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Stop Asking the Storm for Permission to Stand

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Stop Asking the Storm for Permission to Stand: The Science of Unbending Sovereignty Family, take a seat on the porch. Look at the code in front of us today: "I am not what happened to me; I am what I decide to become." — Mossi Proverb: "An upright tree does not fear the storm." Let’s get real for a second. Most people spend their entire lives reacting to the wind. They let systemic dysfunction, toxic chatter, and past trauma dictate their posture. But when your roots are tethered to the Eternal, your standing posture was never granted by the weather—it was decided by the tree. The Code of Incorruptible Sovereignty History doesn't lie. On August 4, 1984, Thomas Sankara looked imperial masters in the eye and erased "Upper Volta"—a name slapped onto his people by colonizers—replacing it with Burkina Faso : The Land of Incorruptible People . Sankara didn’t fill out a government form or ask permission from foreign powers. He exercised Kujichagulia on a con...
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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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