Feb 18·2 replies
Valentinefbi don’t give a f*** about you or me lmao
Well yeah they obviously don’t care about someone who is doing their job for them and behaving as programmed
Feb 18·1 replyValentinei mean, after how they treated students last year in the west for simply standing non-violently in defense of genocide, I’m pretty apathetic to s*** happening here because the energy of conversation surrounding these topics slowly fades as people go back to business as usual or accept the limitations placed on to us by this society we function within that has been designed to systematically oppress us from even coming together to stand for the rights of those who can’t stand for themselves
the apathy comes from the fact that for the last decade plus since I started participating in movements, seeing how quickly people deteriorate from the cause, seeing all the secret agents sent into the cause and gladly accepted because they have a gift of the gab only to be revealed to be another opportunist, to those who straight up just don’t give a f*** about humanity and never will and never have for centuries that predates you and me and is engrained in their family history multiplied by millions. It’s a rough battle and I’m sorry, in my limited life I have to focus on what I can control and that’s my community I can reach as the opposite is the sad fate I have seen multiple children and teens suffer in the name of a cause they didn’t even fully understand and their family would more than likely rather their child was here today. That’s all
they always treated people non-violently standing up for change with violence. That's just a trope of history dawg. The youngins always took the brunt of it too, just like the civil rights movement (in spite of the whitewashing of the facts trying to take that part away, it was the kids that was consistently out there in the streets.)
"multiple children and teens suffer in the name of a cause they didn’t even fully understand and their family would more than likely rather their child was here today." multiple children and teens are already suffering in the name of a cause we don't fully understand and are dying for it.
We lost 3 musicians to suicide in this past month and a half. That's a cause a lot of us don't understand.
The sad irony is, it's gonna reach a place and a time where none of us really gonna have a choice but to participate in this inevitably violent changing of the guard.
- Feb 18Big Tobacco
Well yeah they obviously don’t care about someone who is doing their job for them and behaving as programmed
“behaving as programmed”
my nigga, I literally was inside of a burning capital building in my native homeland December 2023 with the rest of my Gen Z leading one of the biggest collective movements our country has ever seen. who the f*** are you talking to
- Feb 18·2 replies
can’t even be alone outside when back home cause our government abducting kids who partook in these protests and is murdering them. smdh, leave me alone gang
Feb 18insertcoolnameherethe richest black man in history couldn't change nothing because he never really wanted to and/or his brain aint hold itself up long enough for him to go through with his "donda promises"
but even that statement is cap because he changed alot. The fact there's a whole generation of alternative-black kids in all facets of the entertainment system from music to art to fashion that can say ye is up there in their top inspirations i'm definitely one of those is enough to say bro's already been a vehicle for change. His declining mind/personality can never take that away from history's pages.
Ye (in a sense, I know it wasn't just him) singlehandedly changed the course of where rap music was heading. Even if he didn't truly believe in it or whatever (which I think is and always was a lie told in his "lemme be a contrarian and piss everyone off" gimmick, there's 90s audio footage of him freestyling against Common, man loves that lyrical backpacker s*** lol). That's enough change for someone to ride off into the sunset and be content with life.
Sayin that kind of comment especially on black history month is kinda wild @Valentine
Once apathy takes over, we've died over a thousand times man
It's gonna be hard to explain to gen Z and alpha, but there was a time ye was hope for the weird niggas. And not hope for THEM weird niggas.
If you're someone who indulges in voyeuring the absolute WORST aspects of the internet (and by extension human society as whole), then you know how much this whole "I needed shopify and Adidas to drop me" is a bunch of BS.
If the people who created Encyclopedia Dramatica and Kiwi Farms are capable finding a new web host and domain to keep their community alive with the limited resources that they have, then billionaire Kanye West should have no problem accomplishing the same and more by himself
After all this, you can't make a website my n---a? You building domes but can't buy servers and start your own manufacturing?
- Feb 18·edited·1 reply
Think how much of an impact Ye could have had on the economy if he didn't choose to be a contrarian edgelord instead
- Feb 18·2 replies
It is easy to get discouraged that's what they want.
To know you NOW are fighting for or wishing for a future you might never even get to see but know the people after us deserve to see is reason enough to keep on dreaming.
that's afro-futurism in action. and why it's one of my fav genres of book. Working now to imagine a future that we've never seen before nor will most likely not even get to see.
And just because you don't see it, doesn't mean s***'s not happening nor moving. If the people of a country getting attacked on literally all angles still refuse to lose hope TO THIS F***ING DAY, my nigga I can afford to take a few metaphorical punches to the chin of idealism.
plant flowers where compost has formed one of the most beautiful statements ever said on this site (shoutout @americana )
Feb 18·1 replyinsertcoolnamehereIt is easy to get discouraged that's what they want.
To know you NOW are fighting for or wishing for a future you might never even get to see but know the people after us deserve to see is reason enough to keep on dreaming.
that's afro-futurism in action. and why it's one of my fav genres of book. Working now to imagine a future that we've never seen before nor will most likely not even get to see.
And just because you don't see it, doesn't mean s***'s not happening nor moving. If the people of a country getting attacked on literally all angles still refuse to lose hope TO THIS F***ING DAY, my nigga I can afford to take a few metaphorical punches to the chin of idealism.
plant flowers where compost has formed one of the most beautiful statements ever said on this site (shoutout @americana )
not being a d***head please recommend some afro-futurist books or movies or music or anything
- Feb 18Valentine
can’t even be alone outside when back home cause our government abducting kids who partook in these protests and is murdering them. smdh, leave me alone gang
that was happening in the states too.
and niggas still willingly chose to step out the very next day.
Gotta keep hope alive.
my great grandma was hosed in georgia during the marches, so this s\*\*\* holds deep
- Feb 18·2 replies
What's the point of being a billionaire if you're worthless and can't do s--t?! God damn this makes me mad.
Feb 18Big TobaccoWell yeah they obviously don’t care about someone who is doing their job for them and behaving as programmed
- Feb 18POOM POOM DOOM
What's the point of being a billionaire if you're worthless and can't do s--t?! God damn this makes me mad.
what's a god to a nonbeliever
- Feb 18·1 reply
why do you guys think he posted that nike sneaker?
i assumed that he was implying that the design was lifted from the 700 MNVN.
was he just saying that to reiterate his view that yeezy's footwear competitors use unoriginal designs?
do you think yeezy has grounds for a lawsuit? do you think future legal action is implied by the post?
- Feb 18·2 repliesSEPTEMBER99
not being a d***head please recommend some afro-futurist books or movies or music or anything
in books, it's basically black sci-fi with a very specific lens on us. in Harlem there's this black comic book festival at the Schomberg Center and you just see so many black artists with so much different s***. It's seeing US in these different lights as superheroes/superheroines/hell I found comic strips that was about African deities (I practice Ifa) personified as heroes.
I'm an Octavia Butler stan (got a whole shirt with her on it), and she's known as the mother of Afro-futurism. I highly recommend her Parable series. It's dystopian and shares some eerie similarities to current times in ways but the main character showcases even in that how to persevere and how to even see hope in a religion she herself discovers called Earthseed.
Also her book Wild Seed is fire too.
in music, you got can't talk afro-futurism without mentioning Sun Ra.
he always integrated space themes to his black-focused music and just imagined new worldly opportunities for niggas.
Also early Janelle Monae, she was always talkin bout robots and what not. Like her ArchAndroid concept.
in movies, you got Black Panther and Sorry To Bother You for example.
- Feb 18·1 replyPOOM POOM DOOM
What's the point of being a billionaire if you're worthless and can't do s--t?! God damn this makes me mad.
I've been saying this to you niggas for months.
They're not giving a billion dollars to niggas that wanna enact change.
Cause niggas that wanna enact change wouldn't feel comfortable amassing that amount of wealth.
Niggas gonna learn this wealth s*** is pre-determined as a motherfucka.
- Feb 18·1 replyPOOM POOM DOOM
Think how much of an impact Ye could have had on the economy if he didn't choose to be a contrarian edgelord instead
little to none even if he cared
unless you mean more fake “schools” and sketches of sci-fi cities
- Feb 18·1 replyafterimage
little to none even if he cared
unless you mean more fake “schools” and sketches of sci-fi cities
I meant more so him having his own factories and store fronts.
And even websites and servers.
- Feb 18insertcoolnamehere
in books, it's basically black sci-fi with a very specific lens on us. in Harlem there's this black comic book festival at the Schomberg Center and you just see so many black artists with so much different s***. It's seeing US in these different lights as superheroes/superheroines/hell I found comic strips that was about African deities (I practice Ifa) personified as heroes.
I'm an Octavia Butler stan (got a whole shirt with her on it), and she's known as the mother of Afro-futurism. I highly recommend her Parable series. It's dystopian and shares some eerie similarities to current times in ways but the main character showcases even in that how to persevere and how to even see hope in a religion she herself discovers called Earthseed.
Also her book Wild Seed is fire too.
in music, you got can't talk afro-futurism without mentioning Sun Ra.
!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrig-34J4yIhe always integrated space themes to his black-focused music and just imagined new worldly opportunities for niggas.
Also early Janelle Monae, she was always talkin bout robots and what not. Like her ArchAndroid concept.
in movies, you got Black Panther and Sorry To Bother You for example.
hellllllllll yeah i'm gonna go listen to sun ra and read parable of the sower, thanks for the recommendations
- Feb 18·1 replyinsertcoolnamehere
I've been saying this to you niggas for months.
They're not giving a billion dollars to niggas that wanna enact change.
Cause niggas that wanna enact change wouldn't feel comfortable amassing that amount of wealth.
Niggas gonna learn this wealth s*** is pre-determined as a motherfucka.
It just seems theoretically impossible that their hasn't been a quote on quote "good billionaire" yet.
- Feb 18·2 repliesPOOM POOM DOOM
It just seems theoretically impossible that their hasn't been a quote on quote "good billionaire" yet.
because that person's conscience wouldn't allow them to amass that amount of wealth bro. You're not understanding because you don't really understand how big a billion dollars is.
Exploitation is literally unavoidable in order to get a BILLION dollars.
- Feb 18·2 repliesPOOM POOM DOOM
I meant more so him having his own factories and store fronts.
And even websites and servers.
so Kanye becoming a mega capitalist is good because….. he’s black?
Feb 18·2 repliesValentineDonda era. we’ve lost so much man. Nigga had all these leaders in one room talking building together for real and openly sharing it with us who don’t get access to these conversations
!https://youtu.be/i1sDmCtG7gw?si=dfi_hYy8Sxbx8f4N!https://youtu.be/EdIzSzDZXrs?si=1hsK8mEWuYNo8DjAOh naw he has to bring that back. Bro really lost the plot lol wtf. I still think if he transitions into education and politics he could change the western world again in a positive way
- Feb 18Flyghost
Oh naw he has to bring that back. Bro really lost the plot lol wtf. I still think if he transitions into education and politics he could change the western world again in a positive way
- Feb 18Flyghost
Oh naw he has to bring that back. Bro really lost the plot lol wtf. I still think if he transitions into education and politics he could change the western world again in a positive way
- Feb 18afterimage
so Kanye becoming a mega capitalist is good because….. he’s black?
shhhhhhhhh, they'll get it eventually brotha.
