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Hearing our people say in response to what happened to us/ancestors very unintelligent and disturbing things such as “let go of the past” (specifically as African/ who we are, what happened etc)… is not only non-African, but it’s also disproportionate to what the intelligent African mind knows deeply within the inert memory of what has happened to us,, its disrespectful to even fix your mouth to say let it go… if you let go of memory, as an African you have let go of yourself…Most of our people arent revolutionary and have not one ounce of a focused mind on who we are, our ancestral reconnection/connection..etc.. and sadly they want those of us that are revolutionary to be mentally dead like them
Us Revolutionary Africans must avoid those fools completely!
We must not just read of it, we must be it, We must become deeply intune with ancestral, that to speak of such as if its past tense becomes insane because we are our Ancestors
Elder Mwalimu Baruti elaborates greatly on the seriousness of this 💪🏾✊🏾:
“Massive research is not necessary to know what our ancestors lived through. In fact, too much time consumed in study can lead to inaction if one has not approached study as a tool of group empowerment, instead of solely for egotistical, individualistic gratification. To know this experience, all we have to do is think, take a few quiet moments to use our common Afrikan sense, and imagine. All we have to do is close our eyes, go back there and fetch those memories. All we have to do is imagine what it would feel like as a deeply spiritual being to be dehumanized through rape, beatings, starvation, physical and psychological torture, dehydration, sensory deprivation, kwk, in coffles (our trails of blood and tears), in dungeons, on filthy, suffocating death ships by brutal, vicious, sadistic, soulless aliens bent on world domination through violent oppression at any cost. All we have to do is imagine the unimaginable. It doesn’t take much. We just have to gather the courage for remembrance. We have to stop being afraid of looking back at what made us what we have become, so we can move toward being what we were before they came.”
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“Having a memory that is whole and complete as an African person means having a complex and critical understanding of the Great Suffering, or Maafa. Just as a person with amnesia is doomed to walk around confused about who he or she is, where they have come from, where they are headed and the nature of their relationships with others, so too is the African who does not know, memorialize and understand the Great Suffering.”Erriel D. Roberson, The Maafa & Beyond, Columbia, MD: Kujichagulia Press, 1995, p.26.
