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Ubuntu: Parallelisms African Diaspora & International Korean Adoption
Ubuntu is an African proverb which embodies the following principle:
I am because we are.
Humanity to others.
“the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity.”
“Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, ‘cause they knew death was better than bondage.”
#BlackPanther
Originally written Feb 25, 2018
This was a movie I can’t describe in words, but will briefly try. It touches on the dynamics of Diaspora experience better than anything I have ever seen or read. The Black Community in America has always been something of a blueprint for the Asian Adoptee Diaspora here in America as well.
As a human being who is a direct result of imperialism, whose life was treated as an export with a capped number, abandoned by my own and sent to a foreign country to make my own power and way in this world, I see Black Panther and I am profoundly grateful for the film and its deeper messages on #Unity and the value of #Human Life.
I empathize with Killmonger from the Black American Perspective and I also relate to him through my own life’s destiny. I, too, am a lost child and no one ever came back for me…
