In The News...
In The News…
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
“The global oligarchy controls all of the major media. The
media mega-corporations own each others’ stock and in turn are owned and
controlled by an oligarchy of transnational corporations, international bankers
and European dynastic families.” https://beyondthemediamatrix.net
There are numerous events occurring
in the world today some are reported in the media while most others are not. We
are witnessing the rapid decline of the American Empire and its concomitant
metastasizing of immorality, decadence, social dissolution and fiscal collapse.
With such a wide spectrum of possibilities for news coverage we should ask
ourselves why is it all too often we only hear the same ol’ same ol’ tempered
by different talking heads, slight nuances in the details or differing
ideologies yet the underlying presumptions, values and worldviews are the same.
For example with the recent bank failures only a minuscule number of commentators,
pundits or “experts” are saying the system is broken, busted or in collapse,
the prevailing narrative is the “system is sound”.
I get it, the powers that be don’t
want to cause a panic or ignite runs on banks by exposing the cracks in the proverbial
dam. The cold hard fact is, their main motives are self-preservation, they want
to hold onto their wealth and assets and they don’t want to experience mobs
with pitchforks torches and ropes! So they use the media they own and control
to bamboozle us, treat us like mushrooms by keeping us in the dark (ignorance)
and feeding us cow manure (BS).
I’m going to share some examples of the cow
manure the media is flinging our way, not just about the banking crisis but
everyday events. Often events happen and the media totally ignores them. On
March 24 the Associated Press actually posted this story but the rest of the
lame stream media failed to put the story into its news rotation cycle! Here’s
an example: “NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Joe
Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against
COVID-19 has been blocked by a federal appeals court. The 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in New Orleans,
in a decision Thursday, rejected arguments that Biden, as the nation’s chief
executive, has the same authority as the CEO of a private corporation to
require that employees be vaccinated.
The ruling from the full appeals
court, 16 full-time judges at the time the case was argued, reversed an earlier
ruling by a three-judge 5th Circuit panel that had upheld the vaccination
requirement. Judge Andrew Oldham, nominated to the court by then-President
Donald Trump, wrote the opinion for a 10-member majority.
The ruling maintains the status quo
for federal employee vaccines. It upholds a preliminary injunction blocking the
mandate issued by a federal judge in January 2022. At that point, the
administration said nearly 98% of covered employees had been vaccinated.
And, Oldham noted, with the preliminary injunction arguments
done, the case will return to that court for further arguments, when “both
sides will have to grapple with the White House’s announcement that the COVID
emergency will finally end on May 11, 2023.” https://apnews.com/article/vaccine-requirement-biden-covid-fifth-circuit-74ae504966aaf5239a42cc3e677182b4
Notice the wording and phrasing, how
the AP tries to politicize the issue by pointing out which judges were appointed
by which presidents as if that mattered. The issue is the court struck down
Biden’s Executive Order; rightly so because the president has no constitutional
authority to force us to take any medication without our informed consent!
In other matters, the lame stream
media is ignoring the mounting evidence Big Pharma’s COVID injections were
never fully tested, the media ignores the debilitating side effects of the mRNA
COVID shots and hides the results that show the shots were unsafe. You will not
see stories like these in the corporate media: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/myocarditis-pfizer-covid-vaccine/
, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2788346,
We also need to know governments
and the plutocrats who control them are spending big money and exerting major
influence to censor, suppress and debunk (fact check?) everything that runs
counter to the narratives that promote their narrow interests, impact their
bottom lines and hegemony; whether its COVID, the economy, domestic or foreign
affairs.
It’s called the Censorship Industrial Complex, “The
censorship industrial complex is a network of ideologically-aligned
governmental, NGO, and academic institutions that discovered over the last few
years the power of censorship to protect their own interests against the
volatility and risks of the democratic process. They are not ‘defending
democracy,’ as they claim. Rather they are defending their own policy and
pecuniary interests against democracy.” The Censorship Industrial Complex -Testimony
by Michael Shellenberger to the House Select Committee on The Weaponization of
The Federal Government March 9, 2023 https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/shellenberger-testimony.pdf
Author and journalist Michael
Shellenberger told it like it is when he testified in Congress. https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/shellenberger-testimony.pdf Be aware and beware the “news” we are
subjected to is heavily filtered through class and ideological lens reflecting
the values, interests and agenda of the ruling classes. None of these
plutocrats are proponents of the democratic processes!
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Things Are Not What They Are Being Made Out To Be
Things Aren’t What They Are Made Out To Be
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
The shock waves from the failure of
several major US banks and the too big to fail Swiss bank Credit Suisse are still reverberating in the ethers as the
banksters, government leaders and the media try to trick us into believing “the
system is sound”. I get it, they don’t
want to create panic or more runs on banks, but come on it’s preposterous to
claim the system is sound! The system has not been sound since the 2008 financial
collapse.
Even with the government “bailouts” the system
was never made whole, the 2008 bailouts were the equivalent of putting a
band-aid on a severed limb! The bailout did not, I repeat did not, solve the root
causes of the problems within the global financial system which were the
trillions in shaky derivatives. “During
the financial crisis in 2008, the root cause of the meltdown was derivatives.
Specifically, CDOs, or Collateralized Debt Obligations related to mortgages and
CDSs, or Credit Default Swaps. Derivatives encompass a wide range of financial
products: futures contracts, interest rate swaps, options contracts, foreign
exchange contracts (currencies), etc. The explosive growth in derivative
contracts occurred after 1999 when the Glass-Steagall Act was repealed, which
allowed banks to operate as brokerage houses. Glass-Steagall, adopted in 1933,
separated brokerage houses and banks in order to ensure banks would no longer
be involved in risky transactions, which was the root cause of the crash
that led to the Depression.” The Root Cause of the 2008 Financial Meltdown: Derivatives https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/the-root-cause-of-the-2008-financial-meltdown-derivatives/
The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act by Congress in 1999 opened
the door for wholesale casino type Ponzi scheme exuberance far worse than what
took place in the 1920’s. Derivatives did not exist in the 1920’s! To fully
grasp what happened in 2008 read this article here, The Root Cause of the 2008 Financial Meltdown: Derivatives https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/the-root-cause-of-the-2008-financial-meltdown-derivatives/
“Folks, there are $305 TRILLIONlet me say it again $305
TRILLION in Derivatives floating around the top 25 holding companies out there.
The primary asset for these holding companies is either a bank or an insurance
company.The question is not will it happen again “ the question is WHEN it will
happen?
I am 99% confident it WILL happen again – I am
99% confident that the scale of the collapse will be MUCH LARGER than the most
recent collapse in 2008 “ and I am 99% confident we will be in FAR WORSE SHAPE
to deal with the collapse in light of the massive amounts of debt that
countries have accumulated during this most recent collapse.” ibid
When you see the risk figures in the trillions of dollars and
you realize the TARP bailouts were nowhere near this amount you realize bank
failures were bound to happen again especially
in an era of greed and hubris like we live in now. Keep in mind all the TARP
money, contrary to what we have been told, has not been paid back all these
years later! https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/list
The real problems is not the “pandemic” it is the banksters,
their fractional reserve where only a small amount of depositors’ money are
held by the banks while the rest is lent out at interest, it’s the quadrillions
in overleveraged derivatives, it’s massive debt, overpriced stocks, contagion
and most critically, the current polices of the Federal Reserve Bank to cool
down the inflation it has caused in recent years! https://news.stanford.edu/2022/09/06/what-causes-inflation/. All these factors are compounded by the
lies being told to hoodwink us into thinking this house of cards is safe and
sound. Alas the Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, First Republic
and Credit Suisse failures are harbingers of the tsunami of contagion heading
our way! There isn’t enough money in the FDIC, or in circulation to stave off a
major collapse! Plus bailouts have limits and pose risks and they don’t always
work. https://covid-19.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/vf54oo8p/release/1
The recent bank bailouts don’t bode well for the system even
though we are being told everything is fine, the system is sound. “Jamie Dimon, Jerome Powell and Janet
Yellen assembled the First-Republic deal. That cooperation between Fed,
Treasury and the CEO of JPMorgan to bring together major competitors to rescue
one of their own reminds me of how the original John Pierpont Morgan brought together a group of bankers who pooled their money prior to
the Great Depression to do this very same kind of thing. In that instance,
their concerted action was definitely to fend off a systemic crash that could
have hurt their own banks. An historically grand and unusual act like that now
makes me think the present was a systemic failure, though the former FDIC chair
initially assured us this was not.” https://thegreatrecession.info/blog/what-a-day-feds-skyrocketing-balance-sheet/
I
am not trying to cause a panic or bank runs; all I’m saying is like so many issues
in this country, things are not what they are being made out to be in this situation.
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International Criminal Court Hypocrisy and Mendacity
ICC Hypocrisy and Mendacity
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
“The
International Criminal Court allegedly issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin on Friday, supposedly for
trafficking children from Ukraine
to Russia.
However, since neither Ukraine
nor Russia are members of
the ICC (neither are the US,
Israel or China, incidentally), it is entirely performative and means
nothing. In fact, doing so on the anniversary of the Iraq invasion was likely designed
to prompt very intense discussion on Western hypocrisy.” https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/20/this-week-in-the-new-normal-58/
The
insanity escalates and is growing like a malignant cancer. On March 17, 2023
the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Russian President
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin for allegedly
transporting Ukrainian children to Russia. A news release regarding
the warrants states, “Today, 17 March
2023, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (‘ICC’ or ‘the
Court’) issued warrants of arrest for two individuals in the context of the
situation in Ukraine: Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Ms Maria Alekseyevna
Lvova-Belova. Mr Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, born on 7 October 1952,
President of the Russian Federation, is allegedly responsible for the war crime
of unlawful deportation of population (children) and that of unlawful transfer
of population (children) from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian
Federation (under articles 8(2)(a)(vii) and 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Rome Statute).
The crimes were allegedly committed in Ukrainian occupied territory at least
from 24 February 2022. There are reasonable grounds to believe that
Mr Putin bears individual criminal responsibility for the aforementioned
crimes, (i) for having committed the acts directly, jointly with others and/or
through others (article 25(3)(a) of the Rome Statute), and (ii) for his
failure to exercise control properly over civilian and military subordinates
who committed the acts, or allowed for their commission, and who were under his
effective authority and control, pursuant to superior responsibility (article
28(b) of the Rome Statute).” https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/situation-ukraine-icc-judges-issue-arrest-warrants-against-vladimir-vladimirovich-putin-and
As an observer one who seeks truth
amidst the deceit, lies and propaganda the International Criminal Court is at
best a sham. First of all the International Criminal Court does not represent
all the nations in the world. Only one hundred and twenty-three nations are
signatures and participate in the ICC which is located in The
Hague in the Netherlands.
https://asp.icc-cpi.int/states-parties Ukraine,
Russia, Israel, the United
States nor China are members of the ICC.
The recent action by the ICC may
not even be legal because according to the ICC’s Website a nation that is a
participant can be referred to the ICC for prosecution, “The ICC is only competent to hear a case if: the country
where the offence was committed is a party to the Rome Statute; or the
perpetrator's country of origin is a party to the Rome Statute. The ICC may
only exercise its jurisdiction if the national court is unable or unwilling to
do so. The ICC only has jurisdiction over offences committed after the
Statute’s entry into force on 1 July 2002.” https://www.government.nl/topics/international-peace-and-security/international-legal-order/the-international-criminal-court This is why the US has never been referred to
the ICC for its numerous crimes against humanity, it is not a member of the
ICC!
A nation
or case may also be referred to the ICC according to the ICC’s Website in these
situations: “Various parties have the right to refer a case to the ICC: any
State Party to the Rome Statute, irrespective of any involvement in the alleged
offence; the Prosecutor of the ICC; the United Nations Security Council.” https://www.government.nl/topics/international-peace-and-security/international-legal-order/the-international-criminal-court-i
Why am I
sharing this? Because the ICC warrant is meaningless since neither Ukraine nor Russia are signatures to the treaty
that created the ICC! This is pure theater, hokum, it is Western propaganda designed
to inflame public sentiment against Russia. In my opinion this propaganda
stunt is comparable to the PR campaign run by Hill and Knowlton that told the lie
Saddam Hussein’s army smashed babies’ heads who were in Kuwaiti incubators in a
hospital natal ward! https://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p25s02-cogn.html
It’s the same psychological con game. Don’t
fall for the okey-doke!
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There Is Nothing Hidden That Won't Be Revealed
There Is Nothing Hidden That Won’t Be Revealed
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
“The tragic failure of
reckless, unprecedented lockdowns that were contrary to established pandemic
science, and the added massive harms of those policies on children, the
elderly, and lower-income families, are indisputable and well-documented in numerous studies. This was
the biggest, the most tragic, and the most unethical breakdown of public health
leadership in modern history.” America’s
COVID Response Was Based On Lies- Dr Scott Atlas https://www.newsweek.com/america-covid-response-was-based-lies-opinion-1785177
I’m not one to toot my own horn and
say I told you so, but I told you so. In March of 2020 when the World Health
Organization first declared COVID-19 was a global health crisis I knew
something was fishy because at that point there had only been a few thousand
cases reported mostly in China
and Italy.
The WHO which at that time was funded mainly by the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation along with several governments and philanthropic organizations made
its declaration despite the fact there were only a few thousand cases of this
supposedly “novel” or new coronavirus on a planet of close to eight billion
people! Keep in mind a billion is a thousand millions so based on a relative
handful of “cases” most of whom were elderly with serious chronic comorbidities
the world was turned upside down, long standing accepted science and public
health measures became taboo and bizarre/insane policies were instituted based
on bogus mathematical predictions by so called “experts” that have since been
proven to be thoroughly inaccurate.
To add insult to injury, the
government in cahoots with the legacy/digital media and Big Pharma the least
trusted organizations in the US according to a 2019 Gallop Poll https://news.gallup.com/poll/266060/big-pharma-sinks-bottom-industry-rankings.aspx lied to us about a so called Warp Speed campaign to discover and
develop a vaccine to stop the spread. The truth is mRNA is not new. https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/the-long-history-of-mrna-vaccines , mRNA was already in existence for decades and
had been originally developed as a cancer treatment. mRNA proved unsuccessful
because during the lab trials most of the lab animals died! Let this sink in,
Big Pharma, the government and media lied and pushed already existing mRNA
concoctions as a new “safe and effective” treatment modality for COVID-19.
We’ve been duped as I warned three
years ago. The injections are not what we were told: they are not free (we pay
for them with our tax dollars at highly inflated prices) https://reliefweb.int/report/world/great-vaccine-robbery-pharmaceutical-corporations-charge-excessive-prices-covid-19
, they are not safe and they are not effective! https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-cdc-injuries-covid-vaccines-fda-pfizer-moderna-bosters/ Now the facts are gushing like an
overflowing river. Forced by the court to reveal their trial data, Pfizer is
being exposed as a ruthless, reckless irresponsible company that knew there
were problems with the testing of their COVID mRNA products and tried to
suppress the information! https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
The companies own officers and test results reveal they skipped and skimmed the
normal research methodologies. “In recent
months, no less than two Pfizer officials have bragged about moving vaccine
science forward at a speed that virtually guarantees that proper scientific
protocols will be abandoned. In early October, during a COVID-19 hearing in the European Parliament, Dutch
member Rob Roos questioned
Pfizer’s president of international developed markets, Janine Small, about
whether Pfizer had in fact tested and confirmed that their mRNA jab would
prevent transmission prior to its rollout. Small admitted that Pfizer never
tested whether their jab would prevent transmission because they had to ‘move
at the speed of science to understand what is happening in the market … and we
had to do everything at risk.’ Then, in November, recently retired head
of vaccine R&D at Pfizer, Kathrin Jansen, told an
interviewer that ‘we flew the aeroplane while we were still building it.’As
noted in that interview, Pfizer compressed its vaccine development timeline
from 10 years to a mere nine months. Well, you cannot do that unless you cut
certain corners and develop and test the product more or less simultaneously…Pfizer’s
primary focus was to create a shot that minimized the symptoms of infection,
but aside from that, there was no time to assess side effects or long-term
drawbacks of the technology, such as antibody-dependent enhancement, myocarditis or
spontaneous abortions. This is probably why Pfizer and the other COVID-19 jab
makers all decided to eliminate the control groups long before the studies were
even over. This way, side effects could be hidden, and we see the effects of
that decision now. Myocarditis, blood clots, lethal heart attacks,
strokes, cancer and sudden death are all skyrocketing, but since there’s no
official control group to compare with, those trends are written off as either
normal or coincidental.” COVID Vaccines Were A Shot in The Dark and The
Mortality Statistics Prove It- Dr.
Joseph Mercola https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccines-mortality-statistics-cola/
The government, Big Pharma
and the media are trying to minimize and trivialize the consequences of their criminal
behavior/liability. The bought and paid for “fact checkers” are trying to
debunk, obfuscate and suppress the facts, while search engines like Google,
Microsoft Bing and Yahoo employ algorithms to scrub and erase everything from
the Internet that contradicts the prevailing COVID narratives. However, as
Yeshua Ben Joseph said, “There is nothing hidden that won’t be revealed, there
is nothing whispered in the basement that will not be shouted from the
rooftops.” The truth is coming out!
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Black Women In The Haitian Revolution
Black Women In The Haitian Revolution
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
As we celebrate Women’s History Month there is not
enough time and space to share the brilliant and storied legacies of African
women (the true mothers of humanity and civilization) both on the continent and
throughout the Diaspora. Since the Great Maafa (a Swahili word describing the African
holocaust) our Sisters have been under a triple whammy of racism, male
chauvinism and misogyny and scorn for centuries. It is time they received their
just due as major contributors to the growth and evolution of humanity and
civilization. More information is
becoming known about the marvelous achievements of African Queen Mothers and Queens who ruled on the throne serving their people https://www.ebony.com/7-african-queens-history/
for thousands of years but much more needs to be researched,
discovered and shared.
The fact of the matter is, everywhere
we find African people, we discover examples of nurturing, feminine beauty,
authorityand wisdom coupled with outstanding service and contributions to their
people. Women were essential in the advancement of humanity and civilization
all over the world. For example little is known about the Blacks who ruled Hawaii, yes Africans ventured to, explored and settled throughout
the Pacific Islands.
“Things your teacher never taught you in school include the
birth-place of the original people of Hawaii. Their
ancestral linage is shrouded in lies, assimilation, deception, murder, genocide,
myth, mystery and historical manipulation. All in an attempted to deceive and
cover-up the fact that indigenous Hawaiians were Black and Brown people;
descendants of the ‘motherland’ whose ancestral DNA link them directly to
Africa.” https://eurweb.com/2016/black-hawaii-south-pacific-secrets-forbidden-history/ The last indigenous Queen of Hawaii was
Black and of African ancestry, “The first Hawaiians and their royals were dark skinned with distinct
African features who ruled and lived in an African-style community. That was
until the forceful invasion by whites in America who ended the royal lineage
after destroying the reign of Queen Lili’uokalani. She is known to be the last
Black royal of Hawaii
and was the first and only woman to rule her people between 1891 and 1893.” https://www.amplifyafrica.org/the-last-black-queen-of-hawaii-who-was-overthrown-by-a-u-s-backed-coup/#:~:t
The same is true of the African Sistahs who played pivotal
roles in the liberation of Saint-Domingue
(Haiti)
Sistahs who did the actual fighting for independence and once the Republic was
established played a major role in the life of the new nation. To pay homage to
these valiant and noble women I will share just a few of their names and
history and provide sources where you can get more information on them:
Suzanne Belair aka Sanite’Belair, “Sanité or Suzanne Belair’s position as
fighter and wife does not appear as iconoclast as some would make it seem. Born
an affranchi ( a term for a mixed race person) in Verrettes in 1781, she took
up arms in defense of L’Ouverture’s Saint Domingue against Leclerc and the very
real specter of reinstated slavery. She distinguished herself in combat and
rose in rank to earn the title of lieutenant. Ferocious and unrelenting,
she managed several successes, but was eventually captured by the French (some
sources say Dessalines, others Répussard). Sentenced to hanging, she
demanded death by firing squad with respect to her military rank—a similar
death forced upon her husband. In 2004 Haiti commemorated her by adding
her face to the 10 gourde banknote. She is the second woman to appear on the
note after Catherine Flon.” https://haitianhistory.tumblr.com/post/136360500113/suzanne-sanité-belair
Cecile Fatiman, “Cécile Fatiman was a Haitian vodoo
priestess born in the 18th century. On August 1791, Fatiman presided over a
ceremony at the Bois Caïman in the role of mambo together with priest Dutty
Boukman. Boukman prophesied that the slaves Jean François, Biassou, and Jeannot
would be leaders of a resistance movement and revolt that would free the slaves
of Saint-Domingue. An animal was sacrificed, an oath was taken, and Boukman and
the priestess exhorted the listeners to take revenge against their French
oppressors. During the ceremony, Cécile Fatiman acted as if she were possessed
by the goddess Erzulie. A week later, 1800 plantations had been destroyed and
1000 slaveholders killed. It is reported that she lived to the ripe old age of
112 years old.” https://medium.com/@iloveblackpeopleapp/cécile-fatiman-eca3e52da19d
Marie-Jeanne Lamartiniére, “Marie-Jeanne Lamartiniére won recognition for her
bravery and heroics during one of the revolution's most famous battles, with
much at stake. Most importantly, Marie-Jeanne's inspirational and symbolic
example on the field of strife helped to unite black and mulatto fighting men
in their successful war against slavery, that led to the declaration of the
world's first black republic on January 1, 1804. Marie-Jeanne was a founding
mother of Haiti, and to this
day, the heroic legacy of Marie-Jeanne is alive and well in the hearts and
minds of the citizens of the Republic
of Haiti.” https://www.lulu.com/fr/shop/phillip-thomas-tucker/marie-jeanne/paperback/product-149v5vn5.html?page
Victoria Montou “Victoria Montou known as "Toya" was a fighter in
Jean-Jacques Dessalines army during the Haitian Revolution. She had served as a
warrior for the Empire of Dahomey in Africa before she was shipped as a slave
to Haiti.
She soon escaped the plantation and some report that she agreed to rescue a
newborn baby and train him in battle skills she learned as a warrior in Africa. This young boy allegedly became the future
leader, Dessalines.” https://guides.loc.gov/women-in-the-french-revolution/women-haitian-revolution
Hopefully
this smidgeon of Black Women’s history has stimulated your interest and desire
to know more about our marvelous history and herstory. We live in the “information
age” where information and knowledge are at our fingertips, there is no excuse
for ignorance or apathy!
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What Are We Going To Do Now?
What Are We Going To Do Now?
Junious Ricardo
Stanton
“Basically, reconstruction is the next necessary phase in
this process of learning how to educate ourselves. It is not sufficient to just
point out what’s wrong in the miseducational system- it is necessary to do the
research that begins to set the record straight.” Dr. Na’im Akbar from Know Thyself page 59
During
Black History Month 2023 I have been sharing books, authors and Websites by
Africans, people of African heritage and ancestry who have researched the
facts, who are setting the record aright and are offering insights and
suggestions on what we have to do to heal ourselves, tell ourstory to reconnect
to our ancient African and modern Diasporan roots.
History is
not just names, dates and places in the past; it is certainly not viewing
events in a vacuum as isolated occurrences or through a myopic lens. History
helps us learn lessons about life and living, discern patterns, history offers
road maps, guideposts and wisdom along our journey on this physical plane we
call life in this space we call earth.
A people who shun or eschew learning about
their own history are a lost people a people devoid of meaning and purpose. A
people whose history has been stripped from them, distorted, maligned and/or
obfuscated are a people experiencing psychic trauma and pain, who are
unconsciously disoriented and more easily malleable and manipulated by outside
coercion and influence.
This is the state Africans find
ourselves in today, whether we are residents on the continent or throughout the
Diaspora. We have lost our history our
culture (language, cosmology, family structure, social cohesion, values, science,
art and ways of sustaining ourselves) and any self-determined vision of
ourselves. This is why all around the world, we find ourselves on the bottom,
victims of foreign colonization, imperialism and enslavement languishing in a
state of impotence, disorganization and purposelessness. This was all
deliberate! Our oppressors have a plan and their plan calls for us to remain in
this state or worse!
We deserve better, we can do better, what are
we going to do about it? The books I shared provide history, perspectives,
information, strategies and tactics but that is only the beginning a starting
point. We have to do the serious work to heal, restore and redeem ourselves. We
cannot depend upon the charity, kindness and intentions of others; especially
not those who have a vested interest in keeping us in this state of deliberate
degradation, disorientation and malleability.
We have to engage in what has been
called The Sankofa Movement. Sankofa
is an Andinkra word and symbol of the Akan people of Ghana West Africa. It
means to go back, fetch and bring forward. We have to go back to our African
roots, our African history, traditions, recollect them, honor them, bring them forward
and apply them to our modern lives. Why? Because it is essential in the arduous
process of becoming whole, sane, reconnected, purposeful and intentional in our
existence and being! We have to recapture and cultivate our minds. Our great intellectual warrior and educator
Asa G. Hilliard put it this way, “When any people make a cognitive and
spiritual shift to support the supremacy of their oppressors, in their own mind
and soul that will be the end of those people.”
Unless we recognize our
disconnectedness and alienation from ourselves, meaning not knowing or
embracing who we are, where we come from and failing to bring forth the gifts
and legacy of our ancestors and apply them to our present circumstances, we are
done as a people! No other group on the planet seeks to erase their past, they
may elect to blend that past into new places, spaces, surroundings and
circumstance but they always retain their sense of self.
We must begin to think about
ourselves in new ways, rethink what it means to be African from an African
perspective and orientation, not as a caricature forcefully and cunningly
imposed upon us by others via lies, miseducation, the media and “authority
figures”.
Time is of the essence we have to
begin the journey, the Sankofa Movement and our ancestors are calling on us to
take decisive action to actualize and manifest the genius and gifts bestowed
upon us from THE CREATOR through our ancestors. I have given some resources and
offered the incentive of self-knowledge and self awareness. It’s on all of us
now. What are we going to do? Only each and every one of us can answer that
question.
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