Self-sabotage in Black America

“We, Black people, are so deep into the paradigm and practice of decrying the angst and evil of the past. It has rendered us powerless, and unable to assert into a world that respects, first of all things, power. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

THE GAME 

"Ngaronoa, your words, "Sacred Women the planet deep are not simply receptacles of negative experiences seeking a rationalist Scientific response from would be supporters. Sacred Women; like Sacred Men, are the culmination of all Sacred Feminine and Masculine energies including Ancients right back to Creator Mother and Father of Life. If you believe in the sanctity of Sacred Women, and the Sacred Feminine ...you accept and uplift HER Truth as that, HER Truth without challenging her (in what could be construed as trivializing minimalization of Violation/Abuse/Violence per se) in saying - and then what?

(Brothers), Sweet BrotherBlessings, what Restorative processes have you established with Sacred Black Women to assist in healing the violations a SisterQueen must surely face in a Society which brought her their in the same chains and racialized politic as the BrotherKing?" strikes home to an inability in Black American men to accept the spiritual responsibilities of Sacred Manhood.

Bound by Western Christianity, or militant Muslim stances, the jailhouse culture, or the ghetto paradigms that increasingly are defining Black American culture the depth of your insight into our tragedies is speaking to a mindset incapable of entertaining the spiritual work you clearly see as undone and needed. I don’t admit to having a great deal of success in the midst of this culture in the States introducing, and performing the ceremonies you are referring to. Nor have other healers, and light workers. It is a dangerous thing to enter into this realm dominated, not by the African spirituality you assume thrives here, but by fears of offending a ‘master’ whose voice dominates the paradigm of Black American culture, and spirituality." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

 

Your words, "Your words, "I find that as people of color we are versed in the language of optimism and oppression. We had to be in order to survive, but when do we move from the language of merely surviving into the realm of THRIVING! Being thankful for "bad" experiences is a coping mechanism we developed (in my subjective opinion) to deal with a world that felt so far out of our control." are clear, and powerful, Tanisha.


They speak to three fundamental flaws in contemporary Black thought: owning our tragedies, an agreed misconception of power, and an intellectual and emotional resistance to visit the option of becoming powerful in a true and deep sense of the word, and the concept! – Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories