Comments on: The Race To Leave Us Behind http://afrospear.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/ A Blog of the African Diaspora Tue, 29 May 2012 21:23:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: umbrarchist http://afrospear.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-7161 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:34:02 +0000 http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-7161 I started reading sci-fi when I was in 4th grade. That was before Star Trek came on the air. My mother told me it was “something crazy”. Compared to the top sci-fi literature Star Trek was rather mediocre but it was the best on television at the time.

But science and technology in the real world are somewhat different from sci-fi. Almost all computers are von Neumann machines. In 4 years at IBM I never saw or heard the term. I didn’t learn it until after I quit. Most of these palefaces are hiding information from each other. Unfortunately we seem to be even more stingy with knowledge than they are. School is mostly just paying White people that didn’t figure the stuff out to dribble out what they memorized as slowly as possible.

So one thing for us to do is use this technology to share good info.

Torrent O Books

But there is sci-fi in that Matrix too.

Sci-Fi List

Curiously the very first SF book I read, Star Surgeon, was about racism.

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]]> By: The Race To Leave Us Behind « Apolloproject’s Weblog http://afrospear.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-6707 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:33:37 +0000 http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-6707 [...] Source: Black History [...]

]]> By: stanstunning http://afrospear.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3647 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:16:35 +0000 http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3647 The race to leave us behind began with the Portuguese in the 15th century when they made contact with Africa in their quest for gold and slaves. For them the wealth of the world was theirs for conquest, and The Spirit of The Conquistador has informed every action of the white race ever since. We, blacks, are left out long before there is to be travel to Mars. We are left out right here on Earth. We are definitely not included in The New World Order. The depopulation of Africa (particularly sub-Saharan Africa) is well underway. Notice the coountless wars, the AIDS epedemic, famine, politcal corruption, and poverty. (War, Pestilence, Famine, and Death. The Four Horsemen of The Apocalyspe.) Notice also, that even though manufacturing jobs have moved off-shore in search of cheap labor that none have found their way to Africa — which should ,in theory, have some of the cheapest labor on the planet. This is not just circumstance and we had better give greater attention to this matter. We cannot leave the fate of the world in the hands of those who currently rule.

]]> By: Ana http://afrospear.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3560 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:04:56 +0000 http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3560 There is still hope for the Africans. If we can create a Pan African movement, not only of intellectuals, but by Black people of all socio economic groups on the continent and troughout the Diaspora, then our future as a people on this planet is certain. We must work toward an awakening of the masses of Black people, to unite for our own good.

This movement must have at the forefront an agenda based on restoring respect and acceptance of our identity as Africans, and it must be structured with plans based on independent, sustainable, economic developement. I am tired of hearing on these Black blogs what the enemies think of us, and how many of us are sellout. We need to stop the masochism. Inadvertently, we think too much of the enemies, hence we are always taking off our vision of what we should be doing as a people. We also have given the enemies too much power over us.

Yesterday October18, I read an artucle in The NY Times that left me elated. The article was on a Black community in Colombia-San Basilio de Palenque. They are the descendants of runaway slaves, who had carved out a community far away from the Spaniards during the colonial period. The Palenqueros (people of Palenque)had conserved elements of the Congo language, mixed with Spanish. Their language is the only Creole Spanish spoken in Latin America.

But what really hit me was what one of them said. Mr. Salgado a Palenquero schoolteacher said: “Our ancestors survived capture in Africa, the passage by ship to Cartagena and were strong enough to escape and live on their own for centuries. We are the strongest of the strongest. No matter what happens, our language will live on with us”.

I believe this is the manner many of us should be speaking. The descendants of Africans in the Diaspora are all the strongest of the strongest. I do not believe that there is a people on this planet who could have endured what our people went through, and live on to leave descendants like us today. we just need to stop feeling sorry for ourselves, roll up our sleeves and become active.

The word Palenque in Spanish is runaway haven for slaves. The Portuguese version is Quilombo.The English version is Maroon town.

]]> By: rikyrah http://afrospear.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3547 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:11:19 +0000 http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3547 I’ve never liked science-fiction, particularly because even at an early age, I could recognize the message – NO BLACK PEOPLE. And the message is NOT subtle..in the least.

]]> By: WriteBlack » Blog Archive » Drive-by http://afrospear.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3542 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:50:44 +0000 http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3542 [...] the existence of people of African descent when they envision future worlds? Basically, because our present isn’t promising. But we can change [...]

]]> By: hathor http://afrospear.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3507 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:47:43 +0000 http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3507 The cold war proxy wars, US, Russia and Cuba, brought guns and ammunition, the earlier colonist sparked the rivalries between ethnic groups, and since they had selected the elite to serve their purpose and left mostly poor and uneducated; that stew created the situation we have in Africa today.

]]> By: Ensayn http://afrospear.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3498 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:03:49 +0000 http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3498 I have friends that are native Africans living in Ethiopia and Nigeria, that have lived in the U.S. and both agree uniting Africans in Africa will be tougher than uniting Blacks in the Western hemisphere.

]]> By: DJ Black Adam http://afrospear.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3493 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:51:09 +0000 http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3493 Fact is, somebody is going to have to unite Black Africa. Can it be done? I hope so.

]]> By: asabagna http://afrospear.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3484 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:09:50 +0000 http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3484 Lubangakene,

Excellent commentary. You break things down to the most common and understandable denominator! I also like your idea to indentify: “who is selling us those guns, what companies and what countries?”

Peace.

]]> By: thefreeslave http://afrospear.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3483 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:59:13 +0000 http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3483 Excellent post, Asa. A free Africa is a threat as is a free African. An African who thinks for him or herself, who does things for the good of him or herself, or their people, is a threat to the European order. Servility is key. Since we aren’t compliant enough, we must die. Those of us who mammy them, play magical negro for them, can hang around a bit out of our utility.

The whole future trip – a white future with no color in sight – is rooted in their fear/contempt for us. That hate that they need us so desperately and wish that they didn’t. But, who will teach them the latest handshake, the latest slang if not us?!

As for the dire prospects for our people on the Continent: who is selling us those guns, what companies and what countries? I’m sure it wouldn’t be too hard to identify them. There’s a wonderful campaign idea. Expose the death merchants and do the math: how the so-called “humanitarian aid” that the West sends to Africa is counteracted by and only a cover for the real aid they seek for Africa; the instrumentality of control and death – the gun – so that Europe can continue its rape and profit.

]]> By: Ana http://afrospear.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3482 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:01:14 +0000 http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3482 Andy, I like your analysis. I also love science fiction too.There is a possibility that the enemies have already predicted that in the future, most Blacks would have either died off, and the rest fully assimilated into them. If we do not wake up, and stop fooling ourselves that we are doing so well, our future as a people on this planet will be bleak indeed.

]]> By: Andy http://afrospear.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3477 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:18:18 +0000 http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3477 Very interesting article. Am curious to know what the true answer to these questions are:

“How many future African scientific researchers have been killed who would have discovered the cure for HIV, AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and Ebola? How many future African doctors and nurses have been killed who would have brought relief to the sick by providing adequate care for their ailments? How many future African agricultural scientists have been killed who would have found a solution to the increasing desertification of the continent and boost food production to feed the people? How many future African political, social and economic scientists have been killed who would have made substantial contributions to the development of the continent’s resources, both material and human, which would benefit not only the continent but all humankind as a whole?

Meanwhile, what are the rest of the cast (those African intellectuals) who survived and became the elite?

]]> By: TV » The Race To Leave Us Behind http://afrospear.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3475 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:24:52 +0000 http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3475 [...] technews@futurenet.co.uk (Magazine Team) wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe “valuable truth” shown here is how Native Americans are seen by those in the dominant eurocentric culture. In the same way, consciously or subconsciously, those who wrote, produced, casted and directed the film “Race to Mars”, … [...]

]]> By: Leila http://afrospear.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3474 Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:23:26 +0000 http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/the-race-to-leave-us-behind/#comment-3474 Very thought provoking article. I love sci-fi also. I have often wondered what it would be like to go to other worlds and if it would be different. I don’t think so. Why? It’s like people moving out of their neighborhood (L.A. to Lancaster and Victorville) to other neighborhoods and not changing their mindset or the mindset of their children that they’re trying to help. Now some of these places are little more than mini- L.A.’s. It would be the same thing in space. I do agree with you in regard to getting ourselves together and unifying. I would love to hear your further thoughts on this.

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