" The Sovereign Psyche is not just the title of the book. More importantly The Sovereign Psyche is the motivating consciousness, intellect, and willpower that is necessary to materialize what the book defines as "Self-Authentic Freedom" as opposed to "Chattel Freedom." Chattel freedom is when the value of a people is predicated upon the extent to which they serve the interests and institutions of others. As such, this work asserts that there is no such thing as intellectual or institutional equality, and that Black/African people have been unknowingly thrusted into an “intellectual and institutional war,” where second-place finishers either experience varying degrees of chattel freedom or they could end-up dead. Regardless of the issue, genuine solutions entail what we as Black/African people intellectually and institutionally do for ourselves. If "Black Lives Matter" we must channel the end-uses of our intellect and the resources of our institutions to not only prove and enforce it, but also leverage powers to penalize and/or repudiate violators. Although this work centers upon Black/African people, the sovereign functions and frameworks herein are universal in application, being that today’s world rotates upon systems of sovereignty and power, not beliefs in democracy or equality. In this context, the sovereign concepts and criteria presented are far more rational than radical. The central question is, to what extent will Black/African people harness the willpower and employ the intellect of The Sovereign Psyche to actualize our own systems and institutions of self-authentic freedom, government, and development, without apology or permission? This work offers the ideological apparatus to make this possible, just as others are doing all around the globe. " Ezrah Aharone is a scholar of Sovereign Studies and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Delaware State University. He is the author of the political books Sovereign Evolution and Pawned Sovereignty , which Rolling Out Magazine reviewed as being "a collector's item, alongside Welsing's Isis Papers and Woodson's Mis-Education of the Negro ." Born in Newark and raised in Passaic, NJ, he is a graduate of Hampton University. He has lived and worked in West Africa where he is now a business and political consultant (see www.EzrahSpeaks.com). The Sovereign Psyche Systems of Chattel Freedom vs. Self-Authentic Freedom By Ezrah Aharone AuthorHouse Copyright © 2016 Ezrah Aharone All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-5246-0135-5 Contents Introduction, xi, PART I - Recognizing and Redressing Chattel Freedom, Concept 1: Parallel Origins and Evolutions of Racism and Jeffersonian Democracy, 3, Concept 2: Racism is the "Unprincipled Relationship" between Black America and the Government, 19, Concept 3: Tyranny Lies in the Eye of Beholders, 47, PART II - Universal Applications of The Sovereign Psyche, Concept 4: The Quest and Quality of Sovereignty, 63, Concept 5: Workings and Interworkings of The Sovereign Psyche, 73, Concept 6: Ethnonationalism and The Sovereign Nature of Europeans, 95, PART III - The 21st-Century Quest for Self-Authentic Freedom, Concept 7: Africa's Sovereign and Intellectual Heritage, 119, Concept 8: "Freedom To" and "Freedom From", 135, Concept 9: The 21st-Century Concept and Doctrine of "Both/And", 173, Summation, 197, Endnotes, 213, Index, 235, CHAPTER 1 Concept 1 Parallel Origins and Evolutions of Racism and Jeffersonian Democracy "The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." Winston Churchill * * * Democracy is No Safe Haven for Equality or Morality As the world faces escalating political and ideological conflicts like never before, with weapons that are more destructive than ever before, there's a seemingly Western notion that the world would be safe for everyone if all nations adopted democracy. Further, Americans seemingly tend to think that the world would be even better if all nations adopted its Jeffersonian blueprint for democracy and equality. But is democracy really what nations need for world security, and is Jeffersonian Democracy really the staging ground for equality? With these assertions in mind, there are valuable lessons that the world can learn about the duplicities of democracy and equality by simply analyzing the political and racial history of America since 1619, along with the fractured relationship that Black America subsequently developed with US government and society since 1865. Of the many modern examples that demonstrate democracy's double-edged sword of benefits and detriments, this history and relationship presents a textbook case that is arguably unmatched. A striking reality about the enslavement and repression of Africans in Amer