entlemen, I greet you here on the bank of the James River in  the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twelve.  First, I shall thank you, the gentlemen of the Colony of Virginia,  for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some of your  problems with slaves. Your invitation reached me on my modest  plantation in the West Indies where I have experimented with  some of the newest and still the oldest methods of control of  slaves. Ancient Rome would envy us if my program were imple- mented. As our boat sailed south on the James River,  named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we  cherish. I saw enough to know that your problem is not unique.  While Rome used cords of woods as crosses for standing human bodies along its highways in great numbers, you are here  using the tree and the rope on occasion.

I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree a couple of  miles back. You are not only losing a valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away,  your crops are sometimes left in the fields too long for  maximum profit, you suffer occasional fires, your animals are  killed. Gentlemen, you know what your problems are: I do not  need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate your problems, I  am here to introduce you to a method of solving them. In my  bag here, I have a fool proof method for controlling your black  slaves. I guarantee everyone of you that, if installed correctly, it  will control the slaves for at least 300 hundred years. My  method is simple. Any member of your family or your overseer can use it.

I have outlined a number of differences among the slaves: and I  take these differences and make them bigger. I use fear, distrust, and envy for control purposes. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies and it will  work throughout the South. Take this simple little list of  differences, and think about them. On top of my list is “Age,” but it is there only because it starts with an “A,” the second is ‘’color" or shade, there is intelligence, size, sex, size of plantations, status on plantation, attitude of owners, whether  the slaves live in the valley, on the hill, East, West, North, South, have fine hair, coarse hair, or are tall or short. Now that you have  a list of differences. I shall give you an outline of action — but  before that I shall assure you that distrust is stronger than trust and envy is stronger than adulation, respect, or admiration.

The black slave after receiving this indoctri- nation shall carry on and will become self re-fueling and self generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands. Don’t forget you must pitch the old black male vs. the young black male, and the young black male against the old black male. You must use  the dark skin slaves vs. the light skin slaves and the light skin slaves vs. the dark skin slaves. You must use the female vs. the male, and the male vs. the female. You must also have your white servants and overseers distrust all  Blacks, but it is necessary that your slaves trust and depend  on us. They must love, respect and trust only us. 

Gentlemen, these kits are your keys to con- trol. Use them. Have your wives and children use them, never miss an opportunity. If used intensely for one year, the slaves themselves will remain perpetually distrustful. Thank you, gentlemen.

Take note! Could this be why we as a people have such difficulty getting along with each other as family, friends and neighbors? Will we ever be released from this malaise we have been heir to for so many, many years? 
 

s Cousin Tony Harrison of Maryland suggested in the April, 1998, issue of the News Quarterly, the Ohio Family Reunion Planning Committee and the News Quarterly’s Editorial Board have, as promised, finally put Tony’s suggestion into operation. The result of our work will be at no additional cost to those family members who have already subscribed. Their $5.00 subscription will remain the same and they will also con- tinue to receive a copy of the News Quarterly through the mail as usual. The only difference will be that those family members who are connected to the World Wide Web (the Inter- net) can read the News Quarterly on their home or work computers, too.

Not only will this current quarterly issue be on the “Family News Quarterly Web site,” but you will be able to read past issues of the News Quarterly as well. We have created an Archive where you will find News Quarterly issues as far back as 1987 when the News Quarterly was first published. Many of you have requested xerox copies of the News Quarterly. Now, you will be able to view these issues on the Internet as the Robinson-Naylor-Harris family enters the 21st Century and the Com- puter Age. Presently, however, there are only the four most recent issues (including this issue) in the Archive. It will, of course, take a while for HieroGraphics Online’s Webmaster, Edward Crosby, to place the full catalog of 30 back issues on the Web site. This will take some doing, but “the Lord willing and the creek don’t rise,” it will be done in due course. Since nothing comes to us for nothing in this world, there are some things each family member must do:

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ouisa Olivia and Pleamon Samuels, Gloria Jean Robinson, Neora and Osceola Robinson and Donald T. Robinson, all of whom are now deceased ancestors, are pleased to look down from on high and witness the union through marriage of their grandson and son, Donald Thomas Robinson, II to Wanda Denise (Williams) Olugbala, the granddaughter of Albert J. and Vernell Davis Williams and daughter of Glenn E. Williams.

The loving couple were united on October 17, 1998 at 4:00PM at the Belle Isle Casino, Casino Way, Detroit, Michigan. The entire Editorial Board join the Robinson-Naylor- Harris family in general in wishing the newly- weds a long, loving and bountiful life together.

r and Mrs. Carl Roy, Sr., announced the marriage of their daughter, Elisa René to Mr. Reginald Herman Watts on Friday, September 4, 1998, in Vienna, Virginia. As pointed above, the Editorial Board along with the Robinson-Naylor-Harris family also wish the newly-weds continue to cherish each other and have a long, loving and bountiful life together.

y dear Cousins in Ohio,

I am glad to get a few words with you and hope you and your families are doing well.

I am sending you a check of $20,00 dollars to help with the mailing of the News Quarterly. When I sent you a check over a year ago, I told you to cut out my News Quarterly subscription because my grandson, Dr. Wayne Roy is living with me at 3699 Sage Road, Delaplane, Virginia 20144-2036. The zip code is not 22025 any more. So please just send the News Quarterly to Wayne R. Roy and we can share it and save some postage.

I saw the letter saying they are considering taking the chimney down at the Robinson House. I was with Richard R. Robinson and his father Oswald Robinson when they were trying to get something done for the memory of the Robinson House. I hope, if they pull the chimney down, that they will build some nice memorial in place of the chimney. I was born in that house on May 1, 1911 and I lived there until I was 15 years old.

My mother, Rosa Robinson, was Gentleman Jim Robinson’s granddaughter. Her father, Tasco Robinson, was Gentleman Jim’s son.

he mission of RBD is to create an environment that will allow black people to participate in the economic growth and development of our community and to clearly communicate the benefits of utilizing our massive consumer power ($400 billion nationally) to support and strengthen existing businesses and invest in the development of new ones.

Suppose you overheard degrading remarks about the credibility of African American professional and businesses by other African Americans. That’s exactly what happened to Muhammad Nassardeen, the former director of Centinela Hospital Medical Center, who was inspired to found RBD in 1988. According to Muhammad, “Other people are not going to feel comfortable supporting or patronizing us if we do not have confidence in our own people.”

Recycling Black Dollars is an Organization created as a vehicle of self-determination, generating self-help toward black empowerment through economic development. RBD, founded in August 1988 as a weekly networking activity, has produced a quantifiable result. New business relationships have been created and has resulted in enhanced exposure and increased marketing and sales for the membership.

During our weekly meeting, economic issues are discussed, members are encouraged to make promotional presentations to the members and guests, and problems which various members are having in their businesses are openly discussed among their business peers. The results have been outstanding

In every black community the church is one of the major information sources of the people. RBD has worked closely with religious and community organizations to disseminate the message of economic development.

Our agenda is to encourage the black community-at-large to support black businesses products and services, in addition to encourage black businesses to upgrade their service delivery systems, enhance product quality control, and endeavor to meet the expectation of often difficult to please customer base. Visit the RBD Web Site at: http://www.rbdonline.net.

ithout the regular submission of news and information from you, our subscribers, the News Quarterly will not long be able to continue its 11 years of service to the family at large. We don’t think it is entirely necessary to remind you that the News Quarterly is one of the very few regularly published and growing family newsletters in the United States. 

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