Liberators Give Rise to the Process of Liberation and the Outcome of Liberty: What of Positive Liberty? 

It is not natural nor is it normal for Afrikan souls to be bound exclusively into having a reactive posture or outlook to the lives. Rather, this primary people of creation naturally hold a powerful thrust of proactively that has throughout the ages resulted in the construction of the greatest and most enduring civilisations ever to exist. This in some sense also relates to the liberty of this primary people of creation. Here, there is the liberty that facilitates empowerment to uprightly do and to progressively build that can be considered as a having the proactive quality to realise this people’s maximal potential and capability. By contrast, there is negative liberty that only concerns itself with reactions to outside interference. 

 According to a contemporary mainstream source:   

“Positive liberty, as distinct from negative liberty, refers to the freedom to act and achieve goals due to having the power and resources to do so. It's about having the agency to control one's life and realise one's potential, not just being free from external constraints. In essence, it's the ability to act, rather than just the absence of obstacles”. 

Another mainstream source highlights that: 

“Negative liberty is the freedom from external constraints or interference”. 

In order to bring focus specifically upon the Afrikan experience, at the level of shared core oneness that this primary people of creation naturally hold, adaptation of the sourced details is considered apt. Alteration may result in something that looks like the following: 

“Positive Afrikan liberty refers to freedom Afrikan people naturally hold to uprightly act, set and achieve their goals of high civilisation here, there and elsewhere due to having their own power and resources to do so. It is about Afrikan people having the agency of self-governance to realise their maximal potential and capability in service of their fullest flourishing and security wherever located. Unlike, negative liberty which confines itself exclusively to a somewhat reactive posture of being activated only in response to what external forces attempt to impose – positive Afrikan liberty relates to the empowerment of continual self-determined Afrikan construction of rightful order here, there and elsewhere”.      

Unfortunately, others that mean the Afrikan ill may attempt to thwart positive Afrikan liberty and attempt to render the Afrikan exclusively confined to the realms of negative liberty at best. In this, others of ill may attempt to ‘tie-up’ Afrikan efforts for continual ascension by manufacturing circumstances to solicit reactions from Afrikan souls playing ‘cat and mouse’ with Afrikan time. Here, others of ill can seek to dominate whilst ‘liberty’ efforts are kept busy only reacting to intentionally ill-concocted circumstance.  

There are lessons in this for Afrikan souls even at the person level of day-to-day living. Afrikan souls can do themselves a great service by avoiding the ill-manufacture of circumstances intended to castrate the upright efforts for positive Afrikan liberty by proxy. Harmful acts of petty jealousy, malicious gossiping and other wilfully destructive wrongdoings surely ought to be safeguarded against. In this, the recovery of self-knowingness and authentic cultured living (creatively restored or otherwise) is key. With this, the Afrikan can be empowered to realise their maximal potential and maximal capability enabling positive Afrikan liberty to flourish here, there and elsewhere. After all, civilisation is not of happenstance.   

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