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African
Genesis Media Group
By
Junious Ricardo Stanton
There is an Akan
Adinkra symbol of the people of Ghana called
Akoben (pronounced ah-ko-ben). It is the symbol
of action, readiness or all to war. It was the symbol of
a horn sounded to alert the villages and the people to
danger, all for action or a needed collective task such
as defending the village. Scholar, researcher, author,
attorney, lecturer and entrepreneur Dr. Edward Robinson
is ninety-one years old. He has issued an all to action
similar to the Akoben of the Akan people.
Dr Robinson is calling on people of African ancestry to
step up and help him create the mechanism to help heal
the psyches of our people and scientifically counter the
devastating deep seated causes of self-hatred amongst
African people, white supremacist programming and
brainwashing. His research and passion have led Dr.
Robinson to launch a new initiative and form a new
company called the African Genesis Media Group.
The mission of the
African Genesis Media Group is promote positive images
of the African and African-American community using
motion pictures, television, print materials, the arts,
lectures and educational trips to educate people about
the truth of African greatness and accomplishments, and
demonstrate to the world Africans created human
civilization. Dr. Robinson theorizes that without race
esteem, a sense of collective worthiness and
accomplishment, African people will remain mired in the
self-destructive cognitive and behavioral patterns that
permeate our community: addictions, fratricide,
lethargy, incarceration and early pregnancy.
“The problem is we
and all the rest of the people in this society, the
whites, Asians including black people, despise our
Africaness. Why do our girls give themselves up to men
something like twenty times greater than the white
girls? Why do we have teen pregnancy four or five
hundred per cent greater than any other race in America.
The reason that I’ve thought through is lack of
self-esteem. Why do we have greater incarceration? It’s
a lack of self- esteem?
Why do we have disproportionate illnesses? It all comes
back to a lack of self-esteem. But you can’t have
self-esteem if you lack race esteem.” shared Dr Robinson
at a recent affair to launch the company.
Over the years, on
numerous occasions, Dr. Robinson has proven his theory
that an infusion of history, positive images overt and
subliminal encouragement will significantly raise the
self-esteem, mental acumen, educational levels and
productivity of African-American students. Using his
African Genesis corrective history curriculum Dr.
Robinson has demonstrated time and again, that black
children’s learning skills will improve drastically once
they are taught and reinforced the accomplishments of
their African ancestors. Dr Robinson wrote the
curriculum that is being used in the Philadelphia public
schools to incorporate African and African-American
history as part of mandatory requirements towards a high
school diploma.
Now at ninety-one
years of age, Ed Robinson plans to take his theories and
proven successes to another level. By forming the
African Genesis Media Group Robinson intends
to produce, and market in theaters and direct to
consumer high quality, large budget motion pictures that
depict the grandeur, history, and accomplishments of
African people, films and programs that correctly tell
our story. These movies, television projects, books and
CDs are designed to boost our race and self-esteem as
well as teach corrective history so the world becomes
familiar with the greatness of African people. To that
end Dr Robinson and his team of media professionals are
putting out a serious call to action. They need a
groundswell of supporters to help them prove to
investors that their films have a viable market and huge
profit potential. Investors know African-Americans are
great consumers of Hollywood media. However, the African
Genesis media groups need to convince their backers we
will support high quality, big budget positive African
centered films.
The African Genesis
Media Group is in this to be successful. The only way
they can be successful is to get financial backers. The
only way investors will back their projects is by seeing
numbers. Projects such as these have never been done
before so there is no precedent or model. The African
Genesis Media Group will be pioneers. They already have
four scripts and screenplays for projects. They are in
negotiation with investors but they need to demonstrate
there is large sale support for their plans. They are in
the process of creating a data base of one hundred
thousand supporters who are willing to make the
commitment to buy tickets to see their movies.
If you think this
is a sound strategy, and a much needed initiative to
counter the negative images and content the corporate
media and educational system constantly spews out about
us, and you would like to be a part of this project go
to
www.agmg1.com and sign up. Or you can either call
(215) 247-1545 or E-mail
info@agmg1.com for more information.
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
On one level, Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . His scalp looks like fresh turned dirt.” Her father’s hands “are like gravel,” while her own hand “slides through his grip like a wet fish,” and a handsome boy’s “muscles jabbered like chickens.” Admittedly, Ward can push so hard on this simile-obsessed style that her paragraphs risk sounding like a compost heap, but this isn’t usually just metaphor for metaphor’s sake. She conveys something fundamental about Esch’s fluid state of mind: her figurative sense of the world in which all things correspond and connect. She and her brothers live in a ramshackle house steeped in grief since their mother died giving birth to her last child. . . . What remains, what’s salvaged, is something indomitable in these tough siblings, the strength of their love, the permanence of their devotion.—WashingtonPost |
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Incognegro: A Memoir of
Exile and Apartheid
By Frank B. Wilderson, III
Wilderson, a professor,
writer and filmmaker from
the Midwest,
presents a gripping account
of his role in the downfall
of South African apartheid
as one of only two black
Americans in the African
National Congress (ANC).
After marrying a South
African law student, Wilderson reluctantly
returns with her to South
Africa in the early 1990s,
where he teaches
Johannesburg and Soweto
students, and soon joins the
military wing of the ANC.
Wilderson's stinging
portrait of Nelson Mandela
as a petulant elder eager to
accommodate his white
countrymen will jolt readers
who've accepted the
reverential treatment
usually accorded him. After
the assassination of
Mandela's rival, South
African Communist Party
leader Chris Hani, Mandela's
regime deems Wilderson's
public questions a threat to
national security; soon,
having lost his stomach for
the cause, he returns to
America.
Wilderson has a
distinct, powerful voice and
a strong story that shuffles
between the indignities of
Johannesburg life and his
early years in Minneapolis,
the precocious child of
academics who barely
tolerate his emerging
political consciousness.
Wilderson's observations
about love within and across
the color line and cultural
divides are as provocative
as his politics; despite
some distracting
digressions, this is a
riveting memoir of
apartheid's last days.—Publishers
Weekly
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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