ITS GOIN DOWN PART 7

[ITS GOIN DOWN] PART 7
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Red thinks back to when he was younger, living in the projects. He remembers the day that a man came to him and asked him if he knew his true power, his true potential. He remembers the answer that he gave the man. "What true potential?"
The man told him to meet him on the playground the next day and Red and some of his friends met him on the playground which was in the middle of the projects at the appointed time the next day.
It turned out that the man was from the nation of islam and that he had been sent by a woman who attended the meetings that Red had been going to at the community center where he listened to Elijah Muhammed and where he had learned about islam.
The man gathered them all together and asked them if they knew how to protect themselves and they all said yeah. He asked then how and they all pulled various weapons from their pockets. Choke chains and brass knuckles as well as a couple of knives.
The man looked at the weapons and said "What are those going to do against an army, against the police? That stuff is cool when you are thinking of killing or hurting your own kind but what will it do if you are in a war?'
The man asked them if they were good with their hands and they all said yes. He told them to attack him and they all went at him, they were used to fighting together and they thought that they could take any adversary but when it was all over the man was still standing and they were on their asses. By this time a crowd had gathered and the girls who were watching were laughing at them.
It took a minute for the man to talk them down from trying to fight him again, to soothe their bruised egos, they were the baddest bunch in the projects where they lived. The first and last line of defence so to speak and they had all been beat by one man.
The man told them if they wanted some get back to be back on the playground the next day.
The next day they came back and the man started to talk to them.
"The fight is not always won by the strongest, or the first man to throw a punch, in many cases the fight is over before it ever begins. You have to be in control of your mind and if you want me to teach you you have to be willing to learn what I am going to show you."
The young men all agreed to the mans conditions and he showed them some fighting stances from the martial arts and they did this for about an hour before they stopped and the man told them to all sit down.
When they sat down the man told them " Close your eyes and look into yourselves. I want you to shut all of this out and just clear your minds."
They did this and Red remembers thinking "how can I shut all this out? All this noise...all this activity." Children played and he could hear them, he heard the sound of cars passing by, the drone of an airplane and he remember thinking that there was no way he could do this.
The man continued to come every day and teach them fighting positions and strategies and he continued to make them meditate.
One day Red was sitting there with his eyes closed when all of a sudden he did not hear the things around him. One minute he was hearing the things around him and the next he was in a place where none of these things existed, where there was peace. He was in this place for about 30 minutes when he started to feel himself being touched on the shoulder, when he heard the voice of the man coming through to the place where he had gone.
"Come on little brother and stand up."
He stood and all of a sudden he began to hear the world around him again.
The man asked him if he had felt the power and he shook his head yes.
"That is the power of the universe, the power of allah my brother."
Red was still kind of confused and the man seemed to know that so he began to talk to him about supreme mathematics and how the universe was governed by forces that most men could never see... how he had just opened his third eye and what his third eye was.
The young men just stood around and listened to the man as he broke it all down for them.
Red is brought back to the here and now by the sounds of people coming from the buildings and allyways and cheering as the convoy passes by they are shouting his name and many of the women hold up their babies so that they can see the convoy.
Red is so humbled by this that he stops the convoy and steps out of the vehicle he is in and he is immediately surrounded by the people on the streets.
He shakes some hands and takes a baby from one of the women before he climbs to the back of the vehicle he is on and begins to speak.

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