What Does Black Quantum Futurism Teach Us About the Past?
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 12 May 2025
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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?
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| 1:04.2 | Anti-Blackness wants us to think time travel is impossible. |
| 1:08.9 | 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? This is two-minute black history. What you didn't learn in school. Sancofa is an Akhan symbol, meaning go back and fetch it. |
| 1:30.3 | Sankofa was preserved by ancestors throughout the African diaspora and is still commonly referenced |
| 1:36.3 | today. |
| 1:37.3 | Sankofa encourages us to learn from the past so we can build stronger futures. |
| 1:43.3 | But what if the future actually dictates the past? |
| 1:47.6 | Black quantum futurism, or BQF, is a black-centered, nonlinear understanding of time. |
| 1:55.9 | BQF practitioners believe both past and future shape the present, opening up a space-time continuum |
| 2:03.9 | of infinite possibilities. What happens when the past and future come together? Does the concept |
| 2:11.6 | of Sankofa shift? Looking at Sankofa through a BQF lens, what if we reframed its meaning from go back and fetch it to go back and change it? |
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