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    The Pathfinder Chronicles II Book Two
    The Pathfinder Chronicles II Book Two
    The Pathfinder Chronicles II Book Two
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    The Pathfinder Chronicles II Book Two

    By Andrew L. Bozeman

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    "The Pathfinder Chronicles II Book Two" continues the journey towards strong self-esteem for African Americans. These books were created to help build self-knowledge which is the key to power. Through hidden histories (The Original “Top Guns” Were African American Fighter Pilots!) social and economic insights (The African American Community’s Greatest Asset is Our Women), and possible solutions ("Buying Black" is a Habit Pattern, Not a Movement!), it reveals the pathway to a better life. The book is written from the perspective of the Rev. Bozeman’s life purpose and mission. His Life Purpose is to help God's Children discover their inner divinity, their inherent power and their marvelous beauty. His mission is to help transform African American communities from symbols of poverty, frustration and pain to centers of prosperity, power and pride by changing the mental self-perception of African-American. These commentaries are written by Rev. Andrew Bozeman, a spiritual, self-help writer

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrew L. Bozeman
    Release dateMay 26, 2015
    ISBN9781311639479
    The Pathfinder Chronicles II Book Two
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    Andrew L. Bozeman

    Rev. Andrew L. Bozeman is an ordained minister who is a writer, teacher, speaker and spiritual counselor.He believes his Life Purpose is to help God's Children discover their inner divinity, their inherent power and their marvelous beauty. His mission is to help transform African American communities from symbols of poverty, frustration and pain to centers of prosperity, power and pride by helping to enhance the self-perception and self-esteem of African Americans and their communities.He focuses his activities through the Bozeman Development Group, which he founded in 2009, to continue his ministry in the secular world. BDG is not a church, nor is it a nonprofit organization. So it is not restricted by the rules and/or perceptions that limit the scope and activities of those types of organizations. His ministry involves the merging of spiritual empowerment for the soul and economic development for the physical being.His core credo is:THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS NOT GOD!

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      The Pathfinder Chronicles II Book Two - Andrew L. Bozeman

      The Pathfinder Chronicles II

      Book Two

      ©2015 Bozeman Development Group

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      African Americans, What Do You See When You Look In The Mirror?

      Being Rich and Famous Protects You From Racism Right – Think Again!

      Reprogramming African American Buying Patterns – The Key to Economic Revitalization

      The Economic Revitalization of the African American Community – Why MLM?

      In A World That Is Trying To Crush Their Minds, Can We Afford For Our Children To Be High on Marijuana

      Does Buying Black Make You a Reverse Racist?

      We Need Another Movement. This Time for Economic Power.

      The Original Top Guns Were African American Fighter Pilots!

      The African American Community’s Greatest Asset is Our Women

      Hands Across the Ocean Can Start with a Handshake Across the Street

      Racism is Killing Us Biologically: Part 1 - The Scourge of Excess Death

      Racism is Killing Us Biologically: Part II – Our Babies Are Dying

      Racism is Killing Us Biologically: Part III – What Can We Do About It?

      Two Brains are Better Than One

      What To Do About A Dream Denied!

      How the Buffalo Soldiers Got Their Name

      Let's Show The Corporate World That Disrespecting Us Will Cost Them

      Are We a Race of Failures; Or Simply the Victims of Mis-Education?

      We Are Under Attack, So Yield and Win!

      We Will Not Be Buried

      Forgive Them, Turn and Walk Away

      Buying Black is a Habit Pattern, Not a Movement!

      African Americans, What Do You See When You Look In The Mirror?

      Pathfinder Chronicles XXIII

      When you look in the mirror, do you really see you – attractive, smart, hopeful, ambitious, full of potential, open to a world of possibilities? Or do you see some falsified imitation image of yourself that was constructed by the propaganda that our racist society has superimposed on your mind – ugly, prone to criminality, stupid, lazy, worthless?

      At this time, we are witnessing the media carnival around the African American man (Charles Ramsey) who rescued three women from a house where they had been held captive for a number of years. A number of insensitive, low minded white punks are making fun of the way he talks, his mannerisms and his lifestyle and spreading it around the Internet. They use snippets of his interviews to highlight his speech patterns, his appearance, and his background – all those things that can be made humorous because they can be portrayed in a stereotypical way. Why, because he is an ordinary Black man who does not have the polish of a media professional or the skills of a public relations expert guiding his every move and utterance.

      The implication, of course, is that Black people deserve to be ridiculed.

      Does a negative media onslaught like that have an effect on how you view yourself? Does it have an impact on your children? My cautionary warning is that you should not allow such propaganda to have a negative impact on you or your children.

      Charles Ramsey is an African American man who is living his life the best way he can. His life is not the life of a Harvard graduate, or a millionaire or a movie star, but neither is his life a joke. There is a familiar adage which tells us that we can never, truly, understand an individual until we have walked a mile in their shoes. For that reason, we can never truly judge another. And Jesus warned in Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged…

      Those who make fun of others will pay their own price. So let them be. We as individuals, as well as a people, have much work ahead of us to rise to our highest levels. Our work is made more difficult by the fact that we live in a society where we are often disrespected.

      I encourage you to take that disrespect and/or disparagement and/or ridicule for what it really is – a distraction. Those who disrespect you want to diminish you so that they can feel better about themselves and if you take the bait and act in a way that supports their negative opinion of you – all the better for them. Their problem should not be your problem. Their pain should not be your pain. Believe me, they are in pain!

      In Luke 23:34 (King James Version) Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.

      We need to avoid allowing their negative energy to intrude into our space. Forgive them for their ignorance and walk away from them. Our job is to understand that we are the Children of God! We need to help our children to understand that we and they are the Children of God. We are individualized expressions of God, the Infinite Mind, the Cosmic Consciousness, and the Omnipresent Intelligence that is in all things, over all creation and throughout all existence. God is in us all. As Jesus said, The father is in me and I am in the Father.

      As I watch the media circus, I am greatly concerned and pray deeply that we each remember who we are. That’s because I’m reminded of the film made by a high school girl in New York. Perhaps you remember the story?

      In 2006, a segment on the TV show Good Morning America featured a film by a New York City high school student that sought to find out how far our society has come in its attitude toward race. Her name is Kiri Davis and she made a film entitled A Girl Like Me. In her film, she recreated the famous 1940s experiment conducted by Dr. Kenneth Clark. In that experiment, Dr. Clark studied the psychological effects of racism and segregation on black children.

      Kiri Davis followed Dr. Clark’s methods. She gave a black doll and a white doll to 4- and 5-year-old kids at a Harlem school. Then she asked the children which doll they thought was better. She found that the children's answers in 2005 were much the same as they were in 1940! In her test, Davis reported that 15 of the 21 children said that the white doll was good and pretty, and that the black doll was bad.

      In 1940, Clark concluded that prejudice, discrimination and segregation caused black children to develop a sense of inferiority and self-hatred. Ms. Davis, who was 16 years old when she made the film, said the results of her experiment surprised and frustrated her.

      So many things have changed, yet so many things haven't, she told the interviewer on Good Morning America.

      In her powerful film, Davis asks a little girl, Can you show me the doll that looks bad? The girl immediately chooses the black doll.

      Why does that look bad? Davis asks.

      Because it's black, the girl responds.

      Davis said that the children in the study did not hesitate when asked to choose the good or bad doll.

      She said, It was just, boom, which is the good doll. They said because the white one is the good one, the black one is the bad one. They internalize these stereotypes that are out there.

      Davis said that the children's parents were also shocked when they saw the film.

      Many didn't want to believe that's what's still going on, she said.

      The shame that those children experienced was forced upon them by a system that is designed to diminish and destroy them. This societal system in which we live is built on centuries of social engineering. This social engineering (I call it brain washing) was a part of the psychological oppression that was an integral part of slavery. Then it was perpetuated by the inhuman laws of the Jim Crow era that made it legal for Black people to be intimidated, abused and killed with impunity. The destructive onslaught continues today as

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