Originally Published on December 22^nd, 2022
Title: If We Are to be Liberated

Original Tweet – If we are truly to be Liberated we can no longer be a Black Family built on Assimilation and Integration. Building Black institutions will require us to look ahead to becoming independent from those who seek to ensnare us in consumptive enslavement.

EXPLANATION – Liberation is a constant topic for discussion and a call to action towards for all Afrikan Diasporants during these long Maafa centuries. What it truthfully means was seldom discussed prior to the last 80 years. Generically, all Diasporants knew what it meant, but few dare set down to describe it in its totality lest some hard truth’s facing the Diaspora be laid before the entire community. As little as this definition was described, so to were the necessary steps to achieving it nor the overall internal requirements necessarily prepared and marshalled by each Diasporant discussed in any great detail till this same era. During the past 80 years, with the heavily layered imperial hand lightened allowing for more freedom in expression, these things are discussed more openly (though the last 40 years has seen their public exposure seriously culled). With all this in mind, think on the above tweet much more deeply as I run through its meaning. There are two separate sections to it.

The first section states, “If we are truly to be Liberated we can no longer be a Black Family built on Assimilation and Integration”; this statement immediately calls to mind the question what does it mean ‘to truly be Liberated’, further what does Liberation mean? Remember the previous paragraph, the first law practiced to achieve a goal is visualization. If you can see it, you can achieve it; but to properly visualize something you must have a full understanding of that thing you seek to obtain. We must meet this challenge in the present era so we can then move to the instruction following the word. Note how ‘we’ in the Diasporant are addressed – as a ‘Black Family’. The instruction, itself, offers a hint at what true liberation should look like. Unity is a goal in liberation and the struggle for it, it also is a prerequisite to being liberated from the forces seeking to keep us enslaved. Notice to, what comes after this call or unification, the enemies to it and the weapons enticingly dangled to prevent it, assimilation and integration. The two are not the same, in fact they are significantly different; how, I’ll leave you to investigate the answer to that question.

The second section states “Building Black institutions will require us to look ahead to becoming independent from those who seek to ensnare us in consumptive enslavement”. From a call to unity, to what our answering the call actively can produce. Becoming one Black [Afrikan] Family will surely result in us constructing culturally centered institutions; however, in moving towards their establishment and erection, we must become independent from those tethers promising us fully comfortable lives integrated or assimilated into the society by those anti-liberation forces who seek to profit from our contributions to their livelihoods without giving to us the human dignity and worth we deserve. The statement further reveals how this comfort is conferred and accepted onto ourselves and our community, the habit involved in conspicuous consumption. Becoming ensnared in consumptive enslavement and the materialist laden many of our people have succumb to, has limited our capabilities to build unity and community over these last few decades; hence this tweet and its call to overcome this seldom seen problem.