King Britt’s Sonic Journey
Into Afrofuturism
Into Afrofuturism
This is an official welcome as well as my first post. I have always been in love if sci-fi. The endless possibilities for alternate universes, of awesome and inventive technology and the idea of not only space travel but inter-dimensional travel as well.
But there was an issue with this growing up. I rarely found any heroes or antiheroes that looked like me. I couldn't find or didn't have a community even in the rich diversity of blackness, didn't have a group to nourish and help create the fantastic things I read in books, saw in movies or even studied with great appreciation on walls of museums. Getting older, I found ways to cope with this by creating my our stories and doing my our "research" but I feel I was always missing that certain community. Is community not part of history?
I feel that the future is made of creativity and it is to my despair that I see alot of our brothers and sisters fall victim to the American mainstream of thinking about their lives. Its not that they cannot think beyond but it is because their is no where to think beyond to That's were we come in. By carving out a powerful identity for ourselves in what we enjoy, we could give our brothers and sisters more mental variety not only to think about themselves but also their place in the future. Imagination leads to Diversity, Diversity leads to Progress.
This is a forum to submit your art, your opinions and anything else you might deem Afro-Futuristic. We shall not be the lone explorer into tech, space and dimensional travel no longer. Let's create a vessel together and all travel into the cosmic beyond and start to become a part of the future through the lessons we have learned from the past, the way we think in the present and to gain the perception of the future in which we formulate. In other words let's create our own destinies which not only work along side other alternate communal paths but that work to etch out our own future as a race of remarkable, ingenious and prosperous people.
Signing Off,
Lo-Fi 85
