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Friday, June 6, 2014
Thursday, June 5, 2014
HAPPY THURSDAY!!!
Wassup Family!!!
This blog is another installment of the blog that I made 2 days ago... About how African history has, for one reason or another, been covered up by certain people with their own agendas.
I'll let the videos I posted here speak for themselves, However... there is 1 thing in this trio of videos which I do NOT agree with.
Northern Europe has had a LONG, strong, and sophisticated culture and history long before the Greeks and Romans came along... And I'll post about it in the near future.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy these videos.
THE KI'S NEW ALBUM IS NOW AVAILABLE ON iTUNES!!!
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014
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Head Coach Ras of ATACXGYM CAPOEIRA posted this video on his Facebook timeline today..
THIS JUST MIGHT MAKE ME WANT TO BUY A PS4 SOMEDAY!!!
Below is the full "movie". Check it out!
O.K., the story in the ASSASSIN'S CREED "movie" above takes place in the french colony of Saint Dominingue, on the western half of the island of Hispaniola. On Jan.1, 1804, after a long and bloody revolt by the MAROONS, or runaway slaves of this french colony,
Led by warriors such as FRANCOIS MACKANDAL, BOIS CAIMAN, and TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE
The colony of Saint Dominingue became the nation of HAITI.
Till this day, Haiti is the ONLY country created by a successful slave revolt!!!
For a more detailed version of Haiti's history, click below.
THE HISTORY OF HAITI
Now this ASSASSINS CREED story is a fantasy, but what I'm about to show you is not. The video below is of a kickstarter Campaign about a teacher of the Haitian Martial Art of Machete fencing, as practiced by Professor Avril.
I'm proud to say that the funding goal for this project HAS BEEN REACHED, and soon, god willing, this film, and professor Avril's new school and house, WILL BE MADE. Here are some more videos of Professor Avril and his students practicing machete fencing:
Find more information about Haitian Machete Fencing at www.haitianfencing.org
And check out my playlist, which has videos of Haitian Machete fencing, as well as other Martial Arts practiced by the African Diaspora.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
HAPPY TUESDAY!!!
Wassup Family!!!
Some time ago, I posted a blog called, "WHEN CAPOEIRA STOPS BEING NICE, AND STARTS GETTING REAL".
In that post, I touched a little bit on Capoeira's history. And now, I thought I'd expand on it a little bit.
And speaking of capoeira history, Head Coach Ras of ATACXGYM CAPOEIRA has written an EPIC eye-opening blog detailing the African origins of capoeira, putting together a HUGE amount of information in a way that has never been before.
------------CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT------------
I said before that, for a long time now, there has been a HUGE debate surrounding Capoeira's origins.
These links are usually what is said all over the world about Capoeira's history, the "party-line", if you will.
http://muzenza.com.br/2013/historia/ngolo-ou-danca-da-zebra/
http://www.capoeiramuzenza.co.uk/history.htm
http://muzenzatraining.co.uk/wordpress/home-wts/about-capoeira/history/
This is a bit more detailed than others I've seen on the web, but if you ask most capoeirisats, THIS is the kind of history you'll get, or something similar. However, this historical analysis is... incomplete (Yeah, that's how I'll put it), drawing largely upon the propaganda created by the government just before the Dictator, then President Getulio Vargas and the propaganda of Vargas's regime. The brazilian government of that time was trying to deny the African creators, practitioners, and culture of capoeira, and replace it with the lies and fabrications that many brazilians believe are true today.
For instance, Many capoeristas all over the world think that Capoeira is an indigenous brazilian word, taken from the Tupi/Guarani word, "Caam-Puera", which means "cleared land with tall grass", or something. Apparently, it's where slaves in brazil would gather to practice their martial arts.
This might actually be true. But personally, I think it's a load of bullshit.
I think it's just another myth being pushed for many years by the larger capoeira organizations to give a capoeira a more "brazilian" origin, and to push the african roots aside, and worse yet, to deny capoeira's african roots, and in order to give them a sense of "ownership" to the art,to justify taking control of how it's taught and practiced, and to try and deny the TRUE descendants of the art's creators to have much real power in the capoeira "world", as it will.
I believe that Capoeira is an African word. I think that "Capoeira" is most probably a portugese pronounciation of the Ndongo word, "Kapwera", which I have read, means "to fight, to struggle."
Why? Well, to be honest, the african definition of the word Capoeira makes more sense to me. Remember ... What became capoeira was born before the time of slavery, and during the time of slavery, many warriors fought for the freedom and dignity of ALL people with capoeira.
My friends, capoeiristas are warriors, before we are anything else.
WHEREVER WE COME FROM.
This was all part of a larger government policy followed in one way or another by almost all of the governments in Latin America at that time, collectively called BLANQEAMIENTO (EMBRANQUECIMENTO IN PORTUGUESE).
For more information about the problem of race and racism in brazil, I recommend you read the article titled "How is brazil racist? Let me count the ways," by Mark Wells.
------------CLICK HERE TO READ IT------------
Like I said before, Capoeira's roots can be traced back to african people for anybody who wants to look honestly for them. Capoeira's true African roots are out there, but historically, it has often times been conveniently overlooked if it supports information for the african argument.
This is nothing new. These myths sprang up at a time in brazil (And the rest of the western world), when african people could NEVER be credited wit the development of something as sophisticated as the martial arts. Blanqueamiento, remember?
For example, look at the picture below:
This picture was originally from an Englishman named PERCY NEWBERRY who traced this drawing, from the walls of the tomb of Governor Baquet III, in 1893. In 1941, there was a popular National Geographic magazine article titled, "Daily life in Ancient Egypt". included a portion of a scene from this tomb. The caption reads:
"By contrasting the body colors of the Egyptian athlete and his Negro opponent the ancient sports artist made clear the holds, many of which are identical with those used today".
Egyptian athelete and his "Negro" opponent? WHAT THE FUCK?!!!
O.K., to the plain observer, I guess it could be misinterpeted to mean a black(Negro) and white(Egyptian) wrestler.
However, take a look at THIS picture:
This is a photo of a scene from the ACTUAL tomb that Percy Newberry traced those figures from. When he traced them, he drew one in outline, and filled the other figure in black. In his own words, percy left no room for ANY kind of misinterpetation:
The match is between two egyptians, both colured the same in the original, but for the sake of distinctness in the Plate, one of each pair has been drawn in outline.
The information I just showed you, was taken from the book, "NUBA WRESTLING: THE ORIGINAL ART" by Nijel Binns. You can purchase a copy by clicking HERE.
And, In case you're wondering, this art is still practiced today. Check it out:
Now people, I'm not going to go into how the oldest martial arts are african, and how the oriental martial arts all originally came from africa...
No, I'll let this video do that:
O.K., now back to Capoeira.
Now personally, I liken the history and development of Capoeira to the development of another martial art called KAJUKENBO. Now in case you don't know what Kajukenbo is, it's an american hybrid martial art developed in 1947 in the palama settlement of Oahu, Hawaii.
Here's my favorite video showing this style:
Now as you can see in the video above, although Kajukenbo is an "American" martial art, developed in response to the way violence happens in the U.S. of A, the techniques, fighting strategy, and even the UNIFORMS of this martial art are totally from ORIENTAL roots.
Well, it's the same for the "Brazilian" art of capoeira. although it was developed in response to the way violence happens and has happened to people in BRAZIL, almost every single aspect of Capoeira, the techniques, the fighting strategy, the music, the way the songs are sung, the instruments, etc. ALL of them have african roots.
Now of course there are many brazilian(Read:European) influences as well, like the fact that the songs are sung in portugese(Even though there are MANY AFRICAN LYRICS as well), there is many references to Catholic saints(I'll blog more about that later), and they depict and celebrate the lives of the brazilian people in general, and the afro-brazilian people in particular.
Now there are some mestres who have claimed to have gone to angola in search of capoeira's roots. Capoeira Angola Mestre Cobra Mansa of FICA has made such a journey, and here's 2 video clips of what he's found there:
To find out more about this project, click the links below:
http://www.indiegogo.com/angolanroots...
Web Site http://rootsofcapoeirathemovie.blogsp...
FB https://www.facebook.com/AngolanRoots...
And, check out what this Congolese Capoeirista has to say about Capoeira's history:
And one more thing.
Capoeira is not the ONLY surviving Afro-Atlantic martial art practiced in North and South America. It's just the most well known.
I created this playlist showing these arts a few years ago, and I continually add video clips to it. I hope you enjoy it:
Now, I also said before, that in my opinion, much of the dispute surrounding the origins of capoeira stems from a continued effort to disenfrancise african people of our contributions to world civilization. You see, during the advent of the Atlantic Slave trade, and During the Colonial expansion from the 18th to the early 20th centuries, while Europe was excavating the many treasures of african culture, they were also doing their best to either destroy, or cover up africa's contribution to the world. Because of this continuing, centuries - long effort to promote this insane notion, We black people have to go to great lengths just to prove that we black people of africa, and her desendendants, have contributed to the advancement of civilization on this planet, something that most other races/ethnic groups take for granted.
Before, I gave this video as an example, because besides the RIDICULOUS way that they came to this conclusion about King Tut's DNA, they also make ERRONEOUS claims about what africans have contributed to civilization.
Coach Ras has also made an EPIC blog about this subject:
------------CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT------------
Now, here's 2 more examples. THESE VIDEOS ACTUALLY SHOW FOR EVERYBODY TO SEE HOW SOME OF THE AFRICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO WORLD CIVILIZATION HAS BEEN COVERED UP!
Now like I said before,
THAT'S THE KIND OF SHIT I DON'T LIKE!!!
In the next couple of days, I'm gonna be talking about some more about this subject.
But for now, I'm gonna end this blog with this video, "Capoeira in the Mountain of Angels.", done by my friend Charles Williams, and done to the music of the most beautiful song in the world.
THE KI'S NEW ALBUM IS AVAILABLE ON iTUNES!!!
You can buy it here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/theki/id876081841
Monday, June 2, 2014
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Saturday, May 31, 2014
HAPPY SATURDAY!!!
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Hello World!
It's SATURDAY, so that means it's time for another episode of ASK TEAL, with Teal Swan.
Published on May 24, 2014
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Sometimes we feel as if we are on an intense roller coaster ride of perpetual conflict. We can't seem to break free from it because we are stuck on the surface of our conflicts. We need to dive deep within ourselves internally to see the true cause of our emotional pain instead of arguing about the surface "triggers" of that pain.
When we want to feel better, we try to change the surface circumstances of our experience. We end the relationship, we move to a different city, we put ourselves on a diet, we sign up to a gym, we take a medication, we may even kill someone. But by doing only this, by looking for and taking a physical action to feel better, we can never escape the original conflict. It simply resurfaces in the new relationship, in the new city, regardless of our diet change or how much we exercise, what medication we take or who we kill. We perpetuate drama in our lives if the changes we try to make focus on changing the physical effects of a problem instead of the root cause of that problem.
In this episode, Teal explains how to find the root cause of the problem and what to do about it. She explains how to do the shadow work that will set us free from the cycle of conflict.
Ask Teal Website - http://www.askteal.com
Kuan Yin's Mantra (c) 2002 Lisa Thiel - used by permission http://www.sacreddream.com
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HUMANITY'S TEAM
Clarity of purpose is perhaps the single most important characteristic that distinguishes truly successful people from the normal people. Those who are totally in touch with their true purpose in life are able to muster the courage, discipline, determination, and persistence to achieve that purpose in spite of all obstacles. Many people are clear about their purpose, but after achieving their goals realize that their purpose was a selfish one that doesn’t bring them true or lasting happiness.
To truly achieve satisfaction your purpose should be one that has significance for others. When your purpose is to find a way to be of benefit to as many people as possible, including yourself, it is a most valid purpose. When you know that your purpose stems from your connection with Creator and your purpose is to uplift the consciousness of the entire planet, then it achieves even more significance. Whether you know you are following your purpose or whether you are still searching for what provides true meaning in life, you will be well served to regularly connect with spirit in whatever way suits you best and continually ask for guidance on your path of discovering and living fully your true life’s purpose.
--Ted MurrayLa claridad de propósito es sin duda la caracterÃstica más importante que distingue a los seres realmente exitosos de los normales. Aquellos que se encuentran conectados con su propósito real de vida son quienes logran activar la disciplina, el coraje, la determinación y la persistencia para alcanzar ese propósito más allá de todos los obstáculos.Mucha gente sabe cual es su propósito, pero al alcanzar sus metas, descubren que su propósito era egoÃsta y que no les brinda ninguna verdadera o duradera felicidad.
Para realmente alcanzar satisfacción plena, tu propósito debe tener significado para los demás. Cuando tu propósito es el de encontrar la mejor manera de beneficiar la mayor cantidad de gente posible, incluso a ti mismo, eso es un cierto y válido propósito. Cuando sabes que el mismo, surge de tu conexión con El Creador, y que el propósito es elevar la conciencia del planeta entero, entonces cobra mayor significancia. Si sabes cual es tu propósito o si aún estas buscando aquello que le da real significado a tu vida, recibiras las conexiones necesarias con tu espÃritu en la manera que mejor te sirva, y preguntaras por una guÃa para tu camino de descubrimiento y vivencia de tu verdadero propósito de vida.
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And Now, as always, I'm gonna end this blog with the most beautiful song in the world, and a word from don Miguel Ruiz.
------------CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT-------------
I will live my life with gratitude, love, loyalty, and justice beginning with myself and continuing with my brothers and sisters
~don Miguel Ruiz
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
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