Revolutionary Daily Thought

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Originally Posted by Baba Ahmed

"It would be interesting to study if there's any connection between Blacks being forced to inflict punishment on one another and today's Black on Black crime. Can there be any deep rooted hatred ingrained in our sub-conscious mind? Or is it that European savagery has rubbed off on us."

Nana Wkow Butweiku I
500 Years of European Behavior

I thinks the pasts Blacks being forced to inflict punishment on each other is very similar to todays black on black crime for the fact that todays black on black crime is driven on the opinion of the blacks that their 'hustle' is the only way to survive. Which is true in a sense, if you've grown up in the ghetto and somehow managed to not learn a damn thing about nothin positive, how are you going to survive. I've known folks that would rather commit a crime against black folks because they feel it will be easier to get away with cuz the investigation wont be as intense, plus with whites you know the police gone get called, with blacks theres always that chance they wont. We live in a cold world and what worse is nobody dont care?

[Baba Ahmed]

Originally Posted by Revolutionary_Student

I honestly believe it's a little bit of both, Baba. The Willie Lynch letter is proof enough that Black on Black crime/hatred/destruction was embedded in the Black mind LONG AGO!

Greetings!
This began long before a Willie Lynch

Euro-PEON savagery has definately rubbed off on us. Example: In amerikkka, it's considered immoral and unlawful to air images of sex and/or nudity (things that are NATURAL and every day occurances responsible for this thing we call life) on network television.

Immoral and unlawful by who? What we're witnessing is another stage in Euro's openingly revealed historical customs, deliberately targeted to "fun seekers" and lost souls. Its been termed "Rhetorical Ethics" the masses are preached one message; insiders do all that we see via TV and more. Sex and general nudity publically is not natural generally.

When images of murder and torture are aired, the S.C.C. doesn't flinch and more sickening is that neither do parents of the children who are watching this garbage.

Its been said that a people ignorant of their history/customs are like a cork on a ocean

Murder is SAVAGERY and to exhibit it so casually on tell-lie-vision is beyond savage.

this depends on who's defining the taking of life; btw I assume u mean the FCC. To kill and be killed is necessary in warfare. War is not pretty.


U might wanna begin another thread at other than this Revolutionary Daily Thought(s) board.

Thanks for your input

[Baba Ahmed]

Queen Nzinga: Live Forever Via Us!!!
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"Nzinga knew that every white man in Africa was an enemy of the Blacks. It was a matter about which there was no room for debate in her mind. Even the holy robes of the priests in Angola not only covered their real mission as agents of the Portugese Empire, but also covered their lust for the Black bodies of their helpless so-called slave girls.

Nzinga continued her campaign against the Portugese, winning victories everywhere where a battle was joined. The Queen was further outraged over the success of the Portugese in capturing both of her younger sisters. This gave the enemy a most powerful bargaining weapon. Yet she continued to reject all of their principal demands, with the result that her sisters, to whom she was deeply devoted, remained in capitivity for many years. Nzinga was particularly ruthless with captured Black chiefs who were allies of the whites. She did not hesitate to sell such chiefs and their followers into slavery... she was one of the first Blacks to see that the Portugese conquests, the trade of prisoners-of-war, and the church were all inseparably, one and the same. The long years of warfare had been equally against all three, the unholy Trinity. She never surrended to any."
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pg 141 in Robinson, Battle & Robinson's The Journey of the Songhai People

[Baba Ahmed]

"...we shall continue on our present ruinous way until we wake up and retrace our steps to our ancestral system of culturally appropriate education, and then develop it.

The pertinent question to ask is not how other societies educate but how did our ancestors socialize and acculturate their children for their environment?

The answer does not lie in copying how other societies conduct their own training. There's so much to learn from what our ancestors did. If we find out how we did it in ancient times, we can then adapt from it and make a new version that will serve our new situation. What they did is still relevant. After all, we still live in the same ecosystem as they did. And they mastered how to live in it, which is why we have survived so far. And we should gratefully use their legacy to our benefit."

Chinweizu

[Baba Ahmed]

"Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion."

Paulo Freire
Pedagogy of the Oppressed

[Baba Ahmed]

"Your philosophy determines your thought pattern;
Your thought pattern determines your attitude;
Your attitude determines your behavior pattern; and
Your behavior pattern determines your actions."

Anthony T. Browder
The Browder Files

[Baba Ahmed]

"One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap."

Ida B. Wells

[Baba Ahmed]

"School never stopped me from participating in the social life of my community. In those years, not even one percent of us who went to French elementary school succeeded in graduating from high school. It did not enter our young heads that we would be among the one percent.

Just because we were going to school, our parents did not stop educating us in the ways of our traditional culture.

In no way would they have entrusted the moral upbringing of their children to the hands of the white people. They (the French) did not understand what school was supposed to be or produce."

YaYa Diallo & Mitchell Hall
The Healing Drum: Ancient Wisdom Teachings

[Baba Ahmed]

"When a Black man has his lady, he has everything."

B.B. King...blues singing musician

[Baba Ahmed]

"If you are the son of a man who had a wealthy estate and you inherit your father's estate, you have to pay off the debts that your father incurred before he died.

The only reason that the present generation of white Americans are in a position of economic strength is because their fathers worked our fathers for over 400 years with no pay. We were sold from plantation to plantation like you sell a horse, or a cow, or a chicken, or a bushel of wheat.

All that money is what gives the present generation of American whites the ability to walk around the earth with their chest out like they have some kind of economic ingenuity. Your father isn't here to pay. My father isn't here to collect.

But I'm here to collect and you're here to pay."

Omowale Malcolm X

[Baba Ahmed]

"A man trains a man and a woman a woman."

Akan (Afrikan) proverb

[Baba Ahmed]

Marcus Garvey, School of African Philosophy (1937)

It must be the mission of all Negroes to have pride in their race. To think of the race in the highest terms of human living. To think that God made the race perfect, that there is no one better than you, that you have the elements of human perfection and as such you must love yourselves.

Love yourselves better than anyone else. All beauty is in you and not outside of you, for God made you beautiful. Confine your affection, therefore, to your own race and God will bless you and men will honour you.

[Baba Ahmed]

"As a model of what African autonomy was and could be again, pre-European Africa is a beacon from the past showing us the harbor from which our ship of history foundered into a night of storms half a millennium ago. It challenges us to embark upon cultural repair through desatellization and through the restoration of our total historical initiative."

Chinweizu
The West and the rest of us

[Baba Ahmed]

"We not runnin' anything in America, but our mouths."

Professor Griff

[Baba Ahmed]

"Our elevation as a race is almost wholly dependent upon our own exertions. If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be, by our lives and the lives of others."


Frederick Douglass
Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass