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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...

A Little About The Fast

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  A Little About The Fast Great Umoja in the 4th cycle of 2022 in the week of Kujichagulia. Man it is great to be back, I thought that I would be able to write and create while on my fast, but No,No,No, my mind nor my body was having it. I took a break for most of the 4th cycle of Umoja. I wrote maybe two blogs so the eMag is going to be light. Today I want to cover the structure of my fast and maybe talk a little bit about why I do it. My particular fast came about because GNJ needed something to deal with our health. Being who I am, I not only wanted to set it up, I felt that it was important for me to model. Although we talk about the 4 pillars of health in our "Drink Yo Water '' song I wanted something that could help people lose weight, stop smoking, stop harmful drugs, develop healthy habits, or destroy negative ones. The #21dayNguzoSabaChallenge does that. Using the idea that it takes 21 days to create a habit I decided to use the 21 days to build up the momentum to...