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The Human Family Prerogative

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I recently visited Amazon.com to view my sales statistics.  During the month of January 2015, I couldn’t get readers to add any of my books to their personal libraries. To say this news is a downer would be an understatement.  It’s not like I haven’t let the world know about the relevancy of these titles, which are available as eBooks and paperbacks.

The title that I want them to purchase is ADINKRAHENE: Fear of a Black Planet.  That’s my debut novel, the one that has Black people wielding supernatural powers in an honorable and responsible way.  These powerful Black super humans don’t want to exact vengeance on White people for 400 years of slavery and Jim Crow legislation; they ultimately want to get the human race to see that it is one race, not many.  I readily admit that there is a faction of Blacks, the technologically advanced militia group Black-Out, that defaults to using violence to secure power, influence and control, but if I did not offer its members’ perspective, the story would be, well, boring.

The ADINKRAHENE series is all about restoring the human family to its original state, one in which every person on the planet, regardless of their race and ethnicity, worships the Heavenly Father and understands that treating each other with love, honor and respect pleases this same Heavenly Father.  Much like R & B singer Bobby Brown, who boldly sang about having a prerogative, I think it is time for us to adopt what I call The Human Family Prerogative.

For the purposes of these stories, this Heavenly Father is the god of Adam and Noah, Abraham and Issaac, David and Jesus.  I do assert that these biblical figures and deity are Black and not White, and I feel no shame in making such an assertion.  Our collective history has been corrupted, oftentimes for selfish reasons, all to make one racial/ethnic group’s members feel more superior to all of the others.  ADINKRAHENE is my attempt to level the playing field in a fictional sense so people who look like me can gain a semblance of respect in a culture that seems to hate and despise us.  More importantly, though, I want to show Whites that Blacks can push their anger, frustration and resentment aside to work with them to reconcile differences. The altruistic, Black characters in this series know the truth – that Lucifer (i.e., Satan) and his minions (i.e., the Satarians) are responsible for the unraveling of our once unified kingdom.

There are two more books in the series – Fear of a Beloved Community and Fear of an Alien Presence.  These books will get written with or without your support.  I’m a writer, remember?  But I would much rather type sentences and paragraphs on my laptop computer knowing you are looking forward to the release of the next ADINKRAHENE novel.  For you know that prejudice and discrimination are alive and well in America and around the world.  But you also know eradicating this issue is highly improbable if we fail to discuss its underlying causes and effects.

Thank you to all those individuals who have shown that they believe in me by purchasing one or more of my books.  I am truly grateful.

And to those individuals who are new readers of the ADINKRAHENE Series, I say welcome.

CLICK HERE TO ORDER THE EBOOK VERSION OF J. A. FAULKERSON’S DEBUT NOVEL “ADINKRAHENE: FEAR OF A BLACK PLANET”.

What if…?

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ImageAs a child, I was an avid comic book reader.  X-Men, Avengers and Fantastic Four from Marvel, Justice League, Legion of Superheroes and Teen Titans from DC.  But if you had access to my footlocker filled with close to a thousand bagged comic books, you would probably conclude that I preferred Marvel comic books over the ones published by DC.

And you would be right.

One Marvel series that I got a kick out of reading asked one simple question: What if…?  The series featured the omnipresent and omnipotent Watcher, and placed a number of Marvel’s greatest heroes in precarious situations.  But as I inch closer to the end of my first novel, I also find myself thinking about its beginnings, how I too asked the question “What if…?”

What if black people were the powerful?  What would they do with all their power and influence?  Would they seek retribution and revenge for all the pain and suffering they had to endure under slavery and Jim Crow?  I tend to think they would use their power and influence to unite rather than divide.

Why, you ask?

Because they are enlightened to the fact all individuals and groups should be treated fairly, and are deserving of respect.

Does that mean they forget the sins that were and continue to be committed against them?  No.  If anything, they would do whatever is necessary to expose Jim Crow criminals and the companies that profited from the uncompensated labor provided by Africans and African Americans.  They would also enlighten Americans of all hues to the fact that Republicans in the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of the American government have been co-opted the most by the Corporate Cabal.  In this scenario, the Corporate Cabal’s very existence relies on maintaining a system of Haves and Have-Nots, with members of the Black Diaspora being cast in the role of bottom-feeders.  And in an era where the United States has elected its first black president, they will oppose Republican legislators who think it is good policy to make life more difficult for middle and working class Americans.

Stay tuned.