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Source: Dr. Anthony Gabby Carter (Singer/Song Writer)
THE FUNERAL TRANSPORTATION
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The leaders headed to London
What an Epic Scene!
What was the accasion?
To say ‘bye to the British Queen
The President of America
Arrived in ‘Lemmo’
The PM of New Zealand
She did so also
All the European Leaders
When they did arrive
Were seen posh and relaxed
All in a similar ‘Drive ‘
On this Solemn Accasion
Class was Clearly There
Then came MEDIOCRITY
To Pollute de Atmosphere
When we saw the Vehicles
Driving on the highway
We thought it was Funeral Equipment
Or Flowers that they’ll bear
The Windows were heavily Tinted
So we couldn’t see inside
We did not know
Such a Heavy Blow
Would be dealt to Our Pride
The Buses bore
No Flowers
No Equipment at all
They carried the Bodies of African Leaders
Who answered the Call !
To be Present
And Obedient
At Lizzy’s Farewell !
When eyes Saw de Predicament
Voices shouted…
‘WHAT DE HELL’ !!!!
What a Profound Insult
Rendered in Plain Sight
A friend of mine
Laughed and said…
‘GABBERTS IS SUITS THEM RIGHT’ !!
A Blatant
International Disgrace
An Affront
A Slap in each face
But I have one question tuh ask…
WHA DE HELL DUH DOING DEY
IN DE FIRST PLACE ?????
Written September 21st, 2022.
From 7.02 am to 7.26 am.
By:
Chief Omowale
( Gabberts )
GOOD RIDDANCE TO RUBBISH
She was over there in Africa
When she get de news
She father dead
She’ll be de British Head
No hesitation
No excuse !
There she was
Age twenty one
In the prime of her health
Flying home
Not to roam
But to Queen of the Commonwealth !
Queen of all of India
And New Zealand too
Canada and Australia
Mixed up in de brew
The English – speaking Caribbean
Will now become her tool
Over all these places
Young Lizzy will Rule !
All their natural resources
She hoarded
With an Iron Fist
Britania kept on rolling
Lizzy did see to this!
This quiet
Wicked Woman
Never lifted a hand
To help bring Reparations
To any Caribbean land
She stood in silence
( And full support )
When one Winston Churchill
Killed millions of poor Indians
Oh what a bitter pill !
She never uttered a single word
Against that Peta Botha
Whose Apartheid Regime
Unleashed its killer Beam
On the Blacks of South Africa
She inherited millions of pounds
From the gains of slavery
Yet she allowed each colony
To wallow in poverty
Seventy five
Long hard years
This Monarch Liz did Reign
She made sure her colonies
Made no economic gain
A few hours ago
We got the news
No lies
Fakes news or tricks
That Lizzy
Queen of England died
At the age of ninety six
I can’t offer no sympathy
I’ve never been a hypocrite
Her son Charlie
Is sure to be
Sitting where she did sit
At last !
He will become the Monarch
The British Ruler
The King !
If he brings us Reparations
Then I will support him !
Written September 8th 2022.
From 5.01 pm to 5.23 pm.
By:
Dr. The Most Honorable Anthony Gabby Carter
( Chief Omowale ).
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“Whoever does not inform his children of his
grandparents has destroyed his child, marred his
descendants, and injured his offspring the day he dies.
Whoever does not make use of his ancestry has
muddled his reason. Whoever is unconcerned with his
lineage has lost his mind. Whoever neglects his
origins, his stupidity has become critical. Whoever is
unaware of his ancestry his incompetence has become
immense. Whoever is ignorant of his roots his
intellect has vanished. Whoever does not know his place of origin
his honor has collapsed.” 15th Century Timbuktu Poem
Some of our ancestors were quite capable of seeing 500 years into the future
Source: Heru Djet – Abibitumi.com
““We can be assured that in this instance ‘Coromantee’ referred to a sizable Akan presence, granted the foregoing cultural evidence. Demographically, an average of 40 percent of the Africans imported to Barbados came from the Gold Coast between 1650 and the 1710s, and a historical aggregate of at least 136,000 Africans came from the Gold Coast–only Jamaica had a higher total in the British Caribbean.”-Kwasi Konadu, The Akan Diaspora in the Americas
“The Akan never constituted a majority among other African cultural groups shipped to various parts of the Americas, including Jamaica, throughout much of the ‘slave trade’ (henceforth, ‘international enslavement enterprise’). However, their leadership skills in war and political organization, expertise in medicinal plant use and spiritual practice, and their very presence as archived in the musical traditions, language, and patterns of African diaspora life far outweighed their actual numbers (whatever the ultimate total might be).”-Kwasi Konadu, The Akan Diaspora in the Americas
“Proverbs are a very effective mode of communication, and their correct and persuasive use in speech is always taken as a sign of sound education, maturity, cultural sophistication and wisdom. Among their many uses, we can discern the following:
To Express Abstract Truths. Proverbs are generally used to communicate truths that may be abstract and difficult to grasp. Such a proverb usually dramatizes and configures the bare truths in the facts of everyday life and world. In the proverb form the truths become so substantial that they stimulate the imagination and challenge the understanding.”
-N.K. Dzobo, African Symbols as Sources of Knowledge and Truth
Source: Heru Djet-Abibitumi.com
The following are examples of proverbs being used to teach abstract truths. They are all excerpts from N.K. Dzobo’s essay “African Symbols as Sources of Knowledge and Truth”
Proverb: 1) There is no quarrel between the eye and sleep
Abstract Idea: Learn to tolerate each other—Tolerance
Proverb: 2) The freedom that comes from ignorance enslaves the one who entertains it.
Abstract Idea: Knowledge is freedom
Proverb: 3) It is only the stupid slave who says that his condition of bondage is good after a heavy meal.
Abstract Idea: The freedom of self-determination is better than material well-being
Source: Abibitumi.com -Kwabena
Intelligence is related to the setting of goals. GOALS. One of the major reasons for the confusion of Black children, one of the major reasons for the educational problems that Afrikan children have around the world is because we as Black adults are not clear about the goals that we want to accomplish as a people. Because it is the goals that we set that organizes and forms intelligence. If you have no goals and no set of purpose then there is no intellectual capacity for your children. You will need to have cultural (political, economical, educational etc., ) goals Black people. You can not just send your children to school and expect them to learn when you have no cultural goals and directions on things you want to accomplish as a people. You will have to inculcate and instill in your children goals and goal orientations in order for them to organize and form intelligence. And because you have let your future be determined by another group of people, your children’s minds and brains have no where to go and have no reason for learning. Period.
Okokuroko Seba Nana Amos N. Wilson
African Proverbs & Quotes
Source: Heru Djet – Abibitumi.com
“A computer without a memory is dysfunctional, even though it has available a sophisticated program. The program simply would have nothing to process. A people without a memory or with a false memory is a disabled people. They have nothing to process or more likely they have “garbage” to process. For too long African Americans have been deprived of a true history. This means functioning without a vital asset that any people requires. The rescue and reconstruction of Kemetic history is but one small part of what should be a grand design for the rescue and reconstruction of the full picture. The culturally disarmed cannot stand as peers in a culturally armed world!”
-Asa G. Hilliard III, The Meaning Of KMT (Ancient Egyptian) History for Contemporary African American Experience
Quote: “The weaker peoples must die. At present the Negroes are the weakest people and if we do not get power and strength now we shall be doomed to extermination.”-Marcus Garvey
“Wode nnabraba tu kwan a wudu; na mmom wonsan w’akyi bio.
“If you travel with fraud, you may reach your destination, but (you) will be unable to retrace your steps.”
-Akan proverb
Explanation: One may profit from unrighteousness, but such success may prove fleeting.
Ọgbọ́n ní ńpẹ́ kó tó ran ẹni; wèrè kì í gbèé ran èèyàn; wèrè Ìbàdàn ló ran ará Ògbómọ̀ṣọ́.
“Only wisdom takes a long time to rub off on others; imbecility does not take long to affect others; it is the imbecility plaguing Ibadan people that rubbed off on the people of Ògbómọ̀ṣọ́.”
-Yorùbá proverb
Explanation: As we associate with others, over time, their bad habits can affect us.
“Mfomso kyerÉ› nnipa nyansa, É›no nti nea ose É”nyɛɛ mfomso da no, ahwere ade.
“Mistakes teach us wisdom, and the person who has not made mistakes has indeed lost something (an opportunity to learn).
-Akan proverb”
Caribbean Proverbs:
Source: Makiya Shani Tamiya – Abibitumi.com
“”To enslave men, successfully and safely, it is necessary to have their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived. A certain degree of attainable good must be kept before them. These holidays serve the purpose of keeping the minds of the slaves occupied with prospective pleasure, within the limits of slavery.
The young man can go wooing; the married man can visit his wife; the father and mother can see their children…..the young people can meet, and enjoy each other’s society…Before the holidays, these are the pleasures in prospect; after the holidays, they become pleasures of memory, and they serve to keep out thoughts and wishes of a more dangerous character.”
-Frederick Douglass in his autobiography “My Bondage and My freedom”.
It is from this book that I saw how the plantation was the blueprint for the modern corporate/general work environment.”
““Yuh kyah plant corn an’ reap bananaâ€
You cannot plant corn and reap banana //
What you put out in the universe is what you will get in return.
~Jamaican proverb~
This is similar to what goes around comes around. So, if you always treat people badly, do not expect good fortune or kindness in return.
“Figa moja, haliinjiki chungu”
One stone will not support a cooking-pot //
You need to cooperate with others to survive and also to contribute to social development. “
“”When trouble tek yu pickney shut fit yu”
When you are in trouble, a child’s shirt will fit you
When one is in trouble, any help offered is appreciated regardless of how small or embarrassing it may be.
~Proverb from St. Vincent & the Grenadines~”
Proverb as a Guide to life: Kiswahili Edition
“Fadhili ya nyuki ni moto”
The gratitude which bees receive for their diligent work of collecting nectar is the smoke that men use to expel them and get at their honey
You must reckon with ingratitude from those whom you once helped. “
Source: Heru Djet – Abibitumi.com
“One’s history and culture is “5. A basis for creativity. Many African Americans are rightfully suspicious of romantic calls for a return to the past. Clearly, what is needed is reality and not romanticism in the contemporary world. Moreover, no return to the past is even possible for anyone. Yet one’s own past can and must be used in the present as building material for the future. Real romanticism appears when misguided African American people try to build their futures out of the alien heritage of others, as if it were their own. The use of one’s past is not a rejection of technological creativities. It may help to put technology into perspective and to shape it. To know one’s past is not to live in the past or to be stymied in the present. The past contains the seeds for the future.”
“”3. A source of resistance to alien domination. Cabral was astute in his recognition of the role of indigenous culture in the practice of freedom. He saw that only by the organized, systematic, and effective repression of a people’s culture could a foreign or alien power dominate a native or culturally distinct population. It is for this reason that colonizers and oppressors all over the world have always declared war on ethnic culture. Conquerors are fully aware of the power of history and culture.
‘History teaches us that in certain circumstances, it is very easy for the foreigner to impose his domination on a people, but it also teaches us that, whatever may be the material aspects of this domination, it can be maintained only by the permanent organized repression of the cultural life of the people concerned. Implantation of foreign domination can be assured definitively only by physical liquidation of a significant part of the dominated population … In fact, to take up arms to dominate a people is above all, to take up arms to destroy, or at least neutralize, to paralyze, its cultural life. For with a strong and indigenous cultural life, foreign domination cannot be sure of it[s] perpetuation.’
-Asa G. Hilliard III, The Meaning Of KMT (Ancient Egyptian) History for Contemporary African American Experience
“”2. A foundation for group unity and identity. The destruction of group unity and identity is a precondition for the enslavement of a people. The absence of group unity and identity reduces the power of the group and individuals within it. Group cohesion is a prerequisite to effective action. Group cohesion is rooted in shared culture.”
-Asa G. Hilliard III, The Meaning Of KMT (Ancient Egyptian) History for Contemporary African American Experience”
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