MIND BUILDERS FELLOWSHIP

I was in a deep conversation with a Brother whose knowledge I had come to respect. He could read the Medu Neter and lullaby the story of Ausar. He could quote the Koran. He could cite Dr. Khalid Abdul Muhammad. His freestyle was conscious and rhythmic. He was the manifestation of Black power, and yet his weakness, his Kryptonite, the chink in his chain mail was …sex. His train of thought was repeatedly broken by every woman that walked by. He would stop in mid-sentence with a “damn!” in response to every pair of lips and hips that crossed his field of view. His schedule revolved around gaining physical access to the next female. He never stopped “putting his bid in”. Over time, my respect for the him diminished; there was something dishonest about his behavior when it came to women. I knew this, because like most men, I had experienced it myself. Once upon a time, sex ruled everything around me. Dr. Lalaila O. Afrika said it best in his timeless book, African Holistic

“…The darkest man is here the most highly esteemed and considered better than the others who are not so dark. Let me add that in very truth these people portray and depict their gods and their idols black and their devils white as snow. For they say that God and all the saints are black and the devils are all white. That is why they portray them as I have described.” – Marco Polo,after visiting the Pandyan Kingdom in 1288 More than a thousand years before the foundations of Greece and Rome, proud and industrious Black men and women known as the Dravidian erected a powerful civilization in the Indus Valley. From those origins, African Kings in India drove the region’s commerce, culture, and belief systems. Dr. Clyde Winters, author of Afrocentrism: Myth or Science? writes: “Ethiopians have had very intimate relations with Indians. In fact, in antiquity the Ethiopians ruled much of India. These Ethiopians were called the Naga. It was the Naga who created Sanskrit.

In this system of white supremacy non-whites are taught that Africa and Africans had no civilization. They are also taught that what we built in our glorious past pales in comparison to that of Europeans. These are lies. Africa’s contribution to human civilization was white washed or erased. And as an African, your legacy was stolen from you when you were told that Black civilization is either inferior to that of non-white groups or nonexistent altogether. Your intellectual birthright is stolen from you when non white groups know your truth, hide it from you, and then take credit for your ancestral achievements. The result is that your esteem is destroyed, and not only do you come to believe the lies, you start to discredit your own people when they reveal our hidden colors to you. Today, we strike another blow against this ignorance, this plagiarism, and this intellectual assault. If you are ready to reclaim your stolen legacy, keep reading and share this article to wake others up