The Creator, Our Afrikan Ancestors, Ma’at, and the Nguzu Saba

Hotep!!! (Peace)!!!

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After listening to rap artist Uncle Murda’s 2019 wrap up , and studying our people in America, and around the world, many of us Black folks are totally lost going into 2020. Chaos, not community, is the current condition of the Black community in America and in the world. Self-hatred and self

destruction continues to plague the Afrikan world community. White supremacy and the system of racism continues to go unchecked as it relates to Black people. Every other group (i.e Gays, Lesbians, Indians from India, Asians, women, etc) in America are apologetically liberating and empowering themselves, except Black people. We as Black people created the vehicles to gain Black power, and every other group is now using those vehicles to empower themselves, but now we are abandoning those strategies today. We as Black people act as though we have been liberated. Our great Afrikan ancestor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr once said, “one day we shall make it to the promise land.” Black faces in high places has not parlayed into freedom for the masses of Black people in America and in the world. Unfortunately, we have not made it as a collective group to that promise land. For many of us Black folks in America, and in the world, we are only experiencing, as our great Afrikan ancestor Malcolm X (Omawele El Hajj Malik El Shabazz) once said, “we only see an American nightmare. We as Black people are still the most disrespected and oppressed group in America and in the world. That’s why the following question must be ask family, what are we doing about the liberation of Black people 2020? We as Black people must begin to stand on our collective belief in a higher power, the foundations of our Afrikan ancestors, and our revolutionary Afrikan centered cultural traditions created by our elders for Black empowerment.

Since there is no Black agenda in sight to force the power structure to help repair Black people and the Black community from the damages done by White supremacy, and the system of racism, our unique issues go unaddressed. These issues (i.e High incarceration rates of Blackmen and Blackwoman, wealth inequity, poverty, joblessness, police brutality, miseducation, emasculation of Blackmen, drugs, the commercialism of Hip Hop, etc) continue to contribute to our degradation in the Black community in America and in the world.

Because of slavery’s and colonialism’s psychological and cultural affects on Black people, many of us blindly follow the cultures of Europeans and Westernization. In other words, we imitate everyone’s definition of spirituality and culture except our own definition of spirituality and culture. This has led our people, Black people, down a path of de-centering from our selves spirituality and culturally.

Therefore, in the spirit of the one Creator, our Afrikan Ancestors, our Afrikan ancestors’s ancient moral and ethical code called Ma’at (Kemetic/ Egyptian for truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice), and the Nguzu Saba; we need to meditate and build on these principles to get our souls and our Afrikan centered Black consciousness in order to fight against White domination and Black oppression. The Ten Commandments originate from the 42 laws of Ma’at. The Kemetic ethical and moral code of Ma’at was established thousands of years before the Judaism, Christianity, and Al-Islam came into existence. The Laws of Ma'at are from ancient Kemet ( Egypt) in Afrika. They are 42 negative confessions established for human conduct in the spiritual and secular worlds. Ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) Black people believed that in order to have an after life, one have to live by the negative confessions (the laws of Ma'at). The 42 negative confessions can be found in the the Book Coming Forth By Day and By Night (Europeans called this book Book of Dead). The Book Coming Forth by Day and Night existed thousands of years before the Jewish Torah, the Christian Bible, and the Muslim Qu’ran. Then, we need to couple Ma’at with the Nguzu Saba (Kiswahili for seven principles)!!!!!!!! The Nguzo Saba are the set of principles called the following in Kwanzaa / English: Umoja (Unity), Kujichagulia (Self-Determination); Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility); Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics); Nia (Purpose); Kuumba (Creativity) and Imani (Faith). In Los Angeles, California, in the 1960s, Dr. Maulana Karenga established a Black power cultural nationalist organization called US. Out of this movement came Kwanzaa-a Pan- Afrikan centric cultural holiday celebrated every December 26 to January 1. Dr. Karenga lectures all over America, and all over the world, on the importance of the knowledge of our Black selves. Dr. Karenga chairs the Africana Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach. He is the director of the Kawaida (Kiswahili word for normal) Institute for Pan Afrikan Studies and the author of several books, including his Introduction to Black Studies, a comprehensive Black/African Studies textbook now in its fourth edition (2010), originally published in 1982. He is also known for having co-hosted, in 1984, a conference that gave rise to the Association for the Study of Classical Afrikan Civilizations, and in 1995, he sat on the organizing committee and authored the mission statement of the Million Man March. Dr. Karenga was awarded his first PhD in 1976 from United States International University (now known as Alliant International University) for a 170-page dissertation entitled "Afro-American Nationalism: Social Strategy and Struggle for Community". Later in his career, in 1994, he was awarded a second Ph.D., in social ethics, from the University of Southern California (USC), for an 803-page dissertation entitled "Maat, the moral ideal in ancient Egypt: A study in classical African ethics. For more information, his website is (http://www.us-

If 2020 is hindsight, or perfect vision, then we as Black people need to get set a pathway now for the struggles for Black unity, Black pride, Afrikan cultural traditions, and Black liberation before it’s too late.

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-Bashir Muhammad Akinyele is a History Teacher, Black Studies Teacher, Community Activist, Chairperson of Weequahic High School's Black History Month Committee in Newark, NJ, commentary writer, and Co-Producer and Co-Host of the All Politics Are Local, the number #1 political Hip Hip radio show in America. I can be reached at bashir.akinyele@gmail.com

Note: Spelling Afrika with a k is not a typo. Using the k in Afrika is the Kiswahili way of writing Africa. Kiswahili is a Pan -Afrikan language. It is spoken in many countries in Afrika.