Afropessimism

In Anthony’s first video, he talks about the basics tenets of afropessimism.

Afropessimism is a critical framework that describes the ongoing impacts of racism, colonialism, and the historical processes of enslavement including the transatlantic slave trade and their impact on structural conditions as well as the personal, subjective, lived experienced, and embodied reality of African Americans. Afropessimism is a structural framework for thinking that critiques our assumptions. Why do liberation struggles run into problems?

Anthony discusses the assumptive ethic of sharing value to overcome violence and how afropessimism speaks to how black bodies are made fungible. Afropessimism argues that slavery never ended through micro/macro aggressions and that at any given moment any black person can die. Blackness has never been human because we never see blackness as a thing that is co-terminus with a full human.