THEIR FEARS OUR FEARS

"The way a mother crowns her son in childhood marks him man or beast, an African man, or a Black White Man. The way a father asserts himself in the world determines the steps of his sons, and draws a design upon the Earth, our Mother, and within his sons of how to be a man with or without integrity. It is important to understand our roles before we understand our dream. It is important to know our dream. It is the sacred thing we are born knowing. Our roles provide a foundation to dream upon, and a place to lay out the dream we brought from the world before our birth into this world with all its dangers and wonder.

Does a Black boy need to be crowned and told he is a King? Yes. He does, but he needs to be initiated. He needs to be connected with his ancestors. That begins and deepens during his initiations into Manhood. Even though kingship over a populace is out of the common equations a sense of being worthy and important is fundamental in the historical relationship and context of life in the African Diaspora. As small an act as developing a boy into a man is deemed by American cultural norms is an act as big as life itself: the integrity of the truth, the telling of the truth and being the truth."  - Gregory E. Woods 3.28.13

photo from Daughters of Ra.

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I understand the need to impress upon young Black boys and men a sense of presence in history, and a deep sense of their worth. I understand why a seemingly impracticality is fundamentally important to the psyche. It is meant to stand in contrast and contradiction to the implied and purposely planted ideas within white boys and men of the assumptions of superiority. Even though those assumptions are based upon a deep seated fear of developed minds, and spiritual intelligence discovering how they are based upon nothing of substance Black people believe those assertions.

Based upon the fear of retribution is white people's compounded dread of being eventuality being found out to be a weak caricature similar to the Wizard of OZ. As great a feeling as it might be to retaliate and crush whites for their sins, and trangressions it is more important, and part of the deeper spiritual requirements of humanity, at this stage of evolution to develop the fine and difficult art of reconciliation.

How a Black from the African Diaspora responses to the word, reconciliation tells the story of his or her maturity, and the depth of who they are is suddenly evident. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Drum 3.28.13

Lina POSADA
a model 

a child in  Bangkok, Krung Thep
 taken by photographer Dror Poleg
march 23, 2013

"Every child peeps around corners, and the bodies of their parents at an ever interesting world. Their curiosity sings to every stimuli..." - Gregory E. Woods, father 3.28.13