Spiritual Revolutions in Denmark (or Why we smile at Each other.)
audience listening intently at BE:BOP 2014: Spiritual Revolutions and the Scramble for Africa in Copehagen, Denmark this summer. Once when my child was very young, he asked me, "Mommy, why do Black people smile at each other?" It was a fitting enough observation: Whenever he took a walk with me and we came upon another Black person, a smile would/is most often exchanged. Intuitively, I knew the smiles were of recognition, not only of our presence here which, especially back then, was few and far between. When you look into the annals of history - when you seek further than the textbooks and narratives insisted upon by the status quo - you learn a lot about your own history. You learn that your history has been buried so that another history could grow up from it, flower from it and in the end, take all the credit (or sun, if we are to continue with this analogy). Founder and curator of BE.BOP. BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS, Alanna Lockward & Robbie Shilliam, co...