Not a Whiter one. Many of our children have simply opted to disengage, disconnect, disassociate, and to express their disenchantment with what exist as Black
life through displacing those that reflect their appearance, suicide via homicide, fueled by genocide, while the elders run and hide. Generations of Black before
them have dropped the ball, many times kicking it out of bounds. Where were the programs and jobs to defray what exist as war zones? Where were the schools
owned by us to teach us about us? Where was the community to serve and protect children, allowing them safe spaces to grow? Where were the activists to
protect the minds of our young, gorging themselves on toxic media daily that convinces them it’s cool as hell to be and act dumb as hell? What happened is that
this society eliminated any semblance of what we had in regards to all of these things and then “gifted” us elections, laws, and policies that we accepted as
being “for us”, when in reality, they were all more of the same, being done “to us”. We bought-in, we relaxed, we accepted compromises and concessions, we
mistook stagnation for progression. What’s happening with our children is teaching us a very valuable lesson and many of us are heeding. I must acknowledge
our gradual growth. Evolution always wins.
Being Pro-Black is not only natural, it’s necessary.
How can you be Black and not Pro-Black? How can you be Black and not seek to operate in the interests of your own people? How can you be Black and not
value your own culture and customs, as varied and rich as they are? How can you be Black and not want your children taught to love themselves as Black? How
can you be Black and gleefully continue to spend your money in a manner that enriches others while keeping your people impoverished? How can you be Black
and still spend inordinate amounts of time and energy on programs, politics, policies, and entities that have historically worked against us? How can you be
Black and not understand the need for us all to operate in the interests of Black people in a unified and organized manner with love as propulsion? We have
more than enough within our ranks to be great, yet we have to get to a place where we ALL believe it. Yes, there is that table that consist of the race that is
human, but it isn’t necessarily a good look for us to be sitting at that table if we are, as a collective, still eating off the plates of others, while at the same time,
allowing ourselves to be fed crumbs by those same others.
Being Afro-Centered suggest only that you derive your power from within yourself as a Black individual. Your thoughts and your actions are driven by what
already lies within you innately, inherently, by birth. Pro-Blackness involves you thinking and acting in a manner that is “for” you and yours, not necessarily to the
detriment or destruction of anyone else.
All other groups are “centered” and “for” themselves and are faring well doing so. Who/What convinced us that it was weird, crazy, or angry to be passionate
about who we are and our own survival?
Just something to ponder.
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