I need to study more, but I aspire to be like WEB DuBois, Kwame Toure and Notake Shange and especially Dr. Marimba Ani in their pursuit of their Pan Afrikan heritage...
If you want to put it bluntly, the Pan Afrikanist would call themselves, "Afrikans stuck in amerikkklan".
Read Dr. Marimba Ani's "Yurugu", it's a very powerful book. She breaks down our whole misunderstanding and misuse of our heritage and self-inflicted self hatred and mental slavery to the point where the neo-nazi's and the klan don't even have to do their job in our extinction...
The point is, the most indiscriminate and intricate parts our AfAm culture is all attributible an unchanging Afrika. We only discover this aspect of our "cultural asili" once the hatred barrier is broken down between African Americans and continental Africans. Once this barrier is broken, the immediate connection we make to them explains all the discrepancies of "our" doings that we may take completely for granted. We often wind up saying, "Oh, that's why we do that"... It's as if the Africans have found us--their lost children ripped and kidnapped from their land so long ago.
I warn you, once you start on this path of self-discovery thru an Afrikan-centered perspective, it will be very painful. There will be beliefs, actions and ideals that you will not be able to reconcile between your old self and your Afrikan centered self... Personally, I have not completed my process because I still have to gain something from the "kidnappers" and have to stay repressed for awhile longer. But once release, I will be able to pursue my dreams...
Once we free our self-imposed white supremacist attitude, we can break the chains of our Yurugu heritage and reach our 3rd eye of our unchanging cultural asili. (Just read "Yurugu", then you'll get what I'm saying).
So folx, we may think we are runing away from our Afrikan encoded DNA, but if we remain "true" to ourselves, we'll eventually come back to our Afrikan selves--centered.
I highly recommend seeing the movie, "Sankofa". It's on video. It's rather difficult to get so you may have to goto black websites to get a hold of it. However, if you're not crying at the end, you have completely missed the point of the story...
Just a little drop of our utamawazo...
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