Sovereign Evolution

Sovereign Evolution offers African Americans a 21st-century approach to freedom and equality by using sovereign principles to analyze and evolutionize our current Political and Ideological Self-Identity. Though its content centers on African Americans, it has wider political implications that equally relate to Africans in general. In this regard, Sovereign Evolution is both the title of this work, as well as a transformative political concept.

Since the dawn of humanity, people have engaged what I call “The Human Quest for Sovereign Powers.” Though I establish a foundation of legitimacy for African Americans to join this quest, the book does not instruct a movement for political independence. It rather shapes the sociopolitical substance of our historical experience into a sovereign consciousness. It encapsulates the issues and political language necessary for sovereign and intergenerational dialogue, and applies sovereign ideals in ways that no other work has convincingly or relevantly related to the African American experience.

This work does not regard “Civil Rights” as the standard or goal by which our freedom should be measured or aspired. I rather circumscribe “Sovereign Rights” in a universal and historical context that confers us with just as much integrity and authority as any other people to espouse and employ sovereign standards for ourselves.

Having civil rights is “par for the course” of human dignity and decency between every government and society. A government deserves no more “credit” for treating its citizens civilly, than a man deserves “credit” for not beating his wife. The granting of civil rights and voting rights should not be viewed as a marker of a government’s legitimation, since a genuinely moral government would never make its citizenry “fight for civil rights” in the first place.

It is an indefensible affront for any government to have a people engaged in a protracted struggle for hundreds of years to be treated civilly. If after centuries, a people still find themselves fighting to protect their civil rights, then they are in a wrong and unprincipled political relationship.

Facts herein show that Africa comprised sovereign kingdoms long before Africans were enslaved in the Americas. I therefore extend the political ramifications of slavery into an unresolved current issue by showing that slavery not only deprived us of freedom in the past – but its reverberations have disinherited us of sovereignty at present.

Our need for a Sovereign Evolution is not diminished by the 4 or 8 years of Barack Obama’s presidency, given that America is approaching 2½ centuries. Foremost, it is a mistake to credit his presidency to “opportunities of equality” as the establishment promotes for its own self-aggrandized benefit. Conversely, it is due to America’s “political limitations” that, out of nearly 40 million Black people, only one of us has reached Obama’s stature after nearly 400 years.

It’s fairly certain that America will soon be viewed as B.B. and A.B., or “Before Barack” and “After Barack.” But the reason there are no more “Obamas” is because the “Manifest Destiny” of Euro-Americans did not only apply to their westward expansion of territory, it likewise applies to their sovereign and ideological dominion over government and society.

Today’s political world is light years away from both the 1860s when segregation was progress and the 1960s when riding the front of a bus was progress. Where you sit on a bus today is becoming relatively cosmetic, considering the wars and webbings of geopolitics to exploit and control the chromium, oil, and rubber for its tires. Upon reading Sovereign Evolution, you will understand how and why our conceptions and moral obligations of freedom must continually evolve apace with the manmade rigors and circumstances of the political times.