We have reached a historical point where our people are being pressured into making generation curving decisions. The political climate in America has proven that the very morals and ideologies this country was founded upon have been replaced by immorality and inhumane ideas. In order to survive, we have to shed our selfish Americanized thought process and fall back into our ancestral practices of community and self-reliance. We are built to be self-reliant, but our oppressors over the last several centuries have done all they could to keep the Black American in a constant position of need and fear. There is nothing more powerful than proper education. Education of SELF and the world around the US play a significant role in our development. We are innately thirsty for information that tests our preconceived and social engineered ideologies. Our children have the right to be exposed to the truth as soon as their minds are ready to handle it. We can no longer provide blanketed education while the access to knowledge is all around us. In order for them to truly benefit the human race, we have to allow the children to take this information at 12, 13, 14-years old and go forward with it. They will innovate and change the world, our only goal should be to present it to them in a way that helps them do exactly that. What are some solutions?Solutions for educating our youth start with educating the parents. Here at BBM Publishing, we are dedicated to creating a knowledge-base that supports parents who wish to educate their children themselves. The information we will provide for our members and readers will directly enable parents to use us as a reference and resource when needed. It is time we reaffirm our young minds and develop their sense of pride that our current institutions look over.
Home Schooling Home School has always been an option for people who could afford to either pay for a tutor or who had the necessary income that allowed one parent to stay home and teach the children. The home-school route offers parents an opportunity to know exactly what their child is learning and how they learn it. This alone can help you decide if the education system serves your child positively or negatively. Parents should be aware of the educational needs of their children and the only way to do this is by actually observe them in a learning environment or create the learning environment for them. Communal Education It is time we take back our communities in a big way. We can’t complain about our miseducation and not offer community solutions that combat the lack of respect and attention our children get from their instructors. If the government wants to pull funding from public schools (even though many are poorly funded already) we have to take it upon ourselves to still utilize those facilities to educate our children on our own. We take the government out of the minds of the youth and implement thoughts that will further advance our community and not send the best and the brightest away to look down upon the community that raised them. Communal education starts with providing access to the knowledge we need. We need a system that allows parents to work but still have time to educate. We also need a system that allows professionals who look like the demographics of students to teach classes that regular teachers can’t passionately translate. This method builds trust with the members of the community as well as a bond with the students who know they are actually being looked at as baton carriers and not placeholders in society. Five Step Process:
Learning who you truly are is the key to life. Self-consciousness will drive you to the knowledge and existence you desire. Black folks, in particular, have been socially engineered to provide the world an image of themselves that fits the ideology already portrayed through mass media and society. Our goal is to change that portrayal and create an image that connects us back to our ancestors. (The Gods) Maat is an ancient Khemetic system of principles that were derived from ancient Khemitic writings. These writings are taken from the Papyrus of Ani (Book of Coming Forth of the Day) also known as The Egyptian Book of the Dead. These principles were said to be originally designed to divert chaos between Upper and Lower Egypt. Maat means justice/truth which each principle in some way describes. We are in need of an improved social system that embodies truth, peace, and harmony in which we navigate our inner existence for external and community growth. Practicing these principles with mindful intensions is the start of our new awakening. Digest and Enjoy! Below is a translated list of these principles. The 42 Divine Principles of Maat in English:
Reference: http://maatlaws.blogspot.com/ Encouraging Black Autodidacts
Autodidacticism or Self-Learning is a powerful way to transcend the future of our people. We have wrongfully equated education to something that only stems from the dominant society. Our concept of education is leaving the people who taught us common sense, in order to learn from professors and instructors who may not ever align with our community. This is no fault of our own, but we have perpetuated its evolution by continuing to invest our money and our youth into systems that teach them to work against their own interest. Do not get me wrong, being highly educated is ALL positive but being indoctrinated causes confusion and builds a wall between the educated and the community they rose from. In an age of misinformation and untruth, we have a responsibility to seek out and reflect our own truth. Our duty as a human is to provide truth and peace to the universe. We have allowed ourselves to be educated by a system that was built to deceive and disarm us. Our education system gives no effort in promoting innovation and self-creativity. We are being taught by teachers who are handcuffed by bias curriculum and lack of resources. The moment to take back the minds of our youth is now. We have to promote self-education and work to build self-confidence at an early age. Many of us have lived through traumas and misguided upbringings, and then we passively dump those feelings on to the next generation. We have to learn to transform that energy into feelings of glory and survival. We have overcome the trauma, we have lived through the worst of the worst, it is time we recover from our depressive state and take education into our own hands. How do we take back our education?We have to stop over-protecting our young men and women. Now we still have to our young people at a high regard and protect them from the various predators in society but we can no longer withhold information. In order to transform our people we will aware children, an aware generation who can lead and take leadership. This generation is in dire need of guidance from adults who are sure of their beliefs and actions yet open for growth. We need our adults to be proud of their occupations, proud of their road to prosperity or not, proud of their role in the community, and proud of their role in their child’s life. Parenting in this social climate of over-drug use, sexual predators, social injustice, is difficult but providing avenues to aid parents in providing education at home can be the solution. We can’t rely on solely reading and writing during school hours. We have to foster expression at home and build a family comradery that thrives off self-education. Step One: Stop relying on people from other races and ideologies to properly teach and train our youth. We should be educated by those who have the best interest for our well-being. We should be able to interact with out educators without miscommunication and barriers. Step Two: Start group homework networks with your kids and their closest friends. Prioritize education as a group and it will create an importance and vitality in our children to reach their fullest potential. Step Three: Our adults should continue to pursue lifelong education. Our youth will follow the ways of the generation in front of them. If they see we are continuously thirsty for knowledge of self and the world around us, in turn they will pluck that trait from us. Step Four: Encourage daily, weekly, monthly reading. We can’t just read books we must comprehend them so it is important that we talk to our young men and women about what they’ve read and helping them develop their own ideas from what they have read. Step Five: Promote creativity, thinking outside of normalcy, teach brainstorming but most importantly we have to provide platforms where the youth can freely express themselves and learn without limitations. We should be pushing innovation and futurism to the next generation. Are you a self-learner or Auto didact? Here are 35 ways to identify yourself as a one or not.
The Autodidact Manifesto (created by. Marelisa Fabrega) 1. I’m passionate about being a lifelong learner. 2. I’m insatiably curious. 3. I believe that knowledge is power. 4. I know that if I’m truly invested in learning something, there’s no need to go back to school to learn it. 5. I believe I can teach myself any subject if I have a serious interest in it. 6. I’m 100% responsible for my learning – I take full ownership of the process of improving myself. 7. Being an autodidact gives me the freedom to learn what I want, when I want. 8. I can be my own coach, mentor, and teacher. 9. If there’s something that I want to learn, I can figure out how to learn it. I know I can learn anything I set my mind to. 10. I make the time to learn. I include learning in my schedule. 11. I overcome inner obstacles to learning such as procrastination, fear, and perfectionism. 12. I ignore the naysayers who say that you can’t teach yourself. 13. My diploma is the project that I complete with my newly-acquired knowledge. 14. I constantly push myself to step out of my comfort zone. Instead of constantly doing what I already know how to do, I stretch myself in order to learn more. 15. I’m self-directed and I work well on my own – I don’t need someone looking over my shoulder telling me what to do. 16. I’m good at goal setting and set S.M.A.R.T. learning goals. 17. I’m good at plan creation, implementation, and iteration. When I want to learn something new I create a plan for learning it and I follow through with my plan. 18. I know that all of the information that I need is at my fingertips. 19. I have the discipline necessary to accomplish my learning goals. 20. I have the necessary grit to persist until I achieve my learning objectives. 21. I’m self-motivated — I can keep my motivation and enthusiasm for learning high. 22. I see obstacles to my learning as challenges to be overcome, not as stopping points. 23. I’m willing to put in the necessary time and effort to learn what I want. 24. I’m committed to self-learning. 25. I learn something new every day, even it’s just a new vocabulary word. 26. I move quickly from learning to doing. 27. I’m invested in learning how to learn. 28. I know that making mistakes is simply part of the learning process. 29. I can deal with the frustration and confusion that are integral components of learning. 30. I’m willing to be a beginner. 31. If one learning strategy doesn’t work, I look for a different strategy. 32. As I learn I make careful self-assessments and adjustments. 33. Those who have the most success with learning are those who try the hardest. 34. I learn actively, not passively. 35. I share what I learn with others. Find more on this here https://daringtolivefully.com/autodidact-manifesto A QULTURE CURVER is someone or a group of individuals working to improve the condition of their culture. An individual(s) who directly impacts the growth, evolution, and maturation of the culture they represent. A QULTURE CURVERS sole objective is to reinforce the identity and creativity of a particular culture. This is especially true when speaking about black culture, specifically sports, business, art, and entertainment.Our culture is in need of proper leadership and universal navigation in order to steer away from the effects of the countless vultures and vampires who have sucked us dry over the last half of the century.When I talk about QULTURE, I mean Hip Hop, Black Excellence, Black Unity, Black Power, Afro-centrism and all of the many productive aspects of our people. We are a people, who for far too long have been recognized through backhand compliments, through the discontent of our oppressors. Our value has depended on the momentary empathy of the dominant society. This all plays hand in hand with the systematic brainwashing of our people.
A people who solely sees our value through the eyes of those who dominate us politically, socially, emotionally and spiritually is a people who will lack self-confidence and who lacks direction. The first step to changing that narrative is by highlighting the people who have withstood the heavy hand of capitalism and cemented pathways that will benefit generations. These are our QULTURE CURVERS, people who learn the ins and outs of the world in an effort to translate the meanings to those who may be stuck in their own self-doubt. Self-doubt is our biggest enemy. Growing self-confidence in our young men and women is the first priority. Introducing them to ideologies that showcase people who not only look like them but who are not just seeking an escape from their community but those looking to engage socially and make changes to their community. Self-doubt breeds stagnation, stagnation births fear and fear will be the end of our people. A fear to change our circumstance equates to the surrendering of our morality and humanity. Our ancestors fought and died for us to persevere not to allow our self-dignity to be drained and reproduced to only be used against us in psychological warfare. How do we change our FUTURE? Our future is now, we change our habits today and our future will become the reality we seek. Self-doubt is not only a symptom of the youth but an overall diagnosis of the BLACK UNIVERSE. It is time to reclaim our self-love and recycle it through our creativity and inventiveness. We need our courageous to let go of these greed-infused capitalistic values and replace them with the communal universal law. Our goal is to celebrate the courageous here at Black Business Mine Publishing; we will celebrate and empower those who fight for our community and culture. We will recognize QULTURE CURVERS! Reel |
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