If I'm Mixed, PROVE IT!!!

Commentary
"NIggas love everything but themselves
- The Last Poets; Niggas AreScared Of revolution, 1970

From a poster to the Marcus Garvey Board:

A great and terrible myth exist among African families in America. The myth or idea that we are all mixed with either European or NativeAmerican blood. I am here to say that even without academic proof that this is mathematically, genetically and absolutely impossible to make such ridiculous assumptions. Do the numbers, even if youmake them up your math can't be THAT bad. If 15% of white America (actually 11%) owned or held 10 million African people in positions of forced servitude, can you honestly say that every master ofen slaved Africans raped every single woman he possessed? Even if he did were they all impregnated. Then you would have to believe that the remaining women untouched by Europeans amalgamated and intermarried with the Natives of this land. No one is that naive or infused with that much self hate; I don't believe it.

This is a process we have endured for a long time now; to hate or deny our obvious origins. I hate to burst your bubble, but there are several light-skinned, curly haired pure African people. It is very painful and disheartening to sit in a room of predominatelyAfrican people and hear about every damn group of people they're mixed with besides what's obvious. People often tell me that i'm of mixed heritage. That it is impossible for me to be pure African. My usual reply is, "prove it". Speculation and assumptions have little to do with truth and everything you fictionalize. "I have Irish in me I was told", yes I can see the Irish beneath your bronze skin, those broad features and that kinky hair. You do favor SeanConnery a tad.

This is all a deception and a contributing factor to a disease called self hate. "Niggas wanna be everything but themselves" TheLast Poets spoke so eloquently. I don't consider my self nor you a nigga but I understand the point that was made. We want to be connected with fantasy's, high hopes and fables of our grandparents instead of what we see in the mirror which may contribute to the problem at hand. there are even so called conscious people who claim everything but their Africaness. The irony to it all is, the White man tells you to "go back to Africa", not Europe or Central America. He never says go back to your Native American group. If he can see the African in you, then why can't you?

Does it really hurt that much to love and accept yourself for who you are? Is it that we admire the physical features and cultures of other people and don't know or care for our own? Or is it that you just wanna be what we can plainly see...an African?

Uhuru

Unanswered 10-4

1. What was your original reason/purpose for attending college?

2. What were the pressures you faced there as an Afrikan Woman growing into consciousness?

3. Where there any life lessons that you took away from the experience?

4. What advice would you give an Afrikan entering college today?

5. Did your "extra curricular" studies aid or hindering your collegiate experience?

6. Do you remember the moment when you realized that you where kinda on the outside looking in? Being out of the matrix so to speak. Can you share that feeling or experience.

7. What are some things that the youth can do to turn this revolution into resolution?

8. What are the top 3 things you wish older conscious people would stop saying/doing?

9. What are the top 3 things you wish older conscious people would start saying/doing?

10. Lastly, would your reason/purpose for going to be different if you were entering college today? (and tell why/what...)

Unanswered 10-3

1. What started your interest in investigating information about governments and Afrikan people?

2. What are your conclusions about one world government?

3. In your opinion, what is the motivation for globalization?

4. In your opinon, what are 5 things Afrika should stop doing, right now, so that it's no longer exploited?

5. In your opinion, what are 5 things Afrika can do to begin to rebuild?

6. What are other key pieces of information you have found that might transform the way Afrikan people throughout the diaspora act, react, think and operate?

7. What has happened to our contemporary "black leaders" from around the world?

8. What are the major psychological, emotional, spiritual and physical weapons that are being used to control people?

9 What can be done to counteract these weapons and their effects?

10. What should conscious Afrikan people be doing right now to improve their global situation?

Asante Sana
Sesa

Unanswered 10-2

1. Would you still advocate that Afrikans study the bible? Why or why not?

2. Will you speak on the dangers of taking biblical allegory as fact?

3. Will you expound on some of the misogynistic aspects of the bible?

4. Can you share and tell us how are working to over come that indoctrination?

5. Please tell us what your opinion on the concept of the "ankh" and how it's is applicable in our lives as Afrikans.

6. In your opinion, what are some of the challenges facing unity between Afrikan men and Afrikan women today?

7. If you had to create a 10 step program for Afrikan men to re-uniting with Afrikan women,
what would steps 1-3 be?

8. If you had to create a 10 step program for Afrikan women to help Afrikan women understand Afrikan men, what would steps 1-3 be?

9. How does the Afrikan child fit into each of these programs?

10. Is there anything you would like to add?

Asante Sana
Sesa