The Black Medium — Issue #001 — On Seeding For The Future
The Black Medium — Issue #001 — On Seeding For The Future
Edited by Nelson Moropana
Issue #001 — On Seeding For The Future
I’m writing this publication in response to a question to expand on a topic I recently presented on how we should set up our children for success.
There are also many reasons for this, firstly, to gather ‘Black Mediums’ — by mediums I mean those who are teachers, wise young men, and women who have something to share, especially issues intertwined with modern-day spirituality.
These mediums will be featured from time to time here, bringing their wealth of knowledge and multiple perspectives on issues that affect us.
The second reason is that Black people — South Africans especially, talk of ‘breaking generational curses’ and breaking away from the shackles that hold us back as black people, but there is no single place or a single strategy I have seen in place, written or spoken, that unpacks how we should be going about ‘breaking generational curses’.
In the next series of publications, I am hoping to break down things I know, based on lessons and what I am aware of, none of the things I share are by chance spiritual guidance 😅 but there’s always a thing or two we can learn from each other, right?
Let’s kick off On Seeding For The Future's first edition as part of the ‘breaking generational curse’ strategy.
Seeding
In Blackroots Science, a book by Modimoncho — he opens up with what we call seeders of the earth. Arguments may have their way, but according to the book — seeders of the earth are the true originals. The true borns, originating from Africa, black people. Read that again.
With them on planet earth, they started to ‘seed’ the earth, giving life to animals, plants, and humans. I don’t want to dwell much on them, I think the book breaks it down better than I ever will, my reason for their reference is to recognize the essence of life-givers, creators, and doers.
Black people continued to give life, civilization, and more until all was lost or forcefully taken.
Black people have always had one job, and that’s to bring to life, to create, to give, hence they’ve never raged any war on any nation (unless influenced upon by external forces)— it’s naturally not in Black people — to forcefully loot.
This is important, especially to the concept of the seeders, to remind each other of our mission, solely because most of the strategies and actions you see now are evident that the true mission is lost.
Everyone is chasing life, chasing wealth, and prosperity — which by the way, there’s nothing wrong with.
On the contrary though and interestingly enough, true borns who naturally give’ tend to prosper more. Those who ‘share’ with ‘us’, especially their natural gifts, of creativity, could be in music or sport — tend to prosper more.
Giving. Creating. Healing. Ushering. And More. Are naturally seeding culture characteristics. So, it is then necessary to us, that we seed well, that’s how we expand, and that’s how we stay in tune with nature.
Seeding can be in anything, in literature, in creating businesses, in producing music, in building products, or in contributing work that’s meaningful to you or your community.
The industrial age and its jealous history have changed and undermined our natural abilities, and have since created a ‘dependency syndrome’ call it a ‘job’ mentality which is, at the rate of life we’re living, not even sustainable.
Living paycheck to paycheck not breeding, or creating anything meaningful is in itself a disaster waiting to happen.
Is this not the time to rethink our position then?
It is, and we don’t have to rethink our position in a crazy overhaul way of everything. We can do it in stages, and this is the point of this publication, to detail out plans you can undertake and actually see this through — breaking away from a life of dependency all the way to a life of m, for you, and your family.
The future
So bleak, so uncertain, and unpredictable.
What we do have control over though is, the presence. There is nothing you can do about the future. But doing nothing about the future will impact your future in any way.
So where do we begin?
Breaking generational curses and the shackles that hold us back as black people start with having a true intention for the future, and that is our children even though, they are bleak, uncertain, and unpredictable.
Children are the key to how we should live our presence — as I feel, the way we were raised, had no significant influence on the mission. So we have the choice to right the wrongs, everything we do should be molded around:
- The environment we want our children in
- The type of education they're supposed to be exposed to
- The culture, religion, and everything
If creating, giving, and offering your essence remains highly one of the best ways of earning a living, why are we not fully embracing it? Surely having that initial mindset sets you up nicely for how your life
Our children need to be set up for success, and what other ways and strategies are there for success other than the seeding strategy?
You’re probably asking, how do I go about this?
The branding strategy:
I don’t have a lot of strategies in hand but there’s only one to kick us off, and hopefully, there will be endless by the time we finish the whole publication series.
An example of going about the basic way is starting with branding your children well.
It’s all in the name.
We didn’t have to rebrand ourselves if we were all McDonald’s, Lol. Silly example.
But imagine naming your child well, so that her brand becomes the business she will potentially run in the future. An example of a name could be AZANIA, or AMARI — both quite broad but impactful enough to be used for any business, which obviously you will be landing a kickstart hand as a parent.
We all have names, the perspective changes when you have good intentions for them. AMARI as a business could easily be a fragrance brand that you start with as a parent, and hand over everything (business accounts, assets, brand collateral)— basically everything as says 21st birthday gift — and if you’re generous add in extra capital.
Now your child is well set, and you’ve seeded the future, the tree is now up to her to be watered.
What could go wrong?
This is The Black Medium — Issue #001 — On Seeding For The Future
