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  1. Listen man, let me hip you to something, giving advice based on the idea of your concept without a proven example is like telling me that a dog can open a door and crank a car because all dogs started in Africa. I appreciate you dropping knowledge and sharing, but please, for the life of all things African, stop, stop, stop, stop telling me or any person that if they study Kemetic principles they will be rich or have a better performing business unless you do what I did by giving you my investment page and sales and how much money I've made since I quit working five years ago. You want to know why Nike is a billion dollar business? It's not because they have mastered Kemetic science. They paid the right athletes and they spend a billion dollars on advertising. You want to know why Apple makes a billion dollars? They have convinced the public that their brand can be trusted as the best product. That happened through advertisement. You want to know why all of these big ass White companies make a killing? They simply have more money and more connections than the other companies. (Keyword connections) It's insulting as hell for someone to tell me how to be a billionaire based on a philosophy without showing me THE PEOPLE YOU PERSONALLY KNOW WHO HAVE MADE MILLIONS. Now, I appreciate you dropping knowledge and giving your information, but please save your ideas for making billions until you can tell me, "Chris, this is my friend Joe Heru. He used Kemetic Principle to make 50,000 dollars this month." Then Joe Heru is going to have to come on this page and show me his website, and stats, the same way I showed you that I've made 1 million plus in my earlier posts. This is not European or African thinking on my part. This is reality and it is the world I live in. You don't know what my philosophy or religion is, stop assuming and telling me that yours will help me. Just drop knowledge and that's it, unless you are giving me real evidence of you making your own shoe, owning your own record label, or owning your own publishing company and showing me your sales. You dig what I'm saying? I'm not mad, just irritated. My last words on the business aspects in regard to posting to me: DO NOT POST ANYTHING ABOUT MONEY OR BUSINESS WITHOUT SHOWING ME REAL PROOF THAT YOU HAVE MADE MILLIONS FROM EXECUTING THE SAME THING. You feel me? If you want to share more videos and info, I'm cool with that all day.
  2. Brother is this aimed at me ? I sincerely hope that you are not insulting me, I love every black man and woman because they are family, However I will not tolerate insults, can you please clarify whether the paragraph below is aimed at me ? "While you see this as destructive, I see it all as a positive as it is real nation building. It is only destructive when people decide to be assholes and distort what is being written by other people in an attempt to seem more intelligent than other people. This is why I never disrespected you, I only challenged you so you would leave information about yourself and what you are doing because this is all available for the entire world to read if they want to read it" Do you have any evidence of me saying that this is destructive? These were my questions What are doing with all these posts? We should learn something or create something from this conversation. What do you suggest Brethren? I was suggesting cooperation and you personally insult me.What you get by offending people, a sense of superiority? Please check our conversation, I have never insulted or used derogatory terms to describe you or any of the people who I spoke with. Brother your behaviour on your last post is very immature indeed.
  3. So what's the product of this debate or chat or conversation? What are doing with all these posts? We should learn something or create something from this conversation. What do you suggest Brethren?
  4. Cynique, thank you for the compliment and you know I will keep on doing the work. Nelson, I said in my last post to you, I'm done talking to you about this. If you want to talk about something else, cool, but if the extent of your dialogue/convo/back and forth/ is just the same repetitive stuff I've given you my discussion points and they are very clear. I hope that Ma'at serves you well in your ventures into entrepreneurship and life. I am not creating a civil war with anyone here, we are just talking. I simply choose to stop talking, which is hard for me because I like writing and talking, when the people I'm talking with begin making shit up about what I said. lol
  5. Where did you get the idea that I am a follower of Jesus??? Are you confusing me with Sara? Did you read my post carefully? I am not a Christian for the very reasons you cite. The only religion I lean toward is Buddhism because it speaks to my inner spirit.
  6. Dating back to the 1960s I have been hearing this Afro-centric rhetoric that extols the accomplishments of our noble ancestors, along with the stressing of a need for America's African diaspora to reject Eurocentrism and adopt mindsets more attuned to their true nature, and diets more compatible with their biological DNA. Topping the Afro Centric agenda has always been the ultimate goal of nation building, the creating of a black Utopia whose citizens would thrive from the fruits of their own labor. This is a mesmerizing mantra but it is does not resonate with reality. At the center of Afro-centrism were always the bushy-haired griots and dread-locked gurus sporting kufis and garbed in dashikis and draped with medallions, glibly enthralling their disciples with generic gems of wisdom. Nobody can deny the good intent of these myopic visionaries or ignore the pride they stirred, but the bottom line was that pie-in-the-sky dreams didn't come into fruition because they were all style and not enough substance. The favorite card played by Afro-centric advocates is to characterized Black Americans as being a people who do not know who they are. But what these devotees are in denial about is that the hybrid descendants of slaves, inured in a unique culture that has evolved over centuries, are who they are: a new breed, and to them Africa is just a foot note, not an inspiration. Chris is in the vangarde of reality-based black individualism, realizing that American Blacks are not a monolithic entity that will follow one path. For this to happen would requires going back to square one and doing this in someplace other than the racist, fascistic, capitalistic, materialistic country that America is. Einstein, though not black, did say something that represents true wisdom. "insanity if doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. This is the case history of Afro-centrism. and the reason it has not made great inroads among America's people of color. Or, does the crippling plight of black people today, require an African do-over. It has more to do with acknowledging that the problem ultimately stems from the indiscriminate breeding that takes place among the black underclass. Nobody of any race, or culture should produce more children than they can care for or care about. Family building has to be emphasized as much as nation building. I commend you, Brother Nelson, for wanting to uplift your people and hope Sister Sara and Jesus will be very happy together in the hereafter, cuz lord knows, "JC" ain't thinkin about us niggas and no amount of rationalizing and bible thumping will convince this 82-year-old cynic any different. To Chris, i say, continue the journey wherein you not only talk it, but walk it.
  7. 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.
  8. Brother let's move from the negative, bring an end to Civil war, I am not in the world to insult anybody. Sister's Ani lecture will be the most powerful lecture you will ever hear from an Female intellectual, very deep material. We should focus on higher ideas that can help our people rather than own Ego, What I have and I don't have, We should go beyond, this is pure consciousness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvZ-en9oiqo We are looking for ideas, a process, strategies that will enable us to Create the African nation, that's was the vision of our ancestors, Martin Luther King, it remains our vision
  9. No problem. We have to continue to find opportunities to support each other and my sharing on his page is a way of using his celebrity to bring attention to what you've been doing all along. People won't look at it if a star isn't attached to... at least on Social media. (That's a generalization of course... but I think it's a very accurate generalization.) Talib wrote an article on Medium about why he decided to go independent. I found that interesting because although he is a celebrity, even he has to use Medium to get a message to a broader audience. The work that he's doing for himself is admirable, but unfortunately it still isn't a path that others can take. He had a big studio deal and because of the years of mainstream "promotion" he's gotten he is able to reach the people that want to support him. I often find that, and I'm guilty of this, I will share or like the page of a "star" because the idea that they may check out what I'm doing could potentially lead to a shout out and some book sales. I've found though that over time even stars are guilty of not wanting to give any shine to someone that could be "threatening". Their is a definite chokehold on the eyes and ears of the masses which is unfortunate, but understandable. Honestly, what he's doing is so much smaller than what you've done for us forever that he should have been reaching out to you without me tagging him in a post... which he probably won't reach out anyway.
  10. Sara we homeschool so Shakespeare too! lol

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