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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?

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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

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Director of

Public Relations

Toni Johnson

APFFC Board of Directors

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