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Our children are our greatest treasure, they are supposed to be our leaders and teachers of today and tommorrow, we live forever because of them because they are our younger selves, they are the living examples of the following generation and they keep our names alive. So, when a black person kills another black person, because of lack of self control, then we have some motherless and fatherless children, who are very wounded inside, and when childern are wounded inside from the death of their fathers, mothers are other relatives, that is a wound which is not easily healed, especially when the families of the person or persons who did the killings, are still living in the community or adjacent ares, where they can run into each other from time to time. The fact that the person or persons who did the killing maybe in prison or may have been executed by the government, and those who were killed were buried in the cemetery, does not always bring about complete healing, instead on many occasions, it cultivates vengeance and bitterness in the following generations, and sometimes this kind of killing is historically manifested again among the very same families. What we really need is internal reparations, we must be able to repair ourselves internally, so that we can remove the seeds of vengeance and bitterness totally from our African communities, so that our young sons and daughters can grasp the very good examples which we are displaying, and will cease from fighting and killing each others in the streets, and will begin to operate like young African liberators, who are aware, that it is their duties to guard, guide and protect their community and its people, instead of causing community disasters as they live from day to day. It is indeed our responsibilities as adults, to first set the good examples, so that our youths can walk in our noble and honorable foot steps, and become young African liberators and young African patriots. We must have self control over our anger and vexation of spirits.
Again I send many oceans of blessings and self determination to African people everywhere
ONE BLACK HEART ONE BLACK LOVE
Baba Ras Marcus
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