11/11/2012 My Opinion on Being Afrikan and Afrikan Relations amongst Each Other: Response to a Post of questions from Mullah Sticman DeadprezRead NowI’m not only a teacher, but a student first. Just because you’re not sitting behind a desk in a classroom, doesn’t mean you’re not learning. –Nicquitta KHMET Brooks The events in my life this past week made me make time and space to think about the direction of my life. The way I absorb and or give knowledge or information as an Afrikan Woman in America to the many people in my life circle who have an open mind and are willing to think for themselves by actively doing the research and not taking my words on face value. Mostly I’m striving to bring a better understanding of how we can help each other emotionally, physically, spiritually and all the “lly’s” that are positive and help the forward movement of our people. We always need to gain understanding of the things in which we do not know. Our brethren and teacher Sticman Deadprez has asked some important questions for everyone to add on to in a positive light your opinion or suggestions to these inquiries concerning Afrikan peoples. Please be advised you will be reading my response and opinion of what I believe could be valuable solutions to the issues and challenges we face on a daily because of who we are. In no way am I asking you to agree or side with me. I am challenging you too; to answer these questions for yourself as your answer can be part of the solution just the same as mines. Statement & Questions Posed By Sticman Deadprez via Facebook “Hmmmm...Questions from a self-reflecting African mind for those who consider themselves afrikan centered...or anyone who wants to chime in. I hope a dialogue like this can be positive an enlightening to those on many different pages as far as these answers are concerned. If u care to answer any of the following at your leisure please add your input... Salute” How does on practice or live “Afrikan” culture? Comm-Unity or Common Unity or Commune Unite To speak with one and others with respect and kindness you would need and want for one’s self. Coming together in spite of our differences b.u.t as a community to express and listens to each other’s feelings and emotions (in motion) of a particular matter which has touched your mind or spirit within something which may have been misunderstood and or something needing to be learned. When we come together as a community we are listening should be learning or experiencing results which will help us become stronger and better humane beings. If we show compassion for one and others experiences in life we not only live our lives better b.u.t help heal. Is it automatic? It is not automatic. It is manual. For every one has different levels of understanding things they need to know and things they want to know. We must be taught to recognize these differences and have an open mind taking nothing at face value and doing the re-search for ourselves. A baby does not come out the womb eating solid food. You must crawl before you walk. If you do not cultivate the land the food will not grow. There is always a process a natural order in which many of us have forgot and will continue to repeat if we do not take the necessary steps in learning the things we do not know about ourselves and past. You must prepare before you are actually ready to do a task. You shouldn’t react before thinking, then knowing what you are going to do. Cause & effects brings results and these results can be negative or positive depending on the order in which you process them. It can only become automatic once you have learned how to care for what person, place or thing you have been blessed to receive. Is it specific religious wise? Like say Yoruba or a particular nation or tribal philosophy? Or can you be an authentic Afrikan without any specific traditional Afrikan cultural practice? Speaking for myself, I strive to embrace the spirit of dignity, integrity & respect for hue-manity which was stripped from my ancestors’ hands. I believe we must pay homage by practicing the core of traditional ways of our Afrikans predecessors. There are so many cultural differences amongst Afrikans who are on our mother continent and here in the U.S and abroad on this Earth. Who then decides how authentic we are as HUE_MAN BEINGS? I myself strive to know and gain knowledge from all sources of my interest as a Hueman Afrikan. I just happen to be interested in huemanity and the rights we have as hueman beings. An authentic Afrikan to me is one who respects their origin and or heritage and natural order of life. Do all Afrikans have to agree for it to be legitimate? No, we don’t. We need to respect this Earth we share. It core and soil is black, brown, red, yellow, pale and all the colors in between, a spectrum in the universal prism of reality. Speaking on land and people, who told us, we are Afrikan? The Greeks and Romans were calling themselves Africans as was their name given to originally reference the small Carthaginian territory in North Africa which is now the modern region of Tunisia. It gradually was extended to the entire continent. Because the continent is so vast Africa hasn’t ever had any original name. Our beginning has always been darkness. Here are some of the ancient names used all over the continent with their meanings. Alkebulan, Arabic meaning “the land of Blacks”, “mother of mankind” or “garden of Eden”; Ethiopian, Corphye, Ortegia, Libya. Who determines Afrikan authenticity anyway? Is there a board of standards somewhere? I laughed out loud here when I read these two questions. The board of standards has been placed from the beginning of time. As we are the Sun, Moon & Stars on the planet Earth, who can tell us but those who came before us about who we are and where we came from? This leads me into these questions. Does it have to be an ancient tradition or can an Afrikan today create cultural expressions that add on to preexisting one? Can Afrikans create new culture or must it remain the same as in ancient times to be authentic? We are ever evolving beings. We create and are the creators of our destiny. We form groups upon our core beliefs from ancient and or current cultures. If we (the lost ones in the wilderness of North America & all over the world) found out all truth of the area in which our family blood ties come from we should then dedicate ourselves to adopting some of the principles in the way of life of found heritage. This is what I do for myself and those in my immediate circle and what I’m striving to provide through the messages in many of the songs and poetry I write and perform. Belief is important. How do you tell someone what to believe? You can’t. It has to be taught through repetitiveness. As in if you give a man a fish he will eat for a day, but if you teach a man how to fish he will eat for life. My belief is to respect the hueman race. Some of our traditions may be outdated and so it is how one is raised by their immediate family. Family is how we relate to on another starting from the foundation of Man, Woman & Child, i.e Male & Females born in the same bloodline extending to those who are connected to us by relating amongst ourselves throughout the nation and world. To be authentic is to be original. I ask you, who is the father of civilization? Where was the oldest hueman remains found? Those are just a couple of questions one must ask, and then answer for themselves to assure their foundation of self and truth of their origins a/o bloodline. Afrikans born on the continent in my honest opinion do not question the existence of their lost brethren. Afrikans in Amerika who were raped of their culture, knowledge, language and dieties have the more difficult task at hand to free themselves from the conditioning of white supremacy and tricknowledgy by acknowledging we are the children indigenous Afrikans and unlearning, relearning and learning our past. Furthermore, once this has been accomplished we then can identify who we are as hueman beings and began to take back justly by choice or by force what has always been ours since the beginning of time. What are the governing principles of Africanity? And who decides this? Who did these deacon makers get their authority from? I believe our ancestors and ascending predecessors have laid down really basis common sense principles. My studies of the 42 Laws of Ma’at, my own observance of nature and animals (of how they relate in throughout the animal kingdom), the Principles of Interrogation among other principles I have come through my elders and my asking questions of our past. Qualified elders should be the ones who govern Africanity. Yet some of our elders are far removed from the generations of today who have watched how many of them gave up and evolved themselves into a way which is not consider “Afrikan culture”. Some have stopped sharing the story of our past and a lot of misinformation is being given out to conform to the ways of savage who can barely take care of their basis needs, for they had not been taught to love themselves, to take care of themselves by respecting themselves and those who came before them. The authority comes with age; knowledge wisdom and understanding of a just hueman being who not only recognizes their own experiences b.u.t has mastered themselves in living out their beliefs. What are the specific factors that distinguish Afrikan culture from the rest of indigenous cultures in terms of practicing it according to “strict” authenticity? Afrikan culture has different specific factors depending and according to tribal traditions. To me other indigenous cultures are mere carbon copies of the original blueprint. We all strive to live according to a taught value or moral ethical system. One thing Afrikans as a whole lack is discipline and tolerance to agree to disagree on our opinions and take the best parts of each of our tribal groups to mend them into one basic set of principles in which all of us would us for the foundation of justice, equality & freedom. We all need the basic food, clothing and shelter. We must lay a foundation on how we can work together to live our different yet same lives here on the planet. How can we have an understanding of what it means to be Afrikan that will be universally accepted? Is that possible? If not, what then? We must teach and be taught to identify with the consciousness of ourselves and past. Those of us who know the humility, kindness, compassion, the struggle, blood, sweat and tear of our predecessors should teach those ways to our children. It indeed starts in the home. As we all should know there is a natural order in our steps and everything we do will have a consequence. We must take what is needed and discard the waste. The core can be healed once we have replanted the correct seeds of knowledge into the minds of our children and those whose minds have been subliminally made to feel inferior about learning and what they need to be learning, relearning or unlearning. Anything is possible as I don’t believe in impossibility. When you believe and accept who you are and what those before you have been through so that you can be who you are you becomes a better Afrikan Hueman. Many nowadays choose not to claim our heritage because of those elders who did not correctly pass the torch to begin with or who became of afraid and kowtow to the minority who is now the supposed leaders of the world. In closing I do say this: Either you’re at the table or you’re on the menu, a political phrase used to reference ones who are not involved in the process of their destiny. Better yet here are a few Afrikan Proverbs which describe the just of what I am and have been repetitively saying as I teach. Before though I would like to give thanks to Mullah Sticman Deadprez for asking us these questions and bringing a lantern to us in which we can shed light on the darkness of what is unknown or what we are afraid to address. Let us continue this dialogue, but also act on it by teaching those who need to be taught Afrikanity!!! Peace Patience Love & Blessings K.H.M.E.T—Keeping Human Minds Elevating Together The hueman being is a social product; he is what he eats, learns, hears, sees, feels and lives. –Kongo Who listens to the voice of the elderly is like a strong tree; who turns a deaf ear is like a twig in the wind. —Nilotic If you understand the beginning well, the end will not trouble you. —Ashanti Unity is strength, division is weakness. —Tanzania A son will be what he was taught. —Swahili Alone a youth runs fast, with an elder slow, but together they go far. —Luo The first one to wake up must wake up his neighbor. —Wolof
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