"The liberator is he who from a necessary silence, from a necessary secrecy strikes the destroyer. That, not loudness, is the necessary beginning."
~Ayi Kwei Armah, Two Thousand Seasons
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Necessary Silence
"The liberator is he who from a necessary silence, from a necessary secrecy strikes the destroyer. That, not loudness, is the necessary beginning."
~Ayi Kwei Armah, Two Thousand Seasons
We Will All Live In Afrika One Day
Isn't this just Afrika? (smile).
This is afrika too (fi yellow arrow above).
Dem yuts-also: Afrika.
Yep. Asi, ashe.
Bob Marley Interview with Patrick Barrat, 1980 in Tuff Gong, Jamaica
....
PB: Isn't Africa a bit a dream for you?
Bob: No, no, it's a reality.
PB: Will you go and live there one day?
Bob: Yeah man. We will all live in Africa one day, for even France will be Africa.
PB: How come?
Bob: But of course, France will be Ethiopia! When the french were in Africa, they used to control some places and declared them french. The times will change and France will belong to Africa. The tables are turning, but this time, there won't be blood, people won't be forced. They will agree. Africa is the fruit basket of the earth. It will unite without opressing the people for God loves Africa.
Edward Wilmot Blyden
"There is no better rallying ground".
Mashpee Pow Wow
This summer makes idren's 7th (formal) year of both celebrating alternatives to U.S. Holydazes and not celebrating U.S. Holydazes. Each fourth of youlie, ini spend time wi n8v bruddah/sistah. Every year ini see somethings that am supposed to see, needed to see. This year, at their 83rd Pow Wow, there were four especially memorable experiences. One, the Gombey dancers-Bermudian afro-amerN8Vs returned. Two, afro-n8v brothers and sisters, young & old came again -dem ah caryee da ways of de crown & idren saw it. Three, brother Annawon spoke some necessary words about 711 & 'rules' that i needed to hear. Four, sister Lorin, made a upspirit gesture during a yut's dance that struck me in my heart (last 'money' dance idren danced was with Fon of Mankon visit 2 winters ago-bconx live). Pure livity.
School of self government opens in Chile
TEMUKO, Chile – Based on sections of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Mapuche School of Self Government began its first day of classes Jan. 14 in Temuko, Chile. (more).
Chinua Achebe returns home for only the 2nd time in 20 years
...More than 2,000 people turned out to listen to him.
He spoke to them in a slow, gentle but strong voice. His message was clear. He is deeply disappointed at how little Nigeria has achieved since independence.
His generation struggled for freedom, but "we don't seem to have the receipt", he says.
Nigerians must "overcome that miseducation that we received under colonial rule... and celebrate our lives".
He believes that Africans must not reject their own culture but look to their past to discover values that will enable Africa to develop now. ( more )
He spoke to them in a slow, gentle but strong voice. His message was clear. He is deeply disappointed at how little Nigeria has achieved since independence.
His generation struggled for freedom, but "we don't seem to have the receipt", he says.
Nigerians must "overcome that miseducation that we received under colonial rule... and celebrate our lives".
He believes that Africans must not reject their own culture but look to their past to discover values that will enable Africa to develop now. ( more )
Rootz fya.
Attempted Bconx Alert
Back from underground (smile) ...Monday na present. Same gov't wan' me fi 'day off' 'given in honor' of the man's life, is the same gov't who dey took that life-na celebrate left in me 4 dis. Tho, despite all of the many many thoughts on the Obama process, I did have a strong feeling tues. ...i supsect a black man stopped the world for a couple hours (for good or bad).
Last week i received an email titled "How far we've come". Normally trash mail that looks like a chain-letter but I opened it and scrolled through 2 pictures & some text: it was an attempted Black Connection (Bconx). The first picture was a Norman Rockwell painting of Ruby Bridges ... ... the little black girl who had to be escorted to school by federal marshals.
Charlietown Yut still need Ruby escort. W/Backthorn transfer, whey dem strong self-hate self-damage 'pon one a neddy.
Last week i received an email titled "How far we've come". Normally trash mail that looks like a chain-letter but I opened it and scrolled through 2 pictures & some text: it was an attempted Black Connection (Bconx). The first picture was a Norman Rockwell painting of Ruby Bridges ... ... the little black girl who had to be escorted to school by federal marshals.
The text beside it read: "On November 14, 1960, Bridges faced hostile crowds as the first black child to attend a previously all-white New Orleans school. She was 6 years old and had only been told by her mother that she was going to be attending a new school that day and 'had better behave.' Little did she know that she would be bombarded with jeers and even death threats, and that she would end up being the sole child in her first grade class after other children were kept home by their parents. All because Ruby was Black." (*awo) One of the chail letter senders (an elder Sister) commented: “I just busted out in tears. I actually saw that on the news when I was a little girl”. This was follwed by another picture & text:
"Forty-eight years later -- January 5, 2009 -- here is a picture of Sasha Obama, a little 7 year old Black girl, being escorted to school by her mother, First Lady-elect Michelle Obama, and the Secret Service because Sasha's daddy is now President-elect of the United States, Barack Obama".
"Forty-eight years later -- January 5, 2009 -- here is a picture of Sasha Obama, a little 7 year old Black girl, being escorted to school by her mother, First Lady-elect Michelle Obama, and the Secret Service because Sasha's daddy is now President-elect of the United States, Barack Obama".
Here are 3 more Bconx that were not made because we are asleep or sleepwalking or both. The Obamas inherit an upsidedown kingdom, one in which the 'highest' leaders must use great protection for themselves & their family because of fear of the wi(d)er society. This fear is displayed in other escorts:
Charlietown Yut still need Ruby escort. W/Backthorn transfer, whey dem strong self-hate self-damage 'pon one a neddy.
Seen. Na bullet proof windows...MISSLE-Proof. Root of this fear? The Barricado.
Besides disease, pirate's biggest fear was insurrection on the slaver. They had insurance: arms, and wooden wall-barrier (escort) right on the deck in case of bad (upsidedown) feeling. Progress? Only a progression of wasted earth resources, insuring-re-enforcing unnecessary sysdems of fear (backthorn, awo), eh? Game as old as Empire.
& Jan 21... "So which way now? We have known hurt. But we have known miracles." -sister Adalaide Sanford
This is what sleepwalking too long does...affects language and even thought: Ruby's escort was not 'all because Ruby was Black'. HER BLACKNESS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. OUR BLACKNESS NEVER HAD TO DO WITH IT. WHEY BBY IMAGINATION IN DEM DOME STRANGE IS ‘ALL BECAUSE’. This imagination has not been addressed in the 'Obama process':
(what sysdems = 'elephant in the room' here?)
Kirikou & The Sorceress (incient wisdom)
Kirikou & the Sorceress 1hr20min Video
i saw this movie w/my cousin tribe 3-4 years ago. There is a deep & wonderful story in the script. i don't know if the movie makers even understand it...(perhaps their african story tellers knew it if they consulted on the project). idren recommend u see it [if u do, do not read further because my comments retell the story. ]
in my reading of it, karaba (sorceress) represents strange people (& others) infected by yt supremacy (back thorn). She causes all kind of sufferment (maafa) to the village (world idren). When a savior (a youth living in the positive, or ma'at) borns himself and has an old testament mission (keep fixing straying tribes) he ends up seeking his elders' wisdom, uses creativity, sacrifice & courage and curiosity (why? why? why?) to end the 'back thorn'. What happens when the back thorn is removed? Karaba screams in pain at first, but then all the green returns to the earth, the village, suspicious at first, embraces karaba and sings and the imprisoned black men return freed to the village (smile). Result: amenta/ heaven/ paradise/ mecca (all in the best rallying ground-the african village). To me, beside roots miniseries, I think this is one of the most important movies u can show yut, for it shows kids dem power to _______ ; eh? (smile). Quizasiman crazy but that is what am told thru this beautiful (pseudo-colonialist french) movie.
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