Gold Dust

• G O L D | D U S T •

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Gold Dust Documented
OCTOBER 1st 2015 | NIGERIA

(INDEPENDENCE DAY)

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"In a Land filled with Milk and Honey, my view of scope has evolved to see the untapped resource of artistry. The Gold Dust Project is isolated. Looking far back before our independence,people are not held in slavery by force because slavery is such a fundamental piece of their character that they have no identity without it. In this project, the focus is initiated in embracing of abstract art in the african culture "

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Trench Coat

Slavery, and other institutionalize forms of targeted race-based oppression has caused certain symptoms of dysfunction in the African community, which has been reinforced in each generation. The legacy of slavery has promoted and nurse the direct association between being African and being inferior, being African and being unequal, incapable and less worthy. It also promotes ways of thinking which continue to impede growth and development. Such as cultivating dependence and reactive behaviors. More content to be at best an observer complaining about the world, as opposed to being a change agent in the world Content to be histories permanent victim. Every possible solution is dismissed with yet another trite excuse.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds

- Bob Marley -

When someone is mentally enslaved they do not understand the guys dressed in fire protection gear, with fire hose, breaking down their door to rescue them from the fire are saving them. That is why mental slavery is worse than physical slavery. Because at least during Physical slavery if you got on board the slave ship and starting breaking the chains and taking people back to Africa they would all thank Q and call you a liberator. Today, trying to free people mentally enslaved you get called names while they run away from you deeper into oppression.

It is critical that we understand the slave mind: Not the slave mouth. You can train someone to say anything; they can say "I am 100% for transforming African people" but deep inside the mind is that little slave who only wants "a more comfortable cage". So when African agency and African economics hit reality they freeze up and go into slave attack mode to preserve the cage environment.