Truth2Kings

About Truth2Kings

Truth2Kings charismatically creates and encourages dialog on the misrepresentation of African and African American people, deconstructing stereotypes that embody colonialist attitudes. On it, you will hear 30-minute discussions on long-accepted stereotypes and disinformation. You should listen if you are a person who wants to make sense of all that is happening around African and African American lives in the world and want to understand their experience

Publisher

Sean Adetula & Temi Edun

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Jul 2020

Latest episode

5 May 2023

Latest episodes

13 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   5 May 2023

   A Debt Owed Part 2

   A Debt Owed Part 2 Do you know that every definition of Africa sold to us can be challenged? And this is not something that the western man is willing to do. In this episode of the True2Kings podcast, we discuss white supremacy and why the false narrative of inferior Africa must be maintained. Listen to learn how barbarism was masked as a civilization to make us look inferior. What you will learn: · [10:35] How the oppressor feels the power to take from Africa and not pay. · [14:02] Why is the oppressor bent on maintaining white supremacy rather than acknowledging stealing from us? · [16:00] The false narrative of Africa that they sell us and why it must come down for their definitions to be challenged. · [18:21] Barbarism and savagery masked as civilization.

2. 

   30 Apr 2023

   A Debt Owed 01

   A Debt Owed Part 1 How does a continent that produces over 30% of the world’s natural resources have so much debt? Does the world owe Africa? In this episode of the True2Kings podcast, we ask the question, “Where would the world be without Africa”? Listen in to start understanding why the world owes Africa and not the other way around. What you will learn: · [3:04] The resources of Africa and how the world still views Africa with disdain. · [5:25] The stolen people of Africa that are used to benefit the world and not Africa. · [8:31] Where would the world be without Africa?

3. 

   2 Oct 2022

   Order Not Justice 2.3

   Do you understand that the oppressor lacks an incentive or motivation to give us justice? In this episode of the True2Kings podcast, we explain why we cannot get justice from the oppressor willingly, and we may at some point have to demand it ourselves. Listen in to understand why we need to take what the oppressor took without looking upon him to give it back. What you will learn: · [20:34] Understanding why we will never get justice from the oppressor. · [21:32] Why we will be forced at some point to take or demand justice for ourselves. · [23:18] Is the American judicial system broken? Whose orders are being followed?

4. 

   28 Sept 2022

   Order Not Justice 2.2

   What do you understand about the functions of order and justice? It is important to understand that order has been used to subjugate black people. In this episode of the True2Kings podcast, we continue the talk about order and justice and the functions that define each term. Listen in to understand why our oppressor will never deal with us justly. What you will learn: · [10:23] Understanding the functions of order and justice. · [11:55] Why order is subjective and is used to subjugate black people. · [15:29] Why the West cannot deal with us in a just manner since they never did initially. · [18:31] Why it would require bringing back everything the oppressor took away to give us justice.

5. 

   25 Sept 2022

   Order Not Justice 1.1

   Did you know that order and justice are not the same things? Order is very subjective while justice is universal, and we have historically been conditioned to receive order but not justice. In this episode of the True2Kings podcast, Temi and Sean talk about the historical background of order and justice and how order has been used against black people. Listen in to learn why we might never receive justice from the oppressor. What you will learn: · [2:21] How we have historically been conditioned to receive order but not justice. · [4:43] Understanding how order has always been used to carry injustices against black people. · [7:03] Will the oppressor ever use the excuse of justice instead of “order”?

6. 

   9 Apr 2021

   Living in Peace: Habits, Progression, and the Reemergence Of Karens

   Can we break a minimum of 400 years of habits? Habits of oppression towards black people and of white people believing they’re superior to black people in America. In this episode of the True2Kings podcast, Temi and Sean talk about habits, progression, and the re-emergence of Karens in American society. Listen in to learn why we’re still victims of habits formed many years ago that black lives do not matter. What you will learn: · [0:34] Intro · [3:25] The meaning of ‘living in peace’ amongst ourselves as black people and the incidents that prove we don’t. · [9:28] How the oppressor still believes that our lives don’t matter. · [11:40] The habits of white supremacy and black oppression that America has formed for many years. · [16:15] Is it possible to break the oppressor’s 400 years of oppression habits against black people? · [17:29] The need for equity over equality for peace to prevail. · [19:20] Understanding why these oppression habits are hard to break considering the power that the white man had against us.

7. 

   26 Mar 2021

   Theft of Culture: Our Truth Is the Real Deal

   Africans are often told lies so we can later be appropriated after we’ve abandoned our culture. It is important to understand that our culture is the truth and it is not about what the oppressor says but what we believe of ourselves. In this episode of the True2Kings podcast, Temi and Sean dive into the topic of culture theft that has been happening to Africans for many years. Listen in to learn why it is our opinion about ourselves that matters most not that of the outsiders. What you will learn: · [0:34] Intro · [1:34] The African and African American cultures and why they should be acknowledged when used. · [7:52] How the world is trying to be like us without giving credit, which makes no difference between now and the slavery days. · [13:39] Why you shouldn’t be too concerned about what the oppressor thinks of us but what you believe you’ve brought to the table. · [16:14] Understanding that whatever we Africans are told about ourselves is lies because we’re the real deal. · [21:47] Learn and appreciate who you are and where you come from before you allow ideas of others to belittle you.

8. 

   5 Mar 2021

   Selling White Christ: A Folktale

   It is a fact that Christian history has been distorted to sell the idea of a ‘white Christ’ to the world and especially to black people. The Christian religion was used to manipulate, steal, and oppress us by making it white when it was black, to begin with. In this episode of the True2Kings podcast, Temi and Sean discuss the true history of Christianity; and the real reason it was made white to oppress us. Listen in to learn who Jesus truly was and why the oppressor is now considering changing the Christ narrative. What you will learn: · [0:34] Intro · [4:58] How Africans were sold the idea of Jesus as they were being robbed off their resources. · [7:14] How Christianity was used to colonize Africans and other cultures across the globe. · [9:35] Understanding the origination of Christianity, which was in Africa. · [12:32] The appropriation of the image of Jesus as white, when he was black. · [16:24] Why we need to disassociate ourselves from imported European deliverance. · [18:44] The fiction that white people had to sell to black people to make us obey and follow their ‘white Christ’.

9. 

   26 Feb 2021

   Let My People Think: Equality, Exceptionalism, and Defund the Police

   What black people in America need today is equity, not equality. Equality is too convenient and is designed to deny us freedom, which is equity. Our decades of suffering and brokenness cannot be fixed where we are but by giving us what it is that we’ve been missing. In this episode of the True2Kings podcast, Temi and Sean talk about the meaning of equality, exceptionalism, and defund the police in the black community. Listen in to learn why the system was designed to break black people, plus how we’re excluded in American exceptionalism. What you will learn: · [0:34] Intro · [2:32] Understanding equality and how it’s different from equity. · [6:44] Temi explains why equality is an endless strive while equity meets you where you are. · [10:26] Understanding the meaning of equity, which is freedom while equality is just a limited hangout. · [15:25] The convenience of equality and why it must prove itself after equity. · [17:36] How the system was designed to break you as a black person because of your exceptionalism. · [24:14] Understanding the American exceptionalism and how it excludes black people even though we belong to it.

10. 

    24 Dec 2020

    The Black Duality

    The Black Duality: Can We Be Unapologetically Africans? Africans have always been forced to tone down our ‘Africanness’ to accommodate others. It is a known fact that only we, have to apologize and hide from who we are for the benefit of a Eurocentric audience. In this episode of the True2Kings podcast, Temi and Sean have a deep conversation about duality- the two personalities we have to live with and not our trueness. Listen in to learn the importance of having these conversations around why we need to stop bowing to others and unapologetically be Africans. What you will learn: · [1:00] Defining duality. How we Africans are forced to subdue our ‘Africanness’ in order to flow in this space. How Du Bois talked about the lack of trueness due to two ideals expected from African Americans. · [5:37] Why there are two of you- the society’s expectations of who you should be versus who you really are. · [8:00] We should have the right to live as Africans anywhere in the world without having to always be the ones to make others comfortable. · [9:21] The question of why a fully unapologetic male or female African is such a threat. · [11:29] How African and our originality is dumbed down and we are driven to be like others. · [14:40] The idea of us making them comfortable while they never have to do anything to make us comfortable plus their adopted attitude becomes the status quo. · [19:37] How we physically and psychologically bow to who we’re not for approval we don’t need from them.

11. 

    1 Nov 2020

    The Black Parallel

    All people of African descent have more commonalities than differences no matter where we are in the globe. We all have a very similar history from the south of Africa to the Caribbean’s Haiti- neocolonialism happens similarly. In this episode of the True2Kings podcast, Temi and Sean discuss why it would be of our greater benefits as black people to support each other and tackle the myth that we are different based on where we are. Listen in to learn the power of Pan Africanism and how we can use it to become even stronger. What you will learn: · [0:42] Defining black parallel. Digging deep into the commonalities of how we’re dealt with regardless of where we are. · [3:50] The tragic story of Haiti. How they were exorcised for fighting for their freedom. · [6:31] Understanding the similarities of what other black people all over the world go through. · [12:11] Tackling the myth that we black people are different when we’re the same just splintered. · [17:18] The sacrifices and the courage of the African Americans that have formed a better path for other Africans to be where we are. · [20:24] Why we Africans need to recognize ourselves to reconcile and realize the power of Pan Africanism.

12. 

    29 Aug 2020

    What's in a Name

    What’s in a Name? (The Power in a Name) Your name is who you are, especially in Africa- it defines you; it is your destiny and tells your story. In this episode of True2Kings podcast, Temi and Sean discuss the significance of a name, especially in the African culture. Listen in to understand how your name defines your destiny which is called out by your creator- the one who names you. You will also learn why we as Africans shouldn’t be comfortable with what our oppressors call us. “If you name something, you have dominance, you own it!” [8:44] What you will learn: · [0:25] Why your name is who you are. The significance of a name in Africa and most cultures. · [2:57] Understanding the context of what your creator has called you to live out your destiny. · [4:10] How Africans name for purpose, destiny, and to fulfill a promise. · [6:24] The importance of your correct name and the one who named you. · [9:12] The creation and division of the African space and people disguised as independence. · [15:04] Why we need to come together as Africans and stop carrying out the wishes of our oppressors because none of them was designed to work for us. · [19:12] The importance of uniting as Africans wherever we are in the world to heal our motherland.

13. 

    26 Jul 2020

    Identity

    Sean and Temi discuss ideas around self and how the notion of identity is crafted and created.

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