Is it time for us to have a serious evaluation or appraisal as to where we are today? This is a question I'd like to specifically level at the 'conscious community' that's in the UK, America and Europe. Those people who see themselves as being 'culturally aware' and 'African centred' etc. really need to address this one because by doing so, we'll be able to truly and honestly judge just how close (or how far away) we are to reaching our stated goal.  Are we five days away from reaching it - or five hundred years?   I put it to you that not one of us really knows.

Why? you may ask.  Surely, we're doing ok aren't we?   Are we??  It seems to me that no matter how much effort we're putting into this movement, we just don't really seem to be witnessing any substantial and significant results in our communities.  This would be an indication that we're not effectively moving towards a clear goal - and that's if we remember our goal - or even if we actually had set one in the first place! 

I live in the UK and the conscious community has been evolving since the 1960's. The first Africans from the Caribbean and the Continent began to make Britain their home after being invited by the British government.  This was a very harrowing period as they began to experience constant white extremism and terrorism for the first times in their lives.  They did the best they could do notwithstanding these prolific challenges to unite and forge a way forward for themselves and their children.

Since then, it seems to me that this collective unity and determination reached its peak in the 1980's - but since then hasn't really made much of an identifiable impact.  Does this mean we have achieved our goal - or could it mean that we've lost our way?  If we can't clearly state our collective goal, then we've either failed to share and transmit it to each other - or we never really had one!

If, indeed, it's the latter then we really are hopelessly adrift at sea or shuffling around aimlessly in the desert with no way of reaching our 'goal'.  Are we moving ahead in a straight line, or just going around in a very big circle?  Who can tell, because none of us know where we are!  We are utterly lost.  What are we going to do?  Carry on like this, hoping that we'll 'get lucky' and stumble onto a way forward - or should we just stop; recognise the futility of our wasted efforts and then go back to where we started?  

One of the best things you can do to find your way if you're lost - is to go back to where you started!  Many may say going back is ridiculous because by doing that, then it's obvious we've definitely made no progress.  They will encourage us to keep on going on with the fragile hope that something good will eventually happen.  Others, however, will see the value in going back to where we started (even though it's going to be arduous trek) but at least when we arrive, we'll be able to efficiently plot and coordinate our route from there to where we intend to reach. 

We simply can't accurately plan to reach our destination if we don't know exactly where we are.  By going back to where we started, we'll be much more able to quickly and safely navigate to our goal.  Can we now use this analogy to help us get to where we want to reach as a community?  Should we just carry on trudging away trying this and trying that - or should we go back to one of the best starting places we've had in our history? 

If we study, practice and teach the 42 laws of Ma'at and use this as one such 'starting place', we could then steer ourselves forward in a far more structured manner to reach our collective goal.  No more wandering around in the blistering heat of the desert or facing storms and tidal waves at sea.  We'll know where we're coming from - and so we'll know where we're going to.  All we have to do is follow the plan.

Either way you cut it, a decision has to be made (go back to the start - or carry on wandering) because without a clear collective goal to move towards, the future will be a continuation of this bleak and depressing present. 

​... may your heart by lighter than the feather.     

I recently called into a community radio talk show aimed at how we can overcome the false belief of white superiority.  After a lot of suggestions were put forward by other callers, one of the presenters attempted to summarize the comments and eventually said that we need to do the opposite and create Black superiority instead to reach this objective.

Instead of jumping to echo this comment that received an almost unanimous agreement from the other callers, I responded by saying that this was a bad idea because all this'll do is put us in the same situation (and ultimate condition) as white people now are - insecure, guilt ridden and filled with fear etc.  That doesn't sound very 'superior' to me.  Does it you?

My work in creating neo ma'at had already convinced me that positive or right conduct and character is the key to reaching all degrees of superiority within the self.  The false ideal that superiority or inferiority can be established by transitory aspects such as physical appearance, wealth or social status etc. can never surpass the general and specific behaviour of an individual.  Therefore, the most 'superior' amongst us, are those whose character and conduct is the most right.  

So, if Black people want to overcome white superiority once and for all, they have to recognise it can't be done directly - or 'face to face'.  This is because most whites will do absolutely everything they deem necessary to protect it, as it's the core and foundation of their whole self-identity.  And, if it is, I can understand why they'd do so.  Black people have had the core of their self-identity ripped from them by whites and look what it's done to us!!

So, Black people have to establish (or even re-establish) what I call  'right superiority' in order to achieve this goal and finally win the war.  How can they do that you might ask?  The answer is to study, practice and teach the 42 laws of Ma'at.

 ... may your heart be lighter than the feather!