YahYahKnow

Sesa Woruban: Greetings YahYahKnow.
Sesa Woruban: Question #1: In your opinion, what is revolution?
YahYahKnow: When considering the specific situation of the people all over this planet that are classified as black, the concept of revolution is both simple and complicated at the same time. It is simple in that it is a call for change at the basic level of our situation. There has not been change at the basic level of our situation now for roughly 3,000 years. We are a people who, by our very nature, tend to see the whole first, then the parts to it. We tend to see the sum total first, then the fragments which it consists of. We are an all inclusive people. However, there is not a time that we can point to where we ever extended this understanding to each other [Black people] on a planetary scale. At the peril of our lives, we have sought to include and be at one with those who have only plagued us with suffering and death. We display an infinite amount of patience with our worst enemies and short fuses with those closest to us in our struggles against the same enemy.

YahYahKnow: The change that I speak of which needs to occur at the basic level of our situation is not a new concept. We've practiced it from our beginnings, before there was any other human being on the planet but the African. It is a basic instinct. We are, from the time of conception inside the womb to birth and beyond, dependent on each other. These are the beginnings. Without thought, we knew that in order to survive, we had to care for and protect each other from any manner of harm. Somehow, along the way, we lost that. This concept which was here from the beginning is still here today. It is cyclical and ever occurring around us all the time. It started and starts with the family unit. Protection is paramount in order for any other aspect of our being to flourish. Protection means that we all had to care for each other. The man cared for and was willing to lay his life on the line in order to protect his family. The woman cared for and was willing to lay her life on the line in order to protect her family. The brother felt the same for his other brothers or sisters. The sister felt the same for her brothers or sisters. Everyone looked out for each other. Nothing else matters or could ever come to the point of mattering without this first and foremost. We now have over 3,000 years worth of complications layered on top of this fundamental flaw. It is both simple and complicated.

YahYahKnow: We still have this basic instinct, but because of the complications, we now actively and automatically attempt to suppress it at every juncture where our souls begin to even slightly shake because it yet and still recognizes the outer stimuli that beckons the father in us, the mother in us, the brother in us, the sister in us etc,. This basic instinct that we suppress is the foundation of what will always and can only equate to the idea known, though painfully to some, as African Centeredness. Call it what you will. It's about recognizing who your brothers and sisters are in the world. It's about recognizing who your mothers and fathers are in the world. It's about recognizing who your sons and daughters are in the world. It is based on law. The law we first practiced before even thinking of it. Some may call it a feeling. This law also demands that you recognize everyone and/or everything that may pose a threat to the well being of your family. This is the revolution that needs to take place. I am confident that from that simple basis, we can solve the remaining complicated aspects of our situation all over the globe.


Sesa Woruban: Question #2: In your view, what is the youth's role in a movement or revolution?
YahYahKnow: The role of the youth in any movement, revolution and indeed in life itself, is to think and ask questions. It was pointed out in National Security Study Memorandum #200 that the youth are one of the primary concerns of our enemies. The youth simultaneously serve as one of our greatest strengths and one of our greatest weaknesses. I always welcome new ideas because I'm not disillusioned into thinking that I have it all right. In my view, we can always get better. I see infinite space to improve upon. We get better by challenging ourselves. Well, this concept plays itself out through our children because all the greatest obstacles that children all over the world face are manmade. This means that adults are their greatest challenge. By their nature they ask us questions to challenge our conventional ways of thinking. As we get older, we tend to get use to things being a certain way. We become relaxed. We may even become desensitized to certain things. Children come along and point our attentions to things we may have long since stopped considering in our minds. They haven't fully developed yet so this makes their questions that much more important because they speak to that basic fundamental side of all of us. I consider myself a part of that youth, even though my membership time may be running out. I have questions about the way the world is run. I have questions about the way that my people are behaving and thinking on a basic level.

YahYahKnow: Our enemies seek to try to influence the youth, such as myself, as much as they possibly can to ensure that the young among us follow in line with the adults and continue to think and act in the best interest of a people outside of their own. Without the guidance of the adults worldwide that we are among, acting in the best interest of the family and protecting the youth from outside influences, the enemies will continue to succeed in turning our greatest strength into our greatest weakness. The youth is here to make us better. This is their natural function. That has been and continues to be perverted. A way to correct it is to change the basic level of our situation. Follow the natural law in you as opposed to suppressing it.


Sesa Woruban: Question #3: In your view, what are the elder’s responsibilities to the youth?
YahYahKnow: The elder’s responsibility to the youth is to protect them from all manners of harm. This is done in all aspects of life. Physical protection, emotional protection, spiritual protection and mental protection and anywhere that I have forgotten to mention. That is first, foremost and ever occurring. Once, they are secure, the further role of the elders is to teach the youth what they know about life to enhance their chances of success in all areas of life while they are on the planet. When done in this order, life has no choice but to flourish.


Sesa Woruban: Question #4: Does there exist a "willie lynch" like rift between the youth and the elders?
YahYahKnow: There naturally exists a huge impediment between the old and the young because as children we are that much more closer to a normal way of thinking which usually wouldn't be a problem if we weren't living in a world filled with people with abnormal behavior and thinking. This impediment is a symbol of the disorder that exists among us, but also a great symbol of hope because it means that there is still a chance to change things. As we speak the enemies are carrying out measures to affect our normalcy of thinking and behaving before we even begin to breathe. Before, it was enough that our parents would teach us abnormal behavior the same way as they were taught by their enemies and even give us new and more advanced forms of abnormal behavior. However, our enemies are always trying to become better at the art of war and so now they seek to "kill dem before dey grow" even while inside of the womb. A way to correct it is to change the basic level of our situation. Follow the natural law in you as opposed to suppressing it.


Sesa Woruban: Question #5: Where were you born and when did they gain their independence?
YahYahKnow: I was born in Jamaica. The official record suggests that we gained our "independence" in 1962.


Sesa Woruban: Question #6: Did your country have segregation laws like that of the southern states?
YahYahKnow: To my knowledge, we didn't experience the aspect of the psychological warfare that included all the signs everywhere such as in the south in America, but all other aspects were in tact. Institutional racism was in full effect. Laws that excluded us from land ownership, proper education and jobs. Laws that prevented us from attaining any adequate means of survival and people with guns who were willing to enforce those laws mercilessly. We may have retained aspects of our culture that others haven't but that basic instinct here too has been suppressed. We still haven't learned that lesson. We still haven't learned that we need each other in order to survive and not any other people. No one will care more for Black People than Black People. The situation only becomes more dire, the more exposed we are to "western" culture. The disordered culture of the enemy. A way to correct it is to change the basic level of our situation. Follow the natural law in you as opposed to suppressing it.


Sesa Woruban: Question #7: What role have Afrikans from the West Indies played in the awakening of Afrikans in the states?
YahYahKnow: The same as Afrikans from the states have had on us. We're always trading, borrowing and lending with each other, ideas and concepts that speak to our multidimensionality. We have been to each other on an international level, what we need to be to each other from the family unit on out. We the Afrikans from the West Indies have represented opposition for the most part to white domination. The Afrikans from America, all over the diaspora and Africa have represented and given the same in our own ways defined by the subtle differences that we have experienced in the different parts of the world all at the hand of the same enemy. What I value the most about the interaction is the spirit of unity. Even though we feel this spirit by way of recognizing the similarity of our struggle, sometimes what initializes an action that leads to the desired result isn't as important as the fact that you actually arrived at the goal. Once there, you may even have the luxury of demonstrating what is needed to maintain the unity long after the struggle has ended.


Sesa Woruban: Question #8: Afrikans in the West Indies have a love for Afrika unequalled in the states. What is you opinion on this statement?
YahYahKnow: Everywhere we are in the diaspora, we have our own personal level of trauma from our experiences. The main difference between a lot of the places in the West Indies and America is that after slavery in one form or another ended, the white people in the Caribbean left. Their physical presence for the most part was next to non-existent, though their impact on our lives was still felt. In America, the enemy remained and adapted as needed since they were neither trying to deport blacks back to Africa nor attempting to bequeath to them any form of freedom. In America, there were a lot more whites than blacks, due to their racist immigration policies. Therefore, they had more of a solid hold or grip on black people, most devastatingly on their minds.

YahYahKnow: We all were victims of the degrading and dehumanizing treatment by the enemy. Many of us in the West Indies whether we want to admit it or not, hate ourselves. The self-hatred of black people in America is more prevalent because the enemy simply had a tighter grip. The bottom line of what happened was that a people had their identities stripped from them. Everything that they held sacred was taken away. Anything that possibly remained was simply corrupted. Brainwashing is another term for it. Once that is done, you have a clean slate to begin with, sorta like a child. Like children, how we behaved depended on the behavior of those around us. Well, the people who were around us, were the people who hated us. We took on their qualities to replace our own that was taken away from us. This is why some of us hate ourselves. This is why we hate Africa and Africans and won't hesitate to verbally demonstrate our hatred for the aforementioned all the while thinking that what we are speaking of hating is somehow separate from ourselves.

YahYahKnow: Black people went through a prolonged period of psychological trauma after slavery ended. We went through slightly different forms of psychological trauma everywhere in the diaspora. The only other place that I know of in the world that equates with the level of psychological trauma from racism white supremacy aside from America would be India.


Sesa Woruban: Question #9: In your opinion, how have so many of the culture and traditions of Afrika survived the brutality of slavery in your country?
YahYahKnow: A combination of will and circumstances. Black people in America carried through what little they could considering their circumstances. We brought through what little we could considering our circumstances. We faired a little better in this regard because there weren't as many white people in Jamaica as in America. They took measures to try to stop us from practicing certain traditions but they never had the numbers to enforce those measures. They outlawed the singing of "old negro spirituals" in America once they found out what we were doing in those songs. They outlawed drumming and dancing in Jamaica once they found out what we were doing as well. In time, we've lost even more because of the psychological impact of our exposure to these people. Some would call it voluntarily doing away with some cultural traits, but when you analyze the reasoning behind decisions that we've made to abandon certain practices, the ugly, pale and pasty face of racism (white supremacy) looms through the darkness of the untapped regions of our minds.


Sesa Woruban: Question #10: What advice would you give to the youth today?
YahYahKnow: Hold on, be strong and patient. I know life is hard. I haven't forgotten. I know many of you all are going through tough situations alone. No one is willing to help for whatever reason. Sometimes no one believes you. Sometimes, they don't relate anymore to how it may feel. I know some children are having to deal with things that a lot of grown ups can't handle. I want you to know that you have to hold on somehow. Seek help but the truth of the matter is sometimes, we won't find any. Sometimes, we do have to face situations in life alone. We live in a disordered world right now where this is the reality. If you have to, try to find some place inside of you to cling to in order to survive the ordeal. Find an outlet of some sort. Just find a way to prevent yourself from engaging in self-destructive behavior.

YahYahKnow: My father use to tell me "Don't think!!! Know!!" I would like to try to improve upon this, but I don't think I can. What he meant was, if the knowledge is available to be known, then make it your business to know it and don't think about it or wonder or speculate. I repeat that to the black youth all over the world. Also, my father told me that his one wish for me when I was born was that I would be a thinker. So I also say to the black youth all over the world to think. Think about everything. Find knowledge that is available to be known. Know it, implement it and yet and still think about it. Don't take anything you learn as absolute. Always try to improve upon it. We live in a society full of people who are either too lazy to think or too afraid. Adhere to truth, seek knowledge, practice the knowledge and practice thinking of ways to improve upon the knowledge and you have attained wisdom. Follow the natural law in you as opposed to suppressing it. Protect and nurture your family immediately around you and all over the world.


Sesa Woruban: Thank you God YahYahKnow.
YahYah Know: Htp Afurakanu/ AfuraitkaitnutGreetings YahYahKnow.