Living Freedom

Building on the insights of Paulo Friere expressed in "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," this three-volume work utilizes a dialogical method to analyze the 400] year history of "White" supremacy in America. In guiding the reader through an objective tour of American history, the reader becomes empowered to express the dichotomy they have been unconsciously living with. The starting premise is that Humans desire a life where we express wonder, joy and beauty in as many ways as possible. Humans then, thrive in freedom, the state of being where one is fully able to express ones' individuality, without fear of violence, whether physical, emotional, psychological, mental or spiritual. Yet this is not the way of American society. American society is built upon the concentration of wealth and the exclusive use of power in support of White supremacy, which is in practice, the international direction of the distribution of natural resources, goods and services. This system, we identify as the Neander Whiteness Paradigm, uses the tools of Ownership, Heterosexuality, Christianity, Misogyny & Toxic Masculinity. This approach has manifested as gruesome acts of genocide, massacres and dehumanizing slavery to keep African American people oppressed, maintaining the status quo of wealth concentration. This guide explores Whiteness as the operation of corporations or the State, utilizing militaries and militias as necessary, for the protection, allocation and distribution of natural resources, goods and services. To combat Whiteness, we should therefore divest from any corporation that is facilitating the concentration of money. We should also invest in those individuals and organizations that diffuse money. We should protest any corporation that is not working for the recognition of African American humanity. If a company is profiting from the modern day enslavement of African Americans through prison labor, it's boycott should be a top priority. This guide also advances collective strategies to advocate for criminal justice reform through restorative justice, health reform, education reform, media bias training and community relations improvement. We then review the opportunity for reparations, the official State procedure of making amends to a group that has suffered because of State policy and develop an amount to pay. Finally, this guide develops strategies to end the Genocidal Traumatic Survivor's Disorder and shift the originating Neander Whiteness Paradigm. These strategies, both individual and collective in nature, lead one to living freedom.