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How have i advanced the Cause for which my ancestors lived and died? Posted by KWASI Akyeampong on January 19, 2014

            I pray daily that the Creator would inform Our Revered Ancestors that We are trying to finish the movement/work that they started of acquiring our mental and physical liberation from the misnomers of white supremacy and black inferiority.  I pray that the Creator is sharing with our Revered Ancestors that collectively, We are moving forward.

            What i am doing, along with my comrades in Jackson, ms, is coordinating and facilitating a monthly community town hall meeting (THMs)/study session called wii-fm 2460 Terry Road (wii-fm is What's In It For Me).  During these THMs, We are revisiting the past, his-story, from a truth perspective in order to bring those seeds of truth forward (the process is called Sankafo).  Those seeds We bring forward are the fuel source that propels the study group forward to implement related endeavors to raise the Afrikan Consciousness on a community level.

            For example, the study group has decided to encourage the Afrikan community, particularly the men, to fully understand We have to dress to impress the rest with our Afrikan Proud Attire (APA).  That means, that for Men of African Descent, for every suit you have, you should also have a DASHIKI.  For every designer shirt you have, you should have a DASHIKI.  We have to reconnect with and reclaim our heritage and image is a major part of that process. Be one of the million members of Dashiki Men’s Club and showoff your African Proud!          The wii-fm 2460 Terry Road Study Group is also looking to revamp our mental conditioning under american culture to stop us from thinking that there is something honorable about the men who didn't practice what they preached regarding human equality.  The wii-fm Study Group is working hard to reshape our deep-seeded indoctrination with the misnomers of white supremacy and Black inferiority.  We wanna stop the perpetuation of these false truths in our daily lives.  Unconsciously, We live white and kill Black because of the love for white indoctrination that blinds so us to the Love of Right.

            Purposefully fighting the deep-seeded mind-control propaganda of white supremacy requires Afrikan People to use some basic "common-sense" to redefine who We should celebrate as "an honorable man/woman".  Again, using Sankafo, the wii-fm Study Group has decided to bring forward the "Whirlwind" to Jackson, ms in the form of a National Annual Black August - Whirlwind Celebration, honoring the Truly Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey.  Propagandizing the truth of the past (his-story or Ourstory) is called the Embracing the Truth Movement (ETM). The truth of The Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey makes Embracing the Truth so very easy.  And it's so rewarding for People of Afrikan Descent.

            Finally, i pray that the Creator will make sure that our Revered Ancestors know about the Elders Saving Our Children (ESOC) Initiative of Kuumba Promos' REAL Learning Institute. The elements of the ESOC Initiative are  1.) Expressing Myself through Foto Imagery & Language: How I Feel about My Hood, The Learning Assignment©, continuing through the 2014 School Year

            Expressing Myself through Foto Imagery & Language: How I Feel about My Hood, The Learning Assignment© is designed to create an avenue for students to creatively express themselves.  Their interpersonal thoughts about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats they see, and sometimes not see, in their hoods daily should be heard. The Learning Assignment© will allow for increased creative expression and extra-curricular activities for students, whether or not they are athletically inclined.  This project will also allow students to showcase their creativity expressions through the “Collection” of items that are submitted.  Select students will also have the opportunity to lead exhibits and lectures on the “Collection”, which will further enhance their self-confidence.  Just as importantly, the project will require that students take notice of their “Hood” and feel the pride of being from there.  At the same time, their new awakening to their surrounding will help them feel discontentment for the blemishes that stains their “Hoods”.  That new awakening should also prompt them to be compelled to correct the faults in the neighborhoods they “claim.”

2.         Annual Sistas2Daughters© (S2D) Mini-Conference: Being A Young Sista of Stature.

            On Saturday, March 29, 2014 Kuumba Promos' REAL Learning Institute will host the 3rd Annual Sistas2Daughters© Mini-Conference in an effort to Save Our Daughters.  This Sistahood Empowerment Initiative (SEI) is a step toward "Helping Raising the Next Crop of Sista Leaders" in the mold of Fannie Lou Hamer, Victoria Gray-Adams and Annie Devine.

            The Annual Sistas2Daughters© Mini-Conference is for our daughters in the community, 12-18, that need Mother-wit.  The S2D Project objectives are 1. providing a mechanism for social and spiritual networking; 2. bonding for young women through community problem identification and soulutions; 3. planning strategic problem solving strategies; 4. capacity building to manage life for self empowerment in their homes and their community and 5. building strong self reliance and high self esteem in the mini-conference participants.  The REAL Learning Institute is proud to be invited into Farish Street Baptist Church by the FSBC Circle of Faith and The Young Matrons Auxiliaries and coordinate this Black Women’s History Month Mini-conference for our daughters in the community.

3.         Annual Yo' Little Brother© Mini-Conference

            October 18, 2014 at a site to be determined.  The Annual Yo' Little Brother© Mini-Conference is for our sons in the community, 11-16, that need Fatherly Counsel.  The Yo' Little Brother Project objectives include 1. providing a mechanism for meaningful social and spiritual male bonding; 2. life Elder-Guidance for our young brothers through community problem identification and soulutions strategizing; 3. futuristic strategic planning for anticipated problem solving in preparation for manhood; 4. capacity building for leadership management in their homes and their communities and 5. building strong self reliance and high self esteem in the mini-conference participants.

           We give much thanks to Kwasi Akyeampong for posing the 2014 projective question(s), Why would MY Ancestors be as proud of ME as I AM of them?  How have i advanced the Cause for which my ancestors lived and died?  Prayerfully, We have not been to wordy with our response, but We are very busy trying to honor the work of our Revered Ancestors. And despite what are doing, We know that even with all that We are doing, We're still humbled by the monumental work done by our Revered Ancestors, like our N'COBRA Leaders Baba Dr. Imari Obadele, Baba Hannibal Afrik, Baba "Reparations Ray" Jenkins, Queen Mother Moore, Queen Mother Dorothy Lewis, and Sister Njere Alghanee.  We are still in awe of those Revered Ancestors like Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, Garbriel Prosser and Bunchy Carter, Huey P. Newton, Jonathan Jackson, Vernon Dahmer and Robert Williams who fought defensively fire against fire in the face of violence racist and were never given their props in his-story or Ourstory.

       We marvel at the bravery of the Afrikan Warriors who fought against their enslavement without being recognized in his-story as true "Freedom Fighters" because of "his" fear of the inspiration Ourstory would be to us to become alike freedom fighters.  His-story also excluded our Afrikan Warrior tales because telling the truth would be a direct contradiction to his claims of our willing submission to enslavement and his claim of innate white superiority.  We revere the 1663: Slave Rebellion at Gloucester County, VA; 1739: The Stono Rebellion; 1791: Haiti slave revolt; 1800: Gabriel Prosser’s rebellion; 1811: Louisiana revolt; 1816: Fort Blount revolt; Railroad; 1831: Nat Turner’s revolt; 1831–1862: The Underground Railroad; The Amistad freedom mutiny; 1841: Creole revolt; and 1859: Harper’s Ferry Attack, once We learn of them.

     As We continue to work on healing and repairing the damaged minds, bodies and spirits of New Afrikans in america, and throughout the Diaspora, and as We continue to work on reconnecting ourselves to our Afrikanness, We give thanks to the Creator for giving us our Revered Ancestors as models of Afrikan Wartime Leadership.  In addition, We would ask the Creator for the guidance and strength to make our Revered Ancestors proud that they raised us in the way that We should go and that We didn't stray from it.  And, We ask for the common sense to do for the next generation what was done for us, but better!, so that the legacy of the Freedom Warrior's Spirit of People Afrikan Descent is perpetual until the day after forever.

Respectfully submitted as part 1 by

Baba Asinia Lukata Chikuyu

Cultural & Educational Consultant

2014-02-16