ADVICE TO YOUNG AMERICAN AFRICANS “When I wake up in the morning, my prayer is not thank God I woke up, the Klu Klux Klan woke up this morning. The drug pushers woke up this morning. I thank God that I made another 24 hours in the most vicious, nasty, hateful, insane nation that’s ever […]
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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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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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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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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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