Where Do We Go From Here, What Do We Do Next?
Where Do We Go From Here, What Do We Do Now?
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
“Sankofa is a realization of self and spirit. It represents
the concepts of self-identity, redefinition and vision. It symbolizes an
understanding of one’s destiny and the collective identity of the larger
cultural group. Sankofa is the repossession of something that was forgotten and
the initiation of a process to return to the place where the object was lost in
order to ‘to fetch it’ and ‘then move forward’ into the future.” The Adinkra Dictionary A Visual Primer on
the Language of Adinkra by W. Bruce Willispage189
During the past few weeks for Black History Month 2023 I have shared
books titles I believe can help us to know and celebrate our greatness as a
people, understand our current predicament and how we arrived here. These lists
are by no mean exhaustive all encompassing or complete. They are merely a few
books I believe we should familiarize ourselves with as we go forward, because
our objective is to always go forward! By going forward I mean growing becoming
mature, transforming ourselves and moving beyond the stultifying and degrading
status we find ourselves due to mental and socio-economic colonization and
oppression.
This week I will offer a list of
books to help us begin the process of Sankofa,
meaning going back to bring forth that which was lost, misplaced or stolen. For
us Sankofa is a process of
transformation, doing the mental alchemy that will burn off the accumulated
dross and dregs of Western mental slavery, materialism and ego so we can reveal
the refined inner gold of redemption, transformation, self-actualization and
true freedom. This is a spiritual and psychological process which leads to a
complete change, a metamorphosis of being and doing in the world. If we are to
save ourselves and the world we must become different, new more enlightened. Another
word for this process is Metanoia; this a Greek word the early Western Gnostics and Christian theologians translated as
“repent” meaning a thorough change or renewal of one’s mind, truly being born
again.
Sankofa requires going beyond merely proclaiming or coloring
oneself Black or Brown, merely wearing African garb; it is an inner process
necessitating arduous effort and commitment. The current world is in thorough collapse:
moral, economic and social, so it behooves us not to go down with it into
complete depravity and chaos. In keeping with this notion of Sankofa I am offering another short list of books I believe will help in the
transformation process:
The Metu Neter series or anything by Ra Un Nefer Amen published by
Khamit Corporation
THE SANKOFA MOVEMENT REAFRIKANIZATION THE REALITY OF WAR by Kwame
Agyei and Akua Nson Akoto ISBN 0-963588-84-2
Light from Ancient Africa by Na’im
Akbar PhD. ISBN: 0-935275-02-0
RETURN TO THE AFRICAN MOTHER PRINCIPLE OF MALE AND FEMALE EQUALITY
Volume 1 by Oba T’Shaka ISBN: 9-781878-557094
NYANSASEM A CALENDAR OF REVOLUTIONARY DAILY THOUGHTS by Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
Blueprint For Black Power A Moral, Political and Economic Imperative
for the Twenty-First Century by Amos N. Wilson
ISBN: 1-879164-06-X
Countering The Conspiracy To Destroy Black Boys Vol 1 and 2 by
Jawanza Kunjufu ISBN: 0-913543-00-4, ISBN: 0-913543-03-9
Paradigm Shift the Next Empowering Pathway for Afri-Amer Development by
Keidi Obi Awadu ISBN: 9-798481-263908
Living Suprfood Recipes, Medicine Has Never Tasted Like This Before by
Keidi Obi Awadu
MAAT PHILOSOPHY vs FASCISM AND THE POLICE STATE Understanding why
Modern Society does not Experience the Peace and Prosperity of Ancient Egypt
and How To Discover the Pathway to Freedom, True Law and Order and Spiritual
Enlightenment by D. Muat Ashby ISBN:
978-1-884564-87-1
Ra Sekhi Kemetic Reiki Level
One and Level Two Rekhit Kajara Nia Yaa Nebthet ISBN: 9-781478-172406, ISBN:9-781490-344768
I hope these lists of books will reignite
the desire for knowledge and wisdom we so desperately need to begin the process
of self and group transformation. As we celebrate Black History Month 2023, my
desire is we use this time to begin the serious work of healing and saving
ourselves, that we unite with like minded seekers to form intellectual and
spiritual Maroon Communities, to become the catalysts for redemption.
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We Need to Know
We Need To Know
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
“When African peoples reunite with African history and
culture, solutions to the other problems will be possible. The point to
emphasize here is that the victory will occur when and only when African
teachers (the Mwalimu) who have drunk deeply from the deep well of African
heritage, take over the preservation, cultivation, reconstruction and
dissemination of African culture as the vital core of African Education. This
is the project that was pioneered by Bookman, Jean Jacques Dessalines, Prince
Hall. P.V. Vastey, Prince Sanders, David Walker, Hosea Easton,
Henry Highland Garnett and Martin Delaney.
This is the project that launched the Study of Classical African Civilizations
(ASCAC).” Mzee Jedi Shemsu Jehewty (Jacob H. Carruthers) Intellectual Warfare page 4
Last week I
shared a few book titles and authors that I believe provide a solid foundation
in the study and comprehending the praiseworthy place of Africa
and Africans in human history. It is crucial for us to study, learn and know
our history. It is said a people without knowledge of their history is like a
tree without roots. This is an apt analogy. A tree without roots cannot live,
it cannot remain stationary, anchored in the soil, it has no access to life giving
water and nutrients and subsequently cannot fulfill its symbiotic relationship
to its surroundings. It cannot hold the soil to prevent it from eroding and being
washed away, broken up and blown by the winds. It cannot reproduce its kind,
contribute and share in the abundance of nature.
In many ways people of African heritage today
are like trees without roots because we lack a history/knowledge of self. As a
result we are unable to fulfill the great axiom, “Know Thyself”. We lack knowledge of self because our enemies
and we do have enemies, have determined to totally defeat and debase us.
Our adversaries have maneuvered us
into positions of impotent subservience, dependency, lethargy, apathy,
listlessness and they control our consciousness and behaviors. We find
ourselves in a protracted struggle for our mind, soul and body but we have come
to accept being under attack, suffering humongous casualties and defeat as
normal! We are suffering oppression fatigue or what is also called racial
battle fatigue so intense we don’t even realize we are in a war!
In the modern world mind control is
dominant, in addition to the use of fear, propaganda and debilitating psychological
techniques our enemies use food poisoning, ecocide, drugs and alcohol and
advanced technology to dumb us down and keep us as Malcolm X said, “hoodwinked
and bamboozled.”
It is not the duty, obligation or
responsibility of our adversaries to fully educate us, to teach us who we are
and what our place in the world is. Only we can effectively do this. Yes others
can train us, indoctrinate us, miseducate us and fool us. This is what has
happened for centuries to Africa and Africans; invaders came into Africa shut
down our temples of knowledge, destroyed our institutions, disrupted our social
and cultural infrastructures turned our world upside down rendering us confused
and impotent. This is why we see so much psychological dysfunction and
maladaptive behavior everywhere African people are colonized, oppressed and
subjugated to foreign hegemony.
History is not the study, remembrance and
regurgitation of dates and names; it is analysis, it is discerning
relationships and examining the nexus between causes and events, the how and
why of things. History helps us discern patterns and thereby anticipate current
and future events. History helps us learn from our mistakes, errors and our missteps, it teaches us how to build upon
our successes and triumphs. With this being Black History Month and in keeping with last week’s list of
resources; this week I am sharing a short list of books I believe will help us
fully gasp our situation, offer solutions and ways to positively enhance our
position in our ongoing reality/struggle. My hope is this short list which is a
mere smidgeon of the wealth and knowledge available to us will be useful and
beneficial as we celebrate Black History everyday and resolve to use our great
history to transcend our current predicament and become all THE CREATOR intends
for us to be.
Before The Mayflower A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr
ISBN:0-1401-7822 8
In The Matter of Color Race and the American Legal Process The Colonial
Period by A. Leon Higginbotham Jr ISBN: 0-19-502745-0
Shades of Freedom Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American
Legal Process A Leon Higginbotham Jr ISBN: 0-19-503822-3
Criminalizing A Race Free Blacks During Slavery by Charshee C.L.
McIntyre ISBN: 1-879831-08-2
The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by
Michelle Alexander ISBN: 978-1-59558-103-7
The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James ISBN: 0-679-72467-2
Race and Culture Contacts in the Modern World by E. Franklin
Frazier ISBN: 8070-0291-7
Should America
Pay? Slavery and The Raging Debate on Reparations Edited by Raymond A.
Winbush, PhD. ISBN: 0-06-008310-7
Black Labor White Wealth by Claude Anderson ISBN: 187864714-8
Black Reconstruction in America
by W.E.B. DuBois US Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 64-15324
The Miseducation of The Negro by Carter G. Woodson ISBN:
0-86543-171-X
Black Bourgeoisie The Rise of a New Middle Class by E. Franklin
Frazier
ISBN: 0-02-910580-3
Afrikan People and European
Holidays: A Mental Genocide Books 1 and 2 by Ishakamusa Barashango IV
Dynasty Publishing
Message To The Black Man In America by Elijah Muhammad
The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness Eurocentric History,
Psychiatry and the Politics of White Supremacy by Amos Wilson ISBN1-879164-02-7
Brainwashed Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom
Burrell ISBN: 978-4019-2592-5
Black Holocaust 2000 by Del Jones ISBN: 0-9639995-5-9
Afrikan Struggle Inherited by Khabyr Hadas ISBN: 0-78824-401-8
The Crisis of The Negro Intellectual by Harold Cruse Library of
Congress Catalogue Card Number 67-25316
Intellectual Warfare by Jacob H. Carruthers ISBN: 088378180-8
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Black History 2023
Black History 2023
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
“Critical race
theory is an academic concept that is more than 40 years old. The core idea is
that race is a social construct, and that racism is not merely the product of
individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and
policies.” What is Critical Race Theory and Why Is It Under Attack by Stephen
Sawchuk https://www.edweek.org/leadership/what-is-critical-race-theory-and-why-is-it-under-attack/2021/05
As we acknowledge Black History
month in 2023 we need to recognize and internally address the escalating attacks
on scholarship, truth and the nexus between racial oppression and our miseducation.
The backlash against the 1619 Project
has been far reaching and deep. Recently Florida Governor Ron DeSantis rejected
the implementation of an advanced placement Black Studies program saying the
courses had a political agenda that he opposed.
I hate to break it to you but everything is political,
everything has an agenda. The issue/question is do we want power for ourselves,
do we have an agenda for the betterment of ourselves and our people, do we
really know and appreciate what education can do for us?
We cannot allow ourselves to get caught up in white folks’
paranoia, their delusions of power and domination. We need to know our own
history and we need to teach it from a perspective that edifies us, that’s what
other ethnic groups do, why not us?
The backlash
and ire over “critical race theory” is not our issue! So what if white folks
don’t like it, they didn’t like the ideas of emancipation, civil rights, Black
Power or Afrocentricity either.
We cannot allow others to dictate to us what we should know,
how we should see and feel about ourselves if we are to truly be free,
self-determined and intelligent people.
It is our responsibility to educate ourselves about our history and
place in the world. We cannot be worthy
participants at the table in a pluralistic multi-ethnic society if we do not
know who we are, what we have accomplished and what we can offer to the global collective!
Rather than debate
whether or not critical race theory is valid or not, whether it is political or
has an agenda, I’m going to offer a simple solution that is thousands of years
old which is; Know Thyself! This is
easier said than done, it requires arduous work and dedication, and perhaps
this is why so few of us attempt to do it or accomplish it.
Where do we begin? First we must have the desire to know
about ourselves and our people, our history and our place in the world. We must
hunger and thirst for it so much so we are willing to sacrifice our time effort
and energy to quench it.
There is an old axiom that says, “When the student is ready,
the teacher will appear”. Yeshua Bar Joseph the man the Europeans renamed Jesus
put it this way, “Seek and you will find, ask and it will be given to you, know
and the door will be opened.”
I have been on a personal and collective self-knowledge quest
for several decades. I am about to experience my seventy-fifth trip around the
son and I am still seeking, asking and knocking. I have found much, I have been
given much and many doors have been opened to me. I am extremely grateful for
it all.
As we celebrate Black History 2023 I am going to share just a
few sources from Black scholars and researchers I feel serious students of
African History should become familiar with. Keep in mind this is an extremely
short list of books but one I hope will serve as a catalyst for further
reading, research and discovery on your part, which will propel you to even
greater success in your quest. I heartily recommend these books on Global African
History and the African influence on the world plus as a bonus, here is a
Website I encourage you to visit frequently; http://www.realhistoryww.com:
When The World Was Black
The Untold History of The World’s First Civilizations Parts 1 and 2 by Supreme Understanding
ISBN: 978-1-935721-37-6. https://supremedesignonline.com
A History of African
Civilizations by Prof.
Manu Ampim ISBN:978-1-7336652-0-9
When We Ruled by Robin Walker ISBN: 978-1-58073-045-7
The World and Africa by W.E.B. DuBois ISBN:978-1-61427-875-7
Nile Valley
Contributions to Civilization by Anthony T. Browder ISBN:0-924944-03-X
The African Origin of
Civilization by Cheikh
Anta Diop ISBN: 1-55652-072-7
Wonderful Ethiopians Of The
Ancient Cushite Empire
by Drusilla Dunjee Houston Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 89-090991
The History of Africa The
Quest For Eternal Harmony by Molefi Kete Asante
ISBN: 9781138710375
The Destruction of Black
Civilization by
Chancellor Williams ISBN: 0-88378- 30-5
Origins: Timechart of
World Civilizations Wholistic Worldview of Cultures and Civilizations by O.K. Owusu ISBN:0-9640908-0-5
Stolen Legacy by George G.M. James ISBN:0-917138-09-1
The Journey Of The Songhai People Pan African Federation Organization ISBN: 1-880205-30-0
They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima ISBN: 0394402456
During Black History Month 2023 I will share additional resources
on topics of relevance to our reeducation and redemption.
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Here's Something Interesting
Here’s Something Interesting
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
As most of my regular readers
know, during the past three years I have been extremely skeptical of the COVID
narrative, essentially seeing it as a scam/scheme to: allow Big Pharma to make
billions of dollars profit off of poorly tested, unsafe mRNA concoctions, https://www.brecorder.com/news/40112298/pharmaceutical-firms-rake-in-billions-with-covid-jabs,
the media to gain further control of our
psyches for nefarious purposes, https://neulinehealth.com/how-social-media-affects-your-brain/#:~:text=Researchers%20believe%20that%20since%20social,brain%20associa
, governments to usurp more powers under the guise of public health/pandemic
mitigation https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/589248-coronavirus-v-government-overreach-which-is-worse/
and globalist plutocrats to implement their wicked agendas and attacks upon
humanity. https://www.theepochtimes.com/who-put-the-world-economic-forum-in-charge-of-everything_4982165.html?u
The media and government have waged relentless war
against us attempting to stifle all dissent, suppress true scientific discussion
and debate and they are literally driving us insane using fear and advanced
techniques of psychological warfare! https://unherd.com/2022/07/the-return-of-covid-fearmongering/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/interactive/the-biggest-psychological-experiment-in-history-is-running-now/.
These facts are indisputable and despite the censorship and propaganda,
each passing day skeptics like me are being proven correct in our assessments
of the situation!
Black
people in the US
and around the world have every reason to be skeptical and hesitant regarding
the West’s COVID remediation attempts given the long sordid nexus and history of
eugenics, population control, medicine and vaccines. What we are seeing and
experiencing now is extremely alarming: escalating all cause mortality and an
ever growing list of adverse reactions to the COVID jabs following the inject
roll outs in December of 2020; yet Big Pharma, the corporate mind control apparatus
and the governments continue to deny the existence of this humongous elephant
in the room and they keep pushing the jabs!
Here is something
interesting that flies in the face of the COVID “vaccine” propaganda; the
African continent has the lowest vaccine rates in the whole world and the
lowest incidence of COVID infection! “Part of the African continent’s success
is no doubt due to a fortunate accident of microbiology, infectious diseases,
pharmacology and immunology. It so happens that two of the most effective
treatments for COVID, ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, are also routine
prophylactic weekly medicines throughout equatorial Africa, because they happen
to be known for a half-century as the most effective, applicable and safest
anti-parasite medications. So the population,
particularly through about 31 countries, the tropical middle rectangle roughly,
of Africa already were well-equipped prior to
COVID events launching in late 2019 to early 2020. As fortune would have it,
the unpatented and relatively inexpensive half-century old drug Ivermectin,
whose inventors won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2015, also has been the
most effective medicine against COVID, due in part to its specific effect
against RNA transcriptase, as well as its blocking effect on all three parts of
the trimeric spike protein, and other mechanisms.” https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/africa-starkly-unvaccinated-and-starkly-unvanquished-covid#comment-stream
Are you getting the
significance of this? Our people in Africa
were wise enough to eschew the mRNA injections and it has paid off handsomely
in the lowest rates of infection and concomitant vaccine adverse effects! Righteous leaders like the late John Magufuli who
earned degrees in chemistry including a PhD, publicly exposed and ridiculed the
uselessness of the COVID tests led the way. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-tanzania/president-queries-tanzania-coronavirus-kits-after-goat-test
Many people believe he was killed because of it. He died suddenly and his
successor Samia Suluhu Hassana a Western lapdog, immediately reversed his
policies and pushed for injections (they are not vaccines in the original
definition and sense of the word!) https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=50886
Magufuli and other brave African leaders set the
tone for questioning, challenging and rejecting the West’s conclusions and
narratives about COVID and their mitigation therapies. “This is not
the first piece of evidence that Africa is
leading the world away from a microbial-pretext tyranny. Last
summer, Africa stood alone in being the continent, led by Botswana, to
pull the worlds’ people back from the precipice, while pushing the World Health
Organization (WHO) back from their attempted tyranny over all world
governments. This danger is by no means past, and new efforts for
WHO dominance over the world are ominously re-grouping at this time. Africa led the way and inspires the world. Are the
politicians and “public health experts” of the rest of the world humble enough
to admit their grotesque errors, even crimes, and to learn from the peoples of
the African nations, their experiences and lessons on handling a pandemic? Or
will ethnocentrism or a hostile and racist pride, or the sheer greed stimulated
by the lucrative COVIDmania boondoggle, prevent the rest of the world’s
willingness to learn from the African experience? Will such provincial
and purchased attitudes bury the 21st century’s most important lesson to date?”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/africa-starkly-unvaccinated-and-starkly-unvanquished-covid#comment-stream
Oh and by the way in case you think it was just a Black
thing, Sweden
rejected the farcical lockdowns and has shown that their approach fared better
than most of their European neighbors!
https://unherd.com/thepost/sweden-reaps-the-benefits-of-its-no-lockdown-policy/.
This is something interesting to
think about, good food for thought.
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