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Akbar Pray Foundation For Change
WE ARE THE SOLUTION TO
OUR OWN PROBLEMS
Issue 5 October 30, 2012
There is hardly an hour that passes, a
record sold or a phrase coined that the
so-called thug life or the game hasnot glamorized or embellished. Thug
Life is not organized crime. More
often that not it is disorganized crime,
perpetrated by those of us who through
choice or chance have taken to the
streets in search of fame or fortune. In
our rush to convey or perpetrate an
image of thugs of gangsters we have
become our own worse enemy,
coconspirators in our rapid rate of
incarceration.
Where other nationalities have sought
to distance themselves from the images
of thugs or gangster, we readily and
happily embrace this image, seeking to
convey this impression of ourselves to
onlookers. Is it any wonder that we
make up nearly 60 percent of theprison population? Is it any wonderthat tone out of every three black
males between the ages of 16 and 27
are either in state or federal custody or
on probation or parole?
IF NOT YOU, THEN WHO?
IF NOT NOW, THEN WHEN?
Thug Lifea means to an end, not an end in itself.
They never tried to glorify and enshrine
this lifestyle. They never held themselves
up for emulation for the children.
Subsequently, the vicious cycle of crime
and incarceration more often than not
passed them by.Even those of us that arefortunate enough to escape the
gravitational pull of the streets i.e. our
athletes and entertainers, seem hell bent on
emulating a self-destructive lifestyle.
Suffering no doubt under the
misimpression of keeping it real. Not
surprisingly those who this label could
conceivably apply to seek to dodge this
stereotype as if it was a heat-seeking
bullet.
It has been said, those that do not learn
the lessons of history are destined to repea
them. Our collective landscape is littered
with the lives and hard lesson of those that
came before us. What then compels each
succeeding generation to make the
mistakes of their predecessors? How many
life without parole or thirty yearsentences must we endure before we beginto distance ourselves from this self-
destructive and prison beckoning image?
Akbar Pray
Our child-like obsession with image rather
than substance, helps to fuel a far more
insidious plan. We are not the only
nationality to be trapped below the social
economic ladder of society. Nor are we the
first or only nationality to be targeted by the
media as gangster, hoodlums, or roustabouts.
During the 1920s sometimes referred to as
the Roaring Twenties, Irish and Jewish
gangsters and thugs were the rule not theexception. Then, names like Hymie Weis,
OBannion, Lepke Bulchalter, Meyer Lansky
and Arnold (the Brain) Rothstein were
frequently splashed across the newspapers of
their day.
Where are the Jewish and Irish gangs of
today? Why is a Jewish of Irish kid a rarity
in the criminal justice system? Is it theseother nationalities commit no crimes? We
know that that is not the case. Note the
answer simply stated as this: members of
these groups who through choice or chancefound themselves immersed in a life of
crime, recognized that their criminal
undertakings were to be a catapult or a
spring board to a different or better life. They
knew that these enterprises were to be
vocations, not avocations. It was meant to be
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Ignorance aint bliss - Its hell!
For close to 66 years the same buzzards
have been deceiving us and yet we still
love and trust them more than we love and
trust ourselves, or each otherwe do so
more than ever. So, what the hell is wrong
with us? What exactly is our problem, that
we allow perfect strangers to into our
homes to divide and conquer us? It seems
we enjoy being eaten by wolves in sheeps
clothing. We even trust them with the lives
and minds of our babies.
They once called themselves
missionaries. Now they call themselves
social workers. These social workers,
family counselors, psychologist,
psychiatrist and so on, which bang on our
doors and enter our homes, promising to
save us from ourselves can we honestly
believe that their hands are clean?
No they are not. Under the pretense ofwelfare, their hidden agenda is and always
has been to destroy us from within and
with the support of our willful blindness
and cooperation.
Wake up brothers and sisters. Smell the
blood on their mouths and their hands.
Instead of continuing to run towards these
wolves in sheeps clothing for aid, we must
solve our own problems and differences.
Stop letting these buzzards infiltrate us at
will! We can save our own. We can do it
because we possess the brains, the talent
and the greatness to do anything.
By Rudy Williams
THE YEAR 2012
We have made it through the Middle
Passage, Slavery, Jim Crow and nowBenign Neglect to the year 2012! But
do we truly realize and understand its
historical significance to us?
No, it isnt the highly promoted end of
the world prophesized by the Mayan
calendar. Nor is it the Obama-Romney
sideshow. No, it cant be that because,though we have a black President inside
the White house, our lives are worse than
ever: unemployment, drugs, guns,
gangs, incarceration, death by the police
vigilantes- you name it!
And no, its significance is definitely not
the annual BET Hip Hop Awards ( no
hell no!)
Well, if its not the Mayan Prophesy. the
presidential race or the Hip Hop Awards,
then what is it? 2012 is the expiration
date for the infamous Willie Lynch
experiment. Yes, thats right family. Its
been 300 years exactlya damn tri-
centennial! Finally, the experiment hasrun its courseor has it really?
Ummmm.I wonder. By the looks of
our present predicament, I doubt it. Just
like the AIDS virus, its evil effects could
linger with us another 400 years, if we
fail to get our shit together.
SLICK WILLIE
I assume by now most of us know who
Willie Lynch was. But for the few who
dont, Willie Lynch was the cruel and
demonic slave-maker who devised the
divide and conquers system of playing us
off, one against the other. As you can seeat a glance, the system has
been wildly fruitful. Thus, its nefarious
creator deserves a big seat in infamy
besides no less a vampire than Mayer
Amchell Rothchild, the foundingpatriarch of the infamous bloodsucking,
international banking dynasty that isbehind nearly all our past and present
miseries, from the enslavement of our
ancestors, to the present loss of our
homes, jobs and minds. But that is, as
they say, water under the bridge.
The important question for us now is:
What are we going to do for ourselves to
shed our current shackles and chains?Are we going to continue to run to the
buzzards and wolves to save us from
ourselves or are we going to man-up and
save ourselvesfor once and for all
times?
As a people and as individuals, we are
always under severe pressure- evenwhen we dont know it. Yet we always
respond to it by going for ourselves, or
doing me, instead of banding together.
But running from our problems,
ourselves or each other is not the
solution because, at the end of the line,
we are all we have, and certainly all we
ever had of any real worth. Yet weconstantly, egotistically, kill and
abandon each other for trinkets under
pressure.
Remember: although our good brother
Samson was probably no the first one of
us to do me and get destroyed, he is
certainly the most famous. And though
pressure breaks pipes, it also makes
diamonds. Again, at the end of the line,
we are all we have. More importantly,
we are all and everything we need to
restore our former greatness, if we stoptrusting blindly in wolves dressed in
sheeps clothing.
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Bobby E. Wright one of our wisestancestors, defined mentacide as a form
of insanity that leaves many of us
thinking out of the mind of theEuropean as if it were our own.
Mentacide is the state of being
psychologically brain-dead and having
one's thoughts replaced with alien ones,
a state relative to being a zombie.
Most of us wonder why we (Black
folks) are so self-destructive, so
illogical and so unpredictable. Theanswer rests in the fact that we have to
conquer our poor self-esteem and
identity problem(s). Many of us have
become ashamed of what we have
become. Some of us are so
pathologically damaged that they maybe
lost forever.
We have a festering subculture among
black youth in our communities that
thrives on criminal or what we've been
led to believe is criminal behavior; a
crimogenic society that has no 'real'
moral base, but has normalized power,control, domination and exploitation by
any means available to them, as theycontinue to subjugate the mind-set of
impressionable children, who only seem
to know hopelessness. This is a
genocidal strategy, which has worked to
exploit and turn our youth against
themselves, the elders, racial identity
and pride. The youth now work in the
service of those who historically have
worked to destroy them.
The impact of mass media hasdiminished the influence of family,
culture and self-identification.
The music our children listen to, the imagesthey absorb all have a menticadal
socialization that can only have negative
outcomes on the future of us a people.
Someone has an agenda to purposely
sabotage their intellect and their ability to
intuitively see CLEARLY.
Mentacide is most often an undetectable
psychological illness. Its sufferers have no
clue to it's impact, so they consequently
don't know who their enemy is and whythey have an enemy in the first place. Our
children don't know why they are mis-
educated, dis-educated; how slavery, Jim
Crow (Amerikan apartheid) and continued
distortions of historical facts are systemic
designs managed by those who repress and
deprive them of their humanity that and
dignity.
If this psychosis were exposed as I am
attempting to do now, those of us who
suffer from this dis-ease would know not to
pretend they are Amerikan when everything
in Amerika dismisses them unless they
integrate, assimilate or otherwise bend to
the will of the Amerikan machine.
Bending to the 'will' of an oppressive
system is done so at the expense of self-identity and the continuation of the original
Black way ofhu(e)man social interaction,
choosing
instead corruption, greed and thepolitical/economic systems they've
spawned. Anyone paying attention,
anyone not afflicted by the mentacidal
condition would CLEARLY see these
systems are on the precipice, soon to fall
into the abyss.
Wake up from Morpheus (i.e; a nod,
dormancy, sleep), ignite your inner
vision. It's too dangerous for a Black
man/ woman/ child in Amerika to have
no focus, no clue to have no idea of how
to develop children so that they can havesome knowledge of who they arehistorically, which will give them a
fighting chance.
To have no philosophy other than that
which has been imposed on you by other
than you is a recipe for cultural disaster!
It's dangerous for Black folk to be
ahistorical, apolitical to have little to no
knowledge of that which can change,
modify, impair and harm your life. When
this is your condition you are easily
manipulated.
Study His-story, study Our-story as it wilall become a basis for self-criticism, self-
under/inner/over-standing, but more
importantly will allow you to know the
motives and psychology of others.
Wake up from the mentacidalslumber
before the Amerikkkan nig** factory
crushes you!
To be C.L.E.A.R. is to be in Conscious
Life Energy Advancing Righteousness.
M.M. Ankh HERU Ma'at,Nebhu Allah.
THE AMERICAN NIG **** FACTORY
Issue 5, October 30, 2012
A HEALING FROM THIS
MENTCIDAL
CONDITION IS A CORE
ELEMENT IN AHEALTHY RENEWED
SENSE OF SELF.
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MISSION STATEMENT
The Akbar Pray Foundation For Change (APFC) is a not for profit grassroots organization, dedicated to redirecting the lives of our
urban at risk youth. It has been and remains our organizations mantra that " we are the solution to our own problems." It is our core
belief that there are those within our communities, if so engaged, who can help turn the tide of crime, delinquency and recidivism which
grips the lives of so many our inner city youth.
Operating from the premise that to effectively attack or address any problem you must start at its root, we have begun a program in som
of our citys schools and group homes, where we supply speakers, mentors, CDs and written material from the organizations founder,
which cuts to the heart of the problem experienced by many of these youths. Some times working with former gang members, inner city
icons and others that have what is referred to as street cred, we have been able to achieve remarkable results.
Expanding on our mission, we continuously recruit individuals from various work disciplines to aid in educating young men and woman
with marketable skills.
To those ends we have engaged people both inside and outside our community to come to our classes and or workshops to share and
discuss the ups and downs, ins and outs of a wide range of work disciplines and careers. Never favoring one career path over any other,
we have invited professors, urban fiction writers, successful members of the hip hop industry, general construction contractors and a
Superior Court Judge to these open discussions and Socratic Circle seminars.
Again, it is our core belief that "we are the solution, to our own
problems." In closing. We invite your participation in this
noble undertaking.
IF NOT YOU, THEN WHO?
Issue 5 October, 2012www.apffc.org
Akbar Pray
Foundation for Change
Executive Director
Akbar Pray
Director of Operations
Milagros Harris
Director of FinanceQasim S. Abdul Karim
Director of Human
Resources
Rahman
Muhammad
FromtheAuthorofDeathoftheGame
Director of
Public Relations
Toni Johnson
APFFC Board of Directors
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