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Despite 6000 years of records of human history
as an empirical guide to inform leaders in the
twenty-first century, global equity, and lasting
peace and harmony among nations, religions,
races and cultures elude humanity. The recurring
power imbalances in the world, technological,
social, and economic, have become a threat to
human survival as a viable species. The observable decline in spiritual leadership (qualitative
deficit) is responsible for a “universal” decline in
international peace and harmony. Greed, hoarding of strategic resources, the accumulation of
superfluous wealth, and the spread of violence
among nations underpin this “universal” decline
in spirituality. An increase in spirituality would
place humanity on a progressive, authentic and
sustainable path as a viable species.
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PHILOSOPHICALLY
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By: Errol Gibbs
SPIRITUALITY – A PRE-REQUISITE
FOR GLOBAL LEADERSHIP
IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Our twenty-first century is emerging as a “Century of Discontent” with leaders of religion, education, politics and military, and this discontent is
spreading rapidly throughout the world. Over the
past century, the world has experienced exponential growth in world religions, academia, science
and technology, space exploration, medical research and great financial and material wealth. At
the same time, the world is experiencing exponential growth in global humanitarian and peace
organizations. To the intellectual observer the
twenty-first century should blossom into a new
era of high civilization with social and economic
equity, technological empathy, peace and prosperity, and fairness and justice. Essentially, this
new paragon of leadership should consign wars,
and ‘humanly caused’ and ‘humanly inspired’
suffering to history.
Despite exponential growth in science and technology (www.Scientific.net), human intelligence,
world religions, and financial and material wealth,
human beings lack the capacity to build and
sustain great civilizations. The reason for this
incapacity is a lack of understanding that we are
spiritual beings, living temporarily in physical
bodies, and that our primary need is spiritual. In
a Christian context, spirituality is not synonymous
with religion.
It connotes the connection between the human
spirit and God’s Spirit. In practical terms, it is a
demonstration of “the Fruit of the Spirit”, which
is an extension of God’s love (agape) exercised towards others, such as: love, joy, peace,
patience (longsuffering), kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self–control
(Galatians 5: 22–23, New King James Version
(NKJV)).
These spiritual attributes empower leaders and
create a barrier to the path that leads to enslavement, colonization, apartheid, genocide
and wars underpinned by a “secular worldview”. The great divisions among nations result
from our desire for mastery over money, wealth
and power, control over natural resources,
and legal, social and economic advantage
over peoples and nations. These same human
conditions have wrought havoc in the ancient
world. They confront leaders in the twenty-first
century with a resounding message that history repeats itself. The image attempts to alert
the reader to the exponential growth in human
knowledge, in science and technology, militarism, and world religions as spirituality (“Fruit
of the Spirit”) ebbs.
The need for spiritual interconnectedness begins and ends life’s trajectory (pre-mortal, mortal and immortal). The emptiness that flows
from a lack of higher purpose is a higher call
for spirituality that only a life imbued by the
Spirit can satisfy. The search for spirituality has
perplexed every religion from tribal systems to
the most sophisticated mono–and polytheistic
religions of our modern world. It is the way to
find meaning, purpose, hope, comfort, inner
peace, happiness, joy and security. Spirituality
is a pre-requisite for enlightened global leadership, but it is imperative to differentiate between Spiritual enlightenment that comes from
God versus Age of Enlightenment described by
post–medieval times (or simply the Enlightenment, or Age of Reason) (1620 – 1789).
National self-interest has become the leadership
guide in our twenty-first century, evidenced by
tens of thousands of human laws, underpinned
by a “secular worldview” that guarantees the
ruling elites maintain a permanent social and
economic power imbalance.
A dominant “secular worldview” rejects any
notion of a “Christian worldview” as the path
to world peace and harmony. Paradoxically,
when something goes wrong in society, there
is an immediate call for the “sword” (human
authority) and the “Bible” (God’s authority),
but with God’s authority a remote consideration.
A major global challenge to leadership is
the need to achieve a balanced perspective
informed by the Triad Colossi (1) God (Spiritual Intelligence (SI)), (2) Man (Human Intelligence (HI)), and (3) Machine (Artificial
Intelligence (AI)). These three belief systems
must be congruent. Spiritual Intelligence
(SI) enables Human Intelligence. Similarly,
Human Intelligence (HI) enables Artificial
Intelligence (AI) in machines. Higher Spiritual Intelligence (SI) imbues the human mind
for discernment and decision making, when
faith, belief, and practice are congruent.
Machines (robots and cobots (collaborate robots)) are designed to work in collaboration
with human co–workers to serve the needs
of humans. (MIT Technology Review, Computing News, Will Knight April 23, 2014).
The paradox of this advancing need for new
technologies (Artificial Intelligence (AI)) to
evolve the information age is its overshadowing of the critical need for Spirituality to
underpin humanity. Spiritual progress, the
most important form of progress lags behind,
when compared to scientific progress. The
challenge is that some machines are approaching godlike characteristics (an ironic
perspective), for instance, military drones
are becoming omnipotent (all powerful),
omnipresent (all places) and omniscient (all
knowing) — digitally speaking.
International and national leaders no longer serve nor lead on behalf of the people.
Democracy is becoming a doubled edged
sword for many, with great prosperity on the
one hand, and great fear, hunger, poverty,
homelessness and disenfranchisement on the
other hand. Global leaders no longer view
the people they serve as sovereign. GENEVA,
June 20, 2014 (UNHCR) – “The UN refugee
agency reported today on World Refugee Day
that the number of refugees, asylum-seekers
and internally displaced people worldwide
has, for the first time in the post-World War
II era, exceeded 50 million people”.
Whenever something goes wrong within a
nation, between or among nations, there is an
immediate call for more authority. This ‘authoritarian worldview’ diverts resources, and
financial and human capital away from important investments to improve the human
condition (spiritual, moral, social, intellectual
and physical). Have we found hope, peace
and security on an authoritarian path? Have
we found it in higher levels of expenditures
by militarizing the world? “World military
expenditure in 2014 was an estimated $1776
billion” (http://www.sipri.org/research/armaments/milex).
Have we found hope, peace and security in
political authority, the authority of the modern church, in great world religions, or in our
gods? Have we found it in modern education
or academia? Modern education has provided humanity with a “materially driven life”,
which is emerging as a threat to the “Spiritual
purpose” of human existence as a viable species. Have we found hope, peace and security
in secular universities or global peace organizations?
Have we found it in political authority or by incarcerating
approx. 11 million individuals (World Prison Population
List (Sixth Edition))?
Have we found it in peace pacts, peace treaties, peace
marches or in civil rebellion? What, then, is the basis
of authority upon which all of human civilization must
rely for hope, peace and security? The basis of authority
lies within the Word of God. “Unless the LORD builds
the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the
LORD guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain”
(Psalm 127:1 NKJV). When we adopt this basic premise,
only then will a new world of reforms spring forth and
lead to the creation of national and international peace
and harmony and the lives of fulfillment that we crave.
Ancient
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The great city of Nineveh in the Old Testament, cited in
the book of Jonah (circa 767 BCE) received God’s gift of
mercy. “Then word came to the King of Nineveh; and
he rose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered
himself in sackcloth and sat in ashes, and decreed: “let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that
is in his hands. Who can tell if God will turn and relent,
and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not
perish? Then God saw their works, that they turned from
their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He
had said that He would bring upon them, and He did not
do it” (Jonah 3:5-10 NKJV).
We have relegated the management of God’s creation
and His created beings to the elites in religion, politics,
academia, and the military, though it is only the sum total
of human knowledge that will provide a way forward.
Paradoxically, empirical evidence demonstrates that ‘war’
instead of ‘peace’, ‘insecurity’ instead of ‘security’, and
the breakdown in human relations grow exponentially
alongside gross national and international expenditures in
the trillions of dollars in armaments and security apparatus worldwide. Ernie Regehr (1980): “We are dealing here
with the issues of life and death for humankind”. Where
are the voices of the great religious leaders to bring God’s
revelation to global leaders? God gives His assurance:
“if My people who are called by My name will humble
themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from
their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will
forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14
NKJV).
Errol A. Gibbs
Writer, Self-inspired Researcher, Mentor, International
Motivational Speaker
Ambassador for Peace with the Women’s Federation for
World Peace (WFWP)
(An NGO in General Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations)
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What can you find in this
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Who Wrote The Bible?
Americans and Europeans assume that the
Bible is about them, but the Bible is about my
ancient ancestors and me…..Alex Darkwah
Modern-day Jews see the Bible as a record of
their history because the King James Bible is
centered on the history of Israel.
The Jewish people of Europe and America still
carry African Tribal names. They carry the
names of their ancestors who were Africans.
Statistically, the Lemba people from Southeast
Africa are more Jewish than European Jews.
In a particular Lemba Clan known as the Buba
Clan, 53 percent of the males carry the unique
DNA signature of Jewish priests. Males form
the Lemba Tribe carry a higher incidence of
the Jewish priestly DNA signature than the
European and American Jewish population.
When the police have the fingerprints of a
wanted man, they know the man whose prints
match. The same thing can be said here.
The early Roman Catholic Church portrayed
Jesus and his mother in the original Black
images of the Jewish people at that time--The
Black Madonna. What African tribe were they
from?
Scene from King Tutankhamun’s
tomb
The time period of the early Catholic Church
is closer to the Jews leaving Africa and going
to Europe than the Renaissance Painters who
painted Jesus White.
What Europe did not count on was that Africans would still know their past. Darkwah
states that ancient Egypt was geographically
in Africa and that so called European experts
do not know the Ancient Egyptian story
because they are not familiar with African
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Hamilton police disproportionately stop
and question black
people.
Girt defined “street checks” as “police engaging with the
community members for investigative purposes” and said
they work: Information gathered in street checks is helping to
solve a current homicide investigation, he said.
It was a significant meeting in a long fight for clarity over the
practice that involves stopping people who have not necessarily done anything wrong to question them, record their
ID and whereabouts, and later enter that information in the
police database.
“I think this is great information, but I would hope that we
kind of take it to the next step and report on and have a
discussion about what the value is going forward, in terms
of collecting this information, analyzing it, reporting it to
the broader community and what the implications are,” said
Mayor Fred Eisenberger, who sits on the board.
Street checks = Carding
Also Thursday, despite months of semantic confusion,
Hamilton’s “street check” practice was described similarly
to Toronto’s “carding.”
Hamilton officers even have a street check “card” they use
to fill out a person’s name, date of birth, age, names of their
“associates” and physical and race identifiers.
Hamilton Police Chief Glenn De Caire while people do not have a legal obligation to answer questions and provide ID when they’re not under investigation, they have a “moral
and social” duty to. (Samantha Craggs/CBC)
Black people are stopped, questioned and documented in police street checks at
a disproportionate rate compared to the population in Hamilton, police statistics
presented Thursday show.
And the information recorded in all such stops is kept indefinitely in a police database.
In Hamilton, 11 to 14 per cent of the police street checks were done on black people
over the last five years. But only three per cent of the population of Hamilton is
black, according to the 2011 Census.
In the police statistics, 75 to 80 percent of the street checks every year were done on
white people — a finding that Chief Glenn De Caire and board chair Lloyd Ferguson cited as proof the service has no problem with racial bias.
Girt said the street check form is a piece of paper a little
smaller than a recipe card. But Girt would not say that
Hamilton’s street checks are the same thing as “carding.”
“You’re getting into terminology,” he said. “We don’t call it
carding.”
Hamilton police also revealed they have have been keeping
racial data of people questioned during street stops in the
city for five years, but do not analyze it for evidence of bias
in their carding practices.
The board asked the police to bring back a study on doing this kind of racial analysis on an ongoing basis. It
also asked for a report on the best practices other police
services boards are adopting as they oversee police forces
around the province grappling with similar issues.
‘Fundamental
tension’
Girt said the stops are a key policing tool
and that police are not happy about the
chilling effect of recent public debate about
the practice.
Where 2010-2013 saw thousands of street
checks being filed, the total street checks
plummeted to 188 in 2014.
“Are we getting to a stage where our officers
are inhibited from doing their core functions because of the repercussions they feel
may flow from it? That’s the fundamental
tension,” Girt said.
Girt showed statistics that indicate between
20 and 25 per cent of the street checks are
done on visible minorities. Hamilton’s visible minority population is roughly 15 per
cent.
But Girt noted that most street checks are
done in the downtown area, where the visible minority population is closer to 35 per
cent.
Girt’s numbers were much lower than those
counted by the ACTION team in its reports over the past five years. He said that’s
because duplicate reports on the same stop
by different officers were deducted from the
counts. But for the police, he suggested no
“moral and social” obligation to tell someone stopped in a street check that he or she
has the right to walk away, even though
that’s something the service has added to its
brochure and app this year.
“Similarly there’s no legal reason to advise
people of those rights that are not activated
until that arrest and detention threshold is
met,” he said.
But when compared with the percentage of Hamilton’s population that is visible
minorities, the numbers showed a disproportionate impact.
The findings came as part of a report to the police’s oversight board, responding to
concerns raised that the practice is racially skewed and an infringement on privacy
rights.
Deputy Chief Eric Girt presented information to the board about its street checks,
commonly called carding in Toronto.
Ancient Egyptian
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that cancer was indeed rare in
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The University of Manchester study indicates that cancer-causing factors exist only in modern, industrialized societies—and cancer is fueled by the excesses of modern life.
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How to Steal Things, Exploit People, and Avoid All Responsibility
The case for reparations:
Blackness Is A Supreme
State Of Balance
TA-NEHISI COATES
“Darkness Blackness Is A Supreme
State in Which The Eternal Dwelled Before He Said Let There Be Light” .
I
started this narrative bibliography for “The
Case for Reparations” back in June, but, regrettably, I didn’t finish the final section before
I left for the summer. Some time has passed
but I think it is very important that, as much as
possible, I complete this public acknowledgement of all the previous work that contributed
to my own.
The counter-strategy to reparations has always been to
run out the clock.
Finally, I came upon this issue of the Journal of
African-American History, totally devoted to reparations. The issue is indispensable for understanding the
history of the reparations movement. I am specifically
indebted to anthropologist James M. Davidson for
his article, “Encountering the Ex-Slave Reparations
Movement From the Grave.” Taken together I underAs I’ve written, the process began with the
stood that the claim for reparations was—at the very
understanding that racism was a “done thing”
least—as old as the United States of America itself.
and not an irrepressible clash between people
The claim for reparations did not begin a century after
of different hues. Another way of putting this is the crime, but was made at the time of the crime and
to say white supremacy is not an invention of
immediately after.
white people; white people are an invention of
white supremacy. The second step was understanding that the most flagrant demonstration
of white supremacy, enslavement, is not ancillary to American history but at its very roots.
The enslavement of Africans is foundational
to the United States, and it is tough to imagine
this country without it. The third step was understanding that the legacy of that enslavement
gave us a suite of policies that injured—and
continues to injure—people who are alive and
well and living in North Lawndale.
Knowing those three things, the way forward
became clear to me.
Now I began to see the entire device—a method by
which you exploit a people and then clean yourself of
all responsibility. An act is committed—enslavement,
for instance. The victims make a credible claim. The
claim is disputed with poor logic. (“They have been
taught Christian civilization, and to speak the noble
English language instead of some African gibberish. The account is square with the ex‑slaves.”) The
people making the claim eventually die. At that point
the claim is acknowledged as having been credible,
but because the claimants are dead, nothing can be
done.
The counter-strategy to reparations has always
been to run out the clock. It was true in the time
of Callie House. It is true today. The vast majorI first seriously grappled with the concept
ity of the responses to “The Case for Reparations”
reparations in my early 20s, in the form Ranare not so much responses, but evasions. The redall Robinson’s moving argument in The Debt. spondents prefer to ignore the details of the claim
A taut and beautifully rendered book, The Debt (“The people to whom reparations were owed are
mostly focuses on enslavement. But I rememlong dead.”), to ignore the facts of history (“What
ber sitting with Robinson some years ago—he about...Japanese Americans, interned during
was the subject of my first big profile for a
World War II?”) or to to simply flail around like a
national magazine—and hearing him almost
six-year-old (“OK. Whatever. Reparations scholoff-handedly note that housing discrimination arships to Middlebury for all!”)
alone is estimated to have cost black people
billions. And I recall dimly thinking, “Some of Understanding that those who could make a
those people are alive.”
reparations claim were very much alive, I wanted
to understand who the claim was being made
One critique made by those who oppose repa- against. One popular response to reparations
rations holds that the claim is null because it
is to say “I didn’t own any slaves, so I can’t be
was made so long after the actual injury, when held responsible.” Other versions of this include
all members of the injured class were dead. But “My ancestors came over in 1920, I can’t be held
this is not true of a claim rooted in housing
responsible.” Or, “My great-great grandmother
discrimination. Maps show who lived where.
was half-black, I should not have to pay.” The first
Records of the policies are clear. Histories have flaw in this logic is to believe that the reparations
been written outlining the execution of these
claim is rooted in the allegedly distant past. I
policies and their effects. Indeed, a paper trail
now knew that it wasn’t. But the second flaw is to
probably exists for those who’d been directly
conceive of reparations as a claim made against
refused loans. I knew a reparations claim could individual white people, as opposed to American
be made by living victims.
society itself.
Kim Forde-Mazrui’s scholarly article “Taking
But was that actually something “new?” And
Conservatives Seriously: A Moral Justification for
was the “Everybody who was enslaved is dead” Affirmative Action and Reparations” was crucial
argument really an argument, or a compoin understanding this question. The article notes
nent of some larger device? In this pursuit, the that the state, necessarily, outlives its individual
historian Roy E. Finkenbine was indispensable citizens. Americans pay for things, all the time,
in shaping my thinking. His article on Belinda that they are not individually responsible for. If
Royall’s petition and her early claims of redress the “I didn’t do it” argument was followed to its
for enslavement established that reparations
logical end, the state would effectively dissolve.
was not an “after-the-fact” claim; in fact blacks
and whites had made the claim long before
At that point I then felt I had argument. The
enslavement ended. For many of the same rea- rest was left to the team here at The Atlansons, historian Mary Frances Berry’s biography tic—the awesome editors, fact-checkers, and
of reparations activist Callie House—My Face
copy-editors—as well as number of scholars and
Is Black Is True—was equally important. Callie writers who served as my readers. This is not a
House argued for “pensions” for enslaved black completely thorough list of all my readings, but
people. Again, this was a claim made while the it does capture the highlights. It also is not a
direct victims were alive.
thorough list of all the great scholarship out there
on reparations. (The work of economist William
“Sandy” Darity Jr., for instance, merits mention
here.) I would encourage people who enjoyed
my article to continue to explore this scholarship
themselves. With the new-fangled Internet, much
of it is widely available.
On y va.
Ta-Nehisi Coates on
‘The Beautiful Struggle’
In his first book, “The Beautiful Struggle: A
Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to
Manhood,” Ta-Nehisi Coates chronicles his
childhood in Baltimore where he was raised
by a loving but complex father.
Mr. Coates says that everything in his
memoir is as accurate as he can remember
it. But it isn’t a typical narrative. Mr. Coates,
a former staff writer at Time magazine, has
larger ambitions. He attempts to show how a
black family went about raising children in a
troubled city where drugs and violence were
common.
Mr. Coates paints himself as a friendly kid
whose quiet nature enabled him to avoid
those temptations. His father, Paul, who in
1978 launched Black Classic Press, hovered
over all. The former Black Panther had his
own stubborn vision of what it meant to lead
a meaningful life, including the need for
discipline and serious study. He also rejected
traditional holidays such as Thanksgiving
and Christmas. Eventually he found work at
Howard University, where his employment
guaranteed a college education for his seven
children.
That his son eventually became a writer
seemed almost inevitable in a household
overflowing with books. Ta-Nehisi Coates,
32 years old, lives in Harlem. He was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey A.
Trachtenberg.
The Wall Street Journal: How did you decide
to tell this story, which isn’t structured as a
typical narrative?
It’s time to say no Thanks
I am beautiful just the
way I am.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: I’ve read some memoirs,
and it always amazed me that people could
remember what color dress somebody was
wearing when they were four. I put in everything I remembered, my father remembered,
my brother remembered. There are a lot of
impressionistic, how-did-this feel, scenes.
I didn’t feel that I could relate every blowby-blow moment. The emotions are what
stuck with me. I reconstructed the gist of the
dialogue.
WSJ: Did you set any limits on what you
were willing to tell, or did you do fact-checking with the people you discuss?
Mr. Coates: When I started my proposal, I
said to my dad that it might go places that
you might not want to see in public. And
there are scenes with my brother that others
might not want to have in public. But they
were fine with it.
There isn’t anybody in the book that I’m mad
at, or want to hurt. But I wouldn’t have done
the book if there were big limits. If I couldn’t
tell you how my dad ended up with seven
kids by four women, I wouldn’t have done
it. One thing you have to remember is that
we’ve always been public. My father is well
known in Baltimore, and everybody knows
he has a lot of kids by a lot of women. Also
my parents are split now. So things that may
seem big secrets are known.
Stop making statements that we think we
are ugly stop the perms the blond hair,
the weaves that is not us. Black women
you are Godesses You were beautiful from
the day you were born.
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The Renewer Of This Day And Time
E
very 24,000 years at the end of a four cycle equinox a reformer is born, an avatar, or illa-muta-jassida, an incarnation called the Reformer. Paa Nabab
Yaanwn
6000 years ago Nuwaupu gave way to isms, took
on names such as Pantheism, Paganism, Polytheism, and Monotheism In accordance with the cycle
and season as the Natural Laws of cycles demands
which gave birth to religion. Religion as we know is
a system of faith, beliefs, worship, rituals to unseen
spirit forces that influences the actions of peoples
and things in the positive and negative.
The Culture of Wu-Nuwaupu Is Based On The
Principle Of What We Call Sound Right Reasoning,
Meaning It Is The Highest Possible Decision Making
Skills Utilized By Any Being Within Nature.
W
Paa Nabab Yaanwn
hen the mind is out of order, the person is
out of order. When the minds of Africans worldwide are divided, the physical persons are divided.
Common knowledge, meaning, knowledge that all
or the mass majority of African peoples will understand and accept will unite our minds. There can
be no mental unity as long as the spell of spiritual
ignorance is upon us, and there can be no physical
unity as long as the spell of racial indifference is
upon us. When destruction of the spell is complete,
the African person will have a free and united
mind. Right knowledge by the help of the Forces
of Nature will destroy the evil spell of confusion,
ignorance, apathy, and disunity among African
Peoples. Right knowledge is designed to free, discipline, and unite the minds of Africans, then the
rest of our heritage will come as sufficient effort is
made. Right knowledge, wisdom, and over-standing are the magic formula necessary to counteract
and destroy the evil hypnotic spell of Leviathan,
because right knowledge causes the African to
think right and take the right steps toward liberty,
justice, and equality by the help of the Forces of
Nature.
The Original Culture Of Black People On Earth, Better Known As Nuwpunu, Is Sun Culture Also Called
Wu-Nuwaupu, Which Is The First And Original
Culture Within The Boundless Universes.
The Culture of Wu-Nuwaupu Is Based On The
Principle Of What We Call Sound Right Reasoning,
Meaning It Is The Highest Possible Decision Making
Skills Utilized By Any Being Within Nature.
An Individual Who Is Intelligent Enough To Live
Wu-Nuwaupu Realizes That They Must Study,
Advocate, And Live By The Binding Laws Of Nature: Following And Adhering To The Principles Of
Maa’t, Which Stands For (Righteousness, Justice,
Balance, Order).
Nuwpunu peoples culture Wu-nuwaupu is solely
based on Nuwpunu people adhering to and being
in tune with Natural Law, living for, of, and by each
others needs. In our culture we are the keepers of
each other, living as one mind, many bodies!
This cultural principle is opposite to the Western
concept of Capitalism based on the consumption of
Natural resources to the smartest, sharpest, slickest,
cleverest sells person . This is why Nuwpunu peoples
are having such a hard time living and adapting to
Western Culture. Nuwpunu people by Nature are
not Capitalist & will mostly likely never adapt as a
whole to Capitalism.
There is a SPELL upon the African (the
Wooly-Haired People) the World over,
and it is a spell of spiritual ignorance
and racial indifference cast upon the
By the
Africans by Leviathan from the Caucasian and his Books, including is so Way
called holy books, and this is WHY no Have
one has been able to really unite the You
African in any considerable numbers, Passed
and is also WHY the people of African Your
descent has not been able to make real
Garde
progress toward freedom and equal8 Exam
ity. With the help of the Caucasian,
Leviathan (the God of the Caucasians) As Yet?
hypnotized the Africans with its magic
powers and SEALED the hypnosis with
spiritual ignorance and racial indifference, and the only way the spell can be
broken and the African mind be free
again
If Not
you
Have
Another
Opportunity
Paa Nabab Yaanwn
and free indeed is that the spiritual ignorance be destroyed by spiritual knowledge and overstanding, and the racial indifference be destroyed by racial knowledge and overstanding.
If God is personified he should be personified in your own image and likeness or
you risk becomming the slaves of others.
The Sun Cycle is upon us again and we the sun people must return to who and
what we are by nature. For the last 6000 years you the children of Africa have
been speel bounded.
The 24000 year cycle is made up of 2 sun cycles of 6000 years and 2 moon cycles
of 6000 years that is 4 equal time periods of 6000 years each, making 24000
years. The circumference of the planet is also 24000 miles, there is 24 hours in a
day and night. You have 24 colours of light, Pure gold is 24 Karats. Humans need
24000 genomes or chromosomes to sustain its life form as Cr24, Chromium.
You the wolly haired Melaninite children are the root race the first world race
Nagar-u “Negroids”, which all others have come.
You as a race was to accomplish and master the 24 accomplishments over the
past 24000 years is order to be welcomed home as part of the Galactic System
of Worlds. For the last 6000 years the children born under the moon cycle as
mankind ( a kind of a man) who by their nature was made to be a distraction
and have done just that, distracted the Nagar-u “Negroids” with a spell ofmental sleep.
Now the 6000 year moon cycle is over and we are beginning a new sun cycle
which is our time. Malachi 4 vs 1 -2 “For behold, the day is coming,
Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up, ”Says the Lord of hosts
“That will leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But to you who fear My name
The Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings;
And you shall go out And grow fat like stall-fed calves.
The Era of the Black Woman
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison (C) accepting the applause of partygoers Susan
Taylor, Rita Dove, Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis, Maya Angelou and others
From the moment they set foot on America’s shores, Black Women have contended with both racism and sexism. During their valiant struggles to succeed,
they’ve often scaled the walls of one, only to confront barriers caused by the
other. Presented here are just a few of the women who were groundbreaking
pioneers in a variety of fields. They have moved an abundant amount of barriers
in their quests to succeed.
Anna Tibaijuka is the highest ranked African female in the United
Nations, heading the UN-HABITAT program. She is a Swedisheducated, Tanzanian-born leader who has fought for the rights
of women living in slums or without homes. Since becoming the
Executive of UN-HABITAT, she has greatly increased its budget
and function in the United Nations.
Black women have overcome obstacles in the past and will continue to do so in
the future which will lead to everlasting opportunities of peace and happiness
for all.
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Giving Birth to New
Afrikan Global Creative
Thinkers and Activists
G
iven our Afrikan historical and contemporary
experiences, is it gloom and gloom? Is the success
of Supremacists’ ‘Master Plan’ inevitable? Are we
Afrikans so transparent and predictable that external
and internal ‘Master Planners’ are certain that their
plans for perpetual subjugations and caricature of
the Afrikan Race, will never be threatened, challenged, contained and defeated by Afrikans alongside our Time-tested Friends?
Can we not call on Serendipity to give us a fighting
chance?
Or, are we saying that we have no fight left, now
that most of our Big Warriors had gone on before
us? If this is true, what level of chattel slavery and
colonisation are we at? Was anti-slavery resistance
an illusion? Was anti-colonisation resistance an
illusion? Was anti-Jim Crow and the Civil Rights
Movement of the 1950s to the 1980s illusions? And
were the anti-apartheid movement and Afrikan liberation struggles illusions?
Were the Architects of the Institution of Chattel
Slavery equally confident that enslaved Afrikans
would lay down and suffer quietly? That JeanJacques Dessalines (20 September 1758-17 October
1806) and his resistance fighters would not be born?
Were the Architects of colonisation and imperialism
certain that the Afrikan woman would not give birth
to Marcus Mosiah Garvey (17 August 1887-10 June
1940), and his contemporaries?
Is it an illusion that Martin Luther King Jr (15 January 1929-4 April 1968) and his contemporaries;
Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909-27 April
1972) and his contemporaries; Winnie MadikizelaMandela (26 Sep 1936-) and her contemporaries
would not be born, grew to consciousness, flowered, challenged injustices, untruths, oppressions
and the gatekeepers of the same, defeated it and
them and carved permanent and expanding gashes
in the Disagreeables’ perfect plans for Afrikans?
The individual ruins mostly consist of stone circles.
Most have been buried in the sand and are only
observable by satellite or aircraft. Some have been
exposed when the changing climate has blown the
sand away, revealing the walls and foundations.
The area is significant for one striking thing -- gold.
“The thousands of ancient gold mines discovered
over the past 500 years, points to a vanished civilization that lived and dug for gold in this part of the
world for thousands of years,” says Tellinger. “And
if this is in fact the cradle of humankind, we may
be looking at the activities of the oldest civilization
on Earth.” Defeatism is not an option for liberation
torch bearers, freedom lovers, truth and justice seekers. A narrative which ignored the history and gains
of the Afrikans, even from 243BC to the present
day, is one which has fundamental and pathological
flaws.
“Without a struggle, there can be no progress…
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced,
where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is
made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy
to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe,” Frederick Douglas
(14.2.1817-20.2.1895).
Those of us who believe we are too old in thought
and spirit to stand up, respond and adhered to our
generational sacred struggles for global self-determination, working shoulder to shoulder with other
freedom lovers, justice and truth seekers, should
cash in our tickets. Challenging wrongs is no place
for the weak hearted.
It is recognised that we are on a geo-political rotating platform, where global players are positioning
and repositioning themselves, for greater influences.
To be a player, we must be equipped mentally, first
and foremost, not with sentiments and self-loathing,
but with self-confidence, dignity, self-esteem, and
courage, sense of direction, purpose and appropriate
expertise.
We must set and navigate steadfastly on a course to
retrieve Afrikan global self-identity and upliftment,
moulded within the spirit of self-help – that is, to
Share, Warn, Encourage and Protect (SWEP), in
times of plenty and times of scarcity, rejecting mendacity, larceny and slothfulness. A clear focus on our
Afrikan Self, and release our ancient and current
divinity, strengths and resilience from within, in the
twenty first century and beyond.
Mindful of our current global Afrikan conditions, it
is self-evident that if we really want to progress, we
must build collective strategies, culturally sensitive,
based on our known needs.
We must work collectively, from the family
units, the gangs, the clubs, the faith groups,
political groups, the unions, neighbourhoods,
districts, villages, the arm forces, cities and
nations, based on what they have to offer
and bring to the table, to build strong, effective, productive, lasting, connecting, tolerant,
meaningful, cultural and artistic platforms in
our individual countries, linking to, and radiating from Afrika and Afrika’s Diasporas.
Blossom where it will, promote peace, goodwill, the Afrikan Global Personality and
invoke collective pride, self-confidence and
self-esteem, which, for many, laid dormant
for centuries. Create the basis for spiritual
and secular renewal, including wealth creations, fair distributions and well-being, for
every Afrikan man, woman and child, irrespective of geographical locations.
Within Our Afrikan Family, like all families,
we should expect sibling disagreements, envies, jalousies, selfishness and fights among
themselves from time to time. Yet we are
family. These actual and potential behaviours
are natural progressions, which should be
expected and not blown out of proportions.
Long period of poverty and oppressions
caused many of us to behave unnaturally to
others and ourselves. Living Afrikans do not
claim sainthoods. We have human attributes
which must be recognised and managed effectively.
Historically, things had changed and are
changing, because we worked, and are working, collectively to changing them. The scales
from our Afrikan Eye are falling away rapidly. To some of us, they are already gone. WE
are learning to see again. We are not and must
not be afraid of the future.
We are giving birth to ‘New Afrikan global
creative thinkers and activists‘, who are
mentally equipped and being conscious of
the necessity for Afrikan global leaderships,
in a highly scientifically and technologically
advanced and driven world, venturing on the
cutting edge of space travel and explorations.
No race is more worthy than our own Afrikan
Race, for active participations in this type of
global leaderships.
Afrika and Afrikans will not be united by
wishful thinking or by mere slogans. Unity
in diversity will come only from clear, feasible, protracted and structural plans, flexible
enough of being able to adjust and retain
original high principles, during variety of
circumstances and challenges. No ideology
is static and sacred, whereby it cannot be adjusted to accommodate current core needs.
Predators will always be on the prowl among
us. And so, we must be prepared, be sure and
steadfast in our resolve. Ours is not about
vengeance. We must put aside complaint
culture. We need not remind one another
about our daily experiences. We know what
they are. Because they are our experiences.
And for our children, we must teach them our
undistorted and undiluted history, for their
fortress, wellbeing and enlightenment.
We need to direct our energy of complaints into organising structural development. ‘Build fast or be destroyed fast. In
the process, we will experience and witness
casualties falling among us, sometimes very
close to us. But we must put aside ‘knee jerk’
reactions to these natural occurrences, the
consequences for affecting material changes
to current status quo.
Claude McKay (15 September 1889-22 May
1948), in his iconic poem, ‘If we must die’,
reminded us about the history of struggles,
whatever our cultural heritage. Afrikans do
not have a monopoly on human sufferings
and resistance, in the process of upholding
truths and rights. Struggles demand sacrifices
at various levels. Equally, there are various
levels of strengths among us. We should not
be disillusioned when we observed ‘misleaders’ betraying their publicly stated Afrikan
Cause. Like courage, betrayal is also part of
struggles.
Modern Afrikans approach for bringing about
change must be ‘revolutionary’ in scope,
depth, application and deeds, driven by need,
consensus, tolerance,
respect for self and for others, and not necessarily
associate with grotesque violence, blood lettings
and destructions of people and property.
The knowledge and mastery of science and
technology must be essential tools to progress
our Afrikan revolution for change, underpinned
strongly by solution focus strategies.
Some speak of those who are ‘dying for their
cause’. WE speak of ‘living’ for Our Cause. Afrikans been dying at the hands of others and
ourselves, including foreign wars. Now is the
time for us to make our strong and irrevocable
demands accordingly.
Editorial Collective
Self-Help News – “Giving Voice to the Voiceless”
Africans Return To Glory!
Capturing Hearts & Minds through the inspiration received
from and knowledge contained in Return To Glory (RTG) resources (film, book, etc.). A combined strategic focus on this
step, will allow RTG to be even more deliberate in achieving
its goal of changing the distorted image of Black people by
starting from their ancient beginnings instead of the trtionalstarting points of slavery, colonization or apartheid.
Proving the Point with documents and artifacts. Verification
of the history will be established through the exhibition of
historical documents and artifacts from The Freeman Institute Black History collection and also from local residents,
representing the respective community in which the Black
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Affecting Change & Future Life Goals is realized through
partnerships with national and community-based service
organizations with missions to impact behavior and alter
life outcomes. The Foundation’s desire is to assist by providing resources to help facilitate the kind of lasting change that
will help individuals realize their true potential, regardless of
race, gender or generation. The RTG film will be shown every
hour on the hour in every gallery, in the language specific to
that region of the world -- French, Portuguese, Spanish or
English.
Return to Glory will challenge everything you were ever taught about
human history
Beginning with a careful documentation of the ways God entrusted people
of African descent with the initial
development of civilized societies, Return to Glory then directs its readers
on a magnificent tour of life in America through the triumphant stories of
contemporary African-Americans.
These pages are filled with the glorious
contributions to the development and
enhancement of world culture by the
black race.
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