ThyBlackMan.com » Search Results » Nadra+Enzi http://thyblackman.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:25:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 You’re Too Good For Jail! http://thyblackman.com/2011/10/04/youre-too-good-for-jail-2/ http://thyblackman.com/2011/10/04/youre-too-good-for-jail-2/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:25:48 +0000 Staff http://thyblackman.com/?p=16766

(ThyBlackMan.com) You’re too good to go to jail! This is my latest message to the Hood. It accompanies the community conclusion that the correctional system is ” the White man’s jail. ”
 
Community policing done my way focuses on culture change within individuals and sub-groups ( families; friendships; neighborhoods, etc. ). A thousand police officers in the Hood means nothing compared to the presence of more self-love in the Hood. Self-love is community policing in its highest  form. Self-loving communities don’t need the National Guard  marching in. But until Black men become more self-loving, government will increasely send heavily armed officers and even troops to stop this destructive behavior from spreading. 
 
When talking to brothers enslaved by convict consciousness I remind them their actions often deliver them to the same ” White man’s jail ” they dislike so much. I take liberty very seriously. Consequently, doing things which deprive me of liberty aren’t high on my To-Do list. The ” crime ” often examined in my Crime Isn’t a Civil Right presentation is lack of self-love in all its forms.  
 
A Black president and US Attorney General don’t trump always engaging in criminal activity. Plunging yourself deeper into the self-destructive cycle of incarceration; parole and probation is not their responsibility. Campaign slogans don’t equal get-out-of-jail free cards, no matter who won the election. At least not for men in our zip codes. That’s why personal responsibility is a life raft we dare not inflate. Every arrest on your record is another excuse to be treated like a 21st century slave. 
 
Self-loving Black men wouldn’t act this way. I know crime is morally wrong, therefore I don’t do it. It would destroy me spiritually but that’s not the only reason.
 
I feel I’m too good for jail. I’m too good for ” the White mans jail. ” If we lived in a parallel universe where America was founded by Africans, my mantra would be, ” I’m too good for the Black mans jail ! ” I’m too good for jail-period! Self-love isn’t just having inflated self esteem. It’s values and behaviors consistently leading you away from outcomes that are beneath you. Jail is beneath what a self-loving person should experience.
 
Obama can’t make more Black men self-loving. Neither can Michael Steele. individual brothers have to decide worshiping jail over liberty is a personal problem. Since it’s a personal problem only the man or boy involved can pull the mental plug on it. In a marketplace of background checks and drug tests constant criminal record inflation and substance abuse is simply self-loathing.
 
You are giving people excuses not to hire you or contract your services. Metaphysically this means signing a daily contract with God agreeing to exclude yourself from consideration anywhere criminal records deny access.
 
I tell brothers  they’re too good for jail and will continue to do so. In the final analysis it ultimately doesn’t matter what I tell them. Obama can say it from the Oval Office. Michael Steele can say it from Republican National Committee headquarters. Minister Farrakhan can say it from the latest Nation of Islam event.
 
The same with TD Jakes and every other Black Male Face In A High Place we can  name.
 
The day more Black men individually decide they’re too good for jail is when all our conversations finally bear fruit. Speaking for myself I KNOW I’m too good for jail and consider recidivism equivalent to being a volunteer slave.
 
Continuously throwing myself into handcuffs, chains and cages; Repeatedly having officers treat me like a corralled animal- I’m too good for that! How can we adequately address racial profiling when so many profile themselves into custody???
 
One last time, I’m too good for jail! I hope and pray you feel you are too! 

Staff Writer; Nadra Enzi
 
For more info on this brother feel free to visit; Captain Black.
 
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(ThyBlackMan.com) What would life in the inner city be if the federal government paid residents ( called hostages from this sentence forward) to defend themselves? It’s a good thought experiment given millions spent with little or no safety to show for it.

Self-government seems to pass us by. By ” us ” I mean fellow would-be urban hostages. This is written from first hand experience. Could would-be hostages, armed and adequately financed, do worse than commuting officers policing the same problems? Sounds wild I’m sure. The nerve of promoting  broke  Negroes being mobilized and funded on their own behalf. If it’s good enough for Iraqis and Afghans it should be good enough for us. Especially when underwritten by our tax dollars!
 
Oh I forgot, the government game plan isn’t actually stopping neighborhood crime. The role offered hostages is playing silent Sambo while law enforcement and lawless enjoyment use our community as their profitable playing field.
 
Returning tax dollars to provide our own hometown security makes for novel civil rights legislation. Minus stationing officers here garrison style,  urban hostages are the only available full time defenders. We live in these high risk areas; we know the bad actors and their supporting casts. Standing up neighborhood watches and citizen patrols with some punch serves notice the reign of terror is over. Most thugs are bullies seeking easy prey. Once little old ladies and the Hood’s shrinking supply of viable men patrol armed and on alert news will quickly spread. The goal isn’t inciting more urban violence. Reducing it from within is the method to this bit of madness. Hostages didn’t get the memo about war being declared where we live. No call; no text; no e-mail, nothing! One day we awakened to a nightmare of mounting drugs and violence. This idea seeks to seriously turn this tide.
 
One major argument to the contrary is:
 
1. Civilians shouldn’t be armed and on the loose, especially Black ones. This official hesitancy hails from the plantation. Fear of slave revolts makes 2nd Amendment use in out zip codes problematic to racist minds. Better we’re hostages than scare other people by lawfully defending ourselves en masse.
 
The fact private security and gun license laws exist shoot holes in that callous talking point. Police alone aren’t adequate to sufficiently control crime. There’s no way handfuls of officers can secure neighborhoods better than mobilized hostages. We out number the police and possibly predators too. Fighting crime is the only logical alternative to being voiceless victims. Every other outside strategy has failed so why not give community self-defense a try? Using our tax dollars to personally protect life and property is a march on Washington worth making.
 
Rich neighborhoods hire armed security to patrol their areas so please don’t trot out tired allegations of vigilantism. Vigilance isn’t illegal, even when done by poor Black folks. Being taxed with nothing in return makes society less safe from the high income to the no income.
 
2. When in doubt, refer to answer number 1.
 
Supporters of prevention will howl these dollars should be used for social programs and outreach. Prevention takes a back seat to basic safety. We can ‘t have a safer inner city absent equipping hostages to reclaim it. Anyone who thinks this suggestion far fetched should read headlines more closely. The fine print almost screams that there are good people who didn’t sign off on such chaos. Inner city taxes help finance security globally. Is it too much to give some of it back in the form of weapons and public safety training?
 
Paying the Hood to defend itself is a good investment no city nor law enforcement agency dares make. Here’s one more concern for a lengthy list of considerations: is it acceptable for tax paying, law abiding Americans to be imprisoned within their homes because of zip code or skin color? That’s why paying the Hood to defend itself makes good sense. It’s cheaper than deploying the National Guard. It’s also the right thing to do.
 
Staff Writer; Nadra Enzi
 
For more info on this brother feel free to visit; Captain Black.

 

Share ]]> http://thyblackman.com/2011/10/02/paying-the-hood-to-defend-itself-2/feed/ 3 Black Community, Policing Begins Personally… http://thyblackman.com/2011/10/02/black-community-policing-begins-personally/ http://thyblackman.com/2011/10/02/black-community-policing-begins-personally/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:28:38 +0000 Staff http://thyblackman.com/?p=16533

(ThyBlackMan.com) Most community policing isn’t done by the police.
 
Sounds like an eye brow raiser so let’s break it down. Good parenting is community policing. Mentoring is community policing. Promoting self-love via activism is community policing. Notice how non-governmental community policers easily outnumber government peers? This is my area of significant contribution. Policing by Black citizens on behalf of inner cities and society is my lifes work. Partnerships ( where possible ) between citizen policers and police are also underway. A show I did on Black Superheroes: Fact and Fiction: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nadraenzi/2010/02/27/black-superheroes-fact-and-fiction shared community policing as personified by the lively persons of its guests.
 
An online comic book publisher; a former Guardian Angel; an educator and  counselor; an online show hostess and the owner of a single mother non-profit joined me in discussing  what was essentially community policing.  Under the umbrella of Black superheroes we shared personal attempts at policing via professional interaction; volunteer street walking; comic book creation and service delivery as a social entrepreneur. Our methods  revolved around what Black folks can do to change our situation, i.e the essence of the community policing paradigm.
 
There was no one ideology promoted. Rolling up your sleeves and going on the front lines was the only requirement. A passive community invites increasingly militarized police presence as safety spirals ever downward. These active citizens police in ways that complement and transcend law enforcement’s traditional reach. Their access isn’t confined to marked units working a beat. Their tours aren’t limited to assigned shifts. Like private security, on site presence is their tactical advantage. They can simply stay somewhere longer than government counterparts.
 
While officers are elsewhere providing conventional policing services these citizen policers can focus greater attention to vital issues. Firsthand experience informs my support of community policing. I’ve helped senior citizens; arranged the ” Great Vacation ” of incarceration for neighborhood hoods and assisted youth by sharing more time than most officers can afford. Community policing expands the franchise beyond exporting punishment to providing prevention. Activist approaches expand the public safety continuum by recognizing that citizens police as actively as law enforcement. 
 
” Big Norm ” was one of the show’s callers. Numerous citizens arrests and patrolling bad communities fill his resume. Patrolling citizens add more protectors to society’s arsenal. Fellow host ” Star ” energetically assessed social programs impact on family cohesion. Another caller outlined privately combating ” internalized repression ” within Black youth. Collectively they offered a steady stream of community policing strategies. Policing is broader than badges and guns. Community policing is just that:  community members providing services instead of being uninvolved consumers of police services.
 
This is the ” crime ” primarily addressed by my Crime Isn’t A Civil Right! presentation. Inaction often means self-love has waned. Active self-love is expressed in various citizen policer roles: parent; mentor; activist; professional, etc. Policing the community is best done by you and me, alone and alongside police when necessary. Dysfunctional history with law enforcement shouldn’t handcuff citizen ability to police where we can. My Black Superhero episode guests elegantly demonstrated this simple fact for a glorious hour.
 
Community policing begins personally.

Staff Writer; Nadra Enzi

For more info on this brother feel free to visit; Captain Black.

 

Share ]]> http://thyblackman.com/2011/10/02/black-community-policing-begins-personally/feed/ 0 Nadra Enzi; Big Dark Black Men… http://thyblackman.com/2011/07/03/nadra-enzi-big-dark-black-men%e2%80%a6/ http://thyblackman.com/2011/07/03/nadra-enzi-big-dark-black-men%e2%80%a6/#comments Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:52:00 +0000 Staff http://thyblackman.com/?p=9634

(ThyBlackMan.com) Big dark Black men like me shouldn’t be able to read at a college level in elementary school. in some minds being writers since childhood is simply beyond the biological reach of such types. That I am both and more is dismissed as a fluke, sorta like five leaf clovers. Big dark Black men are usually assumed automatic athletes ( as was my father, who hurtled alleged DNA barriers in order to be a 15 year old high school graduate ). Little minds next assign criminal or manual laborer as other  prime directives. Ones to the contrary who’re lighter skinned are presumed  intelligent by virtue of ample White ancestry. My combination of size and hue caused discomfort to convenient presumptions of limited Black intellect. It’s fun to see fear on faces of racists who are less capable than you.
 
As a Southerner this was one of my favorite spectator sports. Changing times have made this game less frequent.
 
Black men are often considered less intelligent than our peers. Credentialed Black men’s CVs are often dismissed as fruit from Affirmative Action’s  poisonous tree as defined by the pathologically prejudiced. The fact that America’s first ” Black ” president has a White mother speaks volumes about the boundaries of cross over appeal for Black male intellectuals. No disrespect to her memory nor the president but the question must be asked.

The same holds true for large dark skinned brothers. We’re the villain in America’s racial plot, fodder for every low brow assumption imaginable. Again, America’s first ” Black ” president is not a dark hued person. Not hating, just a statement of fact. A cursory review of EBONY magazines 100+ Most Influential Black Americans also reveals a dearth of dark achievers. This ugly baggage still weighs heavily upon how our potential is recieved by the marketplace.
 
While unpopular among liberals of all shades, America’s most powerful big dark brother, US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas proved one can break the Color Curtain’s preference for light African-Americans. While uncomfortable  size/skin tone prejudice needs frank discussion. While every category of Black person experiences racism, those in this volatile class risk uniquely negative treatment. Everything from increased police brutality to higher workplace discrimination can be laid at the hooves of this particular prejudice. Big dark Black men are the boogie man used to whip itself into a frenzy. We embody old and new fears of racial retaliation and intermarriage. Our presence still causes cold sweats across the railroad tracks.
 
Big dark Black men are targets. Developing strength of limb at the expenses of evolving strong minds brightly lights the proverbial bullseye some consider our tone and size. Being disproportionately targeted by law enforcement seeing this  combo as red flags for criminality means big dark boys and men should arm themselves with legal knowledge. Workplace targeting argues in favor of knowing personnel policy and applicable  employment law. Interracial relationship targeting suggests rapid egress when your female partner even suggests publicly alleging sexual impropriety. Given historic, even life-or-death targeting of big dark boys and men the old saying ” Better safe than sorry ” assumes new urgency. 

While I love our color diversity, I’m glad God made me a big dark Black man. It repudiates every myth we’re wild animals on the loose. The dilemma of big dark Black men ultimately becomes Black America’s critical dilemma. In this scenario we can either be targets or titans.
 
Period.

Staff Writer; Nadra Enzi

Learn more about this brother over at; Captain Black.

Share ]]> http://thyblackman.com/2011/07/03/nadra-enzi-big-dark-black-men%e2%80%a6/feed/ 0 The State of Black Love? http://thyblackman.com/2011/04/14/the-state-of-black-love/ http://thyblackman.com/2011/04/14/the-state-of-black-love/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:01:37 +0000 Staff http://thyblackman.com/?p=5036

(ThyBlackMan.com) I don’t have great confidence in the state of Black Love. By ” state of Black Love ” I don’t mean an annual report ala the National Urban League nor a yearly event along the lines of the State of The Black Union. The state of Black Love I have in mind is the landscape of fatherless homes and general coarseness in male/female relationships. While  stable homes exist they aren’t the norm. Happy relationships are out there but are overshadowed by doubt and disgust. My generation  followed our parents march away from the altar as an inevitable life destination. Those after us have taken this march even further with amazing results.
 
At 44 I’ve never been married nor have children. Marriage has been an abstraction for most of my life. Extremely picky deceased parents aside, jumping the broom has been a bridge too far for me. I write this as someone whose adventures include bounty  hunting; in-your-face activism with the local Who’s Who and other risky endeavors. Marriage is the one risk I’ve thus far haven’t taken. Multiply this by millions and you have the state of Black Love written by each person, each in his own way.
 
I don’t think leaping backward to the world of Good Times; the Jeffersons or the Cosby Show solves this problem. Granted, such a back step would address some of this problem but I fear we’re radically different than our predecessors. I fear our belief in the Judeo-Christian ( Islamic ) ethic of Man-Woman-Child or Children has morphed into something quite distant from such bonds. Multiple partners with little or no permanence is the entrenched status quo. Black Love is still on the scene but it may not be as loving as past generations define it. I see it’s role in our crime rate; education challenges and human development crisis. If we can’t embrace each other then into this gulf steps misdirected anger; coldness and loss of nurturing environments. Black Love sets the standard for the state of Black America as a whole.
 
I am part of the skeptics who’ve removed themselves from the dating scene per se. Every blue moon I succumb to God-given needs and go on an occasional date. Like many in my peer group a serious girlfriend or even wife seems like the longest of long shots. Black men like us have opted not to jump in with both feet and consequently have sat out staples like parenthood or watching children become parents themselves. In a nation within a nation where most women are single and most kids don’t know their fathers, what are relationship skeptics to do?
 
We have to decide whether it’s worth it to leap into the fray and take the ultimate risk of finding significant others and wives. This is how God designed us but the playing field for this design is unlike anything Black men have ever encountered.
 
I’ll continue monitoring the state of Black Love and weighing options for myself and brothers like me who’ve sat on the sidelines in what is the definitive scenario about who our community really is and what it’ll ultimately become.
 
That said, I do know my skepticism may not be the best contribution to the state of Black Love but it’s all I’ve given thus far. 

Written By Nadra Enzi

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http://www.captblack.info
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nadraenzi

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Share ]]> http://thyblackman.com/our-writers/feed/ 0 Drake: Non Thug Hip Hop.?.. http://thyblackman.com/2010/11/01/drake-non-thug-hip-hop-%e2%80%8f/ http://thyblackman.com/2010/11/01/drake-non-thug-hip-hop-%e2%80%8f/#comments Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:20:27 +0000 Staff http://thyblackman.com/?p=1829

(ThyBlackMan.com) Drake is the front runner for my unofficial “ Rapper Least Likely To be Arrested ” award as a Hood conservative listener.
 
While sometimes listening to ( paradoxically ) Rick Ross and others waxing poetic about poison sold to their own people, Drake stands out and apart from this genocidal lyric crowd.
 
It not that he’s clean cut or speaks Standard English without considerable effort. TI, another personal favorite since ” Rubberband Man “, is also clean  cut but addicted to incarceration- like too many Hip Hop artists. Some young fans misuse risque content as blueprints for life instead of edgy entertainment.
 
Drake offers hope to older listenership and community stakeholders who want much more for today’s artists than incarceration; parole/probation and sudden death. I won’t call the roll of dead rappers but fans know the attrition rate is too high, just like on inner city streets.
 
LL Cool J; Will Smith ( formerly The Fresh Prince )** and conscious rappers from my era like Rakim; Public Enemy; Lakim Shabazz, etc. show you could avoid popularizing genocide and still make money.
 
I don’t want boring Hip Hop. It must be the eternal voice of the Hood, speaking whatever ” negro ” dialect is vogue at that time. I also don’t want it becoming boring and producing rap versions of Wayne Newton or Lawrence Welk ( lol ).
 
As some who’s Old School I want these artists to enjoy their fame- without self-destructing! Hip Hop isn’t just spitting death lyrics. Hip Hop is also about life… and even something rarely seen in the Hood- hope.
 
If being locked inside the ” belly of the beast ” ( translation: jail or prison ) is bad while poor, does being rich improve the experience? Sitting behind bars has long become the thing to do for wealthy urbanites.
 
Drake hopefully is the first of many non thug rappers to come.

Written By Nadra Enzi

Official website; http://www.captblack.info

Share ]]> http://thyblackman.com/2010/11/01/drake-non-thug-hip-hop-%e2%80%8f/feed/ 1 Myth of The Super Thug.?.. http://thyblackman.com/2010/10/18/myth-of-the-super-thug-%e2%80%8f/ http://thyblackman.com/2010/10/18/myth-of-the-super-thug-%e2%80%8f/#comments Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:39:54 +0000 Staff http://thyblackman.com/?p=1766

(ThyBlackMan.com) After arriving in New Orleans nearly a year ago, the lawyer friend who encouraged it repeatedly warned against mispronouncing local street names for fear a super thug would swoop down on me! (lol).
 
We’ve built inner city “street pirates” ( thanks CF for the term ) into this mythological threat toward whom we must kow tow.
 
I’ve observed NOLA’s Hood(s) at close range and lived first in the 8th Ward, referred to as the ” worst part of town” by some.
 
Random shootings are rare here, with the epic exception of the accidental murder of two year old Jeremy Galmon due to bad aim at an outdoor event.
 
Personal disputes assume nightmarish proportions as macabre kidnappings and even witness assassination occur with KGB-style precision in local  neighborhoods far removed from the old Eastern Bloc.
 
The Super Thug myth warns residents against attending (with good reason) second line street parades or frequent outdoor parties if they’re in the inner city. Headlines and local legend caution imperious violence can explode without warning when tempers in these locales flare.
 
I’m an old school product of the Southern Hood, a street scholar and peacekeeper who crew of local advisors have vetod continuing my practice of breaking up street fights and police ridealongs. These actvities began in my hometown of Savannah, GA long before coming here.
 
Their fear of super thugs and police corruption is tangible.
 
However, they have okayed the food giveaways which are a non-confrontational staple of my Capt Black outreach role. But, a proposed downtown bottled water giveaway was red flagged because “people might think you have money and rob you.”
 
What a bitter irony that my advisors aren’t paranoid White people from whom such inner city paranoia is expected. They’re Black and convinced of the immediacy of super thug attack at any moment.
 
I promote what I call “Hood conservatism” in a 20 year response to conditions creatings such hesitancy. Traditional values are marketed alongside crime prevention and self-development as methods for not succumbing to what is killing the Hood from within nationwide.
 
My corny, unashamedly idealistic belief is super love for ourselves is more powerful than than the myth of the super thug, here in New Orleans and elsewhere.
 
That said, I will break up fights here; pass out water and do anything possible to contribute to a better quality of life for the local inner city. Doing less means there won’t be much left for my Hood conservatism to conserve.
 
“Hero or hostage in society-choose!” is one of my Capt Black slogans that nicely sums up where I stand.

Written By Nadra Enzi

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http://www.captblack.info
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nadraenzi

Share ]]> http://thyblackman.com/2010/10/18/myth-of-the-super-thug-%e2%80%8f/feed/ 0 Black Crime Good For America?? http://thyblackman.com/2010/10/12/black-crime-good-for-america%e2%80%8f/ http://thyblackman.com/2010/10/12/black-crime-good-for-america%e2%80%8f/#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:57:27 +0000 Staff http://thyblackman.com/?p=1612

(ThyBlackMan.com) Imagine how bad it would be for business as usual if Black folks fought crime via prevention and intervention with evangelical zeal?
 
Such an outbreak of hood conservatism would have unintended consequences.
 
Police chiefs would have to submit lower budgets; Sheriffs would complain about less inmate dollars coming in; the downturn would hit the criminal justice complex like a sledgehammer.
 
Let’s face it, Black crime makes White folks ( and alot of us! ) scared! It doesn’t mean we’re America’s only criminals but does recognize how closely  crime and Black have been associated in the public imagination. That said, crime also makes White folks rich. Profit motive may explain why urban anti crime programs like Weed and Seed never make any headway.
 
Either that or the problem is bigger than bureaucrats can admit.
 
Black crime is a windfall for politicians, agencies and criminal justice vendors offering everything from privatized food services to probation and even for-profit prisons.
 
A Black community that goes ” Batman ” or ” Malcolm X ” against crime is simply bad for business!
 
Remember, less Black crime means less jobs for law enforcement; prosecutors; the judiciary and conversely, fewer defense attorneys, social workers and others would be needed to assist the accused.
 
Black crime, it seems, is good for the economy, even one gasping from lengthy Recession. The fact it makes the inner city nightmarish doesn’t even rise to collateral damage in most mainstream minds.
 
This paradox is a manifestation of America’s Original Sin: Black people as commodities.
 
Self-loving Black people must find their ” super ” and become bad for business as usual by reducing crime among us. **NOTE: “Finding your  ‘super ‘ ” is my phrase for creatively asserting yourself regardless of internal or outside opposition.
 
Until Black crime is reduced mind-by-mind and house by house others continue laughing all the way to the bank while all we get are more tears.
 
” They ” don’t want Black super people and the tragedy is ” they ” include politicians and spokespersons who look like would-be hostages and heroes in the inner city!
 
We have no choice but to find our “super” like Harriet Tubman did and steal away from an urban death culture making it so profitable to harm each other.
 
Black crime may be good for America’s profit margin but the costs us lives and quality of life.

Written By Nadra Enzi

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http://www.captblack.info
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Share ]]> http://thyblackman.com/2010/10/12/black-crime-good-for-america%e2%80%8f/feed/ 3 SUPER RIGHTS.?.. http://thyblackman.com/2010/07/21/super-rights-%e2%80%8f/ http://thyblackman.com/2010/07/21/super-rights-%e2%80%8f/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:33:16 +0000 Staff http://thyblackman.com/?p=924

(ThyBlackMan.com) As a newly minted super rights activist ( among endless other things ) I think we have a God ( or Intelligent Design ) given right to become MORE than what resumes or low expectations dictate.
 
Constitutional scholars and mystics may argue whether there is an inherent right to be ” super ” but that’s what I’m strongly suggesting.
 
Super rights are promoted from sources as divergent as ecstatic religion and sober secularism.
 
From holy books; philosophy, psychology and every field there’s a clarion call to be super stated in various ways.
 
American comic book and pulp novel fiction recently joined these sources inspiring us to be more.  They even popularized the term ” super ” and  mainstreamed the concept in sensationalized fashion.
 
Anyone accomplishing something to an accompaniment of nay sayers performs a super rights act.
 
Super rights are the hidden subtext underwriting every great social movement against limitation and prejudice.
 
Overcoming all the negative ” isms ” ( Racism; sexism; homophobia; Islamo-phobia, xenophobia, etc. ) is classic super rights activism in action.
 
Names like Ghandi; King; Malcolm X; Paul Robeson; Howard Thurman; Theodore Roosevelt; Frederick Neitzsche; Abraham Maslow; Deepak Chopra, Adeeb Shabazz and numerous others are diverse proponents of what I call super rights.  

Without some inner drive to exceed where else does great achievement spring?
 
Human beings may be beaten down or conned into performing beneath their potential but the drive toward super rights is an unbreakable part of us.
 
More importantly everyone defines what his/her expressed super right will be.
 
For some it’s joining what the media calls the real life superhero ( RLSH ) Movement. Others choose a desired profession. Some opt to attempt a long dreamed feat. 
 
Super rights have as many applications as there are minds to envision them.
 
Celebrities clearly made this choice as have exceptional folks not in the public eye.
 
My question to you is simple: have you decided to exercise your super rights today?
 
The right to be super is one well worth life long study and effort. So much internal insecurity and suffering can be alleviated once people use this very unconventional human right.
 
Super rights activism is at the heart of any movement for freedom and justice.
 
What are we waiting for?!!!!!!!!

Written By Nadra Enzi

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