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Stop Hoarding Your Fire: Why Perfectionism is the Matrix’s Favorite Trap

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Stop Hoarding Your Fire: Why Perfectionism is the Matrix’s Favorite Trap Look around, Tribe. The matrix has pulled a fast one on us. It conditioned us to believe that a stumble is a death sentence, a delayed harvest is proof of failure, and every raw idea must be pristine before it ever touches the light. We call it "high standards," but let’s name it what it really is: fear dressed in a tuxedo. Perfectionism is a parasitic program designed by out-of-bounds forces to keep your hands still, your throat closed, and your spirit locked in the dark basement of blame, shame, and guilt. When you fear failure, you stop creating. And the moment you stop creating, you become a passive consumer of other people’s chaos. Look at our ancestral lineage. On August 1, 1834, hundreds of thousands of our ancestors broke through centuries of brutal bondage into the legal dawn of freedom. In 1960, Benin stood up and reclaimed its independence. In 1936, Jesse Owens stepped onto track lanes in Berl...
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The Gina Gee Project "Cream Of Wheat"

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The Gina Gee project is a show that my daughter created. She saw me making video, and been watching YouTube​ and decided to do her own thing. For the last year she and her sister Ms. Shasha have been recording video using up all of my storage space, and figured that it was time to support her. Her first video is about making Cream of wheat. She in a dramatic fashion microwave her breakfast and teaches the viewer. I believe that when our children show interest and dedication to something we should support them. This might be a phase, but I am trying to use it as what our ancestors call a "lure to Mastery". I believe that our children need to be taught skills and in this video project she will learn, acting, interviewing, editing, and story structure and story telling. All these are transferable skills that can be used in pursuit of her life's purpose. Of course she will get a write-up from me on our site,  at least until she ( hopefully) starts writing her own accompa...
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Game Changers- 1Hood

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Now, I knew that my brothers  +jasiri X  and  +Paradise Gray  were in Pittsburgh NationBuilding, but to see the video shines a long needed light on the work that they have been doing. These brothers have moved the concept of hood media to another level. By setting up an academy that arms young people with media and the skills to control their images, they have empowered a generation of thinkers that will definitely have a say in the direction are communities go in. I only hope other youth groups embrace the model and begin to use media to build the images that they want to see rather than be victims to the images that are being produced for them and the world to see. Media is the new front lines and I salute 1Hood for building our Special Forces. checkout the video: Watch "Game Changers: The One Hood Media Academy" on YouTube Nuff said Peace & 1hunidyears
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