hurry up and get in the spaceship. these muhfuckas wild!

Let me fantasize about a Black film that I would like to see that doesn’t exist. No, it’s not going to be about Black people riding around in Cadillacs to hunt down White people who they play to enslave. In fact, there are no White people in the film at all in any capacity. There will be no revenge, walking around calling White people colonizers in an attempt to be witty, and no more screaming for representation.

It is a Black film in which nothing goes wrong because the characters go to a planet without all the isms and phobias. They leave all those Black folks behind who don’t want to leave the social ills behind. They just left everybody behind and stopped fighting. I’m thinking of escaping as a form of revolution.

This film, Alkebulan-b, shows how escaping is a form of resistance. These Black people simply don’t want to fight in the typical ways, which include protesting, community organizing, speeches, and other forms of conscious raising.

Black people in the film abandoned religion and spirituality. So, Alkebulan-b offers criticism about religion and spirituality: regardless of all the religions, Christianity, Islam, or various African faiths, none of them saved them from the clutches of imperialism or the hatred of mankind. The film shows how science and other properties we have control over are what Black people should put faith in, not some God in a magical realm who lets people die for petty, human causes and reasons.

Not all are invited.

 The Black people fled. They found all kinds of resources and tools that were left behind by ancient Africans for when the diaspora got tired of Earth and that helped them unlock secrets to how to navigate the galaxy and find the new planet.

 This new society is a bit authoritarian because nothing comes without a little sacrifice. There will be sophisticated technology created in the form of beautiful, crownlike headpieces that monitor your brain activity, and the headpieces will zap you away back to Earth if you intentionally cause physical or mental harm to someone. You’ll receive an instant zap back to Earth where you can call people all the f-words you want, shoot up apartments you don’t own, argue on social media about how Hollywood is trying to emasculate you because you saw a man with a beard and a full-face of makeup on the television screen because it tickled your little pecker, post about how you hate Black men so much, and worship millionaires and billionaires for hoarding wealth.

 If people want to revel in all the isms and phobias of the world, then they should be allowed to do so. So, they will stay on Earth and keep voting for politicians who keep funding genocides and fueling capitalism.

 Resources are abundant on this planet. It’s a Utopia that was created by African ancestors long ago. All people do on Alkebulan-b is party and bullshit. The only type of drama that these Black people have is who will cook for which holiday, but the drama doesn’t boil over into war.

It’s difficult for humans not to imagine conflict because conflict is all we know. Often, we see armed and intellectual conflict against governments and colonial entities as a means of survival for marginalized people, especially Black people. This film shows what could happen if Black people just escaped instead. As noble as fighting is, fleeing can be just as effective if you have somewhere to go and the means to get there.  

All of the rich, Black celebrities and public figures of the world didn’t want to go. They wanted to stay on Earth. Alkebulan-b reinforces the importance of organizing and creating our own way of life to survive and thrive. The film also shows that it’s not rich or the uber-powerful who will rescue Black people. It’s going to be the everyday people.

Well, all this sounds like a pipedream. No homo! See, I would’ve gotten zapped back to Earth for being homophobic. Maybe I’m the problem, too.