Knowledge is power.
Till this day i do not understand why a sista can follow a religion that teaches her she is the reason for suffering, she was made to keep Adam company, and that her cycle is a reminder of what she did. That alone should show you that it was made up by misogynistic men.
Knowledge is power do not make eurocentric/imperialist customs your own it is never to take your mind back.
“As Stokley Carmicheal noted “nothing more quickly repels someone bent on destroying you than the unequivocal message: O.K., fool, make your move, and run the same risk i run of—dying.” Unlike the mean-spirited, aggressive violence of white bigots, black-led retaliatory acts were viewed as being supportive of broad human rights. They were linked to time-honored societal mores which held that individual were justified in fighting back in order to preserve their person,property, or honor. They also were attached to the notion that a nation which fails to protect its citizens cannot condemn those who take up the task themselves.”
Passage from: New Day In Babylon by William L. Van Deburg pg 19-20
“a nation which fails to protect its citizens cannot condemn those who take up the task themselves.” that statement made almost too much since to me. Things like that are the reason there was a black panther party for self defense
Abraham Lincoln said
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”
by:
Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) 16th US President
Source:
Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858
(The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, pp. 145-146.)
Some of my fellow Africans seem to think that we should separate ourselves from our American kin because you all “lack culture” and have a negative stigma attached to your very identity.
I call bullshit.
Africans taken from the Continent and brought here have managed to have more influence on American, Caribbean, and South American culture than any other race. You have influenced music and changed it on a whole different level that would otherwise be unattainable.
You are geniuses. You have done the impossible: under conditions that were so unspeakably horrible in a time when you could be killed just for having an identity other than “chattel”, you managed to influence this country.
Oh, they’ll dismiss your accomplishments all of February, try and dissuade us from learning about our pasts in an effort to make our futures even more bleak.
But you have African blood in your veins, whether you were born on the Continent or descended from those stolen from it long ago. And fuck any of my fellow Africans (and everyone else) who tell you otherwise. Black people are of African descent, and even if you have forgotten where in Africa you come from, know that there is an entire Continent that at one point was the home of your ancestors.
Black people didn’t spring out of the ground to be enslaved. Africa is just as much apart of your identity as it is those of us who are from the Continent.
The divide between those of the Continent and our American descendants is what history wants. They don’t want you to have an identity, or a link to what once was yours. That’s the whole point. I want that gap bridged.
