In this weeks episode, Anomaly Soul reflects on the colonization of her mind. This intentional misteaching of African culture/heritage, creates an image of African people being less than the ”American Dreams” morals, values, healing or ways of knowing. Labels like “third world” creates an othering that disconnects African descendants from seeing the interconnectedness of the African-American plight in the United States to other countries that were apart of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. My ancestors who were brought over here to America, still held on to their religion, practices, and modified them to practice in secret. The same phenomenon happened with other enslaved people in other countries. This magical resilience is something I strive for, that I aspire to be. Thankfully, historians, sociologist, and some educators are creating anti-racist curriculum that will tell the truth about the colonized version of the history of America that also empowers our students. But are they already too late? Our ancestors left hints for us in music, in song, and now with technology at your fingertips students have access to see the similarities in the treatment of BIPOC, the beauty, the joy, the culture. Initiating those students into double consciousness.

I chose songs that are afrobeats/afrotech because of the stigma I had with techno music growing up due to the lack of knowledge of the musics origin, the whitewashing. It’s now one of my favorite genres to mix. Thanking my ancestors with this one, my prayer offering for my double consciousness.

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