tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3086531318169847881.post7339846806797136674..comments2010-03-02T13:38:35.811-08:00Comments on De Artful Blogger: Whips and ShipsLe Mot Justehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09983950164052541533noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3086531318169847881.post-23952630292359901132010-03-02T13:38:35.811-08:002010-03-02T13:38:35.811-08:00well partners i willing to believe that of the ave...well partners i willing to believe that of the average person...but it was three academic luminaries having this discussion....they aint read about African culture yet? then how can they talk about it? What gives them the right?Le Mot Justehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09983950164052541533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3086531318169847881.post-11934220879152280372010-03-01T14:45:42.344-08:002010-03-01T14:45:42.344-08:00I hear you, but they only focus on slavery because...I hear you, but they only focus on slavery because that's what most of them know...nobody tell them about the resistance...dey tell them about flying Haitians and deals with the devil instead...MAS ASSASSINhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04350138834023026363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3086531318169847881.post-945779230963188872010-03-01T09:53:56.607-08:002010-03-01T09:53:56.607-08:00I hear you massassassin, but my point is to begin ...I hear you massassassin, but my point is to begin to heal we cannot only focus on the negative and the painful. we must also focus on what was positive about us being here, and point out that we didn't only die and suffer, but that we also resisted and survived. I think too that there is so much focus on enslavement that we forget that Africans are a people with a culture before slavery....Le Mot Justehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09983950164052541533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3086531318169847881.post-19318245117964347232010-03-01T04:55:45.144-08:002010-03-01T04:55:45.144-08:00I think the problem with the Diaspora or even Afri...I think the problem with the Diaspora or even African people as an entity is that we are still reeling from the effects of the slave trade and slavery.<br />I sometimes use the analogy of a great boxing match when looking at the effects of the slavery on the African race...when a boxer gets hit by an upper cut he is down for the count, it took damn near 350 years for Africans to hit the canvas from the initial blow, in a fight the referee gives you a 10 second count to get up and fight again, if each second after emancipation was 100 years...we were just about realizing we’ve been knocked out in the 60’s & 1970’s.<br />Just about now we (the African entity) are only beginning to comprehend our losses, so while some parts of the body like the brain has just about realised we’re in a battle here, the rest of the body is still swelling up and groaning in pain, and there is still about 5 seconds in the count to go...<br />So while some of us are celebrating the fact that we survived and parts of our culture survived too, others are still getting over the facts of what happened to us and what we lost, others still are still denying the fact that African DNA runs through their veins...we still drunk from the first crossing in chains.MAS ASSASSINhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04350138834023026363noreply@blogger.com