Why Do You Keep Talking About Blackness? “A young black woman asked me “Why do you keep talking about blackness? We all know that the time for that is over. We are now merely Americans. And she said she was, for her part, tired of hearing about blackness. Now I consider this as very alarming. […]
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7 Books Exposing the Role of Slavery and Colonialism “The more you try to forget your past, the more it will haunt you. Face it, learn from it, and then you can let it go.” The UK continues to struggle with its relationship with racism. Well, maybe it’s not accurate to describe it as a
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Monarchy and Colonialism “I don’t even want to go back into slavery because a lot of people claim that Queen Elizabeth was not responsible for what her ancestors did. She herself said that slavery was legal at the time, so she doesn’t really recognise what we in the Caribbean are talking about. Now, we have to realise
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Do You Agree That All Africans Have an Inferiority Complex? In this brief talk, Onyeka Nubia speaks about an inferiority complex in the African mind that he believes every African has to address. “Do we believe that we are inferior? Have we taken on an identity? Most people of African descent say no I don’t
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Primer For Blacks – Gwendolyn Brooks Blacknessis a title,is a preoccupation,is a commitment Blacks are to comprehend— and in which you areto perceive your Glory. The conscious shoutof all that is white is“It’s Great to be white.”The conscious shoutof the slack in Black is‘It’s Great to be white.’Thus all that is whitehas white strength and
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Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet, author, and teacher who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen, making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. Date of birth: 7th June 1917 Place of birth: Kansas, USA Achievement: First American African to receive a
“Even if you are not ready for the day, it cannot always be night”
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Abolishing Slave Names “Sometimes I think as African people whether we’re in America, Africa, the Caribbean or throughout the diaspora, sometimes we focus too much on superficialities as opposed to substantive change. So in other words, every African in the diaspora could drop our European names and take an African name and we should, but
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“Freedom, justice and liberation is the priority”
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Time to Redefine African Politics “So, when we talk about peace in Africa and we talk about adversarial politics. We are not talking about anything that is African. The political party is not African. It is something that we inherited. “You know, in the United Kingdom they talk about the loyal opposition, loyal to the
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