In general, especially if they don’t know better than to believe you when you’re wrong, people respect the ability of your mind to show no fear in turbulent times. The people in the U.S.A who respect George Bush respect him not because he is a “bright man”. On the contrary, they respect him because even when he says some of the dumbest of things he shows no fear in saying them. There has to be a person in your life who talks a lot and you can’t figure out why people listen to him or her but they do. It probably has more to do with confidence they exude than it has to do with the information they supply
There is a biblical quote “study to show your self approved, a watchman rightly dividing the word of god”. There are three key points to this passage 1) “study to show thyself approved” Consciousness is about the self. The student studies to learn what the teacher knows to perfect self. The student is to become the teacher not sustain the teacher. If you cant teach it you don’t know it, and if you don’t know it you cant show it, and if you cant show it how will anyone “especially you” even know its there. 2) “a watchman” Instead of looking for the prophet outside of you seek the prophet within for the one within is the only one who can enlighten you, the other will only entertain you or pacify you. 3) “rightly dividing the word of god” you study, you protect your mind/heart from wrong information so that you can rightly divide all information or stimuli coming in to you from the objective world so that you don’t end up internalizing bad information in your subjective world because is that subjective world that “Nun” within from which all creation is created. It is that which your active will allows to become your dormant passive will that springs forth as your habits, your creative superstructure.
It is very popular, especially in esoteric circles, to say that the matrix isn’t real. This is true only if you understand that you create the matrix by your perceptions of reality. A semi coming at you is real and if you don’t jump out of the road it will run you over. The system of racism white supremacy is real and if we as a singular Africans or we as a people don’t act as watchmen for our minds it will destroy us. This is a perfect world, as Amos Wilson was fond of saying, if we allow garbage in we should expect to receive garbage back out. No soldier who is trained by the U.S. army expects the army to send him out to fight against the U.S. army.
No system fighting against itself can stand. Our conscious and sub-conscious minds form a system of thought, action, and creation. This is the reason why Europeans teach us a concept of objectivity under the illusion of universal truth which they define in their own image. Africans working under this paradigm are bound to work not in within a self interest but for the interest of him who has become their truth. The Buddha once said thought becomes word, word becomes deed, deed becomes habit and habit becomes character. I would argue that we must understand character as the sub-conscious result of accepted outside paradigms which then lead to our thoughts, deeds, and behaviors. What we allow to be presented uncritically to our subconscious will be the seeds of our future actions.
The African mind is capable of achieving that witch it is focused upon and is only limited by its conceptualization of its own power. It is never to late or to early to be that which you desire to become, but you can’t get there holding on to people who have limited themselves and wish to therefore limit you. Once you decide to walk the path of personal power you will have to be willing to walk away from those who aren’t willing for what ever reason to walk along with you. Every one around you is a guide to knowing yourself better. If everyone around you is limited then that’s the state you have chosen to be in right now. If you wish to be released from that state, speak the truth that you understand and walk within it and allow it to grow in your life.
Every path has a price but the price of not walking your truth is a lot more costly than the cost of walking it. You only kill yourself by hushing your truth for companions who, as soon as they get theirs if they ever do, will walk on from you and leave you lost in the abyss of confusion. Remember it is your consciousness riding in the bark over nun and if your bark is overturned it is only your light that will be put out and left passive in the abyss.

NOTES ON CHAPTERS 6 AND 7 OF RA UN NEFER AMENS BOOK "METU NETER

(0) AMEN
Subjective Realm. Infinite source of life. that stimulus pushing for unity
Energy/matter void of limits, void of conditioning. Eternal source of all
(1) AUSAR
Looks back to 0. Identifies it self with the capability of being whatever it chooses. Being immortal and eternal
Self identity which looks back at zero and has no complexes is not controlled by outer stimuli or conditioned responses. We must be able to change our accepted personalities to fit our circumstance and not limit ourselves to who we have been conditioned to think we can only be. 1 knows from looking back at 0 we are not limited we are limited because we are made in the likeness of god.
(2)
TEHUTI
Omniscience all knowing. Looks back to 0. the divine will. All is a part of the whole “interdependent” no man is an island. Divine will
This is the divine will which is based on gods will and not our flesh, desires, or condition.
(3)
SEKER
Omnipotence looks back at 0 sees no limits of what the will can do. Will is the potential but spirit is the power to make what is willed, come to pass.
The spiritual power of man that caries out the will of god intuited to man. Will is only a profession the power to carry out what is willed is in the spirit.
(4)
MAAT
Framing the laws for the works of Seker. Order is the safe guard of the dependence between things.
Foundation of love/source of wealth. Abstract unification of law and order through the teachings of 0 on the inside of man. Where laws of unification are framed on an abstract basis.
(5)
HERU-KHUTI
The way of enforcing order. Nothing overstepping its boundaries, and still protecting dependency.
The analytical faculty. Where you intuitively understand and apply the laws of justice. Separates ones self from ones person in order to hold the ones person accountable. Do on to others as you would have them to do unto you. People are caught in the paradox of knowing the unity of all but not knowing how to act because of the desire to protect self. People will not manifest right behavior without being able to intuit guidance from 0
(6)
HERU
Coordination based upon Maat.
. this is the most important sphere, it is where equilibrium is founded it unites higher self (0,1) with lower self (9,10). It brings equilibrium between what unites us internally to the world and each other to that which separates us. Be in the world but not of it.
(7)
HET-HERU
Creation of images. Responsible for people being able to work together by recognizing complex wholes cant be created without its parts.
Faculty of imagination. Deals building wholes through coordinating parts.deals with concrete ideas as apposed to the abstractions of sphere four. Has dominion over art and scientific invention. coordinates forms base on external viewable components.
(8)
SEBEK
Distinctions made in the images created
Opposite of sphere (7), it makes differences in wholes. chief creator of social issues in the world today. Deals with the specific identifying characteristics of each member.
(9)
AUSET
Soul creation/personality. The organization of energy/matter into a creature
Part of our spiritual infancy it is the seat of memory. This is where we learn from outside of self. Its imitation learning be it cultural, education or religious. Its where we have stored memories that effect us through out life if we stay un-evolved because nothing experienced is ever forgotten.
(10a)
GEB
Sensory being
This is our seat of perceptions. Sensory cravings and expressions
(10b)
GEB
Physical being how the creator has experiences
Vehicle that allows man to communicate with the world





Complimentary
opposites
TRUE CAUSE

VISIBLE EFFECT
0 VRS 10
Infinite potential vs. infinite beings, explicit oneness vs. implicit oneness, freedom vs. limitations, amen vs. geb
The principle of peace. The why of action. Everything originates out of 0 so to get peace we must focus on 0 in everything we do. Time is the ordered opportunity of a thing and no two things can be in the same space at the same time so what eer is is what was meant to be at that time, so there is no need to stress over what is just create what will be based on what 0 wills. In our infancy 0 is dormantso happiness in infancy is based on the gradifacation of emotions and desires which depend on us manipulating the externals like jobs wealth, sex, food. gratifying these bring temporary joy but only returning to 0 brings eternal peace. Ausar stores experiences and associates them with external qualities. Ausar makes irrational labels that don’t add mean but hampers growth and causes confusion and limitation in ones thinking. Most people live in and are stuck in memories they internalized them and make them their self identity instead of 1 looking back at 0.
1 vs 9
Ausar looks back to 0 (amen) and identifies with the infinite potential of being. Auset the soul of creation identifies with the creations physical being.
Our self verses our person. Mans view of self belongs in ausar looking back at amen knowing he can become anything he wills. We are born with only spheres 9 and 10 awake and 9 makes tags to emotions that the animal instinct (10b) in us exhibits. Thus we become what we experience. We do something shy and next we tag ourselves as shy. 9 uses memory to make a belief system that limits our beliefs in our possibility. This is the second master cause of the worlds social ills.
2 vs. 8
Tehuti the wisdom faculty is concerned with the unity between things and there place in time and space. Sebek the linear logical faculty creates differentiation by varying parts. Tehuti is abstract sebek is concrete
The will is the faculty by which we express our future actions. What we achieve is determined by our self identity. success comes from being able to teach from within gods will and not mind power.someone at 2 seeks to be quided by ausar in everything. Success is not the reality of the accomplishment of a goal, but the spiritual upliftment that comes from the undertaking its self. What most people call their will is usually just their hopes and desires because they function out of the 8th sphere sebek and sebek hides the connections between things thus limiting what one believes can achieved and causes conflict in self and the world. This is why so called conscious Africans some times are so down on other Africans. They cant see the connection between themselves, the knowledge that made them conscious, an the other African. until we can see each other as each other we cant build together or for the other.
3 vs 7
Seker. Sound underlies the structure of all things and is how we get words of power that allow us to effect change abstractly when they are translated into images that serve as matrices for physical manifestation. het-heru imagination that can only produce an desired effect 50% of the time without words of power to back it. The world distorts this as will power
Seker can make something out of seemingly nothing while het-heru need tangible objects to manipulate in order to create.
4, 6
Maat is the blueprint upon which thins are built. Heru governs theforces in charge of creating reality and maintains the order within according to the blueprint of maat.

5
Heru-khuti is where equilibrium between individualism and oneness is found

4th vs. 8th

Maat is formed from within and above. Sebek is formed from the physical world and separates things that belong together. Seker can only see the external/lower side of religion. To the un-evolved religion is only a system of worship or adoration to god. To the un-evolved immorality is only that which has been pointed out to be immoral. The un-evolved cant see that homosexuality has no biological, physiological, or spiritual support.

TY SESA

A Black Woman Speaks... of White Womanhood... of White Supremacy... of Peace
Beulah Richardson1951

A Black Woman Speaks. . . Of White Womanhood Of White Supremacy Of Peace
It is right that I a woman black,should speak of white womanhood. My fathers my brothers my husbands my sons die for it; because of it.And their blood chilled in electric chairs,stopped by hangman's noose,cooked by lynch mobs' fire,spilled by white supremacist mad desire to kill for profit,gives me that right.I would that I could speak of white womanhoodas it will and should bewhen it stands tall in full equality.But then, womanhood will be womanhoodvoid of color and of class,and all necessity for my speaking thus will be past.Gladly past.But now, since 'tis deemed a thing apartsupreme,I must in searching honesty reporthow it seems to me.White womanhood stands in bloodied skirtand willing slaveryreaching out adulterous handkilling mine and crushing me.What then is this superior thingthat in order to be sustained must needs feed upon my flesh?How came this horror to be?Let's look to history.They said, the white supremacist saidthat you were better than me,that your fair brow should never know the sweat of slavery.They lied.White womanhood too is enslaved,the difference is degree.They brought me here in chains.They brought you here willing slaves to man.You, shiploads of women each filled with hopethat she might win with ruby lip and saucy curland bright and flashing eyehim to wife who had the largest tender.Remember?And they sold you here even as they sold me.My sisters, there is no room for mockery.If they counted my teeththey did appraise your thighand sold you to the highest bidderthe same as I.And you did not fight for your right to choosewhom you would wedbut for whatever bartered pricethat was the legal tenderyou were sold to a stranger's bedin a stranger landremember?And you did not fight.Mind you, I speak not mockinglybut I fought for freedom,I'm fighting now for our unity.We are women all,and what wrongs you murders meand eventually marks your graveso we share a mutual death at the hand of tyranny.They trapped me with the chain and gun.They trapped you with lying tongue.For, 'less you see that faultthat male villainythat robbed you of name, voice and authority,that murderous greed that wasted you and me,he, the white supremacist, fixed your minds with poisonous thought:"white skin is supreme."and therewith bought that monstrous changeexiling you to things.Changed all that nature had ill you wrought of gentle usefulness,abolishing your spring.Tore out your heart,set your good apart from all that you could say,think,feel,know to be right.And you did not fight,but set your minds fast on my slaverythe better to endure your own.'Tis truemy pearls were beads of sweatwrung from weary bodies' pain,instead of rings upon my handsI wore swollen, bursting veins.My ornaments were the wip-lash's scarmy diamond, perhaps, a tear.Instead of paint and powder on my faceI wore a solid mask of fear to see my blood so spilled.And you, women seeingspoke no protestbut cuddled down in your pink slaveryand thought somehow my wasted bloodconfirmed your superiority.Because your necklace was of goldyou did not notice that it throttled speech.Because diamond rings bedecked your handsyou did not regret their dictated idleness.Nor could you see that the platinum braceletswhich graced your wrists were chainsbinding you fast to economic slavery.And though you claimed your husband's namestill could not command his fidelity.You bore him sons.I bore him sons.No, not willingly.He purchased you.He raped me,I fought!But you fought neither for yourselves nor me.Sat trapped in your superiorityand spoke no reproach.Consoled your outrage with an added diamond brooch.Oh, God, how great is a woman's fearwho for a stone, a cold, cold stonewould not defend honor, love or dignity!You bore the damning mockery of your marriageand heaped your hate on me,a woman too,a slave more so.And when your husband disowned his seedthat was my sonand sold him apart from meyou felt avenged.Understand:I was not your enemy in this,I was not the source of your distress.I was your friend, I fought.But you would not help me fightthinking you helped only me.Your deceived eyes seeing only my slaveryaided your own decay.Yes, they condemned me to deathand they condemned you to decay.Your heart whisked away,consumed in hate,used up in idlenessplaying yet the lady's partestranged to vanity.It is justice to you to say your fear equalled your tyranny.You were afraid to nurse your younglest fallen breast offend your master's sightand he should flee to firmer loveliness.And so you passed them, your children, on to me.Flesh that was your flesh and blood that was your blooddrank the sustenance of life from me.And as I gave suckle I knew I nursed my own child's enemy.I could have lied,told you your child was fed till it was dead of hunger.But I could not find the heart to kill orphaned innocence.For as it fed, it smiled and burped and gurgled with contentand as for color knew no difference.Yes, in that first whileI kept your sons and daughters alive.But when they grew strong in blood and bonethat was of my milkyoutaught them to hate me.Put your decay in their hearts and upon their lipsso that strength that was of myselfturned and spat upon me,despoiled my daughters, and killed my sons.You know I speak true.Though this is not true for all of you.When I bestirred myself for freedomand brave Harriet led the waysome of you found heart and played a partin aiding my escape.And when I made my big push for freedomyour sons fought at my sons' side,Your husbands and brothers too fell in that battlewhen Crispus Attucks died.It's unfortunate that you acted not in the way of justicebut to preserve the Unionand for dear sweet pity's sake;Else how came it to be with me as it is today?You abhorred slaveryyet loathed equality.I would that the poor among you could have seenthrough the schemeand joined hands with me.Then, we being the majority, could long ago have rescuedour wasted lives.But no.The rich, becoming richer, could be contentwhile yet the poor had only the pretense of superiorityand sought through murderous brutalityto convince themselves that what was false was true.So with KKK and fiery crossand bloodied appetitesset about to prove that "white is right"forgetting their poverty.Thus the white supremacist used your skinsto perpetuate slavery.And woe to me.Woe to Willie McGee.Woe to the seven men of Martinsville.And woe to you.It was no mistake that your naked body on an Esquire calendarannounced the date, May Eighth.This is your fate if you do not wake to fight.They will use your naked bodies to sell their waresthough it be hate, Coca Cola or rape.When a white mother disdained to teach her childrenthis doctrine of hate,but taught them instead of peaceand respect for all men's dignitythe courts of law did legislatethat they be taken from herand sent to another state.To make a Troy Hawkins of the little girland a killer of the little boy!No, it was not for the womanhood of this motherthat Willie McGee diedbut for a depraved, enslaved, adulterous womanwhose lustful demands denied,lied and killed what she could not possess.Only three months before another such woman liedand seven black men shuddered and gave up their lives.These women were upheld in these bloody deedsby the president of this nation,thus putting the official seal on the fateof white womanhood within these United States.This is what they plan for you.This is the depravity they would reduce you to.Death for meand worse than death for you.What will you do?Will you fight with me?White supremacy is your enemy and mine.So be careful when you talk with me.Remind me not of my slavery, I know it wellbut rather tell me of your own.Remember, you have never known me.You've been busy seeing meas white supremacist would have me be,and I will be myself.Free!My aim is full equality.I would usurp their plan!Justicepeaceand plentyfor every man, woman and childwho walks the earth.This is my fight!If you will fight with me then take my handand the hand of Rosa Ingram, and Rosalee McGee,and as we set about our planlet our wholehearted fight be:PEACE IN A WORLD WHERE THERE IS EQUALITY.

Mbuzi wa masikini hazai - A poor man's goat doesn't bear kids. In short, nothing seems to work in the poor man's favor.



We shall no longer be pimped by this system we shall stand. I once heard Jim Brown explain that the reason he was able to retire from football and not look back and others couldn’t was because he didn’t define himself as a football player and didn’t allow others to define him that way either. While Mr. Brown defined himself as an African man to often Africans today limit themselves by defining something they do as their reality. You’ve heard it, our youth today define themselves as hip hop not Africans who make hip hop music so they therefore align themselves not with people of color to improve the communities but with those outside forces that have historically tried to destroy our community. This is a poor mentality that instead of building economic empowerment organizations that help Africans start over 400 small businesses as Mr. Brown did they instead build a hip hop political organization that fights to legalize drugs.
But Olorun the hip hop community has built many new black companies and many millionaires from no limit to jay z. How can you say that? Easy, I’m happy for the Jiggas, the master ps, the lebrons, the Ray Lewises, but I’ll be a lot happier when they form organizations that build institutions in our communities that better opportunity in the community. Its poor thinking for us as Africans to keep looking to a government that’s designed to keep us as beggars for our liberation. Many a white family got rich off the public dole from rail road giveaways to land giveaways and various other wealth distribution plans that systematically blocked Africans from participation from the beginning of this nation whites have had a decided advantage and have no interest in really equaling out the playing field. We must be our own equalizers. Break the mental chains of poor dependency thinking and walk in the blessing of abundance that is naturally the Africans. Props to Warrick Dunn and the work he and many other Africans are doing in our communities. I pray that we will one day get a television network that shows what types of things people are doing not so that we can worship people but so that we can see what is being done by Africans for Africans and what can be done 4 us by us.

Dua la kuku halimpati mwewe A chicken's prayer doesn't affect a hawk

In moments where I am completely full of myself I sometimes marvel at African American bewilderment of our collective role in America. In moments of clarity however I understand that our lack of a historical frame (that is African center) is what blocks us from seeing our plight today as an expected result of european indoctrination of the African mind. Fredrick Douglas once said “find out just what a people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong that will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with words or either blows, or with both.” We are in a process leading to our conscious awakening. Our enslavement had to end because this country was in ripe for a massive slave revolt. Reconstruction, deconstruction, jim crow, segregation, the civil rights era were all a process to get us to today. Before I go further allow me to clear something up. I am in no way saying that god, the creator, the ntrs, the ancestors, …etc put us in slavery so that the African could learn a lesson. To be honest I believe that idea is idiotic, but to each his own. The Spaniards and the Portuguese first enslaved Africans in the 1500’s because they were some evil sons of bitches who had the power to do so aided by our own African fragmentation. A fragmentation brought on by the unsought of the arab/Persian invasion centuries earlier. In “THE DESTRUCTION OF BLACK CIVILIZATION GREAT ISSUES OF A RACE FROM 4500 B.C. TO 2000 AD” Chancellor Williams says “From the earliest time the elimination of the sovereignties of independent African states has been the asian objective stepped up by the muslim onslaught after the 7th century ad. So the reestablished black states were still being conquered and islamized when the Europeans began to arrive in great numbers to impose their rule over both asians and Africans. …What happened in Africa was that European imperialism in Africa checked and replaced arab imperialism. The arab screams against western imperialism are the screams of outrage against western imperialist for checking and subduing eastern imperialist in the very midst of the black they had conquered. There are still blacks who are naïve enough to believe that the arabs bitter attack on western colonialism show their common cause with black Africa. Numerous societies were either sentenced to death from starvation or enslavement by arabs (pre European conquest) or barbarism. After the African lost Egypt and the southern Sudan some Africans grouped themselves to form nations and developed high order civilizations independent of external influences. Others never settled anywhere long enough to develop anything notable, but seemed to remain in a state of lethargy or suspended animation”
We are beginning to speak again, unsettled by where we are and the prospect of where we are going, Africans are beginning to rise again in America. The world is about to be changed again by a small segment of us like the small segment who march in the civil rights era. Don’t be discouraged because you don’t see big numbers on your road to enlightenment, there is supposed to be only you on that road. Only you can take you through that door Neo. (Dua la kuku halimpati mwewe) But when you know and believe in who you are and what you must do, then and only then do you become the one. For YOU/I shall know the truth and the truth shall set YOU/I free. The truth you see “should” set you free from someone else’s limited vision, but it cant if you are tying yourself more to other peoples vision RATHER than the vision god/the ntrs/the ancestors/the cosmic whatever has given you/I. This does not mean you/I shouldn’t take wise council, “you/I should” but there comes a point where YOU/I must step out on faith. At some point you/I will be called to walk on the water and pay no mind to the winds that blow. And notice its not enough just to step out on the water, you/I have to stay focused when you get out there or else you/I like peter will sink. The winds will blow. That doesn’t mean your wrong it means your alive. Life brings punches with it we might as well be punched for something.

RANT



Enough with the kidding of ourselves true mass unity of Africans will not come through a tragedy of any sort. Unity will only come through the hard sacrificial work of a select few conscious individuals who build a new consciousness into the larger African community. It is silly for us to talk about the U.N. or other organizations have or have not done for Africans when in the end it all comes down to us and what we are going to do for us. If we want an education that values African life, then we are going to have to create it for ourselves, and institute it ourselves. If we want better music were going to have to demand it with our purchasing power by buying better music (because its out there) and demanding that no one in our families buy the trash being fed to our children and young adults. We can’t have it both ways. We’ve been getting fat off the cake and telling everyone were saving it but the truth shows in our waist line. The question is do we want to be the message or just the messengers. Will we be African centered or discuss what being African centered would be like without the sacrifice that comes with it.John Gibson of fox news fame believes there is a war on Christmas. On a catholic news program he stated as an example of this war that when you change a Christmas tree into a holiday tree the tree slowly looses its Christian identity and value. Note the hypocrisy, this is the same kind of mostly white conservative that doesn’t want us to call ourselves African. They are fine if we remain a unidentifiable, self valueless pseudo americans, because it benefits them and not us. They is not fighting a war on Christmas they are fighting a war for white hegemony which depends on the velour of a benevolent white Christian America. Sadly enough, cognitive fixated African Americans volunteer to be on the front line of this so called war on Christmas believing that they have a common cause with the larger oppressive white community when in reality they have more in common with the holiday tree. Theses pseudo Americans of African decent live their lives in the waters of Nun/chaos, subtlely persuaded by white supremacy to act against the interest of the global African community. Detached from Ra within we become unable to speak life thru Ra and have it manifest thru Tehuti.

KILL ALL DRUG DEALERS


I recently had a conversation with a brother who argued that drug dealers are killing our community and therefore should be killed. He argued that not only drug dealers but also pimps, hoes, and lazy blacks should be killed because they are an embarrassment to “the rest of us”. I pointed out that I am neither embarrassed nor ashamed of any African no matter the condition I find them in, because I understand that Amos Wilson was right when he said “Prejudice actions, injustice, unfair housing, drug abuse, murder, disease in Africa, illiteracy and various others are symptoms of white imperialism. All these symptoms come from one reality, and that is the white mans ability to impose it on people of color.” I went on to try to explain to the brother that (paraphrasing Nelly Fuller) if he didn’t come to understand the system of racism/white supremacy everything else he believes he understands will only confuse him. But as this conversation was held in a public forum the chant of “excuses excuse” began to ring out. I was told (by other Africans) “black folk always want to make excuses,” “You can’t blame the white man for everything,” and “when are we going to take responsibility for ourselves?”
Here is an example of the flaw in such rationalities… if a doctor tells you that you have high blood pressure, it does not then become an “excuse” to stay away from salty fried foods it becomes an imperative for you to do so. If you do you eat salty foods and they make you sick its not “blaming” the food when you say “I shouldn’t have ate that salty food” its actually taking into account what position you find your self in and what you actually did to help get yourself into said position. It is taking responsibility at its very best because it isn’t just looking what is before you and going from there but its bringing in all information from your past and deciding where to go from an informed position. Such is the same when we unmask yurugu (look it up) for what it is. We are looking at the foundation that causes the symptoms we notice in our community in order that we may “wisely” take responsibility for changing those symptoms. As Amos Wilson says “The most practical thing you can have is a good working theory to guide your behavior that helps you organize and approach your world. Human consciousness is what gives life to the world. We create the world we live in so if we change our value system we INEFFECT change our world. A new social system is birth.” There is nothing practical or wise about an African American plan that doesn’t take racism/white supremacy into account.

Muhammad Ali once said “The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.” Our fight as Africans is lost if and when we do not recognize white supremacy as an underlining cause to African suffering across the diasporas and train our people/ourselves to be ready to deal with white supremacy in the “ring” of life. But Ali also said “champions aren’t made in the gym they are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire a dream a vision.” White supremacy is designed to destroy the champion in Africans by robbing us of our vision, conditioning our desires and directing our dreams to benefit their wants and desires. Knowing this we shouldn’t kill our future warriors because they come to us untrained, visionless, and desiring falsified dreams of macho manhood, or some hoe-afied versions of femininity. We should accept any brother or sister “as is” and then train them “to be” African centered in their vision, to desire that which is truly beneficial to themselves and Africans world wide, and to never stop dreaming of better days instead of seeing life as a continuous nightmare.

I could be wrong but you would have to prove it.
Mpaji ni Mungu - God is the Sustainer.

Wangari Maathai’s Seven Principles and what the African amerikan can learn from our Kenyan sister.

1ENVIRONMENT “Many issues we deal with at a national level are symptoms of a larger problem. Instead of worrying about such symptoms, we should worry about the causes… I often went into the country side. When it rained there I’d see top soil wash away. Then I’d hear rural women express need for firewood, clean water, and nutritious food. I realized these things were connected. Kenya’s indigenous forest had turned into plantations. Our country was so hungry for cash crops that to much vegetation had been removed to farm them. Degradation of land was widespread”.

AFRICAN AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLE: Brother Amos Wilson couldn’t agree with her more when she says “Many issues we deal with at a national level are symptoms of a larger problem. Instead of worrying about such symptoms, we should worry about the causes”. Brother Amos taught that “ symptom orientation alienates the person and keeps them individualistic in thought. It forms a neurotic paradox where they stick to usual measures of coping although they aren’t working” he believed that we must become task orientated focusing on the root cause of our issues. Prejudice actions, injustice, unfair housing, drugs, murder, rap lyrics, disease in Africa, illiteracy and various others are symptoms of white imperialism. All these symptoms come from 1 reality the white mans ability to impose it on people of color. While we must deal with these symptoms we must never forget the root cause and our actions must be deisnged to effect said root cause which is white imperialism. Our people are desperate for power yet the fields of our consciousness have been degraded, the top soil of sense of self has been wash away by white imperial indoctrination.

2 EMPOWERMENT “I suggested we engage women in tree planting to solve these problems, since trees provide wood and food, and stop oil erosion. We later had resistance from the government then in power . we understood that its members fought us not because we’d planted trees but because we had organized and challenged the mismanagement of the environment.”

AFRICAN AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLE: I suggest we engage Africans in self knowledge planting, since a strong sense of our African self will build a stronger community thru stronger African centered individuals. We will receive resistance from the government and other entrenched power elites because our unity takes their power from over us and gives it back to us. It challenges them to either work with us on issues that we see as beneficial for us or be removed. Molefi K. Asante in Afrocentricity said “An ideology for liberation must find its existence in ourselves, it cannot be external to us, and it cannot be imposed by those other than ourselves; it must be derived from our particular historical and cultural experience." This means we must engage ourselves in views we have based on our history and not their view of our history based on their egocentrism. This is hard work black Christian scholars must rethink all they have been indoctrinated to believe as do Muslims or people of and other non traditional African faith tradition.


3 EDUCATION “When people are educated to the links between environment and government they can improve both. Through civic and environmental programs, they lose there apathy and get involved.”

AFRICAN AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLE: When Africans are educated to African centered power realities and how we can redirect the direction of our community we lose the apathy encourage by white imperialism. Amos taught “In many ways the white man is our creation, and our values sustain his power over us. We waist time trying to transform them when if we transform us, they are automatically transformed. You see they cant have what they have unless we are who we are. We must believe that the power to change the world is in us and that we aren’t destined to be servants. God would not have blessed the black man with the African home land if he meant for us to be servants of others. For Africans to be starving and in debt means something must be wrong with our consciousness.” When we sat in, marched , boycotted, etc we forced a paradigm shift in our relations with them. Yet today Africans belittle marching. We don’t understand the power dynamic gathering masses of Africans creates. Marching can unite, it can rally people and energize their spirit. It can create a place where brothers and sisters can network with like minded progressive people who are willing to sacrifice in order to build. It may not be the marching that was the problem but what we were marching for.

4 GOOD GOVERNMENT “Without a government that is respectful of peoples rights, the environment will gradually be destroyed by privatization of public lands.”

AFRICAN AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLE: Without an African centered leadership that is respectful of the rights and needs of all Africans, our communities will gradually be destroyed from the outside and within by the privatization of public lands and individualizations of personal lives. Amos Wilson says “white people are racist because they have the power to do so”. Partially due to the lack of a unifying African centered perspective members of the bush administration boldly announce that New Orleans will not as black again and we don’t have the network to move Africans back to La to demand jobs in the rebuilding of New Orleans. Where we don’t empower ourselves they will exploit us, and to often our so-called leadership is clueless to the attack if not participating with them in said attack.

For the African American good leadership is leadership with a African centered perspective which can only be obtained thru African centered education. "Kwame Agyei Akoto in Nation building says "Afrikan centered education is rooted in the unique history and evolved culture of Afrikan people. It is defined in its singular commitment to the elucidation of that history, that culture, and the confirmation, invigoration and perpetuation of the Afrikan collective identity that emanates from that history and culture. Afrikan centered education is concerned with the origins, original status and future of the Afrikan world. Afrikan centered education is committed to correcting the historical distortions born of three millennia of foreign invasion, destruction, enslavement, physical and mental colonialism, cultural disruption, and dependency. Afrikan centered education is committed to rooting or anchoring the spiritual and intellectual energies of Afrikan people in the spiritual, moral, and philosophical traditions of Afrika. Afrikan centered education, whether in the several nations of the diaspora or on the motherland, is concerned to fully develop the sense of Afrikan nationality within a broader Pan-Afrikan world. Afrikan centered education is concerned to sever irrevocably the pathological and slavish linkage of Afrikans to the European or Asian ethos. Afrikan centered education is concerned to enable the Afrikan person with nation building, nation management, and nation maintenance abilities. Afrikan centered education is concerned to motivate teacher, student, parent and community to advance the Afrikan nation/world by any means necessary”
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5 SUBSTANTIAL DEVELOPMENT “Environmental needs must be taken into account. If we manage resources more effectively and with more responsibility and share them more equitably many conflicts over them can be reduced.”

AFRICAN AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLE: If we manage resources more effectively and with more responsibility (spinners, bling bling) and share them more equitably (build up our own community and stop enriching other people) many conflicts over them can be reduced. Think of this “many Africans have stopped wearing traditional colors and traded that for euro-centric attire, across Africa labor unions complain that western hand me downs are killing regional clothing industries. But experts (white folk and their minions) blame factory shut downs on poor management, political instability, and growing competition from inexpensive asian clothes.” What if Africans in america told African American clothing makers that either they get a specific amount of their clothing made in Africa and not china or we wont shop with them. Roca wear fubu and others would be forced to invest in the already established but struggling clothing infrastructure across Africa. We would be empowering ourselves instead of just going along in a system designed to continue our oppression.

6 EMPLOYMENT “People need opportunities and resources where they live. Other wise many migrate to big cities seeking jobs that are no more. Kenya’s solutions to thes problems include allocating funds to rural areas to help address poverty and give kids the skills to compete in the job market.”

AFRICAN AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLE: People need opportunities and resources where they live. WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO SPEND OUR MONEIES WITH PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE OUR COMMUNITY!! We must make our money stay in our community longer than it takes to take our paychecks to the bank.. African American communities are rich on Friday and poor on Monday. We put or monies in banks who won’t loan to us, we shop in stores who wont hire us, and we don’t understand why we don’t have what we need in our community to empower us.

7 THE FUTURE “As we work to create a world that honors and rewards women, we look to our daughters and think of the future. I hope that the daughters of Africa will be inspired to know that if they are committed and patient, they can achieve something worth while.”

AFRICAN AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT PRINCIPLE: As we work to create a world that honors and rewards Africans, ESPECIALY OUR WOMEN, we look to our children and think of the future. I hope that the sons and daughters of Africa will be inspired to know that if they are committed to African centered principles and patient, they can achieve something worth while.

FROM MAAFA TO MENTACIDE AND BACK AGAIN?

A kiswahili proverb says “Asiyekujua hakuthamini” it means “He/she who doesn't know you, doesn't value you”. In a world ruled by enemies of African people across the diaspora the first question the African must as is “do I know my African self?” Why ask “do I know my African self” instead of just asking “do I know myself? It is simple, we are, first in all things, “African”. We must live knowing that we were created by God as African for a purpose and have been designed out of our African self on purpose. No movement, no revival, no anything we want to depend on will ever work if it doesn’t take into consideration our African core and how to re-energize that core. Please understand me, I am not saying that old tired statement “your black and no matter how rich you get you gone still be black and they are still going treat you like the rest of us”. That may very well be true but, it is no way for us to design our lives. We cant know ourselves thru some one else’s hatred of us. That kind of focus can only lead to our own hatred of self. What we study is what you’ll come to accept as truth. We as Africans must come to understand what god has blessed us with and expound on that. For example study’s on African children wherever you find them, (on the mother land or another land)show that our children’s capacity to learn is greater than any other race at an earlier age. That being so, we retard ourselves by tying our learning to other peoples time tables not to mention their view of our reality. We are a people of rhythm, soul, and dance to not use that in the education of our kids is to the detriment of our own children. What is worse is that most the things we don’t do is out of some sense of shame in front of white people. Our children are dying because of mal-nutritious diet of Euro-centric education. We fight for better schools when even if we got 90% of our wishes the education we receive would still be poison it would still de-legitimize the African while over emphasizing the european. It would still make the European the hero of all its stories no matter how evil his actions where in the story, and make the African, the Indian, and all other cultures who have made contact with Europeans helpless savages, who are victims of a godlessness and structure. Both of which the god filled Europeans brought to the savage. Come on now African, if we don’t change that how do we expect our children on a massive level to succeed. Sure some will make it thru, we will always have a talented tenth and until we formalize a structure for African enlightenment you had best raise your child like he/she is in that tenth right now. But remember also that tenth will have to survive in and ever deteriorating culture within our community that debases our women constantly, that feminizes our men daily, and that does it under the slogan of getting rich or dying while trying. Either black men and women of an African centered God frame of mind stand up now or we continue to fall.
“African centered God frame?” Yes, get back to our African self and stop putting on the euro-frames. Be Christian if you want to be, be Muslim if you want to be, be a Buddhist if you want to be but don’t be them like we’ve been taught to be them here. Don’t bring someone your religion while you steal everything they have from them. don’t bring someone your God only to send them to your heaven, literally. In your African self you know and understand that there can be no separations between who you proclaim you are and what you do. You wont find a traditional African religion where the religion wasn’t tied into the way of life because it was life and not a religion. Religion was not some system of things “out there” that you could put on when needed but rather a functional part of ones existence. Black churches now wont even sing with soul because they want to sing like white slave masters song on Sundays. Imagine that, your ashamed of Negro spirituals that help pull your ancestors thru their enslavement but will gladly sing the songs that helped your ancestor’s enslavers carry out their evil deeds and will sing them with their same spirit and not your own. So ashamed to be you, you cant even worship your god in truth.

Maafa to mentacide can only lead to a new maafa if we don’t begin to re-enlighten our African self. No ones going to help us help us. Take the personal journey to an African collective understanding.