R R I

Retreat & Reparations Initiative (RRI)

Note: Terms Black & Afrikan may be used interchangeably here applying to the same people.

Focus

To establish safe & holistic Black/Afrikan centered environments of retreat and lifestyle, which address the very much overlooked and needed cultural, psychological and emotional repair, and restoration of the life of Black/Afrikan peoples in the North American diaspora.

Premise

The premise of the Black Refuge initiative indicates that there has never been a massive national initiative implemented for the establishment of a reparatory holistic environment for Black/Afrikans in North America which is non-religious specific, for both Black/Afrikan slave descendants, and/or Black/Afrikans who are not slave descendants, but who are currently living in America, both of which have been ill affected by the conditions of White Supremacy/Racism, oppression, domination, colonization and perpetual systematic injustice worldwide. Further consideration indicates that all these factors are in direct relation to the disorganization, disunity and systematic disempowerment of the Black/Afrikan community which continues to be in a fragmented and degenerate condition. We contend that the disparities and impoverished states of condition that exist among Black/Afrikans in America as a whole, are due to Black/Afrikan cultural devastation and continued alienation of Black/Afriakan culture, values and consciousness. This initiative seeks to restore some of the foundational cultural elements, communal values and psychological orientations, from the ancestral lineage of Black/Afrikans, and from an evolved state of consciousness based on the current context, which would help to reverse the colonial and cultural devastation imposed on Black/Afrikans in North America and all over the world, and to help us form a renewed Black/Afrikan Mind.