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The MESSAGE Not The Messenger
One thing I've noticed about our people is that we have a hard time receiving the message. The messenger can't be to ugly or to short, to light skin or to dark skin, Christian like Marcus Garvey, or Muslim like Malcolm X.
One thing I've noticed about our people is that we have a hard time receiving the message. The messenger can't be to ugly or to short, to light skin or to dark skin, Christian like Marcus Garvey, or Muslim like Malcolm X.
Historical African kingdoms that we deemed to be of the "wrong faith" are dismissed. Despite lessons to be learned from them. African history is not perfect or flawless but we have to be open to a non biased reflection of it.
The 17th century Kongo queen Dona Beatriz was Christian, but she practiced a Black Nationalist form of Pan African Christianity to expel the Europeans and end the slave trade.
#BlackHistoryMonth Celebrating the intersectionality of Italian America at its #AfricansAndAfricanAmericans Edge Despite tensions between them, Black and Italian Americans have much in common and understand one another better than many outsiders realize 1/ 🧵
2/ In the USA, African American & Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as 19th-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers—“The Colored Mario”—all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur Puff Daddy dubbing himself “the Black Sinatra,”
3/ the affinity between black and Italian cultures runs deep and wide. Once you start looking, you’ll find these connections everywhere. Sinatra croons bel canto over the limousine swing of the Count Basie band.
