I recommend that we, again, support those people who’re actually educating our children, i.e., those who’re giving them intellectual, moral, and social instruction. Because, the public schools are under-educating our children, i.e., teaching them to be low wage workers and slaves in the criminal justice system.
Listen to our education expert, Gloria Ladson-Billings, who tell us it’s the hip hop artist who’re really educating our children.
Listen, get their names and support them by buying their songs, listen to them yourselves, then do the children in your family, neighborhood, and community…and, share the knowledge.
Let’s be honest, cause of death: stress cortisol from racism/white supremacy
But death certificat says ‘heart attack’…is it normal for 27 year olds to have a massive heart attack? But the medical system of racism/white supremacy isn’t bring voice to the true cause of death in the Black community.
I recommend that we, again, support those people who’re actually educating our children, i.e., those who’re giving them intellectual, moral, and social instruction. Because, the public schools are under-educating our children, i.e., teaching them to be low wage workers and slaves in the criminal justice system.
Listen to our education expert, Gloria Ladson-Billings, who tell us it’s the hip hop artist who’re really educating our children.
Listen, get their names and support them by buying their songs, listen to them yourselves, then do the children in your family, neighborhood, and community…and, share the knowledge.
My 1st Critique of The WAMU Program, ‘The Invention of Race’
This book, Witnessing Whiteness is used to teach whites how to be ‘allies’ in ‘anti-racism’ work..because…
NOTE: whites can’t teach Blacks about racism according to the book above.
Whites will always leave something out… And, what they leave out is what is usually of ultimate importance to us, the victims of racism/white supremacy, i.e, Black cultural genocide…like…
1. The WAMU program didn’t define the different kinds or forms “slavery”, i.e., , bondage, indentured servants, servitude, and chattel slavery. “Slavery” in America was ‘chattel’ slavery or the ownership of people and was the invention of America…historically.
It was unknown in Africa where “enslavement” of a person was never ownership, life long, nor did it deny them of their human rights. Plus, they could not only marry into the group but become the leader or chief.
Consulting one of ‘our’ experts on the topic…
Dr Molefi Kete Asante, spoke on The Ideological Origins of Chattel Slavery in the British World, on Slavery Remembrance Day 2007 in Liverpool, and he said:
“…prior to the 16th century, but there was no culture of slavery in Africa, and no chattel slavery.”
He also spoke of the ‘different types of enslavement’:
The English word slave comes from the Middle English …is related to the Greek sklabos, from sklabenoi…is closely linked to the Old Russian Slovene. It is thought that the contemporary word slave is directly related to the Slavic people, many of whom were sold into slavery.
Europe also practiced indentureship and serfdom. Neither of these forms of service, one with a time period attached to it, and the other with land attached to it, could be compared to America’s chattel slavement of Africans.
…chattel slavery is not synonymous with serfdom. They have a fundamental difference… European serfs had rights…enslaved Africans …had neither rights nor freedom of movement, and were not paid for their labour because they were seen as ‘things’… was expressly the property of another person to be held, used, or abused as the owner saw fit.
Dr Molefi Kete Asante, is a distinguished author, most recently of ‘The History of Africa’, and professor in the department of African-American Studies at Temple University, USA.
If I had my way, the Black community would collectively live Ujamaa in 2018 by supporting the Hip Hop artist who’re educating our children, i.e., teaching our history (which public schools don’t), teaching Black values of respect (which American society doesn’t), and creating a job/field of work/entrepreneurship in which only we are the CEO’s.
To know who the hip hop artists are, listen to Gloria Ladson-Billings on Youtube:
I know an hour video maybe long, but 3 hours for whole of 2018 isn’t that long.
To practice UJIMA in 2018, I recommend, we learn some basic reasons for Black poverty by coming to know how inner city ghettos were purposefully created & isolate us from resources thus creating generations of poorly educated, un/under employed and, thus ripe pickings for the family destroying, Criminal Justice System.
Listen to these 2 NPR audio’s for a brief history of how the US created or socially engineered housing segregation … which also caused other social problems.
Afterwards, let me know if your understanding of Black poverty is different and how?
Kwanzaa maybe celebrated in December but it’s to be lived 24/7. It’s speaks to the values that are to govern our lives on a daily basis.
So…
I recommend that after 12 months of listening to our scholars, after 12 months of listen to the few audios I’m recommending and/or googling the few topics I’m recommending…that next year, this time, we’ll be well prepared to collectively work on Kujichagulia, ‘our’ self determination.
To begin to remedy this, I suggest for the next 12 months, whenever you see a Black person, you give eye contact and nod or speak, and/or smile…so as to say, as in Africa, ‘I see you.
For any of us who’ve said, ‘Blacks can’t stick together’…know that the divide and concur strategy really works. The tools of Black cultural genocide, racism/white supremacy, pits us against each other.
Eye contact in Africa means “I see you.” “I see your personality. I see your humanity. I see your dignity and respect.” In the African village context, where everyone knows one another, it’s an exceedingly powerful representation of understanding.
We need to recreate this simple but powerful tradition.
I remember the time when we saw each other we spoke. And, I live in what many would call the ‘hood’ where that still occurs, when I encounter us, we speak…the further I do across town into increasingly gentrified areas of DC, Blacks act white, no eye contact, no nods, no speaking, least smile.
To reconnect, re-establish relations we need to start with the basics…recognizing each other with eye contact and a nod, speaking, and/or smiling.
