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AFRIKANS

SING YOUR SONG OF IDENTITY

Samuel Phillips

risons, correctional facili- honor than we give to humans? made us. Meaning that, mostly, the
ties and the justice system I am not saying that crime in the real identity of many of the people
that we currently operate society should be overlooked and found in wrong doing are either
Pglobally are nothing but a criminals given open space to make dead or locked up somewhere inside
physical manifestation of a rotten a mess of the society, but that and need the right voices to awaken
spiritual and mental reality. And somehow we need to go back to the them.
it’s also true that we have a serious basics of how crimes and criminal-
problem in our society, when it’s ity even begin in the first place; just Before the coming of the white man
possible for a people or a person maybe we can learn how to adjust to the space now known as Afrika,
to kill a human being in order to ourselves. I am of the opinion that the means of justice in the society
protect a goat or a cow. How deep no one is born a criminal, neither is went deeper than punishment and
into rottenness have we stepped anyone born a saint. Almost all the the imprisonment of people. It was
as a society of humans, that we time, we all turn out to be what the mostly about the return to balance
no longer value human lives to the family institution, the education- and harmony, which is the reality
point where we treat our livestock al institutions, the society at large of Ma’at. It was about reminding
or property with more respect and and our own decisions and choices an individual caught in wrong doing

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