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I was 30 years old before I started to get a grip on the fact that my desire to rid the nation of crime, poverty and racism had gotten me no further than dealing with surface social issues. I didn’t have a handle on “basic research.”

Basic research tells you who and what a thing is in its original design. And in the context of the new Humaculture science, basic research tells you who a baby is, what the capacity of the baby is at birth, what happened to the baby socially, and how the baby can make adjustments to align with its capacity.

I had a conversation recently with Dr. Nkosi K.M. Ajanaku, Esq. He is the chief basic researcher for the Future America Basic Research Institute, which he founded in the early 1970’s. In 1985, he got me started on looking at myself through basic research. Now, 25 years later, I’m listening to him with fresh ears as he shares his objectivity about how he sees me and my “possibilities.”

I’ve agreed to a series of 20-minute conversations. The ground rules are that we just talk “facts.” It’s not about me doing anything at this point. I’m making what I got out of those exchanges public, thinking that what I received in response to my decision to get some objectivity about myself might be helpful to others interested in examining their own “possibilities.”

My first session was Saturday, Jan. 30. Here’s Part 1 of what I got:

• African-American boys had to be suppressed in the early parts of the 17th century. There was no other way we could have the system (of slavery) unless you suppressed the boys; because they would naturally challenge things.

• African men decided to go with the “master” and leave their position and memory of how they functioned in Africa to protect the women and children. The males were the “gates” and everybody had to readjust.

• For the boys, the image of man/men in Africa was taken away and replaced with the image of the person in charge – European man/men. Special schools evolved for this. They were for girls too, but especially for boys.

• The new mold of man/men set in and became institutionalized. Over a period of time, boys never saw a model in the neighborhood of man/men.

• The good thing is that this changeover was no more than taking on a new program. It didn’t take away the natural capacity to have an image rooted in who African people are. It still hasn’t evolved to that, but it doesn’t mean that it won’t.

• We haven’t evolved away from our natural capacity to think. We’ve just got a bad program.