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Kwame
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![[*]](./images/reflections/default_icon.gif) posted on 3.4.2005 at 01:57 AM |
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MELINATED THOUGHTS
{Baba note: this is the first of a continuing series of quotes from our ancestors: Ancient, Tradtional, Recent and of living
Scholar/Warriors, who say there's no place for academia among us. Proper credit will be given to all authors; maybe their works will become more
widely recognized and books purchased. They have bills too. Check.}
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"Generally, the victims of a system of oppression have no alternative other than to accept blindly the patterns of symbols, logic, thought, speech,
emotional responses and perceptions that are imposed forcefully upon them by their oppressors. After hundreds of years of oppression, the oppressed,
having lost the sense of their own identity, begin to believe that the brain-products of their oppressors are one and the same with their own, failing
completely to realize that they did not control their own brain-computers nor their brain-computers' output.
The slave's fate is not to see nor reason why, but only to do or die.
However, the process of liberation is one wherein the oppressed begin to clearly distinguish their perceptions, logic and thought processes from the
oppressors'. The oppressed, then, begin to respect and validate their perceptions and their logic and thought processes, realizing fully that they
can never free themselves with the thought processes and perceptions that were a part of the process of their enslavement."
Francis Cress Welsing
The Isis Papers
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Khalil-Maliq
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| posted on 3.4.2005 at 09:46 AM |
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I love that book
If you're let free by the same people who enslaved you how do you know you're free?
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Aminah
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| posted on 3.5.2005 at 08:01 PM |
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So do I.
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Kwame
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| posted on 3.6.2005 at 07:35 PM |
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A warm thanks to u both. Just feeling folk's "vibes." Your responses are timely and encouraging. There's little if any time, energy and efforts to
be wasted.
What other Afrikan writers u appreciate? Why not quote something from'em.
IMO, our folk badly need to become more familiar with warrior/scholars who look like talk like walks like and who live(d) their lives for our
people's sakes
at home and abroad.
whacha think?
EDIT: I meant to add to u both that I also hope u live up to your fine usernames. If we have more who prove 2b a true Friend/King of one's self and
sistas who're deeply trustworthy... ahhhhhhh dat'llBdaDay(s) for melinated greatness' return! Huh?
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Kwame
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 posted on 3.9.2005 at 11:44 PM |
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DOMINATOR/DOMINATED: Life 4 UsA
"The essence of domination is that the dominant benefits at the expense of the dominated. Domination is an uneven exchange.
Unlike an honest or fair trade relationship, it does not involve equally beneficial reciprocity -- an exchange of things of equal value.
The dominated are forced to finance their own domination as their resources and productivity are expropriated by the dominant. This is obvious when
domination as directly tyrannous as in slavery, peonage, governmental-oligarchical repression, and colonial-neocolonial domination.
However, it is complexly subtle to the point of invisibility when oppression and domination are convincingly renamed freedom and democracy as is the
case with the current oppression and domination of Black people by White people in the United States of the Americas. Under such a deceptive regime
the dominated are made to feel free-est when they are most exploited.
They 'voluntarily' chose their shackles.
They 'freely' spend their monies in ways that 'just happen' to enrich those who dominate them.
They gleefully purchase the chains which bind them all the more fixedly in servitude to those from whom they purchase their
shackles
...since they have been convinced that such servitude is their natural state."
Amos N. Wilson
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Kwame
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| posted on 3.17.2005 at 02:00 AM |
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CAGED LIONS
Our spirits have been 'bottled up' by the alien rites given to us, thus retarding the full potential of the African soul. It is like a caged lion.
They tell us that lions are supposedly naturally vicious animals. Further observation tells us something else. Of course, a lion in a cage is going to
seem vicious because he is out of his natural environment.
These regal animals were not meant to be caged by the Creator's natural laws.
But when caged the lion is constantly trying to break free and reach out for his natural environment -- his natural self. When he cannot get that he
becomes chaotic.
But look at the lion as he roams the plains of the Serengeti* and the Savannah. He roams as the royalty of the animal kingdom that he is. He is calm
and quiet, and he is only 'violent' when attacked or when it is time to eat.
The caged lion is likened unto the 'bottled up' spirit of Africans, especially here in America."
Awontunde Ifaseyin Yao Karade
Sankofa: Retrieving the Ancestral Birthright
*(Baba note: Northern Tanzania)
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Kwame
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| posted on 3.17.2005 at 11:50 PM |
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This Caucasian disease of arrogance is exhibited when Africans arrogantly assume that their group is the only group that is aware and conscious. For
example the
African Christians
Jews
Moslems
Khemetans
Vegetarians and/or Health food dieters
and historical, political and social activist groups
assume that their individual groups are the only group that is aware or conscious of the proper way to be African or obtain Freedom. They will
arrogantly state that other groups are not conscious and holding back the race from progress.
All Africans, regardless of their level of consciousness or awarenesss are working to uplift the race unless diseased by White Racism.
Arrogance is a type of slave or colonial mentality. Arrogance is another tool given Africans to destroy themselves and their children. It is the
children that need nutritional salvation and not some group's ideological plantation. Nutricide has slowly distorted the thinking and dis-eased the
body of all arrogant Africans."
Llaila Afrika
NUTRICIDE: The Nutritional Destruction of the Black Race p. 35; A&B Publishing Group, Brooklyn, New York; 1993, 2000
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Kwame
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| posted on 3.19.2005 at 03:16 AM |
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"The question most often encountered is why? Why the need for an Afrocentric philosophy? Why should Africa be at the center? And my question is why
not? Who else would you want to have at your center? Africa belongs to an African or African-American or African Brazilian.
It does not take away from the universality or humanity of man to have a particular culture or history to stand as one's center since all cultures
share certain universal traits; but, they do not ncessarily resemble each other. Afrocentricity resembles the black man, speaks to him, looks like
him, and wants for him what he wants for himself."
Molefi K. Asante
Afrocentricity
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Kwame
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| posted on 3.19.2005 at 10:50 PM |
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"When fear enters, truth escapes."
Kiswahili (Afrikan) Proverb
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Kwame
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| posted on 3.21.2005 at 11:16 PM |
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"We must see our young people as the seeds of tomorrow's harvest. If we lose them we will lose the future."
John Henrik Clarke
in Anna Swanston Dr. John Henrik Clarke: His Life, His Words, His Works
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Kwame
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| posted on 3.24.2005 at 01:34 AM |
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"The future will have no pity for those men who, possessing the exceptional privilege of being able to speak words of truth to their oppressors, have
taken refuge in an attitude of passivity, of mute indifference, and sometimes cold complicity."
Franz Fanon
Toward the African Revolution
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Kwame
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| posted on 3.25.2005 at 11:40 PM |
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“Don't care where you come from, As long as you're a Black man you're an African.
Don't mind your nationality, you have got the identity, of an African.
Don't care where you come from, As long as you're a Black man you're an African.
Don't mind your complexion, there is no rejection, you're an African.
Don't care where you come from, As long as you're a Black man you're an African.
Don't mind denomination, that is only segregation, you are an African.
Don't care where you come from, As long as you're a Black man you're an African.
Don't mind your nationality, you have got the identity, of an African.”
Peter Tosh
“African” from Equal Rights
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Kwame
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| posted on 3.27.2005 at 02:59 AM |
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"This generations' battle-cry is no different from that of previous generations. The aim and the spirit are the same. We walk the way of a new level
of freedom. We seek to no longer be victimized by others as to our place in the center of world history.
We do this not because of arrogance but because it is necessary to place Africa at the center of our existential reality, else we will remain
detached, isolated, and spiritually lonely people in societies which constantly bombard us with anti-Africa rhetoric and symbols, sometimes from
Africans themselves who have been trained by the enemies of Africa."
Molefi K. Asante
Afrocentricity
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Kwame
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| posted on 3.28.2005 at 01:04 AM |
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"Relying on the system to support you, gives them more ammunition to come in and break down what is already a fragile situation."
Denise Thomas
"The Burden of Failure: A Mother Speaks Out"*
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*Baba note: in the Winter/Spring 2005 issue of NEX Generation, published in London, England. It's forerunner was Afrikan Culture and Business
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Kwame
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| posted on 4.4.2005 at 01:55 AM |
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"If you do not understand White Supremacy (Racism) - what it is, and how it works - everything else that you understand, will only confuse you."
-Neely Fuller, Jr. (1971) The United Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept
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Baba note: this is borrowed from:
http://www.ifbm.whgbetc.com
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