Wisdom vs. Foolishness
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Wisdom vs. Foolishness
“People do not
take you seriously if you do not take yourself seriously”- Dr. Naim Akbar
In his book
Chains and Images of Psychological
Slavery Dr. Na’im Akbar addresses the continuing after effects of African
enslavement and the deleterious impact the Western desecration/dehumanization
process has had on African people. In the section called Psychological Legacy
of Slavery, Dr Akbar examines various aspects of the enslavement ethos and
resulting pathologies they generate even to this day.
One
maladaptive response to oppression and enslavement is that of “the clown”. He
says, “It is easy to observe that man exalts in his superiority over lower
animals by teaching them to do tricks and being entertained by those tricks. In
much the same way the slave owner prided himself in his superiority by being
entertained by the slave…Using a person for your clown has always been one of
he major ways to assert your dominance over a person.” Page 18
While Dr,
Akbar raises salient points when he discusses the enslavers’ attacks on
resistance and righteous black leadership to keep us subservient and passive, I
want to focus on the clowning of our people, reducing us to buffoons and
caricatures of our divine selves.
To be
successful enslavers must beak our spirits to discourage any attempts at
rebellion, liberation, self and group restoration and transformation. One of the
ways they do it is by openly rewarding behaviors that maintain their illusion
of superiority, promotes our inferiority and stifles any attempts at obliterating
the existing power advantage enjoyed by the enslavers.
This is why they denigrate our heroes like Nat
Turner, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Noble Drew Ali and Elijah Muhammad and revise or trivialize
the accomplishments of people like Ida B Wells, Martin Luther King Jr and
Malcolm X.
Today our modern
enslavers, our psychological jailors reward “entertainers” who push the
envelop, by acting more ratchet, profane and ignant while the system makes sure
conscious artists struggle to get exposure. On the other hand we see them
rewarding Blacks who openly work to maintain white domination and empire over
their own people and the world.
In this
Eurocentric social/political milieu we have been conditioned to believe the
only way to “succeed” is to emulate Europeans, in other words don’t be who the
CREATOR made you, be a fake and a fraud. This process leads to psychological distress,
self-debasement and is expressed in the myriad maladaptive responses to
oppression and the menticide we see in
our communities and around the world.
Being
divine souls we do have a choice; we can continue to be the white man’s clowns
and lackeys or we can resist and return to our ancient African wisdom and apply
our wisdom teachings that are thousands of years old. We can hold fast to the
ancient admonition “Know Thyself” and begin the journey of self-discovery, re-Africanization,
self- actualization, self and community repair.
African
people have always valued wisdom; which has nothing to do with formal education
(indoctrination). Our transplanted ancestors who were denied formal education
here called wisdom “mother wit”. In Africa we
had long traditions of cultivating, rewarding and celebrating wisdom, good
character and righteousness and leaving a legacy promoting those virtues. The
oldest writings in the world addressing and promoting good character are found
in the African Nile Valley’s
Teaching of Ptahhotep, The Book of Coming Forth By Day and the Book of
Creations. In the Nile
Valley writing, Mdw Ntr (what
the ignorant Greeks called hieroglyphics), was considered sacred, a means of
cultivating good character and godliness.
Africans throughout the continent also used oral instruction as a means
to inculcate and cultivate wisdom and good character. Fables, parables and
stories were used to teach valuable lessons, stimulate wisdom, good character
and social harmony. Anansi the spider was a common story telling character in West Africa.
Let us return to valuing wisdom and
good character and abstain from foolishness and the cultural treachery that
dishonors us and our ancestors.
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Profundity vs Profanity
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Profundity vs. Profanity
Profundity: A
statement or idea that shows great knowledge or insight.
Profanity: showing
no respect for a god or a religion, especially through language 2. an offensive
or obscene word or phrase:
We find
ourselves in a protracted life and death struggle grappling with a massive mind
control and socialization infrastructure designed to destroy our minds, further
desecrate us as spiritual being of African descent, dehumanize us and recast us
as fiendish caricatures created by psychopaths. Every day we are confronted
with a challenge: being our true profound selves or being profane buffoons and
degenerates. Because we do not know our history, who we are, what our ancestors
accomplished before the coming of the invaders, we know nothing of our people’s
resilience, resourcefulness and strength in the face of centuries of ruthless
relentless assault, degradation and oppression and our acquiescence to the
psychological domination of the oppressor we are rapidly allowing them to
reshape our consciousness and behavior.
We are the
victims of societal and institutionally induced amnesia and psychosis; what
Edward Wilmot Blyden called the “slavery of the mind”, Dr. W.E.B. Dubois called
it “the double consciousness”, Dr. Bobby Wright called it “menticide” and Dr
Amos N. Wilson referred to as the falsification of African consciousness.
Every day we see our maladaptive responses to
this amnesia/psychosis in our collective disunity, our failure to act based
upon our enemies overt and covert assaults on our being; but more importantly
we have abandoned our eons old history and pattern of what our venerated
warrior scholar/ancestor Mzee Jedi Shemsu Jehewty, (Dr. Jacob H. Carruthers)
called African Deep Thought.
Africans created and developed philosophies,
cosmologies, strategies for living, human organization and governance thousand
of years before there were Europeans. Ancient Africans postulated the nature of
the universe, the nature of being even down to the mundane aspects of living in
harmony with the environment and society. Africans understood the power of
sounds, words, language and speech. To them speech was divine part of our
innate spiritual being.
Our only
hope to save the planet, ourselves and humanity is returning to our ancient ways,
the process the Akan people of West Africa
call Sankofa
“to go back and fetch”. What does that mean? It means to rediscover our
history, our legacy and our traditions. It means to relearn and reconnect with
our ancient wisdom and power. We have to return to seeing ourselves as
offshoots of the CREATOR with latent skills, powers and an unbreakable
link/connection to the UNIVERSE. We have to rediscover what it really means to
be in the image of God. We must relearn what Ubuntu and Ma’at mean;
those profound ideas about being and living that are thousands of years old.
All
indigenous African people have a rich legacy of spiritual awareness,
metaphysics and practical application of our ancient wisdom and knowledge. One
of the oldest and rudimentary notions of ancient Kemet (Egypt) was the divinity
of man, the need and responsibility of society to teach, cultivate and
actualize the essence of our inner self. The so called coffin texts and the Kemetian
Mystery System reiterate this notion of godly potential and possibilities. (Read
Stolen Legacy by George G.M. James, The Book of Coming Forth By Day interpreted
by Maulana Karenga, Mdw Nter Divine
Speech by Jacob H. Carruthers, Nuk
Au Neter by Ra Un Nefer Amen and A
Life Centered Life Living MAAT by Rkhty Amen to grasp how deep our African
ancestors were/are)
Cultivating
our divine potential is a profound idea. These ideas seem strange and
blasphemous to people indoctrinated into Eurocentric religious, cultural and
historical beliefs; nevertheless they are African and true. We must also
realize these ancient African ideas were plagiarized, distorted and perverted
by the Eurasians and used against us in their megalomaniacal quest for domination,
empire and hegemony whether they were Greeks, Persians, Romans, Arabs or
Europeans.
The
invaders, usurpers, occupiers and oppressors deliberately and forcibly
suppressed our profound knowledge and wisdom (spiritual science, mathematics,
philosophy, metaphysics and healing) and replaced them with aspiritual, profane
and distorted notions about the nature of the universe, man and the meaning of
life itself. The Eurasians never developed nor do they fully resonate with the
profound African concept of Ubuntu, “I
am because we are, we are because I am”. It means I exist because the universe
exists; the universe exists because I exist, we are one, inseparable and
interdependent.
The Europeans’ alienated notions of
self are best summarized in the adage “I think therefore I am”. Once their
barbarian minds could grasp a limited comprehension of African profundity (for
example the principles of energy making up matter and the power of vibration)
they began using them against us and the planet. The Eurasian ruling class can fathom neither
Ma’at, nor Mdw Nter (Divine Speech) so chaos, violence, war, disruption, lies
and deceit form the ethos of their tribal culture and their driving MO for cultural
imperialism. Their language reeks of
violence and domination.
To save ourselves and the world we
have to return to our African Deep Thought, African profundity. We must reject
our oppressors’ profane, vulgar values and anti-life “lifestyles”. It all comes
down to profundity vs. profanity.
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Nation Wide US Prison Strike
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Nation Wide Prison Strike
While the
corporate media is fixated on the bogus “Russia Did It” meme, the daily craziness
within the Trump administration and the latest celebrity doings, a national
strike is being totally ignored. The prison strike was called following the
deaths of seven inmates at the Lee “Correctional” Institution in South Carolina that also
left numerous inmates injured. Inmates at the Lee “Correctional” Institution
reached out to inmates around the country calling for the organization of a
nation wide prison strike to call attention to the horrific conditions in the US gulag
system.
Contrary to
popular misconception, prisons are not about rehabilitation, corrections or
punishment; they are about social control and forced labor! Prisons have a
sordid history in the formation of this country as many “colonists” were
released from British prisons and sent to “the
New World”
to toil to enrich the monarchs and trading company partners and shareholders.
“
The British
were noted for transported prisoners out of England to be made to work at their
numerous colonies. From 1615 to 1870, more than 200,000 criminals were
conditionally pardoned, exiled, and transported to penal colonies. Before 1775,
more than 50,000 prisoners were sent to America—primarily
to Virginia and Maryland. With the American Revolutionary
War, then from 1788 to 1869, more than 160,000 prisoners were sent to the
British Colony of Australia.” https://www.familytree.com/blog/british-convicts-in-american-colonies/
The British ruling class passed laws designed to create
“criminals” they could then use to do their bidding. They passed the so called
“enclosure laws” to clear and isolate land specifically for sheep growing. “As historian Howard Zinn
wrote, ‘the development of commerce and capitalism in the 1500s and 1600s, the
enclosing of land for the production of wool, filled the cities with vagabond
poor.’ England dealt with the crisis much like contemporary America
deals with our similar crisis of poverty, hunger, unemployment, and
homelessness: by criminalizing the poor. In other words, making the conditions
and social realities of poverty illegal in order to get people off the streets
and warehoused in jails and poorhouses. Beginning in the mid-1550s, increasing
numbers of laws were passed making it illegal for people to do much of what
poor people generally did to survive. It became illegal to beg, it
became illegal to sleep in the open (in other words, to be homeless), it became
illegal to be ‘Minstrells wandring abroade,’ it even became illegal for ‘comon
Labourers’ to refuse employment or to loiter while unemployed. In fact, a new
category of criminal was created to deal with poor people: ‘rogues’ and
‘vagabonds’ If you were a woman, you ran the risk of all of the above plus
being charged with ‘loose morals,’ especially if you were raped or accused of
prostitution. And if you became pregnant without being married, you were arrested
because having a child ‘out of wedlock’ was against the law, though only for
the woman, not the man. In 1606, while all these ‘vagabonds,’ and ‘rogues,’ and homeless
unemployed peasants were being imprisoned in increasingly overcrowded prisons
and poorhouses, the new English colony of Virginia was established by the Virginia Company. But
the company soon found they were having difficulty convincing people to sink
their money into ship passage that equaled roughly half the average person’s
annual income in order to work in a mosquito-ridden swamp. And the living
conditions, according to economist
David
Galenson, were primitive camps under ‘quasi-military conditions’
with a ‘high rate of mortality and scanty food.’ What was worse, by 1612, the
company’s colonial governor began dealing out harsh punishment for the workers
who ran away and were recaptured. According to company documents: ‘Some he
apointed to be hanged Some burned Some to be broken upon wheles, others to be
staked and some to be shott to death.’ Hardly the best way to attract paying
‘investors’ in your swampland-in-Virginia scheme.” Indentured Servitude and the
Prison Industrial Complex
http://decolonizingourhistory.com/histories-2/indentured-servitude/indentured-servitude-really-in-depth/
Thus the
British poverty to prison pipeline was established and this system spread when
the Anglo Saxons invaded and occupied Ireland and the other isles. They
firmly relocated this system in the “New World”
colonies but had difficulty recouping their investment (the real reason for
trading company colonization) because the whites were unproductive and physically
too weak to survive the harsh conditions; so Africans were imported and British
(and European) profitability skyrocketed!
Conditions in US prisons have always been
deplorable and this trend has escalated with the advent of private for profit
prisons as numerous investigations and reports have revealed. http://theconversation.com/whats-hidden-behind-the-walls-of-americas-prisons-77282
This is why
prisoners are engaged in a national prison strike. No nation on earth; not
China not
Russia
imprisons more of its “citizens’ than the
United States! Race and class are
key determinants in who goes to prison.
https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/un-report-on-racial-disparities/.
Violence and brutality have always been endemic within the
US colonial and
national penal system and that tradition continues unabated today.
The War Going On All Around Us
From The Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The War Going On Around Us
“The
civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately and do not
intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and
enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they
decide that their ‘vital interests’ are menaced and think nothing of torturing
a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of
the ‘sanctity’ of human life or the ‘conscience’ of the civilized world”
James Baldwin
We are in a protracted struggle
for the survival and wellbeing of every person on this planet and the very life/survival
of the planet itself. Because of the effectiveness of the mind control, mind
entrainment, programming and socializing apparatus of the psychopathic ruling
class (the real enemies of the world) most of us don’t realize we are in a war nor
that we are their prey. The megalomaniacal psychopaths hell-bent on owning and
controlling the world are unredeemably wicked. They do not value life on any
level except their own. They have a disregard for human, plant and animal life and
are propagating a global agenda of depopulation, terraforming, subjugation and
domination to transform the world into a hellish nightmare.
The Matrix films offer a look
into the dystopian world the 1% is working feverishly to bring about, a world
where soulless cold blooded algorithms, artificial intelligence, perverse
technologies designed to alter the natural order are created, programmed and
let loose on a duped and unsuspecting society. These technologies will change
the world and enslave us all in a nightmare so horrific it will make the zombie
movies and the Walking Dead TV series seem like upbeat fairy tales. Alas, there
is no red pill we can take to wake us up; we have to do this on our own!
Of course for public consumption,
the ruling elites couch their plans and agenda in terms of improvement and ways
that will make life better as opposed to their real programs of murder,
genocide and enslavement. The key to
their success is to treat us like mushrooms, kept in the dark and feed cow
dung, so we have no idea what they are doing to us or how diabolical their
agenda really is.
In addition to distracting us with inane
frivolities, fake news, and disinformation, we are being conditioned and
programmed to be devoid of empathy, desensitized and oblivious to the suffering
the vampires are wrecking on the planet in pursuit of their gluttonous agenda. To
succeed they must cause the vast majority of humanity to ignore our spiritual
core and turn away from eons of cooperation, close knit families, communal and
collective organization. The corporate media which is owned by a handful of
multinational conglomerates https://www.morriscreative.com/6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america/
promote dysfunction, conflict, profanity and vulgarity, violence, greed,
selfishness and alienation under the guise of information, entertainment and
“being hip”. Celebrities and role models are created to mesmerize the masses
who foolishly imitate what they see them doing and the media reinforces these
values and behaviors so we become even more detached from our inner selves,
each other and reality.
The gadgets and gizmos we are brainwashed to buy
and use are designed to take us further into the abyss of their phony “virtual
reality”, created and controlled by those who hate us and want to further
enslave us. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/your-smartphone-is-making-you-stupid/article37511900/
All these things are in plain sight if you are open and aware. But the goal of
the 1% is to keep us comatose, brain-dead and so distracted and afraid we don’t
see it for what it really is.
How can we save ourselves and the planet?
First we have to believe we can do it, that we can win. The 1% promotes
disempowerment, division, passivity and conformity, divide and rule. Their
institutions teach us, “you can’t fight city hall”, “resistance is futile” but
we have seen in our life time victory is possible. The Occupy Wall Street
movement woke people up, that’s why Obama and the 1% shut it down! Black Lives
Matter energized the younger generation but we must go deeper and expand it on
a spiritual level!
The key to our survival is to
learn to truly love ourselves, then relearn and return to our African roots of Ubuntu
and Ma’at. At their core,
Ubuntu and Ma’at are spiritual concepts that naturally resonate in our inner
being: “I am because we are” and Ma’at stands for/symbolizes DIVINE ORDER,
TRUTH, HARMONY, BALANCE, JUSTICE, RIGHTEOUSNESS and RECIPROSITY. Ubuntu and
Ma’at are inherent in the UINVERSE and their energy and vibration are all around
us. We must embrace them because they are what we need to survive. We merely
have to tune into their omnipresent frequency through disciplined inner
listening, implement and actualize them in our daily lives. The return to the
aboriginal and indigenous ways of our ancestors is our only chance to survive.
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