Remember the Self and Avoid The Unknowingness That Allows Mr In-Between to Exist

By the grace of the Creator Supreme Afrikan souls naturally embed within the self-determined life their knowingness. This is the natural norm of the Afrikan way that gave the world its greatest and most enduring civilisations.

With the interruptions and disruptions of the Maafa in recent centuries, others that mean the Afrikan ill have attempted to destroy Afrikan memory and impose chaos and confusion.

Afrikan souls cannot surely ‘bury their heads in the sand’ and ignore the reality of conditions and circumstance. As the great hero Omowale Malcolm X points out self-destructive tactics fuelling denial, dismissal and disconnectedness when Afrikan souls say things like, ‘I haven’t lost anything in Afrika’. This great hero then insightfully highlights:

“No, you lost it all right here. You came over here with it. When you came over here you had it. But you lost it. You lost your names. You lost your language. You lost your mind. You lost your culture. Don’t tell me you didn’t lose your mind. You came over here [Afrikan] minded, now your white minded. Been brainwashed, all of the colour has been taken out of your heart and out of your mind. Now, you running around not satisfied unless you can talk like white folks, unless you can walk like white folks, unless you can eat and sleep like white folks. You’re a white-Black man. White on the inside and Black on the outside. You’re not this and you’re not that – Mr In-between. And don’t nobody want you, because you don’t want yourself. Why, the book says don’t mess with Mr In-between. Nobody wants Mr In-between. You’re a middle-man. They won’t let you be white and you don’t want to be Black. You don’t want to be Afrikan and you can’t be an American. So, you run around here like a nut, a knot on the log, sitting on the fence. You’re in bad shape.  Imagine the white man telling you and me that Afrika is a jungle and everything is backwards and if you go over there you won’t like the living conditions. How are they living over there? Why, we got to fight them over there to get them out. If it’s no way over there why don’t they get out of there. Why did Lumumba have to fight to get the Belgians out of the Kongo? Because it’s one of the most beautiful places on this earth. If it wasn’t beautiful, the white man wouldn’t be there. You got the white man all-over over there. He’s everywhere over there living like a king”.

There are lessons that must be energised indeed the Afrikans souls in Afrika, in the Americas, Islands, Europe and around the world must surely rid themselves of the miseducation, mis-engineering that renders the Afrikan unknowing of self. And knowingness is not a static but organically progressive endeavour. As such powerful vehicles for the reclamation of culture have been established such as the foundational fabric that is brought forth by the wonderful observance of Kwanzaa that came forth with much inspiration from Omowale Malcolm X.  It is important to recognise not simply to recognise conditions but to actively engage in restoration of the self throughout its levels.

Have Afrikans lost their own person selves rightfully steeped in self-knowingness? Have Afrikan souls lost their own harmonious and complementary male-female unions rightfully steeped in self-knowingness? Have Afrikan souls lost their own families rightfully steeped in self-knowingness? Have Afrikan souls lost their own communities rightfully steeped in self-knowingness? Have Afrikan souls lost their own nations rightfully steeped in self-knowingness? Only the Afrikans themselves can and must fully restore themselves to fullest flourishing and rid the self of alien ills.

 With powerful insight the great hero Omowale Malcolm X recalls certain dynamics of the interrupted Afrikan experience:

“We saw that ole white man coming over the hill we accepted him into our cities as a friend, and he shipped us down the river. Sold us into bondage. This is one of the greatest mistakes that people made opening their doors of hospitality to the white man. When we first saw him coming we should have sent him then, and we would have never had to the catch the hell we’ve been catching over here in America for the past four-hundred years”.

When Afrikan souls realised that the results of alien impositions of ill carried horrifying results, they forcefully defended themselves to the point invading foreigners abandoned the chattel enslavement process. Not only was chattel enslavement then transformed into the another form of enslavement referred to as colonisation, but alien forces also attempted to create a destruction in the minds of Afrikan souls. Ills such as misandry, misogyny, feminism, rule by gynocracy and other contaminants of destruction were concocted and peddled amongst Afrikan souls with damaging behavioural consequences. Afrikans must surely hold knowingness to see alien forces of ill coming over hill both in physical form and also in the form of contaminating ideologies of this ‘ism’, that ‘ism’ or the other ‘ism’ fuelling anti-Afrikan domination and in-betweenness.  Mr In-Between is not a state of self-knowingness. Ms In-Between is not a state of self-knowingness. 

The wisdom words of the great hero Omowale Malcolm X ring true:

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