Remember Not to Deny Yourself Wherever You Are in the World

The eternal Afrikan dictum of, ‘Know Thyself’ is vital foundational fabric in Afrikan life. It has been so  since the earliest of times. In knowing the self the Afrikan can build superlatively as an outward of expression of this living fundamental. The world’s greatest and most enduring civilisations were far from happenstance. Rather, they were the built by Afrikan self-determined effort rooted in self-knowingness. Thus, the Afrikan person self held living self-knowingness as the natural norm; the harmonious and complimentary Afrikan male-female union held living self-knowingness as the natural norm; the Afrikan family held living self-knowingness as the natural norm; the Afrikan community held living self-knowingness as the natural norm; the Afrikan nation held living self-knowingness as the natural norm, and so on. Indeed, in the natural norm of living Afrikan ascension it mattered not where the Afrikan journeyed in the world the essential of self-knowingness rightfully prevailed.  

With the interruptions and disruptions to Afrikan life such as the Maafa of recent centuries, others that mean the Afrikan ill have sought to deny or derail self-knowingness in this primary people of creation.

The great hero Omowale Malcolm X articulates this in terms of the experience of Afrikan souls thrust into the western hemisphere directing his comments to a group of white people:

“This is the 20th century [so-called] Negro, whenever you use a personal pronoun in the singular or in the plural, he uses it right along with you. When you say, ‘We’re in trouble’, he says, ‘Yes, we’re in trouble’. But then, there’s another kind of [Afrikan] man on the scene. If you say you’re in trouble, he says, ‘Yes, you’re in trouble’. He doesn’t identify himself with your plight whatsoever. And this is the thing that the white people in America have got to come to realise, that there are two types of [Afrikan] people in this country. One that identifies with you so much that he will let you brutalise him and still beg you for a chance to sit next to you. And then there is one that is not interested in sitting next to you. He’s not interested in being around you. He’s not interested in what you have. He wants something of his own. He wants to sit someplace that he can call his own. He doesn’t want a seat in your restaurant where you can give him some old bad coffee or bad food. He wants his own restaurant. And he wants some land that he can build that restaurant on, in a city that that can grow in. He wants something of his own”.  

With the pervasive impositions of ill deployed by the alien forces of anti-Afrikan agency, these deeply meaningful insights can also apply to Afrikan souls both on the continent of Afrika and throughout the world. Omowale Malcolm X goes on to insightfully point out that the damage done to Afrikan self-knowingness is of such a deficit that:

“He'll deny his own history, his own culture, he’ll deny his own brother’s and sister’s in Afrika… He denies everything that he represents. Or, everything that was in his past just to be accepted into a country and into a government that has rejected him ever since he was brought here. Well, this Negro is sick. He has to be sick to force himself amongst people who don’t want him. Or to be accepted into a government that has used its entire political system and educational system to keep him relegated to the role of a second class citizen”.

Miseducation (amongst much else) as a continual legacy of the plantation or the colony persists throughout the world for Afrikan souls. Therefore, the Afrikan can be miseducated out of the natural essentials of self-knowing and self-remembering. The great Omowale continues:

“He doesn’t realise that there were civilisations and cultures on the Afrikan continent, at a time when the people in Europe were crawling around in caves going naked. He doesn’t realise that the [Afrikan] man in Afrika was wearing silk, was wearing slippers that he was able to spin himself – make himself. At a time when the people up in Europe were going naked. He doesn’t realise that he was living in palaces on the Afrikan continent when the people in Europe were living in caves. He doesn’t realise that he was living in a civilisation in Afrika where science had been so far advanced especially – even the astronomical sciences – to a point where Afrikans could plot the course of the stars in the universe when the people up in Europe thought… the earth was flat. He doesn’t realise the advancement and the high state of his own culture that he was living in before he was kidnapped and brought to this country by the white man. He knows nothing about that. He knows nothing about the Ancient Egyptian civilisation on the Afrikan continent, or the Carthaginian civilisation on the Afrikan continent… civilisations that were highly developed. Civilisations that produced scientists”.

Self-knowingness is vital eternal functioning. As such, the great Omowale Malcolm X reminds Afrikan souls of the responsibility that they have to themselves when he wisely states:

“Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research”.

The Universal Royal Afrikan Nation (URAN) is an organ that is rooted in spiritual and cultural fabric for the imperative the mission of global Afrikan ascendancy. Throughout its annual observance calendar cycle URAN energises active knowingness in and from the core spirit levels of Afrikan beingness. 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.

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The important text: From Ajar to Omowale – The Spiritual & Garveyite Journey of Malcolm X by this author is available to purchase online here. The trailer for this important text can be found online here. This publication provides detail on the life and example of this great hero. You can also visit the institution of Yemanja to pick up a copy.

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