Stop Begging the Soil: The Subtractive Power of Self-Determination
Stop Begging the Soil: The Subtractive Power of Self-Determination Checkout the Episode Let’s stop playing small and look at the math of our reality. We’ve been conditioned to look at the Black experience in America and see a graveyard. We look at the red dirt, the historical trauma, the systemic roadblocks, and we think we’ve been buried. But our ancestors knew a deeper truth: the darkness isn’t a burial; it’s a cocoon. A seed doesn’t stand in the dirt begging the surrounding weeds for permission to expand. It doesn’t ask the rocks to validate its identity. Deep within its spiritual DNA, it already holds the absolute, unshakeable blueprint of a giant mahogany or an ancient baobab tree. It is inherently self-governed. That is the raw essence of Kujichagulia—Self-Determination . Yet, too many of us are operating like Princess Natur before she found her power. We’ve allowed the cruel opinions of a broken society to shrink our self-esteem, curving our backs and isolating our spirits. We’v...
Wonderful! Loved the history! Share this with your children! My son fell in love with Capoeria after watching the movie "Only the Strong." It became one of his favorites...thank you for sharing this so that we could revisit it. Would love to have such a group here in Columbus!
ReplyDeletehey there is a group here, actually more than one, but capoeria is alive and well in columbus. I have several capoerista waiting to get me in 'the roda' so they can try to put a hurting on me. anyone that want some info about classes hit me up and i will send you info.
ReplyDeleteAxe' Nuff said
peace & 1hunidyears