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Black People : I CAN'T BUY THAT !!! Pt. 1.
- Thread starter Keita Kenyatta
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I read you... and I feel you, at least I get you.
But could you clarify the "sort of", either I wasn't able to see where you clarified how come you were happy, or you didn't. In any case, care to expound on why a Brother of such intellect and keen sense of astute observation and mathematical prowess would be.... happy (sort of) that Obama won?
Much love to you, more power to you as well.
One.
- Ikoro
But could you clarify the "sort of", either I wasn't able to see where you clarified how come you were happy, or you didn't. In any case, care to expound on why a Brother of such intellect and keen sense of astute observation and mathematical prowess would be.... happy (sort of) that Obama won?
Much love to you, more power to you as well.
One.
- Ikoro
In the Spirit of Sankofa!
Keita,
I'm posting only to let you know that I have read the thread. Our conversation today, solidifies our action. Ikoro does bring a decent point which is to know how the "sort of" breaks out for you. This would create, for our Family, shared points of common interests. I think I konw about the "sort of," and its significance to you, but it never hurts to hear straight for the horses's mouth, so to speak!
Keita,
I'm posting only to let you know that I have read the thread. Our conversation today, solidifies our action. Ikoro does bring a decent point which is to know how the "sort of" breaks out for you. This would create, for our Family, shared points of common interests. I think I konw about the "sort of," and its significance to you, but it never hurts to hear straight for the horses's mouth, so to speak!
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Ok, lets do this. When I made the statement that said "sort of", it was in recognition of some serious and note worthy factors as it relates to our people on a global scale. I understand and thoroughly understand that outside of having our land taken and the physical suffering that we have endured for the last 400 plus years...the greatest damage that was done to us was clearly psychological.
Through the use of negative media, white washed history books, the stealing of our history and even the restructuring of the images in the religious books, great psychological damage was done to us that impacted upon us from childhood on up. A lot of it was conscious but most was subconscious. As such, the very important elements of inspiration, of being positively motivated to aspire beyond our environment...to look in a mirror and actually see a reflection of something other than the falsely projected image of nothing but a ghetto child, a thug, a drug dealer, jail bird or racist image of a jungle bunny...Obama's election to Presidency tore those walls down and gave us something greater to see. He instilled something greater than "keep hope alive" or "I have a dream" to the world of African/Black people worldwide.
Yeah, we may still be in ghettos and we may still have those negative realities around us but with those things we have something greater to stimulate our inner energies with. We have something that for unknown reasons that we and the world "consider to be worthy of holding up to our children and the world at large and of saying; "See, this is who we really are". This is a great thing and a bad thing at the same time. It's great because it is happening and the effect is there. It's bad because this only happened when "white people acknowledged it also". It's bad because when I think of the really great men such as Lumumba, Garvey, Malcolm, Toure and others who came with answers "for our people, about our people and with our people, we didn't acknowledge them as such....and that's a living testament of the damage that white supremacy had and still has upon us psychologically. For in essence we have subconsciously and actually declared that "the only things and people of value are those that white people accept or approve of "...
If I wanted to use the scales of Maat to see how and where things are balancing out, I would say that Obamas effect upon our people is great if we acknowledge the "inner tools" we were stripped of that really crippled our minds and hearts. If I look at Obama from a political, economic, militaristic and international perspective, then I would say he serves the elements of Global White Supremacy more than he serves us. GWS is an element that is always evolving or changing according to the times. If nothing else the world should have learned that if GWS falls, they fall also....why?...because GWS is in the pockets of the world powers. It truely is the octopus with eight arms extended around the world and nobody wants to stab it in the head to kill it because then they go down with it....So Obama has to help keep the octopus alive and restrengthen it so that the people world wide do not suffer even though he knows that the tentacles need to be snatched off.
There's much more but I simply wrote this to let you know that I am not suffering from myopia in this situation.
Through the use of negative media, white washed history books, the stealing of our history and even the restructuring of the images in the religious books, great psychological damage was done to us that impacted upon us from childhood on up. A lot of it was conscious but most was subconscious. As such, the very important elements of inspiration, of being positively motivated to aspire beyond our environment...to look in a mirror and actually see a reflection of something other than the falsely projected image of nothing but a ghetto child, a thug, a drug dealer, jail bird or racist image of a jungle bunny...Obama's election to Presidency tore those walls down and gave us something greater to see. He instilled something greater than "keep hope alive" or "I have a dream" to the world of African/Black people worldwide.
Yeah, we may still be in ghettos and we may still have those negative realities around us but with those things we have something greater to stimulate our inner energies with. We have something that for unknown reasons that we and the world "consider to be worthy of holding up to our children and the world at large and of saying; "See, this is who we really are". This is a great thing and a bad thing at the same time. It's great because it is happening and the effect is there. It's bad because this only happened when "white people acknowledged it also". It's bad because when I think of the really great men such as Lumumba, Garvey, Malcolm, Toure and others who came with answers "for our people, about our people and with our people, we didn't acknowledge them as such....and that's a living testament of the damage that white supremacy had and still has upon us psychologically. For in essence we have subconsciously and actually declared that "the only things and people of value are those that white people accept or approve of "...
If I wanted to use the scales of Maat to see how and where things are balancing out, I would say that Obamas effect upon our people is great if we acknowledge the "inner tools" we were stripped of that really crippled our minds and hearts. If I look at Obama from a political, economic, militaristic and international perspective, then I would say he serves the elements of Global White Supremacy more than he serves us. GWS is an element that is always evolving or changing according to the times. If nothing else the world should have learned that if GWS falls, they fall also....why?...because GWS is in the pockets of the world powers. It truely is the octopus with eight arms extended around the world and nobody wants to stab it in the head to kill it because then they go down with it....So Obama has to help keep the octopus alive and restrengthen it so that the people world wide do not suffer even though he knows that the tentacles need to be snatched off.
There's much more but I simply wrote this to let you know that I am not suffering from myopia in this situation.
