[Music]

know from whence you came

if you know whence you came there are

absolutely no limitations to where you

could go

james baldwin

i'm not a i'm african

you are a these words were spoken

to me by an african cab

driver who refused to drive my friends

and i to the south side

that's one side of the story the other

you just left africa did you ride any

elephants

my name is vic mensa i'm a hip-hop

artist from the south side of chicago

i've never ridden an elephant and i am

in a most literal sense

an african-american my father is from a

small slum

called the ossicore zongo in a town

called capuardo in the eastern region of

ghana

my mother is white american from a town

called ithaca in upstate new york

africa existed in the imagination of my

childhood friends primarily

within a framework of caricatures

most famous of which was by far african

booty scratcher

with spirit chukka coming in a close

second

although these caricatures are very

one-dimensional

they are however not so much of a

departure from what black americans are

shown of africa

take for example the unicef commercials

emaciated african children and

mud huts that you could save for a

dollar

although well-intentioned the narrative

is one of scarcity

not of africa as the most resource-rich

continent

on the planet i've often heard

africans view african americans in just

as stereotypical ways

as lazy criminal and violent

the disjointing of the african diaspora

has been the most

effective tool of white supremacy

in the continued disenfranchisement of

peoples of african descent

by the year 2050 a quarter of the

world's population

will be african african americans

having come from a collective wealth of

absolute

zero during chattel slavery having a

period of under 200 years

amass the spending power of over a

trillion dollars

reuniting the broken bond

of the african and the black american

can combine strength in numbers

with strength in dollars and a level of

cultural

influence unprecedented in world history

with which we can begin

to address the devastating wounds of

colonization

but it will require strategy today

i'll be discussing three first of which

identification of a common enemy and a

naming

of our shared oppressions secondly

transcending neocolonialism and third

fostering cultural understanding through

the use of

art technology and education

in 1962 when addressing a delegation of

african freedom fighters kwame nkrumah

said

in our paraphrase this meeting gives us

the opportunity

to assess our strengths as well as

those of our enemy who is the enemy

the enemy is imperialism with its

weapons colonialism

and neocolonialism

let's define imperialism imperialism is

the practice

of a nation imposing its rule or

authority

over another nation most often through

the use of brute military force

it is no secret that we as black people

from ghana

to south africa to nigeria to haiti to

jamaica

from louisiana to bus when i have been

the victims of a ruthless imperialism

at the hands of the british the french

the spanish the dutch the portuguese

pretty much all white people and

in a more distant past the arab world as

well

it is the same british empire that

colonized the land of my father

that is responsible for the

proliferation

of african slaves across the americas in

the caribbean

same enemy it's the same

counterintelligence arm of america

that's responsible for destabilizing the

black community

with crack cocaine that's responsible

for destabilizing governments across

africa by meddling in their politics

same

enemy let's backtrack for a second

in 1957 kwame nkrumah led

ghana to independence becoming the first

nation in sub-saharan africa to achieve

this feat

he subsequently became the nation's

first president

kwame nkrumah was an unabashed enemy of

imperialism

he was a pan-africanist with ties to

other leaders such as

agave and lumumba and amassed

a fortune in his time

in power with which ghana was able

to fund liberation movements for african

nations across the continent

this was a significant threat to america

and in 1966 the cia was involved in a

coup

that deposed kwame nkrumah setting ghana

and the continent at large back

considerably

let's fast forward a little bit in 1979

in another military power graph this

time in south america

the cia collaborated with a nicaraguan

rebel group called the contras

to overthrow the government how did they

fund it

they brought nicaraguan cocaine into the

united states

at the dawn of the crack epidemic

effectively opening the doors for the

sliding of the prison cells

that would begin the age of mass

incarceration

and today there are more african people

in bondage in a prison cell than we're

ever on a plantation

same enemy

now private prisons in america are big

business

one of the largest companies it's called

geo group

that same geo group owns carson

facilities

in south africa where the dutch have

bastardized the african people

now if we go to west africa dutch-owned

shell gas company

is one of the primary drillers of

nigerian oil

same enemy when you begin to peel back

the layers

a clear imperialist shadow is cast from

the cells of sing-sing to johannesburg

to the oil fields in nigeria if we can

identify

our common enemy at that point

we can begin to collectivize our power

but without strategy power is useless

any effective strategy has to include

transcending

neo-colonialism neo-colonialism is the

use

of economic political

and other forces to influence nations

especially former dependencies

97 of africa was colonized

by the year 1913 roughly 60 years after

the end of slavery in america

here we are in the year 2021

roughly 60 years after most african

nations achieved independence

but in most cases it's little more than

a facade for an imperialist puppeteer

behind the scenes

pulling the strings ghana is rich in

gold

why is ghana not rich from gold nigeria

is rich in oil why they know nigerians

not rich from oil

the congo is rich in diamonds why is

congo not rich

from diamonds black queer feminist

theorist audrey lord has a quote in

which she says

we cannot dismantle the master's house

using the master's tools on the

plantations of tennessee

masters tools consisted of colorism

separating light from dark house from

field negro

the banning of drums or the speaking of

native tongues

in west africa tribal divisions were

exacerbated

through the lure of trade with europeans

effectively leading brother to cell

brother sister the sales sister and

father the sales son

when we adopt the same uber capitalist

dollar over everything ethos as our

oppressors

we have effectively become them we're

doing their job for them

the five richest men in nigeria have a

collective wealth

of over 30 billion dollars enough to end

extreme poverty and yet five million

face hunger

we have adopted the master's tools one

of the master's most

destructive tools has been the use of

religion to divide

african spiritual systems of traditions

such as voldun

across the middle passage to become

voodoo or euro but across the middle

passage to become

santeria have been demonized and

outlawed

and christianity has often been used to

enslave

justify and commit genocide i don't say

this to offend and salt anyone's

spiritual system just to bring light to

the fact that when you have

made a man hate and fear

the gods of his grandfathers well you've

made him hating for himself

when i was in ghana recently i came

across my father's birth certificate

i was stricken by the fact that in bold

print at the top of the document it read

christian name first my father's name is

edward quaker mensah his mother would

call him kwaku

the name quaker wasn't even on his birth

certificate actually was replaced with

kingsley

i was taken aback by the fact that to

take part in society

my people had to discard their names

they had to discard their gods

and they had to turn their back on their

ancestry

if we're going to be able to dismantle

the master's house we need to be able to

look into our toolbox

identify which of our tools belong to

said master

and discard those tools so we can make a

plan

of deconstruction using our own devices

devices such as education art

technology there's a song by one of my

favorite hip-hop groups

dead press the song is called day

schools

it goes kind of like this

day schools ain't teach us my

people need freedom

we trying to get all we could get all my

high school teachers could suck my dick

telling me white man lies straight

african history for the black american

in public schools begins with slavery

and ends with the civil rights movement

there is no discussion of the history of

the

universities of timbuktu of mansa musa

as

history's richest man of the mali empire

of the ghana empire

santiwar driving away the british

of the medieval castles of zimbabwe

or even of the construction of the first

pyramids as being the work of a black

pharaoh named kufu

they would have you believe however that

elizabeth taylor is a spitting image of

cleopatra and matthew mcconaughey looks

like timbuktu

these are the same people that cast tom

cruise as the last samurai so i can't be

that surprised

um but what we need is a complete

overhaul a shift

from a eurocentric curriculum to one

that properly represents

us and our contributions to society

to civilization two of the fastest

growing global markets are black music

and technology what's referred to as the

urban aspirational market

it's basically everything we influence

with hip-hop

is in america worth over a trillion

dollars

and hip-hop is global afrobeats is

global

collaboration between black american and

african artists

fashion designers engineers

affords us the opportunity to redefine

our narrative

in contrast from the master's tool of

division to one of a unified front

the tech industry is globally valued at

over three trillion dollars

what's known as the fourth industrial

revolution cloud computing artificial

intelligence

advanced wireless and mobile technology

has disrupted things

everywhere in 2018 africa was

responsible for

half of the global mobile money accounts

really are more connected than we've

ever been

tech gives us the opportunity for the

underprivileged to have access to job

opportunities

to have access to information and

quality of life

that we haven't before and the

possibility for collaboration is greater

than ever

it can be easy as black people to feel

as if we've been under the hill since

the dawn of time but there was

a time before colonization

and we truly are the cradle of

civilization

and above all we're hopelessly connected

if the diaspora are the limbs

or the continent is the skeleton we are

one body every system in the body

can work with itself but without the

skeletal system

everything collapses our growth and our

mobility has been

purposefully stunted for the creation of

a permanent underclass by the world's

imperialist masters

if we are to overcome this status

of second class global citizen

we're going to need to be able to look

together

and identify our common oppressors

to reject the structures of those

oppressors

and to replace them with structures of

our own of

understanding art education

at that point that's when we can begin

to mend the fractures and our damage for

strong bones

thank you

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知道你从哪里来，

如果你知道你从哪里来

，你可以去哪里绝对没有限制

詹姆斯鲍德温

我不是黑鬼我是非洲人

你是黑鬼这些话

是非洲出租车对我说的

拒绝开车送我和我的朋友

去

南边的司机 这是故事的一方面

你刚刚离开非洲 你骑过大象吗

我的名字是 vic mensa 我是

芝加哥南边的嘻哈艺术家

我从来没有骑过大象，

从字面上看，

我是一个非裔美国人

在纽约北部

，我儿时朋友的想象中主要存在于

漫画的框架内，

其中最著名的是非洲

战利品刮刀

，精神 chukka 紧随其后，

尽管这些漫画非常

一毛钱 然而，

它们

与

美国黑人对非洲的表现并没有太大的不同

，例如，联合国儿童基金会的广告使

非洲儿童和

泥屋变得憔悴，

尽管出于善意，但叙述

是一种稀缺性

而非非洲 作为地球上资源最丰富的

大陆

，我经常听到

非洲人以刻板的方式看待非洲裔美国人，

就像懒惰的罪犯和暴力

者一样

到

2050 年，世界人口的四分之一

将是非洲裔美国人

，他们

在 200 年以下的动产奴隶制期间拥有绝对为零的集体

财富，拥有超过一万亿美元的消费能力，

重新团结破碎的债券

的非洲人和美国黑人

可以将人数

的力量与 dol 的力量结合起来 拉尔斯和

世界历史上前所未有的文化影响力

，我们可以

开始解决殖民化带来的毁灭性创伤，

但今天需要战略

我将讨论三个首先

确定一个共同的敌人和

命名我们共同的压迫 二是

超越新殖民主义，三是

通过使用

艺术技术和教育

促进文化理解 1962 年，

夸梅·恩克鲁玛在向非洲自由战士代表团发表讲话时

说

，这次会议让我们

有

机会评估我们和

敌人的实力 是

敌人 敌人是帝国主义 用它的

武器 殖民主义

和新殖民主义

让我们来定义帝国主义 帝国主义是

一个国家通过使用野蛮的军事力量将其统治或

权力强加于另一个国家的

做法 我们作为黑人

来自 加纳

到南非到尼日利亚到海地到

牙买加

从路易斯安那州到公共汽车，当我

成为英国人法国人

西班牙人荷兰人葡萄牙人的无情帝国主义的受害者时，

几乎所有白人，

在更遥远的过去，阿拉伯世界

也是同一个英国人

在我父亲的土地上殖民的帝国

对非洲奴隶

在加勒比地区

的

泛滥负责

干涉他们的政治

同一个

敌人 让我们

回头看看 1957 年 夸梅·恩克鲁玛带领

加纳走向独立

成为撒哈拉以南非洲第一个实现

这一壮举

的国家 他随后成为该国的

第一任总统

夸梅·恩克鲁玛是帝国主义的不加掩饰的敌人

他是 与龙舌兰和卢蒙巴安等其他领导人有联系的泛非主义

者

d

在他执政期间积累了一笔财富

，加纳得以

为

整个非洲大陆的非洲国家的解放运动提供资金，

这对美国来说是一个重大威胁

，1966 年，中央情报局参与了一场

政变

，推翻了夸梅·恩克鲁玛（kwame nkrumah），并设置了加纳

和非洲大陆 在很大程度上，

让我们在 1979 年

在另一个军事力量图表中快进一点

这次在

南美洲，中央情报局与一个

名为 contras 的尼加拉瓜反叛组织

合作推翻政府 他们是如何

资助它的

他们将尼加拉瓜可卡因带入

美国

在快克流行病爆发

之初，监狱牢房的滑动有效地打开了大门，

这将开始大规模监禁时代

美国的私人监狱

是大企业它被称为地理集团的最大公司之一

，同一个地理集团拥有carso

如果我们去西非，荷兰人拥有的

壳牌天然气公司

是荷兰石油的主要钻探者之一

从

sing-sing 的牢房到约翰内斯堡

再到尼日利亚的油田，如果我们能

在那个时候确定我们共同的敌人，

我们就可以开始集体化我们的力量，

但没有战略力量是无用的，

任何有效的战略都必须包括

超越

新殖民主义 neo -殖民主义是

利用经济政治

和其他力量来影响国家，

特别是以前的附属国

97 非洲在

1913 年被殖民，大约

在美国结束奴隶制 60 年后，

我们在 2021

年，比大多数非洲国家晚了大约 60 年

获得了独立，

但在大多数情况下，这只不过

是一个幕后操纵帝国主义傀儡的门面

而已 gha na 盛产

黄金

为什么加纳的黄金不富裕

尼日利亚盛产石油 为什么他们知道尼日利亚人

不富裕

说

我们不能

在田纳西州的种植园上使用大师的工具来拆除大师的房子

大师的工具包括

将光明与黑暗的房子与

田野

黑人分开 西非禁止鼓或说

母语

部落分裂因 与欧洲人进行贸易

有效地引导

兄弟姐妹销售姐妹和

父亲销售儿子

当我们采用相同的超级资本主义

美元作为我们的

压迫者时，

我们实际上已经成为他们我们正在

为他们做他们的工作

五个最富有的人 尼日利亚拥有

超过 300 亿美元的集体财富，足以结束

极端贫困，但仍有 500 万人

面无表情 呃，

我们采用了大师的工具

，大师最具

破坏性的工具之一是利用

宗教来分裂

非洲传统的精神系统，

例如

穿过中间通道成为

伏都教或欧元，但穿过中间

通道成为

santeria 已被妖魔化 并且

非法

和基督教经常被用来

奴役

辩护和进行种族灭绝我说

这不是为了冒犯和盐化任何人的

精神系统只是为了

揭示一个事实，即当你

让一个人憎恨和害怕

他祖父的神时

当我在加纳的时候，你让他恨自己最近我

看到了我父亲的出生证明，令

我震惊的是

，文件顶部的粗体字

首先是基督教名字我父亲的名字是

爱德华·奎克·门萨他的 妈妈会

叫他 kwaku

这个名字 quaker 甚至都没有出现在他的出生

证明上实际上被 kingsley 取代了

我的人民必须放弃他们的名字

他们必须放弃他们的

神 他们必须背弃他们的

祖先

如果我们要能够

拆除主人的房子 我们需要能够

查看我们的工具箱

确定我们的哪些工具属于

上述大师

并丢弃这些工具，以便我们可以

使用我们自己的设备制定解构计划，

例如教育艺术

技术有我

最喜欢的嘻哈乐队之一

的歌曲死按这首歌叫做 day

学校

有点像

今天 学校不教我们狗屎 我的

人民需要自由

我们试图得到我们所能得到的一切 我的

高中老师可以吮吸我的鸡巴

告诉我白人谎言

纯属胡说八道

美国黑人的非洲历史

公立学校始于奴隶制

，终于民权运动

加纳帝国

桑蒂瓦尔将英国人赶走津巴布韦

的中世纪城堡

甚至第一座金字塔的建造，

因为

他们会让你相信

伊丽莎白泰勒是

克娄巴特拉和马修麦康纳的随地吐痰形象 看起来

像廷巴克图，

这些人将汤姆

克鲁斯作为最后的武士，所以我不会

感到惊讶，

但我们需要的是彻底

改革，

从以欧洲为中心的课程转变

为正确代表

我们和我们对社会的贡献的课程

对文明而言，全球增长最快的两个

市场是黑人音乐

和技术所谓的

城市理想

市场基本上是我们

用嘻哈影响

的一切在美国价值超过一万亿

美元嘻哈是全球非洲节奏是

全球

合作 美国和

非洲黑人艺术家

时装设计师工程师

为我们提供了重新定义我们的机会

叙述从大师的

分裂工具到统一战线之一

，科技行业在全球价值

超过 3 万亿美元

被称为第四次工业

革命云计算人工智能

先进的无线和移动技术

在 2018 年颠覆了世界各地的事物

负责

全球一半移动货币账户的联系

确实比以往任何时候都更加紧密

技术让我们有机

会让弱势群体获得工作

机会

，获得我们以前没有的信息和

生活质量，

并且

合作

的可能性比以往更大

如果侨民是四肢，

或者大陆是骨架，那么我们就是

一个整体，每个系统都是一个整体 身体中的 m

可以自行工作，但如果没有

骨骼系统，

一切都会破坏我们的成长，我们的

流动性会

被世界帝国主义大师故意阻碍创建一个永久的下层阶级，

如果我们要克服这种

二等全球公民的地位，

我们' 我们需要能够一起寻找

并确定我们共同的压迫者，

以拒绝那些压迫者的结构，

并用

我们自己

理解艺术教育

的结构取而代之，那时我们可以

开始修补骨折和我们的伤害

强壮的骨骼

谢谢