"It's not you, it's me"

For those of you who didn't know, I facilitate a youth mentor program called STYA which is an acronym for Successfully Transitioning Youth to Adolescence. My demographic are nine to twelve year old's and we do everything from critically analyze cartoons, arts & crafts, cooking classes and etc. to encourage them to expand their consciousness, build self esteem and discover their purpose in life as they transition into their teenage years. What I love most about working with youth, which I've done with various programs and initiatives for over a decade, is learning ideas, attitudes and behavior adults have in their infancy. In other words, I see nine year old girls learning to play the "make a boy jealous" game that eventually becomes a fully functioning operating system I see thirty something year old's use every day. Some things don't change, people just get older and continue doing the same thing. And the same way jealousy games may not change among females, some male's level of sophistication to appropriately respond to these games doesn't change either. I can't tell you how many times I've had to talk a ten year old boy down from an emotional ledge because some little girl was playing with his emotions. His reaction is no different than seeing emotionally unstable men committing social media seppuku because of what some female is, or isn't, posting on Facebook. Some of us simply never matured intellectually or emotionally; we're just older versions of the same child.

Because my Ole Earth was a Psychologist/Sociologist I've been orientated to analyze human behavior my entire life, literally. Normal family outings were going to places just to people watch; my Ole Earth would find a public place to sit with some of my siblings and I and we would discuss what we see in people's body language, style of dress and etc. One of the games she would also play with us was the book of questions -which I discovered later in life was a psychology book, not a game at all. This kind of investment into my growth and development as a child, coupled with the cultural contributions of my Ole Dad, has helped in my successful transition from boy to man. Some males never had a mother invested in them in this way nor did they have a father around to teach him what it means to be a man. Because of this, some of us have manufactured our idea of manhood 'a la carte' and the emotions and intellect surrounding this lacking remain raw, immature and underdeveloped. This is not an excuse, it's an assessment of what I've witnessed in its infancy and what it has the potential to become when it's not responsibly addressed as an adult. Ladies, young boys may destroy toys when they don't get their way. The same boy who doesn't get his way as a grown male, will destroy you. There's a lot of truth in what Drake says about these days.

Like with any group or society of people, some of its members are going to be emotionally and intellectual immature. One of the challenges I've dealt with over the years are these same boys/girls, not yet men/women, referring to themselves as Gods/Earths. Thankfully this doesn't reflect the overall consciousness of Five Percenters I know, yet there are some of us who are like that -sometimes for reasons only known to them. This is the reason I wrote the book Explorations of God/Earth Mental Health; to empower my peers to recognize and address it. Because one of our cultural motto's is "Peace" or Positive Education Always Corrects Errors, we've always encouraged each other to grow and develop beyond whatever circumstance we've come from or are presently in. For any of us who are sincerely striving to elevate their consciousness and condition, it's a journey that involves removing the negative residue that comes along with seeing and believing ourselves to be inferior. All of us who have taken this step to gain KOS [Knowledge of Self] started out emotionally and intellectually immature. On many levels we're rewiring ourselves emotionally and intellectually and that takes work, sometimes a lifetime. Nothing happens over night, except the night -especially not the growth and development process.

In closing, I want to reiterate the importance of us men getting ourselves together. This is not to minimize the responsibility of grown females who need to grow up either. There are women I know who are successfully speaking from this perspective. As men, we can start getting ourselves together by being more vulnerable with one another by speaking honestly about our upbringing and emotions. I'm not talking about ranting, posturing or posting inappropriate stuff on social media under the guise of "keeping sh#t real"; that's immature and messy. I'm talking about investing the time to really examine the who, what, when, where, how and why we think/behave the way we do with each other and the opposite sex. That is one of the most integral parts of KOS. Females share and are vulnerable with each other all the time. That female-to-female Educator and Student relationship directly, or indirectly, has remained pretty much intact since we've been in this country. Males are the one's usually holding stuff in and back from one another. Some of us males were grown up before we had an open conversation with men about hurt, lost, frustration, insecurities, inadequacies, embarrassing situations and etc. Even though some of us aren't sharing these things with each other in a healthy way, it always come out in the most unhealthy of ways -whether that's throwing tantrums or shade, being abusive, gossiping, broadcasting how great we are, taking serial selfies, being a whore or etc. Additionally, there are some things we've experienced as boys that we decided to take with us to our grave. Part of the emotional frustration or indifference you see us express is us trying to live with that lifelong decision. So ladies, when some grown males tell you, "It's not you, it's me", believe it! Also believe the likelihood that they haven't said or done anything about it for over twenty something years and don't plan on saying or doing anything about it after telling you that. We got work to do in order to help get our families/communities back in order and emotional instability and intellectual immaturity won't get us there. As civilized men who advocate righteousness, as Five Percenters and definitely as Gods, we must expect more from ourselves, and each other, to get that job done.  

Peace,
Saladin

In Honor of Frankie Knuckles

In Episode 7 -Musicology Vol 2, Atlantis Build Talk Radio welcomes I-Born Allah, AKA DJ Godsillah, AKA DJ Philip Rothschild to host this house music tribute to celebrate the life and legacy of "The Godfather" of house music, Frankie Knuckles. 

You can catch the God I-Born on Live 95 Radio Saturdays at 12pm ‪on the #‎ThePressPassShow‬, Saturday nights at the Buffalo Supper Club, spinning at The District Nightclub and The Home Invasion House Mix on www.blackmartiniradio.com 2pm-4pm.

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Frankie Knuckles Tribute

Rest In Peace

Have you ever considered that Confederate Flag waving may be more of a symbol of reconciliation than succession? Or that many southerners, and their northern kinfolk, still feel perpetually slighted by the United States Government? Well consider the fact that in the 1860's, after the Civil War, Congress enacted legislation that authorized the President to purchase "cemetery grounds" to be used as national cemeteries for soldiers who died in the service of the country. By "soldiers" it meant Union soldiers, not Confederate soldiers. Confederate soldiers could not be buried in national cemeteries, nor were they afforded any benefits from the United States Government. So those aren't Confederate soldier names engraved on Veteran's Memorials or Confederate soldiers being memorialized on Veteran's Day -a National Holiday. When the remains of Confederate soldiers were found on the battlefield lying near those of Union soldiers, the Union soldiers were removed, buried with honor and they'd leave the Confederates’ bodies rotting in field. It was only because of the fear of disease spreading were their bodies put in temporary shallow graves and marked with wooden headboards for identification. And it wasn't until private women organizations, such as the Wake County Ladies Memorial Association in North Carolina, assumed the initial financial responsibility to remove these Confederates' and bury them in southern cemeteries. Keep in mind that because the Federal Government administrated this construction of these National Cemeteries, former Confederate States also paid for this. Between 1898 and 1968, the government added sections to the national cemetery to accommodate the graves of veterans from the Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The cemetery’s annex is located due north of the historic original 17-acre property. Today, more than 6,000 veterans lay at rest in the national cemetery and there are almost 4 million people, "non-Confederate" Veterans of every war and conflict, buried with honor in 147 national cemeteries on about 20,000 acres of land. 

So here it is, after the Civil War ended, the United States Government buried and memorialized their own union soldiers, symbolically spit on the unmarked graves of their southern kinfolk, and then made them financially responsible for a large part of constructing national cemeteries they could not be buried in and monuments they couldn't be memorialized on. And to add further insult to injury, black veterans earned a place in the ground and name on these same memorial monuments. Some present day American patriots would simply say, "That's what rebels get!" Yeah, well do you really think that's fair and reconciliatory? What about the noble American idea of being charitable to the opposition? It's not like every Confederate soldier was a slaver, they fully understood what they were fighting for and they were unrelated to anyone up north; the Civil War was like the Hatfields and McCoy's. The McCoy's won and made the Hatfields pay for a large part of the clean-up, an elaborate cemetery and monuments for the McCoy veterans for generations. Rescue me if I'm wrong but that doesn't seem like the best way to heal open wounds and every year during Memorial Day, Veteran's Day and etc. this history is indirectly, or maybe directly, thrown in people's faces. Also, I'm sure some of you are aware that there are soldiers in ALL WARS, including the Civil War, who fought and died for a cause they didn't fully understand or oftentimes didn't agree with. Armies need bodies and sometimes that's exactly what people were. One of the biggest tragedies is to see people overlook, minimize or trivialize that fact. Just because one of these soldiers died on what may be considered a losing side doesn't personally make such a soldier and/or their family treacherous traitors or losers. It also doesn't make the same kind of soldiers who survived on the other side winners. These soldiers who sacrifice[d] their life for a cause they don't/didn't understand or agree with reflects the same marginalized groups in America that have been historically losing lives regardless who is declared a winner in war. THAT lost of life should always be acknowledged.

In this respect, one of the reasons historical wounds remain open in America is its perpetual disrespect and lack of acknowledge for the dead. From those who have died from the genocide of our Indigenous People, Blacks who were brought here and enslaved [Maafa], Interment Camps of the Japanese, southern Americans after the Civil War, Immigrants in the 1900's and of course present day Middle Easterners/Muslims and Southeast Asians. I recently attended a viewing/discussion of the documentary Fire in the Heartland at Niagara University by its BSU. Fire in the Heartland is about the National Guard's murder/wounding of Kent State students [May 4 Massacre] and the history of student protests in America. One of the most reprehensible parts of this story was how Kent State and United State Government disrespectfully handling the deaths of the fours students and nine who were wounded -one who suffered permanent paralysis. President Nixon issued a statement which read in part, "This should remind us all once again that when dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy." The problem with his statement was that the protest on that day on May 4th was peaceful and there are images and file footage to prove that. It took nearly twenty years, the 1990's, to even erect some sort of Kent State Memorial in remembrance of this horrible incident and even then there was controversy. This, including the Jackson State Murders; where two students were shot and twelve wounded by the police as they peacefully protested the Vietnam War and United States invasion of Cambodia reflect a systemic attitude in America about death. The death of those who are not viewed as Americans. Fast forward to the incidents of violence by local/state/federal law enforcement agencies against protesters and the handling of the dead surrounding the Occupy Wall Street, Ferguson, Baltimore and etc. and you'll see this clear pattern.

150 years after the Civil War, there are some people who use the Confederate Flag as a symbol of hate and white supremacy. That is wrong and unfair. There are others who honestly look at this same flag as a symbolic reminder of their ancestors; some who died in a war they didn't fully understand or agree with, and others who use it a symbol of this country's lack of reconciliation/respect for the dead. Knowing this, it is likewise wrong and unfair to simply designate ALL Confederate soldiers, and their progeny, as treacherous traitors and losers. The Indigenous people, Africans, Immigrants, Women and the LGBT community are not the only people with an American Horror Story; some Southern Whites have one too. Lastly, the Confederate Flag, or any non-American flag be it the Rainbow, Jolly Roger, Pan-African, Christian, Nation of Islam or etc.., should not be flown over any city, county, state, government agency or public institution such as a public park, library or school. None of those flags represent this nation, the United States of America, and should only be flown on/over one's private property or worn on their person. All of this begs the questions we can only answer for ourselves: When there is clear disrespect for the dead, how can there be respect for the living? If our ancestors are not buried [resting] in peace, how can we live in peace? All of us have family and friends who have passed away. Some of us may still be grieving behind their passing and how their burial was handled. Healing those wounds and bringing closure may require us to invest in a reinterment process; beginning with openly talking about that grief or feelings of disrespect and working together to strive to reconcile those issues. 

Peace,
Saladin

That Priceless Look of Poverty
"Who Are the 10%?"

Regardless how well intended and proficient doctors may be, they are in the sick business. If they healed patients we would rarely need doctors so they "treat" them instead -and the pharmaceutical companies aren't mad about it. The same can be said about lawyers; they are in the crime, personal injury and family dysfunction business. If it weren't for drugs, violence, accidents, divorces and etc., we would rarely need them too. I'm sure my barber is glad indestructible haircuts don't exist yet because he would be out of business too. Whether we are mechanics, school teachers, dentists, politicians, pastors or etc., there's a certain degree of job security that comes along with fixing things or even striving to insure that things remain broke, as in "poor."


Here in New York, according to the 2014-2017 Community Health Assessment Niagara County Department of Health released in 2013, "23% of the people in our live below the poverty line and 44% of the population—almost one in two—is either in poverty or struggling financially and at risk." In the city of Niagara Falls, approximately 60% of our residents receive public assistance such as food stamps, welfare, unemployment insurance and Medicaid. According to 2009 data, 67% of the families in poverty are female headed households with no husband present, and 70% who are poor are unemployed. Another important statistic is that foreign-born residents are 94% above the poverty line.


When it comes to statistics, people can manipulate them to serve whatever political agenda they want. For example, in regards to 67% of the families in poverty being female headed households with no husband present, some people may simply say it's because they're not marriage material. Some people believe that the 70% who are poor, unemployed, are just lazy. The 94% foreign-born residents who are above the poverty line? Some may say they all work harder. Whatever statistics say there's always an angle of what can be said, which is oftentimes inaccurate or disingenuous.


One of the misconceptions people in my area tend to have about welfare [public assistance] is that their taxes pay for it. In part, they do. All of us who work allocate a certain portion of our taxes towards supporting our public assistance program. The reality is my county receives financial support from [New York] state and the federal government to fund our public assistance program. Because of the statistics related to poverty, and accompanying socioeconomic factors such as teenage pregnancy, poor education and etc., my city [Niagara Falls] receives a larger portion of that state and federal support. In other words, if the city were a person named Nia G. Falls, they would be living below the poverty line, receiving public assistance and parenting thousands of children.


Another misconception is that the face of welfare is "Lazy La'Shaniqua" who has 7 children by four baby daddies living in public housing. Actually, the largest portion of state and federal support any impoverished county and city receives for public assistance goes towards contracts, personnel, employee benefits and administrative services, not a welfare check. So the real face of welfare or those benefiting most from our city's poverty have more common names than La'Shaniqua. They are most likely home owners with a two income household that don't live in inner city zip codes. Do you get that picture?


Now you're probably wondering who we can blame for this. Well I'm not in the blame game business. We need more hands working, less finger pointing and the sober realization that fixing the things that are broke about our cities requires a multifaceted approach; collective work and responsibility. In the process, we also can't be naive to believe that there aren't people invested in things remaining broke [poor]. There are people like that, and they don't look like the broken.


Like with any family going through a financial hardship, we are not alone. On the other side of Canada lives Nia G. Falls’ poor cousin Dee Troit -who has also fallen on tough financial times. Maybe we, and cities like us, need to consider what strategies Dee is using to change their financial situation. That insight, may be priceless.


Peace,
Saladin

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The Duckbilled Platypus...

Who Are You: What's Her Name Today?

Building is taken from Build or Destroy or Divine: a.k.a. If you don't have anything good to say (in addition), then don't say nothing at all. Besides why betray your true nature, doing something else? And what is a God's true nature, if it isn't righteous? And yet, for most of us, before we were presented with this excellent opportunity for positive change called Knowledge of Self, our behavior was anything but. . . Well maybe, some of us had A SENSE of doing the right thing and a pocket full of MORALS accompanied by SCRUPLES to figure out what's what, but that's about it. This is  simply because, as the lessons teach, we "he (or she) was made other than him/herself' (12/1-36).

When the Devil received his punishment for starting trouble amongst the righteous people, the righteous people ran them across the hot Arabian desert into the caves of West Asia as it is now called Europe (White Masons still use this ritual in their historical rites of how they came to be; 4/1-14). When this occurred, the colored man lost everything except their language as a consequence of their exile. The key point here is: having lost those things, the colored man went savage.

Now I think the one to thirty six was done by Master Fard while attending a National social gathering. It was at this gathering where Master Fard stated, "My uncle (meaning 'us' or 'the people' who are descendants of Master Fard's father's brother) does not talk his own language. Also, "he (meaning 'us') does not know he is my uncle." This means that the descendants of the brother of Master Fard's father don't know where they originated from or what their previous stature was. Now imagine what type of impact American slavery had upon the evolution of our people . . .

During the process of enslavement, our people had everything taken--"including our language" (4/1-36). So if the Devil went savage with his language in tack, imagine what losing our language in addition to everything else made us become? Certainly we aren't today what we were originally. Most of us who have Knowledge of Self, and are coming into the realization and awareness of those lessons, know and understand that the majority of Black people in the Wilderness of North America and the majority the colored people are uncivilized people: poison animal eaters; slaves of mental death and power. Most people in this country don't know who the true and living God is, or their origin in this world and worship that they know not. (14/1-40).

Ever since I was young, I've been gang-affiliated. I know I might seem witty and very knowledgeable but my person has always been gang-affiliated: From the times of elementary schools, up into these days and times, gang members has been part of my life. It was the way of my hood; our neighborhood gang regulated a lot of our environment. Even as a young child, I had a fascination with the gangster movies and such. I was very familiar with most of the classic gangster chronicles, both fake and real.

But why? I never wanted to be a tough guy or hoodlum myself but I did stand up for myself; I never cowed down and I was always about something. I have five brothers and three sisters, so boxing was part of the "basic training" of growing up. "Can't get along, get a fair one going," was the motto around the way along with "never letting anyone take your heart." But the hood was definitely "gang ordered" and had gang politics. I never wanted to be gangster. . . Therefore, I guess it's something about the mind set. It's not the disregard I speak of, when talking about gangs, but the act of rebelling against things which didn't coincide. You can't even call it "lawlessness" because all real gangs have rules and penalties. The idea I'm looking at is that they dared to be different and I was different. I always operated as "a person of that said ability" and adhered to what I knew was right, regardless to whom or what (11/1-14). You see, you don't have to teach resistance to a gangster, a gang member knows. A gangster personifies resistance. It's what he or she stands for, and what they rebel about, which makes all the difference in this discussion. I didn't hang around everyone who was gang related, just the intelligent hoodlums: ones you could have a discussion with and they would have reasonable assessments. My family has a tradition of "being right in the loop" but not of it. We helped members and made them know we cared for them personally, but we didn't get caught up in the hoopla.

The NGE is a culture of peace (Islam): which has people who consider and live in harmony. Considering means to use reasoning. It doesn't mean getting angry with the one who brought things to your attention, it means to take it under study as to how it relates to you, then add that on to your cipher. It's the Positive Education used to Always Correct Errors. If your judgment is faulty, then your consideration will be. Humans are multi-polar, meaning, they have many facets or ways and sometimes those ideas may be contradictory. You can't reason with everyone, just those "said people of that ability." This does not make us greater or lesser than, it makes us just different. All I can say is "If you don't like the effects, don't produce the cause" and "Insanity is doing the same things over and over but expecting different results." Harmonizing means to see that what is being suggested is plausible, reasonable and worth a shot at applying. It means "getting in line with" those things you know are right and exact. If one can see contradiction in their own behavior then its time to make a change; a word to the wise is sufficient.

What is this thing that the majority of Black people in the Wilderness of North America and the majority the colored people "know not?" Our culture teaches first and foremost that the mystery God is the thing the majority in America worships and knows not (9, 10, 11, 12, 13/1-40). The second thing that they worship, but have no idea where it is leading, are the values of this Western Society. If we look at the wealth in this country, most don't truly look content. Besides, they go to extremes. Kids going to school and shooting up large numbers of elementary, middle, high school and college students. Overdoses and actresses like Winona Ryder stealing items from a store. That seems like dissatisfaction.

Most people immediately go to identifying the ultimate conscious (or a concept like the universal mind) as the mystery God--but how about the looking up to White people and their technological accomplishments as superior and something to marvel and emulate? Is not looking up to what Whites value as important and sacred also a form of Mystery God complexities? We watch their shows, look at the interviews, watch who they think is the "top billers" during Super Bowls and many of us try to emulate a lot of their standards and so-called values. We obey their protocols because we work in their businesses. That also has many of us depending on other than Self -and hoping to stay employed like praying to a mystery God.

It's a known fact that we Blacks in America act more American than Central or East Asian. That's because we lost our language. We lost things familiar. We lost tradition. And by losing our language, we lost the cultural component. All we had, and many of us still have, is the role they designed for us. All that we saw and heard came from them and their God (mystery), sexual perversions, greed, lust and cruelty. Careful analysis reveals that when the White man lost everything except his language, he went savage. So imagine what it must have been like losing everything INCLUDING our language. A word like Ankh would have no connection which would tie our thinking back to ancient Khamit culture (so-called Egypt), for example. Language, or more specifically 'words and their concepts behind them' helps us to reconnect with cultural concepts and allow us to re-embrace our knowledge and understanding of our once lost culture.

Those who say that "Supreme Mathematics is the Foundation" may think this gives them a legitimate leg to stand on but this is not true. First of all, 'the foundation of life' is Triple Stage Darkness: A state in which the almighty One, Allah dwelled--as consciousness--with the ability to make things manifest, but had not.  When Allah, the One, decided to express the power to experience ability, the First Great Sun (or light) was born out of triple stages of darkness. This was long before mineral, plant, animal, male or female; the First Great Sun was the first form of Self (consciousness within a form of pure energy, birthed through ethers from the womb of space governed by a determined idea in the Universal Mind).

From that first form of Self, Allah made stars; some which cooled and became planets, some which died and became asteroids, others went out with a blast and became meteors, supernovas or gave birth to black holes. It took time before Self shaped different vessels from soil and eventually made human forms called 'man and woman'.  And the language that the Sun and star speak is called RADIOactivity; light transmissions of "pure mathematics" represented by intermittent pauses or space between transmissions as flashes over distances over time. Yes, the Sun is conscious! Think not? Then remove an atom of Uranium and attempt to change its atomic number or configuration... The question is, do you brothers and sisters speak these light transmissions of "pure mathematics"? Probably not. Not when you are no longer consciousness dwelling in a vessel made of pure light energy and atomic radiation. But knowing the frame of mind and level of consciousness of these persons who believe "Supreme Mathematics is the Foundation", they will still believe these points are not enough. They will say, "That is pure mathematics and what we use is Supreme Mathematics -which is designed for us in human form. Supreme Mathematics is the foundation and light RADIOactivity as a language proves it!"

But no, it doesn't. It proves that in the creating of vessels to experiences Allah's said qualities, Allah built in affinities (likes and dislikes, which later became discovered in human form as discussed in the lesson: "Who is the founder of unalike attracts and alike repels?" 22/1-40). It also solidifies the need to communicate for understanding (aka being on the same page).  Planets communicate, Minerals communicate (read Peter Tompkins, "Secret Life of Plants") and Animals communicate -albeit they don't argue about the meaning. This means that the language of the sparrow does not have different definitions for different sparrows or starlings to other starlings. In other words, when The Father and First Born asked the question about "How do you see today's degree?" it was to see what you thought about a series of information called One Hundred and Twenty degrees (120 Lessons). This came on the edge of The Father breaking away from the FOI and NOI wherein those under the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad would have to always relate what they said to something "the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said." As a matter of fact, they would use those exact words. Either that or "the Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches." Our Father was frowned upon for teaching his "Self Styled Wisdom" within the temple or personalized account of the Knowledge, Wisdom and Understanding. Eventually left the NOI and built the 5%, wherein he stressed "what this all means to you." And note: Allah taught us 120 Lessons along with the Supreme Mathematics, Alphabets and Twelve Jewels.

Mathematics, Alphabets and Jewels had fixed words and somewhat fixed meanings to those words. We were allowed to personalize what those words meant to us but only in accordance with what we were initially taught by our Enlightener concerning them. As we listened, your words were under great scrutiny;  you had to be right and your words exact. If your definition deviated too far or did not make sense in relation to what these words generally mean to all of us, you'd have to show and prove that (usually by using some of the logic and reasoning within your 120 to substantiate your claim). Since many of these "Supreme Mathematics is the Foundation" members don't have any degrees to use to substantiate their claims, nor are many of them affiliated with the proverbial wisdom of our Nation's chronology (via our Elders) that serves as an appendix to the meanings behind the words in our Mathematics (and Alphabets and Twelve Jewels), these members usually make up the meanings from outside our cultural references or make it up as they go along. And when you attempt to correct errors and give them supplementary information, many of them defiantly say, "That's your understanding!"

Where is the culture, when everybody feels free to do what they please? There must be some standard or guidelines. Where is the cultural unity if all of us have a different concept for the same word?  How can we come to some consensus as to what these words truly mean? How can we have so-called different understandings and come to "Thee Understanding" of the terms in which you speak? There most be a code or standard. When I say, "shek'er'e" all the people of Yoruba land in Nigeria know I mean a gourd musical instrument, with beads and knitted cotton chords surrounding it. Upon hearing that word, one could easily remember the instrument, things central to it and things associated with it just by saying it to the right person. Why? Because the meaning is fixed! But what if "shek'er'e" meant gourd to one person, a milk shake to another person and a knife to a third? How could it remind you of the culture and tradition of the originators of such terms, when the original meaning is obscure (not so clear)? Surely we must come to terms about these terms, but those from an obscure school of thought seem to operate as cultural freelance artists instead being about "Us" and "We" as true Nation members...

What this foolishness is becoming is a hodge-podge of random meanings assigned to our national language; a bastardization due to inconsistent cultural references to stabilize it. Who knows, twenty years from now you might have someone saying, "An Italian named Christopher Columbus created Supreme Mathematics, Alphabets and got the Twelve Jewels from the master scientist Vasco De Gamma?" Who of the "Mathematics is the Foundation" crew, who don't have 120 Lessons, would know the difference then?!

When we lost the language, we lost the last thread of cultural references besides our Elders (culture degree in the knowledge to understand your equality). If we use the language in conjunction with the Lost/Found Lessons, we can access our tradition by amassing and emulating the concepts, meanings and terms behind the words as they appear within our Lessons and Mathematics, Alphabets and Twelve Jewels. No doubt it is Islamic because the word "Islam" appears in the Alphabet... Albeit some of your foundation Math folks discard alphabets and jewels as well the lessons. . . But it's a known fact that before being found, we were lost and made other than Self (12/1-36). You can't take a person living in the state of being LOST and OTHER THAN SELF, give them Supreme Mathematics, Alphabet, Twelve Jewels and 120 Lessons and expect them to FIND themselves without changing things within their life! All of us have accumulated bad habits over time, which we MUST change in order to be God/Earth! In our Supreme Math, does power come without refinement? Look outside your house. There's a trans-former at the end of your block. Trans means "change" and then you have the word "form." What this means is: the kind of power that comes from the generator, 440 volts, is too raw to run anything in your house. It must be refined by changing the form of electricity into the appropriate voltage; 240 & 120 volts. In the Wilderness, things are wild and need civilizing or calming down. One has to refine him or herself BEFORE they can manifest the power inherent within the 5%.

A Peter Pan Syndrome is highlighted in the "Lord of the Flies" novel/film and "Toys R Us" chain store symbolism; where little boys do not want to take on the responsibility roles necessary for boys to become men. They still wanted to play at freedom instead of learning culture and were outright unwilling to change. I would speak on females as well, but I think it more appropriate, that a righteous Earth continue this conversation. We have to make the transition from Niggers to Gods and that means metamorphosis, transformation or change. Nigger is a name the White man gave us. It was derogatory and used to describe all the ugly things he felt about us. This became the meaning behind the word and has been used since the earliest times of American slavery. Knowledge of Self is not gained by a change of terms or words (like Nigger to God/Earth). Knowledge of Self is gained through a metamorphosis, transformation or change in the way we think and reason -especially about our own being/house or person. When we were stripped of our language, our culture and our names we were cultivated by the concepts that this Western society had about us and life in general. All we "saw and heard" (10/1-40) came from what this man and his culture shown us. All his misconceptions, ignorance, arrogance and prejudices towards Self and others was learned as well. Certainly that will take some undoing! 

Being cultivated by his concepts we either reacted to or went along with the Devil's civilization:  we ate the poison animal and laid in the mud, right along side the pigs. Surely we must clean ourselves up also (9/1-14, 10/1-14)! We start cleaning ourselves up by embracing new concepts. We start by embracing new ideas. We start by incorporating new values. We start by reading what it means to be and visualizing ourselves as! We start by using our imagination and considering our possibilities. Ours is a culture of peace. Musa had a hard time civilizing the Devil because he was a savage (2/1-14). A person can be uncivilized and not be savage, because he never had knowledge to begin with; a savage means a person who has lost the knowledge of himself and is living a beast life. Many of our people act this way because they don't want to change. Neither do they want someone tell them about themselves or their "skunk-like" behavior. We have adopted many of the White man's ways though, finding it totally acceptable now to take out our anger on each other. Whereas, in our past, it was prohibited to do so. It's fine for a person to not like the fact that things aren't going their way, but taking it out on each other is totally unacceptable in a culture of peace.

The Sky is your Limit

If you are "a said person of that ability", you have infinite potential. This means the God you seek, lives inside of you. That being the case, as in the words of the song "Keep On" by D-Train: The sky is the limit and you know that you can have what you want, be what you want.  We were never taught this in the Great White Way--but you always have a choice. You have a good conscience and a bad conscience. Good and evil are within. God and Devil, they both live inside of you, the same with satisfaction and dissatisfaction. As a Black man being a stranger in a strange land you have to mind your wants, because someone wants your mind. These beings play this way, so that he can use you for a tool and also a slave (6/1-14), he desires to make slaves out of all he can so that he can rob you and live in luxury (12/1-14). I tell you, the only thing that can limit your potential is another idea entertained by you. A wish is a weak wanting, a weak will or desire to do. The first battle of Armageddon starts within. We have been battling so long with Satan until some of us are beginning to look and act like him. This alone should teach you, you cannot trust him or his ways (10/1-14). We have to let those contradictions go: They are two distinctly different cultures! But many are looking for a "right way to do wrong:"

"What about the time, you were rolling over--fell on your face, you must be having fun. . ."-David Byrne

Think about it: How much do cigarettes cost today? Many people act like they are doing the choosing, when the sad fact is they've been hooked and they're paying some Devil's company for the option to suck smoke down their lungs, get cancer and die. Meanwhile, the Devil has fooled the people into believing they are having fun while in reality they are accumulating sickness, laboring towards their death -while the Devil eliminates more of us by our own hand. His culture is, he robs people and lives in luxury, off of the nothing he gives.

Nonetheless, many believe that their acts are a conscious, intelligent and deliberate choice... when in fact, they are often things you saw in society as child (but this society is not divine, it is wild). When I speak wise words to many of our people, most are either too smart for their own good or get offended that I am even bringing it to their attention. They take it like, "How dare you check me; I'm grown!" They claim they know what they are doing. Truth is, Allah is One, not many: each one of us is but one of Allah's many expressions or attributes. As Self I make knowledge born out of love, so put that anger away! I understand and care about Allah's future manifestation. Those thoughts this person has are not civil or cultured. These ideas are from the wilderness.

So after a person is finished putting their theories to the test, fighting their own efforts and looking at the results not coming out the way they think they should then maybe they'll listen to the wise words coming from a scientist. Once these types get up off their trip, the ones who are said persons, will be looking for the right answers and will listen and experiment with the words of wisdom from the righteous scientists. The chronology within 120 Lessons tells of what we did, what experimented with and the reasons we came to certain conclusions and positions expressed in real time (now a days) as scientists. Our Lessons show us what we learned, how we are, why we are what we are, how we must struggle and how things should be. Also many people improperly identify with thoughts within their sphere of awareness as being their own thoughts -when it is really suggestions subliminally planted. No thoughts belongs to us; they are wants and emotions without any physical body waiting for you to take the bait as you breath them in as suggestions. Women get possess all the time when they get caught up in the rapture of emotions, yetthat is not who they ultimately are or should be. Behaviors are like overcoats, you can take them off or put them on. There is a divine aspect of the Blackwoman called Earth and a divine Blackman form called God. It's not what you are called but who you answer to. Most gravitate (or decline) to that which they secretly love most. The easiest way to tap into your inner and true self is ask the question, "What would God do in this situation?" and the answer will be divine to the best of your awareness and present ability. The next step is to identify to the right thing, not your habits. It may take time, but practice makes perfect.

THE CONCEPTS BEHIND WHAT THE WORDS MEAN within our divine language; Lessons, Mathematics, Alphabets and Twelve Jewels, is the key point. These concepts/meanings demonstrate the many qualities to be emulated and assimilated by those who are striving to be as our culture suggests; God and Earth. Emulate means to strive to be better, especially by imitating, yet you have to do this with a devoted and sincere heart: "Each was required to do what?" Bring in Four Devils! And What was his reward? What will be your rewards in regard to the destruction (10/1-14, 40/1-40)?

No real change is made without sacrifice. You can't come into this nation, remain the same and think you'll be nothing more than a whole bunch of lip service (suck-ups and kissing does not apply in this). In order to see this, you have to be this from the inside out. Then you'll know what it's all about. This is an applied science. You can't say you are the same as me, until you walk a mile in my moccasins. You got to take on these qualities. You have to remove the contradictions within your personality. You have to remove your Four Devils because you are creating a "Us and Them" situation, wherein an Allah condition is a "We" condition. This means that God is a group reality or a collective perspective experienced by each who belong. We are Allah and Allah is one: When you think "I" it should be the "All-eye-seeing", not a limited singular version. Civilization is a "We" thing too. Think about all aspects of a society and think of what would be there if you didn't have the high degree of cooperation expressed within a nation. When the USSR fell they had trucks of food on the service roads and people in the city starving because the company that pays the drivers were not able to give them comparable pay. So the drivers held the product, refused to go in without pay and people starved. That is a nation without cooperation. The concepts/meanings behind our words and Lessons show the way and the qualities. Strive to practice them and you shall become them. Put more care in loving, living and learning and there will be more care in you. That's how you emulate the Lost/Found Lessons. That's how you knowledge 120!

Peace,

Universal (Allah Universal Lord Life Justice Shabazz)