***Disclaimer***This message came through me direct to the page...take up all problems with the ancestors.
The movement of Afrikans towards self-determination of the 20th Century suffered from implosive tendencies from the inside and explosives placed from the outside...the outside explosives alone could not have caused the slow-down. The movement is on-going and aluta continua and all that...but the point is two steps forward and one backward is like a slow crawl. The implosions were set off by assimilationist agendas, wherein which we became partners in our own demise. Afrikans in America wanted jobs to live closer too and more like the Europeans of this country without regards to how the raw materials for the production that ensued here would affect our people in other parts of the world. We lost sight of the fact that we initially were fine with separate but were pissed that we paid taxes and were not getting our share of the results. Somehow, we got to thinking that if we had “advancement” that we’d be better off. Well the results of that poll are in...and we live in more poverty now than we did in 1950. And for the most part, we’re still living separate and unequal.
Don’t let me loose my point...which is that our goals are collectively unclear because our collective first eye is clouded by a bunch of things including all the newly created chemicals, electronic devices, imitation foods, and hypnotic propaganda. The plan and the solutions continue to allude us though they are right before our eyes. Our vision is cloudy. As my grandma would say, “we can’t see our way”. Furthermore, the leadership is just a reflection of its followers. So, even when we did, by the Grace of God, have great leaders with integrity and strong principles---they were vulnerable targets of our enemies because by the time they begin to see more clearly--they were killed. For example, Malcolm X, Dr. King...and organizationally this has been the case as well, i.e. The Black Panther Party. Uuuhhh...I forgot my initial point. Let me pause for a little water...
Oh yeah. The point is that our leadership is in poor condition--and so are the masses. Oh, the masses are ready for whateva, i.e. the revolution. It’s just that the strategy, tactics, vision, and agenda has yet to be collectively seen and communicated in any easily followed method. I confirmed this for myself while listening to the great Hannibal Afrik, who admittedly has begun to ask the hard questions about his time and contributions over the last some 6 decades to the movement. Like, what are we doing? and why? and I thought to myself, if he is asking those questions then we need to be having some dialogue --and I don’t mean me talking to myself...some collective dialogue on some real stuff. And all those, I’m tired of meetings folks need not apply...you just go back to spinning your wheels if that’s how you like to expend energy. As for me...I like to take a look at the objectives, have a vision then join with others to help create a concious collective vision. CCV. I coined that phrase.
So, I submit the reason we have not seen as much forward “movement” as most of us would like to see is because we got folks like Condeleeza Rice, Barack Obama and Colin Powell thinking they are contributing to the solution---and those are the heroes and folks that take up our children’s time in Black History Month??? The point is, if they think there work is part of the solution--then Houston--we have a problem. It’s not their fault---individually. Look at us, letting some of our greatest potential be co-opted by the most backwards ideologies and culture the world has seen! We have got to, someone has got to assert a renewed vision--one by which we can see whether we a truly adding to our misery or actually elevating humanity. Clearly. I would also add that the so-called concious community needs to step up its game. Not just you---all of us.
Our message is too generic and a lot of times you cannot differentiate between Afrikan Culture and the others by our presentation, individually and collectively. After all, the concious community is in a position to showcase The Original High Culture in all its glorious 21st century form. The Original High Culture...I coined that one too. We need to be able to present a clearly alternative culture and hence lifestyle. What is the difference between being Afrikan and the rest of the world? Hell, if so called wholistic healthcare costs as much as if not more than allopathic treatment--then how is it going to actually serve us?
Wholistic Lifestyle and Self-care is a prime example of how we are marketing our culture to our own people instead of sharing it for our collective benefit. What are the similarities? Does the message(s) from the concious community connect on a sub-concious level with our people? How does what you represent help connect our people with the supra-conciousness? How does it elevate us? If our concious community is unreliable, fickle and not dependable in its conciousness form, presence or whatever then how are the masses going to connect? These questions highlight the fact that our “concious” lifestyles have not illuminated, have been inefficient to invite the masses to participate in The Original High Culture.
Inefficient appeal due to inefficient use of Culture. High Crimes, when you consider that our interdepence with Culture is the delivery vehicle for higher conciousness. The product and results of concious living is not clear--which is a death blow given that we live in such a consumeristic society that is used to “getting something” that is well defined besides a referendum on how they need to do more work. This is the type of folks we are dealing with---and we have yet to come to terms with this fact.
I thought I was finished but I cannot walk away without offering my version of a solution to what I just outlined. #1 A collective and methodical attack on all 1st eye cloud producers. The result of which will allow us to tap into the supra-conciousness and help to form a strong (albeit conditional) unity--where in which we can begin to collaorate, convene based on a vision which we all have access to. #2 Create and prepare the leaders we want to see. and support. Oh yeah, there are some out here right now. Concious community need to put some skin, some ass, some money in the game right now to make leaders--our youth need to be planned and developed at least as methodically as we plan these European style weddings and all those other outbursts of european culture...I got 2. 2 cents? Maybe. Could be. Could be not. Whose to say?
Afterthoughts: don't wanna go all imitation Dick Gregory on ya'll but as my Dad would say: don't be no damn fool all your life...
we seem to be in a "everybody do something --anything" phase, we need to give ourselves clear direction before we head into a tailspin--images of Tina Turner and the Thunderdome come to mind here...
oh yeah, note the reference to you capitalist niggas out there, go ahead, get mad, I said it...if you call yourself a healer and most Afrikans cannot really afford your services--then you ain't serving as well as you could. to say we need to manifest wealth is to say we don't need a healer in the first place! a real wholistic healer can help folks unblock their personal pathways to wealth if that is part of their path...to say that folks "don't wanna listen" is not a reason, as my Mom would say, it's an excuse. So, welcome to the mind of Cicely. No need to mine. I laid it out.
