Existence Vs. A Fear of Extinction 

Black Excellence vs. White Insecurity

Meek Mill: Dreams and Nightmares intro

Meet people where they are then you can meet them at a higher level of consciousness

If you can’t connect with them then you can’t teach them anything

Martin Delany

First black student at Harvard medical school

“Honorable mayor, whatever ideas of liberty I may have, have been received from reading the lives of your revolutionary fathers. I have therein learned that a man has a right to defend his castle with his life, even unto the taking of life. Sir, my house is my castle; in that castle are none but my wife and my children, as free as the angels of heaven, and whose liberty is as sacred as the pillars of God. If any man approaches that house in search of a slave,—I care not who he may be, whether constable or sheriff, magistrate or even judge of the Supreme Court—nay, let it be he who sanctioned this act to become a law, surrounded by his cabinet as his body-guard, with the Declaration of Independence waving above his head as his banner, and the constitution of his country upon his breast as his shield,—if he crosses the threshold of my door, and I do not lay him a lifeless corpse at my feet, I hope the grave may refuse my body a resting-place, and righteous Heaven my spirit a home. O, no! he cannot enter that house and we both live.”

Analyzing racism

Jenga 

Optimism, shows vulnerability

Shows you can take years to build something but if you strike it in the right place, you can take it down. It is easier to destroy than it is to build.

Move the right blocks

Bottom block talk

Get a block foundational enough to break it down easily

Fish reference

When a fish is out of water, it becomes anxious, violent

We are in a desperate dying fish of white supremacy 

When the fish start flapping and gets scared, we get scared and start flapping, instead of stepping back while remaining vigilant.

Ice breaker: What is the oldest book that you know?

The Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man’s Racism, Sexism & Aggression

Goes through the violence and aggression of the European man

What is the oldest book you know of?

If you consider yourself a scholar, your tools of trade and weapon are books

The Teachings of Ptahhotep: The Oldest Book in the World

Our brains are like super computers. The more memory it has, the better you can function, more efficiently. Some people open their mouth and you can tell they are buffering. A computer with no memory, you cannot upload anything to it or feed it any new information

Decolonizing the University https://youtu.be/S8gZT6Vc9pk  

The Godfather Fallacy: A Hip-Hop Historical Allegory

Let’s go to the beginning of Hip hop > shows Eminem. Why do we start at the middle? What about the influence, references and past artists that are truly the BEGINNING?

So how do we believe the origins of civilization? Why do we believe it started with Socrates, Darwin? Where did they go to school?

Their influence is our Black ancestors

All LIES Matter

How did Jesus become white?

Why are the Egyptians in movies white?

Constantine De Volney

“in other words, the ancient Egyptians were true Negroes of the same type as all native-born Africans. That being so, we can see how their blood, mixed for several centuries with that of the Greeks and Romans, must have lost the intensity of its original color, while retaining nonetheless the imprint of its original mold. Just think, that this race of Black men, today our slave and the object of our scorn, is the very race to which we owe our arts, sciences, and even the use of speech! Just imagine, finally, that it is in the midst of people who call themselves the greatest friends of liberty and humanity that one has approved the most barbarous slavery and questioned whether Black men have the same kind of intelligence as whites!”

Analogy: The Beginning & Middle

Imagine a scale where it was balanced on 1 or 2, but nobody told you. Everything you tried to measure and analyze would be distorted

If you think the middle is the beginning, then your judgment is OFF

In Greek culture, the highest elevations of expressions of love were between the seduction of a younger boy and older man

The hardwiring and mental motherboard needs to be replaced

When you have a society trained to believe that a certain type of incest and rapes are okay, then it shouldn’t surprise you why R. Kelly is in jail and numerous others are free

The story of Goldilocks and the three bears 

Does Historical Cultural Self Esteem Matter? Why

“What we lost was our belief that we could create our own”

The conscious must proceed with the economics

The Colonization of Information

John Henrik Clarke

In the original Planet of the Apes, they described the condition of Black people in major communities today.

“This ape planet got no love for them” – Sound familiar?

One ape believed his people had no contribution to civilization while everyone else knew they in fact did, but created a lie so they wouldn’t feel like they had that much power – Sound familiar?

Historical Knowledge Builds Historical/Cultural Self-Esteem

Have African Americans shown a sense of resiliency? WHAT THEY WON’T TEACH

The 1811 German Coast uprising was a revolt of black slaves in parts of the Territory of Orleans on January 8-10, 1811. The uprising occurred on the east bank of the Mississippi River in what is now St. John the Baptist, St Charles and Jefferson Parishes, Louisiana. While the slave insurgency was the largest in US history, the rebels killed only two white men. Confrontations with militia and executions after trial killed 95 black people

There was a massive reenactment recently

Horrid Massacre in Virginia

Slave rebellion of 1791 – Burning of the Plaine du Cap – Massacre of whites by the blacks. August 22, 1791

How often this occurred...

Rebellions took place during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries

Every year there was a group ready to fight

Resistance in the antebellum South did not gain the attention of academic historians until the 1940s

Rebellions were rooted in exploitative conditions of the southern slave system

Literature:

American Uprising

Black Rebellion

Confessions of Nat Turner

American Negro Slave Revolts

Black Towns

Some states had 30-40 Black towns

We think it’s a revolutionary idea, but there were hundreds

The crowned jewel we acknowledge is the release from bondage, but what about the actual revolutionary history?

Oppression through omission – removal of certain examples and stories 

They carved their ancestors into the faces of mountains forcing it to be protected and acknowledged while trying to make us feel bad for putting teddy bears out and wearing RIP shirts for ours

Eatonville

Oldest incorporated African American municipality in America

Proximity vs. Progress Fallacy

Our progress as a people is evaluated by how much like them we are becoming and the rights we were given

When they started screaming black lives matter to, we questioned who our enemies were

Have African Americans been dependent on white America since slavery?

Compared to pimping

We doing all the work giving them all the power

We get these nice iPhones and some money and think they are taking care of us

OR NAH!

Sundown Towns – James W. Loewen

All-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the US that practiced a form of segregation by excluding non-whites via some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation, and violence. The term was from signs telling “colored people” that they should leave by sundown

Slavery by another name – Douglas A. Blackmon

Ebony & Ivy

Africa’s Gift to America

Why Should White Guys Have All The Fun?

Brick by Brick

The Problem with Bootstraps

YouTube video: King Speaks on Economics and Reparations

King day should be check day. People are volunteering their time on a day they should be paid

People could tell who’s a crackhead, who’s a heroin seconds before they come up to the car, but can be sleeping with somebody and not recognize if they’re messing with a demonic force or not

The median net worth of black Bostonians really is $8

$247,500 for whites and $8 for Blacks; $12,000 for Caribbean blacks; $3,020 for Puerto Ricans

Net worth is subtracting debts from assets

How can we apply this info going forward?

Share the video, support the movement, expose the lies

A.M. STAY WOKE!!!

Ancestral mandate – You are still among the living. Do everything you can. We are in the physical form to do this work no matter how we feel. Our ancestors weren’t asked how they feel

Things we should look out for in our current environment?

Agent Provocateurs

Media Distractions

Aunt Jemima – the timing. It is not the time.

3 Card Moments (The Big Switch)

A return to normal

buying sneakers

Black Friday

in lines to get popeyes chicken sandwich

Race is not a zero-sum game.. Racism is

If your goal is to achieve your goal, wear camouflage. If you are in a war with an enemy, why do you announce your strategy, your location, your side? Lay low, and then flip the script on them.  

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