Black Horror IRL

As I reflect on the world and its embedded atrocities, I can identify climate change which is the slow destruction of the one world we have been given, and late-stage capitalism that sustains systematic poverty as mechanisms of horror in our modern framework. In my Earthseed community, my newfound family and I would shelter ourselves from rising carbon levels, and excessive pollution of our land, sea, and air. We would isolate ourselves from the unnecessary slaughter of livestock and the rainforests. Instead, we would concentrate our efforts on living our lives as sustainably as possible. Modeled after the no waste lifestyle of Indigenous peoples who would honor their land, and treat the Earth with the utmost respect as we are all just visitors of this planet. Regarding late-stage capitalism, we would reject corrupt corporations such as big pharma would profit from the sick, we would have free access to education, home-ownership, holistic medical care, and would not be subjected to any...

  The short Afrofuturism film (1992) Space Traders written by Derrick Bell follows a cosmic supernatural collision that leaves the country facing an ultimate dilemma. Following the paranoia of the arrival of the year 2000, otherwise referred to as Y2K an alien species arrives on the planet (specifically the U.S) where they initiate an epic proposal. The extraterrestrials offer to give Americans unlimited gold, energy, and military resources in exchange for all of the African American population being abducted into space for undisclosed purposes. The aliens demand a decision be made by January 17th which is coincidentally Martin Luther King day. Gleason Golightly a well-known Black American conservative is included in the governmental debate of the space trade, Golightly adamantly rejects the trade as he speaks to the humanity that Black the right to their unalienable free will. The dominantly white congressional cabinet can only see the value of Black Americans for how the major co...