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AFRIKA IS GOD'S
traces back to an Afrikan female edges the cosmic order etc
said to have been on earth from the place of harmony with
more than 200,000 years ago. self, others and the unseen
She is the mother of all races spirits. He is not random and
and colors on the earth. She is foolish enough to think that he
both modern and ancient. can speak about Black Lives
So if every black man or woman Matter, when it is about white
out there can understand this supremacy but to keep quiet
reality from a spiritual, mental, when it comes to dealing with
physical standpoint, then the the rifts, the hate, the violence,
narrative of a backward Black the killings and the whole lot of
path.
race will die an instant death. chaos going on within the Black
For each will now understand Community. Meaning that when
Our lives as Blacks do matter,
and begin to deliberately live, next you as a Black Afrikan or but we must know and uphold
create, birth, innovate, speak, Afrikan American pick that gun the simple things that make life
lead from the place of life or carry that bag of drugs, re-
worth living.
giving, originality, wholeness, mind yourself that your life and
black-pride etc and not from the lives of your black brothers
I do not believe in victimism,
that place of oppression and and sisters matter. Or else we which is defined as an acquired
victimism. The reality is that, are just deceiving ourselves personality trait in which a per-
no man holds our rights in their that Black Lives Matter.
son tends to recognize or con-
hands. The rights of the black
sider themselves as a victim of
man are in the hands of the To who does the Black Life
the negative actions of others.
black man. He just needs to matter?
know that that right is not about I am trying not to misplace Black Lives do matter, but we
him being able to speak on my words, for clearly, these
must create avenues for love
the streets of America or else- are sensitive times. But all the
and brotherhood. Create busi-
where, but that he in his mind is same, what needs to be said
nesses that support blacks. De-
clear about his original purpose just has to be said. liberately create new narratives
and by that knowledge shakes The life of the black man, I about better black lives, stop
off the misinterpretations that believe, should first of all matter
the violence and the madness
he had been labeled with for to the black man himself. But
of competition and do all to sup-
many years. the question is this, the lives
port life. We cannot be holding
of the black babies that are the chicken and chips of the
What is the definition of Life? aborted daily in those abortion white man with our right hand
To the ancient Afrikans, life is clinics, do they matter? The
and then be pointing at him with
what makes our world go round, young blacks that die needless-
our left hand as the problem we
not money, as the modern man ly on the streets of America and
have. We have to create from
makes it appear. Life for them in Afrika during gang related what we have the reality and life
was the spirit of the commu- wars, do they matter too? Does we want to see. We are not in
nity that kept the generations it matter to anyone or is it that
competition with the white man
connected to the very Tree of Black lives only matter when
like some have made us be-
Life from where it all began. Life it involves the white man? It
come, it is not a fight between
for them was the breath of God should not be so. For if that is Afrika and America or Europe, it
and the daily reality of living how we think it to be then we is a fight of lack of identity and
in harmony with that breath is have clearly lost what makes us
purpose within ourselves. We
what created their community Blacks.
must resolve that.
life. So the original black man,
having understood that life is An Afrikan proverb says that he No one will give us what we
golden and precious, he builds who must eat a frog, should eat truly deserve if we don't live
his family around it, he builds the one with eggs. Simply put,
and think like we already have it
his community around it, plants he who must go the journey
with us.
his food around it, relates with for change must be ready to
others based on life, acknowl- change everything along that
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