“Get our own”, “Build our own economy”, “Build our own communities”, “Integration was our downfall”, these are words resounding in the ether all across the African Communities from America to Europe to South America and the Caribbean back to Africa.

Yes Sir, yes Ma’am, I say Europe amongst others. It seems this wave of awareness has been sweeping through the Diaspora African Communities world wide since the entering of the 21st century. In The Netherlands we are waking up and realizing our dependency on fairness and equality was vanity.

We’re fed up, sick and tired of the constant beat down. Fed up with living under someones thumb, being targets of psychological games played to kill our sense of self and sense of pride, the never ending struggle. Only tolerated but never accepted, never respected.

From the workplace to the schoolyards. From the Doctors office to the Service-desk at the Bank. We all realize that nothing really changed and this fact dawns on us like the sun rising before the day fully breaks.

But yet I am happy to be alive at this point in history and you should be too. Happy and proud to be born Black.

Because to be born Black, in this age and day, means you are born with the opportunity, the experience and the power to do the unthinkable.

Let me explain this to you. It might be getting wild after this but my personal adage, while living under White Supremacy is this;

Have the audacity to BE, the impertinence to dream and the insolence to resist.

To be free is to realize that the reality we live in today, is created. Compare it to a grand Hollywood production.

To see beyond, in other words understand that there is potential and place for a new and different reality. Understand that there is choice and there are options.
Nothing is set in stone.

All our ideas, believes and perceptions about the world we live in are molded by the very same system that does not want you to be free. This is the reason we can’t see past what is.

Our visions for new and better ways of life aren’t being fully explored because of this simple fact. And as a result we are measuring our success and failure by norms and standards which have been proven as restrictive and biased.

I wonder how many of us believe, in the core of our souls, that the Governments and rulers are ordained by God to rule, and how many of us believe with the same conviction that these Governments are infinite?

Or this, how many feel that we are at the zenith of human civilization?

How many of us think we’ve reached the pinnacle of human-progress? Is the way of the European the only way?

I miss something in the dialogue and discussion regarding our future and the future of Africans world wide. The African centered cultural thought. We borrow all of the concepts for building and philosophies from a system that is failing. And forget we had our own philosophies.

The system isn’t failing the African community exclusively, it is starting to weigh heavy on the average Europeans as well.

Can we use something that is broken to build something that will last? Do we have the audacity to completely dismantle our believes and way of thinking to rebuild based on visions formed within African Cultural Thought?

I will just give one word to reflect on, Sancopha, go back and fetch it.