>What if Black people kicked all the white people out of
>Africa? Would that be bad? It wouldn't be to me, but I
>want to know what you white folks think.
i'd say it's only bad if you're attempting to subjugate other peoples. if you just didn't "like" them, so what?
practically speaking, tho, i guess i think the world is too interdependent to actually get away from anyone else.
but i sure can understand what you're getting at. not that this is entirely analogous, but i pretty much think that part of radicalizing one's consciousness is often a process of separtism on the individual level. i can remember that the path to becoming a feminist included a period of time when i just loved women, when i wanted to read them, revel in them, love them and me. etc. sounds hokey, i suppose. but i found it empowering. hard to describe. perhaps inappropriate analogy.
but another thought. what you propose is very abstract, as you say. concretely it would presupposes that everyone in Africa would be keen on that idea, no? i had a convo with a dude, Aaron, who lives in E. Africa a few months ago, about Horowitz. He went on and on and on about how lame he thought U.S. Black Nationalists were. is he just buying into white bourg mentality? i, myself, don't feel comfortable telling someone that.
Anyway, i believe I posted the convo here, I believe. He felt that Blacks in the US were poseurs and that they weren't really African, as far as he was concerned. I can certainly imagine a day when you'd be able to take Africa back and where that attitude that Aaron exhibited would be non-existent, but only in the abstract. I have a hard time thinking about how we'd get from this world to one in which Aaron was putting down Black Nationalist in the US in order to claim for himself a more authentic identity.
kelley