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I am just realizing that things our great elders were saying decades ago I have been learning on my own. This highlighted the problem of continuity for me, disconnected chain links. Because I am now realizing Mama Mawiyah and Nana Kamau were talking about preservatives, cultural warfare, psychological warfare in the 80s, Mama Marimba was talking about the spiritual foundation of our people at that time too and it’s only been since 2012 that I have started understanding the extreme (!) priority of these things. It’s like the whole of our people are starting where they started instead of where they left off. I think one solution to that could be things like Black Power coloring books for kids with historical figures like Patrice Lumumba, ancient leaders of Kemet, items used in everyday and their connection to now (for example papyrus and paper), effects of poor health. Or in a cartoon format or whatever is the popular format of consumption of information (ads, podcasts, video games, movies, songs, tik toks, etc). Which of course changes as time goes on.
This could be like planting a seed that would bear fruit in 20 years and create that continuity. Because I only knew about Malcolm X and Dr. King for years. I didn’t know about George Jackson, Geronimo Pratt, Assata Shakur, Nat Turner, Dr. Amos Wilson, Dutty Boukman and the RICH history of hostage escape attempts (slave rebellions) until I was well into my 20s. This is a criminal act.
Also I’ve been thinking about how a boycott or class action lawsuit against Zeus Network would look. That could easily be a movement which could also begin rerouting people to places like Abibitumi or even highlight the vast multidimensional nature of black media that isn’t profiting off destroying our people. Shows like “Baddies” are seeds being planted that will bear fruits of destruction in 20 years. Seeds that say “Black women are worth nothing, you should be happy to lick fecal matter off a white man’s boot. If you degrade yourself and destroy your people you too can be rich!!!!”. And now there’s “Baddies: Africa”. They are transplanting the poison to the homeland and must be stopped immediately.
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Your sentiment is the fuel for Kwento Kreations, and i’m sure other specBlackular media systems (including the great concepts you’ve been working on). we’ve got to push the sites and sounds onto our children, normalize them, and make them victorious – nothings attracts quite like being a winner. Glad to have you rolling your sleeves up to rebuild the world that our children can graduate to – so they don’t finish their Black coloring book and then go work for shAmazon. we’d prefer to keep all Black talent in house!
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@bakari-kwento agreed I really like everything I’ve seen coming from Kwento Kreations – I do think about how we get the people who aren’t here yet to see them .. lots of moves we can make!
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We also got a coloring book produced for the story book because parents asked for it. There are some good books out there just not widely distributed. Sheroes of the Haitian Revolution, Heroes of the Haitian Revolution, other books on Mackandal, Nanny, Benkos Bioho, kwk.
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@AfroN8V ahh incredible! Gotta link with a printing press then
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@virginpoppy Yes you can. Here’s one website for some of the books I mentioned. https://thorobredbooks.com/shop/
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