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F E A T U R E D B O O K Marcus A. Banks-Bey, M.Div Gathered experience and elevation gained from years as an Army & hospital chaplain, mental health worker and clinical psychology doctoral student, equips Marcus A Banks to aid in journeying the reader to intelligently question their past belief systems and future creative visions of thought and identity as a purposeful means to developing their own personal reality for establishing their “true identity.” Within Dig Deep lies practical language, developed to help the reader grow the relationship with themselves, and understand why nurturing the relationships we have with our Faith, Family, Friends, Fitness and Finances will support our Purpose, Planning, Patience, and Persistent-Perseverance. This system helps one establish their own 5×5 Side by Side Guide through life. Dig Deep was written following a series of extremely challenging life occurrences, including the suicide of the author’s brother, Iverson; divorce; and war deployment. From this place, the author engaged in the process of self-discovery, self-awareness and meaning. DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | SEPTEMBER 2023 | p.16
F E A T U R E D B L O G B y M a r c u s A . B a n k s - B e y , M . D i v The American populace has been blinded by the belief of evolution. This belief dates as far back to Darwin himself with respect to his theory of Survival of the Fittest, that the strongest survive and consume the weak. This theory even fueled Manifest Destiny, and the consolidation hence, murder, of so many Native American tribes upon this U.S. soil. Developing ideologies that a flicker of light cannot exist in darkness, and that with integration, all hatred and bigotry would be absolved. And yet, just as the Underground Railroad was a successful shadowy, covert operation designed to get those who were forced into chattel bondage a route to freedom, another railroad established itself. Not codified, yet parallel to those very tracks. It laid in the ashes of the Confederacy, bitter with defeat, hatred and the need for vengefulness in its demise. In 2023, years after the first U.S. President of African- American Descent has left the office, well after the days of COINTELPro of the age of Hoover, and the FBI's search and assassination plot for the Black messiah, and after January 6th and an insurrection in an attempt to overthrow the legislature for the first time since 1776, it would appear that there has been quite the evolution of the U.S. that no citizen could have foreseen. Supremacy has been officially declared as a threat to the democratic republic of the United States. That which has always been present, yet hidden as the poison to the nation, a single ideology, not substantiated upon anything but rhetoric, bigotry, fear, power, and the need to maintain a position of social stratification with the image of the European male as primary to all other human forms. Sight is now being returned to the blind. It is being returned to as a whole, and this whole is humanity, regardless of the appearance of one's complexion of skin. Acts of violence, hurt, inhumane treatment, and willingness to inflict pain in order to maintain the status quo of a group or select population of individuals, is in fact what any population or group of people will do when they are in fear of losing power or control when a system is not just, and intentionally administered to favor and disfavor. It is simply human behavior, justified by an ideology to carry out that said behavior. The nature of the system designers and those whom benefit continually become exposed. The Confederate Railroad has evolved into a particular ideological party, they love the color red, and for some reason believe that America would be great with both those railroads running parallel again. Where out of the shadows, the covert operation of the Confederate Railroad has been exposed, a flicker of the light in the darkness, where the illness of White Marcus A. Banks-Bey, M.Div DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | SEPTEMBER 2023 | p.17
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