africentricity

are you thinking “does she mean afrocentric”? i never liked afrocentric; to me, a fro ain’t nuthin but a do. i would laugh and ask where the fuck is afroca (somewhere between negroland and the land of the left sock?). i know it’s all from the latin, but we aren’t discussing the romans, are we? what comes to your mind when you see/hear the word? for me, it means being black, beautiful and proud; maybe it means other things that i don’t know, and you will tell me (i promise to quote you every chance i get). let me tell you right now; i’m a clothes, hair and shoe freak. when i consider africentricity, i consider ochre haired sistahs, dreds, doo rags, kente cloth, bandanas and mules that my feet won’t see in this lifetime. a woman on the continent isn’t any more genetically or “authentically” afrikan than a woman greasing her scalp in the arkansas delta. we’re all-in-one -- it’s our heritage. no need to be stingy cos there’s enough for everybody. (this went on one of my websites. i really like it, and i still giggle when i read it).