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“Blackness tells you how you look but doesn’t tell you who u are.” The proper name of a people must relate to land, history, and culture; And anytime you address an ethnic group and fail to relate them to land history, and culture, you have called them out of their name, it is significant.”
– Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Yea we still have people who say “we” need to decolonize who love to see the blackness in us and we let them.
“Mental liberation requires that we locate ourselves on the time line and map of history, that we name and define ourselves, and that we rectify the problem of the loss of knowledge of self wherein we are “overwhelmed by other people’s knowledge.” Today the formal education of most people of African ancestry is usually accomplished in systems that take us far away from ourselves. We use words, models, language, theories and values of others to think about and solve our problems. These others see us as objects. By looking through their lenses we come to see ourselves as objects as well. This is precisely what Carter Woodson has called miseducation and DuBois called “double consciousness, always looking at the world through the eyes of others.” That is the worst of what he calls “double consciousness.”
Asa G. Hilliard
