By chance I came across this on YouTube and it took me back. Actually, I found it on Brother Manifest’s tumblr page. Brother Manifest is one of the organizers and promoters Happily Natural Day. He’s an artist and designer and apparently we share a similar taste in humor. I don’t want to go to deep on this, it just brought back some good memories of a time when we truly knew so little about our heritage and the curiosity it piqued. This episode is shot to the gut for all of the fake African conscious people. I was a young child when this show first ran but it and images like it were the seeds to what a past and future might mean for me. It’s funny and irreverent. A lot of the insights the woman shares may not be correct. (She was supposed to be Nigerian; I don’t think Nigerians speak Swahili, do they? Somebody help me here.) But it made me laugh and made me wonder…
The Garden needs your cultivating seeds of appreciation.
I said the same thing. But even though it’s not all together culturally true. We still needed something. It’s funny as it is, it help spark a interest and people I had met in the military. That didn’t realize, that their names were descended from their family’s slave owner’s. And changed their name!!!