problems of being (existence) and axiology (knowledge of values).

African-Americans must completely shed their old inherited chattel slavish

cocoon of being in order to fully embrace and value their existences as

American citizens. America must support and build upon ways to deliver the

African-American as a whole being, not a broken one, into mental and physical

freedom as autonomous beings hundreds of years after the nihilistic

psychological and physical damages of chattel slavery.

African-Americans must put on a new being by fully accepting what we have

become, which is nothing less than a fusion of Eastern world ancestry and

Western world existence. America should be proud of the fact that

African-Americans are living beings who are proving through their very

existences that it is possible to fuse Eastern and Western thought into a

viable, useful citizen.

African-Americans are the living, breathing prototypes of human evolutional

change possibilities in contemporary America. Men like G.W. Carver, W.E.B.

Dubois and M.L. King Jr. all helped point the way toward true white American

and African-American reconciliation, and the African-American’s liberating

sense of self, and subsequent real freedom.

African-American epistemology (the study of knowledge) and aesthetics

(expressions of beauty) are firmly rooted in Western thought, a way of

thinking that once enslaved our ancestors and has now set us free, but this

has been a partial freedom thus far which has freed the body much more than

the mind. Many African-Americans still haven’t developed a clear definition of

their being that is consistent with existing as a good citizen, as evidenced

by too many of us being either incarcerated or not living up to our fullest

potentials in America.

Partial confusion still exists because many African Americans have inherited

and still carry confusion as a result of our ancestors being psychologically

and physically unmade as beings, and remade through selective breeding and

harsh punishments by ancestral slaveholders. Most African-American ancestors

were psychologically and physically broken down and then remade in an image

created by their captors who, in fact, forced western thought upon eastern, and western

enslaved Africans.

Some African-Americans still struggle against Western thought, choosing to try

to replace it with other non-Eurocentric systems of logic. Much of the results

of this process over time are African-Americans who do not necessarily

identify with Africa at all, and are cut adrift psychologically when it comes

to a sense of self. They are isolated from America’s mainstream.

Too many African-Americans remain mystified by the whole of Western thought,

which is the root of contemporary American thought. Many cannot decipher the

signs and symbols of a Eurocentric or Afrocentric logical world. There is a

disconnect of thought that creates an uncertainty in the being. Education of

self is the key to a good recovery from the harmful effects of ancestral

chattel slavery. A knowledge of and acceptance of self is a liberating

journey.

Empirical research and study into the origins of African-American being and

knowledge will lead the citizen triumphantly out of the destructive past to

the discovery of a contemporary suitable American being, a more universal

being, who is fully capable of masterfully addressing the American future.