Y'all pay this Build close attention. Some how, some way, this is a message that has gotten lost throught the recent generations....
It is not cool to have ill-mannered children!!!!
Most of my friends and associates who want children have them. I like well behaved children. I do. I even like michevious children. I do not like, nor will I share my social Equality with ill mannered children. Children who are rude and do not know there place.
I am very close to the Cuture decade of my life. When my mother and her friends are having a conversation, I don't speak unless spoken to. I answer said question and then I bounce. Its rude to get in grown folks conversation. I strive hard to appear like I'm not listening. I know I'm grown, but they are growner.
I say yes ma'am or yes sir to adults. I don't call people who are old enough to be my parents by their 1st name plain. It ain't gonna happen. I was raised better than that. Hell... I was raised. And I ain't no worse for wear. I am not shy or withdrawn. I recognize that there are rules and boundaries that everybody has to observe.
Many women with children tend to fall victim to the habit of indulging their children at all times. If I had a dollar, a nickel even for every time I have been on the phone with a female friend and she, without notice, interrupts the conversation to yell something to or at her children, I could retire right now. That is fucking RUDE. I don't play that. That is one of my pet peeves therefore a boundary. I will call you on it the 1st time and every subsequent time after that, I will end the interaction.
I remember when I was a child, my mother would get on the phone and have marathon conversations with her friends. And that was before cordless phones. She was confined to a limited area. We knew to be very quiet and only interrupt her with emergencies. You know... fire, bleeding, police... stuff like that. The worse thing you could hear from my mother was, "Girl let me go. I gotta go beat these kids." My mother was not the kind of woman to promise an ass whipping and not deliver. Even if she had to wake you up to do it.
Another thing my mother despised was us embarassing her in public. On the way from the car to the store my mother would give me the speech. Folks over 35 know the speech... "Don't you ask for nothing, don't you touch nothing, if you do I swear to God I will...." And again, I knew she meant it. There was no running ahead. There was holding her hand until SHE let it go.
Now i must admit I was a handful as a child. I was not the beautifully behaved child that I expect to have one day. That is why I can accept micheivious children. But I knew how to act at home and abroad. I am proud to say, though I have had plenty of spankings, I have never been beaten for the same reason twice.
I was with a friend this past Sunday. Her young son was just running his mouth and doing precisely what he wanted. All the friend was doing was threatening him. Oh she talked a good game but never made good on the threats. This child went as far to say "Whatever" when she threatened him loud enough for it to interrupt a conversation we were having. Ummm.... Emphatically Now Cipher! That child was close enough for his mother to slap the whatever out of his mouth, but she just ignored him. I ducked so she would have room to make her theats come true. Nothings.
When we got out of the car that little boy grabbed a bunch of shit out of the backseat (some of it wasn't even his shit) and he took off for the door. I asked his mother if he had been here before and she said no. Y'all can see that this ain't gonna end well. After we were in the spot a minute, the little boy drops all his stuff on the floor and runs off to play with some other children. Folks know that we arrived together and bring the dropped items to me because they can't find him or his mother. Now I'm carrying bunch of crap and can't enjoy myself. Guess what? I'm 'bout to whip some ass.
I found the little boy and gave him his possessions back. He tells me to hold them. SCREECH. I grabbed tht little boy by the shoulder, dragged him outside and told him that he was gonna hold on to that shit and if when we left he was missing one article I was gonna whip his ass. And neither he, nor his punk assed mother was bad enough to stop me. I jacked him to proove that I was serious. He started to cry and I told him to suck it up because I wasn't his mother. I don't get paid to love him.
Then what happened? He had all his stuff when we left the venue. But that still didn't stop him from cutting a fool. When we got outside, his mother mentioned that he had to go to school the next day and he had a coniption right there in the parking lot. Again I threatened this little boy to behave. This time his mother was standing there and he borrowed some courage. You think that stopped me from slapping this child across his ass? Hell No. I told him the next thing I wanted to hear from him was Good-bye Ms Serenity. And if he tried soemthing I was gonna try something back. He was quiet until I got out of the car when he politely said. Goodbye.
Parents know their children are ill mannered. You can see it all over their faces. When their children begin cutting up they hide. I also acKnowledge that babies are the greatest, but they must be taught. They don't just organically learn to behave. To make devil or to make God, you must first go to the foundation. And that foundation is Knowledge. Children that are raised with proper Knowledge/information grow up to effectively reflect our Culture.
Fucked up children = Fucked up parents.
I'm not caring if you agree with this or not, but children that make it to adulthood and are knuckleheads should go home and live with their parents. Because they are the ones who authored that Koran. If someone becomes a sniper, stripper, pimp, drug dealer, thief or what ever illegal unsavory career they choose for themselves, it's their parents fault. For not instilling in said children the need for accountability and honest work. My mother is in he rmid 70s with all the problems that older, swine-loving, Original people fall vicitm to and guess what? I'm still scared of her and hate to disappoint her. She might be able to still kick my ass. I didn't have children when I was a teenager, I have never smoked weed or have been to jail. My brother neither. We respect our mother because she parented us. And she never (and still doesn't) try to be our friends. She will call a spade a spade regardless of whom or what. Yeah sometimes I resent her for it, but so be it. I have learned the value of hard work and earning my way in life rather than hustling. I was raised with Knowledge.
Consider how you are raising your own children.
Peace
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Who is the Boss?
Posted by Bootzey at 1:11 PM 2 comments
Labels: Culture, Knowlegde, understanding
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Taking Back Jerusalem
Today's Supreme Mathematics is Wisdom Understanding abbt to Power. Today's Supreme Alphabet is Wisdom. I cee Wisdom in this Build, as emotions, Understanding as a clear picture drawn up in one's mind and Power as ability (active and dormant).
People have to be control of their own emotions in order to maintain their own Power.
Every one falls victim to emotions. You come home and find your home burned to the ground, some emotion will fall out. You stand on the grave of a dear loved one some emotion will spill forth. You see your baby win a gold medal in the olympics or score a doctorate degree... Yes there will be emotions. Emotions are within every one. But we do not need to lend our emotions out and become manipulated by them. That's handing over your Power to someone other than self. And we know that to be wrong.
Folks famous for being all touchy feely with our emotions are.... clergy, consosrts, children, opponents, etc. The reason why folks run all through the sanctuary and give money they know they cannot afford or agree to spend all fo their free time doing the "Lord's Will" is because a charismatic person (usually a man) has gotten up higher than every one else and plucked the emotion strings. Children will get your last dollar for something frivolous because they know how to play the same tune. Bosses will make you feel guilty about leaving at your appointed departure time or have you miss luch or breaks because we hand them over the Power to do it. Your lover will have you sweating over a hot stove making some technique sensative dinner just because he has a taste for it. And that chick at your job knows just what to say or even look at you for you to be looking around trying to decide wht to shank her with.
Externals hold sway over folks emotions. I freely admit this happens to me sometimes. I worry about money, if I will lose my job today, what the God is doing at work, if I'm a good daughter, have I done enough for the people in Haiti, and the list goes on. But there comes a point when you have to shout "ENOUGH!!!" and mean it. Some folks say the solution is to shut down all emotion. Well I disagree with that. Some emotion is very satisfying. Like the feeling you get when you awake in the arms of the person who loves you. Or when you hear children playing and having a good time. No, the answer is not avoiding all emotion. I'm grown. I say reclaim ownership of said emotions. That way you can pull them out and use them to your advantage rather than allow others to manipulate you.
Peace
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Labels: 5:14, Emotions, understanding, wisdom
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Today's Supreme Mathematics: Knowledge Wisdom abbt Understanding
12: Awareness that my actions will be perceived by others
I do this personally every day, but don’t do this every day in my blog. Today I’m feeling particularly contemplative so here’s my 8.
People are always gonna watch you. Doesn’t matter what you do. Even if you don’t leave the house people will take notice of the fact that you don’t leave the house. So what must be done? We must be mindful that the image that we put out there is in line with reality.
Here in the south I have noticed that the native population does not ask appropriate questions. I have no clue why this is. I suppose after living here a few more years the answers will come to me. But right now I have only my observations. Folks look at me and assume I am a Muslim. SMH. I kind of know when folks are thinking that because they will want to show me how informed they are by saying they have Muslim friends or making a comment about Islam, the faith. It always makes me smile and I say, ‘’I’m not Muslim”
Folks own confusion will take over and then they will get their mental minds together to ask me questions regarding my Culture. I have been accused of being the aforementioned Muslim, Black Hebrew, Nuwabian, an A-Rab (a non-NOI Muslim), a Moor and a whole bunch of other things. Being in the south when I say a 5%er, I get strange looks. That’s okay; it’s a moment to Build on who we are and what we teach. Now does this mean that I am proselytizing? Emphatically No. I never have believed in that, even when I was a Bible thumping Christian. People need to come to KOS on their own. But I will stand as a guidepost until they can make their mental recovery.
I ride MARTA with a preacher. I know how he rolls and he knows how I roll. I used to be a devout Christian and know how to interact with the faithful. But I am always mindful to tactfully point out inconsistencies of his comments and beliefs but in a playful manner where he won’t feel attacked. People stop listening to you when they feel attacked. He hears me refer to Nation folk as Gods and Earths. He has come to learn the meaning of what a degree is Ciphers, Supreme Mathematic and Alphabet, Rallies and a plethora of words. Every now and then he will joke and ask me, ‘’How do see today’s Mathematics?” I think (I’m not sure) that this man can come amongst the righteous people and not feel completely out of place. I am aware that he watches me and what I do. I recognize that I am his physical link to Allah’s Nation and more than likely his Understanding of it will come through me. Am I trying to lure him out of the triple stages of darkness? Probably, but I recognize that he is older, strung out on white Jesus and probably not ever going to come in the name. But he can become elevated and more conscious. And just maybe, he may slip and let his children learn a little something about or Culture and who knows? His grand seeds may refer to themselves as God or Earth. You never Know.
Peace
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Labels: knowledge, understanding, wisdom
Friday, January 30, 2009
Today's Mathematic's Understanding Cipher abbt Understanding
Understanding… The best part of life. It is the Black child who is the star. Understanding is a clearly drawn picture in one’s mind through knowledge and wisdom.
Cipher… is a 360* circle made up of 120* of knowledge, 120* of wisdom and 120* of understanding to make it complete.
I see today’s math, Understanding Cipher abbt Understanding, as a testimony to the importance of knowledging the big picture. People make a lot of decisions without truly having all the facts. I speak of facts and not feelings. Some find it hard to distinguish between the two. Understanding the entire circle, allows you to access and hone in on where the actual problems lie. And once you have that information, you can heal and/or complete your cipher.
Peace.
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Labels: cipher, math, NGE, understanding
Friday, January 23, 2009
Today's Mathematics:Wisdom Understanding abbt Power/Refinement
Today’s math has me thinking about Michelle Obama and her role in her husband’s presidency. Her role is not that of the President of the United States; though she is equally as qualified as her husband. Her role is to maintain their collective universe. There in lies her power through her refinement.
Mrs. Obama’s role is to support her God and raise those babies in the public eye. They being the first Black First Family means that they are going to be celebrities for the rest of their lives. All the trials and tribulations that come with family life will be visible for the entire world to look at and judge. I for one would not want that life. The thought of being publicly ‘out there’ makes me very nervous. But Mrs. Obama is a beautiful Original woman of distinction and grace (and my soror, btw) who I am certain is up for the task.
She does not appear to have the common frailties that will other 1st Ladies had that caused them to fall into the devil’s uncivilization. Most 1st Ladies are invisible unless there is something about them that makes the reporters angry. Laura & Barbara Bush… invisible. Hilary Clinton was too smart and not ‘wifey’ enough for a lot of people. Nancy Reagan absolutely adored her spouse and that came across in a big way, but other than her affection for Ron and her hilarious catch phrase of “Just say No” that was it for her. Rosalind Carter was criticized for a diplomatic trip she made for her man. And Betty Ford had the dubious distinction for being a drunk.
She has been compared to Jacqueline Kennedy. And whereas I can see why this comparison is as accurate as the devil media can get, it will be lost on the masses. I’m a huge Jacqueline Kennedy fan and my research has found her to be capable, educated, devoted to her husband’s presidency and to her children. She often wrote her husband’s speeches. She spoke at least 2 different languages other than English and I suspect that her father, John Vernou Bouvier III (aka Black Jack) probably had some cut in him.Y’all do the knowledge.
I’m just very excited to have Mrs. Obama in the position she is in. I never said, “I never thought I would see the day….” I knew I would. But I assumed that the first Black president would be married to a white woman or at least a light-skinned Black woman. I am tickled that she is portraying sisters to the fullest Equality.
How am I going to incorporate this into my cipher? I will use her as an example of a successful, competent accomplished mother of civilization. Maybe not to be completely emulated, but as a mentor.
Go Michelle!
Peace.
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Labels: math, Michelle Obama, power/refinement, understanding, wisdom
Friday, November 21, 2008
Today's Mathematics: Wisdom Knowledge abbt Understanding
I am so tired of people besmirching Barack Obama. The man has not even been inaugurated. I see it in every group that I come in contact with. I expect more from the conscious and righteous community. I find it all incredibly annoying. I hear “Barack Obama is and Uncle Tom”, or, “Barack Obama is no different than any other president because he was put in place by the ‘powers that be’”. Here is my favorite stupid @$$ed question…. “What is going to do for Black people?”
Barack Obama has done all he is supposed to for Black people. He got elected. Case Closed. We are square.
Read this excerpt from Wikipedia….
“The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by influence and recognition. The President leads the executive branch of the federal government; his or her role is to enforce national law as given in the Constitution and written by Congress.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States
I invite y’all to peruse the entire article and the constitution before y’all keep talking no speaking this bull. (Talking implies you understand what you’re talking about. Speaking is just uttering sounds.) The job description of the President of the United States says nothing about hooking Black folks up. What happens to the person who works at Macy’s or Burger King or any damn place that gives his friends the hook up? That employee gets fired. I’ve seen the hooker upper get in legal trouble depending on the level of the hook up. Is that what you want from/for our new Black president? You want him to lose his job because he tried to us Black folks a solid? What kind of person wants to put another person in that predicament? Where is all that ‘Black love’ here? No other president has been faced with these foolish expectations. Why Obama? Oh I forgot. Because he has to prove that he’s Black enough. Clearly y’all not drawing this up properly.
This is just an example of the folly of putting wisdom before knowledge. It will lead to misunderstanding. But done correctly 1 + 2 will born 3/understanding.
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Labels: barack obama, conspiracy theories, knowledge, math, NGE, understanding, wisdom
Friday, October 31, 2008
Today's Mathematics: Understanding Knowledge
I have a Halloween costume on. I am dressed as a Queen of Egypt. With the Eye of Horus and the whole born yards! I look good, yet 3/4. Folks have mentioned that dressing for Halloween is uncivilized and is a trapping of the devil. I say, since I'm enjoy the process, it is a requirement of my job and y’all ain’t paying one of my bills, my suggestion is that you shut the f@ck up! Was that lady like?
Let’s understand the knowledge…. Though the costume is a requirement, I was allowed to choose whom/what I wanted to be. There were plenty of slutty, degrading and expensive options that I could have chosen. But I chose to embody an Original Queen. And I have said ability to sew (according to the 14*1:14). It cost me less than $10 for the fabric. The wig was the most expensive part at $20, but my locs aren't long enough to play the role. A slutty version of my costume that wasn't as elaborate, in a thin fabric, cost $95! So how is my costume not right and exact?
One of the aspects that I have noted during my tenure in this wonderful nation is that god/earth bodies are lacking the fun gene. Ciphers are intolerably serious. I know that they are supposed to be, but I never really witness gods and earths just letting their hair down and having just some good clean fun. I had more fun when I went to a Christian church. Laughing and joking are always prefaced with the idea that it must end if someone comes amongst us. And to hear folks dis holidays/birthdays/observances that have evolved into meaningless fun, is sad. Even the father had his fun. And according to some sources, he threw a Christmas party for his nation family.
Lighten up People!
Happy Halloween!
PEACE
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Labels: costume, fun, Halloween, knowledge, NGE, understanding