Lomulu Azanuju Emenari posted an update
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points While this may be a oft repeated theme I’d like to broach the subject again. About five years ago I decided to wear exclusively African clothing everyday, everywhere I went, even to my everyday working environment. Which is interesting because I’ve received all manner of comments from ‘continental’ Africans, many of whom I work with and so-called African Americans. A few of the ‘continental’ Africans have taken to calling me, ‘Chief’ which I consider a high compliment.
But the wearing of African clothing along with the shedding european and arabic names is but an ephemeral frame of decolonizing the African mind. Nonetheless it is a step in the direction to achieve a measure of purpose and destiny relinquishing euro-centric miseducational mind control.
Mwalimu Baruti reminds us that we Africans, “must be careful not to confuse appearance and rhetoric with consciousness in their search for common minds. In the west, where image is everything, quantity often does not equal quality. Do not assume, based on clothes, walk, talk, occupation, residence, complement, acquaintanceship, kwk (etc) that you are dealing with an Afrikan at heart”.
Brother teacher Baruti goes on to correctly point out that, “those who have suckled on the lies of wolves are often better at this craft than their adoptive parents. They can come in (hair) locks, kente and mud cloth, wear rings, earrings, bracelets and necklaces decorated in the ancient symbols of our motherland, are vegetarians and raw foodists, and embrace Egyptian yoga, iridology, chiropractology and every other natural form of holistic health imaginable, just like you or I”.
He also warns with a dire drum beat, “Those closet europhiliac watchdogs attend our lectures, book signings, concerts, drum and capoeira classes and travel back and forth with us to our holy motherland, Afrika. In this respect we can be fooled. However, the best weapon against their treachery is knowing that the most concrete evidence of of warriorhood is seen in action, consistent, long term action”.
How many of these same perpetrators have we seen among African peoples?
With all this said I’d like to pose a question to Dr. Obadele Kambon with regard to changing one’s name to an African name and the wearing of African clothing….Are these prerequisites to the decolonization process? Or are these just ‘surface’ and not conditional to being African in the truest cultural since?
I ask because there are so many activists and academics who do not wear African clothing nor have changed their names.“Notes Toward Higher Ideals In Afrikan Intellectual Liberation” (Akoben House 2006) – Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points I think the premises are a bit off. It’s not a question of predictive power of where someone’s heart is on the basis of one or more variables, it’s a question of to what degree do we finance and in other ways support the same enemy (psychologically/emotionally, politically, socially, kwk.) that we are supposed to be fighting against…especially in instances where we don’t “have” to do so. All the same, if you’re not willing to even do the “easy” stuff, like support this site instead of, say, isftbook, for example, I’m not likely to believe that you will do the “hard” stuff like develop and implement the solution to the problem.
