Grassroots Holistic Health

After a grand jury in Ferguson,Missouri voted not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown and the protesting that followed we decided that revisiting Dr.Na’im Akbar’s book,The Community of Self, would be in order.  "The Community of Self talks about yourself, myself and ourselves.The context is the African-American experience,not to reduce the generalizability of the concepts to one group of people,but because this is my cultural context.The African-American experience stands as one of the strongest examples of high human principles being able to endure despite environments of extreme opposition,and there is instruction in what we can offer the world about being human. Because of the seriousness of the assault on the African-American,our situation is also precarious.We need the attention of our thinkers for ourselves.  We need to restore our communities and to understand and develop our communities of self. We need assistance in correction some serious problems in our psycholo