insertcoolnamehereIt 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 )
One issue w the quote is that people don’t always see the rot and decomposition around them as opportunity for a new cycle of change
That’s the crux of it all, perspective and initiative imo
Or even more base layer of motivation to have that sort of outlook
- insertcoolnamehere
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.
Great post
Parable of the sower one of the best books i've ever read
So ahead of its time
·editedinsertcoolnameherethey 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.
!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFyKWZUcXDYalready a participant in the violence gang
we stood toe to toe against the military and burned down government buildingsand the president just proceeded with business as usual and since they control resources, unfortunately people had to inevitably go back to work so their families don’t starve
unless a military agrees to stand with its people, most of these fights end in nothing unfortunately. My father was part of a failed coupe, and they almost succeeded but unfortunately the military wasn’t fully on their side so someone snitched and the movement was shut down the night before it was about to begin with a strict nationwide curfew that would result in death if went against. and they decided to live to fight another day, which was 50 years later with my generation…where essentially the same thing is happening again via abductions, greed from people who are good at getting you to trust them when you need them most and murder when no one is noticing by non-uniformed military
Shoutout Burkina Faso tho, their military leaders supported the people and now they are thriving.
LPG26It’s the opposite. This gave Nike shares a 4% boost today but this lessens their need to go public
And I’ve never got 💯 confirmation on this but I heard he doesn’t own any part of Skims anymore. She bought him out around the time he was on the verge of filing for bankruptcy
i'd believe this actually
movOld man yelling once again
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UncleLeogimme 3 reasons why u think this
1. hes tweeting like 2010 - 2016 Ye
2. hes supposedly actually writing verses and rapping
3. he seems interested in making good art again
·1 replyWhat a loser
Risked everything for what?
·1 replyThinking about it now, YE sticks his neck out for alot of people, defends them, sticks up for them, and no one other than the people that grew up with him do the same in return.
"Only thing I ask is
next time I'm on stage
we all go
We all go
Not just by myself
lookin for niggas like
where's Waldo..."
·3 repliesMCMIC13Thinking about it now, YE sticks his neck out for alot of people, defends them, sticks up for them, and no one other than the people that grew up with him do the same in return.
"Only thing I ask is
next time I'm on stage
we all go
We all go
Not just by myself
lookin for niggas like
where's Waldo..."because he has done and said wretched things
feels like for 10 years now he’s been trying to fight some fight or solve some problem that does or doesn’t exist, with no clear explanation of what the problem even is, and no explanation as to why he does what he does to achieve that goal. it’s all just ramblings
- hoopsplayer21
because he has done and said wretched things
feels like for 10 years now he’s been trying to fight some fight or solve some problem that does or doesn’t exist, with no clear explanation of what the problem even is, and no explanation as to why he does what he does to achieve that goal. it’s all just ramblings
When Kendrick said he was an Israelite I didn't hear any such chatter,
I'm not gonna quote the song because I'm too damn lazy...
- hoopsplayer21
because he has done and said wretched things
feels like for 10 years now he’s been trying to fight some fight or solve some problem that does or doesn’t exist, with no clear explanation of what the problem even is, and no explanation as to why he does what he does to achieve that goal. it’s all just ramblings
i remember when i thought yandhi was about unity between political parties, cause the main color was purple
·2 replieshoopsplayer21because he has done and said wretched things
feels like for 10 years now he’s been trying to fight some fight or solve some problem that does or doesn’t exist, with no clear explanation of what the problem even is, and no explanation as to why he does what he does to achieve that goal. it’s all just ramblings
It’s not all just ramblings though, there are some points in all this craziness. I mean he is mentally ill, he has described what his mania feels like in full detail and it’s kind of becomes easy to tell when he is manic and why he would want to feel that way.
To him, he is chasing a type of freedom that maybe no black man has ever had. I mean look, Trump said grab them by the p****, find me 20,000 votes, incited an insurrection and became president twice. That c*** Elon Musk did two Heil Hitlers at the presidential inauguration and is tearing apart the American government and s***ting on the Constitution with no repercussions. Can a black man get away with that and be that free?
- capers
It’s not all just ramblings though, there are some points in all this craziness. I mean he is mentally ill, he has described what his mania feels like in full detail and it’s kind of becomes easy to tell when he is manic and why he would want to feel that way.
To him, he is chasing a type of freedom that maybe no black man has ever had. I mean look, Trump said grab them by the p****, find me 20,000 votes, incited an insurrection and became president twice. That c*** Elon Musk did two Heil Hitlers at the presidential inauguration and is tearing apart the American government and s***ting on the Constitution with no repercussions. Can a black man get away with that and be that free?
hopefully this isn’t a sincere post but I’m afraid it is
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AA were in literal chains but no, freedom is being able to sit and s***post without getting banned on your billionaire friends social media app. That is true freedom
- afterimage
AA were in literal chains but no, freedom is being able to sit and s***post without getting banned on your billionaire friends social media app. That is true freedom
You telling me he don’t have those delusions in his head?
- capers
It’s not all just ramblings though, there are some points in all this craziness. I mean he is mentally ill, he has described what his mania feels like in full detail and it’s kind of becomes easy to tell when he is manic and why he would want to feel that way.
To him, he is chasing a type of freedom that maybe no black man has ever had. I mean look, Trump said grab them by the p****, find me 20,000 votes, incited an insurrection and became president twice. That c*** Elon Musk did two Heil Hitlers at the presidential inauguration and is tearing apart the American government and s***ting on the Constitution with no repercussions. Can a black man get away with that and be that free?
Someone tell Kanye one of the worst dictators in African history learned his ways from South African communist Jews
need another crash out 
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ITS 8AM
- YeahN9h
What a loser
Risked everything for what?
Freedom
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he's saying lady gaga is going to be on bully.
there was a controversy in 08/09 where tabloids were saying she had a p**** and a vagina. it was the last time the term "hermaphrodite" was used in the mainstream.
We back?
·1 replySEPTEMBER99he's saying lady gaga is going to be on bully.
there was a controversy in 08/09 where tabloids were saying she had a p**** and a vagina. it was the last time the term "hermaphrodite" was used in the mainstream.
no he probably just learned about it and made a joke and then an observation
- SEPTEMBER99
he's saying lady gaga is going to be on bully.
there was a controversy in 08/09 where tabloids were saying she had a p**** and a vagina. it was the last time the term "hermaphrodite" was used in the mainstream.
They were supposed to tour together in like 08/09
- ·3 repliespussy bacon
no he probably just learned about it and made a joke and then an observation
he didn't just learn about it. he had a tour planned with lady gaga and a war against tmz at the time the controversy was occurring. are you f***ing serious.
do you understand how racist it is to suggest that this genius poet who is obsessed with LGBTQ issues and worked professionally with Lady Gaga doesn't know the term "hermaphrodite"?
are you actually that f***ing stupid?
