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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(frenetic music)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(applause)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My talk,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about Afrofuturism and the African.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Afrofuturism is considered\Nwhat speculative fiction,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,myths, legends, science fiction,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the stories of that genre\Nare to African Americans,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Africa, Africa of the Diaspora,\Nand black people in general.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What (inaudible) refers it to is\Nwhat blackness looks like in the future,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,real or imagined.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, the history of Afrofuturism\Ncomes from America
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and was first coined\Nby a man called Mark Dery
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and when he started talking\Nabout Afrofuturism
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he talks about the idea of literature,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the books\Nthat Octavia Butler would write
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and things like that,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then it also moved\Ninto a new region of music
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so we would have people\Nlike Sun Ra and George Clinton
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but for me, especially Sun Ra because\Nhe has a special place in my heart,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He believed that he came\Nfrom the planet Saturn
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and came to earth to spread\Nthe message of love and peace.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like in his movie, "Space is the Place"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he introduces the idea of "alien"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to black people in America.