Printer-friendly copy Email this topic to a friend
Lobby Okay Activist Archives topic #12486

Subject: "RE: So, where exactly is this place?" This topic is locked.
Previous topic | Next topic
sistasoul
Charter member
876 posts
Sun Jul-15-01 04:52 AM

Click to send email to this author Click to send private message to this authorClick to view this author's profileClick to add this author to your buddy list
85. "RE: So, where exactly is this place?"
In response to In response to 83


  

          

Where is this place where the Black ppl are more free than we are here in America?



I wish there was such a place. My argument isn't that if we move somewhere else we are automatically going to be free. If only that were true. What my opinion is, is that we as people of African decent should be trying to help the situation of people in Africa as well as the Black people in America. Me, personally, I want to be the person who goes to Africa and other African countries and tries to do just that. There are plenty of people right here in America willing to stay and work in this country. But I would choose to join forces with people of with a similar goal and travel. Its all a matter of choice. I wouldn't try to impose mine on anyone. But I still think that if Black people want to stay in America, it should be for a cause and not just because they enjoy the "perks."



"Are you saying that just b/c a country has a majority of Blacks in it, that means all those Black ppl are free? Hell, all"white" ppl in America ain't free and this is "their" nation! "



That point is true. Africans in Africa are in some ways more in bondage than we are over here. They are victims of brutalization as well, and victims of European colonialism. But the long term mental conditioning is something that Blacks in America suffer from more than anywhere else. But that doesn't mean that something can't be done. And if white people in America aren't free, I have a hard time feeling sympathy for them. Blacks (as well as indigenous people) were the race who were stripped of so many vital things in the United States. And furthermore, I am in no way concerned with the freedom of whites. In the end, liberation for us is going to have to come in the form of a mind revolution. Africans in the diaspora are going to have to attempt to reverse all those years of conditioning that has been a result of European influence. It is not a movement that will necessarily be fought with physical weapons, but with education, consciousness, and mental warfare.



"I'm really curious as to how >you think you will do as a woman in someof these places you're talking about. I'm under the

impression that women in America are doing far better than

women in most other parts of the world. But maybe I'm wrong."



No, you're not wrong. Women in other countries, I think especially in some African countries, are considered to be less than equal to men. But, come on, I'm not going to let something like that stop me. If every person who believed in something gave up their fight because a group of people thought they were inferior, were would we be now? Maybe I will encounter more hardships, maybe I will fail, but I damn sure am going to try.

And, I always say this, but thank you for responding to, and disagreeing with (sometimes), and questioning what I say in my post, because it makes me re-evaluate and think about what I've said. And although most times my opinion is still the same, it never hurts to look deeper.



~Peace





"I'm an African, never was an African American..." - Dead Prez

~~~~~~welcome to my sig~~~~~~~

"Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves."- Gandalf, 'The Two Towers'

"...the doper that I get the more I'm feeling broke as shit..."- Dre 3000

  

Printer-friendly copy


Would you live anywhere else? [View all] , HotThyng76, Wed Jul-04-01 09:45 AM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
How could you do this
Jul 04th 2001
1
Huh?
Jul 04th 2001
2
      Nesta, revisied!!!!!!!!!!
Jul 04th 2001
3
           I agree.
Jul 04th 2001
4
                Basically!!!!!
Jul 04th 2001
5
                     This is some good shit.
Jul 04th 2001
6
                     You smokin?
Jul 04th 2001
7
                          Nope.
Jul 04th 2001
8
                     RE: Basically!!!!!
Karmel
Jul 12th 2001
72
y'all should move here
Jul 04th 2001
9
damn you gotta a hut?
Jul 04th 2001
14
      lol!!!
Jul 05th 2001
38
RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Akh
Jul 04th 2001
10
RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Akh
Jul 04th 2001
11
Zimbabwe
Jul 04th 2001
12
research your ancestors?
Jul 05th 2001
20
      Money.
Jul 05th 2001
33
           Use Ifa
Jul 06th 2001
67
hell no
Jul 04th 2001
13
I'm going to England
Jul 04th 2001
15
RE: Would you live anywhere else?
sniffsmokeswallow
Jul 04th 2001
16
um...
Jul 04th 2001
17
RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Jul 05th 2001
18
sunscreen
Jul 05th 2001
19
Yeah, that was a nice song
Caesar Jay
Jul 16th 2001
88
The freedom of thought and lifestyle that Europeans...
Jul 05th 2001
21
RE: The freedom of thought and lifestyle that Europeans...
Jul 05th 2001
22
      Africa, being a continent....
Jul 05th 2001
23
      Differences
Jul 05th 2001
27
           You seem as if...
Jul 05th 2001
30
                RE: You seem as if...
Jul 05th 2001
36
      RE: The freedom of thought and lifestyle that Europeans...
Caesar Jay
Jul 16th 2001
89
RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Jul 05th 2001
24
ha
Jul 05th 2001
37
uh huh,
Jul 05th 2001
25
RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Jul 05th 2001
26
RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Elixir
Jul 06th 2001
42
ANYWHERE but here!
Jul 05th 2001
28
US citizenship
Jul 12th 2001
73
Back from Brazil
JMello
Jul 13th 2001
82
Dont go to Spain
Caesar Jay
Jul 16th 2001
90
HELL YES!! THERE"S SO MUCH MORE THAN AMERICA
Jul 05th 2001
29
Nope
Jul 05th 2001
31
exactly!
Jul 05th 2001
32
RE: Nope
Jul 06th 2001
43
      If you don't like it, leave
Jul 06th 2001
47
           I Plan too all of the above.
Jul 06th 2001
49
                RE: I Plan too all of the above.
Jul 06th 2001
55
                     BOMBSHELL -"BOOOOM!!"
Jul 06th 2001
57
                          riiiiiiiiiiiiight
Jul 06th 2001
58
                               RE: riiiiiiiiiiiiight
Jul 06th 2001
59
                                    Agree to Disagree
Jul 06th 2001
60
                                         RE: Agree to Disagree
Jul 06th 2001
61
                                              Bowing out semi-gracefully....
Jul 06th 2001
62
                                                   RE: Bowing out semi-gracefully....
Jul 06th 2001
63
                                                   RE: Bowing out semi-gracefully....
Jul 06th 2001
64
my parents come from...
Jul 05th 2001
34
RE: my parents come from...
Jul 06th 2001
50
      does that make
Jul 06th 2001
51
           RE: does that make
Jul 06th 2001
56
RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Ami_Aura
Jul 05th 2001
35
RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Jul 06th 2001
39
      RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Ami_Aura
Jul 06th 2001
40
           RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Jul 06th 2001
44
           RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Jul 06th 2001
45
yes...
Jul 06th 2001
41
you pay for it
Jul 06th 2001
52
honestly? i don't know...
Jul 06th 2001
46
agreed
Jul 06th 2001
53
definitely...
Jul 12th 2001
69
ESPECIALLY women.
Jul 12th 2001
80
RE: Would you live anywhere else?
BuddhaWake
Jul 06th 2001
48
RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Jul 06th 2001
54
RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Jul 06th 2001
65
RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Jul 06th 2001
66
      RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Jul 12th 2001
68
      RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Jul 12th 2001
75
           Thank you
Jul 12th 2001
76
                re: thank you
Jul 12th 2001
78
You know, that's cute but
Jul 12th 2001
79
RE: You know, that's cute but
Jul 13th 2001
81
      So, where exactly is this place?
Jul 14th 2001
83
          
                I agree w/you wholeheartedly.
Jul 15th 2001
86
RE: Would you...(FACT CHECK)
JMello
Jul 14th 2001
84
      RE: Would you...(FACT CHECK)
Jul 16th 2001
87
RE: Would you live anywhere else?
digitalcaptive
Jul 12th 2001
70
You're a guy?
Jul 12th 2001
71
What'd you think?
Jul 12th 2001
74
RE: Would you live anywhere else?
Jul 12th 2001
77

Lobby Okay Activist Archives topic #12486 Previous topic | Next topic
Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.25
Copyright © DCScripts.com