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Passing Along from the Motherland

the Way

 

AFRICAN-AMERICAN MOTHERS'PARENTING

 

 

 

 

The Historic View of a Hidden Legacy: the path to GOD

 

 

 

 

 

Yuhaayaa Latifa Kaahena

 

Yuhaaya

Detroit, Michigan

 

 

 

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Copyright 1995 by Yuhaaya

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any informational storage or retrieval system --- except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be reprinted in a magazine or newspaper ---- without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact Yuhaaya, P. O., box 38266, Detroit, Michigan 48238

 

First printing 1995

Revised Completely and Updated printing 2005

ISBN# 1883781-05-1

 

 

Printed in the United States of America

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS



 

 


I WANT TO ACKNOWEDGE

GENERATIONS OF

MOTHERS OF AFRICAN DECENT

KNOWN AS

THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK

(HOLY SCRIPTURE)

WITH GIFTS FROM THE LORD

TO REAR

THE SOULS OF CHILDREN

TOWARD THE WAY TO FIND GOD

OVER FOUR HUNDRED YEARS IN AMERICA

FROM SLAVERY OUR EXPERIENCE

REVEALS BLESSED MOTHERS WITH

GIFTS, TALENTS, AND THE EXPERTISE

TO BE AS THE SUN 'S CRYSTAL CLEAR LIGHT

AND THE RAINBOW'S STEADY FLOWS OF SAMENESS BETWEEN ITS UNLIKE COLORS, LETTING CHILDREN SHINE AS EQUALS

AFTER BEING RAISED UP BY GOD'S GRACE INTO POSITIONS WITH THE FREEDOM TO SEE THINGS ON THEIR OWN FOR THEM SELVES, AND THEIR OWN WAY BY GOD,

PEACE AND LOVE TO YOU!

 

 

 

 

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Preface

`This is a book about mothers with a hidden legacy in our country. African American mothers have been passing along the traditional way to raise our children but our contribution to way to raise children seems like a secret. How many women like Rosa Parks from our culture have received America's acknowledgement, as the real ones with the authority and strength to rear children into the straight path to GOD? Instead of the parenting experts being mothers of African decent, the recognized experts are ordinarily men or European Americans. For this reason, black mothers' way to raise children is commonly unknown.

The traditional way from the motherland consists of the human soul's passage through three levels of development with the mother's help. Blessed by THE CREATOR, the mother is empowered to raise children from the strength in our nature: natural gift and talents. With a religious culture, spiritual mothers have the natural power to support the soul during its ascent from its lowest state to its highest state of perfection. First, the soul exists with enough ill will (bad) to hurt self and other. Next, the spirit in a person is having the ability to blame self instead of others for being harmful. Lastly, the human soul reaches perfection able to like in peace and others and pleased with self. From the motherland into America, our story in Holy Scripture is about the soul.

. This legacy consists of the mothers of Cane, Ismail, Moses, Solomon, Jesus and others. Sojourner Truth was another such mother or you may know one reached a peaceful state with you from being fair as your equal and able to love you account of another human creature. In our stories or legacy, we find spirituality-developed mothers strong enough to rear a confused child in a losing situation the right way to go aright toward a life that is pleasing to THE CREATOR and blessed.. In each mother's story, there are examples of five basically shared gifts from THE CREATOR, which empower mothers from the culture of peace, love, justice and equality, being the People of the Book. My book shows the contributions of these mothers in their service to GOD. Our benefit to society has been the advancement of America's social life through ourselves and our children to live in peace together..

I wrote this book for two more reasons: first, it's a self-help book by an African centered mother with a 5-step parenting technique to fit black mothers. Secondly, it reveals the leading human development of blacks. As a cultural group, we have historically been used by THE ALMIGHTY as social and spiritual leaders. For over 400 years here, THE MAKER kept us up!.

 

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Table of Contents


Acknowledgments: iii

Preface: iv

Introduction: vi

Step #1:

The natural ability for humility: yielding Page: 1 

 

Step #2:

The natural ability to be close: stick together Page: 5

 

Step #3:

The natural ability to move with faith: human spirit Page: 10

 

Step #4:

The natural ability to lack being one-sided (prejudice): are fair Page: 20

Step #5:

The natural ability to live free: independent Page: 24

  

 

 

 

 

 

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Introduction: Just how does African Centered Child Rearing build character?

In Africa for thousands of years according to the stories in Holy Scripture, the mothers in this book with the long history of religious people did certain things to raise a child. Being like any other creature, they did it the right way along the path laid out by THE CREATOR for us to that for success in life. This success in Holy Scripture was mostly spiritual success. You do not find the success was for a car, house, college degree or any kind of material object without a soul. The success was with those physical things that also had a soul. It was to have a better character than a bad or evil character. This is goal of African centered child rearing! .

Mothers can be blessed with the talents, gifts or skills to afford children a straight path to success. Staying on this straight course is being like the sun going along in own way, free and out of the reach of others to control, since we already know that THE LORD is really THE ONE IN CONTROL of the creation. The moon does the same, the night, day, ocean, mountains, birds, creatures in the oceans, etc.. Then, there are examples from the lives of well-known African American people that existed free and uncontrollable to others. Taking this course of all creatures is to live a life of service and thanks to THE CREATOR from the use of gifts to do this. This is how a mother raises a child.

1. We began with the joining of mother’s liquid egg and father’s droplet of sperm; this fluid drops into her body to rest in a submissive way and lowly place. Thus, a mother’s natural gift is being able to yield and harmonize.

2. Then the droplets of fluid develop into a clot. This is an embryo in the womb. From the essence of both, the two become one piece of flesh. All is sticking together; then, a mother is sociable with the ability to stay together.

3. THE CREATOR next breathes the spirit of life into the fetus’ lump of flesh. This puts enough spirit/energy into it to move. The fetus moves in the direction that THE MAKER makes it move into. The mother discovers the fetus moves with desires, when the fetus desires food to move. The mother eats; afterward the fetus stops moving and rests. The human spirit moves the fetus until delivery from the mother: spirited or spiritual. to come out like the sun raised and equally recognized like any other creature: spirited/spiritual.

4. After raised up, the newborn baby is equally accepted: (just us) justice.

  1. Supported by a fair mother, the infant happily smiles, appears happy, peaceful, and free, as the baby can gets milk for own self, while the breast milk from the mother drops down easy to get, acting independent.

 

 

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The natural ability for humility: yielding

The word yield has different ways to describe it. It describes submission or to surrender. It explains to comply or go along with. This happens at conception, when the male drops his life germ or sperm downs below the female to unite with her bloody eggs; then, both fluids are covered by the female's dark womb. Another form of yielding is the seed of a plant, which grows below a bigger thing, until it advances to come out formed complete and ready to benefit others. How can something so small breakout of something much larger? It has been with the help of THE MAKER and no creature.

Being from a rich religious culture, mothers centered in it to seem yielding or complying. Fittingly, we only have been able throughout our history in America to turn to THE CREATOR to help us. During the time of slavery, they had to go along with being the mothers of their mates' offspring as well as the slave owners' offspring at the same time. Although hurt by the evil behavior of the slave owners, they still surrendered their bodies to produce human offspring made by THE CREATOR and not the creation.

The slave masters refused to treat of the slaves like human beings, so they refused in essence to yield to the creation of THE CREATOR. They were not endowed with the natural gifts of the spirituality mature mothers of African decent with enough strength (the passion) to support an offspring's soul. Slaves were forced to live in the slave masters who came here for religious freedom hostile world of ill will, hatred, and being harmful to other. To this kind of mothers, it was nothing new to handle for GOD sake!

Still, they saw their own children sold like property or animals for money with more value placed upon it during the slave auctions. Regardless of the all day neglect of their offspring day after day, which were left alone, these mothers were blessed to act like social creatures and treat all like they were just human being. .

We all know this was a fact, because all slave mothers did not try to kill themselves or try to kill their offspring like Nat Turner's

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mother's attempt to kill her son to spare him the life of a slave. Most of the mothers like the mother of Moses yield the one to enslave their family in service to THE MAKER, since religious people who are put on this earth to serve THE REAL MASTER of all. With a religious culture, the mother of African decent submits to MAKER'S creation of the human soul with the capacity to do evil during its elementary stage of growth. They grateful used their gifts from THE CREATOR for the power to rear those lost toward the right way.

Plantation slavery first began in the country in 1517. The first slaves were European but they were able to flee and stay hidden by others, since they all looked European. No one would know that they fled from the plantation. The Native Americans fought against it and was able to return to home to their tribe. With their dark skins, easy to recognize them, home unable to reach, and from a religious culture with faith in THE REAL MASTER of all, Africans were brought to America in 1619 to Jamestown, Virginia became the most profitable slave labor in order for this country to develop.

The slaves came from the continent of the Holy Scripture from the Holy Bible to the Holy Quran from being righteous Jews, Christians to Muslims beside the other spiritual cultures... Their story was historically recorded for thousands of years in Holy Scripture: The People of the Book. In this culture, the perfection of the soul well established, and our story became America's confusing hidden legacy. This made it possible for the slaves from Africa to advance in this country. With a well proved state of the soul's perfection for thousands of years in the Holy Books, its people had the ability to overcome the way of those at a lower state of spiritual development. If anything those with religious knowledge more likely considered the spirituality undeveloped cruel slave owners acting out like spoil brats from all the freedom to have in need of help with their social life.

Being social leaders, they set an example for the American immigrant, which came to this continent for religious freedom. The blacks for thousands of years were the slaves of others due to this.

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This country economic structure was set up by GOD for immigrants to find success from the charities of a religious people from the start. We have labored to improve the condition of the soul for all human creatures to live in peace together as equals with love for the human creature. There has been no way for us to deny our leadership; we could not escape this responsibility. A look at Black history proves this. They have been made to do it to this day. From our charitable ways, we are able to help human creature to live a successful life. .

. Complying with our real and true created existence in the order of things in our environment is required to advance in life.

Those successful in our society are proof of this overlooked fact. Among first acknowledged American social leaders recorder, there is one well known raised by a yielding mother to human nature. Prince Hall was son of a free black mother and white English father. He established during the late 1770's the first African American social organization. It was called the Masonic Lodge for Negroes in America. In 1787, he got a charter from England for the African Lodge # 459 with the help of British soldiers in Boston during the American Revolution. This organization promoted brotherly love, equality, and being a productive contributor to the building of human society. He was also considered a religious leader in America by a social leader on account of the religious principles to represent.

. Blacks who did advanced our social life in America. First of all, they had to yield and be compliant in essence to the right way to exist instead of the wrong way. We have been called too compliant as a race of people, but the things to comply to go unmentioned. To mention, we have been yielding to the real created order for creatures in our creation. Those centered in African tradition were successful at not being delusional. They knew and used the power to gain from this tradition. They did not pretend that these things to see did not exist; they did not want to be a part of the hostile world to live in. They may have accepted the fact that had to go along with the created order of being under hostile rule, but they acted spiritual.

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With proof in 1773, Phillis Wheatley a few years before Prince Hall became the first noteworthy African American woman poetess, when she published her work called, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral!" Then at the beginning and middle of the next century (1800s), William Brown advanced the literary work to a broader level; he became the first to publish a play and a novel. Next in 1879, Joel Chandler Harris wrote the tale about animal's life told by the black man, called Uncle Remus, "Tar Baby." This tale later became a popular animated screenplay and a popular movie.

Within years, another first occurred, when Author Paul Dunbar in late 1800s reached national ascendance as an American writer, when his work contained the black's imperfect English dialect. Justly, he was the first poet laureate of our culture, while he published lyrics of "Lowly Life." He was given this high American position with the duty to promote literature throughout all of this society. Next came the first form of the reconstruction of black culture in Harlem near the beginning of the turn of the new century (1900), called the Harlem Renaissance. The time arrived for our culture to flourish in the art with this reawakening, the community of black artist spread.

Alain Locks edited an anthology or collected different work of fiction, poetry, essays and drama called, "The New Negro." It was the rebirth of our own culture with literature. It became so well respected that other cultural groups naturally yielded to accept it. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry became the first African American woman to write a drama that was produced on Broadway during the Harlem Renaissance. Others continued on being first to do things of benefit to all to advance our common human condition instead as social creation. They stood up for reality and for all social progress on account of our culture to live in peace together: social creatures.

On the road to success with GOD'S Blessings in 1945, John Johnson became the founder of the Ebony Magazine. As a result, he became the first one of us with success at the publishing of an

 

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American magazine and books at a governing level by an African American. Being complying enough to yield to our being human in America took us far along a success path with THE CREATOR'S blessing. Then in 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks was granted the Pulitzer Prize for her poetry of 1949, Annie Allen. Thus, she became the first African American who won this award. Later from 1993 until 1995, the first Black woman poet laureate of the entire United States became Rita Dove, as the races peacefully lived together in societ