Like I said I'm not upset, but I'm a realist man and you seem to live in an idea world. You don't want to hear shit that doesn't fit your scope of what you think is right. That's the worst attitude in the world. It's elitist and it isolates you from people who could help you.
When I coached in San Diego, I worked at a school that had one of the largest Sudanese and Somali populations in the country. Some of these kids arrived with the Lost Boys of Sudan and many of the Somali students had been kid soldiers. They went to a school with White, Asian, Black, Hispanic and a host of other cultures. We had 100 dialects at this school.
While I taught there I lost kids from every culture to violence. I realized then that there wasn't any one right idea. We had Black kids who went through Sankofa training and Kemetic philosophy (beat and abused by their own). All of these kids cried the same, failed the same, loved the same, hurt the same, succeeded the same. The only difference was some were Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Catholic, African Philosophy, all of them were beautiful and intelligent.Some of them were dumb as rocks, but I loved them all and fought for them all. I learned then that the things that made them beautiful and amazing were their differences. The kids who went through Sankofa, were no better off than the Muslim kids. Their parents weren't any more successful than the many refugee parents and "illegal" alien parents with work visas.
BUILDING THE AFRICAN NATION IS IMPORTANT. I get it.
But I can't dialogue with you just like I can't dialogue with preachers, or Klansmen. You guys are all the same. Only your way is right. Klan = White is right. Preachers = Only Jesus can get you to heaven. Kemet (the way you do it) = Only Ma'at Will save your mind and life.
It's all CULT thinking that overlooks the fact that all people will never be the same and all people don't have to be the same or share the same things.
I respected my students and their parents because they were beautiful people. They were caring people. They loved each other. When my basketball team, filled with all of these different kids went into battle they battled as brothers. They practiced as brothers. We ate as brothers. When we had long road trips we all slept in the same rooms and shared ideas and dreams. The Christian players learned about Ramadan from our Muslim students. Our Buddhist students taught our Muslim students how to accept meditation. The one kid who went through the Sankofa rights of passage and was raised by Kemetic philosophy people learned from the actual people who lived in the Sudan that it's not Christians or outsiders that are fucking up the Sudan, it's tribes killing each other. I have one of my former players who earned his degree and went back to the Sudan. He explains the problems everyday when he can and I respond when he writes. WE ARE ALL CONNECTED!
If you are looking for ideas, a process, strategies... if you are truly looking for a higher consciousness, learn how to love without limits. Learn how to give without prejudice. Learn how to support without judgement.
These are my last words to you because it is obvious that you, just like Preachers who pimp their congregations, Klansmen who train their children to hate based on their philosophy and you who will never present FACTS only wisdom without example or proof, are only in this dialogue to prove to yourself that what you are doing is right. You don't have anything else to hang your hat on it seems. All you have is Ma'at, but if your ideology blinds you to all of this beauty in the world, all of these amazing cultures, and the beautiful people within those cultures throughout time, that is truly an unfortunate thing.
In your words, Hotep, in all other forms Namaste, Salaam, and God Bless You
I'm out.