Respect to General Sara Suten Seti, the last man standing of the Black Consciousness era. For over 15 years, General Seti has been the #1 defender of Afraka’s greatness, withstanding personal, historical, and territorial attacks from Islamic and Christian religious idealists, Black race sellout ignoranimals, and white supremacists. This is not a display of admiration, as conscious minded people do not praise, worship, or admire people, places, and things. We acknowledge and respect those who deserve respect.
Contrary to popular belief, Black Consciousness didn’t begin on social media in the Web2.0 ara, which was the period between 2008 and 2018. Black Consciousness has been around for decades because it began when black people woke up and decided to ditch our tribal, cultural, and religious divisions to organize and fight back against our oppressors. Unfortunately, since we’ve still not achieved true racial unity, the naïve among us are now saying that the Black Consciousness movement is dead.
The reasons for our disunity are many but the most common is our propensity to use the indoctrinations of our oppressors to fight our oppressors, not realizing that it only drives us further into mental slavery. For instance; many great religious Black leaders have risen up in the past but while they were successful in securing certain freedoms for Black people, their movements ultimately failed because they were using Christianity and Islam, which are both indoctrination tools of our oppressors. Most of us don’t realize that respect will only be earned when we rediscover and use our own ancestral spiritual beliefs as fuel for our cause.
Disclaimer: Forget all the nonsense about American indigenousness, Black history began in Afraka. White Supremacists came close to destroying our history by omitting it from school curriculums as well as banning and burying books by Black scholars but thanks to people like Sara Suten Seti and a few others, the minds of our youth are still being inspired to find the real truth of our Afrakan heritage, whether black people came to the Americas in slave ships 400 years ago or in rafts 1000 years ago if you reference the Olmecs.
Black respect comes in two forms, which are internal and external. Internal respect is achieved when a Black person becomes proud of his or her blackness. His or her desires will then be transformed into loving his or her physical appearance and desiring to maintain it.
External Black respect is achieved when other races respect our legacy and contribution to world history. This can only be achieved when we unearth our buried history and couple it with an effective Afrakan Spiritual belief system that we can depend on for strength and inspiration. Trying to claim the legacy of other races is not only foolish, it will never garner respect.
Some people might say that people like Sara Suten Seti are useless distractions to the reality we face as troubled race. That is because most of us who care about our state of existence are happy in our indoctrinations. We are either happy Christians, Muslims, or Agnostics and have no time for nontraditional forms of spiritual and social comforts because we believe that Time, the great equalizer, will work everything out.
However, the minds of Black youth are no longer in Churches and Mosques, they’re on social media being influenced by all sorts of mis-information and as most people can see, even the most powerful white supremacists have adopted social media as a tool for spreading confusion. Therefore, if our Black Race defenders are not on social media, they’re missing the boat in insuring that the next generation of Back youth won’t be drowned in the sea of anti-Blackness.
I’ve been watching Sara Suten Seti on social media for over ten years and while many other so-called Ghetto scholars have come and gone, he has been steadfast in his presentation and defense of Egyptology, which was not the only but is the most noticeable ancient Afrakan civilization. My divergence from what he and others teach and preach about Egyptology is the belief that we can regain Black respect by readopting ancient traditions and beliefs.
I don’t believe that returning to the traditions and practices of our Afrakan ancestors is the answer to our woes. We can admire Egyptian architecture and spiritual practices all day but the key is to understand the psychology behind it all. I believe that greater things will come when we begin to use the inspirations of Afraka’s greatness to create greater systems for today. As long as there are people like Sara Suten Seti around to keep the Afrakan narrative in the diaspora alive, it will inspire new Black minds towards that goal.
That is why I still respect Sara Suren Seti.
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