Omooluiwabi

Something slight for . Pardon the wrinkles, I walked about 3 miles in that suit at yesterday. The shirt wasn't wrinkled then.

>W.E.B. DuBois said at the beginning of the century that, "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." The main difference between then and now is that in recent times the line has been drawn in "invisible ink." To come to conclusions that result in the failure to employ and, in the decision, to miss thousands of qualified African American teachers mainly on the basis of biased standardized, multiple choice, paper-and-pencil test scores, is to draw the invisible color line. To fail to find a solution to the employment problem for nearly one-half of the African-American male population, and to fail to see these appalling numbers as a crisis demanding immediate attention, is to draw the invisible color line. To fail to deal with television programs and films that continue to defame, insult, and distort the images of African Americans on a daily basis, all in the name of the one great media god "the ratings," is to draw the color line in invisible ink. To fail to overhaul the whole school curriculum so that it fairly reflects upon the African American in more than cosmetic ways, is to draw the color line in invisible ink. To continue to question the intellect of African American children who have been deprived of opportunity, is to draw the color line in invisible ink.<

-Asa Hillard, The Maroon Within US


This excerpt hits the nail on the head. Just to put this into context, this brother not only talks the talk but he walks the walk. He is a founding member of the Association for the Study of Classic African Civilizations. His works reaffirm African cultural identity while at the same time posing the solutions to the problems at hand. That is not an easy task. Dr Hilliard teaches us that reasserting cultural identity, on our own terms, is the only way for us to escape this current Western condition. This was published 15 yrs ago & I pay respect to the insight of the Wosir Asa Hilliard. Ashé...

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Empress open your third eye and let me impress my interests.
This ya brother from another mother, no in**st.
Intimate interactions, we intersect.
My X=0, y intercept.
You quiz my love,
While I test ya kisses.
I begin, you finish.
Vibrate above, soul searching turtledoves.
Let's grow old with Afros.
2 stepping, cook outs, and travel.
Let's grow old with walks in the park.
Twin flames: I'll give you my heart.
When you can't see the light,
I'll sit with you in the dark.
Your soul knows where loves lives,
So let's get it.
I don't wanna give you the wrong impression.
Life is the ultimate question.
Spiritual awakenings lead us one direction.
Prayers offer ancestral protection.
Look inside for the answer.
Love strengthens affection.
Distance makes us desperate.

: Know thyself, use ya head. Don't dance with devils, don't share ya bed. Necrophilics holding hands. Stop sharing ya heart with the spiritually dead.

==>>The pursuit of liberty by Africans in the United States took several different forms. It began with questions they asked about contradictions inherent in proclaiming a revolution, announcing liberty and justice for all, but not including Black Americans.>The radical Black ministry that began to emerge during the first half of the 19th century, filled with ideas about the American Revolution, saw these contradictions and set in motion several massive slave revolts. There was the Gabriel Prosser revolt in 1800, the Denmark Vessey revolt in 1822, and the best known of all, the Nat Turner revolt in Virginia that occurred in 1831.> During the first half of the 19th century, literature of protest and revolt emerged in such Black edited publications as Freedom's Journal; and a newspaper operated by Frederick Douglass call The North Star. Douglass, a great leader, was also the most eloquent voice of the African people's pursuit of liberty. In 1829, David Walker issued his famous Appeal to the Colored People of the World, summoning them to revolt against their condition.>The continuous attacks by Black Abolitionists on the eve of the Civil War focused on slavery and the conditions of slavery, creating a great deal of anti-slavery sentiments. During the Civil War, Black Americans fought in large numbers on the side of the North, especially the famous black regiment which consisted mainly of New England Blacks. After the Civil War, however, Africans had to pursue liberty in a different manner.

When written expression becomes a dominant value, words becomes binding through writting, and through writting, and values are perceived laws. Laws preserved through written codification are more impressive to the European mind than mere "values." This circular process helps to maintain order in lieu of those mechanisms that would be binding in other cultures. Written laws became the mark of European religion. The literate mode helped to impart the illusion of historically and therefore of "universal truth."

Written codification is necessary for the development and growth of a certain kind of ideology and a qualitatively distinct style of organization; not necessarily more complex, but in many ways more oppressive to the human spirit as it forces human activity to be increasingly technological oriented. The Kemites (Egyptians) possessed a system that allowed them to keep written records thousands of years before the Hebrews. They also had a larger and more technologically accomplished culture. And for these reasons, Kemet might first appear to be the ethnological precursor to the crystallization of European culture.

But Kemetic civilization is sacredly based, and its religion more cosmic, mythic, and symbolic in intent. The mathematical, astrological, astronomical, and philosophical knowledge of the Kemites, even the material colossus that was Kemet, were products of a total conception of the universe as spirit. It is for this reason that Kemet still remains a puzzle to the European mind. The Afrikan apprehension of the universe aa a cosmic harmony simply represents a philosophic approach that defies the European world-view.

Dr. Marimba Ani ~ Yurugu

Reposted from GFH
Guns For Hand


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"Feminist theory does not systematically address the issue of white supremacy and racism and their impact on African women and men, nor does it expose and articulate how white women in conjunction with the fruit of their wombs (their sons, brothers, fathers, and husbands) initiate, perpetuate, maintain, and benefit from the imposition of white supremacy on the lives of African men and women. It is this failure of the feminist philosophical paradigm that is significantly responsible for its routine misinterpretation of the lives of African women." - Dr. Valethia Watkins (Womanism and Black Feminism: Issues in the Manipulation of African Historiography)

Spicy apple, ginger sausage sandwiches cooked in a reduced Apple butter sauce on rye.

==>>Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.

Reposted from Title- "Metaverse 1"
Medium- Oil on canvas
Size- 105cm x 135cm
Year- 2021

The future is right here and Now, it's right on our palms. The opportunities are endless and the world is now less of a global village, it is next door, just a step, a knock, a click of button away.

The future library is without walls, it's digital. Knowledge has left the wooden shelves, it's home to whoever dares to push the buttons and swipe , it's metaversal.

>>>One of the white man’s favorite tricks, through his ‘liberals’ and through his puppet ‘Negro leader’ mouthpieces, is to keep flooding the black masses and the rest of the world with propaganda that the black man here is getting better off in America in every way, every day. But the true nature and the true intent of the former slavemaster is glaring every way and every day in the headlines:

You Can’t Enter Here

You Can’t Ride Here

You Can’t Work Here

You Can’t Play Here

You Can’t Study Here

You Can’t Eat Here

You Can’t Drink Here

You Can’t Walk Here

You Can’t Live Here