Home Boy makes Good

[anansi]

Personally inspiring to me I hope my sauces will get to that level soon hope your enterprises will too

[anansi]

[truthteacher2007]

This is an excellent thread. However, I'm dismayed that its only received 18 views and no replies. Yet if this was a thread on the latest DNA findings of the Egyptians, it would have hits in the thousands. Is it just me, or does anyone else think we've taken a wrong turn at Albequerqui?

I think we spen so much time wrangling over Egypt and what color they were and are and whose a real Egyptian yatta,yatta,yatta, tht we've missed the significance of gthe question/ issue in the first place. It was to show that contrary to what we were told, Africa was not a continent of darkness and that a black skin or descent form someone of dark skin was not proof of a badge of intellectual inferiority. It was simply the 1st stepping stone to psychological strength and maturity. Yet so many of us are still stuck at pint one.

These videos are an example of where we need to be looking and what we need to be considering in order to achieve and maintain freedom. These individuals are giving us insights into the thought processes of successful people. They have high self esteem not because someone told them that the Egyptians were Black, but because someone told them the limits of what they could be was only measured by the limits of their minds. They were and are stead fastly focused on the hear and now and creating the future tomorrow.

So to tie in with your other thread on hidden messages in the media, these are the kinds of things our children need to be seeing. People today who are making their dreams come true and are sucessfull by any standards and how they were able to achieve these goals. What their thought processes are etc.

Now don't get me wrong. I don't believe that we should forget about the past. I simply believe that too many of us don't know what its significance is and therfore, we don't know how to use it effectively. Finding ireffutable proof that Egyptians were Black so we can win arguments with Neo Nazis is pointless. They will still hate us because this is a society built of the premise that in order to prosper, there must be a ruling class and there must be a servant class. The notion that we all can rise together is not a part of their world view. So pyramids be damned, they still want their toilets cleaned, their babies sat and their strawberries picked and as long as they don't have to be on the bottom, they don't care if their janitor ancestors were the parents of huminity or if his name is Nefertiti or king Tut.

Our young people need to se that there are people of color in society who have achieved wealth and power and they did it not by selling weed for Ray, Ray, hoein in some video or on the corner, nor playing ball. If you ask the average person to name you 2 black billionares who have nothing to do with entertainment what would they tell you? Better yet, ask them to name 2 black scientists today. How many even know such creatures exist?

[anansi]

Nov 29, 2010 12:53:15 GMT -5 truthteacher2007 said:

This is an excellent thread. However, I'm dismayed that its only received 18 views and no replies. Yet if this was a thread on the latest DNA findings of the Egyptians, it would have hits in the thousands. Is it just me, or does anyone else think we've taken a wrong turn at Albequerqui?

I think we spen so much time wrangling over Egypt and what color they were and are and whose a real Egyptian yatta,yatta,yatta, tht we've missed the significance of gthe question/ issue in the first place. It was to show that contrary to what we were told, Africa was not a continent of darkness and that a black skin or descent form someone of dark skin was not proof of a badge of intellectual inferiority. It was simply the 1st stepping stone to psychological strength and maturity. Yet so many of us are still stuck at pint one.

These videos are an example of where we need to be looking and what we need to be considering in order to achieve and maintain freedom. These individuals are giving us insights into the thought processes of successful people. They have high self esteem not because someone told them that the Egyptians were Black, but because someone told them the limits of what they could be was only measured by the limits of their minds. They were and are stead fastly focused on the hear and now and creating the future tomorrow.

So to tie in with your other thread on hidden messages in the media, these are the kinds of things our children need to be seeing. People today who are making their dreams come true and are sucessfull by any standards and how they were able to achieve these goals. What their thought processes are etc.

Now don't get me wrong. I don't believe that we should forget about the past. I simply believe that too many of us don't know what its significance is and therfore, we don't know how to use it effectively. Finding ireffutable proof that Egyptians were Black so we can win arguments with Neo Nazis is pointless. They will still hate us because this is a society built of the premise that in order to prosper, there must be a ruling class and there must be a servant class. The notion that we all can rise together is not a part of their world view. So pyramids be damned, they still want their toilets cleaned, their babies sat and their strawberries picked and as long as they don't have to be on the bottom, they don't care if their janitor ancestors were the parents of huminity or if his name is Nefertiti or king Tut.

Our young people need to se that there are people of color in society who have achieved wealth and power and they did it not by selling weed for Ray, Ray, hoein in some video or on the corner, nor playing ball. If you ask the average person to name you 2 black billionares who have nothing to do with entertainment what would they tell you? Better yet, ask them to name 2 black scientists today. How many even know such creatures exist?

TruthTeacher2007 excellent write up,and I thank all 18 viewers for if but just one was inspired or shared this information especially with younger family members/students and they became inspired to do great things it would have well been worth it.
Much of this vid series was reposted from PositivelyBlackstories on youtube I encourage members to subscribe to his channel.

[Dawn2Earth]

Well i can't wait until we live in an era where that question (an ancient dead and gone state's race) doesn't matter to more people.

I agree with what you said about that debating thing. History was never really my thing leave for foreign history about different cultures, or the rare juicy story. Now i've learned more about U.S. History as well though. I must admit to some vanity being there at onset of my interest in this stuff. Against the backdrop of shoddy and "ghetto" scholarship, and obvious bias (back peddling, like when "cannibal savages" are found out to be the dawn of civilization), etc stemming from the early modern era to the 1930s, some pretty insightful individuals reveal the ways of their studiousness: honesty, integrity, and critical thinking as well as not adding anything to the picture and sticking to the script. I too though don't see the point in getting riled up over things people have down decades and centuries ago -- it's just like the comparison between modern and old-school methodology in terms of evidential convictions they went over in that program Crime Scene Investigation; some of the older stuff they came up with simply didn't stand up to today's standards, and laughably so.

As far as the using black figures in history vs. successful black figures today thing goes, especially when their isn't really a cultural connection with the former, i see a clear advantage in the latter. Cuz the kid sees figures from toda that they can relate to especially when she or he's at that coming of age age.

And an interest in Africa, Asia, or anywhere else is ok but i'm about respect and some historical circles, like the raciallist "Negro willows the whisps everywhere except Africa/diaspora" circle where they look for any "afro" and "black" culture everywhere on the globe but their home town (black America / Africa etc) kind of patronizingly disrespects black people.

[anansi]

Dec 2, 2010 1:03:19 GMT -5 Dawn2Earth said:

Well i can't wait until we live in an era where that question (an ancient dead and gone state's race) doesn't matter to more people.

I agree with what you said about that debating thing. History was never really my thing leave for foreign history about different cultures, or the rare juicy story. Now i've learned more about U.S. History as well though. I must admit to some vanity being there at onset of my interest in this stuff. Against the backdrop of shoddy and "ghetto" scholarship, and obvious bias (back peddling, like when "cannibal savages" are found out to be the dawn of civilization), etc stemming from the early modern era to the 1930s, some pretty insightful individuals reveal the ways of their studiousness: honesty, integrity, and critical thinking as well as not adding anything to the picture and sticking to the script. I too though don't see the point in getting riled up over things people have down decades and centuries ago -- it's just like the comparison between modern and old-school methodology in terms of evidential convictions they went over in that program Crime Scene Investigation; some of the older stuff they came up with simply didn't stand up to today's standards, and laughably so.

As far as the using black figures in history vs. successful black figures today thing goes, especially when their isn't really a cultural connection with the former, i see a clear advantage in the latter. Cuz the kid sees figures from toda that they can relate to especially when she or he's at that coming of age age.

And an interest in Africa, Asia, or anywhere else is ok but i'm about respect and some historical circles, like the raciallist "Negro willows the whisps everywhere except Africa/diaspora" circle where they look for any "afro" and "black" culture everywhere on the globe but their home town (black America / Africa etc) kind of patronizingly disrespects black people.

Well Dawn, like I have always said the works of your ancestors is not your own, we didn't build pyramids they did, we may draw inspiration,build on what was built,learnt lesson from the pass both of triumph and failures,but bragging?? no!! that was the works of your ancestors make your own history.