Founders

Founders reap benefits. It is fair that they do; since, but for their efforts what is existent would not be.

I have been a founder on several occasions since my junior high school days, through college days, & after law school.

In junior high school I was able to induce my friend, Bruce Lemmie, to run for student body president one year, and my sister, Schleria Larnett Coleman, to run for it the next year. Neither won but they prepared the way for the next black person who did win the prize! I also elicited the voice of my late brother, Theodore Roosevelt Bush, Jr. , to form a duet, so that we might enter the Steger Junior High School talent show singing “What’s Your Name?” in 1966. We did not win the prize but 50 years later our act is still revered by witnesses!

Among the organizations that I have founded are: the Students for Black Awareness and Action, 1968; the Amani Gun Club, 1969; Project Hip, 1969; the National Black Communications Society, 1972; The HUSA HERALD, 1973; Pan African Family Picnic, 1981; The Nile Company, 1981; THE NILE REVIEW, 1981; Olive Leaf Investment Company, 1984; The Temple of Faith, 1988; The Amen Society, 1999. Although by the grace of God and with the help of others, I was fortunate enough to organize, I did not receive any benefits, per se, from my efforts, except some satisfaction for having done the great work of advancing the acumen and consciousness of my people. Some were happy for my having done these things. Most people were unaware of any of these things that I have done.

Any way you slice it, though, from the vantage point of popular “value” or money, the benefits were very few to me or to others. Nevertheless, the happy needle, even if imperceptibly, moved by reason of my energy and efforts. Matters moved. Memory was motivated.

Now, having looked back, I too look forward to the end of year 2019 and into year 2020. What now must I do beside continuing to prepare myself for the work that God brought me here to do? To be blessed to know it when I see it, and to do it, to accomplish the work for which I am specially sent here on earth to do.

For that I was specially sent I do not doubt. For all people and all things are specially sent by God to a place and time for special,

divine reasons.

Amen.

Black history

👉🏾On this day in Black History, December 18

By this date in 1859, it is stated that one out of every four Union sailors were African American. In total, 29,511 were African American and at least four of them received the Congressional Medals of Honor.

In 1971, Reverend Jesse Jackson founded PUSH, People United To Save Humanity.

In 1912, Benjamin O. Davis was born.

We will be back tomorrow with more Black History!

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