NUBIAN KNIGHTS NETWORK: A Tribute To Raymond Chase, 19 Years Young SUNRISE: 1991 To SUNSET: Sept. 29th, 2010 Our Baby Boy, A Gatekeeper, Returns To The Ancestors

QUOTATIONS OF "BLACK"

"Whenever I use BLACK it relates to some history of Africans in that particular place. It’s the idea of the color BLACK as a metaphor, or as a representation of African-Americans. It’s the notion of BLACK- BLACKNESS - and all its other meanings in relation to the history of race..."

- Fred Wilson

"Most of my fortitude to continue doing the work comes from the moral outrage I feel about the injustices that Black people endure disproportionately daily."

- N. Abdul-Wakil

"In the end, what matters is not skin shade but pan-African consciousness. Loving your complexion, your nose, lips, hair length and texture, no matter what the politics or trends decide, and simply be. That's the problem with us (African folks). We're still learning how to love ourselves. So used to glorifying others and putting others first..."

- Dredlocks Tree

Sunday, October 3, 2010

A Tribute To Raymond Chase, 19 Years Young
SUNRISE: 1991 To SUNSET: Sept. 29th, 2010
Our Baby Boy, A Gatekeeper, Returns To The Ancestors

Raymond Chase, 19 Years Young
SUNRISE: 1991 To SUNSET: September 29th, 2010

I didn't know you Baby Boy, but I am saddened (though I don't judge you, yet mourn you) that you felt you were suffering so much INSIDE that you needed to cut your own live short.

All I can do is celebrate the SAME GENDER LOVING GATEKEEPER that YOU were and transitioned to, and that the ancestors take care of the exodus of your SPIRIT...