January 2026 - Burnished Bronze Music

I don’t know why the world tolerates America?

January 31, 2026 by Anthony Ewers

Black Awareness, Blog, Current Affairs, Educational, Political, Racism, Video

Is it because of the fast food in all it’s variety? Is it because of the cars, the big buildings, the lights, glamour and pace of a desirable and apparently affluent society? Is it because of their prowess in sports, the holiday destinations, the natural beauty?

There are definitely things we find pleasing about America and rightfully so, but what about the bad stuff? The country is plagued by mass shootings, drug epidemics for both prescribed and illegal drugs and urban deprivation. America also has an unstoppable war machine which it calls in when its bullying foreign policy and tariff led strangulation tactics don’t work. Even at home American’s have to deal with foul-mouthed politicians and the racist ideologies of the men who have inhabited The White House.

Is it a fair trade to accept inhumanity cloaked as policy, moral corruption in the guise of entertainment, raw greed masked as affluence, and even the beautifying of genocide as a path to peace, bringing ever nearer the destruction of our planet by those so ideologically unsound that despite the clamour of the rest of the world, they press on with their atrocities? Is that really a fair trade for what America offers us?

Donald Trump, yes that son of a pumpkin, has radiated racism and displayed all the characteristics of a neighborhood hoodlum for many years, and still yet the American public has managed to vote him into office twice. Once was bad enough, two times is unforgivable. One wonders if democracy is the way, why it is that America, often seen as the defender of democracy has been able to produce this prolonged human tragedy otherwise known as the Trump administration?

The video will be an eye opener, it shows how the symbols of white supremacy are baked into this administration harking back to the dubious ideological concepts of previous American figures now clothed in disgrace, and even to the Nazi’s.

We should be boycotting America, the dollar, its products, its ideologies, its threats, policy and violence. America is a grave abomination on the tapestry of human history, a Baal worshiping cult in disguise, but the mask is s

New Plateau

A remastered version of Future By Design’s “New Plateau” initially released back in 1998. This is a Drum ‘n’ Bass oddity, a trippy, slightly trancey ‘old-skool’ drum ‘n’ bass track with a funky slap bass guitar in it. Soothingly warm and elevating, rinsing the urban blues away. Listen and download this release from your favourite digital music platform here: https://social.tunecore.com/linkShare?linkid=eMKxt31yvZupwQwPkcB6BA

“New Plateau” from New Plateau by Future By Design. Released: 2026. Track 1. Genre: Drum ‘n’ Bass.

a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
Ecclesiastes 3:4

I find that listening to music can bring a kind of healing, but it is temporary. Time to figure out what heals us permanently.

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Musk, Grok, “wineskins” and war

January 18, 2026 by Anthony Ewers

Blog, Current Affairs, Technology, Video

Musk owns Grok (AI chatbot), Starlink (consumer internet) and Starshield (military internet infrastructure).

I was disgusted to hear about Elon Musk’s Grok and its ability to create explicit “deepfake” images of people. Let’s get this straight, you’re probably the most wealthy man on the planet, a significant player in the technology, and you create an AI that generates nudes? Why? Doesn’t the internet have enough of this stuff already, isn’t their enough filth already there for those who want to look for it? I hear the deepfake feature has been turned off, but why the hell was it created in the first place? For some reason this whole episode reminded me of this scripture:

Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors,
pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk,
in order to gaze at their nakedness!
Habakkuk 2:15

People have been made drunk by literal drink, intoxicated and confused by drugs, deceived by teachings of all kinds; Mr Musk is bringing to life his vision of using technology to deceive the masses and we must be very wary of this. In fact we should avoid it.

Why is it that right about now some of the most useless people who appear to have reached a new low in having no morals are significant players in world events? Having a person like Musk own civilian and military infrastructure right across the planet is alarming. The guy is amoral, racist, yes the exact qualities of a white supremacist walking disaster. It is right on so many measures that South Africa has refused his company Starlink, the right to operate in South Africa. I hope more governments will take note of this and follow suit.

Xenogenesis Reading List

January 17, 2026 by Anthony Ewers

Black Awareness, Blog, Intellectual, Video

I’ve watched a few videos now featuring Chris Grandison aka “Xenogenesis”. He is a evolutionary psychologist with a Masters degree in his chosen field and he speaks with clarity on these issues. His background and approach don’t 100% align with my views as I get the impression he is an atheist, whereas I am a believer and follower of The Way. Many people haven’t closely read the bible and understood it on anything more than a superficial level, which sadly is the level at which most teaching of the bible within religious circles and hence the resulting understanding of our faith in wider society sits. The bible is more than a book about faith, it is about economies, politics, family and much more.

However, what I wanted to point out about Xenogenesis, is that his breadth of reading accomplished shows that a wealth of material exists that we should be reviewing to understand how to critically and systematically undermine and overcome the systems created by colonisers to keep Africa dependent, under performing and exploited. This is the kind of material that should be studied by every person of African descent, and should be taught in all African schools. There needs to be a continent wide focus on “African Empowerment & Liberation” in education. We don’t need to learn in such a way that makes us mere parrots of European thought and systems that keep us permanently lagging. We need to establish our own thought and systems that reflect our values to empower us and bring real, lasting change.

Powerful Pan-African Thinkers

This is a great video, although quite long, that goes into some of the great Pan African thinkers and their important literary works. I believe within these books and from our amassed knowledge as a people, we do have the blueprint to implement drastic change in Africa and break free from the European shackles. What we need first is peace, which isn’t easy. In an environment often dominated by conflict, manipulation and greed, we will always grow slowly.

Books covered in the video:

0:33 Kwame Nkrumah — “Consciencism“
24:47 Frantz Fanon — “Black Skin, White Masks“
31:10 Walter Rodney — “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa“
44:17 Cheikh Anta Diop — “The African Origin of Civilization“
56:47 Frantz Fanon — “The Wretched of the Earth“
01:02:00 Susan Williams — “White Malice“
1:15:00 C.L.R. James — “The Black Jacobins“

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