Black Connections (Bconx): teaching

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Rise Activity

"Whoever prescribes & controls the diameter of your learning experience, controls the circumference of your activity. In other words, if they teach you, then they know how far you gonna go."
~Dr. Khalid Muhammad

Mental Sag: we ARE this.

"WE ARE BETTER THAN THIS!"
Hmm. (We are better than this.)
We are better than this?
Hypocrisy of the first order.
You are a part of we. You are not better than this.
Greatest lesson of 'U.S. civil rights' activism: to be approximately right > exactly wrong
We are better than this?
You are exactly wrong.
You left these kids. You left the community.
If not physically, then certainly Mentally. You (left) leave it in your mind every day.
...and posters like this soothe your conscience that tells you it was not worth it
to follow the dream (hollow mock) taught to you (to pursue at the cost of yourself) by the not-We.
You didn't listen to your Ancestors. (for they are only dead to you).

What are these kids doing?
What are they (who is a part of 'we') SAYING with their clothes?
Do you have a clue? Have you taken a look? (Yeah Yeah, jail culture blah blah blah...).
Try it yourself. Try doing what they do. Try to make your clothes look like they make.
Walk in their shoes. For real.
Can you, you Fool?
What is happening? You are making one body part longer, taller (spine, backbone)
at the expense of legs (legs -forward motion-are expendable).
In the society (of global 'no-love' power tradition) in which they walk (live), THEY FEEL SHORT.
THEY FEEL they've no BACKBONE.
Uprightness-Stability is even forsaken, they only want but to know BACKBONE: taller (human) feeling.

Do you now see what YOUR (civil rights & post civil rights generation) is working with?
Sankofa yourself.
The last (national) person/group to show us our backbone where our wishbone currently lies was MLK, Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party for Self Defense (NOI and Tupac for a moment).
The same powers that eliminated them know too that 'WE' seeing a picture of the Obama family is a milisecond of backbone 'feeling' in the deep desert of our wishbone lives. ...curbs the want to get TALLER.

"UP YOU MIGHT RACE!" (Baba Garvey/Mama Harriet full-cry to us).
"We are better than this!" = "Up you sagging pants!" = all that you have to give?
Please.
How can you make that YOUTH feel TALLER (or tall enough) in and of himself?
Can you truly help him fight the meaning of the pants sag?
Or can't you see? Can't you hear? Or don't you want to?

Courage. (the civil rights generation had PLENTY of this...if not misdirected).

Hear WE. Hear 'your' kids. YOU RAISE THEIR PANTS. YOU RAISE THEIR IMAGE.
...and not with your fake ass education, fake ass jobs and fake as status.
You grinning American slave.
I bet you thought the billboard was a good investment of money.
(Was the money even yours? ...earned with clean hands?)
Your brain sag PUT the sag in their pants.
YOU tied up the youths feet (movement) with your POSING.
Can't blame them for saying F--- YOU and F--- YOUR 'BETTER'
in a way that no other younger generation has said to an older generation.

Its ok.

All of that is to say, if you love your own, (if you can love your 'we'), then LOVE THEM.

damn.

ref: http://bconx.blogspot.com/2010/03/teach-negro-child-60-ways-to-despise.html
http://bconx.blogspot.com/2011/05/seen.html
http://bconx.blogspot.com/2010/07/energy-in-us.html
http://bconx.blogspot.com/2010/05/cuffs.html
http://bconx.blogspot.com/2010/04/sister-knowknew.html
http://bconx.blogspot.com/2010/03/ch-art-er-whey.html
http://bconx.blogspot.com/2010/08/is-this-fair.html

Euroversal

We must always think about things

& we must think about things as they are,

not as they are said to be.

The Last Word

"...jessie (little doe) and her husband, Jason Baird, who also is fluent, are raising their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Mae Alice, entirely in Wampanoag. She is the first native speaker in seven generations. Six or seven other Wampanoag community members also have attained conversational fluency and are working towards total mastery. Some 50 people, from small children to elders, and 6 teachers attended a recent immersion camp at which only Wampanoag was spoken." (more).

Idren met (now 5 year old) Mae Alice earlier this month at the Mashpee Wampanoag 'Wow. Remarkable. Indeed, ini N8V African & N8V American haffi much to teach one a neddy, o?