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Ancestry Mood Board

Women of the 1. Fulani (Mali) and the 2. Biafade (Guinea-Bissau), 3. Queen of Rwanda Rosalie Gicanda (1928 - 20 April 1994), 4. a woman of the Mangbetu (Democratic Republic of Congo), as well as women of the 5. Zulu (South Africa) and the 6. Oromoo (Ethiopia)

Our hair is not a curse, it is a gift.

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Unity in the Black Community

A Call For Unity From Burkina Faso's Intermediate President Ibrahim Traoreé

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Unity in the Black Community

Be the First!

Be the first to wear your hair out proudly...

To let your community know that it's lovely to be African...

And that it's safe to wear their true hair out.

Because when they see you do it,

Your bravery will relight their bravery as well.

Soon, you'll see others face their fears around you, showcasing their hair in beautiful styles 😌✨

Our hair no longer hidden under weaves, wigs, or wraps. No longer straightened or permed.

It will be poofed out, maintained, oiled. Shaped into immaculate colors and curls.

No longer pressed into an image that was never ours, but relaxing into our own, uniquely beautiful way of being.

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Any time I learn more about Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol's relationship

Any way you look at that relationship, it ain't right.

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Ancestry Moodbood

Chic, classy, and elegant ✊🏾✨

1) ??? 2) Mandika woman (The Gambia) 3) Fulani woman (Niger) 4) Sudanese woman 5) & 6) Zulu women (South Africans) 7) Burundi woman (Rwanda)

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Unity in the Black Community

Tonight's Homework 📝:

Let's Decode Basquiat's Untitled 1983!

As I've said before, I am sure Basquiat didn't write so much just for aesthetics.

It's time we decode his works!

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Unity in the Black Community

Myth #1: Africa is poor.

Don't let them swindle you. They will buy land from you for $50 knowing there's gold underneath worth millions.

I'm not kidding. I've heard of these things.

Don't. Let. Them. Swindle. You.

Africa is not poor. It is wealthy in mineral resources.

The Caribbean as well.

Issue is, we don't own the mines. Other nations do.

Are Ghanians running this mining conglomerate?

Nope.

The wealth of nations is often built up through natural resources. They sell the resources for income, which they use to invest into their nation.

If these mines are not ran by Africans, is the revenue from selling resources going back to Africa?

Nope.

Like Newcore Gold says:

Our nations are getting pillaged. We. are. not. poor.

They bought our house for $1 million, and mined out it's resources for a constant stream of revenue that will add up to hundreds of millions.

We are a short sighted people, fighting against those who think decades ahead.

Y'all, we need to take the mines back. We need to take our resources back, reclaim the revenue, and use it to reinvest into our nations.

Instead of borrowing heinous amounts from other nations, we need to form our own streams of revenue from our own mines!

We need to get together! Reclaim our nations! Reclaim our dignity, step unto the world stage with resolve and strength!

Only together we can do this!

This is beyond us!

God is with us!

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Unity in the Black Community

Who owns the Tanzanian gem mines? Where is the money going?

(A single gem can be worth as much as a car)

Look up the policies of the mines. Can the local populace take the gems home?

The Ashanti of Ghana

Our nations are not poor! We are not poor!

Where is the money going?!

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Black Hair-Care 101

Lets start, do your own hair!

If you do your own hair, you will learn what's best for it and thus treat it the best. When others do your hair, they are not as invested in your hair's health as you are (unless they are a loving family member or someone who has a very good heart).

They'll be more focused on outcome and are therefore more likely to damage your hair.

The only ones who will be 100% invested in your hair is God and you.

You also need to shift your focus from looks to health. Don't kill your hair to look beautiful. Take care of your hair as if it is sacred and it will, in time, take care of you by beautifying you.

Love your hair and it will love you back.

Our natural hair is as fine as silk and is meant to adorn us. Treat it as such.

First Step: Proper Detangling

I first use my fingers to delicately loosen my hair because hair will break at the slightest pull. The key to longer hair is to keep the hair already on your head.

I also apply castor oil on my hair during detangling as well as for hair care after shampooing. It doesn't have the best smell, but the slip of that oil is amazing. My hair will just slip through knots even as I style through out the week.

If I encounter a tough knot, I apply a little castor oil on the knot then pull the knot out lightly. The knot will usually just unravel with the pull.

Your hair is like a flower, you have to treat it gently or it will fall apart.

After detangling, I like to treat my scalp before washing it with the body wash below (Tea tree is a mightily anti-fungal). In Trader Joes itself it's about $4.

Scalp health is very important, your hair grows from it!

I then use castile soap to wash my hair. With a little, that soap will go a long way. It will cleanse your hair supremely. I wash it many times until I can no longer feel oil on my hair and scalp. You want to make sure to clean old products off so your hair will have a fresh start for the new week! :)

Then, for my conditioner, I use the product below (the slip with this product is insane). I personally like to detangle before I wash my hair to make it easier to detangle during the conditioner stage.

Shampoo retangles the hair, so I apply a few pumps to my hair as a whole to help with slip. I then separate my hair into sections, then add additional conditioner to each section (a little goes a long way!).

I then use a comb (a wide toothed comb) to realign my hair strands. At this stage, the point is not to detangle, it is to realign your hair. Once it is aligned, it will be easy to separate into sections and style for the week.

Second Step: Use the Proper Comb

Combs styled like the one above have been a life-saver for my hair.

If you put enough slip in your hair (oil is great to add slip!), this comb will glide through your hair. This is because of its wider tooth gaps, which allows for curls to slip through. I learned that with our hair, the point isn't to 100% detangle it. It's more to realign the hair strands into one direction.

Once you get into that mindset, you'll lose much less hair.

Third Step: Put Your Hair Away When You Sleep

After you have adorned your hair with a style for the day, please put it away.

Please tuck your ends in to protect them (they are the oldest thus weakest part of your hair) and do large twists. The larger your twists, the less intertwined your hair will be. This helps to prevent retangling. Meaning, it will more easily detangled and thus cause less damage to your hair.

You don't want to comb your hair during the week.

You want to treat your hair like its fragile silk, not tough rope.

Baby it.

Nowadays, I do a rough version of the hairstyle above for my daytime wear. It's a style that makes my hair much more managable for hair styling.

If I did not twist my hair for the week, I tuck my ends into my roots at night.

So it looks like the image above at night.

In the morning, I unwrap my twists then redo them so it will look neat. If it's not in twists, I use my wide-toothed comb to gently tease the hair out of the night-knots. (Don't detangle, just tease it out. Remember, it doesn't need to be 100% detangled, just aligned)

When its time to wash, I detangle it as I have described in Step Uno. The less you comb your hair, the less hair you lose.

Do this over months and you'll wake up one day with a head full of poofy hair!

Fourth Step: Now that you have an abundance of hair, find elegant hairstyles that are easy and elegant.

Here's your reward for taking care of your hair:

You can now use your hair for beautiful hairstyles!

Don't be afraid to adorn your hair with accessories! Dress your hair with love <3

When styling, you want to treat your hair as gentle as when you detangle. I found that if I tussle and pull at my hair to style it, I will lose hair.

Nowadays, I gently part and maneuver my hair. It feels slower, but tangles are less likely to occur. The harder you tug at your hair, the more likely it will tangle. If you pull gently, it will slip through.

The goal is to hear no snaps/pops as you style. Treat your hair as gently as possible, as if you're arranging flowers in a vase. When you touch a flower's petals, you touch them gently so none will fall.

Same with your hair. Take your time and you'll be finished faster than you thought. If the style doesn't work out, breathe in, then out, then try again.

It takes practice and lots of love :)

Listen if white people can love their hair, we can too. If they can dress their hair with love, we. can. too.

Happy Wash Day everyone!

God is with us! Shalom!

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Unity in the Black Community

Jean-Michel Basquiat Did Not Write On His Art For No Reason

Title: 50 cent piece

Jean-Michel Basquiat wrote on his paintings messages for his people.

Just like an abeng (a horn used to signal to fellow tribesmen messages) he wrote down messages he knew other peoples would not understand.

This was done through writing core concepts. It was up to the reader to research the concepts so that they could piece together his message.

Lets deconstruct the painting above, 50 cent piece.

Francios Duvallier (Papa Doc)

He was a president of Haiti. Basquiat's father was Haitian, so he felt a strong tie to the nation.

Toussaint L'Ouverture

He led the Haitian Revolution, which successfully freed Haiti from French colonization.

US Occupation of Haiti

Salt

Royal Sugar Corp.

Rum, sugar cane, bananas, pineapple, bauxite

Exports of Jamaica.

Rum and sugar cane are traditional exports that originate from slavery. Bauxite is the precursor for aluminum.

Marcus Garvey

A Jamaican National Hero (honorific title to those well-esteemed). He was the founder of the Pan-African movement, which was a call to the African Diaspora to move back to Africa.

Hence why Basquiat also writes, "Back to Africa"

Operation Bootstrap

His mother was Puerto Rican, so he also felt a strong tie to Puerto Rico.

The Ark

A flood in which God's judgement was enacted. It wiped out everyone in the world except for the passengers of the ark, who were safely guided to a new beginning.

Perhaps its a hint to the Pan-African movement, in which we would one day be on board our ark, heading back to Africa.

Summary:

Basquiat was a young black man who made an intentional effort to convey his messages through his art. A message of past (and current) subjugation, and a message of hope.

I think this artwork was one that was easily decipherable. The rest are heavy. But please, take the time.

Now it's time to look past the glits and glamour around his art to see what he was trying to say.

Last thing I wanted to mention. Notice on his helmet he wrote the name 'Aaron'.

He is speaking to us through his paintings.

Keep this low-key.

Right now his paintings are easily accessible online in high-ish resolution. If this spreads too much, it will get censored.

The sad thing is, I barely see any deciphers of his paintings. Let's make an effort together to decipher more! We need the brain power and effort! Let's not have the messages be wasted on Sotheby auctions!!

(avoid any free-masonry/pagan things though)

Shalom! Read Exodus!

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Unity in the Black Community

Our nations are getting pillaged

Who owns the mines?

Why would the Chinese loan money to our nations?

Would it be wise to loan money to a nation if you knew you wouldn't get it back?

What is a sure-fire way to get a constant stream of wealth to your nation?

Why are our nations poor despite having lots of material resources? (Eg. Gold, platinum, silver, gemstones, aluminum etc )

Where did the gold and gems of the British Crown come from?

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US Occupation of Haiti

The US is not your friend. They are a conqueror.

European nations conquered themselves before they reached outward. Until we regain the favor of Yahuah and get ourselves together, we will continue to be subjugated.

If not the United States, Russia. If not Russia, China. If not China, maybe Germany.

This will keep happening until the Apocalypse, this will happen to our children and to our grandchildren.

Unless we put a stop to it.

We need to unite, focus, and plan for the days ahead.

It's time for Exodus.