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LEADERSHIP MA’AT: MA’AT AND MODERN YOUTH LEADERSHIP
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2010-07-18T03:00:00.000Z
2010-07-18T03:00:00.000Z
KWASI Akyeampong
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;">There exists a prevailing crisis of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1279415568_3" style="line-height:1.2em;">African American leadership</span> at all levels. That is a predicament both dangerous and adverse to the continued progress of the various dimensions of the<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1279415568_4" style="line-height:1.2em;">African American community</span>. The crisis is both of content and conduct and it (along with other social factors) may be preventing the youth from learning what they must know and how they must use that knowledge to move the struggle toward freedom and respect further in the near future and in the millennium.</span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><br /></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;">In the 1690s, the 1790s, and the 1890s in America, serious citizens of the Black persuasion met, dialogued and decided on meaningful leadership strategies for the road ahead. The broader issues they dealt with were virtually always related to changing definitions of freedom in America, how to acquire equal participation and respect for those committed to staying in America, and generally to the politics and logistics of various kinds of nationalism or emigrationism . In essence, they were issues of inclusion solely, and issues of inclusion with an option to fly out of here.</span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;">By definition, those who accepted the role of leadership in handling these issues were held accountable for accurately representing, interpreting and articulating the interests of their constituency. The continuing responsibility and obligation of all effective Black leadership in those past eras was to maintain the integrity of the connection between the leader and the led. Debates, disagreements, disputes over philosophies, tactics and strategies of getting to “the Promised Land,” never dissolved the affirmed imperative that leadership must always remember itself as a function solely of the interests of the constituency it speaks for, and never allow itself, or be allowed, to become a vehicle for personal vendettas and personal agendas. Credible leadership in the Black community was neither intended nor tolerated to lead itself. The violation of that principle and the non-correction of it in a timely fashion virtually always resulted in a de-legitimization of that leadership and the reduction to irrelevancy of the interests of that constituency. The history of African American leadership has most frequently exemplified, with few exceptions, the veracity of that principle.</span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;">The aim of the process presented here is to spark a broad community dialogue over identifying, designating and developing a proper new paradigm for <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1279415568_5" style="line-height:1.2em;">African American leadership</span> in 21st-century America which will re-incorporate relevant principles from the past and synthesize them with the pragmatics of the present and future. Such a paradigm would be intended as a reference for the accountability of our leaders. It would not constitute an entrenched, dogmatic list of leadership qualifications to be imposed on the emerging crop of new <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1279415568_6" style="line-height:1.2em;">African American leaders</span>; however, it would provide elements of the constituency--in any aspect of the Black community--with points of comparison and reference from accepted Black standards by which to measure the quality of their particular leadership. Along with leadership responsibility, accountability and competency, the other seven ethical principles of Ma’at represent these accepted Black standards.</span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">I. THOSE WHO WOULD BE LEADERS MUST ALWAYS BE WILLING TO DO WHATEVER THEY ASK THEIR FOLLOWERS TO DO.</font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;">2. THOSE WHO WOULD BE LEADERS MUST REMAIN RESPONSIBLE AND ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE DECISIONS THEY MAKE, AND MUST ACCEPT AND EXPECT TO RECEIVE BOTH CRITICISM AND PRAISE FOR THOSE DECISIONS. (HONESTY AND</span> <span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;">STRAIGHTFORWARD TRUTH IN EXPLAINING ONESSELF TO THE</span> <span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;">RELEVANT<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1279415568_8" style="line-height:1.2em;">CONSTITUENCY</span> IS THE TIME-TESTED BEST STRATEGY FOR LEADERSHIP RESPONSES TO SUCH CRITICISM).</span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">3. THOSE WHO WOULD BE LEADERS MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT THEY SERVE AT THE PLEASURE AND AS THE VOICE OF A CONSTITUENCY. (LEADERS SHOULD BEWARE OF SUBSTITUTING THEIR SINGLE VOICE FOR THE COLLECTIVE VOICES OF THE PEOPLE THEY REPRESENT.)</font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;">4. LEADERSHIP IS ALWAYS AND MUST REMAIN A COLLABORATIVE--RATHER THAN A UNILATERAL -- PROCESS ENGAGING THE LEADERS AND THE CONSTITUENCY. THUS LEADERS MUST LISTEN, CONSULT, BE ADVISED BY, AND GIVE DEFERENCE TO THE CONSTITUENCY.</span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">5. LEADERS MUST NOT DISRESPECT THE CONSTITUENCY OR ITS AGENDA--IF A CONFLICT ARISES BETWEEN AIMS, THE LEADER MUST COMMIT TO WORKING IT OUT WITH THE CONSTITUENCY RATHER THAN GOING IT ALONE.</font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">6. THE INTERESTS OF THE MANY MUST ALWAYS OUTWEIGH THE LUST AND EGO OF THE FEW.</font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">7. LEADERS MUST BE SKILLED, TRAINED AND ADROIT IN THE AREAS IN WHICH THEY PROVIDE LEADERSHIP. THEY MUST KEEP UP WITH THE EMERGING INFORMATION RELEVANT TO THOSE AREAS AND MUST NOT SUBSTITUTE RHETORIC FOR CRITICAL READING AND ANALYSIS.</font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">8. LEADERSHIP POPULARITY IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1279415568_9" style="line-height:1.2em;">LEADERSHIP COMPETENCY</span>, AND NO CONFUSION SHOULD BE ALLOWED REGARDING THEM.</font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">9. LEADERSHIP MUST DEMONSTRATE A CONTINUED KNOWLEDGE AND RESPECT FOR THE VALUES OF INTEGRITY, HONESTY AND VERACITY IN LEADERSHIP’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CONSTITUENCY.</font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">10. LEADERSHIP MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT IT REPRESENTS A CONSTITUENCY’S AGENDA; LEADERSHIP ITSELF IS NOT THE AGENDA BEING REPRESENTED.</font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">11. LEADERSHIP IS AND MUST REMAIN PRINCIPLED AND SPIRITUALLY-CENTERED.</font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;">12. LEADERSHIP MUST RECOGNIZE THAT RETAINING THE REINS TOO LONG HAS DELETERIOUS EFFECTS ON THE HEALTH AND PROGRESS OF THE CONSTITUENCY.</span></font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">13. LEADERSHIP MUST ESSENTIALLY DEPEND ON COMMON SENSE AND MOTHER WIT.</font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">14. LEADERSHIP MUST DEMONSTRATE DECENT HOME TRAINING AND POLITENESS IN INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ACTIVITIES.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">15. LEADERSHIP MUST NOT ENGAGE IN PROTRACTED DISAGREEMENTS WITH THE CONSTITUENCY AND SHOULD REFRAIN FROM PERJORATIVE NAME-CALLING AND RUMOR-MONGERING IN DISPUTES.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">16. LEADERSHIP MUST NOT BE DECEITFUL OR COWARDLY.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">17. LEADERSHIP MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT BY EXAMPLE AND BY MODEL IT IS PROVIDING A TANGIBLE IMAGE OF WHAT THE CONSTITUENCY STANDS FOR AND BELIEVES. THE PUBLIC WILL MEASURE THE CREDIBILITY AND WORTH OF THE CONSTITUENCY BY THE QUALITY OF THAT REPRESENTATION.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">18. LEADERSHIP MUST TRAIN AND INSTRUCT REPLACEMENTS AND REINFORCEMENTS.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">19. LEADERSHIP MUST ALWAYS MAINTAIN BOTH AN HONORABLE VIGILANCE OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THE RELEVANT CONSTITUENCY AND ‘ORGANIZATION’ EXIST, AND A CLEAR VISION OF WHERE THAT CONSTITUENCY IS HEADED.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">20. LEADERSHIP MUST PARTICIPATE IN THE ANALYSES, PLANNING, STRATEGIES AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONSTITUENCY’S AGENDA WITHOUT VIOLATING ITS CONFIDENCES. LEADERSHIP MUST THEREFORE SURROUND ITSELF WITH AND TAKE HEED OF WISE COUNSEL.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">21. LEADERSHIP MAY BE THE SPEAR-THROWERS, SHIELD-BEARERS, PLANNERS, STRATEGISTS AND/OR EXECUTORS OF ACTION FOR AN ORGANIZATION, BUT THE CONSCIENCE AND SOUL OF ANY GROUP MUST REMAIN ITS CONSTITUENCY.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">22. LEADERSHIP MUST STAY FAMILIAR AND CURRENT WITH MODES OF COMMUNICATION AND ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE RELEVANT TO THE CONSTITUENCY.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;">23. LEADERSHIP MUST CONDUCT THE CONSTITUENCY’S AFFAIRS WITH AS MUCH FAIRNESS AND EQUANIMITY AS IS POSSIBLE IN EVERY SITUATION.</span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">24. LEADERSHIP MUST BE A COLLECTOR AND DISSEMINATOR OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE, NOT A HOARDER.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">25. LEADERSHIP AND ITS CONSTITUENCY MUST BE MUTUALLY LOYAL, SENSITIVE AND RESPECTFUL ENOUGH OF EACH OTHER TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHEN TO RETAIN AND WHEN TO BREAK THE INTEGRAL BONDS BETWEEN THEM.</font></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;">LEADERSHIP ACCOUNTABILITIES</span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><br /></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">________________________________________________________________</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;"><br /></font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">1. ANY LEADER WHO ABUSES THE CONSTITUENCY’S TRUST SHOULD BE HELD TO ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY, AND RESPECTFULLY REPLACED, IF NECESSARY.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">2. ANY LEADER WHO STEALS FROM OR REPEATEDLY LIES TO THE CONSTITUENCY SHOULD BE HELD TO ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY, AND RESPECTFULLY REPLACED, IF NECESSARY.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">3. ANY LEADER WHO CONSISTENTLY DISRESPECTS THE WOMEN PARTICIPANTS IN ANY ORGANIZATION IN WHICH HE/SHE PROVIDES LEADERSHIP SHOULD BE HELD TO ACCOUNT AND EITHER CORRECTED, OR IF INCORRIGIBLE, RESPECTFULLY REPLACED.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">4. ANY LEADER WHO REPEATEDLY FAILS TO CONSULT WITH AND TO CONSIDER THE WISE COUNSEL OF OTHERS IN THE ORGANIZATION BEFORE MAJOR DECISIONS WHICH AFFECT THE WELFARE OR THE EXISTENCE OF THE ORGANIZATION ARE IMPLEMENTED MUST BE HELD TO ACCOUNT, CORRECTED AND/OR RESPECTFULLY REPLACED, IF NECESSARY.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">5. ANY LEADER WHO USES THE FINANCIAL AND OTHER ESSENTIAL RESOURCES OF AN ORGANIZATION MUST SUBMIT TO THE REGULAR ORGANIZATIONAL SCRUTINY OF SUCH USE AND SHOULD EXPECT TO BE HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR INCONGRUENCIES.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">6. ANY LEADER UNDER WHOSE WATCH THE ORGANIZATION LOSES ITS DIRECTION AND FOCUS, BECOMES MORIBUND, AND ESSENTIALLY BECOMES MEANDERING , MUST BE HELD TO ACCOUNT AND THE AIMLESSNESS EITHER CORRECTED OR THE LEADER RESPECTFULLY REPLACED.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">7. ANY LEADER WHOSE STYLE OR ACTIVITIES BECOME CONSISTENTLY DELETERIOUS OR DANGEROUS TO THE EXISTENCE OR WELL-BEING OF THE ORGANIZATION, UNLESS SUCH ACTIVITIES ARE APPROVED BY THE CONSTITUENCY WITH THE RISKS KNOWN, MUST BE HELD TO ACCOUNT AND RESPECTFULLY REPLACED, IF NECESSARY.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">8. ANY LEADER MUST COMPLY WITH AND FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION, BY-LAWS, RULES, AND REGULATIONS OF THE RELEVANT ORGANIZATION WHERE THOSE COMPONENTS EXIST--UNTIL THEY ARE CHANGED-- AS A ROLE MODEL TO OTHERS IN THE ORGANIZATION, AND SHOULD EXPECT TO BE HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR VIOLATING ANY OF THOSE COMPONENTS.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">9. ANY LEADER WHO BECOMES SPIRITUALLY AND/OR MORALLY BANKRUPT MUST BE HELD TO ACCOUNT AND EITHER CORRECTED OR RESPECTFULLY REPLACED.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">10. ANY LEADER WHOSE AMBITION FOR EGO GRATIFICATION, PERSONAL AGGRANDISEMENT, AND/OR PERSONAL GLORIFICATION SUPERCEDES THE PRIORITIES OF HIS/HER CONSTITUENT’S AGENDA MUST BE HELD TO ACCOUNT AND EITHER CORRECTED OR RESPECTFULLY REPLACED.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">11. ANY LEADER WHO BENEFITS FINANCIALLY OR FAMOUSLY FROM HIS/HER LEADERSHIP MUST IN TURN SHARE SUCH LARGESS WITH THE ORGANIZATION’S CONSTITUENCY AND SHOULD EXPECT TO BE HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS OBLIGATION.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">12. ANY LEADER HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR ANY PURPOSE MUST BE ACCORDED A FORTHRIGHT, FAIR AND PROPER HEARING WITHIN WHICH HE/SHE CAN PRESENT A REASONED RESPONSE TO ANY AND ALL ALLEGATIONS IMPINGING UPON HER/HIS LEADERSHIP.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">13. LEADERSHIP SHOULD BE RESPECTED, BUT TO BE MAINTAINED, SUCH RESPECT MUST BE CONSISTENTLY EARNED; AND MUTUAL RESPECT BETWEEN LEADERSHIP AND THE CONSTITUENCY MUST BE PRACTICED RELENTLESSLY.</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">14. LEADERSHIP IS NEITHER DESTINED NOR AUTOMATIC, RATHER IT IS A CHOICE MADE AND ACCEPTED. EVERY LEADERSHIP CHOICE DOES NOT FIT EVERY SITUATION, AND ADJUSTMENTS IN THOSE CHOICES MUST SOMETIMES BE</font></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:0in;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;line-height:1.2em;"><span style="line-height:1.2em;font-size:14pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="line-height:1.2em;">MADE.</font></span></div>
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ANNOUNCING THE DECADE OF THE DIASPORA
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2010-01-04T05:43:10.000Z
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<div>Submitted by Sis. Iman Uqdah Hameen SRDC
By Prof. David Horne, Ph.D Sixth Region Diaspora Caucus (SRDC)
After thousands of conferences, Ndabas, roundtable discussions, forums and meetings talking about the need to unify for positive action, action is now upon us. From January, 2010 to December, 2010, the DECADE OF THE DIASPORA has now been formally announced in OUR WEEKLY in California by the Sixth Region Diasporan Caucus/PADU. The unity and partnership of African descendant folks now has a specific time frame in which to focus the highest levels of its creativity, innovation, hard work and goal-directed energy to accomplish the United States of Africa, aka, Union of African States, in an all-out progressive assault. Failure is not and will not be an option. Why that raison d’etre ?
African descendants have flailed away in individual pursuits towards the restoration of dignity, esteem and respect in over 70 countries for a long time. Although there have been notable successes--- the election of President Barack Obama, for example, or the release of Nelson Mandela, the ascendance of Barbados, and the creation of the Central American Black Organization, the continuing attempt to organize the European Diaspora under a common set of principles, among others---Black folks in general are still at the bottom of most measures of power, leverage and significance in the world. As Marcus Garvey and many others have said, until Africa is unified as a force to be reckoned with, Black folks wherever they are will remain disregarded and dispossessed. In order to be truly free, Africa must be operationally united. In order for Africans living in other parts of the world to be truly respected in affiliation with Africa’s transformation, the Diaspora must substantially help push this tremendous rock back up the hill. The Diaspora cannot share in the harvest without fully participating in the tillage and labor.
The DECADE OF THE DIASPORA is the time period in which African folk here, there and across the globe will rise to the challenge of bringing themselves back from obscurity, and within which the Diaspora will demonstrate clearly that it is indeed the 6th Region of Africa and the missing piece of the necessary puzzle to bring all the king’s horses and all the king’s men and women back together again.
During this period, the Diaspora will substantially unify itself internally, so that it can more effectively help continental Africa unify itself totally. That work has already begun in earnest and has begun to bear fruit. PADU, the Pan African Diaspora Union, is a partnership between the SRDC (Sixth Region Diasporan Caucus), WADU (World African Diaspora Union, through an MOU), the UNIA-ACL (Universal Negro Improvement Association- African Communities League), CABO (Central American Black Organization) , African Diaspora Union-Europe, and other such groups, and the list is growing. This coalition of equals brings together a formidable reference point for other Diasporan groups to come together, work together, and actually get significant things done. Wherever Black folks live, love, lay and lose, there are efforts, projects, ideas and events they can participate in, lead, coordinate, announce, and provide credibility to and for that will help achieve the goal of African unification. No one person or group can, will, nor should do it all. This is a collective effort of cumulative microsuccesses. Together it will all work to bring all Africa and Africans together.
The DECADE OF THE DIASPORA is for a better world, an improved set of opportunities to get it right. During this time, African descendant children should be re-acquainted with books, good reading and writing skills and other academic prowess. Barbados and others have already shown how to do that, and there are sporadic reference models of getting it right in other topical areas scattered all over the Diaspora. Those in the Diaspora with insight, vision and heart must bring those models into public view. Speeches, sermons, student activism, community organizing and other dynamism must be focused on work for a purpose—an African purpose-- not just putting in the time to help it pass. Reparations activists must understand that their work is intimately tied to the fate of 21st century Pan Africanism. There will be no reparations victory without African leverage calculated in the equation.
Part of the philosophy and long-time definition of Pan Africanism is that African people deserve to be free, successful and self-determinative. African people are worthy. The DECADE OF THE DIASPORA is to demonstrate that worthiness in more than 360 degrees of achievements. The DECADE OF THE DIASPORA will give the African Experience, in all of its different versions and dimensions, a complete face-lift, make-over and paradigm shift. It will solidify UBUNTU, the foundation African belief in enhancing and preserving humanity as the principal objective in any relationship or engagement, as a healing and merging agent for the world.
Actually, the sole remaining question is what will you do to participate positively in the DECADE OF THE DIASPORA? And, when will you get started? It is not coming, it is here.</div>