Topic: Rebuilding Black Families and Communities

Title: Some questions to consider before embarking on Rebuilding Black Families and Communities Part 1

For months, Baba T’Shaka’s lectures have included a call to action different from the ones we are finding our minds settling on these days. For months he has spoken of the need to rebuilding our community and family structures as a prerequisite for claiming our felt and divinely promised liberation from the shackles attached to us during the Maafa. The casual viewer may not grasp the importance in his declarative statements; but the need he speaks about is evident everywhere as its effects exist covertly and overtly. Join me in taking his declaration seriously – like him, I believe we need to prioritize rebuilding our families and communities even as we have to wage political battles against Trump, MAGA and a militia anti-movement dedicated to propping up MAGA, defending Trump and taking back America from those who threaten its long standing white dominated traditions – read “us”. Join me in putting family first, ahead of personal ambitions, ahead of material extravagances, even ahead of Trump’s anti-social actions. On our road to at least thinking about building the black family over the next decade; I would like to pose some questions to help move your mind towards seeing our family structure in a new context, a communal and Pan-Afrikan one. Every Wednesday for at least the next 12 weeks, I will post a question here, inviting you to contribute to how our community sees its most important institution, the Black Family. The first question is below.

What is your definition for Family and Community? Explain your definition.