It's nice to sit here this evening. The Florida Winter out of doors is a cool and breezy 59 F. Please, believe I have thanked Great Spirit many times for me being born and raised here in the South Eastern United States of America. I feel good speaking about this. You know, the big civic minded bobble head that I am today. He the One-To-Stand-For-Our-Right's. The one who was once so well known and respected in many different communities of the places I have lived.
Yes, many remember me as an eccentric. I am fine with that and am okay that I have been blessed to have been referred to as a Mystic, and really, even at this stage in my life and My Path, being one to walk in these shoes requires a wee hint of madness. A pinch of ecenticness and a shake-shake of a 'Afroed Freakazoid'...
...and now mix this with the advocate that I am. The militant I have been accused of being. One who has Marched on the streets of this State called Florida. I have marched in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Saint Petersburg and Tampa. My dear daughters, wife and thousands and thousands of us were barked at and cursed at by the Ku Klux Klan, right here on Kennedy Blvd. I have been spat at, I have had rubbish thrown at me, I have been beaten, robbed and ignored by peoples who live in the very same city as me, but because of a difference in opinion - we become adversaries and remember this my dear Kindred, when it comes down to one adversary facing the next one, with my face in their face, there is always loss. Always defeat.
I have marched with politician's, standing up and being heard for local causes and beliefs. I have marched with the NAACP, we have marched with the wonderful people with NOW! I have marched with thousands and thousands of Christians and have been to listen to Billy Graham amongst over capacity at the stadium where the Bucs play - chock full of Christians...
...I have marched with The Quilt. I have marched for the cause of HIV and AIDS Awareness, and have marched for civil and equal rights's. I have marched for the equal rights of Women, marched for the citizens of our Red Nations and equal and civil rights for we the Mixed Blood. The Black and the Hispanic and our Gay Brothers and Lesbian Sisters. All me and my Mixed Blood.
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