Who is Dr. Donald D. Warner ? |
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Donald D. Warner, educator, poet and ordained minister is a graduate of Temple University, Pennsylvania State University and Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a former Chief School Administrator and Board Chairman of Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey. Publications by Warner include: Does the Law of Diminishing Returns Apply to Participation in Schools?, Strengthening the Link between Business and Education, Strange Bedfellows: Hamlet and Malcolm X, and Equality of Educational Returns: Testing Robots, DARK DESTINY, RESURRECTION, A NEW WORLD: If the Creek Don't Rise, and UP IN YOUR FACE. |
A NEW WORLD: IF THE CREEK DON'T RISE questions life in America from the perspective of hyphenated Americans of all races and nationalities. Can true justice, peace and righteousness be found in the midst of a historical past that yielded strange humanistic fruit?
Donald D. Warner realistically examines the influences of language dualities, scholarship, immigrant sojourners, local and national heroes, the family unit, education and religious institutions, accompanied by the new rise of hope seen in the President of the United States, Barack Obama, cast in the midst of a new globalization. The author queries, "Where is our hope?" Historically
the United States Constitution promises definitive aspects of liberty and justice for all. Therefore, as the world shrinks in terms of the new globalization, will we, as Americans, finally strive to achieve a better world, filled with the peace assured by the God in us all?
Dark Destiny captures the experiences of all men and women who live within the diverse parameters of an America that promises great hope, but yields dark destinies for many of its inhabitants. African Americans in particular historically suffer in the midst of confusion experienced within the subtleties of covert and overt discrimination. Yet the miracle of truth exists. The intangible mystery of hope, strength and peace rests in the beauty of one shared moment. Our joy and our task is to grasp, hold and appreciate each moment as it embraces our hyphenated destinies. Explore the frailties of economic depravity after the great depression, the sixties, private thoughts, love and religion and affirm the longings of the immeasurable soul .
In this brilliantly challenging response to the physical, psychological and spiritual aspects of existence in the midst of poverty, segregation and the arrested development of African Americans in the small, suburban, unincorporated town of Crestmont, the author, Donald D. Warner, survived the deteriorating effects of the Great Depression to eventually become an outstanding educator and humanitarian. This former author of Dark Destiny catapults the reader forward to participation in an extraordinary autobiographical journey of a life filled with explosive situations that explore the negative effects of racial discrimination, the social and academic effects of biased educational systems, the U.S. Marines and Korean War, street gangs in Philadelphia, the Civil Rights Movement, educating children at risk in urban and suburban environments, resulting in an enlightening embrace found in the discovery of a spirituality that defines the complexity of his inner being. Resurrection contains a gold mine of valuable information relative to commonly held theories concerning family, race relations, education and religion.
Up in Your Face is designed to accentuate the positive aspects of biblical, historical proofs found in prophetic utterances such as Reverend Jeremiah Wright's "God Damn America." As Dr. Martin L. King aptly stated "What affects one directly, affects all indirectly." To that end, we must sew into the American fabric a new quilt of hope and joy guaranteeing and fulfilling the American dream. We must seek an end to vistas of greed and avarice, which allow irrational man to separate us as we seek new technological and scientific languages to define who we are. Our nightmare revolves around the sophisticated reality of living daily amidst a silent and debilitating clash of cultures. Together we must establish a new grammar of faith in which the language patterns of Frederick Douglas are as important as that of Julius Caesar, Diocletian and Constantine the Great. The endeavors of DaVinci and Buonaratti must lift high the artistic challenges of Marion Anderson, Sam Cooke, B.B. King, Mariah Carey, Beyonce and P. Diddy. Only then will the lion of inequality and injustice lie down with the lamb of peace and tranquility.
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