can people of African descent experience by simply imitating “massa’s” ego-based and nihilistic indulgences? At best, it is tenuous assimilation within a political-socioeconomic system that intrinsically is extremely hostile and oppressive (which prompts the very emergence of the fraternities and sororities in the first place). At worst, it prevents the affirmation of self-knowledge (and Self-knowledge) and political-socioeconomic self-determination. We can do better.

To be sure, for over 100 years, Black Greek-letter organisations provide tremendous guidance for bonding, leadership, and community. That is a primary reason I pledge a fraternity over 20 years ago. And amidst the community service, step shows, and parties of Black Greek life, I wonder why the Drum has yet to pervasively emerge within the culture of BGLOs (and HBCUs, for that matter). It is indicative of the self-denial (and even self-hatred) that is perpetuated through the assimilationist paradigm.

We need to tap beneath superficialities of Western popular culture, and temporal pursuits, and reach into our respective African ancestry; and return to the global table of humanity with confidence and inspiration. As the children of African slaves, kings, and Divine servants and ambassadors, we have something very valuable to share. And we have something very valuable to learn; because every culture of every ethnicity is perpetuated by the children of slaves and kings, Divine servants and ambassadors. Every culture of every ethnicity has something very valuable to share and to learn.

As a mixed ethnicity man with multiple ethnic heritages and allegiances (including African, Scandinavian, Seminole, Israeli, European, and additionally), my particular vocation is to facilitate pluralism and harmony.

I abstain from hating on fraternities and sororities. I am aware that pledging actually begins after crossing, and the test of loyalty is a life-long commitment. Instead, I call upon BGLOs to step up and fulfil the leadership potential that intrinsically exists within us: to be like Dap and “Wake Up.”

Love And Peace,

Peter.

Preparing For Reconciliation With US Government 121.6.15;69;5.7

Love And Peace, Family And Friends.

There is another event of reconciliation approaching between myself and the United States government.

I am informed of there being a warrant issued for my arrest, stemming from events that occur over 2 years ago.  During that period 2 years ago, on US national election day, I am arrested by Cleveland Heights police for engaging within an act of civil transcendence (or disobedience):  I intercede on the behalf of 2 young men of African descent during a traffic stop a few hundred meters from the flat where I reside. 

During this intercession, I carefully approach the scene with the intention to discern from the young men whether the young men are OK.  As I approach, the 1^st police officer on the scene approaches me and commands me to distance myself.  I approach closer to establish direct contact with the 2 young men.  After receiving a communication of wellbeing from 1 of the young men, and amidst the increasing agitation experienced by the police officers, I carefully distance myself from the immediate scene. 

At this point, a number of the police officers continue to approach me and interrogate me.  Because of the level of agitation, I sit down on the ground, with my legs crossed, and I respond to the questions of the police officers.  I explain that I am a spiritual diplomat who builds Peace, Understanding, and Cooperation between different communities;  and that my interest is simply to confirm the wellbeing of the 2 young men.  After a lengthy exchange of perhaps 30 – 40 minutes, the police seem to be increasingly comfortable with me. 

The police officers communicate the intention of letting me go, but then accuse me of possessing marijuana.  I refuse to be searched, so the police officers communicate the intention of “running my name through the system.”  Upon doing this, the police communicate there being a standing warrant issued for my arrest;  that arrest warrant stemming from a randomly issued, and unreceived, solicitation by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to show proof of driver’s insurance, occurring years ago prior to that point. 

So, based upon that proclamation, the police arrest me.  I refuse cooperation.  After approximately 2 – 3 hours, the police transport me to the Cleveland Heights precinct, and I am locked up within the detox unit.  I abstain from being photographed, fingerprinted, or processed.  After a few days, I talk with the judge and he lists the charges being placed against me, which include the immediate incident of the traffic stop.  I reply by citing the 3/5^ths Compromise of the United States Constitution.  I continue refusal of cooperation. 

After a week, the police communicate the interest of releasing me.  I communicate a willingness to sit at the entrance of the cell and to abstain from significantly resisting the taking of my fingerprints.  A police officer takes my thumbprint and I am released.  There is an absence of any statement of pending charges or any court date communicated.  I am told that I am “free to go,” and the presumption is that the charges are dropped.  And that is where I leave the circumstances.

Indeed, within the proceeding 2 years, I have a number of additional challenging interactions with the police. 

On 1 instance, I am playing football with friends of the campus of 1 of my almae mater, Case Western Reserve University.  Security guards arrive and kick out a group of adolescent men (also of African descent).  The adolescent men are behaving politely, yet are without required identification.  I proclaim to the security guards that the adolescent men are my guests and the security guards begin to interrogate me.  A lengthy, respectful conversation degenerates into an interrogation.  As I attempt to leave the premises, I am grabbed by 1 of the security guards.  I sit down in a similar manner of Ahimsa, and recite a chant (in accordance with my civil transcendence training).  The security guards call Cleveland police, and eventually I am transported to a psych ward;  and subsequently spend the next 4 – 5 months locked away in a halfway house.  When the Cleveland police are called, there is an absence of any mention of a warrant being issued for my arrest or transporting me to Cleveland Heights to be detained.

The night before that incident, I participate within a squatting campaign in the Cleveland area.  The police are called, and I refuse to respond to questioning (during that period, it is late Autumn, it is around 2am, the temperature is cold, and I am concerned with maintaining warmth within the layers inside the tent I in which am located during that point).  I am forcefully removed from the tent and sent to an emergency room for psych evaluation.  After speaking at length with the ER doctor, I am released from the facilities.  There is an absence of a mention any warrant being issued for my arrest.

A few months later, I participate within a squatting campaign (after being threatened with eviction for providing extended hospitality to street friends in need).  During the squatting campaign, I am again arrested by the Cleveland police.  And again, I refuse cooperation.  On this occasion, I am taken to Cleveland central lock-up, and I spend a few days in jail.  After a few days, I am forcefully removed from my jail cell, placed within a transportation apparatus, and carried outside the precinct doors.  The restraints are removed and I am told that I am free to go;  without being processed, without charges raised against me.  And again, there is an absence of any mention of a warrant for my arrest being issued by the City of Cleveland Heights.

From the Cleveland police precinct, I walk back to the squatting location.  A few hours later, I am visited again by the police.  On this case, the police inform me of an order being issued for my detainment within a psych ward.  Again, I refuse cooperation.  I am forcefully transported to a psych ward, and subsequently transported to another halfway house, where I am held for the proceeding 6 months or so.

It is during this most recent detainment, within the past year or so, that I am casually informed, by my mor (mother), of there being a warrant issued by Cleveland Heights for my arrest.  I initially abstain from directly responding to this notice because of an acute back injury.  After that, there is an interest in me attending a number of conferences, so I abstain from directly jeopardising my mobility to attend these conferences.  So, within the past 2 months or so, I arrive at an increasingly open availability to directly address this issue.  And that is what I am doing.

Within the next week, I am planning to approach the Cleveland Heights police precinct and directly solicit reconciliation of this issue.  There is uncertainty regarding any continuing existence of such a warrant and/or what intentionality there is in enforcing any such warrant.  So, if you abstain from hearing from me for a while, you likely know the reason why.  :-)

I thank you for your consideration and support.

Love And Peace,

Peter.

Intended Correspondence To Cleveland Heights Police Department 121.6.15;69;4.6

Love And Peace, Friends Of Cleveland Heights Police Department.

My name is Peter Frank Womack Johannessen Osisi;  your official records may currently have me listed as Peter Frank Womack.

I am a spiritual diplomat, a Mystic, and a mixed ethnicity man, living in the Coventry neighbourhood.

I am writing to you because I am informed of there being a warrant issued for my arrest, stemming from events that occur over 2 years ago.  I am interested in reconciling this issue.

I am providing my Ohio state-issued identification, and I intend to wait for approximately 10 – 15 minutes for a direct response to my solicitation for reconciliation.

I can provide that I am a practitioner of Ahimsa (peace:  abstinence from violence), and I am a Universal Citizen in accordance with:

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Declaration of a Welt Ethos

Charter For Compassion

United Religions Initiative Charter

Earth Charter

Mixed Heritage Bill Of Rights

अΣOאن冬宮 (Asona Ashram) Charter

WเเϕअAنא天 (UIFAN) Mantra

Universal Principles Of Faith

I appreciate your consideration.  I look forward to reconciling this issue and continuing to build with you.

Love And Peace,

Peter.

Glocal Civilian Peace Treaty 121.6.14;69;3.5

What's Up, Family And Friends.

Are you willing to sign this "Glocal Civilian Peace Treaty"?

1.)  I promise to abstain from striking, kicking, or utilising a weapon against another human being in a violent or threatening manner;  and I promise to abstain from utilising violent or threatening speech.

2.)  I promise to fully divest from any organisation that manufactures or trades weapons, and to fully divest from any organisation (company, financial instrument, university, and additionally) that is invested within a weapons manufacturer or weapons trader.

3.)  I promise that the police who protect me abstain from unduly killing, beating, or threatening any individual;  and when an individual is violated, I promise to properly dismiss or discipline that police officer.

4.)  I promise to join, and continually participate as I am readily able, within a civilian forum that discusses and acts upon the concerns of my local community and our global community;  and I promise to continually support, and directly enlist within as I am readily able, the service corps of my civilian forum.

5.)  I promise to inform my civilian forum whenever I observe an individual possessing a weapon.

Love And Peace,

Peter.

The Quality Within Slavery; Love And Peace 121.6.9;69;4o14

The Quality Within Slavery

It is February;  which means that within the United States we are reminded of slavery, and we talk about the Civil Rights Movement, and we consider rather arbitrary anecdotes of “…the 1^st black person to…”  I appreciate the study of African history within the Northwest Quad;  and I treasure when people concentrate upon the intrinsic and tangible value of Africans in America and throughout the African Diaspora.  I simply believe this should be done beyond the insufficient reaction to historic and contemporary African slavery and oppression.  Black History Month should be a millennia-long beginning, rather than an annual reminder.

Despite my criticism, there are bright spots in this observance.  There are moments and revelations that inspire 1 to consider Africans and all beings with profound respect, compassion, and even lightweight awe.

Recently, I am provided with a quote from Charles Darwin.  Darwin basically states that it is other than strength or intelligence that determines the success of a living being or species within the process of evolution.  The determining characteristic is Adaptability.

And upon further consideration and context, this thought is rather interesting and uplifting.  Amidst the continual reminders of Black History Month, it occurs to me:  who displays the epitome of adaptability other than “the slave;”  the esoteric and nuanced teaching of the slave is the millennia-old wisdom of adaptability. 

Adaptation is the process of recognising a phenomenon, a circumstance, that exists beyond an individual’s control (essentially beyond 1’s ego), and transforming the nature of that individual’s behaviour, words, and thought to exist within harmony with that phenomenon, circumstance.  Ultimately within this temporal life, we each are slaves to some phenomenon and circumstance:  slaves to gravity, slaves to our selfishness, slaves to the very basic necessities of living, like food and shelter.  The conventional slave is simply subjugated by certain conventional precepts, including the egos of others (which are essentially the slave’s own ego).  Whilst we all experience this ego subjugation, the slave is increasingly stigmatised for this.  Yet, the slave finds a way to continue living;  finds a way to answer the necessities of life;  and even frequently finds a way to marry, have children, and continue traditions for further generations.

The paradigm of the slave exists within many civilisations and periods throughout humanity.  Within the United States, slavery exists as a foundational and intricate factor within American systems and institutions.  This is applicable for African slaves, European slaves, Latino slaves, Asian slaves, Mediterranean slaves, Native slaves, and additionally.  However, given the formalities and entrenchment of African slavery, it seems appropriate to provide this specific phenomenon certain consideration (after all, it is Black History Month).

African slaves experience a multitude of transgressions.  Betrayed, captured, abandoned, and sold by other Africans, African slaves experience an existential disconnect before even leaving the continent.  The initial storage and loading of African slaves may seem rather ordinary to the history observer;  however, once entering the slave ships bound for the Western Hemisphere, the African slave narrative assumes an ominous undercurrent.  It is on those slave ships where Africa ego subjugation meets European efficiency and industriousness.  The African slaves are literally packed like sardines to optimise the ROI (return on investment) for European financiers, slave traders, the ship’s crew, and additionally;  fed to the sharks, indeed. 

Upon entering the land of the American colonies (and later the United States), the institution of African slaves sinks in its teeth, in earnest.  The African slaves are sold exactly like cows and horses.  The African slaves are forced into living within meagre accommodations.  The African slaves are driven into arduous physical labour for long hours.  The African slaves are tortured when practising African culture (such as speaking the language, playing the drum, observing the rituals, and additionally).  The African slaves are indoctrinated to accept an ideology that proclaims the African slaves as less than human.  And the African slaves are deceitfully given the option to receive better treatment by accepting a deity portrayed with a Eurocentric image.  It is amazing to consider the nebulous prospect of African slaves prospering under such unforgiving conditions.

But African slaves do prosper.  And African slaves prosper through adapting. 

African slaves prosper through adapting a formidable Self-Awareness:  a sense for recognising 1’s current circumstances (favourable or unfavourable), recognising 1’s position within those circumstances, recognising the position of others within those circumstances, and recognising the nature of causality amidst these different positions and relationships.  “I stay in my lane, Nigga.”

African slaves prosper through adapting a prominent sense of Community:  building allegiances beyond language, tribes, and customs to recognise the common benefit and common bond that is shared within the collective.  “Hit me up though, Nigga.”

African slaves prosper through adapting a keen penchant for Self-Improvement:  constantly searching for opportunities to accumulate knowledge and wisdom, building schools, establishing social societies, practising spiritual disciplines, and additionally.  “You do you, Nigga.”

African slaves prosper through adapting an immediate tendency for Ego-Quelling:  quickly recognising a power that exists beyond an individual’s own will and searching for a means to be reconciled with this duality.  “Hold me down, Nigga.”

African slaves prosper through adapting a profound sense of Purpose:  recognising that an individual is born from acute and destitute experiences of suffering and that the individual shares a responsibility for improving these experiences of suffering for other individuals.  “Eye on the Prize, Nigga.”

And the list continues.  And it is critical to abstain from shying away from the historic experience of slavery;  to abstain from acquiescing to the stigma and the dismissal of the institution of slavery.  Everyone experiences this.  African slavery is simply 1 of infinite iterations.  And when we delve through the fear and shame and guilt, we can better witness the favourable characteristics of the slave:  the adaptability.  We can better witness the Sentience, the Belonging, the Transcendence, the Humility, and even the Prophethood of the slave.  And because everyone lives in an experience of enslavement, everyone can benefit by recognising the quality of the slave.  Because when an individual recognises the quality of the slave, the individual experiences True Liberation.

This lesson is applicable to all the slaves who exist within the United States today:  the corporate executive;  the university graduate paying back loans;  the immigrant working without leverage;  the political dissident forcefully injected with anti-psychotic drugs;  the mor being abused by her husband;  and additionally.

Darwin provides an appropriate consideration for reconciling this adversity:  Adaptability.  Historically within America, there is a heavy reliance upon the authority of materially affluent European men.  We all need this art of adaptability as the Earth and the United States become increasingly diverse and plural;  a community with authority emanating from many different individuals, from many different cultures, traditions, and languages, with many different dispositions.  We all need the adaptability to learn to follow the customs and wisdom of our many different communities and traditions.  Within the progression of the social evolution of humanity, this adaptability translates into prosperity for our entire community.