Conscientization 101

April 6, 2017, marks the 35th anniversary of Dr. Bobby E. Wright’s passing. Dr. Wright was one of the greatest warrior’s for the restoration of African sovereignty. In part one of this two part series, we are proud to present a digitally re-mastered dialogue with our beloved brother from the Black Psychology and Mental Health Conference, at Atlanta Junior college on April 10, 1980.

Dr. Bobby Eugene Wright, was born in Hobson City Alabama on March 1, 1934. He obtained his BSc in Education and MSc in Counseling from Chicago State University and his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Chicago. Dr. Wright properly diagnosed the quintessential dilemma that faced African people around the globe as mentacide. He defined mentacide as “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group’s mind with the ultimate objective being the extirpation of that group”. He diagnosed that the only way to restore lost African sovereignty was through the destruction of mentacide, which could only be done with the development of a Black Social Theory. For more on Dr. Bobby E. Wright, checkout his book The Psychopathic Racial Personality and Other Essays.

This episode has featured sounds from:

and,

What does it take to run a successful business? More succinctly, what does it take to take run a successful African centered business in EUROPE?!!! Is it possible to maintain your principles while growing your market? The creators of Ital Fresh, a Caribbean, vegan, and street food popup restaurant, Poppy and Iras DanJahDan of RU1 Fam, would answer all these questions by saying hard work, integrity and commitment!

On this latest episode of the Conscientization 101  podcast, we talked with one half of the dynamic and innovative team at the Liverpool based Ital Fresh,  Iras DanJahDan (also of the RU1 Fam hip-hop collective). We discuss the various challenges and rewards of running an African centered business, how it represents an example of the global Pan-African institutions that can fortify African people throughout the world, and much more. Sister Poppy and Brother Iras DanJahDan are truly African culture personified at its best, so don’t miss this dialogue with the vi-tal ITAL FRESH!!!

This episode has featured sounds from:

and,

Notice: Conscientization 101 editors have some spring cleaning to do, so we’ll be back with another podcast episode on April 26, 2017.

We had the opportunity to chat with Mercury aka Djehuti Moon Child from the dynamic hip hop collective RU1 Fam. On this episode we learn more about Mercury, how he grew up, his musical influences and forthcoming solo project, the importance of social organization, and much more!

This episode has features sounds from:

Mercury of RU1 Fam Social Media:

Twitter: @thisismercury

YouTube: MercuryTV

Soundcloud: Mercury86

We have indicated some of the reasons for the repression of the Afrikan American entrepreneurial spirit — immigration, restrictive governmental laws, trade restrictions, and White racist social practices. However, there is an additional set of reasons which, in the end, is almost as repressive as the others — a regressive Black bourgeois leadership establishment held mentally captive — to an-Afrikan assimilationist ideology. This leadership is typified by the NAACP, the Urban League, the late Dr. King, Jesse Jackson, a coterie of Black Preachers, politicians, intellectuals and professionals who not only neither advocate nor aggressively promulgate an economic program for the Afrikan American community, but actively fight against such a program. They seem to perceive the problems facing the Black community as essentially problems having to do with Civil Rights, Human Rights, and moral “turpitude,” i.e., the failure of America to live up to its highly publicized moral, constitutional, political, and civic values. Thus the program these leaders have imposed on the Afrikan American community is the one political scientists have aptly captioned, noneconomic liberalism. The emphasis on noneconomic liberalism as the guiding philosophy of “responsible” Black bourgeois leadership, involves the projecting of “strong reformist impulses in the realms of civil liberties, race relations, and foreign affairs but not in the basic distribution of wealth and power.”[ref]Amos Wilson, Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century (New York: Afrikan World Infosystems, 1998), 442.[/ref]

The relative powerlessness of the Afrikan American community is not primarily due to an absence or paucity of human resources, or even monetary and other material resources. It is due rather to its lack of efficient organization, coordinated development and application under the influence and guidance of a deep and abiding sense of peoplehood and nationhood, of national purpose and destiny. As an aggregation of individuals who can only momentarily act as a people in reaction to their common victimization, the Afrikan American community is a “house divided against itself.” As such it cannot withstand even relatively weakly organized economic, social and political assaults by other non-white ethic groups who easily overrun its territories and domains, let alone the far more powerfully organized and coordinated assaults of its arch enemy, the White American nation.[ref]Ibid., 505.[/ref]

On this episode of the Conscientization 101 podcast we conclude our featured lecture by Dr. Amos Wilson entitled Beyond White Racism, Civil Rights, and Onward to African Revolution, which we digitally remastered. In this final installment of this series Brother Amos discusses the following topics:

and much more!

This episode features sounds from:

Dr. Amos N. Wilson, was a social case worker, supervising probation officer, psychological counselor, training administrator in New York City Department of Juvenile Justice, and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York.

He was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1941 and completed his undergraduate degree at Morehouse College. He later moved to New York where he completed his masters at The New School For Social Research before attaining his doctorate from Fordham University, New York City, in the field of General Theoretical Psychology.

People familiar with Dr. Amos Wilson referred to him as Brother Amos and he would travel for numerous appearances at educational, cultural and political organizations such as the First World Alliance, the Afrikan Poetry Theatre, Afrikan Echoes, House of Our Lord Church, the Patrice Lumumba Coalition, the Slave Theatre and CEMOTAP to name just a few. His travels took him throughout the United States, to Canada and the Caribbean. Dr. Wilson was a businessman who owned and operated various enterprises in the greater New York area.

A prolific writer, Brother Wilson has written various pertinent works in the areas of education, child development and therapeutic psychology. Brother Amos passed away on January 14, 1995.

(Correction: We noted in this episode we will be returning with a new episode 3-1-17, but it will actually be 3-15-17)

On this episode of the Conscientization 101 podcast we feature Part 1 of a 2 part lecture by Dr. Amos Wilson titled Beyond White Racism, Civil Rights, and Onward to African Revolution, which we digitally remastered. In Part 1 of this lecture Brother Amos discusses the following topics:

and much more!

This episode features sounds from:

Chairman Maf’s album Zoo, the tracks were “Lovers” “Elephant” and “The End” and Wise Intelligent’s album The Talented Timothy Taylor, the track was “Still Black” and his album Wise Intelligent Iz the Unconkable Djezuz Djonez, the track was Sow Djezuz (feat. Tye Austin).

Dr. Amos N. Wilson, was a social case worker, supervising probation officer, psychological counselor, training administrator in New York City Department of Juvenile Justice, and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the City University of New York.

He was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1941 and completed his undergraduate degree at Morehouse College. He later moved to New York where he completed his masters at The New School For Social Research before attaining his doctorate from Fordham University, New York City, in the field of General Theoretical Psychology.

People familiar with Dr. Amos Wilson referred to him as Brother Amos and he would travel for numerous appearances at educational, cultural and political organizations such as the First World Alliance, the Afrikan Poetry Theatre, Afrikan Echoes, House of Our Lord Church, the Patrice Lumumba Coalition, the Slave Theatre and CEMOTAP to name just a few. His travels took him throughout the United States, to Canada and the Caribbean. Dr. Wilson was a businessman who owned and operated various enterprises in the greater New York area.

A prolific writer, Brother Wilson has written various pertinent works in the areas of education, child development and therapeutic psychology. Brother Amos passed away on January 14, 1995.

As the first Black president exits office, rather than America being “post-racial,” Black people must walk around like the 1960s with signs blaring: “Black Lives Matter.” In addition, the late Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, advised Black students to attend “slower track” universities. And a Princeton University study concluded that a 20-year effort like the Manhattan Project (building the A-bomb to nuke Japan), is required to close today’s educational/racial inequalities.

Ezrah Aharone’s latest book, The Sovereign Psyche: The Systems of Chattel Freedom Vs. Self-Authentic Freedom, asserts that Black America has been unknowingly thrusted into an “intellectual and institutional war” where second-place finishers experience varying degrees of “chattel freedom,” which is when the value of a people is predicated upon the extent to which they serve the interests of others.

Regardless of the issue, genuine solutions entail what we as Black people intellectually and institutionally do for ourselves. If “Black Lives Matter” we must channel the end-uses of our intellect and the resources of our institutions to not only prove and enforce it, but also leverage powers to penalize and/or repudiate violators.

The Sovereign Psyche comprises the necessary intellect and willpower that materializes what Aharone defines as the “3 Dimensions of Sovereignty,” which are: Self-Authentic Freedom, Government, and Development… All of which must operate inter-connectedly, since failures or disruptions in one will render shortfalls in the others.

Although this work centers upon Black/African people, the sovereign functions and frameworks herein are universal in application. In this context, the concepts and criteria presented are far more rational than radical.

On this episode of Conscientization 101 podcast, we welcome back brother Ezrah Aharone and  play excerpts from our dialogue with him about his latest book the Sovereign Psyche: The Systems of Chattel Freedom Vs. Self-Authentic Freedom. We discuss in detail about the concept of liberation struggles waged in the United States by Africans based on two diametrically opposed concepts; “Freedom to become American Vs. Freedom from Americanization”, we define sovereignty, and we discuss the unprincipled relationship that America has with African people in America as it stems from Jeffersonian democracy.

Ezrah Aharone is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Delaware State University and a business and political consultant on African affairs. He is the author of Pawned Sovereignty: Sharpened Black Perspectives on Americanization, Africa, War, and Reparations and Sovereign Evolution: Manifest Destiny From “Civil Rights” to “Sovereign Rights”. We would like to thank brother Aharone for taking the time for dialoguing with us and for producing such invaluable libratory/sovereign texts.

This episode features music from the following artists:

In the conclusion of our series with Dr. Julian Kunnie about his book, The Cost of Globalization: Dangers to the Earth and Its People, we talk about the effects globalization has on climate change, ecosystems, why capitalist solutions to the former are a joke, and much more.

This episode features music from the following artists:

In part two of our three part dialogue with Dr. Julian Kunnie about his book, The Cost of Globalization: Dangers to the Earth and Its People, we talk about the effects globalization has on Indigenous people, and we properly define indigeneity. We also discuss why the proposed “solutions” for the so-called “third world” can never be a panacea because it comes from the same people who caused the problem in the first place. This leads us to debunk eco-tourism, how/why Western culture is projected as universal to maintain Western hegemony, and much more.

This episode features music from the following artists:

Dr. Julian Kunnie’s latest book, The Cost of Globalization: Dangers to the Earth and Its People, examines the pitfalls of globalization outside the mainstream, corporate narrative which asserts that globalization represents positive economic growth for everyone on the planet. He provides an analysis which identifies the advent of European colonialism as the impetus of globalization which has contributed to climate change and global warming.

This episode features “Blue Soup” and “Prawn Soup” from Chairman Maf’s album Soup.  We also feature Akala’s “Murder Runs the Globe” from his album Knowledge is Power, Vol.2.

In Part two of our talk with Big Frizzle, we discuss the impetus and objectives of specific tracks on his album Family First, Africa 4 Africans Edition. This episode is dedicated to the revolutionary Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz.

This episode features sounds from the following artists:

Logic & Last Resort – “We’ll Never Know (Instrumental)” from their album True Talk (The Instrumentals).  The original “We’ll Never Know” track featured Maverick Sabre, Akala, & Big Frizzle from their True Talk album.

Big Frizzle’s album Family First, Africa 4 Africans Edition: “The Best”, “Taharqa” and “Toast ft. Triggs Vega.”