This lecture addresses the escapism many Afrikans practicing the rituals of our traditional spritual systems engage in while deluding themselves and/or others into believing that the communal spirit and responsibility is either being adhered to or dismissed as irrelevant in this day and age.  The divine individualism they have so hopelessly run toward, in order to avoid the responsibilities of the reality of confronting the enemies of our children and their future, has freed them to excuse themselves from being responsible adults and members of an Afrikan community that is working toward independent group empowerment.  This growing group of self-chosen spirit seekers look to the stars, the zodiac, the Far East, ancient and traditional Afrikan spiritual systems, newfangled imperialist religions without sectarian names, in hope of grabbing on to that one all-encompassing belief, or melded collection of them, that will allow them to access the peace they have become too weak to fight for.  Some even allow themselves to become lightheaded enough to confuse their work to become personally still with a concrete struggle for Afrikan empowerment.  Running from one religion to another, looking to dodge responsibility, they have evaded the superficial, spiritual-deadening religious dogmas arrogantly imposed on them by aliens, but remain unable to shed the deeply internalized cultural imperatives of the people who gave them that corrupted interpretation of spirit in the first place.

 

 

In a world where the number of fathers present in Afrikan homes is steadily decreasing, after having already passed the critical stage, there is an even greater need for revolutionary Afrikan men to speak with our daughters.  This talk is just that, a conversation between Mwalimu Baruti and our daughters.  it is full of the advice, warnings, motivation, directions and expressed love that daughters need to hear and feel from their community of fathers.  Baruti takes them back into their ancestral record and responsibilities as women, warriors in their own right, by explain in detail that they are one with our past.  He instructs them that they must thoroughly study our Way and know that their greatest stories and traditions lie far beyond these shores in both time and space.  But the message goes even further.  In no uncertain terms, they are told that they must recognize and honor the fact that being conscious of being Afrikan and what that ourstorically means is vital to our survival as a people.  Our daughters have a weighty responsibility as the new vanguard, as our people's healers and here they are told why. $20

 

 

As Afrikan warrior scholars we are at a distinct disadvantage.  Often, watching Europeans being their natural unnatural selves and mentacidal Afrikans with no sense of self openly flaunting their self-hatred alongside them, is like being a passenger in a fatal auto accident, moving in slow motion, without the power of decision, unable to alter the course of what's happening, watching the wreck unfold, slowly, surely.  As long as we continnue to feel we are held captive within someone else's cold, cruel cultural vacuum, we will continue to succumb to their will.  If we do not break free of their tenacious hold we will become destroyed because we will cease to exist as Afrikans.  This lecture is about breaking free.

 

Many in our community act agains their brothers and sisters by lying, cheating and stealing from them under the cloak of being Afrikan.  These corrupters will be with us until we return to power.  This is the warning to them and the call for conscious Afrikans to never let confused Afrikans take away our birthright to be revolutionary. $20

 

 

To be an Asafo means to be a member of the Afrikan warrior class.  It means that you have put away the thoughts and toys of this eropean world and are consciously, committedly, aggressively, uncompromisingly and completely employing your Afrikan spirit, mind and body in the battle to combat the destruction of Afrikan people.  It means that you know that any conversation with our enemies ended the moment they assaulted one of us.  It means that you know that the word "warrior" is not just a title you use to impress yourself and others while you do nothing worthy of it.  Being a warrior is not play.  It is not a game.  It is not pretend, make believe or fantasy.  Warriorhood has always been the highest honor a youth could aspire to attain when his or her people were fighting for their very survival against an unrelenting and merciless enemy.  Warriorhood has slways been the calling of young men and women who refuse to accept their people's defeat as inevitable.  We call those who embrace this calling Asafo.  And Asafo have specific responsibilities and possess certain uncompromising, honorable qualities.  Not just anyone can be an Asafo.  It requires a special kind of Afrikan, one who can stand alone and together with us with no fear. $20

 

 

Much time has passed since Nana John Henrik Clarke left this realm and ascended into pure spirit, joining our ancestors.  But we wtill miss him as if it were only yesterday.  For he was a sure, steadfast, incorruptible voice among us.  Unfortunately, too many of us never knew his words, never heard this loving man speak.  And, among those of us who did, some have even forgotten to remember his power.  No other ourstorian has been held in as high esteem by Afrikans seeking an Afrikan truth uncontaminated by others' cultural politics as he.  This Afrikan warrior scholar was unafraid of our enemies within and without.  He neither honored nor owed them.  He did not lie to us.  He had no reason to.  His wise words told our true stories as a people in unremitting rebellion against an assimilated, amalgamaed, vanquished subintegration into whiteness.  He was/is our baba, educator, warrior, ourstorian, always standing on our first line of intellectual defense.  He was a true jegna.  With this lecture we again honor him.

 

 

As Afrikan warrior scholars, we can be said to have a choice.  We can pretend, trying to blend Afrikan trappings with european imperatives.  We can pretend to be "afropean" emissaries.  Or, we can remove all contradictions in what we think, say and do as our people's revolutionaries and become independently Afrikan.  Then, again, this is not true.  We do not have a choice.  If we have truly removed all compromising intent and anti-Afrikan motivations, then there is no choice.  If we have chosen to be nationbuilding, reAfrikanized warrior scholars, then there are not even any partial european options to consider.  All was decided when we swore never again to commit treason against our Ancestors.  At that point, we decided to be nothing less than Afrikan.  If some choice still remains, then we have not truly decided to be Afrikan warrior scholars.  ReAfrikanization and nationbuilding have no room for gray areas.  To become independently Afrikan we must do these things and never concern ourselves, unreasonably, with the reaction of others.  We must act as if we must answer to our Ancestors, our children and the unborn.  We must act as if this is our testing ground, as if what we righteously do here will determine whether we will be honored as warrior scholars or dismissed as traitors when we make our transition and are judged. $20

 

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