The Promise of 3D Digital Visualization for African Restoration Culture

Eventually some snobby, properly-assimilated student of white history in general and “the Near East” in particular may shame ignorant merchants into removing the skin pigmentation from items like Ramses II Clothing Set for the G2 Males (Great Rulers) but in the mean time young people who still like making graphic novels and comic books—and even animation—need to take advantage of what’s happening with these personal computers and the restoration of traditional African vision.

We don’t have to be angry about some total shit like The Mummy or sift through a few seconds of Stargate, trying to eke out an African living. We can build and visualize our African heritage right now with the current technology. We can sell our visions from the trunk of our virtual car and set up a digital chitlin’ circuit like the one Tyler Perry so skillfully built for his dress-up-like-a-woman market.

However, the move here is to restore our authentic vision of the African Old Kingdom—and not superimpose the Shakespearean definition of the human over primal, African consciousness. So, you kids out there trying to make Black comics you need to eat your vegetables and study your scholars—and, most of all, look at the artifacts. Any child with eyes can easily see that so-called “Ramses II” never snarled—however the Africoid 3D model for sale mentioned above is snarling like an angry, modern street thug.

Primal African consciousness is in the same context as primal Buddha consciousness. There was once a time in the world when the whole community saw the entire universe as what a handful of shaven priests see now from the monastery. Now, granted, by the time of so-called “Ramses II” he was born outside of the Old Kingdom and is of that famous “hardened heart”—but this does not mean he would not try to pretend he was fluid and cool like his ancestors. The empty choreography of royal pretension lasts to this day—but it came from an authentic African root. You try telling some artistic kid from the ’hood this shit and he is very likely to look right through you—like nothing was said. But that does not mean we need to stop speaking on it.

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