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This is a mandatory MUST SEE, OVERSTAND and APPLY CHANGES TO HOW YOU THINK OF BEING AN AFRICAN because that’s what we all are EVERY black person in the world is African. Then you need to also need to share it with your children and then share it with everyone you know.
I am an African no matter where I reside. I’m both the (sister) brother stolen from warm waters (Africa) taken to the land of cold winters (Amerikkka) and the (sister) brother left in the land of the warm waters (Africa). Why do I say that bc I was raised by many Africans raised in Amerikkka and that is also my fathers side. My mama is African born in Azania aka South Africa, lived thru exile during apartheid and was a victim of police brutality in Africa as recent as the 2000’s. My entire life has been a conflict I never ever spoke of. I was born in Amerikkka but even being raised by the Africans born in Amerikkka I never truly felt comfortable identifying with it. I grew up in a very African centered home while most Africans born in Amerikkka were going to church and celebrating their white Jesus I was going to Pyramid bookstore every weekend, celebrating black history every day, being a vegetarian and wanting to reunite with my true African self, the pride, the beauty, the resourcefulness that isn’t taught in most schools but that I learned at home. I was given 2 very different messages. My 1st school I recall was an African centered school in DC that still stands and plants the seeds of love, pride, culture, history, identification, and being an African born in Amerikkka. Then I went to public school and their was a disconnect. I was called African booty scratcher and all sorts of derogatory names from elementary all the way to high school. To this day I can tell you exactly who called me what and when, all of them Africans born in Amerikkka. Have I let it go, of course I have but did I forget definitely not. I have had to wear 2 mask my entire life.
My 1st name is Nkanyezi which is Zulu and means star but I have a slave master last name. So……I was too African for Africans born in Amerikkka and not African enough for Africans that willingly came to Amerikkka bc I wasn’t born in Africa. As I said I’ve always worn 2 mask. My parents were divorced when I was young but that’s the only part of the story most of my Africans born in Amerikkka family know. I spoke to my mama every week and saw her during the summer and more often till we moved out of state. I even recall asking her to teach me her mother tongue bc even at that age I knew the importance of language. When my grandma would come visit from Azania or we would talk on the phone to hear that language spoke to my soul, a deep comfort, deep love and a deep joy that can only be felt by your spirit, gives you a pride many don’t know unless you are lodged in both of these worlds. When I was younger I knew a few words but what you don’t use you lose. Africans that come to Amerikkka don’t overstand how lucky they were to be in Africa and be able to connect to those spirits of our ancestors directly, the air, the soil, the food is medicine, the language, the clothes, the culture, the spirituality, the everything of Africa. Africans born in Amerikkka don’t overstand the depth of what they’ve lost from hating each other and hating being Afrikan or anyone who represents that.
Imagine being in my shoes I’ve always felt this way, and have worn the mask of 2 very similar and very different lives. This documentary is a MUST SEE but also OVERSTAND (not under) what’s being presented to you. Then really be responsible, mindful and think about how we “educate” ourselves, our families, our communities, and our children, how we treat another African no matter where we were born, raised, grew up with or what our past belief systems were bc I wish that after reading this you will THINK, SPEAK & ACT differently towards your fellow Africans regardless of how dark skinned or light skinned WE are or whether WE were born in Africa or We are African born in Amerikkka, WE ARE ALL AFRICAN. SHARE, SHARE, SHARE so we can both have an overstanding of OUR UNIVERSAL AFRICANESS!!
PLEASE, do not state your opinion on what I said until after you’ve watched the documentary, digested it and processed it. If you just want to argue about an experience you haven’t lived I am not the one, we are not the two.https://youtu.be/eoI6bkM7VGk
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