UBUNTUPSYCHOLOGY: EXPLORATION OF THE SOUL...

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Quote POSTED BY Frederica-Azania Clare: KEVIN WASHINGTON, Ph.D. on "ZULU TRADITIONAL HEALING" and "AFRIKAN" UBUNTU PSYCHOLOGY

"Within the Afrikan context, humanity is focused on one’s being in the world. A person is determined good (sane) or not good (insane) on the basis of one’s behaviors. If one’s behaviors is deemed to be communally beneficial then that person has good character or what the Yoruba of West Afrika call iwa pele. This idea is a manifestation of Ubuntu. For the Afrikan no discussion about the color of one’s skin was relevant to the idea of character, or this would only explain the esoteric aspect of being. The exoteric is that which is of great significance to the Afrikan minded thinker. How does one be in the world? What do they do that adds beauty to life? How do they enhance the existence of the community? These are the questions of relevancy that are posed towards a person with respect to the Afrikan Worldview." - Written by Dr. Kevin Washington. Quote POSTED BY Frederica-Azania Clare: Quoted from, WRITTEN BY, Kevin Washington, Ph.D.  "ZULU TRADITIONAL HEALING", "AFRIKAN PSYCHOLOGY" & UBUNTU PSYCHOLOGY.
Dr.  Kevin Washington and Ubuntu Psychology: "As a Fulbright-Hays scholar Kevin researched the impact of socializing institutions on the healing or restructuring of post-apartheid South Africa. Additionally, he researched traditional healing systems in South Africa and Ghana, West Africa. Kevin is developing therapy (healing) paradigms for working with ethnically and culturally diverse populations with an emphasis on African American families, relationships, and men. The major thrust of the paradigms is to ensure that methods of healing are consistent with the essence and desires of diverse populations. His African Centered therapeutic model (Ubuntu Psychology) has been implemented in the Prosocial Family Therapy Project that provided in-home family therapy. It is being utilized with his consultant relationships and with his psychotherapy clients."-University of Central Florida

Pax,
Azania

From Dr. Sam Anderson www.blackeducator.org at Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence:

NOTE: The minute you see "race" discussed as both a biological and geographical phenomena, you should stop reading. BUT, as African American sociocultural analyst, Neely Fuller, says (I'm paraphrasing): "If you don't understand the centrality of race... all other things will confuse you." The idea of "race"- at its very inception -has been a creation of racists/"white" supremacists to justify their dominance, exploitation and elimination of a people. Of course, it would vary over time and between the racists competing to bumrush the world.

Hello All,

A professor I know is co-editing a special issue of the Journal of
Negro Education and asked me to circulate the opportunity below.
Interested authors must submit an abstract no longer than 500 words by
e-mail to journalnegroed@gmail.com by February 4, 2011. Please direct
any inquiries to Dr. Chance Lewis, chance.lewis@tamu.edu or Dr.
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz at sealeyruiz@tc.edu.

Peace and blessings,
Joe
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Call for Papers

Teacher Education and the Black Community: Preparing Teachers to Teach
Black Students, Preparing Black Students to Become Teachers

The Journal of Negro Education (JNE) issues a Call for Papers for a
special issue to be published in summer 2011 to advance scholarship
focused on the current and potential role that teacher education plays
in advancing the Black community. Chance W. Lewis, Ph.D., Associate
Professor and Endowed Chair in Urban Education, Texas A&M University,
and Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Assistant Professor of English Education,
Teachers College, Columbia University will serve as guest co-editors.

This special issue will feature research articles that assess models
and pedagogy to effectively train teachers of all backgrounds to serve
diverse classrooms. In addition, this issue seeks articles that
explore strategies to increase the number and capacity of African
American teachers; particularly Black male teachers, who currently
represent less than 2% of America’s teaching force.

Manuscripts acceptable for this volume will address one or more of the
following:

· How can contemporary teacher education programs prepare
teachers of all races, genders, and socioeconomic backgrounds to
educate diverse classrooms?
· How can teacher education contribute to eliminating the
achievement and discipline gaps that exist between Black students and
students of other races?
· What is the efficacy of modern approaches to helping teacher
trainees understand diverse classrooms, such as the use of multimedia,
documentary film, service learning, and volunteering?
· What are effective strategies to diversify America’s
teaching force?
· What are the key considerations to teacher across gender in
the Black community? (i.e., female teachers teaching Black male
students, and male teachers teaching Black female students)
· What is the influence of federal- and state-level
educational policies on building teacher education programs to
accommodate Black students?
· What is the unique role of historically Black colleges and
universities in preparing and recruiting Black teachers?
· How do we combat institutional racism and culturally biased
assessments when training teachers to serve diverse classrooms and
increasing the number and capacity of African American teachers?

Final manuscripts will undergo a blind peer review. This special issue
will be distributed to a wide range of educators and advocates,
including teacher education programs, teachers, school administrators,
policymakers, activists and families. Therefore, invited authors are
encouraged to use graphs and charts, summaries in layperson language,
and numbered practical recommendations and policy implications.

For initial consideration, please submit an abstract no longer than
500 words by e-mail to journalnegroed@gmail.com by February 4, 2011.
All inquiries regarding submissions should be directed to one of the
guest co-editors, Dr. Chance Lewis, chance.lewis@tamu.edu or Dr.
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz at sealeyruiz@tc.edu. Invited authors will need
to submit completed manuscripts by April 15, 2011.

For more than 76 years, The Journal of Negro Education has been the
leading purveyor of a wealth of scholarly research concerning Black
academia. The quarterly journal is operated under the auspices of the
Howard University (HU) School of Education (SOE). With world-wide
readership and subscribers, JNE has published distinguished scholars
that include Horace Mann Bond, Ralph J. Bunche, W. E. B. Du Bois, and
Kenneth B. Clark. The current Editor-in-Chief is Dr. Ivory A. Toldson
itoldson@howard.edu.

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Why Blacks Must Violate the Slave Code
By Alton H. Maddox, Jr.

My cousin, Darnell Brewster, made his transition on my father's birthday, January 17. There was a memorial service in Harlem on January 21 and a memorial service in Dayton, OH on January 24. Because of a snowstorm, no flights were available from Ohio to New York City on January 26.

I had two options: stay in a hotel in Cincinnati or fly to Atlanta. My sole consideration was a temporary workstation. This favored Atlanta. UAM practices the philosophy of Hon. Marcus Garvey which has been outlawed in the United States as beyond a morontocracy. Mr. Garvey was imprisoned and later given the boot. Thus, UAM's work is hard and dangerous.

His deportation from the United States to Jamaica was not personal. It was a signal to all Blacks to embrace a fake philosophy or else. Dr. W.E.B. DuBois became its chief adherent in the Negro community. He spied on Blacks and paved the way for a successful federal prosecution against Mr. Garvey.

Black people must learn to allow their history to work for them. Malcolm X said: "Of all the disciplines, history is best qualified to reward our research". History explains our plight in the United States and it is a condition precedent to critical thinking. The key is to connect the historical dots.

On August 17, 1988, a group of Blacks decided to form United African Movement and model it after Mr. Garvey's UNIA. This was a death warrant. History supports this conclusion. In October 1990, UAM decided to practice what it had preached. By this time, I had been disbarred while I had successfully represented Rev. Al Sharpton in a 67-count indictment.

The meeting in October 1990 was the final nail in UAM's coffins. By January 12, 1991, all high-profile activists had fled UAM. This was to be expected. No Blacks are going to violate the slave code. In contrast, whites are only exposed to the penal code and may be subject to prosecutorial discretion.

I have had to be responsible for UAM lock, stock and barrel. At best, I have had to co-sign every UAM activity. In many instances, I have had to pick up the tab. The latest big-ticket item is the Freedom Party. Censorship has been imposed on me for practicing the same philosophy as the "founding fathers". Two organizations were established sequentially in 1865 and 1909 to enforce fear and to embrace a fake philosophy.

Because no support system exists at UAM, I formed a UAM Transition Committee in July 2007 to bring about new leadership by August 17, 2008. My pro bono work and my sacrifices for the Hon. Marcus Garvey had taken its toll on my health. No one supported Mr. Garvey as UAM's spiritual mentor in good-faith. Mr. Garvey had big shoes.

This transition committee, consisting of Bro. John Anthony, Sis. Geneva Butts, Sis. Ollie McClean, Sis. Judy McNeil and Bro. John Smith had failed to act by January 2010. In the meantime, I had to be hospitalized en route to homegoing services for Dr. Asa Hilliard in August 2007.

I received no correspondence from anyone in UAM in Atlanta. The doctor had suggested that I take an extended rest but Mark and S.L. Green as the landlords of 16 Court Street in Brooklyn had a different view. Rent exceeded Three Thousand Dollars monthly.

This was a responsibility reserved exclusively for me as well as all office expenses. UAM has never had a war chest nor a reserve fund. A big bill was waiting for me in September 2007 coupled with medical expenses. The monthly expenses have continued for UAM at my expense.

No one has suggested that UAM should have a war chest nor a reserve fund. After Gov. Andrew Cuomo took the oath, he immediately solicited funds from the public to combat public sector unions; yet, I am supposed to fight white supremacy on all fronts by performing miracles. It shows that Blacks are not at war with anyone except Blacks who dare to oppose white supremacy.

Until the Greens were able to secure a judgement in a holdover proceeding, all rents were paid. They had refused to renew the lease because of my continued defense of Blacks. The Greens had only become the landlord in 2007. They were allies of Robert Abrams who is an enemy of the philosophies and opinions of Mr. Garvey. There was a zero rent balance in January 2010.

In June 2010, Rev. Al Sharpton dispatched Councilman Charles Barron to continue the war against Mr. Garvey. Councilman Barron's first act was to retain a white lawyer for the Freedom Party. His next step was to remove the black panther as the symbol of the Freedom Party. State law requires a symbol. The third step was to remove red, black and green as the colors of the Freedom Party and to replace them with black and white (racial integration).

I had hoped that UAM would have found new leadership and a working office space by now. Alternatively, I had hoped that this committee would have supplanted me temporarily with themselves. It seems logical that five heads are better than one. To be sure, five pockets are better than a person with no pockets and who has had no income for more than two decades.

For some time, I have been trying to get, at my expense, a quorum for a business meeting. Since this UAM meeting has to be conducted outside the presence of whites, it would be unlawful. Blacks constitute the only group that subscribes to the unnatural practice of white supremacists being paired with Blacks in order for Blacks to conduct it affairs.

A business meeting is necessary to determine the future of UAM. The critical question is to ascertain if Blacks collectively, are able and willing to sustain, in 2011, the philosophies and opinions of Mr. Garvey in a country that demands of Blacks to pursue racial integration rather than self-determination. On February 2, 2011 a vote on the date of the business meeting will be taken.

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1523877&show=abstract

Ubuntu: An African word (and proverb) meaning "I am human because you are human." Ubuntu psychology says, "Sharing ourselves and our gifts with others optimizes our collective and individual humanity. Even in the sharing and the giving, the individual or "other" group receives the gifts and the glories of humanity."