Addressing the Residual Psychological Affects of Enslavement: How

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October is Maafa Awareness Month

"Addressing the Residual Psychological Affects of Enslavement:

How Does One Heal the Trauma?"

Thursday, October 27, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Malonga Casquelourd Center, Oakland


MAAFA

We Remember You

The Middle Passage and all that we went though,

We're Still Here … Lest we forget

Our heads to the sky … We cry … Why?

- For the Millions -

©2005 Dana Austin-Sockwell, Brother Clint, Roberta J. Roberson

Oakland, CA, October 23, 2005 -- October is Maafa Awareness Month in the City of Oakland and the County of Alameda, which means City and County officials support events which further the understanding of how the Middle Passage and trauma of the Transatlantic Slave Trade continues to impact American society.

The Commemoration of The MAAFA (pronounced MAH-AH-FAH) began as a movement to commemorate the more than 100 million Africans lost during a period in history known as the Middle Passage and the hundreds of years of enslavement that followed the voyage from Africa to America. Dr. Marimba Ani introduced the term MAAFA, a Kiswahili word for "great calamity, disaster, catastrophe, or tragedy," into contemporary scholarship in her seminal work Let the Circle Be Unbroken in an effort to succinctly redefine the horror formerly known as the Middle Passage.

On Thursday, October 27, Alameda County Maafa Awareness Month activities conclude with a panel discussion on: "Addressing the Residual Psychological Affects of Enslavement: How Does One Heal the Trauma?" The panel discussion will take at the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, 1428 Alice Street in Oakland from 7 PM – 10 PM. The panel will feature Professor and African Studies Scholar, Theophile Obenga, Ph.D.; Oakland City Council person, Desley Brooks; Psychologist, Rita Bobino, Ph.D.; Professor of African Diaspora Studies, Manu Ampim, MA; Nursing and Public Health Professional, Aduni Luckett, MPH. The event is free and open to the public.

Oakland Maafa organizer Wanda Sabir states, "The Maafa is not about personalities or individual desires; it's about community, the "we." And in order for there to be a "we," we have to trust each other, which comes from our honoring our commitments, keeping our word and being honest, even if we are at fault. These are crucial steps in our unification and development as an African Diaspora people."

For more information call, (510) 261-8436.

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For more information contact: Kim McMillon - (510) 228-6775 or
e-mail - kimmac@pacbell.net
October is Maafa Awareness Month

"Addressing the Residual Psychological Affects of Enslavement: How Does One Heal the Trauma?" (Panel Discussion)

WHEN: Thursday, October 27, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM

WHERE: Malonga Casquelourd Center, 1428 Alice Street, Oakland, CA

COST: Free and open to the public

PANELISTS:
• Professor and African Studies Scholar, Theophile Obenga, Ph.D.;
• Oakland City Councilperson, Desley Brooks;
• Psychologist, Rita Bobino, Ph.D.;
• Professor of Africana Studies, Manu Ampim, MA;
• Nursing and Public Health Professional, Aduni Luckett, MPH.

October is Maafa Awareness Month in the City
of Oakland and the County of Alameda, which means City and County officials
support events which further the understanding of how the Middle Passage and
trauma of the Transatlantic Slave Trade continues to impact American society.


The Commemoration of The MAAFA (pronounced MAH-AH-FAH) began as a movement to
commemorate the more than 100 million Africans lost during a period in
history known as the Middle Passage and the hundreds of years of enslavement that
followed the voyage from Africa to America. Dr. Marimba Ani introduced the term
MAAFA, a Kiswahili word for "great calamity, disaster, catastrophe, or
tragedy," into contemporary scholarship in her seminal work Let the Circle Be
Unbroken in an effort to succinctly redefine the horror formerly known as the Middle
Passage.

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by june 1977, the speacial virus program produced 15,000gal of aids.the AIDS virus was attached as a complement to vaccines sent to africa and manhattan.

CLINTON is no good he was in on it too,when he was the president he turn his back towards the africans and denied them the help they needed. and i just hated when i see ignorant nigers going around thinking clinton is cool.

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1917 the federation of the american society of experimental biology was formed.

1918 the influenza virus killed millions of unsuspecting people, it was a flu virus modified with a bird mycoplasma for which human primates had acquired immunity.

1931 AIDS was secretly tested on african americans and sheeps

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europe was so full and fucked uup with disease and filth the whiteman had no choice but to come over here and spread the sickness.thats why the indians were not suited to be slaves because they caught the european sickness too easily.

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here go some black inventors and artisians:
jan matzeliger:shoe making manchine that increased shoemaking speed by 900%

elijah mccoy: lubricating machine

c.b.brooks: street sweeper

g.f.grant: golf tee

william purvis: paper bag making machine

g.t.sampson:clothes dryer

j.r.winters: fire escape ladder

norbert rillieux:vacuum evaporator

henery t sampson: cell phones
granville t woods:train-to-station communication system

and much much more inventors

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garrett morgan:signal lights and gas mask
otis boykin:the electronic control devices for guided missiles,ibm computers,and the pacemaker.
dr.patricia e bath: a method of eye surgery that has help many blind people to see.
lonnie g johnson: the worlds famous water gun

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willard h bennett: radio frequency mass spectrometer

george edwards alcorn jr: fabricating an imaging x-ray spectrometer

ralph w alexander: corn planter check rower

winser edward alexander: system for encahncing fine details in thermal photographs

charles william allen: self leveling table

and much more i gotta go