Are you sure ? By Walter Beach

A R E   Y O U   S U R E

Some people say, IT IS BELIEVED, many are of the opinion, MOST FELL, experts declare, IT IS OFTEN REPORTED, it is widely thought, RESEARCH HAS SHOWN, science says, IT WAS PROVEN; is that so, maybe A R E Y O U S U R E ??????

The lyrics by Leonard Cohen for ‘Everybody Knows’ follows: “everybody knows the dice are loaded; everybody knows the good guys lost; everybody knows the fight was fixed the poor stay poor, the rich get rich, that’s how it goes, everybody knows the boat is leaking; everybody knows the captain lied; everybody knows it’s now or never; everybody knows it’s me or you; everybody knows the deal is rotten old Joe’s still picking cotton; everybody knows………………The profundity of it all; everybody knows!

All the grand designed and all grand plans will be finally expose and revealed for what they are. The dance that brings the soul to life has an inherent validity of its own. It must be objectively accurate and subjectively acceptable. My ultimate consideration is to focus upon issues which address the code of “Cultural Fantasy” literal acceptance of mythology, fallacies, fictions, allegorical non-truths and agreed upon lies. I am speaking precisely to the confiscatory nature of the code of Cultural Fantasies. So seductive is the code of “Cultural Fantasy” that it has proven itself immune to reality. It reduces, minimize, marginalized certain belief’s, rendering them absurd and make obvious considerations; even obscene. There is a cultural continuity that maintains the assumptions which contradicts experience. Cultural, customs, tradition and heritage will reveal the consciousness however they will not necessarily change behavior.

The understanding of human behavior given the cultural scheme suggests that clear and precise analysis is often obscure and ambiguous. Self-deception and self-delusion are to be avoided. I am not interested in fostering illusions. I offer no position of privilege or power to illusions.

As the psycho-dynamics of racism recognized neither more nor less than four(4) primary predicates – each being paramount to any understanding – each being natural and necessary. Exploring the racism through the cultural schemes of ontology, axiology, epistemology and logic gives unique insight into this dynamic. We must observe, consider and interpret. Everything must submit to interpretation. There are many possible explanations for a given behavior. Why and how do we select meaningful responses? One imposes one’s own system as far as one’s power can reach. The strongest and most common invalidating characteristic in human interaction is race. The Euro-intellectual orientation of Western thought coalesce frequently in matters of race, more than religion, nationality, ethnicity, class age, and gender.

I think according to the essence of my being; I think according to my values; I think according to my knowledge and I think according to the process used to reason. Things differ according to the internal imagery and mental cultivation. Thought precedes all action; there is a Holy Trinity, thoughts, words and action. This proposed cultural scheme is natural and necessary to the dynamics of human behavior. The key is not to become trapped. The contradictions must be revealed.

One’s experience reveals one thing and one thing only; that is one’s state of consciousness. Personal identity or racial identity is determined by levels of consciousness and internalization. The most significant issue is that one must accept the reality that they are what they are. Personal sovereignty is the distinctive and special primacy of self- identification for individual power. Maximum self-esteem is the acceptance of having infinite worth and dignity. Racial integrity is the lineage and pedigree that is accepted as the integral and incorruptible identity of an individual’s maximum self-esteem; it is a consciousness of kind.

Values which will occur most frequently dictate behavior. The idiosyncratic balance of an individual’s response is determined by the degree to which the value is ranked. We protect what we value most. Preference is choice based upon one’s value. Choice is freedom! The power to choose is an option based on only two possibilities, orientation and value. Orientation/ indoctrination will reveal still another dynamic of the cultural scheme. Knowledge is applied in conjunction with established values. The internalized belief, opinion and assumption are relied upon to provide the trust, faith and confidence for anticipated responses. The world view or cosmology defines subsequent behavior.

Behavior is justified by the logic put forth. Reasonable rationality is the scientific and arithmetic response to the thought process based on standard forms. Forms and moods of syllogism are acceptable in the use of logic. However, situation ethics and period dialectics must expose the weakness of logic. Rationale is fundamental to all reason.

Human behavior identifies two (2) archetypes: the violators of human dignity and worth and the violated. Each carries their own soul of the respective stamp of the other. The social-psychic dynamics of the archetypes are incompatible. We function as validated human beings or as invalidated human beings. We become either agents in the process of racism or we function as objects. As objects we remain voiceless–our being defined and interpreted by others.

400 years of slavery! In the collective 100 and 50 years of the bogus quasi-freedom proclamation clinical attention is necessary for both the purveyors of slavery and the recipients. In order to survive with in the established racial hegemony, we must adjust our language, values, thinking and the way we view the world. We must deny our personal power in order to gain a modicum of acceptance. This hegemony invites us to compromise our personal morality at every turn. Furthermore, it gives us all the tools we need to do so. Self-centeredness, the illusion of control, abnormal thinking process, denial, defensiveness, fear, and each of the characteristics that the system are handed to us as a way to avoid being moral responsible persons. It silences the voice inside that speaks to our truth. On a national and collective level we come to believe that what we are doing is right because we are doing it.

This post traumatic slave syndrome has left a devastating effect upon Black people. Human behavior extends from mental thought in order to break any form of the particular behavior you must first break or alter mechanisms from which that behavior extends. The psychological traits, of cultural inferiority and subsequent social submission are the byproduct of enslavement and global racism. Our collective psychosis remains the most difficult area of our struggle. If Black people, ever want to really brake the mental shackles of systemic European enslavement they would first have to understand their spiritual, cultural and genetic identity and then prepare to promote and defend it. Low self-esteem and self- hate is at the core of the Black situation. Pseudo self-esteem is at the core of the systemic European psychotic behavior. The comfortable seduction of inadequacy or what I call ‘suicide for the faint at heart’ supports the post traumatic slave syndrome. There is a systematic method of precisely defining racial consciousness. Race sensitivity and racial consciousness are not aberrations. The assumptions, postulations and suppositions which serve as the basis for race behavior are observable and quantifiable. What is the primary impulse response to one’s racial sensitivity and consciousness?

Racial progress and even freedom is just a matter of opinion! Mild and gentle tones of behavior, does not imply a change of heart for racist. Racism becomes tolerant where it is helpless. So call progress is merely to endure until the opposite can be carried into effect without peril to the status quo.

To me, the path of purification is stated by Dr. Maulana Karenga. Black Is a color, Black is culture, Black is consciousness.                           The Seven-Fold of Path of Blackness

*Think Black __ rational, about others, especially our people but also the world.

*Talk Black__ speak truth and good to the people and criticism to power and about the possibility and  power the people.

*Act Black­­__ be aware, audacious, and engaged, in love and in struggle and build a good world.

*Create Black__ create good in the world, beauty, possibility and promise.

*Buy Black__ support community economics efforts and interest.

*Vote Black__ vote in the interest of our people, always concern for its effect on others and the world.

*Live Black__ righteously, caring and committed, and in reciprocal relationships; in respect, in peace with justice and in the interest of the well-being, health and wholeness of the world.

The principle of Maat, protect and sustains the spiritual self from the unnatural forces that ultimately disrupts and destroys our spiritual nature. It is always the lower that goes to transformation when it comes in contact with the higher. Anything natural will assert itself.

Unnatural behavior leads to destruction of the spiritual self. The unnatural force’s mission is to destroy (God) by destroying the environment; destroy the environment by disrupting the community; disrupt the community by breaking down the continuity of the family; breaking the continuity of the family by reversing the spiritual value system of self.

 Walter Beach