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Posted: Tuesday September 20th, 2005 21:28 |
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Breadfruit that was a really good post!! i agree with u completely...
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Posted: Wednesday September 21st, 2005 00:40 |
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We history we nah go leggo
Continunity thats why them cant call we ne-gro
Neither call we black strictly we nah go follow
Coloured dem used to call we/ me never see no black rainbow
From the Nile Valley straight back to Montevideo
Touch the Hausa states / side step Alex and Nero
Some African pastor say dem dont watch race or credo??!!
While African soldier have AK and radio
From Patrice dead/ cant hear no war bongo
Roman catholic and still a dress like Pharoah
When it come to history some people feel a mostly sorrow
Dem Black history month dont touch back to year zero
Lack of continunity / why we a beg and borrow..
Tell a boy "Leo"and you turn up tommorrow
Breadfruit you sharp like Zorro
Thinking bandwidth no narrow.
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Posted: Wednesday September 21st, 2005 03:14 |
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The Continuity of the African
Why is continuity important?
Well how can we talk about or define culture, the life blood of a people, without continuity?
Hence why some Africans in Diaspora think that African culture is some sub-culture based around reactionary music, culture and slang.
The continuity of the African
Directly descended from great civilisations around the Nile area, I am. This is not an academic exercise or a set of empty words on the Internet; how can anyone choose to then define me as lesser than them when their highest cultures, behaviours, have their roots in the teachings of my people?
The continuity of the African
Why is continuity important?
So the conflicts and contradictions that help shape Africa, give one an understanding of what it means to be an African. Being African is not something that can be taken away from Africans but yet many Africans through idealogy, brutal, organised violence and economic manipulation, have lost that continuity - that life blood, knowledge of self.
Why is continuity important?
Slavery tried to do away with the idea of a tribe, a people, a nation - the people have no power.
"The power now belongs in the metropoles".
The motherland is now England. For you there is no continuity. It all started with your relationship with us - white power - white interests - the development of the white world - your world has died, and will continue to die, for this is the modern, industrial, "civilised" age.
"Your people have never and will never contribute to the heights humanity has climbed since the inception of history".
Why is continuity important?
Because it offers resistance to that which is continuous!
Those who enslave and colonise are consistent and build upon that which has been done before them.
Those who are oppressed have been consistent in their fight for political/economic empowerment and independence.
The continuity of the African
Rape. A weapon of war - an imposition of power.
"How can you be African, I raped your people and put my European seed amongst you. I have broken that continuity. I don't want you to have continuity".
"For if you keep the idea of a people the rape would have been in vain, my power diminished".
The continuity of the African
Miscegenation does not and could not stop the African from knowing and seeking companionship, counsel and unity with self - for this is natural.
Asian with Asian, European with European, African with African.
They call people seeking continuity with their own racists while they organise racist nation states that imprision us in complex sophisticated dungeons. Dungeons that range from physical economic creations to the mental, mind altering symbolisim that space age cultures then deciminate through the air in the form of electromagnetic waves - desciphered by equipment africans spend their vital life force purchasing but yet, never fully understanding the implications.
Why is continuity important?
Why were our names changed, under the watch of the mass produced musket?
Why was the speaking of African languages a capital offence?
Why were structures put in place that devalue African life, being African, hence the conflict between many Africans from accepting each other as brothers and sisters - all children of the Nile?
From the River Niger many N****rs were created
Who became Negros and then Colored peoples.
Then Black.
Now some say they are African.
Why?
Nationality does not negate race.
Racist nations do not forget about race. They were built on the phenomenon.
People defend themselves on their understanding of what is now actually occurring - intelligence.
What is came from what was!
Why is continuity important?
The battle changes when your experience is centuries or eons old.
For time is about experience.
Something inherited from ones culture, people.
Not the machinations of some mechanical, simple, non-life giving clock.
Breadfruit
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Posted: Friday September 23rd, 2005 17:36 |
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@Breadfruit and Mansamusa,
Excellent posts bros. Excellent.
Respect
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Posted: Monday August 7th, 2006 19:26 |
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"History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. History tells a people where they have been and what they have been, where they are and what they are. Most important, history tells a people where they still must go, what they still must be.
The relationship of history to the people is the same as the relationship of a mother to her child."
John Henrik Clarke
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Posted: Thursday October 19th, 2006 23:49 |
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History is a clock
poli-cultural map..
how di worlds people find fi dem way..
on di map of human geography...
like mother to a baby..
So John H Clarke break it down to the lay..
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Dats why me dont love Black his-tory month...
Still dem wan tek black people like cun...
Excuse me good people/ but mi have fi talk blunt..
Lee Jasper & Trevor P /dem fi put down di skunk..
From 19 long time..curriculum treat we punk..
The tree of civilisation / Africa is the trunk..
One month of "black" history still leave we like stump...
Fi one half of di story/ teacher due fi get tump..
Why?
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Every year a October/ TV mi tun it over/ when dem start talking their black history...
How dem so humble ....and sooo pure!!.. Wilberforce suppose to bringeth di key..
But dem no talk!! /about di many Maroon victory../opinions of Marcus G
di youth need to know..not how we big up white society../ dem need Ptah philosophy..
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no map dont illustrate no Black country..
so why dem dont call it African his-tory..
Ask your local council - to solve di mystery..
Dats why Breadfruit talk about --- continuity
we human geography map/ stretch back to B.C.
celebrate we tradition from March back to February..
neither need to know the first black sellout MP
who invent the traffic light and play for Tottenham FC..
dem need di Battle of Kadet / significance of Haiti..
put the two half together and find we destiny..
why?
Again..
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History is a clock
poli-cultural map.....
Last edited on Friday October 20th, 2006 00:18 by Bredder Tukoma
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Posted: Wednesday December 20th, 2006 12:43 |
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In the face of cultural aggression of all sorts, in the face of all disintegrating factors of the outside world, the most efficient cultural weapon with which a people can arm itself is this feeling of historical continuity."
Cheikh Anta Diop
Civilization or Barbarism
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Posted: Tuesday February 6th, 2007 22:38 |
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"Sankofa is an ancient concept. Though the word is ostensibly Akan (West Afrika) it is a timeless principle of all creation, and applies to both spiritual and material aspects of creation. Sankofa is not merely 'going back to fetch that which you have lost.' It is a dual process of internal and external development...[it] is analogous to a forest giant oaks with a linked and intertwined root system.
Sankofa is that process epitomized in an ever-expanding root system that develops almost imperceptibly. That root system of timeless historical tradition anchors and nourishes our cultural reality, the flower of our existence."
Kwame Agyei & Akua Nson Akoto
The Sankofa Movement: ReAfrikanization & The Reality of War
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