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The Trillionaire Trap: Why the "Lone Ranger" Hustle is Killing Us

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  The Trillionaire Trap: Why the "Lone Ranger" Hustle is Killing Us https://www.spreaker.com/episode/overcoming-the-program-of-separation--72532327 The empire sold us a lie, and we bought it wholesale. We’ve been conditioned to believe that the absolute peak of Black excellence is individual exceptionalism. We watch our brilliant youth get hypnotized by the hyper-capitalist chase, starving themselves spiritually to become solitary billionaires and trillionaires. But let’s call it what it is: if we are only teaching our children how to secure an isolated bag without understanding the systemic machinery behind wealth, we aren't raising leaders. We are training what the elders call "soul suckers" —entities completely detached from the very community that birthed them. Operating purely as an individual is a script engineered for your defeat. Individuals burn out. Individuals get exhausted trying to fight structural, multi-generational giants—like predatory legal sys...

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...