Artist, writer, scholar of visual culture and
#Afriscape
™ cartographer. Itinerant Lecture faculty professor of Africana Studies. African/Afrikan/Black
@Gadash78
White paternalism.The white savior trope is the handmaiden of colonialism. It engrains a false sense of superiority in the white status quo and a sense of powerlessness in the oppressed.Someone who has your best interests at heart will create conditions for self determination.
So called "ADOS" and "FBA" are merely anti-PanAfricanist disinformation groups that poorly hide that agenda behind the reparations movement (which was started by PANAFRICANISTS). No one should be surprised if it is discovered that they are cointelpro-style government ops.
@chrisvanderveen
So this pig realized that the $14 dollars worth of Walmart merchandise was returned and yet he's terrorizing a senior citizen with dementia like he's wrestling the Rock or something. Police are sociopaths with the critical thinking skills of a frisbee chasing poodle.
For you Black “Americans” out there waiting for massa’s “tangibles”. This is Amerikkka. You gonna march into an oven with that stupid American flag on your social media account???
The 'diaspora wars' are an artificially created conflict no doubt devised by US counter-insurgency to foment divide & rule amongst African ascendant peoples. Anyone advocating for division from other African people is an agent of US state imperialism whether they know it or not.
This is new flag for Martinique. It was just adopted February 2nd 2023. Black folks waving Amerikkkan flags on their social media need to catch up. Despite the misinformation seen on this app
#PanAfricanism
is GROWING!
@JMitchellNews
@KeneAkers
Imagine being Black and living in a society, generation after generation, with thousands of De La Beckwiths. Many of them with police badges and judges robes.
@ShaunKing
@APTPaction
Police are Sociopaths. Engaging in an anti-human activity as one's chosen field of life work is to normalize it. Normalizing anti-human activity is the very definition of being a sociopath. They've normalized carrying a lethal weapon in civilian populaces as their vocation.
#BlackTwitter
mourning the impending death of this app is a metaphor for Black existence in Amerikkka.Negros will mourn the crash & burn of this app but haven't constructed a self-determined space in which to thrive with the exact same Black on-line community discourse.
@velli_jr
@AishaDaughter
White paternalism.The white savior trope is the handmaiden of colonialism. It engrains a false sense of superiority in the white status quo and a sense of powerlessness in the oppressed.Someone who has your best interests at heart will create conditions for self determination.
@VictorThom50113
We've been taught by history that those who advocate for division between Black/African groups are usually government ops/agent provocateurs. Nothing far fetched about it. With the growing popularity of PanAfricanism on the continent it wouldn't be an unusual gov response.
Dead? These brothas didn't get the memo. PanAfricanism is GROWING. Some of ya'll with your lips pressed to massa's (cough cough) flag will be left behind. And why you always hiding behind fake social media accounts?
For those miseducated few who believe that
#PanAfricanism
isn’t popular on the continent here’s a new mural from the
#Doxandem
crew in Dakar Senegal 🇸🇳. I met some of these spraycan artists in 2016 in Dakar. They’re young enough to be my sons and daughters.
@dijoni
@_JohnOnAir
It’s much sicker than that y’all. It says “straight outta Valhalla”. Valhalla is from Norse mythology and figures prominently in Odinism, a religion popular amongst white “supremacists”. Sometimes they have Thor’s hammer tattooed on their bodies.
@zellieimani
And of course the armed protectors of white hegemony show up enforce when the wellbeing of whiteness is threatened but willfully absent (or willful antagonists) when Black humanity is threatened.
#AbolishThePolice
White paternalism.The white savior trope is the handmaiden of colonialism. It engrains a false sense of superiority in the white status quo and a sense of powerlessness in the oppressed.Someone who has your best interests at heart will create conditions for self determination.
@TorraineWalker
You and other folks (ADOS/FBA) seem new to this discussion. It’s not new. We have called out certain aspects of it but had sense enough to keep it a family discussion. And, had sense enough to have a class analysis of the FEW from the continent and Caribbean who come here.
@nasescobar316
@MichaelJaiWhite
You're incorrect. I'm not a celebrity. I've been to Africa 3 times. I was in Nigeria in January. And, each time I was treated like family.
@VerySmartBros
With this essay Damon Young proves he's NOT a very smart brotha. He's obviously blissfully unaware of Dr. Tommy Curry's book "The Man-Not."
@Bluesjazz6A
Sammy Davis was the greatest entertainer of the 20th century. Don't talk about sales and popularity (although he had a lot of that too), talk about versatility and craft mastery. Everything from gun tricks and impersonations to tap dancing and acting. And, was masterful at each.
SOME African ethnic groups sold prisoners of war from other ethnic groups.On any given day an ethnic group could lose a skirmish and have some of their folks sold for guns by their enemy. Remember,the ethnic group of YOUR personal ancestors may have sold other Africans for guns.
1. Kwame Ture said that PanAfricanism is the natural evolution of African societies. From the family to tribe, to clan, to nation, to continent. It's just that Arab invasion and European colonialism violently interrupted that natural process.
@kzshabazz
@PKocbek
@Gadash78
Eastern European tribal wars are not comparable to the centuries of dehumanization in every category lived experience that Africans endured from European and Arab colonialism. Being "2nd class" is not comparable to anti-Black dehumanization at the hands of white hegemony.
“Nzinga’s greatest act, however, probably the one that makes her one of the greatest women in history, was in 1624 when she declared all territory in Angola over which she had control as free country, all slaves reaching it from whatever quarter were forever free.” citation below
@xspotsdamark
Ferguson writes about bowls created by enslaved Africans in S. Carolina with Crosses and circles are etched into them that are related to the Bakongo/Kikongo cosmogram. Archeologists found them at the bottom of rivers and in slave quarters.
@cadet_365
I lived in
#Oakland
for 40 years and attended countless Juneteenth Fests. You know we don't roll like that Black man. Oakland is a PANAFRICAN city! Erebody Black is there: Kenyans, Senegalese, Haitians, Brazilians, Nigerians, Cubans, Puerto Ricans...erebody!
I'm at
#HastaMuerteCoffee
in the Fruitvale district of
#Oakland
. There were 1st Nations peoples in front sageing and blessing the place when I arrived. Good mocha and pastry. I feel safe here with no police.
#newfavoritecafe
@PattyCakesyall
@petty_murphy43
That's what you got out of that video??? You so-called "freedmen"/FBA/ADOS folks are the biggest cowards in the Black community. You got more smoke for other Black folks than you do for latinas callin' you the n-word.
@LeftSentThis
Judging from his freestyle he was told he couldn't use that word but in his white arrogance he used it anyway. So he got what he deserved and anyone like him needs to learn from this cautionary tale.
@drhoodscholar
A lot of this stems from a false sense of superiority. Even while in emotional distress Black men are subjected to being talked down to.
Anti-Black misandry is real and hides behind Black feminist theory to the point of absurdity. Anyone who thinks that heterosexual Black men are inherently harmful and deserve erasure are doing the work of genocidal white hegemony.
@LordHasan
@DrTJC
@afropuffz
@JAMAiwuyor
I think y’all are misunderstanding what “abolish Black men” means, it doesn’t translate to eradication, when we talk about abolishing an identity we don’t mean bringing physical death to that group. Cishetero manhood is inherently harmful and should be abolished (categorically)
@NewAfrikanMind
We can observe arrogant white kids with the exact same arguments right now in the 21st century. The white left should NEVER blame anti-Blackness on generational ignorance as if their generation is more enlightened than the previous one.
I think I need 5 for different areas of thought.
1. Nkrumah, Dubois, Ture, Garvey, Malcolm
2. Cesaire, Senghor, Baraka, Reed, Mackey
3. Ani, Cress-Welsing, Nobles, Carruthers, Clarke
4. Malcolm, Cabral, Sankara, Rodney, Fanon
5. Kunjufu, Curry, Hasan Johnson, MacDougal,Wright
Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore have a narrow nationstate mis-education about Black/African identity. Their sense of African geo-politics (such that it is) is rudimentary at best and that explains why they assiduously avoid any discussions with
#PanAfricanist
intellectuals.
@DaveBondyTV
Notice that the public is no longer swayed by police official narratives and the police's stenographers also known as 'the press'. You no longer get some undeserved benefit of the doubt. Police should stop dehumanizing & murdering Black men. PERIOD.
@RenyTure
"Women suffer doubly from all the scourges of neocolonial society. First, they experience the same suffering as men. Second, they are subjected to additional suffering by men." "Women's Role in the Democratic and Popular Revolution" - Thomas Sankara October 2nd, 1983
@Dr_House_Music
@Gadash78
FALSE! They do not receive "trillions". They receive "loans" while the US & European multi-national corporations STEAL natural resources so valuable that western society would COLLAPSE if they didn't.Coltan, Bauxite. Nice try Opie. Now crawl back into your 44 person echo chamber.
Elder Scholar/activist Jimmy Garrett posted today on Facebook that Dr Nathan Hare, the legendary head of the 1st Black Studies Department in the country at San Francisco State University has joined the ancestors on Monday, January 10th 2024.May he rest with the honored ancestors.
6 Regions Of The African Union :
North Africa
South Africa
West Africa
East Africa
Central Africa
And the 6th reigon is the African Diaspora
"The role of the Diaspora in their relations with the continent is to
contribute to the development of the continent" - African Union
@MikeLowwry
@ChezCharde
You don't understand the PanAfricanist world view. Yes, we absolutely do discuss the Africanity of Caribbean, South American and North American culture and music.The interactions between all of these is the point. The African call and response between all of the African diaspora.
"We can see the absurdity of the current usages, where thirty million Yorubas are referred to as a tribe,but 4 million Danes as a nation.A group of 250,000 Icelanders constitutes a nation,while 10 million Ibos make up a tribe." - Ngũgĩ on “The Myth of Tribe in African Politics.”
@DOmowale
"It is fair to say that tribe, tribalism, and tribal wars, the terms so often used to explain conflict in Africa,were colonial inventions.Most African languages do not have the equivalent of the English word tribe..." - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o,. “The Myth of Tribe in African Politics.”
@TorraineWalker
Is
@DrTJC
Tommy Curry, Dr. T Hasan Johnson
@LordHasan
or Dr. Serie Mcdougal in this documentary? If not, I expect this documentary to be somewhat of a lie of omission. How you gonna have Billy Porter and Jamilah Lemieux and not have the most prominent scholars in the field ???
@Realtalkuncens1
The anti-hotep crowd try to hide their anti-Black misandry behind indignation over Dr. Umar's alleged fiscal corruption. But, what he's accused of appropriating is chump change by comparison to what National BLM leadership took on the backs of dead Black boys and men.
It's interesting to me how some people shape entire narratives without any discernible evidence, just mutually agreed upon conjecture. Is there actual proof that MLK had affairs? Or, is that just cointelpro era Hoover/FBI disinformation?
More evidence of white/European colonialism's global anti-Black misandry project. This historian tells of a tool that was invented by the British military with the express purpose of castrating Black/African men.
@DrTJC
@LordHasan
@DOmowale
"It is fair to say that tribe, tribalism, and tribal wars, the terms so often used to explain conflict in Africa,were colonial inventions.Most African languages do not have the equivalent of the English word tribe..." - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o,. “The Myth of Tribe in African Politics.”
@kzshabazz
It is conspicuous how certain Black folks passionately defend Eurocentric ideologies or white leftism, yet have nothing but skepticism for African-centered epistemologies. It exposes their insecurities and intellectual blindspots.
Africans born in Amerikkka have a tendency to equate western democratic society with egalitarian societies. Electoral politics in Amerikkka is all about power dynamics. There are no moral or ethical motivations at play. It's designed to hold white hegemony in place.
@TorraineWalker
“Checked”? or publicly proven to be incorrect? Used as an excuse to make blanket claims about an entire continent of people based on the attitudes of the minority that comes here? Or, having sense enough to make solidarity with folks who might rule the richest continent on earth.
Respected scholar and historian Baba Runoko Rashidi joined the ancestors today while conducting a tour of Kmt. He was renowned for his dedication to African people. He will be missed. May he rest with the honored ancestors.
Drs. Frances Cress-Welsing And Marimba Ani / The Meeting Happy Birthday to legendary scholar and honored ancestor Dr. Frances Luella Welsing (née Cress; March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016)
If you think that PanAfricanism is a thing of the past or that it only has followers outside of the continent you are in ahistorical isolation and really never understood PanAfricanism to begin with. These young folks are in Azania (SA), Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mali...
Black folks, please don't embarrass us all by doing some demonstrative 'celebration' when Biden and Kamala are elected. It's celebrating one form of oppression over another. Be clear, neither Biden nor Kamala have ever been a friend to the Black community.
May he rest with the honored ancestors. Mtume was highly influential on progressive black music in the early 70s. He was an advocate of revolutionary Pan Africanism influenced the aesthetic of Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi Band as well as Miles Davis' iconic 70s band.
#Jazz
@wkamaubell
TV police shows and hollywood police movies (police propaganda) created the conditions for the white status quo to think that it is OK to do that:
#AbolishThePolice
@Duhlency
Have you read any work by
@DrTJC
Dr. Tommy J. Curry or
@LordHasan
Dr. T Hassan Johnson? You should invite these brothas to be guests on your podcasts to see how well these stereotypes about Black men stand up to actual data and historical substantiation.
@GodfreyComedian
@vladtv
3 points. 1.) I never subscribed to VladTV. 2) I only watched it to hear what
@lordjamar
had to say. It might as well had been LordJamarTV as far as I'm concerned. 3) We should refrain from using the term culture vulture. Vultures eat dead things. Culture LEECH is a better term.
@seghen123
I'm from a different generation. I'm 62. But, all of my life I exclusively dated Black women and this past Saturday my Black wife and I celebrated our 23rd wedding anniversary. This current generation needs to reset its commitment to Black Love.
Be truthful. Does anyone believe that Chadwick Boseman would've wanted the character of T'challa eliminated from the MCU because of his death? Does it honor him to do so?
#RecastTChalla
Sadly,the average African born in America doesn't have a rudimentary understanding of geopolitics,let alone the specificity of AFRICAN geopolitics.Miseducation has lead them to believe that the outcomes from US settler state partisan politics is the final word on their destinies.
Thousands of pages documenting slavery found in attic of Eastern Shore house. About 2,000 pages dating from the late 1600s to early 1800s were found in a plastic trash bag in the attic of a 200-year-old house near Chestertown, Md.,
Let's not allow the Euro-Western white status quo narratives about honored ancestor
#WinnieMandela
to become canonical. Mama Winnie was a REVOLUTIONARY who maintained her revolutionary principles until her dying day. She was much more than an "activist."
@craigspoplife
@nelsongeorge
No surprises here. Every time the Rolling Stone does one of their top 100 lists they prove that they're just propagandists for cultural colonialism.
@RenyTure
These so-called "ADOS/FBA" clowns are textbook overseers keepin' the plantation/matrix in dominance. They're allergic to historically substantiated fact and stay takin' blue pills every morning like vitamins.
Apparently the application of the intersectional calculus stops anywhere potentially heterosexual Black men are found. This is just more evidence of BLM’s anti-Black misandry. The use of Black male death and the valorization of Black men’s lives are two different things.
@BrannuSunyata
@CrinkleSpeaks
Most shocking thing is that the "therapist" thought she could deploy those dehumanizing stereotypes on social media for all to see with impunity. No fear about her professional image at all because she's obviously said those things in an echo chamber that accepted them AS TRUTH.
Habari Gani? UMOJA! I send this greeting to all African peoples on the continent and in the diaspora. Unity is our primary organizing tool.
#AfricaFirst
#panafricanism
#Kwanzaa
1st Day.
@xspotsdamark
NOT true that our continental brothas & sistas do not want us to wear African attire.Until I went to visit the continent and buy my own, most of my African attire was gifted to me in the US by Yoruba and other Nigerian brothas. If they don't like YOU, it's something YOU'RE doing.
@TorraineWalker
It has been brotha. That’s historically substantiated FACT. Not even including Black folks I know personally who collaborate with Africans and don’t make the news. I’ve been to Brazil several times (1st time in 1988) Haiti (2001), Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria (this year).
@aaprpsouthwest
"I am opposed to giving credit to Marx...if for no other reason because I do not think I should give credit to a European, saying he has taught me a universal concept that I know, especially since I think these concepts were alive in Africa before him." - Kwame Ture (1970)
I got a feeling that when
#Andre3000
drops his flute album tomorrow a lot of folks will go out and (re)discover Eric Dolphy, Bobbi Humphrey,
@CharlesLloydSax
@JohnColtrane
Nicole Mitchell, James Newton, Hubert Laws and others...and that's a good thing.
@wkamaubell
It is more accurately a white problem. South Africa, Australia ... pick a spot, they've been assaulting black people like this for centuries. These sociopaths called "police" sexually assaulted that woman in public.
These Black folks claiming to be “native American” say so much about their delusions when they take their cues from a man who is clearly mentally ill. Kanye sics security on a Sista while placating the snow bunny.
The Haitian flag was created by cutting the white part out of the french colonial flag.The independence flag was created to signify an end to white hegemony, slavery and colonialism.
#HaitianIndependenceDay
#Afriscape
#VisualCulture
(Please post the artist's name to this thread)
@Dr_House_Music
@Gadash78
Your response is to provide information from the thief that has been robbing Africa for over half a century. Eisenhower called for the assassination of Patrice Lumumba in order for the US to STEAL from the largest deposits of Uranium in the world.
This is probably an unpopular opinion (especially with my Oakland folks) but I don’t think that a brotha who made his career calling Black women by slurs and romanticizing sex trafficking should have a street named after him in a city where sex trafficking has ruined many lives.
My favorite quote of late. Ellington on his first visit to Africa: "After writing African music for thirty-five years, here I am at last in Africa!" -- Duke Ellington
#PanAfrican