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The Words of A Master Teacher

Taj Terik Bey What so-called "black", "negro", "colored", "African-American" (Moors) have not been taught is that they are native, indigenous and aboriginal to the Americas. That fact is not speculation. Forget what you have "heard" or been "taught" by European/Christian-based books, in public/private (catholic/protestant) schools and "churches". Researchers and scientists, both Moorish AND European, have verified documents, artifacts and antiquities that unquestionably prove that Moors originally inhabited the continent of the Americas. Moors, did not first arrive to the Americas on slave boats. They (your ancestors) were already here. (Ask any "Mason" who Hiram Abiff is and what it means, and see what he does or says - if anything.) Cristos Columbo (Christopher Columbus) did NOT "discover America". As a matter of fact, Columbus never made it past Barbados and never even saw the land that ...

St. Augustine Catholic Church, New Orleans, Louisiana (1841- )

St. Augustine Catholic Church of New Orleans was the first black church in Louisiana and the first black Catholic church in the United States. In the 1830's a group of free African-American New Orleanians began organizing to create a Catholic church in Tremé, a historically black and multicultural New Orleans neighborhood. With the blessing of Antoine Blanc, the first Archbishop of New Orleans, the parish was founded in 1841 and the first ceremony was held there on October 9, 1842. A group of white Catholics, angered that a Catholic church aimed at black New Orleanians was to be built, began a campaign to purchase pews in an attempt to outnumber the black parishioners. This effort was unsuccessful, as free blacks still greatly outnumbered whites. Additionally, reputedly a first in American history, black members pooled resources to purchase pews for slaves. In 2005 hurricane Katrina devastated the Archdiocese of New Orleans financially. Although St. Augustine was relatively...