#afro-diaspora

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If you don't consider African peoples as groups of indigenous peoples, why are you even here? If you can't center African and Afro-Diasporic people at the table as well, why and how can you call your work decolonizing?

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The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard

TW/CW: Antiblackness in the comments section. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Here lies the genesis of antiblackness (In its global form), coupled with the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade this horrifying genocide of millions of different ethnic groups, cultures and peoples has led to the oppression of an entire continent of people that permeates global culture to this day. 

Of the hyper-visibility of African struggles, particularly in the Americas, we fail to acknowledge how little we are educated about the history of this immense continent and fail to grasp how deep racism is against the millions of immensely diverse cultures and peoples that make up the continent. 

The entirety of the contiguous United States can fit within a PORTION of the Sahara Desert. That is only counting North Africa. The entire CONTINENT of Australia can fit neatly within the continental center of the African continent and still have the North, Western Coast, Horn and Southern Africa not accounted for in regards to land area. Africa is ENORMOUS Y’ALL. It is also the origin point of all humanity! Africa has some of the oldest living cultures on this Earth [Only Indigenous Australians can compete with the age of some of Africa’s cultures (Naturally, as it is theorized they were some of the first humans to migrate out of Africa proper)]

With being so enormous and being the continent to house a portion of humanity the longest, Africa is naturally the MOST diverse continent on Earth (Only South America and Asia could even begin to compare.) Not only diverse culturally but also genetically, having the most diverse and unique gene pool of the entire world! 

[Sidenote: This is part of why this blog doesn’t believe or subscribe to the notion of a Neg*oid race, we aren’t using colonizer language here, NOT at all! We can recognize the colonizer racialization of Blackness of African peoples and the subsequent reclamation of that identity but we are not for one second pretending that it has any biological reality or helps to completely understand the functions of antiblackness as not every colonizer used the same tactics or racial structures and African peoples are not the only ones racialized as Black (Indigenous Australians, Papuans and Melanesians also have a history of Blackness.This blog will cover that history and institutional reality more on a later date-If curious, read Kaiya Aboagye’s article “Australian Blackness, the African Diaspora and Afro/Indigenous Connections in the Global South” or read this interview with her here: “Shades of Black: An Interview”.)] 

This blog recognizes all of African peoples as Indigenous. [Sans colonizers of course (i.e Arab, Boers and any Non-Black peoples on the continent that do not have a deep connection (This gets complicated with North Africans as racial identity is contested and not all are united in regards to Blackness, the Amazigh are an example of this complicated reality)] 

HOWEVER, this blog also recognizes that power dynamics and indigeneity on the continent itself is a fairly complicated reality. Not all of Africa became settler colonies like the USA, Australia, Brazil, Canada. Most became primarily resource extraction colonies where living there was and is considered unpalatable to most colonizers. With exceptions being North Africa and South Africa of course (With a kind of settler colonization being conducted by Arab and Boer peoples respectively). This type of colonization naturally has fostered hierarchies within Africa, with some ethnic groups being more dominant over others. (Not to mention the impacts of colonial ventures enacted by various African peoples themselves prior to European and Arabic colonization.) These multi-layered realities are recognized by this blog and thus we recognize why not all African peoples choose to adopt a politic or notion of indigènitude. We invite all who choose to identify with indigeneity to collaborate with us and we support all Black peoples regardless of their personal affiliations with Indigeneity. Black liberation is essential to decolonization. As Black peoples are colonized peoples too!

With all of this being said, we also would like to recognize the importance of including those in Diaspora in conversations regarding indigeneity. 

All African Diasporic Groups are also indigenous peoples but just in diaspora from their homelands due to various reasons. (Mostly due to the genocidal Slave Trades mentioned above.) 

Diasporic African groups include but are not limited to: 

Afro-Diasporic Descendants of Enslaved Peoples:

-Descendants and Cultural Carriers of the Victims of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: 

African-Americans and African-Canadians (Black Americans/Black Canadians)

Afro-Indigenous Creole Peoples of the Caribbean and in the Americas

Afro-Latine peoples of Latin America

Afro-European Descendants of Enslaved People 

Other Descendants not Included Above

-Descendants and Cultural Carriers of the Victims of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade: 

Haratin peoples of the Maghreb and Mauritania

Chouachin peoples of Tunisia and Libya

Afro-Arabic peoples of North Africa, the Horn and the Middle East

Afro-Iranians

Siddi peoples of India and Pakistan

Other Descendants not Included Above

Beta Israel and Bal Ej Jewish peoples (Both of the African Diaspora and Jewish Diaspora) 

Contemporary and Modern African Immigrants (Note: This includes the peoples that are NOT primarily descendant of Enslaved peoples, History of Enslavement may play a key role in cultural differences of African peoples in Diaspora.) 

Might migrate out of the continent as a refugee of either climate or war (or both).

Might migrate due to political or economic reasons.

Might migrate due to business or family relations. 

This is an important time to recognize that though illegal, Enslavement of African peoples is happening to this day! Resources for currently enslaved peoples hopefully can be brought to attention. Research and information on this topic and how to help will be available soon. A link to a TIME article describing this reality is available here CONTENT WARNING: antiblack trauma, abuse and enslavement. 

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this is really interesting

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MOVING BLOG SOON- Will Still be on Tumblr.

Hey everyone! Just so you know, I will be moving this blog soon to another Tumblr account. I am doing this because I wish to expand "Indigenous Consent" beyond my own personal mental space and into a more collaborative project with Indigenous people around the world. You can still checkout my old blog but I will be making far less posts than I use to on this one. As of rn consider this blog a prototype "1" so to speak. I will keep you all updated on the progression of this change.

What Exactly do I foresee for this Blog?

-A Blog with MANY Mods. Moderators coming from backgrounds of all Indigenous peoples around the world.

Obviously Representing each broad group, as well as their respective specific cultures. (Realize that Indigenous people are incredibly DIVERSE, this means that there is NO Way that we can represent EVERY specific indigenous culture AND can not represent every indigenous person in the world as well.)

I will make a post on the Mods that I will be looking for. JSYK, this will include Black (Specifically African-American and Afro-Diasporic Black people), Jewish and Romani Mods as well, because as far as this Blog is concerned each of those respective groups belong at the table on all things Indigenous as well.

-A Safe and Reflective Space for Indigenous people to ask questions, collaborate and generate meaningful and productive conversation.

-A Safe and Ecstatic place where we all Share our cultures in a way we feel comfortable. Appropriation is and will be taken seriously on this blog. Many Indigenous cultural events, magics, art, language, music, dance are all sacred and important in some way to each of us. Many are CLOSED because of this and because of colonized minds trying to take what is ours. This blog seeks to curate an experience where all of these boundaries are RESPECTED.

-A Safe and Fun Space where people can link up and connect. With other indigenous peoples, with other Ndns, with other Black people, with other Jewish people, with other Romani people, with other LGBT+ Indigenous people, with others!!!

Again, I haven't completely moved yet and such a large idea and collaborative space needs to be organized in a very delicate and efficient way. 

This being said. TUMBLR is not where this "Blog" ends but merely it has been where it "Began". I seek to expand this project beyond the confines of this Hell Hole of a Site and spread out to the rest of the Web. Maybe even one day create a collaborative indigenous non-profit that has an actual headquarters and central space! I want to put in the WORK, and I expect nothing less of those that seek to join.

Thank you for your time! Hope to see you soon!

Signed,

Dara

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From now on, when sharing or discussing Blackness in a global context, this blog will use Bla(c)k as a descriptor to be inclusive of Black voices and experiences that are not African or a part of the Afro-Diaspora. However, when talking about specific Bla(c)k experiences, "Blak" or "Blackfella/Blakfella" will be used to talk about Indigenous Australian (Aboriginal Australian, Torres Strait Islanders, Aboriginal Tasmanians), South Sea Islander, Papuan and Melanesian experiences of Blackness. Meanwhile, for African/Afro-Diasporic experiences of Blackness the terms "Blac/Black" or "African/Afro-Diaspora" will be used to denote African and Afro-Diasporic experiences of Blackness.

Why is this important?

Because Bla(c)k lives and experiences are important to this world. Recognizing the extreme diversity in Blackness as well as its negative universality in a racialized world is important in the deconstruction of antiblackness and the preservation of Bla(c)k Indigenous cultures.

Disclaimer: I only include those in the term Bla(c)k who have a consistent history of being racialized as Black by colonizers, have consistently suffered and experience institutional abuse because of that racialization, embody blackness more often than not and have claimed and reclaimed Blackness as an identity both in politic and embodiment.

(From top to bottom: Pan-African flag, Australian Aboriginal flag, Torres Strait Islander flag, Flag of Papua New Guinea, Flag of West Papua and the West Papua Liberation Movement, South Sea Islander flag, Flag of Vanuatu.)

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https://youtu.be/MtJkCQFLFTQ

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ANG Editors and Activists Condemn the US Justice System As An Agent Of Anti-African Genocide Following the Exoneration of PO Darren Wilson for the Execution of Michael Brown

Aboriginal News Group Statement On the ‘Failure’ Of the United States System of Justice to  Hold Police Officer Darren Wilson Responsible For the Public Execution of Michael Brown

11.26.2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANG/The Fourth World: 11.26.2014 — The editors and activists of the Aboriginal News Group – in the name of universal justice – denounce the St. Louis County grand jury’s final decision to not indict a United States civilian police officer (one Darren Wilson) for the unnecessary killing of an unarmed American-African youth named Michael Brown on Aug. 9th of this year as an empirical example of institutional White Privilege and public support for wanton acts of violence against African people(s) within the United States of America (and the Diaspora).

According to the evidence presented to the Ferguson grand jury, an unapologetic PO Wilson testified that he used his service weapon more than several times against the youth, primarily, due to his own paranoia(s). Describing Mr. Brown as ‘It’ and as a ‘Demon’, PO Wilson told the people on the grand jury that he felt – ‘like a five-year-old holding on to Hulk Hogan‘ (PO Wilson is 6 feet, 4 inches tall at 210 pounds/15 stone)– and that he feared for his life, thereby justifying his use of lethal force. The citizens who made up the grand jury came to the (bizarre) conclusion that PO Wilson’s blatantly racialist-laden testimony, (by a known, out-of-bounds officer already under investigation for aggressive behaviour during an drug arrest) provided no clear grounds for prosecution and simply dismissed the case.

In light of the hard (known) facts, this decision makes absolutely no sense.

However, as a collective of Indigenist-minded Indigenous People(s) with a sense of history and as private individuals of intelligence and social consciousness, we did not anticipate anything other than what happened. We fully predicted that the traditional (unofficial) Europocentrist system of racial injustice would act to defend one of its own, as did many others within the Fourth World and other people watching internationally.

In short, intelligent and informed people, not just activists, were not in any way shocked by the grand jury’s decision, as it had manifested within a country where Black People are killed by law enforcement and/or racist vigilantes at a rate of every 28 hours on average; (Source: ‘Operation Ghetto Storm: 2012 Annual Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of 313 Black People‘).

On the specific subject of PO Darren Wilson’s ‘old-school’ public execution of Michael Brown, we can (and should) logically look back at 14 other cases of people killed by St. Louis County ‘peace’ officers under questionable circumstances since 2004 wherein none of the PO’s involved were ever charged with any wrongdoing.[1] This same pattern of demonstrable official impunity was again seen with the Brown case after a flurry of false and misleading information was force-fed to the mainstream news media without challenge. Other obvious instances of official obstruction by Ferguson, MO police officials and other public representatives went unacknowledged.[2]

Even worse, the fact remains that the oldest surviving terrorist organisation in the USA, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)* had injected themselves into this issue from the very beginning without any official or public opposition. And further, (according to the activist hacker group, Anonymous) the organisation may enjoy covert connections to the Ferguson, MO PD.[3] Anonymous activists also say that they possess credible data positively demonstrating that the original poster threatening violence against protesters in Ferguson was in fact, produced by an active member of the Ferguson, MO police force.[4]

This incredibly important data was visibly ignored by the Department of Justice (DOJ); the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI); President Barack Obama and the corporate who instead fretted openly about a possible violent, coast-to-coast insurgency supposedly led by ‘Black Power’ extremists embedded’ amongst the non-violent Ferguson protesters.[5]

There was no actual proof of this, but the entire corporate media structure did much to promote this fallacy as they laboured to overlook the fact that the Missouri-area Klan released posters promising to use “lethal force” against Black protesters and later, began threatening to indiscriminately shoot anyone wearing a Guy Fawkes mask in Ferguson; (Source: ‘We will hunt you down’: KKK threatens to shoot Anonymous ‘n***** lovers’, by Russia Today: http://ow.ly/ETxy5 )[6]

The important people, it seems, also choose to ignore the fact that local Klan leader, Frank Ancona, the imperial wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (TAKKKK) is suspected – along with PO Darren Wilson – to be directly connected to the covert police group known as the ‘Ghoul Squad‘ by Anonymous. When the hacker-collective began the #OpKKK and #HoodsOff campaigns and started disclosing the hidden identities of local Klan members, (some of them police officers) and seized the KKK’s web services, conservative Americans cried foul. But not against the Klan.

Even after Anonymous pointed out the technical fact that Mr. Ancona had been known to ‘check-in‘ on Facebook at the Ferguson Police Department (perhaps – some are suggesting – to use their computers) as evidence of his ties (if not a comfortable personal relationship) to Ferguson, MO law enforcement.[7]

The question of institutional integrity and professional objectivity is what is at issue here. Only no one within the corridors of power (or public influence) over White American opinion is willing to admit that the extrajudicial killing of Africans and other minorities of Colour in the Anglophone World presents a major human rights problem; (See: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, (UDHR) adopted, UN General Assembly 10 Dec. 1948).[8]

Under international law, such statistical casualties are regarded as deliberate ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ (See: Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court) under sociopolitical conditions that distinctly meet the established criteria recognised by the United Nations (UN) as opportunistic acts and programmes of wilful genocide; (See: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 December 1948 – http://ow.ly/ESWPE).

The ANG recognises the reality of the situation as thus: A young African male was shot to death in broad daylight because a White man said that he felt afraid in a country where police brutality is an an all time high and the facts about this are well-known to the general public.[9,10] We have also witnessed an autonomous faction of the traditional US Klan issue an open physical threat against the public peace in Ferguson, yet, the larger mainstream society can only see fit to speak against the (justified) anger of the Black community and not against the threat of domestic White racist terrorism.

The African community in the US is not wrong to view the execution of Michael Brown as the latest historical offence against their basic human rights and as a wake-up call to African People(s) everywhere.

The situation in African North American communities is unacceptable!

End the paradigm of racist police aggression against People-of-Colour and Indigenous Americans by recognising the Human Rights of all People(s)!

White People(s) of Consciousness Must Stand Up to Stop the Violence!

A Message from the Aboriginal News Group Information Bureau (ANGIB)

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The Aboriginal News Group is an international association of Indigenist blog-journalists working to provide accurate under-reported Indigenous news items to the people of the Fourth World and others with a concern for human justice and Aboriginal sociopolitical issues.

For further information contact:

[email protected] / ang-newswire.blogspot

2014-11-26T22:03:16+00:00

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Notes:

* Not to be confused with the anti-colonial Philippine nationalist organisation, the Katipunan (KKK).

Jaeah Lee, ‘Ferguson Cop Darren Wilson Is Just the Latest to Go Unprosecuted for a Fatal Shooting | Mother Jones http://ow.ly/ET7M5

Alana Horowitz, ‘Ferguson Prosecutor Robert McCulloch Gives Bizarre Press Conference’ http://ow.ly/EWZEc

Anonymous Claims Ties Between KKK, Pro-Darren Wilson Group, Police (Video) http://twitthat.com/8YLcY

Anonymous Exposes Cop as Member of KKK Behind Letter Threatening to Kill Ferguson Protesters | Filming Cops http://ow.ly/EVTSV

FBI Warns Ferguson Decision ‘Will Likely’ Lead to Violence By Extremists Protesters – ABC News http://ow.ly/ETEej

KKK To Anonymous: We Will Hunt You Ni**er Lovers Down And Shoot You | Liberaland http://ow.ly/ETxMP

Brooklyn Middleton on Twitter: “Missouri KKK leader Frank Ancona “checked in” at the Ferguson police department via Facebook on 29 October. http://ow.ly/ETIza

Michael Brown’s Parents to Address Police Brutality at UN Conference; Darren Wilson Indictment Decision Expected as Early as Next Week http://ow.ly/EX6Z3

Jim Harper, ‘You’re Eight Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist’ | Cato @ Liberty http://ow.ly/EX8g1

mintpressnews.com, ‘US Police Have Killed Over 5,000 Civilians Since 9/11′ By Katie Rucke http://ow.ly/EX8hO

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Tego Calderon on Blackness