Assimilation Vs Tradition

Afrikan people have been forced to assimilate no matter where we have been on this earth.

We have had to take up the white mans rules, his customs and his ways even on the mother continent.

I was watching a movie called "BURN" starring Marlon Brando made in the 70's about a british mercenary who was paid to go to an island in the Caribbean and start an uprising amongst the blacks there to divide the country into civil war.

The portuguese had control of the nation but the poruguese natives there wanted to start up their own nation with their own government and the freedom to trade with whoever they wanted.

So the mercenary trained up this black guy to rebel against the portuguese and eventually the country was divided.

The two opposing governments (the new republic made from the portuguese whites and the new black republic) came together to discuss how they could live in peace.

But the black general didnt want to live by the white mans laws, rules and customs so he chose to remain seperate and he was as a result forced to give up his rule.

The whites took over because he and his people didnt want to assimilate.

But the mercenary told him straight out that civilization belongs to the white man now.

And he must follow his rules in order to get ahead.



I dont think that is true.

While i do believe that we should use some of their tactics to build our civilization and run our own nations, i think when it comes to our traditional ways of doing things we should follow our own customs, culture, rules and traditions.

I can see why so many whites truly believe that they are superior to us.

We value the things that they make for themselves.

We value their cars, clothes, shoes, gizmos and technology.

And i can see why: some of what they ahve created is far more superior to anything ever produced in history.

But we also value their family system (mother, father and children living in a home) which is alien to the family household our ancestors created (extended family with grandparents, aunts uncles cousins and living together).

We value their literature and their art without valuing our own.

We value their social customs and religions without reckognizing we had customs and religions of our own before we were taken here and forced to live under their rules.

The white man hasnt accepted other peoples traditions and yet the stay on top of the world.

The japanese with all of the problems they've had from europeans still held on to their traditions and yet they are one of the main economic powers in the world.

There are some things we have to accept (like the fact that we have to follow their laws and rules in order to stay out of jail).

But i think we should seriously think about uprooting and taking back some of our ancient afrikan traditions.

For instance in many west afrikan nations during and prior to the slave trade, many afrikans didnt know what a cold was because we used traditional herbs to cure ourselves of all types of diseases.

Afrikan doctors and universities were some of the best on earth to the point where peolple from as far as europe and the middle east came to afrika to study techniques and herbal formulas created by afrikans.

I can go on and on but the point im trying to make is look at what we created ourselves and you'll see that what we had, in many ways, is far superior to the lifestyles we presently lead.

We need to look back in our history and find the best of what we had and find some way to update it so that we can use it again.

Blast From The Past.

Mills Brothers - I Ain't Got Nobody (full movie)




Chuck Berry - Oh Baby Doll




Jimi Hendrix - I'm a Man (RARE 1965 LIVE)

Just because you are old doesnt mean that you are wise.

Ive learned something very important from listening to my grandmother talk.

I've learned that wisdon definately doesnt come with age.

I was over my grandmothers house painting her living room when we got into a long argument over who is to blame for our condition us or the white supremacists who run this government and continuously try to keep us down as a people.

Sometimes i can be a little to opinionated lol.

Everytime she came at me with a statement i challenged her on it.

She said that mexicans are hardworking people and they come over here to work.

I said maybe thats because mexico is so wretchedly poor that they will risk there lives to come over here just to have a small chance to feed themselves.

Mexico has an unemployement rate of over 50%, so of course the mexican people are going to look for another way to feed their children.

Thats why they work so hard.

If black men were in that same condition then black men would act the same way.

It has nothing to do with one group of people being naturally lazier than the other.

Then she said we dont take care of ourselves, afrikan people sold themselves into slavery (she's such a snob lol)

Most people who brings this subject up dont even know the history.

The afrikans who supposedly sold the people into slavery did it because they didnt want to be sold in slavery themselves.

Many afrikans sold into slavery their prisoners from an opposing ethnic group.

And many afrikans had no idea how terribel the conditions were on the slave ships.

And yes some afrikans were traitors but there are traitors in every race.

There were jews in nazi germany who wore nazi armbands on their arms and often treated the jews (their own people) worse than the nazi's.

They had to act that way to keep themselves and their families from being put into the horrible conditions which most jews were under at the time.

Then she said black men in the ghetto dont want to work.

I have many cousins who stand out on the corners from the wee hours of the morning to the late hours of night.

That sounds like work to me.

The problem is they dont work for another man under their rules when they can make more money in the streets.

No healthy group of men see the end point of their lives as working for another group of men.

Why would you want to work for the same people who raped your female ancestors, lynched your ancestors, killed millions of them without any remorse or compunction, scandalized their names and bodies, called them ugly savages and did all of the other stuff to degrade us?

Why would you want to happily and cheerfully work for a people like that?

Then she said black people sell drugs to other black people.

So i said is alcohol and cigererettes drugs lol.

You see the white man selling these things to his own people and millions of lives ae lost every year because of the white man selling massive amounts of these drugs to their own people.

She didnt have anything to say after that so she just said, "well if you dumb enough to buy that stuff then you deserve what you get."

She like so many other blacks have ben brainwashed into believing the worst about themselves.

Its sad because so many blacks discriminate against their own because they have foolishly been duped by the media into believing that your own people are the most terrible people on earth.

Anytime you see a black man profiting off of something or failing in life because of some cause you can bet your bottom dollar that a white man is benefiting from it.

We all know that the jail industry in this country is set up to benefit the lawyers, judges (which are mostly white), white towns all over the country and so forth.

This means that our going to jail (whether innocent or guilty because not all people who go to jail are guilty) is sutaining the lives of white people and some blacks and others.

We have to come to this reality or we will wrongly accuse each other of things we are not responsible for.

This woman is 68 years old and she hasnt learned these lessons yet.

Its so sad but what can you say.

And she's a pisces like me (her birthday is actually the same day as mine) so she should be more intuitive than that.

I dont know lol.

Its no wonder so many of us are so confused in this day and age.

The elders are confused their damn selves.

New piece of the Tubman legacy.

From now on ive decided to dedicate this blog and the tubman solution to serving the betterment of the black community.

I will be posting sound interviews with different activists, scholars, business people an politicians in the greater baltimore region and beyond from now on.

When i initially created this blog it was to help solve the problems that we as afrikan people face all over the world.

After a while because i was getting so much love from some of the bloggers i found myself trying to please others other than stay true to myself.

Well those times are over because from now on, on this blog, i am going to stick to my original objective and these interviews are going to be solution oriented documenting the ways ad means by which we can solve the many variety of different problems we face as a people.

I hope everyone who listens in gets some value out of these interviews

Peace out!

When Pisces Met Cancer.

I love cancer women.

I've been with many of them ever since high school.

It seems like these women are magnetically drawn to me.

I can be sitting at the bar or getting my food and a cancer will initaite a conversation with me.

It says in the horoscopes that pisces and cancers are the soulmates of the zodiac.

Who knows.

But i have had many cancers without even knowing this so it might be some validity to this.

I was in popeyes (fast food restauraunt) about a month and a half ago.

I just wanted to find a good signal for my laptop and this beautiful young lady saw the astrology books that i had and asked are those astrology books.

I said with my dapper masculine voice, "why yes they are" lol, and she hurriedly took them out my hand to see her description i guess.

She was pretty and i thought it was nice that she showed me some attention (because so many young women treat you like crap when you go to order something) so i asked her some questions about herself and we got into a conversation.

She told me about her kids and how she didnt get along with her baby father and all that.

I didnt think much of it but i told her that ill bring some astrology books down to her whenever i get a chance because she was so passionate about the subject.

About a week passes, i go to the place and bring her some books she says "wow this must be meant to be you came back."

I just nonchalantly replied "maybe!"

She seems like a nice gurl.

She's friendly and she's only two years younger than me (im used to dating older women) but i dont know.

Two kids.

Not that im thinking about that but shit i can barely take care of myself lol.

I mean shit im 27 years old, dont work, on food stamps, lazy as hell, what can i possibly offer her and her kids.

I think i gave her the wrong impression because i came in there trying to look cool with my ugly self lol with a camel hair suit jacket on and a turtle neck trying to look like a professor.

Broke as hell I definately know how to portray the right image.

I mean i can always make money and change my lifestyle.

It's really not that big of a deal but i really like this gurl.

She has that nurturing quality that i love in cancer women so much so i know she's a good mother.

Well i guess i gotta get on my grind.

It sucks still having a college student mentality when you've been out of school for years already.

But of course in order to do my romance thing i gotta get the dough so if anybody lives in the baltimore, maryland region and knows of any job openings soon where they work.

HOLLA!

R.I.P Ol' D' B' (November 15, 1968–November 13, 2004)

How do you describe a legend like the Ol' Dirt Dog?

How do you describe a man that was too great for his time?

How do you describe a man who could never be defeated no matter what others tried to do to him or say about him?

Most people who would describe this mans life would probably call him a moron, retarted, whatever?

I dont think he was either.

I see him as a man who was never defeated?

He did things his way and it wouldnt be anybody elses but his.

This dude and the group that he's from (WU TANG CLAN) had a very impresionale impact on my life.

I loved the woo.

They were my favorite rap group.

I could identif with all of them too because most of them lived in the projects and was poor growing up like i was.

They was hard, you gotta listen to their stuff to really know what im talking about.

And certainly the Ol' Dirty Bastard was one of the hardest.

He had a very unorthodox rap style were it was part singing and part rapping.

He rarely ever wrote his rhymes out (and you could definately tell) but a lot of them was hard and had mad rhythim none the less.

He was extreemly vulger.

Rude as hell, he interrupted the grammy's in 1999 to protest when the WU didnt win best rap group of the year.

He talked about killing other brothers who lloked like him.

But he will always be remembered as having a great sense of humor, and actually portraying what can happen to a brother when he grows up in an environment where the system treats them like animals.

He was a product of his environment and that really is the best way to sum it up.

I remeber being in the lunch room acting like i was him rhyming on the microphone (my favorite member from the WU was the GZA (GENIUS) but when he was hot everybody was blasting his shit in my hood.

The ol' dirt dog aint take no shit.

He was always ready to slap the taste out of somebodies mouth.

This is my tribute Ol' D' B.

RIP Forever!

WU FOREVER SON!

Do You Think That Seeking Revenge On Someone Who's Wronged You Is A Bad Thing?

I dont like to get on anybody.

Im very laid back and even if you've wronged me in some way i dont hold grudges.

But sometimes it's hard to keep your composure when someone is constantly pushing your buttons.

You know what i'm saying?

Most people I can pretty much shrug off without looking the other way.

But there are some that you think need to be taught a lesson.

Im in a situation now where i'm going through some rough circumstances, thus causing me a good deal of stress.

Is it wrong to take that stress out on someone that has wronged you in the past?

I know that we believe in the christian theology that you should turn the other cheek or whatever.

How many of us actually do that when it comes to our own people?

I dont know.

I dont forget anything!

And if someone has wronged me in the past i can still remember it years and years down the road and live it out vividly in my imagination.

I never forget.

I dont know i just think some poeple need to be taught a lesson.

Revenge may be petty but its so sweet sometimes lol.

Whatta ya say.