THE SEKOU GENERATION EST. 2012

 

THE SEKOU GENERATION IS THE PERSON YOU ARE, AND THE PERSON YOU IMPART.

NEGUSWORLD: A CROWN AMONG THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

By fundamental, and ethical standard, and in spiritual dynamics, there is so much more, in a name. We bear name's, our children, our cultures, communities, societies,industries and the breadwidth of our governments. The general perspective is within a name given, it holds its purpose, and characteristics. Among homogeneous groups, culture is carried over, passed for its simple preservation. Culture, and sub cultures are birthed within urban settings. Mind, there are learned cultures(way of life)that is birthed out of what is condusive to economic survival, and urbanization. There are cultures, movements birthed out of social degradation. Presented is one of which. The mind, movement, the clothing line, and prescence of Negusworld. A word with direct origins from the east(east Africa)from the Amharic tounge, Monarchaic in its social address;Negus, the title of an ethiopian king, and Nigist(Queen), the title of his equal. Printed, designed and marketed, this profile of any face under a crown made of up elements of the struggles of our societies, and ethinic peoples, from a coin of the us mint, to the the slave chain that held captive an indigenous people, and their pshcological profile. As the late Poet, Educator, Melvin B. Tolson stated, Negusworld is the example of the "rightoeus mind". Progressive, Co founder and executive Johwell Baptiste states its not in what you wear. It is a state of being. Within Negus,this state of being is subsequent; the seat of a monarch, holding self worth, and purpose. To live with this mindset is to live with a consciousness, and this consciousness in a collective, is a movement. This is the understanding of Negus, and those who manifest it. To all advocates, participants and pupils..Negus/Nigist up.

　

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THE URBAN CRY LLC

CHAIRMAN/FOUNDER ZION ANTONI

www.zionantonispeaks.com

STREET TRADITIONALS: RITES OF PASSAGE AND URBAN AMERICA

                                      “I GUESS I DIDN’T KNOW THE LEDGE”-

                                        RA KIM ALLAH (Hip Hop Artist)

This article is written in the spirit of the generational caveat: “Save the Babies”.  In ultimate acknowledgement of Urban America, Black America, I freelance this article praising the efforts and character of Mr. Yumy Odom and affiliates, educator, champion among the grassroots.  I speak in high regard, as an eyewitness to the function of R.O.P, orchestrating fundamental redemptive values toward youth, toward community. Inner city.  Primarily within the Philadelphia community, I viewed the history and experience of the R.O.P, a blessing to the African Diaspora; a fundamental application to a community in the balances: the African-American experience.   At the wake of R.O.P.’S anniversary, I would like to re iterate social constructive effort, opposed to common, deconstructive factors.  Within our inner cities, our communities,  the choices we make, reflect on our posterities,  that coming generation will be products of that, environment.  Every man/woman of color, that stand under the term African Americans are generally entitled unto their own destiny.  With that being stated, we observe the glory of the American dream; wrapped in a bundle of currency. This American dream can also be interpreted as a burden, or Criminology among the middle, or below the poverty line numbers.   Among the generations in the wilderness of north America, we learn the “ Roleplay”.
Our ghettos produce stick up kids, car thieves, drug enterprise foot soldiers, corner crack peddlers, Heroin runners, drug kingpins, Hitmen, Extortioners, number runners, Pimps….the love of the American dream, brings to risk death, or incarceration.  Deconstructive yes, but a perpetuated reality in urban America. Also Considering elements of the economy, from bench pressing middle class weight to the social effects of welfare, R.O.P  provides a sprout. A sprout to raise a host of Black youth, Black men under the banner of the fundamentalism, an impartation, rites of passage of manhood,  and constructive decisions.  Education manifests itself in academia, street corners of urban America, and the R.O.P.  Praise the R.O.P, because it allows education to manifest under systems, and social structures that has seemed to cripple the African-American male.  Heart to heart. Examine the generations, and examine the efforts of R.O.P. `All praises due.  Happy 26th anniversary Rites of passage. Via grassroots entities like the Frator Heru Institute,  within every generation, it is certain, we can make a difference. 

Consciously Yours

Z.A

The Urban Cry LLC
Chairman Zion Antoni
www.zionantonispeaks.com