The Promethean spark, flair for the innards of the white-man’s world… the workings of interest rates, stock exchange, corporate mergers and takeovers and insider trading and banking systems…and how real estate firms either succeed or fail… your windbreaker against class and caste amidst which you stood dazed and convulsed with pent-up dreams of Mosaic uplift of your folk – between Roseland, Altgeld and Harvard, Yale and Stanford… not exactly a question of choice but the bounden need to be armed and forearmed for this Armageddonian brawl on seedy city streets – still, charity must first be planted on one’s own turf, and so to Jomoland where it all began: for basic lessons we all need to learn from time and place to time; the need to plant yams and cocoyams, plantains and bananas with equal pride and zest, resist a self-centered tack to leadership… Harold Washington done taught us this much…11/20/10By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.