By Brother Dalani Aamon
Do the people that haven't seen you for a long time and remark "You
haven't changed a bit" make you happy?In an ever evolving world we seem
to get caught up in being exactly as people remember us.As a Black
person growing up in the inner city of Washington,DC in the 60s-70s I vividly recall my people
walking the streets asking of their fellow brothers and sisters
"Do you have something for the head".Thirty years later we are faced
with the same situation.On the occasions you see people from your
past they are still asking "What Ya Got Bro" or "Can you help me
out".
We as the GREAT and ORIGINAL People of the CREATOR have to
find a way to move forward and become what we are supposed to be.We
are not a collection of old playground, drug taking,wine drinking,corner hanging
nothing on our mind people.Our true greatness was never instilled
in us the way it should have been We had to become our own Teachers.What
was instilled in us was a Them first and Us second mentality.We
were taught to love our oppressors but not to let "anybody hit you
without hitting them back" on your street. We were taught to love
the White biblical figures but to hate our dark skin our hair and
our homeland.We made fun of dark people but loved the Beatles.We
watched white people on tv but didn't know MALCOLM X.
We watched our mothers practically kill our sisters trying to straighten
their hair.We thought a two parent
home was a curse(two parents to lie to and run from).
There were
practically no sober people in my hood. Parents were drunk from the
intoxicating effects of church or from real alcohol so we had to
do something.If we were expected to be sober WHY were the adults so drunk with the
coma inducing rituals of church and work to be bothered with us?
We now run around in need of TRANSFOMATION but
can't quite understand what went wrong.When our original Teachers
and Leaders failed to connect us to our greatness the die was cast.
You can't plant grass seed and return seeking pineapples.Our parents,teachers
and other concerned people didn't understand the uniqueness of us
as individuals.We were herded into schools and into churches for
what has amounted to a warehousing effect that produced no known
greatness.It produced a generation of people walking around trying
to get something for the head.If in fact we were connected in the
way of our Ancestors we would never be in the midst of such an ongoing
struggle for our survival.We as the parents of this generation have
to connect our youth to their greatness in order to acheive TRANSFORMATION.Our
greatness can't be defined by people other than us. We are not EUROPEANS
and have to stop living their reality.You must teach your children
about who we are.We are a people with a rich African history that
makes the Europeans history pale in comparison. As long as we send
our off-spring into schools and churches that by their very history
have failed in their duties to connect our kids to their greatness.GOD
gave us the creative ability to be anything we want. We have chosen
our paths based on what society has told us is good for us. We have
to remove the barriers that continue to keep us from TRANSFORMING
us to the people we should be.Children that will lead the next generation
will know WHO they are and you will know them by the gifts that they bear.
How do you go about transforming this generation of
kids? It will not be accomplished without the adults evolving into
people that the kids can emulate and listen to.Don't expect results
from kids that have never seen you practice what your are preaching.If
you want kids that listen, be a parent that listens.If you want
your kids to be leaders,show them by your own example.What ever
it is you want for the child be ready to show them what you are
talking about.Your CREATOR entrusted you, the parent with the precious
gift and responsibilty of a child.Animals seem to take better care of their young than we.Why?
We seem to be the only species that won't rely on the skills our
CREATOR put in us.We rely on others to do what our CREATOR IS waiting to see us do.SHOW your kids
how to be GREAT and WHO they really are.
For most of you that continue to raise your offspring in
eurocentric tradition that we inherited here, good luck.Children
that are raised to be afrocentric and with minimum european exposure
will fare a lot better.What you see in your children is exactly
what you should be seeing, NOTHING IN NOTHING OUT!!!
What we need to be trying to find now is some
knowledge for the head.We can't be the same as were THIRTY years
ago and expect the kids to tranform and evolve into the leaders
of the next century.For most of us our entire base of knowledge
was the bible and the public school system.This combination will
continue to produce another generation of what I experienced in the
HOOD.People going to church on Sunday and cutting class on Monday
is NOT the answer. These institutions are what
parents thought were good for the heads of their children.This presription
is equivalent to using a band aid on a broken arm.That is exactly
why we all walked around looking for something for the head.I am a voice
from the 60s trying to tell all that will listen that
WE NEVER HAD A CHANCE FOR GREATNESS.People that don't love themselves
will always exhibit self destructive behavior. It is now obvious
that we have always been in denial about our self love.We were taught
to love others but not self.
I am begging all the adults to take another look at the
prescription that we have been given for the salvation of our youth.WE
need a foundation that was carved out like the magnificent PYRAMIDS in AFRICA
not some typewriter created dogma that has proved to be our worst
enemy.European rituals and dogma have taught us the supposed greatness of other people.What about us
people,we have been left out of religious and historical books that
pretend and conclude we have no history before our enslavement here.
MY FINAL ANALYSIS IS THAT WE HAVE TO TRANSFORM OURSELVES
AWAY FROM THIS EUROCENTRIC HOLOCAUST INTO TO THE AFROCENTRIC WAY
AND TRADITION IN WHICH WE WERE CREATED.
THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL YOU SEE HOW GREAT YOU AND YOUR OFFSPRING
REALLY ARE. YOUR CREATOR IS AWAITING YOUR RETURN.
Hotep,
Brother Dalani Aamon
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