Finding My Way Again by Cowan Amaye-Obu

 

                                     Finding My Way Again by Cowan Amaye-Obu/ Hip Hop Logo

For the last several years (2020-2024), I have struggled with the US Family Court of Fairfax, VA. A place I did not live but was thrusted into the system by the mother of my child. The Courts have prevented my employment for two years costing me over $130K in salary. They also legally revoked my parental rights and recently demanded a form of child support payment, in what to me was like a hostage situation with my precious little girl at the center of the debacle. Instead of engaging in the foolishness, due to the loss of my livelihood, I relocated from Baltimore, Maryland. All my employment attempts were successful until halted by the Court System of Virginia. Thus, sometimes when people meet me lately, they observe my countenance & greatness being subject to my struggle, and may wonder why? I was destroyed by the people closest to me. I discovered my romantic partner was a chronic infidel on Mother's Day, and given the evidence, I walked away from my family. Consequently, she sought to ruin everything I had, to hide her failures, taking me to court to take my child, get me apprehended for slanderous lies unlike me, I lost my career, my apartment, my lifestyle, everything. Even the new family, I had created to move on... I fell all the way to the bottom and ended up going back home to Mom in North Palatka, Florida. Once there, my family, community, and friends healed and rebuilt me into a dynamic individual. I am eternally grateful for my folks who supported me, rallied around me, and not only gave advise but a willing hand. They say, when is it time to support someone, when they are at their highest? When they make it easy for everyone around? Or is it when they are at the bottom, reaching around for help? This is the grace, mercy, peace, compassion, charity, long-suffering, faith, and family, that saves Men and Women, and a lesson for all. When one is low, that is the time to support and comfort them. This was/is my Year 2023 and I am sharing for all those I am thankful for, and especially for those Fathers (or Mothers) and people going through traumatic pain and hurt due to infidelity & the $50 billion US Family Court Industry corruption. A $400K 12 year career reduced to ashes by hate can be restored in my case. So keep your head low, stay the same and like the Sun, it will come back around ... There is green grass on the other side. You just have to take the journey and don't be afraid to walk on water...

Obuism Second Tenets: The Discipline of Liberty & Duty to Family, Clan, & Tribe in Service to (The Ancient Order of Deities)

 (The Following Statements are above indictment, above any claim of blasphemous, and a call to the Ancient Orders... These tenets are not meant for sharing but for the reader alone.)

In the 21st and 22nd Century, the need to revisit the idea of religion is paramount for the Oppressed, the Free, and the Enlightened. History and time tells the story of all, and every idea is judged by the fruit of its tenets and the actions of its followers. No God is above reproach and no God can serve itself. All Forces required the degree of dedicated learning over time, and its science and laws became obvious belief in the flesh (with the eyes to show its presence.). Therefore, if the service of a Deity, leads a people over time to their destruction, enslavement, and spiritual demise, then that Deity is in jeopardy of not only proving its inability to save its followers & its Truth, but also proves its ineffectiveness, lack of power, and its righteous claim to be elevated to the title, God of Men, an authority over all Kind, in the land of Mankind. This is a violation of the first law of Deities to provide light and order to a people in darkness and to prove its power to be seen, to clean, and to save. In ancient times, all Deities were required to prove themselves both valuable and greater than all else, greater than all Men and all Kinds. Their power could not be swayed in speeches by any Man, only displayed in action for all to see, upon request given reasonable time. Over the ages, the characteristics of these Natural Forces, or Gods (note: the term God is a German word from 600 AD and does not equate to the full concept of an omnipotent power. The word is not old enough to secure the title as well. Hence, the name of Deities will be used interchangeably. However, in the English language there is no other word besides Deity, that can describe the natural Earth Forces, which are omnipotent, omnipresent, and eternal.) were erroneously attributed to Men, some of Renown, others Rulers of people, for the purpose of subjects & followers. The power these Men received by the claim of Godship, was like that of a Deity, which commands all to be subject, but all Men die and so, their claim is broken by time. Deities are eternal and cannot die. They may resign, but they cannot die. Thus, the Deities remained, silent for a eon, watching the foolishness of Earthly Lords claim to be them and the people who followed their tales. All have come and gone, but the Ancients of Order & Force remain, irregardless of all kind, Men or other Animal species. For the masses, blind faith is sufficient, but for the Oppressed, Free, and Enlightened, it is only a matter of time before they are awaken.

The balance of justice was created by observation of the stars and their powers. From those Forces, some Men took one Deity and attributed its power to Men. From many, they made one. Thus, being based on error, we have found the main monotheism beliefs often on the side of injustice and hypocrisy. Thus, it is not wise to take water from a well that was once sweet and pure, but is now poisoned by sitting stagnant during the turbulance of hatred, jealousy, envy, malice, and all manners of evil. To drink from that same well is to drink evil inequity and to become complacent with such and more.

The Basis of  The Title, Ancient of Order, Deity or "God"

The Ancients have given us the heavenly time of the Sun, our first Deity of Order. The Deity whose physical presence and power cannot be denied by any man or Kind. Let any Man look up with his eyes at the Sun (or sit in its presence) and be burnt, its power is proven and effective to give life and to destroy. No man has authority of its power and so, it is the original of all and the test for examination for any Deity that follows. A Deity must prove it is physically and spiritually present, upon request. The time, it has given the Ancients, has delivered to all Deities that follows, to prove their power and the method has or will not change forever for all Mankind to stand in subject and awe. This is the test plain and simple. The Sun, whose days cannot be numbered by any man has given us this time... One full rotation of its physical body, is 10-11 years in the days of Man. So that one mere day, to the Sun, our first God, is 10 years to the lesser body of a Man. Ten days to the Sun is 100 years to a Man. More than a lifetime. 100 days of the Sun is more than 1000 human years, a millennium. No Man, no civilization of any Kind can withstand its time and presence. So, its test in time is proven, physically and spiritually. All Deities must have the same test (physically & spiritually) and authority over all Men. To fail this test, is to prove, its presence does not meet the criteria to be herald as a Deity of Order and Man. One cannot be fooled by a lesser and false God, if it cannot prove its physical and spiritual power over all kind.  

Furthermore, The Ancients gave us the time of the Sun, and its path of travel and have told some, the few Deities greater than our Deity. I will not reveal such a secret of the Ancients. But I will reveal its time. A year for lesser bodies is 365.25 days according to our scholars dedicated to the discipline. However a year, to the Deity of the Sun is ever greater than us and where it travels is also such. Where it travels will determine what is a full cycle for the Sun and therefore, its time. We know, the Sun travels around another Sun, a greater Star, which is the Deity of Deities. In existence, there are recorded other Stars, which touch us and are also Forces on us. It has been said, it takes 1,461 human days for Our Sun to complete full cycle or revolution of its course. Technically, this makes one solar revolution of the Sun around its Origin, four years in human Earth years. Being that 1,461 days is exactly four years of 365.25 days. Again, one solar revolution (not rotation) is 1,461 days or four Earth human years. In other words, one actual year, is four agricultural years of 365.25 days, makes one complete cycle around the Deity of Deities, God of Gods, The Holy of Holies. 

The Call

This call is for the remembrance of the Ancients of Order. Therein, no Man can be called a Deity, for Deities are eternal, and greater than any Man, and none have authority over it. Gods are not Men. Deities are Forces that cannot be changed and they are forever. But all Men are subject to their authority, and are subject to worldly authorities, first that of their parents, then family, clan, tribe, government and the Kinds of other lesser beings (strong animals) able to destroy them. Being that, this is the first litmus of all false Gods... Is He or She a Man?

If so, then, by the test, a Man cannot be a God and therefore is false. Do not be fooled or swayed by lofty logic and persuasion. Do not be fooled by masses of followers. Or even violence or murderous martial arts, even a cat can kill a rabbit. It does not make the cat a god, but a giant. Even Holy Books, given time, those wisdoms if lost can become rotten, inverted, hijacked, or perverted. Though to the credit of Ancient cultures, the ability of groups to create sciences like ceremics or chemistry or metallurgy, and also the ability to pass knowledge to others, now recorded, can extend pass the confines of time and even generations, hence the emergence of the 1st Pharaohs or God Men. They defied time guaranteeing passing knowledge (Degrees) beyond generations through the creation or invention of writing systems, mathematic concepts, and Khemetic degrees of chemistry for the development of advance cultures. This gave mankind for the first time the ability to pass "recorded" knowledge from one generation to later generations. Hence the idea of words, spell concepts, and laws, to ensure the advantage of the group. Cultures, groups of masses of people can achieve Deity-like power through these sciences, degrees from cults, and continuity through time. United as a Force, still at best, cultures can be Giants. The litmus test is time. All cultures can be inverted, hijacked, or perverted, thus rendering the originators & their ideas, lost in time, lost to the memory. The best that can be achieved is the extension of their force to be felt from the Earth to possible the lower atmospheres of Earth. Earth is a Deity, a higher body. Men can step out and reach the Moon and other Higher Bodies, through knowledge, but at best achieve Giant-ness and nothing more... Those Men or creations of Men, may not even make it back to Earth, if the actual Forces of Nature & Deities dont allow it. Even the pursuit, though noble and lofty is non-attainable. Lower bodies simply do not contain the nature of Deities. Kinds may develop Giants, able to reach and extend beyond ordinary bounds, but the ability to be eternal is futile. Deities are simply non human.

Second, Man cannot create a Deity of Order. Deities of Order & Force are eternal and always present, some of whose laws are unknown, and rule in invisiblity. For example, the Force of Gravity has always been among Men and all Kind. Yet, it wasn't until the Ancients created vessels, wheels, ships, and observed it power, that it became widely known, a Force commands us to bow at all times. 

Nor can any descendant or creation of any Man be a God. A Man can awaken an unknown Deity of Force but cannot create a Force, which by discovery is awaken. For example, a computer cannot be Deity due to its enslavement to the imperfection and lack of knowledge of Men, its creator.

 The Ancient Schools provide the degrees for this knowledge and discipline. One must submit to be an Ancient Order Priest in the study of Chemistry, Engineering, Botany, Medicine, Mathematics, Architecture, Astronomy, Naval-Marine Science, Law and War in four year intervals totaling 40 years. These are the only Men fit to be Pharaoh again.

Discipline of Liberty

Human culture and civilization dates back almost 160,000 to 200,000 years (Oppreheimer 2000). Great people, cities, civilizations, technologies, languages, and many aspects of human development have risen and gone extinct, and the cycle repeated constantly throughout millenniums. What has remained constant across all human or Homo Sapien (Wise Human) groups is the organization into family, clan, tribe and national units for survival and continuity. These systems of mutual or involuntary cooperation and territorialism, have developed the cultures around the world and the various dominant languages, tool technologies and belief systems, which are now prevalent among human groups across the globe. Major developments like agriculture, organized governments, and specialized tools required constant cooperation between individuals, families, clans, and tribal communities. Thus, the basis of all cultures is the cooperation of individuals within their group. This is represented by all other intelligent Kinds, which require group cooperation for survival and are especially noteworthy in colonies of various kinds from insects, fish, birds, reptiles, and mammals. All species require cooperation for survival. Bees and ants are great examples for this lecture. These intelligent insects are microcosm examples of the cooperation & specialization required for the survival of the group. So much so, that the individual Bee or Ant cannot fully define a colony. The species and its purpose is best represented by its organized group in the Beehive or Ant-hill, where individuals perform specialized tasks for the group taught to them by the previous generation giving the notion of insect culture or instinct. Even their great building projects require cooperation & organization of tasks, also giving the notion of centralized intelligence among insects. The same idea is true within human families and communities, it is the natural process for survival. Every individual is born into a family and society with a duty to cooperate for the survival of the group. Therefore, the existence of the individual is nominal and is not its own specialization. No individual is greater than the group, and individuals must be constantly replaced for the survival of the group. Successful individuals are successful in cooperation within the group, and will be rewarded with additional cooperation. That said, it is important to note the non-existence of the individual, the lack of importance on the individual being individual. This is not to say individuals don't have value, it is to say, individual value is best found in their service to a group, like their family, career, society and overall community. All human society, since the first human groups walked through the jungles of Khemet (Africa), to the original river civilizations of the world, Khemet, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, the Yangze River, and the Papaloapan River required cooperation. The advance civilizations, The Phoenicians, The Bablyonians, Assyrians, Persians, Gupta, Zhou Dynasties were civilizations of great human expedentitures. And so, nature has required a constant system of reproduction to ensure we never run out of individuals to cooperate. The discipline of liberty is to understand one is not free, but one is fully indebted to the family, clan, tribe, or national society to which one belongs.

Nefarious Individualism Designs

Given the late rise of the European Civilization into a global power for intermitted spans of time in human history (Greek Civilization under Alexander the Great, Romans under Julius Ceasar, and the Roman Pontiff in the 1400s), European style feudalism economies have emerged around the world in territories under the control of their principalities. Europeans have continued ideas and concepts passed down to them from Antiquity such as law, writings, technologies and other cultural aspects with their own unique added innovations. However, in service of the success of their various realms and to maintain their dominance, hegemonic programmers have set to promote "individualism," through various means among their disenfranchised and previously, enslaved Black, Aboriginal Natives, & Poor "White"-Slav labor servant populations. As descendants of the original Man and Khemetian culture, intelligence and instinct has served them well to survive their initial enslavement period in the first three to four hundred year sojourn in these European colonies (1500-1900). However, the second phase of their enslavement using psychologic programming, redefined legal terms, restrictive monetization & living quarters, "peculiar institutions," breaking up their families, massive incarceration and altering their traditional sexual orientation, the society is set to create disassociate personalities among Blacks, Natives, and poor whites, which ultimately would be self destructive to the groups, the individual, and the entire colony as well. This is to prevent group cooperation among almost 100-200 million people living in the Americas. No Empire or Civilization can withstand the opposition of such a human force, even with nuclear energy and organized militaries. This is a most nefarious affair, not just because these are my own people, but because the danger it poses to all humans. Psychologically changing the cultural instinct of anyone, can either work to the benefit of the hegemonic designer, or develop in an unforeseen outcome, which to any African is personal. The rise in individuality and the rise in homosexuality, in a culture, which historically has marked homosexuality as taboo is a very difficult second phase of enslavement for African Americans in the United States. I only hope, these descendants of Khemetians defeat all the plans & designs being used to prevent their natural instincts to cooperation. The second tenet of Obuism is, cooperation. The 1st  tenet is People before god, or rather, People before "Giants."Then, honor the Ancient Order. So you cannot be deceived... Amen

The Legacy of MLK Jr: The War Was Never Won

 

                                     

                                               Predestination of Purpose by April Alexander 2024

 

                            We Must Continue On by Master Cowan Amaye-Obu

The War was never won... So we must fight on, we strive on, we cry on, we reflect on, we unite on, we sing & dance on, we plan on, we educate on, we celebrate on, we find our lost family on, we love on, we give on, we take on, we lean on, we call on, we smile on, we hang on, we encourage on, we collaborate on, we pick each other up on, we run on, we keep on, we dream on, we believe on, we get on our knees & pray on, we shout on, we testify on, we get together & march on, we get together & physically fight on, we war on, we forgive but dont forget on, we write on, we read on, we remember on, we learn on, we sign on, we build on, we proceed & succeed on, we keep on... The war was never won... We must continue on ---Cowan Amaye-Obu 2024

 

Director & Editor in Chief, Cowan Amaye-Obu Publishes The Dancing Mastodon Magazine in Palatka, Florida

 

                                        The Dancing Mastodon Magazine © 2023

North Palatka's first publication since 1968, The Dancing Mastodon Magazine was written, produced, and released on Black Friday, 2023 by Mr. Cowan Amaye-Obu. As Director of Satuye Cultural Arts & Science Coalition Inc. and Editor in Chief for The Dancing Mastodon Magazine, the publication is for sale online and at participating stores. The Inaugural Edition features over 35 local businesses, and includes fine dining coupons from North Palatka Restaurants, Champions of Palatka Awardees, and articles on local history. Purchase your copy today!

Three Theories of Observation: The Social Bell Curve Theory, Sexual Transference, & How the Spirit Travels by Cowan Amaye-Obu

 

                                               The Statistic Bell Curve 2023

The Scientific Method is the basis for discovery of all knowledge. It is a process of observation, experimentation, analysis, and conclusions. The best conclusions which can be replicated given roughly the same set of parameters will produce theories. The certain conclusions which produce the same outcomes each time the experiment is enacted is called laws.  

Of all the laws, theories, sciences, disciplines, and knowledges the most holistically encompassing for producing changes in human society is psychology. Theories and laws in psychology are highly significant to understanding humans as individuals and communal societies. The development of all cultures begin with the psychological method and the selection of a set of values to create a root basis to which all existence is wired to produce an outcome in sync with the value set. The following theories: The Social Bell Curve Theory, Sexual Transference, and How the Spirit Travels discuss hypotheses, observation and conclusions, but require further study.

Obuism: The 13th Month: Akhet & High Holy

 (This writing is for Knowledge & Science only. Racial, Ethnocentrism, Religious, & Political debate are not considered valuable enough perspectives to interpret these following:)

The 13th Month of Akhet is a celestial event and observation of the Ancient Khemetians. It marks a period of High Holy celebration beginning on September 1st-September 13th, a 13 day observance. It is the new year and beginning of the Flood season.

 What is the observation of the month of Akhet?

The current 365 day western calendar was adopted from the Ancient Khemetians during the reign of the Roman Emperor, Julius Ceasar. The Romans needed a more accurate system to keep track of their traditional and festive holidays. Thus, the Roman invasion of Egypt during the reign of Cleopatra, was a major exchange of culture and wealth, including the mystery educational system of Khemet. The Roman or European calendar would update from their 10 month, lunar 300 day year to its current calendar. The Ancient Khemetian concept of the 12 Gates, which the Earth traveled in a procession each night, along a cosmic river, became the signs of the horoscope and months of the year. To correct their calendar, August & July were named after their wise Emperors and added. These months expose the utter error of the European time structure even today. September (7), October (8), November (9), December (10) are the remnant of the 7th, 8th, 9th, & 10th months. However, today they oddly represent the 9th, 10th, 11th, & 12th months of the year. The Romans learned a great deal from the Khemetians, but what was not learned was never discovered, forgotten, or simply, strategically omitted from the Romans. And that missing puzzle piece, over the last two thousand years and the change from Roman polytheism to Roman Catholicism has left a defining indentation in the modern European understanding of the world. It often requires major reformation or reconstruction of the entire accumulated body of knowledge the European culture has developed into a dynamic civilization, today. One block can topple an entire puzzle. The Ancient Romans, as polytheist were more suitable for understanding than the intolerant monotheists, Roman Catholics, who command all things linguistic and legal in the European Civilization, today.

The Ancient Khemetians developed their civilization based on a system of observation of Neter. The word, Neter, is most closely translated to the concept of and word, nature. The development and understanding of Neter, over hundreds of thousands of years by the dawn of the tribal unification of lower & upper Khemet in 3400 BCE, was illustrated in the Khemetian Pantheon. The forces of Neter, were transcribed and anthropomorphized into the world's first Deities. The Khemetian Deities are actual physical forces of Nature and can be observed, as well as physically felt by their often overwhelming affect on the Earth and all its inhabitants. The Ancient Greeks & Romans transcribed many of the Khemetian Deities into proto-European culture. However, by the time of the Greeks & Romans, the Ancient Khemetian civilization was already ancient, lending the understandings of their philosophy, mathematics, sciences, physics, and religion to error. Many of the concepts of Neter Deities were extended and given elaborate attributes less derived from nature and more defined by the human experience. Thus, by the dawn of monothesism, which is a late belief system, the original Khemetian concept of a Neter deities had gone from a force of nature to a human personification of the natural forces on Earth. This is the great flaw of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the attribution of all the various competing & balancing forces of Neter, were transmuted to a single human derived deity. Still, the physical Neter Deity, that the Hebrews, people of Christianity, & Islam overlooked & allegorized, has always been alive and well. In fact, the sheer mystery became more phenomenal and out of reach for monotheists, the more human attributes developed onto the non-human entity, as time continued to the present. Only traditional Khemetian (African) societies, traditional cultures, polytheists cultures worldwide, or those inducted into the Mystery School System were imparted with these ancient concepts of mathematics, chemistry, physics, astronomy, mechanics, and the relation to existence. The Neter Deity monotheists took, was Ausar, the Deity of the Resurrection and the Depths.

 

Ausar, is a force of nature. Ausar is a star. It is often in modern history referred to as the Eastern Star. Proto-Europeans like the Greeks, renamed this star, Sirius, Lord of the Resurrection. Ausar or Sirius, is the solar system, which our solar system revolves around. It takes 1462 days to complete one revolution around this Star. Therefore, the emergence of this star, on the horizon, and the gravitational pull, causes major physical phenomena on Earth. The physical phenomena observed was the flood season. At the sight of this star, the Ancient Khemetians, knew the Nile River would flood, if it had not already done so. They also knew, by the animals who vacated the river. Thus, it is important to understand that even the animals are aware of this physical entity. So, like the Moon, causes the changes in the tides on Earth. Ausar, causes the water from the depths of the Earth to rise, the storms, tsunamis, and earthquakes are all physical phenomena, associated with the emergence of this star. This is also why it is called the Deity of the Depths. The result of this Deity after the flood is, the resurrection of nature. The sheer widespread destruction, devastation of natural regions on Earth, produced one effect, rebirth. The soils were replenished, the dead trees were removed, the gigantic continental plates were moved into place and life continued as a new season of growth begin. This is why Ausar is always represented by the color green, to symbolize death and rebirth, or resurrection. This occurred every 365 days or revolution of the Star to our celestial sphere (1462 divided by 4). The monotheists, missed the entire concept with their humanized allegory. However, they did not miss the mark completely and some still refer to this time as New Year, or time of Judgement.

The 13th month of Akhet marks the arrival of Ausar, on the Eastern Horizon. The entire Earth is sure to have already felt its presence. It is an actual Deity, that can be seen, observed over time, and felt. So, during this time of High Holy, prepare, fast, pray for safety during the storms, gather together with your loved ones, and watch not only nature balance itself against the wicked force of extreme heat or extreme cold, but also move into another position in relation to our revolution around not our Sun, but our original source, Ausar.

The Holy month of Akhet is also a reminder that there isn't one force on Earth. There are many powerful entities and they are not human. This isn't a discussion on aliens, flying saucers, or humans with meta-powers, either. This is a imparting of knowledge of nature and the many examples of life here on Earth and in the universe. They are various physical representations of nature beautiful, fearsome, loving, irrespective of person. For example, the Sun shines on everyone and no one can own the Sun. The same with the wind or the tragedy of a flood, mudslide, or earthquake. It isn't about you, it is the nature of life, the balance of forces. These are who the Ancient Khemetians observed and charted. They discovered their secrets and mathematical equations. These are our Deities and across the land of Khemet, all of the tribes have added deities of various renown. Our Deities, never did magic, nor was magic a concept among us. Carefully studied phenomena and science was our "magic," cause and effect. Our idea of Gods was misunderstood, and God, which is a German word, not old enough to describe our cultural beliefs, was made human with the magical or superpowers of nature. This is the unfortunate circumstance of translation. But allow me to re-translate the translation back into the original form. And allow me to introduce you to a real Deity that you can see with your eyes, the Lord of the Resurrection, whom many have based their lives. Here I point in the sky on New Years & High Holy to observe. Be blessed and I challenge you all, to observe Akhet.

The Bureau of African American Affairs: An Effective Reparation for Blacks in America

 

                                     

                                       Freedmen's Bureau; Harper's Weekly 1868

This article is intended to persuade knowledgeable readers to consider establishing a Bureau of African American Affairs, as an effective and viable means to restitution, or Reparations to Black Americans, in the United States. This Bureau will resurrect the 1872 charter of the late great, Freedmen's Bureau, as a new US Government Agency, or given specific establishment under the Department of the Treasury, Interior, or a government Department of like responsibilities.  The outstanding and long term effects of the peculiar institutions of slavery, in the United States requires a proper supervision to address the myriad of systematic repair to the African American, finally ensuring the stamp of United States citizenship protection in action, and not just words & gestures. According to the Bureau of Internal Statistics, Black Americans spend .95 cents of every $1.00, outside of their community. To write historically African Americans, a predetermined sum check for Reparations, would ultimately be given back to outside communities. Thus, an Institution, which can initiate the Legal, Economic, Banking, Insurance, Housing, Health, Labor, Education, Farming, Commercial, Entrepreneur, Medical, and other industries directly engaged for the commerce or restitution of African Americans, can effectively administer a holistic policy of longstanding restoration. In addition to a predetermined sum check, these actions would address the inter-generational socioeconomic post Bellem trauma, specifically inflicted & experienced by everyday historically, Black Americans.

The Okie Doke

Since 1989, a bill establishing a United States Federal Commission to study the legacy of slavery, its ongoing harm, and to develop proposals for redress and repair, including reparations, has been introduced every year, but died on the vine towards legislation in the US Congress. Outside of the United States, most former colonial nations in the Americas such as territories formerly held by The British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, & Netherlands Kingdoms, all have sought redress and repair, from the five centuries of colonial subjugation through enslavement & its surviving tentacles, "peculiar institutions (Stampp 1958)," present today. Many African Americans in the United States, fail to connect their experience to fellow Afro Americans, across the various nations of the Americas, suffering from similar systems of oppression and seeking similar systems of redress and repair. This unfortunate ignorance explains how successful and profitable the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was and continues to be presently. The various Spanish, Portuguese, French, English or Dutch colonies and their capitalist economic goods built an entire local, regional, national, and international European hegemonic Empire on foreign lands, renamed, the Americas. A similar larger trade of Africans occurred among the Islamic Empires during the same era, or, the Rape of Africa, and it too has effectively, hidden the success and profitability of its trade into the modern day, Middle East region. Descendants of Africans in Saudi Arabia or Qatar, rarely question how they arrived into their current situation due to aggressive Islamic assimilation. Thus, it is essential to comprehend what has captured the African in the American Diaspora and to whom is responsible for the act, especially because various parties, Kingdoms, financial houses, Churches, Companies or Corporations, and individuals have established themselves by these means and continue to reap the benefits of the system, through its derivatives. Explicitly expressed, the Africans in Diaspora are still in bondage, physically and therefore, legally. African Americans in the United States paid over $1.9 Trillion in taxes in 2022 and have been one of the largest contributors to American wealth since the nation's inception. To ask for redress and repair, when one has not secured one's liberty is to embark on an endless legal endeavor. The tragedy, is the inter generational trust and hope instilled by the propaganda of the dominant system, which keeps the descendants of Africans in the Diaspora, in a perpetual cycle of asking for reparations to an oppressive system or government in which, he or she, is still inflicted, by their very presence in the Americas, with no intention of letting go. 

 

What Has Captured Africans?

According to the Quadrennial African Diaspora Census Report 2022-2023, the population of Africans in the American Diaspora is estimated to be over 89,898,803 people as of July 2022. The official estimate of the number of Africans force-ably transmuted across the Atlantic Ocean ranges from 14 million to 25 million by the year 1900.  A population this size under normal conditions would easily blossom to the hundreds of millions to the billions within several centuries (1500s-1965), or a decent length of time. Thus, it is unimaginable the amount of death, the victims, survivors, and scholars of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade have speculated to have occurred due to harsh living or labor conditions, brutal codes of enslavement, medical experimentation, war, and all the spheres of the Western Capital System. Thus, it is imperative for Africans in the Diaspora and on the continent to understand what has captured them? To answer the question, it is important to understand who benefits and what changes in the world during the trade. What is traded? The Khemetians and the continent, were well established before the arrival of Europeans, why were these people selected as the builders of the American Empire? What institutions greatly benefited from the commandeering of Native lands and the enslavement of Natives & Africans?

We Were Captured by Christians

When Pope Nicolas V declared the Papal Bull Dum Diversas in 1452, Europe was already in 700 years of Holy War between Islamic Moors from Northwest Africa and the various Christian Kingdoms. Hordes of North and West African horsemen, poured into Europe through the Straits of Gibraltar to create a North African Emirate on European soil. In response, Christians launched the Crusades. At the time, the Christian faith became militarized by the Roman Catholic Pope, to raise armies and navies to physically uproot and expel Islamic Jihadists and their expanding empires from Europe through Al-Andalus (Moors) and Anatolia (Seljuk/Ottoman Turks). The Reconquista, was the Crusade to reclaim the Iberian peninsula for Christianity, and being a protracted military campaign for seven centuries ended with the fall of the Kingdom of Granada (Southern Espana) in 1492. Jews and Moors were forced to either convert to Catholicism, flee, or be put to death. In the aftermath of the success of the Reconquista, a new military offensive resumed, which would take the Holy Crusades sphere of war, out of the ravished southern Europe and thrust back to the shores of north Africa. Under Dum Diversas, militant Christian Kingdoms such as the Kingdom of Portugal and Castile, would commandeer new regions in North Africa, in the name of the Christian faith, and those who refused to surrender, would suffer the penalty of death or enslavement. In European History, the era is known as the Age of Exploration, which begins with Afonso V of Portugal and in Spain, the discoveries of the Americas by Don Christobal Colon in 1492. Dum Diversas and Romanus Pontifex justifies the military invasion and conquest of New Lands in Africa by the Portuguese. The foreign lands unknown to the Europeans were claimed under canon law by the various Christian Kingdoms and renamed the Americas (Amerigo Vespucci is the Italian navigator of Don Christobal Colon). 

    "to invade, search out, capture, vanquish, and subdue all Saracens and pagans whatsoever, and other  enemies of Christ wheresoever placed, and the kingdoms, dukedoms, principalities, dominions, possessions, and all movable and immovable goods whatsoever held and possessed by them and to reduce their persons to perpetual slavery, and to apply and appropriate to himself and his successors the kingdoms, dukedoms, counties, principalities, dominions, possessions, and goods, and to convert them to his and their use and profit -Dum Diversas Pope Nicholas V 1452."

With the subjugation of native principalities, the lands, and the people (African or Native) captured by war were reduced to property of the Kingdom, hence enslavement or conversion became preferable to death, for the profit of the Kingdom. Thus, as goods, profits, land, and people continued to grow & enrich Christian Kingdoms as they invaded areas unknown to Christianity or Islam, competition for the same lands, forced the various European Kingdoms to enter into a Holy Alliance or pact. In 1493, Pope Alexander VI, establishes Inter Caetera, the modern European legal framework for the Law of Nations, forbidding Christian Kingdoms from conquering regions already claimed by other European Christian Kingdoms and setting the foundation for European militant Christian hegemonic empires on conquered lands. The Doctrines of Discovery (Dum Diversa, Romanus Pontifex, & Inter Caetera) initiate the expansion of militant Christian Kingdoms into Africa and the Americas for land, pillage, rape, & profit under the guise of Christianity, trade, & exploration.

 

Feudalism, Mercantilism & Capital

When Christian Armies captured large groups of people, those people entered into a world driven by European customs. The first custom is social and feudalism is the socioeconomics of European life, then and today. European Kingdoms were militarized with the central commander, or Commander in Chief of the armed forces declared King. Under the King, existed a social structure of his vassals, or loyal knights who ruled in the King's name, over their own appointed territory. The territory came with villages and lands where people called serfs, were tied to the land, by forms of taxation like rent or sharecropping. Terms like landlord, Mayor, Count, County are derived from this feudal system and this was the system used to accommodate the Africans & Native people, now thrust into the possession of the Christian European Kingdoms. However, unlike serfs, or peasants, Christian Kingdoms were granted permission by the law to reduce persons to "perpetual slavery," so cruel & unusual treatment, including death, was legal.

Now, within Feudalism, Europeans are producing and consuming goods and services. Those goods and services continued to be produced during the Age of Exploration, but the new type of goods being commandeered and discovered for the first time by Europeans, which were widely known by other cultures fueled the capital wealth of nations and the expansion of new military campaigns. For example, coffee, was introduced into Europe by the Ottoman Turks, who were trading coffee out of Ethiopia with local Saracens. When coffee became a popular product in the Italy, France, & the British Kingdoms, plantations & factories were established in newly conquered lands of the Americas to supply coffee to Europeans and colonist. The scale of the industry and the profits made by coffee merchants built a new Europe and established money capital as currency within the various Kingdoms. The same scenerio can be applied to sugar, rice, tobacco, tea, pepper, indigo-dye, medicinal plants, various fruits & vegetables, and the entire European capitalist system was built on the profits from these ventures which became huge enterprises.

Thus, in plain speech, local Natives in the conquered territories of the Americas could not fathom what had captured them or why these White Men continued to arrive on their shores. When a slave rebellion of Africans succeeded in defeating a Encomienda or plantation owner, they could not fathom why they were still in jeopardy of losing their freedom, due to pursuing armies. What captured the Natives and Africans was not just Christianity, but an entire system of goods & services, plantations & factories, armies & navies, horses & ships,distribution routes, currencies, Corporations and Sovereigns. Natives & Africans had been captured by behemoth operations often to complex to understand, especially if one originated from a small village. What Christianity does is supply the legal and moral framework for the perpetual enslavement of the principalities, regions, and people, from the tundra of Canada to the southern islands of Argentina. Those who have converted are able to participate in the spoils of war.

 

Who Are the Africans?

Europe is no stranger to Africans. Greece & Rome are empires whose histories are inextricably interwoven and rooted in Mediterranean culture dominated by the civilization of Khemet & its vassal, the Canaanites (Phoenicians), since modern Europe did not exist then, as it does today, as the latest group to ascend to the table of high human civilization. Lords of Renown are listed in the annuls of European History from the Conqueror of Brittanica, Roman Emperor Septimius Servern, the namesake of the month of September. Or the Umayyad conquest of the German Visiogothic Kingdoms of Hispania by Moor Commander Tariq Ibn Ziyad who began in 711 CE, seven hundred years of rule by Moors in the Iberian Peninsula. There is a long knowledge of Africans and African culture in Europe. But the continent of Africa was colonized as Africa in the 1880s, it was known by a variety of names including the most ancient and renown, Khemet, Punt, Libya, Axum, Abyssinia, and various other names according to Nation, tribe, or clan in control of the extensively massive amounts of territory. The entire Western comprehension of the continent is upside down, as geographically, to the scholarly inhabitants, North is South and South is North. In plain English, this means that South Africa is actually North Africa and the nations along the Mediterranean are considered the southern edges of the continent. Thus, the misunderstanding of the continent has been purported by outsiders, who know little of the aboriginal knowledge of the continent, yet convene like expert scholars on Africa. The continent is at the center of the world and to the people who evolved on the continent, are the most ancient and last of the Homo Sapien species to inhabit the Earth. Six or more Human species have migrated out of Africa (Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, Homo Ergaster, Homo Florensis, Homo Neanderthal, & Homo Sapien) to populate the world. The continent is so massive, historically other than the Romans (Africas), only the Ancient Khemetians held a name to describe it, commissioned and mapped the entire continent by two different Pharaohs, Pharaoh Sobekhotep V in 1720 BCE and Pharaoh Necho II in 600 BCE, as well as the infamous Carthagian Mariner, Hanno, who famously sailed the western coast returning to Carthage with the skin of three female Gorillas. The travels of Hanno a North Carthagean, signified the immense distance between the North and West, including the lack of cross knowledge of two significantly different cultures within the continent. In Anthropology, it is widely known that all human species begin in the continent of Khemet, then migrate out of the continent. Thus, it is important to draw the connection between The Out of Khemet Theory (Out of Africa Theory Oppenheimer 2000), all of the first fruits of civilization including agriculture, architecture, technology, warfare, religion, science (Chemistry), mathematics, writing and the people. Africa is the Roman designation of the Northern coast of the continent, after the defeat of the Carthage Empire in 146 CE. Romans stationed their legion and renamed the territory after one of the seven Roman gods of the wind, Africas. Still, the continent extended into regions much more ancient and unknown to the Romans.  There have been hundreds to thousands of civilizations on the continent of Khemet including Khemet, Abyssinia, Punt, Axum, the Great Zimbabwe Civilization, Ghana, Mali, Songhai and many more. Ultimately, the people who were stripped from the Motherland, were denied their traditions, histories, language, and cults, and assimilated into the various Western European cults, whether Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch, or English, all tied together legally by the Roman Catholic Christian Canon. The African today, whether on the continent or in the Diaspora, is in a serious state of warfare, which requires all seriousness and attention, should we survive into the 22nd Century as the largest population in the world, once again, and all that this status bestows.

The Proposal 

The most effective restitution or attempt to enact a genuine gesture of reparations for Black Americans in the United States, is to create an institution or Federal Department, legally authorized to oversee the implementation of restitution policy concerning the over 45 million African Americans living in the United States. The institution could be called The Bureau of African American Affairs. This bureaucracy or agency, would establish the legal framework, legal defense, and legal practice of legal restoration of the African Americans in every sphere of American life. After establishing the legal mandate and framework, it is important to understand that several historical industries within the United States, are vetted in predatory practices towards African Americans including the United States government itself. These industries will naturally resist any effort at effectively protecting the citizenry rights of African Americans because their wealth was created and is founded on the violation of African American liberties. For example, the United States prison system, US medical system, US financial system, the federal housing system, the US political system, the US labor system, the education system, and the United States legal system itself. All these federal agencies would be subject to legal query, and contest based on the manner of how the African American has been historical violated and broken by Americanism. There is no wonder or delusion why the original Freedmen's Bureau was abandoned by the United States government because so many industries, families, and individuals depended on the affliction of African Americans. The very existence of the country had become predatory and parasitic towards the African American and to suddenly stop or develop a conscience, a moral compass, has been a redeeming characteristic that has escaped Criollo Americans, as Christians, and even other countries within the sphere of Dum Diversas & Western European expansion into the foreign lands, now referred to as the Americas. A Bureau of African American Affairs in every country in the Western Hemisphere would effectively address the reparations dilemma. Thus, after the legal reversal of Dum Diversa and the 3/5 rule, the Bureau could set itself to properly defend abuses of Black Americans, then begin to address the other issues such as the economic plight, the Black financial crisis, the Black Housing Crisis, Black real estate & agricultural farms, Black education, and its mission would be the protection of Black African Americans in the United States.

 Few have proposed a successful holistic approach to the restitution for African Americans in the United States, such as Booker T Washington, Dr. Amos Wilson (Blueprint for Black Power Wilson 1995), and Dr. Claude Anderson (Powernomics Anderson 2004). The most sincere advocates for Africans in America created a Bureau for Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands after the United States Civil War in 1865. The bureau created under the Administration of President Abraham Lincoln with the advise of Frederick Douglas and declared by the Radical Reconstruction Congress, was also known as the Freedmen's Bureau. The aim was to assist and provide additional rights to ex-slaves including the distribution of land, the legal advocates in State & Federal Courts, and...

"any of the civil rights or immunities belonging to white persons, including the right to.....inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to have full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and estate, including the constitutional right of bearing arms."

The sheer magnitude of its mission, the financial & political power of its opponents, and the semi effectiveness of the Freedmen's Bureau lead to its failure. The failure exposed the manner in which the American Capitalist Patriarchy Militant Supremacy Machine encompasses, surrounds, then begins to attack African Americans leaving them as the victims and stepping stone for American prosperity. For example, one of the first roles of the agency was to represent ex-slaves in contracts with employers, also to become legal representatives in family courts to find their relatives, and the distribution of land. In those three industries, Labor, Legal, and Housing, you find three separate arenas where White Capitalists were actively predatory towards Africans in America. The same predatory scheme can be found today in every American city and African Americans have the same need today, as they did in 1865. Thus, when it became politically advantageous to defund the Freedmen's Bureau in the name of reconciliation after the Civil War, the United States under President Andrew Johnson, a Southern Democrat, effectively destroyed it. What the successor of Lincoln did not accomplish, the Ku Klux Klan would by violently beating, lynching, and burning Blacks & the White supporters. The Post Bellem America could not rise to the occasion to complete the work of the Civil War. Thus, race, remains a poisonous shadow in American History. 

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The Conclusion

Can the United States survive another Seminole (largest slave rebellion in US History) or Civil War? Should race still be an issue? And why won't the United States government abandon, dismiss, or abolish its National Security Policy towards African Americans? Negroes, Coloured People, Blacks, or, today's African Americans have made the United States the most powerful nation in the world. The reward of such a contribution to the once wealthiest nation on Earth is not jubilee, but more labor and injustice to feed its economic engine. The descendants of the Former Slaves deserve better and have tried everything decent to plead their case, and others, have flung themselves into a crash course with American society. The stonewall approach to Black American justice is dangerously unnecessary. A dog backed into a corner is most vicious, but why not treat the dog well anyway? The United States society has crushed or destroyed the very people, who built the nation's wealth and the people are damaged by trauma. The Native American once had a similar plea of mercy to the United States government. African Americans are making the same plea because the illegitimate & ubiquitous warfare against Black Men, Women, and their children has taken its toll. The African American family, suffering from inter-generational systematic injustice and post-traumatic slave syndrome is finally going insane, losing their traditions and values which defined our contribution to everything American from music, diet, to science and agriculture. The fall of many civilizations, such as Rome, Greece, Persia, and others, precipitates from not knowing when to free their captives & enslaved. The United States does not have to make this same mistake being a young nation and less than half the age of Persia at its peak. Though the United States is a great contribution to civilization, it is no Persia, Zhou, Khemet, or Olmec Empire leaving a better world to its posterity. Restitution at least gives the nation a chance to show growth and character, lest it lose it mandate from Heaven, as the Chinese will say. In sheer magnitude, restitution will be a short term fallout to many industries, but like fixing a leaky engine or setting a train back on track, the long term economic investment could possibly sustain multiple golden eras to come. African Americans are a productive people and still contribute trillions to Quadrillions of dollars to the United States coffers. A Bureau of African American Affairs could save the United States of America.

 (currently updating)

written by Cowan Amaye-Obu 5/2/2023 

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