When You Put a Seed In the Soil It Remains Beneath the Soil Until the Season Changes: What of an Eternal Season of Self Respect? 

It is without doubt that Afrikan souls have naturally held pinnacle levels of self-respect throughout their continuum. In grand respect for themselves, this primary people of creation were able to outwardly express highly dignified life and build accordingly. So much so, that they were able to establish the greatest and most enduring civilisations the world has ever known.  

According to a contemporary mainstream source, the term self-respect attracts the following detail as it relates to an individual:  

“Self-respect is loving yourself and treating yourself with care. It's the result of staying true to your values and not being willing to compromise. The more you engage in behaviours consistent with your beliefs and values, the more you'll feel fulfilled and confident”. 

Of course, in the context of this discussion the level of focus is directed towards a whole people – Afrikans. As such, it is considered pertinent to adapt the source detail accordingly. In so doing, something that looks like the following may be expressed:  

“Afrikan self-respect is Afrikan souls loving themselves and treating each other with care whether here, there or elsewhere. It is Afrikans staying true to their core and shared values of oneness wherever located and not being willing to compromise. The more Afrikan souls engage in behaviours consistent with their authentic beliefs and values that service their fullest flourishing and security, the more they become fulfilled, confident and able to achieve their norm of optimality”.  

Unfortunately, in a state of interruption and disruption where Afrikan souls may be destructively set upon by others that mean the Afrikan ill, Afrikan self-respect can suffer acutely. Ill-vices such as miseducation and other vehicles of anti-Afrikan propaganda may be pushed and peddled in the attempt to eliminate self-respect amongst Afrikan people. Indeed, ill-vices may actually attempt to promote and foster disrespect for the Afrikan self and dire behaviours that may follow suit. 

Despite this, it is only Afrikan souls themselves that can secure their natural norm and eternal thrust of optimal and authentic self-respect and the ability to construct in rightful order accordingly. In this, appropriate levels of self-determined learning and development is key. With their natural heights of self-respect in place across the board, disrespect – directly or by proxy – can be readily identified as an abnormality that stands out like a sore thumb. 

The great hero Omowale Malcolm X with his immense depth of insight highlights the posture of a self-respecting Afrikan in relation to others being either their authentic selves or wearing a mask of deceit when he eloquently states:  

“I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil”. 

Surely Afrikan souls must fully restore their authentic and upright beingness wherever located and be their naturally self-respecting selves. After all, civilisation is not of happenstance.  

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