http://www.abibitumikasa.com/baruti.htm http://www.abibitumikasa.com/Register.php Abibitumi Kasa and Akoben Institute present Mentacide I 6-week course for Wednesday nights 7:30-9PM, October 15 - November 19, 2008. Schedule: October 15 - Mentacide and Common Sense October 22 - The Hunt Is On October 29 - Death Wish November 5 - Without Sanctuary; Lies, Lies and More Lies; and The Gender Confused Voice of Afrikan Manhood November 12 - High Treason November 19 - Leaving Them For The Wolves Text: Mentacide and other essays Class Descriptions: MENTACIDE This lecture is a discussion and expansion of Nana Bobby E. Wright's concept of mentacide. Wright defined it as meaning to kill the mental process, to kill one's normal thought processes, essentially, to kill one's own mind. In that there is still a thought process at work, mentacide also means that an artificial, alien way of thinking is in operation. He also understood that mentacide is only possible when the oppressor controls the resources and agenda of those institutions that are fundamentally essential to the survival of the very group they work to destroy. COMMON SENSE In his discussion of common sense, Baruti deals with the trusting attitude many Afrikans express toward european people. We are forced to reconsider the assertion that all of life is good and of what must be done to bring about a humane reality. This idea of evil acts, and not evil persons or an evil people, taken out of cultural context and not considered relative to its origins in society where Europeans were as of yet unknown, is questioned as to its fit in the thought of Afrikans now working to return order to this planet by following in the footsteps of our Ancestors. THE HUNT IS ON The rate at which Afrikan people are locked behind bars is as important an indicator of our mental or physical health as our suicide, illness, poverty, mortality, abortion or drop-out rates. Our incarceration is not just an act against individuals. The assault is against all Afrikans. There are furious, hateful social forces at work against us. We must remember that this is a wholistic offensive agains the Afrikan in this, and every other, western cultural wasteland. Afrikans are under attack every minute of every day, with whatever weapons Europeans can muster to hasten our mentacidal and genocidal removel from this planet. And their assault has not let up since they first laid their covetous eyes on our power many centuries ago. Our confinement and isolation have always been an integral part of this process of annihilation. Those they do not want to kill they control through fear and contain behind soundproof walls. Incarceration remains one of the most effective methods for physically, emotionally and spritually tearing Afrikan men and women away from themselves and their families. In this lecture, Brauti presents and discusses the statistical indicators of this and lays out, from an Afrikan centered perspective, the theoretical reasoning as to why Afrikans are disproportionately institutionalized. DEATH WISH Why are so many young, healthy Afrikan males committing suicide? Why are more and more teen and preteen males in our community killing themselves before their time, before they have even begun to live and realize their power? Is it because they come equipped with less inner strength than others in this tough game of life and just cannot handle its trials and tribulations? Or should we look to the anxiety-inducing society and culture in which they have been forced to assimilate for answers to this crippling and growing phenomenon? In a comparative analysis of Afrikan and european mentalities toward life, living and spirituality, Baruti looks at why our sons are increasingly dying at their own hands. He delves deeply into the question of why Afrikan youth are more prone to suicidal thought and behavior in an anti-Afrikan, eurocentric society and the role that racial-culturally different methods for coping with inordinate levels of stress play in Afrikan youth disproportionately finding themselves gravitating toward suicidal solutions to what might otherwise appear as everyday problems. WITHOUT SANCTUARY; LIES, LIES AND MORE LIES; and THE GENDER CONFUSED VOICE OF AFRIKAN MANHOOD Homosexualized Afrikan males, the politics of homosexualizing the Afrikan warrior image and the threat of being homosexualized are the focus of this discussion where three different but related aspects of this assault on our being are discussed. Baruti first recounts and explains from an Afrikan centered perspective a recent court case involving the defensive reaction of a young Afrikan male to being victimized by an older Afrikan male in a situation where he logically felt defenseless. Another discussion is deeply troubling for it exposes the attempt by the politically active european, negro and homosexualized Afrikan organized efforts to homosexualize Omowale Malcolm X. The third part has to do with sexual confusion among so-called Afrikan centered academics, intellectuals well read and studied in the Afrikan Way, who promote themselves as spokespersons for Afrikan manhood but privately lead sexually confused lives. HIGH TREASON It is nothing new that some who claim to be Afrikan, who claim to speak uncompromisingly of the Afrikan Way, are guilty of faithfully worshiping Europeans and their way. Whether covertly or openly trafficking chaos throughout our community, they have caused many of us to seriously question the nature of their contribution to our nationbuilding. There have long been traitors in our midst. But most have not been a surprise. Little more was expected of them. Most have not caused us deep, wrenching pain. However, the number we would never suspect who bring treasonous destruction to our people is increasingly rapidly. Interestingly, a sizable number of the latest group to renounce "the revolution" are those who held prominent positions in the Black Power Movement. Many have still been able to hide their true selves and intent from the masses. However, some have fallen out of the negroes closet onto the "we're all human" stage. And most of them are now being fully compensated for their revolutionary turnabout and publicly honored by the same supremacists whose destruction they only recently claimed to be their only reason for living. LEAVING THEM FOR THE WOLVES Since we live within an alien, anti-Afrikan culture and society, no matter how hard we try, it is extremely difficult to harness and direct our children's energy and genius toward the Afrikan Way after they have outgrown their dependence on us. Why has what should be so natural become so difficult? Sadly, it is because we have no sold national social (economic, political, military) structure within which they can truly be Afrikan. They have very few valid, open Afrikan centered communities which they can call home. For this reason, when our children become adults, they find it increasingly difficult to freely and righteously exercise themselves to the benefit of their people and confront their enemy in a way that logically and uncompromisingly fits our Afrikan vision. They cannot do both the work of our generation and theirs. Because of our fears and divided loyalties, we have failed to create a functioning nation for them. We have not built a physical, cultural and spiritual space with clearly defined boundaries and a center which emanates from an ancient, traditional, uncompromising core. We have not provided them with a secure, protected space within which they can safely study themselves and othes. In essence, because we have not done this, they have become nationless warriors, furious mercenaries in service to whoever supplies the quickest and easiest opiate from the pain of being Afrikan in a european dominated world.