If I had a half of a penny for everytime a woman frustratingly lamented to me, you think its YOUR way or the highway, I would be a millionaire. Other associates and even close colleagues have complained as well. But I own that and offer no apologies, because my My Way or the Highway attitude - which applies ONLY to what I do in MY world - has been a principle of LIFE for me and is at the ROOT of where I am in life today. And I am tremendously thankful. My Way is the way I instinctively know and/or have come to learn to be necessary to accomplish what I was born into this world to accomplish, the Mission which I discovered 24 years ago. EVERYTHING and, yes, everyone that/who will come to be in my immediate life must to one degree or another FIT into that MISSION, or it/they do not FIT into my world. This does not mean that it or they are bad, it just means that, for whatever reasons, it or they cant facilitate the fulfillment of my Mission. This also does NOT mean that I dont take counsel, admonition, and lessons from those around me, near and far. I absolutely do. This is also the reason that, with practically ALL of the life endeavors that are important to me, I do them ALL in a way that strikes most people as unorthodox, different, or even offensive. My Way or the Highway, means: Because I am totally turned off by how this particular thing is popularly done, I will do it in MY OWN way or I wont do it at ALL. When I became a Five Percenter in Atlanta in 1990, I refused to do the culture the way most of those around me were doing it. As a consequence, I WAS THE FIRST one tagged (by my critics) with the tag Muslim God. Yes, I am the OG Muslim God. The Muslim God Phenomenon today is the result of my instinctive My Way or the Highway principle, and I am THANKFUL for it, for I love the Muslim God Culture. In graduate school, I refused to do it the right way: I had to do it MY WAY, because MY WAY was necessary for My MISSION, whatever the consequences or difficulties. I was determined to be successful, but to be successful on MY terms, much to the displeasure of my academic advisor. As a college professor when I walk into my classrooms at major (White) Division I-A universities, I walk in with a very DISTINCT walk and conduct my classes in a very unorthodox ME way. My student evaluations at the end of the semester were always academic rock-star status. When I was brought to Chicago, I was brought to a meat-grinder. I was (and am) determined to be successful in Chicago, but to be successful ON MY TERMS, because the standard terms were and are totally unacceptable to me and an obstacle to the realization of the Mission for which I was born. The reason so many of the Afrocentrists are so mad at me is because I REFUSE to do Afrocentric scholarship according to THEIR rules and standards. I will do Afrocentricity MY WAY, or I wont do it at all. I will do religion MY WAY, or I wont do it at all. So, I am a heretic in EVERYTHING that I take seriously, because I MUST do those things MY WAY or NO WAY. I do parenting MY way, because I am disappointed with how most of us parent and love our children; I do relationships MY way, because I SMDH at how most of us do relationships, and because MY relationships - male and female - MUST to one degree or another facilitate my successful completion of the particular Work which I was born into this world to do. So, is it My Way or the Highway? Why, yes. Yes it is. #blackgodcomplex
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:22:53 +0000
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