HOW TO BECOME A NEW AFRIKAN
Revised
1. Know your story (Maafa, Sankofa)
2. Love Afrika, we are Afrikans
3. Take your education serious
4. Stop calling Black folks "niggers" and stop calling Black women "bitches"
5. Promote self respect and social grace
6. Decorate your living space with Afrikan art
7. Reflect Afrikan culture in your appearance
8. Do not practice or support immoral sex (i.e. lesbianism,
homosexuality, pedophilia)
9. Get rid of the poverty mentality
10. Stop using and abusing mood alternative substances (weed, alcohol,
drugs)
11. Distance yourself from negro friends and associates
12. Support Black businesses and be a quality customer
13. Understand Caucasoids are destroyers of all animal, plant, and
human life
14. Return foreign religions to Caucasoids (Christianity, Islam,
Judaism)
15. Stop being corrupt towards Black people, we have to stop lying and
stealing from one another
16. Join or work with a Black proactive non-integrationist organization
17. Fight against racism and white supremacy/reject European
images/concepts
18. Be consistent
19. Once you choose this path, stay on the path
Peace, my sister! Happy to join and be a part of your blog on teaching afrocenticity. As a child of the 60s, it is so powerful to read and know that our Afrocentic attitude and spirit has not been covered due to feeling of integration over the years! As an Afrikan American male educator, teaching our history is tantamount to our children and people's success!
ReplyDeleteI am touched, moved, and inspired by the New Afrikan List. Although I feel there is nothing 'new' to recognizing our Afrikan roots, I truly applaud your decision to 're-create' this list of highly effective Africanisms!
If I may add one more meaningful request to your list and that is for us to remain "resilient". Thanks for creating this open space to share and support.