~ The aim of RCT is to provide people a process for changing how they've been taught to think and behave matriarchy which fosters equity vs patriarchy which fosters inequality, i.e., classism, sexism, and racism. The 12 step process, if followed, has been proven to begin to change how one thinks and behaves in 90 days. To promote permanent change, this 12 step program includes New Way of Thinking (NWT) classes to correct the lies patriarchy has spread around the world. The 12-18 month classes include 1) Understanding the two primary global cultures, matriarchy and patriarchy, 2) Understanding the system of racism/white supremacy, and 3) Pre-Columbus-colonial African History.
Charles Rotimi first realized the future was passing him by around 2005. The Human Genome Project had recently finished spelling out an entire set of human DNA. Following that breakthrough, scientists in six countries across the globe had begun collecting blood samples to find genes responsible for various conditions, including serious diseases, which could lead to treatments. And Rotimi, who was leading that collection effort in Africa, had the sick feeling that history was repeating itself.
He wasn’t concerned about himself so much as his homeland. In the past, African patients have had poor access to medical advances, even as scientists use them as research subjects. Rotimi worried that genetics might again exploit the 1 billion people n sub-Saharan Africa, ignoring their need for treatments for HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and cancer. “The genomic revolution was going to fly over Africa,” he says, “and tomorrow’s medicine will not work for all.”
His concern was well founded. Over the next few years, scientists came out with a frenzy of discoveries about our DNA that could possibly lead to new treatments for diabetes, cancer, psychiatric illnesses and other serious diseases. But they were drawing from a small slice of the world: Nearly all of the published work was based on populations with European ancestry. By 2009, fewer than 1 percent of the several hundred genome investigations included Africans.
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POINT: Know your worth…does that require knowing pre-1492 African history?…from an African vs European perspective?
Suggested Solution: To know your history & learn your worth…listen to Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, the man who proved white ‘scholars’ wrong on who the 1st man on earth was, which culture, matriarchy or patriarchy is the 1st & oldest, proved that Egypt was Black, etc.
Trump Says Blacks From ‘Shithole’ Countries Like Haiti & Africa
(doesn’t he know Africa’s a continent of 54 countries )
Answer: I suggest Black, brown, & all non-white people unite, i.e.,
(1) learn the Black or 3 million year world history written by UNESCO
(2) all people of color get audited by the NOI (only they know how to audit us…they learned Dianetics per Farrakhan’s advisement ) to help us heal from our historical trauma
and (3) frequent a 12 Steps program to stop our patriarchal thinking to learn to think and act Black, respectful, Matriarchically per the Ubuntu philosophy, “i am because you are”.
SE, Washingon, DC’s African-centered, Kuumba Learning Center’s students are Bi /Tri-Lingual…
…learning African languages:
Singing in African language
#Congolesemusic sung by African American youth in SE, Washington, DC
…& the language of the drum, too.
Learning African history infuses positive self image, heightens self-esteem and self-confidence. Learning African history restores all that European education, media, and religion stole and continues to steal from us.
And, paraphrasing what UNESCO says of it’s 3 million year history of Africa…it will free us from the racial prejudices we’ve internalized from slave trade and colonization, will promote our African perspective…freeing us from the impact of European racism/white supremacy and prompt us to save our culture from extinction…cultural genocide – the aim of racism white supremacy.
SE, Washington, DC’s African-centered, Kuumba Learning Center…Youth Singing the School Song
One of the 3 part solution to Black cultural survival…learning our history pre-1492 as written by UNESCO in their 3 million year history of Africa.
In 1964, UNESCO launched the elaboration of the General History of Africa with a view to remedy the general ignorance on Africa’s history. The challenge consisted of reconstructing Africa’s history, freeing it from racial prejudices ensuing from slave trade and colonization, and promoting an African perspective.
UNESCO therefore called upon the then utmost African and non African experts. These experts’ work represented 35 years of cooperation between more than 230 historians and other specialists, and was overseen by an International Scientific Committee which comprised two-thirds of Africans.
The result was the elaboration of the General History of Africa into eight volumes (Phase I of the project). This huge task, completed in 1999, had a great impact in Africa and, beyond, within the scientific and academic circles and is considered as a major contribution to the knowledge of Africa’s history and historiography.
We Need To Do More Hip Hop To Teach Our Story…from Traditional Africa to The Present…Studies Indicate, Story Telling Heals ‘Historical Trauma’
Hip Hop Content That Comes From UNESCO’s General History of Africa Vol. II Covers 9,000 Year of Africa’s History “freeing it from racial prejudices ensuing from slave trade and colonization…”
http://bit.ly/1pwftZi
Frank Waln, “A lot of it is telling the story of how I’m trying to deal and heal from the historical trauma that has been dealt to me through my ancestors and through being a survivor of genocide.”
Frank Waln is a rapper and member of the Sicangu Lakota. He grew up on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Waln has rapped about the Keystone XL Pipeline, his battle with depression, and the modern Native American experience.
Waln joins Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson to talk about his new album, Tokiya, which comes out this year, and his efforts to be a role model for young Native Americans.
“This album Tokiya is a very personal album,” Waln said. “A lot of it is telling the story of how I’m trying to deal and heal from the historical trauma that has been dealt to me through my ancestors and through being a survivor of genocide.”
Interview Highlights: Frank Waln
On the parallels between black experience and Native American experience
“Hip hop just resonated with a lot of Native youth from my generation, especially growing up on reservations because we could relate to the stories being told in the music.”
“Black folks are coming up out of a history of slavery that their ancestors had to endure. And my ancestors and myself we’re coming up out of a history of genocide — so we are both being oppressed by this system that was imposed on us.”
“When I moved to Chicago, I started doing workshops and going to schools that were in inner-city Chicago. And I saw the parallels there and I didn’t even know they really existed. And then it started to make sense why I gravitated to that music and those stories.”
On the erasure of Native Americans from U.S. history
“When I came to Chicago to go to school, I actually met a person my first week here, that was living in my dorm, who thought Native Americans are extinct. She thought we were gone and dead. And it really shook me. And I started looking at the way history is taught in this country, and a lot of history books don’t mention us past the 1800’s.”
“So I was talking about that white-washing of history, how history was told by the victors, and how our side of the story is never told, and it’s just as much American history.”
“Genocide did happen in this country, and our people did survive genocide. They tried to wipe us out many times, and that influences our reality, whether we want it to or not.”
On being a role model for Native youth
“My target audience is Native youth because I know what they went through, we grew up in similar circumstances. So I think it’s really important that young Native youth see positive Native role models doing what they love and succeeding.”
“The reaction that I get from Native youth is worth more to me than money. Almost every time I do a show in an indigenous community, a young Native person comes up to me and tells me my music or my performance has changed their life. I remember when I was growing up, I [had] never seen a young Native person from a reservation on a mainstream platform talking about real issues and being honest about who we are and where we come from.”
Volume II – Ancient Civilizations of Africa
This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This period of some 9,000 years of history has been sub-divided into four major geographical zones, following the pattern of African historical research. The chapters cover the corridor of the Nile, Egypt and Nubia, Ethiopian highlands, Magrhib and its Saharan hinterland, the rest of Africa as well as some of the islands of the Indian Ocean
