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LINK-UP 2 LIFT-UP: Sorting through Our Culture Kingdom for Our Future Generations is written using emic perspectives to respond to the problems that still negatively impact descendants of slaves in the United States of America. This short and sweet like candy “WOKEbook” will keep our engaged and intellectually energized people working to abolish institutional racism; while simultaneously creating an institution of pluralism for every citizen.
LINK-UP 2 LIFT-UP: Sorting through Our Culture Kingdom for Our Future Generations shares integrative approaches, ecological models, universalistic perspectives in interpreting our problems. This book boldly offers a humble route towards mental liberation and total independence for citizen Africans in the United States; as was aspoused by Thomas Jefferson; in his ideological Declaration of Independence.

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Publié par	Xlibris US
Date de parution	23 septembre 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781664130043
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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LINK-UP 2 LIFT-UP

Sorting through Our Culture Kingdom for Our Future Generations

Doreszell Cohen

Copyright © 2020 by Doreszell Cohen.

Library of Congress Control Number:
2020917136
ISBN:
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978-1-6641-3006-7

Softcover
978-1-6641-3005-0

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978-1-6641-3004-3

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 information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

Rev. date: 09/23/2020

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Contents
Africentric Wokebook
Special Thanks
To the Reader

Personal Story : Broken and Downtrodden by Institutional Racism
Africentric Science for Success (ASFS) : Using Bottom-Up Approaches to Lift Up
Reflections of Link-Up 2 Lift-Up’s Humble Beginnings
Stay Woke
Are You Called or Chosen
Self-Determination : Who Are You? Different Types of Africans in the United States of America
An Africentric Integrative Approach to Self-Discovery
Personal Story : My Daughter Nearly Dies, I Cried, and Tried to Create Safer Communities for Youth
Link-Up 2 Lift-Up Using Cognitive Processes in Problem-Solving
Personal Story : Life Goals May Change
Achieving Collective Goals: Team Leadership and Teamwork
Personal Story: We, Not Me

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Africentric Wokebook
As a descendant of Africans in the United States, whose ancestors survived the slavery era, reconstruction era, and civil rights era, I come now to share my emic perspectives and Africentricity to help our unique socio-ethnic group understand, interpret, and engage within-and-between ourselves and others; in ways that are free of bias. This is our era to abolish institutional racism.
When the media and its representatives say that the United States’ Constitution, Republic, and Democracy are in crises or at-risk of civil unrest and other conflicts, they really mean that there is a significant increase in the general public’s awareness of the power in our people.
The very fact that masses of mentally enslaved people are being woke each day troubles those at the top. Many descendants of slave masters understand their privileges being white in America. Because of the powerful and privileged white Americans’ zero sum mentalities, they are uncomfortable in terms of (1) having to finally coexist in this nation equally with diverse peoples, (2) having to pay reparations for all the damages to the citizen Africans of the United States whose ancestors were slaves, and (3) making intentional changes to the black codes in our nation’s infrastructures and superstructures, which will “right the wrongs” of institutional racism.
You see, our capture in 1619 and existence ever since is tracked through numbers, statistically analyzed, and described in terms of likelihoods, chances, and probabilities. Africans in the United States have always been identified, labeled, devalued, and targeted from early childhood until death. In fact, many of the deficits, negative outcomes, and disadvantages we experience on a daily basis are systemically designed, procedurally written, and randomly distributed among our socio-ethnic group. In other words, the sophisticated institutional racism we experience, at some point or another in our lives, is assigned to us based on our common ancestry—descendants of US slaves.
Although the United States’ Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Republic, and Democracy are based on inspiring ideals, every one of its institutions are based on an unequal design that negatively impacts our socio-ethnic group. If America’s ideals are carried out with fidelity throughout all levels of US government, public policy, laws, society, and culture and were cross-sectional and applied to the descendants of the African slaves, then these foundational pillars of society would positively influence every other nation and people in the world to respect our values regarding what it means to be a proud American.
Brothers and sisters, now is the time for our socio-ethnic group to simmer down the anger in our own communities. We are one: link up to lift up .
Even the potential of our unique socio-ethnic group forming a state of solidarity poses a threat to those who are in power or privilege and who suffer with zero sum mentalities. In fact, the unity of our unique socio-ethnic group poses a risk to the zero sum mentality folks’ future generations’ control over the American culture, land, laws, and other white privileges.
Consider the fact that US history has origins in genocide, human trafficking, enslaving, and oppressing some of its people in order to create a thriving economic system for others. It was Caucasian men who stole the land and nearly exterminated the indigenous people in North America for it. It was Caucasian men who then stole millions of indigenous people from their own land in Africa to enslave them and their descendants—in this stolen land, in some fashion—to date.
Both humanity of natives and Africans in America have been violated throughout every sophisticated institutions and systems in the United States. For example, take the peculiar and powerful institution of language . The institution of language is more than words: language creates deeper constructs, such as attitudes, beliefs, values, and behaviors that are circulated by verbal and nonverbal communication. Language leads directly to the mind and heart of a people. Language is a major ingredient for action-oriented unity—good or bad.
If you are woke , I ask that you commit to two key basics: (1) remain conscious of the power of language as you search for your self and (2) refer to your kingdom of culture woke book as you discover yourself and consciously become more aware of the origins of many of our problems.
Brothers and sisters, you will find that being woke as a citizen African in the United States has the potential to revolutionize our nation to be greater than great. We have an opportunity to abolish the old orders of institutional racism and establish new orders of institutional pluralism, whereby every citizen group is entitled to their unalienable rights by nature and under God.
New orders are what our political candidates who aspire to take office should be campaigning about. Talking points that are based on superficial improvements or slowing down our aspirations to abolish institutional racism are no longer sufficient for many people in our society today.
It is my hope that you will find the insight and research that is cited within this wokebook useful. The few techniques and models mentioned within this wokebook are research-based with both emic and etic perspectives , which create universalistic perspectives that can accommodate diverse people as we strive to meet our goals and fulfill our needs.
As a member of the group of Americans who are the descendants of the US slaves, Link-Up 2 Lift-Up: Sorting Through Our Culture Kingdom for Our Future Generations is a wokebook that will guide you into (a) knowing your unalienable rights by nature and under God and (b) understanding how to prosper as an individual citizen and as a productive member of our collective socio-ethnic group. Are you ready?

Onward,

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.
—Malcolm X

Special Thanks
I thank The Most High for keeping me in the company of good people who have been tried and tested in life and have gone through the fire; coming out as pure gold.
I thank my beloved mother for giving birth to me and struggling to raise me in an integrated neighborhood; whereby, I experienced soft dosages of racism; being the only little black girl in the circle . Your determination towards upward mobility for our family grounded my conscious awakening. Looking back, I remember feeling that I was treated different because I am black and oftentimes wandered around the neighborhoods; questioning “who am I and where am I from?” Today, I understand that my adult personality was shaped by the environment that I was exposed to during my early childhood years and school days. Now, I know who I am, and I owe it all to you.
I thank my beloved eight children who have through the good times and bad taught me that there are levels to parenting; especially when we are breaking generational chains of suffering and pain. Thank you little ones for encouraging me to keep moving forward despite the daily struggles as a citizen African in the United States. Always, remember that you have a praying mother who will always guide you in truth; so that you may rule your own destiny.
To the Reader
As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “We are veterans of creative suffering.” More than fifty years later, I accept creative suffering as an honor because it is evidence that I have found a creative solution to the problems I face while fighting for my unalienable rights. I have encountered so much unfairness and many closed doors as a marginalized citizen who has been stereotyped, misjudged, and denied many opportunities just for being me. I am