Count on a $6 trillion #BlackJesus Trust

 “If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it.” #BlackJesus John 14:13 ICB

By Eric Stradford, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired

AMWS, February 8, 2026, Maputo, Mozambique  -- U.S. foreign policy under the Trump administration is moving the world’s 2.4 billion followers of Jesus The Christ closer than ever to God’s purpose for their existence. 

At the heart of manifest destiny was a gross misperception of racial superiority.  Just governments rightfully commend the obedience, loyalty, support, and defense of all Christian men and women they control and protect.  The Right Reverend Jeffrey N. Leath, 128th Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, has cautioned his church’s institutional voice to seek substantive change from a shrinking dollar. “

·         We Have Capable Leaders in Districts 14-20

·        We want to decide for ourselves (leaders and governance structures)

·        We need/want Development Financial Support, but we have some resources without it.

·        We need a different Episcopal District Configuration (Zambia)

Fiduciary Trustees for Free African Society for the 21^st Century (FAS2) call on advocates and antagonists for church reform to assess generational needs through a $100 m seed for ending poverty.  FAS2 seeks to leverage equity in a $6 trillion asset to partner on United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 1, #NoPoverty2030 in Alkebulan.

The Historic Black Church, evolving from Philadelphia society, assimilated racist values into their divine rights to perpetuate perception of their inferiority.  Each February, historically disadvantaged believers honor founders to include Richard Allen and Absolom Jones for a vision to carry out the spirit of #BlackJesus. 

Young Adult followers are poised to assume responsibility for leveraging newly discovered assets for their ecosystem’s sustained development.  The Richard Allen Young Adult Council (RAYAC), scheduled for “convergence” at this year’s gathering of the Global Development Council, sets hope for  multi-generational trust.

RAYAC’s Black History report to the church of Richard Allen can repair and restore followers to their manifest destiny

In Revelation 3:7-8 ICB - To the Church in Philadelphia  The spirit of the original Free African Society acknowledges the church's deeds, stating, "I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut. For you have only a little strength, yet you have kept My word and have not denied My name" (Revelation 3:8).

The letter to the church promises protection and vindication. Jesus assures them that He will keep them from the hour of trial that is coming upon the world (Revelation 3:10). He also promises that the one who overcomes will be made a pillar in the temple of God, signifying stability and honor in His presence.

Heirs of Salvation here and throughout State of African Diaspora (SOAD) can sing a new song for repair and reconciliation.  With almost 350 million people, the African Diaspora equals the THIRD COUNTRY in the world after China and India, but greater than The United States of America (323 million), Indonesia (258 million) and Brazil (205 million).

The African Diaspora is derived from two main waves of migration:

- The first is related to the deportation of Africans in the context of the slave trade, whether it is the Eastern Trade (from the 7th to the beginning of the 20th century), or the Western Trade (from the 15th to the 19th century). The descendants of these populations are still living today in countries like Yemen or Iraq, or The United States of America and Brazil, for example.

-The second wave is an economic migration that pushed the African population to Europe, since the twentieth century, especially after 1945. These are African descendants in France or the UK, but also in many other countries of the world. 

The Covenant

In 2004, the AME Church made a major commitment to Indigenous Leadership with an unprecedented election of three bishops who were born in overseas districts (Districts 14-20). The intent was sealed with a document:

Persons born outside of the USA would serve areas of their birth. Yet, the understanding of those elected was not clear in terms of their having made an active, career long obligation.

ARTICLES OF RELIGION  23. OF THE RULERS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA  

The President, the Congress, the General Assemblies, the Governors, and the Councils of State, as the delegates of the people, are the rulers of the United States of America, according to the division of power made to them by the Constitution of the United States, and by the constitution of their respective states and the Councils of States delegates of the people, are the rulers of the United States of America, and by the Constitutions of their respective States. And the said states are a sovereign and independent nation, and ought not to be subject to any foreign jurisdiction.

It is acknowledged that the African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in the United States. However, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is an international Christian body with constituents around the world, and a Christian witness that is both parochial and global. Article 23 presumes the duty, loyalty and patriotism of our constituents, as citizens of sovereign nations, to obey just laws, to recognize and respect the organizational structure, and to uphold the Constitution of the country or nation-state in which our members hold the rights and privileges of citizenship. Further, obedience to Civil Government is one of the principle duties of all persons, and was honored by our Lord and His Apostles. Though differing in form and policy, all just governments rightfully commend the obedience, loyalty, support, and defense of all Christian men and women they control and protect.

Can UNSDG’s #BlackJesus Partnership End Poverty?

“Then the King will answer, ‘I tell you the truth. Anything you did for any of my people here, you also did for me.’ Matthew 25:31-46 ICB

By Eric Stradford, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired

AMWS, February 4, 2026, Maputo, Mozambique  --  Faith Leaders are set to gather here to “carry out the spirit of the original Free African Society.”  The youngest disciples of #BlackJesus should reasonably expect “substance of things hoped for” where they live, learn, work and or worship.

Fiduciary Trustees for The Free African Society (FAS2) have called on church reform advocates to assess generational needs through a $100 m seed for ending poverty. 

UNICEF reports that around 13 million children—77% of all children in Mozambique—live in monetary poverty, multidimensional poverty, or both. Two or more followers from Generations A and Z are awaiting a word from their institutional voice to confirm a promise, “if you ask for anything in my name, I will do it for you.” 

Black Church leaders believe Trump‑era foreign policy influenced poverty in Sub‑Saharan Africa through several mechanisms: foreign aid changes, trade uncertainties, immigration restrictions, geopolitical shifts (especially U.S.–China competition), and security policy adjustments. These factors collectively impacted economic conditions, social services, governance stability, and humanitarian needs.

According to The Christian Recorder, The Global Development Council  promotes the development of African Methodism in Districts 14–20 and serves as an institutional voice to the larger Connectional Church. 

African Methodism refers to the family of historic Black Methodist denominations that emerged in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when African Americans, facing discrimination in white‑controlled Methodist churches, formed independent religious bodies grounded in Methodist theology, Wesleyan practice, and Black self‑governance.

In part, the “larger Connectional Church” may share responsibility for today’s effects of European colonialization throughout Alkebulan.   Estate attorneys are reviewing causes and effects of imposing European values on Free Africans.   Black History goes way back beyond the 1600s slave trade to  Noah’s Manifest Destiny.  

Findings from the African Union’s Year of Reparations offer evidence of change to traditional attitudes toward global development.   International recognition of the AU’s sixth region including the African Diaspora presents an emerging reality about estate values related to wills and trusts.

As conveners prepare for the February 18-20, 2026 gathering, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is considering structural changes, including closing the current Department of Retirement Services by July 31, 2028, as part of reforms tied to the lawsuit.  Substantive reform for the historic Black Church in the U.S. may ultimately serve as a foundation for global repair.

U.S. settlement in the matter of the missing preacher pension funds follows the discovery that a large portion of the fund—ultimately around $88–90 million—had been lost due to embezzlement and improper investment management by one former head of Retirement Services, who died in 2024.  But, further investigation of ponzi schemes may reveal patterns of corruption yet to be disclosed in the history of Free Africans in North America.

Here is a clear, well‑sourced overview of Rosa Parks, the iconic American civil rights activist.

 

Rosa Parks — Life, Legacy, and Impact

Who Was Rosa Parks?

Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus in 1955 became a defining moment of the Civil Rights Movement.

Known as the “mother of the civil rights movement,” she played a central role in challenging racial segregation and inspiring mass protest across the United States.

Early Life

Born Rosa Louise McCauley to James and Leona McCauley.

Grew up in Pine Level, Alabama, where she attended segregated schools.

Experienced racial discrimination from a young age, shaping her commitment to justice.

  The Montgomery Bus Incident (1955)

On December 1, 1955, after a long workday, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated Montgomery city bus.

Her refusal was an act of quiet, deliberate resistance, not a matter of physical fatigue.

She stated she was “tired of giving in,” not tired from work. [liheapch.acf.gov]

Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a 381‑day mass protest that:

Fueled the rise of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a national leader

Led to the Supreme Court ruling that bus segregation was unconstitutional

 Role in the Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Parks was not a random seamstress unaware of activism:

She was already an organizer, investigator, and secretary for the Montgomery NAACP.

She worked on cases involving racial violence and voting rights. [census.gov]

Her activism extended beyond Montgomery:

After the boycott, she moved to Detroit and continued civil rights, political, and community work.

She advocated for political prisoners, youth empowerment, and continued activism through the 1990s. [liheapch.acf.gov]

Later Life and Legacy

Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005, in Detroit. [census.gov]

She is honored as one of the most significant figures in American history for her courage, conviction, and lifelong commitment to equality.

Today, her birthday (February 4) is commemorated in places like Maryland as Transit Equity Day, honoring her contribution to transportation justice and civil rights.

Grievers, Believers, Governments and Pentecost

 

Are you a griever or a believer? Class Leader Learning “zooms” in on Four Horsemen, Episcopal Government and treaties that protect Black Lives?  Churches with an episcopal polity are governed by bishops, practicing their authorities in the dioceses and conferences or synods. Their leadership is both sacramental and constitutional; as well as performing ordinations, confirmations, and consecrations, the bishop supervises the clergy within a local jurisdiction and is the representative both to secular structures and within the hierarchy of the church.

By Eric Stradford, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired 

AMWS May 23, 2021, Black Wall Street, Sovereign Muscogee Nation -- This week grievers seeking economic repair for the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot are awakened to opportunities for “carrying out the spirit of the original Free African Society.”

Celebrants at Historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church are among some 2.4 billion kinfolk anticipating “Holy Ghost Power” on the 50th day from Easter Sunday. Believers are marking 100 years of expectation that “trouble don’t last always.”

Historically, on Pentecost Sunday, “Many godly Jews were in Jerusalem that day for the religious celebrations, having arrived from many nations. And when they heard the roaring in the sky above the house, crowds came running to see what it was all about and were stunned to hear their own languages being spoken by the disciples.”

In 2021, 100 years after domestic terrorists killed some 300 descendants of Free Africa, destroyed The J.B. Stradford Hotel and firebombed Tulsa’s Greenwood community, new settlers are celebrating a new vision for the future.

In his first trip as the nation's top law enforcement official, Attorney General Merrick Garland visited the sites of two of the worst domestic terrorist attacks in U.S. history -- an effort he said was intended to highlight what happens when racial hatred drives individuals to carry out unspeakable acts of violence against their fellow Americans.

A Department of Justice investigation might pave the way for a virtual whistle stop by the President of the United States.  The Biden Administration’s vision of America’s future starts with HEALING THE SOUL OF AMERICA.  But before taking a victory lap, a multi-trillion dollar infrastructure assessment is likely to reveal cracks in the nation’s spiritual foundation.

Este Mvskokvlke (Muscogee people) is perhaps one of the oldest cracks in the foundation of a place Europeans called America.  As far back as George Washington’s presidency, treaties misidentified the inhabitants.  The Muscogee people are descendants of a remarkable culture that, before 1500 AD, spanned the entire region known today as the Southeastern United States.

Early ancestors of the Muscogee constructed magnificent earthen pyramids along the rivers of this region as part of their elaborate ceremonial complexes. The historic Muscogee, known as Mound builders, later built expansive towns within these same broad river valleys in the present states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina.

Advanced infrastructure investment is evident throughout the “Indian Territory” addressed in McGirt v Oklahoma, a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision admitting to failure by the U.S. Government in keeping its promises.  The Muscogee Nation, now acknowledged by the U.S. Supreme Court, expands from Tulsa, Oklahoma all the way to the Okmulgee Burial Grounds near Macon, GA.   

Most of Tulsa is still part of the territory of the Muscogee Nation.  The Lochapoka Band settled the city between 1828 and 1836.  This month, the Muscogee Nation celebrated its historic roots by dropping the “(Creek)” from its official name.

So how does this historic Muscogee reality relate to Historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church on Black Wall Street?   

Muscogee Nation is a sovereign government.  Historic Vernon AME is a station of a multi-national Episcopal government.  The federal government of the United States unlawfully denied Este Mvskokvlke (Muscogee people) full protection of law in its execution of Public law 21–148.   Este Mvskokvlke is neither “Creek” nor “American Indian.” The English called the Muscogee peoples occupying the towns on the Coosa and the Tallapoosa rivers, Upper Creeks, and those to the southeast, on the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers, the Lower Creeks.

Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages a REGIONALLY IMPORTANT RESOURCE of the Este Mvskokvlke.  The George Washington administration executed a treaty pattern with the geography (Creek) and not the actual people 

The city of Tulsa is in the Sovereign Muscogee Nation and not the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

The perceived debt for “reparations” predates the first of two millennial generations. The Este Mvskokvlke existence dates back to 1015.  The generation of Free Africans seeking repair for a terrorist attack on two sovereign governments are likewise known as “millennials.”  Legal claims should seek a double portion, not in reparations, but in pass due rent.

 

$2.3 Trillion Train To Black Wall Street… ALL ABOARD?

TRUE OR FALSE: GENERATION ALPHA -- What did we learn about virtual and real from COVID-19 school?  (1) As a U.S. Senator, Joe Biden traveled between Wilmington, DE and Washington, DC by train; (2) “Uncle Joe” is either a character from Petticoat Junction or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s worst nightmare in a proposed $2-trillon infrastructure bill;  (3) No AMTRAK train has ever arrived on Black Wall Street.

By Eric Stradford, U.S. Marine Corps, Retired

AMWS May 8, 2021, Muskogee – A virtual Presidential whistle stop marks the 100^th year since white “settlers” devastated Black Wall Street.  The “Frisco” is one of many information infrastructure projects considered for a Learning Journey back to the future.  The railroad tracks just south of North Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood community is but one haunting reminder that American infrastructure does not necessarily sustain “One Nation Under God” on both sides of the railroad track.

Fact:  “Uncle Joe” is not the 46^th President of the United States.  He’s the character played by American Actor Edgar Buchanan in a 1960s situation comedy. “Petticoat Junction” in no way references two California women behind the man at his first address to a joint session of Congress.  And, The New Stradford Hotel Upon Black Wall Street might never geographically co-exist within a White Supremist’s vision of America’s future.

Give or take a trillion dollars or so, the cost for “healing the soul of America” is racking up a whole new set of zeros.  Today’s new math calls for the youngest living generation to reconcile virtual and physical reality in a quadrillion dollar economy. 

$1,000,000,000,000. The next named number after trillion is quadrillion.   

Anybody planning quadrennial events in 2021 will need to adjust from a single to multi-generational mindset.  Funding decisions made now will ultimately fall on Generation Alpha and two to three generations beyond.

Biden Administration Infrastructure envisions Economic Inclusion for folks who are ready, willing and able to #PlayTheGame.   There’s at least $80 billion on the way to AMTRAK.    There is significantly less on the way to Muscogee for misappropriated infrastructure resulting from the “Indian Removal Act.”  AMTRAK will need to backtrack beyond its half century dependency on federal aid to a time when railroad infrastructure promised Economic Inclusion for all.

With the right balance of faith and science, governments, businesses, communities, and individuals can work together to create infrastructure linking the world's telecommunication and computer networks together.  In the United States, public policy is finally catching up to the Clinton era idea of information infrastructure, enabling the transmission of every conceivable information and communication application.

President Biden’s passion for choo-choo trains may move a $2.3 trillion infrastructure bill closer to public law. But, in Red vs. Blue politics, compromise almost never produces purple.  Rather than funding more dead-end jobs at minimum wage, why not just seed a $1 m trust for every low-income citizen in Generation Alpha?  If we ensure more of them grow up whole, they might produce 3D printers or the next technological evolution to maintain their infrastructure.

A half century ago, Pullman porters rode the rails to inclusion.  It was not their job to learn on behalf of the disenfranchised, but the information they shared empowered friends-n-kin with a glimpse of what is possible...still.  

From across the tracks, America received porters as their on-ramp to mobility.  Pullman porters served American railroads from the late 1860s until the Pullman Company ceased operations on December 31, 1968, just three years before President Richard Nixon’s infrastructure vision saddled America with a quasi-public corporation that, by now, should have ended poverty.

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK) receives a combination of state and federal subsidies but is managed as a for-profit organization.  The United States federal government through the Secretary of Transportation owns all the company's issued and outstanding preferred stock.  Amtrak's headquarters is located one block west of Union Station in Washington, D.C. 

There is no AMTRAK service to Tulsa, Oklahoma.  There is little infrastructure investment north of the railroad tracks.  Throughout AMTRAK’s fifty years of government operations and appropriations, political compromise has ignored one major cornerstone for American infrastructure.  So, why is this important?

For 100 years, planes, trains, automobiles, and banks have run on tax-payer subsidies. According to the Tulsa Preservation Commission, the Curtiss-Southwest Airplane Company was the nation’s first commercial interstate air freight shipping business.  They opened an airfield in Tulsa near Apache Street and Memorial Drive in 1921.  On May 31, that same year, white “settlers” bombed Black Wall Street from airplanes.  Where did they come from?  Where did they go?

On January 6, 2021, almost 100 years after the attack on Black Wall Street, the United States Capitol met a domestic terrorist attack with familiar confusion and disbelief.  However, the outcome was all too familiar outcome.  The FBI is still investigating, “Where did the attackers come from?  Where did they go?”  

Commercial airplanes, AMTRAK trains and automobiles may offer some hint of how we go.  But in getting there, we’ll need to imagine affordable landings at a yet to be determined destination, “Where Do We go From Here?”