Alien
04-07-06, - 10:43 AM
Lol! Maybe the misfit has a point.
What point pray tell?
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What point pray tell?
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View Full Version : The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture Alien 04-07-06, - 10:43 AM Lol! Maybe the misfit has a point. What point pray tell? :dgi: Rory 04-07-06, - 11:46 AM What point pray tell? :dgi: that crack is bad ..:) RockWell 04-07-06, - 11:38 PM What point pray tell? :dgi: That he can get our attention.:) biggy 04-07-06, - 11:48 PM Lol! Maybe the misfit has a point. Come on.He's got more sh*t than a Christmas turkey.Sometimes I don't know what to hell he is talking about.Sometimes I'm sure he doesn't know what to hell he's talking about. :bouncy: Alien 04-08-06, - 12:53 AM Come on.He's got more sh*t than a Christmas turkey.Sometimes I don't know what to hell he is talking about.Sometimes I'm sure he doesn't know what to hell he's talking about. :bouncy: Ok.....I thought it was just me who thought he was confusing!?!? He really had me thinking I was behind the 8 ball for quite some time now! :taped2: casualobserver 04-09-06, - 12:13 AM Ok.....I thought it was just me who thought he was confusing!?!? He really had me thinking I was behind the 8 ball for quite some time now! :taped2: I've been saying it from the start; he's a fraud and/or disconnected from popular reality. I'm still waiting for one of 'his homies' to step up and admit it a1000 04-09-06, - 03:51 PM Ok.....I thought it was just me who thought he was confusing!?!? He really had me thinking I was behind the 8 ball for quite some time now! :taped2: :duh: a1000 04-14-06, - 06:40 AM :liar: I've been saying it from the start; he's a fraud and/or disconnected from popular reality. I'm still waiting for one of 'his homies' to step up and admit it : liar: a1000 04-16-06, - 12:17 PM FYI: please note that this thread is one entire work that you cannot get the substance if you dont read past posting: As I have mentioned before this is Malcolm X Month, thus I am going to define the Blockhead Pathology, it is characterized by a deficiency in these ten areas of thinking skills: 1. Concentration. 2. Observation. 3. Memory. 4. Logical reasoning. 5. Making inferences. 6. Forming hypotheses. 7. Generating options. 8. Making association between ideas. 9. Recognizing patterns. 10. Spatial and Kinesthetic perception. For more info on these see the book Brain Power Learn To Improve Your Thinking Skills by Karl Albrecht. The Blockhead Syndrome is unique in that it posses a resistance towards improving in the ten areas of thinking skills, where as others may be have similar deficiency but there is not the resistance towards the correcting of the problem. I must say however if you get a chance ,do buy the book it’s a great book. I purchase mine at a discount book store for $3. Not only are Blockheads deficient in the ten thinking areas skills but also in the six functional categories: 1. Fact finding. 2. Crap detecting. 3. Thinking on your feet. 4. Idea production. 5. Problem solving and decision making. 6. happying. I am so amazed at the karmonic nature of the universe I first came to this place posting about the importance of critical thinking, thinking out side of the box, and as I type these words I reflect and see that I am still there on the mountain of critical thinking, thinking beyond the box, aint it great. It is the Six Functional Category Skills that I ask that you use in this thread, by osmosis all threads and in your life itself. These are some of the protocols that are taking place in this thread one of the great things about this site is that Bahamians through out the Diaspora can contribute there thoughts here in this place free from the constraints of time and space it is so revolutionary. But how many of us will see the full possibility of the internet? There is an interesting study on persons who had no money winning millions of dollars through a lottery. What has been found is that these persons who did not have money before, after receiving it end up in more debt than they were before. Its not the money but the thinking of the persons, thus by extension if a person is a fool in life outside of the internet, guess what they will be a fool on the internet, thus as you exceed the bench mark of (500) post reflect are they really five hundred quality post (500 is a number I have chosen in memory of the 500 year protest of the destruction that began as a result of the Christopher Columbus voyage, and due to the fact that there are only a few members who have reached this bench mark and exceeded it thus I am able to gain an empirical understanding of their ideology,) or is it crap? However when one thinks from a Seventh Generation Perspective one has to be careful about what one Thinks, Say and Do, but Blockheads do not. Thus if you find your self to be a Blockhead I hope that the words of the song A Change Is Going To Come By Sam Cook are true. I began this post with a word to the Seventh Generation, and as we as a people begin the task of the creation of a national culture we will have to draw on our historical, cultural ties to West Africa. The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture is the creation of a new ontology, we must at this stage in the game plan look at all the cultural underpinning of the society but with special attention to West Africa due to its great neglect in our schools, but we must look at them armed with The Six Functional Category Skills and Ten Areas Of Thinking Skills. a1000 04-21-06, - 06:02 AM Broadcasting from The Mountain Of The Moon, also know as Mount Kilimanjaro, Mental station Free your mind, transmitting 360,000,000,000 giga bytes of quanta energy, turning the earth in to a second sun. Your host tonight is A1000 with guest Dr Carter G Woodson , and the voice of John H Clarke, lets go live to the studio. A1000: Hotep African people, it is a great honor being blessed with the physical manifestation of Dr Carter G Woodson and the Voice of John H Clarke, who have crossed the Ancestral realm to be with us. Greeting Ancestors Dr Woodson: Greetings African peoples. Dr Clarke: Greeting African peoples. A1000: I am just ecstatic, having both of you here, when I was on the conscious circuit tour I would always hear about your book The Mis-Education Of The Negro, can you tell us a little bit about yourself Dr Woodson there may be a few that we are reaching that are unfamiliar with you. Dr Woodson: Well, A1000, in my book are recorded not opinions, but the reflections of one who for forty years has participated in the education of the black, brown, yellow and white races in both hemispheres and in tropical and temperate regions. Such experience too has been with students in all grades from the kinder garden to the university. The author, moreover has travel around the world to observer not only modern school systems in various countries but to study the special systems set up by private agencies and government to educate the natives in their colonies and dependencies. Some of these observations too have been checked against more recent studies on a later tour. A1000: Dr Clarke when I first came across your work it was like listening to my grand mother, you must give us an introduction. Dr Clarke: In my early twenties, I was in Harlem. I had begun to write and my stories were beginning to appear in different magazines. There was an annual anthology called Best American Short Stories. I had appeared on their honor Roll as one of their most distinguished American Writers, because they considered my short stories outstanding. At this point, I became curious. I wondered if anybody in my home town was reading my work and wrote a story, totally fiction, but using the names of living people as characters. I used the name of the black principal of my elementary school, and had him do something in the story that he never would have done in real life. I had him to defy the white Superintendent of the schools. My story was about a young black student who was brilliant and wanted to do something for the teacher’s birthday. This young student painted a picture of Christ. His picture of Christ looks like his father, and I called my story “The Boy Who Painted Christ Black.” It has become the most anthologized and the most reprinted short story ever written by a black writer. Very often, my students read the story and rave about it without knowing that I am the author. It seems inconceivable to most of them that an old history teacher once had a reputation as a poet and a fiction writer. A1000: Thank You Dr Woodson and Dr Clark for those unique introductions. However today we will be discussing for the most part an essay written by licks, although I have the feeling that we will take the essay to another level, it will be the focus of our investigation. Rory 04-21-06, - 06:22 AM dude you really got WAY to much time on your hands .. on a subject that no Bahamians on this forum really care about (as its all american related stuff).. though yah get an A+ for determination after all this time ... Jer 04-21-06, - 07:37 AM Broadcasting from The Mountain Of The Moon, also know as Mount Kilimanjaro, Mental station Free your mind, transmitting 360,000,000,000 giga bytes of quanta energy, turning the earth in to a second sun. Your host tonight is A1000 with guest Dr Carter G Woodson , and the voice of John H Clarke, lets go live to the studio. A1000: Hotep African people, it is a great honor being blessed with the physical manifestation of Dr Carter G Woodson and the Voice of John H Clarke, who have crossed the Ancestral realm to be with us. Greeting Ancestors Dr Woodson: Greetings African peoples. Dr Clarke: Greeting African peoples. A1000: I am just ecstatic, having both of you here, when I was on the conscious circuit tour I would always hear about your book The Mis-Education Of The Negro, can you tell us a little bit about yourself Dr Woodson there may be a few that we are reaching that are unfamiliar with you. Dr Woodson: Well, A1000, in my book are recorded not opinions, but the reflections of one who for forty years has participated in the education of the black, brown, yellow and white races in both hemispheres and in tropical and temperate regions. Such experience too has been with students in all grades from the kinder garden to the university. The author, moreover has travel around the world to observer not only modern school systems in various countries but to study the special systems set up by private agencies and government to educate the natives in their colonies and dependencies. Some of these observations too have been checked against more recent studies on a later tour. A1000: Dr Clarke when I first came across your work it was like listening to my grand mother, you must give us an introduction. Dr Clarke: In my early twenties, I was in Harlem. I had begun to write and my stories were beginning to appear in different magazines. There was an annual anthology called Best American Short Stories. I had appeared on their honor Roll as one of their most distinguished American Writers, because they considered my short stories outstanding. At this point, I became curious. I wondered if anybody in my home town was reading my work and wrote a story, totally fiction, but using the names of living people as characters. I used the name of the black principal of my elementary school, and had him do something in the story that he never would have done in real life. I had him to defy the white Superintendent of the schools. My story was about a young black student who was brilliant and wanted to do something for the teacher’s birthday. This young student painted a picture of Christ. His picture of Christ looks like his father, and I called my story “The Boy Who Painted Christ Black.” It has become the most anthologized and the most reprinted short story ever written by a black writer. Very often, my students read the story and rave about it without knowing that I am the author. It seems inconceivable to most of them that an old history teacher once had a reputation as a poet and a fiction writer. A1000: Thank You Dr Woodson and Dr Clark for those unique introductions. However today we will be discussing for the most part an essay written by licks, although I have the feeling that we will take the essay to another level, it will be the focus of our investigation. You gat issues man. a1000 04-26-06, - 01:14 PM Broadcasting from The Mountain Of The Moon, also know as Mount Kilimanjaro, Mental station Free your mind, transmitting 360,000,000,000 giga bytes of quanta energy, turning the earth in to a second sun. Your host tonight is A1000 with guest Dr Carter G Woodson , and the voice of John H Clarke, lets go live to the studio. A1000: Its great being in the company of the ancestors, however we have had two calls on our first time caller lines: You gat issues man. A1000: Jer thank you for the call. Yes I have issues, and I will be clear about them: 1. African history, my history has been deliberately lied about, stolen and misinterpreted. 2. The African Holocaust has happen and is still going on and there has been no justice. 3. Racism is alive and well and growing. 4. I have to take calls from Folks like you who have no idea of the importance of building a cultural revolution. 5. We are still for the most part aping the west. 6. But in all this I am still vanguard still continuing the fight as Menes did when you unified upper and Lower Egypt. A1000: Here is our second caller, Rory from Blockville. dude you really got WAY to much time on your hands .. on a subject that no Bahamians on this forum really care about (as its all american related stuff).. though yah get an A+ for determination after all this time ... Dr Clarke: What I’ve been alluding to is this: If there is going to be a world revolution among African people, we have to locate African people and connect with African people. No matter what we call ourselves and what islands we come from or what part of Georgia or Alabama, we can still identify with these regions, but the overall identification should be with Africa and with African people wherever they are on the face of this earth. A1000: Dr Clarke as usual that was very strong indeed. In fact I have been making a similar argument that even tho we are on 700 rocks and keys called the Bahamas we must see our relationship to the bigger African world, can you say that again for the Audience. Dr Clarke: What I’ve been alluding to is this: If there is going to be a world revolution among African people, we have to locate African people and connect with African people. No matter what we call ourselves and what islands we come from or what part of Georgia or Alabama, we can still identify with these regions, but the overall identification should be with Africa and with African people wherever they are on the face of this earth. A1000: Thank you Dr Clarke please continue. Dr Clarke: We need to study how Pan-Africanism came into being in the closing years of the nineteenth century. We need to study H. Sylvester Williams again and examine this Pan-Afrian League begun in Trinidad at a time when the East Indians and the Chinese were encroaching on the African population. What solidified Pan-Africanism on those islands? What were the dreams of Marcus Garvey, and why did a Marcus Garvey emerge from Jamaica rather than some other place? Why did he have so little success in Jamaica and so much success outside Jamaica? Why is it likely that if Marcus Garvey were walking down the streets of Jamaica right now alive, some confused Jamaican might stone him to death? Why did he have more success in the United States? Its not because we have a better level of intelligence than others: not because we are more loyal or committed than others. Because the nature of our oppression in the United States has told us clearly: you are not wanted here; you were brought here to labor. Now that machines have made your labor obsolete we want to get rid of you. A1000: You are so right, Dr Clarke, the nature of oppression in the United States of America and South Africa are so overt and brutal, where as in the Bahamas it is very subtle but yet real. In fact many of our thinker’s error in their assessment of our condition due to the subtle nature of the oppression we live under. Dr Clarke: In Jamaica, they still have the semblance of nation. They still thought they belong to something: They belong to an empire that was controlling the world. The sun never set on it. They assumed that they were part of it; and still do. A1000: Dr Clarke for someone not born in the Caribbean you have summed up the nature of our minds, we have many Bahamians of this persuasion. Dr Clarke: It is not a matter of one master being more committed than the other. Different kinds of masters use a different nature o oppression. The British have an expression: it is not only in the administration of justice it must be so, it must also appear to be so. The British created a colony that gave the illusion of nation. But the crude white man in the United States wouldn’t even give you the illusion. They even put signs on the water fountains: “Black,””Colored,””white.” Look at the utter ridiculousness of it: water-Black, colored, white! So we had no illusions about him. The white man left us with no illusions of nation. A1000: If we were in church we would say AmenRa. Dr Clarke: When Marcus Garvey began preaching nation, if black Americans responded to it more than others, it was because we needed it more than others. Yet when you study the structure of the movement the Garvey movement was strictly a Caribbean movement, administratively, but his followers and his supporters, financially, were almost solely black Americans. The ministers of the movement, the clerical workers were basically Caribbean’s. Yet this caused no conflict, then or now. A1000: This is what listeners to the Free Your Mind Broad Cast listen for, the Truth. Dr Clarke: we’re not going to have to guess about Garveys movement now. One thing professor Robert Hills ten-volume history (six volumes are already in print) of Garveys movement has already done is to locate the documents that end any argument. So we can examine the documents, and we don’t have to debate how the movement was structured and who ran the movement. A1000: You are so right Dr Clarke on the need to examine Marcus Garvey’s movement. Dr Clarke: It is important that it existed because part of our future revolution, part of our movement towards nation ness, part of our movement toward self-reliance in our community would have to be based on a serious study of this movement and to what extent it explained the concept of nationhood. A1000 Thank you for answering the callers question Dr Clarke, lets look at this essay of Licks when we get back from the break shall we. Rory 04-26-06, - 06:36 PM Dr Clarke: So Clint why are you such a whitehead? Clint : I dont know, it maybe the white jacket im in Dr Clarke: Everything you say is useless as it is irrelevant to the Bahamas. Clint : Okay then, squeeze me as I AM a whitehead. Dr Clarke: No need to, your ramblings are silly enough already Clint : Okay, then ill go back to my white walled room and take my meds Dr Clarke: Okay. I have some meds for you, first stop talking all this jibberish on this Bahamian forum Clint : I cant, im stuck reading books from 50 years ago beause thats all they have in the sanitorium's library, and It makes me think I still live in the 1800's. Dr Clarke: Ok then, start by loosing the Matrix speech as that was a GEY film Clint : I cant, im spaced out on meds so i need to quote a movie like that Dr Clarke: Okay go back to your room and suck your thumb Clint : Okay daddy, but first i need to hit up the other 300 forums where i post my jibberish Dr Clarke: Okay then, do that then take your meds Over and out from A1000's (AKA Clint, AKA Clint Carlton) Matrix, We all Gey, part 13 a1000 04-27-06, - 12:42 PM Broadcasting from The Mountain Of The Moon, also know as Mount Kilimanjaro, Mental station Free your mind, transmitting 360,000,000,000 giga bytes of quanta energy, turning the earth in to a second sun. Your host tonight is A1000 with guest Dr Carter G Woodson , and the voice of John H Clarke. We will take a break to hear from our sponsor Labi Safire, the talented artist and embodiment of the South African struggle to be free. 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