FINALLY THE RECORD LABEL BLACK PEOPLE NEED.
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Posted By: Christine Govenor on November 18, 2010 Finally .....a record label that speaks to the Classic Historical Identity of Black people. The NILE VALLEY MOVEMENT presents MAAT HOTEP RECORDS. Maat Hotep Records (MHR) was founded by Harlem's own...Shakka Ahmose, who is also the founder and Prime Rep. of the Nile Valley Movement (NVM), and the premier 'artist in residence on this unique, timely, and badly needed record label as well. In a media climate where Black youth are exploited daily with incessant images of Black dysfuctional icons who are equally exploited themselves (many to the tune of millions of dollars), by disaffected media conglomerations possessing interests that run contrary to the economic, psychological, potlitical, historical, Spiritual, health interests and well being of our communities, I am proud to present to you a record label which prides itself on having the mandate and Sacred Ancestral Mission of restoring to a place of dignity and honor (two words not championed in our communities ...AT ALL) the classical image of our Black African forbearers, particularly those of the Nile Valley Basin in Ancient/Classical Africa (ie. Punt, Nubia and Ancient Egypt). What I find refreshing about this movement and record label (and the media they have produced thus far, songs and videos like the anthematic "Egypt Was a Black Land; The Song, the rap song 'Hotep' featuring a strong dirty South groove and flow and the visually stunning video that accompanies it) are the lengths which they have gone to, in a successful effort to present high quality 'edutainment' (the desired route 'entertainment' should persue for those Black people who are historically grounded and are highly particular about the types of media consumed by themselves and their families) through and in various mediums in a climate where being 'dumbed down', sexually exploited and the emulation / worship of Europeans and their values / worldview are the overriding and prevalent rule of the day. When so many have done so much, to compromise, to bring harm and damage, to our overall self image as a race, historically and contemporarily, resulting in the absolute MESS we now see before us, I am of the definite opinion that this movement as well as the record label that inspired it (and those at the fountain head of it, ie. Shakka Ahmose ) deserve not only our undivided, much too sought after, but rarely, sufficiently compensated....attention, but that they also deserve our unwavering $upport....a $upport we continually, year in and year out, throw at those who would seek to subvert the values of our communities and the most precious things therein....our offspring, our progeny, our children. We've no one to blame but ourselves. I view this record label and this sacred movement as an opportunity for us all to place back into the midst of our families and our relationships, with ourselves and others; to put back on the table of national discussion, amongst our own, Black people, this subject matter of 'identity' and it's importance as a compass for guiding us into the future, a future unbroken, and connected to a past, however distant, so many have conspired to deprive us of, an effort in which we have now become complicit ourselves. I view Maat Hotep Record and the Nile Valley Movement as an opportunity to make things right, in areas of our lives much too long neglected by ourselves and exploited by others who would fight for, and maintain a monetary stake in how we choose not to see ourselves, or in how we choose to in point of fact, do so. This is the ultimate power of a people.....choosing your identity.....and it will always be 'your power', this power, that others will fight to claim for themselves, the ability and the means of choosing for us as a people who we are not, who we are, and who we have been, and in doing so, should they be successful, we as a people, descendants of those who created the greatest civilizations ever to inhabit this planet we now call 'earth', would be left as the hybrid, manufactured, easily managed creation we have been socially engineered into being. As a self respecting Black person consciously choosing to wake up from the Eurocentric matrix I once found myself psycho-Spirtually 'incarcerated' in, I choose to say..... "Long live MAAT HOTEP RECORDS and THE NILE VALLEY MOVEMENT"!!! It is my deepest wish that you will choose to say these revolutionary words with me, not just in words, but by $upporting something that is being done for us as a people, just as others $upport that which is done for them, as a people, or have we become so far gone that we have forgotten, or would prefer to forget that we are in point of fact, 'a people', a fact others work so tirelessly to make ambiguous and obsolete, as doing so apparently serves their interests. Say these 'revolutionary words' with me, by going to: nilevalleymovement.com and support ing these monumental efforts, efforts that have been made, on our behalf. What you will see and hear at the site: 1) A greeting from an image that reflects your Ancient Truth 2) Accompanying music on some of the websites page's that reflect the musical direction of the label itself. 3) An information page explaining what the 'NVM' is about. 4) 5 music videos and a live television performance. 5) NVM & Maat Hotep Records paraphernalia (ie. Beautiful Posters for sale) 6) Two documentaries 7) An opportunity to purchase right there on the site the NILE VALLEY MOVEMENT MUTI MEDIA PROJECT which feature all of the media product produced by the NVM and Maat Hotep Records thus far (both a CD & a DVD... and at a very reasonable price, particularly when in point of fact, your history and your culture, particularly as presented here are........priceless). So what will it be Black people? More of the same self hating dysfunctional nonsense of which there seems to be no end in sight of, with new rappers rapping the same tired dialogue like a broken record since 1979 (the dialogue has not changed one iota since then people)? Or will it be something new, yet Ancient, something entertaining yet educational, something cultural yet stylish and raw, giving deference to a past so many others have wrongfully claimed for themselves? Go to nilevalleymovement.com and say those revolutionary words with me "Long live MAAT HOTEP RECORDS and THE NILE VALLEY MOVEMENT"!!! ...and MAKE A PURCHASE. Play the Cd in your car (as I do over and over again), or watch the DVD with your family and enjoy something you can all hear and see together (this is called 'sharing' remember what that is?) that will create meaningful dialogue amongst yourselves, as so many are finding out, actually occurs when engaging the NVM media that they (NVM) have thus far produced. One very important reason I encourage you to purchase the NVM Multi Media Project asap is for this very reason; though the media produced by NVM can be seen, heard and engaged on sites such as this one, Youtube and their own website, there is no gurantee that NVM media will always be availabe on any of these sites, so like the saying goes in any market.....GET IT WHILE YOU CAN! Luckily for NVM and Maat Hotep Records there are already offers pouring in from around the country from various Black Book outlets and other such type media, as well as television and radio (as of this date NVM content has already been aired on television and radio with airings slated for mass consumption later this year as well as early next year) who wish to feature NVM media. But as with any real movement of significance it is the grassroots purchases that will keep it alive and flourishing for generations to come. This means you, us. Just consider...when was the last time anyone brought us something of this nature, and how long it will be, if ever again, if anyone should ever be of a mind, or talent capable enough to do so...... again. It's time to take care of what's yours Black People.....$upport the Nile Valley Movement and Maat Hotep Records and let your children lift their heads and look in the face of others, and say with 10,000 years worth of blessed pride..."Our history does not start with slavery in this country or anywhere else for that matter, slavery is only a very very small part of it. Our history dates Back to the dawn of recorded history and beyond, long before Greece and Rome, whom our Black Ancestors educated and civilized. Our history dates back to the creation of civilization; in fact the creation of civilization......is our history...and ours alone". $upport the Nile Valley Movement and Maat Hotep Records. Why? Because you deserve it, your children deserve it, we deserve it. Our children yet unborn deserve it, as they have only what we leave them. Respectfully and in the Spirit of our Ancestors who are watching this... I bid you Hotep (an offering), and Ankh, Udja, Seneb (life, health, strength)! And oh yeah.....before I forget.......BLACK POWUH!!!! It is forever the coolest thing we can have CHRISTINE GOVENOR (the Newest Nile Valley Movement Rep. And you can be one too...smile). Hotep. Contact Info for Nile Valley Movement NYC: NILEVALLEYMOVEMENT@GMX.COM NILEVALLEYMOVEMENT@GMAIL.COM FOREVERSHAKKA@GMAIL.COM (347) 269-0671 PS. LET'S DO WHAT WE DO BEST....WIN!!!! HOTEP! If you enjoyed this article, Join BlackInAmerica.com today for similar content and opportunities via email! |
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Christine Govenor
Digital Archivist, Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs 66 Brooks Drive Braintree, MA 02184-3839 Yeshiva Univ class of 2005 Member Since October 2010 |
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Christine Govenor
"After the Greeks (and thus the Romans) were CIVILIZED BY THE AFRICANS IN EGYPT most of what we now know as 'Europe' was still barbaric, and unheard of. Digital Archivist at Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs 66 Brooks Drive Braintree, MA 02184-3839 There was really NO EUROPE in ancient times......and Europe as we know it was divided by the Rhine-Danube frontier, south and west of which lay the civilized provinces of the empire, and north and east the ''BARBARIANS' of whom the civilized world KNEW ALMOST NOTHING" A HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD R.R. Palmer (Prof. Yale University) and Joel Colton (Prof. of History at Duke University) Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 10:21PM |
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AFRICANS IN EGYPT ?
Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 10:39PM |
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I LIKE THE MESSAGE !!
Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 10:41PM |
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Christine Govenor
Much more to come David...much more.
Digital Archivist at Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs 66 Brooks Drive Braintree, MA 02184-3839 Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 11:02PM |
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Christine, Why it is that you do not blog about your self and your people, Black Americans? Black Americans had nothing to do with ancient Egypt and the Nile Valley, am I right. Black America's history is in White America on the continent of North America and not anywhere in Africa, am I right. Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 11:19PM |
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haeey you are hungry to grow ,,,well............. welcome to the garden ! i am going to enjoy this ! is there anyone else ! mozell ..jks steve ,bra ,irma and the rest Thursday, November 18th 2010 at 11:31PM |
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Christine Govenor
Harry...to a fault your 'achilles heel' is that you (like so many of our people) are not a strong reader. Perhaps if you were you would have actually read my blog and your multiple questions would have been answered roundly and soundly. You Harry my friend and my brother would have read where I wrote these words: Digital Archivist at Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs 66 Brooks Drive Braintree, MA 02184-3839 "Our history DOES NOT start with slavery IN THIS COUNTRY or ANYWHERE ELSE for that matter, slavery is only A VERY, VERY small Part of it. Our history dates Back to the dawn of recorded history and beyond, long before Greece and Rome, whom our Black Ancestors educated and civilized. Our history dates back to the creation of civilization; in fact the creation of civilization......is our history...and ours alone". You would have also read Harry, where I wrote these words as well: "....this power, that others will fight to claim for themselves, the ability and the means of choosing for us as a people who we are not, who we are, and who we have been, and in doing so, should they be successful, we as a people, descendants of those who created the greatest civilizations ever to inhabit this planet we now call 'earth', would be left as the hybrid, manufactured, easily managed creation we have been socially engineered into being." This would be you Harry....in your current truncated state if mind. Now Harry I understand that you probably have not been exposed to much concerning the shared History of Black people on a global level....but to squeeze yourself culturally and politically into a mere 500 years of manufactured history is tantamount to 'identi-cide'. It's quite obvious that you are keenly unaware of the highly legitimate connections American Aficans have to Ancient Nile Valley history and culture. A person can only speak on what they know....and their reality is equally circumscribed by what they know....therefore it is equally and simultaneously just as circumscribed by that which do not know. Malcom X said these words Harry: “Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.” -- Malcolm X. I have as of yet to meet anyone on this website (or any other) as intelligent as Malcolm. This is not to imply that he did not make mistakes. Though he may have...and I'm quite poisitive he did....the above quote is not one of them. I said that to say this: I highly suggest you begin to crack those books Harry. The outcome is that you will be a person with far more correct answers than one with questions that have been answered correctly a thousand times over. Might I suggest you begin with: "The Black Man of the Nile and His Family" by Dr Yosef Ben Jochannan, my Mother's Godfather. Friday, November 19th 2010 at 12:20AM |
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Christine Govenor
Irma...it is my express wish to take your memories of such things 'African'...and project them into the future thereby making your future as beautiful as you have described your past memories to be. Digital Archivist at Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs 66 Brooks Drive Braintree, MA 02184-3839 Hotep. May the Maat patrol be resurrected with an even stronger sense of purpose, direction and dedication to those who may need them most. Friday, November 19th 2010 at 2:24AM |
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No problem Sister, thanks for the info!
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 11:58AM |
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Very interesting information
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 1:06PM |
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History is very important and needed in our black community. iwas in movie title FILLING THE GAP which share unknow history which not talk in the south school systems. my great grandfather did book on Black Sacred Harp Music doing his time in life and pass it on.
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 2:24PM |
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Young people must be talk their black heritage and be proud of who they are,our forefathers have done so much that we should be very proud of and not bring shame too.
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 5:01PM |
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Wow, You guys are heavy and deep on this site. Im hearing stuff I haven’t heard in years. Made me go and pull out all my old videos and lessons, most I never bothered to watch, cause that’s what you do when you’re young and think you know everything, and think its your way or no way. I was telling Ms. Irma earlier I watched a video today by Dr. Yosef A Ben-Jochanna titled “Live In Egypt” and its just amazing the people we once were. I have tons to watch and probably years to catch up on and am just glad I’ve become a member of this site. Go Black People!
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 6:46PM |
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Christine Govenor
@ANITA Digital Archivist at Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs 66 Brooks Drive Braintree, MA 02184-3839 Thank you for commenting and reading Anita, genuinely so. Dr Ben is my Mothers Godfather. I'm with him in his home regularly. I will give him your greetings. Please remain and be apart of my forums. Friday, November 19th 2010 at 8:36PM |
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Christine Govenor
Irma Digital Archivist at Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs 66 Brooks Drive Braintree, MA 02184-3839 your presence here is highly welcomed. I thought you should know that. Friday, November 19th 2010 at 8:36PM |
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Ma'at, Goddess of Truth, Balance, Order How very appropriate. Christine, you have given me so much. And I promise to pass on all that I've learned, and will be sure to let everyone know about this project. I am looking forward to hearing from your brother, and learning more about the Nile Valley Movement. My best wishes for your continued success. Friday, November 19th 2010 at 9:03PM |
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Sista Irma, I've been checking into this all day. Hard finding a school in Georgia to teach real african studies online anyway. If I was home in NY would be a different story, but its ok I have a lot of material to study from. I would love to go to Africa. My cousin went last year with her dance teacher who is from Senegal and I will attend with them next year. Sister Christine, Thanks for your invite. Im honored to sit in and learn about something I should have paid attention to a long time ago. Friday, November 19th 2010 at 9:10PM |
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I think that I would love to go to egypt some day to see all the areas that your brother showed in his videos.
Friday, November 19th 2010 at 11:44PM |
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I have been trying to learn the words to God Ra, Will the lyrics be available on the CD cover?
Saturday, November 20th 2010 at 12:28AM |
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Thank you so very much Christian...and there aee my children and grand children as the future of proud, African-Americans who already as me, refuse to break our direct ties with the Mother Land...Mother Africa... (smile) Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM |
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Thanks Christime, and I must say "I" was surprised and so excited to see the name "MAAT: THE GODDESS OF PROTECTION...I have a room that "I" call the African Room... one of the things in there is a tee shirt and a picture of us, the MAAT patrol during our Black History week my last year as a student in African and African -American study at the Univrsity of california at Davis, Ca. or UCD. Your blog has brought back some beautiful memories, thank you. (smile) Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM |
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@Min Jackson, "I" believe there is history and there is history,example... this record label's name is pride and unity proper education amoung our people, because it is AFRICAN-CENTERED and we in America are more familiar to Euorpean -centered education in our black history. Just my personal experiences as a very proud African-American of 68 years old. lol (smile) Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM |
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Christine, if I may... Anita, you may just want to go on the computer and find our from some of the A-A dtudy departments that have been and may still be going to dig in Egypt as class projects (we also heve like others exchange students) to get to go and see up close and persoanl what is being taught about us as a people with an aglesss and proud history/ culture. (smile) Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM |
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@aNITA, NOT to worry. I did not go to UCD until my chidren wer out of college themselves. And, I tell you the other Black female as our (we have black only graduations out of pride)being the oldest to graduate in history... but this was in 1992...which means today if you are not in maybe your late 70s youhave no chance of even being considered as the oldest graduate. lol (smile) ON EXCUSES GET ADDED TO OUR ROLE OF COLLEGE GRADUATES.... LOV YA ALL... Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM |
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