my ten questions from the ten questions blog spot

Sesa Woruban: Question 1: Why do you say you are African centered? What does that mean to you?Olorun: I say I am African centered because I try to put my African self at the center of all that I say and do. I try to make all my judgments based on what it has historically meant to be African, what it means to be African now, and what it will hopefully mean to be African tomorrow. Now by no means do I mean to portray myself as a beacon of African manhood. I am an African, twisted daily by the matrix of white supremacy, who is trying to see his way to a more African conscious existence. We must all realize thatwhat we say or do doesn’t just effect us but it reflects and effects the whole of us. Sadly American born Africans do not seem to notice the poison we are spreading to the world. Surely living in the belly ofthe beast has made us filthy the question is will we listen like Jonah to the voice of god and be spit out on the shores to speak the truth to these devils, or will we come out the other end and just be more excrement on the bottom of the sea? Consciousness is not some abstract thought. It is the principle that guides your daily walk in life. To say you’re an African is to state an abstraction with consciousness. It means all differences are irrelevant when placed against the over riding factor of ones African being. When I say I am African centered I am saying I am of an African conscious that is guided towards black power (i.e. all of us working collectively for the betterment of Africans).Sesa Woruban: Question 2: Is African consciousness a religion?Olorun: People within the so called African conscious movement make the mistake of thinking African consciousness is their religion, whatever that maybe. Its not! You are no more African conscious if your Yoruba, than you are if you Christian. Pastor Nat Turner killed his enslaver and a few dozen others because Jesus told his African centered mind to do so. Elijah Muhammad built his nation of Islam based on the black man because Allah told his African centered mind to do so. The rebels of Haiti fought and won their freedom because the gods of Voudun told their African centered minds to do so. Its not your god that’s the problem its your mind. Having said that, your god maybe an indication that your mind has a long way to go but that can only be told thru conversationwith you. You can't judge a book by its cover. I’ve met some of the most eurocentric Ausar Auset brothersand some true African centered muslims.Sesa Woruban: Question 3: Why do you sometime say “we are not our problem weare our solution.”Olorun: We have to learn how to talk to each other better and in victorious manors. Racism white supremacy has us tearing each other down when we should be looking to lift one another. Black folk to this, black folk to that, WE ARE NOT OUR PROBLEM WE ARE OUR SOLUTION. It takes more energy to rethink our negative thoughts about ourselves and reprogram our minds to be uplifting but we have to do it. We have got to get out of these schools that teach us to degrade one another and begin to teach ourselves how to be uplifting using African centered approaches. Let me give you an example of what I mean. It has become common for some of us to say we need to be more like the Arabs because they have back bones, they fight and are ready to die for what they believe. This is silly king died, Malcolm died the Haitians fought, enslaved Africans fought for their freedom, Harriet Tubman escaped to freedom and came back for others and then became a spy for the north. Why would we ever look to another group of people and wish we were like them. No man on this earth has a more glorious story to tell and we had better be about the business of learning it and telling it fast. Amos Wilson points out to us that to a great extent the white man can’t be who he is if we just stop being who we have become. It is our own lust and desires that sustain a large part of his control over us. He teaches us that we waist time trying to transform them when if we transform us, they are automatically transformed. You see they can't 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. He says thru our refusal to discriminate in our spending we subsidize the suffering of our own people. African color blindness in a white supremacist world is tantamount to self genocide.Sesa Woruban: Question 4: In your opinion what is will?Olorun: For me will is simply a figment of our imagination. Our “will”, will only react according to how we educate ourselves and therefore it is limited or broaden by our knowledge . I believe most of the talk of a” will” is simply mental masturbation. Really just someone trying to say I’m better than you becauseI have this great will and you succumbed to whatever . There’s a saying “when you know better you do better” this truism is what we vainly call will. If as acommunity we grasp this concept we will stop allowing those who have historically been our enemy train our children to do their work for them. If will is a subconscious reaction to given stimuli based upon prior knowledge then if we are given all our prior knowledge of self from our historical enemy then it is predictable that our actions will manifest themselves in the manor in which they do.Sesa Woruban: Question 5: Why do you think we must regain the feminine god principle?Olorun: Amos Wilson once said that man is a nurturer. The African male, due to his conditioning in a white supremacist objectifying world, has lost his nurturer side. It is the destruction of the African female goddess principle that has allowed this to happen. When you view man as a reflection of god and the woman as a reflection of man then you have set for yourself a hierarchy that ultimately leads to the devaluing of the woman. This is a double destructive process when we include that the African has already been devalued in the culture by the larger culture. Then we as African men add to our sisters woes. We must regain the wisdom of the ancestors and see God in both male and female forms that demands respect for both the feminine and the masculine aspects of self. No man hits his god. He adores his god. The African woman needs the return of her feminine god principle also. No goddess allows her man to beat her or degrade her. She is not less then a man she is next to her man. God with God, equal yet different and to be respected for her differences because her differences are just as godly as his differences are. When we refuse to respect the feminine god principles we belittle her spirit and expect her to soar. We tie her wings down then tell her to fly. She was there on the slave ship, she took the same beatings for the same reason we took them “our skin”. She was raped by the devil and still found love in her for us how darewe turn around and treat her like he treats his. Sista if he wont praise you, then praise your damn self, for you are worthy to be praised.Sesa Woruban: Question 6: What is your opinion on passing correct knowledge onto future generations?Olorun: This is the call of the ancestors, this is the only viable way to an enduring future for our children. If not us then who. Who can we trust to love us more than us? Who will see us as more than we been portrayed to be if we don’t make the stand to portray us as more? We have no future if we don’t explore our past in our present. I know that many Africans argue that we can't live in our past and that is true in some sense but, we also can't survive as a people much longer if we don’t understand how we got here and what we must do to get further. Our children deserve a correct view of their story and not his story. No African child deserves to be taught that george Washington was his great forefather when georgie was a racist white supremacist slave owner. How is that a great education for the African child. It benefits the white child to distort his past and make god like figures of his ancestors so we should expect them to ever change that approach to their past. The question then become what shall we do?Passing on correct knowledge isn’t a choice.Sesa Woruban: Question 7: Remember those carefree days as a child? Will youtell us about 1 day in your life as a child that is particularly distant from the situation you were really in? (a day that felt really good where the cares of the world seemed so distant).Olorun: Any day with my grandmother was a carefree day. There was never a moment in my life that I didn’t know in my heart or doubt in my mind that that woman loved me. Till this day the most beautiful thing in this world is the face of an African female elder. All praise be to the creator and her most beautiful creation which is herself in you, the black woman.Sesa Woruban: Question 8: What does it mean to be an Afrikan man in america?Olorun: For me it means that we are called to bring down Babylon from within. We are called to “help” free Africans from a European tyranny that ironically was made possible by the riches made off the blood of our African American forefathers. I am not blaming our forefathers for the actions of white folk, but I am stating that the situation we find ourselves in “is what it is” so we must do, what we must do to“destroy it”. We are going to change the world but we must decide for ourselves whether that change will be good or bad. If we continue allowing these people to lead us it will clearly be for the bad. Being eurocentrically conditioned has caused Africans in America to act in ways unproductive to our own mental and physical liberation. We are a colonized people believing in a eurocentric framework that doesn’t fit our African reality. FYI when I say Babylon I don’t mean any nation in particular I mean the system of racism white supremacyt hat overrides all nations upon the earth. We must end this system and we must stop anyone who thinks theywill start another system based on them and have usunder their foot also be he arab asian or whatever.Sesa Woruban: Question 9: If there were an antidote to cure WHATEVER, a pill of many ingredients that you could give Afrikans in the states, what would 3 of the ingredients be(metaphorically speaking)?Olorun: We are at war. And the mind is the battle ground so my three pills are
correct Knowledge
godly wisdom and
African centered understanding. Without these anything else we would get would only help our enemy. Money would only go to their hands, guns would only go into use against us and land would only go to feed them. But with correct knowledge wisdom and understanding there is nothing you cant get. Nothing we cant achieve.Sesa Woruban: Question 10: Is there anything else you would like to add?Olorun: Femi Kuti recently asked in an interview.. “When colonial masters divided Africa in 1884, they knewwhat they were doing. Do you think it was for Africa they were playing this game? It was for them…” when Africans in america separate ourselves over issues such as religion, income, national origin, or various other issues it only supports the white power structure. If the African centered community is ever going to present its argument to his large brother and sister community it is going to have to learn to look past what side issues we disagree with and toward what should be our unifying purpose the eradication of white supremacy. As Malcolm pointed out we are not persecuted because we’re Muslim, Christian, HebrewIsraelite, Yoruba, or clappin our booty round somepole but because were black. If you and another African cant agree that racism white supremacy exist and needs to be ended your conversation should belimited to giving the other African the correct framework upon which to govern his or her thought process. Not on giving them a new god, a new political party, or any other new way to be just like you. a new way to think for their African self should suffice. And if they get that then you can talk politics because you have now a consciousness then tells you this is no matter what your brother or sister who must be respected. Hotep and respect may Ra shine on you and Ma’at embrace you.

“You cant wake the dead with a whisper”. “God has a strange way of waking us up”. “God had to use a hurricane to wake us up.” I hate to inform black America but “God” is not in the wake up business. God didn’t bring a hurricane to awaken us, and if your putting your faith in that you will be let down tremendously. God has supplied the black man and woman all we need to come to consciousness, our beautiful black minds. We need to keep in mind slavery didn’t bring consciousness to the masses, jim crow didn’t bring consciousness to the masses, the 1927 flood didn’t bring consciousness to the masses. As a matter of fact the average black American can only bring to their conscience 2 out of the 3 horrors I just named and if we are not diligent this flood will pass to.

Speaking of ancient black civilizations Chancellor Williams said this “The great civilization of the blacks, for which countless ages was centered around Nowe, did not just happen. Progress does not just happen automatically. Every forward step made by these early blacks was made, you might say forced, by the imperatives of what had to be done to survive. Bear in mind that spiritual survival was more important than physical, a concept the so-called modern world is not expected to understand at all.” The revival of our African consciousness will not just happen because something tragic has happened to our physical being. The flesh can be easily appeased. A new house a good meal and a few dollars and all can be forgiven and/or forgotten. No our spiritual African revival will be a process that each of us must go thru personally and we must then design institutions that cater to the spiritual revival of other Africans.

Do not be afraid of the term institutions you don’t have to build a pyramid or even tee pee. Build a web page if you can, build a study group if you can, build a study lesson if you can, build upon what you have so that the next African has more to build on. John h Clarke, Amos Wilson and Marimba Ani didn’t just come out of nowhere the come from a tradition of African centered thinkers like David Walker, Mariah Stewart, and Richard Allen, build upon the knowledge provided to you by these thinkers and become the best you, you can be. Build you! You are an institution which, if correctly built up, will spring other institutions for African liberation or if incorrectly built will help to destroy any progress we are trying to make. You decide which you will be.

Booker T. Washington once said “Character is power” but how powerful can ones character be if isn’t self orientated. Amos Wilson put it this way “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” Our power like any mans power is within himself. No nation of people can move any higher than their self conceptualizations and if we get all our self concepts as a people through those who oppose our self reliance, for their own financial benefit, then we doom ourselves to be characterless beggars in a racist white supremacist world.

In a discussion over material things Jesus the Christ told his disciples to “seek ye first the kingdom of god and all these things will be added to you”. This principle applies to us. If we seek first our African self interest as a people we will be rewarded with the blessings that have already been given to us. Many an African leader seeking first his own enrichment has made deals with white nations that enrich himself but puts his people in object poverty. Leaders of rich nations minerally, but poor nations standardly because of the lack of an African centered spiritual base that puts the needs of the holistic African kingdom front and center and not the needs of the few over the lives of the masses. Chancellor Williams gives us 5 PRE-CONDITIONS FOR PROGRESS

1 The people must be famine-free and able to settle down and end their perennial roaming from place to place in search for food and water. Or dependent on outside forces to drop it in.
2 The leaders must then proceed to nation build through negotiation with fragmented groups.
3 There must be a developed sense of national community among the various language groups that makes up the community. It must be programmed in such a way that a sense of loyalty and being an important part of a great united brother-sisterhood, which is the nation ITSELF, WILL DEVELOP NATURALLY ALLOW
4 a strong armed forces
5 and the rule of law and justice to apply equally to all classes in the society.
These conditions among others bring about the internal peace, stability, and confidence which unshackled the mind and allows the people to think and until African leaders make pre conditions like these their top priority and let loose the chains of European colonialism the cycle of poverty can not be ended. As Mr. Williams goes on to say “There is nothing mystical about the reasons why one group of people can easily become physically and mentally strong and another weak and less mentally alert. Food and water can spell the difference advance and decay. A people ignorant of basic health needs can themselves become inferior. The system is organized that blacks are forced into conditions that can even lead to genetic inferiority. There must be a mental revolution or there will be a continual march towards extinction.”
Before the African American becomes full of himself understand that same is true for the African American whose neighborhoods are infested with outsider business, whose money would be lucky to change hands with a fellow African 1 time, whose neighborhood is rich on Friday and poor on Monday because all its wealth was spent outside of his neighborhood. Who is so fragmented by religion, ideology, lack of consciousness due to the oppressive brain washing techniques of a racist white supremacist infrastructure that guarantees all of the above to be so. Truth be told, through our waste and fragmentation we are more part of the problem then part of the solution. If focused correctly we could use our access to capital to serve the African Diaspora but when we discuss African we sound like colonialist whites think we should go to Africa and rule it because massa has taught us best when in most cases our education has made us the biggest fools. But all of this can change over time. That change begins with you. READ, STUDY, AND BE “AFRICAN”

I know God has planted me under the earth in Amenta. I know Amenta is under the earth because all seeds rise from there. You see I have been planted in Amenta and need to be watered well to get the nourishment from the soil so that i can break through and provide the fruit that will provide the next seed. Actually we are all in Amenta. We are placed there by god or the devil but who is God and who is the devil. God is you and you are god. God has placed you in Amenta when you are controlling your evolution to your higher self consciousness. Here is the rub, the devil is you also only its you being controlled by outer forces such as people, places, things, or activities.

Who then are the wateriers, they everone you listen to, talk to, read of, and read about. The wateriers are the ancestors who can guide you (if you let them) and the living scholars that listen to. The question is whose dropping pure water onto the soil of your brain and heart and whose not. You control who it is you allow to feed you so if you never mature to adult hood it is because you choose to stay on similac. In the precepts of ptah it says “If the teachers allow themselves to be led toward evil principles, verily the people who understand them not will speak accordingly, and that being said to those who are docile they will act accordingly.” Don’t be docile, demand of yourself a greater understanding than the larger society would have you to have. It is clear that the teachers of the culture we live in are led towards and are living a pure evil mentality. One which has no regard for African life. The president of the united states was to busy vacationing to provide the assistance needed to thousands of Africans in dire need in Darfur, Rwanda, and New Orleans. A nameless African American official told a Rwandan official looking for help from its “American friends” that America has no friends only “interest”. A significant portion of New Orleans blacks and for that matter the countries blacks had to learn the hard way that president bush has no “interest” in them much like he has had no” interest” in Africans in dafur and much like president Clinton had no “interest” in Rwanda.

We have been taught by the evil ones amongst us that “ what’s good for the goose is good for the gander”, well Mr. Gander it ain’t so. This goose is cooked and to many of us ganders are trying to jump in the pot. The African where ever he finds him self must throw off the fetters of eurocentric logic that devalues his being. As African American were struggling for dear life and did what was necessary to survive in the Hell of New Orleans the white media called these survivors “looters”, while at the same time calling white Americans “finders” when they had done the same thing Africans did to survive. Why is this? Because the white media and Africans who cant see outside of the eurocentric main frame, can not envision Africans as heroic. Nooooo Leroyhood couldn’t be taking from the rich to feed the poor. Nooooo Muhammad and Shashica (who bill cosby hates) couldn’t be getting clothes for a families whose wardrobe had been whipped out by the hurricane. Nooooooooooo Bertha’s couldn’t have sent johnie to get a tv and a generator to watch bill oriely and see what they hell was going on and when the vacationing boy wonder was going to do something to help her and her family escape from where hell and high water had already arrived. Nooo none of this could be true for the white media. The white media didn’t see a hero till the “Calvary” arrived. They begged for a Rudi Juliani while a Ray Nagin begged for assistance. The white media saw refugees in American citizens instead of hurricane victims. The white media saw looters and shooters instead of the thousand of people who helped on another to survive in horrible conditions. Why is this? Because our history together still demands that we be marginalized so that the white psyche can fell good about its self. How dare a kanye west suggest that a white president doesn’t care about black people dying. Just because this president sat on his ass and did nothing in the first days of this tragedy doesn’t mean he doesn’t care does it? Just because the press went to the French quarter and gave the all clear and didn’t venture into black New Orleans that doesn’t show an insensitive bias does it?

But god has planted me in Amenta. Its now time to stop “just” talking about new Orleans and live the lessons of New Orleans. Plenty of African Americans are mad at what happened and rightfully so, but will we drop the chains? Will we finally say to ourselves as a people that we must map a destiny of our own separate from these people and their interest? Will we examine the phenomenon of so called African American leaders like a td jakes who not only couldn’t see racism in what happened but then did photo opts with bush? Get ready get ready get ready get ready get ready hell. Get rid of that boot licking mentality and grow a back bone. Preacher loose thyself. Are we willing to tell a Farrakhan that if Allah did this to those Africans because we are a stubborn people who act just like the blue eyed devil then to hell with Allah? How stupid must we believe allah is that he hit black folk who only act like the devil and didn’t hit the damn devil who taught black folk to act in such a way. Are we ready to read what must be read to change our mindsets and teach our children what must be taught so they don’t grow up as confused and lost as most of us. African Americans should be the first in line to demand school vouchers and we should be building schools with African centered educational programs not just African symbolic names. Sadly the answer is no. we will talk about this till we forget about this. It wasn’t to long ago that African Americans got the short end of the stick of aid in a California earthquake. This is nothing new, we may be mad today and a while longer but a few more photo opts with the right black folk and all will be normal again. At least with the masses of us it will, but what about you? where will u stand? I have been planted in amenta being feed with the waters of Amos Wilson, Claude Anderson, John h Clarke, Harriet Tubman, Joneta Cole, Femi Kuti, Marimba Ani, Runuko Rashidi etc. I am striving to become a tree of liberation fruit. Like harriot I am not waiting on anyone who doesn’t know they need to go from amenta and be born again a new creature. I hope we all take that journey but a word of advice, most folk wont and even some of those who will go with you will want to turn back around. We must be willing to do as Harriet was and “them out of their misery”. No I didn’t just say kill someone this is after all a journey of the mind at this stage. We must put the nay sayers and back sliders away from us or surely they will drag us down with them. Another precept of ptah htp says “If you desire that your conduct should be good and preserved from all evil, keep yourself from every attack of bad humor. It is a fatal malady which leads to discord, and there is no longer any existence for him who gives way to it. For it introduces discord between fathers and mothers, as well as between brothers and sisters; it causes the wife and the husband to hate each other; it contains all kinds of wickedness, it embodies all kinds of wrong. When a man has established his just equilibrium and walks in this path, there where he makes his dwelling, there is no room for bad humor.” Clearly the same must be true of bad company whose object is to sway you from your mission. Htp and respect beloved