The Death List, April 2018

“Gee,” people ask. “Why is Afrofuturism important?  Why Black Horror? Why can’t we just ignore race?  Aren’t you promoting racism by talking about it?”

 

Sure, in the same way a doctor is Typhoid Mary for cataloguing and treating disease.   Or a fireman is the same as an arsonist.

 

It is difficult for a human being to evolve without healing the wounds that drain his energy.  And as I draw connections and parallels between the person and the social, I believe social wounds stop a community fr...