Africans leaping off of slaver ships were afrofuturists. Slave-era parents teaching their babies a foreign alphabet in the candlelit dirt were afrofuturists. Black women dissociating themselves through to tomorrow while being raped into motherhood were afrofuturists. Those who raised the children of violence, and those who chose not to, all were predicting the future and articulating their choices. Slaves who ran to freedom, and slaves who ran to their deaths, were afrofuturists. It is the emphasis on a tomorrow that centers the dignity of that seed, particularly in the face of extinction,
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