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The African American King Book Excerpt

When someone is hurting, it affects us in ways that are not easily seen by the naked eye. Hurt breeds anger, and in many instances we react according to how deep the wound is, and how we have reacted to the pain our hurt has caused us throughout our lives. Emotion is a delicate characteristic to address, and as human beings we all have various levels of emotional stability or instability.

Depending upon the depth of your hurt, the response to how we are treated can cause a reaction that can devastate us and those who are in our lives. This is based on how your heart and soul responds to how you have been hurt or abused. Whenever I meet people that are guarded, I realize there are deep emotional wounds that many people have suffered through, and you can feel their pain as it comes through in their communication, whether in body language or in speech.

Although we don’t know how deep the root of pain that is in someone’s life, it becomes evident when you are attempting to have dialogue with them. This is where we must be gentle, understanding their pain and/or abuse. These are people, who don’t have the strength to address their hurt, and they turn to substances or lifestyles which may seem to be a way for their hurt to subside, until the need of substances overtakes them, and dependence becomes a way of life.

There is a great amount of pain in America, and is for many reasons due to the hurt that has been the cause through generations of mistreatment in our society. I want to take full responsibility for what I am about to address next, and as I share my feelings about a word that is so deeply engraved in the soul of the African American heritage, that it truly pains me to talk about this, however, this is only my opinion.

The “N word” is a harmful word that has implications to identify all people of African American descent. It is a word that I have lived with for as long as I can remember. It is a “generational curse” word that is constantly being transferred throughout our royal African American heritage. What does it mean when African American people refer to one another, with a word that was used by our slave masters to classify us during the time of our enslavement?

Why is this word so widely used by African Americans today, to identify who we are in jest, and especially when we become angry or provoked? Each time this word is spoken, it hurts our royal heritage, and it causes pain to the person that speaks it, and it hurts the person it was intended to hurt. It also hurts the cause of African Americans in this vain, it reveals to society we are still immature as a heritage.

This word is something that is so deeply seared in the African American consciousness, and in the soul of the African American, we must purpose in our hearts not to speak this word, for it has kept the African American in a slave mindset, because in our subconscious thought process, this is who we believe we are. How are we to uproot this word out of our thought process?

When we become angry and enraged and cannot speak intelligently, this word is the first word that will come forth out of mouth, because it has been spoken to us, and has its birthplace in our hearts from slavery. This word is meant to hurt, to devastate a person, and whether you believe it or not, it is true. As African American people and no matter your level of education and intelligence, this word is in many respects what other cultures seem to believe we act out in our character.

Many of us has either had it spoken to us, or have spoken it to us by someone of African American descent. This is due in fact that our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were referred to in this manner, and this negative word has taken root in the heart and soul of the African American race.

The mindset of the “N” word gives a license to individuals to rebel against authority because deep within the soul of the African American, it is a negative influence that allows African Americans to perpetrate a “N” word mindset. This word in its most destructive manner is meant to deeply wound, and is intended to banish and cause detrimental pain to whom it is directed.

Personally, I have been called a “N” word on more than a few occasions, and it always causes me to think negatively, and as it has been transferred throughout many generations of African American people, all the way to my hearing, when initially we were not the people who first spoke this word. In the purist form of this word, the passion for which it is communicated today to the soul of both the speaker, and the hearer.

So deep in fact is this ungodly word that many people have died as a result of it, and as this word has meant something different to all of us, is still killing the spirit and the soul of the African American heritage. In inner-city America, this is the doctrine that exists and many live their lives believing they are, because the feeling is this; African Americans are an unwanted heritage, and foreign cultures in America believe that we are worthless, and this is shown by their attitude and treatment of us and concerning our heritage.

If we want respect, it begins with us respecting those who have died, and have made it possible for us to have the freedom and success we experience today. We must learn to respect each other, because those who are aged and experienced in living as African American people have suffered long enough through death, destruction, and hatred of family and friends.

We must begin to respect our heritage, respect ourselves and respect those who are making significant contributions for the furtherance of the African in America. We must realize we are not the "N” word, and get it right in your soul; you are NOT what slave-owners called our ancestors!” The identification that was placed on us by slave masters need not to continue to hinder the mindset that many African Americans have fought so hard to defeat. Isn’t time for us to stop referring to ourselves as the “N” word?

My question to everyone is this; how can we defeat the “N” word mindset that has become part of the soul of the African American? I believe through forgiveness, we must see each other on a deeper spiritual and emotional level than we do today. What I mean by this is that we must see our heritage in a generational and ancestral design, from the time of our enslavement until today.

I understand that millions of African Americans have been killed unnecessarily and abused by slavery and the control of the African in America. I speak this to the heart and soul of every African American reading my book; we must understand that our ancestors who were called this word, were in reference to who the slave masters thought they were.

The slave masters did not realize they were killing and raping kings and queens, they thought we were slaves when they took us from our homeland against the will of our ancestors! We must stop using our past enslavement as a means of destroying the future of our heritage and our families. We must destroy the yoke of bondage that has kept many in our heritage in perpetual dysfunction.

The understanding that we must begin to obtain is the knowledge of royalty, of purpose, and of destiny for each one of us, because we must realize that our ancestors saw themselves as royalty in spite of being enslaved themselves.

Through their sacrifice and death, we now must begin to envision ourselves with the royalty our ancestors possessed, by visualizing each other with "Crowns of Victory upon each of our Heads," and no matter what we look like, or what position in life we may find ourselves in, it was the sacrifices of cruelty they endured, through the murder and abuses they suffered, and those who paid for our freedom with their blood, that cries out from unmarked graves, by land and by sea.

The pain our African American ancestors suffered is something so delicate and deep, that the relationship and the commitment to God they shared, helped them overcome the pain they endured through years of slavery. We must begin to see each other as royalty, by honoring our ancestors for the sacrifices they made; by how we interact with each other today.

Freedom always costs, and always has a price that someone has paid, so others can experience the joy that comes as result of their sacrifice and death. Listen people, every time we hear this ungodly term spoken, each of us should express our displeasure by giving a “Thumbs Down!” gesture, this signifying, and serving as a reminder, that our ancestors died over this vicious word!

I also believe that through this gesture; there will begin for each of us, a spiritual connection to them that we will begin to experience with one another. The pain our ancestors suffered during slavery is something so delicate and deep, that the relationship and the commitment to God they shared, helped them to overcome the pain they endured through years of slavery.

We must listen to some of the old negro spirituals that were written and sung during this dark hour of our heritage. They certainly knew they were royalty, by the words that were written in many of those songs, which were an outcry out for freedom!