A Wake Up Call to Remember Who We Are

I keep seeing our community defend a version of ourselves that is so far beneath who we actually are. A version the Democratic Party keeps pushing. A version the Democratic Party needs us to believe. A version that shrinks us, limits us, and keeps us mentally stuck at the bottom.

And too many of us have accepted it without questioning a thing.

Let me tell the truth clearly. We did not begin in chains. We did not begin on plantations. We did not begin at the bottom. Our story did not start in pain.

Our story began in Alkebulan, the ancient name for Africa.
A name that means Mother of Humanity.
A name connected to wealth, brilliance, and spiritual depth long before colonizers renamed everything.

We come from builders, rulers, mathematicians, traders, warriors, and scholars.
We come from nations that shaped global trade and influenced entire civilizations.
We come from people who mapped stars while others struggled to understand seasons.

Western Bible

The lands of Cush and Ethiopia, Sheba and Ophir, are mentioned with honor. These were wealthy, respected nations. Not poor. Not weak. Not broken.

Ethiopian Canon

Books like Jubilees and Enoch describe the descendants of Cush and Sheba as builders, leaders, and keepers of wisdom. They were foundational people, not forgotten ones.

So do not let the Democratic Party tell you we began in chains.
Do not let the Democratic Party tell you our history starts in cotton fields.
Do not let the Democratic Party convince you that slavery is the full story of who we are.

And now let me talk to us. Because this part is ours to own.

We also have to be honest about how comfortable we became.
We got comfortable with the handouts.
We got comfortable with the “we will take care of you” promises.
We got comfortable with lowered expectations.
We got comfortable defending survival instead of demanding elevation.

That comfort cost us our identity.
That comfort cost us our confidence.
That comfort cost us our future.

We let the Democratic Party strip us of our greatness because settling felt easier than rising. We let their narrative become our identity and forgot that God already placed royalty in our DNA.

Here is the truth that hurts and heals at the same time.

We are not a defeated people.
We are not a delayed people.

We are a people who forgot what was already inside of us.

We built Black Wall Street.
We built inventions that shaped American industry.
We built communities that thrived even under oppression.
We built this country.
We built legacies.
We built families with strength and dignity.

We forgot because the Democratic Party needed us to forget.
But forgetting is not the same as losing.
And remembering is the beginning of rising.

Western Bible

John chapter 8 says the truth will set us free.
Truth frees the mind before it frees anything else.

Ethiopian Canon

Jubilees chapter 1 verse 25 says God will send His angels before us to keep us in all our ways and bring us into the land of truth and righteousness.
Truth and righteousness are identity.
Truth and righteousness anchor us back to who we were created to be.

Once you see the truth, you cannot unsee it.
Once you remember our greatness, you cannot pretend we were meant for the bottom.
Once you understand the power God put in us, you cannot defend chains that are not even locked.

Because of our greatness
Because of our ancestors who built and fought before us
Because of the royalty that runs through our blood
We have a responsibility to rise.

We owe our children elevation.
We owe our grandchildren legacy.
We owe ourselves a future that honors all we were before the Democratic Party rewrote us.

We were never meant to live small.
We were never meant to survive at the bottom.
We were meant to rise.