What are your thoughts on Nat Turner and what white people did to him after he was captured?

Nat Turner is a great ancestors, I admire his efforts and impact on our history and how he inspires African people to this day.As far as Whites mutilating and dessecrating his corpse after hanging him, it was typical at the time. They would do that to Africans who didn’t rebel, so it’s no supirse that they would to the same with Turner’s corpse. The greater defilement of Nat Turner is how Whites always try to distort his legacy,...

“Africans sold their own people as slaves” is a stock argument White Americans use when the subject of slavery comes up. To me it’s a bullshit argument on many levels, but how does that argument fail within the context of the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

It depends on who you are talking to, and their motivations for making this assertion, often it’s not because they are ignorant of history, or that they even give a fuck about the atrocities our ancestors endured, they say this shit to heap the blame for the Maafa or the African Holocaust on the victims. There’s really no point in trying to enlighten these victim blamers, their positions are not based on history, but on indoctrination and...

How were African societies in terms of gender roles? Like Matrilineal, patriarchal, etc.

Africa is a vast continent, Africans constructed a vast array of social systems and structures. Some were Matrilineal some were Patriarchal. The mistake I think we make is we imagine these terms and practices manifested the same across cultures and across continent. So have to understand that African patriarchy is not the same as Asian, Native American, or European patriarchy, and the same goes for matriarchy. Then you have to look at the...

I keep running up against racist propaganda in the form of FBI statistics, can you shed some info I can ascertain to combat such foolishness(not that it’s my job to teach racist, I’d just rather be intellectually armed than unarmed)

There’s a wonderful little book, not even a book, more like a pamphlet titled “How to Lie With Statistics,” it has a lot of info, clearly explained on how stats ain’t really all that, especially stats about social phenomenon and conditions. That book is good if you wanna go tit for tat with Racist about stats and their meaning. Also, the stats actually demonstrate that Whites have the most guns, commit the most gun and violent...

Have you read any works from any of our scholars writing or speaking on millenarianism in colonial societies? Or do you have thoughts on millenarianism in colonial societies.

I know of some scholars who were very critical of millenarianism, Del Jones in particular spoke out against it often.Me, I think it’s absurd, first, how people measure and document time has been so manipulated and distorted that we can’t really say when it when in time. Every civilization has it’s own calendars, may civilizations and movements have even restarted time, the Bolsheviks proclaimed that the moment they took over was Year...