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About Me

Writer, activist, organizer, Catholic, tutor, theologian, husband, son and father. Founder of San Diego Black Writers & Artists and black Catholic men's group. Deep roots in Black Baptist church, Marxist organizations and liberation theology. (I believe, like Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 'a decent life is possible for all'). Books are my passion, for they can be the beginning of wisdom and the foundation of social change. 'Souls of Black Folk' and 'Jesus and the Disinherited' are examples. I have written three books, the latest: IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS: INSPIRATIONAL REFLECTIONS ON BLACK HISTORY FOR EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR. check it out in bookstores, the publisher (ACTA), me, or Amazon... Daily reflections on Dred Scott, Ella Baker, Rev. C.L. Franklin, Nina Simone, Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, Steve Biko, Barbara Jordan, Harriett Jacobs, and hundreds more. One eleven year old boy said, 'this book will be in my personal library forever'; and a black Jesuit priest wrote, 'a beautiful and moving work, a must-read for those who care about justice and faith.' Favorite Quote of all time? 'I gotta be righteous, I gotta be me, I gotta be conscious, I gotta be free, I gotta be able - to counterattack, I gotta be stable, I gotta be black' - Freestyle Fellowship, Los Angeles 1993

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

the great Malcolm X, the incredible Martin Luther King, seeker of God Thomas Merton, the inspirational Fannie Lou Hamer, the talented and universal human Paul Robeson, revolutionaries Maurice Bishop and Ella Baker; the incomparable Che Guevara; and the men and women from Africa who were my ancestors; who suffered through the Middle Passage, slavery and dehumanization yet created life for their offspring. Love to meet CLR James, who wrote, "we must not be afraid. The first thing is to know. Anyone who tries to prevent you from learning...is an enemy of freedom....Marxism is the doctrine that believes freedom, democracy, equality are today possible for all humankind." Or Pablo Neruda - of whom Federico Garica Lorca wrote,'open yourselves to hearing an authentic poet....A poet closer to death than philosophy, closer to pain than intelligence, closer to blood than to ink' Or Pope John XXIII, convener of Vatican II, that produced the 'constitution of the Church in the modern world'. That document said, '(Jesus) reveals to us that God is love, and at the same time teaches us that the fundamental law of human perfection, and therefore of the transformation of the world, is the new commandment of love. He assures those who have faith in God's love, that the way of love is open to all...and this love is to be sought...in the ordinary circumstance of life.'