Blessings
Not Curses
KARIBU! AKWABAA! WAMUKELEKILE! WELCOME!
Working with Others Toward our People’s Return to Righteous Living and Sovereignty
Our Name
BNC’s name derives from one of its publications, Blessings Not Curses: Countering the Deleterious Effects of Profanity on the African (Black) Community. It asserts that the profanity used or accepted by too many in our community:
- is not African, not Maatic,
- runs afoul of the high calling of Mdw Ntr and other African revelations on the power of words to define, transform and elevate a society,
- originates from the spirit and languages of the colonizers-and-enslavers of our people,
- compromises our spiritual strength and spiritual potential by polluting our spiritual environment,
- is an insidious, largely unacknowledged and insufficiently-addressed encumbrance and contravention to our Liberation efforts … and
- must be abandoned — and clean speech reinstituted and expressions of blessings increased — in order to make real progress on our road back to Righteous Living and Sovereignty.
WE EMPHASIZE
In our People’s (African/Black People’s) Return to Righteous Living and Sovereignty, Blessings Not Curses (BNC) – through publications, classes, workshops, lectures, and partnerships with, promotion of and participation in African Educational village-institutions – emphasizes several imigomo (isiZulu: principles).
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Publications
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Classes
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