runaway institute
Made possible by The Self-Knowledge Academy, this groundbreaking development reflects the culmination of more than three decades of empirical experience, grounded theory, and public policy analysis.
our interdisciplinary community empowerment mechanisms offer various classes, lectures, & presentations… including both free as well as moderately priced learning and/or vocational opportunities to participants.
Additionally, this solution provides a sustainable platform for individual expression, community awareness, wealth creation, and collective engagement.
Native black american (NBA) liberal arts
Runaway Institute (RI) maintains that no other ethnicity, nationality, and/or race have a direct responsibility for the intellectual, psychological, and spiritual development of Native Black American (NBA) people seeking knowledge of self (i.e., truth). Additionally, personal interests and/or perceived qualifications notwithstanding, the vast majority of those from other groups have not objectively earned the privilege of teaching even the most incorrigible NBA person anything. Instead, members of other communities need to ultimately arrive at the realization that they--along with their banal pretenses--have largely become unnecessary.
There is something extremely objectionable about the notion that the very same people who fed autochthonous people rotten food and even worse ideas (i.e., for centuries), should be permitted to play any significant role whatsoever in the latter's contemporary cognitive evolution and educational emancipation. Therefore, we are very intentional about the independent design, implementation, and assessment of NBA curriculum, and extraordinarily selective about the educators and professionals from whom our students learn.
linguistic awareness
Runaway Institute is deeply committed to cultivating language independence within Native Black American communities throughout the United States as well as the Global Autochthonous Diaspora (GAD). We are convinced that much of the outside world’s continued domination of NBA geopolitical aspirations, is largely dependent upon an effective strategy of divide and conquer. Building upon the foundational work of Neely Fuller, Jr. and Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, emerging research indicates that modern existential anachronisms (e.g., cultural imperialism, classism, racism, etc.) operate against both the individual and collective interests of Native Black American humanity in every area of people activity (i.e., economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex, and war).
In order to improve the odds of victory, NBA people must ensure that we actively maintain the functional capacity to effectively communicate with one another and the rest of the world at-large. Toward this end, RI's Afrikan Language House (ALH) curriculum offers courses in Amharic, Arabic, French, Hebrew, Kiswahili, Portuguese, Shona, Spanish, and Wolof; just to name a few. By prioritizing linguistic self-determination, we are arming our people with tangible skills integral to cultural awareness, economic competitiveness, and collective security.
vocational specialization
During the sad and gloomy days of chattel slavery, Europeans brutally used Native Black American and other First Nations people to forcibly build a white distortion of what is commonly referred to as the so-called modern world. Consequently, in addition to the loss of land, language, culture and identity, people of original descent have a documented history of concomitant violence around work, labor exploitation, discrimination, and wage slavery.
Particularly in the United States, even ostensible progressive politics and labor movements have routinely sought to limit NBA entrepreneurial and socioeconomic aspirations in this country. However, Runaway Institute is finding ethical ways of matching qualified participants with the vocation and/or trade of their choice. What makes our approach especially unique is that our vocational and employment opportunities are directly connected to the overall nation-building imperatives of The Self-Knowledge Academy!
public advocacy
Runaway Institute assists Native Black Americans in the United States by hosting a number of forums, presentations, and panel discussions highlighting important issues ranging from education reform and intentional community, to the status of political prisoners, workforce development, and autonomous political organization (APO). We are actively initiating the kinds of communal dialogues that need to be engaged….
Our work in local communities centers around the fundamental principle that the human rights of NBA people are absolutely not up for debate, intimidation, manipulation, and/or negotiation. Having soundly established our globally autochthonous relationship with the vast firmament of natural rights and universal law, we may proceed to accomplish our goals with a much clearer picture of the objective interplay between traditional policy anachronisms (e.g., externalities) and evolving collective requirements (ECRs).