As a BLACK PERSON from Brazil, I am extremely shocked by the absurd level of ignorance that part of the black population in the United States has about the issue of blackness in other territories of the American continent. As Asad Haider said, these are the Mistaken Identity.
To explain once and for all: "Afro-Latino" is not an ethnicity dissociated from black ethnicity. Both in the USA and in other Latin American countries there are black people who have lived there for generations, precisely because they were brought by slave ships from Africa. Black Latinos ARE BLACK PEOPLE! To deny this historical fact is not only to close oneself off from a world of territorial ignorance, but also to embark on the same identity nationalism that marginalizes the black population in the USA.
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"Negro é raiz
me orgulho por isso
me sinto feliz"
(Alguns registros da Exposição Negros na Piscina que está rolando na Pinacoteca do Ceara!)
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First, we must study how colonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism; and we must show that each time a head is cut off or an eye put out in Vietnam and in France they accept the fact, each time a little girl is raped and in France they accept the fact, each time a Madagascan is tortured and in France they accept the fact, civilization acquires another dead weight, a universal regression takes place, a gangrene sets in, a center of infection begins to spread; and that at the end of all these treaties that have been violated, all these lies that have been propagated, all these punitive expeditions that have been tolerated, all these prisoners who have been tied up and "interrogated," all these patriots who have been tortured, at the end of all the racial pride that has been encouraged, all the boastfulness that has been displayed, a poison has been distilled into the veins of Europe and, slowly but surely, the continent proceeds toward savagery.
And then one fine day the bourgeoisie is awakened by a terrific boomerang effect: the gestapos are busy, the prisons fill up, the torturers around the racks invent, refine, discuss.
People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind — it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.
Discours sur le colonialisme (Discourse on Colonialism) - Aimé Césaire
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"A man screaming is not a dancing bear." Aimé Césaire, poet.
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ERYKAH BADU (2023)
Colagem digital inspirada no editorial da ELLE Brasil que tem como capa uma das principais cantoras de R&B e do neo-soul dos últimos tempos, @erykahbadu uma grande ativista do afrofuturismo, em seus trabalhos a cantora expressava sua opinião sobre os Estados Unidos, racismo, cultura e uma ideia de futuro para pessoas pretas entre outros temas.
O impacto da Badu na música é inegável e nada moda também não e diferente com seu estilo autentico e único. Ela foi fotografada pelo duo @mar_______vin.
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C.L.R. James and Léon Damas at the second Congress of African People, San Diego, CA. 1972.
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