Build Where You Stand – Respectfully

Did Afrikan souls have respect for themselves during the time of their self-determined and fully flourishing norm? Such a question would have been nonsensical to even conceive of for the pioneering people of culture and civilisation. For, the highly cultured norm of soul people’s lives is reflective of self-respect realised at optimal levels. See, the highly cultured life norm of this primary people – amongst much else - engenders respect for that which is naturally for their own flourishing and security. Therefore, Afrikan souls expressed themselves respectfully in relation to their necessary upright constructions of empowerment. To have done otherwise would have surely rendered their grand civilisations non-existent.

According to a contemporary mainstream source the word respectfully is defined in the following way:

“Respectfully means ‘in a way that shows or expresses respect’ with respect here meaning ‘a feeling or understanding that someone or something is important, serious, etc., and should be treated in an appropriate way’”.

Unfortunately, in a state of interruption and disruption where Afrikan souls can be intensely and destructively set-upon by others that mean the Afrikan ill, respectful norms may fall prey to dire nullification. That which Afrikan souls determined for themselves for their own flourishing that would have normally deemed worthy of the utmost respect may no longer be treated with respect. Even worse, is that the oppositional category of disrespect to that which is uprightly constructed by the Afrikan may be erroneously and grotesquely considered to be some sort of ‘norm’. Of course, others of ill may well exhibit disrespect for upright determinisms of the Afrikan. However, for Afrikan souls themselves to take on a disrespect of themselves and express it amongst themselves by proxy can surely only have dire consequence.  Indeed, should the Afrikan only exhibit the utmost respect for others that mean the Afrikan ill then the plantation and colony complex lives.

Only Afrikan souls can realise the restoration of their constructive respectfulness for themselves through self-knowingness and cultured living. Surely Afrikan souls can bring to the fore the self-respect levels to engage in the necessary upright activities for their ascension and not succumb to total neglect or abandonment of building for their own flourishing. Whatever station, level or status the Afrikan holds and from whatever locale, this soul people can realise the restoration of themselves and construct for themselves.

The great hero Omowale Malcolm X urged Afrikan souls to recognise the importance of self-respect with the recovery of knowing of:

“the talents and rich civilisations and cultures of the black man”.

Surely then, Afrikan souls can pick up the mantle of their ascension and build accordingly. Because this soul people built superlatively throughout the ages, this soul people can again build throughout the ages in grand expression for the respectful norm they ought to hold for themselves. After all, civilisation is not of happenstance.  

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