Hello to all. My given name is Celia, and my slave name is Holliday-Turner. I’m relieved to have found BAIO and like-minded people. It’s been quieter than I’m used to in my community, so I’m ready to be active among you. I’m grateful to Makala Genisis for creating this space of active nation-building. I applaud the much-needed infrastructural groups and will spread the word about their existence to many. There are far too few, if any, in the communities of our people. My skills are in Holistic Nutrition and Wellness, Website Design and Development, and diverse skills in Law Enforcement and Community Affairs. I’m also a writer and author.
A little about me: I grew up in Brownsville, East New York, and Bedford Stuyvesant areas of Brooklyn, New York. We kids in the communities were raised by Black Activists who made the exodus from the Carolinas to NY. They had us singing old slave gospels on Sunday and chanting, “Say it Loud, I’m Black, and I’m Proud,” on Monday through Saturdays.
We emulated the Black Panthers; we quoted Malcolm X's “By Any Means Necessary” and Martin Luther King's “Free at Last.” We were protected by our close-knit grassroots communities as much as possible. We saw our leaders murdered one by one, and today, all the communities I grew up in are now white.
As an elder, I’m compelled to apologize to our youth and our fallen warriors for dropping the torch and thinking our troubles were over here in America due to the changing insidiousness of ongoing racial disparities of Africans in America. I only recently realized the depth of my own personal colonization and the stripping of my language, culture, religion, and the land of my people in Africa.
I confess I very recently used to say I was a spoiled-rotten African-American until my first trip to Africa in 2023, where I experienced a profound realization of what was taken from me. I fully understand today that I’m in the bowels of the colonists, fully cut off from my people, and that the struggle of Africans in America is far from over. We are worse off in 2024 than we were during the Civil Rights era.
I came out of retirement when I heard white Americans screaming, “Let’s make America great again!” Because what I heard was, “Let’s make these niggers slaves again.”
Soon after, I heard that white Americans wanted to take African American History out of their public schools because it was making white people feel bad. What I heard was white America saying, “It’s time to make these niggers slaves again or get these damn niggers out of our country!”
If you were born in America near the end of Jim Crow and into Civil Rights, you know exactly what white America is talking about. After hearing these two major things, I heard a lot of silence from Africans in America. That’s when I knew our people were up Shit’s Creek, and I was compelled to take action like back in the days of Civil Rights, only in a different way because of technology.
I built the African Future Pledge website because I’m convinced we must do something drastic to change the direction of the African American Future because, according to Yul Anderson, President of the African American Future Society, by 2053, the future of Africans in America will be grim.
We will be 150% unemployed. Whites will be earning 86% more than Black people. We are past the time of talking. So, I’m deeply grateful to be here among you, taking action and preparing nation-building infrastructure for a sustainable present and future African Nation. Ase’
P.S. I just learned via AfricanAncestry.com that I am of the Yoruba and Fulani Tribes in Nigeria. I’m prepping to get my Nigerian citizenship to open some doors in Africa for my children and my grandchildren to have an exit plan.
I’m convinced African Americans are not as safe in America as we have been tricked into thinking; in the event of shit hitting the fan in America, as predicted in 2053, every other culture in America, including white Americans, has dual citizenship to another country outside of America.
Presently, we are already like sitting ducks, and we may be viewed as refugees by 2053, like in the movie Executive Order on KwelliTV.
The White American race will have declined substantially by then, but even in 2053, white Americans have protected their small future generations by putting policies in place to sustain their dominance in US Society. Other nationalities are doing the same with pledges their people take.
Many of us, like I did, don’t seem to see the full picture of the plight of Africans in America, but they will, and I pray we are not too late to change our future for the better. May we all rise up, protect our young generations, and prepare for a sustainable and wealthy future! Ase’
A little about me: I grew up in Brownsville, East New York, and Bedford Stuyvesant areas of Brooklyn, New York. We kids in the communities were raised by Black Activists who made the exodus from the Carolinas to NY. They had us singing old slave gospels on Sunday and chanting, “Say it Loud, I’m Black, and I’m Proud,” on Monday through Saturdays.
We emulated the Black Panthers; we quoted Malcolm X's “By Any Means Necessary” and Martin Luther King's “Free at Last.” We were protected by our close-knit grassroots communities as much as possible. We saw our leaders murdered one by one, and today, all the communities I grew up in are now white.
As an elder, I’m compelled to apologize to our youth and our fallen warriors for dropping the torch and thinking our troubles were over here in America due to the changing insidiousness of ongoing racial disparities of Africans in America. I only recently realized the depth of my own personal colonization and the stripping of my language, culture, religion, and the land of my people in Africa.
I confess I very recently used to say I was a spoiled-rotten African-American until my first trip to Africa in 2023, where I experienced a profound realization of what was taken from me. I fully understand today that I’m in the bowels of the colonists, fully cut off from my people, and that the struggle of Africans in America is far from over. We are worse off in 2024 than we were during the Civil Rights era.
I came out of retirement when I heard white Americans screaming, “Let’s make America great again!” Because what I heard was, “Let’s make these niggers slaves again.”
Soon after, I heard that white Americans wanted to take African American History out of their public schools because it was making white people feel bad. What I heard was white America saying, “It’s time to make these niggers slaves again or get these damn niggers out of our country!”
If you were born in America near the end of Jim Crow and into Civil Rights, you know exactly what white America is talking about. After hearing these two major things, I heard a lot of silence from Africans in America. That’s when I knew our people were up Shit’s Creek, and I was compelled to take action like back in the days of Civil Rights, only in a different way because of technology.
I built the African Future Pledge website because I’m convinced we must do something drastic to change the direction of the African American Future because, according to Yul Anderson, President of the African American Future Society, by 2053, the future of Africans in America will be grim.
We will be 150% unemployed. Whites will be earning 86% more than Black people. We are past the time of talking. So, I’m deeply grateful to be here among you, taking action and preparing nation-building infrastructure for a sustainable present and future African Nation. Ase’
P.S. I just learned via AfricanAncestry.com that I am of the Yoruba and Fulani Tribes in Nigeria. I’m prepping to get my Nigerian citizenship to open some doors in Africa for my children and my grandchildren to have an exit plan.
I’m convinced African Americans are not as safe in America as we have been tricked into thinking; in the event of shit hitting the fan in America, as predicted in 2053, every other culture in America, including white Americans, has dual citizenship to another country outside of America.
Presently, we are already like sitting ducks, and we may be viewed as refugees by 2053, like in the movie Executive Order on KwelliTV.
The White American race will have declined substantially by then, but even in 2053, white Americans have protected their small future generations by putting policies in place to sustain their dominance in US Society. Other nationalities are doing the same with pledges their people take.
Many of us, like I did, don’t seem to see the full picture of the plight of Africans in America, but they will, and I pray we are not too late to change our future for the better. May we all rise up, protect our young generations, and prepare for a sustainable and wealthy future! Ase’
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