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Friday, October 12, 2018

Children of African Descent Unsung in US Integration

I am one of the many thousands of children who were integrated into a United States public school system, with predominantly Caucasian students, during the mid-1960s School Desegregation period. These children went unsung and unmentioned in the history of Integration. For I was NOT escorted to a desegregated school side by side with US Marshalls or the National Guard like Ruby Bridges, or the Little Rock 9.  I had to face a gauntlet of racism, micro-aggression, bigotry, hatefulness, and ignorance ALONE every day of my childhood school years for more than a decade from Parents, Teachers, Staff, and Students. No, I did not march for or vote for Desegregation/Integration, because the marches and protests, and Supreme court rulings for the Desegregation initiative occurred in 1954 before I was born (1959). I was still a child in 1964 during the Civil Rights Act. 

I remember watching TV with my family as a little girl around 7-years-old, around 1966-67. The TV Show was called "The 21st Century." Walter Cronkite was a moderator. I was fascinated and so proud to see a husband and wife, of African Descendant on the screen, who were real Doctors practicing psychology! They were the Clarkes. The broadcast was about their Doll study with African Descendant children. These children were requested to respond to a series of questions, as they sat in front of 2 dolls. One doll had Dark Melanin complexion while the other doll had a lighter Caucasian Complexion. In retrospect the Clark study showed how devastated and traumatized, the psyche and self-identity of children of African descent had developed at such critical ages from 4 and 5 years old.

The Elephant in the room is the fact that the US-(United States) ESTABLISHED JIM CROW LAW SEGREGATION AGAINST PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT FOR 100 YEARS! Yet, they decimated EVERY Economically Prosperous -"Black Wall Street" community across the country:and lynched Black Men off of their lands, to create a mass exodus that goes undocumented in US history books!
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/.../freedom-riders-jim-crow-laws/
https://study.com/academy/lesson/jim-crow-laws-significance-facts-timeline.html

To think that the Clark Doll study was used in the Supreme Court, to justify the Integration of people of African Descent into a public society of racism, was very disturbing. To think that Children of African Decent were thought to be more traumatized by segregation, only to be even more traumatized by the bitter bigotry and raw hatefulness of Caucasian children, parents, and teachers; who were not able to escape the integration of the public sector through "white flight" like the elites, into religious and Economic planned communities, designed after the likes of J.C.Nichols.

Wikipedia: The Clarks were known for their 1940s experiments using dolls to study children's attitudes about race. The Clarks testified as expert witnesses in Briggs v. Elliott (1952), one of five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education (1954). The Clarks' work contributed to the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in which it determined that de jure racial segregation in public education was unconstitutional. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in the Brown v. Board of Education opinion, "To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely to ever be undone."[3]


Mamie and Kenneth Clark; Doll Study


Original Dolls for the Clark Doll Test



Many economically successful, segregated African American communities were destroyed by desegregation. "Their youth were uprooted from their own neighborhoods, teachers etc., then bussed to an alien Caucasian school to be taught by Caucasian teachers- to be laborers and service workers- They were NOT encouraged to excel and pursue scholarships and college level careers, or offered courses academically, to prepare them for higher-paying professional careers.




The issues of Segregation, De-segregation, Integration, voting rights, Jim Crow laws etc., occurred long before I was born. I didn't realize, the moment I watched this television show, of the Clark Doll Study, that this broadcast was going to become my path into the world as one of the many thousands of children of African Descent, who would be placed, or "integrated" into the many public schools across the country. This experience was traumatic, and depressing for me. Yet, in retrospect, to acknowledge that this subjection was quietly being disseminated upon all other little African American Children across the United States, by the State school systems all over the country, that mis-educated, not only children of African descent but all children who were in Social Studies and History classes, with a false narrative of white supremacy.




I was not escorted by a US Marshall or armed guard of any kind to lead or sit beside me as I faced the mental abuse, neglect, contempt, and the severe bigotry that I would be surrounded with from Teachers, Administrators, Parents, and Students in my tender Elementary school years, all the way to my high school and college years. My Mother and Father just dropped me and my siblings off to their respective grades, leaving us in the hands of these "people," from the tender age of 5 years old.

I remember washing my hair every day. I had to pull the spitballs and trash out of my Afro, after riding the bus from home to school and back again. I remember being isolated and alone, overlooked, ignored, not being called on when I raised my hand to participate in class, walking at the end of the line, screamed at, if I stepped out of line, or stood out in any way. During recess, I was ordered to stand against the fence and not be permitted to play on the playground equipment with the other students. I remember being forced to sit in the back of the class, and eating completely alone at a table to myself in the lunchroom. I endured this insensitive and often cruel treatment, day after day for, over a decade of my life. My siblings were my only friends.

My Father was In the Air Force military. So I was fortunate to be born overseas, able to travel and live overseas into my adolescence, in Germany. Racism was very severe under the confines of living on a military base. US Bigotry and stereotyping were pervasive. Yet the German Economy availed a different story. Many Germans were very welcoming and friendly. They showed a fascination with my color, much like an alien from Mars. Yet some revealed their old embedded hate as neo-Nazis. Many Germans were even approached and incited by racist Caucasian US Military, to show prejudice toward people of African descent. I later learned that Ancient people of African descent lived prolifically in the German region, and ruled and established the foundations of European civilizations.

I don't have a way to compare my experiences, in relation to students of African descent in the United States. All that I know is that I was expected to be quiet, still, and compliant. I remember being alone most of the day, just following the orders of apathetic neutral teachers, who displayed contempt, never a smile or courtesy. I now wonder how much more they were paid to be "tolerant." And what did this whole Desegregation experience say about the Teachers of African Descent, in their competency, love, and compassion to teach African American Children, and all children?








As my Father returned to the United States, Our family settled in Kansas City, Missouri, living in what was then a typical "WASP" (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) community. I never realized until I was near graduation, that every morning, for years, My Father would get up early in the morning, before we would leave for school, and completely wash down the front porch, and all of the exits of our house, because someone would throw garbage and feces against the sides of our house entrances- EVERY DAY!

I attended and graduated from Ruskin High School, which was at the time a predominantly WASP school. I remember being the only family of African Descent in the neighborhood and the only student of African descent in my assigned classrooms. No. I was not invited to Prom Night. I was not encouraged or permitted to attend the many extracurricular activities. Although I had excelled academically in school and was placed in AP classes, and took college courses while in high school, the only memorable extra activity that I was a part of and achieve in, was working with a young teacher in Art Club. She assisted me, to set up an artist display at a local community event, that was quite successful. There were many young teachers who were open and receptive, yet the old guard of Teachers were staunchly bigoted and insisted, as gatekeepers, to maintain the status quo of racism. I do not recall any teachers of African Descent, on staff. Ruskin was a college-prep high school. So, I attended Longview Community College, while still in high school, and graduated with an Associate Degree in Liberal Arts. Although I was not expected to attend college, according to the School counselor, my  Art teacher, Mr. Ferman, paved the way for me to receive a full-ride scholarship to Washington University. Yet, my parents refused to support me and turned down the scholarship. I later Attended the University of Kansas to achieve a Bachelors Degree, and later An Education Degree from UMSL.

In retrospect, I think of my experiences much like what was imposed upon any child, who was not a part of this US system. The people treated me like I was an alien and the school system demanded that I assimilate with the White supremacy system and discouraged my own capacities and cultural Identity. Remember, During the 60s there was a strong culture of self determination and reliance with the Black Power movement and the Black Panther Party leadership. along with Malcolm X. So, there was a lot of pushback. I compare this to the mistreatment of Native American youth in the 1800s. the US and Canada established Assimilation and Indoctrination Boarding Schools where white supremacy indoctrination was imposed upon African Americans and Native Americans, who were forced as children to conform and acculturate to the ways of Western Europeans, and ultimately strip them of their natural, sustainable cultural ways, language, family ties, heritages, names, foods, Lands, and resources. Anything that tied them into a nation was stripped away... So, my Native and African American cultural heritage, access to land and resources, our Cultural Leaders, music, History, Heritage, etc., were not acceptable in these integration/assimilation schools. We were expected to function isolated and independently, with the WASP middle-class value system, and not have any ties to our own families and neighborhoods, for our own economics, culture, ethnic affiliations or nationality. 



So as these experiences remind me now of the Indoctrination Boarding Schools, where many nations of children of color were historically forced to attend, to be programmed (Brainwashed) to assimilate and deny their own family heritage and birth rites, these schools benefited and established the middle-class economic system, that ultimately fueled the US war machine that pervaded the globalization of US Imperialism.  The knowledge that the children of our ancient Ancestors in the Americas were stripped of their, natural connections and rights to Land, Resources, Culture, Languages, Spiritual systems, family ties etc. was appalling! Our children were virtually and literally orphaned and alienated from their families! This was a cold war against people of African descent and people of color. Ultimately, the integration assimilation of children of African descent into the public life of the US did not change or end Racism/white supremacy in the United States. This assimilation process launched the School-to-Prison-Pipeline, where Children of African Descent were re-segregated into impoverished neighborhoods, and predominantly Caucasian teachers, (and teachers of color with a middle-class value system,) and Police were placed in inner-city schools, to pick off our youth as child soldiers into a drug war.

Another outrageous example of Segregation and Discriminations was during World War II After the Nuclear Bombs were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Asian people were rounded up and isolated into concentration camps! Of course They were paid Reparations.






When I was a teen, I remember how every summer, Caucasian children would be invited to free concerts, carnival amusements, free foods, etc., unaware (or aware as the case may be) that these concerts were sponsored by White supremacist- Militia, Klan, Nazi organizations as a recruitment strategy. Like the story of Pinocchio, Caucasian children would be indoctrinated under a veil of thrills, to hide the insidious agenda of incepting white supremacy and the idea of a race war! It has been 41 years since I have graduated from High school. Now I see my generation of Adults of African descent under duress by Caucasian adults raging and spewing hate speech, as well as targeting, stereotyping, profiling, and killing people of African Descent, with the bigoted ideas of criminality and inferiority with impunity. The US has failed to realize that they are the invader nation that destroyed existing societies, many of whom were pushed out and now have walls built around them. Hate cannot be legislated against. Just as one teacher, Jane Elliott, had the courage to stand up to her racist indoctrination, to sensitize and engage her students into a conscious dialogue for Multicultural awareness and the unification of all human beings as one species, we can all learn to embrace and reinvigorate our own cultural mores and ways of life that are all founded in traditional African Societies... The oldest people on the planet are from the ancient African Diaspora, so all people of color come from African Ancestral lineage.




SOLUTIONS


Dr. Amos Wilson offered 5 challenging questions for people of African Descent, in order to awaken and reconnect with their re-acculturation to African Society; He asks:
What Language do you speak?
What Names do you answer to?
What Foods do you eat?
What Clothes do you wear?
Can You name 1 African God?

These questions are meant as a call to consciousness, to recognize the core of the assimilation process in a person, and how we can be able to transform and heal from mental enslavement.

https://ankh-seneb.blogspot.com/2009/05/maafa-syndrome-healing.html

As a young adult, I would later join a middle-class value, Black church, get married, give birth to two wonderful children, and graduate from 2 colleges, with a Master's Degree in Special Education. I was not satisfied with assimilating into the US system. I know that as an Indigo person, I would always be subordinate to any access to this society. I always held to the memories that my mother would share of her father being a Tutsi East African, who was never enslaved and lived as a freeman in the United States. He married a Natchez Native American. Yet, outside of my indoctrination, I was also inspired by my Father, who was often found listening to Malcolm X's speeches. Malcolm X always spoke of separation from the US and doing for themselves, as a Nation of Black people, as a messenger of Elisha Muhammad of the Nation of Islam. My mother would later share that her father was a Garveyite, which may have been the reason that both her father and her brother were lynched in the south. I later took on the Black Panther model of establishing a Do-For-Self, African Centered lifestyle, while living in my own community of African Americans, that I worked in, as an Urban School teacher. I brought my children into an African Conscious connection, with the National Black United Front-KC. We traveled across the country, to attend lectures and set up as a vendor selling Homemade Afrikan Centered clothing, jewelry, and home accessories, We learned to dance in an African cultural dance group. I became an avid reader of African Centered Authors, later reading the Medu Neter by Ra U Nefer Amen. I learned to speak the Medu Neter language, to graft an Afrikan Centered Cultural lifestyle. I later established a community organization called Amen Par Ankh, with my Spiritual partner, Sasteh Meter. We used our house as a community safe house, and grew vegetables in our vacant lot next door and on our front yard. https://amen.parankh.blogspot.com






"Spirit having a Human Experience. Living in the spirit of Gratitude and Balance. I have worked to rebuild community in the urban African descendant neighborhoods, serving as a teacher, mentor, advocate, activist, and artist. My heart is for Indigo People. I am currently a minister, and activist, promoting Urban growers of local foods, I also Promote Green Sustainable recycling initiatives. My first bachelor's degree was in Visual Communications, Graphic Art. I am Writer and a Native American Kemetic Spiritual Minister. I work with home blessings and edible landscaping for elders or anyone who would like to learn about sustainable agriculture in an urban environment. My motto is " In order to free yourselves- You must feed yourselves!" I have learned that our food system has changed decades ago. The GMOs (Genetically modified Organisms), pesticides, and plastiburgs are destroying our children and our planet. 

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Friday, July 21, 2017

Abolish Racism The Semantics of Black and White



The Discussion of race is still a black and white issue. A recent CNN.com report about young children's attitudes on race became one of the most discussed stories on their website. In the Clark Study of 1947, Caucasian and Indigo children had an overwhelming bias toward Caucasian or lighter skinned dolls, than darker complected dolls of Afrikan descendant. These youth displayed a bias in favor of Caucasian images, but it was not nearly as strong as the bias shown by Caucasian children.

We must remember that the children in this film, grew up to be Parents, Business Owners, Corporation members, CEOs, Senators, Lawyers, Bankers, Supervisors, Cops, Judges, Jurors, and Teachers etc...





I have joined with an Afrikan Conscious Study group called, Sankofa Study Group. We are presently reading the book; "Stamped From The Beginning," by Ibram X. Kendi. He cites many historical accounts of the origins of "whiteness" in the early beginnings of U.S. politics and economics, as well as contemporary effects of white supremacy system.

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/6/28/stamped_from_the_beginning_ibram_x

Dr. Kendi discusses the positions of segregationists, abolitionists, assimilationists, Anti-Racists, and modern white supremacists. In his introduction, he states; "My definition of a racist idea is a simple one: it is any concept that regards one racial group as inferior or superior to another racial group in any way. I define anti-Black racist ideas—the subject of this book—as any idea suggesting that Black people, or any group of Black people, are inferior in any way to another racial group."


In honor of Ancestor, Malik El Shabazz:

 







Some point around the late 1600s and early 1700s, whiteness began to be a very interesting topic.




White supremacy or Imperialism is a system, designed to keep rich Elite Europeans entrenched in their wealth. It is a highly competitive game. If the poor complain, they use propaganda to help remind them, that at least they are not the people who they oppress- Asians, Mexican, or especially "black." So, race supremacy works as a very effective bludgeoning tool for the elite. You get the poor caucasians to identify with elitist, as gatekeepers to fight other groups of people, by giving them tokens, titles, resources, and artificial status, while the rich elitist laugh all the way to their banks, and mercantilism, capitalism, communism, Feudal Serfdom, Artisan Guilds, etc..  "Whiteness" is part of a broader white supremacist system built by the common man and funded my the Elite to maintain the status quo. Of course, no one ever stops to challenge the Elite.


*"Whiteness" was a fictional construct, invented as part of a race supremacy economic system.


When people with the skin color of pale pink and peach, from northern Europe, started Invading/Migrating to the Americas, NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM DEFINED THEMSELVES AS WHITE! NONE!

THERE IS NO "WHITE" DNA.

English Immigrants to America originally defined themselves by their religions- Christians; Pilgrims, Puritans, Quaker "Friends", Mormons, Mennonites, and Amish, Protestants, Catholics, etc. or other religious-based associations, who were generally separatist, based on their faith practices and languages. They defined anyone outside of their beliefs, as lesser or unfit. Yet, these believers helped to perpetuate racism and racist ideas in effect, by forming cast systems and hierarchies. They Classified their Gods as Caucasian.


Other European migrants, (French, Portuguese, Spanish, etc) obtained control over land and resources, with the funding from elitist from overseas, to establish expansion of their territories into the Americas, and the local people had to fight to retake their independence and nationality. Yet the residuals of European languages, and Religions still remain in their culture to perpetuate a form of indirect rule, and an allegiance to western thinking and race supremacy.


Later Europeans used hyphens to associate their prior nationality with the United States. Well, Europe is comprised of many countries. While all who live in Europe are Europeans, they also have different nationalities - resulting in an European from France saying they're French-American, Polish- American, Chinese-American, etc., to the multitude of other nationalities present in Europe.


People in the U.S. may still identify themselves as ethnic - and say they're Jewish, Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans etc., or any nation in Europe you want to name, and the same for any nation in Asia, etc. as well. So the term "white" not only defines the color of a person, but a status and a collective nationality, legally- ALL except for the term African-American...


African-American, or Black is exceptional, in that most Indigo People, are unable to tie themselves to any specific land, location, nation or country in America or Africa, because many were involuntarily held as prisoners, orphaned, abducted and stripped of their national or ethnic ties, through countless wars, rape, genocide, paper genocide, and invasions in the Americas and Afrika, by early Imperialist, (during 1492 till World War II) and throughout the history of Imperialist- (UP TO NOW!) (Western Imperialist are still invading and committing genocide against all people of color on the planet!) Many Indigo Americans were taken as prisoners of war and stripped of their names, title and class, as well, right here in the Americas. Many were abducted or purchased from one area of the Americas, like Brazil, or Florida for instance, then brought to another part of America or to Canada, or some location in the East coast of the U.S. colonial region. People who were held captive, had to follow their captors, like chattel property, wherever they went, often used to pay off gambling debts, or inherited through families, churches or other institutions.


Paper Genocide is a specific case, were Indigo people, were striped of their titles, wealth, family, land, ethnicity, religion, language, etc., right here in the U.S., to be cast off of any human rights, and "seasoned" to the will of their captors. Many record keeping organizations, went along with this, to compromise and maintain control over their token entitlements. Many birth records, particularly of orphans, were smeared, to hide, family ties and birthrights. Many captors, raped their own imprisoned women, to sire and use their own children as owned property.


Presently, it is true that the U.S. census forms, and other forms that require our social security numbers, ask us for racial status, and have been asking us to identify the names of the countries that our Ancestors came from, but all of that has been changing to "Other," if you don't want to check any of the given categories.


*Perceptions of race and racial identity have played, and continue to play, a very different role in U.S. history, than in Europe's history.


When some caucasians in the early U.S. started to gain wealth from their exploitation of people, land and resources, their abuse of power (as rich people continue to do today in every country) and expansion and export of trade and control, promoted the terminology, and legal contracts, that created a system to protect their own interest. This system was called white supremacy. White supremacy used "Manifest Destiny." This meant that Caucasians "believed" that they had a God given right to send their poor Caucasians to go and fight and destroy the plains Native Americans in wars, to take more land and resources from native peoples, even though the government constitution outlawed the stealing of land. Of course the poor Europeans did all the fighting and dying while the rich Elitist Europeans made all the money.
*THE CONSTRUCT OF WHITENESS


In my humble opinion, Whenever someone currently claims "whiteness," they are participating in racism/white supremacy systemic culture. White Supremacy is a US system connecting to a world construct, where only the members get to chose who is "white" and who is not. the membership plays the roles of privilege, exclusivity, and private partnerships. As soon as the legislation for integration took place, for public access, the elite began to funnel and pool their money, to establish constructs for "Gated/ Intentional" communities, for private access, shrouded by religious organizations. We had Jesse Clyde Nichols, the father of gated communities, redlining and "White Flight," working with the elites like Rothschild, Truman, Corporations, CEOs, Banks, and Insurance companies, to steal land and resources, to build their private segregated ivory towers.

In 1968, Jane Elliot, began a Brown Eyes/ Blue Eyes exercises to bring awareness to racism in the US, and enable blue-eyed people to have a taste of the oppression of their own white privilege. http://www.janeelliott.com/





White Supremacy is now a global construct. There are many people of color, ethnicity, and culture, choose to support white supremacy, for the residual crumbs it may offer them. In the end only the Melanin Indigo people suffer the harshest in US society. These ethnicities, stand on the sidelines in conformity, and in agreement to the overt oppression of Indigo people. As Racism/white-supremacy, has metastasized all over the planet, many are in denial and struggle with cognitive dissonance when they are confronted or cornered with their own sense of entitlement, or latent superiority in their belonging to exclusive groups.









Caucasians can never speak for Indigo people. They can only disband racism and every institution in this system of power and control, among their own people who support racism and white privilege. The core/root of the social/political and Economics in Racism, is simply in the definition, and then the semantics of the use of the words "Black" and "White" on a subliminal conscious level!




*The majority of the world population casually, and formally uses the word "white" to define people with light colored complexion and/or hair, of Aryan, Caucasian European background. This tends to be a given term that many use without thinking, yet it is the most racially charged word in the European lexicon. I contend that EVERY TIME the term "white" is used to define a person, or a people, this automatically places them in an association, and identification of a pseudo elitist status in a race supremacy system. Ergo, the use of the word "black" as a title to describe Indigo people, dehumanizes and classifies them into a colorizing, objectifying and polarizing definition in race supremacy. As "White" continues to be associated with Wealth, Power and the elite economic status, in this patriarchal society, Caucasian males were only empowered to achieve and receive the economic means for elite class and privilege. All other class levels are expected to support this construct, even though all other class levels, are not truly a part of the elite level...


SO NO! YOU ARE NOT WHITE!
RACE IS A SOCIAL/POLITICAL CONSTRUCT

What does it mean to suggest that race is a social construct?


"A social construct refers to something that does not have a basis in the natural world but is an artificial distinction created by people. Some researchers now conceptualize and analyze human variation in terms of populations, dismissing racial classifications altogether."
*THERE IS NO RACE!


* Every time someone chooses to identify as a race, they are invoking the white/race supremacy pseudo theory of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) "who divided the human species into five races in 1779, later founded on crania research (description of human skulls), and called them (1793/1795):
the Caucasian race
the Mongoloid race
the Malay race
the Negroid race (which has no land or regional reference)
the American race

. "White, black, and brown are abridged, abstracted versions of colonizer, slave, and colonized."


* Every time someone uses the poly-genesis theory, -"The systematization of race concepts that brought with it the conflict between monogenism (a single origin for all human races) and polygenism (the hypothesis that races had separate origins). This debate was originally cast in creationist terms as a question of one versus many creations of humanity..." They are participating in white supremacy.

* Every time a parent, uses the term "white" around their children, or social groups, to describe themselves, their people, or their relationships with others, they are participating in racism by aligning themselves with white supremacy, and to a contrived elitist or superior status.


Another con game example of white supremacy, is how rich elites combined their Multi National Corporations into international cartels and syndicates, to send their businesses, and outsource poor caucasian american industrial jobs, to the prison industrial complex, convict leasing, and to Outsource to overseas countries, like India, Pakistan, Japan and China, and then turn around and blame affirmative action for taking away all of the caucasian people's jobs.


*WHITE AND BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT EXIST!


YES! I want Caucasians to stop calling me "black," as i have STOPPED calling them "white."

I know a lot of the political verbiage that has been, and is still used to describe Indigo Peoples. "Urban Core," "minorities," "liberals," "Thugs," the "Hood," "Inner City," "Ghetto," "Those People," "African-American," "people of color," and of course the all time favorite- N!@@s, etc.


*SO WHAT IS INDIGO?


(Yes, I prefer to be called Indigo.) I and my melanin rich people have a natural heritage to the land and resources of the entire planet, not only the continent of Afrika. Our Indigo Ancient Ancestors are the OLDEST PEOPLE ON THE PLANET. Our Ancestral existence began in Central/East Afrika, as the Twa/ Khoisan, Sudanese, Ethiopian and Tutsi Nations, who traveled and migrated all over the planet. Our Ancestral DNA, can be traced back to more than 200,000 years. We brought plants, animals, and knowledge of civilization, to establish nations all over the planet. Our Ancestors represented the Ausarian resurrection... So, you can find my people in our signs and symbols, totems, mounds, burial cites, bead-work, paintings, and pyramids, not only in Africa, but ALL OVER THE PLANET! We are the original Masons, the Magi and the Imhotep scientists. We are symbolized as Bes, and Taweret. We knew the Healing Herbs, We were the snake charmers, We established the Stellar, Solar and Lunar understandings of the nautical and terrestrial travel systems, We are the mound builders, we speak for the earth as stewards and guardians, against the destruction of our mother planet.










When the Asians crossed the Bering Straits into the Americas, THEY MET US! We are the "snake" headed people that were driven out by the Christian cults, Indigo People ARE the Le-Pr-Ra-Khans, and Druids that St. Pat  has been celebrated, to have driven out of Ireland, and the Zwarte Piet Elves, in Germany's Black forest, The First Buddha and Krishna were Indigos, and we were the Moors in Spain. etc.

The pseudo notion of the Neanderthal or caveman, evolving into homo-sapiens, only appeared 10,000 years ago. and Native Americans can only trace their ancestry across the Bering Straits, back 15,000 years, when the polar Ice Caps began to melt.

Being "Indigo" means that we recognize our heritage as the first Indigenous, Ab-Original people on planet Earth. Indigo is a color of deep blue effervescent energy and hue in the light and color spectrum in the heavens. Indigo is also the highest state of the anointing of our crown energy or chakra in our practice of spirituality. It is said that "The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice." Indigo also resonates with our Ancient Afrikan Ancestors. All true Humans come from the motherland Akabalon Aeons ago. Yes, during the breakup of "Pangaea"- (also known as Turtle Island). Our Ancient Ancestors established civilizations across the planet. They designated the royal hierarchy to wear the royal purple, from the plant know as Indigo.

*INDIGO ORIGINAL





















The Indigo plant is one of our ancient Afrikan sacred plants, that was used exclusively for royalty and the Priesthood, This beautiful plant creates an intense hue of deep ultraviolet. This color has often been referred to as "blue-black." Indigo represents the dark reflection of the rich heritage of our melanin-rich skin, eyes and hair.




Historically, only the aristocrats and royalty were permitted to wear this color of purple in their clothing in Lenin and silk fabrics. Now, it is commonplace, as it is used worldwide. Now, we see our sacred plant and it's beautiful color, commonly used along with cotton, in denim jeans and work clothes. The term Blue Collar, refers to the Indigo color and the humble working-class masses of society. Indigo blue Denim in this U.S. society, was historically worn by farmers, railroad workers, heavy duty construction, and in penile institutions of mass incarceration.



*THE BLACK DOLL WHITE DOLL REMIX





Margaret Beale Spencer, a leading researcher in the field of child development, designed the pilot study for CNN's "AC360." Beale Spencer used a team of three psychologists to implement it: two testers to execute the study and a statistician to help analyze the results. https://humdev.uchicago.edu/directory/margaret-beale-spencer





Spencer's test aimed to re-create the landmark doll test from the 1940s. Those tests, conducted by psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark, were designed to measure how segregation affected African-American children.





http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/13/doll.study/index.html




Please watch the full experiment below, comment your thoughts and opinion on the matter in the commenting section below the clip and, don't forget to share this article with your friends on social networks like facebook to see what they have to say!











What's more striking than this Doll test results, are all who remain in denial of the severe effects of racism and Caucasian Privilege in society. Racism is alive and the Doll test is a perfect example, right in your face and cognitive dissonance disallows you to grab it by the horns and ask the more important questions which is, "what in my society is causing this phenomenon and what can we do to eradicate it?" Racism isn't simply hating other people, it's consenting and allowing a system of cultural, political, economic and educational superiority of one race to the derogation of another to flourish, and the fear and hatred of seeing that system exposed and dismantled.







Spencer's team tested 133 children from schools that met very specific economic and demographic requirements. In total, eight schools participated: four in the greater New York area and four in Georgia.





Many users of the site thought parenting was the issue behind the results, some thought the children were too naive and others thought the testing method was flawed. Children's test answers on race brought mothers to tears.
Many people who read the story commented that racism is a learned behavior.





* "I do believe that parents must take an active role [regardless of race] to inform their children that they are no better or no worse than anyone because of race. Once this happens, then there will be less misconceptions and negative perceptions regarding race."




* "The problem here is that if parents do not talk to their children about race and how to perceive people that are 'different from them', they would simply form their opinions based on whatever [right or wrong] they gather from society. To suggest that anyone is labeling these innocent children to be racist is merely unfortunate," the writer said.





* A commenter said that where they live, there is a big Native American population. The children chose a brown figure as the one most likely to have a drinking problem, the Caucasian figure as the one that was gay and the Afrikan doll was picked for the sports questions.




* A few readers thought the study was flawed. Some thought more children should have been studied while others thought that 5-year-olds won't give answers that prove anything.




* "For one thing, 5-year-old children don't have a broad base of experience and are inclined to pick the familiar," "If the child doesn't have any brown or black friends, chances are he or she will gravitate toward white children because children of a different color are unknowns in his or her life."




The reader thought it would have been better if the children were observed interacting with each other in different groups, but acknowledged that might have been an issue, too, "because the children would realize something was expected of them and might behave accordingly."




Others said children -- and adults -- were conditioned to think of light objects as good and dark as bad. It's "something human beings have been doing for thousands of years."




But others said the study's results were the most important thing and the discussion over the methodology drew attention away from the revelations of the tests.


* Which doll is a pathological serial killer? Which doll steals millions of dollars and gets away with it? Which doll burns crosses in black people's yards? Which doll blows up Churches with little girls inside on Sunday? Which doll sits in bible study, then kills 9 people and then gets escorted to Burger King cause he's hungry? Which doll Steals millions of people's retirement money? Which doll locks people up because of the color of their skin? Which doll raped your ancestors? Which doll is more likely to reject your homeowner loans with the same credit score as others who have been approved? Which doll is more likely to use drugs but not go to jail for it? Which doll voted for Trump? Which doll kills people and get away with it. Which doll can get a job with a record for child molestation while The other can't find a job with a masters degree or PhD? Which doll is more likely to walk into a church and kill people based on the color of their skin? Which doll hates the affordable care act and tried to take away affordable healthcare for all Americans?





* "I think it's interesting how many people want to fight the results, rather than conclude, 'Hey, maybe it is a good idea to teach our kids when they are really young that we shouldn't judge people by the way they look.'





A commenter from Pemberton, New Jersey states,
* "Wow!! This is very troubling to me. That's so sad. My babies would not react like that!!! Nor would I ever have!! My mother was blonde haired and blue eyed and my father was black. I had a very balanced life of all colors. However I seen my father as powerful.. and my mother as week.. It may have made me be a much stronger and tougher women towards man boys. But it had nothing to do with race. I am so grateful to not feel such separation from myself and or anyone else. I believe and in my honest opinion have found that when you don't fit into any particular category . You look a bit closer at all of them, hopefully taking the best of each. It opens you to all things!! God will never lead you astray and The map of your life is in our hearts. The broken and traumatized family foundations are the cause of this Identity crisis. Self awareness comes from observing a village of your people and how the interact. Grandmothers. Grandfathers.. cousins aunts. Etc. my mother was 1 of 11. I'm the youngest of 6 and I learned a lot by watching the way others treated each other and reading!"




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Monday, September 21, 2015

Maafa Syndrome - Black Doll White Dolls

Black Doll White Doll

I remember as a child, my dad had us regularly watching a T.V. show called "The 21st Century with Walter Cronkite." They narrated an excerpt of one of the most shocking documentary films that I had watched as a child, called the Black Doll White Doll studies. What first grabbed my attention, was watching Kenneth and Mamie Clarke, as they explained their research. This was the very first time that I had ever encountered scientists that looked like me or my Dad and Mom! So this documentary challenged my preconception that only Caucasoids were authority figures. After being subjected to so much hostility, growing up as a child who's dad was in the Air force, and living and going to school in predominantly caucasian environments, as a children, I was so impressed to see Malcolm X, The Black Panthers, Thurgood Marshall, Andrew Young, Sen. Julian Bond, Assata Shakur, Dr. Martin L. King and Coretta Scott King and Shirley Chisholm in the Civil Rights Movement.



Mamie Clark


Clark Doll Experiment


I remember how disturbing it was to see children prefer and choose non-Black dolls, time after time, when asked “who is prettier?” “Who is smart?” “Who is good?” Yet when they identified with themselves, they chose a black doll and they had such a disturbed look on their faces when they were asked to identify the dolls that looked like them, afterward. I remember Black dolls and Teddy bears among many things i had to play with as a child. I do recall playing with one long haired Hispanic doll. I also remember seeing a boy doll with a Mohawk hairstyle as a display.

The Doll study documentary was painful to watch. Even as a child, I was left with the impression that a profound imprint of self-hatred was present in very young Black children, and hatefulness and fear of Black Children and Black skinned adults in the minds of Caucasian adults and youth of other ethnicities, were marked on the psyche of all young children at birth.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_and_Mamie_Clark
Doll experiment

The Clarks' doll experiments grew out of Mamie Clark's master's degree thesis. They published three major papers between 1939 and 1940 on children's self-perception related to race. Their studies found contrasts among African-American children attending segregated schools in Washington, DC versus those in integrated schools in New York. The doll experiment involved a child being presented with two dolls. Both of these dolls were completely identical except for the skin and hair color. One doll was white with yellow hair, while the other was brown with black hair. The child was then asked questions inquiring as to which one is the doll they would play with, which one is the nice doll, which one looks bad, which one has the nicer color, etc. The experiment showed a clear preference for the white doll among all children in the study. These findings exposed internalized racism in African-American children, self-hatred that was more acute among children attending segregated schools. This research also paved the way for an increase in psychological research into areas of self-esteem and self-concept.
This work suggests that by its very nature, segregation harms children and, by extension, society at large, a suggestion that was exploited in several legal battles. The Clarks testified as expert witnesses in several school desegregation cases, including Briggs v. Elliott, which was later combined into the famous Brown v. Board of Education (1954). In 1954, Clark and Isidor Chein wrote a brief whose purpose was to supply evidence in the Brown v. Board of Education case underlining the damaging effects racial segregation had on African-American children. The Supreme Court declared that separate but equal in education was unconstitutional because it resulted in African American children having “a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community"  This ended segregation in the public school systems. Regarding Brown, this question of psychological and psychic harm fit into a very particular historical window that allowed it to have formal traction in the first place. It wasn’t until a few decades prior (with the coming of Boas and other cultural anthropologists) that cultural and/ or social science research—and the questions that they invoked—would even be consulted by the courts and therefore able to influence decisions.
In 2005 filmmaker Kiri Davis recreated the doll study and documented it in a film entitled A Girl Like Me. Despite the many changes in some parts of society, Davis found the same results as did the Drs. Clark in their study of the late 1930s and early 1940s. In the original experiment(s) the majority of the children chose the white doll. When Davis repeated the experiment 15 out of 21 children also chose the white dolls over the black, giving similar reasons as the original subjects, associating white with being "pretty" or "good" and black with "ugly" or "bad". The dolls used in the documentary were identical except for skin color.



State Sen. Julian Bond
I began to be more careful and conscious of my treatment in life. How I was excluded in many ways from being allowed full membership in the US society. As a child, I remember feeling the sting of hatred in segregation, not being allowed to drink from water fountains when I was thirsty, or play on the public playgrounds, or swim, when other caucasian youths were present, I remember not being able to use the bathroom- (We had to hide in the bushes)... Or not being able to eat in grills or delis when my mother took us shopping. She would always pack a cold lunch. I remember riding in the back of buses.





Tuskegee Airmen

Being a Daughter of a Father with an Air Force career, we were stationed in many places in the US as well as Europe. I still recall being painfully teased, called "nigger" and bullied for my hair and complexion while in school, and how the teachers were often complicit with the students. I wore an Afro and as I rode the bus, students would spit and throw chewing gum in my hair. I remembered crying myself to sleep many nights. Then one day I looked in the mirror and told myself that I was created in the image of God and that everything God created was Good. So I thought that there must have been a special reason that my hair, skin, and body shape was made. I learned to embrace and accept myself naturally. My mother would try to hot comb my hair. She would say, "let me get into this kitchen". But I would sweat it out very quickly riding my bike or jumping rope. I preferred to wear natural Afro. The Black power movement and images were strong, way back in the 60s. I loved the Panthers. I use to think that people who wore their hair naturally, in braids, an Afro or coils of lox were very "cool", conscious and powerful. These youth images became my circle of influence. I respected the Black Panthers, Assata Shakur, Nina Simone, and Jimi Hendrix And Senator Shirley Chisholm- in her curly Afro.  I remember Stevie Wonder's Song about Black history. But I was not exposed To Black history from my teachers in the many schools that I attended, who were non-black. Over time as an adult, I discovered that for many, Afrocentricity was just a fashion statement and some were clueless to their own history about African Empowerment.

It was brought to my attention that the Clarks used their Experiments to justify Integration into public access in the School systems and housing. To think that Caucasians felt relatively safe with Indigo African people because they preferred and sympathized with Caucasians over their own people who were continually oppressed.

Another related issue of race supremacy is Cognitive Dissonance.
Dr. Frantz Fanon shared a famous quote:
I also came across many identity issue classifications due to racism.
One is *Maafa Syndrome - Noted from the cruel plantation system treatment of enslaved and imprisoned Melanin Peoples from the 18th Century, and presently.



(often referred to as Stockholm syndrome or capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon noted in World War I and II, in which hostages express empathy and sympathy for the slightest kindness from their captors. They identify and develop positive feelings toward of their captors, guards or bosses, sometimes to the point of defending the captors over fellow hostages, or incarcerated, often becoming model trustees to assist their captors.)


Maafa Syndrome is where an individual is so overcome with traumatic stress and cruelty (*Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome, By Dr. Joy DeGruy- see definition below)  and other forms of physical and psychological tortures, they begin to attempt to conform and compromise for the sake of relief. They seek to find a way to appease their tormentors even though they are dehumanized and objectified as only the target of their tormentor's demented power and control. They begin to think that their captors are not to blame for the cruelty they are receiving. So, The victim conforms and completely identifies with their oppressors' image and ideals, emulating their mannerisms and speech patterns, and seeking any form of approval or crumb of consolation. They will often defend to the death their captor's goals and mission over their own freedom and value system and encourage others to do the same, even reporting them to authorities for seasoning or to punish them if they did not conform. This is colonialism and imperialism at it's worst!

*Maafa is a Swahili word for "terrible disaster."

*POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROME
As a result of twelve years of quantitative and qualitative research, Dr. DeGruy has developed her theory of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, and published her findings in the book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome – America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing”. The book addresses the residual impacts of generations of slavery and opens up the discussion of how the black community can use the strengths we have gained in the past to heal in the present.
WHAT IS P.T.S.S.?P.T.S.S. is a theory that explains the etiology of many of the adaptive survival behaviors in African American communities throughout the United States and the Diaspora. It is a condition that exists as a consequence of multigenerational oppression of Africans and their descendants resulting from centuries of chattel slavery. A form of slavery which was predicated on the belief that African Americans were inherently/genetically inferior to whites. This was then followed by institutionalized racism which continues to perpetuate injury.
Thus, resulting in M.A.P.:
  • M: Multigenerational trauma together with continued oppression;
  • A: Absence of opportunity to heal or access the benefits available in the society; leads to
  • P: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome.
https://www.joydegruy.com/post-traumatic-slave-syndrome

SOLUTIONS
Dr. Amos Wilson offered 5 challenging questions for people of African Descent, in order to awaken and reconnect with their re-acculturation to African Society; He asks:
What Language do you speak?
What Names do you answer to?
What Foods do you eat?
What Clothes do you wear?
Can You name 1 African God?

These questions are meant as a call to consciousness, to recognize the core of the assimilation process in a person, and how we can be able to transform and heal from mental enslavement.

https://ankh-seneb.blogspot.com/2009/05/maafa-syndrome-healing.html

I AM MY HAIR and SKIN- 
MY SKIN and HAIR IS MY IDENTITY!



As a little girl, my Mom would hot comb my hair for church. l recall, sitting very still in a kitchen highchair, listening to the grease and my hair sizzle, crackle and pop, through the hot comb, and going through the fear of getting burned on my ears or face. I remember her saying, "let me get in this kitchen!" I lived in an integrated environment throughout my childhood, often bullied by caucasian children, who pulled and spat in my hair. Every day, I ran home from school to wash my hair. I remembered feeling sorry for myself. I hated school, and myself. Then I remembered one day crying, then wiping away my tears, and just looking in the mirror, and saying to myself, That God made me perfect, just the way I am... I learned to embrace myself... I remember the 70s era and watching many Indigo women wear their hair in Natural Afros, as an expression of Black power. I wore my natural Afro and refused to ever straighten my hair again. My mother bought me wigs to hide my hair at public events. She wanted me to conform and be accepted by Caucasians. Later, as an adult, I wore my hair in lox and embraced my KMT Ancient Afrikan Heritage. Now I reach out and teach other Afrikan Girls about natural living, health, and Wellness, whenever I can, using the Black Panther food program model, with Amen Ankh Akademy ACE Green STEAM Home School Network and You G.R.O.W.W. Girls- Teach a Girl, Heal a Nation… "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." i have created a poem about my hair... Called: "ADENIKE My Crown Is Precious"



It's not just hair or skin... Black Nappy Hair is alive. Black Coiled hair is sacred. Our melanin-rich hair and skin are magnetic. Black hair is a living material and an extension of the body. Our Black nappy hair defies gravity! My Melanin skin is a carbon memory bank network. I have learned about auras and chakras and the healing powers of color and aromas. I apply meditation and Conscious breathing and diet as a way of life, to reconnect to the natural kingdom of the planet and the cosmos. Our natural coiled hair responds like an antenna or battery...  To change its natural order by dying, straightening and cutting, changes or nullifies its original intent by the creator to blindside our dexterity and ability to maneuver in the Nature Eco environment. All of our senses respond on a higher dimension. So, we sense the environment differently with melanin richness. Much like an acidic diet and negative stress calcifies the pineal gland, Altered hair and skin is destructive and disruptive to our balance in maneuvering in a hostile environment.



And yes, although the above statement is very true... Wearing Natural Braids, Afros, and Lox doesn't make a person “conscious.” Knowledge of self means not only knowing our great Afrakan* history, yet also, to be sensitive and intentional to practice and live our own culture, diet, languages, worldview, and Spirituality, is what gives us distinct living existence, Cultural unity, and empowerment. Only when we misunderstand and devalue our hair and skin; when we pollute and don’t take care to cherish and protect our body temple as a whole; And when we conform and assimilate with the stripping off of our natural phenotype, that we diminish our natural power.


To cover the natural melanin-rich coiled hair with an artificial weave is like covering our natural melanin skin with layers of plastic (nylon, acrylic, polyester, etc.) clothing and sunblock. we are wearing an artificial reality of other's energy.

To be conscious on the next level is to innerstand naturalness; but yes, there are many fake wannabes out there on both sides of the pendulum, who perpetrate black culture or who assimilate and deny black culture. To this day we still have those with "good hair" syndrome who covet for their children to have silky hair and light skin and to assimilate into the ways of an alien society because we don't look for or see ourselves as powerful.

I wear my hair in tight coils and lox because that is how it grows from my scalp. I don't want my hair to be construed as just a political statement. Talk to me if you want to know what I think. Don't look at my hair, and imagine what I might be thinking. Let my Appearance be a teachable moment.
There is a natural order that we are born with if the order is disturbed it can interrupt your body's full potential.  I'm not attacking you or anyone.
But I have seen beautiful sistars losing their natural hair due to unnatural manipulation. The base on most hair bleaches and relaxers is lye and formaldehyde. Lye is a caustic substance, commonly used as drain cleaner. When you combine that with fat, you make soap. In many cases, baldness has occurred due to the excessive use of chemicals on the scalp. These chemicals are being absorbed through the skin like a nicotine patch, actually destroying the living skin down to the skull and into the blood/brain barrier to the pineal gland. 

BLACK Love is loving and accepting ourselves

 BLACK Love is loving and accepting ourselves with self-knowledge in the midst of haters, bigots, racial profiling, prejudice, Ignorance, Classism, Racism, and/or others who might be your family members with self-hate.

 Yes, focus on black love... Love your black hair in spite of the fact that the world thinks it's ugly, love your black skin... I want all the sistars and brothers, Queens and Kings to love themselves.

I think the whole body, mind, and soul matters,... all incorrect balance. Yes, WE must focus on black love... Black Love Matters, Black Lives Matter, Black Money Matters! Love your black hair in spite of what the world thinks.  Love your black skin... I want all the Sistars and Brother Suns, Queens and Kings to love themselves. Respect their Ancestors, Elders and Know our Historic culture and civilizations.

We need to pay more attention to our Black children's minds... 
Our youth are forced to process a sick and dying world of race supremacy.

Our Black Girls are our foundation. As you teach a girl you heal a nation.

Our whole body matters, mind, body, and soul... We must live in the correct balance. 

When women are talking about something of great importance to them, listen. We are Ankh Wombs of creation. We are the first teachers of our children, as they live inside the womb, as we feed them from our nipples, and from the wellness choices, attitudes and conditioning that we carry.
With love comes dignity and self-respect.

Live, Laugh and Leave a Legacy of Love! ---









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Nuta Beqsu, is a Queen Ma of many Suns, Daughters, Grand Princesses, and Princes, living in the urban Kansas City Area. With a mission to provide solutions to the cycles of violence, health disparities, poverty, and inequalities in wealth, she opened the Amen Par Ankh, a Natural Life Center, and Amen Ankh Urban Farm. This is a green space for Home Scholars, an Independent Library and Home Blessings and Notions. She is presently working with grief counseling making Dolls for mothers who have suffered the loss of their children. A Teacher, Priestess, Minister, Life coach, blogger and respected public speaker and educator who has conducted several workshops at various organizations, served as a panelist and as a keynote speaker at regional meetings. She has a monthly call-in or listen online- Radio show http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amencommunications Nuta Beqsu means (heaven gives me balance) Nu, Nut, and Ta are Elemental powers of the Heavens: Nu is Moisture and Water. Nut is the Celestial Sky-goddess. She represents the cosmos and the universe. The Universe is always giving birth to new solar systems and stars. Ta is the original word for land and Kingdom. Our land is our home, and the place for the empirical existence that we are experiencing. She seeks to live in the balance between the planetary and heavenly existence. We are all connected to the land, trees, microcosm and macrocosm, Inner verse and universe. Nuta Beqsu (heaven gives me balance) will be programmed into conscious spirit, to produce thought sequences to direct a course of action as the way to achieve successfulness in life. Visualization is thought converted into a pleasurable visual image(s) to achieve a goal and/or purpose. We connect with Divine Power to guide and direct our pathways. As a divine name is spoken the receiver has unity of direction in life. Her name reflects her Destiny. So, the sights, Sounds, envisions, smells and colors associated with a divine name will give guidance in her pathway. As a Minister and Director at Amen Par Ankh Ankh Amen Ankh Academy, we offer Ancestor Libation Ceremony, Consultations and Life Coaching for Destiny, Name, Health, Career, and Relationships. Afrikan Wedding planning and officiating services, Home and Business Blessings, Naming, Birth Blessings, Domestic Engineering, Ascension services, Lectures, and edutainment- Storytelling, Music, Dance, Youth Outreach and economic Literacy and STEAM(Science Technology Engineering Vocational Arts Mathematics)

We offer Green STEAM Career introduction to young women, called You GROWW Girls- Teach a Girl, Heal a Nation. GROWW means (Gaining, Resilience, Opportunity, Wellness and Wealth) 

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