What Does Black Quantum Futurism Teach Us About the Past?

Black History Year

PushBlack

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Anti-Blackness wants us to think time travel is impossible. But is it? What if there WAS a way to go back? Anti-Blackness tried erasing us. What if we were able to find a way to erase it? _____________ 2-Minute Black History is produced by PushBlack, the nation's largest non-profit Black media company. PushBlack exists to amplify the stories of Black history you didn't learn in school. You make PushBlack happen with your contributions at BlackHistoryYear.com — most people donate $10 a month, but every dollar makes a difference. If this episode moved you, share it with your people! Thanks for supporting the work. The production team for this podcast includes Cydney Smith, Len Webb, and Lilly Workneh. Our editors are Lance John and Avery Phillips from Gifted Sounds Network. Julian Walker serves as executive producer. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In 1963, America's Georgia, 15 black girls joined a protest.
0:05.9	One for the matinee, please.
0:08.0	Negroes, hit your tickets in the back.
0:11.0	We just want tickets to see the show. Here comes a whole mess of tickets for each. in the Based on the true story, Push Black presents The Stolen Girls of America's.
0:27.0	Listen and follow on the Odyssey app, or wherever you find your podcast.
0:34.3	Anti Black. wherever you find your podcast. Anti-Blackness wants us to think time travel is impossible.
0:38.9	But is it?
0:40.2	What if there was a way to go back?
0:43.0	Anti-Blackness tried erasing us.
0:45.0	What if we were able to find a way to erase it?
0:49.0	This is two minute black history.
0:52.0	What you didn't learn in school.
0:56.0	Sankofa is an a con symbol meaning go back and fetch it.
1:00.0	Sankofa was preserved by ancestors throughout the African diaspora and is still commonly referenced today.
1:07.2	Sankofa encourages us to learn from the past so we can build stronger futures, but what if the future actually dictates the past?
1:17.0	Black Quantum Futurism, or BQF, is a black centered nonlinear understanding of time. BQF practitioners believe both
1:28.7	past and future shape the present, opening up a space-time continuum of infinite possibilities.
1:36.4	What happens when the past and future come together?
1:40.4	Does the concept of Sancofa shift? Looking at Sancofa through a BQF lens, what if we reframed its
1:48.9	meaning from go back and fetch it to go back and
1:55.0	let's tap into go back and change it.
1:54.0	Could we go back and change history?
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