AfroerotiK Stands for Black Excellence

I want nothing more than the evolution of my people. I want us to walk proud and strong and confident, knowing our history and not being ashamed of it. I want us to be the best. I want us to be articulate and informed, knowledgeable and wise. I want us to be seekers of knowledge and masters of education. I see absolutely nothing wrong with being mathematicians, scientists, physicists, physicians, even politicians if we have the best interests of our community at heart. But not everyone is meant to be a scholar so I want us to strive for excellence in whatever it is we do as long as it is aligned with our collective good. I want us to create great works of art and music and theater that will stand the test of time. I want us, as a people, to be grand alchemists and metaphysicians, relinquishing the suffocating chokehold that Western religion has around our necks. I want us be physically strong, rejecting the poison we put in our bodies and vigorously pursuing a sound body and mind. I want us to embrace the intellect we once possessed that allowed us to be the creators of all the humanities and sciences, that built pyramids and mapped the stars with greater accuracy than modern man can comprehend. I want each individual of African descent throughout the Diaspora to know their special talent, what purpose they were born to fulfill, and to exploit it to the benefit of themselves, their families, our community and humanity.

I desperately want us to be healed from our emotional, psychological, and mental wounds. I want us to heal from our personal abuses and the collective traumas that were inflicted upon our innocence as c***dren and our ancestors. I want us to repair our broken spirits and fix the hurt we try to suppress. I want our relationships to be healed, our communication to be clear. I wish with all my heart for us to embrace honesty, integrity, and responsibility not because they are traits inherent to white people, rather they are the traits of healthy individuals. I want us to put aside Eurocentric standards and rules and embrace what is holistic and pure and true. I want us to evolve and grow and mature collectively; I do not want us to be happy remaining stagnant and complacent and dysfunctional. We must rage against the machine of mediocrity to ascend to our true place of greatness. I need for us to fight back against racism, oppression, bigotry, and the fallacy of white supremacy, to be armed intellectually to fight the battle against those who do not see our inherent value as human beings. I want us to prosper financially, to provide for our families and to never know need or lack, but not to be enslaved to capitalism and greed and gross materialism.

If we were to be citizens of the world, accepting and respecting other cultures but loving our own the most, nothing would make me happier. Open-minded, non-judgmental, and progressive are characteristic I wish we all possessed as a race. I desperately want us to love the skin we are in. I want us to love our natural hair, our full features, our bodies whatever shape they are in, and the deep, dark, melanated skin from whence we all originated. I think most of all I want us to release the shackles of shame that surround our sexuality so that we might know true freedom. I want us to embrace and celebrate our sensuality, not be driven by our lusts. I want us to explore pleasure without boundaries but not be a slave to it. I want us to redefine our identities, to become more than victims of our circumstances but creators of a new paradigm. AfroerotiK stands for the passage from dark to light, the transformation from stagnant to vibrant.