It is my opinion that our race faces not extinction in the corporeal sense, but rather cultural extinction. It should be apparent to all that Afrikans are capable of surviving the most cruelest of conditions. To a certain extent, some of our ancient past has managd to manifest itself in certain of our behavior, and societal and artistic expression. The true test will be not will we survive as humans, but will we survive as Afrikans. The extinction of our identity is a more likely eventuality than physical extinction. What is occurring in our 'hoods throughout the world with regards to dwindling resources, crime, disease and murder may be seen as a "thinning of the herd", rather than genocide. Our existence is necessary to the maintenance of the White Supremacist Power Matrix (WSPM), it is our culture (our core identity) that is a anathema to the Matrix. The WSPM takes what is is useful to its existence and continued dominance, and discards or destroys that which is not. So long as there remains any semblance of our cultural identity, there will be resistance; this is why the slave-master took great pains to whip (terrorize) any indication of our culture from our ancestors. Our bodies are always going to be necessary to the Matrix. Our minds are also necessary, so long as they are programmed to serve the Matrix, and not self, family, community or race. The constant barrage of terror visited upon us guarantees our submission and servitude to the WSPM. Many of us are dying, and many more will die; their can be no doubt of this. The primary threat against us is the eradication and co-optation of our culture and history. Whites have been and are constantly re-writing history; they claim concepts and inventions that should be attributed to others; when our people create a new art form (Jazz, Blues, Funk, Rock & Roll, Reggae, Hip Hop), they slap the tag "universal" onto it which implies the art form miraculously sprang into existence, i.e. no one is responsible for creating it, therefore no one can claim it to be their own (the latter always heralds the co-optation of our music). Fools that we are, Afrikans are all to quick to allow this to happen. What kind of people will we be 100 years from now without our cultural birthrights? We will be at best automatons (we are headed down this road now with our conspicuous consumption as mind-less consumers), and at worse, slaves. Culture gives a race purpose, meaning, direction, inspiration, etc. (see: Dr. Marimba Ani, Dr. Amos Wilson, Dr. Kobi Kazembe Kalongi Kambon). Without our culture, we are empty shells waiting to be programmed by those who would have us do their will; zombies. Living but dead.
This is the extinction we face.
Tags: culture, extinction, history, race, resources
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