I want nothing more than the evolution of my people. I want us to walk proud and strong and confident,
knowing our history and not being ashamed of it. I want us to be the best. I want us to be articulate and informed, knowledgeable
and wise. I want us to be seekers of
knowledge and masters of education. I
see absolutely nothing wrong with being mathematicians, scientists, physicists,
physicians, even politicians if we have the best interests of our community at
heart. But not everyone is meant to be a
scholar so I want us to strive for excellence in whatever it is we do as long
as it is aligned with our collective good.
I want us to create great works of art and music and theater that will
stand the test of time. I want us, as a
people, to be grand alchemists and metaphysicians, relinquishing the
suffocating chokehold that Western religion has around our necks. I want us be physically strong, rejecting the
poison we put in our bodies and vigorously pursuing a sound body and mind. I want us to embrace the intellect we once possessed
that allowed us to be the creators of all the humanities and sciences, that
built pyramids and mapped the stars with greater accuracy than modern man can
comprehend. I want each individual of
African descent throughout the Diaspora to know their special talent, what
purpose they were born to fulfill, and to exploit it to the benefit of
themselves, their families, our community and humanity.
I desperately want us to be healed from our emotional,
psychological, and mental wounds. I want
us to heal from our personal abuses and the collective traumas that were
inflicted upon our innocence as children and our ancestors. I want us to repair our broken spirits and
fix the hurt we try to suppress. I want
our relationships to be healed, our communication to be clear. I wish with all my heart for us to embrace
honesty, integrity, and responsibility not because they are traits inherent to
white people, rather they are the traits of healthy individuals. I want us to put aside Eurocentric standards
and rules and embrace what is holistic and pure and true. I want us to evolve and grow and mature
collectively; I do not want us to be happy remaining stagnant and complacent and
dysfunctional. We must rage against the
machine of mediocrity to ascend to our true place of greatness. I need
for us to fight back against racism, oppression, bigotry, and the fallacy of
white supremacy, to be armed intellectually to fight the battle against those
who do not see our inherent value as human beings. I want us to prosper financially, to provide
for our families and to never know need or lack, but not to be enslaved to
capitalism and greed and gross materialism.
If we were to be citizens of the world, accepting and
respecting other cultures but loving our own the most, nothing would make me
happier. Open-minded, non-judgmental,
and progressive are characteristic I wish we all possessed as a race. I desperately want us to love the skin we are
in. I want us to love our natural hair,
our full features, our bodies whatever shape they are in, and the deep, dark,
melanated skin from whence we all originated.
I think most of all I want us to
release the shackles of shame that surround our sexuality so that we might know
true freedom. I want us to embrace and
celebrate our sensuality, not be driven by our lusts. I want us to explore pleasure without
boundaries but not be a slave to it. I
want us to redefine our identities, to become more than victims of our
circumstances but creators of a new paradigm.
AfroerotiK stands for the passage from dark to light, the transformation
from stagnant to vibrant.
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