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The light we carry will always disturb what’s doing no good in the dark.

He knows. This is not about sexuality. It is about dishonesty and boundaries. I do not condone rage, attacks, or homophobia. I also do not condone deception or betrayal.

She supported him for two years. That was her first boyfriend . She is devastated and clearly was reaching. Her family is involved bc despite knowing his bisexuality they housed and nurtured him for years. He has overnight visits just last weekend. The issue is the dishonesty, not his identity.

There is a particular kind of violence that happens when a woman is betrayed by her partner and the world tells her she’s crazy for bleeding.

That kind of woman when she finds out he’s been unfaithful, emotionally, physically, digitally, however it shows up, and when she reacts from that wound, she’s called insecure…Jealous….Embarrassing? Meanwhile the other woman laughs. Mocks her. Tells her to leave if she doesn’t like it. And the internet cheers.

Fuck that.

Women who knowingly entertain someone else’s partner and then ridicule the partner who confronts them, you are not the prize you think you are. You are a participant in someone’s destruction. You are cosigning a man who lies to the face of someone who loves him and then performing superiority because he chose to lie to you too. That’s not power. That’s complicity.

And to the men who create this chaos and then sit back and watch women tear each other apart, we see you. You are not slick. You are not desirable. You are dangerous. You play both sides

You weaponize one woman’s pain against another and call yourself a good man. You’re not. You’re a coward who lets women bleed so you never have to be held accountable.

The ones you’re mocking, the ones you’re calling crazy, yeah that was me, they are not okay. They are depressed. They are anxious and all the self love they thought they have was zapped when the relationship failed.

That ls not on no one else but them but the reality of what betrayal trauma does to a person’s nervous system, their sense of self, and their will to be here….

So when you cheerleead a man who moves like that, when you mock the woman he’s destroying, and when you call her foolish for staying , you are participating in something that has real consequences. Life and death consequences.

And one day, what goes around will come back around. And when it does, you will understand the weight of what you treated as entertainment.

Protect women. Hold men accountable and vice versa when necessary. Stop performing for people who would watch you drown.

And for those of you who sit back, watch, and excuse poor character, that energy will come knocking at your own door. It will start subconsciously.

Atonement is the process of bringing that back into order, before the universe or your own Orí forces the correction. Let it be remembered always and let it be known.

Between Mad TV and King Simon Lectures & Abundancechild Live & Dead Prez, I debunked the American dream that my baby boomer parents pushed and I taught my daughters to question any authority outside of ME. Now our homeschool of feedback culture is our family business.

Yes the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee Creek, and Seminole are today labeled the Five Civilized Tribes. By calling these nations slaveholders without context, the narrative hides the fact that United States forced assimilation policies and racial reclassification created divisions inside Native confederacies. It also hides the truth that thousands of Native people were themselves enslaved and sold to the Caribbean before Africans were ever brought in large numbers. That label Five Civilized Tribes itself was a racial political project. It meant those leaders had adopted European style farming, Christianity, written language, and even slaveholding in order to be considered civilized by United States standards.

Yes some leaders among the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee Creek, and Seminole held people in bondage before the Civil War. But the meme is incomplete without three facts. The label Five Civilized Tribes is a colonial tag. The word Creek itself is an outsider name for Muscogee towns. And many dark skinned Indigenous families were later reclassified as Negro or Freedmen by United States systems which erased Native identity on paper. One congressional record on Dawes enrollment admitted, “Freedmen and their descendants of the Five tribes were placed on separate sections of the Dawes rolls without degrees of blood.”

Creek is not an ancestral name. English speakers shortened Ocheese Creek and applied Creek to Muscogee people who lived along rivers and streams. That is an exonym, not what the people called themselves. The National Park Service explains plainly, “The English called the Muscogee the Creek, probably due to the large amount of rivers, creeks, and streams in their lands.” The Muscogee world was a confederacy of many towns and related groups. Yamassee communities allied and intertwined with these networks across the Southeast and into Spanish Florida.

Context on slavery in the Southeast is critical. Long before large African imports, colonists in Carolina exported Native captives by the thousands to the Caribbean. Historians record that between 1670 and about 1720 more Indians were shipped out of Charleston than Africans were imported into Carolina during the same years. The Gilder Lehrman Institute says, “From 1670 to 1720 more Indians were shipped out of Charleston, South Carolina, than Africans were imported as slaves.” The American Yawp, a standard college history text, repeats the same fact, noting that tens of thousands of Native people were enslaved in the southern colonies and that exports from Charleston exceeded African imports in those years. This is the trade that set the plantation order in motion.

Relations between Black and Native towns were complex. In Spanish Florida, runaways from the Carolinas and allied Native people found sanctuary and formed Fort Mose, the first legally sanctioned free Black town in what is now the United States. The National Park Service describes how in 1738 Spanish Florida granted asylum and established a fortified free Black town near St Augustine for the growing numbers of freedom seekers. Seminole and African allied communities lived in connected settlements and fought together in the Seminole Wars. This was not the same as the cotton plantation chattel model of the American South.

After the Civil War federal record keeping hardened race lines. On the Dawes Rolls the United States put many citizens of the Five Tribes on separate Freedmen lists and did not record any degree of Indian blood for them, even when they had Native parents and grandparents. That paper split is why later membership fights often exclude Freedmen families. The paperwork did the erasing.

Receipts you can quote directly inside posts

James Adair, trader among Southeastern nations, wrote in 1775, “The Indians are of a copper or red clay colour.” This shows how dark complexions were normal among Southeastern nations. Jack D Forbes in Africans and Native Americans documents how terms like Negro, mulatto, and people of color were applied to Native Americans in Anglo North America and how those labels shaped records.

Bottom line:

Some leaders in those nations did adopt slaveholding during the United States push to define civilization. But the deeper record shows three things. Creek is an English label. The Southeast ran a massive Indian slave trade that predated large African imports. And later United States enrollment systems reclassified many dark skinned Indigenous families as Negro or Freedmen. Erasure on paper does not erase ancestry in the land.

-Abundance Child

We all came up together during the conscious renaissance that took place in the early 2000s. I have always respected the brother and could not wait to view King Simon’s broadcast with Norris Francis Branham. They started out with some lessons from Elijah Muhammad about native and world population and it evolved into a great dialogue that I could not stop listening to.

Just like I advocate, Norris Francis Branham made it clear that access is more attainable as a community than as an individual. He once identified strictly as Lenape, but now he openly acknowledges African and European ancestry as well. Ten years ago he would not have said that. That kind of humility and growth is rare and it deserves respect.

I learned from him about the three dialects of the Lenape language across West Jersey, North Jersey, Pennsylvania, and North Delaware. He said “Indian” is a colonial label. He explained that the names we think are nation names are really location names. The people colonists first encountered were the river tribes who controlled trade, not the inland tribes. Often they were the same nation in different places. All of these North Indian so called black tribes are related.

He also warned that the zeal for Indigenous knowledge has created leaders who misrepresent and sometimes even lie. He said genocide is not just paper genocide. His own family history in Monmouth County proves this. His ancestors were lynched. Their pre colonial contracts were with England and the Dutch, where patents were required to live among the Natives. Years ago he told me in person that his community used the church as a cover. I will never forget that conversation because it inspired me to start my own.

He emphasized that mainstream Native history is documented, but the Afro Indigenous experience remains hidden. He confirmed that American Indigenous spiritual practice overlaps with what we know from African systems. Dance is prayer. Burning incense is sending prayers up. A rock is treated with the same sacredness as a human being.

He raised tough questions. He asked if Olmec writings were just artwork. He asked if the Maya practiced metaphysics. He asked if Amaru ever existed. I respect his right to put that on the table. But to me it is like saying the Orisa did not exist. In Ifa we know the Irunmole are the messengers of Olodumare. They were not born and they do not die. They are everywhere in the sun, the moon, the rivers, and the oceans. The Orisa are their personifications who walked this earth as human beings and left lineages. The Olmec and Maya record works in the same way. Their carvings, calendars, and glyphs were not just art. They carried cosmology, time, prophecy, and ancestral memory. That is metaphysics. And Amaru ( I would love facts showing otherwise) existed both as a ruler in Inca history and as a spiritual archetype of wisdom.

What I most appreciated was his refusal to let us erase Africa. He said stop with the talk that we are not African. We were here, yes. But we are also children of Africa. I would even say abandoned children of Africa. My lineage traces to Benin and Ghana as far as I know. I don’t co-sign the out of Africa Pan Africanist theory and it does not make my ancestry less Indigenous to the Americas. It makes me a living proof of both.

Norris closed with urgency. He reminded us that federal recognition is only a government to government relationship. It is not the only way to be real. He said the time is now to prepare the next generations. My favorite line was when he said we got real genocide going on now. Be humble and learn the past but stand up for something now. Stop trying to be who we were.

Respect. I cannot wait for part two.

Watch the interview here:

https://www.youtube.com/live/qD78SWLEzC4?si=S9r3WOYzAksN3zff

His website is entirely thorough!

This is Ifa work.

My spiritual practice with food is living proof that Ifá is bigger than labels. Authority comes not from what people say, but from heaven, from Ọ̀rúnmìlà, from the birth Odu that carries my assignment. Like this plate, destiny brings everything together in harmony when we accept it with discipline, obedience and character.

I have a divine appointment that I just cannot seem to escape. Just like my inventions, I have been spiritually seasoned before arrival. Social acknowledgment will always catch up later.

Abundance Child

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