TALKING AND THINKING OUT LOUD: WHAT TIME IS IT?
By Fahim A. Knight-El
Let me start this article off by sharing this principle: Whatever
Path that we are on and, perhaps unknowing to the majority of
humanity this march had already been preordained before we embarked upon
our earthly trek and even started before our birth conception); and it's not
accidental or incidental nor even coincidental of where we are in
space and time. We are supposed to be on our journey, whatever that may be and
wherever it has taken us up until that point in our lives and the beauty in it all, it
does not necessarily means this is where the journey begins or ends. But in the
essence, of space and time relative to the universal order of things
various Paths are shown and given to us as principles of spiritual
preparation. These lessons will eventually give us meaning to this
thing called life and as we travel our personal journey, the
road will eventually continuously reward us with enlightenment (in particular
the Prepared Ones and those who are opened to receive). I am a living witness
that it will always provide us with some answers along the
way—experienced through trial and error. However, as I just
stated wherever, we are in mind, body and spirit, it will always
provide us with the acknowledgement of the Now. It is only our
experiences good, bad and/or indifferent, which gives life meaning and purpose
in particular, those experiences that we have already had, and those
that we will eventually have in the future and beyond, that will move us along
in our spiritual journey; and this is the only true reality and it was
this that brought me some years ago to the crossroads with organized religion.
This reality, will at time cause us to debunk some things in
order to clear a way for another necessary Path, but each step along the way
will either validate the truths that we have previously found and embraced, or require us to rethink those positions. I think those of us who professed to
be awake and conscious, see all forms of religion as being reactionary;
however, this at times can deny us the opportunity and privilege of being
the beneficiary to walking into a sanctuary where truth and enlightenment
may be taking place. I think Western Christianity has this negative stigma and
it becomes difficult to see beyond the church historically serving as the
chief vessel of white supremacy, oppression and global tyranny. Yet, I do think
it is shallow not to investigate and determine for ourselves, if there is some
real philosophical, theological and spiritual validity being offered by
whomever regardless of the title and label of the institution.
The social and psychological make up of
the so-called African American (American black man and woman) and his present day
behavior and dysfunctional conduct cannot be downplayed in relation to being tied
directly to his 310 years of brutality and forced servitude in which they
were victims of one of the most inhumane systems ever recorded in human
history, which was Chattel Slavery (citing facts not crying victimization
or seeking a pity party).
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the
Middle Passage in relations to the inhumanness carried out on the slave
plantation cannot be overlooked (I have documentation and proof of
scholars who have provided us with empirical studies validating that the
slavery experience was horrid and traumatic—the psychological effect is on-going).
Our forcible travel to the Americas, as slaves, which historically has
tied our roots to all the major and minor slave ports of South America,
North America and the Caribbean region of this western hemisphere. We have
to be open to receiving the knowledge of self because we were systematically
made blind, deaf and dumb by a wise perpetrator of evil and not knowing this,
places all of us at a disadvantage. There are still many
so-called African Americans evoking the slave master's God and
often fail to understand that our belonging to Christianity was forced upon us
on the slave plantation; surely many of our African ancestors were not
Christians. I cannot accept his religion nor his God; I can only accept and
receive the God of the Oppressed and he definitely would not be in the form of
no blue-eyed white God falsely depicted as Jesus.
I disagreed with Elijah Muhammad's son,
Imam Warth Deen Mohammed on many theological and philosophical issues who in
1975 started revamping the Nation of Islam after the death of its patriarch (note: Those who are followers of Minister Louis Farrakhan do not teach or believe that the Honorable Elijah Muhammad is dead) and
in essence betraying his father’s teachings and mission. But Imam Mohammed
started a campaign may be in the early 1980s called the Committee to Remove
All Images of Divine (CRAID) and I
have always felt that this was a good concept because the Eurocentric
mind had for centuries perpetuated the inferior races being associated with
dark skinned people and the so-called superior races being associated with
white skinned people in which they portrayed themselves with the racial likeness
of God in particular embodied in a Caucasian image of Jesus.
Imam Mohammed’s CRAID concept was a challenge to how the Divine was depicted in western culture in which he believed these false images of the Divine have had a negative and devastating effect on human relations. Imam Mohammed went on a public crusade to remove all images of the Divine, but I do not think his efforts ever gained any serious steam (other than Imam Mohammed’s book titled, “An African American Genesis” and his CRAID movement there was not to much else that I agreed with the Imam on and I definitely did not accept his position on Sunni Islam). I also do not accept the white man's God or his religion of Christianity—it has always been the missionaries’ mission to rob the indigenous people of their minds and lay the theoretical framework for the imperialist and the colonialist to steal original people's lands and resources throughout the planet—this agenda is even being continued under the so-called African American President Barack Obama.
Imam Mohammed’s CRAID concept was a challenge to how the Divine was depicted in western culture in which he believed these false images of the Divine have had a negative and devastating effect on human relations. Imam Mohammed went on a public crusade to remove all images of the Divine, but I do not think his efforts ever gained any serious steam (other than Imam Mohammed’s book titled, “An African American Genesis” and his CRAID movement there was not to much else that I agreed with the Imam on and I definitely did not accept his position on Sunni Islam). I also do not accept the white man's God or his religion of Christianity—it has always been the missionaries’ mission to rob the indigenous people of their minds and lay the theoretical framework for the imperialist and the colonialist to steal original people's lands and resources throughout the planet—this agenda is even being continued under the so-called African American President Barack Obama.
There is a historical and cultural
collective conscious that bonds people of African descent and I advise all my
readers to reference Dr. Joy DeGruy-Leary’s book titled, “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome:
America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing”. Our Black youths need to know: who,
how, what, where, when and why they entered; moreover, and we cannot have this
type discussion in mid-sentence and not give them the historical reason of why
we are in this present day condition, as opposed to given them the abbreviated
version and the watered down truth, why not give them the unadulterated
truth with no chaser. The system of white supremacy cannot exist without blame
and our present day political, economic and social status must be viewed in that context and the indictment of a criminal system that made us "Negroes"
and vagabonds of the earth is justifiable. So I am challenging all of my readers to look
deeper into black human personality and not just be surface thinkers and
compassionate intellectuals.
Why are we in this present day predicament?
And to understand this will give us an even greater understanding of the root
causes of why present day black families have broken down, black men walking
away from their families (wives and children), and our lack of love for one
another, it now constitute a pervasiveness of violence seen among young black
males between the ages 18-24. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has
reported that homicide has become the number one killer of young black
males in this particular age group—the lack of opportunities, high
unemployment, drug and alcohol addictions, poor housing, underfunded school
districts and often the selling of illicit drugs are seen as the only way
out of the black ghettos of America . These conditions have
become systemic and it plays into the question of genocide and we must
question, who is really behind this state of emergency? The vicious cycles of
poverty and lack of real opportunity has created a permanent black underclass, which
also includes poor whites and Latinos within this equation in the United States of America .
But race and class gives other oppressed and marginalized people the false
perception that somehow their racial status allows them to view themselves and
their oppression from the realm of white privilege and it is this that
separates them from other oppressed people in the United States of America
(this is perhaps the biggest trick that keeps people divided in the U.S.).
So-called Black leadership has failed to
render any tangible solutions to these crisis facing black people other than
preaching our dependency on the federal government—they have failed to adhere
to the handwriting on the wall, which is, our government is bankrupt and we may
see the end to social programs in the United States within the next decade. The
so-called shutdown of the U.S. Government and the debt ceiling needing to be
raised in order to keep the U.S. economy from collapsing and having global
implications are clear signs that something terribly wrong has gone on inside of
our government, it more importantly points to the fact that someone has the
power to induce these type symptoms in order to profit from human misery. Senator Rand Paul and his Tea Party cadre will never attack the real
enemies of American freedoms because to do this would represent the demise of
his and their careers as a politician (no liberty is going to take place until
the power brokers are dealt with).
Therefore, it is easy to hide behind fiscal
conservatism and attack the poor and scapegoat America ’s economic woes to the
least of these (poor people has no power to fight back). Yet, those who control
the smoking mirrors will continue to masquerade under the guise of the Hidden
Hand and Congressman Paul will do everything in his power to shield them from
being exposed. I am
of the opinion, that God himself would directly has to intervene in the affairs
of men and women in order to deal with these diabolic evil forces that
are governing and leading humanity. But here is the reality, since 9/11
and 2008 economic depression or conveniently referred to as an economic meltdown,
it forced some of us to wake up, but most people will continue to be
only good 'sheepel' and voluntarily led to the slaughter. The entire money
system has been set-up to benefit the international bankers; they intentionally
sold us a false bill of goods. Minister Malcolm X said in the early 1960s
that the American dream was more like an American nightmare. There is no real
ownership in America
this is an illusion and they systematically carryout this illusion by
selling us money (when you buy by credit they are actually selling you money)
in which money of itself has no value, but it is given as an accepted form of
medium of exchange.
The Congress would rather see a total
collapse of the U.S. Government and its brought to its knees before working to
establish a long term budget that serve and meet the needs of the American
people (this attitude is beyond political opposition, but its rooted in the
deepest sentiments of American style racism and they have determined to take no
orders or directives from a America’s so-called black president). The Fall of
America is at hand and it is inevitable because the pendulum has swung in the
wrong direction for America
and its 6,000 year rulership is coming to an abrupt end. Black Leadership in
2013 has to be innovative and creative in order for us to make the transition
from 20th century ideas because 9/11 and the year of 2001 marked the beginning
and demise of this world's order and it has forced us to move towards
finding our place in the 21st Century concept of globalism. And this will be
the indicator to determining, if we meet the challenges of survival and/or do
we fizzle away as an obsolete people who has out served their
usefulness and purpose.
The leadership and the United States Government should be focusing
on how do we move our nation more towards this competitive
and fast moving global economy. We were thirty years ago once the number
one creditor nation in the world and now have become the number one
debtor nation of the world. Something has gone terribly wrong with the
course and plight of the political, economic and social direction of the United States of America . How
willing are the people to truly move beyond a dumbfound Tea Party era that has
taking our nation on a collision course and in collusion with a conservative
and reactionary U.S. Congress who are behind shaping and molding public policy?
The recent events (government shutdown) threaten the economic stability of the entire U.S. Government. There already exist a wealth disparity in which 95% of the world's wealth is in the hands of 1% Elitist population and it's this basic inequality that keeps poor, middle class and working class people fighting for economic crumbs (there must be a redistribution of the world's wealth and resources with the masses of the people). They have literally created two classes of people the "haves and the Have nots' Our immediate focus should be on how do we move, perhaps one of the most industrialized and technological nation’s in the world from being number 35th in science and 29th in math forward in the 21st Century. We are far behindChina ,
Korea , India ,
Japan ,
etc., in the sciences and this is why we are lagging in
technological advancement.
The recent events (government shutdown) threaten the economic stability of the entire U.S. Government. There already exist a wealth disparity in which 95% of the world's wealth is in the hands of 1% Elitist population and it's this basic inequality that keeps poor, middle class and working class people fighting for economic crumbs (there must be a redistribution of the world's wealth and resources with the masses of the people). They have literally created two classes of people the "haves and the Have nots' Our immediate focus should be on how do we move, perhaps one of the most industrialized and technological nation’s in the world from being number 35th in science and 29th in math forward in the 21st Century. We are far behind
Most of our so-called leaders are cloned
puppets who are always looking to appear politically correct and are often
bought and paid for by corporate entities—this is where their
interest lie. The best example would be Reverend Al Sharpton typifies and
exemplifies the term opportunistic (here is his latest venture a new book
titled, “The Rejected Stone: Al Sharpton and the Path to
American Leadership“); he is more concern about window dressing
and what he and his organization National Action Network can get from corporate
sponsorship, as opposed to championing real civil right causes to benefit the
black poor and oppressed—these ‘Negroes are playing the money chase game and
justice and freedom is a second distances to lining their personal pockets with
corporate grants and other financial incentives. These type 'Negro' leaders are
paid millions of dollars to keep the black masses under control and depended
upon white America
for food, clothing and shelter.
What would Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
think of today’s black leadership who fifty years ago in 1963, perhaps
delivered one of the most symbolic and iconic speeches ever to be spoken in
American history (the ‘ I Have a Dream’ speech). The Fifty Year Commemoration
Celebration of the March on Washington held on or about August 28 2013, was not
even a shadow of the sacrifices that was associated with the King led civil
rights movement, it has become a movement of nostalgic dreamers and have lost
King’s ideas about transformation and activism—since King’s assassination the
civil rights movement is at a point what I call political stagnation. Our political,
economic and social conditions are worst off today than they were fifty years
ago because they lured us to sleep with integration and sold us on the fight
for accommodation and so-called inclusion as being the ultimate solution to
social progress.
However, Jim Crow laws, racism and discrimination forced African Americans to create a separate economy and to build independent enterprises (this should have led us by now to reassess and reevaluate the question of separation versus integration). I think history would prove that blacks were better off under segregation because it forced us to do for-self and to build black institutions. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad called integration a hypocritical trick indeed this man was a visionary in which he stated, “my teachings can be summed up in six words, ‘accept your own and be yourself’. King put it all on the line for the quest of justice and freedom and had reached a zone that only has been reserved for the prophets, spiritual teachers, gurus, sages, etc., where their lives were meant to have meaning beyond the ordinary, but would be called to shape and serve humanity in extraordinary ways. Many of us in two life times will never reach this ultimate spiritual place. King got there and he was able to meet Buddha, Confucius, Zoroaster, Jesus, Muhammad, etc.
However, Jim Crow laws, racism and discrimination forced African Americans to create a separate economy and to build independent enterprises (this should have led us by now to reassess and reevaluate the question of separation versus integration). I think history would prove that blacks were better off under segregation because it forced us to do for-self and to build black institutions. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad called integration a hypocritical trick indeed this man was a visionary in which he stated, “my teachings can be summed up in six words, ‘accept your own and be yourself’. King put it all on the line for the quest of justice and freedom and had reached a zone that only has been reserved for the prophets, spiritual teachers, gurus, sages, etc., where their lives were meant to have meaning beyond the ordinary, but would be called to shape and serve humanity in extraordinary ways. Many of us in two life times will never reach this ultimate spiritual place. King got there and he was able to meet Buddha, Confucius, Zoroaster, Jesus, Muhammad, etc.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad stated there were three things that
the Caucasian did not teach us Black people: 1). The science of mating.
2). The science of warfare and 3). The science of business. They (the
Hidden Hand and/or Elitist) have mastered the science of symbolism and is
moving around quite effectively in systems of codes and has allowed them
to built an internal and external networking system that
further allows them to dictate high/low finance which constitutes their
present day past global success; how business will play out and who are
going to be the players, is beyond are allowable capabilities as pawns in their
system. Their networking system is impenetrable because of class and race (we
will never get an invitation into his Dynastic world because of the lack of
generational wealth) and although, his present world looks to be striving and
moving forward, but in reality it has reached its zenith and it is in a decline
and downward spiral (his 6,000 year rule is coming to an end).
The United States Dollar is worthless and weak and the evidence of
its vulnerability was seen in 2008, when the United States almost entered into a
second Great Depression relative to the banking system and the financial
markets experiencing a drastic meltdown. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said in
"Fall of America" that when we see the automobile and the steel
industries collapse that will be the indication his total economic decline was
nearing (the pendulum has swung opposite and contrary to his favor). So me
believing in this reality, it's difficult for me to advise anyone to follow after
any of their economic models and using any portion of his success as a model
would be a terrible mistake. The Messenger taught us for 44 years to get some
of this good earth that we can call our own (land is the basis of wealth and
sovereignty) and he also said that we should have money, good homes and
friendships in all walks of life (but his most profound principle was get up
and do something for ourselves).
Yet, if I was a commodity tradesman or adviser, I would advise my people to secure and invest in gold markets (and silver) and even when the dollar totally falls, gold will still have value (this is why the wise amongst us are buying up the gold). Also, the concept of bartering should be explored where no currency is exchanged for goods and services, but skills, intellectual property and tangible goods are exchanged and interchanged as non-monetary forms of commodities. The Jews in Tel Aviv, Israel and in Europe, as well as the United States are heavily involved on every level of the lucrative gold market (most of these precious metals can be found right there in black Africa) and yet we have no trade arrangement with our people in Africa in which many are Muslims.
Yet, if I was a commodity tradesman or adviser, I would advise my people to secure and invest in gold markets (and silver) and even when the dollar totally falls, gold will still have value (this is why the wise amongst us are buying up the gold). Also, the concept of bartering should be explored where no currency is exchanged for goods and services, but skills, intellectual property and tangible goods are exchanged and interchanged as non-monetary forms of commodities. The Jews in Tel Aviv, Israel and in Europe, as well as the United States are heavily involved on every level of the lucrative gold market (most of these precious metals can be found right there in black Africa) and yet we have no trade arrangement with our people in Africa in which many are Muslims.
Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK
located in Durham , NC ; our mission is
to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers
that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden
meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the
world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared
to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the
slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-EL can be
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Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-El
Fahim A. Knight-El
2 comments:
Peace Brother Fahim --
As always, excellent article. I was especially drawn to what you said about so many of us worshipping the God of our oppressors. That has to be one of the biggest obstacles we still face as a people. Indeed, we were spiritual before we were enslaved, but the European, whose goal it was to make us fearful and ignorant of our true selves, has managed to keep us fearful and ignorant by fabricating a false ideology of invisible mystery gods and demons. When we study the ancient Kemetic philosophy, as well as the West African religions and traditions of our ancestors, we see that there really is nothing like the so-called Devil of European Christianity. There are of course forces that trick, befuddle, confuse, hurt, oppress, and tempt us, but our ancestors knew no fear because they knew the Most High was the supreme power and that the Most High could not be beat by these evil forces. But the European told us that if we did not obey him, his God would send us to some pit of hellfire to be tortured and maimed for eternity by some sadistic fallen angel. This belief still holds many of us back today.
Also (and I'm sure you are well aware of this), I'd like to add that we have been following the teachings of Yeshua much longer than the Europeans have. Most people believe that black Africans knew nothing of that sage until the slave master forced Christianity upon him. Of course, this is a lie, because the black Egyptians and Ethiopians were following the teachings centuries before the Europeans were. This so-called Christianity that our people practice must be called out for what it is: a shackle around our limbs, one that is keeping us from coming into knowledge of self. The European has appropriated and hijacked OUR religions and traditions, bastardized and warped them, and used them to enslave us. It truly is sad to see so many of my people blinded.
Thank you good brother for those thoughtful comments. Once again I always appreciate your insight and knowledge, it kind of let you know that you are not on a lonely island by yourself when I come across brothers such as yourself. I love to read other people's comments in particular, those that have the ability to think outside the box. They stole it and we must return it in which the challenge is to get our people to move away from that slave mentality. I have found little use for their schools of thought because I know that they used Christianity (or better yet what Constantine concocted in 325 A.D. at the Council of Nicea) to keep us docile and under control which was a systematic and strategic deviation from what Nubians had established for thousands of years in the Coptic Church found in Kush (Ethiopia) and Kemet (Egypt) surely African Christianity predated the western version by centuries. I first was exposed to this knowledge by reading the works of Dr. Curtis E. Alexander.
Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-El
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