African not Black.
My girlfriend Qian (I love you baby!) Said something very poignant. She said one sentence and it got me thinking. I realize that I'm African but I've always called myself Black as well. Well not anymore. Qiannie Pie said "White people tricked you guys into believing you're Black and not African."
That's our problem we have no identity. We still use the language that the oppressor has given us as they gave it to us. What are we to identify with as Black people? The night? The galaxy? The world when our eyes are shut? We need to realize that we're African. If a White person ever asks you what race you are (as if they can't tell) you tell them "I'm African." We are not Black! "I'm Black and I'm proud!" No!! "I'm African and I'm proud." If we realize this fact the sense of pride, love, and community would engulf our people. We would then realize that we have a home and it's only a matter of time before we get back there. We would also abolish our notion of loyalty to this corrupt place. Our people above and beyond any other people in this nation, beside natives, should not show any sort of loyalty to this system or this soil. We've been bamboozled into believing that we can be White in this White land. "The White man gon' let us be White. I sho' is happy!" It's foolish!
The English language as used in this land was bestowed upon us to keep us opposite, to keep them rich and us poor, to keep them free and us in prison, to keep them innocent and us guilty. I still have no clue why we think that anything that this oppressor has given us is any good. It's like Christianity! Why are we so faithful to that religion? They want us to use the values of Christianity to march and be peaceful they want us to trot out the Reverend Jesse Jackson everytime we have a problem to keep us peaceful. Where is the old White preacher to keep the police from beating our brothers and sisters to death or protest bombing other countries back to the "third world?" I don't understand it. NOTHING forced upon has done us any good in this country.
We were domesticated animals to them. We were bred and beaten like dogs or horses. That also gets me whats with making animals your slave? I mean goodness let them be free. That's all dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, or whatever other animal is. It's a slave. White people believed we were animals so they domesticated us. Same goes with pets. They're animals so they must be enslaved. Stop determining that life is inferior to other life. We are not below or above any animal or any other person on this planet. White people in this nation and people all over the globe need to realize that you're not better than anyone or anything. We need to stop forcing our will on other beings.
I am not a color or the absence there of. I'm of a beautiful race of people, the original man or woman I should say, shouts to our sister Lucy. We as Black people realize we're from the African continent but we refuse to identify with her. That is where we are from and that is our home. The negative image of our homeland is controlled by the very people who have kept us in bondage for over 400 years.
I protest the use of Black and I retain that I am AFRICAN.
That's our problem we have no identity. We still use the language that the oppressor has given us as they gave it to us. What are we to identify with as Black people? The night? The galaxy? The world when our eyes are shut? We need to realize that we're African. If a White person ever asks you what race you are (as if they can't tell) you tell them "I'm African." We are not Black! "I'm Black and I'm proud!" No!! "I'm African and I'm proud." If we realize this fact the sense of pride, love, and community would engulf our people. We would then realize that we have a home and it's only a matter of time before we get back there. We would also abolish our notion of loyalty to this corrupt place. Our people above and beyond any other people in this nation, beside natives, should not show any sort of loyalty to this system or this soil. We've been bamboozled into believing that we can be White in this White land. "The White man gon' let us be White. I sho' is happy!" It's foolish!
The English language as used in this land was bestowed upon us to keep us opposite, to keep them rich and us poor, to keep them free and us in prison, to keep them innocent and us guilty. I still have no clue why we think that anything that this oppressor has given us is any good. It's like Christianity! Why are we so faithful to that religion? They want us to use the values of Christianity to march and be peaceful they want us to trot out the Reverend Jesse Jackson everytime we have a problem to keep us peaceful. Where is the old White preacher to keep the police from beating our brothers and sisters to death or protest bombing other countries back to the "third world?" I don't understand it. NOTHING forced upon has done us any good in this country.
We were domesticated animals to them. We were bred and beaten like dogs or horses. That also gets me whats with making animals your slave? I mean goodness let them be free. That's all dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, or whatever other animal is. It's a slave. White people believed we were animals so they domesticated us. Same goes with pets. They're animals so they must be enslaved. Stop determining that life is inferior to other life. We are not below or above any animal or any other person on this planet. White people in this nation and people all over the globe need to realize that you're not better than anyone or anything. We need to stop forcing our will on other beings.
I am not a color or the absence there of. I'm of a beautiful race of people, the original man or woman I should say, shouts to our sister Lucy. We as Black people realize we're from the African continent but we refuse to identify with her. That is where we are from and that is our home. The negative image of our homeland is controlled by the very people who have kept us in bondage for over 400 years.
I protest the use of Black and I retain that I am AFRICAN.
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