Afro-Fut Class Rant
This week reminded me the most of the Afro-horror class. I love how Professor Due uses some of the same elements that you can see all throughout her courses. Like who would even think about Futurism having the same horror elements of Vampires and even worse, colonizers...yikes. But it’s really interesting to have a different perspective on Afro-futurism and honestly to just acknowledge why we even had the need to create an aspect like Afro-Futurism and what it means not just for us as a race, but for us as a nation and as the world. But at the same time, part of me is so resistant to seeing Afro-futurism through a colonizers lens, I see Afro-futurism as this safe heaven to a world where racism doesn’t exist, and see that through a colonizers lens or even broad streaming makes it seem like it’s no longer as special or places it at a risk to being stolen or tarnished because as we know very well and honesty every other race except whites know very well, colonizers are known for their pillaging and destroying. But when reading greedy choke puppy I was a little confused by certain phrasing and words I haven’t heard of before, but once I got over that part and understood that this was a dramatized folktale it became a little easier to understand how being too greedy can lead to choking but I think it’s also important to understand that food and water are daily necessitates, but at the same time, too much of anything, can be a bad thing. But when discussing the movie District 6 about a spaceship landing in South Africa I thought it was interesting, especially the professor's take on apartheid and how the races were still being separated. And tbh, I wouldn't mind being separate but equal. I can’t speak for counties outside of America, But I feel like one of the prime factors that lead to us (African Americans) being in the disadvantaged state that we are in is because of integration. We had beautiful cities and we became dependent on ourselves to get certain things because we were not allowed to seek them anywhere else, but when integration happened we became dependent on the white man’s capitalism to thrive within a society that hates us instead of a society that loves us and wants to build us up. But I don’t agree with the way people were treated within apartheid, equal rights and equal opportunity should be given.
