b'Know Our HistoryEmpower Your FutureMeet the Real Lone Ranger:Bass"Black Marshal" ReevesInsearchingforthecausesoftheTexas.ColonelReevesjoinedthe self-destructivebehaviorofBlackEleventhTexasCavalryandfought Americans,scholarsdiscoveredyearswith the South during the war. Bass ago,thatwehaveaveryhighself- waswithhismasterduringdur-esteem despite our racial history. OnlyingthebattlesofChickamaugaand recently has it been discovered that asMissionaryRidge,theninthebattle Black Americans, we also have a veryof Pea Ridge. low racial (group) -esteem. After the war Bass went to the Indian This low racial-esteem causes a deep- Territory(Oklahoma)andbecamea rooted self-hatred, and it all comes fromdeputymarshal.Federallawman-an absence of ancestral history in com- dated that deputy U.S. marshals have binationwithasystemicbeliefinallatleastoneposse-manwiththem thingstheconquerors-of-oldhadwrit- when ever they went out in the field to ten about our ancestors. We have beenmake an arrest. The men who assisted force-fed history books that painted usReeveswereNativeAmericans,(at assavagesandmadetobelievethatthat time it was the highest ranking our race has made little to no positivea Native American could achieve), like contributions to the human family tree. the character Tonto who assisted the ThisistherootofwhyBlackonLoneRanger.ItwasReevespractice Black crime is so high. As Black mento work in disguises while going out andwomenwemayfeelgoodaboutto capture fugitives from justice, just ourselves, but we hate our own people.liketheLoneRangerworeablack This realization allows us to understandmask.why black entertainers, politicians, andManyofthewhitesettlersdidn\'t athletes often, do little to help empowerknow Bass Reeves name so they just the people of their own race. calledhimthe"BlackMarshal"just The only way to end this self-hatredlike they called the Lone Ranger in the is to educate each other about our truetv show, the man in the Black Mask. history and create a balance between self-esteem and racial-esteem. Here is my offering.By Randy McCowan, Publisher Many of the white settlers didn\'t know B ass Reeves, an African AmericanBass Reeves name deputymarshal,workedforthe Muskogee county court in Oklahoma,so they just called for over twentyseven years. It is said that that deputy Reeves had arrestedhim the "Black morethanthreethousandmenand women and killed twelve men. When the civil war started Reeves,Marshal"was a slave and belonged to Colonel GeorgeReevesofGraysoncounty, BODY OF CHRIST NEWS MAY 2019 15'