Leadership in the Afro Diaspora or better yet the absence of it

George Floyd had just been killed. Across the world protests and manifestation against discrimination are organized by the diaspora communities. On the internet one can see images from these stands from Brazil all the way to the Netherlands. The Afro diaspora is outrages that one of their own could be killed like that, and they are also using the timing as a point to shed light on the racially motivated injustices they face locally on a day to day basis.

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“Blackness”? Safari to Self Identification

Semantics & identity

Amidst a World in turmoil, wherein political systems matter less and less and it has become clear that there is actually and factually no left nor right, social constructs are cascading and political parties are losing their original identities, the healthcare systems and law enforcement are hollowed-out and systematically never have been functioning as they should, polarisation of the masses is raining supreme, slowly the few whom are awake are supplemented by slumberers who wake into a realization that the world is ill, finding themselves healing from Stockholm syndrome and many other psychological, physical and spiritual poisonings and other illnesses thereof, turning inward and gradually concluding …

…WE ARE ALL ONE.  I am because we are.

The vail is lifting.

But still many need to get used to a new way of being and perceiving. A lot of deeper meaning has to be looked at, studied and understood.

To fathom what it is that we are…

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COVID-19 and the Afro diaspora

Congratulations for surviving 2020 and making it to the new year with your sanity (somewhat) intact.

Depending on location, the world has transformed in a surreal place where citizens are confined to their own country, sometimes even their own city. Getting a cotton swap stuck up the nasal canal and in some places in the world, your rectal canal has become a common occurrence.

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Stopping the onslaught on the black man

Yet again the black community worldwide had the opportunity to watch as one of its members was killed by one who hates us. In a short span of time we’ve seen members of our community get beaten to near death and death, shot while jogging and choked out while still presumed innocent, as they had not been proven otherwise by a legitimate court of law.

So what do we decide to do?

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