Kidnapped, Enslaved, Bamboozled and Loving It!

Kidnapped, Enslaved, Bamboozled and Loving It!
Thoughts on finding the way home……
--Yeefon Abena Gu Merkaba Mawusi

Ponder this. You have a family, and that family is taken away from you by force (kidnapped). Do you expect that you would (1) spend much if not all of your time looking for that family – for re-unification? (2) Become content with their captivity and continue with your day to day activities? Or perhaps some combination of the two.

And the family…what do they do in their enslaved circumstances? Do they (1)Fight to find a way back home OR do they (2)become content with their circumstances?

And what might the captors do to ensure servitude? Some choices they may have are to enslave and instill fear. Once those tactics have been successful, the captured may respond more easily to brainwashing techniques to the point that they no longer have to be held in bondage. They no longer care to find the way home, although they are not home. They have been taught that this is their home because they have “acclimated” to the surroundings. They no longer have to be beaten, chained, restrained, for now they have been RE-trained. They are compliant. They are now loyal. But they are not home. They are in the home provided by their captors.

Have we forgotten the way home? Or, do we rely on the statements such as “ wherever you are, or are born is home.” Remember, strength comes in Unity, not in disparity. You may now feel less contempt for the fact that you are in bondage, you may even feel free..but one thing is for certain…you are not HOME!

Do not forget the way home. The ancestors and the homeland is calling. There are roadmaps. The strong and the willing must stand up Now…not to fight…because there is no unity…but to train, and to learn. Learn map reading, learn about technology. Technology is far in advance, so what does one have to do to contend with it?..They must know it..and confuse it...not fight against it. Think about it.

We were bought here to run this evil machine and we run it gladly and happily when we spend our dollars in institutions that support our demise—(most places). Spend your dollars where you will empower your sister and brother and ultimately our African Nation. Institutions of commerce that focus it’s specific interest for the upliftment and empowerment of themselves, their African communities and the total development and growth of the African Continent.. We must Totally focus on interventions where individuals learn to define, create a range of opportunities for and speak for themselves.

Interventions where there is high social and academic expectations for each individual that participates. This must not be construed to mean the exclusion of enlightened western (Eurocentric) education, but rather the more important addition to the global knowledge base. African-centered curriculums and interventions are systems of sequentially planned educational opportunities designed to provide specifically to African heritage individuals with the necessary and required skills that will enable them to participate in the global marketplace. We must develop and encourage curriculums that recognize that an Africentric approach to life cannot be incorporated into ones existence in isolation from the universal human experience, for, people are more likely to understand their personal and group circumstances when they realize that those circumstances are tied to, and fit into universal patterns of human behavior.

Then and only then can will we be equipped not only to find the way home, but to ensure that it’s a paradise for it’s inhabitants armed with the ability to protect, empower and flourish.

Ase’

Yeefon Abena Gu Merkaba Mawusi