I Am Losing My Connection To Other Africans

Can Africans truly live in peace with Europeans? I mean without them trying to be superior, destroy us or subjugate us?

Saw this on FB and I have a need to preach, so I decided to make a post.

My answer - No.

 I know a girl married to a black guy and she used to be all anti-rap and crap like that, now she is slanging her words and shit lol.  It's funny as hell how dumb it looks to me, but anyway, that's not the point. The point is in spite of all that, we were talking about walking in this bad neighborhood and she referenced her race like that made a difference in her vulnerability.  Which is a valid point, but less valid than the fact that she's a woman.  But she was like "I'm a young, white woman" and I was like, "What does being white have to do with anything?"

I have white friends, I'm more into a culture that's seen as white (I like rock, techno, gothic culture, I'm a video gamer, I like anime, etc)  Race has divided us in the past.  I stopped talking to someone for many years cause he used the n-word (I am adamantly against ANYONE using this, you cannot justify it in my mind, even if you are black and the point of my post is not to argue that, so save the whole it was originally an African word explanation people try and use) but one of his questions was "Do you get mad when black people use it too?"

Even if we were able to coexist, it'd eventually break down because we do right now.  It's rocky as it is.  Europeans will continue to be the majority as far as they are concerned.  And this isn't just European, but anything that could pass for white in general.

The characters on TV shows and movies are almost always predominantly white.  They preach the message that racial equality doesn't matter by pushing the "Who cares?" response into everyone's heads.

I got into an argument with someone on the World of Warcraft forums over why are there no black lore characters.  Someone was like, "but the Trolls are black!"

But they're not.  They have African culture (Voodoo, Patois accents, live in villages, hunt with spears, very tribal) but they are TROLLS, not humans.

Then it was "The game is set in medieval times, there were no black people in medieval Europe"

To which I said, there weren't any trolls, dwarves, elves, orcs, aliens or zombies either, but they are all in the game, that's a bullshit excuse.

Then here comes the "Negropean" as some activists like to call them "I'm black and it doesn't matter to me"

Even though I was gaining support from some, that one post there destroyed the whole stance I'd built.  They were used to say, "Hey this person is black and they don't care, why should you?"

Power Rangers mostly white.  Fresh Beat Band is almost all white.  Disney characters and shows are predominantly white.  Commercials feature mostly white actors.

And then if black people have their own shows, it is blaxploitation and the characters are caricatured stereotypes or the show is pure ignorant or shows some more of our mental slavery.  (Which all those Tyler Perry movies/plays IMO are.  The black folk are stereotypical religious, slightly ignorant black folk and if a white person is on there, they act black in some way)  Or we promote these black comedians who have perpetuated the myth that the word nigga is synonymous with black (I am talking to you Katt Williams).

Black heroes are sports stars or entertainers.  Black kids come up to me in the parking lots asking for money so they can go to some sports camp.  Or black adults come up trying to get me to buy their latest rap CD and then look at me like I'm stupid or lying when I say I don't listen to rap.

YES, I really don't listen to rap.  Why is that so unbelievable to you?

People glorify Tupac  and Biggie, but they lived a lifestyle that focused on being an outlaw and a criminal.  They talked about it all the times.  And while they may have had some good messages in some of their message (like Boondocks) the fact that their approach to spreading that message is totally surrounded and pervaded with ignorance causes me (and most) to ignore or miss that message all together.

Tupac had numerous songs talking about sex, drugs, killing, money, being a thug, etc.  Yet he has a few good pop songs and recycle some old quotes and people think he is great and his approach was just.

The Boondocks pokes fun at black issues to bring them to light, but it's approach is shrouded in ignorance and the audience isn't paying any attention to that.  All they hear is "Nigga this" and "Nigga that"  Almost all the kids these days are hooked on using that word.  People in my immediate family even use that word.  It isolates me from them the same way it isolates me from other Africans.

I've made a bunch of posts on FB recently about the Sodan from Stargate SG-1.  Sodan

The Sodan are an isolated group of Jaffa (most of the featured Jaffa are played by Africans.  The Jaffa are the slave armies of the Goa'uld who are aliens that use their technology for Godhood, only a few Goa'uld have been black, I think this is a poke at the subjugation of Africans by people with superior technology) who defied the Goa'uld 5,000 years prior to the events of the show and had been living in secrecy on an abandoned planet of the Ancients (humans who lived millions of years prior to the show and were able to ascend into an energy state that made them very powerful and immortal).  The Sodan do not like the other Jaffa and have nothing to do with them.  In fact, the leader of the Sodan, Lord Haikon, says when confronted with a plea to help the other Jaffa:

"The Jaffa made their choice 5,000 years ago, their fate is of no concern to us."

And I'm starting to understand.  It's like the Ancients did at the time of their ascension with the Ori (another group just like the ancients, but they use their ascended state to rule as Gods and thus gain power from spiritual slavery), rather than fight them, they defected and moved to another galaxy.

The Ancients say: "Deny the battle."

I used to be a big black activist.  I was in several FB groups and talked about it often with anyone who wanted to talk or listen.  But as time went along, I realized something about the Africans (or should I say blacks, cause they aren't much of Africans) living around the world.

Being African is not what it used to be.

Everyone seems to want to act like an American.  Africa is changing into another America.  Arabic invaders are taking over East Africa, the Dutch are taking over South Africa and West Africa is in turmoil with corrupt leaders and the US is offering its "aid" (which is a crock of shit, they just want to get their hands in Africa's pockets, after all we, have lots of untapped resources cause we lived off the land much longer than everyone else).  Several people from Africa continent befriended me on FB, but alas, I saw that they were no different than those here in America.  Calling each other nigga, talking about how much they wanted to come to the US, etc.

And I began to realize.  It's stupid of me to think that we can be unified.  To bring people into unity on such a massive scale, or shit even a small scale, requires subjugation.  To bring unity, you have to subjugate people.  That was the purpose of religion.  (For those who know me, you know I am non-religious, but no atheist)  But even religion was used to further subjugate people because it was written by a particular sect of people that places races other than their own as inferior.

When Christianity was brought to Africa and things like Mormonism were starting to take hold, religion was used on us because we were like Africa as Africans - Dark, unexplored and untamed.  In the early explorers (who later returned as invaders) we were something else to conquer and exploit.  They'd just got done doing it to the Native Americans who mostly all are making that silly conversion to Christianity.

Why would you adopt and hold on to the religion of your oppressor?  That's baffling.  Especially a religion that makes references to you being nothing other than a creature to be led by someone over you and says "Slaves obey your earthly masters as you would the lord"

I mean, who believes that BS?

Tons of Africans that's who.  Africa is on a spiritual conversion, Christianity and Islam are on the rise, most countries are converting over to that sect and Africa is becoming Westernized and urbanized.  I mean, the urbanization is so bad that if you look at an aerial shot of the pyramids of Giza today, you'll see that cities are built right up to the banks of the Nile and the pyramids appear to be no more than a half a mile away from the town.  And this of course is happening worldwide.

I used to want to build a town, start my own tribe.  I envisioned an Atlantean like existence, dedicating its resources to discovering advanced medicine and spirituality (meditation, tai chi, qi gong, shamanism, etc), green living, advanced technologies.  A strictly non-religious community, but not an atheist one.  One where I never had to hear the word nigga again and we could live on as proud African peoples and the borders would be open to anyone who would live as we did.

I have now realized this will never happen.  I am losing my connection to other Africans.  Their fate is starting to be of no concern to me.

And them being ignorant of things is no excuse.  It's not even valid.  They are capable of thinking as I am.  Perhaps if they hadn't lost their connection to their old ways, they'd be able to recognize when some bullshit is being fed to them or when something is up.  Perhaps if they revered their ancestors as we used to, they'd know these things, but hey, whatever.

I am losing my connection to them because as time has gone along, I am finding it rare to find anyone who thinks along my same lines.  We have many Africans who are "Born Again AfriKans" (emphasis on the K, it's not spelled with a capital one normally, used to make distinction cause that's how it's spelled for those), but they are not like me in many aspects either.

First, many of them freely use the word "nigga" they even deified (I use this term whenever people pick someone as the leader of a race) some guy named Malachi York who uses the word freely to describe us.  The justification is that it is a derivative of NGR, Naga or Negus which is supposed to meaning King and that Nigger was a mispronunciation of that word and so rightfully we should not be ashamed of using the word.

That is totally dumb, sorry.  Even if the explanation were true, nigga/nigger =/= NGR, Naga or Negus.  I don't see Asians calling themselves chinks or Hispanics calling themselves spics.

That's a major dividing factor.  Then religion.

There can be no hope for Africa until we detach ourselves fully from foreign concepts. Religion taught people to live their whole life concerning themselves only with rules from an old ass book written by goatherders that are centered around some false beliefs and that ultimately everything in life only matters as brownie points to the deity. Now people are trying to change the Christianity, Catholic and Islamic concepts to make them survive a mental and spiritual revolution by people trying to claim that these religions are native to Africa and were stolen, twisted and sold back to Africans. Jesus was Jewish, not African. Muhammad was Semite, who fall under Arab. Catholic of course is just a stem from Christianity and the other Abrahamic faiths. People clinging to those religions are just the result of being brainwashed. And then people are afraid to let go of the concept of a big daddy in the sky who ultimately controls the fate of the universe because they are afraid of the unknown. It makes sense. People do not fear death, they fear what comes after. Holding on to the notion that you will be ascended to a mystical kingdom in the sky and that your whole life someone is watching over you is a comforting thought. But imo, a false one. For something to create the universe as we know it and as well as what we don't know about it, after all we only occupy the 3rd dimension, who knows what lies in the other dimensions and outside of our own solar system and to have the consciousness to be able to observe every single thing in the universe all at once is kind of a ridiculous concept. The questions this being asks in the bible make it painfully aware that the bible contradicts itself by saying he is omnipresent and aware of everything. He couldn't be. He would never need to question someone. "Adam and Eve, where are you?" No need to ask, you should know. Why the need for the theatrics when smiting folk? It was all a facade. If this deity did exist, I'm almost certain it was an alien. Read something called the "Gods of Eden" it references many bible verses that could be interpreted as the chariot of Yahweh being a flying craft of some sort. Look at Stargate, the Gods in that show used their technology to make themselves appear divine. To primitive folk, they would be.


But of course people will explain away inconsistencies with words like faith and belief and say that I can't interpret their god's words because I am a mere man. That is pure denial. If something doesn't make sense, they claim its a metaphor and not meant to be taken literal, make preachers/pastors, "holy men" separate from us because if we can't understand their god's words, how in the hell do these people know more than we do? Oh right, they have been ordained by their deity and makes them special to know what the hell the book is talking about.


I'm Spiritual, I don't believe in a human like being creating the universe, it's a dumb idea. I believe in an afterlife, but I believe it is a product of the things that exist in it. I believe in a duality of all that is, a physical and spiritual side. Everything having spirit (life spark), but not sure on everything having a soul (unique consciousness). But as for some deity creating everything, sorry, but no, that makes no sense.


Now religious zealots, please go ahead and say I'm a blasphemer, doomed to hell or whatever place of eternal punishment (which also doesn't make sense since Lucifer is supposed to have wanted to be like Yahweh, yet the bible makes it seem like Lucifer is the punisher of bad people cause hell is a place where you are sent to be tortured, supposedly) you believe in. Please continue to be close minded and only think what you are told to think.



SHEEP.




I understand the Sodan even more now and like them even more. I'm fighting a battle on two sides that I can't possibly win. Defecting and branching out on my own (which is why tribal/colonialism continues to exist and has existed) is the most logical option.


Thoughts?

Voodoo, Hoodoo - The Loa and You

I've been doing a lot of research lately on what is known as Voodoo.  I'd like to go ahead and speak on it, if I may (which I will since this is my wall lmao).

Voodoo is primarily known by its Hoodoo practices in America (I'll spell it properly today :p).  One thinks of Voodoo and thinks of dark, Satanic forces at work from a shadowy realm in which demonic beings exist.  They think of someone taking a personal thing of yours, making a doll and sticking it or hexing it to cause you misfortune.

Well, that's partially right.  On the Hoodoo part that is.  Hoodoo, which is used to basically term the magickal part of Voodoo could be substituted with the term Witchcraft using a term largely associated with Wicca (which we all know, Witchcraft though found in Wicca does not belong to Wicca).

Voodoo is basically a spiritual belief in an alternate realm parallel to our own in which spiritual beings reside.  Some of the more powerful beings or I should say the deity like ones, are called The Loa.  The Loa are sort of the Gods of Voodoo (SHOULD YOU CHOOSE) and can appeased/appealed to by the practitioner with the use of different practices found in any form of Witchcraft.  Comparatively, view The Loa much like one would view a political, social, financial or religious organization.  It is one that can follow much like choice and while The Loa don't control anything, they can influence things.  

Influence and control are two very different things.  If someone controls something, that means that no one else does.  Many religions, monotheistic and polytheistic, always place deities as the creators or controllers of certain things (IE Ra, God of the Sun or Thor, God of Thunder, etc).  However, this leaves it to say that if you follow this religion, you are now accepting this to be true.  I'd like to go against the grain and say that while this is true for some sects of Voodoo, it is not true for the religion in its entirety.

As stated previously, Vooodoo is a spiritual religion.  Spirituality is something that perhaps largely understood by people today.  Spiritism places the fact that we (IE living things) have a spirit that persists after death.  Reincarnation may or may not be present in specific faiths.

If one were to practice a religious magick, this is based on the belief that a supreme being is willing to form a personal relationship with you (out of anyone else) to do something that you want.  That makes a deity seem quite human (at least a deity claiming to be a supreme being).

Voodoo has a Supreme Being.  A creator.  This creator is not influenced or involved in things besides creation.  It is not something that you can pray to and receive special favors from.  This is why The Loa are not creators.  The Loa do not rule or control anything.  View religion more as a company.  The Creator is the CEO.  However, a CEO with ultimate power.  They are concerned with building their company, creating new departments, building new locations.  The CEO is the lifeline of the company, without the CEO the company would not exist.  Expand said company to an analogy of the Universe.  The Supreme Being or Creator of the Universe is not involved with the affairs of men and women.

In Abrahamic religions, one prays to Jehovah (known as God as the religions are monotheistic) and expects Him to bless your life or otherwise do a personal favor to you.  Thus giving God the opportunity to play favorites depending on those who tithe or pray the most.

In Polytheistic religions, this concept is the same.  One prays to Zeus, Thor, Ra, Anubis, etc and expect (or probably should say hope) to receive some sort of personal blessing from a divine being.

In many Spiritual religions (Taoism, Buddhism for example), it speaks of Enlightenment.  Enlightenment from a laymen's point of view (and almost fantasized), one views obtaining an Enlightened state as being God-like.  One is free from a mortal shell and now is an entirely Spiritual being.  Spiritual energy is said to be all around the Universe and what the Universe is powered from.  Spiritual energy is said to be The Force from Star Wars, or Ki from shows like Dragonball Z.  Mastering this Spiritual energy is supposed to have power that men and women only dream of.  However, obtaining this state of Enlightenment is also said to have the effect of negating the desire to do petty things with it.  If one were a Spiritual being and could do things such as cause natural events (hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes) then one would be considered God-like or even God to some.  However, when one is to obtain Enlightenment, one must also lose Earthly desires (which one would be a desire for power and control).

With that being said, could you consider a spiritual being (which is just a spirit) an Enlightened being?  I wouldn't think so.  If you could appeal to an Enlightened being for a personal favor (IE prayer/sacrifice/etc) then that could make them more like humans who donate to their political campaign or someone rooting for a particular sports team.

However, this is not to say that a spiritual being would be without power.  This is to simply say that if one were Enlightened, one would be unconcerned with the affairs of mortals.

Going back to Voodoo and the idea of "God", the "God" of Voodoo and of Spiritism/Spirituality is a Creator.  But not particularly a God (by today's standards anyway).

Not to diminish the importance of The Loa or their power.  For the power of The Loa and spirits in general is not something to disregard.  Magick is about influence and the law of attraction (coincidentally abbreviated Loa, wonder if there's a correlation there?) and is very real.

Voodoo deals with many things that are indeed found in fantasy and have been demonized as a result.  Voodoo (and many other similar practices) are based again on spiritual energy enclosing the Universe as we know it.  If people are Spiritual beings and there exists Spiritual energy flowing through us, composing us and around us, then blood, skin, hair, clothes are literally saturated with energy.  If you have hair growing from your head, blood flowing through your veins, clothes on your body and skin on your body, then they are saturated with your energy.  And that could lead to them being used against you.  Voodoo's darker side (which is the most popular and why Voodoo is viewed as evil and Satanic) deals with that lingering energy and uses it as a tracer.

In Voodoo, if one is to take a piece of your clothing and hex it, the hex can be directly linked to you because of the lingering energy.  In the past, great care was taken to preserve sweat, blood, clothing, hair and any other objects that were in close contact with a person as it was said to link a person to that object and could be used against them.

This can seem almost scary to those who think about it, as you ponder how much clothing you've given away or your recent blood donation or getting your hair cut.  Are these things put to good or malevolent use?  Did you really contract a cold from being coughed on or are you under the effects of a hex?

I should clarify on The Loa, however.  The Loa are presented today as primarily French named Spirits who enjoy many Earthly things (notice how almost all deities are appealed by Earthly things - again, Enlightenment).  The Loa can be personal, just as someone's deity should be something personal.  The Loa could be someone's Ancestors or associated with the Culture.  In essence, if Voodoo were worldwide, the Egyptian Gods or the Greek Gods would be Loa of their own cultures.  Ancestors (recent and old) could be viewed as Loa or someone completely unrelated.

It can be complicating electing to do it this way however with the element of reincarnation thrown in there.  If people reincarnate, how can one be a Loa?  This narrows down to reincarnation potentially being a choice.  If a spirit's life is a book.  Then each Earthly existence is a chapter of that book.  But the book is ultimately a learning experience (no matter the lessons composing of that experience).  That is what living is about.  A learning experience for a greater purpose (not reflecting on the positive and negative aspects, it is to say that each life is a small step in a bigger spiritual life, nothing about morality).

With that being said, any spiritual being could be revered as a Loa and wouldn't found to be wrong.  Voodoo shouldn't be viewed as negative because it isn't.  Voodoo and its practices are in the same boat however, as Wicca (and why I sympathize with Wiccans) and with that being said, I go broader and say Pagans, as most, if not all religions that could fall under the non-monotheistic religions are demonized and viewed as Satanic and evil.

HIV, AIDS and Allopathic Medicine

Who believes AIDS is real?

I say it comes from medications.

AIDS is immune system failure.  Immune system works heavily off lymphocytes and phagocytes which are stimulated in production in the bone marrow.

Theoretically, someone should be able to receive a transplant or even a dosage of immune system cells or the TCells into their system.  The marrow from a transplant should be able to produce healthy cells and fight off the infection.  

If you take too much acetaminophen, you will become ill, your liver will be toxified and you could die.  Okay, well look at the way those drugs have the side effects and you can only take a certain amount in a certain period.  They supplement parts of your immune system.  

Think... Jaffa from Stargate.  Drugs are your symbiote.  Without them, they would want you to perish.  And by they, I mean the people who are REALLY in control around here.

You know the funny picture of the guys trying to look tough saying "We run this shit?"  Then the picture of the guys laughing in the business suits saying, "Watch out guys! Looks like they run this shit!"

It's funny cause it's true.  

People want that pill and people want you to want that pill.  Doctors receive incentives to promote certain pills.  They can lie and say they don't, but I know they do.  I've seen it first hand and ran into it with several physicians over the year I was a customer service representative at Humana-RightSourceRx.

I was diagnosed with astigmatism in my right eye when I was young.  I was told I should get glasses or by the time I was 20, I'd be wearing a patch over my eye.  They swore it would be blind and I'd end up wearing glasses because my left eye would go bad trying to compensate.  I never wore glasses, just hit level 27 and my eyes are both working fine.  Same level of vision in my right eye and the left eye views things just as easily.  I didn't take the glasses because like pills, I knew my body would become dependent on it.

Magic Johnson has HIV/AIDS right?  Hmm.  

Doesn't look like the typical HIV/AIDS person to me and he's had it for YEARS.  1991.

Now, I have seen news stories which say Johnson only has HIV. That may be the case.  I'm just trying to make a point here.  What if Johnson DOESN'T take all those anti-HIV and anti-AIDS drugs they want to give?  What if instead he changed his diet (if AIDS is a real threat even though it is brought upon RXs) and increased his vitamin and nutrient intake to power his body to fight off infections?

Like taking supplements, eating really healthy, etc.  Magic Johnson may not have AIDS and only HIV, but he looks GOOD for someone who does!

And what if it's all because he has NOT taken the drugs they'd want you to take if you were infected?

Power to the people?

I know there are a lot of gripes out there about voting being fake, politicians and their corrupt behavior, banks and stealing people's money and the BIG BAD ILLUMINATI!

And you know....  I can see.. If there is an Illuminati, why there is a need for such a thing.

If you take a look around at the people around you, stop to wonder.  Do you think they are adequate to make any sort of ruling on things?  The true IGNORAMUSES of society.  Those "gutter" people.  The rich and corrupt.  Do you think that someone forming a country (of course one ripped from the hands of people who already owned it) would really put it in the hands of the people that lived there?

We talk about the monetary issues and politicians giving themselves tax breaks while increasing the taxes of the lower financial classes to compensate for the need for those taxes.  Who is over them to make them behave?  No one.  So they get away with it.

And I say that is a necessity.  The whole "democracy" myth is one propagated down since the "government" was formed. You basically have a shadow organization that could potentially be ran by anyone.  And just like the value of money, it is all based on trust.  And I'll say this, I do NOT trust the government.

The government lacks a fundamental element, transparency, but it appears to have that by discussing ideas the government may be contemplating, which it may or may not be going through with.  But this is a scam.  The wool being pulled over your eyes, so to speak.

Would you trust a bunch of thugs or rednecks to make choices about who will be running your life?

Doubtful.

And that's why I think the people truly have no power.

The Race Differential

I have a further thought on racial inequality in video games, tv shows, comic books, etc.  I think this can be largely attributed to people adopting the "forget about it, move on" type of thinking.  I have been involved in numerous debates, discussions and arguments regarding this sort of situation and a number of people who you figured would be for the balance (IE people of a minority - black, hispanic, etc) are usually one of the main ones who don't care for it.  This only reaffirms the belief that it isn't an issue.  I went through it most recently with a World of Warcraft issue.  Someone asks

"With the way the world is, why are there no black lore characters in WoW?"

Of course we had some white players who surfaced and said "Well, why are there no hispanic, asian, etc.  What makes there being no black lore characters an issue?"  Then they proceeded to pick out the characters that did fit the bill of those races, but they were all unimportant, obscure characters.  They proceeded to say "WoW is about medieval England and it has knights, there were no black people in England at that time."  They kept saying "No, it doesn't matter.  It's not important. "

Then the whole argument was basically moot after a black person came along and said "I"m black and I don't think it matters"

I attempted to continue, but everyone basically referenced to the one minority who came along and said it's not important to them.

Like Dora the Explorer, she was originally a white girl with blonde hair.  No Hispanic element to be found in the concept.  It was actually added late in development at the suggestion of one of the employees on staff.

Like the socio-economic and financial boundaries that divide us, I begin to wonder if the idea behind the persistence for race boundaries to just be "accepted" is universal as those are.  Some people accept that they are poor, or that their class is poor.  Like the Mexicans that live in town here, they accept working those production jobs and stay within that same caste.  Is that really how it should be?  Should we accept to be treated this way?  Will arguing the fact really change anything?

I've watched Power Rangers since I was 10.  And since then, I think there have been maybe 6 people that were Red that weren't white.  The rest of the team may include one other non-white, but the rest are.  So 60-70% of that team is usually white.  Sometimes more.  There is usually always two girls, sometimes one.  But more than 50% of that team is without fail, white.  That was almost 20 years ago.  Still to this day, the majority of the team is white.

Even in the children's shows - Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place, etc.  They are all 70%+ of white actors.  This is seen as not important, but numerous threads exist on various sites that ask questions about Stargate SG-1 and ask "Why are almost all Jaffa black?  Where is the equal opportunity for other races?"  But it is a white person asking why there aren't more important white Jaffa.  (Which I do admit, in Stargate, the major Jaffa who get a name and a place in the story arc are more often than not, Black.)  And a number of the Goa'uld at the beginning were black.  But the Tok'ra are almost universally white.  As are almost all of the Ancients and Priors of the Ori.   I have dispute about that, as the Jaffa are a slave race exploited by the Goa'uld and later prone to make irrational decisions based on their squabbles for power and their tradition.

Sadly, I don't think this will change any time soon.  There are number of arguments about channels like BET (Which I detest as  I think it represents a large collection of idiocy promoted by Black people as it does nothing but play rap, R&B and gospel and all the TV shows are about black drama and the characters are usually stereotypically black and if there is a character of another race, they usually "act black" in some manner to gain acceptance) and other black geared outlets being valid when white geared outlets are seen as racial or oppressive.

But as I think people are becoming indoctrinated to believe that the battle for equality must be given up on and people should be happy with what they have and hope that democracy isn't a farce and there truly is equal opportunity by a popularity vote, then the change in the system will only be accomplished on a small front and never on a large scale.

Faking Culture

So tell me why do people choose to dress up in caricature representation of alternate cultures?  You see some people pretending to be "Egyptian" dressed up like a pharaoh and "walking like an Egyptian".  Or pretending to be African dressed up in an outfit made of kente cloth.  Or like that white guy who was just on Yo Gabba Gabba wearing a cartoonish Indian Headdress.  What is up with that?  That is really annoying every time I see that.

Reminds me of that BS from Khloe Kardashian and her "tribal" look.  She was dressed just like how Warner Bros. Entertainment and Disney used to portray Indian people in their old, extremely stereotypical/borderline racist cartoons. (See Peter Pan).  Or Taylor Lautner playing Jacob Black

You are what you are.  Be it.  Stop claiming miniscule percentages of an alternative culture in an effort to dissociate yourself from your actual culture either cause you dislike it or are ashamed of it.  Nothing wrong with liking other things, but going as far as dressing up like a cartoon character representation of a certain culture and getting offended when people who are ACTUALLY what you tried to portray are offended and call you out on it is idiocy.

A Reflection

I've been watching Stargate SG-1 lately.  I'm on Season 06 now, but I would like to go back and pull up a quote by Oma Desala:

"The only way to win, is to deny the battle."

I see what this means now.

I'm a Pan African.  Or I was.  Or maybe I still am.  I still feel psychological reassurance if I'm not "the only black person there" type deal.

The way I was raised is quite different than how I am.  I have become an entirely different person, but Mother laid the groundwork for it.  I was given a lot of freedom and I guess one could say that I have found things that broadened my perspective and horizons to evolve into who I am today.

Oma Desala passes along that quote numerous times and I was in a funk for a while trying to determine the meaning of that.  And I have figured that it means, "Walk away."

The Ancients in Stargate are the first evolution of humanity.  They are superior in every way to every other race in the galaxy.  They evolved millions of years prior to the storyline of SG-1.

NOW, everything I have said is about to become relevant:

I have faced many issues with regarding race, gender, sexual preference, religious preference, political preference and many other matters of conflict.

Racism I'm afraid, will never die.  It is an idea and as V said: "Ideas are bulletproof."  Religious differences, will never die, because some religions are formed purely on the idea of discrimination.  Politics is always a big sham as each side is lying about SOMETHING.  And I personally feel it to be nothing more than a charade by a group that REALLY controls what's going on.

So, why struggle?  Why be an activist for anything?  Why bother?  It's a losing battle.  For the longest time, I've been an activist on polytheistic religions and differing views carving out their own part of the world and fighting for their existence.  But where is the point?

I don't believe slavery was ended for the good of the African people.  I don't believe civil rights came about for the good of the African people.  And when gay marriage is legalized (notice when, not if), I don't think it is for the good of homosexual people.  All of these "major wins" I see as nothing more than a clever tactic to keep people docile because they are "making progress".  Kind of like how I think the World Trade Center/9-11 incident was nothing more than a tactic to get to the Middle East, raise enlistment rates and patriotism.

Right now, I see the re-colonization and Westernization of much of the "3rd world" areas.  I've protested, written emails and letters, signed petitions and raised awareness about this.  Urbanization and deforestation are abundant.  The reliance on fossil fuels.  Fracking for oil.  ALL OF THESE ISSUES ARE ABUNDANT and steadily increasing.  Hell, the hippies have fought against urbanization since they came out over 30 years ago, yet nothing has changed.  Why?

Ah, because it is a pointless fight to try and change the majority's mind.

The Ancients were at war with the Ori and rather than continue to try and war with them, they simply left.

Deny the battle.

So, by that summary, is the solution to not try and prevent the deforestation and urbanization or is it to fight the religious conformity and political shams of today.  The solution seems to be "deny the battle".

So, for those who are against all of that as I am, is the solution to stop fighting and in essence, desert the cause.  Or rather, cease the active opposition of those who are acting against your cause?

If the Ancients had warred on with the Ori forever, maybe they'd have been destroyed or not gotten anywhere.  Hell, maybe the Ancients would have won.  But, instead the Ancients chose to go where they were not bothered.

But that's kind of dumb isn't it?  Ascension may or may not be real, but running away from a problem might be an issue. But, they are on a level that you must abandon those kind of issues to achieve.  Ascension in Stargate is much like Ascension in a philosophical and metaphysical sense.  The Enlightenment journey.

It is said to start on this path, things that would make you biased or opinionated are to be abandoned, for those are earthly burdens.  But, what is the point of fighting for any of that stuff if you are just going to leave it anyway?

But, all we have to go on is promises and words about what lies beyond.  They may have very similar problems there that we do here.  The Spirit world is said to comprise of many levels, some hellish progressing upwards to celestial.  But, the way you vibrate (whether you have good or evil intentions), will determine what you are surrounded by.  It goes on the physics principle - the universe is influenced by things within it.

If you are negative, you'll attract negative and your world will be negative.

If there is truth to that rule, then denying the battle may be the smarter option.