David Anthony Brayboy

It is seen as well as felt in this country for the black community that despite having a president that reflects our physical likeness, and one who resembles a brother Malcolm X even in his hand jesters and postures, and yet speaks in the manner and words of a Dr. Martin Luther King for to entice a spark in the minds of a divisive mentality/methodology that has been established in the community of choosing, who do we relate to mostly of the 2 past great leaders? A Malcolm X or a Dr. King? Have we truly seen and felt a black president? There are 2 major fundamental states of mind in our community that were established by way of the affects of our history in this country, which cultivated these perceptions in terms of methods in gaining justice and equality that gave birth to one question, “Do you agree with the words and methods of Malcolm X or the words of Dr. Martin Luther King?” The government using its media enforcements by way of our own created interests, saw ...

We were all placed here to love completely. Love is a complete force without set conditions. But, it has come a time of when love has suffered of harsh treatment of one another and has become a force that has been felt to be restrained of the host. And in this reality, it has not yet been expressed to its fullest capacity as it was meant to be because of the issue of trust in creating cynical-ism, after one has said or did something to break that connection of full love, into something broken, tolerating and just surviving.  We have become cynical and have been robbed of the true freedom to love without fear and mystery/trust. It has become a journey while steady picking up pieces of a puzzle that seems to never end in completeness because its true meaning has been compromised. But, understand that it does not matter of how successful we become in anything we do, if we have not had the chance to love anyone 100% without all of the caution barriers, then that part of your life...

We live in a world that is imperfect. We understand this because of how the human being treats one another due to fear, hatred, religion, politics dissatisfaction and other entities in which disrupt human relationship causing a continued discord. We understand that we see imperfections in us as human beings because we all know that mistreatment is wrong by standards of humanity. I come to know that in terms of nature and observing it completely without comparison, opinion, that nature has its own perfection and it is within a silent and beautiful state. I tell many that I stay away from the word perfection because none of us really know what perfection is, in regards to the mind of human beings, because we have perceptions fragmented by experiences, creating opinions of what is observed causing distinction and therefore causing discord. I observed the sun dawning this morning as the rotation of the earth brings the day and realized that seeing, feeling its power and movement th...

As I was risen from my rest this morning, I was made aware of a feeling that you have been praying for me. This feeling within I was able to read a love that was completely my own of you. You have been concerned of me, you have also watched me and what I have been through and what I have been going through and have in your mind thought to pray for me; and even if your knees were not bent and your back was not in the common posture of prayer at the time, in your love and concern, you prayed for me. As I am honest of myself as a human being, I know that I am a man who can seem complicated sometimes, but I as others have storms to be let pass, mountains to climb and rivers of sorrow and enlightenment to cross unto love and clarity is reached in the heart and mind. Complexity only implies the living human being in the moving and growing reality of where one can never conclude completely upon their virtue. But, despite of your misunderstanding during these turbulent times of...

There are and have been many events transpiring in the world that forces the human mind to think as though things in this world will never become better. It has become easy to embrace this feeling, these thoughts and that is the dangerous fan that continues to blow the fire of misery, affecting all of our lives. There is a reality that stands more inside of us, as before us that only we can produce if we love this life enough to save the morality of it, the humanity of it. The betterment of all of our lives has forever been placed inside of one another by The Divine Creator from before what we know or can even imagine is the beginning. the solution lyes within you and I and we. The greatest offer in this life that one can give, is themselves. Offer a helping hand, an open heart and an ear to someone without the division of the lack of knowing who they are; and just watch a sunrise in humanity in the midst of you bloom, that many this day have been made to think, to believe and ...

Where the flame inside of you burns, lye’s that place of your pain as well as the beginning of your healing. Make up in your mind and heart to know that blowing out the flame that burns your present state will truly be the beginning of a beauty that you have been denying yourself for a time truly unknown. To burn inside willingly is truly a distraction and abuse of divine time. The burning of the flame deceitfully asserts to bring to you a comforting warmth that no other force can free you from; and so you feel the need for it to remain. But, the truth remains still inside of you as well; and it is that truth that causes you to recognize your discontentment. And so your flame burns in only of your passion to keep it alive. You still the fire by continuing to be its fan. Love your living enough to understand that there are some flames inside of you that should be humbly, blown out without restraint. In this blowing out the flame, reveals a beautiful freedom and clear li...

I needed to begin this month of February that has been appointed as Black History month with the appreciation of our elders who helped get us this far. We may not always agree of some of the methods that were used to get us here, but we are still without question, here. As we also know that our historical accounts here in Babylon, have to be carefully attended too with knowing the effects of what has been recorded of our elders in Babylon's implication to cause inside of us, this day and time an intense hatred that many of us are not able to discard for the present time, because of many evil forces that have not changed since the elders marched and spoke the truth of what is affecting our progress in this corporation/country called america. I find it very important to only be angry at the wrong that was done and in the same movement discard the hatred that is tried to be instilled in us every February for the sake of non-productivity by this american media machine. I...