United Nations' International Decade
for People of African Descent
for People of African Descent
Resolution 68/237 of 23 December 2013
The General Assembly proclaimed the International
Decade for People of African Descent, commencing on I January 2015 and ending
on 31 December 2024, with the theme "People of African descent:
recognition, justice and development".
Last
Thursday, December 8th, 2016, I attended Film Night for Human Rights
Day organized by theUnited Nations International Decade for People of African Descent at the
United Nations.
The
selections of films shown had very little to do with economic justice and oppression. Most of the films focused on identity issues. I noticed that it
was a very small audience. Wondering where was the outreach. It is obvious to
me that we do not need more film festivals that talk about identity issues
without pointing out injustices that attack, oppression, and or conform us into submission. I continue to question; whereas, one question
leads to another question, and so on.
Such
as; why is it that Africans in the Diaspora are only getting a decade, and will
the African Diaspora become a major group within the United Nations structure with a yearly conference; like the
Indigenous Peoples Forum, and the Conference on the Status of Women. It seems like
most of our problems that we have as a people from the presentations last night
was that we don't like ourselves. The focus should have been flipped; the issue
is others' don't like us, exploit us, steal from us, control us, imprison us,
etc.
Does
White Supremacy have identity issues? We have seen for decades that the only
Black folks that get funding are those that have identity issues. They get a
platform to voice feelings of inferiority, and get funding from Whites to
perpetuate White supremacy.
I
was really annoyed by the Haitian film last night. I cannot remember the title. The message was awful, and
it was even said about three times during the film, "to make Haiti Beautiful".
There is beauty in Haiti. There is beauty everywhere where there is nature. It
reminded me of the propaganda that we experience in America as African
Americans. I use to be so irked as a teenager growing up when Black celebrities would be on television being interviewed, and they
would always talk about escaping from Black communities into White communities.
Which sent out messages that we need to get out of our communities; rather than
strengthen, maintain, sustain, and build them. We are still suffering today
from this propaganda.
The
only folks that get money to document Haiti are films that depict the poorest
of the poorest in Haiti. We rarely get to see other aspects of Haitian
life; the exploiters. Or the mulatto class that live in separate light skin
neighborhoods. Or get exposed to the areas outside of Port au Prince that are
beautiful. American mainstream media continues with this propaganda
about Haiti. I ask, show us the White folks living huge, and large in Haiti off the backs of the poor; the white foreign NGOs.
Haiti
has some of the best artists in the world, lots of creative people in Haiti.
Tell us about the Whites that own businesses in Port au Prince. The culture is
very rich. It is obvious that it is beneficial for White Power control to keep
us decade, after decade, dealing with identity issues, which has nothing to do
with survival and building community. It keeps us divided and fighting with
each other. It keeps White supremacy going.
The
discussion around Mainstream media were so elementary. Whose mainstream?
Mainstream media is a tool to maintain White control and Black suppression, same
ole, same ole. Whites controlling the dialogue and the narratives of
what is, and what is not talked about.
The
game is to keep us in what is called the 'indefinite game theory' to be Negroes indefinitely
into the future. While they are studying our traditional systems of sustainability, so
that they can sustain themselves indefinitely. I can remember reading when I
was college, an Anthropology book that
was talking about mathematics in traditional African societies; whereas a our societies were able to maintain themselves indefinitely in time and space.
The Europeans did not know what they were looking at; so they said that we did
not have history, and that we did not know how to progress.
Whereas
our African indigenous people knew how to maintain our communities like a mathematical equation.
External Links:
http://www.un.org/pga/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2014/11/International-Decade-for-People-of-African-Descent.pdf
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