Bout to get in a whole heap of trouble today but blame God and the ancestors. They must have wanted an Imani to tell ya this stuff cause nobody else had the guts in this time. So they broke that mold, and here I chiz. Let me break down the space cadet thing plaguing the movement once and for all. Mama (Afrika) made me do it.
My own take on this is that so many in the movement I call "space cadets" desire some identity beyond the earth or other people. For them one land and a ... nything short of a fictional universal divinity, conditioned by ideologies, most of which were born in the 1920s out of the disillusionment of the ultimate failure of the Garvey campaign, is too small. They create fictional non-Afrikan identities to link themselves to magical lands, nonexistent historical designations, ancient stuff and they even try to dress , speak, and act like they are from these places. Even worse, they believe they are wiser than their people for having done so. As a result they style themselves "conscious.' Most have a made up fictional bit of Afrikan history, mixed in with a few grains of truth, and an ideology that usually dates back to some person who made the ideology up. I consider this the psychological effect of Du Bois "double consciousness." (Imani) 1920s evening dresses
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