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talking earlier with friends about the arab slave trade. libya. lebanon. syria. 1000 years of bodies bartered. the united states moving into fascism. white science. tuskegee experiments and now ancestry dot com. the genetic market. palo mayombe. bones. blood. saturn transiting capricorn in our various houses — 8th and 4th, respectively. ancestors. bones. blood. police state. colonial state. the university being a statue of police state. colonial state. misa. ocha. misa. ocha. orion and stargate. melanin and chlorophyll. 90 degrees and 180 degrees and 360 degrees and dimensional shifts. but it’s also very mundane — smoking blunts, eating peas n rice, all the while NYPD stalkin the house down the block, this juxtaposed with that,

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cyborgs and sci fi and courier new. exús and pomba giras and indios and oya and chango incense from the lady three years ago at brooklyn bazaar. scullcap in a mason jar on the bed from the previous tenant. ash tray on the bed too many butts to count and two more between my sisterfriend and i. black cat purring in its sleep next to me. engines revving below on malcolm x boulevard and lexington ave. crossroads. liminality. . .

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“Think of yourself, Black creator, freed of european restraint which first means the restraint of self determined mind development. Think what would be the results of the unfettered blood inventor-creator with the resources of a nation behind him. To imagine–to think–to construct–to energize!!!” – Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka’s early 1970s treatise regarding technology and society directly applies to […]

via Afrofuturism, Generative & Environmental Justice in Wakanda — Renegade Futurism

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“The white god doesn’t talk. The white god does not come to visit. The white god does not like the things that the earth gives with such love. No singing. No dancing. No food. No perfume. He hates the feel of soft velvety flesh and laughter in the night. The white god makes no miracles.”

-from Santeria: A Practical Guide to Afro-Caribbean Magic by Luis Nuñez Manuel