“We Gon' Be Alright!”
As I conclude my time in this utterly amazing course instructed by the legendary Tananarive Due, I am forced into a position of reflecting on which lessons of Afrofuturism were the most impactful to me. It is difficult to pinpoint just one, and even harder to think about a single material we covered that encapsulates everything that I am feeling. What I do know after having the platform to create my own work of Afrofuturism through a short story for my final project for this course, the words rapped by Kendrick Lamar in his song “Alright” have inspired me to create and have given me the confidence to keep going. While facing many the many struggles and trauma I share with every American through the covid pandemic, to grieving the countless murders of innocent Black lives at the hands of our country's brutal, racist police force and deluded white supremacists acting upon their fears of becoming “replaced” by the racialized groups they deem to be inferior. We are tired. And just wh...
