Should Afrikan Souls Be Popping and Peddling Pills to Become ‘Awake’ Whilst Wilfully Maintaining Unknowingness of and Contempt for Remembering Themselves?

An age-old truism from Afrikan wisdom is for Afrikan souls to ‘Know Thyself’.  This has remained imperative part of the Afrikan way from age-to-age and from generation to generation. Indeed, it is from the deepest depths of rooted self-knowingness that Afrikan life is naturally propelled to its natural norm of superlative heights and optimal flourishing. The greatest and most long-lived civilisations to ever grace the world are the inevitable result of Afrikan souls remembering themselves throughout the ages.

However, with the interruptions and disruptions such as that of Maafa of recent centuries, Afrikan souls have been set upon by others that mean the Afrikan ill, desirous of severing Afrikan souls from the natural memory of themselves.

Deficits caused by the recent interruption to the Afrikan continuum are insightfully articulated by the great hero Omowale Malcolm X this way:

“What makes the so-called Negro unable to stand on his own two feet. He has no self-confidence. He has no confidence in his own race. Because the white man destroyed your and my past. Destroyed our knowledge of our culture. And by having destroyed it, now we don’t know we have any achievements, any accomplishments. And as long as you can be convinced that you never did anything, you can never do anything. This is why the white man, his little children he tells them about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln – all these white heroes. We are never taught about any [Afrikan] heroes. The only someone we’re shown in history is, ‘my grandfather was picking cotton’. Cotton-picking don’t move me, no. But when it comes to teaching the [Afrikan] people about great [Afrikan] men who stood their ground, who were scientists, who were civilisers, who were fathers of culture and civilisation – the white man has shrewdly written that role out of the text books. And today, the effect that it has on you and me, we don’t think we can stand on our own two feet… We wake up!  We clean up! And we stand up! And once we can stand up like a man on our own feet, we stop begging the white man. And we stop apologising to the white man. We stop compromising with the white man. Then the world will look at us with recognition and respect. But as long as you running around here wearing the white man’s name bragging about you’re one of the Jones’s, or one of the Brown’s, or one of the Smith’s. Or, as long as you’re running around bragging about your part in this so-called American democracy. Then, you will always be looked down upon as a chump by the white man. You will never be given recognition nor respect. Your problem will continue to go unsolved. And we’ll still be in the same rut or ditch a thousand years from now that we are in right now”.

Over, the years Afrikan people have identified their responsibility to be aware of themselves in various ways. Indeed this publication is aptly entitled, ‘The Wake Up Call’ as a part of this imperative thrust. Phrases such as ‘being conscious’ and a range of other similar descriptors have also been effectively used amongst Afrikan souls in this way.

In the mainstream arena pill taking metaphors have been utilised in film to relate to being aware of challenging truths. A popular mainstream source describes it this way:  

“The terms ‘red pill’ and ‘blue pill’ refer to a choice between the willingness to learn a potentially unsettling or life-changing truth by taking the red pill or remaining in contented ignorance with the blue pill. The terms refer to a scene in the 1999 film…”.

This mainstream pill metaphor of ‘knowing’ has been interpreted in a number of different ways. For some, it appears to relate exclusively to being aware of the dysfunctional thrust for absolute female domination within the male-female dynamic as it relates to the ‘western world’ through such ills as feminism, misandry or gynocracy. However, for some susceptible or vulnerable Afrikan souls ‘taking the awareness pill’ is to become aware of an alien ill whilst (at the same time) accepting self-denial. This is surely a catastrophic price to pay. Perhaps even the ‘pill’ itself may become the new replacement ‘identity’. Such a contradiction could be disastrously amplified with social media platforms and the like as vulnerable Afrikan souls are recruited into self-denial or even engendering contempt for remembering themselves. Surely awareness of ills whatever metaphor is utilised remains meaningful when Afrikan souls are knowing of themselves. Therefore, if the pill of awareness awakens or energises Afrikans to remember themselves and to be aware of alien ills then surely Afrikan ascension is inevitable.

Naturally, for Afrikan souls the knowing or remembering of self whatever else may be important to be aware of is foundational. The ills of misandry, misogyny, feminism and so on are alien expressions that emerge from the foreign people that created and popularised them. It would surely be self-destructive for Afrikan people to see themselves as some nebulous entity void of self-knowingness and their own identity only to be ‘devoured’ by alien forces that can readily prey on those steeped in self-ignorance. Afrikans surely ought then to remember themselves and purge themselves of alien contaminates and ills whether misandry, misogyny, feminism or otherwise. Afrikans ought surely not allow themselves to be totally submerged into a fight with others void of self-knowing against an aspect of alien imposition and fall into the trap of another imposition peddled by the same alien forces as the solution.  

The restoration of Afrikan knowing and remembering of self is both natural and vital functioning. For the Afrikan person self, the Afrikan harmonious and complementary male-female union, the Afrikan family, the Afrikan community, the Afrikan nation and the Afrikan world community self-knowingness must flourish. Indeed, throughout these levels self-knowingness and remembering must surely be safeguarded.

The great Omowale Malcolm X insightfully highlights with instructive wisdom that:

“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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