A poetic expression on the importance of remembering the process and purpose for liberation, through the use of ancestral memory and cultural knowledge.

I am because we are,

Brotha KD, MSW

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liberationsocialwork.com

A poetic expression of the realities of Black Power.

In this episode, we reflect on becoming a Father to a 12-year-old. From selfishness to realizing the sacred mission of fatherly nurturance and protection, our Firstborn continues to teach us about the essence of living life to her fullest capacity.

In the spirit of Ubuntu (e.g., “a person is a person through their relationship with other people”), this intimate reflection will help you draw parallels, become inspired, and develop a sense of curiosity.

Proclamations for deep reflection:

“Fatherhood is healing-centered, and consequently, a liberating force.”

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In this episode, we briefly explore how liberation social work, as an alternative perspective and lens, emerged and some of its key influences. We highlight the inspirations of NTU, Optimal Conceptual Theory, and the science of African Psychology.

In the spirit of Ubuntu (e.g., “a person is a person through their relationship with other people”), this intimate reflection will help you draw parallels, become inspired, and develop a sense of curiosity.

Proclamations for deep reflection:

“Liberation is the process of purging and untethering the soul, freeing from alien consciousness and the power bases that stagnate and delimit the illumination of the soul and the expansiveness of social and cultural consciousness. Its means and aims are predicated on a human life enhancing paradigm, supported by dignity-affirming values and informed and expressed by particular cultural orientations. - Brotha Kyle Toon

“The family, which includes the living, the dead. and those yet-to-be born, is the center. The family or peoplehood is the center of existence. It is the center of the universe. For African people our peoplehood thusly becomes the source of human definition.” - Dr. Wade Nobles

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In this episode, we explore personal facets of life, such as addressing past, present, and future traumas, family, graduation, and seeking meaning through fatherhood, as well as domestic and global geopolitical realities. We also examine the power of collectivity as a people-oriented instrument of power to combat systems of oppression.

In the spirit of Ubuntu (e.g., “a person is a person through their relationship with other people”), this intimate reflection will help you draw parallels, become inspired, and develop a sense of curiosity.

A quote for deep reflection:

“We must understand the tremendous value of the study of history for the re-gaining of power. If our education is not about gaining real power, we are being miseducated and misled and we will die “educated” and misled.”

- Dr. Amos N. Wilson

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In this episode, we delve into the multiplex realities informing the sociocultural and sociopolitical experiences of Black and Brown bodies. The focus lies on the forces and apparatuses interfering, disrupting, and generating chaos in our ecosystems, worldviews, value systems, priorities, interaction with reality, and consciousness. In the spirit of Ubuntu (e.g., “a person is a person through other people”), this intimate reflection will help you draw parallels, become inspired, and develop a sense of curiosity.

A quote for deep reflection:

“…if Afrikans are to liberate themselves from European domination, empower themselves, enrich their quality of life, they must repudiate the power of Europeans to characterize their ethnicity and through it, gain power over them by characterizing their own perceptions of themselves..” - Dr. Amos N. Wilson

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In this episode, we delve into the concept of reality, touching on the contours of its influencing, persuasive, and controlling nature of our minds, emotions, consciousness, behaviors, and personality wiring. Reality depends on a people's ontological and epistemic structure. So, in other words, reality is best understood and interpreted through a culture's particular knowledge and truth-seeking systems. In the spirit of Ubuntu, this intimate reflection will help you draw parallels, become inspired, and develop a sense of curiosity.

A quote for deep reflection:

“Our children is brought up with wisdom and understanding. We was brought up in ignorance, that we had to search to find the truth. But our children born and from them born them hear the truth.” - Bob Marley

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In this episode, we continue the discourse on Love. Traveling through adolescence to adulthood, I open the portal to some life experiences that have partially shaped and influenced my Love journey. Eventually, my Wife and I found each other unintentionally, and while neither one of us was ready to embrace the fullness and powerful vibrations of Love, she demonstrated nothing but grace, decisiveness, and patience as I went through a matrix of confusion, disbelief, and immaturity. Towards the end of the episode, I recite a self-written poem titled “Let Love Live” that I wrote on behalf of my Love to my Wife, recited for all listening ears, and located in my independent poetry anthology “The Depths Below.” I hope this intimate reflection will help you draw parallels, become inspired, and develop a sense of curiosity.

Let Love Live:

An everlasting touch

meets an everlasting grip;

Who can say that lasting love

can never exist?

Be honest and love yourself, and in return

someone will love you.

The blacker the berry

the sweeter the juice,

Love is an eternal drug

And I am addicted to you.

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In this episode, we reflect respectfully and humbly on Grandma Toon’s influence on my understanding of community, spirituality, and family: exercising love as a practice, investing in the transformation and growth of community members, applying the concept of family-first, being congruent and real, and holding space for inner wisdom (prayer, somatic practices, quietness). I hope this intimate reflection will help you draw parallels, become inspired, and develop a sense of curiosity.

The recited poem is self-crafted and self-written:

Queen Mother Granny,

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In this episode, we initiate a deep exploration of love. Drawing from lessons learned, divine messages, and golden insights gathered from formative childhood years - through the aches and pains of the life process - and crystallized during the co-journeying process of matrimony, helped with the reconceptualization, reimagination, and relearning of the transcendence and transformative power of love. I hope this intimate reflection will help you draw parallels, become inspired, and develop a sense of curiosity.

A quote for deep and intense reflection:

“Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God. You do not deserve love regardless of the suffering you have endured. You do not deserve love because somebody did you wrong. You do not deserve love because you want it. You can only earn - by practice and careful contemplation - the right to express it and you have to learn how to accept it. Which is to say you have to earn God. You have to practice God. You have to think God - carefully.” - Toni Morrison (Rest in Power)

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