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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. 

I choose to pursue my philosophy and way of life to Nurture my family and community. I continue to teach and work with children, teens, and young adults, Elders, and families with Amen Ankh Akademy- African Centered Homeschool and Communiversity- to empower Indigo families, to know, love, and respect themselves; and to build a sustainable economy. https://amen-ankh.blogspot.com/ 



 eYe am a Mother, Kandaki Ma, teacher of history, philosophy, and spirituality. My family Ancestors were free Tutsi people, living in the Americas, known as Natchez, before the Columbo invader infection and colonist, ever arrived. eYe dedicate myself to consciously making the spiritual journey of life, to move to my higher self. eYe am committed to assisting in the movement of as many souls forward on their own journeys as possible. Life is love, of All Creation, knowledge of self, purposeful occupation, and friendship. My most valuable possession is my presence. My truths empower me, and I share them to empower others.
  
Nuk Puk Nuk! (I Am that I Am.)

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Kandaki-Ma Nuta Beqsu (Adenike Amen-Ra)

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We live in our ancient KMT Spiritual systems to serve our community in Libations, Griot Spoken Word Presentations, KMT Wedding, Naming and ReBirth, Personal consultations for Nia (Purpose), Health, Career and, Relationship, and Ascension officiant, Salutations and Blessings for new beginnings, (Home and Businesses blessings), Afrikan Storytelling. Amen Par Ankh is a Sacred Temple of Life- We are a KRST Conscious Community. We Grow Food to restore balance in our relationship with the cosmos, earth, and our Natural communities by increasing awareness of Life, Health, and Environment. We are a Ma'afia a "Healthy Place To Live" Amen Ankh Urban Farm’s Mission is to produce, promote, and perpetuate food, resources, and comfort and to grow local healthy Indigenous Foods in environmentally, respected, earth-gentle ways. Call Us-816-281-7704 

The information on this website has been put together for general information, education, reference, Spirituality Current Events, and entertainment purposes only and is not intended to provide medical advice. This information has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any specific condition. Ask your doctor for his professional advice before making radical changes in your diet and lifestyle.

I am Nuta Beqsu, a Kandaki 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, I opened the Amen Par Ankh, a Natural Life Center, and Amen Ankh Academy and Homeschool network of Industrial arts. This is a green space for Home Scholars, an Independent Library and Home Blessings and Notions. I am presently available for Consultations, Workshops Edutainment, and lectures. currently working with grief counseling making Dolls for mothers who have suffered the loss of their children. I have worked in the community as a Teacher, Priestess, Minister, Life coach, blogger, respected public speaker, and educator. I have conducted several workshops at various organizations, served as a panelist and as keynote speaker at regional meetings. 

Nuta Beqsu means (heaven gives me balance) This is an ancient KMT language that is still in practice today. Nu and Nut are Elemental powers of the Heavens: Nu is Moisture and Water. Nut is the Celestial Star-goddess. She represents the cosmos and the universe, always giving birth to new stars. The Universe is always giving birth to new solar systems and stars. Ta is the original word for place, land, and City-States of our ancient Matriarchal societies. Our land is our home, and the place for the empirical existence where we learn from our experiences. She seeks to live in a balance between the planetary and heavenly existences. 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 a conscious spirit, to produce thought sequences to direct a course of action as a way to achieve success 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. Our names reflect our Destiny. So, the sight Sound, vision, smell, and colors associated with a divine name will give guidance in my pathway of life.

 As a Minister and Director at Amen Par Ankh and Ankh Amen Ankh Akademy, we offer Ancestor Libation Ceremony, Consultations and Life Coaching for Destiny, Name, Health, Career, and Relationships. Afrikan Wedding planning and officiate services, Home and Business Blessings, Naming, Birth Blessings, Domestic Engineering, Homegoing Ascension services, Lectures, and edutainment- Storytelling, Music, Dance, Youth Outreach and Economic Literacy, Travel agency, Insurance Referrals and STEMM(science technology engineering mathematics medicine) Career introduction called You GROWW Girls- Teach a Girl, Heal a Nation GROWW means (Gaining, Resilience, Opportunity, Wellness and Wealth) Call for your appointment: 816-281-7704
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Saturday, September 22, 2018

You G.R.O.W.W. Girls- Teach a Girl Heal A Nation

"We must teach our youth true knowledge of self. to empower them with a legacy of wealth." Nuta Beqsu Amen-Ra



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 As we grow into the knowledge of our great Afrikan Ancestral Heritage, let us embrace our Beautiful Ebony Indigo Girls!

We must Love them, feed them healthy foods, teach them positive activities and exercise, experiences and positive values, knowledge of self and Identity.

In my humble opinion, we must focus on cultivating the inner standing of Mind Body and Spirit within our girls and young women. This is why I established an African Centered parent and girls group called "You G.R.O.W.W. Girls"- Teach a girl, heal a nation.

As souls having a human experience. Our Ebony girls of Afrikan descent will grow to be our next generation of family and Community. We're planting the seeds of STE-A-M into our girls. In their play dates, they will use project-based objectives to learn Urban Agriculture, Financial literacy, Consumer Savy, Entreprenurial pursuits, home Economics, Minor Home Repair, Automotive, technology, electronics, carpentry, and Chemistry experiences.

This is a component of Amen Ankh Akademy https://amen-ankh.blogspot.com



We teach each of our young girls self-knowledge - to understand the power of their Mind Spirit and Bodies, as a sacred temple of life, and to return their self-esteem and self-respect, in their knowledge of their talents and gifts, and an inner-standing of their African heritage, not only for each individual girl and her family but for her nation.

At Amen Par Ankh our Motto is: "Teach a Girl- Heal a Nation."
We Celebrate Life with a group called You G.R.O.W.W. Girls. G.R.O.W.W. Stands for Gaining Resilience, Opportunity, Wellness, and Wealth. We teach young women using an African Centered Cultural perspective, how to live virtuously, practically, and with integrity. How to withstand and endure with resilience, the tests, and trials of life. As we teach young women about the natural world, domestic engineering, arts and crafts, healing therapies, Financial Literacy, and Consumer savvy, we, in fact, expose them to applied careers in STE-A-M (Science, Technology Engineering, Industrial Arts and Mathematics). These young women will learn from STEAM professionals who will serve as mentors/Tutors, and will expose them to careers in Information Technology, computers, biology, and ecology etc..  The success and the future health and wellness of our African Descendant neighborhoods and communities, hedge within the wellness and healthy environment of each of our girls. For it is within the nutrition, knowledge, and cultivation of the minds, body, the spirit of our young girls, and the health and wellness that will disseminate and build the success of future families and communities. We will read about and meet African American Women as positive role models, Tutors, and mentors. We encourage young women to become entrepreneurs in home cottage industries and non-conventional careers in STEAM- Technology, computers, biology, and ecology. Our young girls will learn Plant Identification of herbs and food nutrition. Teaching them to grow their own foods and learn about their own health and wellness. We invite you to join us and support our youth. Feel free to contact us for our women's circles and study groups.

We are African/Indigo people. The oldest people on the planet. Our Ancient Ancestors Traveled the planet to establish civilizations. Our stories were written in stone, in hieroglyphs to be read as an ark of knowledge.

If you would like to volunteer or assist or enroll your young girls between the ages of 7 and 17, and Mentors 18 and up. Please Contact: Queen-Ma Nuta Beqsu: 816-281-7704 or email us: amen.parankh@gmail.com

I am a natural Woman and love It!

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REAL SOLUTIONS

*We must Re-Member that we are Divine Souls having a human experience

*We must know that our bodies are the sacred temple of our soul and a vessel for the holy spirit of life. *We are the children of a collective universe, and we have a higher state of divine purpose and consciousness.




*The greatest thing we can do for our bodies is to make them into a Spirit temple and use them to glorify our higher selves.



Using the word “temple” to describe our body as a dwelling, conveys the idea that our bodies are the shrine, or the sacred place, in which the Spirit not only lives, but is revered, and honored. Therefore, we must acknowledge that we have human rights and choices on how we behave, think, speak, eat. What we let into the temple through our eyes and ears becomes critically important as well, for every thought, word and deed we expose our bodies to.

*We must choose to live in inner peace and health.






*As Afrikan Americans, what we put in our mouths is essential. So it is imperative that we practice healthy eating of balanced meals that largely include fresh fruits, vegetables.

*Fresh air and exercise should also be practiced as a discipline of our body temple. living naturally and close to the earth is the healthiest way, far away from a worldly disconnect from nature.
It is also important to practice good hygiene.




Moving as women into virtuous living is a step in the right direction. Creating home cottage businesses, growing our own foods, Learning Arts and Crafts, Home Economics, Life Skills, Basic Business, and fiscal fitness skill are important. Practicing culinary arts and even trying some homemade cosmetics can be fun, positive, and rewarding.

It is important that our young Black Princesses know their value, worth, and purpose and that they have self-esteem, etiquette, and knowledge of their cultural history. We must return our women to be the Queen Mother Goddesses that they truly are before the world and the earth.
  #AmenAnkh #YouGROWWGirls

Kandaki-Ma Nuta Beqsu (Adenike Amen-Ra)

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(c) All rights reserved. No part of this Blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the author; Nuta Beqsu Adenike AmenRa

We are available for Lectures, Panel Discussions, Conferences, and Workshops, along with an Af-Ra-Ka-N Centered curriculum for youth STEAM homeschooling, Workshops, and Itinerate Tutoring. 
We live in our ancient KMT Spiritual systems to serve our community in Libations, Griot Spoken Word Presentations, KMT Wedding, Naming and ReBirth, Personal consultations for Nia (Purpose), Health, Career and, Relationship, and Ascension officiant, Salutations and Blessings for new beginnings, (Home and Businesses blessings), Afrikan Storytelling. Amen Par Ankh is a Sacred Temple of Life- We are a KRST conscious Community. We Grow Food to restore balance in our relationship with the cosmos, earth, and our Natural communities by increasing awareness of Life, Health, and Environment. We are a Maafia a "Healthy Place To Live" Amen Ankh Urban Farm’s Mission is to produce, promote, and perpetuate food, resources, and comfort and to grow local healthy Indigenous Foods in environmentally, respected, earth gentle ways. Call Us-816-281-7704 

The information on this website has been put together for general information, education, reference, Spirituality Current Events, and entertainment purposes only and is not intended to provide medical advice. This information has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any specific condition. Ask your doctor for his professional advice before making radical changes in your diet and lifestyle.


Nuta Beqsu, is a Kandki 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 Academy and Homeschool network of Industrial arts. This is a green space for Home Scholars, an Independent Library and Home Blessings and Notions. She presently available for Consultations, Workshops Edutainment and lectures. currently 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 keynote speaker at regional meetings. Listen online- Radio show- http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amencommunications Nuta Beqsu means (heaven gives me balance) This is an ancient KMT language that is still in practice today. 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 Queendoms of our ancient Matriarchal societies. Our land is our home, and the place for the empirical existence where we learn from our experiences. She seeks to live in the balance between the planetary and heavenly existences. 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 a 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 sight Sounds, visions, smells, and colors associated with a divine name will give guidance in her pathway. As a Minister and Director at Amen Par Ankh and Ankh Amen Ankh Akademy, we offer Ancestor Libation Ceremony, Consultations and Life Coaching for Destiny, Name, Health, Career, and Relationships. Afrikan Wedding planning and officiate services, Home and Business Blessings, Naming, Domestic Engineering, Grief counseling Homegoing Ascension services, Lectures, and edutainment- Storytelling, Music, Dance, Youth Outreach and Economic Literacy, Travel agency, Insurance Referrals and STEMM(science technology engineering mathematics medicine) Career introduction called You GROWW Girls- Teach a Girl, Heal a Nation GROWW means (Gaining, Resilience, Opportunity, Wellness and Wealth) Call for your appointment: 816-281-7704 Feel free to Contact the Amen Ankh Urban Farm... amen.ankh@live.com or amen.parankh@gmail.com Please like our facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/Green.Griot https://www.facebook.com/PARANKH , https://www.facebook.com/Amen.Ankh.Farm , https://www.facebook.com/Adenike.Art , https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ankh-The-Way-of-Life-Communities/

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

I Am Adenike! My Crown IS Precious!

I Am Adenike My Crown is Precious!


This poem is an expression of the meaning of my name Adenike, which means "the Crown is Precious," and my alignment with my Ancient Ancestors, who traveled and establish civilizations all over the planet. We give honor to the Neteru-  Ma, Nu, Tefnut, Maat, Tehuti, Ausar, Auset, Heru, Our Elemental powers, also known as Great Spirit, I Am, YWHW, Obatala, Allah, Mother-Father-Child, We are all composed of stardust. We are Indigo KRST.  We are Children of the light. It is my wish to instill positive self-esteem within our youth, and their appearance in the world. Our hair is our beautiful spiraling crown. The melanin of our skin is a phenomenal covering that is healthy and gorgeous. There is nowhere on this planet, where our Ancient Ancestors have not been. Even right here in the Americas. We were always here before the Caucasian explorers and invaders ever appeared.

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 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 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 own 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 teach other Indigo Afrikan Girls about natural living, health, and Wellness, STEAM education, home Economics, Recycling, and Art whenever I can, using the Black Panther food program and Freedom School model, with Amen Ankh Akademy ACE Green STEAM Home School Communiversity, 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!" https://adenike-amenra.pixels.com/featured/adenike-my-crown-is-precious-adenike-amenra.html



I am so impressed with the CROWN Act. Thank You Mayor Q!

The idea of "good hair" In the U.S. society, and nearly everywhere that I traveled with my father, who was an Airforce Tech Sargent, was an alienating concept, both by Caucasians and especially painful by people that looked like me. This discrimination was especially brutal when I looked for employment. I have been told to cut my hair, wear a wig to hide my hair, or straighten it, just to be considered acceptable on the worksite. It wasn’t until 2017 that the U.S. military decreed that braids and locks were acceptable hairstyles. 

It’s because of this type of discrimination and marginalization that we needed the CROWN act, an ordinance that would ban discrimination based on natural hair. 

This is another example of MicroAggression.  The way you look, the color of your skin, being who we are naturally, can bare a penalty.  It’s a way of saying, if you don’t conform to our standards, you aren’t worthy of food, housing, healthcare, or employment. 

Now that I am a Grandmother to two beautiful Indigo children, it is even more important that my children are allowed to flourish as they learn at school and move into Economic development opportunities.  As Black hair is politicized, and Black people continue to pay a price for being who we are, discrimination based on hair will continue to stifle opportunities for Black people.  

It is possible to envision a world that accepts us for who we are, that embraces and includes our culture, that moves beyond the status quo to true inclusion.  

Kandaki-Ma Nuta Beqsu (Adenike Amen-Ra)
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Wednesday, January 6, 2016

We Are Rising From The Ashes Of Global Racism

I am an Indigo Melanin child. In the sixties, I would be classified as Afro-American, Colored, Negro, or Black. Yet, these classifications do not tie me to a land or nation where I am embraced and accepted with full rank and power. So Original Americans, Turtle Island, are of Afrikan decent. I understand that the first people to populate the Americas were Twa /Khoisan of Central Africa, tens of thousands of years ago. Later many Asians met up with decedents of the Khoisan, over thousands of years, to create an amalgam of cultures and societies that we now know.  I consider myself to be a Natchez African American. Both, my Mother and Father are Native American descendants. Yet, Melanin peoples were removed from the Dawes Rolls of Native American Registry, to be declared "freedmen," Colored, or Negro, and replaced with caucasian $5 Indians.
THIS IS PAPER GENOCIDE AND LAND THEFT

I choose the word Indigo to describe myself as a conscious person, who is first a spirit having a human experience. My spacesuit on earth is specially designed for the tropical regions.

Indigo implies Indigenous. My Ancient Ancestors are the first and oldest humans on the planet. They were superior and wise in so many ways, carrying the knowledge of Ausarian civilization, wherever they traveled on the planet.

Indigo denotes the lowest intensity of color, in the light spectrum, yet, the highest position of the energy zones of consciousness, often called Chakra Crown.

Indigo also implies the rich deep darkness of the blue black Indigo color. The Indigo plant is indigenous from Akabalon. The Indigo plant was used to make the royal purple cloth that exclusively draped the rulers of the East. The Indigo plant also ties to the irony, that this same royal indigo blue and cotton, has become the most humble and common color in the U.S.- in Denim Jeans. Indigo was often used with Hemp and Cotton fabrics, which were chief commodity for US industry. Denim blue fabric was common place for prison labor crews.


As a Child, I grew up in a US Military family. I was able to travel overseas. I was so proud of my Father. He was a member of the Air Force for almost 30 years. We lived in base housing, and went to integrated schools and churches while on base.  I can still recall how, as an 8 year old child, we lived everyday, facing the challenges of racism and never being able to predict the outcome. Yes, I was called "nigger" and was the target of bullying. These epithets would always be ignored, or often endorsed by teachers and other adult authorities, in schools and in the communities, so much so, that I gave up on reporting my daily assaults to my Mom for remedy. I quietly washed my Afro from the spit, food particles or even chewing gum that would be lodged in my hair or clothing. I became shy and invisible in the lunch room, gym or other open social experiences.








The Irony of this illustration, is that
Caucasians are our rebellious, disobedient children.
Now they have grown to take our Melanin children, to be trained
in their indoctrination school- to mass incarceration pipelines,
using their religious patriarchy, mass media propaganda,
poisonous foods, water and their medi-sins
to cast a spells and curses on our consciousness,
to destroy nature's ecosystem
and the Melanin Goddess Queen Mother Womb of the earth.
When we traveled off of the US base in Europe, I would notice the temperament of people that we encountered, varied from cordial curiosity to venomous contempt. In many encounters, we could tell that they had been previously coached to treat Black-skinned people with reproach.


This sinuous, subtle behavior and attitude is also prevalent in US urban environments, where invader businesses and franchises set up shop all around Indigo neighborhoods, only to take what little money that is gleaned from our families, out of our economy, to bring wealth to their own, while stereotyping, and treating every melanin rich- Youth, Adult or Elder, with hostile suspicion, and contempt. In consequence, the concept of "Black community" has been obliterated.  We have very few resources, or access, that runs autonomously within the US, while the US continues to use our blood and sweat as the oil for it’s grinding gears in it’s School to Corporate Prison, to Military Industrial Complex pipeline.

In conclusion, I have joined with many Indigo peoples, with the objectives to Organize for Black Autonomy. What does that look like? No. We are not attempting to overthrow the government or secede from the US. On the contrary, we are simply seeking our own Kujichagulia (self-determination.) To establish our own gated communities of Gnomes (Families of agricultural based societies) Industrial Artists, Engineers, Educators, Farmers, and Craft People, etc., for the practice of our own Cultures and spirituality, in our own economic structures. Much like how the Kansas City 12th street and Vine Mecca, Beal Street Tennessee, and the New York Harlem Renaissance Meccas, fostered the growth of a rich economic cultural performance arts societies. We must promote our own health and wellness, protection, Languages, Education and spiritual practices. We must establish self police, youth development and build our own energy and resources.



I recently found the complete essay of Mrs. Camille Cosby (below.) It still reigns true today with the current controversies and mass murder of Indigo Melanin rich children by cops. Another point that should be made is the resurgence of the Jumpin Jim Crow system, that creates a steel razor barbed wire corral to access to resources and land ownership by Indigo people. After the adjustable rate mortgage scams obliterated our housing to promote re-gentrification, many Indigo people are currently facing adversities with the use of trumped up city code violations, blight condemnations and adverse possession, to bully the remaining elderly and impoverished, who are barely making ends meet, out of their properties. This also creates an implied idea that Indigo people are not entitled to have access or ownership of certain real or personal properties, locations, products, business development or resources... So Melanin Rich people become the redline targets for assault if they have possession of a status symbol, ie. BMW automobiles...

America Taught My Son's Killer to Hate Blacks
by Camille Cosby


From our institutions to our media, racism and prejudice are omnipresent.
I believe America taught our son's killer to hate African-Americans. After Mikail Markhasev killed Ennis William Cosby on Jan. 16, 1997, he said to his friends, "I shot a nigger. It's all over the news."
This was not the first time Markhasev had attacked a black person. In 1995, he served time in a juvenile center for stabbing a black man who was standing at a gas station.
Presumably, Markhasev did not learn to hate black people in his native country, the Ukraine, where the black population was near zero. Nor was he likely to see America's intolerable, stereotypical movies and television programs about blacks, which were not shown in the Soviet Union before the killer and his family moved to America in the late 1980s.

James Baldwin wrote in his book The Price of the Ticket, "The will of the people, or the State, is revealed by the State's institutions. There was not, then, nor is there, now, a single American institution which is not a racist institution.

Yes, racism and prejudice are omnipresent and eternalized in America's institutions, media and myriad entities. Here are a few examples:

The Voting Rights Act signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 will expire in 2007. Congress once again will decide whether African-Americans will be allowed to vote. No other Americans are subjected to this oppressive nonsense.
African-Americans, as well as all Americans, are brainwashed every day to respect and revere slave-owners and people who clearly waffled about race. In truth, the enslavement of millions of Africans immeasurably enriched the treasuries of America's government and individuals. Interestingly, several slave-owners' images are on America's paper currencies: George Washington ($1), Thomas Jefferson ($2), Alexander Hamilton ($10), Andrew Jackson ($20), Ulysses Grant ($50) and Benjamin Franklin ($100). Grant was the last U.S. president to own slaves. Even Abraham Lincoln ($5) said, "I do not stand pledged to the prohibition of the slave trade between the states.... I, as much as any man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the White race."

God and most Christian holy people artistically have been recreated in images of whiteness. This shrewd propaganda undeniably lessens the worthiness of most of the Earth's people. Because of those visual constructs, the churches have a deep problem with race.

America's educational institutions' dictionaries define "black" as harmful; hostile; disgrace; unpleasant aspects of life." "White" is described as "decent; honorable; auspicious; without malice."

A medical school at the University of Texas in Galveston conducted a controversial study primarily on black babies from 1956 to 1962. The researchers withheld an essential fatty acid from the babies' formulas that humans need for the growth of the whole body and nervous system. Those black babies were used as laboratory animals, and several of the infants died during the course of the study. Previously, this research had been done on dogs. This is just one of several unethical medical studies on African-Americans that has been documented.

Also, racism negatively has impacted African-Americans' health. Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, a Harvard psychiatrist says, "Some research suggests that the high prevalence of hypertension among African-Americans, compared to whites, is related directly to the stresses associated with being a black person, living in a racist society."

D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, an undisguised racist film, was recently rated by the American Film Institute as No. 44 of America's top 100 films. This movie depicted black people as subhuman creatures.

Gangs, such as the Ku Klux Klan, unite because of racial hatred. A gang will convince themselves that they are racially superior to "outside" groups, which must be harmed or eliminated.
Violence is prevalent in America. According to Gavin de Becker's research in his book The Gift of Fear,

"The energy of violence moves through our culture.... Our country's murderers rob us of almost a million years of human life every year.... In the past two years alone, more Americans died from gunshot wounds than were killed during the entire Vietnam War."

USA TODAY recently published a report from Pride, a nonprofit drug prevention program. Pride's survey shows that nearly one million school kids (grades six through 12) carried guns to school during the 1997-98 school year. Fifty-nine percent were white; 18% were black. More than half also used an illegal drug on a monthly basis.

Ennis William Cosby was shot and killed in a middle- to upper-middle-income, predominately white community. The misperception immortalized daily by the media and other entities is that crimes are committed in poor neighborhoods inhabited by dark people.

All African-Americans, regardless of their educational and economic accomplishments, have been and are at risk in America simply because of their skin colors. Sadly, my family and I experienced that to be one of America's racial truths.

Most people know that facing the truth brings about healing and growth. When is America going to face its historical and current racial realities so it can be what it says it is?

Camille O. Cosby is an educator and producer.
Usa Today July 8th 1998



Kandaki-Ma Nuta Beqsu (Adenike Amen-Ra)

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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 presently available for Consultations, Workshops Edutainment and lectures. currently working with grief counseling making Dolls for mothers who have suffered 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 keynote speaker at regional meetings.
Nuta Beqsu means (heaven gives me balance) This is an ancient KMT language the is still in practice today. Nu, Nut, & 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 Queendoms of our ancient Matriarchal societies. Our land is our home, and the place for the empirical existence where we learn form our experiences. She seeks to live in balance between the planetary and heavenly existences. 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 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 sight Sound, vision, smells and colors associated with a divine name will give guidance in her pathway.

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