During my childhood and as a teenager I had no knowledge of my great-great grandfather, Nimrod, who was a slave on a plantation in Decard, TN. That changed when I was teaching an art class to an all white group in Boaz, Al (the area of the Scottsboro Boys) and saw a student's painting of a church. I commented that it looked familiar. She said it was the Saidge Chapel. I was shocked. It was the church my family attended for family reunions. That night I had a discussion with my father. Three days later I had a conversation with his first-cousin. My mind was opened: I began receiving Nimrods channeled memorandum - Red Book and Cotton. Before this time I wasn't expressing myself as a writer, and that creative energy was expressed when I embarked on the journey of writing "the book": Red Book and Cotton. As I am an artist I painted ten huge paintings and sculpted 2-figurines that corresponded with its message, alcoholism, drug addiction, pornography, violence, and overeating.

Shortly after I had begun to read Red Book and Cotton, I became aware of a connection between Americas' past history of slavery and its present affects on the youth. As I see this matter it's obvious that America's youth are suffering from its residue of slavery: alcoholism, drug addiction, pornography, violence, and overeating. All of which is past onto them via their parents. Therefore I am of the opinion that parents are the reason for youth's ills of what I call IN-SLAVE-MENTAL habits and addictions. In turn certain friends and I are promoting what we call "!BLAM! your paRENTs."

!BLAM! / !BLAM!ming paRENTs is an entirely different matter than blame / blaming ones parents for IN-SLAVE-MENTAL habit and addictions:alcoholism, drug addiction, pornography, violence, and overeating.