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Protect your Seed

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  Protect your Seed https://www.spreaker.com/episode/protect-your-seed--71106863 Have you ever stopped to realize that your need for right-now comfort might be the exact thing destroying your future? The Fulani people of the Sahel have a saying: "Mo nyaami aawdi mum, nyaami janngo mum" —He who eats his seed, eats his tomorrow. In our community, we are constantly pushed to consume our potential. We are bombarded by a society that tells us to numb the pain, buy the illusion, and seek the instant fix. But what if real Faith (Imani) isn't about blind hope or grinding harder? What if faith is simply what’s left when you scrape off the desperate need to control everything? The victory is already there, but you can't see it if your vision is blocked by the heavy baggage of immediate gratification. In today's podcast, we talk about shedding the illusions that make us eat our own seeds... Call to Inaction: “To hold the water, one must first empty the cup.” Stop trying to ...
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Facing my ignorance

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First off I must apologize to those Black men who have received a felony in life. I know that I did not help you commit the crime that you are now serving time for in and out of prison, but I must take my responsibility for my view of your Journey. For a long time I have blamed you exclusively for your actions, but do to some new information that I have received, I have to apologize. I like may people in America has sat by silently while you have been shuffled into a 2nd and 3rd class citizenship. Here is where my ignorance forced on me by fear comes in. I have been suckered into the belief that you alone are responsible for your station in life. After listening to the “New Jim Crow”, I can see the traps that were laid for you and that I have overlooked not because I couldn't see it, but because it was convient to look the other way. Although I have been active in my community locally and nationally I have never sounded the alarm that you were under attack. I have n...
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