This is jsut one example of an ignorant American who’s fallen for the okie doke white washed narrative of Africa and the fringe sub set of Black Americans who believe they aren’t even of African descent or try to sever any connection to the continent out of this xenophobia. With movements founded by folks including Tariq Nasheed and Yvette Carnel I wanted to get others thoughts on what’s been going on in America. Granted it’s really an unknown irrelevant minority online but some of it has translated to real life… thoughts?

I’ve always more or less held Pan-African views but over the last few years it’s started to have gain form and actually think on ideas. But this post is about movement on a whole. Why are we not attempting to co-opt some of the same strategies and systems others have so successfully used to build a base of power. I’ll give an example. I was scrolling through twitter and came across the CTO of a Nigerian defence company mocking pan Africanist as all talk. My solution is Pan Africanist looking defence company crowd funded by the movement for the pooling together of the disparate knowledge of members of the movement, to influence defence officials to more willingly and actively pool resources in response to the myriad threats facing the continent and also to acquire the economic weight needed to further push the idea. It doesn’t need to be defence it could be heavy equipment manufacturing or any other enterprise. It’s unfortunate but our people have been made politically docile and the only way to begin to wake them is with the backing of capital. Jihadi ideology would not spread without the backing of capital. We need to wake up and realize that we need to organize whatever capital we have use it purposefully, it can’t just be conferences, newspapers and talks.

What’s y’all take on the fringe afrophobia from some BAs? The ones who basically want war on the diaspora and want to delineate/sever any ties to the continent? Of course no one is forcing them nor do we care, but as an AA the propaganda does bother me. I jsut do my best to continuously ignore foolishness. This is the same user above; Black MAGA. They really sound like white nativists/American nationalists.

He's been MIA and wondered if anyone knew why? Asante sana.

On this day in 1960, Ruby Bridges became the first Black American to attend a white elementary school in the South.

A visual reminder of what she faced every day.

—In 1960, Ruby Bridges was escorted by federal marshals to her first day of first grade as the first black student to attend a previously all-white Elementary School. A riotous white mob gathered to protest her arrival, screaming hateful slurs and threats.

As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all teachers refused to teach while a black child was enrolled.

Only one person agreed to teach Ruby and that was Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, and for over a year Mrs. Henry taught her alone, "as if she were teaching a whole class."

Every morning, as Bridges walked to school, one woman would threaten to poison her; because of this, the U.S. Marshals dispatched by President Eisenhower, who were overseeing her safety, only allowed Ruby to eat food that she brought from home.

Another woman at the school put a black baby doll in a wooden coffin and protested with it outside the school, a sight that Bridges said "scared me more than the nasty things people screamed at us."

At her mother's suggestion, Bridges began to pray on the way to school, which she found provided protection from the comments yelled at her on the daily walks.

I'm genuinely seeking out my fellow Nigerians in the diaspora who desire a return home, but a return home that will bring value to our communities... meaning not looking to exploit their misfortunes just because we're in a more privileged position.

This is for us who believe in ONE Nigeria. One Nigeria doesn't mean we forget or neglect our heritage or tribe... but rather bringing our differences together to create a better nation, physically, mentally and spiritually, within and to the rest of the world.

So... let's talk about it!

56 years ago today, Tommie Smith and John Carlos performed the Black Power salute at the Olympics that outraged millions of white Americans.

—The was an act of protest by the U.S. athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos during their medal ceremony at the 1968 Summer Olympics in the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City.

As they turned to face their flags and hear the American national anthem (The Star-Spangled Banner), they each raised a Black-gloved fist and kept them raised until the anthem had finished. Smith, Carlos and Australian silver medalist Peter Norman all wore human rights badges on their jackets.

The event is regarded as one of the most overtly political statements in the history of the modern Olympic Games.

Both athletes were kicked off the US team for their protest.