What’s in the “real� world, outside Blacknet?

Are Africans uniting around common interests in Diaspora, where the majority of our posters here, reside?

The Diaspora has never been static in its recruitment.

Many of the members here at Blacknet have African ancestors who left Africa centuries ago. Some of us, only a few decades or ago. Some of us were born on the Continent.

So what’s the Ethos here at Blacknet?

Well central to it is our common ancestral/cultural/historical link to Africa. many of us recognize that our destiny is in our hands.

No other people are going to help us do, that which is our responsibility - make history andseize thetime.



So when we say African Blacknet Villiage does not mean African-American, not African-British, not Nigerian, Ghanaian, Zimbabwean, African-Caribbean not African-British its just African, us.



Many of us are not living race proud, race first lives, so it shouldnt be a surprise that conflicts, divisions, nationalism. self-hate and other backwardness rears its head here. And it does.



Over time, many Africans from all over the African world are attacked, assaulted on these boards. Africans from America, a short while ago launched a nasty assault on continental Africans here at Blacknet. Africans, likewise from the Caribbean have had to endure, insults from Africans who have seen it fitting to attack the dignity of fellow race members.

But the moderation team, deals with these problems, conflicts with the help of the village; stopping such contradictions, taking root and festering here.

What are most of us here? Diasporians – many, simply exhibiting behaviors common historically both in Diaspora and on the continent - colonized minds reacting to centuries of ideological conditioning that does not benefit us or our children.

These behaviors reflect the world external to Blacknet and should therefore be understood in that context.

But change is good.

This forum highlights vision. We recognize we are all Africans. There are those who will never ever understand that fact. And this is testimony to what Kunjufu meant when he quoted Nelly Fully's "until you understand white supremacy.......everything else you learn, will confuse you"

Black Power posted some poignant images today. Photographs of our ancestors. As Jett Black pointed out, many of us here at Blacknet could be related to those souls, made chattel.

Look at how our ancestors were introduced to the west, where most of us here have residence. Expand on this picture of fact, expand it into the reality of modern day racism: the fact that we, in the main live as second class citizens in countries based on the physical and mental torture of millions of our people. Real people. Our people.







So when Africans are killed regularlyin police custody, denied access to resources (education, employment, capital)in lands thatAfricans contribute to; African flesh still incarcerated, shackled by systems of justice built on no justice for Africans, we should not be shocked, surprised or put off balance.

If wedid not forget that we are all Africans here, a people, just like any other people; a people who numbers come from the West, East, South and the center of the motherland, division between us, would be seen moreof ahindrance rather than something to be proud of - waving flags - out waving our brothers like some contest of strength - where the winners get to take home the Gold medal that says "champion negro flag waver 2006".

How many of our men have fought and died for flags that didn't repay our grand payments of blood, disability and death?

Willie Lynch ideology is something we talk of but who has solutions?

Blacknetsays we are all Africans as part of that solution. That's vision. That’s leadership.

That’s our simple ethos, based upon what we have been through, as a people.

The ethos here is not to Africanize anybody; how do you Africanize Africans?

Moderators are not here to favor cultural/national group overanother; the Moderators have nothing to gain by doing, acting in such a manner, as policy.