I Am Blackness, 5593 Reynolds Chapel Road, Newbern, AL (2026)

I Am Blackness celebrates the heritage, the diversity, and the knowledge of our African ancestors. I Am Blackness states I am very comfortable with the God given blackness of my skin. More importantly, I Am Blackness professes a love for who we are as African/Black people.

11/26/2025

People say African Americans “come from Africa,” but the truth is deeper than geography and older than any map ever drawn.

Our story isn’t a simple line from one place to another. Our story is the whole human journey folded back into one people.

Science tells us something powerful. It reveals that every human on earth, every race and every nation, traces back to the first Homo sapiens in East Africa. That’s DNA, not opinion. That’s genetics, not guesswork.

So when people ask who African Americans are,
the real answer is we are not just people with African ancestry but the intersection of human history. The African Americans are the living crossroads where Africa, Europe, and the Indigenous Americas
were pushed, pulled, and forced together.

That wasn’t peaceful. It wasn’t gentle. It wasn’t voluntary. It was survival born out of invasion, enslavement, and broken nations. But anyway, out of that violence, somehow a new people emerged.

So, the African Americans are not “half of this” or “part of that.” We are that whole something. We are that new something. We are the human journey coming full circle.

Think about it. Africa is the birthplace of humanity. Europe is the force that crossed the oceans with chains. Indigenous America is the land that carried the trauma and the triumph. And African Americans are the children birthed by and standing at the center of those three stories, wearing the fingerprints of every continent that touched us.

Our DNA is a map. Our culture is a response. Our identity is a fusion. So, we aren’t just from Africa. We aren’t just shaped by Europe. We aren’t just tied to Indigenous America.

We are the result of all three. The African American is a living mirror of every migration, every collision, and every survival that made the modern world possible.

We are not “descended from history”. No, that’s too small for the African American.

We are becoming, breathing, speaking, surviving and walking history because we carry the story of three continents inside one people. We carry the evidence of humanity’s beginning and the proof of humanity’s return.

So when we say “We Are African American,” we’re not talking about skin alone. We’re talking about identity, origin, and evolution. We’re talking about the first humans and the newest people. We’re talking about the wound and the healing, the breaking and the remaking, the past and the possibility.

African Americans are not the leftovers of history. No, we are the blueprint of what happens when the world collides and still produces greatness.

We are the fusion echoing the return. And that return is "I Am Blackness."

11/21/2025

I Am Blackness

I am blackness,
Regardless of my ancestor’s forced immigration to this place.
I am blackness,
Not just because of the enslavement of the African race.
I am blackness,
In spite of my fore-parents being abandoned and left to die.
I am blackness,
Despite the racial discrimination and sanctioned genocide.
I am blackness,
Regardless of the mutilated flesh on my ancestors' back.
I am blackness,
Says more than I am proud that I was born Black.
I am blackness,
States the chronicles of my ancestor’s struggles reside within.
I am blackness,
Proclaims I will not be limited by the darkness of my skin.
I am blackness,
Means I know I am of African heritage to the highest degree.
I am blackness.
Shouts I love the darkness of the color God painted on me.

Preacher Fo Real®

aka

Reginald Levi Walker

11/18/2025

The introduction of Eurocentricity onto the global stage resulted in a physical injury that has yet to heal.

Some may say that statement is accurate and others will insist it's an exaggeration. However, the arrival of European imperial systems did inflict a global wound. It was the catalyst for depopulation, mass enslavement, cultural erasure, ecological destruction, economic extraction, disruption of social, spiritual, and political structures, and destabilization that still shapes modern borders and conflicts

Those are real, measurable, historical injuries. They're not metaphors or exaggerations. Entire continents carry trauma that traces directly to colonial systemic violence and Eurocentric world-ordering.

Nothing I've named is speculative or inflated. Every claim is documented. Therefore, my statement is not an exaggeration. It is historically, logically, and morally accurate, and clearly without euphemism. This is not some emotional rhetoric. No. This is forensic history.

So yes, there remains a physical injury. There remains a psychological injury. There remains a civilizational injury. Because it absolutely has not healed.

That part is not an exaggeration for it’s documentation.

Now, here's where the phrasing gets tricky

I'm saying “Eurocentricity caused the injury” sounds to you like I'm saying, “Europeans as flesh-and-blood individuals are inherently injurious.”

So, in your mind, the accurate statement should be the Eurocentric system, as in its worldview, ideology, and institutions, caused the global wound. A system that continues to inflict long-lasting harm.

That is the part you're misunderstanding. That is not my point and not historically accurate.

When I say Eurocentricity inflicted a global wound, I’m not claiming the ideology floated into the world like some disembodied ghost and started slapping people around. No system acts on its own. A system doesn’t pick up a whip, pass a law, forge a chain, fire a shot, or ink a treaty. A system is a blueprint but a blueprint is useless without builders.

And here’s the unpalatable and unavoidable truth. It was human minds that conceived the violence, and human hands that carried it out. Just like a match doesn’t start a fire by itself since the spark isn’t the arsonist. The arsonist is the one who struck the match. The one who aimed the flame. And the one who decided something needed to burn.

The blueprint didn’t enslave anybody. The ideology didn’t colonize a continent. The system didn’t genocide Indigenous people.

People did.

People designed the system. People enforced the system. People maintained the system. People benefited from the system. And people defended the system with violence, theology, law, and myth.

So yes—Eurocentricity is the architecture of the injury.
But the architects, the carpenters, the enforcers, and the profiteers, those were and are living, breathing, and choosing humans. Ideologies do not appear out of thin air. No “system” ever enslaved a single African.

So, I'm not saying that Europeans are inherently violent. I am saying Europeans acted violently within a Eurocentric worldview and as they continually construct it. That distinction is needed, precise, and accurate.

I am describing actions that lead to behavior and built character, not biology. And, that’s what makes my statement structurally sound, not prejudicial.

Accurately, any system is nothing more than humans making choices that, once repeated long enough, appear permanent.

So, I am simply refusing to absolve the choosers.

To say “the system did it” while shielding the people is a form of historical laundering. Blaming the system while excusing the people who built it is like blaming the gun but acquitting the shooter. It defies logic and insults history.

The system is the machine. But the machinists, the ones who fed it, operated it, and worshipped it, they are the ones who must carry the weight of what that machine has done.

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