I have been talking to myself now for quite a while and I do enjoy talking to myself, considering that I am able to ask myself real questions and get myself real answers. I can ask myself questions and get good answers because intuition who is my great internal teacher, lives inside of me. My very serious thought provoking verbal illustrations which I have been posting in this series of post, is really designed to cause my people to look around at their lives on a daily basis, and to see the things in which they are engaged in doing, just to see if they are cultivating good or bad habits. Just to see how some times they can become the victims of a bad addiction or aad habit, just because they are trying to please their friends and associates. Drinking alcohol and smoking anything is a very good example. There are so many people who drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes and other abominations, who really do not enjoy doing it, but in order to be involved with the social in crowd, they go along from day to day, until finally it is too late sickness take hold of them. Musicians are a great example as well as various kinds of Artist, they act as if they cannot create great music or great Art works if they do not drink or smoke some thing, but that is not the truth, great artistical works and great music come from our great internal teacher intuition who lives in all people. Then it goes on and on, they behave as if there can be no partying without people drinking alcohol and getting drunk, which generally cause some of them to drive their vehicles into a tree or into a river or some place, killing themselves as well as others. What about lovely nourishing fruit juices, is not that good enough for a party So now, our poor young black people especially young black men, are in the habit of buying a six pack of beer, or a bottle of malk liquer or which ever kind of alcohol of their chioce, and they can drink it while walking on the street if it is placed in a paper bag, but if it is not in a paper bag, they could go to jail if they are seen drinking it while visible. So, drinking and smoking has become on of the main occupation of our youths when they are not engage in any other practice, as well as the riding of those dirt bikes running all kinds of risk with their lives, in the manner in which they are riding and exhibiting their skills in the middle of the community streets, and many of them have lost their lives, as a result of drinking alcohol and riding their bikes in a very dangerous manner. Many of these young men could have been accepted into skills trainig centers if we had the sense, to pool our money together and build a series of them. The poor youths are on the street corners having nothing better to do, but to drink and smoke and fuss and fight among themselves and ending up in the jails and prison house system. The destruction of a race of people begins in the minds of its people, I am confident that we can do better than what we are doing as a race of people, we must take a very serious look at the kinds of addictions which are causing disasters among our people, we must find out about the various mistakes which we are making as a race of people, at home in Mama Africa and also in the African Disapora, and have them corrected once and for all. If we can acquire a Degree In Black African Self Respect, then we are on our way to do those great social and cultural things, which others cannot do for us, those things can only be done by us for us.
Again I send many oceans of blessings and self determination to African people everywhere
ONE BLACK HEART ONE BLACK LOVE
Baba Ras Marcus