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- Episode 17: Black First Land First: A Conversation With The President Of BLF, Mr. Andile Mngxitama
In today's episode conversation with the President of the black consciousness organization called Black First Land First (BLF), Mr. Andile Mngxitama, shed some light on the Black consciousness in South Africa as it pertains to politics, social, and economic issues in South Africa. He is a black consciousness scholar; he is also the co-edited of the influential volume BIKO LIVES! Mngxitama is the founding editor of a new Frank talk journal which published one of Mngxitama's influential essays titled Blacks Can't be Racist. Another essay published was Is Malema a Mugabe?
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51 min - Episode 16: Decolonization: Africa's Chance For A United States Of Africa
This episode shed some insight on decolonization and Africa’s chance for a United States of Africa. By the time Bob’s “Africa unite” song reached the ears of millions of Black Africans in 1979, the prior decades had witnessed Africa’s struggle for decolonization. The process took several forms after the ending of Europe’s bloody war in 1945. Black Africans had hoped that the white minority in Africa would have conceded in the sharing of political power. Instead, the rise of more radical African political movements consolidated white rule in Southern Africa, as evidenced by the victory of the predominantly Afrikaner National Party in South Africa, the creation of the Central African Federation by Britain, and renewed white immigration to the Rhodesias, Angola, Mozambique, and South West Africa.
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34 min - Episode 15: Reflection On We Are In Debt To You
In this episode we reflect on “We Are In Debt To You” Black Americans. Our opinion in yesterday’s episode is that this African diaspora have largely been ignored by others from the African diaspora outside the United States or is unaware of the horrific trauma and brutal experience that Black Americans endured for life, liberty, and the pursuit for happiness. In addition, we reflect back on our conversation with Mr. Hasani Hudson and his perspective on the Black American experience on racism, affirmative Action, interracial marriage, black self-victimization, and much more.
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22 min - Episode 14: We Are In Debt To You
In this episode we turn our attention to the African diaspora in the United States, the Black American experience. Our opinion in this episode is that this African diaspora have largely been ignored by others from the African diaspora outside the United States or is unaware of the horrific trauma and brutal experience that Black Americans endured for life, liberty, and the pursuit for happiness. Due to the way America is perceived in the world, there is this notion that Black Americans are somehow different from members of the African diaspora residing in other countries.
Perhaps this is so because the American movies and entertainment world, which is widely accessible across the globe, may have given our brothers and sisters in other countries the wrong impression that we, as the African diaspora in the United States, have carefree lives free from discrimination, harassment and racism. The pain, struggles, and humiliation that Black Americans had to historically endure may have been overlooked because there was this idea that most Black people in America were ‘lucky’ to be in the ‘Land of the Free and home of the brave’.
Today we have a guest Mr. Hasani A. Hudson. He is father, brother, an educator, and principal. We will spend the next hour discussing his perspective on the Black Americans experience on racism, affirmative Action, interracial marriage, black self-victimization, and much more.
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1 hr 32 min - Episode 13: Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
Today’s episode gives attention to Fredrick Douglass' speech given in 1852, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
When he was summoned to deliver such a speech in front of a crowd of White Abolitionists on July 5, 1852, three million enslaved Africans were being denied their freedom.
The Founding Fathers’ grievances against King George III were articulated in their understanding in the Age of Reason of the Enlightenment in America. Learned individuals such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams were men who read Isaac Newton, John Locke, or Thomas Reid appealed to the innate capacity for reason of the common man. These men question hierarchies based on gender, race, and class.
They hoped that natural philosophy might provide a way to transcend the differences that arose within America’s exceptionalism. Leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin translated Enlightenment ideals of liberty, rights, and self-government into the underlying premises of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.
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29 min - Episode 12: Divide and Conquer: Colorism Part II
Throughout history, there have been forces or shall we say ‘actors’ that have tried to pit us against each other trying to divide the Black diasporas across the world. They have used tactics and strategies to separate us by making us believe that we are different from one another whether that’s through highlighting the different shades of Black skin that we have or through political means. In this episode, Unlocking Our Voices, highlights how Divide and Conquer through the colorism strategy have been used by Western powers to keep the Black diasporas divided.
Those in power continue to make people of the Black diasporas believe that we are not one of the same roots, and if we pay close attention, we can see that this is a strategy often used by European countries and the United States whether it be in the form of soft-power politics, colorism, assassinations, and or economic incentives to African leaders who are willing to betray their people and countries. One of the ways in which this divide and conquer strategy has been implemented is by dividing us through our skin color.
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51 min - Episode 11: Divide and Conquer: Colorism
Throughout history, there have been forces or shall we say ‘actors’ that have tried to pit us against each other trying to divide the Black diasporas across the world. They have used tactics and strategies to separate us by making us believe that we are different from one another whether that’s through highlighting the different shades of Black skin that we have or through political means. In this episode, Unlocking Our Voices, highlights how Divide and Conquer through the colorism strategy have been used by Western powers to keep the Black diasporas divided.
Those in power continue to make people of the Black diasporas believe that we are not one of the same roots, and if we pay close attention, we can see that this is a strategy often used by European countries and the United States whether it be in the form of soft-power politics, colorism, assassinations, and or economic incentives to African leaders who are willing to betray their people and countries. One of the ways in which this divide and conquer strategy has been implemented is by dividing us through our skin color.
53 min - Episode 10: The Multitudes of Many, Yet One in Origin: Colombia, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the United States
In this final episode, the Multitudes of Many, Yet One in Origin, I would like to focus on highlighting the similarities of several countries of the Black diasporas such as Colombia, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the United States because too often our minor differences have been used by others to exploit and keep us divided. I believe that if we want to connect and act in unison, we first have to recognize our common ground and where we meet in terms of heritage, culture, politics and experiences. As I’ve mentioned many times before, we, as Black people, are more connected to each other than we are aware, whether we are located in the United States, Nigeria, or Brazil. We have a shared set of values, history, and culture that stems from Africa; no matter where we are physically located, this tie cannot be severed. Our joy is universal and so are our pain and struggles.
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45 min - Episode 9: The Multitudes of Many, Yet One in Origin: Brazil
In this episode, let’s focus on the Multitudes of Many, Yet One in Origin. I would like to focus on highlighting the similarities of several countries of the Black diasporas because too often our minor differences have been used by others to exploit and keep us divided. I believe that if we want to connect and act in unison, we first have to recognize our common ground and where we meet in terms of heritage, culture, politics and experiences. As I’ve mentioned many times before, we, as Black people, are more connected to each other than we are aware, whether we are located in the United States, Nigeria, or Brazil. We have a shared set of values, history, and culture that stems from Africa; no matter where we are physically located, this tie cannot be severed. Our joy is universal and so are our pain and struggles.
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31 min - Episode 8: The Multitudes of Many, Yet One in Origin: Panama
In this episode, let’s focus on the Multitudes of Many, Yet One in Origin. I would like to focus on highlighting the similarities of several countries of the Black diasporas because too often our minor differences have been used by others to exploit and keep us divided. I believe that if we want to connect and act in unison, we first have to recognize our common ground and where we meet in terms of heritage, culture, politics and experiences. As I’ve mentioned many times before, we, as Black people, are more connected to each other than we are aware, whether we are located in the United States, Nigeria, or Brazil. We have a shared set of values, history, and culture that stems from Africa; no matter where we are physically located, this tie cannot be severed. Our joy is universal and so are our pain and struggles.
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About Unlocking Our Voices
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Unlocking Our Voices focuses specifically on the Black diasporas, the culture, the people, their stories, their issues, injustices, and the varying measures used to prolong our oppression and marginalization. Our aim is to connect peoples of the Black diasporas, in new and exciting ways. Equipping them with the tools, platform, and access that allows them to trace their history, and also point to how an understanding of the past influences the very present that they live in.
Ultimately impressing upon them that they hold the keys to shaping their own future. By way of dialogue and working together and by means of face-to-face or virtual constructive conversation, we seek to evolve and enhance ourselves spiritually, mentally, socially, politically, and economically.