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The New Overseer Wears an Algorithm: Reclaiming Our Ashe from the Modern Plantation

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The New Overseer Wears an Algorithm: Reclaiming Our Ashe from the Modern Plantation Let’s stop playing nice and look at the scoreboard. There is a massive, systemic difference between actually living and merely executing a survival strategy. Look around our communities. Too many of our people are walking around exhausted, drowning in unspoken anxiety, and operating under a cloud of permanent systemic fatigue. We’ve been conditioned to trade our sacred, unrecoverable time for paper returns, lying to ourselves that we are "building a life." The hard truth? You aren't building a life. You’re just financing your containment. To understand why our families and communities are fracturing, we have to look at the mechanics of energy. We have to talk about Nia (Purpose) and how our collective Ashe —our divine, creative life force—is being quieted, funneled, and harvested to build empires that don't know our names and don't care about our ancestors. Let's drop the met...

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Daily Toast - Umoja "Let's open the lines"

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Grab your glass and join us. I had some problems with the stream but we pushed through this morning. via https://youtu.be/T5p56Qdxjkw

Daily Toast

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Peace FAM: Daily we gather aroung the "virtual community fire" known as the internet to lift our glasse to salute those who came before us. I decided that we needed to create a ritual where we lift up our personal Ancetors. My personal favorite part of libations has always been where we salute those ancestors that we rose from, and I feel that often we overlook them for the bigger names that we learn in our classes. I wanted to set a space and a time where we focused exclusively on our persoanl ancestors. In my studies I have learned that "hell (at least the closest thing we had to a hell) for an African was being forgotten." That is why I am diligent about making sure that we mention there names every morning. What started as me celebrating my ancestors turned into building up a community list, and group of people that have introduced the concept of Toasting into their lives.  Through this process which has been going on everyday for the last 17 months we have i...