Son

Dear Son:

I often heard you say

You want to be like me

If that’s true,

Then you need to know

What it is to be me

It’s deeper than wanting

To be anywhere near equal

But 1st you need to

Stand up and be counted

And have a strong faith and

Belief in your people  

I live by 7 principles sort of like

Words to live by, Faith and practices

Or maybe a living guide

Let’s begin with Umoja 

In our spoken language

Son that means Unity

Look at it as tight as this family

Where you learn

How our family is

Stronger together just like you and me

Kujichagulia as complicated as it sounds

From any other language or

Any from other nation 

In our native language it means -Self-Determination

Ujima is similar to the first

When I bring back to you and me

In our native language it means -Collective Work and Responsibility

Build and maintain a productive nation of stability build our community

Take all of our brothers and sisters problems and solve them collectively

Even when you hear me say keep your money with a tight fist

Ujamaa in our native lounge means -Cooperative Economics

This is something special for the world to see when we truly support

Black Owned Businesses you just jumped off the springboard to through

Sustained profits and community unity  

Anything positive you’re going to do you need to stay focused

Nia in your native lounge mean to have –Purpose you stand on the

Shoulders of prominence and significance and you have to be mindful

That only by serving others our community can return to

Its conscious state of greatness

Son said he wanted to write poetry like me

Because my writings need to live on and maintain

Sort of like when he discovered my poetry

It was like Prince when

He discovered his dad music in boxes of purple rain,

he asked if this really meant something to me

I told him son that’s the next pinnacle is

Kuumba which means – Creativity

and yes what I do is something that you may inherit

but as a people we must leave our

community better than we found it

lastly I said son

please know that

I will love you until the end of time

And those righteous ones in our community

The last lesson is called Imani which means Faith

In not just our community but the entire human family

Written By

JLRobinson

Aka – JRob The WiseSon

A Deeper Shade of Soul

December 15, 2019

·         Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

·         Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define and name ourselves, as well as to create and speak for ourselves.

·         Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems and to solve them together.

·         Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.

·         Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

·         Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

·         Imani (Faith): To believe with all our hearts in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle