Until we forgive ourselves and all others no amount of Reparative justice will remediate the condition of Africans. ~Kwasi Akyeampong
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Until we forgive ourselves and all others no amount of Reparative justice will remediate the condition of Africans. ~Kwasi Akyeampong
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Brothers, I reluctantly offer this small tidbit to the discussion, because contributions to similar discussions have, in effect, been ignored. Knowing the answer to these issue raised, over and over again, on this and similar blog discussions, compels me to respond. Some may consider these words. Others may not. I must offer them nevertheless.
First, the problems plaguing the earth cannot be conquered militarily, politically or socially, because the problems find their root in spirituality or the lack thereof.
Great thinkers, some on blogs just like this one, have been grappling with these problems without success. Why? Because too many want to solve a spiritual problem with military, political, economic or psychological solutions.
Many programs, sponsored by governments, foundations, institutions and religions have been applied based on the above perceived solutions. They have all failed.
We will continue to fail, unless and until our great minds are brought to bear on the root cause of these problems. Spirituality is the root cause of our afflictions - black and white. And we are condemned to experience frustration and failure as long as we fail to go after the root cause.
We and everyone on the planet is under a curse and it will not be lifted until the Most High lifts it. Read Deuteronomy 28:15-68 and notice the detailed description of a unique form of slavery experienced by only one group of people on the planet earth in all of human history. Who are these people?
Where is the wise man or woman who is willing to open his/her mind to the possibility, no matter how remote, that the Word actually has the answer? Somewhere, it is written: "My people perish due to a lack of knowledge". Shalom.
Wes I see and agree with you to a certain extent, and I echo that in my responses above, I however disagree that the Most High has cursed us, that is the language of those who practice oppression for a living. While Spirituality is at the core of our being we are Spirit having a human experience, hence we must have the experience and triumph over the experience, not by wishing it away, or by throwing up our hands and saying Most High you fix it, we are the Most High having that experience, we must however remember who we really are, not the frail human shell with limitations, but gods having a human experience
Reparations/Justice for the MAAFA has nothing to do with remediating the condition of Africans, this is something only Africans can do for ourselves. If a man rapes and mutilates your grand-mother seeking and demanding justice for this crime is not your intent to fix the grief in your heart, justice is an inherent universal right this is why Ma'at judges the heart and Heru-Khuhuti is dispatched to bring justice for the wronged and against the wrong-doer. The mourning process, the coming to terms with what has been done against us, the re-adjustment of our mental disposition towards each other, repairing ourselves is our responsibility. We must stop confusing the need for justice with the need to repair ourselves, however we must consider the dynamics of time spent in a particular state, while you know how to walk if you have been in a sedentary position for just several weeks (like lying in a hospital bed) there will be a need for some external stimuli such as restorative therapy because your legs may not respond to the brain's command to walk.
I say that to say we have been too long under the spell of oppression and all its side-effects, we currently reside in a world that is under the dominion of the oppressive forces, the demand for reparations is the formula that will break that spell (psychological warfare) allowing us to do that which is inherent to us which is to repair ourselves, it's like cleaning out the wax in our ears so that the function of our ears can be evident. Yes we can heal ourselves, and technically we don't need reparations to do that, consider how we innately came together shortly after the overt plantation days and still during the overtly repressive Jim Crow era and constructed the Black Wall Street, the Rosewoods and so many others, that was us healing ourselves without the aid of reparations, but now 2014 finds us still largely complacent towards that process, not because we don't know how, but because we have been too long in that position, now the Demand for reparations will shake our collective dry bones to life, will shock our near flat-lining heartbeat to once again resonate, will blow the cob-webs away from our collective mind-state so that we can do what we know how to do and that is to know thyself, to love thyself, to heal thyself, whether we actually achieve material restitution from the murderers is not as relevant as what the demand will do for us. The truth is there is nothing they have that does not belong to us, the true value of life is in the remembrance of our Divinity not in material acquisition. It is time we stop standing against the Demand for Justice and under-stand its role in our overall liberation from the matrix.
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What difference will reparation makes?
What will life be like after reparation?
What will the experience of life and the experience of being a alive be like after reparation?
And What is Justice?
what difference will it make for your son to finally stand up to the bully on the playground? this bully has tormented him, humiliated him, stole his lunch, stole his shoes, beat him up in front of girls, this is a bully that follows him even if you moved him to another school, now picture your son finally standing up to that bully, what psychological impact would standing up (I haven't introduced whether he succeeds in backing the bully down) I'm just talking about his act of standing up, how would that impact his self esteem? will he see himself differently going forward, will he see the bully differently going forward? will the bully see him differently going forward? it's a psychological war that is being waged against us. The Demand (keyword is demand, just like 'standing up) for reparations will have such an effect, what we do with it is then up to us.
Most of the issues raised by Akyeampong have been relevant to our plight in this our 500 year sujourn. But how do we forgive ourselves is an issue that our Muslilm brother brought a successful match of a million men to Washington, DC, the result of which is nebulous as the question in Akyeampong's statement above. How do we forgive ourselves in a situation which is going to take over anothor 500 years for the African continent to unite. Then after the unity to look around for the scattered children of Africa who are refusing to start to organize themselves so that within the next 500 years, we can be mobilized as it was done in the Bible in the book of EZRA chapter 2. We are refusing, due to ignorance and disease of the mind or miseducation to learn even from the very book, the bible written by our ancestors. Join www.sadainc.org and www.sada54.org We must start to connect with the continental brothers. We are seeking reparation because we do not want to take on the difficult task of organizing as was done by Marcus Garvey whose work was the commencement of our reparation. Who will repair a disorganized and damaged people. We have to start to organize as was done by Garvey and once we are organized then we can go to the Europeans and Arabs to do the repairs.
'We are seeking reparation because we do not want to take on the difficult task of organizing as was done by Marcus Garvey whose work was the commencement of our reparation. Who will repair a disorganized and damaged people. We have to start to organize as was done by Garvey and once we are organized then we can go to the Europeans and Arabs to do the repairs.
I will cite the same example I posed to Kwasi, if a man rapes, tortures and kills your grandmother and you know who this man is, you have the proof, do you wait until you have completely healed yourself before bringing Justice to this man?
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Given that you mention the the bible and Ezra.
Ezra had later kinsman who taught lessons of forgiveness.
There is even an religion and a worship created around him.