Link-Up 2 Lift-Up: Sorting Through Our Culture Kingdom for Our Future Generations

By Doreszell Cohen

LINK-UP 2 LIFT-UP: Sorting through Our Culture Kingdom for Our Future Generations is written using emic perspectives to respond to the problems that still negatively impact descendants of slaves in the United States of America. This short and sweet like candy “WOKEbook” will keep our engaged and intellectually energized people working to abolish institutional racism; while simultaneously creating an institution of pluralism for every citizen.

LINK-UP 2 LIFT-UP: Sorting through Our Culture Kingdom for Our Future Generations shares integrative approaches, ecological models, universalistic perspectives in interpreting our problems. This book boldly offers a humble route towards mental liberation and total independence for citizen Africans in the United States; as was aspoused by Thomas Jefferson; in his ideological Declaration of Independence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664130043

Doreszell Cohen

Doreszell Cohen (DC), is a native of Jacksonville, FL. From 2002-2005, Doreszell worked as a “highly qualified” educator in Duval County Public Schools; wherein, she resisted institutional racism in the educational sector and resigned teaching in public schools. As a result of her resignation, the school board filed a claim with the State of Florida’s Department of Education which forced her to defend both her individual rights and professional integrity. Doreszell prevailed. The Commissioner of Education ruled in her favor; finding no probable cause to suspend or revoke her teaching certificate. As a “free and independent” professional educator, the mother of eight established a homeschool tutoring service, Mama D Academy. In January 2012, Doreszell realized how “lack of knowledge” was part cause of disenfranchisement, marginalization, discrimination, and other conflicts between the powerful and the powerless, so she committed to the ideology of “Link-Up” which (1) connects people to the products and services they need, (2) help individuals and businesses make, monitor, meet, and measure their life and/or business goals through authentic Africentric coaching, and (3) collectively work on long-term problems that will create a more perfect America and global society for our future generations. In August 2018, Doreszell moved to central Florida to homeschool, teach, and focus on her writing career.

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Rev. date: 09/23/2020

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Contents

Africentric Wokebook

Special Thanks

To the Reader

Personal Story: Broken and Downtrodden by Institutional Racism

Africentric Science for Success (ASFS): Using Bottom-Up Approaches to Lift Up

Reflections of Link-Up 2 Lift-Up’s Humble Beginnings

Stay Woke

Are You Called or Chosen

Self-Determination: Who Are You? Different Types of Africans in the United States of America

An Africentric Integrative Approach to Self-Discovery

Personal Story: My Daughter Nearly Dies, I Cried, and Tried to Create Safer Communities for Youth

Link-Up 2 Lift-Up Using Cognitive Processes in Problem-Solving

Personal Story: Life Goals May Change

Achieving Collective Goals: Team Leadership and Teamwork

Personal Story: We, Not Me

References

Glossary

Africentric Wokebook

As a descendant of Africans in the United States, whose ancestors survived the slavery era, reconstruction era, and civil rights era, I come now to share my emic perspectives and Africentricity to help our unique socio-ethnic group understand, interpret, and engage within-and-between ourselves and others; in ways that are free of bias. This is our era to abolish institutional racism.

When the media and its representatives say that the United States’ Constitution, Republic, and Democracy are in crises or at-risk of civil unrest and other conflicts, they really mean that there is a significant increase in the general public’s awareness of the power in our people.

The very fact that masses of mentally enslaved people are being woke each day troubles those at the top. Many descendants of slave masters understand their privileges being white in America. Because of the powerful and privileged white Americans’ zero sum mentalities, they are uncomfortable in terms of (1) having to finally coexist in this nation equally with diverse peoples, (2) having to pay reparations for all the damages to the citizen Africans of the United States whose ancestors were slaves, and (3) making intentional changes to the black codes in our nation’s infrastructures and superstructures, which will right the wrongs of institutional racism.

You see, our capture in 1619 and existence ever since is tracked through numbers, statistically analyzed, and described in terms of likelihoods, chances, and probabilities. Africans in the United States have always been identified, labeled, devalued, and targeted from early childhood until death. In fact, many of the deficits, negative outcomes, and disadvantages we experience on a daily basis are systemically designed, procedurally written, and randomly distributed among our socio-ethnic group. In other words, the sophisticated institutional racism we experience, at some point or another in our lives, is assigned to us based on our common ancestry—descendants of US slaves.

Although the United States’ Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Republic, and Democracy are based on inspiring ideals, every one of its institutions are based on an unequal design that negatively impacts our socio-ethnic group. If America’s ideals are carried out with fidelity throughout all levels of US government, public policy, laws, society, and culture and were cross-sectional and applied to the descendants of the African slaves, then these foundational pillars of society would positively influence every other nation and people in the world to respect our values regarding what it means to be a proud American.

Brothers and sisters, now is the time for our socio-ethnic group to simmer down the anger in our own communities. We are one: link up to lift up.

Even the potential of our unique socio-ethnic group forming a state of solidarity poses a threat to those who are in power or privilege and who suffer with zero sum mentalities. In fact, the unity of our unique socio-ethnic group poses a risk to the zero sum mentality folks’ future generations’ control over the American culture, land, laws, and other white privileges.

Consider the fact that US history has origins in genocide, human trafficking, enslaving, and oppressing some of its people in order to create a thriving economic system for others. It was Caucasian men who stole the land and nearly exterminated the indigenous people in North America for it. It was Caucasian men who then stole millions of indigenous people from their own land in Africa to enslave them and their descendants—in this stolen land, in some fashion—to date.

Both humanity of natives and Africans in America have been violated throughout every sophisticated institutions and systems in the United States. For example, take the peculiar and powerful institution of language. The institution of language is more than words: language creates deeper constructs, such as attitudes, beliefs, values, and behaviors that are circulated by verbal and nonverbal communication. Language leads directly to the mind and heart of a people. Language is a major ingredient for action-oriented unity—good or bad.

If you are woke, I ask that you commit to two key basics: (1) remain conscious of the power of language as you search for your self and (2) refer to your kingdom of culture wokebook as you discover yourself and consciously become more aware of the origins of many of our problems.

Brothers and sisters, you will find that being woke as a citizen African in the United States has the potential to revolutionize our nation to be greater than great. We have an opportunity to abolish the old orders of institutional racism and establish new orders of institutional pluralism, whereby every citizen group is entitled to their unalienable rights by nature and under God.

New orders are what our political candidates who aspire to take office should be campaigning about. Talking points that are based on superficial improvements or slowing down our aspirations to abolish institutional racism are no longer sufficient for many people in our society today.

It is my hope that you will find the insight and research that is cited within this wokebook useful. The few techniques and models mentioned within this wokebook are research-based with both emic and etic perspectives, which create universalistic perspectives that can accommodate diverse people as we strive to meet our goals and fulfill our needs.

As a member of the group of Americans who are the descendants of the US slaves, Link-Up 2 Lift-Up: Sorting Through Our Culture Kingdom for Our Future Generations is a wokebook that will guide you into (a) knowing your unalienable rights by nature and under God and (b) understanding how to prosper as an individual citizen and as a productive member of our collective socio-ethnic group. Are you ready?

Onward,

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I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what

confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they’ll create their

own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

—Malcolm X

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Special Thanks

I thank The Most High for keeping me in the company of good people who have been tried and tested in life and have gone through the fire; coming out as pure gold.

I thank my beloved mother for giving birth