QUITTING AMERIKKKA
KAMAU MAKESI-TEHUTI
For non-fiction readers of Afrikan authors, this title should ring a bell. Randall Robinson had a remarkable book of the same title in 2004 (gregorian calendar). This writer agreed with about 80% of its analysis. This article, however, is not a critique of Mr. Robinson’s work. I am just literally “jackin’” him for it. I want to move to deeper, more fundamental reasons why all Afrikans esp. Those captured within its geographic borders must quit amerikkka for effective & long-term healing, living & thriving.
Quite directly, Afrikans in amerikkka must give up on the idea that amerikkka will take care of or look out for us. We must give up on the notion that if we just better inform/live around caucasoids, they will understand us and thereby treat us better. We must give up on the notion that we only must force/demand/beg caucasoids to live up to their pretty sounding words of yesteryear-that amerikkka will be better for all people residing there. Once we give up–QUIT– these notions, we must conceive, create new ideas, theories, action plans, programs for the bevy of problems we now face.
However, too many of us want into amerikkka while at the same time cursing/damning and criticizing it to death. Equally crazy, the same people don’t even give the thought of something different/ something culturally Afrikan, suited for the present day, five picoseconds of time within their/our brains. Instead of acknowledging all of the new possibilities that open up from new conceptualizations of the problems, they mentally mutter, “That’s segregation all over again.” ; some feel exposing Black people to authentic Afrikan rituals to access once-known-&-beneficial-now-displaced aspects of our full selves is preposterous; using an Afrikan language in daily affairs to create an extant Ancestral connection, is felt to be outlandish. Yet from reading Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine –any edition, New African Magazine, the books Decolonizing Methodologies- case studied around the Maori of new zealand, For Indigenous Eyes Only- focusing on decolonizing the Native american population and many others, LARGE numbers of people see just the opposite of the above – returning philosophically, conceptually and behaviorally to the ways of their Ancestors (adapted for present day)– is in fact THEE key to their own healing, living and thriving.
Quitting amerikkka is knowing that upon physical transition, aspects of that ‘self’ will return to the physical realm, within another person of their own future lineage/(circu-lige from Brother Kwesi Ra) 3-7 generations down the line to continue fulfilling its Nkrabea (Mission/Function); thereby death is not seen as finality but transition to another phase of existence.
Quitting amerikkka is knowing that its “majority” citizens do not care about its once legal subhuman property–never have and never will. Thereby the concepts “liberal, conservative, democrat, republican,” k.w.k., have no standing from a culturally connected Afrikan point of view. There are a few books and journal articles that study precolonial, non-caucasoid, non-arab, Afrikan governance techniques, so quitting amerikkka would involve a group of Afrikans looking at that information and begin conceptualizing systems that are Afrikan at their core as well as workable for today. Being able to test them out as well as trying the suggestions in the courageous work Meeting Maat will help us to begin conceptualizing and actualizing what Afrikan Centered Governance can look like in the 21st century (gregorian calendar) or the 62nd century (Kemetic calendar) and beyond.
Quitting amerikkka means knowing ALL formal institutions for “education” are european value socialization camps; were/are not meant to help Afrikan/Black (same thing) people solve out problems and must slowly start being moved away from and replaced with continued support of and creation of more Afrikan-value-based institutions like the Frederick Douglass school in St. Louis, NationHouse here in DC, k.w.k. How in the world do we expect healthy, well intentioned, Afrikan Centered men and women when they are taught through most of their lives by caucasoids, their reality and their values?
Quitting amerikkka means preparing oneself for an eventual physical move to another land. If not Afrika proper, Central & South amerikkka has similar land availability, value orientations and in some areas (like Bahia) similar spiritual affiliations. If not you, then begin preparing your children– expose them to farming, nature survival and authentic Afrikan rituals.
Quitting amerikkka is a gradual process, esp. For us born in this dungeon with this being ‘all we know.’ A few quick tangible things that can be done is the immediate stoppage of celebrating caucasoid holidays. Gather with family, eat as if it is an ordinary day–throw away caucasoid holiday merchandise like red, white and blue underwear and just slowly calculate all the personal monies saved from non-participation. Begin including in your library, works that not speak positively about Afrika in general but also those that use its wisdom for healing like The Healing Wisdom of Africa by Malidoma Some and To Heal A People by Kofi Aadae. You can even include free resources from Kwesi Ra Nehem Ptah Akhan at
www.odwirafo.com.
Quitting amerikkka will necessarily include–though it may be the last one on the list to happen en masse– quitting the worship of caucasoid deities, quitting caucasoid conceptualizations of the Universe and quitting relating to spirituality from caucasoid teachers and teachings. We are relating to “God” as though we are caucasoids. An under thought of fact is that they are the only one’s teaching us how to do it and it is usually them who accredit and certify Afrikans/Blacks (same thing) to teach us when caucasoids are not physically present. The way of “God” was “revealed” to us through caucasoids and this sits at the center of ALL of our larger problems. Quitting this can ONLY lead to a boon in Afrikan people’s spiritual and material development and well being.
Quitting amerikkka means acknowledging the totality of this Dr. Kobi Kambon statement
[T]he basic ideological and philosophical character of [a]merican society . . .is essentially defined by the [e]uropean worldview. This is because the [e]uropean [a]merican community effectively controls [ALL] of the basic institutions which formally define the [a]merican social reality. . . . The basic philosophy, values, customs and standards inherent in the [e]uropean worldview form the core or frame of reference for the [a]merican social reality. The [a]merican social/cultural reality, then, is "[e]urocentric" in its basic nature. It projects [e]uropean people, their history, philosophy, culture, etc., as the center of the universe. The [a]merican situation in which these two worldviews (African and american/european) confront one another, therefore poses some of the most serious psychological and mental health implications imaginable for the African . . .community." (Dr. Kobi Kambon's article in African Psychology edited by Daudi Azibo, pgs. 60-61) He continues," . . . To the extent that the [e]uropean [a]merican community effectively controls [a]merican society, it has been able to superimpose its worldview on other, non-[e]uropean . . . Communities. (Kambon, 61, emphasis added)
and living by its profound truth.
Really, quitting amerikkka is about having profound faith in our maroon-type Ancestors, our liberation-minded Ancestors. It is having proper knowledge of our Afrikan Centered reality as well as courage, creativity and perseverance in recreating the best of that reality in this present age. It is about focusing the majority of our energies to matters–possibly exclusively– of our interests and to matters entrenched in Afrikan Nation building and the reestablishment of our once Afrikan Greatness.
Didi kwan biara nware (dee dee kwan bee-are-rah en-wah-ray) A trip to the source of one’s food supply is never too far.–Akan proverb. Never forget-- Afrika is OUR SOURCE!!
02-20-2007, 04:40 AM
This is a piece I did in Afrikan World Analysis last year--QUITTING AMERICA
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