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- As we begin to look at who we are as a people,

and as we look at the contributions of African people

to the world, Professor John Henrik Clarke often told us

that the missing pages of world history is African history.

And once you understand the role that Africa

has played in the shaping of our intellectual world.

In terms of the things that we have achieved as a people

you will begin to understand why there is a war on history.

And when you're dealing with a war on history,

you're doing more than that.

What you have to do is understand and look at the work

of Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop, the brilliant Senegalese scholar,

who wrote a book, "The African Origins Myth or Reality,

Civilization or Barbarism, the Cultural Unity

of Black Africa".

And as he developed his understanding,

he said that, for a people to oppress another people,

this has nothing to do with African culture

or European culture, this is people to people.

If you want to oppress a people,

there are three things that you take from them.

You take their history, you take their language,

and you take their psychological factor.

Their psychological factor are what we call VIPs.

Dr. Leonard Jeffries calls them the values,

the interests and the principles of a people.

Take those from them.

Take their history, take their language, take their values,

interests and principles and then superimpose your history,

your language, your values, interests and principles

on them and no matter what conclusion they come to

in the challenge they face, they will always act

in the interest of the oppressor that took their history,

language and their values, interests and principles.

So when we wonder why the choices we make never serve

our best interest, you gotta change the paradigm.

You have to study your history.

You have to study your language, your values,

interests and principles. (echoing)

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- Without question there's a war on Black history

but I believe that war on Black history

is a symptom of a much larger war and that is a war

against the opportunity for African people

to resurrect themselves.

Knowledge itself is not the goal.

Knowledge itself is the means.

The goal is to become an independent self-sufficient people.

- The war's against African people and so the attack

on African history is part of the larger attack

on African peoples.

And it's about rulership of the world.

It's about rulership of the planet.

It's about access to the raw material and the resources

in the continent of Africa and in the parts of the world

where African people live in Central/South America

and the Pacific islands.

- History is exactly what the world implies, his-story.

There are many stories out here

and if a person is going to be truly knowledgeable

this is advantageous for them to know as many

different versions of the same stories out here.

So that they then through the process

of deductive reasoning could begin to compare

the stories, analyze consistencies in those stories,

began to see the flaws in certain stories

so they then can discern the truth from a lie.

- Most of the textbooks that are used in classrooms

around the country are written by people

who don't look like us.

So, we cannot expect for our former enslavers

to give us the knowledge that's gonna help us

to get to the point where we can be successful.

Because at the end of the day that means more competition.

And so often times our history begins with slavery

because that is a portion of Black history,

of African history that's most popular

and most individuals are not familiar

with history before that.

So if we don't know about what happened before slavery

then it's almost impossible to produce materials

or conduct lesson plans that educate our youth

about that information.

- [Tony] Black history has been repressed in this country.

That's why Dr. Carter Woodson in 1926 established

Negro History Week in order to teach information

that was not being taught in this country.

That's why Dr. Carter Woodson in 1933 wrote,

"The Miseducation of the Negro" in which we showed

that there was an intentional effort

on the part of this government to miseducate

people of African ancestry so that we would never know

who we were and as a consequence of being miseducated

we would never be able to access the power that lies

in the truth of knowing who you are.

- If African History was represented in a book

of a thousand pages, slavery would begin on 999.

So it's just a small percentage of the entirety

of what our ancestors have contributed

to world history.

- You have Black people who again, are trying to distance

themselves of anything that has to do with Africa

because again, they've bought into this whole notion

that somehow they're not worthy, the culture's not worthy.

But it is not understanding your history

that leads to the trauma that we see, that's happening

which results in, I just need to escape from this.

Because you're afraid of what you don't understand

but you see when you understand it, you can navigate.

- Europeans have discovered other people,

conquered other people, enslaved other people

and then rewritten their history so that they could

control them from the inside out.

- Once slavery was over Europeans then decided

to go to the continent, divide up the continent

and various European groups would have control over

different areas.

So it's really understanding the wealth of resources

and knowledge and other things that come out of Africa

and they want that wealth.

Ultimately at the end of the day it boiled down

to money and power.

- And so this war's being waged by one ninth

of the world population who we call the Europeans.

And in order for them to rule the world

and be able to steal the resources of the world

to use for their development, they must keep the African

population off balance, out of sync

and the best way to do this is to deny access

to intergenerational transmission of wisdom

from the African ancestors, which we call history.

And if somebody keeps that information away from you

how can you then plan you next step

when you don't know what your last step was.

History tells you what your last step was

and it gives you the tools to plan your next step.

- And so the war on African history

is a war against the African psyche to keep you

from recognizing your true potential

because they know what your true potential is.

And so it's a strategy to keep you from knowing

who you actually are so you never manifest the greatest

and the divinity within.

And so white folks have always been very very keenly

aware of the intellectual genius of Black folks.

Although there are stereotypes that will suggest

the only types of intelligence we have is athletic,

artist and cultural.

That's only because those are the only avenues

that are open to African-Americans.

So, it's recognize that war against African history

is a war against African people recognizing

what their true potential is in this world.

- History is especially important in race matters.

And throughout the history most of the documents

were written by whites especially

during the years of slavery.

And in after slavery rhetorical writings

or daily newspaper or journals were written by whites.

Black writers didn't penetrate the mass media

for written literature until about late 30s and 1940s

before Blacks would have any acts, even get books out,

publish books and so whatever shaped the attitudes

and the culture from a racial standpoint

was shaped by whites.

And they shaped everything to their advantage.

And so consequently in any of their writings

and any of their history reportings,

they gonna report to the advantage of white folk

to maintain those privileges of all cost.

- When artists sample music they sample from the best.

And so we can almost look at some of the things that have

been designed that reflect Egyptian architecture.

That's architectural samplings.

So you always take from the best of the best

and that's definitely what Europeans did

and so they had to study us in order to get this information

they had to study our history and information

and I think it's important to understand

that when you acknowledge where you came from

or where it came from, it just opens up so many doors

of things that they're going to take responsibility for.

- I think the attack on ethnic studies broadly,

not just AFAM but also La Raza Studies in Tucson

and other forms of ethnic studies,

it really comes from an impulse that white folks

in an era of shrinking whiteness, right.

In an era where the numbers are starting to turn

making the United States more Black and Brown

that there is sense that a lot of white folks have.

And I'm not sure it's always conscious,

it could be subconscious but the effect is the same

either way.

It's the sense that they're losing control of their culture

and their narrative right.

So there's the one hand that white folks are saying

we want to seal the borders off and we want to control

the growth of populations of color.

But if we can't do that, if we can't control

who's here, we can at least control the story that we tell.

And the story that we tell about our country

is one that doesn't have a place for Afro-American studies

or for La Raza studies or Asian American studies,

any kind of Black studies or diaspora studies at all.

For Black folks it's just not part of that narrative.

So if white folks want to try to maintain control

of the dominant, of their dominance in the culture,

the best way to do that is to control the storytelling.

There's that old saying that poets and storytellers

really have more power than bankers in some cases

because if you can control the story that the country

tells about itself you influence the policies

and you influence the laws.

And so I think that's what that's about.

It's saying, how dare you try to correct our version.

- [Interviewer] Jerry, how do you personally feel

about having Negro classmates?

- Well, I didn't ask for integration

and I wasn't enthusiastic about getting it

but the Supreme Court said that our high school should

be integrated and so I thought that I should do all I could

to bring this court order about peacefully.

I think our football coach put it very well,

he said, "All through your life you're going to come up

"against things that you don't like."

But he says you're going to have to accept them anyway

and just make the best out of them that you can.

- One of the most important documents that tells

the story of the coming into being of the cosmos

within our universe comes to us through the Shabaka Stone.

Shabaka was a Nesut Bity or a pharaoh

of the 25th dynasty.

When they came to an area that we today call Memphis,

they came upon a document and it was,

it is come down to us as the Memphite Theology.

Shabaka records on the Shabaka Tablet itself

that it was worm-eaten.

But it was the work of the ancestors

and because it was the work of the ancestors

and because it was scientifically sound,

Shabaka ordered his scientists and all of the peoples

of note to rewrite this document for all time and space.

A people who wished to come into their understanding

of who they are will write a creation story

and the whole story tells the cosmic beginnings

and how all came into being.

The story of the original trinity, the Nun, Ptah and Atum.

One entity that came in three parts.

The Nun which was the water or matter of the universe,

the Ptah, which was the energy or the conversion

of energy that brought things into being

and the Atum.

The Atum that called all things into being.

They talked about the Nun being matter, the Nunet

being space, the Huh being infinity and the Huhet

is infinity.

The

The Amen is the hidden and the Amenet is the revealed.

Everything that is written, carved on the Shabaka Stone

is what we teach in our science classes today.

When you look at Dr. Sagan's what he calls the cosmic

calendar broken up into 12 months, every month

represents 1 billion years.

In the early months come the superclusters.

As we go through the months,

superclusters give birth to clusters.

As you go on clusters give birth to galaxies,

galaxies give birth to stars.

Somewhere in this mix our star was born.

The star that we live by and on September 15th

of that cosmic year, 8.5 billion years after the so-called

Big Bang or the coming into being of the universe

according to the Shabaka stone, our earth is born.

It is not going to be until December 30th, that the human

family is going to emerge out of the darkness.(echoing)

So you can see as African people, we have to start

in the cosmic reality and from this cosmic reality,

homosapien sapien is going to develop a way of thinking.

They are going to develop a way of providing for themselves.

They are going to create technology.

All the math, all the science, all the languages,

at the end of that cosmic year and it is they,

at this time will begin and create what we call

the Nile Valley Civilization. (echoing)

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- To Egypt we owe the dawn of conscious

and the earliest visions of character as a social thought.

Great religions of the Western world

and also the beginnings of science, astronomy

and medicine, art and architecture, literature

and music.

- Professor Leonard Jeffries always said that whoever

controls Kemet the history of Kemet stands at the head

of human family.

Its in Egypt where we can find the greatest evidence

of culture, civilization, architecture, science,

literature, philosophy and religion.

So if that was the exclusive purview of Black people

In Africa, thousands of years before civilization

existed anywhere else, it flies in the face

of the contemporary misinterpretations of African people,

who they were and what they did.

So in that context in order for people who now control

the world to maintain control of the world,

they have to suppress other interpretations

of world history.

- The Nile Valley is so important because it's from the area

we find the oldest documented civilization in the world

from the Nile Valley we know that people of Ancient Kemet

were African, had dark skin and we do know

that from the Nile Valley our ancestors created the first

alphabet called Medu Neter,

which the Greeks renamed hieroglyphics.

We also know that our ancestors created the first paper

which came from the papyrus plant,

the first clock, which was the water clock.

The Greek name for that is clepsydra.

But a lot of the things that have laid the foundation

for us today that have allowed us to be able to write

down our history and to be able to pass that on.

We've only been able to do that with many of the inventions

that our ancestors created.

- Whether you're dealing with engineering

or technology, when you talk about writing and reading.

When you're talking about the refinement of speech,

when you talk about grammar or the dialectic

or if you're talking about concepts of astronomy or music.

- The people from the Nile Valley were the very first

people to develop a concept of time.

Time as a concept that sprang

from the minds of African people.

They were the first people to divide the day into 24 hours.

They were the first people to develop the calendar

365 1/4 days.

They were the first people to build with stone.

They were the first people to develop systems

of education, the first universities.

The first, they invented writing.

They invented paper.

They developed libraries, they were the first physicians,

the first psychologists, the first dentists,

the first brain surgeons.

They were the first governors, the first rulers.

The first men and women to orient structures

to celestial bodies in order to harness the spiritual

energy that is generated within a structure

that is properly aligned to the celestial spheres.

So in other words, they were human beings

who knew how to manifest the power of God on earth.

- I think the most important contribution

that was made was the creation of a system that transfers

and transmits information from one generation

to the next one.

And when the Per Ankh, P-E-R-A-N-K-H,

which is the temple of life was created in Kemet,

it allowed the transference of information

to come down from one generation to another.

Which would include the study of the heavens.

It would include the study of nature around.

It would include understanding geology, understanding

geography and everything that every generation learned

they would hand it down to the next generation

in order to improve the conditions

of the human family.

- I was substituting for a teacher who wasn't at school

and after the students had done the work

that was provided for them, we ended up having

a conversation about Africa, African history and culture.

And I shared with one of the students that African people

were the first humans on earth.

We created writing, we created science, we created

the alphabet, paper things like that.

And the student just started dancing in his seat

and got so excited.

- The Grand Gallery of Khufu's Pyramid in Giza

literally is on the 30th parallel north,

30th parallel east.

In the ancient world that pyramid was the center

of the earth.

So if you could imagine Khufu's Pyramid being

in the center of the earth, along with every one

of the pyramids, Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure.

Every one of their entrances to the temple

was on the north side of the temple

and every one of them pointed to the north star.

- When I like to refer to it as Kush as opposed to Nubia

because this land existed before Nubia.

Nubia comes late in the history of Nile Valley culture.

And Kush takes precedent over Nubia,

so I would like to refer to this as civilization,

Nile Valley civilization that was Kushitic

in its essence that preceded Kemet.

That had all the fundamental elements that later would

become an integral part of Kemetic culture and civilization

for 3000 years.

- As you continue to travel north along the Hapi [River],

as you begin to go down north you then move into the country

that we today call Sudan.

Sudan in the ancient world was known as the land of gold

or called Nubia.

Then you move up again into the southern part of Egypt

or Kemet, what is called Upper Kemet or Upper Egypt.

You have a civilization that for thousands

and thousands of years are going to flourish.

And they are going to build their civilizations

and they are going to create their languages

and their scripts and they are going to continue

until they move up into an area that we today call Memphis.

Which is in the central north region of Egypt today,

right south of the delta.

And this is going to be formed by a Nesut Bity,

they're called pharaohs.

But the African word is Nesut Bity.

And this Nesut Bity Menes, also known as Narmer

is going to settle in an area that we know as Memphis.

He's going to divert the waters and he's going

to create the kingdom that he is going to call Hikuptah.

And Hiku is, in a sense it means of the spirit

or the essence and Ptah represents a hill

from the early writings in astronomy.

So Hikuptah because he dumped up land,

he's now going to call this area Hikuptah,

which means the essence or spirit of the hill,

which is going to become the theocratic capital

of the Kemetic Empire and he is going to start

the first dynasty.

From here you're going to have the dynastic rule

of Kemet that is going to be developed

from the very first dynasty of Menes

and is going to move through

what we call the Classical Kingdom

where you are going to have the structures

that we today call the pyramids.

What is important to understand about his work Hikuputah

is an understand where the word Egypt comes from

because the Greeks in coming down and embracing

African culture they are going to begin a language

that is going to be based on the African language.

They are going to take a script that is based

on Medu Neter or what we call hieroglyphs.

And they're going to call Hikuptah.

They're gonna call it Aiguptos.

So even when you're dealing with the word Egypt,

you're still dealing with the origins of an African word,

which is Hikuptah that became Aiguptos.

Aiguptos is going to become Egypt.

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- We can go back to scholars such as Cheikh Anta Diop

who scientifically did the research and experimentation

to prove that the people of Egypt were African.

And we have scholars such as Asa G. Hilliard III,

Dr. John Henrik Clarke, John G. Jackson.

- They said that the Earth was flat like a pancake

out in the vastness of space with the sun and the moon

and all the stars going around it.

The ancient Egyptians in the pyramid age 6000 years ago

knew that the world was round.

They knew that it went around the sun

in 365 and one-fourth days and their astronomers measured

the Earth and they knew what the polar diameter was.

They knew what the equatorial diameter was,

the measured the circumference of the Earth

and they calculated it so accurately

until modern astronomers said that error was only one yard.

- who've actually traveled to Africa

and have actually done the research to find evidence

that the original people of Kemet were indeed African

but unfortunately what the media does

and what society does is focus on the time period

in Egypt, which the foreigners came in,

which were the Greek and the Roman.

So if you focus on that it will give the impression

that the people of Egypt or Kemet were not African

but were Caucasian.

So it depends of whose point of view you're looking at.

- "White folks" had viewed African civilization

or the way the Greeks not really a white people

but a Mediterranean people that white folks think

were white in the modern era.

The Greeks were very clear, Herodotus was very clear

about African civilizations being actually more civilized

than European nations.

Said all kinds of things, very laudatory about the Egyptians

for instance and about Nubians and others in Ethiopia.

As opposed to Europeans who he thought were slothful

and lazy and had been rendered stupid by the cold weather.

This is the "Father of History" at least in the European,

Euro-centric imagination said those things.

So he didn't view skin color and the Greeks did not view

skin color as really an issue.

It's only at that point that we begin to divide the world

based on skin color that it becomes a necessary fiction

in order to justify what was already happening

on the ground.

- Images that we do see reflecting Egyptians as being white,

we have to understand that the people

who are writing history don't look like us.

And when you write history you can write it

however you want.

The winners of history will write it as they see fit

and will write all those others out of history

even if they did contribute.

And I think it's important for us to understand

that if Europeans do acknowledge that the people

of Kemet were African then there's so many things

that have to fall under that.

The acknowledging that the people that they enslaved

are the descendants of this great and mighty

people who created the first civilization on Earth.

- This is the origins of Kemet,

You cannot understand Kemet if you do not understand Kush.

You cannot understand Kush, if you don't understand

the origin of life in Africa and there is but

one race on the planet, that is the human race

and all of us are Africans. (echoing)

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- How do you prove that Africa is African?

No one asked the question how do we prove Europe

is European so that question in and of itself speaks

to problems that exist within this society.

So we look at the people

who lived during that period of time.

We look at what they wrote about themselves,

what they wrote about their ancestors.

And what we know beyond a shadow of a doubt

by looking at the research at Nabta Playa,

which is the site of the oldest astro archaeological

calendar in existence.

It is a calendar that dates to specific,

a specific understanding of the cosmos

and it effect on the people who lived in that region

of the world.

That calendar has been dated back to at least 7000 B.C.

3000 years older than Stonehenge.

And Ta-Seti where Europeans who were digging in upper Kemet

in preparation for the completion of the Aswan Dam.

They knew that entire region of Egypt was going

to be flooded under 50 ft. of water stretching

back 350 miles.

So they went in and in a last stitched effort to access

material before it would be lost forever.

There was a team of archeologists from the Oriental Museum

in Chicago, affiliated with the University of Chicago.

They did the excavations and they sat on that information

for 10 years.

- Decades ago there was a study by Keith Seele,

going into the northern part of what we today call Sudan.

He had a student by the name of Dr. Bruce Williams.

- With Keith Seele, who was the head of that information

who sat on that information and then when he died

in an automobile accident, one of his assistants,

Bruce Williams finally began to release that information.

And Ta-Seti in New York Times publication referenced

Ta-Seti as the oldest city ever discovered

and in Qustul they found a cemetery, a tomb

in a cemetery in Qustul where there was this incense burner

- And this tour group, this study group,

this archeological group came upon an incense burner

that was fond in L14 area of the northern part of Nubia

in an area known as Qustul.

- And that incense burner is now on display

in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.

On that incense burner are images.

Images that depict fundamental elements that would

be an integral part of the civilization of Kemet.

- It was a very important area because it predated

the first dynasty by give or take anywhere

between 15 and 20 generations prior to the founding

of this first dynasty.

The evidence of the oncoming of Menes or Narmer,

the development of what would become the first dynasty.

- Ta-Seti existed at least 200-300 years before

the unification of Kemet 3200 BCE.

So what they found on this incense burner

are images of a king, a figure who is wearing

the crown that is associated with Upper Kemet

or the southern part of Kemet.

He is sitting in a boat.

He is holding in a his hand a flail,

one of the symbols of rulership.

- [Kaba] This incense burner has the entire royal pantheon.

- And in front of him is a symbol of a falcon Heru.

These are all symbols that will become integral to Kemetic

culture and civilization.

So that means that culture and civilization followed

the flow of the Nile River and moved south to north.

- It was in fact, the Nubian civilization

that would bring forward Medu Neter.

This is why it appears that Medu Neter appeared in Kemet

overnight, but in fact it was brought into Kemet.

It may have been improved but it was not invented by Kemet.

And so this is the evidence that the entire Pharaonic system

of the first dynasty was already in place

and strong going into Kemet that would establish

the first dynasty of Kemet.

And as we continue to dig in the south,

particularly in Sudan, we will probably find other

elements similar to the Qustul incense burner.

There are more pyramids in Sudan than there are in Egypt.

- In the temples and the tombs of not just Kemet

but when you go into what we call today Sudan

and even when you go into Kenya,

you can go to southern Africa and you can Monomotapan Empire

in what we today call Zimbabwe.

That was an entirely related area.

Research is also telling us that we can see relationships

that are existing between what we call Kemet and Sudan

and southern Africa.

We can see connections between the spiritual systems

of Nigeria and in specifically the Yoruba people

of western Nigeria and Kemet.

Many of the neteru and the people whose were honored

and worshiped in Kemet, we can see them also

being honored and worshiped in Nigeria.

So there is a cultural unity in Africa.

- So those who understand the migration of culture

and civilization know that the further south you go,

the further up south you go.

South is up, north is down.

So the further up south you go,

the more evidence you'll find of an unquestionably African

origins of Nile Valley civilization.

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(lions roaring)

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- The Olmec, the Mayan, the Inca, the Aztec, Mixtec.

The involvement of Africans in this part of the world.

Africans were already in America long before the Olmec

culture came.

But when you're looking at the Olmec Culture,

the Olmeca Heads, you see that there was a presence

here in America in the Gulf of Mexico that is going

to build the pyramids in this particular Gulf of Mexico

area including Tres Zapotes, San Lorenzo and other areas.

We have never been exposed to this information before.

We have never been exposed to an idea that is evidence

of Rameses III, a pharaoh or Nesut Bity of the 19th Dynasty.

There's evidence of him on the Mississippi River.

There's evidence of Egypt in America that goes back

many millennia.

So you got to got to lay down a foundation

as to how Africans would have had the wherewithal

to be able to find themselves in this part of the world.

And what we find is there are three ocean currents

that leave the coast of West Africa and find themselves on

or coming to the American continent

or the American hemisphere.

From Africa to the continent and back to Africa

there's one somewhat in the middle and there's one

in West Africa and there's one that would be somewhere

near the southern part of Africa,

known as the Benguela Current.

These belts, almost like moving roads,

they could come just by being on the boat

with the wind just putting your sail in a way

that the boat could come to this part of the world.

So, we know that the Kemites, the Egyptians,

the Sudanese, had this power.

We know that they had the boats that would be able

to make a trip this way along with the fact that

they had different types of ways in which to power it,

whether it was through the wind

or whether it was through oars.

They knew how to travel the waters that would be the ocean

currents and the wind systems.

And they knew the seasons to know when that the winds

would be at their best.

So they knew when to travel.

Not only is it possible but they did it

and you can see it in the civilization of the Olmec,

of the Maya, of the pyramids.

There are over 100 pyramids along the Mississippi River.

- You are the original people on this Earth.

And so the natives now, the native Indians say,

well, we are the Native Americans.

No, you're not the Native Americans.

You had the Folsom people.

The Folsom people were Africans who came to this country

way back 16,000 years ago and landed around Texas

and New Mexico and down in Central America.

They landed called Folsom people.

That's why you got a Folsom, California.

Folsom Rock, Colorado, Folsom, New Mexico,

you got a Folsom Prison.

The Folsom people were Black people and Indian Americans,

so called Indians are descendants of the Asian

came across the Bering Straits and then came down

and interbred with the Blacks who were here.

And the Folsom people that's why they're not yellow skin

they interbred to became what they call redskins

But Blacks were he original people, Folsom people.

So you have some integrity about what's happening.

- This is our land, we in North West Africa

standing right now, what we call North America.

And it's a known fact that it's there.

But what happens if I taught you in my school system

for 12 years and then 12, four more years I'm gonna

educate you in my college, you only going to repeat

directly what I just said to you.

You see what I'm saying?

Until someone steps up and says, no, this is who we are.

There's a book as a matter of fact there's a Webster

Dictionary in 1937, 1939, Websters Dictionary

talks about the definition of America.

And it's aboriginal or copic colored natives found

on the American continent by the Europeans.

- In an effort to deny the African origins

of culture and civilization, Europeans have paid money

to send people in to excavate and the more they dig

the more black they find.

The people, the culture and the civilization.

When they went to Mesopotamia to try

to find the civilization that preceded Kemet,

what they found was Black folk.

So they stopped digging.

They're afraid.

George Reisner from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

was considered to be one of the foremost authorities

on civilization in Kush.

And when Reisner was excavating in the Sudan in the Early

20th Century, he said that there's no way Black people,

Africans could have developed this culture

and civilization.

So he was one of the first Europeans to deny the African

origins of what was found in Africa

and then his colleague, James Henry Breasted,

the founder of the Oriental Institute.

In his book he wrote in 1912 I believe,

called, "Ancient Times," Breasted described

the people of the Nile Valley as dark-skinned people

who are not unlike the Nubians that you would

find in Aswan.

And then around 1934-35, John D. Rockefeller,

the founder of the University of Chicago, gave Breasted

$1.5 million to establish the Oriental Institute.

Because what Rockefeller wanted to do was to give

Breasted the money so that Breasted

could go into Mesopotamia and find a European origin

of civilization.

- [Narrator] Today there stands

at the University of Chicago,

the Oriental Institute,

the first laboratory ever established

for the study of the most remarkable process

known to us in the universe, the rise of man

from savagery to civilization.

It was created in 1919, by Dr. James Henry Breasted,

its first director with funds originally contributed

by John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Subsequently, it has been supported by the International

and General Education Board

and by the Rockefeller Foundation.

And so when Breasted published a revised edition

of Ancient Times in 1935, Breasted removed all references

to the Egyptians as dark-skinned people.

And then introduced a whole new language.

He described the Egyptians as dark-skinned Caucasians.

He said that region of the world

that quadrant of the world where the great white race lived.

We are dysfunctional beings who don't know what it means

to be human.

So one of the issues that we're dealing with is

that in order to suppress to knowledge of Egypt,

Egypt had to be removed from Black people

and ultimately removed from Africa.

So that blockages would be placed in our path

as we attempted to recover that which others stole

and then made illegal in order to prevent us

from beginning to regain that knowledge that would

empower us and allow us to free ourselves,

free our children and ultimately liberate ourselves

from their continued psychological and economic oppression.

- When you look 1492, January 2nd to be exact,

there is going to be a cataclysmic change

in the way in which the world is structured.

This is when Boabdil, the last African king

is repulsed out of Spain in Granada.

And that is when the combined nation states

of Castile and Aragon, led by Queen Isabella

and King Ferdinand are going to retake Spain

and it's going to be from this point

that all of the pathways, all of the shipping ways,

all of the things that Europe learned from Africans

while they were there from 710 to 1492 ACE,

After the Christian Era.

And now all of the roads that led into Europe,

Europeans are not going to take all those roads out

into the world.

And they are going to bring a disastrous Maafa,

Maafa is a key Swahili word.

It means a terroristic disaster.

That is going to plunder our planet.

It is going to change the structure.

The Catholic Church is going to go into Africa

and claim that God gave them the right to enslave

African people.

That they are going to create a legal system

that is going to enslave because God told them

that they were destined to do this.

They're going to come to America

and they're going to burn the books of the Maya.

They're going to burn the books of the indigenous people.

Saying that they are works of the devil.

They are going to burn the books of Africa.

They are going to burn the books that are in Europe

that Africans brought in there.

There are going to change the structure of the world

at the same time they're going to parasitically

attach themself to the information that they are learning.

They are going to come to this part of the world,

they're going to go to Asia, they're going to go to India.

And they're going to go to war with the world.

So that they are stealing African history

but more importantly than that.

They are beginning to realize as Count Volney says

in his opening introduction to his book,

"Ruins of Empires" that the very people that are looked

upon below the human structure of the human family.

In other words, the Africans that are being enslaved

in France and St. Lucia and Martinique and in Louisiana

are the very people that gave the world the arts

and the sciences.

And so you can see the war that's going to occur now

is going to be, to take the information and change

it completely when someone tells a perfect lie,

the truth becomes unbelievable. (echoing)

(chalk writing on chalkboard)

What happened in the areas that we today in history

call the Medieval Period or even some people call

it the Dark Ages of Europe.

When you go into the research

and you study what was actually happening

in the world, what you're going to look at

is you're going to see the destruction

of what was called the Holy Roman Empire.

There will be northern Germanic tribes that are going

to come down out of the northern areas

and regions of places in Germany and in the northern

parts of Europe and they are going to come down

across the globe down south

and they are going to sack the Holy Roman Empire.

That is what causes the fall of the Roman Empire.

The Visigoths and Vandals are going to come down

and they're going to settle in this area that we today

call Espana or Spain/Portugal.

Somewhere in the 600s, the late 600s you're going to have

northern Africans and you're gonna have northwest Africans

who are going to travel north.

They're going to find themselves on the coast of Morocco

in a place called Ceuta.

In 710, there is going to be a lieutenant in the army

of the North Africans and his name is going to be Tarif.

Tarif is going to travel into Spain

and he's going to set up a reconnaissance mission

for the general that he works for and while there

he is going to establish a small enclave

that is called Tarif.

This is where we get the concepts of a tariff or to pay

to travel named after Tarifa, Lieutenant Tarifa.

He's going to return.

He's going to come back to his general, who his name

is Ibn Tariq.

Tariq now in July of 711 is going to cross over

and he's going to go into Spain and what's interesting

is that there are families and there are people

in Spain that welcome the coming of these Africans

and they are going to move from Africa

and they are going to move into Spain

and they're going to do battle with the Visigoths.

Eventually Rodrigo, one of the last generals

of the Visigothic Kingdom is going to be killed

and the Africans are going to continue across

the Pyrenees into France.

And they're going to go across into Europe

and bring with them the technology and the knowledge

that they have amassed from the ancient kingdoms

that they've been studying.

- Let's go back for a minute.

A lot of people don't overstand the history of the Moors.

Because when you study history the Moors

are the original Phoenicians, the Canaanites, Moabites,

the Hamites, all those people.

Charles Martel is one of the guys who is actually

a big part of defeating the Moors basically.

Defeated the Moors and then after they defeated the Moors,

the Moors also fell directly after that

and made it easier for them to destroy the Moors

in 1492 with Queen Isabella and Ferdinand.

- Charles Martel, who is the grandfather

of Charlemagne is going to repel the Africans

back into Spain and the boundaries of Spain

that we refer to Al Andaluz, which means

to walk in a spiritual light.

Al Andaluzia is going to be bounded in the north

by Sierra Guadarrama.

They're going to be bounded on the east by the Ebro River.

And they're going to be bounded by the coastline

that's going to be the Mediterranean

into the Atlantic Ocean,

which is going to bound the southern part of Spain

and the western part of Portugal.

They're going to settle here and remain here

from basically 711 until 1492, January 2nd 1492.

General Boabdil is overcome by the combined kingdoms

of Aragon and Castile.

Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand.

- Ah man, we was there from 711 until 1492.

We were there for a long time.

We were there way before that but if we go beyond 700s

and when you start looking at 136 B.C

and all these other things.

We've been there.

What it was they went back

and they really were fighting one another.

When you look up Hercules, Maxima Hercules.

Hercules was actually a Roman Emperor.

So you had Hannibal who was in the Carthaginian War.

So we always fought one another back and forth,

they were tribal wars.

So we been there.

We just went directly back again.

But what happens, the Anglo Saxons saw us fighting

one another and they stepped in the fight.

And then that's the separation started coming about

when they saw the weakness in us like today.

(rocks scraping)

- Moors built Granada centuries ago,

now we've taken it back.

But it's a tragic victory for us,

we're losing a great culture.

(crowd cheering)

(man yelling)

I suppose there's a price to be paid for every victory

isn't there senor Columbus?

- Now the Moors were, like I said again,

the Phoenicians, the original Romans that we call Romans

today, that we talk about the ancient Romans,

which the Moors are Africans.

So a lot of people get it twisted as if we're talking

about modern day Moors, we're talking about Ancient Moors.

So the Moors are the people that is called negro, black

and colored today basically.

But before that we were the Canaanites, the Phoenicians,

the Hittites and all these types of people.

So that's really who the Moors are to this today,

which no doubt a contradiction.

- While here, these Africans are going

to bring agricultural science.

They are going to bring in the orange

and they're gonna bring in the strawberry.

They're going to bring in different types of foods.

They're going to bring in the idea of eating in courses.

They also will bring in eating utensils.

- The spices that people in India use or the olive oil

that's in Italy, all of that extended from the Moors

because the Moors always dealt with spices.

It's a whole host of things that came directly

from the Moors.

- They will bring in fashion.

Whereas instead of wearing the same garment all year long,

they're going to bring in other types of fabric

that these Africans have been exposed to.

- Linen man, the linen that we wear everyday,

that the Italians wear.

Like you know people say, Italian made suits.

It's not Italian made suits, they're Moorish suits.

They just tagged their name on it.

You following me?

- There is an active relationship between China

and the East and Africa.

There is a wonderful trade going on.

They're sharing.

They are not at war with each other.

They are communicating with each other.

There is evidence of elephants being brought into China

on boats, huge boats.

Those boats still exist today in many museums.

There were many things happening in the world

at this time that Europe was not a part of.

And out of this is going to come the music,

the development of the first music conservatory

that is going to be located in Spain.

Africans are going to bring in libraries.

They're going to bring in the idea of developing homes

that are related to the winds.

They brought in the concept of building your homes

where the cool aid could bring in a refrigerated air.

They're going to create universities.

They're going to create the University of Salamanca

Lisboa in Portugal.

Universities in France such as Toulouse.

They are going to develop universities throughout Europe

where the knowledgeable people will go to learn

and these Africans are going to be doing this type

of research and there will be some who will come

to the New World.

- They wonder how you know our position since we've lost

sight of land days ago.

- And what do you think Mendes?

- I know you're navigating by the stars like the Moors do.

But I don't know how.

- So when many of your so-called organizations

allege to be aiding or helping our people

and avoid telling them about the truth of Moorish history

in the world and particularly in Europe, etc.

Including the Renaissance.

And Renaissance is where you get the term, to be born again.

That you hear Europeans talk about in church, etc.

And that's where the seven liberal arts,

the seven liberal arts were introduced to Europe

and brought them out of what is known as the medieval period

into the modern era.

- As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt

to Islam.

It was Islam that places like Al-Azhar that carried

the light of learning through so many centuries,

paving the way for Europe's Renaissance and Enlightenment.

- When the Moors first came into Europe,

there was, they were coming up out of a lot of different

situations, a lot of different diseases.

Africans brought in the concept of soap.

They brought in something that they called alkuhl,

A-L-K-U-H-L and today we call it alcohol.

They realized that the great majority, upwards of maybe

somewhere between 95-98% of Europe was illiterate.

Now illiterate we have to understand that the world

was an agricultural world.

There was no real reason to study the higher levels

of science and arts.

But in Africa these subjects had been in place for thousands

of years and they brought these universities in

and they began to build these universities.

And they began to educate the people.

The first math rigor that you face in Freshman year

is algebra.

This is al-gebra brought in by the Moors and it's the search

for the unknown.

So you're searching for what the x represents

and the equal sign we know that whatever you do on one side

of the equal sign, you do on the other side

of the equal sign.

So you have in your formulations the idea of searching

for the unknown by searching for justice and balance

and harmony in the laws of ma'at.

So after you've master algebra, geo-metry and trigonometry

you then begin the calculations of the heavens

and the earth which we call calculus.

So they brought in this concept of a pattern of study.

- Usually, it's just referred to as the seven liberal

arts rhetoric, mathematics, cosmology, etc.,

linguistics, trigonometry.

It's the foundation what is used in general education

actually across the world.

- It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed

the order of algebra.

Our magnetic compass and tools of education, our mastery

of pens and printing, our understanding

of how disease spreads and how it can be healed.

- Of course they have subcategories, jurisprudence,

you have subcategories and jurisprudence is the superior

title under which laws become or what you call laws,

the studies of laws, the types of laws, categories of law.

So law would come under jurisprudence.

- The educational system too, we were the first mothers

and father of them.

The first mothers of father of civilization teaching

history in law and language.

Yeah, so all of that comes from us.

Even the language we use today, we say is Latin

but we call it Moorish Latin and they use Latin today

in the courtrooms, you follow me.

Everything they say in a courtroom is Latin.

In Propria Persona, Amicus Curiae

They are Latin terms which also extended from the Moors,

which is also an offshoot of Arabic.

- And of course, as you can see many of the Europeans

would imitate the Moors and they had set a party forth

was known as the Whigmore Party.

And this is where Europeans would wear the curly wigs,

that they do even today in England to imitate the Moors

who actually brought them civilization.

- They had a freedom of religion.

So every spiritual system had their own court of law

and the way in which they would develop their court of law

and they would judge themselves.

And so what Africans brought in was a tremendous amount

of freedom.

There was a great amount of freedom for women.

There were women who were brought into the main industries.

- And throughout history Islam has demonstrated through

words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance

and racial equality.

(audience applauds)

I also know that Islam has always been

a part of America's story.

The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco.

In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796.

- The science of the culture of the Moors is loosely

referred to in world culture as the study of mother

and son or what you call Auset and Horus on her knee,

which is mother and son or masonry.

So when you're talking about Moors in Europe,

you must recognize that the United States corporation

company is a European colony.

And you cannot separate the two.

So, if you want to talk about European history

or American history, they cannot rightfully

be talked about as separate subjects because they're

intertwined actually.

And of course this is also why anyone in positions

of authority or what you call political economic powers

must be masons.

And must in secret wear the Moorish fez, even they

dress it up in jewels and they pin the tassel down

because they're not the Americans.

We are. (echoing)

- I believe our Creator.

In looking at the pyramid builders, realized that

these Africans lived in a paradise.

They had problems, I'm not saying that they lived

in the perfect paradise, they had a little bit of a problem

but for the most part they lived in a world

that was more heaven than anything else.

And our Creator said, we need to help you understand

the world because we need to create a more perfect world.

So, with all of your theories of hell,

you've never been in it before.

So somewhere along this cosmic history

we're going to pull a group of you Africans out

and we're going to place you in hell

and we're going to make you experience a life

that no one ever knew existed because only someone

who actually could inflict that kind of pain

with no conscious could ever do to another human being

and then claim that God told them they had the right

to do this.

We're gonna do this, however, we know that only the best

of the best is going to survive this

and those that survive are going to be those

that are gonna set in place a new world order.

And so, Europeans came into Africa and they stole children

and people from Africa.

Imagine you playing in your backyard or playing in your home

and someone invades your home and snatches your family.

Only the best of the best could have survived that attack

and then they're gonna take those that survive.

The best of those best, they're going to track them

for miles across land, only the best of the best

could survive that movement across.

They're gonna then, when they get to the edge of the coast,

they're gonna put them in prisons on top

of each other where they are going to go to the bathroom

on each other.

They are gonna vomit on each other.

They are gonna cry on each other.

Only the best of the best could survive that.

And after a little while they're gonna take the best

of the best that didn't die in those prisons

and they're gonna put them on boats.

And they're gonna track them across the waters,

only the best of the best could survive that trip.

They're then going to bring them to a land

and they're going to subjugate them to torture,

to pain, to murder and to mayhem.

They're going to inflict such pain on these people.

Only the best of the best could survive that.

Then after they tortured them and they get them to fall

into their will, they're then going to sell them

to various places within the areas and they're

gonna make them work for free.

They're gonna deny them every right that a human being has.

In fact, they're not even going to be considered

human beings, they're going to be counted with the cows

and the goats and the other possessions.

Imagine what I'm saying because only the best of the best

could survive that.

Then, one day, they're going to be so-called freed.

Free to do what?

Free to go where?

Where my 40 acres and a mule?

Only the best of the best could survive that.

They then are going to fight in a civil rights movement,

fight in a human rights movement.

They are going to create strategies as to how they can

begin to get their rights.

Only the best of the best could do this.

Remember my story about the Creator.

Taking that group out and placing them in hell.

So we not only know the heaven but we know the hell.

We now can make a choice as to where we're going

in our future.

And so we the people who have the DNA of the heaven,

we have the DNA of the hell.

We are going to rise. (echoing)

(chalk writing on blackboard)

- One thing we gotta be clear about when we talk about

post-traumatic is trauma.

You have to understand trauma to understand

the psychological residuals of slavery.

Slavery was just not a bad accident,

it was just not a bad event.

It was traumatizing, which means it disrupted the natural

way that the human mind functions in African people.

- The impact of slavery on the Black psyche.

The impact of slavery on Black cultural tools.

The impact of slavery on Black concepts and visions

of themselves and their history.

- Because Black folk have been conditioned to believe

that we were nothing.

And so when we get positive information about who we are

it can affect us so much that we may reject the truth

because we're so used to the lies.

- How much of that is carried forward now.

And the things we developed during slavery

to defend ourselves against slavery, psycho-spiritually,

that we still use now.

That instead of defending us against slavery,

it is harming us.

And it's keeping us from uniting.

- [Joy] What are of the behaviors

that we learned to survive during that

extraordinary hostile environment and period in our history.

What of those behaviors that we learned to survive

has led to an injury to our perception of who we are today.

- Black men and women if the slave masters

and the overseers on the plantation saw them showing love

and affection and regard for themselves they realized

there was a danger with that kind of bonding

where people began to organize and rebel.

So they would sell people away, break up the family,

so Black men and women had to pretend they didn't love

each other, had to deny affection, had to deny

the warmth and the caring behavior towards one another

and so we still do that as a community.

And that's a carryover from slavery.

- [Joy] The antipathy we feel with regard

to one another.

Everything from our hair texture to our features,

our skin color.

- Who was it, I believe it was the great Frantz Fanon

talked about that, the inferiority.

That's what we have, the light skin, the dark skin.

- [Joy] Being light-skinned and having good hair

and all of those speak to a people who have been taught

to loathe themselves.

- Again, that's not knowing knowledge of self.

You follow me?

Once we understand who we are they use those color code

caste system on us also here, light-skinned, black.

What is that?

A light-skinned Black person.

And what we do because of time we actually repeating

exactly what was laid down to us basically.

This is how it is.

But the reality is that we are all the same people.

We never was one shade of people.

- When our ancestors were enslaved they had to separate

us from our culture, from our identity.

Because again, that tells us who we are

and so with the enslavement process they had to take

all that away from us and not only take it away

but they had to make us think that anything associated

with Africa, anything that was Black was negative.

And that's something that had to be perpetuated

for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years

to the point where now it's not so,

it's not expressed so outwardly but it's more subtle.

It's in the media, it's in our music.

But again, in order to make sure that we stay on the bottom

we have to hate ourselves.

So things are perpetuated to ensure that we follow

that path.

- We pass on the fear.

We pass on the self hate.

We pass on the stereotypes and we pass on the socialized

behavior that we learned during slavery.

- But the other piece to this I think we are beginning

to look at and science in particular is beginning to look at

is what role does biology, physiology, genetics play

in what we are seeing now.

Recent research has indicated that we actually can hold

in a form of genetic memory the stressors that affected

our grandparents for example.

So, when you take that and understand it from the vantage

point of trauma.

So if our ancestors experienced generations of trauma,

then that has impacted our DNA.

In some ways to build resilience, to be able to survive it.

In other ways that have been very damaging to us physically,

everything from hypertension to diabetes.

- We can recognize that white supremacy doesn't have

our best interests but we will still love white people.

We can recognize that the school don't work

for our children, we will still send them there.

So we have to recognize what, I would refer to

as maladaptors and dysfunctional behavior.

We are dysfunction.

The psyche of the Black men and woman has been dysfunction

because the trauma has never been reduced or reversed.

And although we living now, we're not the enslaved

Africans of the 1800s.

We are the descendants of them and the behaviors,

the pain, the DNA, the genetic material that they had

was put into us.

So it's important to understand that you can still

be a victim of slavery having never been a slave

because all of the behaviors affects and outcomes

of enslavement have been manifested in you

by direct intergenerational transfer of energy.

Genetic, behavioral, intellectual, cultural, spiritual,

educational, so forth and so on.

We were never taught to be afraid of white folk

by the slavemaster.

But we were taught to be afraid of white folk

by our parents, who in turn were taught to be afraid

of white folk by their parents.

So the psyche of the Black man is as much under the control

of slavery as if we lived in it ourselves.

- I remember when I got married,

I got married in Malcolm X's sister's bedroom.

And his sister Ella told me after my wife

and my mother walked out of the room.

She called me back and says, "I want to tell you two things.

"One, don't turn your wife into a whore

"and two, never let anybody know how much you love her."

And the first part I got, the second part I didn't get.

But when I started looking at what happened in slavery,

not wanting the slavemaster to know how much I loved

that woman so he wouldn't take her away from me,

has become a part of our daily culture.

And instead of building the family it is leading

to the dissolution and destruction of the family.

- When a mind is traumatized, in order for it to regain

a degree of normalcy, to return to a sense of self

that existed prior to the trauma, you need peace of mind.

You need a healthy supportive environment.

The Black mind is still experiencing trauma

because even though slavery ended, the psychological

terrorism continued.

So our minds have never been allowed to be given

the time necessary to repair itself.

See the mind is self-repairing

but in order for the mind to self-repair,

you gotta give it time and peace.

Black folks have never had any time or peace

away from white supremacy in this country

to allow our minds the opportunity

to come back to a healthy equilibrium.

And so that terrorism, that Michael Brown terrorism,

that Trayvon Martin terrorism, okay that police brutality,

that economic terrorism, that unemployment,

that mass incarceration.

That knowing that you can be shot and killed

tomorrow for no fault of your own

and the person will never go to jail,

that type of constant vigilance,

that type of hyper vigilance

keeps the mind in a traumatized state.

And never gives it the opportunity to go back to a point

of equilibrium and homeostasis.

So it can go back into a natural functioning pattern.

(chalk writing on chalkboard)

- Is there to be no escape to living near Negroes?

And what of the dream of middle class respectability.

If a Negro family can afford what you can afford

how do you justify your feeling of superiority. (echoing)

- So I don't like using the term, white supremacy

because the mind recreates terminology that we use

and applies that white people are supreme.

I call it what it is, racism.

And the only antidote to racism is knowledge of self.

The more Black, Brown, Yellow people know of their own

history, the more they're able to free themselves

from the clutches of racism.

Which is dependent upon people embracing lies as the truth.

- We have to understand that this idea of white supremacy

and rights that people have.

We first have to look at what is supremacy?

Before we put the adjective what describes the supremacy.

What is supremacy?

And it is the belief that you are better than other people.

And to be supreme demands that you must have an action

that proves that supremacy.

And the reality of it is, is as we look a European history

there is nothing they can attach themselves to

that would make them supreme.

- Well I was, and I love Neely and I love Frances

and they're both my teachers but I use the term,

the false notion of white supremacy.

Because there is no such thing as white supremacy.

If you're supreme you don't have to do nothing.

You don't have to exert yourself, just your being

allows you to be supreme.

When you have to murder, when you have to rape,

when you have to distort, when you have to lie,

when you have to deceive.

When you have to undermine, when you have to practice

genocide against other people in order to feel

bigger about yourself.

There's nothing supreme about you

Genetically, you have mutated psycho-spiritually.

And you know longer have the capacity to contain

the ethical moral principles that make one a human being.

And so that's what we're dealing with

and so those people who are finding themselves

in that condition is asserting a false notion of supremacy

using murder, mayhem and genocide against others

of the human race.

- In an operative sense, the only functional form

of racism on the planet is white supremacy.

That doesn't mean that there could not be theoretically

be another kind but in a functional sense,

the only functional fully actualized system of racism

on the planet is white supremacy.

There other forms of ethnocentrism, other forms of prejudice

and bigotry but that's the only system that's

really systematized and it certainly is global

in a sense that even though in many ways

it began in the colonies of what became the U.S.

We have very effectively exported white supremacy

around the globe, so that now white supremacy American style

is starting to affect the actions of people of color

around the globe.

There are these reports of sub-Saharan African women

bleaching their skin with dyes that are literally killing

them toxically and yet and that wasn't happening 300 years

ago in Africa.

That wasn't happening a thousand years ago,

that's the product of global white supremacy.

Asian women in Asian nations who are having surgery

to change the fold of their eye so as to look more Western.

That wasn't happening 500 years ago in Asian countries,

that's the result of global white supremacy for sure.

- There is no such things as race.

Except for the human race and the concept of race

was created to do exactly what it has done,

which is separate and categorize people based on

the color of their skin.

Racism, it's a method used to ensure that white people,

who have been placed at the top of the ladder

will not have to compete with other races

and so when you create this hierarchy of race,

then of course, you have to associate with each race

certain characteristics, whether it's their intellectual

ability, things that basically will categorize them

and identify them generally as being less than someone else.

- I think the reason that we're misinformed about it

is because for the most part we've been led to believe

that these racial identities have some type of real

biological scientific meaning.

Like we've really been, most people if you ask them

if race, if there's really such a thing as the Black race,

the white race, the Asian race.

They really believe in those things.

They think there are hard differences between Black people,

white people, Asian people, Latino people, genetically

and biologically even though all of modern science

tells us that is not true

but that is what an awful lot of people

have been led to believe.

If you've been led to believe that by the weight of history

then it's very hard for to get your head around the idea

that race is really just this thing

we've used to divide people.

Because you're thinking, no it's not, it actually

manifests in different abilities and different intelligence

and different talents.

Because people have really been taught that

and if you've been taught that for hundreds of years,

it's going to take quite a while to undo that

kind of mentality.

- So it becomes important for us to understand

that white supremacy only exists in the minds

that believe that white is supreme.

If you get to the point that you don't believe it,

the only power that white supremacy has over people

is that the people believe that it's a fact.

Once you shake that fact and you understand

who you're dealing with, you don't have a problem

anymore with white supremacy because the only thing

keeping it alive is the fact that you think it still exists.

White supremacy is an illusion.

It always has been an illusion and it will always

be an illusion.

- The creation of scientific racism, in fact,

the creation of race as a concept was really part

of trying to rationalize the dichotomy of on the one hand

saying, all men are created equal or the notion

of liberty, equality, fraternity and the reality

of subordination.

So if you're telling everyone that you believe in equity

but you're treating people unequally, you have to come

up with a justification.

What better justification than these people are inferior

or these people are not civilized or these people

are heathens or not Christian or whatever.

And so I think scientific racism, really race as a concept

became necessary at that point where white folks

from Europe felt the need to justify what they were doing.

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- Again in an effort to resolve and dissonance,

we are always going to bring in every major discipline

that we can.

And I've often said that in order for oppression, racism,

slavery to have existed,

you had to have every major institution

in America complicit.

In other words, everyone had to sign off on this

and they had to somehow make or normalize

what was being done.

So if you were to consider people like Carl Linnaeus

for example, considered to be the father of anthropology.

This individual, 1707-1778, I believe he lived.

He was then in a position, as a "scientist" even though

he lacked any of the actual skills to give him that

particular title but nonetheless, he began to embark

upon this notion of classifying races.

And you know one has to look at the time in which

he did that and while he was in the mid 1700s,

espousing these notions of race and race difference,

again, you have to understand that this is a predecessor

to any understanding about DNA at all, mitochondrial DNA,

no real understanding.

But the social agenda then was to clearly share

by classifying races that this particular group of people,

Europeans are somehow superior and deserving

and these other folks, Africans, Asians, Natives

are somehow inferior and therefore deserving

of whatever treatment you're meting out to them.

- There was a German guy,

I think his name was Johann Blumenbach, I believe

that was his name.

He the one came up with the color system.

See before that we didn't have the color system.

But we don't realize over here because number one,

we don't study language.

We don't study etymology.

We don't study the origins of where that word came from,

white, black and all that.

- And so again this is placed before us as though

it is a science, when in fact, there's not a shred

of science in it.

Anyone looking, and matter of fact people like Linneaus

are looked upon with great shame from contemporary

anthropologists and cultural scientists.

It's shameful because they realize that there's no science

at all and yet it is employed to ease the conscious

if you will, to somehow resolve the dissonance to say,

no, no, no these people are different, inferior

and therefore all that we have done to them,

whether we have raped or pillaged and taken them

or forcefully removed them from their land.

All of it was justified because we are indeed superior

and they are, of course, scientifically inferior.

- I would say that unquestionably I am an American,

born there, my father a slave there upon the backs

of my people was developed the primary wealth of America,

the primary wealth.

You have to have accumulated wealth to start, you know

to build.

You did it another way here in Australia.

You had to build your accumulated wealth too,

you just came and took it.

And that's what they did in most of the countries.

That's what you Europeans did, you just took it.

We got to catch up with you a little bit.

(laughing)

- Initially race was just a group-based phenomenon.

What groups get there first gets the most.

But after they had done it.

After the race had ended, see when racism started

they chose Black folk to be the primary subject

of wealth building in the world.

And it's not just whites now, keep in mind that all groups,

every group on Earth has enslaved and profited

from Blacks being enslaved

Jim Crow segregated and denied, and exploited.

But once whites got started it became an economic issue.

It became an economic issue between Europeans

and Blacks who are being enslaved up until about

the 1500s all the way up to about the,

until about 1859, it was an economic issue.

Then in 1859, Charles Darwin wrote the book

about the survival of the species, survival of the strongest

and that was the same time that the slavery

was coming to an end.

The emphasis shift from being an economic issue

to being a biological issue.

So whites then required through government

that every black person born would be designated

as Black or Negro or Colored and then it became

a badge then, it became a badge of losers then.

- White and Black, they're not complexions.

This is white, when we talk about white and black.

We're talking about white is basically,

it's a status issue.

Black is not a color of people, it's not either.

So what happens is they call it a color code caste system.

I'm going to repeat this for everybody can hear this.

It's a color code caste system.

When you travel to other countries, it is not based

on your color, it's basically based on your nationality,

your principles, your morals.

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If you look up black in any regular Webster's dictionary,

rather people say it's the white man's whatever.

It's language.

We all went to their school system.

They told us to go home and study.

Once you study what black is, it's an Old English word,

it's an Old English word, it's still Anglo-Saxon.

The Anglo-Saxon were English people.

So what happens they didn't use the term white

and black until you came over here into these states.

So it has nothing to do with complexion at all.

It's a status.

- Because by then the race was over.

Slavery had maldistributed almost 100% of all this nation's

wealth, power, resource, privileges and controls

of all resources, and controls of all levels of government

into the hands of the dominant white society.

And so once they saw it was a biological issue

in 1859, colored, black, negro, whatever term they use

became a badge of inferiority and a badge of the losers

in a society.

And whiteness became superiority, a badge of superiority,

power and wealth.

It stayed a color issue up until about the 1960s

and that point it switched from being a color issue

to being a personal issue.

But if you're going to deal with it effectively

you have to go back to the original basis which that

it was a superior issue that came out of a contest

between whites and blacks where whites acquired

control, almost 100% control and ownership

of all resources and power and wealth

and they assigned it to their skin color.

- But we've never been taught white supremacy

and the reason we've never been taught white supremacy

is in America, one of the unwritten laws

is the oppressed are not allowed to openly criticize

the oppressor.

I don't know if you notice this.

Black people are very anxious about openly criticizing

white people.

We'll do it at an all Black event

but when white folks are around we don't feel comfortable.

Think about it, we don't even like calling racism, racism.

White folk have made us so uncomfortable.

Oh, he's playing the race card.

You're just making an excuse.

You guys stop blaming us, if you don't like it.

Go to Africa.

So now you say, I don't want to say it was racism.

I know it was racism

but if I say it was racism,

I'll look like I'm not taking responsibility.

If I say it was racism I make white folks mad.

If I say it was racism I'll let people know that I recognize

the hidden agenda.

So we don't like to call race.

Even with black oppression, what do they call it poverty.

See poverty, not racism, poverty.

The kids aren't learning in school because they're poor.

The kids aren't learning in school

because they're underfunded.

The kids aren't learning in school because the school

districts aren't charging enough taxes

for the school tax.

You see that?

The kids aren't learning in school because the moms

are not married.

You see.

And why do they rather blame poverty than race?

Because it's more acceptable to say capitalism

is at the root than racism, why?

If you say capitalism is at the root of Black people's

problems, all Black people gotta do is change

their economic situation and they change their reality,

you follow me?

Get a education, get a nice job.

You can get out the ghetto, put your family in a white

suburb, no more complaints.

You see that?

So they'd rather blame poverty 'cause you can do something

about poverty, you can climb out of poverty.

But if you say it's because of race,

you can get you a doctorate, you can move to the suburb.

You're still black.

You can move to another country,

you can move to another city,

you're still Black.

You can have a Black president, you can be a millionaire,

you're still Black.

See racism is permanent.

And so they would rather blame poverty because it looks

like you can do something about it but when you blame

racism, that's saying you will always suffer that

as long as you are with these people.

Because what you suffer is due to the color of your skin

and cannot be changed and that's why we are not allowed

to talk about racism, white supremacy.

We only allowed to talk about poverty and discrimination.

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- From my understand when Europeans during

the Age of Exploration, when Europeans began to leave

the continent and travel the world, they realized

that all around the world there were people of color

when they began to intermingle with these people

of color and impregnate the women, they would notice

that nine months later that child would come out having

color, it would not look like them.

And so once they realized that if they continued

to mix, the white race could potentially be eliminated.

So I see white supremacy as a way of them doing whatever

is possible, whatever is necessary to ensure

that other races will not have to compete with them

but also that they can stay on top and maintain

the power and the wealth in society

and the world altogether.

- The European nations have said of themselves in the last

decade that are at minus birthrate.

Meaning there are more Europeans dying of natural death

than they are able to give birth to in natural birth.

And so all of the chemical and technological ways

of giving birth that they've produced over the last 30 years

have come about to compensate for that loss.

And they're still not able to keep up.

So what you see is this enormous push to adopt,

white Latino babies, adopt white Filipino babies,

to adopt white skinned Asian babies, to infuse

in their gene pool a group of genes that would allow

them to survive as an organism.

It's not going to work and genetic annihilation,

which they fear the most is happening everyday.

And they are unable to reverse it with all of the chemical

and technical skills they've had.

And so what they've done is looking upon the superminority

that they are going to be.

They're already only one-ninth of the world population.

The white people are the only minority on the planet today

but they still push this notion of being a majority

through the tyranny, mayhem and control of information

and educational institutions across the world.

- By saying that the white race is the supreme race,

then again you have to really create stereotypes

and you have to create other fallacies

that will perpetuate that lie that again it's a matter

of studying European history, studying African history,

studying world history.

When you study that and put everything on a timeline,

you see that people of color lived on this planet

and it come into existence hundreds and thousands

of years before Caucasians.

And so again, I can't fault them, because I understand

that that's what have done to ensure

that their race survives.

Racism is a competitive relationship between

groups of people.

It's a group phenomenon first of all.

It's a group phenomenon.

But in recent times people try to make it an individual

phenomenon, it's not.

It's a group phenomenon.

Groups are in competition to acquire, in a contest acquire

control and ownership of resources and for wealth

building resources.

And that's what racism is,

that's why the word race was used.

Unfortunately our people think it's similar

to discrimination and prejudice and bigotry and bias.

It's not, it is a contest where people are competing

as a group.

That's why it makes no sense for Black folks to keep

asking for equality and equal opportunity in a race.

That defeats the whole purpose of having a race.

If you want to have equalness and equality and opportunity

and treat people equally, don't have a race.

- The competitive instinct that's sort of inherent

to capitalism as an economic system is part of the engine

of racism.

Now I don't necessarily think that it's the only engine.

I think it is a key component of it.

I think there are other elements of it as well.

I think we can find racism, white supremacy embedded

in Western Christianity and the iconography

of modern Western religion, so that exists independent

to some extent of the competitive marketplace.

There are other elements as well.

But I think certainly the group based competitiveness

that exists under a market economy pits people

against one another based on these racial and ethnic lines.

- The whole point of a race is

to separate winners from losers.

And that's what racism is, it separates winners from losers

and once the Blacks had been subjected to racism,

which was economic based for 360 years,

and 98% of the resources had been distributed

into the hands of the dominant white society,

the race ended and since the race has maldistruted

everything, all the power, resource, privileges

and controls of all levels of government,

into the hands of the dominant white society,

the race was over.

So they look the "e" off the end of race and stuck an ism.

Ism means let nothing change between whites owning and

controlling everything and Blacks only controlling nothing.

That's what racism is.

So anytime you see, if whites say, those Blacks want this,

they want handouts, they want food stamps, welfare,

give them nothing, that's racism.

(dramatic music)

- [Joy] White privilege is pretty much on face value

what it's saying.

It is something, a system of advantage

that occurs as a result of being white.

- The very real material advantage inherited over a period

of generations, whether we're talking about educational

advantages or wealth accumulation.

So there's also a material component to it that plays

out in the economic world.

- [Joy] It is a system of advantage based on race

and that privilege is that advantage.

- [Announcer] With its giant shopping center,

winding lanes named for flower and trees,

it is fairly typical of communities all over America

where families are pursuing the American dream

to give their children a better chance in life.

- [Joy] What are some of the things that come,

the benefits with your whiteness?

In other words if you go into get a loan,

you don't immediately think that your race

or your skin color is going to work against you, right?

It doesn't even enter your mind.

You don't have to concern yourself that when you're going

to the store, you pick up a newspaper, there's a fundamental

assumption that whatever's going to be in that newspaper

is going to be reflective and representative of your people

and your culture.

You don't know that when you open a newspaper,

unless of course, it's the sports page, that it might

reflect you or your people or that in fact,

anything that is reflective of you or your people

would be considered positive.

See these are things that are, for white people

are simply a privilege that they don't have to think about.

- If people are being discriminated against in housing,

jobs, the criminal justice system, education,

then white privilege is the flip side of that.

Those who aren't being disadvantaged are being advantaged.

So it's as simple as saying it's the opposite side,

the other side of the discrimination coin.

On the other hand it is this psychological piece

that's being able to go through life with one less

thing to worry about.

Not worrying about being seen as a problem,

being seen as a threat, as a criminal, as a terrorist,

even though plenty of criminals, plenty of terrorist,

plenty of threatening individuals are white

but knowing that you won't be pegged by the actions

of other whites as being part of that group.

- And, I must say the new racism is to act like there

is no racism.

And the new racism is to put people of color between

the power structure and Black folk.

And we better be on the lookout for this.

The new racism is going to come in brown face.

They're going to put the Latino as an adversary

against Black folk for resources.

They're gonna put the Asian as an adversary against

Black people for resources.

They're gonna put the East Indian, they're going

to put the Korean, they're going to put the Mexican.

They're going to put the Chinese as an adversary

against Black folk.

So Brown people are going to be the new face

of white supremacy in the Black community.

Look at our stores.

White folk would say, what you getting mad at us?

We don't own all those stores in your neighborhood,

that's Chinese folks and Koreans and East Indians, Arabs.

The gas stations, not us.

But who financed them? who gave them the small business loan

so they could come and set up shop in my neighborhood?

Y'all did.

So what they do now to hide the white supremacy,

they put Brown people in front.

So you can't blame me, I'm not in it.

But the power that they have to economically suppress

and oppress Black folk is coming from white folks.

We gotta see this coming and it's important

that we don't fall for the multi-cultural agenda

because the multi-cultural agenda is all about

confusing Black folk as to who their allies are.

If we can get Black folk to see the Latinos

as their allies, if we can get Black folk

to see the Mexicans and the poor white,

and the poor Korean and the poor Vietnamese

and the poor Arab and the poor East Indian

as their allies, we can dominate them more effectively.

Because the people, they're building coalitions with

are the people we're financing to oppress them.

But because they see them as a friend,

but because they see them as an ally, they won't even

recognize the strategy that we're putting in place.

So the new racism is to make you identify

with people of color and then finance the people

of color to replace you.

The new white man wears a brown face.

(eerie music)

- Cognitive dissonance is what occurs when a person

is holding on to contradictory ideas simultaneously.

Ideas like we really honor and uphold notions of freedom

and democracy.

- It's true you know.

- And at the same time that this is being espoused

committing literal genocide against Native people in America

and enslaving generations of people of African descent.

That would be an example of a conflict

that is going on that has to be reconciled internally.

As we look at institutions.

As we look at how people move through the world

in America.

In other words, how do you espouse these ideas of freedom

and at the same time you are demonstrably

doing something opposite of that.

In fact, committing acts that are no less than barbaric

as it relates to oppressing people.

So you know, this is the dissonance.

- Cognitive dissonance is when you have been conditioned

to think feel and behave in a certain way.

You've been socialized.

- I've got the busiest job in the whole world,

American housewife.

- [Announcer] Gets teeth much whiter, you can see.

(whistling)

- [Announcer] For whitening clothes Blue Cheer is different.

So clean, so white.

- And all of a sudden, everything you've been taught,

everything you believe has suddenly come face to face

with the truth that contradicts it.

And this truth is so overwhelmingly powerful that it's

hard for you to ignore it.

But in confronting this truth, it upsets the internal

belief system upon which a life has functioned.

It's when you've been raised in a certain religion

or certain political ideology and someone brings

you a morsel of truth that shocks the hell out of your

internal intellectual belief system.

And the truth they gave you was so powerful that

it disrupted, it uprooted almost everything you believe.

Your ego and your mind automatically begins to try

to find a way to shoot down the truth that you just heard.

But because your spirit is telling you that this was

the truth, your ego and mind is not doing a good enough

job to shoot down that new information

that is making it hard for you to remain a consistent

adherent to that which you were previously told to believe.

- [Joy] So then, what does one do to calm the mind

of the people whose ancestors perpetrated these atrocities?

So you have to somehow normalize the behavior.

In other words make somehow the idea of American chattel

slavery for 339 years somehow seem an okay thing to do.

Because imagine 339 years of being told this is okay,

the problem is them.

The problem is we were benefiting them

or we were helping them or whatever rationalization

that you seek, so when they get this information

now the jolt is, oh no, that can't be true.

They do not want to accept the reality that processing

that information would bring about.

So white folks suffer from, Dr. Jeffries was the first one

I heard use the term like 30-40 years ago,

that white folks suffer from cognitive dissonance.

That white folks have an inability to process information

that showed Black folks in a positive light.

Because to process that information in that manner

would them show them in a negative light that they

lived in over the centuries in their relationship to us.

- [Joy] Then we have to take a look at what affect then does

that have on those who have oppressed.

Because again, they have had to live with generations

of one denial and acceptance of that dissonance.

And the way that they've dealt with that is to one,

not just deny it but hide it.

To hide any truth associated with what would cause

a conflict for you to see the barbarism.

For you to see the levels and involvement of people

in lynchings and behavior of large groups of people,

generations of people around mutilating and hanging

and beating people.

So what you have to do to one, hide it or two,

justify it, produces this kind of callousness

that you see, this open defiance in the face

of a preponderance of evidence.

A preponderance of evidence that says,

here it is before us.

- White supremacy, when you talk about racism, same thing.

White folk have been socialized that Africans are inferior,

all their life as part of their internal intellectual

belief system.

All of a sudden they come to face with a Black man or woman

whose more intelligent than any white person,

they know or have ever met or have ever read about.

Wow, for the first time I've learned that Black people

are not inferior.

But I've been taught they were.

And coming form a culture of white racism and supremacy

I have to rally my psychological resources to come up

with and excuse or justification for just how this Black

person was able to be this intelligent

and they give you an example of how the ego and the mind

will combat the cognitive dissonance.

For example, it will rationalize the intelligence

of the Black man.

It's what the white person tells themselves.

There's always exceptions to every rule.

Yes he was smart, yes, he was very intelligent

but that's only because there's exceptions to every rule.

Most Black folk are not that smart.

Most Black folk are not that intelligent.

You're not likely to come across a lot of them.

And so it becomes more easy to tolerate,

when you come up with a justification.

When you come up with a rationale

for why you are experiencing information or circumstances

that are in direct contradiction of what you've been taught

to believe.

- So their perspective is, you must not be telling the

truth because we're benevolent, we're good, we're kind.

Which is what had to be fed for generations

in order for people to somehow normalize again,

what results in being pretty much barbaric

and horrific behavior.

- In the end it probably will begin with mixing socially

and you will have, well I think aim is mixed marriages

and becoming equal with the whites.

It's the subject that's talked about all the time.

And as far as accepting them socially

if that's what you mean I could never do that.

- In recent times we're seeing all of the video taped

footage of police use of deadly force.

The police use of deadly force is not new.

But there is a preponderance of evidence that is showing

it now which is producing what, dissonance.

It says well this can't be true, even in the face of it.

Even watching it, they go, this simply can't be true.

Because now looking at, at least 300 years of denial

that anything wrong has happened.

That these people of African descendant got anything

other than what they deserved.

And so now in the face of the entire globe looking

at this and saying, this is not okay.

And really it's sparking, I would venture to say,

some incredible anxiety and not only anxiety

but a large degree, a large dose of paranoia.

For example in Portland, Oregon in 2014

right in front of an immigrant refugee organization

in Portland, Oregon.

There's a group of white people standing with a banner,

which says, "Diversity = White Genocide".

This is 2014.

So I think that those, in terms of epigenetics,

we are looking at people who are absolutely losing it.

The fear because again, they're not looking at the behavior

that has been exhibited towards people of color

as being anything other than what, of course,

people of color deserve.

But now they're beginning to see that not only is that

not true but you're not going to be able to continue

to do this without the entire world looking on

and holding you accountable for that.

(chalk writing on chalkboard)

- The biggest thing we lost in integration

was not the independent schools.

The biggest thing we lost in integration

was not the independent hospitals, the independent

businesses, the independent companies.

The biggest things Black people lost in integration

was their sense of self and identity.

You can get the schools back, you can get the hospitals

back, you can get the land back.

You can build an independent community tomorrow.

We could have a Black Wall Street tomorrow,

that's not the most critical thing that we lost.

What we lost was our belief that we could create

of our own without any outside support.

Integration took away from the Black man,

his self-determination.

While we were segregated, we were self-determined.

We did for ourselves because we had to.

Once desegregation happened, once desegregation happened

and we mixed with white folks,

we lost that self-determination.

And on purpose, the United States government engendered

in us a dependence on it for our existence and livelihood.

- The social immigration movement didn't give Black folks

anything that they didn't already have.

What did the white society give up?

What did they give up for social integration?

Black folk, they gave up their culture.

They gave up their communities, they gave up their schools.

They gave up their heritage, their leadership.

They gave up their sports teams.

Their little limited economy.

And what did whites give up?

They didn't give up anything.

So consequently there was not value in social integration.

So the issue should have never been social integration.

The issue shouldn't be integration on the left

nor segregation on the right.

The issue should have been aggregation.

Aggregations should mean that Black folks should

have the right to come together anytime, anyplace,

anywhere in their own best self interest.

And if they want to socially integrate, they can do it.

But first it should come together and aggregate

and integrate with their own people first.

- And so now they have situation in America

where the white men don't have to worry about Black folks

competing because we're not going to compete

unless they help us.

You want us to open up our own businesses?

You have to help us.

You want us to open up our own schools?

Give us a charter school, you have to help us.

See when the charter schools came Black folks jumped

on it, what happened to our independent school?

Charter school is a handout, you see.

- If the public educational system was run by us

it would be a fantastic system, if we were in our right

minds and we were conscious enough to use the tools

to train and tool our children

so they can bring the intuitive wisdom and knowledge

inside of them, outside of them

to solve the basic problems and to carry on

conflict intervention in their environment

and in their personal lives.

If you can't control the socialization process

of your people that's where you get your values,

interests and principles and for most part the socialization

process of our people in America is handled

by the public school system.

So if you do not control that then home school

is the next best way for you to gain control

of the socialization of your children

and to instill in them the values, interests

and principles that will allow them to plan

and sustain their lives in a productive

and a healthy manner.

- And so we become so dependent on him

for so long, we don't think we can exist

without the European.

To me, that's what desegregation did.

It killed the Black man's memory of his ability

to produce independent of his oppressor.

How can you justify being financed

by the same capitalism you're fighting?

If Black people are really against white supremacy

how do you justify being financed by the same entity

that you're fighting?

It's the contradiction of the NAACP.

It's the contradiction of the Urban League.

Why have these groups only brought us so far?

They can't go no further because the person

they're fighting is the person that's financing

them and the hand that pays always rules.

- Our children have been lost in this illusion

of inclusion and it's not real for them.

On the one hand they look at these ideas of the rich

and the famous and you have all that.

But then when they look to their communities,

they see the same barriers, racial barriers, redlining,

segregation, that's always been there.

You see and there's an anger, there's an angst

that's there because they don't understand it.

- Dr. Jeffries again was the first one, Dr. Leonard Jeffries

when he was working on the curriculum of inclusion.

Most people misunderstood what that was about.

The curriculum for inclusion wasn't for us

to be included with white folks.

It was looking at the curriculum of the state of New York

that had denied the history of African people,

Native American people, Asiatic people and Latino people

and to begin to include those historical episodes

into the American historical dialogue.

And so the term, illusion of inclusion gets coined

because people was thinking we felt we were included

in something that we were not included in

and they were right in that concept.

But they were just wrong in how they were displaying

or replacing it because the curriculum of inclusion

was not an illusion.

Matter of fact, the curriculum of inclusion

was going to get rid of the illusion of inclusion.

And so we didn't understand that because no one

stopped to read the curriculum and started

what they had designed was to move Black folks

from being an episode in white history

to being an epic where white folks' history

was an episode.

- The illusion of inclusion is to believe that this society

as it is set up includes you.

Even if you are peppered

or even if you have those individuals that they will come

and they will bring one or two people in.

That is not inclusion.

Inclusion is when the masses of people are part

of the everyday affairs of whatever it is,

the society, the country, the nation, whatever it is.

And it is obvious that from the moment that African people

were brought here, the only place for them

was to be free labor.

They had no place for African people

and they created a structure and a society that kept

these individuals on the outside of everything.

They even have to be buried outside of the society proper

itself so to speak.

And so for us as a people to think that we are included

and the bottom line is this society as we are seeing

is falling.

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- Only time Black folk have ever been fully Black

occur between about 1915 and 1935-38,

that general time period.

That's when W.E. DuBois started talking about,

for Blacks to develop an economic system or structure.

And practice group politics.

Marcus Garvey came in talking about Black economics.

- That's why when Marcus Garvey said we have to raise

our children to be scientists par excellence.

He wasn't talking about the microscope.

He wasn't talking about the lab rat.

He wasn't talking about the science.

Garvey was visionary.

Garvey was saying reduce your diet to a science.

Reduce white supremacy to a science.

Reduce money to a science and you could always control it.

- Carter G. Woodson in 1927 started talking

about Black education.

Elijah Muhammad started talking about Black religion.

But that was too much blackness for certain individuals

in our society like the Black newspaper editors

and the Black civil rights organizations

and a lot of the Black ministers.

So they wanted to get away from some of that blackness.

And the same time Black folk was very vulnerable

because they weren't permitted to have any weapons

or tools to arm themselves.

So they couldn't put up any steep resistance,

either in Rosewood or Wilmington or Greenwood.

So they didn't have the tools or resources to fight back

or protect themselves or their communities

or their families.

- Civil rights under this term called the color of law.

The color of law was said appearance to be real

but it's not real.

So really they give you the illusion that it's real

and they can pull it at any will.

People have to understand this is when you start

studying the law.

Once you start studying the law and understand

that the Civil Rights Act, which means you're acting

something out, not necessarily that it's real.

What happens is under the color of law,

which appears to be lawful but it's not.

So they gave that to so-called Blacks.

They gave it to the hierarchy to do what?

To teach it to the lower people.

You follow me?

This is why they don't mention anything about human rights.

Human rights are dealing with human issues, human beings.

Civil rights can be me throwing that chair violating

that chair right there, that's a civil rights act.

I can claim that.

Civil rights is dealing with inanimate objects,

that's what's going on.

- They can think the Black issue.

Putting other so-called minorities, whether it's women

or whether it's Hispanics or whether it's gays.

We're trying to put other people into this category

where it's no longer just Blacks but it's all people

who are oppressed and so like it's we don't necessarily

have that stage that we used to where we can speak

on just Black issues.

- Historically Black Colleges, they're responsible

for half the Black professionals we have in this country.

Half the Black lawyers, half the Black doctors,

half the Black Masters Degree and Credentialed

African-Americans come from historically Black Colleges.

Those colleges have taught them information.

They have taught them how to see certain things.

Some of the colleges have even taught them how to think

but the question follows,

when we look at the African Americans who graduate

from historically Black colleges.

And I'm saying Historically Black versus white schools

because we're not too interested in what they do.

The education that our people receive at historically

Black college, did it appropriately socialize them

to be functional supportive members

of the African American community?

Most of us would have to say, hell no.

When they graduate, they move into white suburbs.

Then they graduate they find white women.

When they graduate they put their money in white banks,

they don't try to build Black banks.

So has the Historically Black college successfully

socialized its Black graduates?

No it has not.

Let's look at the other side.

Traditionally white colleges, do they successfully socialize

white children?

Hell yes.

When white folks graduate from white colleges,

they know how white supremacy operates,

they know how to function within it.

They know how to be supporting contributing members

of the various institutions in society,

white colleges do an excellent job socializing

white students.

Black colleges don't do as good as a job,

socializing Black children.

They have a degree, they have an education.

They know how to think but they are not

functional members of the Black community.

Socialization, when the school properly socializes

the children, they become functional members

of the Black community.

They come out looking to build the supermarket.

They come out looking to start a family

with a Black woman or a Black man.

They come out looking to build independent Black schools,

they come out looking to open up Black economic systems

and vehicles.

If they were appropriately socialized.

We're just teaching.

We're not socializing.

- To have a community, you must have three elements.

You must have a wholly independent economic structure.

You must have a code of conduct.

And you must have political representation that speaks

foremost and firstly for your people.

We don't have any of those things.

We don't have Black economy any place in America.

No, there's no Black neighborhood with a Black economy.

Because in the Black economy that's where you,

in the Black community rather, that's where

you start your economy, your tax base, your heritage,

your history, your employment opportunities and

business opportunities and products services and goods.

There's no place Blacks have any of those things

stored up, so they have to depend on other people

to go out and provide them with those services

and goods and those opportunities.

That's why you have such a high Black unemployment rate.

Because Blacks lack the capability of hiring

their own people.

- I need economic opportunity.

If you're not providing economic opportunity for people,

you're not relevant.

You are not relevant.

If you're not preparing them for economic opportunity

or providing the economic opportunity, you're not relevant.

Think about it, when you deal with economics,

you deal with every aspect of life.

That's how you keep a home, that's how you take

care of a family, that's how you take care of yourself,

that's how you stay happy and healthy knowing

that I'm able to provide for my basic needs

going forward.

When you have a couple dollars in your pocket,

you can treat your mom to dinner.

You can help your father out.

You can look out for your nieces and nephews.

You keep the family together.

You see?

You have to talk about money.

- And so it's actually going to be more Blacks in prison

because the Black community is going to break down.

They have no jobs, they have no business opportunities.

The school system has become dysfunctional.

Once they become dysfunctional, they become disheartened,

they turn to drugs.

They gonna create what you call an underground economy,

which means selling drugs, selling hot materials.

Stealing cars, robbing gas stations anything to be able

to survive.

You see there's only three things that a given human being

can do to earn a living.

Either have a job or business at the top.

They don't have that they go down to the second level.

They go down to the second level,

which is welfare and foodstamps.

If they can't get on there because conservatives

cut out all the public assistance programs

then they go to the third level.

Third level means you steal.

They must either do an elaboration or combination

or sophistication of either having a job,

going on welfare or they steal.

Either one of those things.

So consequently if you don't have businesses

in a community and you have no jobs in the community.

If you can't get public assistance, you're going to steal.

Because Black folks want to survive.

- How we going to talk about

Black power without Black dollar?

There is no Black power without the Black dollar.

If you talking Black power without Black dollar,

you're a hypocrite.

The power is based on the dollar.

The Black power grows out of the financial structure

of the community.

White power, why do white people have power?

Access to capital.

They build the schools, they build the banks,

they build the roads, they build the churches,

they build the ships, they build the airplanes.

White power is based on the white dollar.

Chinese, Koreans in a Black neighborhood.

How you got Korean power in the ghetto,

because they own the mom and pop stops.

The Korean dollar equals Korean power.

That's true for every group.

East Indians hotel industry, Days Inn, in particular,

they cornering the hotel industry.

East Indian power is based on the East Indian dollar.

Then you come the Black folks.

Now check this out, East Indian the basis of the power

is the dollar.

Anglo-Saxon, the basis of the power is the dollar.

Arab basis of the power is the dollar.

Jew, basis of the power is the dollar.

Then you come the Black folk, bases of the power

is reading and information.

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- The first way in which they came into the world of color

and when I'm saying, they, I'm speaking of Eurasians

as they invaded the lands of Africa and India

and Southern China.

And as they took over the forms of the spiritual systems

one of the things that had to happen was to change

the image because whoever is your God,

whoever you image as your God is going to be the image

that you worship, honor and respect at all costs.

And since the early peoples, such as the Kemites,

such as the inner African peoples, specifically

we're talking about.

Their image of a creator was not anthropomorphic.

In other words it was not a living human being.

It was not looked up as someone who lived on the planet.

It was someone that was internal

and that they had a story

and that story basically was steep deep inside what we call

the Ausarian Drama.

And this Ausarian Drama is the template.

It is the outline for all fate systems worldwide.

When the Eurasians came out of the ice

and when they came upon the southern lands

and was introduced to this story,

they then took that story and they began to change the

complexions of the neteru.

They began to change the complexions of those entities

that were respected, honored and revered.

And what they did is they put in those places,

people that look like them and out of having those images

they then returned that fate system to the people

that they were attempting to control and out of that came

our experience that we're looking at today.

In order to understand the importance of white Jesus

or any image or symbol to the mind of any person,

you have to understand subconscious archetypal programming.

Our minds work on subconscious archetypal programming.

Every memory we have is stored in our mind as a symbol,

as an archetype.

This is precisely why our ancestors in Kemet

made an entire language out of symbols.

People say, why did they go through the difficultly

and complexity and cumbersome process of creating

a whole system of communication based on symbols?

Because they knew somehow in their genius,

well we didn't learn until centuries later

that the mind stores everything as a symbol.

- There is a problem in creating an image

that you begin to believe actually exists.

It's very dangerous.

The image of spirituality claims that all of us

are children of the creator and there is no one

in a place that was higher than anyone else.

So the image of that Eurasian Jesus or that God

or any symbol that would make another human being

not be able to identify it from a perspective

of its physicality, of the way it looks

is dangerous because it creates a very special club

for only people who look like that.

- The brain is a symbol storing associating

and producing machine.

So when you show a child a picture of a white Jesus.

Constantly, repetitively, a Black child in particular

whose already being bombarded with negative propaganda

that suggests that Europeans are more intelligent

that African people.

The brain, being an associating and a

generating symbol machine will automatically link

this picture to the information

that I'm being programmed with.

I'm being told white folks are superior.

I'm being told God is white.

If God is white and white people are superior,

then why are Black people so upset about white supremacy?

Because God, the white man naturally

and quite honestly made white people in his image.

White people are here to control us

because they are God's people.

- And so when you are in an Ice Age and you are experiencing

very harsh climate and weather, your God can only be

as great as your perception of the nature around you.

And so when you are in a very harsh climate.

When you are in a climate that creates the type

of background that makes you have to gnash your teeth,

makes you envious and makes you jealous.

Then the image that you have of your creator

because of the nature that is in your environment

is going to be the creator that you create for other people.

When you wish to dominate them and when you wish to control

them, you're going to take that image and you're going

so supplant it over what they already had.

Dr. Clarke said Europeans colonized the image of God.

What they did was even more than colonize the image of God.

They created an image of God

by creating God in the European's image.

And then through tyranny, murder, mayhem and genocide,

forced the African world

to accept this European image of God.

And so when you're worshiping God, you're worshiping

the European because the only image you got of God

is of the European and so you worshiping your murder.

You're worshiping your rapist.

You're worshiping your robber.

You're worshiping your genocider.

And in essence, you are in the name

of God committing suicide, spiritual suicide,

cultural suicide.

And so the European has been very strategic

in how they've done this but they've don't it all

at the tip of a sword and the barrel of a gun.

They didn't do this through persuasion.

They did this through murder, mayhem and genocide.

In this movie, "The Son of God."

They had all this extra footage from the Bible documentary

and it shows a white guy.

And they said that they want this move to be the images

that people will see when they close their eyes

and imagine God.

Now, nobody whose truthful can tell you what God looks

like because nobody has ever seen God.

And one of the things that I appreciate about Islam

is that they don't allow any images of God.

Because they know no person could see God.

But, what you have on the part of Europeans

is the Europeanization of African spirituality

which they converted into religion.

And then they took African personalities

and removed their melanin, presented them as Europeans

in order to control the image of God that people saw

when they pray, so that's powerful.

- If that central figure of your faith system

does not look like you and it looks like another person,

then if you love God and respect God and honor God

and God is the most important thing in your life,

then the people that look like that God are also

going to be very important to you and more important

than you are to yourself.

So it is not surprising that you would conduct yourself

the way in which you would in reality because

why should you not.

It would be natural for you not to honor yourself

and your people if the God you worship doesn't look

like you?

- When we're talking about white Jesus archetype.

If Jesus is white, then it makes sense why white people

are in control because they are also blessed with the same

color as God.

So that white Jesus image, I believe has been one

of the most psychological devastating and destructive

images, concepts, strategies, weapons that have been

reaped upon Black folk.

Because it's still with us.

You talk about psychological residuals of slavery,

whenever I travel the world, I'm likely to run into

a white Jesus.

We were in Ghana last summer.

Life sized statues of white Jesus in a blue Black country.

The socialization, the indoctrination, the subconscious

archetypal programming.

- When you consider the fact that 9/10 of the people

on this planet are people of color.

People classified as Europeans, white people are a minority.

So why is it that all the images of God, son of God,

all the angels are all white

if they are minority people on the planet?

So what we're dealing with is the greatest form

of brainwashing ever imagined as a means of controlling

a people from the inside out.

- Remember now, the CIA and the FBI employs hundreds

of psychologists.

We fail to recognize this but propaganda is one of the

most important institutions of any government.

Your ability to control the thinking of the masses

is critical to you controlling the masses.

You want to control Black folk, you have to control

Black people's thinking.

So the CIA, the FBI, the United States government,

every corporation employs psychologists to help get past

the natural defense mechanisms of the mind

and send a message straight to the subconscious

so they're very very efficient at manipulating

people's emotions in order to control their thinking.

The church does it.

The pastor is a master propagandist.

He manipulates your emotions in order to make you more loyal

to his church.

It's very difficult for people to change their beliefs.

That's why it's very important for us to raise

our children and socialize them

and educate them appropriately with the right beliefs

because whatever those children believe by the time

they're 12-years-old, they're not likely to change

it again.

If they believe that Jesus was white,

they're not likely to change it again no matter

how much information you give them.

- Well the African people have to begin to understand

that if you return to an African way of understanding

and knowing reality, you will get over the fear of death

because the fear of death is the only tool the European has

to persuade you to accept his reality,

which is your non-reality.

And his reality, which is your non-reality is a

configuration of information that is transmitted

to your mind that determines how you make decisions

and how you make judgements and how you make plans

for your future.

If your judgements and decisions and plans are based

on a misorganization of information,

and deliberate deconstruction of information

then there's no plan or decisions you can make

on your behalf that would be for your benefit.

- So what you have to develop is an understanding

of what it is that you need to worship.

And so we have got to look now as to how we're going

to approach this discussion.

And how we're going to look at scripture.

And how we're going to look at the ancient texts

and develop a way in which we can create a supreme being

that is within each and every one of us

to understand that each and everyone of us is God,

having a human experience.

When we look at history, as we move through the cosmic

calendar and as we move through the different forms

of the human family.

As we moved up the Hapi Valley and as we moved

into the technological age of our ancestors,

in places such as today's Sudan and Kemet.

The technology that we brought to the world

in Africa at this time, what we did.

We also realize that when the Ice Age melted

and Africans that had de-pigmented themselves

into who we today call Eurasians began to come down

and they began to attack us, we began

to move West across the northern part of Africa

and what we began to do according to Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop

is that we brought that technology, the pyramid-building

technology, the temple-building technology,

the spiritual manifestation technology.

The arts, the sciences, the language, the foods.

We brought that technology with us as we started

to move across North Africa and as we started

to move into West Africa and we created the peoples

that we today call Nigerians.

We created the people we call today the Ghanaians.

We created the people who are from Togo and Dahomey.

We created a West African civilization from the Nile Valley

and so the technology of the pyramid-builders

started to travel west all the way to Senegal.

When Europe attacked Africa post 1492 and began

to steal Africans from Senegal, from Ghana,

from Nigeria, from Congo.

They were stealing, I call them the ascendants,

not the descendants but you are the ascendants

of the pyramid-builders.

We don't know this, nobody tells us this information.

So the pyramid-builder DNA is in those who were

enslaved and brought to America.

But when these Africans were so-called free,

they then dispersed across the country

and they were placed in projects.

So the DNA that came to America and went into

the plantation-dweller is now in the project people

who live in projects.

So from pyramid to plantation to project.

But we not done yet.

Because now that same DNA, that came from the pyramids

that went on the plantation that resides in the project

is now moving towards the Promised Land. (echoing)

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- The history of hip-hop parallels in many ways

the history of the desegregation movement in America.

When Black folk were isolated from white people,

we were able to build upon ourselves

and we were successful doing it.

When hip-hop was isolated from the mainstream music

corporations, it was successful.

And able to build on its own.

But just like with integration, when the white folks

stepped to the hip-hop artists and managers

and said guess what, you don't have to be independent

anymore, we're going to finance you, we're going to bring

you into Sony.

We're going to bring you into Arista.

We're going to bring you into Universal.

We're going to bring you into Interscope.

It was the beginning of the end.

Because whenever you integrate Black power,

you automatically weaken it, you change the direction,

you change the function.

- The music in and of itself is a product of a Black

experience in the Black lexicon.

Blacks have a genius, a talent for creating music,

dance and slang and dress.

That is a gift and a talent.

All the music in this country originated

out of the blackness and culture and the Black experience.

I don't care whether you go back to country and Western

or hillbilly, big band sounds, you talk about jazz,

the blues, Dixieland.

Whether you talk about nowadays hip-hop, it all came

out of the blackness.

They had some semi-control over it

up until the Civil Rights Movement.

What would allow whites to get ahold of your music

was integration.

See prior to that white folks were always attracted

to Black music but because of segregation

and the barriers of segregation, whites couldn't get to it.

- The contradiction of the hip-hop artist,

is the same contradiction of the Black leader

and revolutionary and that is if you really valued

this as an art form, if you really valued the independent

Black community, why did you integrate it?

When you integrated it, you gave control over your cultural

product to your oppressor.

Who makes more money off your cultural product

than you do.

Keep in mind music is America's

second largest export industry.

That people have to take a minute to fathom exactly

what that means.

America makes more money off of music,

than anything else except one other product

and that's probably intellectual property.

So, when you look at the power of Black music

and the fact that it is fueling America's economy

and not doing nothing for the Black community,

we have to look at how the hip-hop artist has betrayed

the hood.

- Up until integration whites had a very difficult time

getting to Black music.

They used to listen to it and try to adopt is as much,

they used to provide what they call a cover.

Which means any music that Black folks produced.

If Count Basie produced some music they'd have whites

producing the music, big band sounds.

1950s, Black music was called, well boogie woogie,

up until the late 40s, then rhythm and blues.

And then by the 1950s with integration

and the Supreme Court decision about desegregation,

it gave people like Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins

and Bill Haley and the Comets to get access to Black music

because now they could come into the Black community

and they could sort of interact with Blacks.

The Black song writers and Black musicians

and so what they did to keep down the outright

theft of Black music or shake, rattle and roll.

They started calling it rock n' roll.

Rhythm and blues became rock n' roll.

- How do we know this?

Where's the science behind this?

White people don't share power with Black folks.

I'm going to say it again for my hip-hop artists,

white people don't share power with Black folks.

So the minute you let white folks into hip-hop

they were coming to control it.

The minute you let white folks into voodoo,

they were coming to control it.

You see that?

The minute you let white folks into African drumming,

they're coming to control it.

Let's look at jazz.

You go to the average jazz orchestra today.

I was at one Avenue of the Arts, South Philadelphia

state of the art.

I'm at a jazz orchestra, this is a Black art form,

and not a single person on the orchestra,

it was nearly 100, not a single person on the orchestra

was Black but guess what you had?

Black people complaining.

Why are you complaining?

You're the one who said, this was not a Black art form.

You said everybody can have it.

You're the one who gave it out there to the world

and now you want to get mad when they take it from you.

Crazy.

- There was drum and bugle corps all over the place,

almost every city had them.

They disappeared within a decade.

There were no more drum and bugle corps.

There were hundreds of them and then suddenly

there was none.

They started taking the music out of the schools

and stopped teaching inner city kids music.

Then they started moving the movie theaters

out of the Black community, you could only go to movie

theaters in white communities.

And then they went into the music thing

and we started getting this crossover music.

Late 60s, early 70s.

All the sudden Hall and Oats, white boys sounding

like Black folks.

Black folks sounding like white folks.

And in the midst of that attack on Black youth

because they understood that 90% of the people following

Martin Luther King, most of their marches were Black youth.

Same thing with those who were following Malcolm X

and the Nation of Islam.

The same thing with who was making

up the Black Panther Party

and so the thrust was directed at destroying

the Black youth before he or she could become

Black adult of consciousness that would take action.

It is out of that genocidal process, socioeconomic

and political that arose this spiritual phenomena

called hip-hop.

- I told you before what Europeans do

is they watch everything.

They are in control of the A&R, the radio,

the program directors in the radio station.

And so they said, look we gotta stop this.

Let's offer these dudes money, you follow me?

Let's offer these dudes a dream.

And I always share this with everybody

and I say your talent is not based on,

your longevity is not based on your talent,

it's based on your character.

You see what I'm saying, it's not based on your talent,

it's based on your character, your longevity.

So hip-hop plays a very big part and they saw that again.

Again, if we're beefing with one another,

what happens, he comes in at your weakest point

and say now, we gonna give him this money.

Now we're going to take his attention away

from the consciousness and switch it,

let's switch it over here.

- And now whites gonna have to come in and take over hip-hop

and take over and try to be rappers.

Whites have been taking over Black music,

readjusting Black music.

I don't care care what they call it from Al Jolsons

or what we call the old Black face makeup on stages

and vaudeville all the way up to Elvis Presley.

They've always taken Black music and exploited it

and misused it, renamed it and called it their music.

- We don't like to identify the gatekeepers of our progress,

the ones who are financed by white folks,

controlled by white folk, put on TV.

We don't like to identify them because they've been given

authority by the white man.

So to speak out against them means he has the leverage

given to him by the oppressor to crush you.

So we don't like to expose the Jesse Jacksons,

we don't like to expose the Al Sharptons

because they have power to get things done for us.

Not as a people but as a person.

They also have the person to silence us.

So people tend not to speak out against the gatekeepers,

the sellouts.

Same thing in hip-hop.

The hardcore grassroots revolutionary artists,

who have never compromised their music, many of them

are still a bit too afraid to call out the gatekeepers.

If you upset them, they can destroy your career.

And so just like with the Black community,

the power structure puts certain people in place

to control negative criticism.

The same thing is in hip-hop.

- So Black music will be destined to become white music

until Black folks rebuild their communities

and put up some kind of a cultural defense

to make sure people cannot misuse their music

by building their own vertical industries.

If you build your own vertical industries,

you can control your culture and your music.

- We said hip-hop was for everybody.

This is not a Black thing.

This ain't just for Black people.

Hip-hop is for anybody.

Hip-hop is for Latinos.

Hip-hop is for Asians.

Hip-hop is for Arabs.

Hip-hop is for white folks.

Look at this now.

This is what rappers will tell you.

This is not just about Black folk.

In other words, we don't own this.

You don't own it.

Do you know what you're saying?

You're giving every corporation and every culture

on the planet, the right to colonize

and exploit your cultural product.

Who does that?

Who voluntarily gives up their cultural products

to be identified with with anyone

throughout the world.

We're the only people who do that.

Whose fault was it?

Ours.

We made it comfortable for white folk

to feel that they can colonize and incorporate hip-hop.

Don't blame the white man, blame yourself.

(drum music)

(fire crackling)

- In going back into the history, you can trace

this experience right back into Africa to the jeli,

the storyteller.

The historian of the community that was dropping

knowledge and wisdom on the community,

on the children, reminding them of their divine

purpose in life and what it was they had to do.

You have all of these different things going on

and you have this hip-hop concept.

You have this idea of hip and hop.

- [Sabir] Hip-hop first of all actually comes from

the ancient tribe in West Africa called the Wolof tribe.

The Wolof tribe is where the word hip comes from.

And the word hip means to open one's eyes.

Hop is a German word.

And so when you understand where hip-hop really originated

from, we always taught that.

We taught in a circle when you have people

that was beating the drums in the drums.

The circle which we call today, the cipher.

So hip-hop has always been here.

It's rock n' roll, it's jazz, it's R&B all of it.

- The rebirth, the idea that we're going

to make things happen

and then you mix words with music and now let's

go back to Africa.

Let's go back to the jeli.

Let's go back to the story of telling the story

to our people with the drums playing in the background

and the master teacher dropping the knowledge

and the wisdom.

And so from there you have Africans begin captured,

enslaved, tortured and brought to America

and on the plantations they're singing the spiritual

hoping to get back in.

You have this dynamic music that Africans are creating.

They have the banjo and they're playing their bodies,

the hambone.

You have that growing and then out of the spiritual,

you have the blues speaking of the conditions

they find themself in.

And then from the blues you add a little bit of rhythm.

And you get the rhythm and blues.

- Just as the ancestor spirits and the God divine

produced Noble Drew Ali and Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X

and Father Divine and Daddy Grace and Papa Jones

and all the others that makes us a significant difference

between 1929 and 1955 in America.

That same African spiritual consciousness

produced those who positively used hip-hop to free us

from white mental tyranny.

Especially after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King.

It would evolve to being described as hip-hop

in the early 70s, when the tyranny of white supremacy

that oversaw the killing of Medgar Evers,

blowing up our little girls in the church in Birmingham.

The murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, the murder

of Malcolm X, the imprisonment and the beating

of Fannie Lou Hamer, the raping.

All of these ugly genocidal things that the society

had done against us, the murder of a Fred Hampton,

the murder of Mark Clark, members of the Black Panther

Party, the imprisonment of members of the Black

Liberation Army, etc.

All of this is happening between 1969, 1968 and 1975.

Well it was within that period of time

that what we call hip-hop emerges as a response

from the Black youth to white state violence and tyranny.

Directed at that population, at the same time

that this murder, mayhem directed at that population

was happening.

The federal government of the United States

led by General Secord, led by Oliver North

and enabled by Bill Clinton, who was then the governor

of Arkansas who was allowing the drugs to be flowing

into the Arkansas National Guard base,

that's when the crack attack by the government

of the United States came on our inner city communities.

And so it is the response to this tyranny,

and even at the most local level there were other tyrannical

cultural things taking place.

- And out of this you're gonna have this movement of people.

You have the dynamics of the civil and the human rights

movement, you're gonna have this music, these words

that are raising up our consciousness.

And then what's going to happen is the folk

are going to decide we need to exclude them

from this process

but the young brothers are not gonna let that happen.

So you're going to have brothers like Kool Herc

having house parties in the Bronx.

- At the time that the African-American cultural

phenomenon that we call hip-hop came into play,

and understand I'm saying the African, African-American

cultural phenomenon called hip-hop comes into play.

It had been there before because long before Kool Herc

there were others who was spinning the records

and instead of having the bass box,

they were using the snare drum and the bass.

- Young brothers and sisters, such as Kool Herc

is gonna create a dynamic right in there,

where they're gonna have house parties

and these house parties is gonna have the rapper.

And you're gonna have the person doing the turntable

or you're gonna have the birth of the Grandmaster Flashes

and the Afrika Bambaataas.

You're going to have this birth of music and it is going

to start being given birth from the Black Panther Party

and from the street organizations that are going to unite

themselves in the Bronx and they're going to call

themselves the Zulu Nation.

And this is going to be the birth of the music

that we are now experiencing.

- So the phenomena we got to be careful not to do

our history the way white people do their history.

We have to tell the truth about our history

and we don't have to lie about our history.

So even before Kool Herc became the one that exploded

on the scene but before Kool Herc,

there were others doing it.

There were others doing it and they were going

from city to city, doing this.

There wasn't anybody calling it then,

in the 60s, early 60s, no one was calling this hip-hop.

This was the divine African ancestral spirit

manifesting though them a resistance movement

to go up against this force that was too big

to handle with a gun.

And until we look back and not lie to ourselves

of where hip-hop came from.

The hairstyles were were wearing were hairstyles

that hadn't been seen anywhere except for Africa

in the 1950s.

How did we know to wear it on the streets of Harlem?

The rhythms and the beats we were using

was right out of African drum rhythms that we had

never heard before.

That's ancestors, that's spirit, that's God.

That's where hip-hop came from.

♪ Let's up begin what where why or when ♪

♪ Let me explain like instructions to a game ♪

♪ See I'm not insane, in fact I'm kind of rational ♪

♪ When I be asking you who was more dramatic ♪

♪ This one or that one

♪ The white one or the black one ♪

♪ Kick the punk and I'll jump up to attack one ♪

♪ KRS One is just the guy to lead a crew ♪

♪ Right up to your face and diss you ♪

♪ A lot of suckers would like to forget me but they can't ♪

♪ Because like a champ I have got a record ♪

♪ Of knocking out the frauds in a second ♪

♪ On the mic I believe that you should get loose ♪

♪ I didn't come to tell you I got juice ♪

♪ I just produce, create, innovate on a higher level ♪

♪ I'll be back

♪ But for now just seckle

- Now who were the angels of hip-hop?

The Kool Herc, the Afrika Bambaataa, Fab Five Freddie.

These brothers and the sisters, Latifah

and so many others, they were the angels.

They were the ones given the assignment.

So don't give yourself credit for something

without giving the credit where it was due.

That this things regurgitated out of your deep

super-subconscious at the behest of the ancestors

and the divine.

And when you see it in that African context,

you'll understand the force of hip-hop.

If you're gonna reduce hip-hop to the intellect

to some backwards negroes who had no African conscious

or spiritual foundation.

Then you are doing a disservice to it.

- But we all have to contribute.

And if I'm not doing my work to inform

and to educate then how we articulate in music

or art or spoken word or whatever it is you're using,

then we can only expect that what's going to come out

is what people have been exposed to and so the more

expose the knowledge, the more we expose the truth,

the more those in, particularly hip-hop itself,

will have the power to pull us up from the depths

of what now appears to be a very very scary

and profoundly tragic direction.

- So we gotta get back to the young people

and let them know, look, if you are part of a spinning wheel

that is headed towards total emancipation,

total liberation of the African mind.

- So I think today's youth are no different

than any other youth in any other time,

they are expressing, their feelings, thoughts

and experience through a medium that's a bit different

in terms of the music and poetry and art.

But they are speaking it nonetheless and inevitably

the more we educate ourselves about who we are,

the more we will see reflected in those art forms

what is necessary for us to retrieve a sense of who

we are, our dignity and our ultimate healing.

(chalk writing on chalkboard)

- You know it's interesting about the word illuminati

and how it has really caught on with the younger generation

and the way in which the word is being used

and when we look at the origin of the word

and when we look at the concept of it,

when we're dealing with the illuminati.

We're not dealing necessarily with an organization.

We're dealing with a group of people,

who had sat at the feet of Africans who we call the Moors.

As the years went on, the people caught on.

The peoples of Spain and parts of France and Europe

caught on to this new way of living.

- And this is another reason why masonry for the most part

is given a negative connotation.

So that people don't really examine its origin

or what's really behind it, etc.

Also why many things are just told in sign,

symbol and allegorical stories.

This is to keep the people disconnected.

But it also demonstrates the fact

that people don't talk about it, represents the fact

of them deliberately avoiding it.

And that they're avoiding it is without,

is not without circumstance, not without motive.

- It's important for us to understand

that the word illuminati represented a group

of scientists that sat at the feet of Africans

and studied the wisdom of Africa, of Kemet,

of the ancient wisdom of the science of West Africa,

Northwest Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa.

And they brought it into Europe.

All of these individuals studied at the feet of Africans.

And African-inspired scholars but because of the rise

of the church, they became outlaws.

They pushed the idea of science and the church

did everything they could to destroy the fabric

of bringing that knowledge into Europe

and so these illumined ones had to go underground.

And they became an underground society

that perpetuated the study of the souls science

of ancient Kemet.

- Illuminati means to illuminate.

The ones that are afraid of the light

are the ones that don't have the light.

See what I'm saying?

The ones that don't have the light are the ones

that are afraid of the light.

If you have the light, you let your light shine.

Illuminati means to illuminate.

So you illuminate the ones that walking in darkness

and that other people, that's our people's problem.

They're walking in darkness basically.

- And when we understand this, we can see

that the structures that we see today from the Empire State

Building, from the so-called Washington Monument,

to Cleopatra's Needle.

When you go into the museums and you see the obelisks

or what the Africans call the tekhenu.

You can see these structures even when you look

at the structures and the symbols of the major religions,

you will see that they came all out of Africa.

Whether it is the crescent moon and stars of Islam.

Whether it is the inverted pyramids that was known

to the ancient world as the Star of Ast.

Now known as the Star of David, scared symbol.

Whether we are dealing with a cross, we are dealing

with African symbols.

- As a teacher I have a lot of students that come

to me and say, Ms. Browder you're wearing the evil eye,

that's the illuminati symbol.

I said, no, this is the ancient Kemetic symbol

that existed thousands and thousands of years

before any concept of illuminati as it relates

to the European or Caucasian.

So again it goes back to the whole idea of symbolism

that empowers you.

When you're looking at the Eye of Horus,

you're symbolically talking about the activation

of the pineal gland, activation of the chakras, etc.

So the activation of the chakras is referred

to as Nirvana, the Ascension, Kundalini, etc.

And you have to keep in mind, one of the things

that Europeans have always done has been to steal

our legacy or culture.

Now, because they have a negative agenda,

you understand with Adam Weishaupt, etc.

And they set up the illuminati, that's really

they're taking the honor of ancient Asiatic African culture,

of spiritual or what you would call the body development

and the activation of the pineal gland and put a,

what you call, a negative spin on it.

- They were talking about trying to gain power and control.

Every generation and every community there's some

trying to gain power and control.

The illuminati is nothing more in the general sense

than white people trying to maintain power and control

over the wealth in America and the world.

And music produces trillions of dollars a year.

And somebody wants to control those monies

and direct it to their community's interest

and not your, your meaning the Black community's interest.

Who's going to get the rewards and the capital

from the music that's being produced out

of the consciousness of Black people across the world.

And they've played us for almost a century now in regards

to our music.

And we have enriched their communities beyond measure.

And yet, we still try to create, look at them

in some box call illuminati.

See them for what they are.

- Keep in mind that for persons to rule

and to really be capable of exercising such powers,

they must know the real truth of the human condition.

Thus, this is again, why all persons in positions

of power must be masons.

It's the lawyers, it's the judges, it's the politicians,

it's the school teachers, it's the union head,

it's the doctors.

They're in complicit with one another around the subjugation

of Black people, just as they were in slavery.

It wasn't a group of little white folks on the corner

doing slavery, it was the entire white population

involved in the process at different levels

and that's the same thing today.

With using our music as another form of enslavement

and knowing that music creates human beings,

meaning that music creates, the consciousness creates

the information formulation that human beings

use to ake decisions.

And so by controlling the lyrics, by controlling

the dialogue in the music that our psyche absorbs

because it comes in a vehicle of African rhythms,

they're able to still subjugate us as they did

psychically in slavery.

And hip-hop freed us from a lot of that.

And it's still freeing us but the brothers

and sisters in the hip-hop industry must elevate

their consciousness so they don't get bamboozled

and fooled to thinking this is about them. (echoing)

(chalk writing on chalkboard)

Dr. Clarke said we lost our sense of sense of nationhood

and he was right.

Because we lost our memory of what it meant to be a nation.

Your history is your memory.

If you don't know your history, you don't have a memory

and until we restore our history, our knowledge

of our history we cannot restore the memory

and it's more than just the intellectual historical

elements or the memory that derives from that intellect.

It is the memory that is stimulated in your subconscious

by the memory of those intellectual experiences.

That is the critical, the critical element

of the community's development.

- This stuff is not really complex

but what it does when the real history is exposed.

Not only does it exposed Europeans who misrepresented

the history, it also exposes compromised "Black scholars"

who have fed into the code system of human beings

being crayons, which in law makes them non-descendible

So these anomalies in our cultural circumstance

are not just happenstance,

they have political ramifications.

For example, when one is not in one's proper person,

one in law is not descendible.

And of course that anybody that does any research

will find that all the Asiatics and people in general

are on the stock market via marriage certificates,

birth certificates, etc. Original manufacturers titles

of origins, on their vehicles, etc.

And this is how they fund their army with what is known

as U.S. T-bonds.

And you also know, or notice that a lot of the so-called

scholars will avoid or skip around this information

as if it doesn't matter or doesn't count.

When it's actually the base of the economics

and the base of the politics period here in North America.

And the foundation of the politics is the Spanish

Inquisition, Secret Treaty of Verona, Doctrine of Discovery,

Christian Black Codes 1724, the 14th Amendment creation

of the corpse, Artificial person and given the quality

of person in 1868, when they closed the Freed Man's Bureau.

This is to mentally and politically disconnect the people

from the land and thus their inheritance.

- First of all we have to understand what a nation is,

a nation has a nationality, a nation has a flag.

A nation has a constitution.

When you look at other nations, other nations

has a constitution, right?

They have a flag, right?

Constitution, flag, laws, principles.

Blacks don't have principles, morals, a flag,

a constitution, none of that.

That's what the nation is.

This is why nations build with nations.

That's how it is.

You have no nation, so that's very important.

This is why Noble Drew Ali said, "Nationality is the order

"of the day."

Because everybody has to have a nationality.

That's international law.

So it plays a very big part but we have to get

to that again.

By proclaiming who we are.

This is our land.

We have to teach our people that they're home.

We have to teach our people their nationality,

their principles, their morals and then they wouldn't

have any hate. This is why

Noble Drew Ali said, "Teach love instead of hate."

(soft music)

- You can take the slave out of slavery all you want

but until the slave takes the slavery out of themself,

you will never be free.

So you can teach African history and culture all you want

but until you resocialize African children,

we will always be self-hating.

You can build all the Black businesses you want

but until we've been socialized to support Black businesses

they will always shut down.

You can destroy white supremacy all you want

but the white supremacy will regenerate itself

because it lives in every Black person.

You get rid of the flu, you get rid of the flu.

But you still have it in you.

So guess what, the flu will be right back

in the neighborhood because it's in you.

See white supremacy lives in us.

Nobody wants to talk about it.

It's not even afro-centric scholars,

who also got white supremacy living in them too.

You see that?

Nobody wants to talk about that.

What about the white man living in us.

Let's have a conversation on that.

Because when you deal with post traumatic slavery disease,

that's what you're dealing with.

Your question is how do I get the white man

out of me?

Nobody touches that and you know why nobody touches that?

Because many of our learned African scholars

got a much stronger white man living inside of them

because they were the products of the white institutions.

"Miseducation of the Negro" Carter G. Woodson.

He laid it out, he wasn't a psychologist

but that book was profoundly psychological.

The college-educated Negro is seldom of any use

to his race.

- Well first of all let's go to two people,

the honorable Malcolm X, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

and Noble Drew Ali.

Both of them said, the media can make you love

your oppressor and hate the oppressed.

Malcolm talked about that.

Noble Drew Ali said the media is, the most powerful

tool in our hands is the press.

Now I did radio for 13 years, I understand

the manipulations of it.

It plays a very very big part.

Media is not just behind radio, it's newspapers,

it's videography, what you're doing here,

that's media.

So because the masses of people see this

and around the world so they can shape the people's minds

and shape the way people think,

it plays a very big part of what's going on right now.

It's dangerous too.

- This information, this knowledge is hidden

in plain sight, right.

And so individuals like yourself and what I would hope

to do and anyone else, they don't know

what they don't know. (laughs)

So they don't know enough to even realize

that there's something that they don't know.

And again, we have allowed the media, largely television

to educate our children and our communities

about who they are.

That's not ever been effective, okay ever. (laughs)

- Step outside the box and not just focus

on those things that society wants us to focus on

which is the media, which is music and not engaging

ourselves in other things that will allow us to blossom.

And be positive role models and figures in our community.

Black folk must come to the realization that they must

find a way of reinforming their people and educating

and training them to be a competitive group of people

and the time is running out on doing that.

- I truly feel as though it's a process that is not

going to happen overnight.

But I definitely feel as though there are people

who understand that we are moving towards that.

They are individuals who are coming out of a certain

type of mentality and want to know who they are.

(jazz music)

- You have to first want to be Black (laughs)

to be a Black nationalist.

You gotta first want to be an African

to be a Pan-African Nationalist you see.

So the identity precedes the national impetus.

So you have to first get us happy and proud

to be who we are.

Once we're happy and proud to be who we are,

then we naturally start talking about let's do for myself.

Let's get our own school, let's get our own neighborhood.

Let's get our own supermarket, let's get our own ships.

Let's get our own airplanes.

That is the natural outgrowth of a healthy sense of love

of self.

That naturally comes.

- You know when I look at other cultures, Mexican,

French, wherever, they're proud of who they are.

They wave their flag, they speak their native tongue.

They eat their native food.

They wear their native clothing.

They are proud of who they are and in world history

it seems like people of African descent,

we are the only people who have gone through

this identify crisis from being colored, Negro,

just trying to find out who we are.

- You go into an Italian neighborhood.

That Italian flag is waving.

You go into a Jewish neighborhood,

that Israeli flag is waving.

You go into the Puerto Rican neighborhood,

that Puerto Rican flag is waving.

You see that?

But you go into the Black neighborhood,

one flag and that's the red, white and blue.

The flag of our oppressor.

The people who love who they are don't want to integrate

with other people.

Boom, that's why Black people love integration so much.

We're the only people who want to be around

other people who don't look nothing like us

all day long.

Chinese want to be around Chinese.

I love myself.

Jews want to be around Jews.

I love myself.

Anglo-Saxons want to be around Anglo-Saxons.

I love myself.

Latinos want to be around Latinos, I love myself.

It's self love.

We're the only people,

we don't want to live with each other.

We don't want to work with each other.

We don't want to marry each other.

Look, because we don't like ourselves.

That's why you want to be surrounded by non-Black folk

because you don't want to see reflections of yourself

around you.

We do no want reminders of anything that tells

us we African, I don't want to hear it.

- [James] And that's why it's important for African people

to begin to inform themselves, instruct themselves,

but you can't inform and instruct yourself

until you've recreated yourself.

And you cannot recreate yourself unless you have a culture

and a value system that comes from your ancestral

experience that interprets the reality that should

produce the consciousness that you call you.

- Because before we can unite with anybody else,

first we have to unite with ourselves as individuals.

Because if we don't have ourselves together personally

we're not going to do no good for no one else.

No matter if they're our culture or not.

So we have got to come together as an African people

and we have got to get our African minsters

and holy people who are said to be holy people.

Our ministers, makes no difference if you are Christian,

Muslim, Hebrew Israelite, Buddhist, Agnostic or Atheist.

We have to bring us all together and we have to speak

on the movement of us as a spiritual people forward.

We don't have to change no religions, just ground yourself

in the fact that every religion from Agnostic

to Zoroastrianism came out of the African mind.

- Well the first thing to do is understand

the nature of your condition where you are

in time and place and space.

Right now you are in danger, you are in a high

risk position, you are totally dependent on others,

on the white society and other people to take care

of you, support you, provide you with your daily

necessities of life.

That's critically important, if you don't understand

you're dependent on other people

who are competing with you.

- We will not build until the Black power is connected

to the Black dollar.

And that's going to offend some people but it's the reality.

We have to shift, what are we celebrating right now?

This is our 150th year since the end of slavery.

150 years of the 13th Amendment.

150.

Are we on course for revolution?

Are we on course for regeneration?

Are we on course for reorganization?

If anybody says yes, they are crazy.

We're not on course.

We're not on course and the reason we're not on course

is we're not looking at the economics

and the reason we don't want to look at the economics

is because nobody wants to be accountable for the whole

for how they spend their money.

Let me say it again, the reason why it is so difficult

to talk about the black dollar that underscores

the black power is because nobody wants to be accountable

to the whole for how they spend their money.

In other words for us to really rebuild the Black community

besides the lecture, you understand,

you have to come forward with how much you make a year

and the community is going to say based on how much

you make a year you are obligated to give $200 a month,

you are obligated to give $5000, you see that?

Like the churches do.

See the churches make you economically accountable.

You can't join a church, a mega church without them seeing

your tax return.

Now check this out,

I don't have a problem with the formula.

I like it.

The problem is they're not using the money to build

up the community, they're using the money to build

a bigger church, you see the difference?

But I like the protocol.

I like the idea.

You want to be in the Black conscious community,

I don't care if you Hebrew, Moor, Nuwaubian,

God and Earth, Nation of Islam, Vegetarian, Socialist,

Nationalist, it don't matter.

You want to be in the conscious community,

I need to see your paystubs.

- You build those communities around what?

People who have a similar interest to yours

or who has a similar problem to yours

and you build communities.

In the old days, the pioneers, they were going West,

they would circle the wagons when the Indians

would shoot at them.

Blacks must learn to circle the wagons

and build their own communities.

Inside of those communities they have to start building

vertical industries, build their own businesses

and industries.

Those industries need to provide a tax base and jobs

and business opportunities, services, goods

for their own people.

Thirdly, they got to learn how to practice group

economics and group politics.

Which means in group economics, you make your money

bounce 8 to 12 times with your own people before it leaves.

That's why Hispanic money bounces six to seven times,

white money bounces 8 to 12 times, Asian money

bounces about 12 or 13 times

and Jewish money bounces 18 times.

Black money doesn't bounce once.

We spend our money outside of our own communities.

Other people spend their money with their own people.

We're losing the money.

We have a balance of trade, which means we're spending

our money in other people's communities subsidizing them.

Nobody comes to the Black community to subsidize

the Black community but we go to everybody else's

community and drop our money there because our money

doesn't bounce once.

We're totally depending on other people

and other people are trying are competing against us.

- We have to look at economics.

We have to find a way to economically support

our own people realistically.

Realistically and begin to let the dollar turn in our

community, I need say no more.

Claud Anderson, George Fraser and all the countless others

Reginald Lewis who bought Tropicana showed us

how to do this.

And there are sisters who are doing it dynamically.

Black Enterprise will list you the different types

of businesses that are run by us successfully.

So economic is another ministry.

We have to look at labor.

We have to start to hire ourselves.

Why should our children respect us when everything

they need to do they go to other people

to meet their need and solve their problems.

Start with your own children.

Instead of giving them an allowance, make them work for it.

Let them get that work ethic that if you want

that money on Friday this is what you have to do.

Hire our own children first and if we can build

a business around that, a family business

that will be handed down from generation

to generation.

If we can do that then we can start to hire the community

around us, start within and move without.

But we have to start to hire ourselves.

We have to be our own labor leaders.

- If we really want to get serious.

We will really crack down on people's financial obligation

to the struggle.

Until we get there, we're hypocrites, we're not serious.

All this information sharing and information producing

Man, other groups are laughing at us.

They laughing!

Look at these negroes over here.

Yeah, they were great.

They build the pyramids.

They got melanin, they got spirituality

and don't own nothing.

Look at this.

You keep telling us how great you are

but you ain't showing it.

You see that?

That's the difference.

We're telling people how great we are.

You don't have to tell when you can manifest.

Why not manifest, you ain't got to tell white folks

how great you are, show 'em.

But we not ready to sacrifice the Black dollar.

- We have to begin teaching our people about

the positives of African history and not starting

Black history with slavery, let alone

only studying our history in February,

which is the shortest and the coldest month of the year.

- By studying our history and relearning our culture

and our values, relearning our spiritual systems

and what they were meant for.

Understanding that spirituality is your reality.

Spirituality in the African context is your participating

in your daily reality and being conscious

of that participation.

And so you begin to learn that there are laws

of the universe, laws of nature that our ancestors

discerned and left in writing and left in folklore

and left in metaphor, left in religious and spiritual

traditions for us to use

to guide how we build relationships with one another.

And a big part of that is to see ourselves

as being aspects of the divine having the human experience.

And so the divine in me recognizes the divine in the woman

and so the love that I have for the divine in me recognizes

the love that the woman has for the divine in her.

And so love loves love.

And that's what brings us together rather than

to be attracted to the physical aesthetics and to become

attached to those aesthetics which always

lead to catastrophe at one level or another.

- If you ask me what to study.

I say study self and I say keep on studying self,

keep studying because you go to these colleges,

these universities, these great schools of learning

that doesn't mean that you stop your learning.

You constantly keep growing.

We have to proclaim who we are.

We must proclaim our nationality.

And I'm going to say this again, Negro, Black

and Colored is not a nationality nor is African-American.

We must proclaim who we are.

This is who we are, nationhood building.

- So at the end of the day, it starts with the individual

the individual has an affect on their family

and the people around them and we just have to take

it one individual at at time until we get to the point

where we can organize groups of people who are willing

to work together and sacrifice their time

and don't have time to argue over the nonsense

and be willing to sometimes be a leader

or a follower.

You might have to switch your positions

to meet the ultimate goal.

- We must understand how to reconstruct

the African individual character.

So that character can begin to construct the African family

so that family can begin to construct the African

neighborhood and that neighborhood can combine

to construct the African community.

Then the African community combined to construct

the African nation but in the context of doing all that.

We must learn again how to put in place

economics, politics and culture that is controlled

by us and that is of us.

Because in each of those levels, the individuals

the family the neighborhood, the community

and the nation, economic politics and culture

is essential to be in the hands of the person

who is building that nation.

And they've got to understand at that the very foundation

of motivation is the need to provide food, clothing,

shelter, safety and security for yourself and your families.

And that means you have to have an analysis

as hip-hop has been doing of the social ecology

that we find ourselves in and that the social contract

that we have with the society we're in must

be critiqued and criticized and dissected

and then reconstructed so that it works in our benefit

and not to our destruction.

- And so my sense is yes, there's an answer

and the healing comes with transmitting the knowledge,

sharing the truth, truth is the foundation of all human

virtue, we gotta tell the truth.

And in so doing the healing happens.

- We find ourselves working with this group of young

people who seem so far behind but at the end

of the day they're just miseducated, uneducated

and don't know who they are.

And I truly feel that the more we expose our young

people to African history and culture

and doing it more than just February,

I feel that they will eventually begin to come around.

- We must be about empire building.

We have the DNA of the pyramid-builders.

We also have the DNA of the plantation-dwellers.

We have the DNA of those of us who lived in projects

and we are the people who will one day live

in the promise lands.

Let's get together.

Let us have a decent, respectful conversation

about where we must head in the future.

Let us look at our religions, let us look at our

economics, let us look at our labor.

Let us discuss the issues of gender issue.

Let us look at the question of how to educate our people.

We need to bring our judges and lawyers together

to create a ministry of law.

We must secure and keep our people safe.

We must entertain them in the traditions of Africa

and we must lead ourselves as the African politicians

because long before there were presidents,

there were pharaohs in the White House.

- So what is happening, this stranglehold of Europeans

on the minds of people of color is starting to loosen.

They are killing each other in an effort to get more

wealth and power.

They are destroying the environment in order

to get more wealth and power.

So what's gonna happen is nature itself

is going to deal with them.

And when they are no longer a force to be reckoned with,

then they will free up space for those who are ready

to jumpstart a new civilization to engage in acts of Sankofa

and reach back into their collective memory

and bring the best of their ancestors into the present

moment so that they can recreate the world

of their ancestors that their ancestors

would then inhabit through them.

That's the process, as Earth, Wind and Fire said,

that's the way of the world.

And that's where we're going and nothing on this planet

can stop that.

Nothing can stop that.

So if we're honest with ourselves.

500 years is just (snaps) a blip in time.

A thousand years is just a (snaps) blip in time.

And that I'm confident that in the time to come,

in the lifetimes to come we will experience

a return to the ascension of people of African ancestry

to their proper place on the throne on planet Earth.

THat's what I'm living for.

(African drumming)

♪ Welcome to the wild western civilization ♪

♪ Created by racist because the feared annihilation ♪

♪ Genetically of the fairer skin pigmentation. ♪

♪ And so they make their whole world a plantation ♪

♪ We currently reside within finer stage ♪

♪ Of its supremacists

♪ Post traumatic when we lynch

♪ No actually, Queen Elizabeth

♪ Backward Ice Age System can get the Black ♪

♪ Not actually the obelisk

♪ Somebody crusade on that

♪ Now tell me what is a savage to the civilized blackness ♪

♪ That was after we restore to the masses ♪

♪ From the land of our athletes ♪

♪ To the land of the Vatican

♪ They play our paths like instrument ♪

♪ And they're messing up the rhythmic ♪

♪ Nature of existence

♪ They're out of tune like concert picks ♪

♪ They want to be Erastes but have never been dominant ♪

♪ Babylon is crumbling down

♪ Babylon is crumbling down

- So while we tell this story of the terroristic disaster.

I also want us to understand a reason to celebrate

because we're still here and we're still going strong.

And it ain't over until we win.

And it's important that as we move forward

the solution for us is to keep on keeping on.

And whatever you do, do it well.

And whatever you do, develop an understanding

of who we are as a people.

Let us stop fighting amongst ourselves.

Let us come together and let us move out of the

darkness and into the light. (echoing)

(upbeat music)