Collective Engagement
Afro-World Perspective on Sustaining Objectives to right historical wrongs
building an inclusive history of humankind
juncture
The Afro-World now finds itself at a critical juncture in its long, tortious and aggrieved history that dates as far back as the slave trade in East Africa during the 1700 and 1800s, then witnessed by an increase of merchant activity from Oman that had settled in Zanzibar. “Long forgotten is the dark past that overshadowed this... archipelago [Zanzibar], which today is a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania, but back then was... the center of the East African slave trade”.
perspective
From a historical perspective, the enslavement of Africans is also “traced back to antiquity when it became popular in the 7th century” BEC. This was when Islam was gaining strength in Northern Africa; realizing that this occurred “seven centuries before Europeans explored the continent and ten centuries before they transported Africans across the Atlantic Ocean for enslavement in the Americas.
purpose
Our purpose is not to recount details of these dastardly deeds, but to show the expanse of time in which they occurred, and point out that this is a main reason we now find an African Diaspora existing in wide-ranging geographic locations. Africa and its Diaspora are now at the tenable position in history now able to project a spiritual awareness of humanity that champions justice in all avenues and quarters of human endeavour, to set aright the Eurocentric distorted history of humankind and lay the foundation for a more inclusive humanity global in scale, a project of immense proportion.
Major Challenge: white power structures
A Global Critical Race and Racism Framework:
Racial Entanglements and Deep and Malleable Whiteness.
Community Solidarity
Mass Movement
The only hope for racial unity that will liberate the Blacks in America and elsewhere throughout the Afro-World, and command the respect of a traumatized world, will be a new mass movement organized on a global scale with an inclusive action plan never attempted. This will require a new leadership, a leadership with the single purpose of helping Black people move towards a better life, and in the process revolutionize humanity’s perspective of itself based on the principle of oneness, to include commonality and identity as a species when viewed through the prism of an inherent spiritual core. Benefits derived from this process lie in showing a leadership role for humanity to follow that’s above and beyond the falsehood of white racial supremacy, all while eliminating black-on-black self-hatred within the Afro-World itself. This provides the means to achieve unity in purpose and community solidarity that’s commiserate with the goals and objectives of this transitory age. Ref.: Global Reach Initiative, Slide #10, New York City, below.
Elements
Plan of Action
Our plan is not African or African diaspora specific, but remains inclusive of the human family, no matter the geographic location. Our call is for mass concentrated effort to embrace a new paradigm of a social and economic nature designed to encompass, galvanize, and revitalize those positive aspects of human society. Each societal element will embrace the plan based on its specific perspective.
Africa and its diaspora have a unique responsibility in this process, as a vanguard, because of their ingrained and abiding spirituality that dates far into antiquity, strengthened in recent centuries by insidious repression, well documented in the annals of history, which no one can deny.
We work with the indigenous peoples, that also marginalized community, and with all like-minded individuals who seek release from oppression. We offer an interrelated opportunity that’s global in its scope, ideas, and actions.
Humanity's Oneness
Science-based reality that humanity exist scientifically comfortable in its oneness as a species.
Species Identity
Inherent Spiritually
Gender Justness
European History
Never reduce "...the intellectual richness of European history solely to the vicious European crimes against humanity, especially against Third World peoples...All the elements for a solution to the major problems of humanity existed at one time or another in European thought. But the Europeans did not act on the mission that was designated them."
"The Third World must start over a new history of man which takes account of not only the occasional prodigious theses [thesis] maintained by Europe but also its crimes..."
"Moreover, if we want to respond to the expectation of the Europeans we must not send them back a reflection, however ideal, of their society and their thought that periodically sickness even them."
"For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must make a new start, develop a new way of thinking, and endeavour to create a new man."
⎯Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth.
How it Works
shape the future
The challenge before people of Africa and African descent is to marshal the vision, moral courage, wisdom and collective will in ways that reflect the strength and durability of their forefathers, then undertake an immense and unrelenting task of leading a spiritual-based revolution to edify the human family. This is not to proselytize a particular religious belief, but to be appreciative and with respect for religious diversity and the spiritual principles expressed in common by each.
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Afro-Americans
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Liberating minds
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Spiritual requisite
Afro-world Sustaining Objectives
Right Historical Wrongs ◆ Build a New History of Mankind
