Primitive Slavery
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by NEB Nehez Meniooh
For the last 500 years, the “African” has been primarily associated with the concept of enslavement. Modern educational institutions, while asking for our respect, tell us that Black history in the West started with slavery. They teach that slavery, though horrific, is normal: a product of human culture, traceable to its earliest societies. Perhaps this is why the majority of European governments see no need to lend even a formal apology to those responsible for building their infrastructure (through free labor).
This system’s habit of distorting human history in order to protect its image from being associated with the evils it has committed against its own creators does not have any limits which it will not cross. It is necessary, for the sake of young developing minds under the influence of modern education and media, to expose the basic concepts of human life. We must do all that we can to prevent the destructive psychosis of modern culture from being perpetuated further into future generations.
Black civilization, or let’s say Pharaonic civilization -- to avoid the racial distraction that our political leaders have been maintaining for the past few centuries -- knew no such thing as modern forms of slavery. An explanation of what is known as slavery in our ancestral paradigm will continue to prove the ridiculousness of this system. It is time that we expose the difference in cultural refinement that exists between the “modern” man and the “primitive”.
Within the Kemetic cultures, there are different forms of what can be translated most closely to slavery. In the traditional languages of Western Meritah, we have the concept of “buying” a person. However, this is not the same concept as paying money for another human being and henceforth owning him/her as property. Though transliterated as “to buy”, this concept should more appropriately be related to the act of “taking responsibility for”. In this process, the priests or spiritual authorities of one ethnic group can observe the destiny or spiritual predispositions of a foreigner and in doing so conclude that they can better provide what is necessary to allow for the proper development or achievement of the destiny of that individual. This is done usually when the family, community or ethnic group of that individual, does not have the resources or knowledge to guarantee the proper utilization of the individual’s capabilities and he/she is at risk of an unrealized destiny.
This notion demands a high level of spiritual refinement even to comprehend because within Kemetic culture there are ways to read the identity, destiny and history of an individual through the Earth energies. Priests who provide this service become very sensitive to the energies that they spend their life reading and often can see energies that are unseen to others in their daily lives. Only when they see a potential that is at risk of being untapped will they proceed with “buying” a person.
Among the spiritual tribes of Western Meritah, a person who has been “bought” spiritually is a very fortunate individual. That individual has been saved from an unfulfilled destiny. He/she has been provided the tools and resources that now enable them to achieve their destiny. This process takes place when people old enough to separate from their parents and make decisions for themselves. A person can be bought into their elder years. This makes the process of re-education more challenging because the perspective of the individual has already been built through the foundation of his/her education. The process should be understood first and foremost as a spiritual responsibility taken by the buyer to improve the individual’s quality of life. The individual who has been bought is an adult and at any time can make the decision to leave the tutelage or influence of the buyer, but that option would be seen as self- defeating. Bought individuals are not given a lower class in society. They are often respected depending on the respect of their master in relation to the success of application of the knowledge and re- sources their Master has bestowed upon them.
Another concept that can be associated with slavery is referred to among the Tem tribes of Western Meritah as a kohrey. Kohrey translates into the action of picking a ripe fruit but can be better understood as “adopting”. In this instance a professional of a certain field will ask for the responsibility of raising a child who carries the pre-dispositions or gifts that enable him for success in that field. This differs from “buying” a person because the “picking” is done either while the child is in the womb or while the child is still very young to ensure that his/her educational foundation is laid appropriately by people who have expertise in the field which the child’s destiny has set for him/her.
Also, a kohrey has no less value in society than others. Many Kohrey become leaders in the community, considering the qualities seen by the master who motivated him/her to “pick” them. Their decision is from a place of leadership to ensure that the community will benefit from the successes of that individual achieving his/her destiny rather than allowing the parents to be spiritually ill- equipped in his/her upbringing. Kohreys can become kings, they can become priests and any other respected or revered position in society.
The third type of social position that one can associate with the idea of slavery grows out of the tribal pacts that exist throughout the continent of Meritah. Kemetic society is very complex, with many protocols, rules and customs. These rules or logics are referred to as “the tradition” and were dictated long ago by Ancestors. In some cases, an act of moral quality, intelligence or bravery shown by the forefathers of one ethnic group can benefit another ethnic group and results in a pact between the two, ensuring peace, support, or cooperation between the members of the two different groups. Members of the benefitting group will gratefully take the position of apprentice, receiver or “slave” to the other group out of respect for the deed or benediction of the Ancestor(s) of the acting group. In many cases this designation will give the descendents of the acting group certain privileges with the benefitting group, such as the right to take a wife without question from the benefitting group, or the right to do what one chooses in the territory of the benefitting group without question or objection.
In other cases, when the ambitions of one tribe cause hardship on another tribe which through proof of wisdom or endurance withstands and overcomes, the ambitious tribe is left in shame. Shame in Kemetic society is a very bad position to be placed in. Many ethnic groups live by the motto, “Death before shame/dis-honor.” The pact made between the shamed tribe and the one who has persevered by maintaining truth and respecting justice forces the descendants of the shamed group to carry the mistakes of their parents. In this situation, they can be referred to as the slaves of those who presented an example of overcoming human moral quality. This can also mean that their women can be taken for marriage without question. They can be publicly humiliated and cannot react with anger because of the agreements and vows that their Ancestors made long ago. One can also fill a roll of servitude to the persevering tribal member when they see him/her or visit each other’s territory.
This is not only much different from modern slavery, but it also carries some irony in relation to modern slavery. If we consider that people of color all over the globe have been enslaved for the moral- ly empty ambitions of a few of the species who refer to themselves as white, not because it is their color but in the sole aim to disas- sociate themselves from the rest of their species, anyone moving forward under the modern philosophies or benefitting from the oppression of humanity will inevitably one day be seen carrying the shame of their predecessors who tried so hard to destroy their own species and their own planet by their own greed....
One cannot deny that there is also the notion of a servant within traditional society. These are the people who work as laborers. They can serve others or provide the services in society that others, who contribute specialties, do not have time for. These members of society can be associated with a slave because they work hard. However, this association would be ignoring the complicated social fabric of traditional human culture and forcing the rest of the world to fit the scope of modern values.
Modern man has been infected by materialism and has become drunk with the power he sees leading him to accumulating wealth. For one who only honours material wealth, one who serves others with hard work and doesn’t accumulate much wealth is seen as in- ferior. However, in a society which is more focused on the immate- rial aspect of life and the moral and spiritual qualities that can be achieved by any human being who submits to the rigor and chal- lenge of a spiritual education and the spiritual pursuit, every indi- vidual contribution to the society allowing all the chance to grow in this process is as valued and respected as the next. No servant is beaten, bought or sold. No servant in traditional society is returned to his/her master and punished if he/she “runs away”.
No servant is chained or whipped. No servant is seen as less than a human being because every individual is involved in the same spiritual becoming as his/her observer.
Modern man has only succeeded in fooling himself in his hopeless rantings about his own greatness and evolution. What should be more alarming is that modern man, trapped in a cycle of self-destruction, remains fertile, so more and more children are coming to men and women who do not have the resources to properly educate them and lead them towards their destiny. And, every human being who comes in life must face a spiritual existence that has lasted since the beginning of time -- far before modern education, modern money or modern politics.
As it stands today, we, in the colonial territories, are not equipped for this. Alone, we cannot see past the lies of our forefathers who -- too fixated on protecting their own image -- sold us out (their own children) to a destiny of slavery to a man-made system. They have given us to a destiny of holding a worldview of destruction guaranteed by mis-education. This mis-education has taught us to submit ourselves to a life of slavery while charging those who live according to the discipline that has always defined humanity with being backwards slaves.
In this era, we shun the contribution of our elders; we pursue the material fads of our youth; and we spend our life-force pursuing paper money imprinted with images of mortal men who themselves had poured their own life-force into ambitions that only death forced them to abandon. In such an era, we would be far more fortunate to live as traditional slaves (as defined above). We would be fortunate to receive the help of those who have never left the complex rules and regulations that define our species on this planet.
Would you rather be a “slave” (Kohrey/laborer/in-debted to others who showed the way) living in a true human society or a proud member of a society of slaves? The history of slavery in the modern world clearly shows that it has been evolved over time by our political leaders to ensure that we are always ready to feed our blood to this monster which we have created.
