Topic: Free Your Mind and the Rest will Follow Entry 7

Title: There isn’t a Choice in the Matter Anymore the Cosmos has Decreed the Charge and Now you Must Answer it Part 1

Video Inspired By: What is the Secret Behind the Creativity of African American People (Episode #096)

(LINK) https://youtu.be/FFEd1SpkRcE

There are signs everywhere I look confirming the cosmos is instructing our people to Wake Up. Trending on the lips of anti-black conservatives was the word woke, since Baba Dick Gregory left us instructions to “stay woke” in the posthumously released letter he penned to his beloved community members (us). We took his instructions and quickly reminded ourselves of the inner need to do just that. We also took the initiative to translate those fare bidding words into further cause to gather together those who were sleep walking through these hostile environments in order to shake them from their slumber so they might join us in this modern fight for our existence or even our right to Be seen as Humans. Our initiative didn’t gain much traction among our people until the befallen pose George Floyd assumed after his murder shocked the bystanders who witnessed it, prompting one to release the footage they had captured on their phone for the world to see; and we did see it and feel it, causing the video to go viral and our like the disease that had shuttered the society that year our rage swept cross our community drawing us magnetically to one another. First in hundreds, then in thousands, then in tens of thousands until the streets became filled with protesters sharply eyeing with contempt the society that enabled his murderer to execute someone in broad daylight without a care in the world. For the first time in the lives of the past two and half generations, those being the Generation Piercing Eyesight or Alpha, Gen Solar Return or the Millennial Generation and Generation Long Shadow or Gen X; Afrikan Diasporants in the United States (Afrikans in America) were questioning what role this society intended for them to play in its structures and rather that role was beneficial to their long term health and prosperity. Despite the cooling atmosphere a year after those protests, seeds that had been planted that summer and others that had been dormant for a decade or two; showed significant signs of sprouting.

A Black content creator Tic Toc strike befuddled the social media sites management as dance content typically spearheaded and innovated by Afrikan Diaporants in the United States suddenly disappeared from the platform, leading those who depended on them to power their brand revenue streams without feasible means to do so. For many outside these spaces, this content strike was surprising, but it shouldn’t have been. The previous ten years had seen Afrikan Diasporants choose to openly defy the cultural markings affirming white supremacist thinking in a multitude of social areas where just years previous, no such challenge could have been dreamed. From football players in Missouri and Mississippi making pro-black demands which were met swiftly allowing for Americans current leading past time sport to continue unabated, to Sisters leading the charge against recalcitrant forces in the government, all while declaring with unapologetic pride, that the black community is foremost in their mind; the conscious of the so-called Black-American is changing and has been for some time.

This summarization is important to understanding where we find ourselves currently; at a place in time when everything we thought we knew about this society is not only in flux but in many ways is being deconstructed right in front of our eyes. Culturally, this country is finding its greatest institutions replaced by foreign ones, including ones we pioneered; politically, this country is having its government strip mined for parts and resources by the corporations it enabled throughout these past five Neoliberal-Neoconservative laden decades; economically, this country is seeing massive wealth funneled to the top and obscene poverty devastating the bottom as a system built by imperialism and colonialism finally metastasizes into a stage three nightmare capable of dissolving the last vestiges of social worth, dignity and social cohesion. What our response will be to this unraveling is up to us, but it will undoubtedly come with a more discerning mind change – it has to.

I could have easily attached another lecture to this entry but this one speaks to a lack in our people’s ability to understand why things are happening as they do and how proper understanding will reveal not only why things happen but also how best we can prepare ourselves through those events to get ahead of others. As Dr. T’Shaka pointed out in his six part series detailing and contextualizing the Trump Administration’s opening weeks; crisis present us with the opportunity for growth. Unfortunately, for us in the Black Community, we don’t know the difference between a crisis driven event or circumstance and an event or circumstance driven by crisis. The reason we don’t know the difference is simple, the Maafa is viewed by us, rather we admit it or not; as one big crisis separated into either events or circumstances. In truth, the Maafa – even in its current ghettoized form, is not a crisis; it is an era defined by some its many ages, crisis’ and consciousness streams. Our Maafa could never be a crisis because a crisis is according to a very old dictionary, a point when change must come. A crisis is essentially a point in time when the pressures of human indecision and inaction result in a state where either humanity will make a change for the better or worse, or the change will be imposed on them. In the most abysmal moments in history, crisis were met by a few vain men who took advantage of the created situation which brought forward the crisis; in order to impose a self-serving egocentric order onto the society. Sound familiar?

Our Maafa has had many crisis’s within it, but none as ripe as this one we now sit in. Imperialism and the Eurocentric logic enabling it is disintegrating. The question I have for you is, are you ready?

In the next part, I will discuss the difference between a crisis driven event or circumstance and an event or circumstance driven by crisis, as well as why this period in time is more ripe for us to free our mind. I may get into what is actually meant by freeing your mind also (depends on how much space I intend to use).