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Marimba Ani Yurugu – The Secrets of Whites
Listervelt Middleton : If you told Black people that white people were committing biological genocide against us,and that by the year two thousand”what ever “there would be no more black people” you would get one reaction. But you’re saying that we’re being threaten with “cultural,and psychological “extinction.” How do you get “African” people to see the urgency of this situation?
Dr Marimba Ani: I don’t know frankly if you can.” I think we have to focus on “young people!.. Young African people” who have not been so “conditioned” with away of thinking that supports “European” “imperialism” European “power!…
They still have the ability to use their intuition,and their “spirituality” their “Africannes” to create” to think beyond the limitations that have been given to them in “European” “academies.”
I think most of us as “adults” as “elders” have been so “conditioned” that we’re “afraid!…
To move beyond the “parameters” that have been defined by our “enemies” in our “thinking!so that our “vision is “limited!…And so we are really not the “people” who should be “conceptualizing” the “plains” you know the “movements” what we should be “building.”
But I focus on the “younger “people” who hopefully are still more in “touch with what is “natural” to ” African” People.” And if I can affirmed that in “them” they will see the urgency!… I find that in my “teaching” I find that in teaching “young people that once they are affirmed,and introduced in a “conscious” way to the “world to the “African” world view” it becomes crystal clear to them.” And they see in an “urgency” in us as “African” people “building” for self!..As opposed to “imitating” forms which have been put in place to make sure that we “continue to be “oppressed.”
Listervelt Middleton:Culturally,and “psychologically” do you think we “realize” what we have “lost?
Dr Marimba Ani: No! Not ,You know it’s so,it’s ironic because” we don’t realize it on a “conscious” level.” Yet we live it everyday!… In the way we “walk”In the way we “talk” in the “music we “create” There is a depth of “spirituality” which exist in us as a “people”which has continued since out “origins.” That our “ancestors” has pass to us which we continue to pass on ourselves” That we don’t “consciously “recognize as a “strength”we don’t realize that it is something that we need to use to “think” with so that when we are “presented with a “European” “world view” In the “classroom” We think that that’s the only way to be! That’s the only way to “think” Cause we didn’t come with anything!.. so I don’t think that we are “aware” on a “conscious” level of what is it that we “moved away from in terms of “Power.”You see that’s what we’re not “aware of.”
Listervelt Middleton :Could you talk some about how we came to be “who” and what we are today,If you understand the “question”
Dr Marimba Ani: I think I do.”
Listervelt Middleton:Ok
Dr Marimba Ani: I think we have to look back at a “period” that I call the “”Maafa.” We as “Africans” were very “consciously” “stripped” of our “culture!.. No that becomes a platitude. “You know everybody say that be we have to see that we had a “strong “culture,and so forth,but nobody seems to “realize” the depth of what that means!..
Being “stripped of our “culture”meant being “conditioned” to “accept” ourselves as “inferior” “beings” Okay.” It meant that we were “conditioned” to feel that we have to be “dependent” on “Europeans.” “Dependent” on “white people!… That we could not do things for ourselves,and in our own “Image.” That “conditioning” began with a period a “long period” of “terrorism!…which was very “physical” You know “physically “manifested at the same time there was the “breaking of the will!.. So there was “cultural “violence” I call it! you know in the “book” as well as the “physical” “violence” which is very important.”
We then came to a period,and which we mistakenly thought we were free!… We’re now at a point where we think that we have “freedom” the ability to be whatever it is that we can be within the “society”and so forth.” Yet what happened is that we are still “think within a “modality” that has been “determined” by those who would “oppress us.” Those who would “control us.” And we don’t see beyond that!… So the “question” for me becomes “WHO CONTROLS HOW YOU THINK?…
We have the “ability” to create our own “structures” our own “theories” our own “definitions” of “reality” to look at the “African world view.” To look at for instance The “Dogon people.” To look at the “Kemetic people.” To look at our own people who have,”even “look at “Carter .G. Woodson” for instance” The Miseducation of the Negro.” Which I don’t think was ever really understood by us.” And to us these things: as “inspirations “the building of “institutions”the “creation of things” “building out own “buildings!… We have the ability to do that!… So it almost like we have been “conditioned” so well through such a long “process” that now it is us who are “enslaving ourselves” “Mentally!…
Listervelt Middleton:Because the job is already been;
Dr Marimba Ani: The “job” has been done!… It would be so easy” in one sense for us to undo it. That’s what I’m saying in the book” because the way the system of “European” control works” Is that you have to accept a “concept” of “reality” which makes them “superior.”
http://BlackPowerProductions.com/
Dr Marimba Ani analyzes the european and their anti Afrikan ways. Afrikans being analyzed by europeans is the norm, in this study Dr Marimba Ani has done an in depth study on the european and gives it to us from an Afrikan Centered perspective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4N4QRDmzTE&feature=related
The Maafa
The term “Maafa” (from the book, “Let The Circle Be Unbroken”, by Dr. Marimba Ani) is a kiswahili word for “disaster” that we are now using to reclaim our right to tell our own story. Maafa refers to the enslavement of our people and to the sustained attempt to dehumanize us. Because the Maafa has disconnected us from our cultural origins, we have remained vulnerable in a social order that does not reflect our cultural identity.
http://www.africawithin.com/maafa/slavery.htm
Welcome to KemetWay.Com: info-site on the ‘Kemetic Way Of Life’ – Ancient and Modern. Use this site to get a firm understanding of the role of Ancient Kemet [misnomer: Egypt] in history and as the foundation of Ancient African civilization, and the ‘Way Of Life’, throughout the ancient world – including Sumer, Harappa, Shang, Olmec, and Tene societies. Also get an understanding of the contemporary ‘Kemetic Way Of Life’ – classes and lectures are also available.
http://www.kemetway.com/TheMaster Keys to the Study of Ancient Kemet (From a lecture given by Dr. Asa G. Hilliard, III, a.k.a. Nana Baffour Amankwatia II) presented by the Third Eye
http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/kemet.htmlHistoryof Ancient Egypt
http://www.crystalinks.com/egypthistory.htmlAncientEgyptian Alchemy and Science
http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptscience.htmlAncientEgypt
http://www.crystalinks.com/egypt.htmlPRIESTSAND PRIESTESSES
http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptpriests.htmlTheDogon
http://www.crystalinks.com/dogon.htmlTheDogon people are an indigenous tribe who occupy a region in Mali, south of the Sahara Desert in Africa. There are about 100,000 members in the tribe.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/mitos_creacion/esp_mitoscreacion_1.htmThecivilization of Ancient Egypt lasted longer than the entire span of what we have come to accept as ‘recorded history’: over three thousand years. During these millenia the Egyptians developed a multitude of gods and goddesses, as well as esoteric practices that we are still unravelling the meaning of. Besides this, Egypt was the source of the first true monothestic religion, under the pharaoh Akhenaton. This rich tradition was mostly unknown until the early nineteenth century, when the Egyptian language was finally deciphered.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/index.htmTHERELIGION UNDER THE PERSIAN CONQUERORS.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/emec/emec05.htmTHERELIGION UNDER THE PTOLEMIES.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/emec/emec06.htmTHERELIGION UNDER THE ROMANS
http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/emec/emec07.htmCHRISTIANITYUNDER THE ROMAN EMPERORS.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/emec/emec08.htmCHRISTIANITYUNDER THE BYZANTINE EMPERORS.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/emec/emec09.htmOnlineBooks by
Gerald Massey
(Massey, Gerald, 1828-1907)
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Massey%2C+Gerald%2C+1828-1907— with Kwame Gibbs, Deidre Mitchell, Kel Lee, Elisa Nelson and Zen Dreaming
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Liberal MP, Celina Caesar-Chavannes made a statement in Canada’s House of Commons recently about body shaming, and particularly about natural hair shaming that Black people experience.
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Ex-Slave members of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Rosary dressed for the Congada Folk Dance to Celebrate the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil, Minas Gerais1888.
Was told today that folks in Brazil trying fighting the establishment to allow them to call themselves Africans...
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QUEEN NZINGA: THE UNCONQUERABLE
“Greatness was born out of the savage oppression of the Africans and out of that oppression it grew like a giant. Just why the Portuguese drew so much blood with the lash from already chained and helpless slaves is beyond all human understanding since, if for no other reason, the victims were “articles of commerce” and the source of the very riches slavers sought. Besides, over half of the captured Blacks died before reaching their destination. Self-interest, then, should have stayed the murderous hands of the slavers. Nothing did, and that fact was one of the reasons that Queen Nzinga said that the real savages in Africa were the whites. They created the conditions that brought her to the fore. The Portuguese were so aggressive in their program for dividing the blacks and keeping them fighting among themselves that they overshot the mark, simply went too far. The system of spreading out over the country into the provinces and allying themselves with the various chiefs has been mentioned more than once. But after 1608 the commander-in-chief of the Portuguese army tightened the noose. This was Bento Cardoso. Under his plan Angola was to be further depopulated by a massive onslaught for slaves through a closely coordinated system in which every chief in the land would be “owned” By a Portuguese and directly responsible to him for a stated quota of slaves. This would bypass the Angolan King (Of Ndongo) to whom the provincial chiefs paid their taxes in slaves….Chiefs failing to secure the required number of slaves were themselves enslaved. Over a hundred chiefs and other notables were sold into slavery in a single year and another hundred murdered by the Portuguese.The Angolan King, who had been cooperating with the slaves traders, now saw himself being ruined on all fronts, losing his people and his profits. He therefore began to resist the Portuguese
It Paid off. Both the portugese and their Jaga allies were checked, and the war dragged on year after year…. Eventually the pope intervened, insisting that the wholesale slaughter be ended and peace be pursued. The peace conference was held at Luanda (1622). The Black delegation was headed by the country’s ablest and most uncompromising diplomat, Ann Nzinga, not yet queen, but sister of the king - the woman power behind a weak king, and one of the most responsible for inspiring the people to continue war of resistance when every hope was gone, unless she herself had become their last hope. But even before the peace conference began, and at the risk of wrecking it, the governor’s Caucasian arrogance could not be restrained. He had decided on a studied insult at the outset by providing chairs in the conference room only for himself and his councilors, with the idea of forcing the black princess to stand humbly before his noble presence. He remained seated of course, staring haughtily as she entered the room. She took in the situation at a glance with a contemptuous smile, while her attendants moved with a swiftness that seemed to suggest that they had anticipated this stupid behavior by the Portuguese. They quickly rolled out the beautifully designed royal carpet they had brought before Nzinga, after which one of them went down on all fours and expertly formed himself into a “royal throne” upon which the princess sat easily without being a strain on her devoted follower.
Yet she rose at regular intervals, knowing that other attendants were vying for the honor of thus giving to these whites still another defeat. I gather from the different ways this incident is reported that the Western mind is unable to grasp its real meaning. Some historians saw it as a cruel and in-human use of slaves, ignoring the fact that Nzinga’s chief claim to fame was that she was the greatest abolitionist of slavery, that she herself had no slaves and, indeed, had not the slightest need for any. One reason might be be that she was so much loved and even blindly followed by her people that it was believed that all would die, to the last man and woman, following her leadership. Such were the men, not slaves, who gladly formed human couch before the astonished Portuguese for their leader.
She faced the Portuguese governor and spoke as a ruler of the land, and not as a subject of the king of Portugal. She did not recognize the man in the big chair as governor because she did recognize the existence of a Portuguese “colony of Angola.” She only saw before her what her people had seen approaching their shores over a hundred years before - pompous white devils bent on the destruction of the non-white world.
Nzinga became queen in 1623, and went into action at once. Her first major move was to send an ultimatum to the Portuguese authorities demanding the immediate execution of the terms of the treaty, otherwise war would be declared. Nzinga’s greatest act however, probably the one that makes her one of the greatest women in history, was in 1624 when she declared all territory in Angola over which she had control as free country, all slaves reaching it from whatever quarter were forever free, She went further. Since it was clear to her that white power in Africa rested squarely on the use of black troops against black people, she understood the first and only carefully organized effort to undermine and destroy the effective employment and use of black soldiers by whites.The first and only Black leader in history who was ever known to undertake such a task. She had carefully selected groups of her own soldiers to infiltrate the Portuguese black armies, first separating and spreading out individually into Portuguese held territory and allowing themselves to be “induced” by Portuguese recruiting agents to join their forces.
The quiet effective work of Nzinga’s agents among the black troops of Portugal was one of the most glorious, yet unsung, pages in African history. For whole companies rebelled and deserted to the colors of the black queen, taking with them the much needed guns and ammunition which she had been unable to secure except by swiftly moving surprise attacks on enemy units. The Queen’s armies were further strengthen by the runaway slaves who streamed into the only certain haven for the free on the whole continent of Africa. To the Portuguese, Queen Nzinga had passed the last word in unheard of audacity when she was able to influence scores of vassal chiefs to rebel against them and join the cause of their own race.This was too much.This woman had to be destroyed. It had come to that.
The Portuguese captured her stronghold in the Cuanza river in July 1626…With Nzinga’s flight from Angola it appeared that the black menace was over and victory complete. Aidi Kilujani was crowned King Phillip I of Ndongo. But the solidarity of the Blacks remained unbroken, however and their loyalty to Nzinga remained steadfast. She was “just away for a little while,”and would soon return. Any child in the most distant bush could tell you that their Queen was “just away on business.”So who was this Phillip?His name said he was a Portuguese, so he couldn’t be king of Ndongo. All Angolan kings and queens were so African that they couldn’t be tricked out of their own African names. The Queen herself had dropped “Ann” from her name when she discovered that baptizing a Black into Christianity meant surrendering his soul and body not to any Christ, but to the white man. And oral tradition further has it that the people not only rejected “Phillip I,” but made fun of the very idea that he considered himself to be king. Their blind faith in their Queen and the certainty of her return, according to the same oral record, was not really so blind. Those who understood the coded drum messages spread the news that all guerilla attacks which occurred throughout the land were attacks which were personally directed by the queen and that, in fact, she was raising a new army of liberation. Her loyal chiefs and people in Ndongo were to stand by, ready.
In November, 1627, She crossed the borders back into her country at the head of a strong army, made stronger & stronger as her loyal chiefs and wildly cheering people, including her fanatically devoted freed men, flocked to her standard as she swept forward to recapture the Cuanza stronghold held by Phillip I and put him to flight. The Portuguese continued to be amazed at this display of black unity and under a woman’s leadership at that. Black unity was now seen clearly as Black Power, and that meant an unconquerable people. The Portuguese were resolved to break that unity and the power that developed from it. The revolt against them had become general as Nzinga’s victorious forces advanced. The Portuguese retreated to their own strongholds on the coast, giving the “Dutch threat” as an excuse and not the threat of being annihilated by the Queen’s forces.
As there was in fact no immanent Dutch threat, the Portuguese regrouped and strengthened their forces for an all-out war to destroy Nzinga and this time, not to cease fighting until this was done. They began by giving orders and offering a big reward for her capture, dead or alive. Their slave troops, still the backbone of the Portuguese armed forces, were given the special inducements of land and freedom for her capture Realizing that such an all-out attempt to capture her meant that countless thousand of her people would die in her defense, she outwitted the Portuguese again by slipping out of the country, instructing her lieutenants to spread the word everywhere that she had fled the country and, mistakenly entering the territory of an enemy, had been killed. There was general weeping and mourning throughout Ndong, real weeping and mourning, because the masses believed the story to be true. So did the Portuguese. The only reason for the war having been removed by providence, the Bishop could celebrate a special mass in celebration of this special blessing, and the colony of Angola could at at last be organized.
Then in 1629 the Portuguese stood aghast when Queen Nzinga “burst upon them from the grave ,” sweeping all opposition before her. She brought in her fierce Jaga allies (rivals), apparently wiling to do even this to defeat whites. The Portuguese were completely defeated. She had not only retaken her own country, but had, meanwhile become Queen of Matamba also, having replaced the weak Queen there. Nzinga was now an empress of two countries. She now redoubled her campaign against slavery and the slave trade by making both Ndongo and Matamba havens for all who could escape from the slaver by rebelling otherwise. Chiefs engaged in the traffic in nearby states now stood in fear of her wrath. The Portuguese saw “the writing on the wall.” In order order not to lose every foothold in the area, Lisbon suddenly remembered that it had never carried out the treaty signed with Nzinga in 1622, and declared that Portugal’s wars against her had been unjust! High level embassies were sent to the queen in 1639 in efforts to effect a settlement. Nzinga received them listened to their protestants of eternal friendship, and went ahead with determination in reorganizing both of the kingdoms and undermining colonial rule in areas held by the enemy. That every white man in Africa was an enemy of the Blacks was a matter about which there was no room for debate in her mind.
Even the holy robes of the priests in Angola not only covered their real mission as agents of the empire, but also covered their insatiable lust for the black bodies of their helpless slave girls. She had been forced by the actualities of black-white relations to distrust all whites, along with their tricky treaties.”
“By 1656, tired and weary from four decades of relentless struggles, she signed a treaty that was revised and made acceptable to her. There was seven more years of a busy life for Queen Nzinga - pushing reconstruction, the resettlement of ex-slaves, and undertaking the development of an economy of free men and women that would be able to succeed without the slave trade.
In the heart torn state of national mourning (Queen Nzinga’s death 1663) the Queen’s council permitted two priests to come in and perform the last rites of the Church. Since the Queen had renounced the catholic religion many years before her passing, and had banned missions from her country as centers of subversion, this appearance of priests at the royal bedside may be explained either as a once a Catholic always a Catholic theory, or as an attempt by Catholic Portugal to give the appearance of final victory on all fronts. In this case it would mean that the most unconquerable of foes, recanting and submissive, had been conquered by their religion in the end. And so it is written in the official documents of Portugal, the written record used by almost all historians of Africa, that Nzinga had returned to the church that had baptized her as “Ann”. Yet she was one of the very first Blacks to see that the Portuguese conquests, the slave trade, and the Church were all inseparably one in the same. The long years of warfare had been equally against all three..The unholy trinity. And she had never surrendered. In 1963, three hundred years after her death, her people, now catholic themselves, did not believe she had returned to the church.”
- Chancellor Williams, THE DESTRUCTION OF BLACK CIVILIZATION.
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MADAGASCAR. Island of Nosy Be. A little girl tends her goats. 1991.
At one time there was pyramids all over the world. They all had similar shapes besides other things. Part of erasing the minds of blacks was getting rid of these and changing the people that built them. The mothership was suppose to have blacks that were underground unchanged for millions of years to come and claim the earth and the pyramids. The master plan or the mothership connection you may call it. Elijah taught that the black man has not seen his day in over 50 thousand years. And the last 6000 since the making and emerging of the white race has witnessed a complete destruction of the black man.
At one time the whole world was called Asia.
At one time the whole world was called Asia.
What America was built off of and part of it's start. They may put on different faces but the mission is the same.Lena Baker was a black maid that was put on trial for the killing of her white employer Earnest Knight for trying to rape her. Though she claimed self defense, she was sentenced to death by an all white male jury. Her trial only lasted one day! Sitting in the electric chair, this is what she said: “What I done, I did in self defense or I would’ve been killed myself. Where I was, I could not overcome it. I am ready to meet my God”. She was executed on March 5, 1945 as the only woman ever executed in Georgia. She left behind 3 children. Her last words, along side with her picture are displayed near the now-retired electric chair at a museum at Georgia state prison in Reidsville.
From Northern Ethiopia…A beautiful Tigrai bride wearing a traditional wedding dress. The black coat is called Kabba. Northern Ethiopia is rich in culture and art
