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Knowing Our History Will Save Us
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I have no doubt in my mind what will change our condition is knowing our history.
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I have no doubt in my mind what will change our condition is knowing our history.
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I have no doubt in my mind that we are in the condition we are in because we forgot who we were and refuse to learn about our ancestors.
If you knew the legacy you came from you wouldn't settle for humiliation.
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If you knew the legacy you came from you wouldn't settle for humiliation.
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If you knew in whose shade you live in comfort of, you would hang your head in shame of living in ignorance of their sacrifices.
We have been marketed.
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We have been marketed.
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We have been raised by the ones who taught us what to value, what our principles should be, even to question our own selves, to be convinced that they are our saviors.
We have been sold by the very ones who shackled us with their hegemony.
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We have been sold by the very ones who shackled us with their hegemony.
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They made us believe they are the ideal.
They made us think they are the ultimate judges of what is good with the materialism they fed us with, made our hearts attached to, and the shiny products they made us chase.
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They made us think they are the ultimate judges of what is good with the materialism they fed us with, made our hearts attached to, and the shiny products they made us chase.
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They made us believe this world is our paradise and they made us feel as if we are part of their capitalism as they held our souls and put it for sale to the highest bidding advertisers.
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Our minds have been programmed by their education systems promising depth and analysis but only make sheep to their system.
But we can be free.
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But we can be free.
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We can learn our own history.
We can find our own identity.
We can undo the deeply ingrained constructs they have built for us to see the world in the lenses they want us to.
Learn
Educate yourself.
Get to know your history.
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We can find our own identity.
We can undo the deeply ingrained constructs they have built for us to see the world in the lenses they want us to.
Learn
Educate yourself.
Get to know your history.
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Don't live in the glory of romanticizing that history to the point all you learn is an idealism that did not exist.
Don't live in a criticism of the fallible and missing the lessons, all while forgetting the atrocities of the slave masters who control the narrative.
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Don't live in a criticism of the fallible and missing the lessons, all while forgetting the atrocities of the slave masters who control the narrative.
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Don't allow others to question while they distract you from questioning them.
Don't allow yourself for someone else to tell you what your story is and how it should be seen.
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Don't allow yourself for someone else to tell you what your story is and how it should be seen.
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Learn your history and you will see who and what works against you and how they did it, and even greater... how we, will come back.
We will revive.
God willing.
We will revive.
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We will revive.
God willing.
We will revive.
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إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّىٰ يُغَيِّرُوا مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمْ
God will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves
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God will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves
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How can you change what is in yourself... when you never knew what was in it to begin with, the legacy that built it, the heritage it had, or its history you never took care to learn.
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"Educ is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is means to help our children & our ppl rediscover their identity & thereby increase their self respect. Educ is our passport to future,for tomorrow belongs only to ppl who prepare for it today"
- Malcolm X
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- Malcolm X
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