A people lacking sovereign consciousness become mirrors (810 hits)
WE NEED TO REBUILD OUR CULTURAL IMMUNE SYSTEM!!! WHEN WE TRANSFORM OURSELVES, ALL OTHERS AND ALL ELSE MUST TRANSFORM ALSO!!! Whatever progress we were making in the rebuilding of our culture during the Black Power/Black Consciousness movement has been derailed, suspended and reversed between 2004-2012, as too many Black folks fell into a 1950-ish, individualistic, glory-seeking, integrationist, assimilationist way of thinking. November 8, 2008 was an extremely important date, serving in a very large way to erase four decades (40 years!) of struggle, vision and progress. With the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States, our “leader” (in the minds of too many Black folks) is also the leader of our enemies — an absurdity too large for too many to navigate. That absurdity has become an ill-wind, further collapsing the sails of our ability to aggressively critique the country’s non-stop political savagery for fear of criticizing him also in the process (criticism that he may, indeed, need and deserve!!!). A people lacking sovereign consciousness become mirrors, puppets and parrots of whatever system under which they reside. Its time to ushering in a “new-old” sovereignty movement in 2012/2013 ; to organize for accountability and overcome “loose cannon-ism;” to put cultural/political classes into operation throughout our communities; to become disciplined warriors for our people and our ancestors.
this is not about religion this is about a wake up call !
Sunday, December 9th 2012 at 5:05PM
DAVID JOHNSON
It is imperative that African-descended people in the United States develop a sovereign consciousness, directed toward at least, the four areas that the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation has identified as essential: public health, education, economic development and African Globalism. By “sovereign” we mean the collective assertion of our innate, inherent authority as Human Beings to be self-defining, self-determining and self-building in the world. This is nothing less than the affirmation of African Humanity as the primary and fundamental contributor to the development of Black America and the African World Community. Sovereignty is African people’s birthright as it is of all Humanity. Through the collective wisdom of the Zulu oral tradition in South Africa a philosophy of Human Sovereignty is espoused, “I am sovereign of my own life; My neighbor is sovereign of his or her life; Society is collective sovereignty; It exists to ensure that my neighbor and I realize the promise of being human.” The experience of slavery and racial injustice in America has severely thwarted “the promise of being human” for African Americans that is the exercise of full sovereign participation in American society and the world. A sovereign stance suggests that African Americans not play into the old, dichotomized trap of assimilationism or accomadationism neither separationism nor isolationism, but advance a position of total sovereign participation according to the cultural excellence and human interests of African World Peoples. The practice of sovereignty encourages African Americans to secure their strategic place in the world as actors and definers and to dialogue with African world history and cultures as a resource for creating solutions to the ongoing dilemmas that face Black America and the African global community. A sovereign stance requires that Black America employ a wide range of methods and strategies from diverse perspectives and groups within the African American community.
Sunday, December 9th 2012 at 6:11PM
DAVID JOHNSON
SPEAKING ONLY FOR MYSELF...MY CULTURE IS NOT LACKING IN ANY WAY THEREFORE "I : HAVE NO REAOSN OT REBUILD SOMETHING THAT IS NOT BROKEN...
NAMELY MY PROUD CULTURE THAT HAS BEEN ALBE TO WITHSTAND EVERY OBLSTILCE OVER HUNDREDS OF YEARS IN AMERICA. (OTFL) (SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
