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COLIN KAEPERNICK AND AMERICAN PATRIOTISM: CIVICS 101

 

 

By Fahim A. Knight-El

Thesis Statement:Colin Kaepernick's protest, dissention and refusal to stand for the playing of the United States National Anthem must be viewed outside of the superficial question of patriotism and understood as an act of free speech, which was protected under the United States Constitution.

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                                                                  Introduction

This research will attempt to frame a current event issue of social justice involving Colin Kaepernick an African American professional football player, in particular by assessing and evaluating in a limited way race, police brutality, patriotism and social justice within a non quantitative scope. This writer must admit from the outcome that this will not be an exhaustive research, it will have some scholarly and journalistic limitations and shortcomings, but this writer will make every attempt to remain objective and empirical throughout the essay. 

Kaepernick's political position created a sizable amount of controversy during the 2016-2017 NFL football season, because he stood in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement by refusing to stand during the playing of the national anthem in protest of the killings of unarmed black men by white law enforcement officers. This writer will seek to distinguish patriotism, Americanism and what is deemed subversive action and place Kaepernick social protest beyond the question of an act of sedition and treason.[1] 

11                                                  Kaepernick: Right to Dissent

Kaepernick protest action whether or not we viewed his behavior as being distasteful and/or un-American or viewed him as a hero and/or a true American patriot. It really did not matter because this writer after assessing and analyzing the data has come to the conclusion that Kaepernick social protest on the football field must be protected as free speech and under his First Amendment Right to dissent.[2]

His political stance gained national attraction in which other NFL players, college athletes and even high school athletes joined on to Kaepernick stance to expand the conversation about race, police brutality and justice. My research will only serve as a microcosm to a much larger and extensive problem in the United States, which is the unresolved question of race and racism.[3]

Colin Kaepernick as stated above is a National Football League (NFL) professional athlete and quarterback of the San Francisco Forty Niners. Let me try to historically and presently make an attempt to contextualize my argument by briefly bringing an understanding of the social, political and economic landscape of the United States of America from 2012 thru 2016. Moreover, by given brief attention into recent political events, which have impacted African Americans relative to addressing the issues of police brutality and the judicial system. The scholar Michelle Alexander in her book titled, The New Jim Crow, explores the systemic outcomes of a judicial and criminal justice apparatus that have been race based and has led to mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex. 

III                                  Treyvone Martin Speaking From the Grave

It was perhaps the Treyvone Martin's case in Florida that involved a young black teenager who was walking from the store and entered into his father's neighborhood where he was deemed suspicious based on racist biased stereotypes and possibly from those stereotypes, it was determined that Martin had criminal intent on his mind in which this led to Martin being followed, accosted and was eventually murdered by George Zimmerman (a white security guard).[4]

The Florida judicial system found Zimmerman not guilty of murder and acquitted him based on citizens living in Sanford, Florida having the right to defend ones self under a law called stand your ground law. The legal exoneration of Zimmerman created emotions on both sides (was it a racist murder or self-defense justifiable homicide).[5]Thus, once again for some this incident was a microcosm into America’s racial history, which led to the argument of the impact of race, justice and fairness within the judicial system relative to people of color.[6] 

Many in the African American community felt that Martin was unjustly murdered and this was historically consistent with black men being killed by white police officers and law enforcement agents throughout American History. It would be this judicial case that became the impetus for the establishment of the Black Lives Matter movement in which this grassroots protest organization brought national attention to police brutality and the high incidents of unarmed African American men being killed by white law enforcement officers across America. 

 IV                                                     Black Lives do Matter

The Black Lives Matter movement begin spearheading large mass protest demonstrations throughout America via marches, boycotts and in some cases outright confrontations with law enforcement ensued. This was typified in Ferguson, Missouriwhen Michael Brown was gunned down by a white police officer and in Baltimore, Marylandwhere Freddie Gray was killed while in police custody.[7] The political momentum extended to the colleges and universities campuses where students joined on to the efforts of the Black Lives Matter movement demanding responsible policing and holding law enforcement officers accountable when they break the law. This type of mobilization was best highlighted by students at the Universityof California at Berkeley, a white prestigious university who stood in defiance and in rebellion and the University of Missouri football team who also stood in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and agenda.

We do not live in a vacuum (nor a bubble) and this writer thinks that Colin Kaepernick, although, he is wealthy and privileged as a professional athlete begin seeing the world outside of the bubble, and sought to engage himself within a social issue that had extended far beyond the comfort of his personal wealth status, which he himself being a black man in America could easily identify. Perhaps being exposed to the mass medium reports, both electronic and print about the high profile killings of unarmed African American men resonated with Kaepernick. It possibly led him to question the social internal contradictions and was the premises of these law enforcement murders more rooted in the unresolved question of race and racism in America. 

V                 America was Founded on Racism and White Supremacy

This writer maintains that these incidents sensitized Kaepernick to the agony, pain and suffering of black mothers and fathers having to bury their sons and daughters prematurely (it sprung him into becoming proactive). Race as an antagonistic contradiction in American history has been in existence since the inception of this nation's early development; this was best analyzed by professor Derrick Bell in his book titled, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism[8] and Cornel West in his book titled, Race Matters also deals with how intertwined race has been as a social phenomenon, throughout American history impacting every facet of our social, political, and economic fiber since our sojourn in America beginning with Chattel Slavery (1619-1865); this social dilemma continues to have lasting effects on race relations in the United States even as I write this essay. 

Also, Andrew Hacker in his book titled, Two Nations: Black and White Separate, Hostile, Unequal, In this thesis he examines the racist and white supremacy mindset that evolved along side the first white settlers who arrived in the so-called 'New World' during the early 1600s (colonial America) and encountered the Native Americans (race therefore after would become a problem).[9]

VI                            Kaepernick Protest was About Speaking Truth to Power

Kaepernick was not considered a Black Nationalist or an activist, but he felt obligated as a black American to address the killings of unarmed black men by white law enforcement officers by using his high profile position and status as a professional athlete to condemn, rebuke and stood with those who were deemed victims of an unjust system. But beneath Kaepernick's tactic and strategy of not to stand and salute the American flag and the national anthem, was him having the fundamental and Constitutional right to exercise lawful dissension.

Some viewed his kneeling protest as an act of sedition and treason. Kaepernick critics were equating patriotism with a false flag waving mindset and failed to understand that the U.S. Founding Fathers in the language of the Preamble to the constitution for saw and imposed language that would lead us more toward a perfect democracy.

VII                                   Black Athletes Who Stood For Social Justice

Yet, he was not the first high profile African American athlete to take up the cause of social justice, perhaps one of the most well known black athletes to do so was former 1960 U. S. Olympic gold medalist[10] and heavy weight boxing champion of the world Muhammad Ali who had joined the Nation of Islam and had become a Muslim under Elijah Muhammad who in the 1960s refused to be inducted into the United States arm forces citing himself as a religious conscience objector.[11] 

Ali condemned the United States military industrial complex and openly refused to fight in Vietnam. His stance brought international attention to the political validity (relative to imperialism and aggression) of the United States being militarily involved in Southeast Asia and using black men as political tools and as cannon fodder in achieving American reactionary foreign policy objectives.[12]

Also, at the 1968, Mexico City Olympic Games in which John Carlos and Tommy Smith, two American track and field athletes who received the silver and bronze medals respectively, but at the medal ceremony, they both raised their black gloved fists in solidarity with the Black Power movement of the 1960s that was being led by the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.[13]There was a revolutionary mood in America in the 1960s with black nationalists personalities such as Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, Stokley Carmichael, H.Rap Brown, Angela Davis, Elaine Brown, George Jackson and the Soledad Brothers, etc. 

I do not think we could equate Kaepernick's protest intentions and motives of possessing and having the political implications of the above mentioned Black Power advocates, but yet they shared a similar political thread, which was addressing injustice and police brutality in the black community. The Black Panther Party in their "Ten Point Plan" (‘What the Panthers Want, What We Believe’) was critical of police brutality and believed the people had a right to defend themselves by any means necessary against such brutality.[14]

VIII                     Patriotism, Americanism and Citizenship: What does this Mean?

Kaepernick was not advocating arm resistance or any form of violence against the United States Government; he like many in the African American community sought to dramatize police brutality by creating a larger conversation about race and policing, as well as drawing attention to injustice. His refusal to stand when U.S. National Anthem was being sung went much deeper into the social and political complexities of Americanism and how has this been applied to a marginalized people who have been referred to as hyphenated Americans (African-Americans). 

Dr. W.E.B. Dubois in 1903, confronted this social dilemma in his monumental book titled, The Souls of Black Folk, what he referred to as "twoness" the duplicity and ambivalence of being a the so-called American Negro and torn between being American and African in the United States.[15] This in my opinion was the social dichotomy which rested the foundation of Kaepernick's civil disobedience and refusal to acknowledge the American flag and national anthem; his kneeling served more as a denunciation and exposing the perceived hypocrisy of what they stated it meant to be an American citizen as conveyed in the 1776 Declaration of Independence; “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain in unalienable rights among these are  Life,  Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”.[16] 

Yet, African Americans being unjustly gunned downed and murdered by white law enforcement officer left a lot to be desired relative to the question of patriotism and Americanism from Kaepernick's vanish point.  These racially motivated incidents of killing unarmed black men left the impression that blacks were not being treated with justice and therefore, the flag and American patriotism were being defined differently by Kaepernick because of these injustices. 

This much this writer applauded Kaepernick social justice stance and for using his large public stage to expose and draw attention to the systemic practices of racism and police brutality in America. Kaepernick pundits and critics did not understand and was intentionally overlooking that Kaepernick protest was protected under the First Amendment Right to the United States Constitution, which guarantees and protects every American to having the right of freedom of speech and freedom of expression. 

         

His failing to stand during the playing of the national anthem did not violate U.S.law, it has to be received as protected free speech. We have to understand that the real litmus test to free speech is how do we receive speech that we disagree on and do we allow it to co-exist along side speech that we find agreeable.

                

IX                      Final Thoughts on Race, Racism, Policing and Free Speech

Lastly, Kaepernick is the epitome of what it means to be a patriot, in which the Founding Fathers created and established a democracy that would be rooted in a check and balance governmental system. They allowed for dissention to be an alternative to tyranny, oppression and injustice and the legality of such would be protected under the United States Constitution. Kaepernick refusal to stand at the raising of the United States flag and singing of the national anthem was definitely an act of dissent, but it wasn't necessarily un-American and should have never been viewed as a question of patriotism or treason. Some of us in the Kaepernick argument failed in the fundamental understanding of what Constitutional intent was conveying pursuant to what is referred to as protected free speech in which Kaepernick was exercising. 

There was no doubt Kaepernick's involvement as a high profile celebrity in the above mentioned social justice cause has drawn attention to the question of race, racism and police brutality aimed at black men in which in my opinion his involvement expanded the conversation. However, he did lose some credibility when he revealed that he did not vote in the last presidential election and his critics viewed this overt political neglected as the highest level of hypocrisy because part of change can be determined at the ballot box. Yet, this did not sway me away from seeing the larger picture of Kaepernick's social activism and the importance of his involvement. 

Yet, this writer thinks and understands by this being a contemporary issue, it is entirely too early for social scientist and historians to assess and evaluate relative to making a scientific judgment on the long term benefits and shortcomings of Kaepernick activism. The historiography is still developing and will perhaps be many years before we could make a true scholarly assessment of the personalities and events surrounding Kaepernick and Black Lives Matter movement and the impact they had on reshaping the conversation relating to race and policing in present and future America. 

This writer is also fully aware that Kaepernick's daring to engage in such controversial social justice issue could have a negative adverse consequence on his career as an athlete. He essentially was challenging the status quo in which the National Football League is a powerful and influential corporation whereas it generates huge amounts of profits and revenue. They have the power to 'black ball' Kaepernick as away of serving notice on other black athletes who would dare to engage in controversial social justice issues. Athletes are viewed as gladiators who are paid handsomely to entertain and to always think inside the box[17].

                                                                 NOTES

[1] John McWorter.“Colin Kaepernick Had No Choice but to Kneel”; Internet article Time.com http://time.com/4504014/colin-kaepernick-kneel/ September 22, 2016.      

[2]Nancy Armour. “How national anthem protests bring out the worst in people”; Internet article USA TODAY Sports http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/nancy-armour/2016/09/25/colin-kaepernick-anthem-protests-backlash-social-media-emails/91076216/  September 25, 2016.     

[3]Ibid, Armour.

[4]Ta-Nehisi Coates. “Trayvon Martin and the Irony of American Justice”; Internet article theAtlantic.com https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/trayvon-martin-and-the-irony-of-american-justice/277782/ July 15, 2013. 

[5]Author William P. Benjamin, African Americans in the Criminal Justice. (New York: Vantage Press, 1996) vii- vii. 

[6]Ibid,Benjamin.  

[7]Marc Lamont Hill, Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Ferguson to Flint and Beyond. (New York: Atria Books, 2016).

[8] Derrick Bell, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. (New York: Basic Books, 1992) xiv-xv.

[9]Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White Separate, Hostile, Unequal. (New York: Scribner Publishing, 2003) 3-4.   

[10]Karl Evanzz,  The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad. (New York: Random House, 1999) 330-331. 

[11]Ibid, 331.

[12]Ibid, 330-331.   

[13] Edna and Art Rust. Jr.,Art Rust’s Illustrated History of the Black Athlete. (New York: Doubleday and Company, 1985) 358-559.    

[14]Hugh Pearson, The Shadow of the Panther: Huey P. Newton and the Price of Black Power in America. (New York:Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1994)109-110.   

[15] W.E.B Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk. (New York: Signet Classic, 1903) 45.

[16]Ibid, McWorter. 

[17]William C. Rhoden, Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete. (New York: Random House, 2006) 2-3.

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By Fahim A. Knight-El

Black history for me as many of my reading audience, perhaps already know, is a very passionate​ subject in which I take very serious. Some years ago, my three sons were in the public school system as students. My middle son ran into some obstacles about his love for black history (I taught all of my children​ to love their blackness and to embrace their culture and heritage) and on this one occasion a mis-educated and hankerchef head Negro teacher was attempting to deter him from writing a paper on a non-traditional African American leader. The teacher had a shallow perspective on African American history and our contribution to civilization.

This school district constituted Negro teachers and white teachers (both of them shared the same mindset) I took on these Uncle Tom Negro teachers and educators. I wrote a book titled, A Children Manual in African American History, in defense of my son and in defense of every black child in that school district. I wanted to let them know that there were many more historical African American leaders other than George Washington Carver, Dr. Marin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks. I highlighted twenty so-called African American personalities in that book such as: David Walker, Harriet Tubman, Phillis Wheatley, Marian Anderson, Yahweh Ben Yahweh, Marcus Garvey, Booker T. Washington, Sojourner Truth, Kwame Ture, Oba Adefumi, Louis Farrakhan, Carter G. Woodson, Noble Drew Ali, Mary Church Terrell, Elijah Muhammad, W.E.B Dubois, etc.

I explained to my son during this process that if we do not like​ what Negro and white educators are writing and presenting then it is our responsibility and obligation to write and record our own history (this became one of those true teachable moments). But if you dare take this type of non-compromising position, you must be willing to often pay a huge personal price, because there are consequences that comes along when you dare to speak truth to power, I paid and my children paid a heavy price for standing up and challenging white supremacy and their Negro overseers. If had to do it all over again I would do it the exact same way.

The teaching of Black History in the public schools should be considered an academic mandate to be taught as part of the overall curriculum and incorporated as an extension of American History (required beyond just being a student elective) that should serve as a prerequisite for all U.S. public school students. Moreover, which will create culture diversity in learning and foster better understanding about the social, political and economic plight of African American people and their descendents, and the contribution they made in American history and on the stage of world civilization.

Also Black History could be used in the classroom to build positive self-esteem and self-awareness amongst African American students and improve academic achievement. This writer finds this research important because my late grandparents and my Elders informed me that during the Jim Crow (Plessy v. Ferguson 1896) and segregation era in America, in particular in the old south black history was taught in the segregated black school districts and classrooms as a required mandate, it instilled racial pride and connected blacks to the social progress they made prior to slavery, during slavery and up until civil rights movement of the 1950s (Brown v. Board of Education 1954) and 1964 Civil Rights Act were only social progression steps of attempting to legally remedy the political, economic and social challenges that were confronting black people in the 1950s and 1960s (but if we as so-called African Americans​ were honest with ourselves, it is enough clear evidence that has been rendered over the last sixty years to prove that integration has failed us as a people).

This writer will use various scholars, historians and social scientist (mainly secondary sources) to build a scholarly case of why it is important to include the teaching of Black History in the public school classrooms by analyzing and assessing the historiography in which to allow the evidence to substantiate the necessity of Black History being inclusive as part of the pedagogy of the American public educational process.

This research also will briefly look at the systemic effects of Chattel Slavery, Jim Crow and the positive and negative impact segregation had on the educational development of class curriculum (fostering educational disparities) and the roll black history need to continue to play. I would argue that the teaching of Black History could benefit all races, colors and nationalities when it comes to creating a learning environment that promotes educational diversity and an inclusionary teaching dynamic that could increase tolerance amongst students and people who may come from different socio-economic backgrounds and culture experiences. Yet, this writer, will address the critics and opponents of black history who do not view the teaching of black history in the classroom as needing to be mandatory within the American educational curriculum. This writer must be forthcoming and admit that based on the research length this thesis will have limitations in scholarly scope, but nevertheless, will attempt to expand the conversation and discussion relative to the value and importance of having black history being taught in the public systems school classrooms​.

Dr. James Standifer in the 1987 edition of "Journal of Negro Education" argues the importance of educational diversity and inclusion. Standifer argued that the present day teachers with out doubt have been better trained in the application of teaching methodology, which is a step in the right direction. But argued that there should be more training and attention around creating healthier learning environments that stems from working to better understand cultural diversity. And strengthen human relations by synthesizing and infusing into the educational curriculum an appreciation for the culture of ethno-marginalized people such as Asian-American, African American, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, etc. Standifer argued the above mentioned multicultural approach of ethnic inclusion was more valuable to a society that is in a social, political and economic transition and the curriculum should dictate this by moving away from any previous or present educational models or curriculums that negated multicultural diversity 

Standifer places tremendous value and focus on creating a curriculum that gives way to infusing learning more into a melting pot in which culture was seen as a vehicle to expand student’s worldview and enhance learning, as opposed to allowing culture to serve as a stagnate and divisive antagonistic contradiction. I think that Standifer was a visionary who understood thirty years ago that culture bias, stereotypes, racism, etc., could be eradicated by providing unlimited culture exposure to students; the ultimate goal was building tolerance on the academic level. Standifer argued four major goals and objectives of supporting educational inclusion. 1). To help students develop positive and realistic self-concepts regardless of race, sex, or culture background; (2) to help students understand that both sexes and diverse racial/cultural groups have valuable contributions to the heritage of the United States of America and that this rich diversity enriches and strengthen our country; (3) to help students understand that all persons are members of the human race and have common needs, feelings, and problems, while stimulating their appreciation for the uniques of each individual and culture group; and (4) to help students develop positive interpersonal and intergroup communication techniques as well as motivation to play an active role in the solution of societal conflicts." (James A. Standifer. “The Multicultural, Nonsexist  Principle: We Can't Afford to Ignore It”; The Journal of Negro Education: A Howard University Quarterly Review Issues Incidents to the Education of Black People volume 56 (1987): 471-474 print).

After the 2008 presidential election of America's first so-called black President Barack Obama there was talk that the United Statesas a nation had transitioned into a post-racial era, which early on some believed that the social and the racial dynamics inside the United Stateshad forever changed with his election of Obama as U.S commander-in-chief. But there were some public intellectuals who were skeptical of this notion such as Dr. Eric Michael Dyson, Dr. Boyce Watkins, Dr. Cornel West, Tavis Smiley and black nationalist leader Minister Louis Farrakhan who attempted to caution us about the so-called post racial era being ushered in with President Barack Obama becoming the first African American president (they argued that according to the NAACP and the U.S. Justice Department the racial divide was acerbated after 2008).

Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) known as the Father of Black History understood that the so-called American Negro had a long and worthy history that had been systematically covered up and distorted. It would be the work of Woodson in a formal way in 1926 establishing Black History Week and early on in 1916 founding the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History that brought attention to the need of treating black history as being totally inclusive of United States history and creating a broader level of academic respectability for it as a discipline in and outside the classroom.

Yet, his contemporary Dr. W.E.B. Dubois (1868-1963) who was the first African American in 1895 to receive a Ph.D in history from Harvard University ​and would play a major intellectual role in writing scholarly defenses and re-counting ancient and modern African civilizations that predated American slavery. Dubois and Woodson produced bodies of historiography, which meticulously redefined the historical meaning of black history and how it would be viewed for decades to come, in particular in the world of academia. Dubois and Woodson were professional historians whose scholarship stood as empirical models​ and served as an indication that blacks played a major role on the stage of human civilization. Dr. Carter G. Woodson first published the Mis-Education of the Negro in 1933, and was the second African American to receive a Ph.D in history from HarvardUniversity in 1912 behind W.E. B. Dubois who was awarded a Ph.D from Harvard in 1895 (and wrote the dissertation titled, Suppression of the African Slave Trade).

He explored and critiqued the historical effect American education has had on the so-called American Negro. Woodson maintained that American education was rooted in a Eurocentric and European historical paradigm where European history was viewed as superior to other people's cultures and having falsely thought of themselves as being the citadel of civilization. Thus, African Americans were taught that they were inferior and were urged to admire European historical accomplishments over the contributions that African people had made on the stage of human civilization. The text books were written to reflect the social, political and economic views of the dominant white culture. It was perhaps this negation that has historically fostered the need for African Americans to establish and develop schools and academies that gave recognition to their contributions to world civilizations and American history other than their contributions as slaves. Thus, due to very little official records were being recorded and kept on the African slaves, most of the early history of the black experience had to be pieced milled together from U.S. Census reports and most it was not recorded—it was a crime against humanity because so-called African-Americans have a difficult time trying to retrace our history back to our native home and land of Africa, which often ends in a dead end (oftentimes when we attempt to reconstruct our genealogy roots or family tree, it only allows us to trace our history back to the American slave plantations). Woodson argued that educated blacks have received a mis-education and it has had a negative impact on their worldview and failure to become economically, politically and socially sovereign and autonomous as a free people. He further argued that American blacks will not come to a true historical realization until they know and embrace their own history and culture prior to Chattel slavery and come to know the great African civilizations of Egypt, Mali, Ghana and Songhai(Carter G. Woodson. Mis-Education of the Negro. New York: Tribeca Books, 2013).

However, we should never overlook early black nationalist race leaders such as Paul Cuffee, Martin Delaney, Henry Highland Garnet, Bishop Henry McNeil Turner, Noble Drew Ali, Elijah Muhammad and perhaps the greatest of them of all was Marcus Mosiah Garvey who popularized the Back to Africa Movement and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (U.N I.A.) it would be Garvey' s teaching of black nationalism and Pan-Africanism that redefined what it meant to be black and African—he pointed us to Africa by redefining African history, the symbolism, imagery, and created a sense of black racial pride that has been unmatched in American in history. Garvey also published a magazine called the "Negro World" which published rare black history and accomplishments made by Africans in the Diaspora and on the African continent. Edward Wilmont Blyden in his writings also made a tremendous contribution to exposing the world to the extensiveness of African contributions to world civilization. This writer cited the above scholars and activist as an attempt to argue against the white supremacy agenda who has always attempted to negate the historical contributions of black people, perhaps this racist phenomenon has been detrimental to the collective social progress of the people of the United States. This writer sees the potential benefits of implementing African American history as a subject matter to be taught in the public schools as being a first step and positive redress to rewriting the narrative. This type of critical thinking and analyzing possess the potential of producing positive effects by imploring a curriculum and subject to further create cultural sensitivity and diversity in schools amongst all students. My research assessment will also argue that the educational classroom could be used to alter damaging and negative societal and educational stereotypes such as racism, discrimination, and demeaning images.

This writer find it necessary even in 2017 to reflect back on the historical effect that Chattel Slavery (1555-1865) created and produced, it was perhaps one of the greatest crimes ever committed against humanity. Blacks were kidnapped and snatched from their native lands and countries, denied the right to speak their native Bantu languages, stripped of their names, culture, religion, mores, folkways, etc., during the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage. Moreover, sold into Chattel Slavery in which on the plantation, it caused for families to be divided and sold from plantation to plantation.

The former Yale University professor Dr. John Blassingame in his seminal work titled, The Slave Community, analyzed​ the effect that Chattel Slavery had on black slave families and the shaping of the slave personality. Black slaves were prohibited from being allowed to read and write, in which learning was illegal and against the rules and laws of the institution of slavery.

African Slaves could be flogged and whip or even killed, if caught with a book. Kenneth Stampp in his work titled, Peculiar Institution, he surveyed almost every facet of American slave plantation life and he too argued that it was an inhumane and denigrating system (both economically and racially inspired and maintained). The black slaves were eventually allowed to be preached to and taught a Biblical Christian education and initially this was the only allowable formal education approved for the slave. This quasi educational process was initially conducted by the white slave master and later a trained black overseer. The Christian education was steeped in white supremacy ideological theories where blacks were taught that they were the descendants of the Biblical Ham and was a cursed people and they were taught to obey their masters, this social engineering process created a social and psychological models of white superiority and black inferiority (this was the devastation of the white Christian missionaries had on teaching us a slave doctrine in which Tariq Nasheed in his documentary titled, Hidden Colors 4 explores the intent and effect of white Christianity teachings of indoctrination.

Dr. Naim Akbar was a former professor of psychology at FloridaStateUniversity in TallahasseeFlorida. A former columnist for the "Muhammad Speaks" newspaper  under the Honorable Elijah Muhammad known back then as Brother Luther X. Weems (published a powerful little book titled, The Community of Self) and host of other books: Know thyself, Visions for Black men, Akbar's Papers in African Psychology, Light from Ancient Africa,Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery, etc. He became the National Representative of Imam Warith Deen Mohammed and the American Muslim Mission in the late 1970s and because of his political, and cultural views on black nationalism he had a very short tenure with this apolitical Islamic organization. He also was the former president of the Association of Black Psychologist and member of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations. and became one​ of the premier scholars of the African-centered movement. Akbar as I stated above had written numerous books relating to the black experience. Akbar argued as a social scientist and as an Afrocentric mental health expert that the 300 years dehumanization process imposed on African Americans by Chattel Slavery left a people psychologically and historically scarred. Akbar continues to argue that the images (created lasting false complexities of superiority among white Americans and inferiority complexities among black Americans or ex-slaves). Dr. Joy DeGruy in her book titled, Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome, she substantiated Akbar' s contentions relative to the collective damage that slavery had on past, present and on the possible future psyche of those descendants who share the African DNA (DeGruy argues that the black slaves were never allowed to heal). Akbar stated that this phenomenon was more devastating than the physical bondage imposed on blacks under Chattel Slavery in which white supremacy schools of thought created racial and culture disparities. It led to​ unlevel learning fields that supported educational discrimination, stereotypes and attributed to racism being taught in public and private schools. He pointed out that even the image of the Divine (God and Jesus) was represented and portrayed as being white skinned Caucasian (and European).

The American educational system was built on a curriculum of lacking inclusion (Western Civilization in some instances outright lied and distorted history to the detriment of indigenous people) in which they taught that all the major contributions made in world civilization were made by Europeans and lacked respect and appreciation for indigenous people's culture and heritage (this led to white supremacy, genocide, land thievery, exploitation of natural resources and raping and robbing throughout the planet). This in my opinion justifies the need to teach black history in the public school system in order to right the wrong. Akbar states that white supremacy images, symbols, folkways, rites, sacraments, rituals, etc., taught to African Americans during slavery have created a mental bondage in which caused invisible chains that even in 2017 in some instances it has hindered social progress and has proven to be more devastating than the actual physical chains imposed by Chattel Slavery. Akbar also argued that African Americans have to free their minds from Eurocentric culture and ideals. He counters with a solution with putting forth African centered education that promotes positive self-images and working from a psychological perspective to teach black people the knowledge of self. His perspectives were in ideological line with Marcus Garvey and Elijah Muhammad views on education (Naim Akbar. Breaking the Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery. Tallahassee, Florida: Mind Productions and Associates, Inc. 1996).   

The author Curtis Alexander hails in his book title, Elijah Muhammad on African American Education: A Guide for. African American and Black Studies Program , that Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam had it right, in particular building and establishing their own parochial schools (Muhammad University of Islam), which gave them the latitude to devise a black nationalist centered curriculum. The teaching of black history was essential to the Black Muslims pedagogy and was the center of their ideological educational framework (although this was taking place within a private educational setting, nevertheless, I equally believe that this impacted the course of public education as well). Alexander, although, was not a member of the Nation of Islam, he seemed to be moved by Muhammad's do-for-self, and black independence philosophy, which allowed this group to build self-regulating institutions and controlled the curriculum. This gave the Black Muslims an autonym to control the educational destiny of their schools and children. I think Alexander's research allows us a glimpse into the role black nationalism and religious nationalism has played in shaping and defining the importance of black history relative to American education in the United States. The author further defines the ideological foundation of the Black Muslim program in which they were ostracized, ridiculed and condemned for implementing and teachings the importance of black history in a society that had historically created a white supremacy educational worldview (Curtis E. Alexander. Elijah Muhammad on African American Education: A Guide for. African American and Black Studies Program. Chesapeake, Virginia, 1989).

Dr. Earl Thorpe was a former professor of history at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina who also taught at Harvard University alongside authoring Black Historians: A Critique he published nine books and over twenty-five scholarly articles (another one of his acclaim books was titled, The Central Theme of Black History).Thorpe's thesis was an evaluation and historical assessment of various timesframes of black historians and/or professional African American historians who wrote scholarly writings and taught black history and history in general, mainly on the college and university level (all of the black historians reviewed by Thorpe had a scholarly passion towards teaching and promoting black history as a curriculum). Thorpe was an advocate of black scholars having the responsibility of creating a scholarly environment that was rooted in empirical objectivity and as a discipline black history would have met the rigorousness of scholarly scrutiny to justify its importance and value to the overall field of American history. Moreover, Thorpe surveyed the historical time frames: 1800-1896, 1896-1939, and 1930-1960. Thorpe cited various scholars and their works to the field and study of black history in which gives the readers an understanding of the intellectualism behind the historiography that helped shape and mold black history. There is no doubt we are standing on the foundation of black scholars such as W.E.B Dubois and Carter G. Woodson and contribution they made to the study of black history (Earl E. Thorpe. Black Historians: A Critique. New York, New York: William and Morrow and Company, 1958.

Dr. John Hope Franklin retired as a professor Emeritus of history at DukeUniversityin Durham, North Carolina. Perhaps one of the most well respected historians of the 20th century. His book From Slavery to Freedomis the most widely read and used black history text books in the world in which many editions have been published in various languages. Dr. Franklin wrote as a professional historian who seemed more concerned with presenting information that met the academic standards of being scientific and presenting black history as a scholarly discourse. Some might argue that his approach to analyzing black history was more of being in line with bourgeoisie values and with a non-threaten approach to appease the white world of academia. Yet, in the beginning of the book Dr. Franklin surveyed the powerful and great African kingdoms and gives the readers a glimpse into African civilizations prior to European colonialism and imperialism. He argues that black history was essentially American history and should be treated beyond just being an insignificant footnote or an afterthought in United States history. Dr Franklin meticulous surveyed and documented over 250 years of black history from when the first slave ships docked in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 to the Emancipation Proclamation (1862) and the enactment of the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution that so-called freed the slaves (1865). No one scholar makes a better argument of the importance of recording and teachings black history than Dr. John Hope Franklin (John Hope Franklin. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans. New.York, : Alfred A. Knopf, 1980). 

Willis G.Huggins and John G. Jackson published this book A Guide to Studies in African History in 1934, in which Huggins was an Assistant Teacher of Social Studies at Bushwick High School, New York. Dr. John G. Jackson was known for his most popular work titled, Introduction to African Civilization. This small book standout because Huggins was a social studies teacher in the public school. These two scholars perhaps like Joel Augusta Rogers researched and found African presence and contributions in the so-called 'New World' before the arrival of Europeans. For example, in Latin America, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Santa Domingo, etc., blacks were there even before the Columbus expeditions in 1492, and prior to other European conquistadors venturing into the Americas, but for black students what one perhaps will find astonishing about this work was the historical impact the Nubian Moors in the 8th Century under Tarik Ibn Zaid had on southern Europe, in particular on the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). The Moors in 711 AD had conquered Spain and introduced pave streets, public and private bathing facilities, lit streets, etc., in Cordova, Seville, and Barcelona some of the Moorish architecture history is well preserved. It was these black Nubian Moors that after the Dark Ages brought civilization throughout European society. Jackson and Huggins desired to prove that black people had a worthy history that was worth mentioning and give it the scholarly recognition it deserved. This research was taking place during the period of Jim Crow and the Harlem Renaissance; and like Dubois, Woodson, Hansberry, Franklin, etc; they all wrote with a passion to uncover facts about the so-called American Negro and yet to equally prove to their white historian counterparts that they possessed the ability to be empirical and objective as black social scientist (Jackson, John G. Jackson and Willis N. Huggins, . A Guide to Studies in African History. New York, New York: The Federation of History Club, 1934).

Dr. Molefi Asante was a professor at TempleUniversity in Philadelphia in history and black studies. Perhaps in the late 1980s and 1990s a group of black intellectuals surveyed academia and determined that African (black people) were not receiving the scholarly attention for their contributions to civilization. The Afrocentric movement created a new level of excitement in African history, traditions, cultures, etc., it was a semi-intellectual explosion, moreover, this movement was being led by the likes of Dr. Leonard Jeffries, IvanVan Sertima, Asa Hilliard, Mualana Karenga, John Henrik Clarke, Amos Wilson, Khallid Abdul Muhammad, Marimbe Ani, Cheikh Anta Diop, etc. This movement as stated above created a reinvigoration for the need to bring black history back into the schools, because Eurocentric scholars had omitted pertinent factual historical information about African and black people in world history and had systematically disseminated lies, distortions and half-truths about African people's contributions to human civilization. Asante did not offer anything new because prior to Afrocentric thoughts and theories Pan-Africanist and Black Nationalist leaders have argued for over a century the need to redefine the history of African people to reflect a historical narrative beyond Chattel Slavery and beyond the Europeans interpretations. Yet, the difference was Afrocentric thought had moved into the world of academia and for the first time on a large scale, it was forcing a different type of debate amongst the scholarly community relative to inclusion (Molefi Kete Asante. Afrocentricity. New York, New York: Africa World Press, 1988). 

Dr. Mary Lefkowitz in her book titled, Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History wrote the anti-thesis as a historical critique to Afrocentricity, which Dr. George G.M. James, Cheikh Anta Diop, Dr. Molefi Asante, John Henrik Clarke, Yosef A. A. Ben Jochannan, etc., argued that western theoreticians had always viewed Africa as an object rather than a subject and saw Africa as the Dark Continent who made no contribution to world civilization. Dr. Lefkowitz was a Humanities professor at WellesleyCollegein Massachusetts. (she led some of the scholarly attacks against Dr. Tony Martin who authored the book titled, The Jewish OnSlaught: Dispatches From Wellesley Battlefront). She argued against Egypt (Kemet) being black and Nubian and attributed Egypt (Kemet) greatness to having historical relations with Greek society where by Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc., have received the credit as being great enlightened master teachers, but George G.M. James in his book titled, Stolen Legacy argued that Greek Mythology was essentially Egyptian Philosophy and they stole their knowledge from the Nubian blacks of Kemet. This writer viewed Lefkowitz contentions as being a scholarly insult because it quasi sought to denigrate the intellectualism of black people as being incapable of introducing world civilization to Europeans and others around the world. The building and construction of the pyramids has mystified Europeans for centuries in which Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop posed the question in the title of his book African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality and unlike Lefkowitz, he made the case that Africa from North Africa down to South Africa was black. Although, Diop understood that due to outside invasions from the Persians, Turks, Arabs, Semites, Greeks, Romans, Assyrians, etc., which led to the  miscegenation in Kemet. However, there was little doubt that the original people that occupied Egypt were black skinned Nubians. This alone beckons the need for black history to be taught in the public schools system.(Lefkowitz, Mary. Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History. New York, New York: Basic Books, 1997).

Lastly, this writer thinks it would be a positive step in the right direction to mandate and include black history as part of the curriculum in United States publc schools with the educational objective of contributing to enhancing racial diversity and helping tear down artificial barriers such as cultural biases, racism, stereotypes and all forms of discrimination in the public school system and outside. Moreover, the teaching of black history has the potential of creating a level of tolerance​ and sensitivity amongst all people who may differ in national origin, ethnic and racial, religious and/or culturally. Finally this writer believes that it could also be used to inspire African American students to be more motivated to achieve academically.

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com. 

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The African Influence on Western Architecture

By Brother Yohance Bediako (And Brother Nkosi Diop)


African Design Principles

By Brother Yohance Bediako

Brother Yohance have been working in the field of Architecture for 20 years and have developed over the years a diverse back ground and set of skills. He completed his education in architecture at Tuskegee University. Brother Yohance has studied many books written about African culture and traveled to many countries in Africa looking at and studying indigenous architecture. Brother Yohance has had the opportunity at a very young age to have relationships with some of the most dynamic African scholars in the country . Scholars such as Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan, Dr. John H Clarke, Dr. Jacob Carruthers, Dr. George Simmons, these are just a few of the scholars that brother Yohance was exposed to and had a relationship with at a very young age. It is from his relationship with these scholars that brother Yohance submersed himself into the studying of African architecture and African culture. Over the years brother Yohance has worked on a variety of projects that range from single family homes, institutional buildings to commercial buildings. But one of brother Yohance's biggest accomplishment is his Non-profit organization, Imhotep Architectural Youth Society.  Imhotep Architectural Youth Society is an organization that provides guidance and advice to African American youth about life decisions and also train them in the field of architecture. Brother Yohance also has an article about African cultures contribution to western architecture that has been published in The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America.

 

Note: Brother Yohance is a guest scholar writer and researcher on our Keeping It Real Blog. This posting is an abbreviated version of Brother Yohance research in which his original submission included graphs and photographic documentation that brings his work to greater LIGHT. Brother Yohance is also a Prince Hall Mason and he has a lot to offer our Craft.  I hope to one day soon may be present this same article as PDF to include the pictorial exhibits.

If we look at the Architect throughout history we will see that the Architect holds a very unique position in the society. The Architect is responsible for translating the values, ideas and culture of a society into physical reality through its special forms. This means that the Architect must have an understanding about every aspect of the society. The Architect cannot design a Temple or a Shrine for a deity unless He/She has an understanding about the spiritual and cosmological relationship of the society. The Architect cannot design a home unless He/She has an understanding of the day to day lives of the people in the society. The Architect cannot understand how to plan the arrangements and layout of the village unless He/She has a deep understanding of the cultural ways of the people themselves. So the Architect must have His/Her finger on the very pulse of the society. The Architect must continue to develop and grow with the knowledge of the society, as the society evolves so should the Architect. 

The field of Architecture is one of the major areas of research for archeologist when studying ancient civilizations. It is through the Architecture of the ancient civilization that the archeologist comes to understand the life style of the ancient societies. Therefore Architecture intrinsically embodies the culture of the people.   

Culture

Culture is the product of the collective history of a people that is being constantly informed by forces of the seen and unseen; the collective personality of a people, including their unique cosmology, language, institutions, creative expressions, etc. It is the totality of values, beliefs, and actions that characterize a people. Culture consists of the behavioral patterns, symbols, institutions, and values of a society, and is unique to that society. It is the spiritual, ideational, and material composite that distinguishes one society from another. It shapes and is, in turn, shaped by events in the realm of the spiritual, ideational and the material. All inquiry and solution, truth and beauty, tradition and purity, meaning and reality are culturally relative. There are no culture-free or values-free human endeavors. Culture is not a static phenomenon. It continually evolves as a society evolves and develops. It is that composite of socially and historically determined behaviors that nourishes and thereby defines the intellectual and spiritual parameters within which the human individual develops and exists. As people evolve throughout history, they invariably organize their experiences and their reflections and elaborations on their experiences into various domains of knowledge. Those domains are necessarily linked to the historical nucleus of the culture, and are a consequence of that historical dynamic. Those domains include philosophy, morality, spirituality, ethics, politics, ideology, aesthetics, science, law and others. The several domains and the particular disciplines of knowledge serve as the fixed institutional foundations of the nation. It this case, the domain is architecture.

Cosmology

Cosmology is a system of thought arising out of a people’s history and culture that addresses issues of reality and creation, truth and value, meaning, process, and that people’s place within creation. It is the component of worldview that refers to the structure of reality from a particular racial-cultural perspective and/or experience. Also, it is the study of the origins and structure of the universe. Every culture has their own cosmology that relates to their understanding and explanation of how the universe works and interacts. As we shall address later, cosmology is embedded in architecture traditional African architecture.

Context

Context is the visual relationship to the surrounding.  Spatial context can be any of the following: 1) the a specific building seen in the context of other buildings; 2) a specific building seen in the context of the surrounding landscape; 3) a specific element of the building seen in the context of all the other elements of the building; 4) the relationship between a building’s exterior and interior. Contextualism is the “fitting-in” of a building with surrounding buildings so that it is in harmony with them, especially in terms of scale, form, mass, and color. Contextual elements are history, local site, cultural past, continuity, material, culture, climate, environment, size, appearance, location and form, topography, society's ideas, its form of economic and social organization, its distribution of resources, authorities and beliefs, values. In the case of traditional African architecture, context relates to the physical environment, the available materials used for construction, amongst other criterion.

Architecture

Architecture is the art and science of design and building structures. It is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction of physical structures. Architectural tradition is a set of architectural practices inherited from one generation and passed down to another. These practices may include methods of construction, patterns of architectural design, using particular building materials for certain cultural or religious purposes, amongst other possibilities. Adapting innovative methods of architecture are incorporated within the development of the architectural tradition.

The Western world has always been influenced by African culture. One of the major African cultures that influenced the Western world is ancient Egypt(Kemet) Nile valley high culture. The major domain of African culture that influenced Western culture is architecture. One of the most influential and enlightening concepts of African architecture that Western society learned from their first ancient educational experience in the African Nile Valley is that of Sacred Geometry and the natural ratio that appears in the growth patterns of nature. The Western society calls this number the Golden Ratio or the Golden Section and is represented with the Greek letter Phi. The Golden Ratio was used in ancient Greece and Rome. The knowledge of the Golden Ratio traveled from ancient Greece and Rome to other parts of Europe and throughout time to this very day. The Africans of the Nile valley used this special proportion in developing many of the sciences that were taught in the Nile valley. One of those sciences is Geometry. The African Nile Valley High culture was not only the first civilization to discover the Sacred Geometry and this universal ratio but, to them these concepts had spiritual power and significance. The ratio was not just a number but a symbol of the creative function, the reproductive power of the male, the fire of life.1(Secrets of The Great Pyramid, Peter Tompkins)  In the ancient African Nile valley culture Sacred Geometry and the Golden Ratio was incorporated and hidden in their iconography and architecture.

What is the Golden Ratio? The golden ratio is obtained when anything is divided in the following example; let’s take a line that is divided into two parts A and B in such a way that part A(The larger part) divided by part B(The smaller part) is equal to parts A+B divided by A. When this is done the ratio of the parts equals 1.618 which is the universal building block of the cosmos. (See figure 1)This ill rational number can continue on to infinity.  Because of its regenerative character the Golden Ratio mainly, but not only, has a spiral appearance, this spiral is found in all parts of the natural world, such as the spiral of a snails shell, the spiral of the horns of a ram, the spiral of a tornado, the spiral of the pedals of a pinecone and the spiral of the galaxy itself.


In the ancient Nile valley the Golden Ratio was expressed in many deferent geometric shapes, like squares, circles, triangles and rectangles. The Golden Ratio and sacred Geometry would be hidden into their iconography. One of the images in the African Nile valley culture is the Neter(Divine Spirit) Min, which is represented as a mummy with an erect phallus, but his phallus is located in the position of his navel. The location of Min’s phallus divides his body into the Golden Ratio.2 (The Temple In Man, R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz) This is also true about the human body, that the navel is the point which divides the human body into the Golden Ratio proportion.(Figure 3a) This knowledge was well known by the Africans of the Nile valley and it was expressed in the Neter(Divine Spirit) Min. In the temple of Ramses IV is the same image of the Neter(Divine Spirit) Min with his whole body leaning at a 3 4 5 right triangle and incorporating the same Golden Ratio proportions.3 (The Egyptian Miracle, R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, figure 3b) The ancient Africans of the Nile valley had a very deep understanding of this Ratio and it’s significance in nature and with the human body. In addition, in the building of the temples and the pyramids and Tekenu(Obelisk) of the African Nile Valley culture was the incorporation of the value of the Golden Ratio and the number Pi. The entrance to the temple of Auset(Isis)(Figure 4a), according to Schwaller de Lubicz, the Africans of the Nile valley constructed the entrance to the temple by using the Golden Ratio and Pi. In the construction of the entrances the architects started with a 1 to 2 proportion. In figure 4b de Lubicz shows how the different part of the entrance proportionately incorporates the Golden Ratio and Pi.
The Great Pyramid of the African Nile valley(Figure 5a), which is the most recognized and impressive structure in history, also has the Golden Ratio and sacred geometry hidden in its construction. The ancient Africans of the Nile valley believed in the sacred balance of proportion and harmony. The first aspect of sacred geometry that the ancient African architects hid in the Great Pyramid was the Golden Ratio or  Phi. The Great Pyramid was constructed in such a way that if you divide the base of the Great Pyramid in half, than take that half and divide it by the length of the face of the Great Pyramid you would get 1.618 the Golden Ratio and that relationship would automatically make the height of the Pyramid equal to the square root of the length of the face of the Great Pyramid.
The Great Pyramid also solves one of the most ancient sacred geometry issues and that is the squaring of the circle. The Great Pyramid base is a square whose perimeter is equal to the circumference of a circle whose radius is the height of the Great Pyramid.  So through science of sacred geometry the ancient Africans of the Nile valley was able to tie together three geometric shapes that work together in harmony, a triangle, a square and a circle, it squares the circle (Figure 6a). The Greeks would much later after the Africans of the Nile valley had already solved the issue, represent this geometric harmony by placing an image of a man inside a square and a circle.

The Greek civilization also used the Golden Ratio in the building of their temples as shown here in the Parthenon see figure 7.

There are many buildings in Washington DC that use this same proportions and ratio.

One of the popular twentieth century architects Le Corbusier, explicitly used the Golden ratio in a modulor scaling system for architecture proportions. Le Corbusier based this system on the human measurements. He then incorporated these proportions in his architecture.


Ancient Kemet’s Influence on Greek Architecture

Ancient Kemet’s architecture that remains today is breathtaking, monumental in scale and recognizable. It had a particular character that permeated the physical appearance. Distinguishing features marked each design which subscribed to the Kemetic architectural tradition. It also had a noticeable influence on many aspects of Western architecture. It heavily influenced Greek architecture in a multitude of ways. Columns; the colonnade; stylobates; trabeation; post [column] and lintel [beam] construction; the entablature with an architrave frieze and cornice; arches; and the use of stone as a building material are all aspects of construction that are renown throughout architectural history that were first used as  methods of construction along the Nile Valley in Ancient Kemet.

Western culture’s classic civilizations are Ancient Greece and Rome. They are the foundation of Western culture. Their influence on all aspects of Western civilization, including architecture, is abundant. Greek architecture has a definitive architectural vocabulary that continues to have a profound effect on present day Western architecture. Ancient Kemet was the origin of many architectural methods of construction and aesthetics that are commonly overlooked today.

Columns

A column is a relatively long, slender vertical structural member. Throughout history, columns have been integral in the construction process.  In Ancient Kemet, columns served as structural and aesthetic 1elements. There are over 30 types of Kemetic column forms that all vary in appearance, size and style. In most cases, the columns had a base, shaft and capital (the top most structural member of the column). Stylobates (a raised platforms supporting a colonnade) were used to reinforce the foundation of columns. Their influence on the Greek Orders is visibly apparent in several of the types.

Kemetic Proto-Doric or Fluted Column Influence on the Greek Doric Order

The Step Pyramid complex of Third Dynasty Pharaoh Djoser (ca. 2667 to 2648 BC) has the Proto-Doric or Fluted Column type with abacus (the uppermost member of the capital of a column), convex shaft and base. [see figures 11,12] It predates the Greek Doric Order. [see figures 13,14] Each type has fluted shafts. Although the Proto-Doric column sits on a base, the typical Greek Doric Order does not. The Step Pyramid complex (ca. 2667 to 2648 BC) with abacus, fluted shaft and base.

Kemetic Volute Column Influence on the Greek Ionic Order

The Greek Ionic Order derives from Kemetic lotus flower used throughout Ancient Kemetic architecture. The volute (a spiral scroll) style developed through the cultural transmission between Kemet and the Ionian people of Greece. Ancient Kemet developed strong precedent for artistic influence and a historical and cultural context ideal for the transmission of artistic and architectural notions. As Ionians began to colonize portions of the Delta region of Anicent Kemet, significant innovations in Ionian temple architecture of this period began to greatly resemble long established and commonly implemented elements of the Kemetic architectural tradition. [See figures 15,16,17,18,19,20]

Volute Column

Karnak Temple Complex at Karnak, Egypt (3200 BC)

Kemetic Palmiform and Composite Column Influence on the Greek Corithian Order

The Greek Corinthian Order resembles the Palmiform and Composite capitals of Ancient Kemet.  The ornamentation depicted in the capitals of both derived from nature. Mostly notably, inspiration was drawn from the lotus and papyrus of the Nile Valley and acanthus leaves of Ancient Greece. The idea of using the locale vegetation as a decrative column ornimentation was taught to the Greeks by the African architects of the Nile valley.  [See Figures 21,22,23,24]
Composite Column

Temple of Auset, Philae, Egypt (380–362 BC)

The three orders of Ancient Greece columns (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) were concepts based upon balance and proportion.  And as stated previously were concepts inspired by what the Greeks learned in the Nile valley. These architectural conventions influenced subsequent civilizations such as ancient Rome and Renaissance architecture.  They are archetypes of Western architectural beauty.  Ancient structures like the Parthenon [see figure 25] have influenced countless buildings within the Western hemisphere - specifically civic buildings. The White House (Ionic columns) [see figure 26], the US Supreme Court (Ionic columns) [see figure 27], the Lincoln Monument (Doric columns) [see figure28] and the US Capitol Building (Ionic columns) [see figure 29] are all in Washington, D.C.  Each edifice was inspired by the ancient Greeks who were inspired by the ancient Nile valley African people.
The Parthenon

A colonnade is a number of columns arranged in order, in intervals called intercolumniation, supporting an entablature and, usually, one side of a roof. In Ancient Kemet, the colonnade accompanied post and beam construction. [See figures 30,31,32] They were constructed throughout the dynastic era.

 Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Luxor, Egypt (1490-1460 BC)

Post and Beam Construction

The post and beam method of construction was practiced by the Greeks and is still used throughout the world today. But It was first achieved in monumental fashion throughout the Nile Valley. In the figures shown, post [column] and beam [entablature] construction, and the abacus that sits on top of the capital are demonstrated. [See figures 33,34] The lotus or papyrus capital columns carry the weight of the architrave above. This is the precedence of the Ancient Greek post [column] and beam [entablature] method of construction where the column carries the weight of the beam [entablature] which, in turn, transfers the weight of roof above.

Entablature with Architrave, Frieze and Cornice

The Ancient Greek entablature was an elaborate horizontal band and molding supported by columns. It was horizontally divided into three basic elements: architrave (the lowest member), frieze (the middle member), and cornice (the uppermost member). During the dynastic period of Ancient Kemet, the architrave was decorated with mdw ntr [hieroglyphs]. Its use predates that of the Greeks. A curved cornice often rested above the architrave as a decorative feature.

 

Clerestory

A clerestory is an upper zone of a wall pierced with windows that emit light to the center of a room. They were first used in Ancient Kemet. Specifically, at the Temple of Amon at Karnak, clerestories permit light inside the Hypostyle Hall. It was later used as a design feature during the later period of Ancient Greece and in some Roman basilicas of justice. Its use is well known in Romanesque and Gothic cathedral architecture. Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France is an example of the use of clerestories in Gothic period architecture. They are flanked by flying buttresses (a specific form of buttressing in which an architectural structure is built against or is projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall) at the exterior of the building. Clerestories are still regularly used in Western architecture in different design capacities and applications. The term now refers to any row of windows above eye level that allow light to penetrate a space.

 

Mount Rushmore and the Lincoln Memorial

The rock cut Temple of Ramses II was carved into the side of a mountain from massive blocks of sandstone up thirty tons each. This was a literal display of using the site context as the material for the construction of the temple. The faces of Presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt carved into Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota is an example of the Temple of Ramses II’s influence on Western architecture. Additionally, the statue of Abraham Lincoln sitting at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC is a direct parallel to that of the massive replicas of Ramses II sitting at the entrance of the Temple of Ramses II at Abu Simbel. These type of African influances on western society are very seldom talked about.

The next group of African people that was a very strong influence on Western society was the Moors of North Africa. The Moors entered Europe in the early 700s AD by way of the invasion and Domination of Spain and some parts of Italy, France and southern Europe. The Moors became an extremely influential force and occupied southern Europe for over 700 years. The Moors reestablished the intellectual development and new construction methods in the early European societies, which sparked the renaissance movement of the medieval period. The Moors built the first stone masonry structures and became one of the main master craftsmen in the construction of European castles and cathedrals. The first universities and educational institutions of western society was established by the Moors. One of those early castles built by the Moors was Castillo DeAmenar in Spain.

 

Africa’s Influence On Modern Society

In today’s society you can see the influence of Africa in many buildings and places in the United States and around the world. The Buildings and places very from national monuments to institutional buildings to private and commercial structures.  The African influences in these structures are very clear as can be seen in the following images.

Further Readings

Armstrong, W., Chipiez (translator), C. Perrot, G. (1883). An ancient history of art in ancient Egypt 2 Volumes. New York: A.C. Armstrong and Son.

Badawy, A. (1965). Ancient Egyptian architectural design: A study of harmonic system. Berkley, CA: University of California Press.

Badawy, A. (1966). Architecture in ancient Egypt and the Near East. Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press.

Basire, J. (1789). The rudiments of ancient architecture, in two parts, vol. 1 of 2. London: I. And J. Taylor's Architectural Library.

Browder, A. T. (1992). Nile Valley contributions to civilization: Exploding the myths (Vol. 1). Washington, DC: The Institute of Karmic Guidance.

Clarke, S., & Englebach, R. (1990). Ancient Egyptian construction and architecture. New York: Dover Publications.

Edwards, A. (1891). Egypt the Birthplace of Greek Decorative Art. Pharoahs fellahs and explorers (pp. 158-192). New York: Harper & Brothers.

Goodyear, W.H. (1887). The Egyptian Origin of the Ionic Capital and of the Anthemion. The American Journal of Archaeology and of the History of the Fine Arts, 3, 271-302.

Gwilt, J. (1982). The encyclopedia of architecture. New York: Random House Publishing.

Harris, C. (Ed.) (2000). Dictionary of architecture & construction. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Kostof, S. (1995). A history of architecture: Settings and rituals. New York: Oxford University Press.

Livingston, L (2000, December 12). Egyptian influence on Ionic temple architecture. Retrieved February 18, 2014 from http://www.artic.edu/~llivin/research/ionic_architecture/.

Lloyd, S., Muller. H., Martin, R. (1974). Ancient architecture: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Crete, Greece. New York: Harry N. Abrams.

Lockyer, N. (1894). The dawn of astronomy. London: Cassell and Company Limited.

Riley, J. (1996, May). A paradigm for Kemetic architectural design: The beginnings of a Kemetic architectural design language. Retrieved December 9, 2013 from http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/69741/36055924.pdf.

Schwaller de Lubicz, R. A. (1977). The temple in man: The secrets of ancient Egypt. Brookline, MA: Autumn Press.

Schwaller de Lubicz, R.A. (1985). The Egyptian miracle.  Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions.

Smith, E. B. (1938). Egyptian architecture as a cultural expression. New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc.

Smith, W. S. (1958). The art and architecture of ancient Egypt. New York: Penguin Books Ltd.

Tompkins, P. (1972). Secrets of the Great Pyramid.  New York: HarperCollins.

Van Sertima, I. (1986). Golden age of the Moor. New Brunswick: Transaction Press.

Vignoloa, A. (Ed.) (1891). The five orders of architecture. New York: Wm. T. Comstock.

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TILLERSON VS. TRUMP THE INVISIBLE RULERS AND FALSE FLAGS

October 19, 2017, 3:06 pm

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TILLERSON VS. TRUMP THE INVISIBLE RULERS AND FALSE FLAGS

By Fahim A. Knight-El

This Blog came about after having a conversation with my wife about the so-called public conflict between the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and President Donald Trump. Tillerson accused the president of being a so-called 'moron'. I had to explain to my wife lets move beyond the reality television drama and the made for public distractions that the media continues to feed the masses. Trump stated he would measure his I.Q. up against Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and in his opinion no doubt he would win. Perhaps Trump doesn't understand that he and Tillerson both were selected as low level servants and operatives, because of their loyalty to push forward the hidden agenda in which I.Q. wasn't necessarily a top perquisite for the assignment (loyalty was the X factor in the chosen equation).

Some have tried to characterize Trump's overall disposition as the alpha male syndrome, but this was clearly another indication of his inflated false super ego running out of control. However, those of us who understand the mindset of a man like Tillerson relative to the time in which we live would know that he was not created in a vacuum; he was handpicked by the same powers and forces who for centuries have determined world affairs and shaped human history. Tillerson public confirmation by the U.S. Congress was only a matter of going through the motions, in reality it meant nothing, because he had already been confirmed by the committee of 300. Many who are viewing these national and global chessboard strategies and tactics from an awakened and enlightened mind are very clear about what is taking place. It is an added value if one has the ability to siphon through and decode the massive propaganda and chicanery being systematically dispersed by talking heads on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, BBC and the print mediums (Trump is right about 'Fake News').

Let me let you into a little secret, not to many of Trump's Cabinet Members in the United States Government or even other high level civil servants are more qualified, smarter and deceptive than Rex Tillerson, moreover, the testimony of this fact, is him being afforded a seat at the Roundtable (this also includes those that sit in the situation room are mere decoys and insignificant players on the world stage). An Operative on the level of Tillerson did not rise to become one of the top executives of arguably the most powerful oil monopoly or conglomerate in the world such as ExxonMobil because he was a nice guy—he is ruthless and dangerous in which he and Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia are cut from the same cloth (diplomacy is a matter of power and force).

Tillerson understands the rules established by the Invisible Rulers and have sworn his allegiance, and for this, he will be rewarded handsomely for his obedience. His selection by the Hidden Hand is evidence of a man who has the ability to execute their playbook in order to accomplish the agenda. Tillerson’s intellectual and business skills are more valuable than the military expertise of Navy Seals or any other decorated military personnel of the U.S. Arm Forces and are highly sought after by those who control the planet and its resources. ExxonMobil functions as a sovereign entity no different than a sovereign government (they are above all laws and rules). Let me translate this for my reading audience; Tillerson being the former CEO of ExxonMobil was liken to him being the president of an independent nation (these Elitist oil moguls and tycoons answer to no one be it congress or some parliament).

They have so much power, resources and influence they use their wealth to sway and control lobbying on Capitol Hill by covertly financing congresspersons and senators to create bills and legislation that allows big corporations to steal and go unchecked and unregulated. We think we live within a participatory government and governed by a Democracy, but the people’s interest becomes secondary to the Elitist capitalist interest—most of our politicians are bought and paid for. There hasn't been a global significant social phenomenon that hasn't been orchestrated by them. The 9/11 hoax, the collapse of the global economy in 2008, Trump being appointed the 45^TH United States President, the rise of white nationalism and the open assault on the poor and ‘have nots’, opiate epidemic being carried out by huge pharmaceutical companies, which makes street level crack, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine, etc., distribution looks like child’s play. But these companies are so powerful that no pharmaceutical executive will be indicted or convicted under RICO statues of operating drug cartels and criminal enterprise (these are your true drug King Pens).

For example, unknowing to the global community, they even finance reactionary groups such as ISIS, this is not to say that there aren't rogue cells who is acting independent in challenging Western imperialism and operate outside the control of the CIA and Hidden Hand agreement that these entities have with some of these reactionary Islamic dissenters. But let me make my readers aware, they have picked a fight with Muslims and Islam in which they cannot win—they are at war with an idea (how do you control the utterance of Allah-U-Akbar, which translates God is the Greatest and this becomes the impetus and motivation of what drives individuals toward Jihad?).

President Donald Trumps travel ban imposed on Yemen, Somali, Iran, Libya, Syria, Sudan, Chad, North Korea and Venezuela will only acerbate and infuriate the tension between the west and the east. The United States Government has declared war on Islam.  They even propped up Bashar Assad of Syria (he was their man in the Middle East until he started to gettoo big for his britches) and the CIA were deeply in bed with Saddam Hussein these puppets sold their people out for money in order to live lavish life styles. The Saud family dynasty and the corrupt Wahabbi Muslims who controls Mecca and Medina are the epitome of agent provactuers. I will never make Hajj with these sacrilegious hypocrites, I would rather go to Jerusalem or go to Senegal under the SufiTijaniyya to observe the fifth pillar of Islam. The Arabs of  Mecca and Medina have dishonored the teachings of Prophet Muhammad Ibn Abdullah and the Qur’an and they are also deeply in bed with the invisible rulers, the CIA and have betrayed Islam in the name of greed and a love for the western life style.

These damnable hypocrites in particular, the ruling class Sheiks love western prostitutes, alcohol, cocaine and heroin, etc., and dubiously impose the Sharia for those who so-called violate Islamic law. The Western governments and the Europeans are often behind what is deemed radical Islamic terrorism in which to create the social, political and economic global outcomes in order to further their agenda around the world (they systematically induce fear and panic). The global political, economic and social paradigm shift that caused 9/11 will continue to lead us down some dark paths, it has led us into an era of a new normal whereas the United States Constitution and its jurisprudence has become irrelevant and left the American people vulnerable because of the erosion of civil liberties (these are dangerous times in which we live).

The Afghanistan War 2001 and the Iraq War 2003, these conflicts were instigated and caused by them, to essentially and strategically set themselves in a place to steal more oil from Kuwaitand Iraq (the Sabah family dynasty of Kuwaitis corrupt to its core). They also set up military bases and installations to become the watch dogs over the Middle East and the Persian Gulf regions. Although, it has been proven that these conflicts were instigated by George W. Bush based on fabrications and lies; he was never charged with war crimes against humanity. Our brother, Colin Powell went before the United Nations and vehemently accused Iraqof possessing weapons of mass destruction. But look at the human suffering and human carnage, as well as, the collateral damage these False Flags have caused the innocent people of Iraqand the American people who have lost sons and daughters defending American Fascism and imperialism around the world. There was no end game to these wars other than stealing oil and the overall missions lacked a true political or military objective for that region of the world; so sixteen years later U.S. troops are still militarily engaged in both nations (when will the American people say a enough is a enough and demand more responsive foreign policy initiatives from the government?). However, it was President George H.W Bush who got the ball rolling with Desert Storm (1990) and Desert Shield (1991). These wars have cost the American taxpayers billions of dollars and continue to have a running tab even in 2017.

These warmongers and their reactionary foreign policy led to the assassination of our brother Muammar Qadaffi of the Nation of Libya, but it would be up to us to write the historical narrative relative to what he meant to African and African American revolutionaries. I will always look upon him and the Arab Jamahiriya favorably, because he used his wealth to support the Lost-Found Nation of Islam in the West and our leader the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad in the 1970s by giving him financial aid to refurbish Muhammad Mosque number 2 in Chicago, which once was a Greek Orthodox Church. He also would later give Minister Louis Farrakhan in the early 1980s a five million dollar interest free loan (this served as seed money to construct the Salaam Restaurant on Westside of Chicago); he was a friend of black and brown people and supported liberation struggles around the world. I can recall the Saudis financing Imam Warith Deen Mohammed (the biological son of Elijah Muhammad and his American Muslim Mission and led him toward apolitical Sunni Islam, which rendered him insignificant in the world of American style black politics).

It was President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (contrary to the Fake news propaganda, she was deeply involved in the Benghazi hit and the assassination of CIA frontman Chris Stevens) she also paved the way, which led to the assassination of Colonel Qadaffi. How can black people continue to hold this Negro Barack Obama in high esteem he showed us what type of Negro he was when he crossed the black liberation preacher and theologian Dr. Jeremiah Wright, his pastor for nineteen years? I totally agreed with the content of Dr. Wright's speech titled, 'Goddamn America' which got him in trouble with white folk. They are masters of using propaganda and disinformation to shape and mold public opinion.

Moving right along, we must understand that Tillerson did not take this job/assignment of being the Secretary of State because he had an interest in being a good American Patriot defending and protecting the U.S. Constitution against all foreign and domestic enemies. His oath to office had nothing to do with patriotism nor was it rooted in making the world more safer for Democracy. Tillerson's civil servant pay grade is far below his valued expertise and intellectual skill set. He chose to serve at the pleasure of the commander-in-chief strictly out of long term self-interest. But his orders comes directly from the Hidden Hand. Trump on one level want to abort globalism and move the United States back in a political era revolving around 19^thand 20^th century style nationalism, but he is only doing this to appease Steve Bannon (Trumps flamethrower) who has a brilliant political strategy of controlling the Republican Party by making GOP senators and congressperson believe that he has the influence to determine their political future. He threatened them with declaring war on them if they did not line up behind President Donald Trump's agenda—the problem is Trump went into office with no real political agenda for the nation and this has caused him to waver and vacillate, which has created a dysfunctional administration.

The Talking Heads kept assuring us that Trump was going to pivot and become more presidential—he initially surrounded himself with billionaires, but someone must have advised him that it would be smart to also surround himself with military generals because power is only secure when it can be defended. He immediately abandoned his campaign criticism of generals. Yet, he doesn't have a clue or understanding of the global and geopolitical alignments that Tillerson has relative to knowing and understanding how the world function. Tillerson was cutting deals as the head of ExxonMobil with North Korea Kim Jong-Un and Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, and is very familiar with the international political landscape—Trump doesn’t know geography, lack understanding of world cultures, religions and is a novice when it comes to international politics and diplomacy.

This diplomacy that Tillerson is trying to broker around world in these hot spots is about money and future resource agreements. Tillerson sees markets in Southeast Asia and these war of words between Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump continues to muddy the water, and do not allow for him to create a pathway into working toward establishing private and government future arm deals and potential defense contracts with North Korea by being allowed to tap into that money that Russia and China is making. He also sees lucrative contracts of supply and demand for ExxonMobil in potentially getting a huge piece of the oil demand that North Korea calls for and whether or not North Koreaobtains their nuclear intercontinental missile program, it is just a matter of time—they will have far reaching nuclear capabilities in less than five years. The ‘rocket man’ insults will have no bearing on the technological advancements of a nation who is determined to balance the power in that region of the world and in reality there is nothing the United States can do about it. I do not think China will sit idly by and allow a war to take place in its backyard and/or an attack by the U.S. against one of its closest allies. Some have argued that this can become a powder keg and international impetus for World War III.      

Thus, plain and clear, you can drop Tillerson off anywhere on the planet from Siberia to the frigid Antarcticawith no maps just camping gear and he would survive. Tillerson took the job to make untold wealth on the backend, he is a Metal Man (not even Mark Rich lines up in comparison), I told a group of students that he was from a different species and breed (Trump is no match for this tycoon mindset). I also said you can also drop off Jarrett Kushtner any place on the planet as well. The Seven Oil Sisters sent him on this mission to scout out and secure the next exploitative frontier. Tillerson as stated above has had long standing relations with the former USSRduring the Cold War.

ExxonMobil and the Rockefellers put huge amounts of financial and military aid in backing the Russians in the nine year war they fought against the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan in which they the Russians lost (1979-1989). The Rockefellers had a twofold interest of helping Russia clear the way of an uninterrupted oil pipeline going through Central Asia and simultaneously claiming more economic stake in the poppy seed and heroin distribution (Dope, Inc). The Russian Elitist and certain segments of Taliban and the Islamic sects of Afghanistanhave always been in bed with each other.

Tillerson job is to re-establish the oil alignments from Africa, Persian Gulf in particular Iran because other than the black market distribution Iran's oil since 1979 has been imposed with embargoes and sanctions by the United States State Department; Tillerson liked the Iran Nuclear Deal entered into by the Democratic President Barack Obama—for him lets move away from the divisive political rhetoric that is hindering his ties to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and the financial kickback he anticipate he would receive from the Central Banks in this grand scheme of the oil business—for Tillerson this is strictly about money). Tillerson understand that the Iran Nuclear deal would open up a new oil supply and markets for ExxonMobil with a nation in which was once classified under the Bush Doctrine as a "rogue nation". But lets be clear the antagonistic and volatile relationship between Iran and the United States for over thirty-five years did not impede the flow of oil to the U.S.markets and allied nation markets.

Most of Western European nations and those aligned with the European Union had for decades ignored the U.S. and United Nations embargoes and were buying Iranian crude in violation of international law. The U.S. was also buying and selling to Iran in spite of the sanctions. How do you think the Iranian Revolution has sustained itself since Imam Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew ShahMohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979? These contracts were sanctioned by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the United States Justice Department turned a blind eye. Tillerson just don't want to be looking over his shoulder just in case, if some ambitious U S. Attorney decided to use the long extent of the U S. law to prosecute private citizens or corporations who violate the embargoes. Tillerson is not there just to serve as the U.S. chief diplomat or foreign policy negotiator looking to broker deals for the White House. He sees no conflict of interest of assuring that ExxonMobil will continue to serve as one of the oil masters of the world.

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com. 

The Black Panther Party: Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale; Lessons in Social Activism

July 10, 2018, 1:36 pm

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The Black Panther Party: Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale; Lessons in Social Activism

By Fahim A. Knight-El



The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was founded in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California. One must understand that Newton and Seale was influenced by the fiery Black Nationalist spokesman Minister Malcolm X of the Nation of Islam who after his defection from the Black Muslim movement his ideological and philosophical views shifted more toward self-defense by any means necessary (Reference: Bobby Seale; Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton). There were mass protest and demonstrations taking place throughout America and simultaneously the civil rights movement was in full swing in the 1960s—boycotts, picket lines, sit-ins and the fight for full public accommodation was being led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ,who headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). But it would be four students in 1960 from North Carolina Agriculture and TechnicalStateUniversity in Greensboro, North Carolina that integrated Woolworths Department store (who demonstrated civil disobedience). H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin) in his book titled, Die Nigger Die and Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) in his book titled, Black Power both former chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and honorary Black Panther Party members who explored the radical side of the civil rights movement in their approach to social justice. Carmichael often stated ‘ready for the revolution’ and H. Rap Brown coined the phrase ‘burn baby burn,’ which was the anthem for the rebellions that took place in the late 1960s almost in every major city across America.    

It would be racist police unlawful conduct and police brutality that led the Black Panther Party on the west coast coming into existence. Huey P. Newton felt that black people had the right to protect and defend themselves in their community against racist police attacks. The Black Panther Party under the leadership of Seale and Newton taught the Party members and the black community the importance of knowing their legal rights, in particular the Miranda Rights and the Second Amendment Right to the United States Constitution (the right to arm themselves) (Reference: Hugh Pearson; "The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America"). 

The Black Panther Party started free breakfast programs, free health clinics and free education and schooling programs throughout the black community—they were extremely proactive in every phase of the political, economic and social struggles in Los Angeles, and Oakland which led to the establishment of Black Panther Party chapters throughout black America. Yet, their Black Power and paramilitary position of arm struggle drew the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover and the U. S. counterintelligence program known as Cointelpro. 

Hoover based on a disinformation and propaganda campaign characterized the Black Panther Party as a threat to the United States national security interest and they would suffer the long arm of U.S. Government dirty tricks and scrutiny. I do not think their​ arm resistance movement was rooted in treason or sedition nor were their political objectives geared towards overthrowing the United States Government as Hoover maintained. It was more about educating blacks of their constitutional rights as private citizens and knowing the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution as it related to due process and equal protection under the law. They were truly black patriots who understood the Bill of Rights and stood behind the Second Amendment the right to bear arms (white militia groups have always had the same rights since the inception of the United States as a democracy and Republic). But to understand the difference one must read Robert Williams the former NAACP president of Monroe, North Carolina who authored a book titled, Negroes with Guns.

J. Edgar Hoover worked to systematically dismantle the Panther Party under the FBI counterintelligence program known as Cointelpro. Hoover stated he feared any black leader who could unify and electrify the black masses (and what he feared most was the rise of a black Messiah)—he initially thought that it was Elijah Muhammad, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokley Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, etc.). This led to him infiltrating the Black Panther Party and other progressive black organizations by sending agent provocateurs and government snitches to cause internal conflict. The

U.S. judicial system unjustly prosecuted the Black Panther Party leadership and members in which some of them are still in prison some 40-50 years later as I write this article, defamed and character assassinated, others were assassinated and murdered by the government and some went underground in order to protect their lives and shield their identity. Hoover and the U.S. government went on a vicious campaign to destroy the Black Panther Party by killing off its leadership and most of all destroying the image of black people having the right to defend themselves. Hoover and the United States Government worked to neutralized and destabilized the organization and its leadership. Many of Black Panther leadership as I stated above were killed in arm confrontations with the police. For example, two popular Black Panther Party leaders of the Chicago chapter in 1969 Fred Hampton and Mark Clark was gunned down and murdered as they slept in their home. Other Black Panther members were falsely accused and were sentenced to long-term prison sentences such as the Panther 21 in which many of them have been in prison for over 40 years wrongfully convicted on trump up charges. 

Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt who after serving over 25 years was pardon and exonerated for crimes he did not commit. Also, George Jackson and the Soledad Brothers were victims of government complicity he was murdered by San Quentin prison guards on August 21, 1971 (Reference: "Blood in My Eye"). Perhaps one of the most well known Black Panther was Mutlia Shakur who still remains in prison since the 1970s and Mumia Abu Jamal, a member of the Philadelphia chapter of Black Panther Party for Self-Defense who has been on death row since the early 1980s (Reference: Mumia Abu Jamal; "Live From Death Row"). Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (formerly H. Rap Brown) was a recent victim of the United States Government continued objectives from the 1960s to punish our black freedom fighters and black revolutionaries—the government pursuant to the new rules of law under the initiatives of Homeland Security, anti-terrorism laws and the U.S. Patriot Act in which President Donald J. Trump’s domestic and foreign policy personifies extreme reactionary fascism in which the United States has moved toward since his election to office in 2016. Let me briefly mention Assata Shukur who was not an official member of the Black Panther Party, but a member of the Black Liberation Army and the Panthers shared political views. Shakur was falsely accused of killing a New Jersey State Trooper in 1976 on the New Jersey Turnpike and was convicted of murder. She was sentenced to life in federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia where she escaped and sought political asylum in Cuba under Fidel Castro (Reference: Assata Shukur; "Assata").

Thus, conducting this research, I was taking back by Eldridge Cleaver's (minister of information) critical analysis of the United States jurisprudence system, in particular his open letter to then Governor Ronald Reagan in his book titled, “Soul on Ice” and his opposition to the police state. Cleaver's letter is equalvent to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from the Birmingham Jail" relative to the question of moral and ethical principles. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense started as a Black Nationalist organization but from an ideological perspective the Panther vacillated between Black Nationalism and Scientific Socialism (Communism)--they later would embrace the philosophy of Mao Se Tung (the Red Book) and Karl Marx (Das Capitol) in which they believed that the black struggle had to be fought from both a class and race analysis.

The Black Panther Party main objectives were laid out and disseminated in the their "Ten Point Plan"  

                                       What We Want Now!

We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community.

1). We want full employment for our people.

2). We want an end to the robbery by the white men of our Black Community. (later changed to "we want an end to the robbery by the capitalists of our black and oppressed communities.")

3). We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.

4). We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society.

5). We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.

6). We want all Black men to be exempt from military service.

7). We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of Black people.

8). We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.

9). We want all Black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black Communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.

10). We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace.

                              What We Believe:

1). We believe that Black People will not be free until we are able to determine our own destiny.

2). We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the White American business men will not give full employment, the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living.

3). We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as redistribution for slave labor and mass murder of Black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities: the Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for genocide of the Jewish people. The Germans murdered 6,000,000 Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over 50,000,000 Black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make.

4). We believe that if the White landlords will not give decent housing to our Black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make a decent housing for its people.

5). We believe in an educational system that will give our people a knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else.

6). We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like Black people, are being victimized by the White racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary.

7). We believe we can end police brutality in our Black community by organizing Black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our Black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States gives us the right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all Black people should arm themselves for self-defense.

8). We believe that all Black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial.

9). We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that Black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peers. A peer is a persons from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, environmental, historical, and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the Black community from which the Black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white-juries that have no understanding of “the average reasoning man” of the Black community.

10). When in the course of human events, it become necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, and that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its power in such a form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accused. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, and their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards of their future security.

Some have accused the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense as being sexist and misogynist and male dominated organization, but I think women had always played a prominent role within the Black Panther Party Movement from doing vital behind the scene work relative to community organizing and being support staff for the   organization on various levels. When Huey P. Newton went to prison, the Central Committee elected Elaine Brown as chairman of the Party and it was under her work an leadership that the Free Huey campaign and movement gain a broad range of support across America and throughout the world. Also, the likes of Angela Davis who was out front and was challenging the white status quo by organizing college students and leading mass political rallies and demonstrations against police brutality and what she deemed as the police state. Eldridge Cleaver's wife Kathleen Cleaver was also highly visible as one of leading female voices in Black Panther Party movement. Yet, this analysis is in no way meant to suggest or imply that there wasn't continue internally struggles between the role women would play in this male dominated Black Power organization. Women for the most part held traditional roles as educators for children, nurses assistants, food preparers for the free breakfast program, etc. (Reference: Elaine Brown; "A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story").     

I think the Black Power movement gave rise in the 1960s and 1970s the need of black studies programs on mainly predominantly white universities and college campus in which students could acquire majors and minor degrees. African Americans were seeking to rediscover the history and culture of African people in which intellectual interest in black history and the African experience begin to expand. The quest for self-determination created new academic and educational challenges to a system that was structured and built on Eurocentric and white supremacy ideology. But Berkeley and the University of California system, in particular begin to create black Studies programs and hired black professors, moreover, this practice spread throughout academia (and in 2018 black studies programs are under assault). It was political agitation in 1960s that brought the necessity of Black Studies programs and it begin gaining philosophical credibility and legitimacy amongst scholars and intellectuals outside of the African-American race (Reference: Mualana Karenga; "Introduction to Black Studies").

Lastly, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in the 1960s and 1970s was actually confronting some of the same political, economic and social issues, we are presently confronting in 2018. For example, the issue of police brutality and the murder of innocent black men by white racist law enforcement and often these killings are deemed justifiable homicides. The judicial system and the criminal justice system still allow sentencing disparities and black men are discriminated in the legal courts of the United States of America. The lack of financial capital and resources in the so-called black community creates poverty and disillusionment due to wealth disparities (the economic and social impetus that foster the working poor), which gives way to the prison industrial complex and mass incarceration. The Black Panther Party sought to address these issues on a community level by taking ownership of the black community. The government deemed them a threat to the U.S. internal national security because they dared to exercise their Second Amendment Right to the United States Constitution. The fight for social justice has been a continued fight for African Americans since the first slave ship arrived to America in 1555. The Panthers represented the epitome of black-manhood and black-womanhood.

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com. 

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By Fahim A. Knight-El

We have to move beyond accepting the Matrix (and decide, if we are serious about forging change; the question becomes, which pill are we going to take either the red pill or the blue pill). We cannot vacillate between a dying corrupt system and simultaneously think there are some possible good associated with this system (either we want complete sovereignty and independence—freedom, justice and equality, or we want reform, which is geared towards superficial changes, but not altering the system from its foundation. The facts of history is clear, when the Europeans arrived to the North America continent in 1607 as the first white settlers, they were the dregs, criminals and the vagabonds of Great Britain and Europe (many of them were exiled and were considered the worst-of-the worst)(Reference: Michael F. Robinson; "The Lost White Tribe: Explores, Scientist, and the Theory that Changed a Continent").

Their concept of a new nation did not include the Native Americans, so-called black people or white women, the nation was established by white aristocratic men for the eventual interest of white plantation owners with the objective of expanding the colonial expeditions of the Royal Family of England, which was an extension of imperialism and white world domination (translated in the modern context white supremacy). These new settlers were also being used by the British to expand trade markets and create new capitalist ventures (their motives were rooted in exploitive capitalism and seeking to find gold and silver in the so-called "New World" to increase British foreign worth). The British Empire was very expansive and historians maintained that the sun never set on the British Empire (Reference: John Henrik Clarke; 'Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism”). 

We cannot find ourselves making subtle political concessions when it comes to the European behavior nor can we overlook the overt crimes of raping and robbing indigenous people's territories and lands (committing murder and genocide) almost totally emasculating the 17 million Native Americans and enslaving over 50 million Africans in the name of greed and white world domination. The white man has a history written in blood and wherever he has gone on the planet, he has decimated the original people for the past 6,000 years and this much is undeniable (Reference: Michael Bradley; “Iceman Inheritance : Prehistoric Sources of Western Man's Racism, Sexism and Aggression”).

This history and behavior cannot be reconciled by us seeking to overlook and justifying these human transgressions by conveniently placating these crimes against humanity by being in historical denial; their behavior and wrongdoing stand to be condemned by all righteous civilized people of the earth. The United States of America is an outlaw nation and Republic, if it were not for the Native Americans who taught the first European settlers survival skills relative to agriculture and how to grow and plant food in the so-called New World they would have been doomed from the very start. Sir Walter Raleigh and other European settlers would not have survived from the beginning, if were not for the humanity demonstrated by the indigenous people.

This nation in 1776 fought the American Revolution War to declare itself free from the yoke of British rule and although, one of the first to lose his life in the American Revolution was a black man named Crispus Attucks on March 5, 1770. Thus, 114 years later they wrote African Americans into the United States Constitution as subhuman 3/5th of a human being. Blacks fought in the American Revolution on both the colonists side and on the British side and after the white 13 Colonies gained their freedom and independence from the Crown they continued to enslave blacks as chattel. They used Christian missionaries to rob the minds of the slave by imposing a slave making theology, which made the slave docile, obedient and subservient (the Willie Lynch Syndrome) (Reference: Bruce Bridges; “Recapturing the African Mind).

The first President of the United States of America George Washington was a Freemason. He was made a Mason in Fredericksburg, Virginia on November 4, 1752. And many of the so-called Founding Fathers were initiated Freemasons. So the United States Constitution within itself was a document inspired by an august body of Freemasons; the Constitution Convention was held in the city of Philadelphia where this pristine document was ratified in 1787. Thus, Philadelphia was secondly named as the city of Brotherly Love in which Freemasonry rest on three basic principles Morality, Friendship and Brotherly Love, so this is not coincidental and there is huge amounts of Masonic history and symbolism in Philadelphia. Even Prince Hall Masons under Prince Hall had organizational and religious ties to Richard Allen and Absolom Jones of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. The A.M.EChurch in Prince Hall early organizational development assisted him in establishing the first black Masonic Lodge African Lodge number 459, which was founded in 1784 and transitioned into African Grand Lodge number 1 but it flourished in Philadelphiadue to the assistance of the A.M.EChurch (Reference: Roundtree and Bessel; "Out of the Shadows: The Emergence of Prince Hall Freemasons in America'). 

I think we need to be clear the white Founding Fathers of America were very astute Statesmen because they had become exposed to the Ancient Kemetic knowledge that originated amongst the Nubian people. Some of them were exposed to the philosophical theories of the Rosecrucians traditions of Mental Alchemy. The city of Washington DC was built on philosophical and architecture or mathematical scales of Freemasonry; for a long time many Caucasian scholars would not publicly admit the tremendous influence that Freemasonry has played in the establishment of American Democracy. The buildings and the geographical physical layout of the United States Capitol is definitely correlated to ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) symbolic codes and architecture. The U.S. Capitol sits off the Potomac River—this is symbolic and representative of the Blue and White Nile River of Egypt. And the majesty and the spiritual significance this waterway had on ancient Kemetic societies (on the 28 Dynastic Periods) and how it flows upward from South to North. Moreover, even to this very day the people of Egypt and Sudan and down the river streaming to East Africa relish the Blue and White Nile River (Reference: Anthony Browder; “Egypt on the Potomac: A Guide to Decoding Egyptian Architecture and Symbolism in Washington”).

One of the most important cities also sits right across from Washington D. C. and that is the city of Alexandria, Virginiain which there is a Masonic museum and library that house Masonic artifacts. Perhaps one of greatest intellectual cities in Kemet was Alexandria which was an intellectual center that was known for its extensive libraries that was destroyed by the Greeks in 332 B.C. so Alexandria, Virginiait to is not coincidental. Also the WashingtonMonument is a replica of the many Obelisk that was worshipped and admonished in Kemet. The symbol was best known to be associated with Asur (Osiris) Aset (Isis) and Heru (Horus), the symbol was equalvent to the life source associated with the Kemetic Ank, which rest the myths or mythology of world Saviors being born of virgin births, death, resurrection and ascension (Reference: Anthony Browder;“Nile Valley Contributions To Civilization”). 

The ancient symbol was a Phallic symbol and the white man in Europe and the United States secretly adopted many Kemetic teachings and symbols in which they have used our knowledge to confound the blind, deaf, and dumb, which constitutes control over the masses. The Washington Mall and its physical layout is Masonic (rooted in the symbolic layout of the Square and Compass), as well as the Lincoln Memorial is all structured on Masonic numerology and symbolic codes down to the dimensions. I can remember President Barack Obama inauguration in 2008 and many so-called African Americans had traveled from near and afar to assemble on the Capitol grounds to be of witness of this historical and memorial occasion in the history of black America, in particular and America in general; but besides the emotionalism they didn't have a clue that they were standing on sacred Masonic grounds and it was not coincidental that Obama the 44 president (there is a lot science in the double fours perhaps at another time I will delve into breaking down what those numbers really mean). Benjamin Banneker theastronomist, architect, mathematician and pure scientist is attributed to laying out the specs and blueprints of WashingtonDC and as historians we know that the Capitol grounds are definitely scaled on Masonic code. Now, from this we can assume that Banneker had to have some Freemasonic knowledge and training. Yet, there is no verifiable proof that he was a Prince Hall Mason, but we do claim that he was a Mason and in my research and heart I believe he was a Mason (Reference: David Ovason; "The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital; the Masons and the Builders of Washington, D.C.")..

George Washington and the Founding Fathers set-up a power structure based on Masonic principles, which has globally dominated this world's order as we know it. They (the so-called American Negro) still don't have a clue that the power of the world is staged in WashingtonD.C.and the majority of United States presidents have been Freemasons and this is where the world's oppression begin and end. On that inauguration day the invisible signs and symbols were visible and all around those that had assembled for this momentous occasion, but they could not discern them. So they didn't know that Obama had taken a higher oath and was not based on any alliance to African Americans or Caucasian Americans—we foolishly got caught up in the moment.

The Eurocentric scientist and social scientist are still trying to figure out and determinehow these "Negroes" built such magnificent spiritual edifices and temples known as the pyramids that sit in the center of the earth. The architecture structures defy the laws of physics and still some 20,000 years later scientists are still baffled. White Egyptologist and anthropologist have no answers in 2018; scholars have written dissertations and authored scholarly books and done empirical research, but they are often left with more questions than answers, when it comes to their attempt to assess and evaluate the history and culture of Kemet. I personally found the answers when I begin to study the works of John Henrik Clarke, Cheikh Anta Diop, Yosef Ben Jochannan, Molefi Kete Asante, Ivan Van Sertima, John G. Jackson, Chancellor Williams, Drusilla Dunje Houston, etc., their knowledge enlightened me to the knowledge of self and brought me out of darkness and ignorance. I quickly learned that western civilization was a historical hoax and a sham designed to deceive the original man and the indigenous people of the earth of their greatness and the contributions they made to human civilization (Reference: Cheikh Anta Diop; "Civilization or Barbarism"). 

I think it was "Newsweek" about 25 years ago did a very extensive and detail investigative research article on the origin of woman/man, I believe it was titled, “Out of Africa, A Missing Link” and the article traced the origin of human civilization to Kush or Ethiopia. This is where they found the origin of woman/man and the first Homo Sapiens (and she was black/African and of Negroid origin—they named her ‘Lucy’) it was on the African continent. These mulatto imposters are occupying indigenous people's land that does not belong to them. All the Biblical Prophets were people of color according to works of Reverend Ishakamusa Barashango who authored a book titled, "God the Bible and the Black man’s Destiny" and he traces the lineages of the prophets, lands, languages, and religious customs back to one source, which was Africa. 

The Pope and the Roman Catholic Church lied when they established the Nicean Creed in 325 A.D. at the Council of Nicea, it was at this Papal Council where they decided to manipulate religious doctrine to enslave the darker people of the planet by distorting and creating a Eurocentric version of the teachings of Yeshusa Ben Yosef (Jesus, the son of Joseph). The scholar Reza Aslan who authored the book titled, "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth" makes a distinction between the prophetic Jesus and the historical Jesus (they are two different individuals). Reverend Albert Cleage in his books "The Black Messiah" and "Black Christian Nationalism" helped me to understand why it was important to redefine the ethnicity, nationality and teachings of the man known as Christ. It was equally important to me to debunk the lies and half-truths given to us by an arch-deceiver. 

The documentary, "Hidden Colors" by Tariq Nasheed I think part 4 deals with the control strategy and tactics of the Europeans using the missionaries, merchants and military as a team of destruction against humanity. They systematically used white supremacy theological teachings as one of the methods to create and insure white world domination by depicting African people as being the cursed sons and daughters of Ham. This allowed them to impose a social dynamic of inferiority on the African world, which has haunted the African world over the last 4,000 years (Reference: Sylvester Johnson; "The Myth of Ham in Nineteenth Century American Christianity: Race, Heathens and the People of God").

Moving right along, Chattel Slavery was cruel, inhumane and dehumanizing system of control and for 310 years there was no mercy shown towards the black man and black woman of America. How can we expect to be so-called Americans and patriotic (we never received our 40 acres and a mule). The Transatlantic Slave Trade ended in 1807, but the buying and selling of African people continued long after this legislation was enacted. Slavery was a declaration of war against the African world according to Dr. John Henrik Clarke and we cannot soften this tragedy nor attempt to downplay the white supremacists motive. You will never find Jews downplaying the Holocaust and not pointing out the wrongs of Germany and Adolf Hitler—this was part of their people's historical legacy and to question or disagree with their perspective you would be immediately condemned and labeled anti-Semitic (Reference: John Henrik Clarke;“Africans at the Crossroads: Notes for an African World Revolution”).

Yet, no other people on the planet has suffered and experienced what the so-called American Negro has experienced. He lost his land, God, names, language and culture and by the way we act we lost our minds. President Abraham Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but it was the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution that so-called freed the African slaves. However, the southern slavery dilemma, which led to the American Civil War 1861-1865, it must be noted that the South had succeeded from the Union and in reality Lincoln had no political jurisdiction over the south during this point in American history (Reference: J.A. Rogers;  “Africa's Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States ”).

The southern white aristocratic plantation owners viewed slavery as an economic revenue system in which they were not willing to relinquish, because it was the backbone of the southern economy. Let’s be clear Lincoln also stated that if could maintain the Union and keep slavery intact that was what he would have done. The Reconstruction period was from 1865-1877; it was a twelve years period where blacks in the south gained political power. For example, P.B.S. Pinchback became Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana and for 45 days served as governor of the state of Louisiana and you had Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce served in state government in Mississippi and you had Robert Smalls in South Carolina served in the legislative branch of South Carolinastate government. W.E.B. Dubois in his book titled, "Black Reconstruction" and in Lerome Bennett book titled, "Before the Mayflower" wrote about how the U.S. Government betrayed the black political and economic progress during Reconstruction by removing the troops from the South and this ushered in a vicious racist system of Jim Crow and turned a positive page in American history back to the norms of overt racism, discrimination and oppression aimed at African American people (Reference: Russell L. Adams; Great Negroes Past and Present”).

There is nothing legal which showforth any proof where displaced Africans (Chattel Slaves) decided upon or were giving a choice to determine if they wanted to be an American. No, I and we are not Americans, I am one of 40-50 million victims of Americanism and I stand in honor of 100 million Africans who were kidnapped from their native lands and I am connected to the spirits and souls of my ancestors who were thrown overboard in the Atlantic Ocean. Black Law Dictionary defines what constitute being an American and also get a copy of the book titled "Slavery in the Courtroom" and also get a copy of a book titled, "The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America" by Richard Rothstein. I am also guilty of using the term/color “black” the use of the term “black” to identify us as indigenous or original people of the Earth which serve as an impediment to our true nationality; this imposed racial classification continue to serve as a barrier and hindrance to our legal, sovereign and lawful rights to assets (monetary and real property) seized and held in Federal Reserve Banks (but the majority of the original American land deeds have been secretly moved and held in vaults within the Bank of England in London and overseen by the insurer Lords of London) which constitutetreaties that were falsely executed with the tribal indigenous Native Americans and original Blackmoors, because of these deceptive trade practices and the legal standards of the international courts and legal mandates of the United Nations—the Blackmoors would have legal and lawful rights as a respondent, but we do not have an agreed nationality to petition the Human Right Commission to attest and retain stolen wealth and treasures swindled and illegally confiscated by an outlaw people from 15^th century to 19^thcentury. Prophet Noble Drew Ali and the Moorish Science Temple of America had it right in many ways. The above knowledge is more valuable than anything that I have written; our collective suffering and lack of political, economic, and social progress is rooted in our quest to remain calling ourselves “black” in which this will keep us being modern slaves. You are the original Asiatics of the earth but American jurisprudence system will continue to deny you what is owed to you unless we wake up and claim our rightful nationality (Reference:Elihu N. Pleasant-Bey;“Noble Drew Ali: The Exhuming of a Nation”).

I write and teach not so much as a political exercise, but I use this knowledge to put people of African descendant and indigenous people back in their proper historical and culture spaces with an objective of leading them to reclaim a lost identity; moreover, of who they were prior to the mass destruction white supremacy has on the planet. We were made into a denationalized people and, how can we ever go forward politically, economically and socially with not knowing who we truly are. We still walk in the slave master's names and in 2018, we are still naming our children slave names (modern slaves who have been conditioned to be a good Negro). 

We relish in the European culture and continue to willingly embrace Western Civilization and Eurocentric values as the standards and models of human excellence. For example, the so-called American Negroes would prefer to take a vacation trip to Paris, Berlin, London, Rome, Athens, London, Barcelona or Madrid, Basil, Switzerland or West Germany--his/her mis-education forces them to negate and overlook taken a trip to his own continent where human civilization began in Africa. 

You can almost walk from Spain right in North Africa into the African Nation of Morocco across the Rock of Gibraltar and the GibraltarStrait. It was these enlightened Africans known as the Moors (Muurs) in 711 A.D. In the 8th Century under Tarik Ibn Zaid that brought the Europeans out of the Dark Ages into cultural enlightenment, it would not have been a period in European history known as the Renaissance period with Michael Angelo and Leonardo Divinci, if it were not for the knowledge of the Nubian Moors (Reference:Ivan Van Sertima;“Golden Age of the Moor”). 

Black Muslims fly across the continent of Africa to make a Holy Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in observance of fulfilling the Fifth Pillar of Islam in order to pray with white Arabs. Black Christians fly to Jerusalem to MountMoriahand experience the Ark of Covenant and trace the history of Yeshusa Ben Yosef (Jesus the Son of Joseph) to Bethlehem and Nazareth and allow white imposter clergy who are under the influence of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church to feed us their 'tricknology'. 

We do not know that Christianity had its origin on the African continent in Kush (Ethiopia) where the Coptic Christians and the royal priesthood and some of the oldest Christian edifices still exist to this very day. I believe it was Queen Sheba of Ethiopia (Kush) who had a relationship with King Solomon and they had son named Menelik the First (this is part of the root of Freemasonry and Freemasonry as a school of thought and ideology could not exist without legacy and building of King Solomon's Temple) (Reference: Sterling Means; “Ethiopia: The Missing Link”). 

So how could the European Jews known as the Kazars and Ashkenazi Jews who are of Eastern European descendants deny African Fulasha Jews or Beta-Israel Jews the right to migrate to the Holy Land. This land belongs to the indigenous original people of the earth (Reference: Yosef Ben Jochannan;“We, the Black Jews: Witness to the 'White Jewish Race' Myth”). 

The money game is an illusion, the United States currency has no real value, United States monetary system got stuck up due to a silent coup d'état in 1913 on a small island off the coast of Georgia called Jekyll Island where a group of private international bankers took control over the United States money system in which 12 Central Banks that make up the Federal Reserve System and operate as a private institution outside of the United States Government owns our money and distributes the debt in which the U.S. president nor does congress possess oversight power or authority over the Federal Reserve reference the "Secrets of the Federal Reserve" by Eustace Mullins.

The Federal Reserve possess the power to value and devalue money and what we have is Fiat money that has no real value; in 1933 the United States moved its currency off the gold standard in which our money used to be backed by gold and silver, and each dollar could be redeemed with the equivalent of gold and silver, but your present day money is a just a federal reserve note and there is nothing backing the money that you call currency other than the United States rhetoric; the U.S. dollar is a worthless piece of paper and money is being printed out of thin air (Reference:William Greider;“The Secrets of the Temple”).

The Federal Reserve chairman has more power than the president, he/she determines the interest rates and just keep dumping worthless paper into the economy creating a debt based economy in which they systematically tie us to like modern day slaves to a mortgage, automobile loan, college loans, etc they further tie us to various aspects of consumer debt--we become conditioned to believe and think that my life must be tied to debt and paying bills. The white man has manipulated us under his system of Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and he has traded us since our birth as stocks and bonds using our birth certificates and social security numbers commodity assets; right now as I write you sister this notation (there is much more to this concept to be learned). There is a concept called the Strawman, it would be worth your while to educate yourself on how to reclaim your sovereignty and established your legal identity and impose a cease and desist order from the government using your identity to rake in millions (Reference: Asaru Alim Nu Tu’ pak El-Bey; “The First World Order; the Global Paths of the Ancient Ones”).

If we were indeed Americans the United States Congress would not have to vote every 15-20 years on our so-called citizenship, perhaps in the near future they might decide to vote to nullify our so-called citizenship and revoke our 14th Amendment Right to the United States Constitution. We are one vote constantly from being considered an alien refugee in the land and so-called home of our birth. How can the Europeans who stole this country and land from the indigenous Native
HiAmericans/Blackmoors make you and I an American; thus legally only the indigenous people possess that legal authority to do so. Here is a criminal and thief that illegally enslaved ‘Africans’ as human cargo for 310 years and we accept him and his jurisprudence system as a moral compass (I don't think so). We should not fit our mouths to see ourselves as Americans (ex-slaves aren't Americans). So-called black men are killed by racist white police officers do you remember Treyvone Martin, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, Walter Scott, Alton Sterling, Eric Harris, Laquan McDonald, etc (I do and I will never forget theses injustices). Were they "Americans"?

How does being American reconcile with white supremacy, racism, discrimination, unfair sentencing, prison industrial complex, white privilege, disparity in the wealth equation, health disparities, education disparities? We cannot allow ourselves to buying into the propaganda that so-called African American people are failing because we are not working hard enough; thus our collective history dictates that the American dream has been more like an American nightmare when comes to the so-called African American being presented with a fair and equal playing field (this is the basis of Donald Trump's incoherent ideology "Let's make America Great Again and "Let's take back America) we have be careful thatwe to are not subtly embracing some of this reactionary foolishness.

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com. 

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By Fahim A. Knight-El      

The paradigm shift has been ongoing the level of human consciousness has been stifled by those who seek to control the thinking of the planet and the resources of the planet. The shift is being guided by those who are masters at social engineering via media, entertainment, religious and political schools of thought, relationships, the acquisition of materialism, sport and play, etc. The duping allows them to shift human psychology right beneath our eyes and we do not have a clue of why we act and behave the way that we do. The internal positive energy of the human being is being systematically siphoned and they have created massive dummying down ploys and distractions and deceptions to shift the energy with the intent of trying to get in front of paradigm shift. 

The universe is actually dictating new spiritual and a new social phenomenon and those who are attempting to pursue true enlightenment will understand and embrace the positive outcomes of the paradigm shift. There are two forces at work, positive and negative, which is pulling at the Universe and pulling at humanity. Man has created such an imbalance on the planet that the ecological and climactic forces will continue to unleash energy that will impact human existence on the planet.

Global warming isn't coincidental and the unpredictable weather patterns are not coincidental or accidental either, but are an indication of humanity’s failure to live in harmony with the Universe. The Universe will continue to speak and will see and experience things like we have never experienced before. It will be our awakening to spirituality that will allow us to decipher and see, as well as be able to analyze these global events from a spiritual level, which will further allow us to understand these phenomenon’s from a much deeper level; than those who will be blinded by the deceivers, because they have chosen to wander in darkness and will be constant victims of those who are steadily working on keeping the masses asleep and under their dictates and control. 

We are experiencing a social, political and economic paradigm shift in real time and most of this can only be interpreted on the spiritual level. Every where the evil forces have gone on the planet, it has led to mayhem and disruption of human civilizations. This could be seen in how they destroyed and decimated the Aborigines of Australia (these where jet black people and perhaps the first people on earth), the Native Americans who crossed the Bering Strait (Asia) over 16, 000 years ago, also became victims of his injustice i.e., mass murder and genocide: this injustice led to the Native Americans being almost completely wiped out and those that survived were placed on U.S. Government Reservations. 

The original people of New Zealand and Papua Papua New Guinea were also unjustly murdered and decimated; Africans over 100 million Africans were forcibly kidnapped and brought against their will to the Americas to be made slaves and the burden bearers of a system that was built on ruthless white supremacy. This was the greatest crime ever committed against the humanity. They rob us of our God, land, names, culture, rites, sacraments, etc., and turned us into so-called American Negroes. I must tell the whole truth and we should not allow fear to stand in our way or denial when it comes to evaluating and assessing the naked truth. They were given 6,000 years to rule and their time has come to an end. 

The Bible taught us to forgive them God they know not what they do and we allowed injustice to take place and approximately 163 years later we have put up little resistance to his world order and domination. Let me also say this there is no mystery God and there is no spook God, God is real he lives in us, you and me. He created himself from an atom of light 76 trillion years ago. He placed the moon in its orbit 66 trillion years ago; he instituted the powerful Universal principle that governs our solar system. The first law of the universe is motion our planet is in constant motion and we as human beings are in motion (stagnation renders death) and our DNA make up is genetically coded to compliment the macrocosm Universe. The second law of the Universe is order. 

We should have life and life more abundantly. The Hidden Hand and the Invisible Rulers have created a universal imbalance on the planet, because of greed and a desire to horde the world's wealth and resources. This thought and behavior is diametrically opposed to the Divine Laws of the universe. Moreover, it is this conduct has placed them on a collision course with another powerful unseen entity and force that occasionally manifest itself in the form of calamities in order just to remind the global deceivers that it doesn't matter how many carnal weapons of war that they have obtained because in the grand scheme of things when matched up with the real power they have minuscule power to determine humanity’s destiny. 

The universe is armed with something much more powerful than what we have acquired as human beings relative to the power associated with the U.S. sovereign state. The Kosmic Forces have been here since the dawn of time and when planet was created and there are spiritual heightened people on earth who possess the power to invoke the Kosmic energy and can alter personal and global dynamics by having the ability of saying be and it is (this is the God within). Yet, we all have the ability to enter this spiritual space that was once reserved for Sages, Gurus and Master Teachers; this allows us un-precedent spiritual powers to walk in our six senses and once we master the science of the Chakras this will move us further into mastering self and it teaches us of how to give birth to a god. 

Ultimately, we are not at war with flesh and blood, but we are at war with principalities in High Places. When you seek to be spiritually free it is an act of declaration of war, because the enemies can no longer manipulate you for their benefits. The spiritual path frees you and it allows you Divine intuition to see things before they happen and tap into people's energy. These are Ancient practices that the Twa people and the Dogon people of Africa had practiced and had mastered these spiritual principles thousands of years ago. The African slaves who were captured from Sierra Leone, West Africa and brought to the slave ports of Charleston, South Carolina and Beaufort, South Carolina. They practice the Gullah tradition (and extension of the Yoruba tradition) and still are in touch with our ancient ancestor’s spirits in 2018, they never relinquished their connections to the ancient spirit world. 

Now, moving right along, the Kosmic Universe is rooted in energy—the stars, solar, human behavior, animal life and all species are tied to this Intelligent Design, which dictates the very essence of bio-physics and what our interrelated position is going to be on the planet. Our Path (or the spiritual forces of the universe) is calling us and no one can answer this calling but ourselves neither of us at this point will be able to run and hide from this preordained reality, your divine purpose will find you sooner or later. 

The injustices of wealth disparities that have induced poverty and want, medical disparity, and mass incarceration and the police state initiatives, unfair wages, induce famines and global poverty has caused a Kosmic roaring that cannot be heard or even seen by the unenlightened, they really don't have clue, but these things will factor into the dispersing and dispensing of global justice. 

For example, “The Book of Secrets” was a compilation of spiritual teachers and teachings that tapped deeper into Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucius, Zoroaster, Islam and Occult Christianity. It was not labeled by religious identification as such, but the teachings in the 'Secret' assured us that there was something else in the realm of enlightenment, and spirituality awaiting the human being which was a pathway into becoming awakened (spiritual consciousness is what they have obtained). These are not steps that will be transformative overnight or just in one reading or two readings of the 'Secret'. These assembled Master Teachers were teachings the most important lessons, which was submission and surrendering our will to do the will of the Higher and Divine Forces that control the Universal Order of things. How willing are we to make these sacrifices to achieve spiritual freedom? 

This will be a continuum process that surely will have twist and turns and bumps in the road. The journey requires one step at time and it will require study and research to learn the ancient principles of MAAT and how to apply them to acquire good homes, money and friendship in all walks of life. 

Thus, the Kosmic energy and the Universal Forces are lined up against present day man, because of planetary and human corruption. The planet was giving to us based on the scales of balance and justice. Greed created the symptoms of man's inhumanity to man and this will lead to our demise. There is a negative energy over Americaand the globe and it's effecting human relations and is driving us in our poor decision making processes. Some of these things are now out of control, because the universe has spoken. The Donald Trump political phenomenon is a part of this equation and his representation is the embodiment of the ‘axis evil’. 

The planet energy has been shifted and those who keep the people and the masses duped by feeding them propaganda and disinformation is the biggest part of the problem confronting the globe. Our churches are failing us and our preachers don't have the knowledge nor the solutions to bring us to a true spiritual center. We have to change our thinking on a personal level and realign ourselves with the good in the universe in order to impact and alter the negative energy that is guiding humanity'. 

It is only a spiritual solution that will challenge and defeat the purveyors of evil, I didn't bring any of you to this space based on you but you been led to this space and it was not coincidental that we have met in this space and at this time, but I have a duty and responsibility to guide those who are seeking enlightenment along this journey. We have to remain open to truth and knowledge, I am just a vessel and I humble myself to the forces of good in the universe. There are 66 books in the Bible and the most often mentioned word in the New Testament is Love. Now, remember this we have to love humanity more than they love themselves.

The above mentioned artificial economic, political and social collapse allowed them to diminish the original legal intent of the United States Constitution and turn it into a worthless piece of paper and siphoned the legality of our jurisprudence system. Thus, 43 days after the 9-11 hoax President George W. Bush and the United States Congress passed the U.S. Patriot Act, which ushered in Homeland Security. This act was put in place by the Cabal which duped us into believing that Osama Ben-Laden, so-called militant and radical Islam and Al-Qaeda posed an eminent danger to U.S. national security. These ploys and deceptions have led us to the doorsteps of rendering the United Statescitizens powerless by covertly eradicating our civil liberties in the name of fighting terror and terrorism (we bought into this propaganda and disinformation). 

Our brother President Barack Obama had a mission of continuing the Bush Doctrine and carrying out the Elitist agenda his eight tenure in the Oval office only assured us that he was a loyal agent and a control pawn working in the interest of the Hidden Hand, in particular when he passed the reactionary National Defense Authorization Act in 2011. This covertly further stripped the United States citizens of rights that used to be guaranteed and protected by 14th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution; our due process and equal protection under the law in reality don't exist anymore since the advent of 9-11 (they have set the stage for a complete police state that will be enforced under martial law rule). 

The 9-11 hoax was designed to slowly transition America and the Global society into a New World Order and One World Government. The economic depression and collapse in 2008 also allowed them to shift the money game by blaming the economic collapse on the masses of the people relative to irresponsible debt and consumerism (as thought we peons factored into the above mentioned economic collapse). 

Yet, the Rockefellers and the RothschildS were hiding and lurking behind the Federal Reserve System and the Bank of England; thus, manipulating world currency, devaluing global money and infused in the United States Fiat money (our money has no real value it is a worthless Federal Reserve Note). And these same entities were behind the Afghanistan War (2001) and the Iraq War (2003).

So in 1913 a silent coup took place on Jekyll Island whereas international bankers took control over our monetary system, which amounted to private Dynastic families monopolizing our money and even presently their ancestral linage is still leading the monetary aspect of the paradigm shift. In 1933, our government moved our currency off the Gold Standard. So our money is no longer backed by gold and silver—(it became a Federal Reserve Note and agreed instrument of monetary exchange that is being utilized as real money but it has no value) this mean someone possess the power and authority to call the debt-in, because they have the entitlement to our so-called currency. 

Our leaders are low-level operatives, they are front men and women for the Hidden Hand. The wealth holders are not satisfied with hoarding 95% of the wealth, but they want to control all the wealth on the planet. We got caught up emotionally in backing one of their agents President Barack Obama, but his job was to continue where George W. Bush left off and that is exactly what he did. 

The entire system of democracy is an illusion our vote in the grand scheme of things count for nothing. The U.S. president is not elected but he is selected by the likes of the Rockefellers and powerful Elitist families. But they must keep us believing that we live under a participatory democracy this is what keeps us pacified and dim our will to revolt. We have become good Sheeple and pawns unknowing to the masses this is what humanity has been reduced to. The forces of evil will not prevail, but through psywars, the money changers and the political deceptions have led them to be diametrically opposed to all the good in the universe and they see themselves as being omnipotent and sovereign gods over humanity and the planet. 

We have to align ourselves with positive spiritual forces and tap into the Universal Forces of good in which to shift the paradigm and redirect the energy in the Universe. We all have to do this on a personal level. There is a book written by John Coleman titled, "The Committee of 300” this will give you some inkling to how diabolic these people are in their lust for power.

Freemasonry is the key to the world power, but one must have an understanding about the power apparatus by understanding those who control the world and operate out of various secret societies. There are layers of Freemasonry and often the visible outward layer that you see in your city and my city possess limited power, but there are a powerful group of Freemasons who have membership in various higher upward echelon Orders and these powerful individuals are the ones who dominate the political, economic and social systems of the world. 

They are shielded by the low-level Freemasonic Orders that we have come to know as the public face of Masonry. For example, the African American Freemasonry Order of Prince Hall founded in 1784 or the Ancient Free and Accept Masonry. Our Orders in the grand scheme of things do not factor into the real shakers and movers. Even after we have obtained the honorary and terminal degree of the Scottish Rite 33rd degree or the Royal Arch degrees; these are Front organizations. True knowledge is 360 degree and a complete circle. 

White Freemasons unlike African American Masons are structured on powerful systems of networking and is undergirded by high finance. They create generational wealth by initiating their off springs into powerful Greek college societies like the Skull and Bones at Yale and HarvardUniversity. These powerful white men guide and prepare their off springs to be in a position to rule the world through organizations such as the Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. Close to 25 United States Presidents have been members of Freemasonry that tells you something about interconnectedness between Masonry and the Power Brokers. 

It is Freemasonry that is guiding our democracy. Now, African American Masons those who are high degree Masons in Prince Hall often have dual membership in a more powerful group called the Black Boule (also known as Sigma Pi Phi) the most powerful Black Fraternity in the world founded in 1904. It predated the so-called Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity the first black Greek fraternity founded in 1906. The Boule encompassing some of the most influential black men and black women in America. But there is a lot more to this.

My mission is to inform all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. My motto is speaking truth to power.

INSPIRATION FROM THE HOLY QUR'AN

August 15, 2018, 10:36 am

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In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful.

"O Allah! I seek refuge from anxiety and grief and I seek Thy refuge from lack of strength and laziness and I seek Thy refuge from cowardice and niggardliness  and I seek Thy refuge from being over powered by debt and the oppression of men. O Allah! Suffice Thou me with what is lawful, to keep me away from what is prohibited and with Thy grace make me free of want of what is beside Thee.*

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