Beware the Mess Media  Really Making a Mess!

The supreme visionary Marcus Garvey warned Afrikan souls of the ills of alien orchestrated popular media. He charged the Afrikan world community to be discerning and to exercise caution in the consumption of such content. In his own words, he guides thus:

“Propaganda organised by somebody else is always calculated to take advantage of you. Don’t help them do so. Always ask, what is this about? What is he aiming at? Will it hurt me and my race? Is he trying to get an advantage over me? Is it honest? If you ask these questions of all propaganda that comes up, before you swallow it, you will be able to take care of yourself”

Over the years, with all the technological developments these core questions remain relevant for Afrikan souls of the world to take care of themselves. And as Garvey cautioned during the upper part of the so-called twentieth century of others attempting to take advantage, writers of recent decades such as Khari Enaharo (who within his works provides a list of classic materials as recommended watching) concur:

“The mass media imaging of Black males as the sellers, buyers and users of crack cocaine laid the groundwork for race-based practices such as racial profiling. These false images are repeated millions of times and are firmly embedded in the psyche of the intended audiences. There are not accidental images. They have been so embedded in the media that many [alien] people think that all Black males are thugs and hoods. This is why it is so easy for politicians to get away with saying that they are fighting crime. It is curious that fighting crime rarely involves exposing the crooked activities of some [alien] people”.

In this, the Afrikan young are particularly vulnerable. The vintage study carried out by Michigan State University, found that:

“Black children believed that TV was very true to life.

46% of elementary school children believed that Blacks on TV was representative of blacks in real life.

Commercials are more believable for Black children than white children

Over 50% of all Black children between the ages of 5 and 12 believe that commercials present true and accurate information”.

The author Jawanza Kunjufu highlights the internal impact of media projection:

“Television has the power to replace imagery, personally-created images with its own. All of our minds are filled with images of places and times and people and stories with which we’ve never had personal contact. In fact, when you receive information from any source that does not have pictures attached to it, you make up pictures to go with it. They are your images. You create the movie to go with the story. You hear the word ‘Afrika’ and a picture comes to mind. The question is this: Once television provides an image of these places and times, what happens to your own image? Does it give way to the TV image or do you retain it?”

When one adds the impact of cyberspace, video games, cinema and other mediums widely accessible the impact and messaging that is imposed upon Afrikan souls is tremendous. It would seem to be that the forces of anti-Afrikan agency are bent on totally denying  Afrikan souls of their own authentic and natural imagery of self let alone its retention.

Afrikan souls surely have a duty to themselves to restore their ability to reflect positive self-imagery through their self-determined efforts.  The abominable denial of divine Afrikan masculine men and the denial of  divine Afrikan feminine women is a bogus orientation. As is the conspicuous absence of wholesome heterosexual relations with harmonious and complementary Afrikan male-female nation-building unions.  Wholesome self-governed Afrikan media in all its forms is surely an imperative. 

The observance of Musa Msimu takes place during the month of so-called August and is a wonderful time to celebrate the mighty example of Marcus Garvey and the Movement that he created led in order for future generations of Afrikans to have their guide for complete freedom and nationhood. Musa Msimu is a part of the Afrikan Cultural calendar of the Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN).

The Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN) is an Afrikan-centred spiritual and cultural mission for ascendancy that embodies living spiritually and culturally rooted life. To find out more about URAN and its spiritual-cultural mission for liberty and nationhood click here. The exquisite URAN pendant can be obtained online by clicking here.

The important book entitled: From Musa to Afrikan Fundamentalism – The Afrikan Spiritual Essence of Marcus Garvey is available to purchase online here. The book trailer can be accessed by clicking here.

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