“Grossly high percentages of Black men flooded towards…an almost mythical entertainment industry…to capture a taste of its success…upon a poor people’s springboard to wealth based ‘prestige.’
“…within Afro urban life there’s…an almost narcotic like lure towards…the underworld life of gangs…Now, men who once felt humiliated (and subjugated) …former outcasts wielded a new sense of power…
“…once impressionable children…survived condensed…deterioration and [fell] prey…transformed…into heartless, desperate, young adult animals…a direct result of…neglect and short sightedness…from so-called Afro-American institutional leaders…”
Trouble In Black Paradise, Chapter 14: THE BIBLE AS A WEAPON IN THE WAR ON GAYS, pages 291-297.
“Mental bondage is invisible violence. Formal physical slavery has ended in the United States.
Mental Slavery continues to this present day.
“This slavery affects the minds of all people and, in one way, it is worse than physical slavery alone. That is, the person who is in mental bondage will be ‘self-contained.
“Not only will that person fail to challenge beliefs and patterns of thought which control him, he will defend and protect those beliefs and patterns of thought virtually with his last dying effort.
“Read George G.M. James and ‘Free Your Mind.’ “
STOLEN LEGACY: The Greeks were not the authors of Greek Philosophy, but the people of North Africa, commonly called the Egyptians. (1954) By George G. M. James; Introduction to 1988 Reprint by Asa G. Hilliard, Ed.D. and Fuller E. Calloway, Professor of Education, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.
“Whites have consistently been portrayed and perceived as superior, powerful, and right.
“…almost four centuries of legalized abuse, programmed enslavement, and institutionalized oppression can be seen today…the resulting Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome has impacted…many African Americans.
“To believe otherwise is nonsensical.”
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy Of Enduring Injury & Healing, Chapter 4: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, Pages 116-118.
FEATURE IMAGE:
Kanye West announces his surprise presidential candidacy on July 19th, 2020. at the Exquis Event Center in North Charleston, South Carolina. photo by Lauren Petracca- petracca/The Post And Courier via AP.
Greetings hunkered down readers!
Blacks slipping up into fame—strictly worshiping “self-centeredness”—not guided by the “Fiery Birth Canal of Consciousness”—buildup the tragedy that triggers widescale…
Trouble In Black Paradise.
TMZ had opened its daily edition blaring with breaking news! Given all the nonstop media craziness this fanfare still drew my shock:
Kanye West threw his hat into the “presidential ring”—actually running during this election’s crucial final stretch!
TMZ’s media captain Harvey Levin and sidekick Charles—immersed in celebrity revelry—focused this announcement around the edges of Kanye’s current erratic behavior, after already running with other head spinner developments: foremost being Kanye’s apparent mental breakdown relapse—it now might threaten to breakup his marriage.
Kim Kardashian is compelled to publicly address his bi-polar struggles—she stresses the difficulty of influencing a resistant adult who has mental illness issues.
Animated by concern Harvey and Charles poured over Kanye’s bipolar flare-up “probabilities,” drawing out the crisis’s many implications—much being particularly triggered during his deceased mother Donda’s anniversaries. Obviously, things get compounded by public incidents that only grow.
But speaking for the room’s “blatant elephant” I smell a huge, attempted “spoiler effect!”
U.S. President Donald Trump hugs rapper Kanye West during a meeting in the Oval office of the White House on October 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kanye who was a world traveled upper-middleclass child grew to admire the “dragon energy” of narcissistic, misogynist “thug life,” rose to success thru “gangsta rap,” and now virtually worships extremist right-winged ideology. Its no surprise he now idles as a role model the misogynist, white supremacist, “gangster styled,” narcissistic president Trump. photo by Oliver Contreras – Pool/Getty Images.
TMZ though—in light of Trump’s glaring attempts to suppress Black votes—clearly tiptoed around Kanye’s “love-fest” connection with Trump. That implication took a fairly drawn-out backseat.
But real-world “consciousness” eyes aren’t distracted—we knew exactly what’s going on:
Its Trump’s political operatives—using Kanye’s mega Black “celebrity draw” status to weaken Biden’s chances!
Racist agents employ customary Afro grooming tactics—confident they can siphon off “starstruck Black votes!”
Standard analysts “wonder” if it’s even possible—practically dodging the troubling idea that Kanye is Trump’s enthusiastic strategy “participant!”
Evidence came quickly.
Trump campaign lawyer Lane Ruhland rushed to beat Wisconsin’s ballot deadline—to boldly add Kanye’s name. Operatives have now surfaced doing the same thing in several states.
So, reality did finally force TMZ to at least acknowledge the deeds. What’s disturbing though—at this delicate point in the effort to oust a trickster presidential monster—is another thing:
Black “voices” nationally being so silent—or, seemingly silenced!
John Legend is one who’s global celebrity platform immediately launched outrage—he called it like it is!
John Legend (at right) and Common gave a rousing August 20th performance for the 2020 Democratic National Convention of their Academy Award-winning song “Glory,” from the film “Selma.” The segment honored the late Georgia Rep. John Lewis. Legend passionately detailed his spoiler criticism of Kanye’s entering the presidential race. photo: DNC.
But a thing keeps getting jarred to the surface—in the blur of what becomes “idol” centered hoopla:
What should be of utmost concern is Kanye’s breakdowns themselves—and how this shows up within countless “average” Black lives.
Some very specific typical “subject matter” makeup the dynamics of his own outbursts:
Black social oppression; a towering love of Trump; intimate “personal family issues”; pushing his highly subjective idea of God’s plan; stressing what social fixit “action” should look like—added the “hungering” soapbox need to give preacher styled dissertations.
Conveniently Kanye employs a tactical marriage of showy pontificating to his trade promotion—hyping his various commercial brands on a highly worshiped global stage!
Yet, the constant garbled “loop” of these issues suggests they hit the heart of what both torments—and thrills him.
We remember the 2018 pop-up visit to TMZ’s offices where he enraged many Blacks:
Saying “400 years of American slavery was a choice”; offering his quick solution to America’s problems—true “freedom of speech” and “free love” revived.
Kanye did also attribute past disruptive behavior to prescribed “opioid medications.”
Van who was the show’s voice of Blackness (apparently no longer there) came forth and summarily rebuked Kanye. Sidekick Charles (the “other” Afro-American male) gave at best tepid responses—mostly remaining dumbfounded.
Last month the South Carolina campaign rally opener basically offered a repeat:
The new “Birthday Party” housed his candidacy; Harriet Tubman “didn’t free the slaves” (but only led them off to work for other white people); and he lamented about abortion—tearfully claiming his father wanted him aborted, just as Kanye had also wanted Kim to abort their child.
The rants reveal he truly “believes” Afro-America should and can just move on from modern chaotic reality—basically saying “get over it!”
But here’s what Kanye never ever offers on his mega, “global star” platform:
A clear definition of U.S. “systemic” racism!
To show what has actually transpired in American history—to give his sound “evidence” of a thoroughly deconstructed white power racism.
And of dire importance:
Statue of Egypt’s Queen Hatshepsut the Great. The clearly Afro 18th Dynasty (1550-1292 B.C.) was founded by Ahmose I who drove out the Hyksos Semites and reunited Egypt’s Two Lands. Hatshepsut (1473-1458) was a rare female pharaoh who left an impressive monument and architectural legacy. Among the illustrious rulers following her were Amenhotep III and the Nubian dowager Queen Tiy (1390-1352), Akhenaton and Queen Nefertiti (1352-1332) and their son Pharaoh Tutankhaten (1332-1323). CC BY-SA 2.0
He now turns the idea of highly advanced Afro empires into an exploited “novelty.”
It seems Kanye was only hit with the grandeur of traditional Africa after being awestruck by a comic book based movie.
Thus, his “fantasy” campaign hopes to recreate a dazzling Wakanda styled arena to preside over—not as Black Panther T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) who fought to preserve great Black traditions, but as cousin Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) who destroyed tradition while exploiting the splendor—to vengefully takeover and glamorously “rule!”
Other than that,
Kanye never discloses having a knowledge of ancient Black civilization “greatness!”
Like most Afro-Americans he’s lost with regards to digesting what the dynamics of great Black empires mean—when related to showing how modern Blacks have actually inherited those very “greatness” qualities—and what strategic tools knowing our specific historical knowledge offers to the plight of today’s oppressed Afro societies.
Otherwise Kanye would know our strategic tools were stolen—and discredited—by the very “social managers” he altruistically adores.
The heart of this Reparations “series” serves to validate why modern American slavery descendants are due compensation:
Showing just how sabotaged Reconstruction gave America’s racist system immense wielding power—outlining its maintenance trail that fully operates today—revealing what its mechanics and effects actually look like.
Concurrently I illuminate our vast “historical depth”—to show who we truly are!
All this so average citizens facing inevitable discussions are armed with Reparations knowledge!
Significant here is that racism’s engine not only blatantly disenfranchises Black people “economically”—it insidiously eats away Afro spirituality
To make Black mental foundations “unstable.”
For many it’s hard to swallow, but the perfect tool to do so—still being “religiously” clung to—out of all the interpreted Christian doctrine “choices”—is white power’s age-old slavery weapon:
“Radicalized Christianity!”
I’ve shown how “radicalized” Christianity:
“…reorients vulnerable psyches… justifies stunting empathy, hospitality and loyalty to integrity—blurring lines that distinguish truth from flagrant fraud.
“Sabotages intimacy—destroying one’s allegiance to protecting one’s self, or others—especially if they’re ‘outsider’ underdogs.
“Families are literally convinced to violently attack and discard their precious ‘own.’
“It snuffs out the ‘Average Joe’s’ desire to intellectually grow (people being convinced that the authoritative religion tells them all they need to know)…
“Thus, worshiping ‘whiteness,’ white politic and its immoral structure became legally essential—with violent, murderous Christian pushback now being not only approved, but demanded—to tower over resistors.”
The large mud brick temple, known as the Western Deffufa in the ancient city of Kerma, Sudan. Black civilization is the birthplace of social “democracy”—not Greece. The Kingdom of Kerma in the northeast Black populace lands of Kush, just down the Nile from ancient Meroe City, is thought to have hit its metropolitan zenith at 2500-1500 B.C.—its known civilization dates back into the 6th millennium B.C. (well before King Menes headed north to found Egypt, establishing the Lower Land capital Memphis in 3100 B.C.). When the Hyksos ruled Egypt’s northern end Kerma soundly controlled Upper Egypt. Kerma’s Nubian name is Doki, meaning “Red Hill.” Renown for having extremely skilled archers, warriors, hunters, fishers, livestock tenders, crafts-persons and abundant gold mines—drawing grand trade attraction—it was a prime intellectual, industriously innovative and “spiritual” seat of dazzling Black culture. Being one of the earliest Nile Valley urban centers metro Kerma predates Christ’s birth by over 2,500 years. CC BY 2.0
In his book “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass—An American Slave,” Douglass warns us:
“What I have said…against religion I mean strictly…the slaveholding religion of this land…with no possible reference to Christianity proper…
“…for between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference—so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked…
“To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other.”
Interestingly one Christian sect—whose roots are squarely set in “Protestant creed”—offers the extreme opposite of being “Radicalized.” Its long history of “liberalism” promotes “Human Rights” activism.
The “Unitarian Universalist” denomination’s theology promotes a:
“…free and responsible search for truth and meaning…[emphasizing]..the attainment of ‘spiritual growth’…
“…personal experience, conscience, reasoning and keeping an ‘open mind’ is the cornerstone…to achieve this, many theological sources across the religious/philosophical board are drawn upon.”
Few Black Churches have sought ideologies outside of “fundamentalism,” that reflect Unitarian “creed”—even when “Human Rights” values stood foremost in alternative “bases” (as opposed to Southern Baptists condemning already ostracized groups with dehumanizing persecution).
Many spiritualists and alternative healthcare advocates though, have assessed why:
Statue of Pharaoh Tanutamon, 25th Dynasty (730-656 B.C.). Founded by Nubian King Shabaka its the only Dynasty conventional scholars declare to be of Black origin. The heir to his magnificent uncle Pharaoh Taharqa (who had liberated Jerusalem from Assyria and was celebrated in the Bible’s pages) Pharaoh Tanutamon gave a last gasp to his line of brilliant, tactical Black leadership—he drove back north from Meroe City to reconquer Egypt up to the Mediterranean Delta and slew Necho (the Asian Egyptian general). It put the Two Lands back in the hands of Ethiopia’s children who were the “original” founders. The Kerma Museum. CC BY-SA 3.0
An innovative 1980’s psychiatric field for human justice modeled a totally new concept—”social therapy”; they addressed the system as the cause behind Black internal chaos—the vicious Afro shortsightedness towards humanity, avoidance of progress “tools” (and gargantuan “mistrust” of Black Leadership itself)—conditions we call
“Oppression Sickness.”
Just as another preeminent Black female scholar Dr. Joy DeGruy nails this condition with her groundbreaking book’s title:
“Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome.”
Whites absolutely knew “religious” slave psychology must be ironclad employed—to mentally jail such blazing Afro hearts and minds.
Thus, whites crafted U.S. institutions to be heavily armed—their targeting sought to destroy this very obvious roadblock to slavery’s mental suppression plan:
The slave’s knowledge of Black Civilization greatness!
The time came in my latest chapters to introduce the details surrounding a hardly addressed “mystery” ailment—to examine patterns of emotional, or mental shock—prevalently and insidiously hitting Blacks (in every “social and class” sphere).
I am convinced “slave syndrome” makes us unexpected, unwilling “candidates” of
“Coming Thru the Fiery Birth Canal of Consciousness!”
Absolutely needed in this process—exposing the emergency level of its very absence in most Black lives—is this crucial link for unsuspecting “candidates” who come thru:
To have Elder and “impact experienced” personal “Consciousness Guides!”
Kanye exhibits classic signs of having been shoved up against the “Fiery Birth Canal” portal—not of “Coming Thru” it!
Pyramid tomb of 2nd Century B.C. Nubian Kandake (Queen) Amanitore at timeless Meroe City—where the very first pyramids were built. The tomb of magnificent 25th Dynasty Pharaoh Taharqa is also at Meroe. Numerous Kandake’s (called Candaces by the Greeks) ruled—showing ancient Afro democracy in action—but whose tombs were never found; such as 960 B.C. Makeda of Sheba, who had King Solomon’s son Menelik I (he supposedly took the Ark of the Covenant to Ethiopia); the 332 B.C. Kandake who fiercely turned Alexander the Great away from Nubia; and the 1st Century B.C. Kandake who assisted Egypt’s beleaguered Ptolemaic Queen Cleopatra (then soundly turned her conqueror Rome away from Nubia’s borders). CC BY-SA 3.0
And without credentialed “guides.”
Kanye’s “issues” are “Consciousness issues!”
He’s not troubled by a great awakening about the system’s racist betrayal of both him and us.
Kanye worships that system itself!
But signs show jolting, undeniable portal “truths” are getting under his skin—that the shock of peering in triggers great walls of “resistance”:
The very thing “guides” and awareness folk would expect!
My follow-up chapter examining this process offers the vivid example of my own unstoppable “Coming Thru!”
Painfully reckoning with clearly exposed “systemic betrayal.”
Its unbearably difficult to reconcile with—or accept such a core level of deception:
Realizing the system’s sugary altruistic vows—saying it protects us and cares about us—that it actually works on its own democratic “self-refinement” for the good of the people—is all flagrant lies!
But believing the “illusions” make it so much easier:
A Black man professing to care about his kindred’s plight—after he’s achieved mega fortune and fame in a coldblooded world—can basically just kick-back and feed others America’s cliché…
Saying it is they who need to own-up to successfully “make it!”
Otherwise that man who’s gotten over—claiming to contribute—now has to himself be vulnerable—to “step out on a limb” making very specifically different aid “actions!”
He must now go against a very ominous system’s grain—guaranteed to now draw its full wrath…
Fully discovering it can intimidate the most popular Black individual’s “majestic wealth!”
“Vulnerable” is not in the gangsta creed that Kanye came to worship—the same vehicle Jay-Z piloted when sailing themselves to artistic triumph!
General Sherman’s and Rev. Frazier’s 1865 Special Field Orders No. 15—the Reparations agreement seen In Pt. 5—shines light to confirm a perspective.
The Green-Meldrim House still stands in Savannah, Georgia, where on January 16th, 1865 Northern Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and ex slave Rev. Garrison Frazier signed the Special Field Orders No. 15 Reparations Bill. It set aside 400,000 acres of confiscated Confederate land to be divided among freed slaves. Following President Lincoln’s assassination Trump’s avowed hero Andrew Johnson killed the Field Order that fall. Blacks evicted in mass were thrown back into the grips of malicious, vindictive Confederate elite. Stock/Photo.
Their aim for rebounding slaves is clear:
“Designated land for total self-sufficiency is the only means to ensure uplifting the Black ‘race.’
“Its Blacks (themselves) gaining the ‘leverage’ to uplift the entire Black race—not merely uplifting a newly freed ‘individual,’ newly liberated Afro segments—or scoring deals that benefit wealthy Blacks who’d already ‘gotten over.’
“Total ‘social equality’ is the absolute goal and being beholden to whites will not achieve it—in short, whites cannot be trusted.
“It translates to establishing Independent Black Power!”
Yet Kanye is in severe personal crisis—and unlike most Blacks shoved into this position he has massive platform—ironically this poses a far greater “threat” to Afro masses. As I said in Pt. 6:
“ ‘Big money’ dropped on people clearly festering with unresolved trauma and ‘self-hatred’—who already worship destructive ‘attitudes, habits and selfish investments’—gives social destruction itself a supersonic boost to greater power.”
I don’t see unwavering Elders—or culturally dedicated “Guides” at Kanye’s side!
Only “homies” and accommodating “celebrities”:
Retired football star/actor Jim Brown sat placidly in the room as Kanye fawned over Trump—this “former voice against racism” now also criticizes players who “kneel.”
Millennial Candace Owens is an extremist right-winged “Afro” Trump supporter—touring “fundamentalist” college campuses to back racist ideology. She joined Kanye on TMZ—backing “slavery was a choice.”
Dave Chappelle rushed to Kanye’s side in Montana—Chappelle himself still in rebound from a 2005 episode—built as “systemic disillusion” and extreme “stress!”
Members of the New Orleans Pelicans and Utah Jazz kneel during the National Anthem before a Black Lives Matter logo in Orlando on July 31, 2020. Following George Floyd’s murder by Minnesota officers extremely infuriated NFL players compelled Commissioner Adam Silver to reverse a strict previous no kneel policy. photo: Ashley Landis/Getty.
But Kanye doesn’t contact these trailblazers:
Diane Nash; Dr. Cornell West; Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee; Professor Michael Eric Dyson; Alice Walker; Professor Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.; Rep. Maxine Waters; Professor Angela Davis; Rep. Barbara Lee, Professor Runoko Rashidi, etc…
Kanye is starstruck (hooked-on) super wealthy white televangelist Joel Olsteen—whose “fundamentalism” glamorizes “Radicalized” Christian slave religion.
Yet Kanye steers clear of:
Rev. William J. Barber II; Iyanla Vanzant; U.S. Archbishop Michael Bruce Curry; Tarana Burke; Rev. Al Sharpton; Je-Shawna Wholley; Rev. Jessie Jackson; Patrisse Cullors; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Bishop Yvette Flunder; LeBron James and Stephen Curry…
Let alone Colin Kaepernick himself!
Here’s the menacing “crux” of Kanye’s Trump driven candidacy—and its being trivialized by standard Black pundits:
Every commentator quoting Biden’s “poll lead” punctuates it with a stern warning!
Supporters can’t sit on these laurels taking Trump for granted—period!
Black pundits who brush this Trump campaign tactic off reveal they are totally flustered by what they refuse to—and at some point, must acknowledge:
Racism buying-and-selling Afro-Americans in mass is today’s clear cold legacy reality.
Sadly, the same cold reality silences a national Black “public” that should feel absolutely threatened—and shaking the rafters with outrage from coast-to-coast!
On par with taking to streets peacefully—but angrily in mass after a police shooting.
This is a huge education moment!
Long before sabotaged Reconstruction Black people—and disenfranchised Americans—have been “psychologically” ripened to “politically” go against their own best interests—thru legendary Madison Ave. and Hollywood hype selling tactics.
This ongoing procedure must be targeted for full address—otherwise pundits are complicit in the cover-up—themselves putting “lipstick on pigs.”
One of Kanye West’s self-created Church Services which are mostly “invite only” gatherings of “A list” celebrities. Invitees adhere to a strict dress code, wearing garments handed out by Kanye. Many pop-up Services hit strategic events like the Coachella Music Festival and Paris fashion shows. Photo Rich Fury/Getty Images
But legendary Afro “Cadillac Syndrome” is alive and well:
Afro skin bleach lighteners and Caucasian hair weaves are multibillion-dollar industries—but, for “whites.” As is white controlled “pop culture.”
Millennials—a huge emerging “voter base”—are towering Kanye fans.
After the “slavery-was-a-choice” TMZ rant Kanye’s self-styled and founded Church Service was “packed!” Ogling people crammed the space—getting that piece of the starstruck pie!
Adidas crafted that new astronomical contract regardless of any slights on Black legacy—or mental turmoil. Sales of his products haven’t dropped—they’ve soared!
And this ominous election “sign”:
On a Pennsylvania panel “Black millennial” Ant Marquis wailed on MSNBC saying:
“These votes don’t matter…we’re out here making change in the streets…I think Joe Biden and Kamala Harris they’re putting up a good fight—but I don’t think they are gonna’ win!”
His corrosive apathy and misguided hubris totally echos my nephew “Jay” in this series Pt. 9.
Marquis says he’s definitely, “not going to vote!”—pleading vigorously for others to do the same!
Chance the Rapper and Elon Musk backing Kanye’s campaign are signs that can’t be ignored—it equates to dragging their huge fan bases toward accomplishing Marquis’ goal.
Black social commentators—kept on national platforms—do great disservice downplaying Kanye’s campaign threat.
Additionally, it behooves pundits to be aware of what’s socially missed regarding so-called “mental illness” mysteries. Bi-polar afflictions join standard health threats that hit Black populaces disproportionately—for very identifiable reasons.
With the LGBTQ spectrum being hit the worse—by suicide, strategic murder and ignored mental illness “stats”—we sit precariously in the same shared “boat”—while seeking national Lavender leadership that remains “fuzzy!”
A Black Lives Matter San Francisco rally and march, following George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis, Mn. Police—it drew some 30,000 participants. Starting at Mission High School and Dolores Park many signs pushed for valuing the diversity of Blackness boldly stating Black Trans Lives Matter! Nationally thus far there are 28 known Trans murders, already passing 26 known last year—most being Black and Brown citizens. photo: June 3rd, 2020, by Adilifu Fundi.
Kim Kardashian is correct:
Getting adults to “cooperate” with their treatment is far more difficult—often it’s impossible!
Now, amplify that for super wealthy egos.
A thing is certain though:
Numerous glaring government checks-and-balances and policy enforcement “discrepancies” were exposed after Trump’s rise—showing a presidential transition must make them unrepeatable—rooting them out for legislated “change!”
And Afro bi-polar syndrome not being connected to systemic racism by spokespersons also becomes absolutely “exposed” here
Blazing in Kanye’s worship of Trump’s white supremacist reality.
It’s a dynamic waiting for Black social repair advocates to bring into “consciousness” daylight—for populaces themselves to target for “change!”
Adilifu Fundi 