Most “Blacks” in Brazil deny “Blackness”

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“It’s worth noting that Brazil has the largest modern diaspora African population outside of Africa.” — Onitaset Kumat

I told an African in America on the streets that we need to hear more praises of our African nature.  He disengaged with me then walked away cursing, insisting that he’s half-White, half-Black.  It may have been true.  But he’s not alone.  Brazil–”Blacks” call themselves “Colored.”  This is the denied self-hatred.  The ABS fights against this self-hatred by connecting all over the world African Blood Siblings Community Centers.  Learn how to connect yours by typing the ABS.  Subscribe, share, love.

Brazil 2010 census shows changing race balance

Despite a decade of progress, poverty is still widespread in Brazil

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For the first time, non-white people make up the majority of Brazil’s population, according to preliminary results of the 2010 census.

Out of around 191m Brazilians, 91 million identified themselves as white, 82m as mixed race and 15m as black.

Dark Girls: Official Preview

Listen Siblings, I come in peace,

“[We] are never alone: not in body, not in mind, not in spirit.” — Onitaset Kumat

Shadeism is a real-life affliction that African people are dealt.  It’s the Occidental in our mind.  We need a space to learn to think properly about our culture.  This space is the African Blood Siblings Community Center.  Write the ABS to help build.  Inaction has consequences.  Subscribe, share, love.

Dark Girls: Official Preview
Commented on by Onitaset Kumat

I intend to write another script for the television show, dealing with the “Willie Lynch letter.”  I am inspired to by another blogger I read which highlighted this film, “Dark Girls,” that was, until yesterday, unknown to me.  This film appears to address shadeism, but regrettably addresses it in the same manner of “Willie Lynch”–on myth.  I intend to write a post on the topic, but before posting that I should write two things.  Firstly shadeism is ancient: That’s the Hindu Religion!  Secondly, shadeism in America less has to do with slavery and more post-slavery, namely the post that I put up on W. E. B. Du Bois.  I will say one reason now as to why it is important to set the record straight: Slavery is by-the-by regarded as ‘yesterday’ amongst our people, whereas the NAACP is arguably ‘a today’; if we truly wish to address shadeism let’s at least have a tangible ‘today’ foe rather than a mythical, unreachable ‘yesterday’ foe.

To those interested in the film, here’s the website for it, perhaps you can write us an article:

http://officialdarkgirlsmovie.com/

Marcus Garvey’s passage on private real estate

Listen Siblings, I come in peace,

“The problem with Europeans and Asians is Europeans and Asians; the solution for Africans is Africans!” — Onitaset Kumat

You don’t own your house if you’re an African in America. That’s a safe bet. There’s a systemic reason for not allowing us to own houses and it’s been going on since before Garvey’s days. Below is a quotation from him. Consider that we don’t own our homes but we can run Community Centers, namely African Blood Siblings Community Centers. Write the ABS to see how. Subscribe, share, love.

A passage on private real estate
As written by Marcus Garvey

In the purchase of private houses the real estate brokers and agents are even more merciless in their exploitation of the race. By finding out the individuals in the community who might have a thousand dollars or two saved, the brokers, directly or through their agents, would influence such persons to invest in a home, either by purchasing waste lands in some adjoining State or out-of-the-way places or a house in their immediate neighborhood. They influence the purchasers to pay up nearly all the money they have in hand, and six months, a year or two after they conspire to foreclose on the property or by well-devised tricks get the purchasers so disgusted that they themselves give up the properties, that generally fall back into the hands of the brokers or their clique. The race is similarly robbed in the part-time payment on expensive furniture they are induced to buy through confidence men. A careful study of the situation from 1914 to the present time would reveal an alarming state of affairs. I have only stated these facts to open the eyes of the people and to show you from what source my enemies within the race come. These tricks are common, and no organization, church or community is free from them. I make no exception of the great Universal Negro Improvement Association. To work reform in such an atmosphere challenges the divinity of a Christ and not the frail and weak patience of a mortal. I have made my little sacrifice in creating the sentiment for reform; let others now take up the work and carry on while I remain confined.

-Marcus Garvey in “Philosophies and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”

Allegory of the Household Cat

Listen Siblings, I come in peace,

“The problem with Europeans and Asians is Europeans and Asians; the solution for Africans is Africans!” — Onitaset Kumat

The following allegory details reality and the absence of the above wisdom.  Our problem is we don’t have an African space to meet with African people and create an African agenda.  Our problem is that you are not writing the ABS for instructions on building an African Blood Siblings Community Centers.  Read the below, and Subscribe, share, love.

Allegory of the Household Cat
By Onitaset Kumat

I had an interesting experience at a female friend’s house.  Prior to the invitation, she asked whether I had an affinity for cats.  I do not; but feeling very excited to speak with her in a more private setting, I accepted her invitation with the utmost interest.

As we entered her home, I heard a very swollen growl.  Without seeing the cat, I could tell that it was an obese animal, possibly on the verge of dying, but as I had a higher interest in my companion, I let the thought play by itself as this woman and I found ourselves on her comfortable living room sofa.

She whispered in a low, long breath, “I will change in to something more pleasant,” as she slipped from my arms to her bedroom on the farther corner of the house.  I was very tempted to follow, yet ever persuaded that a woman’s decorations speak to her character, I scanned the walls for her personality: she liked cats, many fat ones preceded this one.

The fat cat screamed at and chased after a slow mouse making its way back from the kitchen; as other parties of mice, of varying speeds, tactically sneaked and ran pass their dying comrade.  It suddenly donned on me that this place may be a mess.  But by my eyes, besides from the lowly critters, and the ballooned cat, the place seemed immaculate.

A fire awoke a town such as this

Listen Siblings, I come in peace,

“Onitaset Kumat, as Philosopher-Poet, wrote “Maroon and Build For Self” to give unto Africans sufficient tools toward mastering our own liberation.” — The ABS

A poem from “Maroon and Build For Self” is “A fire awoke a town such as this.”  You’ll notice the mastery of verse, the mastery of story-telling and the mastery of philosophy.  This is what we ought read to our people.  This is what ought be in our bedrooms.  This is why the ABS strives to build African Blood Siblings Community Centers.  Write for more information.  Subscribe, Share, Love.

 

A Fire Awoke a Town Such as This
By Onitaset Kumat

A fire awoke a town such as this
Where White was power in spite of the mix
And though thereat only White was present
The protected perp ordered a resent
Of mixes: quick did the sick pigs convene
About the feeding trough of racial hate
and jealousy, choosing from the ‘proud’ slate
A successful to break the mix’s clean
Alas the White arms prepared to lasso
And hang the hero of the other square
But barks of ‘clear’ made no African go
Arose were the Whites each dressing a spear
White faces warn races when they are dead
That cruelty can not long rear its head.

             -Onitaset Kumat (Available in “Maroon and Build For Self.”)