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“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD. Leviticus 19:18 (King James Version)

You need to research your ancestry rather than let the Communist movement tell you what it is with vile stories of racism and hate. If you listen to the National Socialist Democrats, you would believe the Mayflower was powered by black slaves on their way to the whipping posts. In reality, slavery is not what it is portrayed since the countries it was primarily used were agrarian places with high labor low mechanization. Where the industrial revolution occurred, slavery was no longer needed and became outlawed.

Before researching my family history my understanding of the tree was my grandmother was pure Dutch from PA and heard rumor the Bray line was from England which was just about it. I suspected the family immigrated somewhere between 18-1900 and decided to get the DNA test to see if there was Indian blood which there was none although a small percentage from Northern Africa which I basically ignored.

Along with the spit test comes a family tree you can use to build your history which has become very easy as you can find branches of your tree from others and combine their research with yours as you go farther and farther back.

My first discovery was finding a grandfather who died in the Civil War in the Confederacy fighting for the Missouri Calvary in Springfield MO. There was about a year trying to find a window back since there was a dead end there and eventually, I found it and it all opened up to coming over in 1735 with Peter Bray and he married a half black half Indian/German woman whose father was either a Free Black Man or a freed slave from England.

The latest was the most interesting fact of our family tree. It turns out from someone who researched Peter Bray, he believes he was an indentured slave to the black man Abraham Scott. So, it is very possible my white grandfather was a slave for a number of years to a freed black slave. Not exactly what the black racists are painting all the whites to be.

My family is the true America melting pot. My entire life I believed I was just another White guy whose dad picked cotton in the dust bowl during the Depression and worked himself to death. There is no special hatred reserved for one race or another, just as there is no special favors for one race or another. This is a country which except for the small percentage who want to divide it, gets together fine with each other, and want every other group to succeed and not fail.

Now after a full lifetime it is pretty well documented two ways there is a black ancestor who very likely owned a white ancestor outside the entire storyline the America haters want to exploit. My slave owner grandfather was more like the truth in that after or during his slavery he gave not only his daughter to Peter Bray but a hundred acres of land. Where is the hate in that?

These two men were both Christians and actually Quakers. My grandfather was a Quaker pastor from dirt poor beginnings coming from a family of dirt farmers north of London. Slaves like my grandfather became an extended family and were treated with love and admiration to the point of giving his daughter to him. This is the story of America and not some perverted fantasy the Socialists want you to believe to put you on defense.

If their story were true than there could not be my story. The truth of slavery is the majority of slave owners took very good care of their slaves like they are told in the Bible. You are told to treat the slave as your brother and to love them like a brother. So many characters in the Bible were slaves such as Joseph and the Jews, it explained the proper way to care for your slaves since there is a higher place you will be judged. George Washington’s slaves were given their freedom and refused to leave as did many at the end of the Civil War.

My family may be your family and your family may be my family. America is the great melting pot which is what makes it so unique. Unfortunately, there are some people who want to use something which happened 150 years ago as a reason America is not a worthy country. The country which has given freedom to more people in history when it could have enslaved those people is not a good country? No, America is not only a good country, but the countries these people want it to become has enslaved and tortured more people than have lived in all of history.

The truth is the settling of this country is not the evil our schools are teaching our youts. You need to research your family to combat this fiction Communists are using to delegitimatize America. My family history is extremely interesting which is important for patriots to dispel the lies which are being told about our ancestors. My family had deaths on both sides of the Confederacy and the black grandfather had a son who fought in the Revolutionary War. It is a fun hobby which I have over 1500 people in the tree which extends back to the 1400s. It tells me where I came from and what a diverse family it is as well as the history and customs of the times. As it turns out my grandmother is not Dutch at all or from PA.

In the end we are all brothers and sisters who need to live together in love and spirit. There is a Party which wants to destroy this country for selfish reasons and will militarize any weapon they can use. They club America with the clubs of the past using subjective rules of today. This land and my family were founded on the Bible and the forgiveness of Jesus. It is what the land needed in 1735 and what it has rejected in 2021. Those prayers from the past need to be heard today.

Pray for Revival in America

Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.

• Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.

• Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.

Yes I am compiling a Blog about the great pandemic of 2020 and how my country stupidly shut down the economy. We will have opinions, political and cultural highlights, my personal experience, social media details, even TV reviews since I watch so much TV while in my home jail. We shall, as always, end with a smile.
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MAJOR POLITICAL EVENTS OF THE WEEK
(another update)

Biden speech on Weds 6/23/21

So President Biden gave a "speech" this past Wednesday night and it was, as his speeches often are, awful.

First, speculation has it that the Democrats are taking a lot of heat for the horrific crime waves hitting the big cities across America. So they sent Biden out to assure the world that never mind the reduction of funds for cops, calls for the killing of cops, cops quitting everywhere....this has nothing to do with the current crime wave.

IT'S THE DAMN GUNS!

Not that anyone is surprised that Biden went after the guns in this country. In mid of night, guns across this continent awake, load themselves with bullets, and go out and shoot people.

The guns have got to go.

Meanwhile, yon descendants, guns are selling out across the land because what with all the guns going out and killing people we might not have enough left to protect our own human selves.

Folks, lock up your guns to keep them from getting out.

Collapse of condo in Miami

It might not be considered political, but it is big news across the land.

It seems that a condo building has collapsed in Miami Beach, Florida. Many people are believed to be trapped below the rubble as of this writing.

Man, Biden can't get a break. He becomes President and guns come out of hiding, illegals stream across the border, teenagers are dying from the COVID vaccines and now the very buildings we live in are collapsing below our feet.

You know what we need yon descendants?

We need Donald Trump to return.

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MAJOR CULTURE EVENTS OF THE WEEK
(one more update)

Football Player Comes Out as Gay

Defensive End Carl Nassib of the Las Vegas Raiders came out today, the first active NFL player in history to do so.

First, really, who cares?

But, of course, that is all the rage nowadays. I am also to understand that former American Idol David Archeluta has also come out, declaring he is bisexual and wants to love both men and women.

Nature has made it so that reproduction occurs with an act between a male and a female. Such acts between two males or two females will not result in reproduction.

Being LGBTQ is all the rage nowadays but no children come from their pleasure.

Britney Spears

I been hearing stories about Britney Spears and I am enough of a gossip that my ears perk. I found out some things that shock me.

First, she is 40 years old now. Second, for the past more than ten years her father controls her life and her money. Britney went to court to get her freedom and to be her own person.

I do remember a period of time when Britney cut off her hair and was acting very crazy. Not that I paid all that much attention to it, Spears not being one of my favorite performers.

But at age 40, even if she is a screw-up, she deserves to have control of her life AND the money that SHE earned.

Have not heard the result of the court hearing but ears are close to the ground.

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OVER THE INTERNET
(social media explains so much)

Note the latest men's hairstyles

Heh. But their guns did.

REVIEWS TV SHOWS
(since I watch so much TV, not for my descendants)
Celebrity Dating Game

ABC 10pm, Monday

Hosted by actress and singer-songwriter Zooey Deschanel and multiple Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Michael Bolton, "The Celebrity Dating Game" offers a wry wink at modern dating with a star-studded roster of celebrity singles from television, music, comedy, reality TV and feature film in their pursuit to find love. O

This is a new show but there was an original "Dating Game" show that was rather popular. Only that show featured us peasants, both as a date-seeker and as those who wish to be sought.

One of the first guests on this version of the show was Carson Kressley, a shining member of the LGBTQ community. He, of course, was seeking a male contender for his first date.

Like the original version of the show, the contenders for a date with a contestant are not seen by he or she who would choose him or her. They do answer questions as posed by the contestant and based on those answers, the contestant makes a choice of which contender they will choose.

Another contender was a former Bachelorette and three guys who vied for her as a date. Man, she was a Bachelorette, she should be married and have three kids by now. Guess it didn't work out for her.

I kind of enjoy this show. Honestly, I like the Celebrity version better than the original because I can make fun of the famous people.

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EDITORIAL
(My opinion for my descendants)
Jefferson's countervailing sources explains what's going on in America today

Yes, yes. The election appears to have been stolen. And since Biden has become president lots of things in America are getting worse.

Do not despair.

Listen to the wise words of none other than Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson coined the concept of the law of countervailing forces. It isn't rocket science. The concept is that there are periods when one principle of life is embraced by the people and periods when another concept is then embraced. The result is a country...a populace if you will, that sways slightly this way and slightly that way. The citizenry grows and thrives and has better lives together.

This is what is happening now.

Biden might have stolen the election but the result is an emphasis on being black in America. Sure, it's all unfair. We freed the slaves over a hundred years ago. But Biden was helped to election by such as "Black Lives Matter" and as a result the emphasis is on the alleged mistreatment of blacks.

Of course it's alleged. The notion of white supremacy is nonexistent but the efforts are achieving the effect of a countervailing force pulling the country leftward.

They've got two years to pull the country in the direction that they want. Because America, no mind who is in charge, tends to center around the middle politically. This screaming over racism and efforts to give black Americans more power, is not going to last. In 2022 the countervailing force will begin to pull in the other direction.

But all will not be lost. There are, perhaps, police who unjustly treat black people. Perhaps in our daily lives we do not pay attention to our treatment of people of color. An argument can be made that police will not be eliminated or even defunded. But an awareness of treating everyone equal, black or white, might be the result.

Jefferson's law of countervailing forces, and the great people of all colors who carry this country on their backs, will prevail.

America will not go down without common sense rebuilding our destiny.

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THE FLY ON THE WALL

Yes I am a fly and yes I also Blog. I tend to wander around among the politicians and hear their conversation. Because I am a fly beneficial to humanity, I share that which I hear. Bear in mind my spelling. I am, after all, only a fly.

Meeting of Black versus White

I have no idea of the human identities of the men in the room but they were scheduled for a meeting, which I noted on my fly memo pad, and turned out for a banquet of crumbs.

"We're are only making white people mad at us," one guy was standing and shouting when I flew in.

"Who cares," another dark man said.

As a fly I do notice that humans sometimes have different skin color, unlike house flies that are all black. This room seems to be filled with all black humans. And they were arguing and debating loudly.

"Back people are now about 18% of the population," one man said, eating a donut and dropping delicious crumbs everywhere. "That means we've got a ways to go before we control this country. For now, we need to get along better with white people than we are with ridiculous black lives mattering and ridiculous charges of white supremacy."

"Yes. We need to get rid of BLM," another black man stood and shouted.

"We only have until 2022 and from then on we will lose any gains we might make during this post election victory run," a black woman shouted, as she was the first female in the room as she entered.

"They will first change the House of Representatives, then the Senate and by 2024, who knows, we might have Trump again," the lady ended, taking a seat with a harumph that she made her point.

That's why we have to do everything we can possibly do now. We should not make the same mistake as the Republicans when they had the House, Senate and Presidency in their control," another man rose and shouted.

"We've got to get rid of the filibuster, add about 5 more to the Supreme Court, defund police departments or at the least take away some of their power. Yes, we're not going to hold on to the shaky power we now have beyond 2024 but we should grab all the power we can while we have a chance."

The shouting continued but this fly had enough crumbs and was tired of the human arguments.

Frankly, as a black fly, I am rooting for the black humans.

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TIME FOR A SMILE

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words of wisdom from bray about as good as it gets: " In the end we are all brothers and sisters who need to live together in love and spirit. There is a Party which wants to destroy this country for selfish reasons and will militarize any weapon they can use. They club America with the clubs of the past using subjective rules of today. This land and my family were founded on the Bible and the forgiveness of Jesus. It is what the land needed in 1735 and what it has rejected in 2021. Those prayers from the past need to be heard today." Also as good as it gets from the rally in oHio last night,cant belive i missed it but heres a few highlights:

and the best of the best:

The latest was the most interesting fact of our family tree. It turns out from someone who researched Peter Bray, he believes he was an indentured slave to the black man Abraham Scott. So, it is very possible my white grandfather was a slave for a number of years to a freed black slave. Not exactly what the black racists are painting all the whites to be.

Those of us with Irish ancestry can also point to the slavery that occurred within our ancestral line, and of course the Chinese can site their descendants use to build the rails of America.

The Dem party as evidenced by the LBJ alleged quote of “Give those N’s stuff and they will vote for us for 100years,” has morphed into the current white is bad, BLM is the only thing we should believe in rather than the sanctity of life for all.

Todays social media, academics, MSM are all to blame for the destruction of your end line of we all need to live together, and I would add contribute to the betterment of all by honest efforts and less reliance on govt to “ enslave” us all.

The country which has given freedom to more people in history when it could have enslaved those people is not a good country?

Furthermore: See my tagline.

One of my aunt’s did the Italian side of the family. Nobody famous, but the family joke of our grandfather leaving Italy because of Benito Mussolini is fact. Growing up, we thought it was a joke.