The World

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Before Slave Trade

Each letter of the alphabet represents a specific group of Africans with their own distinct cultures BEFORE slavery…

And then… Colonizers came…

The Slave Trade

Closer Look

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On the slave ships, all of the groups got mixed together. No more were they group “A”, group “B”, group “C”, group “D”, etc. with their

own distinct cultures… Now, they were commodities and $$... They were monkeys. Not humans…

The concept looked kind of like this…

As slavery continued, slowly all of the different groups of people began to have children with each other and adopted a common culture and a common language in the new countries that the slave ships had brought them.

Later down the line, slavery ended... Now, [years later] everyone is free!

Laws were changed… rights were granted… etc etc etc… fast forward to 2013

This person represents the African Americans. People from groups ABDJJFASDARTSDATRDSLIJST?? mixed together over the generations of slavery and now this individual is classified as an African American.

This person represents the Jamaicans. People from groups ABDJJFASDARTSDATRDSLIJST?? mixed together over the generations of slavery and now this individual is classified as a Jamaican.

This person represents the Trinidadians. People from groups ABDJJFASDARTSDATRDSLIJST?? mixed together over the generations of slavery and now this individual is classified as a Trinidadian.

This person represents the Haitians. People from the African groups ABDJJFASDARTSDATRDSLIJST?? mixed together over the generations of slavery and now this individual is classified as a Haitian.

The list continues for all of those involved in the slave trade… Concerning the African Americans, they were given western names, a religion known as Christianity, a history which began after slavery, and a few other traditions from Africa… they were told that they were only beautiful if they were light skinned. That their nappy hair was unwanted. That they were violent people. They were told that they must assimilate, etc etc… Oh yeah, they were also told that Vodoun was a religion of the devil, Africans were poor, all of the children had big bellies, AIDs haunted the lands, and many other myths to defer them from ever wanting to go back to Africa.

Meanwhile… while all of that was occurring in the Americas, etc. Africa had been colonized… The Berlin Conference took place and different European Colonies named Africa and decided which countries they wanted to govern and colonize… blah blah blah… flash forward to 2013

The process looked kind of like this..

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Imagine someone getting robbed from all of their possessions.. And then the robber takes off his/her masks and asks them why they’re so broke... Hmmm…. Maybe, just maybe, because they got everything stolen… but that’s only a hypothesis… (being sarcastic here)

This person represents the Nigerians. They were also colonized… They were fed the idea that Western concepts were superior to them, blah blah blah, and many other myths. Their government got completely corrupted because of colonization… so now they are viewed as extremely violent. Although they have been colonized, they were able to keep their group “N”.

This person represents the Egyptians (Kemetians). They were also colonized… except by the Arabs… They are group “E”.

This person represents the Ghanaians. They were also colonized… They were fed the idea that Western concepts were superior to them, blah blah blah, and many other myths. Although they were colonized, they were able to keep their group “G”.

This person represents the people from Angola. They were also colonized… They were fed the idea that Western concepts were superior to them, blah blah blah, and many other myths. Although they were colonized, they were able to keep their group “A”.

And then… here comes this person… she’s an African American and represents the combination of African groups ABDJJFASDARTSDATRDSLIJST??. In short, we’ll just say that she represents the group “ABC?”. Let’s just assume her name is Jennifer, hypothetically speaking…

She becomes friends with a Jamaican. The Jamaican also came from the African groups ABDJJFASDARTSDATRDSLIJST??. Instead of classifying as “ABC?” The Jamaican classifies as “ABD?”... “ABC? “and “ABD?” (according to “ABD?”) are completely different…

And then, Jennifer becomes friends with a Haitian. The Haitian also came from the African groups ABDJJFASDARTSDATRDSLIJST??. Instead of classifying as “ABC?” The Haitian classifies as “ABF?”... “ABC?” and “ABF?” (according to “ABF?”) are completely different…

Now keep in mind, that because of slavery, both of their identities end with “?“ They are only different from each other because they live in different countries…

Remember this concept??

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From this map??

And then, this is when I said:

WTF… this is a mess

So I did a quick recap on history and then compared it to myself…

ABC? ABD? ABF?

1. My skin color is amazing2. I look good

3. I’m smarter than almost everyone in all of my classes4. My meditation takes me beyond Christianity

5. I know I come from Africa, just don’t know where from6. My family is super amazing from my Grandmother to my Mother to

my Brother to my Father to myself… All of us are amazing7. Africa has a lot of resources…

8. Slavery occurred and so much was stolen and erased… All of us with a history of slavery can admit it occurred but leave it at that because we do not know specifically which African countries we come from…

9. Have I been fed lies? Because so much that’s supposed to NOT be true, IS true… And mainstream America describes things to be one way, and then when I research it myself, it is completely different…

10. I need to go to Africa ASAP

And then I thought:

And this is when GingersnapsATW comes in the picture because the ORDER needs to be restored. Colonization messed up the world… And focusing specifically on Africa and African Americans, many of the stolen slaves need to figure out where they came from and find a sense of Pride in the self and Identity… and then over time A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z can create a better future and undo what colonization has done…