Amenra Community and Cultural Center
Character Development
The outline of the Character Development portion and why we require this before membership.
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Amenra Community and Cultural Center
Orientation
It is important to understand “Culture”.
We are approaching education from an Afrikan Centered perspective.
We are Culturally Oriented.
People have Ideologies and Theologies that may differ or vary, however, we are interested in knowledge, and ways of removing barriers.
We will speak freely about Afrikans contributions to Civilizations both past and present.
We will speak freely about Afrikans Cosmology and Cosmogony.
We will speak freely about our Afrikan American experience as well as the Afrikan Diaspora experience.
Including the Afrikan Holocausts (The Maafa).
We will speak freely about the origins of Hue-manity.
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Where we discuss the importance of our ability to analyze and how to develop this skill.
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​The picture above demonstrates one of the issues that arrive when we decide to take the easy way out of everything, we consciously or unconsciously apply that habit to learning.
Learning does not have to be unpleasant, it could and should be a happy occasion.
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Some people would rather go with the simply but wrong answer while others go for the complex but right answers...
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Which is the point about the discipline of Science vs. Everything Else...
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We have to Read People !
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Amenra Community and Cultural Center
(General Activities)
Character Development Workshops
Critical Analysis Skills
Where we discuss the importance of our ability to analyze and how to develop this skill.
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To be a mindful, aware critical thinker, you need to be able to separate, evaluate and select ideas, facts, and thoughts.
Think of this concept as you apply critical thinking to your reading, writing and interactions with others.
Be aware of the information you take in and of your thoughts and be selective as you process them.
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Critical thinking gives you the power to make sense of life by deliberately selecting how to respond to the information, people and events that you encounter.
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A guide for daily living.
AMENRA COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER
BUILDING COMMUNITIES ONE MIND AT A TIME
7 AFFIRMATIONS
NGUZO SABA
(Seven Principles)
The vowels are as follows: A=ah as in father; E=a as in day; I=ee as in free; O=oo as in too. The accent is almost always on the next to the last syllable.
A guide for daily living.
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Amenra Community and Cultural Center Affirmations:
I Affirm, I will practice and promote…
1. Umoja, U-mo-ja (Unity)
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.
2. Kujichagulia, Ku-ji-cha-gu-lia (Self Determination)
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, speak for ourselves instead of being defined, named, created for and spoken for by others.
3. Ujima, U-ji-ma (Collective Work and Responsibility)
To build and maintain our community together and make our sister’s and brother’s problems our problems and to solve them together.
4. Ujamma, U-ja-ma (Cooperative Economics)
To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
5. Nia, Nia (Purpose)
To maintain our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.
6. Kuumba, Ku-um-ba (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.
7. Imani, I-mani (Faith)
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our unity.
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Amenra Community and Cultural Center
(General Activities)
Cultural Education Workshops
(42 Negative Confessions To)
Ma-at
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Taken from, “The Egyptian Book of the Dead” Pgs. 347 - 349
Plates 31 and 32
Vignettes: The Hall of Double Right and Truth, wherein Ani has to address severally the forty-two gods, who are seated in a row in the middle of the hall. At each end is a door, that on the right is called “Neb-Maat-heri-tepretui-f”, and that on the left “Neb-pehti-esu-menment”.
On the center of the roof, which is crowned with a series of uraei and feathers emblematic of Maat, is a seated deity with hands extended, the right over the eye of Horus and the left over a pool.
On the right, at the end of the hall are four small vignettes, in which are depicted;
(1) Two seated figures of the goddess Maat, with (Feather), emblematic of Right and Truth on the head and scepters (Was) and emblems of life (Ankh) in the right and left hands.
(2) Osiris, seated wearing the atef crown and holding in his hands the crook and flail. Before him by the side of an alter of offerings, stands Ani, with both hands raised in adoration.
(3) A balance with the heart, symbolizing the conscience of Ani in one scale and (Feather), emblematic of Right and Truth in the other. Beside the balance is the tri-formed monster Amemit.
(4) Thoth, ibis-headed, seated on a pylon-shaped pedestal, painting a large feather
of Maat.
Text: The 42 Negative Confessions
(1) “…I have not done iniquity”.
(2) “…I have not robbed with violence”.
(3) “…I have not stolen”.
(4) “…I have done no murder; I have done no harm”.
(5) “…I have not defrauded offerings”.
(6) “…I have not minished obligations”.
(7) “…I have not plundered the god = (Deity/Nature/Ancestors)”.
(8) “…I have spoken no lies”.
(9) “…I have not snatched away food”.
(10) “…I have not caused pain”.
(11) “…I have not committed fornication”.
(12) “…I have not caused shedding of tears”.
(13) “…I have not dealt deceitfully”.
(14) “…I have not transgressed”.
(15) “…I have not acted guilefully = (Deceitful/Trickery)”.
(16) “…I have not laid waste the ploughed land”.
(17) “…I have not been an eavesdropper”.
(18) “…I have not set my lips in motion [against any man]”.
(19) “…I have not been angry and wrathful except for a just cause”.
(20) “…I have not defiled the wife of any man”.
(21) “…I have not defiled the wife of any man”.
(22) “…I have not polluted myself”.
(23) “…I have not caused terror”.
(24) “…I have not transgressed”.
(25) “…I have not burned with rage”.
(26) “…I have not stopped my ears against the words of Right and Truth”.
(27) “…I have not worked grief”.
(28) “…I have not acted with insolence”.
(29) “…I have not stirred up strife”.
(30) “…I have not judged hastily”.
(31) “…I have not been an eavesdropper”.
(32) “…I have not multiplied words exceedingly”.
(33) “…I have done neither harm nor ill”.
(34) “…I have never cursed the King”.
(35) “…I have never fouled the water”.
(36) “…I have not spoken scornfully”.
(37) “…I have never cursed god = (Deity/Nature/Ancestors)”.
(38) “…I have not stolen”.
(39) “…I have not defrauded the offerings of the gods = (Deity’s/Nature/Ancestors)”.
(40) “…I have not plundered the offerings to the blessed dead”.
(41) “…I have not filched the food of the infant, neither have I sinned against the god of my native town ”.
(42) “…I have not slaughtered with evil intent the cattle of the god = (Deity/Nature/Ancestors)”.
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To organize world events for critical analysis
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Amenra Community and Cultural Center
(Member Activities)
01 – Chronology (Study Group)
02 – Lecture Series (Training/Practice)
Our Mission
To provide the environment for Afrikan educators to educate…
Let’s introduce our people to reality…!
A friend asked me one day, “well where do you believe people came from?”
My answer was, “I don’t have a belief in where people came from, I study, I listen to people who know because they study and after examining the evidence, it is clear where people came from”.
I challenge people who may consider themselves intelligent to examine the meaning of the words…
Such as Belief, and God.
How about we change the word Belief to Theory.
Change the word God to Nature.
Because that’s really what they are. To believe something is so, doesn’t make it so.
Since the facts are everyone came from the womb of a natural woman going back over five million years, there is no room for the recent stories from groups of men claiming otherwise.
Amenra Community and Cultural Center is where, amongst other things, you can get your head on straight.
The Chronology Study Group is where the Lecture Series begin.
The Lecture Series dubbed “BEYOND 6000 years ago” addresses beliefs in the vacuum of knowledge. When the facts are not clear or welcomed, they become the playground for emotions.
Why the Chronology?
For far too long, we have heard stories of things we were told we could not challenge, therefore we did not fully understand. The object here is to challenge any and all notions in order to get to the truth. The facts.
If time periods are not known, subject matter gets misplaced, leading to the wrong conclusion. The Chronology will help set the record straight so we can be on the same page.
Answers behind Chronological History is why Ourstory is so important in the 21st Century. We must know who we are, what we are where we are and when we are.
The things they didn’t teach you in school was done for a reason, a tree cannot grow without roots, so his-story was not for you, it was for him. Find yourself, find your roots.
With the Chronology, you will have a clear view of events over many hundreds of thousands of years in a glance. Ourstory. Truth.
So, putting into context the theory (by now it pretty much is a fact) of how the Earth began.
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Explore with us what the scientists of today have discovered and what the Dogon of Mali have been saying all along.
What is the Memphite Theology and what did your ancestors have to say about a creation story around 6000 years ago?
Explore our solar system. From extremophiles to dinosaurs to Hue-man, our solar system with its eight planets and many moons are only one of billions of solar systems in our galaxy.
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Explore the observable universe, the Milky Way and Andromeda are only two of the billions of Galaxies in the observable Universe. What is a Nebula? What are Super and Hyper Nova’s?
So, let us start with, how old is our Solar System?
Our Solar System is roughly 4.55 billion years old.
Our Star (Sun), the center of the solar system formed within a Nebula, attracted by gravity and other forces to form our Sun by way of nuclear fusion, in that process of ignition eight planets spun off and cooled and along with their many moons created the solar system over time that we see today. The four smaller, rocky planets closest to the sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars while the four larger, gaseous planets farthest from the sun are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. (Pluto, is a large Kuiper belt object not a planet). Our Sun is over one million times the size of Earth and ninety-three million miles away, while our Planet is traveling at sixty-seven thousand miles per hour around it, giving us three hundred sixty-five days in a year. Our Planet does all of that while spinning one thousand miles per hour on its axis giving us a twenty-four hour day and 24 time zones. And what about the Great Year!? How long is that!?
This process can be explained in much greater detail at Amenra Community and Cultural Center.